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<story><title>81k UK-owned .eu domains suspended as Brexit transition ends</title><url>https://www.zdnet.com/article/81000-uk-owned-eu-domains-suspended-as-brexit-transition-ends/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>clort</author><text>So naturally, there are some complaints&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; The Commission&amp;#x27;s announcement was met with severe criticism with .eu website owners claiming that revoking existing domains went against the right to property.&lt;p&gt;which if this&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; EU regulations currently stipulate that .eu websites can only be allocated to EU citizens – regardless of their place of residence – as well as non-EU citizens and organizations established in a member state.&lt;p&gt;is &amp;quot;the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth&amp;quot; then it seems to me that this revocation is somewhat premature. It could be argued, that these domains were &lt;i&gt;allocated&lt;/i&gt; in accordance with the law and just because the status of the owner has changed, that does not require Eurid to deallocate them, which would expose them to legal repercussions if they simply chose to do that.</text></comment>
<story><title>81k UK-owned .eu domains suspended as Brexit transition ends</title><url>https://www.zdnet.com/article/81000-uk-owned-eu-domains-suspended-as-brexit-transition-ends/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>iso1210</author><text>Ironically not including leave.eu - the instigators behind the entire process. Their domain is registered by a company in Ireland.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Making a Statically-Linked, Single-File Web App with React and Rust</title><url>https://anderspitman.net/2018/04/04/static-react-rust-webapp/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Waterluvian</author><text>I just wish electron could somehow harness the fact that everyone has a browser installed.</text></item><item><author>kodablah</author><text>&amp;gt; This is somewhat similar to what Electron accomplishes, but your backend is in Rust rather than JavaScript, and the user navigates to the app from their browser.&lt;p&gt;An option in the middle is webview[0] which will &amp;quot;appify&amp;quot; it by using OS-native browser lib so you don&amp;#x27;t have to carry Chromium, V8, or all the multi-process ugliness but you still get the web stack.&lt;p&gt;Also everybody, don&amp;#x27;t forget to check your Host headers when building apps running HTTP daemons locally or you&amp;#x27;ll be open to DNS rebinding attack. And if your use case can support it, a random port is nice too.&lt;p&gt;0 - &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;github.com&amp;#x2F;zserge&amp;#x2F;webview&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;github.com&amp;#x2F;zserge&amp;#x2F;webview&lt;/a&gt; 1 - &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;DNS_rebinding&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;DNS_rebinding&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>kodablah</author><text>Well, Chrome doesn&amp;#x27;t really allow chrome.dll to be easily used. Electron has deep requirements on Chromium for V8, IPC, webview, customer protocol handlers, etc IIRC so it can&amp;#x27;t just easily switch browser engines. I&amp;#x27;d say if you want this, the Chromium project would have to prioritize a stable Chrome ABI from their shared lib which I doubt they would do. And it still doesn&amp;#x27;t solve the extremely mem-bloated approach they take to serving the web stack. So for that, the Chromium project would have to prioritize better runtime feature gating for mem reduction and maybe revive first-class support for single-process mode, which I doubt they&amp;#x27;d do. And even then, you&amp;#x27;re carrying node.&lt;p&gt;To sum up my rant, I&amp;#x27;m afraid the fast moving web stack, coupled with the fact only a few companies can keep up, coupled with the fact that those companies are laser focused on their own browser use case and not embeddability combine to make this incredibly common desktop use case still suck. In the meantime, just hope these OS engines stay minimal and don&amp;#x27;t fall too far behind the standards you want.</text></comment>
<story><title>Making a Statically-Linked, Single-File Web App with React and Rust</title><url>https://anderspitman.net/2018/04/04/static-react-rust-webapp/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Waterluvian</author><text>I just wish electron could somehow harness the fact that everyone has a browser installed.</text></item><item><author>kodablah</author><text>&amp;gt; This is somewhat similar to what Electron accomplishes, but your backend is in Rust rather than JavaScript, and the user navigates to the app from their browser.&lt;p&gt;An option in the middle is webview[0] which will &amp;quot;appify&amp;quot; it by using OS-native browser lib so you don&amp;#x27;t have to carry Chromium, V8, or all the multi-process ugliness but you still get the web stack.&lt;p&gt;Also everybody, don&amp;#x27;t forget to check your Host headers when building apps running HTTP daemons locally or you&amp;#x27;ll be open to DNS rebinding attack. And if your use case can support it, a random port is nice too.&lt;p&gt;0 - &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;github.com&amp;#x2F;zserge&amp;#x2F;webview&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;github.com&amp;#x2F;zserge&amp;#x2F;webview&lt;/a&gt; 1 - &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;DNS_rebinding&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;DNS_rebinding&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mrec</author><text>Having a browser installed isn&amp;#x27;t the problem. The problem is having a specific version of a specific browser installed because that&amp;#x27;s the only thing you&amp;#x27;ve tested against.&lt;p&gt;(I&amp;#x27;m not condoning this, and haven&amp;#x27;t worked with Electron myself, but that&amp;#x27;s my understanding of the motivation.)</text></comment>
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<story><title>Jeff Bezos explains the perfect way to make risky business decisions</title><url>http://www.businessinsider.com/jeff-bezos-explains-the-perfect-way-to-make-risky-business-decisions-2017-4</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>kitrose</author><text>The lede really stuck out to me:&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;Most decisions should probably be made with somewhere around 70% of the information you wish you had. If you wait for 90%, in most cases, you’re probably being slow&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;At what point is the information you have available for a key decision enough? You always want more.&lt;p&gt;This exactly mirrors a MAJOR decision-making framework taught in the Marine Corps--we actually call it the &amp;quot;70% solution.&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;All of our warfighting doctrine is built around the principle of rapid and decisive action, but the problem is you&amp;#x27;re in an uncertain, rapidly changing world where there are opposing actors operating around you and you never have all the answers. They emphasize in officer training that a key limiter is being paralyzed with uncertainty and wanting to wait until more information is available, and that you must actively counter this feeling. Indecision is a decision (and often the worst one).&lt;p&gt;I have personally found this one of the most difficult and perpetual factors I&amp;#x27;ve encountered in both military and civilian careers. It&amp;#x27;s interesting that Bezos espouses this principle.</text></comment>
<story><title>Jeff Bezos explains the perfect way to make risky business decisions</title><url>http://www.businessinsider.com/jeff-bezos-explains-the-perfect-way-to-make-risky-business-decisions-2017-4</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>seibelj</author><text>Love the &amp;quot;disagree and commit&amp;quot; part. Perfectly encapsulates the situation where &amp;quot;I&amp;#x27;m convinced this is a bad idea, but I&amp;#x27;m going to trust you and support you.&amp;quot;</text></comment>
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<story><title>Resignation from the pkg-systemd maintainer team</title><url>http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/pkg-systemd-maintainers/2014-November/004563.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>pekk</author><text>With the top voted post being &amp;quot;systemd haters have gone too far,&amp;quot; I find it worth mentioning that there is no relation between approving of death threats and thinking a systemd monoculture is a bad idea.&lt;p&gt;Death threats are wrong. Victims aren&amp;#x27;t to blame for death threats. On the other hand, that doesn&amp;#x27;t do anything to redeem systemd or dismiss criticism of systemd.&lt;p&gt;Unfortunately, now the meme will be that critics of systemd are dangerous lunatics because of the death threats that most critics of systemd never made or approved of. This (and procedural irregularities, etc.) exemplify the ugly &amp;quot;total war&amp;quot; tone that was instrumental in pushing systemd through. The death threats are inexcusable. But the poor tone and bitter feelings have roots in what was done to get systemd where it is today.&lt;p&gt;And if you are telling critics of systemd, who have nothing to do with death threats that &amp;quot;[they] are not welcome anymore in the community&amp;quot; - you are not contributing to the improvement of the tone. You are waging total war.</text></comment>
<story><title>Resignation from the pkg-systemd maintainer team</title><url>http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/pkg-systemd-maintainers/2014-November/004563.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>uselessdguy</author><text>I completely condemn such nonsense as a bunch of vitriolic people driving a distribution maintainer away from their position all because of their indirect affiliation with a controversial project.&lt;p&gt;Such actions are why I identify with neither the systemd opponents nor the proponents. Unfortunately, it does dilute arguments against systemd, because of immediate associations with fools who attack people and scream fallacies (even though the non-systemd camp is an amorphous blob more than anything). This in turn gives moral high ground to the proponents and any attempt at debate devolves into the same dead ends and non-arguments between equally clueless factions.&lt;p&gt;Yet as much as the entire display is abominable, it is sadly also completely predictable. For all the good things the systemd crew have done, their ideas are disruptive, in that they&amp;#x27;re trying to mold a cathedral out of what has been a rather adamantly bazaar-based community for over two decades now. Contrary to popular belief, simply developing your tools in one repository doesn&amp;#x27;t magically make you &amp;quot;more like the BSDs&amp;quot; - there&amp;#x27;s far more to the BSDs than that, and every time I see someone make that argument, I twitch.&lt;p&gt;We&amp;#x27;re in the midst of an unprecedented schism. But, for what it&amp;#x27;s worth, this isn&amp;#x27;t an issue with &amp;quot;open source&amp;quot;. No, it&amp;#x27;s an issue with the Linux community in particular. It is particularly dysfunctional. I have no idea why Linux attracts so much drama and carnage amongst its constituents, but it does.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;m pretty disappointed in all sides here. The people who attack systemd and its developers on completely false premises, and the people who are convinced it&amp;#x27;s the be all and the end all, and have been living under a sysvinit-based rock their entire lives. It&amp;#x27;s just so exhausting. It really is.&lt;p&gt;I don&amp;#x27;t know how this will end. But the irony is intense: an attempt at distro unification has led to a big divide. The best thing we can hope for is people doing a bunch of new experimentation in Unix process management. Projects like Epoch and nosh are up and coming. Hopefully we&amp;#x27;ll see more.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Identifiable Images of Bystanders Extracted from Corneal Reflections (2013)</title><url>http://www.plosone.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pone.0083325&amp;</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>gknoy</author><text>&amp;quot;... from approximately 1 m using a ... 39 megapixel digital camera ... with 120 mm macro lens&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;Good news: At least we can still trust that normaly surveillance cameras won&amp;#x27;t have the kind of resolution to perform this feat.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ChuckMcM</author><text>And the thing about technology is, it keeps moving forward.&lt;p&gt;I was remarking the other day about some neighbors who caught the folks who broke into their house because a person &lt;i&gt;across the street&lt;/i&gt; had a 1080p video camera which caught them going over the side fence (and fortunately facing the street).&lt;p&gt;And in my personal experience of &amp;quot;Imagine you could play a game where the graphics card would realistically render the battle from any angle in real time! No way, too much compute needed.&amp;quot; where I really missed the notion that multi-core GPUs would grow like they had.&lt;p&gt;What this research says is that &lt;i&gt;when&lt;/i&gt; you have pictures of people from high resolution cameras, that have high dynamic range, you will be able to pull out faces of people near them from corneal reflections. That won&amp;#x27;t be today obviously, it might not be five years from now, but don&amp;#x27;t count it out as &amp;quot;never.&amp;quot;</text></comment>
<story><title>Identifiable Images of Bystanders Extracted from Corneal Reflections (2013)</title><url>http://www.plosone.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pone.0083325&amp;</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>gknoy</author><text>&amp;quot;... from approximately 1 m using a ... 39 megapixel digital camera ... with 120 mm macro lens&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;Good news: At least we can still trust that normaly surveillance cameras won&amp;#x27;t have the kind of resolution to perform this feat.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Houshalter</author><text>For the time being. It is a concern for the future. For example, here is a tiny super cheap, &lt;i&gt;lens-free&lt;/i&gt; camera: &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.technologyreview.com/news/525731/lens-free-camera-sees-things-differently/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.technologyreview.com&amp;#x2F;news&amp;#x2F;525731&amp;#x2F;lens-free-camera...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;And there is &amp;quot;super-resolution&amp;quot; which combines multiple low-res pictures (e.g. frames of a video) into a single high resolution image: &lt;a href=&quot;http://vimeo.com/6608238&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;vimeo.com&amp;#x2F;6608238&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>
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<story><title>Russian airlines ordered to stop selling tickets to Russian men aged 18 to 65</title><url>https://www.airlive.net/breaking-russian-airlines-ordered-to-stop-selling-tickets-to-russian-men-aged-18-to-65/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>googlryas</author><text>This doesn&amp;#x27;t seem like a great idea, if you only have Russian citizenship. You may be forced to go back to Russia at any point due to immigration issues, and once you do, you will be arrested for avoiding mandatory service&amp;#x2F;draft (if one comes...if one doesn&amp;#x27;t come, then you didn&amp;#x27;t need to flee)</text></item><item><author>Kon-Peki</author><text>(As the father of a teenage boy, this is the first thing that popped into my head) Any family with the ability to send their teenage boys abroad to live with extended family&amp;#x2F;friends is going to do so, ASAP. Russia&amp;#x27;s already terrible demographics are going to get worse. A lot worse.&lt;p&gt;How long before they start selling territory to China?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>bambax</author><text>As outlined in some articles today, the irony of putting deserters in jail is that Russia is also taking inmates out of prison to man its front lines.</text></comment>
<story><title>Russian airlines ordered to stop selling tickets to Russian men aged 18 to 65</title><url>https://www.airlive.net/breaking-russian-airlines-ordered-to-stop-selling-tickets-to-russian-men-aged-18-to-65/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>googlryas</author><text>This doesn&amp;#x27;t seem like a great idea, if you only have Russian citizenship. You may be forced to go back to Russia at any point due to immigration issues, and once you do, you will be arrested for avoiding mandatory service&amp;#x2F;draft (if one comes...if one doesn&amp;#x27;t come, then you didn&amp;#x27;t need to flee)</text></item><item><author>Kon-Peki</author><text>(As the father of a teenage boy, this is the first thing that popped into my head) Any family with the ability to send their teenage boys abroad to live with extended family&amp;#x2F;friends is going to do so, ASAP. Russia&amp;#x27;s already terrible demographics are going to get worse. A lot worse.&lt;p&gt;How long before they start selling territory to China?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>SamoyedFurFluff</author><text>Depending on where you’re going, the refugee policy may very well buy you plenty of time or accept you outright.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Gemma: New Open Models</title><url>https://blog.google/technology/developers/gemma-open-models/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>simonw</author><text>The terms of use: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;ai.google.dev&amp;#x2F;gemma&amp;#x2F;terms&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;ai.google.dev&amp;#x2F;gemma&amp;#x2F;terms&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;ai.google.dev&amp;#x2F;gemma&amp;#x2F;prohibited_use_policy&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;ai.google.dev&amp;#x2F;gemma&amp;#x2F;prohibited_use_policy&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;Something that caught my eye in the terms:&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; Google may update Gemma from time to time, and you must make reasonable efforts to use the latest version of Gemma.&lt;p&gt;One of the biggest benefits of running your own model is that it can protect you from model updates that break your carefully tested prompts, so I’m not thrilled by that particular clause.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>a2128</author><text>This is actually not that unusual. Stable Diffusion&amp;#x27;s license, CreativeML Open RAIL-M, has the exact same clause: &amp;quot;You shall undertake reasonable efforts to use the latest version of the Model.&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;Obviously updating the model is not very practical when you&amp;#x27;re using finetuned versions, and people still use old versions of Stable Diffusion. But it does make me fear the possibility that if they ever want to &amp;quot;revoke&amp;quot; everybody&amp;#x27;s license to use the model, all they have to do is just post a model update that&amp;#x27;s functionally useless for anything and go after anyone still using the old versions that actually do anything.</text></comment>
<story><title>Gemma: New Open Models</title><url>https://blog.google/technology/developers/gemma-open-models/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>simonw</author><text>The terms of use: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;ai.google.dev&amp;#x2F;gemma&amp;#x2F;terms&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;ai.google.dev&amp;#x2F;gemma&amp;#x2F;terms&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;ai.google.dev&amp;#x2F;gemma&amp;#x2F;prohibited_use_policy&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;ai.google.dev&amp;#x2F;gemma&amp;#x2F;prohibited_use_policy&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;Something that caught my eye in the terms:&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; Google may update Gemma from time to time, and you must make reasonable efforts to use the latest version of Gemma.&lt;p&gt;One of the biggest benefits of running your own model is that it can protect you from model updates that break your carefully tested prompts, so I’m not thrilled by that particular clause.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>tgtweak</author><text>I don&amp;#x27;t think there&amp;#x27;s a way they can enforce that reasonably. There&amp;#x27;s no connection to the mothership to report back what version is being used or license keys at runtime...&lt;p&gt;Seems more like a &amp;quot;if we discover something unsafe you should update your model and we aren&amp;#x27;t liable if you don&amp;#x27;t&amp;quot; than something that would make your model stop working.</text></comment>
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<story><title>40% of US electricity is now emissions-free</title><url>https://arstechnica.com/science/2023/12/40-of-us-electricity-is-now-emissions-free/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Teever</author><text>So what do you think we should rename it to?</text></item><item><author>shkkmo</author><text>The origin of the term doesn&amp;#x27;t mean that the term isn&amp;#x27;t an effective form of greenwashing that creates false perceptions around its harmful effects.</text></item><item><author>ivan_gammel</author><text>Saying that it is “greenwashing” is ridiculous. The gas is called natural because when it was discovered it came from nature, not from manufacturing by heating coal. This name is older than marketing or green politics and it is quite natural way to call this gas.</text></item><item><author>globalnode</author><text>i agree, but i also dislike the term &amp;quot;natural gas&amp;quot; sure its natural just like everything in the universe is -- just a bit of greenwashing to go with our CO2 emissions</text></item><item><author>vinniepukh</author><text>I like the term “emissions-free”.&lt;p&gt;It keeps our eyes on the target - not emitting CO2 and other gasses to the atmosphere.&lt;p&gt;Other qualities like “renewablility” or “greenness” are cherries in the top. Nice to haves!</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>OrwellianChild</author><text>&amp;quot;Natural Gas&amp;quot; is 97% methane, so it&amp;#x27;s probably most direct to just refer to it by it&amp;#x27;s primary component...</text></comment>
<story><title>40% of US electricity is now emissions-free</title><url>https://arstechnica.com/science/2023/12/40-of-us-electricity-is-now-emissions-free/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Teever</author><text>So what do you think we should rename it to?</text></item><item><author>shkkmo</author><text>The origin of the term doesn&amp;#x27;t mean that the term isn&amp;#x27;t an effective form of greenwashing that creates false perceptions around its harmful effects.</text></item><item><author>ivan_gammel</author><text>Saying that it is “greenwashing” is ridiculous. The gas is called natural because when it was discovered it came from nature, not from manufacturing by heating coal. This name is older than marketing or green politics and it is quite natural way to call this gas.</text></item><item><author>globalnode</author><text>i agree, but i also dislike the term &amp;quot;natural gas&amp;quot; sure its natural just like everything in the universe is -- just a bit of greenwashing to go with our CO2 emissions</text></item><item><author>vinniepukh</author><text>I like the term “emissions-free”.&lt;p&gt;It keeps our eyes on the target - not emitting CO2 and other gasses to the atmosphere.&lt;p&gt;Other qualities like “renewablility” or “greenness” are cherries in the top. Nice to haves!</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>badpun</author><text>In Poland, it&amp;#x27;s called &amp;quot;Earth gas&amp;quot; or &amp;quot;ground gas&amp;quot;.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Yet Another Roguelike Tutorial</title><url>http://rogueliketutorials.com/tutorials/tcod/v2/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>TStand90</author><text>Author here; the idea came from frustrations with the original Python roguelike tutorial on Roguebasin. Since the entire thing was written in one file, it was difficult sometimes (for me anyway) to tell what was going on.&lt;p&gt;While I&amp;#x27;m happy with the way the diff style turned out, I will say there is one big downside for me: It&amp;#x27;s a &lt;i&gt;huge&lt;/i&gt; pain to write. Not only did I do a &amp;quot;git diff&amp;quot; every time I made changes and documented it, but if you end up changing something later down the line, then I basically had to go back to the very beginning of the chapter, follow the tutorial along, and double check &lt;i&gt;everything&lt;/i&gt;. Maybe there&amp;#x27;s a more efficient way to do this, but it was a bit tedious and time consuming.&lt;p&gt;Still worth the effort in the end though, I think.</text></item><item><author>throw10920</author><text>I really, really like the &amp;quot;diff&amp;quot; style for code fragments - it makes the tutorial so much nicer to read, and I don&amp;#x27;t see any significant downsides. This should be the standard for all tutorials where you progressively modify a non-trivial body of code.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>munificent</author><text>My book &lt;i&gt;Crafting Interpreters&lt;/i&gt; has a similar snippet style where it shows you the surrounding context for inserted code so you can see where it goes. It doesn&amp;#x27;t show the deleted code (because that would probably get too noisy in most cases), but I could if I wanted to.&lt;p&gt;I ended up writing a whole little custom build system to automatically generate the snippets and their surrounding context based on comments in the source code [1]. It was a fairly complex program to write, but it makes it completely automatic and error-free. I can&amp;#x27;t imagine trying to maintain it all manually.&lt;p&gt;[1]: &lt;a href=&quot;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;journal.stuffwithstuff.com&amp;#x2F;2020&amp;#x2F;04&amp;#x2F;05&amp;#x2F;crafting-crafting-interpreters&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;journal.stuffwithstuff.com&amp;#x2F;2020&amp;#x2F;04&amp;#x2F;05&amp;#x2F;crafting-crafti...&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>
<story><title>Yet Another Roguelike Tutorial</title><url>http://rogueliketutorials.com/tutorials/tcod/v2/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>TStand90</author><text>Author here; the idea came from frustrations with the original Python roguelike tutorial on Roguebasin. Since the entire thing was written in one file, it was difficult sometimes (for me anyway) to tell what was going on.&lt;p&gt;While I&amp;#x27;m happy with the way the diff style turned out, I will say there is one big downside for me: It&amp;#x27;s a &lt;i&gt;huge&lt;/i&gt; pain to write. Not only did I do a &amp;quot;git diff&amp;quot; every time I made changes and documented it, but if you end up changing something later down the line, then I basically had to go back to the very beginning of the chapter, follow the tutorial along, and double check &lt;i&gt;everything&lt;/i&gt;. Maybe there&amp;#x27;s a more efficient way to do this, but it was a bit tedious and time consuming.&lt;p&gt;Still worth the effort in the end though, I think.</text></item><item><author>throw10920</author><text>I really, really like the &amp;quot;diff&amp;quot; style for code fragments - it makes the tutorial so much nicer to read, and I don&amp;#x27;t see any significant downsides. This should be the standard for all tutorials where you progressively modify a non-trivial body of code.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>lozenge</author><text>&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;craftinginterpreters.com&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;craftinginterpreters.com&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt; is a bigger project with automated tests at each stage making sure the diffs line up. I&amp;#x27;m not sure it&amp;#x27;s open sourced though.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Summarize Any Article as a Dialog Between Two People with Bing Chat</title><url>https://www.aidemos.info/summarize-any-article-as-a-dialog-between-two-people-with-bing-chat/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>IIAOPSW</author><text>Based on my previous attempts with that other well noted LLM, I don&amp;#x27;t think these models are at all good at managing &amp;quot;theory of mind&amp;quot;. They seem to not keep track very well of which parties are privy to which information, which parties are supposed to be pursuing certain conversational objectives, and generally which direction information is supposed to be flowing. It often trips over itself at the level of 2 parties, and certainly trip over itself at the level of 3 parties. Additionally, I have not once seen it be able to do a form of recursive nesting wherein one of the two parties in a dialog begin to discuss verbatim a dialog between two additional people. I suspect these problems are deeply seated and intrinsic to the model, and will not be rectified under the &amp;quot;just train it more bro&amp;quot; refrain of AI evangelicals.</text></comment>
<story><title>Summarize Any Article as a Dialog Between Two People with Bing Chat</title><url>https://www.aidemos.info/summarize-any-article-as-a-dialog-between-two-people-with-bing-chat/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>jimmySixDOF</author><text>Kind of more interesting in the other direction summarizing conversations into an article sort of like what these folks put together:&lt;p&gt;Show HN: The HN Recap – AI generated daily HN podcast | Hacker News &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&amp;#x2F;item?id=35831177&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&amp;#x2F;item?id=35831177&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>
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<story><title>Show HN: Review healthcare.gov plan prices in 1 click rather than 16</title><url>http://www.thehealthsherpa.com</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>mgkimsal</author><text>&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.thehealthsherpa.com/insurance_plans?zip_code=27596&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.thehealthsherpa.com&amp;#x2F;insurance_plans?zip_code=2759...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;27596 is in multiple counties - you&amp;#x27;ve got it listed only in Wake, but it&amp;#x27;s also Franklin county and IIRC Granville county too.&lt;p&gt;Is suspect 27596 is not the only ZIP in the country with this issue, and it can affect the results of this - Coventry was supposedly (as of a few days ago, anyway) not offering ACA plans in Franklin county, but was in Wake.</text></comment>
<story><title>Show HN: Review healthcare.gov plan prices in 1 click rather than 16</title><url>http://www.thehealthsherpa.com</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>josh33</author><text>I hope you got paid $150mm to create that.</text></comment>
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<story><title>How to charge clients: flat fee vs. hourly rate?</title><url>http://watilo.com/how-to-charge-clients-flat-fee-vs-hourly-rate</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tptacek</author><text>I would never bill a client for the time it takes me to build a proposal, and I would think &lt;i&gt;way&lt;/i&gt; less of any contractor who suggested I pay for their proposals. Don&apos;t do this. Research for quotes and proposals is in almost all cases a cost of doing business.</text></item><item><author>rapind</author><text>One thing to keep in mind is that it takes time to come up with a detailed quote like this, and you&apos;ll want to be paid for that time.&lt;p&gt;I usually throw out a ball-park guesstimate (without signing anything) to see if the client is comfortable with it, and then ask them to pay for a detailed quote like this, which they then own and can shop around with.&lt;p&gt;You can take somewhat of a loss on the scoping since if they&apos;ve agreed to pay you for it, there&apos;s a really good chance you&apos;ll be awarded the contract (as long as it doesn&apos;t blow them away or they have unrealistic expectations, in which case thank god you scoped it out). This way at least you&apos;re still getting paid something.</text></item><item><author>ekidd</author><text>An hourly rate is easier, because you don&apos;t need to worry about scope creep. But your total bill should &lt;i&gt;never&lt;/i&gt; surprise a client—you need to communicate at each step of the way.&lt;p&gt;A flat rate, on the other hand, allows you to charge for the value you provide, and gives your clients a predictable budget. By charging a fixed rate, you&apos;re saying, &quot;I can do this work quickly and well, and I&apos;m sure enough of my estimates to take on all the schedule risk.&quot;&lt;p&gt;On the other hand, fixed-priced projects can explode horribly when the requirements inevitably change. I suspect that &lt;i&gt;somebody&lt;/i&gt; usually walks away unhappy.&lt;p&gt;I use a hybrid system: I break the project down into features, and offer a quote for each feature. The quotes are measured in &quot;points&quot; (as in XP or Pivotal Tracker), and I charge a fixed price per point. My clients choose which features they want. And if the spec changes, we just scrap some existing features and draw up new quotes.&lt;p&gt;If you&apos;re a highly-productive developer, and you&apos;re good at communicating with your clients, you might find that this system offers something for everybody: Your clients get predictability and flexibility, and you get a strong incentive to become a better developer.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>joelrunyon</author><text>I respectfully disagree.&lt;p&gt;The last company I was at completely turned around when we stopped begging people to let us do their proposals and instead started charging them for the privilege to have us analyze their business, create actionable guidelines (that they could conceivably have anyone implement) and provide a quote for what our services would cost to implement them ourselves. They were welcome to take that strategy plan elsewhere, but when we started charging people for it, we had more clients than we knew what to do with.&lt;p&gt;People start to see you differently when you value your time, ideas and strategy and don&apos;t just give them away. Yes, there are some cases where it&apos;s worth doing one gratis, but the vast majority of time, we got more business by refusing to work with people who didn&apos;t run through our proposal process.</text></comment>
<story><title>How to charge clients: flat fee vs. hourly rate?</title><url>http://watilo.com/how-to-charge-clients-flat-fee-vs-hourly-rate</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tptacek</author><text>I would never bill a client for the time it takes me to build a proposal, and I would think &lt;i&gt;way&lt;/i&gt; less of any contractor who suggested I pay for their proposals. Don&apos;t do this. Research for quotes and proposals is in almost all cases a cost of doing business.</text></item><item><author>rapind</author><text>One thing to keep in mind is that it takes time to come up with a detailed quote like this, and you&apos;ll want to be paid for that time.&lt;p&gt;I usually throw out a ball-park guesstimate (without signing anything) to see if the client is comfortable with it, and then ask them to pay for a detailed quote like this, which they then own and can shop around with.&lt;p&gt;You can take somewhat of a loss on the scoping since if they&apos;ve agreed to pay you for it, there&apos;s a really good chance you&apos;ll be awarded the contract (as long as it doesn&apos;t blow them away or they have unrealistic expectations, in which case thank god you scoped it out). This way at least you&apos;re still getting paid something.</text></item><item><author>ekidd</author><text>An hourly rate is easier, because you don&apos;t need to worry about scope creep. But your total bill should &lt;i&gt;never&lt;/i&gt; surprise a client—you need to communicate at each step of the way.&lt;p&gt;A flat rate, on the other hand, allows you to charge for the value you provide, and gives your clients a predictable budget. By charging a fixed rate, you&apos;re saying, &quot;I can do this work quickly and well, and I&apos;m sure enough of my estimates to take on all the schedule risk.&quot;&lt;p&gt;On the other hand, fixed-priced projects can explode horribly when the requirements inevitably change. I suspect that &lt;i&gt;somebody&lt;/i&gt; usually walks away unhappy.&lt;p&gt;I use a hybrid system: I break the project down into features, and offer a quote for each feature. The quotes are measured in &quot;points&quot; (as in XP or Pivotal Tracker), and I charge a fixed price per point. My clients choose which features they want. And if the spec changes, we just scrap some existing features and draw up new quotes.&lt;p&gt;If you&apos;re a highly-productive developer, and you&apos;re good at communicating with your clients, you might find that this system offers something for everybody: Your clients get predictability and flexibility, and you get a strong incentive to become a better developer.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>bkhughes</author><text>I think this might depend on the case.&lt;p&gt;I&apos;ve had clients with only a vague idea of what they actually needed, meaning that we essentially needed to &lt;i&gt;design&lt;/i&gt; the product before we could quote it. We charged a nominal fee, which was discounted from the project if the proposal was accepted.</text></comment>
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<story><title>DeFi protocol BadgerDAO exploited for $120M in front-end attack</title><url>https://www.theblockcrypto.com/post/126072/defi-protocol-badgerdao-exploited-for-120-million-in-front-end-attack</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>deweller</author><text>It is important to note that this was not a smart contract exploit. The point of failure here was the website UI. Users were sent to a malicious website due to a stolen Cloudflare API key.&lt;p&gt;What can DAOs do to prevent the single point of failure that is the web front end? Is there a reliable second level of security to ensure you are at the site you intended? The SSL certificate didn&amp;#x27;t work because Cloudflare was still terminating the SSL connection.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Stevvo</author><text>DAOs nearly always have their front-end in a public repository so you can run it locally, but this is also convenient for the Cloudfare hijacker.&lt;p&gt;One defence is ENS. If your DAO&amp;#x27;s contract is registered for example as &amp;quot;BadgerDAO.eth&amp;quot;, and your users wallet software shows that every time they make a transaction then it will be a red flag when the contract has been swapped out in the compromised front-end.&lt;p&gt;Unfortunately many wallets don&amp;#x27;t support ENS, and in those that do the experience could be better. So better wallets are part of the solution.</text></comment>
<story><title>DeFi protocol BadgerDAO exploited for $120M in front-end attack</title><url>https://www.theblockcrypto.com/post/126072/defi-protocol-badgerdao-exploited-for-120-million-in-front-end-attack</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>deweller</author><text>It is important to note that this was not a smart contract exploit. The point of failure here was the website UI. Users were sent to a malicious website due to a stolen Cloudflare API key.&lt;p&gt;What can DAOs do to prevent the single point of failure that is the web front end? Is there a reliable second level of security to ensure you are at the site you intended? The SSL certificate didn&amp;#x27;t work because Cloudflare was still terminating the SSL connection.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>root_axis</author><text>&amp;gt; &lt;i&gt;It is important to note that this was not a smart contract exploit.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;I disagree that this is an important detail. Even though the smart contract code wasn&amp;#x27;t exploited directly (this time), this type of massive theft is only possible because the smart contract ecosystem thrives on a lack of accountability.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Trading bot that buys stocks bought by politicians is up 20% since May 2022</title><url>https://www.threads.net/@quiverquantitative/post/CzcB-Gsgqow</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Rebelgecko</author><text>It&amp;#x27;s hard to find a calculator&amp;#x2F;data source that takes dividends into account, but it looks like if you bought an S&amp;amp;P500 index fund in May 2022 you&amp;#x27;d be up around 18% depending on which day you purchased. So not very dramatic IMO</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>paxys</author><text>And if you bought it a few days later (on June 13, 2022) you would be up 20.5% today even without dividend reinvestment. Trying to derive meaning from stock returns over such short periods is meaningless due to the inherent volatility of the market.</text></comment>
<story><title>Trading bot that buys stocks bought by politicians is up 20% since May 2022</title><url>https://www.threads.net/@quiverquantitative/post/CzcB-Gsgqow</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Rebelgecko</author><text>It&amp;#x27;s hard to find a calculator&amp;#x2F;data source that takes dividends into account, but it looks like if you bought an S&amp;amp;P500 index fund in May 2022 you&amp;#x27;d be up around 18% depending on which day you purchased. So not very dramatic IMO</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>danuker</author><text>Looks like VFINX returned 8.8% since 2022-05-01. How did you get to 18%?&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;totalrealreturns.com&amp;#x2F;n&amp;#x2F;VFINX,VBMFX,USDOLLAR?start=2022-05-01&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;totalrealreturns.com&amp;#x2F;n&amp;#x2F;VFINX,VBMFX,USDOLLAR?start=20...&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>
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<story><title>OpenAI researchers warned board of AI breakthrough ahead of CEO ouster</title><url>https://www.reuters.com/technology/sam-altmans-ouster-openai-was-precipitated-by-letter-board-about-ai-breakthrough-2023-11-22/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>cduzz</author><text>I was talking to my (12 year old) son about parts of math he finds boring. He said that he thinks absolute value is absurdly easy and extremely boring. I asked him if there was anything that might make it more interesting, he said &amp;quot;maybe complex numbers&amp;quot;.&lt;p&gt;So I asked him &amp;quot;what would the absolute value of i+1 be?&amp;quot; he thinks for a little bit and says &amp;quot;square root of 2&amp;quot; and I ask him &amp;quot;what about the absolute value of 2i + 2?&amp;quot; &amp;quot;square root of 8&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;I ask him &amp;quot;why?&amp;quot; and he said &amp;quot;absolute value is distance; in the complex plane the absolute value is the hypotenuse of the imaginary and real numbers.&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;So -- first of all, this was a little surprising to me that he&amp;#x27;d thought about this sort of thing having mostly just watched youtube videos about math, and second, this sort of understanding is a result of some manner of understanding the underlying mechanisms and not a result of just having a huge dictionary of synonyms.&lt;p&gt;To what degree can these large language models arrive at these same conclusions, and by what process?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>naasking</author><text>&amp;gt; this sort of understanding is a result of some manner of understanding the underlying mechanisms and not a result of just having a huge dictionary of synonyms.&lt;p&gt;He developed an understanding of the underlying mechanisms because he correlated concepts between algebraic and geometric domains, ie. multimodal training data. Multimodal models are already known to be meaningfully better than unimodal ones. We&amp;#x27;ve barely scratched the surface of multimodal training.</text></comment>
<story><title>OpenAI researchers warned board of AI breakthrough ahead of CEO ouster</title><url>https://www.reuters.com/technology/sam-altmans-ouster-openai-was-precipitated-by-letter-board-about-ai-breakthrough-2023-11-22/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>cduzz</author><text>I was talking to my (12 year old) son about parts of math he finds boring. He said that he thinks absolute value is absurdly easy and extremely boring. I asked him if there was anything that might make it more interesting, he said &amp;quot;maybe complex numbers&amp;quot;.&lt;p&gt;So I asked him &amp;quot;what would the absolute value of i+1 be?&amp;quot; he thinks for a little bit and says &amp;quot;square root of 2&amp;quot; and I ask him &amp;quot;what about the absolute value of 2i + 2?&amp;quot; &amp;quot;square root of 8&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;I ask him &amp;quot;why?&amp;quot; and he said &amp;quot;absolute value is distance; in the complex plane the absolute value is the hypotenuse of the imaginary and real numbers.&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;So -- first of all, this was a little surprising to me that he&amp;#x27;d thought about this sort of thing having mostly just watched youtube videos about math, and second, this sort of understanding is a result of some manner of understanding the underlying mechanisms and not a result of just having a huge dictionary of synonyms.&lt;p&gt;To what degree can these large language models arrive at these same conclusions, and by what process?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>white_dragon88</author><text>Your son is a goddamn genius.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Belarus &apos;diverts Ryanair flight to arrest journalist&apos;, opposition says</title><url>https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-57219860</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>sellyme</author><text>&amp;gt; the max speed of a normal GA plane (think Cessna) is below the stall speed of many interceptors which can result in amusement&lt;p&gt;Somehow I get the inkling that terrorist groups probably aren&amp;#x27;t going to start trying to crash into office buildings with a Cessna.</text></item><item><author>bombcar</author><text>Note that many VFR flights are NOT under direct ATC control (though requesting flight following is always recommended) so unless you appear to be flying erratically or otherwise attract attention you may not even be noticed - it’s standard to send an interceptor if they have reason to believe your radio is inoperable and they need to get in contact (there are established intercept&amp;#x2F;no-contact procedures).&lt;p&gt;In reality it is highly unlikely for a commercial airline to ignore a direct ATC command (unless the pilot believes the plane is in distress) - and in a case like this where ATC reports a hazard onboard and divert it wouldn’t be unexpected to see an escort (even if just so that there is a witness if the plane were to actually explode).&lt;p&gt;After 9-11 the chance that the interceptors are armed is probably 100%.&lt;p&gt;Fun fact: the max speed of a normal GA plane (think Cessna) is below the stall speed of many interceptors which can result in amusement.</text></item><item><author>mike_d</author><text>The generally accepted worldwide rule is that airspace is owned by the country under it. You actually pay overflight fees for use of a countries airspace and are subject to its air traffic control. The corporate response will always be &amp;quot;don&amp;#x27;t get shot down.&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;In the US and most everywhere else, when you willfully ignore ATC they scramble fighter jets. Every pilot is trained in what this looks like and how to respond, but the safe next step is always to respond in the affirmative and land. &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.boldmethod.com&amp;#x2F;learn-to-fly&amp;#x2F;regulations&amp;#x2F;inflight-interception-procedures-for-pilots&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.boldmethod.com&amp;#x2F;learn-to-fly&amp;#x2F;regulations&amp;#x2F;inflight...&lt;/a&gt;</text></item><item><author>Cullinet</author><text>I doubt that the pilot or copilot could have done this themselves, but I would be very surprised if they never asked their corporate control operating command to explain and establish what exactly was going on and whether they&amp;#x27;re going to be compelled to comply with the Belorussian diversions request... assuming that the escort fighter jets didn&amp;#x27;t simultaneously arrive on their wings to punctuate the &amp;quot;request&amp;quot; effectively.&lt;p&gt;Can anyone with FAA &amp;#x2F; CAA (the UK civil aviation authority) or EU airspace rules knowledge clarify what protocols exist for these situations?</text></item><item><author>stjohnswarts</author><text>I don&amp;#x27;t see this happening though. It would seem reasonable to limit the countries seeing the passenger list to those countries that the plane is taking off from&amp;#x2F;leaving though.</text></item><item><author>dredmorbius</author><text>Noted elsewhere:&lt;p&gt;&lt;i&gt;The Belarus plane hijack is a small reminder why it&amp;#x27;s generally not a good idea to let governments know who is going to where. I&amp;#x27;m not sure why governments that like to think of themselves as democratic don&amp;#x27;t see the risks.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;-- Alexander Bochmann &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;mastodon.infra.de&amp;#x2F;@galaxis&amp;#x2F;106285985254850170&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;mastodon.infra.de&amp;#x2F;@galaxis&amp;#x2F;106285985254850170&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;d made a similar point following the assassination of Kim Jung-nam in 2017:&lt;p&gt;&lt;i&gt;Travel and hospitality databases are widely accessible and shared amongst a tremendous number of organisations. State intelligence organisations might readily have access through their own state-run airline, or through private operations or plants within same. Similarly for terrorist, narco-criminal, money-laundering, or other organisations. Financial, banking, and payment-processing systems, only slightly less so. A P.I. license or position on a fraud or abuse desk at a major online retailer, or any skip-tracing agency, can have access to such information.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;old.reddit.com&amp;#x2F;r&amp;#x2F;dredmorbius&amp;#x2F;comments&amp;#x2F;5ud243&amp;#x2F;data_are_liability_book_your_assassination_now&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;old.reddit.com&amp;#x2F;r&amp;#x2F;dredmorbius&amp;#x2F;comments&amp;#x2F;5ud243&amp;#x2F;data_ar...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;What is your threat model?&lt;p&gt;Note that &lt;i&gt;your own&lt;/i&gt; threat model may not include possibilities which put &lt;i&gt;others&lt;/i&gt; at risk.&lt;p&gt;(In fairness, it appear that Protasevich was followed onto the plane itself, suggesting that in-flight availability of manifests played little role. The question of what &lt;i&gt;pre-flight&lt;/i&gt; intelligence methods were employed remains open.)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Wxc2jjJmST9XWWL</author><text>It&amp;#x27;s been many years since I&amp;#x27;ve read it, but physics professor Richard A. Muller in his book &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Physics_for_Future_Presidents&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Physics_for_Future_Presidents&lt;/a&gt; argues that agricultural planes pose a great possibility of danger in relation to terrorism. They&amp;#x27;re small, nimble (meaning quite maneuverable) while holding a great amount of liquid. Gasoline is particularly suitable (911 attack were planes with tanks filled up for long distance flights for a reason) in attacks due to its high energy density.&lt;p&gt;He speaks of the farmer&amp;#x27;s community though as a tight nit community. Used planes are sold and bought within the community, farmers themselves would be very suspicious selling to someone &amp;quot;shady&amp;quot;, and the FBI knows about this threat vector as well and is monitoring it closely (iirc).&lt;p&gt;So there&amp;#x27;s an example of a small plane and its potential use case in terrorism. Not sure how easily a Cessna could be rigged up to do something of that kind.&lt;p&gt;Another attack vector in the future might be small drones. Due to them not holding tons of gasoline, some form of biochemical weapon or radioactive material could be distributed.&lt;p&gt;Muller argues that the mass panic of an incident involving biochemical materials or radioactivity would most likely be a greater danger than the &amp;quot;material threat&amp;quot; itself. Many people would be scared of &amp;quot;radioactivity&amp;quot; without much understanding. People are not particularly well educated how radioactive decline works, what half life times really mean (long half life meaning slow release, less imminent danger), why various types of radioactivity can be quite different from another etc.&lt;p&gt;So don&amp;#x27;t underestimate terrorists. Luckily, don&amp;#x27;t underestimate smart people in three letter agencies thinking about this either.</text></comment>
<story><title>Belarus &apos;diverts Ryanair flight to arrest journalist&apos;, opposition says</title><url>https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-57219860</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>sellyme</author><text>&amp;gt; the max speed of a normal GA plane (think Cessna) is below the stall speed of many interceptors which can result in amusement&lt;p&gt;Somehow I get the inkling that terrorist groups probably aren&amp;#x27;t going to start trying to crash into office buildings with a Cessna.</text></item><item><author>bombcar</author><text>Note that many VFR flights are NOT under direct ATC control (though requesting flight following is always recommended) so unless you appear to be flying erratically or otherwise attract attention you may not even be noticed - it’s standard to send an interceptor if they have reason to believe your radio is inoperable and they need to get in contact (there are established intercept&amp;#x2F;no-contact procedures).&lt;p&gt;In reality it is highly unlikely for a commercial airline to ignore a direct ATC command (unless the pilot believes the plane is in distress) - and in a case like this where ATC reports a hazard onboard and divert it wouldn’t be unexpected to see an escort (even if just so that there is a witness if the plane were to actually explode).&lt;p&gt;After 9-11 the chance that the interceptors are armed is probably 100%.&lt;p&gt;Fun fact: the max speed of a normal GA plane (think Cessna) is below the stall speed of many interceptors which can result in amusement.</text></item><item><author>mike_d</author><text>The generally accepted worldwide rule is that airspace is owned by the country under it. You actually pay overflight fees for use of a countries airspace and are subject to its air traffic control. The corporate response will always be &amp;quot;don&amp;#x27;t get shot down.&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;In the US and most everywhere else, when you willfully ignore ATC they scramble fighter jets. Every pilot is trained in what this looks like and how to respond, but the safe next step is always to respond in the affirmative and land. &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.boldmethod.com&amp;#x2F;learn-to-fly&amp;#x2F;regulations&amp;#x2F;inflight-interception-procedures-for-pilots&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.boldmethod.com&amp;#x2F;learn-to-fly&amp;#x2F;regulations&amp;#x2F;inflight...&lt;/a&gt;</text></item><item><author>Cullinet</author><text>I doubt that the pilot or copilot could have done this themselves, but I would be very surprised if they never asked their corporate control operating command to explain and establish what exactly was going on and whether they&amp;#x27;re going to be compelled to comply with the Belorussian diversions request... assuming that the escort fighter jets didn&amp;#x27;t simultaneously arrive on their wings to punctuate the &amp;quot;request&amp;quot; effectively.&lt;p&gt;Can anyone with FAA &amp;#x2F; CAA (the UK civil aviation authority) or EU airspace rules knowledge clarify what protocols exist for these situations?</text></item><item><author>stjohnswarts</author><text>I don&amp;#x27;t see this happening though. It would seem reasonable to limit the countries seeing the passenger list to those countries that the plane is taking off from&amp;#x2F;leaving though.</text></item><item><author>dredmorbius</author><text>Noted elsewhere:&lt;p&gt;&lt;i&gt;The Belarus plane hijack is a small reminder why it&amp;#x27;s generally not a good idea to let governments know who is going to where. I&amp;#x27;m not sure why governments that like to think of themselves as democratic don&amp;#x27;t see the risks.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;-- Alexander Bochmann &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;mastodon.infra.de&amp;#x2F;@galaxis&amp;#x2F;106285985254850170&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;mastodon.infra.de&amp;#x2F;@galaxis&amp;#x2F;106285985254850170&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;d made a similar point following the assassination of Kim Jung-nam in 2017:&lt;p&gt;&lt;i&gt;Travel and hospitality databases are widely accessible and shared amongst a tremendous number of organisations. State intelligence organisations might readily have access through their own state-run airline, or through private operations or plants within same. Similarly for terrorist, narco-criminal, money-laundering, or other organisations. Financial, banking, and payment-processing systems, only slightly less so. A P.I. license or position on a fraud or abuse desk at a major online retailer, or any skip-tracing agency, can have access to such information.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;old.reddit.com&amp;#x2F;r&amp;#x2F;dredmorbius&amp;#x2F;comments&amp;#x2F;5ud243&amp;#x2F;data_are_liability_book_your_assassination_now&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;old.reddit.com&amp;#x2F;r&amp;#x2F;dredmorbius&amp;#x2F;comments&amp;#x2F;5ud243&amp;#x2F;data_ar...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;What is your threat model?&lt;p&gt;Note that &lt;i&gt;your own&lt;/i&gt; threat model may not include possibilities which put &lt;i&gt;others&lt;/i&gt; at risk.&lt;p&gt;(In fairness, it appear that Protasevich was followed onto the plane itself, suggesting that in-flight availability of manifests played little role. The question of what &lt;i&gt;pre-flight&lt;/i&gt; intelligence methods were employed remains open.)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Ashwinning</author><text>Depends on how angry you are with said office building. &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;2010_Austin_suicide_attack&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;2010_Austin_suicide_attack&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>
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<story><title>Why Is Colorectal Cancer Rising Rapidly Among Young Adults?</title><url>https://www.cancer.gov/news-events/cancer-currents-blog/2020/colorectal-cancer-rising-younger-adults</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>marl0</author><text>Start with rinsing your dishes and try not to eat out.&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.jacionline.org&amp;#x2F;article&amp;#x2F;S0091-6749(22)01477-4&amp;#x2F;fulltext&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.jacionline.org&amp;#x2F;article&amp;#x2F;S0091-6749(22)01477-4&amp;#x2F;ful...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;Detergents, preservatives, pesticides and low quality ingredients are all great examples of things you can cut out eating at home. While we don&amp;#x27;t seem to have enough data to point to each one of them individually, it seems pretty common sense these are the new contributing factors in our environment.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>m0llusk</author><text>Lectins, specifically gluten, are strongly associated with IBS. Many people have found relief from IBS by reducing or eliminating lectins in their diet, especially gluten. It is worth pointing out that wheat is an extremely common ingredient nowadays, but most of the wheat we grow and eat is no longer the traditional emmer or einkorn but a dwarf hybrid that among other differences produces extreme amounts of gluten.</text></comment>
<story><title>Why Is Colorectal Cancer Rising Rapidly Among Young Adults?</title><url>https://www.cancer.gov/news-events/cancer-currents-blog/2020/colorectal-cancer-rising-younger-adults</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>marl0</author><text>Start with rinsing your dishes and try not to eat out.&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.jacionline.org&amp;#x2F;article&amp;#x2F;S0091-6749(22)01477-4&amp;#x2F;fulltext&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.jacionline.org&amp;#x2F;article&amp;#x2F;S0091-6749(22)01477-4&amp;#x2F;ful...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;Detergents, preservatives, pesticides and low quality ingredients are all great examples of things you can cut out eating at home. While we don&amp;#x27;t seem to have enough data to point to each one of them individually, it seems pretty common sense these are the new contributing factors in our environment.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>j-bos</author><text>I understand it&amp;#x27;s not best practice to ask, but could those who downvoted this comment reply with their reasons why?</text></comment>
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<story><title>The Design of Everyday Things – Book Summary and Notes</title><url>https://elvischidera.com/2022-06-24-design-everyday-things/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>WalterBright</author><text>These kinds of things assume critical importance in the design of an aircraft cockpit.&lt;p&gt;For example, the lever that controls the landing gear has a little tire for the knob. The flap controls have a knob shaped like a flap. All so you know what the control is without needing to look (or the cockpit is filled with smoke).&lt;p&gt;The common theme with all these designs is they are driven by accidents. For some strange reason, humans are pretty bad at creating intuitive designs. It&amp;#x27;s only usage that makes it clear, and it always seems obvious in hindsight.&lt;p&gt;For example, aviation has standardized phrases for things, to avoid confusion. For decades, the maximum power setting on the engines was &amp;quot;takeoff power&amp;quot;. I kid you not. This was fixed after a crash caused by the pilot yelling &amp;quot;take off power&amp;quot; to do a go-round, and the copilot idled the engines. This was in civil aviation. The Air Force had to undergo a crash as well to change &amp;quot;takeoff power&amp;quot;.&lt;p&gt;The lead Boeing cockpit designer of the 757 explained to me that every intuitive cockpit feature was paid for in blood.</text></comment>
<story><title>The Design of Everyday Things – Book Summary and Notes</title><url>https://elvischidera.com/2022-06-24-design-everyday-things/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>ChrisMarshallNY</author><text>&lt;i&gt;&amp;gt; Good design is harder to notice than poor design, partly because good designs fit our needs so well that the design is invisible, serving us without drawing attention to itself.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;This is my goal. UX that gets out of the way. People shouldn&amp;#x27;t stop to admire the light switch. They should just flick it.</text></comment>
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<story><title>SpaceVim 2.0</title><url>https://spacevim.org/SpaceVim-release-v2.0.0/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jb1991</author><text>It&amp;#x27;s possible I&amp;#x27;m one of the few who thinks the best thing about Vim is the keybindings and other nifty features like macros, while everything else is archaic and frustrating, hence why I always looks for a good vim mode in a more modern IDE. Though often the vim mode is lacking (i.e. Xcode doesn&amp;#x27;t even support the dot operator to repeat a motion, which is astounding), and so we get back to square one with using vim again.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>H12</author><text>You are not alone.&lt;p&gt;If there were a GUI editor that had 1st-class Vim keybindings, native LSP support, fuzzy finding, and convenient file management tools a la Ranger, and optionally a built-in terminal, I&amp;#x27;d switch in a heartbeat.&lt;p&gt;OniVim2[0] looked really promising, but the project has unfortunately stalled after the creator had to step back for personal reasons.&lt;p&gt;[0]: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;v2.onivim.io&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;v2.onivim.io&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>
<story><title>SpaceVim 2.0</title><url>https://spacevim.org/SpaceVim-release-v2.0.0/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jb1991</author><text>It&amp;#x27;s possible I&amp;#x27;m one of the few who thinks the best thing about Vim is the keybindings and other nifty features like macros, while everything else is archaic and frustrating, hence why I always looks for a good vim mode in a more modern IDE. Though often the vim mode is lacking (i.e. Xcode doesn&amp;#x27;t even support the dot operator to repeat a motion, which is astounding), and so we get back to square one with using vim again.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jng</author><text>I couldn&amp;#x27;t believe the lack of support for the dot command in vi emulation in Xcode. Emulation is quite complete, mostly missing regex and ex command support (but even a vi mode that way it&amp;#x27;s still very usable), but without the key component that is dot command repetition, the whole vi&amp;#x2F;vim experience is ruined. There must have been some heated conversation at Apple, someone who knows and cares about vi&amp;#x2F;vim poured a ton of love into getting that right, and they must have felt the pain of not including dot command support.&lt;p&gt;Just hoping they will address that in a future version of Xcode.</text></comment>
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<story><title>LineageOS Android Distribution</title><url>https://lineageos.org/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>wongarsu</author><text>LineageOS is great, my one complaint is that it is almost never available for the phones I own. You basically have to get phones according to their popularity in a certain subgroup: for example currently one HTC model and two LG models are supported, but close to everything from OnePlus.&lt;p&gt;I know I can get unofficial builds, put apart from the sometimes quite severe missing features (calling or camera not or only partially working) I don&amp;#x27;t want to trust random people on a forum to provide a build of an OS without including malware. It just looks like a prime target for all the intelligence services of the world, and a nice target for hackers. With official builds there&amp;#x27;s at least some accountability somewhere to mitigate this.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>gregmac</author><text>&amp;gt; I don&amp;#x27;t want to trust random people on a forum to provide a build of an OS without including malware&lt;p&gt;Why is it some communities still work like this? With Android dev, sometimes there&amp;#x27;s even some source on GitHub, but still a forum post is the main place to find the latest version, with the actual download from some questionable-looking download site. If you&amp;#x27;re lucky they include sha hashes at least.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;ve installed a handful of custom ROMs on 3 or 4 devices - most recently resurrecting my old TF101 to run modern Firefox - but I don&amp;#x27;t think I&amp;#x27;ve ever seen anything like an automated build for one of these. Really, many don&amp;#x27;t even post source code.&lt;p&gt;Is there anyone doing this type of Android dev in a &amp;quot;modern&amp;quot; best practices way like most other open source (public git, CI, maybe issue tracker and pull requests)? Why doesn&amp;#x27;t this catch on more?</text></comment>
<story><title>LineageOS Android Distribution</title><url>https://lineageos.org/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>wongarsu</author><text>LineageOS is great, my one complaint is that it is almost never available for the phones I own. You basically have to get phones according to their popularity in a certain subgroup: for example currently one HTC model and two LG models are supported, but close to everything from OnePlus.&lt;p&gt;I know I can get unofficial builds, put apart from the sometimes quite severe missing features (calling or camera not or only partially working) I don&amp;#x27;t want to trust random people on a forum to provide a build of an OS without including malware. It just looks like a prime target for all the intelligence services of the world, and a nice target for hackers. With official builds there&amp;#x27;s at least some accountability somewhere to mitigate this.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>unicornporn</author><text>&amp;gt; my one complaint is that it is almost never available for the phones I own&lt;p&gt;This is the reason that I&amp;#x27;ve only bought Google&amp;#x27;s handsets. Easy to unlock and always excellent ROM support. Flawless LineageOS support and I have also very good experiences of GrapheneOS (former CopperheadOS).&lt;p&gt;I buy them when the next model (or the model after that) is out for a fraction of the price. Couldn&amp;#x27;t care less about getting the latest phone these days. At this level they&amp;#x27;re pretty much all the same to me.&lt;p&gt;Only thing to look out for is Google&amp;#x27;s crappy long term support and security fixes (which even GrapheneOS relies on). For my current Pixel 1 device OS updates were supposed to run out over a year ago. Still, Android 10 was &amp;quot;just&amp;quot; released for the Pixel 1...&lt;p&gt;[1] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;grapheneos.org&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;grapheneos.org&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>
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<story><title>Bitcoin is fiat money, too</title><url>https://www.economist.com/blogs/freeexchange/2017/09/not-so-novel</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>labster</author><text>So you&amp;#x27;re telling me that government money, where everyone gets a say in policy through republican institutions, is worse than a system where the most wealthy users get more control of the currency. Um, okay. I guess the oligarchy is more explicit in the cryptocurrency.</text></item><item><author>mirimir</author><text>Yes, that&amp;#x27;s the distinction. With Bitcoin, a codebase prevails if it attracts enough miners, merchants and users. Those parties in aggregate have &amp;quot;fiat power&amp;quot;.&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s arguable that fiat power for each state similarly reflects preferences of banks, merchants and users. However, some of us doubt that money policy typically favors users.&lt;p&gt;With government fiat, forking isn&amp;#x27;t really possible, without a revolution, no matter how unhappy users are. But with Bitcoin etc, that is possible.&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s a common misconception that miners drive Bitcoin policy. In my opinion, miners are parasitic. When I first started using Bitcoin, there were virtually no professional miners. Users did all of the mining, locally. So difficulty was very low. Now, with so many professional miners, difficulty is very high. However, blocks get solved in 10 minutes on average, just as they did in the beginning.&lt;p&gt;Anyway, it&amp;#x27;s true that Bitcoin is a fiat currency. But governments aren&amp;#x27;t in control, and that&amp;#x27;s a good thing.</text></item><item><author>amb23</author><text>&amp;quot;Code is governance&amp;quot; -- the article does support the idea of cryptocurrency as fiat money because the laws, in this case, are the code. The developers and miners, no matter their good intentions, do hold power over the currency that everyday investors do not have. No matter how egalitarian the distributed ledger set up looks on paper, we&amp;#x27;d be remiss to think the power structures behind cryptocurrencies are so radically different from the fiat currencies developed in the past and used at present. With time, especially if the cryptocurrency bubble pops, we&amp;#x27;ll be sure to see those structures made more explicit than they seem now.</text></item><item><author>dnautics</author><text>Interestingly the economist misses the traditional definition of Fiat: a currency whose value is determined by the &lt;i&gt;Fiat&lt;/i&gt; of a state. Whether or not Bitcoin exhibits similar trends as currency that isn&amp;#x27;t backed by the state is immaterial to the ethical appeal (to some) of a medium of exchange where participation is voluntary and consensual.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>AlexCoventry</author><text>If you really think you have a say in monetary policy, I suggest you read Barofsky&amp;#x27;s &lt;i&gt;Bailout&lt;/i&gt;.</text></comment>
<story><title>Bitcoin is fiat money, too</title><url>https://www.economist.com/blogs/freeexchange/2017/09/not-so-novel</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>labster</author><text>So you&amp;#x27;re telling me that government money, where everyone gets a say in policy through republican institutions, is worse than a system where the most wealthy users get more control of the currency. Um, okay. I guess the oligarchy is more explicit in the cryptocurrency.</text></item><item><author>mirimir</author><text>Yes, that&amp;#x27;s the distinction. With Bitcoin, a codebase prevails if it attracts enough miners, merchants and users. Those parties in aggregate have &amp;quot;fiat power&amp;quot;.&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s arguable that fiat power for each state similarly reflects preferences of banks, merchants and users. However, some of us doubt that money policy typically favors users.&lt;p&gt;With government fiat, forking isn&amp;#x27;t really possible, without a revolution, no matter how unhappy users are. But with Bitcoin etc, that is possible.&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s a common misconception that miners drive Bitcoin policy. In my opinion, miners are parasitic. When I first started using Bitcoin, there were virtually no professional miners. Users did all of the mining, locally. So difficulty was very low. Now, with so many professional miners, difficulty is very high. However, blocks get solved in 10 minutes on average, just as they did in the beginning.&lt;p&gt;Anyway, it&amp;#x27;s true that Bitcoin is a fiat currency. But governments aren&amp;#x27;t in control, and that&amp;#x27;s a good thing.</text></item><item><author>amb23</author><text>&amp;quot;Code is governance&amp;quot; -- the article does support the idea of cryptocurrency as fiat money because the laws, in this case, are the code. The developers and miners, no matter their good intentions, do hold power over the currency that everyday investors do not have. No matter how egalitarian the distributed ledger set up looks on paper, we&amp;#x27;d be remiss to think the power structures behind cryptocurrencies are so radically different from the fiat currencies developed in the past and used at present. With time, especially if the cryptocurrency bubble pops, we&amp;#x27;ll be sure to see those structures made more explicit than they seem now.</text></item><item><author>dnautics</author><text>Interestingly the economist misses the traditional definition of Fiat: a currency whose value is determined by the &lt;i&gt;Fiat&lt;/i&gt; of a state. Whether or not Bitcoin exhibits similar trends as currency that isn&amp;#x27;t backed by the state is immaterial to the ethical appeal (to some) of a medium of exchange where participation is voluntary and consensual.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>kemiller</author><text>It’s not really government money though, is it? It’s bank money.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Hong Kong activists wanted by police gain protection in Germany</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/21/world/asia/hong-kong-china-germany-activists.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>adminu</author><text>Assuming Hong Kong is indeed tightening its grip on the people and accepting more influence from Beijing, I wonder if that was a smart move. I mean, Hong Kong is a cash cow for China and an innovation driver. It foots on lots of trade and internationals coming in. Why would you fiddle with that and threaten making Hong Kong less desirable to foreigners?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>syntaxing</author><text>I think the brain drain from HK to China is much more prevalent than people know these past five years. China have been doing various &amp;quot;assimilation&amp;quot; techniques since the Qin Dynasty. I feel like China has been pretty aggressive with their &amp;quot;wash generation&amp;quot; (direct translation). Bathe the citizens in decent wealth and comfort while increasing the immigration rate from Mainlad China. Look at the new train and bridge to Shen Zhen that&amp;#x27;s part of the new government intiative to make Shen Zhen the world SV. There&amp;#x27;s new entrepreneur&amp;#x2F;startup incubator thats less than a hour travel from HK. This incubator is expected to provide tax break, living and office space, and small stipend to live for any young entrepreneur and HK citizens are qualified to apply. For the better or the worse, it&amp;#x27;s only a matter of a couple decades where HK today will cease to exist at this rate.</text></comment>
<story><title>Hong Kong activists wanted by police gain protection in Germany</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/21/world/asia/hong-kong-china-germany-activists.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>adminu</author><text>Assuming Hong Kong is indeed tightening its grip on the people and accepting more influence from Beijing, I wonder if that was a smart move. I mean, Hong Kong is a cash cow for China and an innovation driver. It foots on lots of trade and internationals coming in. Why would you fiddle with that and threaten making Hong Kong less desirable to foreigners?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>yorwba</author><text>It&amp;#x27;s not like all decisions in the Chinese government are made by the same person. Asserting control over Hong Kong is likely to hurt business there (especially if it involves restrictions on financial transactions similar to the mainland), but the specific individuals putting themselves into positions of power have a lot to gain from abusing that for their own profit.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Madoff’s Victims Are Close to Getting Their $19B Back</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2018-recovering-madoff-money/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>numlocked</author><text>The article doesn’t mention a &lt;i&gt;really&lt;/i&gt; important dynamic here — a LOT of the madoff IOUs were purchased by hedge funds for pennies on the dollar, from Madoff investors who needed liquidity for e.g. retirement and couldn’t wait decades to get their money back. Dunno if there still is, but there was an active and liquid market for Madoff receipts for a while. A fund could tell an individual who was wiped out by Madoff “we’ll pay you $0.20 on the dollar for your claim against Madoff”, and then collect the $0.80+ that’s been recovered over the past 10 years. I don’t have an estimate of what % of the recovered dollars are going to the original investors...but it’s not 100%. A lot of the claims have been traded.</text></comment>
<story><title>Madoff’s Victims Are Close to Getting Their $19B Back</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2018-recovering-madoff-money/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>montenegrohugo</author><text>Imagine you invest in a hedge fund, and get some amount of returns back. But then, years later, a lawyer comes and tells you to give him the profits because the fund was illegitimate (without you knowing this) and therefore they don&amp;#x27;t belong to you.&lt;p&gt;This is exactly what is happening to all these people.&lt;p&gt;Doesn&amp;#x27;t this feel unfair to anyone else?</text></comment>
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<story><title>80% of musicians earn less than £200 a year from streaming</title><url>https://www.nme.com/news/music/82-per-cent-of-musicians-earn-less-than-200-a-year-from-streaming-2833510</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>woeirua</author><text>The fundamental problem isn&amp;#x27;t streaming, as much as it is that natural systems follow power law distributions. There will &lt;i&gt;always&lt;/i&gt; be superstars that make the majority of the money, and tons and tons of wannabe artists that make almost nothing. That was just as true 20 years ago as it is today. If anything, streaming makes it possible to find those smaller artists and sample what they&amp;#x27;re making without having to go to some esoteric store and pay $20 for an album that you&amp;#x27;ve never heard before.&lt;p&gt;The system may be broken, but I&amp;#x27;m not sure going back to the old system is the right approach.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jonplackett</author><text>The new system only works because smaller bands are subsidising the bigger ones.&lt;p&gt;For example. I only listen to smaller indie bands on Spotify for a month. I give Spotify my £10 for the month.&lt;p&gt;Does my £10 go to those smaller bands? No. It gets given to Lady Ga Ga because she got 100 bazzillion listens that month. Even though I never listen to her music.&lt;p&gt;Spotify should work out who you’re listening to and give them a direct slice of what you have paid, rather than putting everyone in a pot together and dividing by number of plays.&lt;p&gt;It would be fairer, but it would mean the bigger bands earn less, and expose the fact that streaming really isn’t making anyone enough money.&lt;p&gt;How could it when I’m now paying only £10 a month for what used to cost hundreds?&lt;p&gt;But it’s better than piracy!</text></comment>
<story><title>80% of musicians earn less than £200 a year from streaming</title><url>https://www.nme.com/news/music/82-per-cent-of-musicians-earn-less-than-200-a-year-from-streaming-2833510</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>woeirua</author><text>The fundamental problem isn&amp;#x27;t streaming, as much as it is that natural systems follow power law distributions. There will &lt;i&gt;always&lt;/i&gt; be superstars that make the majority of the money, and tons and tons of wannabe artists that make almost nothing. That was just as true 20 years ago as it is today. If anything, streaming makes it possible to find those smaller artists and sample what they&amp;#x27;re making without having to go to some esoteric store and pay $20 for an album that you&amp;#x27;ve never heard before.&lt;p&gt;The system may be broken, but I&amp;#x27;m not sure going back to the old system is the right approach.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>vlovich123</author><text>Isn&amp;#x27;t that just a truism of the Pareto principle? Is there any field where that&amp;#x27;s not the case? 20% of lawyers make 80% of the money. 20% of doctors make 80% of the money. etc etc.&lt;p&gt;The difference I think is if 80% of professional musicians can&amp;#x27;t make a living &amp;amp; it&amp;#x27;s not clear that&amp;#x27;s actually the case (i.e. streaming isn&amp;#x27;t the only source of revenue). Similarly, music may have a higher &amp;quot;stickiness&amp;quot; for tenacity where people see it as a higher calling for them even if they&amp;#x27;re not making money (vs someone not cutting it as a lawyer&amp;#x2F;doctor to even pay the bills is going to quit &amp;amp; find something else if they weren&amp;#x27;t even weeded out during school).</text></comment>
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<story><title>Amazon job cuts: Read the memos</title><url>https://www.cnbc.com/2023/01/18/amazon-job-cuts-read-the-memos.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>eganist</author><text>Super interesting seeing companies grow like wildfire and overspend as returns for investors skyrocket, and then as the market swings downward, they buoy their stock prices a bit by just as quickly cutting heads.&lt;p&gt;The inverted accountability scheme for leaders doing this is another perverse enabling factor; I&amp;#x27;ve complained about this before, but that tends to lead to flames about why founders etc. can&amp;#x27;t have ownership of headcount and the fate of their companies etc.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;m not seeing a clear solution for this culture of toying with thousands of peoples&amp;#x27; lives for a quick buck... well, aside from the (sadly) politically loaded move to unionize more white collar work and thus provide actual accountability. Why unions are a political matter is beyond me; IATSE uses their strength to ensure excellent benefits for their members in media&amp;#x2F;entertainment.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jaqalopes</author><text>Unionization is the correct response here. The incentives of company leaders simply don&amp;#x27;t account for workers&amp;#x27; desire to not lose their jobs. The only way to change this is for workers to change said incentives--by organizing. Of course, easy for me to say as a freelancer. I&amp;#x27;m definitely not trying to say unionizing tech would be easy. But it certainly is simple, at least conceptually.</text></comment>
<story><title>Amazon job cuts: Read the memos</title><url>https://www.cnbc.com/2023/01/18/amazon-job-cuts-read-the-memos.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>eganist</author><text>Super interesting seeing companies grow like wildfire and overspend as returns for investors skyrocket, and then as the market swings downward, they buoy their stock prices a bit by just as quickly cutting heads.&lt;p&gt;The inverted accountability scheme for leaders doing this is another perverse enabling factor; I&amp;#x27;ve complained about this before, but that tends to lead to flames about why founders etc. can&amp;#x27;t have ownership of headcount and the fate of their companies etc.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;m not seeing a clear solution for this culture of toying with thousands of peoples&amp;#x27; lives for a quick buck... well, aside from the (sadly) politically loaded move to unionize more white collar work and thus provide actual accountability. Why unions are a political matter is beyond me; IATSE uses their strength to ensure excellent benefits for their members in media&amp;#x2F;entertainment.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>itsoktocry</author><text>&amp;gt;&lt;i&gt;I&amp;#x27;m not seeing a clear solution for this culture of toying with thousands of peoples&amp;#x27; lives for a quick buck&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;A bit over-dramatic, no? Nothing to say about the employees who &lt;i&gt;left&lt;/i&gt; their companies for Google to &amp;quot;make a quick buck&amp;quot;?&lt;p&gt;Business expand and contract. Should Google be considered a retirement home? The people who took these jobs are smart men and women who will go on to work at other companies. This isn&amp;#x27;t new.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Deleted Article by The Guardian</title><url>http://pastebin.com/NTJvUZdJ</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>grey-area</author><text>This is from the Observer (Sunday Paper), not the Guardian as the headline states, though I think they published it on the Guardian website - the two papers have separate editorial teams though they share the same online space. You can see the printed edition of the Observer article reproduced here:&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://guardian.newspaperdirect.com/epaper/viewer.aspx&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;guardian.newspaperdirect.com&amp;#x2F;epaper&amp;#x2F;viewer.aspx&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;d be nice to see some verification of the claims, so I&amp;#x27;d be interested to see the article if it is ever republished after checking (I think they took it down as the source - Madsen - is seen as particularly unreliable).</text></comment>
<story><title>Deleted Article by The Guardian</title><url>http://pastebin.com/NTJvUZdJ</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>k-mcgrady</author><text>Can&amp;#x27;t see much value in posting this. If they deleted it it&amp;#x27;s probably factually incorrect or inaccurate and will probably return with corrections.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Cloudflare lobbied FTC to stifle security researchers</title><url>https://twitter.com/taviso/status/1566077115992133634</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>braingenious</author><text>This is tangential but kind of on-topic since Tavis mentions KF in the replies, but I’ve found it pretty amusing that Cloudflare’s position on enabling doxxing, harassment and DDOS-for-hire has been “Aw shucks, we’re just too darn powerful to do anything about any of this!”&lt;p&gt;It’s as if &lt;i&gt;anybody&lt;/i&gt; could fall ass backwards into a situation where they built up an organization that dictates what’s on the internet as a whoopsie, and oh no, &lt;i&gt;you too&lt;/i&gt; would have to enable harassment, doxxing and DDOS-for-hire because shucks, all that darn unlimited, unchecked and unregulated power, access to money and legal resources is &lt;i&gt;actually&lt;/i&gt; the same thing as having no power at all! Poor Cloudflare, they can do literally whatever they want and that means they can’t do anything at all!</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>EarlKing</author><text>No, their argument was that they shouldn&amp;#x27;t do anything about it because the two times they did it wound up causing every tinpot dictatorship to show up on their doorstep and demand they do the same for people that hadn&amp;#x27;t done anything wrong except piss off the wrong dictator. This is why rights exist in the first place: so that when some idiot erroneously says your sight is &amp;quot;enabling doxxing, harassment and DDOS-for-hire&amp;quot; when all you actually do is document the bad behavior of bad individuals on the internet, well, you don&amp;#x27;t get run out of town on a pole... because the guy with the pole knows that today it&amp;#x27;s you, but tomorrow it could be him.</text></comment>
<story><title>Cloudflare lobbied FTC to stifle security researchers</title><url>https://twitter.com/taviso/status/1566077115992133634</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>braingenious</author><text>This is tangential but kind of on-topic since Tavis mentions KF in the replies, but I’ve found it pretty amusing that Cloudflare’s position on enabling doxxing, harassment and DDOS-for-hire has been “Aw shucks, we’re just too darn powerful to do anything about any of this!”&lt;p&gt;It’s as if &lt;i&gt;anybody&lt;/i&gt; could fall ass backwards into a situation where they built up an organization that dictates what’s on the internet as a whoopsie, and oh no, &lt;i&gt;you too&lt;/i&gt; would have to enable harassment, doxxing and DDOS-for-hire because shucks, all that darn unlimited, unchecked and unregulated power, access to money and legal resources is &lt;i&gt;actually&lt;/i&gt; the same thing as having no power at all! Poor Cloudflare, they can do literally whatever they want and that means they can’t do anything at all!</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>penrouse</author><text>Seems to me they&amp;#x27;re operating on a matter of principle.&lt;p&gt;The Christians who run my local food bank do similar. Their clients include some of the worst people: rapists, paedophiles, murders - released from prison, with nothing and no-one to help them, other than these kind churchly individuals. Their principle is that Jesus would want them to help their fellow humans in need, no matter what their sins. So they do.&lt;p&gt;Obviously it&amp;#x27;s a bit different with Cloudflare as they&amp;#x27;re a for-profit company of diversely ideological employees, not a non-profit charity of devoutly religious volunteers. But the former type of organisation can run on principles other than making money hand-over-fist too.</text></comment>
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<story><title>CSS Nesting Module</title><url>https://www.w3.org/blog/news/archives/9236</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>JimDabell</author><text>It’s not apparent from the document posted, but this is actually almost six years old [0] and already implemented as a PostCSS plugin for just as long [1]. It was adopted by the CSS Working Group a couple of years ago [2]. So this is very well-established and you’ve been able to use this syntax for many years. But it’s good to see it moving forward and hopefully browsers will implement it soon now.&lt;p&gt;[0] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;tabatkins.github.io&amp;#x2F;specs&amp;#x2F;css-nesting&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;tabatkins.github.io&amp;#x2F;specs&amp;#x2F;css-nesting&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;[1] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;github.com&amp;#x2F;csstools&amp;#x2F;postcss-nesting&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;github.com&amp;#x2F;csstools&amp;#x2F;postcss-nesting&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;[2] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;github.com&amp;#x2F;w3c&amp;#x2F;csswg-drafts&amp;#x2F;pull&amp;#x2F;2878&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;github.com&amp;#x2F;w3c&amp;#x2F;csswg-drafts&amp;#x2F;pull&amp;#x2F;2878&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>
<story><title>CSS Nesting Module</title><url>https://www.w3.org/blog/news/archives/9236</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>akersten</author><text>This looks &lt;i&gt;awesome&lt;/i&gt;. I&amp;#x27;m so glad they re-used the &amp;amp; syntax popular in many compile-to-CSS languages. Between this and CSS variables, I might not even need SASS in my toolchain anymore, which would be amazing.&lt;p&gt;@nest looks extremely cool too. An easy way to keep rules affecting one selector logically grouped with it, even if the selector relies on a small thing about its parent elements.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Monitoring Is a Pain</title><url>https://matduggan.com/were-all-doing-metrics-wrong/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>KaiserPro</author><text>The Way(tm) that I was taught&amp;#x2F;experienced is as follows:&lt;p&gt;o Logs are there for ignoring. You need them precisely twice: once when you are developing, and once when the thing&amp;#x27;s gone to shit, but they are never verbose enough when you need them.&lt;p&gt;o Using logs to derive metrics is an expensive fools errand pushed by splunk and the cloud equivalents(ie cloudwatch and the like). Its slow, inaccurate and horrendously expensive.&lt;p&gt;o using logs for monitoring is a fools errand. Its always too slow, and really really fucking brittle.&lt;p&gt;o metrics are king.&lt;p&gt;o pull model metrics is an antipattern&lt;p&gt;o Graphite + grafana is still actually quite good, although time resolution isn&amp;#x27;t there.&lt;p&gt;o You need to raid your metrics stores&lt;p&gt;o We had a bunch of metrics servers in a raid 1, which were then in a raid 0 for performance, all behind loadbalancers and DNS Cnames with a really low TTL.&lt;p&gt;o Cloudwatch metrics are utterly shite&lt;p&gt;o Cloudwatch is actually entirely shit.&lt;p&gt;o tracing is great, and brilliant for performance monitoring.&lt;p&gt;o Xray from AWS is good, but only really for lambdas.&lt;p&gt;o tracing is fragile and doesn&amp;#x27;t really plug and play end to end, unless you have the engineering discipline to enforce &amp;quot;the one true&amp;quot; tracing system &lt;i&gt;everywhere&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;i&gt;but what do you monitor?&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;widgetsandshit.com&amp;#x2F;teddziuba&amp;#x2F;2011&amp;#x2F;03&amp;#x2F;monitoring-theory.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;widgetsandshit.com&amp;#x2F;teddziuba&amp;#x2F;2011&amp;#x2F;03&amp;#x2F;monitoring-theor...&lt;/a&gt; this still is canonical.&lt;p&gt;In short, everything should have a minimum set of graphs, CPU, Memory, connections, upstream service response times hits per second and query time, at a minimum.&lt;p&gt;You can then aggregate those metrics into a &amp;quot;service health&amp;quot; gauge, where you set a minimum level of service (ie no response time greater than 600ms, and no 5xx&amp;#x2F;4xx errors or similar) red == the service isn&amp;#x27;t performing within spec, yellow == its close to being outside spec, green == its inside spec.&lt;p&gt;if you are running a monolith, then each subsection needs to have a &amp;quot;gauge&amp;quot;. for microservice people, every microservice. You can aggregate all those gauges into &amp;quot;business services&amp;quot; to make a dashboard that even CEOs can understand.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>perlgeek</author><text>I think it hasn&amp;#x27;t really been settled if pushing or pulling metrics is the anti-pattern, it seems to change every 5 to 10 years which one is currently hot.</text></comment>
<story><title>Monitoring Is a Pain</title><url>https://matduggan.com/were-all-doing-metrics-wrong/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>KaiserPro</author><text>The Way(tm) that I was taught&amp;#x2F;experienced is as follows:&lt;p&gt;o Logs are there for ignoring. You need them precisely twice: once when you are developing, and once when the thing&amp;#x27;s gone to shit, but they are never verbose enough when you need them.&lt;p&gt;o Using logs to derive metrics is an expensive fools errand pushed by splunk and the cloud equivalents(ie cloudwatch and the like). Its slow, inaccurate and horrendously expensive.&lt;p&gt;o using logs for monitoring is a fools errand. Its always too slow, and really really fucking brittle.&lt;p&gt;o metrics are king.&lt;p&gt;o pull model metrics is an antipattern&lt;p&gt;o Graphite + grafana is still actually quite good, although time resolution isn&amp;#x27;t there.&lt;p&gt;o You need to raid your metrics stores&lt;p&gt;o We had a bunch of metrics servers in a raid 1, which were then in a raid 0 for performance, all behind loadbalancers and DNS Cnames with a really low TTL.&lt;p&gt;o Cloudwatch metrics are utterly shite&lt;p&gt;o Cloudwatch is actually entirely shit.&lt;p&gt;o tracing is great, and brilliant for performance monitoring.&lt;p&gt;o Xray from AWS is good, but only really for lambdas.&lt;p&gt;o tracing is fragile and doesn&amp;#x27;t really plug and play end to end, unless you have the engineering discipline to enforce &amp;quot;the one true&amp;quot; tracing system &lt;i&gt;everywhere&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;i&gt;but what do you monitor?&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;widgetsandshit.com&amp;#x2F;teddziuba&amp;#x2F;2011&amp;#x2F;03&amp;#x2F;monitoring-theory.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;widgetsandshit.com&amp;#x2F;teddziuba&amp;#x2F;2011&amp;#x2F;03&amp;#x2F;monitoring-theor...&lt;/a&gt; this still is canonical.&lt;p&gt;In short, everything should have a minimum set of graphs, CPU, Memory, connections, upstream service response times hits per second and query time, at a minimum.&lt;p&gt;You can then aggregate those metrics into a &amp;quot;service health&amp;quot; gauge, where you set a minimum level of service (ie no response time greater than 600ms, and no 5xx&amp;#x2F;4xx errors or similar) red == the service isn&amp;#x27;t performing within spec, yellow == its close to being outside spec, green == its inside spec.&lt;p&gt;if you are running a monolith, then each subsection needs to have a &amp;quot;gauge&amp;quot;. for microservice people, every microservice. You can aggregate all those gauges into &amp;quot;business services&amp;quot; to make a dashboard that even CEOs can understand.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>betaby</author><text>&amp;gt; o pull model metrics is an antipattern&lt;p&gt;And sadly somehow whole Prometheus&amp;#x2F;Cloud is built on idea of pulling GET &amp;#x2F;metrics I personally also think it&amp;#x27;s an antipattern, yet such design is dominant. Streaming telemetry via GRPC is rarity.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Don&apos;t get caught up in blockchain hype</title><url>https://blog.apnic.net/2017/12/14/dont-get-caught-blockchain-hype/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>thkim</author><text>it&amp;#x27;s already posing a significant threat in smaller economies like South Korea. a lot of people (even here on hacker news) don&amp;#x27;t seem to understand the consequences of bitcoin &amp;amp; cryptocurrency. i am very concerned.&lt;p&gt;a lot of bitcoin followers seem to think that decentralization saves us from arbitrary value adjustments. decentralization completely exposes currency to volatility and does not self-stabilize nicely regardless how many people use it, because supply is broken. this false idea that decentralization is good for currency shows lack of understanding in how currency works. a central authority is &lt;i&gt;required&lt;/i&gt; to protect the value of currency. that is why central bank prints money and does QE. it is not a conspiracy to enrich some cronies. without central authority, it cannot function as currency.</text></item><item><author>Fezzik</author><text>It may be too late for a lot of people. My mom called me today, she&amp;#x27;s a retired teacher in her early 70s, and the guy installing her new gutters in Mount Vernon, WA (USA)* just put a few grand towards Bitcoin and now my mom is thinking of making a significant financial investment in the same. She has not-a-single-clue what Bitcoin is, does, or could do. She only knows that it is all over the news and everyone, including the handyman installing her gutters, is throwing money at cryptocurrencies (though few call any by that name). Everyone is hoping to get rich quick.&lt;p&gt;* Not quite the middle of nowhere, but certainly not a tech hub</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>blueprint</author><text>Are you specifically including Bitcoin&amp;#x27;s fixed coin emission cap in your reasoning? It is known to be problematic. One of the things it apparently prevents is a flexible blocksize because that apparently requires a tail emission instead of fixed cap. Tail emission yields an inflationary coin (see Monero&amp;#x27;s economics) whereas the fixed cap of Bitcoin causes it to be continuously and strongly deflationary. I&amp;#x27;m not an expert in QE but you&amp;#x27;re comparing a centrally governed fiat system to a system which places governance in the hands of strong social&amp;#x2F;financial incentives. Such incentives eventually lead to asking the most qualified person for guidance (which becomes governance). I&amp;#x27;ll be very interested to read your reply in case this modifies your thinking at all. Thanks</text></comment>
<story><title>Don&apos;t get caught up in blockchain hype</title><url>https://blog.apnic.net/2017/12/14/dont-get-caught-blockchain-hype/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>thkim</author><text>it&amp;#x27;s already posing a significant threat in smaller economies like South Korea. a lot of people (even here on hacker news) don&amp;#x27;t seem to understand the consequences of bitcoin &amp;amp; cryptocurrency. i am very concerned.&lt;p&gt;a lot of bitcoin followers seem to think that decentralization saves us from arbitrary value adjustments. decentralization completely exposes currency to volatility and does not self-stabilize nicely regardless how many people use it, because supply is broken. this false idea that decentralization is good for currency shows lack of understanding in how currency works. a central authority is &lt;i&gt;required&lt;/i&gt; to protect the value of currency. that is why central bank prints money and does QE. it is not a conspiracy to enrich some cronies. without central authority, it cannot function as currency.</text></item><item><author>Fezzik</author><text>It may be too late for a lot of people. My mom called me today, she&amp;#x27;s a retired teacher in her early 70s, and the guy installing her new gutters in Mount Vernon, WA (USA)* just put a few grand towards Bitcoin and now my mom is thinking of making a significant financial investment in the same. She has not-a-single-clue what Bitcoin is, does, or could do. She only knows that it is all over the news and everyone, including the handyman installing her gutters, is throwing money at cryptocurrencies (though few call any by that name). Everyone is hoping to get rich quick.&lt;p&gt;* Not quite the middle of nowhere, but certainly not a tech hub</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>adammunich</author><text>What is the best book on our current central bank currency paradigm you would recommend?</text></comment>
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<story><title>First physiological test for autism proves high accuracy in second trial</title><url>https://news.rpi.edu/content/2018/06/19/success-blood-test-autism-affirmed</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>hhh</author><text>This is quite interesting. Being on the spectrum myself, and many of my friends being so as well, it is very important how different everyone on the spectrum truly is. For high functioning people like myself I see Autism more akin to a mental super-power that can be crippled by small things. The difference in thinking is magnificent, and it aids in my success in most things that I do, but is an absolute disaster when it comes to socializing with people near me. In a town of 300 people, there aren&amp;#x27;t really any tech nerds or otherwise. Which makes socializing awkward since technology and game are a massive portion of my life. Even to just go to the doctor the interaction is anxiety inducing that my heart rate can raise by a good amount. (I&amp;#x27;ve seen 133 on a bad day, when normally I hang out around 100.) Having to rely on analysis of people and memory of what people think is acceptable is absolutely exhausting.&lt;p&gt;Having a clear test for autism is wonderful, but the spectrum is of infinite width and infinite height.</text></comment>
<story><title>First physiological test for autism proves high accuracy in second trial</title><url>https://news.rpi.edu/content/2018/06/19/success-blood-test-autism-affirmed</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>bcatanzaro</author><text>If this test becomes widespread, I&amp;#x27;d love to take it. I bet many of us in the tech industry have some sort of autism markers. It is a spectrum, after all.</text></comment>
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<story><title>But, aren&apos;t you folks web2?</title><url>https://nadh.in/blog/web2-web3/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>TimJRobinson</author><text>I think the OP is missing what those kids actually desire when they say web3 - self sovereignty.&lt;p&gt;They grew up in an era where a few big tech companies control most of their experiences, and you&amp;#x27;re completely locked into them unable to escape even if you hate the platform because that&amp;#x27;s where all your friends are.&lt;p&gt;Web3 is where you can have one digital login owned by you that you can use for many services and you can easily move somewhere else if that service turns evil.&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s hosting your own website vs having a page on Facebook. It&amp;#x27;s being able to trade any digital with friends without having to be locked into one platform. It&amp;#x27;s having all your likes and personal preferences carry with you between services.&lt;p&gt;We had more of this in the early days of the internet, but people just graduating don&amp;#x27;t remember this, they just know an internet of walled gardens they want to escape from.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>acdha</author><text>I think that&amp;#x27;s a valid concern, but it&amp;#x27;s not clear that the web3 companies are even trying to solve it rather than replace other companies. We&amp;#x27;ve seen so many times over where the “decentralized” system relies on a handful of companies to function and they always seem to be pushing their own site rather than you hosting yourself.&lt;p&gt;Maybe a new college grad doesn&amp;#x27;t remember the 2010s but almost all of these companies have executives, board members, and VCs who were there at the time, and I think it&amp;#x27;s telling that you very rarely hear anyone discuss what lead to so much centralization and the systems they propose are clearly going to suffer from the same problems if anyone starts using them seriously. This isn&amp;#x27;t a novel observation or especially hard to find good discussions about so it&amp;#x27;s hard to avoid the conclusion that they&amp;#x27;re not looking for it because there&amp;#x27;s no profit in it.</text></comment>
<story><title>But, aren&apos;t you folks web2?</title><url>https://nadh.in/blog/web2-web3/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>TimJRobinson</author><text>I think the OP is missing what those kids actually desire when they say web3 - self sovereignty.&lt;p&gt;They grew up in an era where a few big tech companies control most of their experiences, and you&amp;#x27;re completely locked into them unable to escape even if you hate the platform because that&amp;#x27;s where all your friends are.&lt;p&gt;Web3 is where you can have one digital login owned by you that you can use for many services and you can easily move somewhere else if that service turns evil.&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s hosting your own website vs having a page on Facebook. It&amp;#x27;s being able to trade any digital with friends without having to be locked into one platform. It&amp;#x27;s having all your likes and personal preferences carry with you between services.&lt;p&gt;We had more of this in the early days of the internet, but people just graduating don&amp;#x27;t remember this, they just know an internet of walled gardens they want to escape from.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>red_trumpet</author><text>&amp;gt; I think the OP is missing what those kids actually desire when they say web3 - self sovereignty.&lt;p&gt;You might be right, but do they actually achieve this?&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; It&amp;#x27;s hosting your own website vs having a page on Facebook.&lt;p&gt;I mean, running your own E-Mail or Mastodon instance is self sourvereignty in the way you propose. But I&amp;#x27;ve never heard anyone claiming this to be web3.</text></comment>
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<story><title>TeamViewer installs suspicious font only useful for web fingerprinting</title><url>https://www.ctrl.blog/entry/teamviewer-font-privacy.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Flimm</author><text>My proposal:&lt;p&gt;1. Browsers should ship with a set of fonts used just in the web browser that web designers can count on. Right now, there isn&amp;#x27;t a font I can count on finding in Chrome on all platforms. This especially matters for non-English languages, where a different system font can lead to a website that looks very different.&lt;p&gt;2. Browsers should not load fonts installed in the operating system. It&amp;#x27;s a fingerprinting vulnerability. And it also causes issues where the system-installed font is unexpectedly different from platform to platform. For example, Arial is different across platforms, especially once you consider non-English languages.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>lelandfe</author><text>&amp;gt; Browsers should not load fonts installed in the operating system&lt;p&gt;Already in the works, and some browsers don’t today (eg Safari). They permit the default system fonts (eg Helvetica) but nothing more from user space.&lt;p&gt;In the future it will be a permission you grant a site: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;wicg.github.io&amp;#x2F;local-font-access&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;wicg.github.io&amp;#x2F;local-font-access&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;It’s a great move. The benefits of local fonts are negligible and the downsides are clearly enormous</text></comment>
<story><title>TeamViewer installs suspicious font only useful for web fingerprinting</title><url>https://www.ctrl.blog/entry/teamviewer-font-privacy.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Flimm</author><text>My proposal:&lt;p&gt;1. Browsers should ship with a set of fonts used just in the web browser that web designers can count on. Right now, there isn&amp;#x27;t a font I can count on finding in Chrome on all platforms. This especially matters for non-English languages, where a different system font can lead to a website that looks very different.&lt;p&gt;2. Browsers should not load fonts installed in the operating system. It&amp;#x27;s a fingerprinting vulnerability. And it also causes issues where the system-installed font is unexpectedly different from platform to platform. For example, Arial is different across platforms, especially once you consider non-English languages.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>josefx</author><text>&amp;gt; I can count on finding in Chrome&lt;p&gt;Not like they have any ulterior motives to ensure your users have to ping Googles font service every time they open a page. None at all.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Accurate Navigation Without GPS</title><url>https://spectrum.ieee.org/tech-talk/transportation/sensors/accurate-navigation-without-gps</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>DamnInteresting</author><text>Strange that they don&amp;#x27;t use the age-old term for this sort of position-tracking: dead reckoning.&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Dead_reckoning&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Dead_reckoning&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>nabla9</author><text>They use dead reckoning.&lt;p&gt;Dead reckoning requires speed information. They have invented an application specific way to reduce cumulative errors in speed from IMU unit.&lt;p&gt;Accelerometers and gyroscopes can&amp;#x27;t differentiate between constant linear speed and staying still (both have zero acceleration) and errors in speed accumulate constantly. Airplances and ships have ways to measure speed without GPS, even if currents or wind prevent accurate ground speed measurements. Small inexpensive devices like this don&amp;#x27;t have that.&lt;p&gt;This application uses foot movement to calibrate speed in every step. The same can be done with laser, ultrasound etc. but doing it with IMU sensors only is a neat trick.</text></comment>
<story><title>Accurate Navigation Without GPS</title><url>https://spectrum.ieee.org/tech-talk/transportation/sensors/accurate-navigation-without-gps</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>DamnInteresting</author><text>Strange that they don&amp;#x27;t use the age-old term for this sort of position-tracking: dead reckoning.&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Dead_reckoning&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Dead_reckoning&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>blt</author><text>Dead reckoning is like pure IMU integration. In this work they detect the instant of zero velocity and do something like a Kalman update with a velocity measurement</text></comment>
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<story><title>The Center of the Pixel is (0.5, 0.5)</title><url>http://www.realtimerendering.com/blog/the-center-of-the-pixel-is-0-50-5/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>LeoPanthera</author><text>Related: &amp;quot;A pixel is not a little square&amp;quot;.&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;alvyray.com&amp;#x2F;Memos&amp;#x2F;CG&amp;#x2F;Microsoft&amp;#x2F;6_pixel.pdf&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;alvyray.com&amp;#x2F;Memos&amp;#x2F;CG&amp;#x2F;Microsoft&amp;#x2F;6_pixel.pdf&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>pornel</author><text>However, image is not a wave either.&lt;p&gt;I have mixed feelings about this memo. It&amp;#x27;s right about practical aspects of resampling filters, but tries too hard to justify that with sampling theory. For example, pixel-aligned sharp edges exist and are meaningful in images, unlike perfectly square waves in sampling theory.</text></comment>
<story><title>The Center of the Pixel is (0.5, 0.5)</title><url>http://www.realtimerendering.com/blog/the-center-of-the-pixel-is-0-50-5/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>LeoPanthera</author><text>Related: &amp;quot;A pixel is not a little square&amp;quot;.&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;alvyray.com&amp;#x2F;Memos&amp;#x2F;CG&amp;#x2F;Microsoft&amp;#x2F;6_pixel.pdf&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;alvyray.com&amp;#x2F;Memos&amp;#x2F;CG&amp;#x2F;Microsoft&amp;#x2F;6_pixel.pdf&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>centimeter</author><text>Worth noting that this does not apply to physical cameras - a pixel is not, in fact, a point sample, but the integral over a sub-region of the sensor plane. It&amp;#x27;s also not a complete integral - the red pixels in an image are interpolated from squares that only cover a quarter of the image plane (on 95+% of sensors). Then you bring in low pass filters (or don&amp;#x27;t), and the signal theory starts to get a bit complicated.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Purchasing Power Parity: Fair pricing for SaaS products</title><url>https://scastiel.dev/implement-ppp-fair-pricing-for-your-product</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>inopinatus</author><text>Car rentals often show wide variation based on visitor origin. This was observed decades ago (I recall an economics professor mentioning it way back), and on a cursory check just now I was quoted up to 40% lower prices at an international airport, for an otherwise identical rental, by presenting as European* rather than American or Australian.&lt;p&gt;Such a difference cannot be explained by PPP or insurance factors. We might conjecture that consumer expectations account for the price discrimination, e.g. visitors from Europe may be accustomed to high quality integrated mass transit (including to&amp;#x2F;from the airport) and thus resent a high car rental price, whilst Australians and Americans assume they&amp;#x27;ll need a rental to get around, with consequently higher willingness to pay.&lt;p&gt;* tested with UK, France, Germany, Italy, and the Netherlands.</text></item><item><author>paxys</author><text>The economics term for this is Price Discrimination (&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.investopedia.com&amp;#x2F;terms&amp;#x2F;p&amp;#x2F;price_discrimination.asp&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.investopedia.com&amp;#x2F;terms&amp;#x2F;p&amp;#x2F;price_discrimination.as...&lt;/a&gt;).&lt;p&gt;I don&amp;#x27;t want to go into fair or unfair as the author does (that is a very complex discussion), but it is definitely the most optimal way to price your product. The basic idea is – charge every customer the max they are willing to pay. As long as everyone is above the break-even point, you will maximize your profits.&lt;p&gt;This is definitely not a new idea (&amp;quot;emerged these past few months&amp;quot; as the author states). I remember people would pack their bags with boxes of Microsoft Windows and Office when coming back from foreign trips. Same goes for subscription pricing. That premium $20&amp;#x2F;mo Netflix plan costs $4 in Turkey.&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s also a bit weird to see a service &lt;i&gt;advertise&lt;/i&gt; their price discrimination. You are essentially saying &amp;quot;your country has a shit economy, so here&amp;#x27;s a discount&amp;quot; on the checkout page. And then are you also going to show the opposite – &amp;quot;you are in the USA so need to pay 50% more than average for this product&amp;quot;?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>t0mas88</author><text>The travel industry is very big on price discrimination (they call it revenue management). Car rental, hotels etc do it a lot, but the most advanced ones are the airlines.&lt;p&gt;For many flights there is no single price that would allow the airline to operate the flight without making a loss. Some example for a 100 seat plane:&lt;p&gt;1. Sell all tickets at $100: Plane 100% booked, revenue $ 10,000, which is less than the cost of flight.&lt;p&gt;2. Sell all tickets at $200: Plane only 60% booked, revenue $ 12,000, better but still less than the cost of the flight.&lt;p&gt;Reality: Sell 15 tickets at $400, then sell 60 at $200 and sell 20 at $100. Now you make $ 20,000 with a 95% booked plane.&lt;p&gt;Your new problem is how to avoid the $400 people buying a $100 ticket, because that ruins your whole optimization. The way airlines do that is to make many tariff classes with a lot of rules and a limit to the number of tickets sold at a certain class. They then change that a bit based on demand once the flights gets closer to departure.&lt;p&gt;The rules are relatively simple things (this was invented in the mainframe computing time and some of those systems are still around), common examples: A minimum amount of time before departure (e.g. you can&amp;#x27;t but the $100 ticket for a flight that&amp;#x27;s tomorrow), a minimum stay time (e.g. return flight has to be at least a week after arrival, filters out business travel), only valid if the trip includes a weekend-night (again filters business), only valid on a connecting flight etc.&lt;p&gt;The optimization is not a simple thing at all, I&amp;#x27;ve seen setups with large Spark&amp;#x2F;Hadoop clusters to calculate the optimal pricing for each tariff-class and the amount of tickets to allow on each flight for each tariff-class. Because that&amp;#x27;s the output of most revenue management systems. And then on the other side of things the flight booking sites or travel agents are trying to find the cheapest combination for each customer, because these tariffs are not &amp;quot;an SFO-JFK return&amp;quot; but more like &amp;quot;leg 1 SFO-ATL, leg 2 ATL-JFK, 5 days later leg 3 JFK-SFO&amp;quot; or something like that. And you can buy any combination you want as long as it fits the rules for each tariff class.</text></comment>
<story><title>Purchasing Power Parity: Fair pricing for SaaS products</title><url>https://scastiel.dev/implement-ppp-fair-pricing-for-your-product</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>inopinatus</author><text>Car rentals often show wide variation based on visitor origin. This was observed decades ago (I recall an economics professor mentioning it way back), and on a cursory check just now I was quoted up to 40% lower prices at an international airport, for an otherwise identical rental, by presenting as European* rather than American or Australian.&lt;p&gt;Such a difference cannot be explained by PPP or insurance factors. We might conjecture that consumer expectations account for the price discrimination, e.g. visitors from Europe may be accustomed to high quality integrated mass transit (including to&amp;#x2F;from the airport) and thus resent a high car rental price, whilst Australians and Americans assume they&amp;#x27;ll need a rental to get around, with consequently higher willingness to pay.&lt;p&gt;* tested with UK, France, Germany, Italy, and the Netherlands.</text></item><item><author>paxys</author><text>The economics term for this is Price Discrimination (&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.investopedia.com&amp;#x2F;terms&amp;#x2F;p&amp;#x2F;price_discrimination.asp&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.investopedia.com&amp;#x2F;terms&amp;#x2F;p&amp;#x2F;price_discrimination.as...&lt;/a&gt;).&lt;p&gt;I don&amp;#x27;t want to go into fair or unfair as the author does (that is a very complex discussion), but it is definitely the most optimal way to price your product. The basic idea is – charge every customer the max they are willing to pay. As long as everyone is above the break-even point, you will maximize your profits.&lt;p&gt;This is definitely not a new idea (&amp;quot;emerged these past few months&amp;quot; as the author states). I remember people would pack their bags with boxes of Microsoft Windows and Office when coming back from foreign trips. Same goes for subscription pricing. That premium $20&amp;#x2F;mo Netflix plan costs $4 in Turkey.&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s also a bit weird to see a service &lt;i&gt;advertise&lt;/i&gt; their price discrimination. You are essentially saying &amp;quot;your country has a shit economy, so here&amp;#x27;s a discount&amp;quot; on the checkout page. And then are you also going to show the opposite – &amp;quot;you are in the USA so need to pay 50% more than average for this product&amp;quot;?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>chillfox</author><text>That sort of thing is everywhere, and has been a thing forever. I remember when I was a teenager, my dad had a business importing consumer electronics from Asia and the difference in shipping cost between him paying the shipping company directly or getting a local agent to do it was often more than the cost of the products. It didn&amp;#x27;t matter if he used an established agent or some random person with zero connections, the price difference was due to him being European and had nothing to do with connections.</text></comment>
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<story><title>I&apos;m not convinced that this wasn&apos;t the second biggest mistake of my life</title><url>https://imgur.com/gallery/WCV3Gu7#Bzdk2ik</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>systemizer</author><text>Given the post&amp;#x27;s lack of detail relating to the experience of creating the game itself, I fear OP is treating his craft as a means to an end; instead of loving his craft for what it is. I fell into a similar trap when, after leaving my job to pursue my &amp;quot;passion,&amp;quot; I became my own slavemaster, treating myself as resource for production, and eventually learned to hate my once cherished activities. I hope OP&amp;#x27;s game succeeds; regardless, I would not recommend, to anyone, to pursue a personal hobby, dwelling, or passion as a means to reaching some external reward.</text></comment>
<story><title>I&apos;m not convinced that this wasn&apos;t the second biggest mistake of my life</title><url>https://imgur.com/gallery/WCV3Gu7#Bzdk2ik</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>thescriptkiddie</author><text>&amp;gt; Anyone interested in an infuriating tale of mismanagement, fraud, incompetence, duplicity, backstabbing, turf wars, and tyranny of petty authority, I encourage to send a Freedom of Information Act request to NSA. Ask for the post &amp;quot;Beyond Mere Malice&amp;quot; from the Parting Thoughts blog, November 2016.&lt;p&gt;Anyone going to do this?</text></comment>
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<story><title>Rising Rents Are Pushing More Tenants Past the Breaking Point</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-10-26/rising-rents-are-pushing-more-tenants-past-the-breaking-point</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>_wc0m</author><text>Rent is an amazingly effective means of redistributing wealth upwards. I have easily paid over £100k rent in my life, always to people substantially richer than I am.&lt;p&gt;Always enjoyed this Churchill quote - from 1909!&lt;p&gt;&lt;i&gt;Roads are made, streets are made, services are improved, electric light turns night into day, water is brought from reservoirs a hundred miles off in the mountains -- and all the while the landlord sits still. Every one of those improvements is effected by the labor and cost of other people and the taxpayers. To not one of those improvements does the land monopolist, as a land monopolist, contribute, and yet by every one of them the value of his land is enhanced. He renders no service to the community, he contributes nothing to the general welfare, he contributes nothing to the process from which his own enrichment is derived.&lt;/i&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>billmalarky</author><text>&amp;gt; He renders no service to the community, he contributes nothing to the general welfare, he contributes nothing to the process from which his own enrichment is derived.&lt;p&gt;The value landlords provide is the assumption of risk. The premium you pay to rent is in exchange for vastly limiting your exposure to said risk.&lt;p&gt;This is why offloading the risk onto creditors (ie purchasing real estate with borrowed money under an LLC) is so lucrative. You reap all of the rewards of property ownership, but none of the downside. In a failure scenario your creditors are on the hook, not you.&lt;p&gt;I should probably add that banks are not stupid and it is very difficult, but not impossible, to get a loan for real estate investment under an LLC.</text></comment>
<story><title>Rising Rents Are Pushing More Tenants Past the Breaking Point</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-10-26/rising-rents-are-pushing-more-tenants-past-the-breaking-point</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>_wc0m</author><text>Rent is an amazingly effective means of redistributing wealth upwards. I have easily paid over £100k rent in my life, always to people substantially richer than I am.&lt;p&gt;Always enjoyed this Churchill quote - from 1909!&lt;p&gt;&lt;i&gt;Roads are made, streets are made, services are improved, electric light turns night into day, water is brought from reservoirs a hundred miles off in the mountains -- and all the while the landlord sits still. Every one of those improvements is effected by the labor and cost of other people and the taxpayers. To not one of those improvements does the land monopolist, as a land monopolist, contribute, and yet by every one of them the value of his land is enhanced. He renders no service to the community, he contributes nothing to the general welfare, he contributes nothing to the process from which his own enrichment is derived.&lt;/i&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>bmmayer1</author><text>This comment doesn&amp;#x27;t stand up to scrutiny. There aren&amp;#x27;t a lot of available statistics on how wealthy landlords are, but for instance, according to a San Francisco property owners survey[1], median income for landlords is $90k, only 15% higher than the overall San Francisco median income ($77k). And of course a software engineer&amp;#x27;s median income in San Francisco is higher ($92k). Either way, there is little evidence that in one of the hottest real estate markets in the country, landlords would be &amp;#x27;substantially&amp;#x27; richer than tenants on average.&lt;p&gt;Of course, income is only a component of wealth--no doubt the property owned is worth quite a bit--but, according to the same report, at least 75% of these landlords are still paying mortgages on their properties, and over 10% spend &lt;i&gt;more&lt;/i&gt; than their rental income on their mortgages!&lt;p&gt;Since most landlords borrow money to buy property, then attempt to sell access to that property profitably over time, they are more like entrepreneurs than the land baron &amp;#x27;monopolists&amp;#x27; portrayed by the Churchill quote above.&lt;p&gt;This isn&amp;#x27;t wealth redistribution in any direction. It&amp;#x27;s a trade. Renters get access to property without having to own it. Owners, if they are smart and&amp;#x2F;or lucky, can profit from property, but of course take a substantially larger up front risk.&lt;p&gt;And, I would be remiss if I didn&amp;#x27;t point out that Winston Churchill was from one of the wealthiest British aristocratic (read: rentier landowning) families and was born in the family home, this palace[2].&lt;p&gt;[1] &lt;a href=&quot;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;sfrb.org&amp;#x2F;sites&amp;#x2F;default&amp;#x2F;files&amp;#x2F;FileCenter&amp;#x2F;Documents&amp;#x2F;1887-SFLandlordSurveyReportFinal.pdf&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;sfrb.org&amp;#x2F;sites&amp;#x2F;default&amp;#x2F;files&amp;#x2F;FileCenter&amp;#x2F;Documents&amp;#x2F;188...&lt;/a&gt; [2] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Blenheim_Palace&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Blenheim_Palace&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>
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<story><title>Arrested by Undercover Officers After Trying to Sell His Laptop Online</title><url>https://twitter.com/i/moments/731957349640867840</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>gsklee</author><text>I once dreamed of immigrating to the US and working in the Bay Area... but it&amp;#x27;s become apparent to me now that there&amp;#x27;s something inherently wrong with that country. I guess I&amp;#x27;ll go to Australia or Canada instead.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>bigiain</author><text>Out of the frying pan...&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.theguardian.com&amp;#x2F;australia-news&amp;#x2F;2016&amp;#x2F;may&amp;#x2F;04&amp;#x2F;nsw-police-to-get-extreme-powers-over-suspected-serious-crime-related-activity&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.theguardian.com&amp;#x2F;australia-news&amp;#x2F;2016&amp;#x2F;may&amp;#x2F;04&amp;#x2F;nsw-po...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;New South Wales police are on the verge of securing “extreme” new powers including to impose curfews on citizens, restrict who they spend time with or limit their communications, if they suspect involvement in “serious crime-related activity”.&lt;p&gt;The new “serious crime prevention orders” (SCPO) are similar to the control orders used on suspected terrorists, but broadened to a range of other offences including theft, tax evasion, money laundering or homicide.&lt;p&gt;&lt;i&gt;Those acquitted of serious offences can still be issued a SCPO,&lt;/i&gt; as will people deemed to have engaged in conduct “likely to facilitate” a serious crime, defined as one punishable by at least five years’ prison.&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;Welcome to my local police-state.</text></comment>
<story><title>Arrested by Undercover Officers After Trying to Sell His Laptop Online</title><url>https://twitter.com/i/moments/731957349640867840</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>gsklee</author><text>I once dreamed of immigrating to the US and working in the Bay Area... but it&amp;#x27;s become apparent to me now that there&amp;#x27;s something inherently wrong with that country. I guess I&amp;#x27;ll go to Australia or Canada instead.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>pravda</author><text>Canada is cold. Australia is expensive and its government is corrupt.&lt;p&gt;But getting to the point, you really shouldn&amp;#x27;t allow isolated acts like this to influence you.&lt;p&gt;You&amp;#x27;re much more likely to be killed by the next earthquake in the Bay area then you are to be killed by dopey police officer.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Off the Grid, but Still Online</title><url>http://motherboard.vice.com/read/off-the-grid-but-still-online</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ecobiker</author><text>(Disclaimer: Slightly off-topic. Also, it&amp;#x27;s not my intention to belittle their lifestyle. I hope I don&amp;#x27;t come across that way.)&lt;p&gt;Some of the things they need even in this disconnected lifestyle - like the mobile home, laptops, books, solar panels, batteries and even the slippers have to be made by someone doing a 9-5 job somewhere. The idea of civilization to me is to take advantage of these specialists who are really good at doing or manufacturing some of the things I need and in turn I become a specialist in something (probably one thing) which I contribute back to the society - it&amp;#x27;s a barter. That I don&amp;#x27;t have to do all the things I need to do to survive, seems efficient and effective. Also, not all of the jobs are going to be able to afford this &amp;quot;luxury&amp;quot;.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>OneOneOneOne</author><text>Right on. When considering lifestyle choices I ask myself how many people could live the same way. If it turns out to be a small minority before collapse, I reject it as a path for myself. To me off grid lifestyle seems a retreat from the goods of society without a commensurate benefit to self and others. As an art movement or experiment I say fine.</text></comment>
<story><title>Off the Grid, but Still Online</title><url>http://motherboard.vice.com/read/off-the-grid-but-still-online</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ecobiker</author><text>(Disclaimer: Slightly off-topic. Also, it&amp;#x27;s not my intention to belittle their lifestyle. I hope I don&amp;#x27;t come across that way.)&lt;p&gt;Some of the things they need even in this disconnected lifestyle - like the mobile home, laptops, books, solar panels, batteries and even the slippers have to be made by someone doing a 9-5 job somewhere. The idea of civilization to me is to take advantage of these specialists who are really good at doing or manufacturing some of the things I need and in turn I become a specialist in something (probably one thing) which I contribute back to the society - it&amp;#x27;s a barter. That I don&amp;#x27;t have to do all the things I need to do to survive, seems efficient and effective. Also, not all of the jobs are going to be able to afford this &amp;quot;luxury&amp;quot;.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>sliverstorm</author><text>There is definitely an irony to people who make a show of disconnecting, but do so on the largess of society. In this piece, the guy who gets free electricity and shelter from his friend&amp;#x27;s shed. Or what I used to run into frequently, the rebel wanderer who eschews The System and couch surfs at the houses of his office worker friends.&lt;p&gt;I don&amp;#x27;t mind people who want to disconnect, but when you&amp;#x27;ve got a campstove, a phone, a laptop, photovoltaic panels, a car... you&amp;#x27;re still enjoying the fruits of progress &amp;amp; society with the rest of us.</text></comment>
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<story><title>BiVector.net – Geometric Algebra for CGI, Vision and Engineering</title><url>https://bivector.net/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>DreamScatter</author><text>If you enjoy geometric algebra, you might like my Julia language implementation&lt;p&gt;Grassmann.jl (features on bivector.net)&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;github.com&amp;#x2F;chakravala&amp;#x2F;Grassmann.jl&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;github.com&amp;#x2F;chakravala&amp;#x2F;Grassmann.jl&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>
<story><title>BiVector.net – Geometric Algebra for CGI, Vision and Engineering</title><url>https://bivector.net/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>Koshkin</author><text>What a beautiful subject. A framework that manages to incorporate the complex numbers, quaternions, and vector algebra - all from a unified perspective. Is there a textbook that uses this framework to present “all of physics,” similarly to what you can find for some other frameworks (e.g. Lie groups&amp;#x2F;algebras)?</text></comment>
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<story><title>Non-Libyan URL Shortener</title><url>http://gadaf.fi/index.php</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>soult</author><text>While it is a funny play on all those .ly domains and the fact that vb.ly got seized by the Libyan government, it is my opinion that yet another URL shortener is a stupid way of protest.&lt;p&gt;Let me explain: I work with the Urlteam, a group of people that saves shorturl-&amp;#62;longurl mappings for a bunch of shorteners. The typical life cycle of small shorteners is this:&lt;p&gt;- URL shortener opens, gets some praise for weird feature that bit.ly doesn&apos;t have.&lt;p&gt;- People actually don&apos;t care about feature and continue to use bit.ly.&lt;p&gt;- Spammers discover the shortener and abuse it.&lt;p&gt;- Owner closes the shortener because he can&apos;t deal with the spam.&lt;p&gt;All that remains are some non-functional links.</text></comment>
<story><title>Non-Libyan URL Shortener</title><url>http://gadaf.fi/index.php</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>Xk</author><text>You should block me from redirecting a link to itself.&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://gadaf.fi/5j&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://gadaf.fi/5j&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;And probably block cycles too.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Vacations in the Soviet Union</title><url>https://daily.jstor.org/workers-of-the-world-take-pto/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>boveus</author><text>&amp;gt;It encouraged workers to vacation with groups of relative strangers as opposed to their friends and families.&lt;p&gt;This can actually work out well. I experienced something similar in the US while on vacation. I was traveling with someone from Glenwood Springs, CO to Denver, CO via Amtrak. We went to the dining car for lunch an since there were two of us and space is at a premium, the Amtrak policy was to seat us with one or two random strangers. We sat and had lunch with an oil executive and someone&amp;#x27;s grandmother and it was quite an interesting experience and we got to meet two strangers. It was actually a highlight of that train trip.&lt;p&gt;I feel like the experience of having unplanned social interactions with strangers is often missing in modern American life. I don&amp;#x27;t know if the Soviet style of assigning vacation groups via a worker&amp;#x27;s committee would be pleasant, but I can&amp;#x27;t help but think things would be better if we had more situations where we are &amp;quot;forced&amp;quot; to engage with strangers.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ActorNightly</author><text>This is a very good idea for teenagers and younger adults to break them out of the online world.&lt;p&gt;For working class though, its probably best not to force people to socialize. The thing that doesn&amp;#x27;t get talked enough about in socialization is that its not all positive, and people have different tolerance to each others bullshit.</text></comment>
<story><title>Vacations in the Soviet Union</title><url>https://daily.jstor.org/workers-of-the-world-take-pto/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>boveus</author><text>&amp;gt;It encouraged workers to vacation with groups of relative strangers as opposed to their friends and families.&lt;p&gt;This can actually work out well. I experienced something similar in the US while on vacation. I was traveling with someone from Glenwood Springs, CO to Denver, CO via Amtrak. We went to the dining car for lunch an since there were two of us and space is at a premium, the Amtrak policy was to seat us with one or two random strangers. We sat and had lunch with an oil executive and someone&amp;#x27;s grandmother and it was quite an interesting experience and we got to meet two strangers. It was actually a highlight of that train trip.&lt;p&gt;I feel like the experience of having unplanned social interactions with strangers is often missing in modern American life. I don&amp;#x27;t know if the Soviet style of assigning vacation groups via a worker&amp;#x27;s committee would be pleasant, but I can&amp;#x27;t help but think things would be better if we had more situations where we are &amp;quot;forced&amp;quot; to engage with strangers.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jedberg</author><text>I really like it too. It happens more often than you think.&lt;p&gt;My wife and I went on a cruise once when we were still dating, and it was one of the ones where they assign you a table to eat. Since we were a young couple, they assumed we were newlyweds and seated us with a bunch of other newlyweds. It was fun to hear all their stories (one was a Mormon couple who had just had a very traditional Mormon wedding for example). Then 1&amp;#x2F;2 way through the cruise they switched it up and we ended up at a table with a large family from rural Oregon, who were sad at the lack of meat on the menu. Normally at home they would sit on the back porch with rifles and shoot animals that would walk by and then eat them. Which was just a really interesting thing to learn about, given that we had always been city folk.&lt;p&gt;And on another trip we stayed at a small place in Costa Rica that offered local tours each day as a planned activity. We ended up touring with a bunch of other Americans that were staying at the same place. Connected with them on Facebook and we&amp;#x27;re all still connected to this day, occasionally commenting on each other&amp;#x27;s posts.&lt;p&gt;In fact two of them were a young couple like us who were just dating and also traveling with their parents. We both ended up having kids around the same time and have even met up with them when we were in their home town.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Interoperability: Swift’s Super Power</title><url>https://browsercompany.substack.com/cp/137231709</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>robertjpayne</author><text>Kotlin running on the JVM is a disadvantage outside of Android though in a lot of spaces. Rust&amp;#x2F;Swift&amp;#x2F;Go will use a fraction of the ram to run a server application than Kotlin will.</text></item><item><author>fzeindl</author><text>Kotlin is a much more likely candidate. Excellent IDE support, deep integration with Java, already the go-to language for Android, many years of production and less &amp;quot;different&amp;quot; than Rust.</text></item><item><author>K0nserv</author><text>I&amp;#x27;m quite bullish on this method of cross-platform i.e. a common shared core leveraging native UI toolkits. Every incarnation of cross-platform on the market today sits somewhere between mediocre and bad in terms of the resulting UX. This approach strikes a good balance between sharing code and being platform native I think. Swift is a good contender for doing this and so is, I think, Rust.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>FlyingSnake</author><text>One big potential pitfall people seldom discuss is that Java is moving in a different direction and taking JVM along with it. This will cause problems in the future for Kotlin in areas such as reification and nullability.</text></comment>
<story><title>Interoperability: Swift’s Super Power</title><url>https://browsercompany.substack.com/cp/137231709</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>robertjpayne</author><text>Kotlin running on the JVM is a disadvantage outside of Android though in a lot of spaces. Rust&amp;#x2F;Swift&amp;#x2F;Go will use a fraction of the ram to run a server application than Kotlin will.</text></item><item><author>fzeindl</author><text>Kotlin is a much more likely candidate. Excellent IDE support, deep integration with Java, already the go-to language for Android, many years of production and less &amp;quot;different&amp;quot; than Rust.</text></item><item><author>K0nserv</author><text>I&amp;#x27;m quite bullish on this method of cross-platform i.e. a common shared core leveraging native UI toolkits. Every incarnation of cross-platform on the market today sits somewhere between mediocre and bad in terms of the resulting UX. This approach strikes a good balance between sharing code and being platform native I think. Swift is a good contender for doing this and so is, I think, Rust.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jwells89</author><text>Also, it brings various Java baggage along for the ride, which isn’t everybody’s cup of tea.&lt;p&gt;And while it’s syntactically similar to Swift, I find it to be overall less ergonomic in various ways.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Sexism in Tech: Don’t Ask Me Unless You’re Ready to Call Someone a Whistleblower</title><url>https://medium.com/@katylevinson/sexism-in-tech-don-t-ask-me-unless-you-re-ready-to-call-somebody-a-whistleblower-e5d545e547b0</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mattmaroon</author><text>I&amp;#x27;m sorry but this is insane. I guess I can only speak to the segment of the tech industry I&amp;#x27;ve been exposed to, but a woman would not be labelled a liability for reporting a rape or an assault, unless maybe it turned out to be false, in which case that&amp;#x27;s no different than any other industry. I am sure workplace rape and assault happens in every industry, unfortunately, but I&amp;#x27;ve seen no evidence it&amp;#x27;s more common or accepted in tech than anywhere else. It&amp;#x27;s certainly not systematized or condoned. I can&amp;#x27;t believe Google (for whom she has worked) has any more lenient of a policy on sexual harassment or assault than any other Fortune 500.&lt;p&gt;And if it were this bad, why would she fear being ostracized? If my options were to stay in an industry and be repeatedly harassed, beaten, and raped, or switch careers, I don&amp;#x27;t think it&amp;#x27;d be a tough call.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jusben1369</author><text>If you look through the comments here and in other similar threads you&amp;#x27;ll see numerous variations on the &amp;quot;what wait? just leave.&amp;quot; It&amp;#x27;s an understandable but wrong response to these situations. It shifts the problem from the perpetrator to the victim. It&amp;#x27;s similar to asking women to be covered from head to toe so that they can&amp;#x27;t somehow tempt males. The onus isn&amp;#x27;t on the male to control his desires it&amp;#x27;s on the female to ensure that his desires are not aroused. So if rape and sexual harassment is happening at a workplace don&amp;#x27;t blame the victim for not leaving blame the perpetrator for bringing that into the workplace.</text></comment>
<story><title>Sexism in Tech: Don’t Ask Me Unless You’re Ready to Call Someone a Whistleblower</title><url>https://medium.com/@katylevinson/sexism-in-tech-don-t-ask-me-unless-you-re-ready-to-call-somebody-a-whistleblower-e5d545e547b0</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mattmaroon</author><text>I&amp;#x27;m sorry but this is insane. I guess I can only speak to the segment of the tech industry I&amp;#x27;ve been exposed to, but a woman would not be labelled a liability for reporting a rape or an assault, unless maybe it turned out to be false, in which case that&amp;#x27;s no different than any other industry. I am sure workplace rape and assault happens in every industry, unfortunately, but I&amp;#x27;ve seen no evidence it&amp;#x27;s more common or accepted in tech than anywhere else. It&amp;#x27;s certainly not systematized or condoned. I can&amp;#x27;t believe Google (for whom she has worked) has any more lenient of a policy on sexual harassment or assault than any other Fortune 500.&lt;p&gt;And if it were this bad, why would she fear being ostracized? If my options were to stay in an industry and be repeatedly harassed, beaten, and raped, or switch careers, I don&amp;#x27;t think it&amp;#x27;d be a tough call.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>geofft</author><text>I don&amp;#x27;t think there&amp;#x27;s a particular reason to believe this is significantly worse in tech than it is elsewhere (although if this I&amp;#x27;m wrong, I&amp;#x27;d definitely appreciate being corrected on this). But there are a few things I&amp;#x27;d say:&lt;p&gt;- Tech has this particular weird cultural self-view that we all see ourselves and each other as middle-school nerds emerging victorious, as people who got past the bullies and the ills of &amp;quot;normal people&amp;quot; society, as people who were friendless (and dateless) in school but have found our own little environment now where we can be accepted as we are. So there&amp;#x27;s a tendency to think that we&amp;#x27;re not &lt;i&gt;capable&lt;/i&gt; of the same sort of awfulness, and that we&amp;#x27;re &lt;i&gt;better people&lt;/i&gt; than the other industries. There&amp;#x27;s a tendency, subconsciously, to think that if someone&amp;#x27;s saying something bad about any of our people, they&amp;#x27;re no better than our middle school bullies. We need to get over that and admit that the tech &lt;i&gt;industry&lt;/i&gt; is like any other industry.&lt;p&gt;- On a different and simpler note, tech is &lt;i&gt;our&lt;/i&gt; industry. I don&amp;#x27;t have nearly as much say about the culture of, say, big law firms or furniture design studios, than I do about the culture of companies where I work and where I might consider working.&lt;p&gt;Regarding Google, did you see this discussion, which was on the HN home page yesterday? &lt;a href=&quot;https://plus.google.com/+KellyEllis/posts/L4wawXpNt25&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;plus.google.com&amp;#x2F;+KellyEllis&amp;#x2F;posts&amp;#x2F;L4wawXpNt25&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>
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<story><title>U.S. Supreme Court: GPS Trackers Are a Form of Search and Seizure</title><url>http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2015/03/supreme-court-if-youre-being-gps-tracked-youre-being-searched/389114/?single_page=true</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>bougiefever</author><text>I&amp;#x27;m so pleased this is a unanimous decision. I hope the phone metadata issue comes before the supreme court. If they are unanimous on this, then I would guess they would rule that metadata on cell phone use is in effect a GPS tracking method. It should fall under the same category.</text></comment>
<story><title>U.S. Supreme Court: GPS Trackers Are a Form of Search and Seizure</title><url>http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2015/03/supreme-court-if-youre-being-gps-tracked-youre-being-searched/389114/?single_page=true</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>johnbellone</author><text>This is excellent news. I had begun to worry that the rapid advancement in technology may take awhile to hold up to scrutiny. We still need a clear concise decision in regards to software deployed on hardware for search purposes.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Roll Your Own Frameworks</title><url>https://blog.startifact.com/posts/roll-your-own-frameworks/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>helldritch</author><text>I agree with a lot of what this article says.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;ve recently started a new application in PHP which has very strict time &amp;#x2F; performance requirements. I could build it in another language, but I&amp;#x27;m most familiar with PHP, the thing would take me 4x as long to build in Rust.&lt;p&gt;The default frameworks (Laravel and Symfony) are very slow out of the box, and doctrine &amp;#x2F; propel are pretty slow as well.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;ve instead built something entirely brand new using Swoole and an assembled set of very fast and very light Composer packages (namely Fastroute and PHP-DI) and everything else I&amp;#x27;m building myself (compromising on reusability and full-featuredness in return for raw performance).&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;ve split the code in to two: one half is the framework, it&amp;#x27;s concerned with routing, dependency injection, models and hydration, event handling and responses. The other half is focussed on the business concerns: creating users, creating authentication token, performing searches.&lt;p&gt;There were a few challenges: moving from single row, single model queries to hydrating complex joined collections was a major multi-day challenge, but the end result is that when a request has all the data it needs cached, it responds in ~3ms, when it needs something from the database it responds in ~10ms.&lt;p&gt;I was apprehensive when I started, and a half decade ago this codebase would be an unmaintainable mess, but I&amp;#x27;m finding it a joy to work in: there are few layers of abstraction, not a single line of code is wasted, and when something goes wrong there&amp;#x27;s no magic obfuscating the true problem.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>kwhat4</author><text>This is one of the primary reasons most people hate PHP. Let me ask a simple question: What does the documentation for your homegrown framework look like? Having worked for several organizations that decided to roll their own framework in PHP, it is an absolute nightmare. No one else knows how it works or how to use it and it usually comes with no documentation. Furthermore, you don&amp;#x27;t get any updates or bug fixes unless you write them, taking time away from working on the project that is being held up by your homegrown solution. There are plenty of fast, low bloat, PHP frameworks to choose from: Phalcon, Slim, Luman and Silex just to name a few. I guarantee they all have better documentation and support. If you need some custom functionality, extend one of these existing solutions to suit your needs. Please, please stop reinventing the wheel for production code.</text></comment>
<story><title>Roll Your Own Frameworks</title><url>https://blog.startifact.com/posts/roll-your-own-frameworks/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>helldritch</author><text>I agree with a lot of what this article says.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;ve recently started a new application in PHP which has very strict time &amp;#x2F; performance requirements. I could build it in another language, but I&amp;#x27;m most familiar with PHP, the thing would take me 4x as long to build in Rust.&lt;p&gt;The default frameworks (Laravel and Symfony) are very slow out of the box, and doctrine &amp;#x2F; propel are pretty slow as well.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;ve instead built something entirely brand new using Swoole and an assembled set of very fast and very light Composer packages (namely Fastroute and PHP-DI) and everything else I&amp;#x27;m building myself (compromising on reusability and full-featuredness in return for raw performance).&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;ve split the code in to two: one half is the framework, it&amp;#x27;s concerned with routing, dependency injection, models and hydration, event handling and responses. The other half is focussed on the business concerns: creating users, creating authentication token, performing searches.&lt;p&gt;There were a few challenges: moving from single row, single model queries to hydrating complex joined collections was a major multi-day challenge, but the end result is that when a request has all the data it needs cached, it responds in ~3ms, when it needs something from the database it responds in ~10ms.&lt;p&gt;I was apprehensive when I started, and a half decade ago this codebase would be an unmaintainable mess, but I&amp;#x27;m finding it a joy to work in: there are few layers of abstraction, not a single line of code is wasted, and when something goes wrong there&amp;#x27;s no magic obfuscating the true problem.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>kbenson</author><text>&amp;gt; I was apprehensive when I started, and a half decade ago this codebase would be an unmaintainable mess, but I&amp;#x27;m finding it a joy to work in: there are few layers of abstraction, not a single line of code is wasted, and when something goes wrong there&amp;#x27;s no magic obfuscating the true problem.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;ve &amp;quot;rolled my own&amp;quot; quite a few times this way, with web frameworks and ORMs&amp;#x2F;query engines, and while I agree it feel that way, I would add the caveat it feels that way &lt;i&gt;at first&lt;/i&gt;. Eventually, whether that&amp;#x27;s 6 months or 6 years, you end up cursing the framework because either you&amp;#x27;re spending a significant chunk of time implementing features that you didn&amp;#x27;t need but now do, and would have either been included in a framework when you started, or you would have just been able to upgrade your framework to a newer version to get it.&lt;p&gt;Unless the project has a &lt;i&gt;very&lt;/i&gt; tight scope, the eventual drift in needs causes friction when it comes up against the very targeted capabilities of what you designed for yourself because it only implemented what you needed when you wrote it.&lt;p&gt;Writing a web framework is useful and fun, as is writing an ORM. At least for the first 75% of features. People should do it, if for no other reason it makes assessing other ones for whether they are suitable for your needs much more easy and accurate as your knowledge increases. But 5 years from now when you (or whoever inherits it) are realizing there&amp;#x27;s a security issue you need to patch in your home rolled framework, and you aren&amp;#x27;t quite done patching the security or performance problem that was found last week, you might reassess how good of a choice rolling your own was.&lt;p&gt;Symfony and Laraval might be slow, but there&amp;#x27;s a slew of other PHP frameworks to choose from that range from full stack to micro frameworks[1], and those probably deserve a look for anyone in the same position considering the same move. Maybe rolling your own still comes out looking good, but it&amp;#x27;s not something I think should be attempted in production without quite a bit of consideration as to the eventual implications.&lt;p&gt;1: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.techempower.com&amp;#x2F;benchmarks&amp;#x2F;#section=data-r18&amp;amp;hw=ph&amp;amp;test=fortune&amp;amp;l=zik073-f&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.techempower.com&amp;#x2F;benchmarks&amp;#x2F;#section=data-r18&amp;amp;hw=...&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>
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<story><title>It&apos;s time to break up the NSA</title><url>http://www.cnn.com/2014/02/20/opinion/schneier-nsa-too-big/index.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>twoodfin</author><text>&lt;i&gt;This is where the NSA overreaches: collecting data on innocent Americans either incidentally or deliberately, and data on foreign citizens indiscriminately.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;Put aside the question of data on U.S. citizens: I don&amp;#x27;t understand how in an era of burner phones and widespread encryption any intelligence agency can do without some bulk foreign surveillance. Say HUMINT gets its hands on a foreign bad guy&amp;#x27;s contact list. Odds are the most relevant information you&amp;#x27;d be able to extract is in the past, especially if the target knows you captured his list.&lt;p&gt;Is it really an &amp;quot;overreach&amp;quot; if the NSA can acquire the mobile phone records of Yemen &amp;quot;indiscriminately&amp;quot; and use the data to build social graphs for current and future (currently unknown) targets of interest?&lt;p&gt;EDIT: I don&amp;#x27;t mean to cast Schneier&amp;#x27;s argument uncharitably. He may very well make a distinction between &amp;quot;acceptable&amp;quot; and &amp;quot;overreaching&amp;quot; bulk surveillance, but if so he doesn&amp;#x27;t seem to outline it in this piece.</text></comment>
<story><title>It&apos;s time to break up the NSA</title><url>http://www.cnn.com/2014/02/20/opinion/schneier-nsa-too-big/index.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>jobu</author><text>&lt;i&gt;&amp;quot;Second, all surveillance of Americans should be moved to the FBI.&amp;quot;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;This sounds like a great idea in theory, but in the current age of global communications I&amp;#x27;m concerned that it&amp;#x27;s impossible to separate surveillance into &amp;quot;American&amp;quot; and &amp;quot;foreign&amp;quot;. This gray area is what the NSA currently uses to circumvent the US Constitution, and I don&amp;#x27;t see how any other agency would handle it differently.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Princeton lab simulates nuclear war (2019)</title><url>https://sgs.princeton.edu/the-lab/plan-a</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>andretti1977</author><text>I know it may be off topic but i don&amp;#x27;t want people to discuss about the reliability of the data involved, no, i want people to reflect about the outcome: end of humanity.&lt;p&gt;It disgusts me to think that maybe 99.99% of world population wouldn&amp;#x27;t harm another person but due to a ridicolous small fraction of the entire population, we risk to end our lives.&lt;p&gt;This is completely absurd and makes no sense at all.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>pmoriarty</author><text>&lt;i&gt;&amp;quot;maybe 99.99% of world population wouldn&amp;#x27;t harm another person&amp;quot;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;I think they would... especially in self-defense, in defense of someone they cared about, and plenty would do so for ideals like &amp;quot;freedom&amp;quot;, &amp;quot;country&amp;quot; or &amp;quot;democracy&amp;quot;... and if they wouldn&amp;#x27;t most would be perfectly happy to let others do it for them.&lt;p&gt;That&amp;#x27;s why the military and police exist, and why most people are perfectly happy to fund and support them. It&amp;#x27;s also why wars have so many participants and supporters.&lt;p&gt;Politicians can further rile people up to commit violence against scapegoats and even preemptively against distant potential threats. It&amp;#x27;s not so difficult for them to get a lot of people to commit violence against a historical, cultural, political, religious, or ethnic enemy.</text></comment>
<story><title>Princeton lab simulates nuclear war (2019)</title><url>https://sgs.princeton.edu/the-lab/plan-a</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>andretti1977</author><text>I know it may be off topic but i don&amp;#x27;t want people to discuss about the reliability of the data involved, no, i want people to reflect about the outcome: end of humanity.&lt;p&gt;It disgusts me to think that maybe 99.99% of world population wouldn&amp;#x27;t harm another person but due to a ridicolous small fraction of the entire population, we risk to end our lives.&lt;p&gt;This is completely absurd and makes no sense at all.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>hayst4ck</author><text>A police officer is a position of power. In many parts of the world, someone in this position of power will use that power to acquire resources via bribes or extortion. This person with authority of the state has a right to violence that you do not have. This person has determined they have a right to your money and a &amp;quot;justification&amp;quot; (The law of nature: I have more power) to take it.&lt;p&gt;If you give the money there is no &amp;#x27;harm,&amp;#x27; yet you have been harmed with the threat of violence. If you need that money to feed yourself or get medical care for your child, it might literally result in death.&lt;p&gt;If you fight the police officer, others will come after you. If you gather your friends to fight the police officers, you have now subverted the government, created your own government (because you are now an agent of enforcement of your own set of &amp;quot;laws&amp;quot;), and now started a very small scale war (revolution) out of your desire to not be harmed.&lt;p&gt;If you don&amp;#x27;t think people would self enrich at the cost of others, I have some very bad news for you. Just because a person hasn&amp;#x27;t been physically damaged, doesn&amp;#x27;t mean they haven&amp;#x27;t been harmed.&lt;p&gt;If there was a button that gave you a million dollars but would kill a person you have never met, I think you vastly underestimate the number of people who would press it, and those that do press it, would probably be happy to press it many times.&lt;p&gt;The way you use the word harm is what prevents you from making sense of the problem.&lt;p&gt;Confusion is not the result of understanding. Sadness is.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Zynga to Lay Off 520 Employees and shutter NY and LA Offices</title><url>http://allthingsd.com/20130603/zynga-to-lay-off-520-employees-18-percent-of-staff-and-shutter-new-york-and-la-offices/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>cletus</author><text>I feel bad for those who put their blood, sweat and tears into building Zynga.&lt;p&gt;I feel bad for those who have just lost their jobs.&lt;p&gt;I feel bad for those who remain under a cloud with the only comment they get is self-deflecting language from their CEO like &quot;brothers and sisters&quot;.&lt;p&gt;Who I don&apos;t feel bad for is Mark Pincus. The collapse of Zynga couldn&apos;t happen to a more deserving person. Just 18 months ago when Zynga was on top of the world, Pincus made a name for himself by bullying staff to give back stock options [1] for no other reason than he thought they didn&apos;t deserve such a huge windfall.&lt;p&gt;Well those chickens have come home to roost. Those same employers will be the first to take flight having no further loyalty to the company.&lt;p&gt;I also know that I wouldn&apos;t work for Pincus. He&apos;s shown his true character with this petty greed (how much difference did this make to him personally really?).&lt;p&gt;Frankly I&apos;d hesitate in working for any company backed by the same VCs that let this happen. To allow this erosion of what I&apos;d call the &quot;startup bargain&quot; (trading salary for equity) by greatly reducing the upside is shortsighted and undermines the very conditions that makes the startup scene thrive and succeed.&lt;p&gt;As much as I viewed Groupon as a scam (a Ponzi scheme essentially), Andrew Mason&apos;s parting words [2] after getting fired gained him a lot of respect (from me at least) as they were authentic and didn&apos;t seek to cast blame elsewhere. In fact he went so far as to make a joke of &quot;spending more time with my family&quot; (which we all know is a euphemism for getting fired).&lt;p&gt;What entrepreneurs and VCs need to realize is these bullying tactics (and I include the underhanded clawback agreements to Skype employees in this) undermine the entire ecosystem and we need to send a powerful message that they can&apos;t and won&apos;t be tolerated.&lt;p&gt;[1]: &lt;a href=&quot;http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/tech/news/story/2011-11-10/zynga-ipo-stock/51158068/1&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/tech/news/story/2011-11-10/zy...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;[2]: &lt;a href=&quot;http://thenextweb.com/insider/2013/02/28/andrew-mason-groupoin/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://thenextweb.com/insider/2013/02/28/andrew-mason-groupo...&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dj2stein9</author><text>I really don&apos;t feel sorry for anyone who work(s)(ed) for Zynga. This company milked the whole &quot;social gaming&quot; bubble for every drop it was worth. Every game they made was a clone of this or that, and they used every spam trick in the book to get more clicks, and every single employee at that company knew 100% full well that they were part of a modern day ponzi scheme that would blow up once Facebook become uncool.</text></comment>
<story><title>Zynga to Lay Off 520 Employees and shutter NY and LA Offices</title><url>http://allthingsd.com/20130603/zynga-to-lay-off-520-employees-18-percent-of-staff-and-shutter-new-york-and-la-offices/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>cletus</author><text>I feel bad for those who put their blood, sweat and tears into building Zynga.&lt;p&gt;I feel bad for those who have just lost their jobs.&lt;p&gt;I feel bad for those who remain under a cloud with the only comment they get is self-deflecting language from their CEO like &quot;brothers and sisters&quot;.&lt;p&gt;Who I don&apos;t feel bad for is Mark Pincus. The collapse of Zynga couldn&apos;t happen to a more deserving person. Just 18 months ago when Zynga was on top of the world, Pincus made a name for himself by bullying staff to give back stock options [1] for no other reason than he thought they didn&apos;t deserve such a huge windfall.&lt;p&gt;Well those chickens have come home to roost. Those same employers will be the first to take flight having no further loyalty to the company.&lt;p&gt;I also know that I wouldn&apos;t work for Pincus. He&apos;s shown his true character with this petty greed (how much difference did this make to him personally really?).&lt;p&gt;Frankly I&apos;d hesitate in working for any company backed by the same VCs that let this happen. To allow this erosion of what I&apos;d call the &quot;startup bargain&quot; (trading salary for equity) by greatly reducing the upside is shortsighted and undermines the very conditions that makes the startup scene thrive and succeed.&lt;p&gt;As much as I viewed Groupon as a scam (a Ponzi scheme essentially), Andrew Mason&apos;s parting words [2] after getting fired gained him a lot of respect (from me at least) as they were authentic and didn&apos;t seek to cast blame elsewhere. In fact he went so far as to make a joke of &quot;spending more time with my family&quot; (which we all know is a euphemism for getting fired).&lt;p&gt;What entrepreneurs and VCs need to realize is these bullying tactics (and I include the underhanded clawback agreements to Skype employees in this) undermine the entire ecosystem and we need to send a powerful message that they can&apos;t and won&apos;t be tolerated.&lt;p&gt;[1]: &lt;a href=&quot;http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/tech/news/story/2011-11-10/zynga-ipo-stock/51158068/1&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/tech/news/story/2011-11-10/zy...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;[2]: &lt;a href=&quot;http://thenextweb.com/insider/2013/02/28/andrew-mason-groupoin/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://thenextweb.com/insider/2013/02/28/andrew-mason-groupo...&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>tsotha</author><text>&amp;#62;Who I don&apos;t feel bad for is Mark Pincus. The collapse of Zynga couldn&apos;t happen to a more deserving person. Just 18 months ago when Zynga was on top of the world, Pincus made a name for himself by bullying staff to give back stock options [1] for no other reason than he thought they didn&apos;t deserve such a huge windfall.&lt;p&gt;That was my first thought. Couldn&apos;t happen to a nicer guy.</text></comment>
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<story><title>The longer passwords in the Last.fm database</title><url>https://www.leakedsource.com/i/lastfmlong.txt</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>pilif</author><text>At first I was really impressed by `1qaz2wsx3edc4rfv5tgb6yhn7ujm8ik,9ol.0p;&amp;#x2F;`, but then I watched my keyboard and all became clear. These brute force tools are getting better and better at trying useful combinations to the point where I think all &amp;quot;clever&amp;quot; are now known to the tools and the only thing that remains is completely random passwords as they are generated by password managers.&lt;p&gt;Thank you for posting this list - this is very enlightening.</text></comment>
<story><title>The longer passwords in the Last.fm database</title><url>https://www.leakedsource.com/i/lastfmlong.txt</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>kalleboo</author><text>Had a good laugh at this one&lt;p&gt;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt; &amp;lt;script&amp;gt;alert(document.cookie);&amp;lt;&amp;#x2F;script&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;</text></comment>
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<story><title>After 41 years, my first assembly program on my first computer, the Tomy Tutor</title><url>http://oldvcr.blogspot.com/2024/03/after-41-years-my-first-assembly.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>tcbawo</author><text>The backstory of the Tomy Tutor is interesting. This seems like it was a tremendous longshot, financially. It’s hard to imagine how this would be greenlit in today’s age. There are so many weird architectures of the 1980s — I appreciate the quirkiness and diversity.</text></comment>
<story><title>After 41 years, my first assembly program on my first computer, the Tomy Tutor</title><url>http://oldvcr.blogspot.com/2024/03/after-41-years-my-first-assembly.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>joeyhage</author><text>Interesting how the connotations of parent guidance have changed over the years. It’s pretty rare these days to see “no parental guidance necessary.”</text></comment>
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<story><title>CSS Layout cookbook</title><url>https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/Layout_cookbook</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>maddyboo</author><text>Wow, when did MDN start scrolljacking?&lt;p&gt;I use a browser extension [1] which provides vim-like bindings for Chrome, and sites that scrolljack severely mess up the scroll up&amp;#x2F;down functionality.&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s hard to tell there&amp;#x27;s scrolljacking just by using your mousewheel, but if you try running `window.scrollBy(0, 500);` in your developer console, you&amp;#x27;ll see the easing being applied. Try the same code on a site without scrolljacking (like the HN front page) and you&amp;#x27;ll see it jumps directly to the destination.&lt;p&gt;You&amp;#x27;d think one of the largest advocates for web standards and accessibility would know better!&lt;p&gt;[1]: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;github.com&amp;#x2F;brookhong&amp;#x2F;Surfingkeys&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;github.com&amp;#x2F;brookhong&amp;#x2F;Surfingkeys&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>twhb</author><text>MDN isn&amp;#x27;t scrolljacking, they just set “scroll-behavior: smooth;” [1]. It&amp;#x27;s a native CSS property and integrates with native scrolling, which is why mouse wheels, touchpads, touchscreens, etc are working fine. I would open a bug report with the extension, it needs to specify the scrolling mode it wants, rather than defaulting to whatever the website chose.&lt;p&gt;[1]: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;developer.mozilla.org&amp;#x2F;en-US&amp;#x2F;docs&amp;#x2F;Web&amp;#x2F;CSS&amp;#x2F;scroll-behavior&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;developer.mozilla.org&amp;#x2F;en-US&amp;#x2F;docs&amp;#x2F;Web&amp;#x2F;CSS&amp;#x2F;scroll-beha...&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>
<story><title>CSS Layout cookbook</title><url>https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/Layout_cookbook</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>maddyboo</author><text>Wow, when did MDN start scrolljacking?&lt;p&gt;I use a browser extension [1] which provides vim-like bindings for Chrome, and sites that scrolljack severely mess up the scroll up&amp;#x2F;down functionality.&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s hard to tell there&amp;#x27;s scrolljacking just by using your mousewheel, but if you try running `window.scrollBy(0, 500);` in your developer console, you&amp;#x27;ll see the easing being applied. Try the same code on a site without scrolljacking (like the HN front page) and you&amp;#x27;ll see it jumps directly to the destination.&lt;p&gt;You&amp;#x27;d think one of the largest advocates for web standards and accessibility would know better!&lt;p&gt;[1]: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;github.com&amp;#x2F;brookhong&amp;#x2F;Surfingkeys&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;github.com&amp;#x2F;brookhong&amp;#x2F;Surfingkeys&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ziikutv</author><text>Pardon my ignorance on this. I am not sure if the easing of scroll motion is scrolljacking.&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; Scrolljacking basically means we replace native scrolling (what you’re used to) with targeted scrolling: when the user initiates a scroll, either with their mouse or keyboard, scrolljacking takes them to an exact vertical point on the screen (for example, the top of the next content container)&lt;p&gt;They aren&amp;#x27;t targeting your scrolling to specific areas on the page, just adding an ease in&amp;#x2F;out. It happens natively on iOS actually.&lt;p&gt;Edit: I do agree that it might hinder accessibility, just dont think the term applies as it does in other cases here.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Lion: Cocoa Autolayout Release Notes</title><url>http://developer.apple.com/library/mac/#releasenotes/UserExperience/RNAutomaticLayout/_index.html#//apple_ref/doc/uid/TP40010631</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>kenferry</author><text>Some of that document is out of date - Interface Builder does have support for Auto Layout now. Auto Layout also has a space now. ;-) I like to spell it [Auto]-[Layout] (see the ASCII art programming language part of that document).&lt;p&gt;People may also be interested in the WWDC session on Auto Layout: &lt;a href=&quot;http://goo.gl/5sSgK&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://goo.gl/5sSgK&lt;/a&gt; (requires free developer account).&lt;p&gt;Some interesting aspects of the system to me:&lt;p&gt;(1) The use of fairly simple but freeform constraints. The numerical solver is based on work in this paper, &lt;a href=&quot;http://goo.gl/6fHdd&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://goo.gl/6fHdd&lt;/a&gt;. They end up covering really a lot of stuff you want to do in a natural way, and with a single constraint object with few properties.&lt;p&gt;(2) The emphasis on visualization. Most of the time constraints are created visually, in Interface Builder, by dragging objects around and snapping them together. When doing layout in source code, you use an ASCII art inspired format string that visually looks like the interface you&apos;re trying to create. When debugging at runtime, you can ask a window to draw constraints on screen, so that you can see what they are. (The debugging support itself is also interesting.)&lt;p&gt;(3) The reworking of how layout fits into Cocoa&apos;s model-view-controller design. Previously, too much was in the controller layer - to do layout you ended up having to say things that you didn&apos;t really know, because it was data intrinsically known by the view layer. By reworking the layering, the views can take responsibility for those aspects of layout that are intrinsically known to the view. This takes a lot of pressure off, because (a) you don&apos;t have to specify things you don&apos;t know, (b) there&apos;s less work to do because the views are doing some of it, (c) a lot of the time the views are coming out of AppKit, so you never have to write the view parts at all. It also aligns the easiest thing to do (don&apos;t mess with the views) with the right thing to do (use standard OS behavior). If you want to make it do something unusual, you can, but you have to say so. Your code records the places you intentionally deviated.&lt;p&gt;[Disclosure - I worked on this.]</text></comment>
<story><title>Lion: Cocoa Autolayout Release Notes</title><url>http://developer.apple.com/library/mac/#releasenotes/UserExperience/RNAutomaticLayout/_index.html#//apple_ref/doc/uid/TP40010631</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>jamesaguilar</author><text>The syntax is crazy, but brilliant. I would never have thought of it myself, but now that I&apos;ve seen it it&apos;s obvious.&lt;p&gt;The main thing I wonder is whether the syntax is supported by vanilla objective c, or if Apple is cheating a little (i.e. building support for new hotness into the compiler).</text></comment>
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<story><title>The dark truth about chocolate</title><url>https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2018/mar/25/chocolate-the-dark-truth-is-it-good-for-you-health-wellbeing-blood-pressure-flavanols</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>nkurz</author><text>That&amp;#x27;s a surprisingly in depth newspaper article! Rather than another article about how chocolate is a &amp;quot;superfood&amp;quot;, or debunking the &amp;quot;myth&amp;quot; of chocolate, this is a look at how our perceptions of chocolate are affected by industry driven science. The closing paragraphs give a flavor of the piece, telling of an social experiment that I&amp;#x27;m surprised I hadn&amp;#x27;t heard about (or at least don&amp;#x27;t remember):&lt;p&gt;&lt;i&gt;The role of the media in helping chocolate makers exploit our failure to grasp the complexities of nutrition science was laid bare in a 2015 exposé. German television journalists set up a three-week “study” in which they asked one group of volunteers to follow a low-carb diet, another to do the same but add a daily chocolate bar, a third to make no change to their diet. Both low-carb groups lost an average of 5lb, but the chocolate group lost weight faster. By measuring 18 different things in a small number of people, the spoofers made it likely they would find “statistically significant” but fake benefits of eating chocolate.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;i&gt;The “peer-reviewed” International Archives of Internal Medicine agreed to publish a hastily written paper within 24 hours of receiving it – for a fee of €600. John Bohannon, a Harvard University biologist and science journalist in on the hoax, put together a press release. Within days stories had been published in more than 20 countries. The Mail Online, Daily Express, Daily Star and Bild were among those that fell for it.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;More about how that paper came to be here: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.cjr.org&amp;#x2F;analysis&amp;#x2F;the_history_behind_the_chocolate_hoax.php&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.cjr.org&amp;#x2F;analysis&amp;#x2F;the_history_behind_the_chocolat...&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>
<story><title>The dark truth about chocolate</title><url>https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2018/mar/25/chocolate-the-dark-truth-is-it-good-for-you-health-wellbeing-blood-pressure-flavanols</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>taxicabjesus</author><text>&amp;gt; During the 1990s, scientists became interested in the French paradox – the now discredited observation that heart disease rates were low in France despite a national diet high in saturated fats.&lt;p&gt;I joined a local Toastmasters club over a year ago. Last week we had a speech from a member who grew up in France, found his way to an engineering university in Florida, and now lives in Arizona. His latest speech told of how he&amp;#x27;s lived &lt;i&gt;&amp;quot;the French Paradox&amp;quot;.&lt;/i&gt; A few years ago he went home to visit family. His aunt squeezed his cheek and sweetly said, &lt;i&gt;&amp;quot;You&amp;#x27;ve become a fat American.&amp;quot;&lt;/i&gt; The rest of the speech was about how this motivated him to return to his old French eating habits -- 5-course meals, small entrees, dairy, desert. He lost 50 pounds. One of the key points he raised was how he makes an effort to avoid most unsaturated oils.&lt;p&gt;There is no French paradox, because the French are correct to take food more seriously than Americans. That some scientists think there is a &amp;quot;French paradox&amp;quot; just shows how confused they are. IMHO, Ancel Keys&amp;#x27; work was really just junk science [0].&lt;p&gt;[0] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Ancel_Keys&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Ancel_Keys&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>
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<story><title>Developer of Checkm8 explains why iDevice jailbreak exploit is a game changer</title><url>https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2019/09/developer-of-checkm8-explains-why-idevice-jailbreak-exploit-is-a-game-changer/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Ecco</author><text>I’m wondering about the economics of this release. I don’t know if Apple has any bug bounty program and whether it would apply here, but I’m pretty sure &lt;i&gt;someone&lt;/i&gt; would have paid a lot of money for this.&lt;p&gt;Hence my question: why make it public? What’s the backstory?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>bonestamp2</author><text>&amp;gt; What’s the backstory?&lt;p&gt;From the person&amp;#x2F;hacker&amp;#x2F;security researcher (@axi0mX) who discovered it:&lt;p&gt;During iOS 12 betas in summer 2018, Apple patched a critical use-after-free vulnerability in iBoot USB code. This vulnerability can only be triggered over USB and requires physical access. It cannot be exploited remotely. I am sure many researchers have seen that patch. That&amp;#x27;s how I discovered it. It is likely at least a couple other researchers were able to exploit this vulnerability after discovering the patch. The patch is easy to find, but the vulnerability is not trivial to exploit on most devices.&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; why make it public?&lt;p&gt;A bootrom exploit for older devices makes iOS better for everyone. Jailbreakers and tweak developers will be able to jailbreak their phones on latest version, and they will not need to stay on older iOS versions waiting for a jailbreak. They will be safer. It will also be better for security researchers interested in Apple&amp;#x27;s Bug Bounty. They will not need to keep vulnerabilities on hand so that they have access they need for their research. More vulnerabilities might get reported to Apple right away.&lt;p&gt;Source: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;mobile.twitter.com&amp;#x2F;axi0mX&amp;#x2F;status&amp;#x2F;1177542201670168576?s=20&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;mobile.twitter.com&amp;#x2F;axi0mX&amp;#x2F;status&amp;#x2F;1177542201670168576...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;I wonder if this is this vulnerability that a private company was exploiting for tools they provided to various law enforcement agencies?</text></comment>
<story><title>Developer of Checkm8 explains why iDevice jailbreak exploit is a game changer</title><url>https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2019/09/developer-of-checkm8-explains-why-idevice-jailbreak-exploit-is-a-game-changer/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Ecco</author><text>I’m wondering about the economics of this release. I don’t know if Apple has any bug bounty program and whether it would apply here, but I’m pretty sure &lt;i&gt;someone&lt;/i&gt; would have paid a lot of money for this.&lt;p&gt;Hence my question: why make it public? What’s the backstory?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>matwood</author><text>Since it’s already fixed in the Xs and newer iPhones, I’m not sure Apple would have considered it a new exploit worthy of a payout.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Schools for children of military achieve results rarely seen in public education</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/10/us/schools-pandemic-defense-department.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>seanmcdirmid</author><text>&amp;gt; Charter schools kicking out problematic students isn&amp;#x27;t some loophole, it&amp;#x27;s the main point, and it absolutely can improve the education for those that remain.&lt;p&gt;If you kick out the problematic students, the only students you have left are easy to teach non-problematic students.&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; and it absolutely can improve the education for those that remain.&lt;p&gt;It isn&amp;#x27;t mysterious: you selected the best students, so your results will be the best. It is a direct application of selection bias. Public schools will be left with whatever students are not accepted into charter schools...those &amp;quot;problematic students&amp;quot;, and will...again...due to selection bias have worse results.&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; It&amp;#x27;s not like they&amp;#x27;re only accepting kids with two parents, in fact they&amp;#x27;re doing a much better job of helping poor families in my district than the public school system&lt;p&gt;That&amp;#x27;s great for your district, but parent pointed out ending school at noon on Wednesday are going to apply selection bias. Perhaps your district does it better.</text></item><item><author>HDThoreaun</author><text>Education is mostly about your peers. It&amp;#x27;s obviously true for prestigious universities but it&amp;#x27;s just as true for elementary schools. Charter schools kicking out problematic students isn&amp;#x27;t some loophole, it&amp;#x27;s the main point, and it absolutely can improve the education for those that remain.&lt;p&gt;My district has a quarter of high schoolers in charter schools. Almost all of them under the poverty line. It&amp;#x27;s not like they&amp;#x27;re only accepting kids with two parents, in fact they&amp;#x27;re doing a much better job of helping poor families in my district than the public school system, which forces all the poor students into the same schools with literal murderers attending. Allowing poor students from families that value education to go to schools with like minded students is an unequivocally good thing compared to what the public schools currently do.</text></item><item><author>Spinnaker_</author><text>I think this can be misleading in the same way some charter school results are. The easiest way to improve a school&amp;#x27;s results isn&amp;#x27;t to improve the education provided, it&amp;#x27;s to get rid of the worst performing kids.&lt;p&gt;Charter schools do this by various selection effects, and artificial barriers, like ending at noon on a Wednesday. So the only kids who go there have two parents, one who probably is stay at home and can pick the kid up.&lt;p&gt;The same type of thing is in play in military schools. There will be few-to-no kids of poor single moms. All the kids will be well fed and groomed and socialized. Is the education better, or have they just selected better performing kids? The article touches on this. But I don&amp;#x27;t think takes it nearly seriously enough.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ecshafer</author><text>&amp;gt; If you kick out the problematic students, the only students you have left are easy to teach non-problematic students.&lt;p&gt;Maybe the negative effects of having problematic students is enough that its a worthwhile endeavor? By Middle school or high school &amp;quot;problematic students&amp;quot; involves people that not only are noisy and disruptive in class, but people that deal drugs, rob people, steal, join gangs, bring weapons to school. Just calling them problematic is really underselling the situation. And the effects of a student that routinely swears at a teacher and causes fights disrupts a large number of students preventing them from learning things.</text></comment>
<story><title>Schools for children of military achieve results rarely seen in public education</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/10/us/schools-pandemic-defense-department.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>seanmcdirmid</author><text>&amp;gt; Charter schools kicking out problematic students isn&amp;#x27;t some loophole, it&amp;#x27;s the main point, and it absolutely can improve the education for those that remain.&lt;p&gt;If you kick out the problematic students, the only students you have left are easy to teach non-problematic students.&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; and it absolutely can improve the education for those that remain.&lt;p&gt;It isn&amp;#x27;t mysterious: you selected the best students, so your results will be the best. It is a direct application of selection bias. Public schools will be left with whatever students are not accepted into charter schools...those &amp;quot;problematic students&amp;quot;, and will...again...due to selection bias have worse results.&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; It&amp;#x27;s not like they&amp;#x27;re only accepting kids with two parents, in fact they&amp;#x27;re doing a much better job of helping poor families in my district than the public school system&lt;p&gt;That&amp;#x27;s great for your district, but parent pointed out ending school at noon on Wednesday are going to apply selection bias. Perhaps your district does it better.</text></item><item><author>HDThoreaun</author><text>Education is mostly about your peers. It&amp;#x27;s obviously true for prestigious universities but it&amp;#x27;s just as true for elementary schools. Charter schools kicking out problematic students isn&amp;#x27;t some loophole, it&amp;#x27;s the main point, and it absolutely can improve the education for those that remain.&lt;p&gt;My district has a quarter of high schoolers in charter schools. Almost all of them under the poverty line. It&amp;#x27;s not like they&amp;#x27;re only accepting kids with two parents, in fact they&amp;#x27;re doing a much better job of helping poor families in my district than the public school system, which forces all the poor students into the same schools with literal murderers attending. Allowing poor students from families that value education to go to schools with like minded students is an unequivocally good thing compared to what the public schools currently do.</text></item><item><author>Spinnaker_</author><text>I think this can be misleading in the same way some charter school results are. The easiest way to improve a school&amp;#x27;s results isn&amp;#x27;t to improve the education provided, it&amp;#x27;s to get rid of the worst performing kids.&lt;p&gt;Charter schools do this by various selection effects, and artificial barriers, like ending at noon on a Wednesday. So the only kids who go there have two parents, one who probably is stay at home and can pick the kid up.&lt;p&gt;The same type of thing is in play in military schools. There will be few-to-no kids of poor single moms. All the kids will be well fed and groomed and socialized. Is the education better, or have they just selected better performing kids? The article touches on this. But I don&amp;#x27;t think takes it nearly seriously enough.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>wnoise</author><text>It&amp;#x27;s partially selection bias, yes.&lt;p&gt;But that&amp;#x27;s not the entire story. It&amp;#x27;s also the fact that not having to deal with the terrible kids helps the remaining kids. Fewer class disruptions. Less slowing down the class to pretend to let the slowest and least motivated keep up. Etc.&lt;p&gt;This comes at the cost of concentrating the troublemakers in other places, making them far worse for normal kids stuck there.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Satya Nadella – Microsoft&apos;s CEO</title><url>http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/news/ceo/index.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>melling</author><text>Doesn&amp;#x27;t Microsoft have 90% of the desktop? About the same dominance in &amp;quot;Office apps&amp;quot;, along with their proprietary formats keeping people uncomfortable using &amp;quot;compatible&amp;quot; software. That dominance is almost 2 decades old and it&amp;#x27;s quite hard to fix.&lt;p&gt;When most people get a job, they&amp;#x27;re going to be using Microsoft because that&amp;#x27;s what they will be given. I&amp;#x27;ve never been somewhere where I&amp;#x27;m told which search engine to use. Most places still don&amp;#x27;t offer an alternative to IE in the work place. That&amp;#x27;s why developers are still coding to IE7.&lt;p&gt;It really is frustrating that people don&amp;#x27;t understand this. I wouldn&amp;#x27;t mind a better Microsoft, except for the fact that people have short memories and don&amp;#x27;t really understand how powerful Microsoft currently is. Google is the the same ballpark? Seriously!?!</text></item><item><author>ZoFreX</author><text>It&amp;#x27;s not Microsoft that was&amp;#x2F;is bad, it&amp;#x27;s having any single entity have too much power. In my opinion, right now, that is Google, and that&amp;#x27;s why we need a stronger someone - anyone. And Microsoft fit the bill.</text></item><item><author>taylodl</author><text>Why? What good would a strong Microsoft provide us? What void would that fill? We&amp;#x27;ve been there, done that and frankly, I don&amp;#x27;t care to go back. They abused their power when they had it and I have no intent of giving it back to them to give them another crack at it.&lt;p&gt;No, I much prefer today&amp;#x27;s world of Google, Apple, Samsung and FOSS in all its myriad forms battling it out. There&amp;#x27;s more developer frameworks than ever available to us. More languages. More everything.&lt;p&gt;No. I don&amp;#x27;t want to go back.</text></item><item><author>adamt</author><text>I&amp;#x27;d never thought I&amp;#x27;d say this after the years of aggressive (and at times anti-competitive) dominance but I think the world needs a strong Microsoft again.&lt;p&gt;Although Microsoft remains very strong in the corporate world, its presence in the Internet and mobile worlds are now pretty limited and leaving the two power-houses of Google and Apple to shape the industry.&lt;p&gt;Satya has done a good job with Azure, and it will be interesting to see whether he can make Microsoft more relevant to the Internet back into someone that can influence the industry.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>andrewfong</author><text>And Google has an absurd share of the search market, with which they can make or break (and have made or broken) all sorts of businesses. Consumers can choose not to use Google, but businesses can&amp;#x27;t opt out of how they&amp;#x27;re listed.&lt;p&gt;The Office formats, for all their quirks, are open and documented. There&amp;#x27;s no one forcing you to use MS Office. You probably can&amp;#x27;t switch which OS you&amp;#x27;re using at work, but Windows is fairly permissive of portable apps that evade most of the security restrictions. We&amp;#x27;re locked into using IE8 at work for compatibility reasons, but I&amp;#x27;m able to use Chrome on my work computer just fine.&lt;p&gt;If you don&amp;#x27;t think Google is heading down the old Microsoft route, I point you to the bundling of Google+ with all of their other apps. Yes, it delivers value. But that&amp;#x27;s what Microsoft said when it started bundling IE with Windows.</text></comment>
<story><title>Satya Nadella – Microsoft&apos;s CEO</title><url>http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/news/ceo/index.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>melling</author><text>Doesn&amp;#x27;t Microsoft have 90% of the desktop? About the same dominance in &amp;quot;Office apps&amp;quot;, along with their proprietary formats keeping people uncomfortable using &amp;quot;compatible&amp;quot; software. That dominance is almost 2 decades old and it&amp;#x27;s quite hard to fix.&lt;p&gt;When most people get a job, they&amp;#x27;re going to be using Microsoft because that&amp;#x27;s what they will be given. I&amp;#x27;ve never been somewhere where I&amp;#x27;m told which search engine to use. Most places still don&amp;#x27;t offer an alternative to IE in the work place. That&amp;#x27;s why developers are still coding to IE7.&lt;p&gt;It really is frustrating that people don&amp;#x27;t understand this. I wouldn&amp;#x27;t mind a better Microsoft, except for the fact that people have short memories and don&amp;#x27;t really understand how powerful Microsoft currently is. Google is the the same ballpark? Seriously!?!</text></item><item><author>ZoFreX</author><text>It&amp;#x27;s not Microsoft that was&amp;#x2F;is bad, it&amp;#x27;s having any single entity have too much power. In my opinion, right now, that is Google, and that&amp;#x27;s why we need a stronger someone - anyone. And Microsoft fit the bill.</text></item><item><author>taylodl</author><text>Why? What good would a strong Microsoft provide us? What void would that fill? We&amp;#x27;ve been there, done that and frankly, I don&amp;#x27;t care to go back. They abused their power when they had it and I have no intent of giving it back to them to give them another crack at it.&lt;p&gt;No, I much prefer today&amp;#x27;s world of Google, Apple, Samsung and FOSS in all its myriad forms battling it out. There&amp;#x27;s more developer frameworks than ever available to us. More languages. More everything.&lt;p&gt;No. I don&amp;#x27;t want to go back.</text></item><item><author>adamt</author><text>I&amp;#x27;d never thought I&amp;#x27;d say this after the years of aggressive (and at times anti-competitive) dominance but I think the world needs a strong Microsoft again.&lt;p&gt;Although Microsoft remains very strong in the corporate world, its presence in the Internet and mobile worlds are now pretty limited and leaving the two power-houses of Google and Apple to shape the industry.&lt;p&gt;Satya has done a good job with Azure, and it will be interesting to see whether he can make Microsoft more relevant to the Internet back into someone that can influence the industry.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>zurn</author><text>That remaining 90% share is having a severe chilling effect on general-purpouse computing. That share needs to get eaten up by Linux and Mac OS if we want to keep open computing healthy.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Thawing permafrost is destroying Arctic cities (2016)</title><url>https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2016/oct/14/thawing-permafrost-destroying-arctic-cities-norilsk-russia</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>akeck</author><text>Apparently there&amp;#x27;s tech called a thermosyphon to keep permafrost under foundations frozen.&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;mass.pbslearningmedia.org&amp;#x2F;resource&amp;#x2F;nvmms.sci.phys.permafrost&amp;#x2F;preserving-permafrost&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;mass.pbslearningmedia.org&amp;#x2F;resource&amp;#x2F;nvmms.sci.phys.pe...&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>
<story><title>Thawing permafrost is destroying Arctic cities (2016)</title><url>https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2016/oct/14/thawing-permafrost-destroying-arctic-cities-norilsk-russia</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>trhway</author><text>&amp;gt;To avoid this, in the 1960s builders of apartment blocks in Norilsk began drilling holes up to 100-ft deep and pouring reinforced concrete piles that stuck into the permanently frozen soil below.&lt;p&gt;100ft would be enough for quite some time. From my short stints in the construction industry (specializing in foundations) in Siberia during college summers (“stroyotryad”) 30 years ago I don’t remember anything being done to the full specs and without cutting corners. Using full power of my imagination I still can’t picture somebody doing it 100ft there when 30ft would look the same :)</text></comment>
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<story><title>Lithuania says throw away Chinese phones due to censorship concerns</title><url>https://www.reuters.com/business/media-telecom/lithuania-says-throw-away-chinese-phones-due-censorship-concerns-2021-09-21/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>throwaway4good</author><text>Is it me or is this an extremely clumsy way of doing censorship?&lt;p&gt;Why not do this at network or server-side level? Why not use some kind of hash (ala Apple&amp;#x27;e proposed child pornography hunter)?&lt;p&gt;In this design, everyone would have to have this plain text configuration file ... also other brands (Oppo, Huawei etc.) would have to have it. What if it needs an update? Suppose the hui muslims starts causing trouble ... Or if people starts using slang or deliberate misspelling ...</text></item><item><author>belter</author><text>From the shared PDF page 23...&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;It has been established that during the initialisation of the system applications factory-installed on a Xiaomi Mi 10T device, these applications contact a server in Singapore at the address globalapi.ad.xiaomi.com (IP address 47.241.69.153) and download the JSON file MiAdBlacklistConfig, and save this file in the metadata catalogues of the applications. A list of applications for which the MiAdBlacklistConfig file was found in metadata catalogues is presented in Table 13.&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;... &amp;quot;Once the applications have downloaded the file, the download date is recorded in order to facilitate periodically updating the list. The scheme for downloading the MiAdBlacklistConfig file is shown in Figure 11.&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;This file contains a list composed of the titles, names and other information of various religious and political groups and social movements (at the time of the analysis, the MiAdBlacklistConfig file contained 449 elements). A fragment of the MiAdBlacklistConfig file is shown in Table 14.&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;Extract from table 14....&lt;p&gt;===================================================&lt;p&gt;No.: Original - Approximate translation&lt;p&gt;1 &amp;quot;宗教虔信者阵线&amp;quot;, “Front of religious believers”,&lt;p&gt;...&lt;p&gt;22 &amp;quot;西藏自由&amp;quot;, “Free Tibet”,&lt;p&gt;...&lt;p&gt;60 &amp;quot;蒙古独立&amp;quot;, “Independence of Mongolia”,&lt;p&gt;61 &amp;quot;89民运&amp;quot;, “89 Democracy Movement”,&lt;p&gt;62 &amp;quot;基督灵恩布道团&amp;quot;, “Christian charismatic mission”, ...&lt;p&gt;145 &amp;quot;伊斯兰联盟&amp;quot;, “Islamic League”,&lt;p&gt;...&lt;p&gt;201 &amp;quot;民运&amp;quot;, “Democratic Movement”,&lt;p&gt;202 &amp;quot;妇女委员会&amp;quot;, “Women’s Committee”,&lt;p&gt;203 &amp;quot;伊斯兰马格里布基地组织&amp;quot;, “Al-Qaida in the Islamic Maghreb”,&lt;p&gt;204 &amp;quot;人民报&amp;quot;, “People’s daily newspaper”,&lt;p&gt;205 &amp;quot;巴勒斯坦解放组织&amp;quot;, “The Organisation for the Liberation of Palestine”,&lt;p&gt;=======================================================</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>TedDoesntTalk</author><text>&amp;gt; Why not do this at network or server-side level?&lt;p&gt;China doesn’t control the network&amp;#x2F;servers in Lithuania and other countries. Doing it client-side gives them the power to extend their reach.</text></comment>
<story><title>Lithuania says throw away Chinese phones due to censorship concerns</title><url>https://www.reuters.com/business/media-telecom/lithuania-says-throw-away-chinese-phones-due-censorship-concerns-2021-09-21/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>throwaway4good</author><text>Is it me or is this an extremely clumsy way of doing censorship?&lt;p&gt;Why not do this at network or server-side level? Why not use some kind of hash (ala Apple&amp;#x27;e proposed child pornography hunter)?&lt;p&gt;In this design, everyone would have to have this plain text configuration file ... also other brands (Oppo, Huawei etc.) would have to have it. What if it needs an update? Suppose the hui muslims starts causing trouble ... Or if people starts using slang or deliberate misspelling ...</text></item><item><author>belter</author><text>From the shared PDF page 23...&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;It has been established that during the initialisation of the system applications factory-installed on a Xiaomi Mi 10T device, these applications contact a server in Singapore at the address globalapi.ad.xiaomi.com (IP address 47.241.69.153) and download the JSON file MiAdBlacklistConfig, and save this file in the metadata catalogues of the applications. A list of applications for which the MiAdBlacklistConfig file was found in metadata catalogues is presented in Table 13.&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;... &amp;quot;Once the applications have downloaded the file, the download date is recorded in order to facilitate periodically updating the list. The scheme for downloading the MiAdBlacklistConfig file is shown in Figure 11.&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;This file contains a list composed of the titles, names and other information of various religious and political groups and social movements (at the time of the analysis, the MiAdBlacklistConfig file contained 449 elements). A fragment of the MiAdBlacklistConfig file is shown in Table 14.&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;Extract from table 14....&lt;p&gt;===================================================&lt;p&gt;No.: Original - Approximate translation&lt;p&gt;1 &amp;quot;宗教虔信者阵线&amp;quot;, “Front of religious believers”,&lt;p&gt;...&lt;p&gt;22 &amp;quot;西藏自由&amp;quot;, “Free Tibet”,&lt;p&gt;...&lt;p&gt;60 &amp;quot;蒙古独立&amp;quot;, “Independence of Mongolia”,&lt;p&gt;61 &amp;quot;89民运&amp;quot;, “89 Democracy Movement”,&lt;p&gt;62 &amp;quot;基督灵恩布道团&amp;quot;, “Christian charismatic mission”, ...&lt;p&gt;145 &amp;quot;伊斯兰联盟&amp;quot;, “Islamic League”,&lt;p&gt;...&lt;p&gt;201 &amp;quot;民运&amp;quot;, “Democratic Movement”,&lt;p&gt;202 &amp;quot;妇女委员会&amp;quot;, “Women’s Committee”,&lt;p&gt;203 &amp;quot;伊斯兰马格里布基地组织&amp;quot;, “Al-Qaida in the Islamic Maghreb”,&lt;p&gt;204 &amp;quot;人民报&amp;quot;, “People’s daily newspaper”,&lt;p&gt;205 &amp;quot;巴勒斯坦解放组织&amp;quot;, “The Organisation for the Liberation of Palestine”,&lt;p&gt;=======================================================</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ignoramous</author><text>I guess it comes down to, &lt;i&gt;why bother when the simplest solution works&lt;/i&gt;?&lt;p&gt;Make no mistake: As and when they get caught out doing such things, the sophistication of their implementation is bound to increase, in response to it. Money is no object for state-actors and mega-corps.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Sennheiser HD 555 to HD 595 Mod</title><url>http://mikebeauchamp.com/misc/sennheiser-hd-555-to-hd-595-mod/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ofalkaed</author><text>The actual difference between the two models could be that the HD595 had selected and matched drivers, the HD555 getting all the rejects from the 595. This is a fairly common practice.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>PragmaticPulp</author><text>This mod was done many years ago, before it was common to be able to find someone who could do proper frequency response measurement. Unless someone measured them in the thread, I wouldn’t assume the visual difference check identified 100% of the differences, including material differences.&lt;p&gt;Sennheiser likes to reuse parts across their headphones lineup. They have several current models that look similar despite tiny internal differences but have substantially difference frequency response due to those tiny changes.&lt;p&gt;This is always going to anger the people who think the cost of objects should be based solely on the cost of materials. I find that especially ironic for a a website where most of us work on software products where the cost of running and distributing the software is vanishingly small and produces margins these hardware companies could only dream of.</text></comment>
<story><title>Sennheiser HD 555 to HD 595 Mod</title><url>http://mikebeauchamp.com/misc/sennheiser-hd-555-to-hd-595-mod/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ofalkaed</author><text>The actual difference between the two models could be that the HD595 had selected and matched drivers, the HD555 getting all the rejects from the 595. This is a fairly common practice.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>tyingq</author><text>Called &amp;quot;product binning&amp;quot;.&lt;p&gt;Though it&amp;#x27;s also common to segment products that don&amp;#x27;t have defects&amp;#x2F;differences by intentionally hobbling them, or even just using different labels when there&amp;#x27;s no actual difference.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Sleep: Everything You Need to Know</title><url>https://medium.com/the-healthy-life/b65f8e19ed18</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>obviouslygreen</author><text>I really wonder how much sleep people lose worrying about their sleep habits.&lt;p&gt;Trying to micromanage everything from your sleep schedule to your work schedule to your calorie intake to your fat intake to your social media intake to your exposure to cell phone radiation results in being even more stressed out than you would be if you weren&apos;t attempting to keep track of eighty different pseudoscientific lifestyle prescriptions.&lt;p&gt;Go to sleep. Wake up. Eat food. Do those things, and try to enjoy life while you have it... burning it trying to &quot;optimize&quot; everything is a painful waste of time.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>malbiniak</author><text>&amp;#62; I really wonder how much sleep people lose worrying about their sleep habits.&lt;p&gt;I&apos;ve been having an increasing issue with sleep (not being able to fall asleep, then waking up early and not being able to fall back asleep). I&apos;ve tried to combat it by being more aware of my habits and patterns, but that&apos;s resulting in sleep anxiety. Compounded with the effects of sleep deprivation and I&apos;m easily losing sleep worrying about my sleep habits.&lt;p&gt;Sample set of 1, though.</text></comment>
<story><title>Sleep: Everything You Need to Know</title><url>https://medium.com/the-healthy-life/b65f8e19ed18</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>obviouslygreen</author><text>I really wonder how much sleep people lose worrying about their sleep habits.&lt;p&gt;Trying to micromanage everything from your sleep schedule to your work schedule to your calorie intake to your fat intake to your social media intake to your exposure to cell phone radiation results in being even more stressed out than you would be if you weren&apos;t attempting to keep track of eighty different pseudoscientific lifestyle prescriptions.&lt;p&gt;Go to sleep. Wake up. Eat food. Do those things, and try to enjoy life while you have it... burning it trying to &quot;optimize&quot; everything is a painful waste of time.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jimmaswell</author><text>I don&apos;t think many on the Hacker News crowd are worried about harmless cellphone radiation. At least, I hope so.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Google is a monopoly – the fix isn&apos;t obvious</title><url>https://www.theregister.com/2024/08/15/google_monopoly_fix/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>fny</author><text>I&amp;#x27;m very curious to see what a breakup looks like. Past breakups involved &amp;quot;uniform&amp;quot; businesses:&lt;p&gt;- American Tobacco: Commodity&lt;p&gt;- Standard Oil: Commodity&lt;p&gt;- AT&amp;amp;T: Utility&lt;p&gt;- Northern Securities: Railroads&lt;p&gt;- Swift &amp;amp; Co: Meatpacking&lt;p&gt;- Kodak: Film&lt;p&gt;- Paramount: Movie Theaters&lt;p&gt;Google is more of a synergistic conglomerate. How would spinning off an individual business like Chrome, Android, or AdWords reduce their respective dominance?&lt;p&gt;I support this ruling and more across all industries, but I&amp;#x27;m trying to square how a breakup should work that actually drives competition.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mcpar-land</author><text>Breaking up their individual businesses can cause each business to have incentives that line up better with their customers &amp;#x2F; users. Example: if Chrome was separated from Google, they won&amp;#x27;t have as much of an incentive to push back against adblockers with things like Manifest V3. Or include APIs that are only available to google websites (Which it has! &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;x.com&amp;#x2F;lcasdev&amp;#x2F;status&amp;#x2F;1810696257137959018&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;x.com&amp;#x2F;lcasdev&amp;#x2F;status&amp;#x2F;1810696257137959018&lt;/a&gt;)</text></comment>
<story><title>Google is a monopoly – the fix isn&apos;t obvious</title><url>https://www.theregister.com/2024/08/15/google_monopoly_fix/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>fny</author><text>I&amp;#x27;m very curious to see what a breakup looks like. Past breakups involved &amp;quot;uniform&amp;quot; businesses:&lt;p&gt;- American Tobacco: Commodity&lt;p&gt;- Standard Oil: Commodity&lt;p&gt;- AT&amp;amp;T: Utility&lt;p&gt;- Northern Securities: Railroads&lt;p&gt;- Swift &amp;amp; Co: Meatpacking&lt;p&gt;- Kodak: Film&lt;p&gt;- Paramount: Movie Theaters&lt;p&gt;Google is more of a synergistic conglomerate. How would spinning off an individual business like Chrome, Android, or AdWords reduce their respective dominance?&lt;p&gt;I support this ruling and more across all industries, but I&amp;#x27;m trying to square how a breakup should work that actually drives competition.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>brookst</author><text>Ads and search are the two businesses that most directly collude and which could both survive and thrive independently.&lt;p&gt;If the search business worked with other ad networks to maximize their revenue, while the ad business worked with other search engines, we’d likely see higher quality search results, less confusion about what’s an ad versus a result, and better as rates for buyers.&lt;p&gt;That said I don’t support that remedy at all. Maybe ten or fifteen years ago, but now it’s too late and the market is evolving around Google. IMO a consent decree that they won’t pay anyone for exclusive search placement is sufficient.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Meet the nice-guy lawyers who want $1,000 per worker for using scanners</title><url>http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2013/04/meet-the-nice-guy-lawyers-who-want-1000-per-worker-for-using-scanners/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>robterrell</author><text>I might have worked on some prior art related to this. In 1993 I worked on a project for a &quot;superfax&quot; system for the NCSU library. It was basically a scanner hooked up to a Mac that would send the resulting tiff files over FTP. It was a great learning experience (well... scsi scanners can blow me, tiff is nuts, the ftp protocol is way over-complicated, but I was doing real internet socket programming in 1993, for money!). It was certainly a one-click scan-and-send solution. Maybe we can get this fucker overturned. (If the email angle isn&apos;t essential, which now that I think about it, it probably is.)</text></comment>
<story><title>Meet the nice-guy lawyers who want $1,000 per worker for using scanners</title><url>http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2013/04/meet-the-nice-guy-lawyers-who-want-1000-per-worker-for-using-scanners/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>cperciva</author><text>I don&apos;t know who first made this observation, but the best way to get a dumb law changed is to enforce it strictly. I can&apos;t help thinking that this is a good thing...</text></comment>
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<story><title>Chrome 19 doesn&apos;t respect basic auth details embedded in the URL</title><url>http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=123150</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>michiel3</author><text>This technique is widely abused by phishers. Most browsers detect such phishing attacks and warn the user for it (see example in Safari 5).&lt;p&gt;Firefox might do a better job on this subject: it performs a HEAD request first, to see if the website actually requires authentication. If not, the user receives a warning to make the user aware of a potential phishing attack they might have been trapped into.</text></comment>
<story><title>Chrome 19 doesn&apos;t respect basic auth details embedded in the URL</title><url>http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=123150</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>avbor</author><text>&lt;a href=&quot;http://support.microsoft.com/kb/834489&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://support.microsoft.com/kb/834489&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;I remember reading about Microsoft stopping supporting that option actually. The reasoning being that it could be used for sending users to malicious sites.&lt;p&gt;&quot;malicious users can use this URL syntax together with other methods to create a link to a deceptive (spoofed) Web site that displays the URL to a legitimate Web site in the Status bar, Address bar, and Title bar of all versions of Internet Explorer.&quot;&lt;p&gt;I&apos;m wondering if this was the reasoning for doing so in Chrome.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Ask HN: What are you predictions for 2022?</title><text>- Use lists instead of long paragraphs.&lt;p&gt;- One prediction per list item.&lt;p&gt;Historical:&lt;p&gt;2021: https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&amp;#x2F;item?id=25594068&lt;p&gt;2020: https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&amp;#x2F;item?id=21802596&lt;p&gt;2019: https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&amp;#x2F;item?id=18753859&lt;p&gt;2018: https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&amp;#x2F;item?id=16007988&lt;p&gt;2017: none?&lt;p&gt;2016: https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&amp;#x2F;item?id=10809767&lt;p&gt;2015: https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&amp;#x2F;item?id=8822723&lt;p&gt;2014: https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&amp;#x2F;item?id=6994370&lt;p&gt;2013: none?&lt;p&gt;2012: https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&amp;#x2F;item?id=3395201&lt;p&gt;2011: https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&amp;#x2F;item?id=1970023&lt;p&gt;2010: https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&amp;#x2F;item?id=1025681</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>PedroBatista</author><text>It will be a tumultuous year, new covid variant will come out and governments will insist on the same playbook, a large part of the population will push back.&lt;p&gt;Money markets will go up and down surfing the good and bad news of Covid, but will cool off with the social cracks made by inflation and the timid “end of free” money. Bitcoin will go up but not reach 100k.&lt;p&gt;Tech’s gonna tech. Nothing profoundly new, the already big ones will continue to inflate and rake the money, sure they’ll get flak, fight a few big fines, make sure the right-to-repair plane lands of favorable ground. Their angst about the unknown future will increase but the bottom line will be great.&lt;p&gt;New hacks and leaks scandals, a roaring for a few weeks about it, nothing fundamental will change.&lt;p&gt;More “EVs surpassed ICE car sales” news, existing infrastructure will not be able to accommodate them and that will be mainstream news.&lt;p&gt;Shortages of things ( both legit and artificial) will continue and contribute to market instability and high prices.&lt;p&gt;When there’s instability among the people, the regimes tend to find a common enemy to save themselves. I fear the start of big wars in 2022, the west will pussy out because the cost is high and they aren’t willing to pay, the other parties know it. In the next years somebody’s gonna get too greedy and the cost will stop being too high.&lt;p&gt;Socially, people will realize things change but they mostly stay the same. They can change by refusing to not play the game, will they have the courage to live without the goodies they’ve learn to pursuit?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>telxosser</author><text>I think there will be a scare over the next variant but two years in it seems like we are on track.&lt;p&gt;I think the pandemic will be declared over in 2023. In the US, with a pandemic end in view and the Fed raising rates the Fed&amp;#x27;s balance sheet will become a major narrative &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;fred.stlouisfed.org&amp;#x2F;series&amp;#x2F;WALCL&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;fred.stlouisfed.org&amp;#x2F;series&amp;#x2F;WALCL&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;We will have to start thinking about the end of the &amp;quot;everything bubble&amp;quot; and the realization of the massive economic hang over from so much stimulus.&lt;p&gt;That is so 6 months from now at least though. Tonight we party like its 1999.</text></comment>
<story><title>Ask HN: What are you predictions for 2022?</title><text>- Use lists instead of long paragraphs.&lt;p&gt;- One prediction per list item.&lt;p&gt;Historical:&lt;p&gt;2021: https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&amp;#x2F;item?id=25594068&lt;p&gt;2020: https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&amp;#x2F;item?id=21802596&lt;p&gt;2019: https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&amp;#x2F;item?id=18753859&lt;p&gt;2018: https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&amp;#x2F;item?id=16007988&lt;p&gt;2017: none?&lt;p&gt;2016: https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&amp;#x2F;item?id=10809767&lt;p&gt;2015: https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&amp;#x2F;item?id=8822723&lt;p&gt;2014: https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&amp;#x2F;item?id=6994370&lt;p&gt;2013: none?&lt;p&gt;2012: https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&amp;#x2F;item?id=3395201&lt;p&gt;2011: https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&amp;#x2F;item?id=1970023&lt;p&gt;2010: https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&amp;#x2F;item?id=1025681</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>PedroBatista</author><text>It will be a tumultuous year, new covid variant will come out and governments will insist on the same playbook, a large part of the population will push back.&lt;p&gt;Money markets will go up and down surfing the good and bad news of Covid, but will cool off with the social cracks made by inflation and the timid “end of free” money. Bitcoin will go up but not reach 100k.&lt;p&gt;Tech’s gonna tech. Nothing profoundly new, the already big ones will continue to inflate and rake the money, sure they’ll get flak, fight a few big fines, make sure the right-to-repair plane lands of favorable ground. Their angst about the unknown future will increase but the bottom line will be great.&lt;p&gt;New hacks and leaks scandals, a roaring for a few weeks about it, nothing fundamental will change.&lt;p&gt;More “EVs surpassed ICE car sales” news, existing infrastructure will not be able to accommodate them and that will be mainstream news.&lt;p&gt;Shortages of things ( both legit and artificial) will continue and contribute to market instability and high prices.&lt;p&gt;When there’s instability among the people, the regimes tend to find a common enemy to save themselves. I fear the start of big wars in 2022, the west will pussy out because the cost is high and they aren’t willing to pay, the other parties know it. In the next years somebody’s gonna get too greedy and the cost will stop being too high.&lt;p&gt;Socially, people will realize things change but they mostly stay the same. They can change by refusing to not play the game, will they have the courage to live without the goodies they’ve learn to pursuit?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>peakaboo</author><text>We are at a crossroad here. If people don&amp;#x27;t push back in 2022, we are going to live in a society that makes &amp;quot;papers please&amp;quot; look like heaven compared to what we have.&lt;p&gt;Please read this book if you doubt what I&amp;#x27;m saying. It&amp;#x27;s not a god damn conspiracy theory.&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.amazon.com&amp;#x2F;Real-Anthony-Fauci-Democracy-Childrens&amp;#x2F;dp&amp;#x2F;1510766804&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.amazon.com&amp;#x2F;Real-Anthony-Fauci-Democracy-Children...&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>
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<story><title>&quot;What I Miss About Counterstrike&quot; - Blog authored by CSS legend JonMumm</title><url>http://eseanews.com/css/index.php?s=news&amp;d=comments&amp;id=10446</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>gwern</author><text>If I may, David Foster Wallace (as so often) said it better:&lt;p&gt;&amp;#62; “But it’s better for us not to know the kinds of sacrifices the professional-grade athlete has made to get so very good at one particular thing…the actual facts of the sacrifices repel us when we see them: basketball geniuses who cannot read, sprinters who dope themselves, defensive tackles who shoot up with bovine hormones until they collapse or explode. We prefer not to consider closely the shockingly vapid and primitive comments uttered by athletes in postcontest interviews or to consider what impoverishments in one’s mental life would allow people actually to think the way great athletes seem to think. Note the way”up close and personal&quot; profiles of professional athletes strain so hard to find evidence of a rounded human life — outside interests and activities, values beyond the sport. We ignore what’s obvious, that most of this straining is farce. It’s farce because the realities of top-level athletics today require an early and total commitment to one area of excellence. An ascetic focus. A subsumption of almost all other features of human life to one chosen talent and pursuit. A consent to live in a world that, like a child’s world, is very small…[Tennis player Michael] Joyce is, in other words, a complete man, though in a grotesquely limited way…Already, for Joyce, at twenty-two, it’s too late for anything else; he’s invested too much, is in too deep. I think he’s both lucky and unlucky. He will say he is happy and mean it. Wish him well.&quot;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.esquire.com/print-this/the-string-theory-0796?page=all&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.esquire.com/print-this/the-string-theory-0796?pag...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;(A quote I come back to on occasion, thinking about my essay &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.gwern.net/The%20Melancholy%20of%20Subculture%20Society&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.gwern.net/The%20Melancholy%20of%20Subculture%20So...&lt;/a&gt; )</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jodrellblank</author><text>&lt;i&gt;He will say he is happy and mean it. Wish him well.&quot;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;What&apos;s that supposed to mean? He will say he is happy and mean it, but really he isn&apos;t?&lt;p&gt;DFW committed suicide, I don&apos;t hold him as a great authority on what kinds of happiness are &apos;valid&apos;.</text></comment>
<story><title>&quot;What I Miss About Counterstrike&quot; - Blog authored by CSS legend JonMumm</title><url>http://eseanews.com/css/index.php?s=news&amp;d=comments&amp;id=10446</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>gwern</author><text>If I may, David Foster Wallace (as so often) said it better:&lt;p&gt;&amp;#62; “But it’s better for us not to know the kinds of sacrifices the professional-grade athlete has made to get so very good at one particular thing…the actual facts of the sacrifices repel us when we see them: basketball geniuses who cannot read, sprinters who dope themselves, defensive tackles who shoot up with bovine hormones until they collapse or explode. We prefer not to consider closely the shockingly vapid and primitive comments uttered by athletes in postcontest interviews or to consider what impoverishments in one’s mental life would allow people actually to think the way great athletes seem to think. Note the way”up close and personal&quot; profiles of professional athletes strain so hard to find evidence of a rounded human life — outside interests and activities, values beyond the sport. We ignore what’s obvious, that most of this straining is farce. It’s farce because the realities of top-level athletics today require an early and total commitment to one area of excellence. An ascetic focus. A subsumption of almost all other features of human life to one chosen talent and pursuit. A consent to live in a world that, like a child’s world, is very small…[Tennis player Michael] Joyce is, in other words, a complete man, though in a grotesquely limited way…Already, for Joyce, at twenty-two, it’s too late for anything else; he’s invested too much, is in too deep. I think he’s both lucky and unlucky. He will say he is happy and mean it. Wish him well.&quot;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.esquire.com/print-this/the-string-theory-0796?page=all&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.esquire.com/print-this/the-string-theory-0796?pag...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;(A quote I come back to on occasion, thinking about my essay &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.gwern.net/The%20Melancholy%20of%20Subculture%20Society&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.gwern.net/The%20Melancholy%20of%20Subculture%20So...&lt;/a&gt; )</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>kevinalexbrown</author><text>I think the DFW was a little melodramatic here. I don&apos;t think the commitment to true excellence necessarily detracts from other possible commitments in the long run. E.g. DFW was a writer of singular ability, and he was, at various points in his life, dedicated to tennis, philosophy, and mathematics.&lt;p&gt;More to the point, the time spent being great at CS doesn&apos;t seem to have limited this guy&apos;s future ability to do things like work at a startup. While I&apos;m sure it was an unbalanced life during the period of dedication, suggesting that it&apos;s the dedication itself which reduces athletes to &quot;shockingly vapid and primitive comments&quot; goes a little far.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Twitter bug: Make anyone follow you on Twitter</title><url>http://blog.gcg.me/post/587047998</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>HowardRoark</author><text>I have written a script to follow 1000 users on my niche every day. I find that around 15% of users follow me back. In the next couple of days, I remove the rest 85%. I have been doing this for a few months now and I have a few thousand followers on a few twitter accounts. I have set up websites for each of those niches and get decent amount of traffic though twitter. Been banned the first few times, but I have found my ways around it (mostly).</text></item><item><author>rmorrison</author><text>Or, is there anybody whose career took off due to this bug? For example, a musician who got signed primarily because all of the top 50 music producers were following him on twitter.</text></item><item><author>savrajsingh</author><text>I would guess this exploit has always been possible until today? What&apos;s interesting is that someone has probably been wielding this secret power well before it got outed here on hacker news.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>drp</author><text>Please stop doing that. It&apos;s bad for the world.</text></comment>
<story><title>Twitter bug: Make anyone follow you on Twitter</title><url>http://blog.gcg.me/post/587047998</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>HowardRoark</author><text>I have written a script to follow 1000 users on my niche every day. I find that around 15% of users follow me back. In the next couple of days, I remove the rest 85%. I have been doing this for a few months now and I have a few thousand followers on a few twitter accounts. I have set up websites for each of those niches and get decent amount of traffic though twitter. Been banned the first few times, but I have found my ways around it (mostly).</text></item><item><author>rmorrison</author><text>Or, is there anybody whose career took off due to this bug? For example, a musician who got signed primarily because all of the top 50 music producers were following him on twitter.</text></item><item><author>savrajsingh</author><text>I would guess this exploit has always been possible until today? What&apos;s interesting is that someone has probably been wielding this secret power well before it got outed here on hacker news.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jarek</author><text>Incidentally, the 15% that follow you back are the ones you are least likely to engage in any meaningful manner beyond &quot;click this link plz.&quot;</text></comment>
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<story><title>John A Phillips</title><url>https://nuclearprinceton.princeton.edu/people/john-phillips-1955-present</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>alkonaut</author><text>If you just want a bad atomic bomb, isn&amp;#x27;t it enough to put 2 chunks of fissile (enough) material at either end of a very thick steel tube and shoot them together using explosives? The question is how you use $2k to buy or produce the fissile material, because if the BOM was really $2k including &amp;quot;weapons grade&amp;quot; fissile material then the interesting question is how to get the fissile material that cheaply.&lt;p&gt;If the BOM is $2k &lt;i&gt;excluding&lt;/i&gt; the fissile material then... is that really surprising? I thought crude bomb designs were pretty easy to create if you have no interest in maximizing yield or minimizing how dirty the bomb gets?</text></comment>
<story><title>John A Phillips</title><url>https://nuclearprinceton.princeton.edu/people/john-phillips-1955-present</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>atemerev</author><text>Nuclear simulations are my hobby, and I have a few pet projects in the area. It is impossible to build a bona fide nuclear device for $2k (it is possible to build a dirty bomb with this budget, but it is not interesting in any way).&lt;p&gt;To achieve sustainable prompt criticality, you need high-quality starting material with low spontaneous fission, and a fast assembly (microseconds). &amp;quot;Gun-type&amp;quot; assembly is not used anymore even by new nuclear programs, as it is very inefficient (and still requires quite a lot of precision engineering). With implosion assembly, you need to learn quite a lot about shock compression, numerical simulations of detonations, and again it requires some precise engineering. &amp;quot;A nuclear bomb is like a half-ton Swiss watch&amp;quot;, as somebody have said.&lt;p&gt;I believe it is possible to build a nuclear device from scratch, but you need a few years, explosion testing rigs and radiography equipment, a team of engineers and physicists, and a few millions budget. If you don&amp;#x27;t have starting material, it will be much more expensive.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Run a script when police raid your house</title><url>https://github.com/defuse/swatd</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>nateberkopec</author><text>IANAL: what could actually happen to you, legally, if your hard-drive self-destructs after being tampered with?&lt;p&gt;Is that really &amp;quot;destroying evidence?&amp;quot; What if you just shut down the computer, rendering the hard drive unusable, its contents completely encrypted (a la TrueCrypt). The evidence isn&amp;#x27;t destroyed, it&amp;#x27;s just inaccessible.</text></item><item><author>ipsin</author><text>I really like his sort of thing, but realize that, like anti-forensics tools, there is a risk to having and using destructive anti-tamper triggers.&lt;p&gt;If the police actually think you&amp;#x27;re up to something, raid you, and your &amp;quot;cybernetic boobytrap&amp;quot; destroys your hundreds of GB of &lt;i&gt;actual&lt;/i&gt; random data, they may still try and prove that you&amp;#x27;re a terrible person and destroyed evidence in court. Then it&amp;#x27;s up to a jury, and a prosecutor bent on making you look guilty as hell.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;m not trying to dissuade exploration, but understand what can happen if you actually deploy this sort of system.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>maxlybbert</author><text>In the US, it&amp;#x27;s generally a crime to destroy evidence if you believe there&amp;#x27;s an investigation. So setting something up to respond to evidence of an investigation seems like a bad idea to me.&lt;p&gt;In the US, it&amp;#x27;s also possible to be held in contempt of court for failing to hand over evidence in some cases. There&amp;#x27;s the Fifth Amendment, but there are enough exceptions to the Fifth Amendment (e.g., I&amp;#x27;m not actually charged with a crime, and instead I&amp;#x27;m facing fines for not having the right licenses; or the evidence on my computers is meant to be used in proving somebody else committed a crime) that I would want to talk to a lawyer before telling a judge that &amp;quot;the evidence isn&amp;#x27;t destroyed, it&amp;#x27;s just inaccessible.&amp;quot;</text></comment>
<story><title>Run a script when police raid your house</title><url>https://github.com/defuse/swatd</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>nateberkopec</author><text>IANAL: what could actually happen to you, legally, if your hard-drive self-destructs after being tampered with?&lt;p&gt;Is that really &amp;quot;destroying evidence?&amp;quot; What if you just shut down the computer, rendering the hard drive unusable, its contents completely encrypted (a la TrueCrypt). The evidence isn&amp;#x27;t destroyed, it&amp;#x27;s just inaccessible.</text></item><item><author>ipsin</author><text>I really like his sort of thing, but realize that, like anti-forensics tools, there is a risk to having and using destructive anti-tamper triggers.&lt;p&gt;If the police actually think you&amp;#x27;re up to something, raid you, and your &amp;quot;cybernetic boobytrap&amp;quot; destroys your hundreds of GB of &lt;i&gt;actual&lt;/i&gt; random data, they may still try and prove that you&amp;#x27;re a terrible person and destroyed evidence in court. Then it&amp;#x27;s up to a jury, and a prosecutor bent on making you look guilty as hell.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;m not trying to dissuade exploration, but understand what can happen if you actually deploy this sort of system.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>danielweber</author><text>&amp;gt; The evidence isn&amp;#x27;t destroyed, it&amp;#x27;s just inaccessible.&lt;p&gt;This isn&amp;#x27;t &lt;i&gt;Star Trek&lt;/i&gt;. You don&amp;#x27;t win by outsmarting the computer like Captain Kirk does.&lt;p&gt;The courts have dealt with these &amp;quot;I&amp;#x27;m so clever&amp;quot; tricks thousands of times. They have little patience for them.</text></comment>
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<story><title>AB07-USB3FMC: The $1.65k eval board they can&apos;t be bothered to test</title><url>https://lab.ktemkin.com/post/ab07-usb3fmc-wtf/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>ChuckMcM</author><text>I saw her take on this on Twitter and flinched. We had a similar experience with a &amp;gt; $5K eval board from Xilinx that we were basing a product on, and a customer wanted to start software development before the product was ready so we sold them a setup that was equivalent to our product in design (and embedded the Xilinx board) They found a problem which turned out to be a design defect on the eval board so we went to Xilinx for a warranty replacement, they refused saying they expressly disclaim any &amp;quot;fitness for purpose&amp;quot; on their eval boards and their terms of service disallow using their eval boards in a product. I rather rudely asked them why they charged money for them then.&lt;p&gt;A very annoying experience.</text></comment>
<story><title>AB07-USB3FMC: The $1.65k eval board they can&apos;t be bothered to test</title><url>https://lab.ktemkin.com/post/ab07-usb3fmc-wtf/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>aidenn0</author><text>Eval boards are often &lt;i&gt;more&lt;/i&gt; buggy than production boards for the exact same reason they are more expensive: volumes are low, so engineering work must be amortized over a much smaller number of units.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Should you learn C to “learn how the computer works”?</title><url>https://words.steveklabnik.com/should-you-learn-c-to-learn-how-the-computer-works</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>XMPPwocky</author><text>Here&amp;#x27;s the C99 standard:&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.open-std.org&amp;#x2F;jtc1&amp;#x2F;sc22&amp;#x2F;wg14&amp;#x2F;www&amp;#x2F;docs&amp;#x2F;n1256.pdf&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.open-std.org&amp;#x2F;jtc1&amp;#x2F;sc22&amp;#x2F;wg14&amp;#x2F;www&amp;#x2F;docs&amp;#x2F;n1256.pdf&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;There are no occurrences of the words &amp;quot;stack&amp;quot; or &amp;quot;heap&amp;quot; in this document.&lt;p&gt;What the spec actually discusses is &amp;quot;storage durations&amp;quot;. Now, in many cases you can say, well, &amp;quot;automatic storage duration&amp;quot; means it&amp;#x27;s on the stack, but that&amp;#x27;s not something C has any opinions about.&lt;p&gt;If you want to know about the stack and the heap, saying &amp;quot;learn C, and then learn how these abstract C concepts map onto the stack and the heap&amp;quot; might not actually be the best way to figure this stuff out.&lt;p&gt;What actually ends up happening, in my experience, is that to figure C out you have to get a decent mental model of how the stack and heap work, and then, from that, say &amp;quot;automatic storage duration and malloc&amp;#x2F;free are basically just the stack and the heap&amp;quot;.&lt;p&gt;I learned calculus as a kid because I needed it for an online electronics class I was taking. But I&amp;#x27;m not going to recommend that folks take electronics classes so they learn calculus! (that said- having a motivation to learn something, having an application in mind, a problem you want to solve... certainly seems to make learning easier.)</text></item><item><author>ashleyn</author><text>C at the very least teaches the difference between stack and heap memory, a crucial concept obscured by most higher-level languages.</text></item><item><author>ddevault</author><text>C doesn&amp;#x27;t necessarily teach you how computers work. But it does teach you how software works. Our modern software empire is built on mountains of C, and deference to C is pervasive throughout higher-level software design.&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt;You may have heard another slogan when talking about C: “C is portable assembler.” If you think about this slogan for a minute, you’ll also find that if it’s true, C cannot be how the computer works: there are many kinds of different computers, with different architectures&lt;p&gt;As with many things, this phrase is an approximation. C is a portable implementation of many useful behaviors which map reasonably closely to tasks commonly done on most instruction sets. C programmers rarely write assembly to optimize (usually to capture those arch-specific features which are unrepresentable in C), but programmers in other languages often reach for C to write the high-performance parts of their code. The same reason C programmers in the early days would reach for assembly is now the reason higher-level programmers reach for C.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>wahern</author><text>Debates about the &amp;quot;stack&amp;quot; rage every couple of years on comp.lang.c. Invariably people conflate two different meanings: (1) an abstract data structure with LIFO ordering semantics, and (2) #1 implemented using a contiguous block of [virtual] memory.&lt;p&gt;The semantics of automatic storage necessarily imply #1, but they do not require #2. Indeed, there are widely used implementations which implement #1 using linked lists (e.g. IBM mainframes, and GCC&amp;#x27;s split stacks or clang&amp;#x27;s segmented stacks).&lt;p&gt;Similarly, function recursion semantics necessarily imply #1 for restoring execution flow, but not #2. In addition to the examples above, so-called shadow stacks are on the horizon which maintain two separate stacks, one for function return addresses and another for data.[1] In the near future a single contiguous stack may be atypical.&lt;p&gt;[1] Some variations might mix data and return addresses if the compiler can prove safe object access. Or the shadow stack may simply contain checksums or other auxiliary information that can be optionally used, preserving ABI compatibility.</text></comment>
<story><title>Should you learn C to “learn how the computer works”?</title><url>https://words.steveklabnik.com/should-you-learn-c-to-learn-how-the-computer-works</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>XMPPwocky</author><text>Here&amp;#x27;s the C99 standard:&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.open-std.org&amp;#x2F;jtc1&amp;#x2F;sc22&amp;#x2F;wg14&amp;#x2F;www&amp;#x2F;docs&amp;#x2F;n1256.pdf&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.open-std.org&amp;#x2F;jtc1&amp;#x2F;sc22&amp;#x2F;wg14&amp;#x2F;www&amp;#x2F;docs&amp;#x2F;n1256.pdf&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;There are no occurrences of the words &amp;quot;stack&amp;quot; or &amp;quot;heap&amp;quot; in this document.&lt;p&gt;What the spec actually discusses is &amp;quot;storage durations&amp;quot;. Now, in many cases you can say, well, &amp;quot;automatic storage duration&amp;quot; means it&amp;#x27;s on the stack, but that&amp;#x27;s not something C has any opinions about.&lt;p&gt;If you want to know about the stack and the heap, saying &amp;quot;learn C, and then learn how these abstract C concepts map onto the stack and the heap&amp;quot; might not actually be the best way to figure this stuff out.&lt;p&gt;What actually ends up happening, in my experience, is that to figure C out you have to get a decent mental model of how the stack and heap work, and then, from that, say &amp;quot;automatic storage duration and malloc&amp;#x2F;free are basically just the stack and the heap&amp;quot;.&lt;p&gt;I learned calculus as a kid because I needed it for an online electronics class I was taking. But I&amp;#x27;m not going to recommend that folks take electronics classes so they learn calculus! (that said- having a motivation to learn something, having an application in mind, a problem you want to solve... certainly seems to make learning easier.)</text></item><item><author>ashleyn</author><text>C at the very least teaches the difference between stack and heap memory, a crucial concept obscured by most higher-level languages.</text></item><item><author>ddevault</author><text>C doesn&amp;#x27;t necessarily teach you how computers work. But it does teach you how software works. Our modern software empire is built on mountains of C, and deference to C is pervasive throughout higher-level software design.&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt;You may have heard another slogan when talking about C: “C is portable assembler.” If you think about this slogan for a minute, you’ll also find that if it’s true, C cannot be how the computer works: there are many kinds of different computers, with different architectures&lt;p&gt;As with many things, this phrase is an approximation. C is a portable implementation of many useful behaviors which map reasonably closely to tasks commonly done on most instruction sets. C programmers rarely write assembly to optimize (usually to capture those arch-specific features which are unrepresentable in C), but programmers in other languages often reach for C to write the high-performance parts of their code. The same reason C programmers in the early days would reach for assembly is now the reason higher-level programmers reach for C.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>drb91</author><text>People don’t learn C by learning the spec, and virtually every c implementation and runtime I know, it uses a stack and heap.&lt;p&gt;Oddly you seem to recognize this, so I’m not sure what your point is.</text></comment>
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<story><title>The Google Brain Team – Looking Back on 2016</title><url>https://research.googleblog.com/2017/01/the-google-brain-team-looking-back-on.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>zengid</author><text>As a student hoping to become a software engineer, I&amp;#x27;m a little nervous about Googles aggressiveness towards applying ML across many of their products. It makes me wonder: Will the field of software engineering be reduced to plugging ML nodes into client-side interfaces? Could it shrink the demand for engineers?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dgacmu</author><text>Speaking as a part timer on Brain who&amp;#x27;s &lt;i&gt;not&lt;/i&gt; a machine learning person, I&amp;#x27;ve found and believe that MI just opens up more opportunities for good programmers. There are a ton of problems out there that we couldn&amp;#x27;t solve well with computers without MI, and so didn&amp;#x27;t even attempt. Now we can attempt them, and they&amp;#x27;re both fun and hard.&lt;p&gt;(I wrote a longer-form answer to a very similar question a few months ago: &lt;a href=&quot;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;da-data.blogspot.com&amp;#x2F;2016&amp;#x2F;05&amp;#x2F;dont-quit-that-programming-career-yet.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;da-data.blogspot.com&amp;#x2F;2016&amp;#x2F;05&amp;#x2F;dont-quit-that-programmi...&lt;/a&gt; )</text></comment>
<story><title>The Google Brain Team – Looking Back on 2016</title><url>https://research.googleblog.com/2017/01/the-google-brain-team-looking-back-on.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>zengid</author><text>As a student hoping to become a software engineer, I&amp;#x27;m a little nervous about Googles aggressiveness towards applying ML across many of their products. It makes me wonder: Will the field of software engineering be reduced to plugging ML nodes into client-side interfaces? Could it shrink the demand for engineers?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jkestelyn</author><text>IMO, the same question could be asked with respect to any abstraction that hides complexity. The answer will always be&amp;#x2F;has always been: No, it won&amp;#x27;t. Rather, engineers who can think creatively about the role of pre-built ML models in mainstream applications will be in high demand.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Stateless – Evolving the architecture of Elasticsearch to simplify deployment</title><url>https://www.elastic.co/blog/stateless-your-new-state-of-find-with-elasticsearch</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>ianbutler</author><text>Many of the people commenting don&amp;#x27;t realize that for the majority of ES users, it is a pain in the butt to manage and scale their cluster storage in lock step with their compute. Most companies use ES for relatively small scale search with people who are not experts in managing an ES cluster, or really infra at all.&lt;p&gt;A cloud offering that decouples storage from compute makes this a lot easier and becomes more of a no brainer for 90% of the use cases.&lt;p&gt;If you&amp;#x27;re an outlier with TBs or PBs of search data this probably you can keep using on prem if you want. Though I don&amp;#x27;t really immediately grant that it&amp;#x27;s worse for your usecase, especially when object storage is insanely cheap and supposing they provide a compat layer for S3 you can get away with everything from R2, S3, Ceph, Minio, Backblaze, etc. This is very much a case you should benchmark&amp;#x2F;analyze as a proper engineer.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;ve managed many TB ES clusters. This would have reduced my cost and time to manage it so I could focus on other features that would have benefitted my users.</text></comment>
<story><title>Stateless – Evolving the architecture of Elasticsearch to simplify deployment</title><url>https://www.elastic.co/blog/stateless-your-new-state-of-find-with-elasticsearch</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>apendleton</author><text>Quickwit is another project aiming at this sort of stateless search: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;quickwit.io&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;quickwit.io&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt; . I&amp;#x27;ve been keeping an eye on it for a possible project that would involve wanting to offer search over a lot of data for an application that wouldn&amp;#x27;t have very many users, such that keeping a big ES box around all the time would be needlessly expensive; I had been looking for a search situation where my only always-on costs were for storage, and I could pay for compute as needed (and ideally also separate paying for indexing compute, which doesn&amp;#x27;t happen often in this application, from search compute).&lt;p&gt;Interesting that ES might also end up with this kind of an offering.</text></comment>
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<story><title>TiddlyWiki 5.1.23</title><url>https://tiddlywiki.com</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>comex</author><text>As far as I can tell, TiddlyWiki 5 has no feature or plugin to have revision history integrated into the UI, although one might come in the future [1]. According to [1], there used to be &amp;quot;TiddlyWeb&amp;#x2F;TiddlySpace, a robust serverside that supports revision history&amp;quot;, but TiddlySpace (a hosted service) is dead, and TiddlyWeb (an open source codebase that I guess was the backend for TiddlySpace?) seems to be no longer maintained and mainly targeted the &amp;#x27;old&amp;#x27; (pre-5.x) TiddlyWiki.&lt;p&gt;That&amp;#x27;s too bad for me, because I have a use case where I&amp;#x27;d otherwise be very interested in using TiddlyWiki. I love that links load instantly, I love that forking a TiddlyWiki is trivial, I&amp;#x27;m interested in the idea of dividing information into smaller-than-a-normal-wiki-page &amp;#x27;tiddlers&amp;#x27;, and I like the UI design. Overall, I can&amp;#x27;t find any other software that quite matches TiddlyWiki&amp;#x27;s capabilities.&lt;p&gt;But my use case is for a publicly editable wiki, so it&amp;#x27;s critical that revision history not only exist but be integrated into the UI. Right now, as far as I can tell, the closest approximation would be to use TiddlyWiki&amp;#x27;s feature of auto-saving to a Git hosting service (which for some reason supports &lt;i&gt;only&lt;/i&gt; specific hosting services, not arbitrary remotes?). Then you could browse the history on that service. But that would be a totally separate site from the wiki itself, which would create an awkward user experience.&lt;p&gt;[1] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;github.com&amp;#x2F;Jermolene&amp;#x2F;TiddlyWiki5&amp;#x2F;issues&amp;#x2F;436#issuecomment-36062142&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;github.com&amp;#x2F;Jermolene&amp;#x2F;TiddlyWiki5&amp;#x2F;issues&amp;#x2F;436#issuecom...&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>hiddenqualia</author><text>It&amp;#x27;s hard to find a good solution since the main Tiddlywiki is built as a single-user rather than multi-user solution. But these two tools may help now or in the future since they are being developed. (I can&amp;#x27;t definitively answer since I&amp;#x27;m not super familiar with either).&lt;p&gt;There&amp;#x27;s a Noteself setup of Tiddlywiki (&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;noteself.org&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;noteself.org&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt;) that syncs with a database and has revision history. You click on the upper right corner of a tiddler to access revision history. The revision UI&amp;#x27;s not very intuitive to start and I&amp;#x27;m not sure how making a public site with revision history available would work though. It also is on version 5.1.21 rather than 5.1.23 of Tiddlywiki, though maybe the maker plans to upgrade in the future. You could ask here &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;forum.noteself.org&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;forum.noteself.org&lt;/a&gt;. I just started using it so I&amp;#x27;m not super familiar with it.&lt;p&gt;TW5 Bob &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;github.com&amp;#x2F;OokTech&amp;#x2F;TW5-Bob&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;github.com&amp;#x2F;OokTech&amp;#x2F;TW5-Bob&lt;/a&gt; is being built to serve one or more Wikis for multiple people, but I don&amp;#x27;t know that they have revision history (I could be mistaken).</text></comment>
<story><title>TiddlyWiki 5.1.23</title><url>https://tiddlywiki.com</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>comex</author><text>As far as I can tell, TiddlyWiki 5 has no feature or plugin to have revision history integrated into the UI, although one might come in the future [1]. According to [1], there used to be &amp;quot;TiddlyWeb&amp;#x2F;TiddlySpace, a robust serverside that supports revision history&amp;quot;, but TiddlySpace (a hosted service) is dead, and TiddlyWeb (an open source codebase that I guess was the backend for TiddlySpace?) seems to be no longer maintained and mainly targeted the &amp;#x27;old&amp;#x27; (pre-5.x) TiddlyWiki.&lt;p&gt;That&amp;#x27;s too bad for me, because I have a use case where I&amp;#x27;d otherwise be very interested in using TiddlyWiki. I love that links load instantly, I love that forking a TiddlyWiki is trivial, I&amp;#x27;m interested in the idea of dividing information into smaller-than-a-normal-wiki-page &amp;#x27;tiddlers&amp;#x27;, and I like the UI design. Overall, I can&amp;#x27;t find any other software that quite matches TiddlyWiki&amp;#x27;s capabilities.&lt;p&gt;But my use case is for a publicly editable wiki, so it&amp;#x27;s critical that revision history not only exist but be integrated into the UI. Right now, as far as I can tell, the closest approximation would be to use TiddlyWiki&amp;#x27;s feature of auto-saving to a Git hosting service (which for some reason supports &lt;i&gt;only&lt;/i&gt; specific hosting services, not arbitrary remotes?). Then you could browse the history on that service. But that would be a totally separate site from the wiki itself, which would create an awkward user experience.&lt;p&gt;[1] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;github.com&amp;#x2F;Jermolene&amp;#x2F;TiddlyWiki5&amp;#x2F;issues&amp;#x2F;436#issuecomment-36062142&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;github.com&amp;#x2F;Jermolene&amp;#x2F;TiddlyWiki5&amp;#x2F;issues&amp;#x2F;436#issuecom...&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mch82</author><text>Try checking the file into GitLab (or GitHub) pages. It’s just an HTML5 file. Use pull requests to manage changes. Use the git repo as your history.&lt;p&gt;In the 2005-2009 timeframe I served a TiddlyWiki from PTC Windchill as a project website for my team. Windchill provided the access, change history &amp;amp; configuration management layer.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Subdomain.center – discover all subdomains for a domain</title><url>https://www.subdomain.center/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>gnyman</author><text>You cannot hide anything on the internet anymore, the full IPv4 range is scanned regularly by multiple entities. If you open a port on a public IP it will get found.&lt;p&gt;If it&amp;#x27;s a obscure non-standard port it might take longer, but if it&amp;#x27;s on any of the standard ports it will get probed very quickly and included tools like shodan.io&lt;p&gt;The reason why I&amp;#x27;m repeating this, is that not everyone knows this. People still (albeit less) put up elastic and mongodb instances with no authentication on public IP&amp;#x27;s.&lt;p&gt;The second thing which isn&amp;#x27;t well known is the Certificate Transparency logs. This is the reason why you can&amp;#x27;t (without a wildcard cert) hide any HTTPS service. When you ask Let&amp;#x27;s Encrypt (or any CA actually) to generate veryobscure.domain.tld they will send that to the Certificate Transparency logs. You can find every certificate which was minted for a domain on a tool like &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;crt.sh&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;crt.sh&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;There are many tools like subdomain.center, &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;hackertarget.com&amp;#x2F;find-dns-host-records&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;hackertarget.com&amp;#x2F;find-dns-host-records&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt; comes to mind. The most impressive one I&amp;#x27;ve seen, which found more much more than expected, is Detectify (which is a paid service, no affiliation), they seem to combine the passive data collection (like subdomain.center) with active brute to find even more subdomains.&lt;p&gt;But you can probably get 95% there by using CT and a brute-force tool like &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;github.com&amp;#x2F;aboul3la&amp;#x2F;Sublist3r&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;github.com&amp;#x2F;aboul3la&amp;#x2F;Sublist3r&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>fuzzy2</author><text>The Certificate Transparency Log is very important. I recently spun up a service with HTTPS certs by Let&amp;#x27;s Encrypt. By coincidence I was watching the logs. Within just 80 seconds of the certificate being issued I could see the first automated &amp;quot;attacks&amp;quot;.&lt;p&gt;If you get a certificate, be ready for the consequences.</text></comment>
<story><title>Subdomain.center – discover all subdomains for a domain</title><url>https://www.subdomain.center/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>gnyman</author><text>You cannot hide anything on the internet anymore, the full IPv4 range is scanned regularly by multiple entities. If you open a port on a public IP it will get found.&lt;p&gt;If it&amp;#x27;s a obscure non-standard port it might take longer, but if it&amp;#x27;s on any of the standard ports it will get probed very quickly and included tools like shodan.io&lt;p&gt;The reason why I&amp;#x27;m repeating this, is that not everyone knows this. People still (albeit less) put up elastic and mongodb instances with no authentication on public IP&amp;#x27;s.&lt;p&gt;The second thing which isn&amp;#x27;t well known is the Certificate Transparency logs. This is the reason why you can&amp;#x27;t (without a wildcard cert) hide any HTTPS service. When you ask Let&amp;#x27;s Encrypt (or any CA actually) to generate veryobscure.domain.tld they will send that to the Certificate Transparency logs. You can find every certificate which was minted for a domain on a tool like &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;crt.sh&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;crt.sh&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;There are many tools like subdomain.center, &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;hackertarget.com&amp;#x2F;find-dns-host-records&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;hackertarget.com&amp;#x2F;find-dns-host-records&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt; comes to mind. The most impressive one I&amp;#x27;ve seen, which found more much more than expected, is Detectify (which is a paid service, no affiliation), they seem to combine the passive data collection (like subdomain.center) with active brute to find even more subdomains.&lt;p&gt;But you can probably get 95% there by using CT and a brute-force tool like &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;github.com&amp;#x2F;aboul3la&amp;#x2F;Sublist3r&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;github.com&amp;#x2F;aboul3la&amp;#x2F;Sublist3r&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>implements</author><text>Recently, I opened 80 and 443 so I could use LetsEncrypt’s acme-client to get a certificate (and then test it). Tightening up security a bit, I configured an http relay to filter people accessing 80 by ip address rather than domain name - &lt;i&gt;some scanners are still trying domain and sub-domain names I was using weeks ago&lt;/i&gt; - which goes to show how organised hackers are about attacking targets.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Killing cancer like the common cold</title><url>http://www.cnn.com/2013/12/07/health/cohen-cancer-study/index.html?hpt=hp_t2</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>JunkDNA</author><text>I&amp;#x27;ve commented on this around here before. You read lots of junk about cancer &amp;quot;cures&amp;quot; in the popular press. They are almost always in mice or something and I or someone else with a similar background always feels compelled to weigh in and remind folks that it&amp;#x27;s a long way from curing lab rats to curing people.&lt;p&gt;This however, is the real deal. It&amp;#x27;s quite remarkable and there&amp;#x27;s likely more stories like this for other diseases on the way.&lt;p&gt;I went to a gene therapy session this fall at the American Society of Human Genetics conference in Boston and was blown away by some of the success people are having. I quipped to colleagues that I felt like I was in a science fiction movie. The most remarkable one was where they used an approach similar to the one here to cure a fatal metabolic disorder (relaying this from memory, so some of my recollection may be off). Kids with the disorder have a busted enzyme that causes slow degeneration of neurons. They don&amp;#x27;t live past 6 or 7 if I recall. The team showed how modifying a certain kind of stem cell found in the body normally to have the correct copy of the enzyme cured several patients. The corrected cells naturally move to the brain where they differentiate into glial cells and produce the correct copy of the enzyme. It turns out that because the neurons in the brain are starved for this enzyme, they express receptors that allow them to take it up from the environment. So the repaired glial cells supply enzyme to the entire brain (i.e. it&amp;#x27;s not necessary to modify every neuron in the brain to have a correct copy of the enzyme). They can completely cure kids with this approach. All of their muscular and neurological tests are 100% normal.&lt;p&gt;They had videos of these kids running around and playing just as if nothing was wrong. In one case, a younger brother lived but his older sister (who was too old when the therapy came out) had died. It was hard not to get choked up looking at their smiling, happy faces as they ran around, thinking that if this therapy hadn&amp;#x27;t existed, they would be in a nearly vegetative state.&lt;p&gt;Gene therapy had a rough start with the early setbacks, but I&amp;#x27;m getting the sense that the tide is rapidly turing.</text></comment>
<story><title>Killing cancer like the common cold</title><url>http://www.cnn.com/2013/12/07/health/cohen-cancer-study/index.html?hpt=hp_t2</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>antirez</author><text>Great news but bad title as there are no treatments for the common cold.</text></comment>
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<story><title>SpaceX successfully lands its sixth Falcon 9 rocket after launch</title><url>http://www.theverge.com/2016/8/14/12467632/spacex-falcon-9-jcsat-16-drone-ship-landing-success</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>davej</author><text>&amp;gt; SpaceX’s president, Gwynne Shotwell, estimates that reusing these landed Falcon 9 vehicles will lead to a 30 percent reduction in launch costs, according to Space News.&lt;p&gt;Surely it will be more than a 30% reduction once they make the rocket refactoring process more efficient? I&amp;#x27;ve heard Elon say that the savings would be an order of magnitude given how low the cost of fuel is relative to everything else on the rocket.&lt;p&gt;I know Elon is famously optimistic and Gwynne is probably dampening expectations on purpose but 30% doesn&amp;#x27;t seem very impressive. Is Gwynne just playing down the cost savings or is she likely to be accurate, even in the medium term (3-5 years)?</text></comment>
<story><title>SpaceX successfully lands its sixth Falcon 9 rocket after launch</title><url>http://www.theverge.com/2016/8/14/12467632/spacex-falcon-9-jcsat-16-drone-ship-landing-success</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>richardw</author><text>What could SpaceX have learned about landing a rocket on a boat resting on waves?&lt;p&gt;It seems like the craziest idea. I would have said &amp;quot;No chance. Land it on land, like the word says.&amp;quot; but they&amp;#x27;ve managed the risks down to where it&amp;#x27;s not surprising that they&amp;#x27;ve landed yet another one. Some special magic has gone into that and I can&amp;#x27;t even imagine what issues they&amp;#x27;ve had to solve.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Show HN: Poozle – open-source Plaid for LLMs</title><url>https://github.com/poozlehq/poozle</url><text>Hi HN, We’re Harshith, Manoj, and Manik&lt;p&gt;Poozle (&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;github.com&amp;#x2F;poozlehq&amp;#x2F;poozle&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;github.com&amp;#x2F;poozlehq&amp;#x2F;poozle&lt;/a&gt;) provides a single API that helps businesses achieve accurate LLM responses by providing real-time customer data from different SAAS tools (e.g Notion, Salesforce, Jira, Shopify, Google Ads etc).&lt;p&gt;Why we built Poozle: As we were talking to more AI companies who need to integrate with their customers’ data we realised managing all SAAS tools data and keeping them up-to-date is a huge infra of ETL, Auth management, Webhooks and many more things before you take it to production. It struck us – why not streamline this process and allow companies to prioritise their core product?&lt;p&gt;How it works: Poozle makes user authorization seamless using our drop-in component (Poozle Link) and handles both API Key and OAuth dance. Post-authentication developers can use our Unified model to fetch data to their LLMs (no need to sync data separately and then normalise at your end). Poozle keeps data updated in real time while giving you options to choose sync intervals. Even if the source doesn’t support webhooks, we’ve got you covered.&lt;p&gt;Currently, we support Unified API for 3 categories - Ticketing, Documentation and Email. You can watch a demo of Poozle (&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.loom.com&amp;#x2F;share&amp;#x2F;30650e4d1fac41e3a7debc212b1c7c2d)l&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.loom.com&amp;#x2F;share&amp;#x2F;30650e4d1fac41e3a7debc212b1c7c2d)...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;We just got started a month ago and we’re eager to get feedback and keep building. Let us know what you think in the comments : )</text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>haxton</author><text>Definitely a difficult problem you&amp;#x27;re taking on here, but I don&amp;#x27;t see anything specific to LLMs here? How or why are you marketing towards LLMs?&lt;p&gt;How do you compare to the larger players here already Nango[0] and Merge[1] ?&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;m curious how you&amp;#x27;re thinking about data access &amp;#x2F; staleness? It&amp;#x27;s great that you&amp;#x27;re handling the oauth dance, but does that mean every end user of the product has to auth every product they interface with or are you handling this all at the super admin &amp;#x2F; enterprise level?&lt;p&gt;Right now I think there&amp;#x27;s too much emphasis on the &amp;quot;data loading&amp;quot; aspect of LLMs. I expect to see a swing back into using 3rd party API&amp;#x27;s SDKs. Interested to hear your thoughts on the Google API, it&amp;#x27;s absolutely massive and trying to shoehorn that into a unified API scares me.&lt;p&gt;The only real player that I could see to launch something like this and be successful is Okta.&lt;p&gt;[0] - &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;github.com&amp;#x2F;NangoHQ&amp;#x2F;nango&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;github.com&amp;#x2F;NangoHQ&amp;#x2F;nango&lt;/a&gt; [1] - &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;merge.dev&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;merge.dev&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>
<story><title>Show HN: Poozle – open-source Plaid for LLMs</title><url>https://github.com/poozlehq/poozle</url><text>Hi HN, We’re Harshith, Manoj, and Manik&lt;p&gt;Poozle (&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;github.com&amp;#x2F;poozlehq&amp;#x2F;poozle&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;github.com&amp;#x2F;poozlehq&amp;#x2F;poozle&lt;/a&gt;) provides a single API that helps businesses achieve accurate LLM responses by providing real-time customer data from different SAAS tools (e.g Notion, Salesforce, Jira, Shopify, Google Ads etc).&lt;p&gt;Why we built Poozle: As we were talking to more AI companies who need to integrate with their customers’ data we realised managing all SAAS tools data and keeping them up-to-date is a huge infra of ETL, Auth management, Webhooks and many more things before you take it to production. It struck us – why not streamline this process and allow companies to prioritise their core product?&lt;p&gt;How it works: Poozle makes user authorization seamless using our drop-in component (Poozle Link) and handles both API Key and OAuth dance. Post-authentication developers can use our Unified model to fetch data to their LLMs (no need to sync data separately and then normalise at your end). Poozle keeps data updated in real time while giving you options to choose sync intervals. Even if the source doesn’t support webhooks, we’ve got you covered.&lt;p&gt;Currently, we support Unified API for 3 categories - Ticketing, Documentation and Email. You can watch a demo of Poozle (&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.loom.com&amp;#x2F;share&amp;#x2F;30650e4d1fac41e3a7debc212b1c7c2d)l&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.loom.com&amp;#x2F;share&amp;#x2F;30650e4d1fac41e3a7debc212b1c7c2d)...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;We just got started a month ago and we’re eager to get feedback and keep building. Let us know what you think in the comments : )</text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>tuckerconnelly</author><text>This is a very difficult problem. How do you deal with losing data fidelity? If one service&amp;#x27;s entity has X field, but all the others don&amp;#x27;t, do you include it or not?&lt;p&gt;How do you deal with subtle differences in usage of terminology? If one service uses the word &amp;quot;ticket&amp;quot; slightly differently than others, how do you deal with that?</text></comment>
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<story><title>Show HN: A flask app to make dashboards, easily</title><url>https://github.com/christabor/flask_jsondash</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>chenster</author><text>I started using Freeboard (&lt;a href=&quot;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;freeboard.github.io&amp;#x2F;freeboard&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;freeboard.github.io&amp;#x2F;freeboard&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt;) in the latest project. It&amp;#x27;s also really snick and requires no front-end coding. Worth checking out!</text></comment>
<story><title>Show HN: A flask app to make dashboards, easily</title><url>https://github.com/christabor/flask_jsondash</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>SmellTheGlove</author><text>Really cool, thanks for sharing. Any idea how much data this can ingest before the rendering gets slow? I know horsepower on the client will vary, and the definition of slow is subjective, but just ballpark. Or is that an exercise for the reader?</text></comment>
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<story><title>Jessamyn West, Technology Lady (2015)</title><url>https://medium.com/@jessamyn/transcription-jessamyn-west-technology-lady-6c6f5fefa507#.s75d93ntw</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>markbnine</author><text>Our local library is more like a free internet shop with half the terminals taken up by transients and the other half by kids from the nearby jr. high, playing shoot-em ups. It&amp;#x27;s impossible to get a terminal. They also have a huge DVD collection that rivals the old blockbusters. Not sure who&amp;#x27;s checking out books anymore.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>sedachv</author><text>You missed this part of the interview:&lt;p&gt;&lt;i&gt;People have moral panics about bedbugs in their library or perverts in the library or — you’ll catch a cold from the library, like, whatever the thing is. And there’s a shred of truth to that, but realistically people are afraid of their own public, I think, in a lot of ways. And so being kind of matter-of-fact about the fact that, “Well, these really are who your neighbors are. Like, you can choose just to ignore that that’s how the world works, but you know, these are all your neighbors, and you see them all at the public library. You’re welcome.&lt;/i&gt;</text></comment>
<story><title>Jessamyn West, Technology Lady (2015)</title><url>https://medium.com/@jessamyn/transcription-jessamyn-west-technology-lady-6c6f5fefa507#.s75d93ntw</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>markbnine</author><text>Our local library is more like a free internet shop with half the terminals taken up by transients and the other half by kids from the nearby jr. high, playing shoot-em ups. It&amp;#x27;s impossible to get a terminal. They also have a huge DVD collection that rivals the old blockbusters. Not sure who&amp;#x27;s checking out books anymore.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Mz</author><text>Your library has terrible policies. Good libraries have policies in place for allotting computer time fairly in order to adequately serve all members.&lt;p&gt;Your library may also be underfunded. This is an issue for a lot of libraries.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Booting a 486 from floppy with the most up-to-date stable Linux kernel</title><url>https://www.insentricity.com/a.cl/283</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>locao</author><text>Does anyone else miss having this level of motivation? And that&amp;#x27;s not an isolation effect on me, I gave up on trying fun things like this for a long long time now.</text></comment>
<story><title>Booting a 486 from floppy with the most up-to-date stable Linux kernel</title><url>https://www.insentricity.com/a.cl/283</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>aksss</author><text>The virtue of reusing an old system is somewhat eroded by the fact that its noise and power consumption exceed that of a more powerful Pi 3 B+, which can be had for $50-60 with case and power supply (circa 2020).&lt;p&gt;I see little advantage in keeping the old hardware around anymore. I think I still have some old ISA cables downstairs in a box - high time to acknowledge to myself that I will NEVER use those again.</text></comment>
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<story><title>AWS EC2 General Price Cut</title><url>https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/ec2-price-reduction-for-ec2-instance-saving-plans-and-standard-reserved-instances/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>rb808</author><text>Buying your own Physical hardware is so cheap now its crazy. A commodity Ryzen 16 vCPU box is about the same price as 2 months rent on EC2.&lt;p&gt;I get maintenance, electricity and bandwidth isn&amp;#x27;t free but I honestly thought cloud server prices would be much lower by now. No wonder AWS is making huge profits.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jpalomaki</author><text>Check the prices for example on Hezner or some other company which provides dedicated boxes. They are totally different from big cloud. Like 6 cores and 256GB memory for 150€&amp;#x2F;month (one older server I have there).&lt;p&gt;Of course these don’t scale dynamically. And you don’t just create copied of the servers. And they don’t have 100 security certifications like Azure&amp;#x2F;AWS. And no data centers in every jurisdiction.</text></comment>
<story><title>AWS EC2 General Price Cut</title><url>https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/ec2-price-reduction-for-ec2-instance-saving-plans-and-standard-reserved-instances/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>rb808</author><text>Buying your own Physical hardware is so cheap now its crazy. A commodity Ryzen 16 vCPU box is about the same price as 2 months rent on EC2.&lt;p&gt;I get maintenance, electricity and bandwidth isn&amp;#x27;t free but I honestly thought cloud server prices would be much lower by now. No wonder AWS is making huge profits.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>tanilama</author><text>AWS is so much more than just hardware&lt;p&gt;It is called service for a reason.</text></comment>
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<story><title>S&amp;P 500 triggers 15-minute trading halt for the second time this week</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-03-11/asia-stocks-set-for-losses-dow-enters-bear-market-markets-wrap</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>songzme</author><text>I have alot of unvested RSUs and my reasoning is that if 2008 repeats itself, there is a real chance I may get laid off and lose my RSUs. I donate most of my income and I have very little savings.&lt;p&gt;To protect myself, when I see sharp dips in the markets like this, I usually buy a put (option) just in case 2008 repeats itself. I bought a put last week for 2k (CMG) and now its worth 18k. If the markets keep falling, I may end up with around 30k, which is enough for me to pay my mortgage for a year and a half.&lt;p&gt;Maybe someone finds this helpful, maybe not. Be safe, play responsibly.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>bityard</author><text>Your employment situation is uncertain, you give away most of your income, you have minimal savings _and_ you speculate in the stock market?&lt;p&gt;You, sir, are made of sterner stuff than I.</text></comment>
<story><title>S&amp;P 500 triggers 15-minute trading halt for the second time this week</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-03-11/asia-stocks-set-for-losses-dow-enters-bear-market-markets-wrap</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>songzme</author><text>I have alot of unvested RSUs and my reasoning is that if 2008 repeats itself, there is a real chance I may get laid off and lose my RSUs. I donate most of my income and I have very little savings.&lt;p&gt;To protect myself, when I see sharp dips in the markets like this, I usually buy a put (option) just in case 2008 repeats itself. I bought a put last week for 2k (CMG) and now its worth 18k. If the markets keep falling, I may end up with around 30k, which is enough for me to pay my mortgage for a year and a half.&lt;p&gt;Maybe someone finds this helpful, maybe not. Be safe, play responsibly.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>tomatotomato37</author><text>Be sure to harvest some of that profit now. Going all in for 1200% gains is fine for wacky WSB plays using disposable income, but not when you need it to build up a safety net</text></comment>
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<story><title>All Tesla Cars Being Produced Now Have Full Self-Driving Hardware</title><url>https://www.tesla.com/blog/all-tesla-cars-being-produced-now-have-full-self-driving-hardware</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>woodpanel</author><text>&amp;gt; It&amp;#x27;s just hilarious the contortions of logic people will go to in order to put Musk down.&lt;p&gt;As much as I anticipate more cool stuff from Tesla, one could say the same about akin-ness of people to find everything that Tesla does &amp;quot;super innovative&amp;quot; and &amp;quot;revolutionary&amp;quot; while the same features already existed in other cars for quite some time.&lt;p&gt;I actually laughed out loud when I saw the Headline of this submission &amp;quot;Tesla released a video of a car driving itself&amp;quot; being the number one entry on HN - sorry but this speaks volumes about the &amp;quot;neutrality&amp;quot; of HN regarding Tesla.</text></item><item><author>aerovistae</author><text>I laughed out loud when I googled &amp;quot;tsla&amp;quot; after watching the video and the top headline in the news section of the google results was &amp;quot;Analyst doubts the new move by Tesla Motors.&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;Clicking on the article for humor&amp;#x27;s value, I continued to read:&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; However, Edmunds.com, Inc. analyst Jessica Caldwell questions the value of purchasing a self-driving car before regulations catch up. Caldwell said that, meanwhile, competitors could introduce better solutions, potentially making Tesla’s hardware “obsolete almost as soon as it’s activated for prime time.”&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s just hilarious the contortions of logic people will go to in order to put Musk down.&lt;p&gt;Having the equipment ready and in action first is somehow a &lt;i&gt;disadvantage&lt;/i&gt; by this argument, and now you&amp;#x27;re better off being &lt;i&gt;later&lt;/i&gt; to market.&lt;p&gt;These same people have written that Tesla will be left in the dust as its competitors beat it to the market because it can&amp;#x27;t keep up with their manufacturing, and thus being first to market is only an advantage if you&amp;#x27;re not Tesla.&lt;p&gt;You can&amp;#x27;t win.</text></item><item><author>hipshaker</author><text>Isn&amp;#x27;t this hackernews??&lt;p&gt;So many &amp;quot;but what if this and that and this...&amp;quot; &amp;amp; &amp;quot;and yeah let&amp;#x27;s see if it can handle X &amp;amp; Y&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;This is the iPhone 1 of self-driving cars! That&amp;#x27;s akin to saying Apple should have waited to release their phone until iPhone 7 &amp;quot;because of this &amp;amp; that &amp;amp; this...&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;Don&amp;#x27;t we have to start &lt;i&gt;somewhere&lt;/i&gt;?? Aren&amp;#x27;t there supposed to be a big user base here who understands that it&amp;#x27;s an evolutionary process - we build the plane before we build the rocket before we shoot people into space?&lt;p&gt;&lt;i&gt;Oviously&lt;/i&gt; the perfect self-driving car is still some way off, but I for one am thrilled this race is on!</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>makomk</author><text>Especially since this is trying to put a positive spin on Tesla having to announce that all their newly shipped cars will now come without those features that already existed in other cars for quite some time, and that anyone who purchases a car with them will not actually have those features until they&amp;#x27;re reimplemented and patched back in.</text></comment>
<story><title>All Tesla Cars Being Produced Now Have Full Self-Driving Hardware</title><url>https://www.tesla.com/blog/all-tesla-cars-being-produced-now-have-full-self-driving-hardware</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>woodpanel</author><text>&amp;gt; It&amp;#x27;s just hilarious the contortions of logic people will go to in order to put Musk down.&lt;p&gt;As much as I anticipate more cool stuff from Tesla, one could say the same about akin-ness of people to find everything that Tesla does &amp;quot;super innovative&amp;quot; and &amp;quot;revolutionary&amp;quot; while the same features already existed in other cars for quite some time.&lt;p&gt;I actually laughed out loud when I saw the Headline of this submission &amp;quot;Tesla released a video of a car driving itself&amp;quot; being the number one entry on HN - sorry but this speaks volumes about the &amp;quot;neutrality&amp;quot; of HN regarding Tesla.</text></item><item><author>aerovistae</author><text>I laughed out loud when I googled &amp;quot;tsla&amp;quot; after watching the video and the top headline in the news section of the google results was &amp;quot;Analyst doubts the new move by Tesla Motors.&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;Clicking on the article for humor&amp;#x27;s value, I continued to read:&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; However, Edmunds.com, Inc. analyst Jessica Caldwell questions the value of purchasing a self-driving car before regulations catch up. Caldwell said that, meanwhile, competitors could introduce better solutions, potentially making Tesla’s hardware “obsolete almost as soon as it’s activated for prime time.”&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s just hilarious the contortions of logic people will go to in order to put Musk down.&lt;p&gt;Having the equipment ready and in action first is somehow a &lt;i&gt;disadvantage&lt;/i&gt; by this argument, and now you&amp;#x27;re better off being &lt;i&gt;later&lt;/i&gt; to market.&lt;p&gt;These same people have written that Tesla will be left in the dust as its competitors beat it to the market because it can&amp;#x27;t keep up with their manufacturing, and thus being first to market is only an advantage if you&amp;#x27;re not Tesla.&lt;p&gt;You can&amp;#x27;t win.</text></item><item><author>hipshaker</author><text>Isn&amp;#x27;t this hackernews??&lt;p&gt;So many &amp;quot;but what if this and that and this...&amp;quot; &amp;amp; &amp;quot;and yeah let&amp;#x27;s see if it can handle X &amp;amp; Y&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;This is the iPhone 1 of self-driving cars! That&amp;#x27;s akin to saying Apple should have waited to release their phone until iPhone 7 &amp;quot;because of this &amp;amp; that &amp;amp; this...&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;Don&amp;#x27;t we have to start &lt;i&gt;somewhere&lt;/i&gt;?? Aren&amp;#x27;t there supposed to be a big user base here who understands that it&amp;#x27;s an evolutionary process - we build the plane before we build the rocket before we shoot people into space?&lt;p&gt;&lt;i&gt;Oviously&lt;/i&gt; the perfect self-driving car is still some way off, but I for one am thrilled this race is on!</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>falconed</author><text>I think the interesting point here is that the hardware is available on all Teslas. The functionality shown in the video could be available on everyone&amp;#x27;s Tesla by installing an update. What they showed may be similar to what&amp;#x27;s been demonstrated by other companies in the past, but the potential for broad availability is novel.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Programming a CH32v003 with light</title><url>https://mitxela.com/projects/lightcomm</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>cnlohr</author><text>Best quote I&amp;#x27;ve heard in a while:&lt;p&gt;When I set out to do this I was expecting to make a new version of the badge with a different circuit originally I had to add a bunch of components just to make the amplifier work. But, I just kept optimizing and whittling it down and eventually ended up back with the original circuit. This badge is the same one I showed off six months ago. It’s unmodified there are no hardware changes at all. So in a sense, the ability to do wireless updates was there all along – we just had to unlock it, by thinking really hard about the problem.</text></comment>
<story><title>Programming a CH32v003 with light</title><url>https://mitxela.com/projects/lightcomm</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>blutack</author><text>There&amp;#x27;s also a short associated YouTube video showing it in action.&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;youtu.be&amp;#x2F;IHD3ji-F600&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;youtu.be&amp;#x2F;IHD3ji-F600&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>
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<story><title>Announcing new tools, forums, and features</title><url>https://github.com/blog/2256-a-whole-new-github-universe-announcing-new-tools-forums-and-features</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jglovier</author><text>&amp;gt;projects. replaces trello, waffle.io, zenhub and many other similar services.&lt;p&gt;This is really not about replacing those services, it&amp;#x27;s more about building a better foundation for integrators like Waffle and ZenHub to build on.</text></item><item><author>captn3m0</author><text>This is a rough summary of what all I read in the blog post:&lt;p&gt;1. projects. replaces trello, waffle.io, zenhub and many other similar services.&lt;p&gt;2. code reviews allow approval&amp;#x2F;request changes as sunny&amp;#x27;s screenshot shows&lt;p&gt;3. reviews can be made mandatory.&lt;p&gt;4. github platform integrations is getting a roadmap&lt;p&gt;5. a graphql api to query their database&lt;p&gt;6. enforce 2fa in organizations (much love for this one)&lt;p&gt;7. summarized timeline for your contibutions&lt;p&gt;Just a few days back, at the GitLab release, I&amp;#x27;d noticed a lot of complains about gitlab releasing useful and impactful features and github being slow on releases. Moreover, now with a public roadmap (even if it is just for platforms), it is a great start.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;m really liking this change in pace.&lt;p&gt;mods: Can we make this the canonical discussion for this topic? Otherwise, a lot of branching will happen</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ma138</author><text>At ZenHub, we have already starting working on some integrations with this functionality which you can read more about here - &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.zenhub.com&amp;#x2F;blog&amp;#x2F;dispatches-from-github-universe&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.zenhub.com&amp;#x2F;blog&amp;#x2F;dispatches-from-github-universe&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;Our focus is going to remain on how to integrate a full-featured project management suite within the GitHub eco-system. The GitHub projects release will make a great foundation, and ZenHub will be there to provide the more advanced features like issue hierarchy (epics), time estimation and reporting. Lots of exciting releases coming soon for ZenHub users :)</text></comment>
<story><title>Announcing new tools, forums, and features</title><url>https://github.com/blog/2256-a-whole-new-github-universe-announcing-new-tools-forums-and-features</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jglovier</author><text>&amp;gt;projects. replaces trello, waffle.io, zenhub and many other similar services.&lt;p&gt;This is really not about replacing those services, it&amp;#x27;s more about building a better foundation for integrators like Waffle and ZenHub to build on.</text></item><item><author>captn3m0</author><text>This is a rough summary of what all I read in the blog post:&lt;p&gt;1. projects. replaces trello, waffle.io, zenhub and many other similar services.&lt;p&gt;2. code reviews allow approval&amp;#x2F;request changes as sunny&amp;#x27;s screenshot shows&lt;p&gt;3. reviews can be made mandatory.&lt;p&gt;4. github platform integrations is getting a roadmap&lt;p&gt;5. a graphql api to query their database&lt;p&gt;6. enforce 2fa in organizations (much love for this one)&lt;p&gt;7. summarized timeline for your contibutions&lt;p&gt;Just a few days back, at the GitLab release, I&amp;#x27;d noticed a lot of complains about gitlab releasing useful and impactful features and github being slow on releases. Moreover, now with a public roadmap (even if it is just for platforms), it is a great start.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;m really liking this change in pace.&lt;p&gt;mods: Can we make this the canonical discussion for this topic? Otherwise, a lot of branching will happen</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>captn3m0</author><text>I&amp;#x27;m looking at &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.zenhub.com&amp;#x2F;product&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.zenhub.com&amp;#x2F;product&lt;/a&gt;, and while it does have some extra features (filters on priority, labels), but for most people the base set provided by github is gonna be sufficient.&lt;p&gt;Sure, it won&amp;#x27;t completely replace them, but GitHub building this as a platform counts as competition.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Venezuelans turn to Bitcoins to bypass currency controls</title><url>http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/10/08/us-venezuela-bitcoin-idUSKCN0HX11O20141008</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>climber_mac</author><text>I am from Venezuela.&lt;p&gt;In case you are wondering how terrible the Venezuelan economy is right now, think about this: Our biggest denomination bill (100 Bolivares) is not enough to buy $1 USD [1]; in january 2013 you could buy $14 USD for the same amount. Also think about the fact that Venezuela has the largest proven oil reserves in the world [2].&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;m not even going to try to explain the currency exchange and control mechanisms (CADIVI and SICAD), they are basically operating like a lottery to select people who will be allowed to buy dollars at the official government rate. Everyone turns to the black market, but the demand is extremely high, and the supply barely exists.&lt;p&gt;Bitcoin won&amp;#x27;t solve our problems because no one will want to sell for Bolivares. The bolivar has been devaluated twice in the past two years, which has decreased it&amp;#x27;s value by more than 50% when compared to 2013.&lt;p&gt;Sources:&lt;p&gt;[1] &lt;a href=&quot;https://dolartoday.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;dolartoday.com&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;[2] &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_proven_oil_reserves&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;List_of_countries_by_proven_oil...&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>
<story><title>Venezuelans turn to Bitcoins to bypass currency controls</title><url>http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/10/08/us-venezuela-bitcoin-idUSKCN0HX11O20141008</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>cjensen</author><text>That&amp;#x27;s interesting, but I&amp;#x27;m pretty sure a physical dollar bill is more useful. A physical dollar can be used to make purchase stuff locally without a computer, and is easily accepted for a sale. In the example given in the article, the only reason the first guy in the article uses bitcoins is to buy an Amazon gift certificate (denominated in dollars) to buy stuff mail order.&lt;p&gt;The only real lesson to be had from the Venezuela situation is that far-left governments suck at basic economics and math. There is no lesson to be had about bitcoins in &lt;i&gt;this&lt;/i&gt; situation.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Cyclists now outnumber motorists in City of London</title><url>https://www.forbes.com/sites/carltonreid/2023/03/01/cyclists-now-outnumber-motorists-in-city-of-london/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Tade0</author><text>&amp;gt; So I think we will see a shift in where people settle, where they will no longer base their lives around owning multiple cars.&lt;p&gt;Not if real estate in cities remains as expensive as it is now. That&amp;#x27;s one of the main reasons why so many people move out and choose to spend so much time commuting.&lt;p&gt;Cars are just a means to an end, which is not living in a one-bedroom apartment as a family.</text></item><item><author>matsemann</author><text>&amp;gt; &lt;i&gt;- might be impossible depending on work or children;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;The newer style of cargo bikes can for many families replace a car. Have two kids seated in the trunk of the bike and drop them off at kindergarten, then continue biking to work and pick them up on the way home.&lt;p&gt;Those are a bit on the pricier side, though. Still cheap compared to a car, but people often look at them as something &amp;quot;extravagant&amp;quot; or &amp;quot;in addition&amp;quot; to a car. But they can be a replacement for most car use, and then just rent a car for other more seldom occasions.&lt;p&gt;And to avoid the initial big purchase, not even sure if it&amp;#x27;s something for you, there&amp;#x27;s a startup where I live ( &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;whee.no&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;whee.no&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt; ) where you also can rent the bike on a monthly basis. Really recommended to see if it suits your lifestyle.&lt;p&gt;Lastly, I also think this kind of easier movement will change how people live. You can no longer expect to move out of the city and still get a short way to everything by using your car, making life miserable for everyone else (noise, danger, pollution, too much asphalt). So I think we will see a shift in where people settle, where they will no longer base their lives around owning multiple cars.</text></item><item><author>raphaelj</author><text>Somewhat unrelated to the article, but I live in a mid-size EU city and dumped my car for an e-bike a few months ago.&lt;p&gt;Surprisingly, it hasn&amp;#x27;t been that hard (my GF kept her car, and I have a car-sharing subscription):&lt;p&gt;Pros:&lt;p&gt;- Immediately stopped having insomnia. Better feel overall;&lt;p&gt;- about €300&amp;#x2F;month in additional disposable income. That&amp;#x27;s basically a free lunch everyday!&lt;p&gt;- significantly faster if parking is taken into account for most trips. The bike is faster for any &amp;lt; 10 km &amp;#x2F; 7 mi trip;&lt;p&gt;- do not have to worry about car maintenance, parking tickets or theft;&lt;p&gt;- you will not kill someone if you ride after a night drinking;&lt;p&gt;- amazing when the weather is great;&lt;p&gt;- (almost) no emission.&lt;p&gt;Cons:&lt;p&gt;- might be impossible depending on work or children;&lt;p&gt;- weather might make the ride unpleasant;&lt;p&gt;- somewhat dangerous when the infrastructure is lacking.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;m pretty sure I&amp;#x27;ll never own a car, unless absolutely required by work. Improving the infra and the car-sharing network would be awesome.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>zamnos</author><text>Ah that&amp;#x27;s a bit of a false dichotomy though. In between a rustic rural house on several acres down a dirt unpaved road unsuitable for bicycles, and a tiny, loud, one-bedroom downtown apartment condo in a highrise, or worse - one bedroom in a shared flat, in a superurban locale, say Hong Kong, right above the nightlife or red light district, trying to raise a family of three or four; somewhere between the two extremes is a livable medium. Maybe a three-bedroom condo with a shared yard and pool raise a family in. A nestled away cute 2-bedroom cottage with a tiny yard at the edge of the city, but still within subway distance.&lt;p&gt;Now, I&amp;#x27;ll concede that most cities in the US aren&amp;#x27;t designed this way. I&amp;#x27;ll go further and say that most cities in the US lack the density to deserve being called cities, they&amp;#x27;re just large swaths of adjacent suburbia with a tiny downtown district that most people drive to in order to access, which has huge implications on traffic and parking.&lt;p&gt;What recent changes in society has enabled us to see is just how much we were sold a crock of shit while on our way to buying 5-bedroom McMansions with expansive yards for hosting dinner parties. If the cost is a one hour each way commute, people are starting to see it&amp;#x27;s not actually worth it.&lt;p&gt;So I agree&amp;#x2F;you&amp;#x27;re right - real estate prices have to fall dramatically in order for things to be accessible to the non-rich households who aren&amp;#x27;t on dual tech worker salaries, and who can&amp;#x27;t afford a reasonably sized (2+ bedroom) urban apartment. But for better or worse, HN skews affluent, so there are undoubtedly readers here able to afford a 4-bedroom apartment in one of the nicer neighborhoods of San Francisco where you&amp;#x27;d want to raise a family. Pretending otherwise does no body any favors. The only question is how do we get from where we are today, which is that it&amp;#x27;s unaffordable to all but the upper-middle and upper class, to a place where is affordable on a single wage earners salary? The only answer to that is to build more housing. Stopgap measures like rent control don&amp;#x27;t work. It may be anathema to some, but part of that may include the government stepping in to make that happen.&lt;p&gt;Ebikes allow us to get from here to there, as an ebike allows a slightly more sprawling city design, due to the added range enabled by an ebike vs walking+non-existent public transportation, which means we can get a lot of mileage by repainting and modifying existing roads to add bike-safe infrastructure without ripping out and replacing buildings, which is basically impossible.</text></comment>
<story><title>Cyclists now outnumber motorists in City of London</title><url>https://www.forbes.com/sites/carltonreid/2023/03/01/cyclists-now-outnumber-motorists-in-city-of-london/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Tade0</author><text>&amp;gt; So I think we will see a shift in where people settle, where they will no longer base their lives around owning multiple cars.&lt;p&gt;Not if real estate in cities remains as expensive as it is now. That&amp;#x27;s one of the main reasons why so many people move out and choose to spend so much time commuting.&lt;p&gt;Cars are just a means to an end, which is not living in a one-bedroom apartment as a family.</text></item><item><author>matsemann</author><text>&amp;gt; &lt;i&gt;- might be impossible depending on work or children;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;The newer style of cargo bikes can for many families replace a car. Have two kids seated in the trunk of the bike and drop them off at kindergarten, then continue biking to work and pick them up on the way home.&lt;p&gt;Those are a bit on the pricier side, though. Still cheap compared to a car, but people often look at them as something &amp;quot;extravagant&amp;quot; or &amp;quot;in addition&amp;quot; to a car. But they can be a replacement for most car use, and then just rent a car for other more seldom occasions.&lt;p&gt;And to avoid the initial big purchase, not even sure if it&amp;#x27;s something for you, there&amp;#x27;s a startup where I live ( &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;whee.no&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;whee.no&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt; ) where you also can rent the bike on a monthly basis. Really recommended to see if it suits your lifestyle.&lt;p&gt;Lastly, I also think this kind of easier movement will change how people live. You can no longer expect to move out of the city and still get a short way to everything by using your car, making life miserable for everyone else (noise, danger, pollution, too much asphalt). So I think we will see a shift in where people settle, where they will no longer base their lives around owning multiple cars.</text></item><item><author>raphaelj</author><text>Somewhat unrelated to the article, but I live in a mid-size EU city and dumped my car for an e-bike a few months ago.&lt;p&gt;Surprisingly, it hasn&amp;#x27;t been that hard (my GF kept her car, and I have a car-sharing subscription):&lt;p&gt;Pros:&lt;p&gt;- Immediately stopped having insomnia. Better feel overall;&lt;p&gt;- about €300&amp;#x2F;month in additional disposable income. That&amp;#x27;s basically a free lunch everyday!&lt;p&gt;- significantly faster if parking is taken into account for most trips. The bike is faster for any &amp;lt; 10 km &amp;#x2F; 7 mi trip;&lt;p&gt;- do not have to worry about car maintenance, parking tickets or theft;&lt;p&gt;- you will not kill someone if you ride after a night drinking;&lt;p&gt;- amazing when the weather is great;&lt;p&gt;- (almost) no emission.&lt;p&gt;Cons:&lt;p&gt;- might be impossible depending on work or children;&lt;p&gt;- weather might make the ride unpleasant;&lt;p&gt;- somewhat dangerous when the infrastructure is lacking.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;m pretty sure I&amp;#x27;ll never own a car, unless absolutely required by work. Improving the infra and the car-sharing network would be awesome.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>CalRobert</author><text>Sadly this rings somewhat true, I&amp;#x27;m trying to make the maths work on moving from my house in the horrible Irish countryside (horrible if you don&amp;#x27;t like profound isolation and car-dependency, that is) and move to Utrecht or Houten, or Freiburg, and it is challenging, to say the least.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Simple Revision Control</title><url>http://www.catb.org/~esr/src/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>npsimons</author><text>&lt;i&gt;It&amp;#x27;s actually a good idea. People often don&amp;#x27;t bother version-controlling simple stuff because it&amp;#x27;s a hassle.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;Here&amp;#x27;s the thing that&amp;#x27;s funny to me: git is &lt;i&gt;easy&lt;/i&gt;. Everyone (especially mercurial users) goes on about how horrible the UI is, but when I think of git, I think of how similar it is to RCS: easy, quick, and simple. With both, I can diff things and check in changes &lt;i&gt;very&lt;/i&gt; quickly. I have a bunch of single files in RCS which I&amp;#x27;m moving over to git because it&amp;#x27;s a no brainer: all the speed and ease of use with a ton of advantages (such as dead simple replication) if I ever need them.</text></item><item><author>muyuu</author><text>It&amp;#x27;s actually a good idea. People often don&amp;#x27;t bother version-controlling simple stuff because it&amp;#x27;s a hassle.&lt;p&gt;I routinely use my own rdiff&amp;#x2F;rsync scripts but this is not something you find in every system and also not something most people would use.&lt;p&gt;A barebones, simple, no-install, easy, not-necessarily-for-experienced-developers VCS is a good thing to have.&lt;p&gt;BTW it&amp;#x27;s going at 1 release per day. Heh :-)</text></item><item><author>awalton</author><text>I think in a strange way, this tool is actually not a terrible idea. Git is not a configuration management tool, no matter how hard people try to shoe-horn it into that role. A simpler Git designed for configuration management is indeed a good idea.&lt;p&gt;Unfortunately, I think the implementation leaves a lot to be desired. For one, not including the committer is an important flaw. If you&amp;#x27;re only managing your own system&amp;#x27;s configuration, it makes sense, but surely ESR realizes that UNIX-based OSes are multiuser systems, often administrated by teams of people. Being able to track whodunnit is definitely an important part of the equation. (It&amp;#x27;d be incredibly clever if it signed the log with the user&amp;#x27;s public key too, but that might be asking a lot.)&lt;p&gt;Needing something like SRC to track changes to a simple README or HOWTO? My local bin dir? Ehh not so much. Especially if it&amp;#x27;s a software project? No, that definitely should live in the VCS with the code, so that those who touch the code will also touch the documentation. It says a lot about src that it doesn&amp;#x27;t even live in a src repository.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>encoderer</author><text>I love git. I&amp;#x27;m a git power user. I&amp;#x27;ve used git as the datastore for a CRM I built.&lt;p&gt;But I respectfully disagree. Git is not &amp;quot;easy.&amp;quot; You&amp;#x27;ve been conditioned. You and I know that it&amp;#x27;s very very hard to lose work or lose commits with Git. I&amp;#x27;d say it&amp;#x27;s nearly impossible to do on accident. But in my first month with Git I rewrote several things because I messed up somehow and couldn&amp;#x27;t figure it out. I would hose my checkout and resort to doing a new clone. I&amp;#x27;ve since helped run a big transition from SVN to Git and saw the same struggles there.&lt;p&gt;Git is power tools for my code. I could never go back to SVN. But it&amp;#x27;s not easy.</text></comment>
<story><title>Simple Revision Control</title><url>http://www.catb.org/~esr/src/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>npsimons</author><text>&lt;i&gt;It&amp;#x27;s actually a good idea. People often don&amp;#x27;t bother version-controlling simple stuff because it&amp;#x27;s a hassle.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;Here&amp;#x27;s the thing that&amp;#x27;s funny to me: git is &lt;i&gt;easy&lt;/i&gt;. Everyone (especially mercurial users) goes on about how horrible the UI is, but when I think of git, I think of how similar it is to RCS: easy, quick, and simple. With both, I can diff things and check in changes &lt;i&gt;very&lt;/i&gt; quickly. I have a bunch of single files in RCS which I&amp;#x27;m moving over to git because it&amp;#x27;s a no brainer: all the speed and ease of use with a ton of advantages (such as dead simple replication) if I ever need them.</text></item><item><author>muyuu</author><text>It&amp;#x27;s actually a good idea. People often don&amp;#x27;t bother version-controlling simple stuff because it&amp;#x27;s a hassle.&lt;p&gt;I routinely use my own rdiff&amp;#x2F;rsync scripts but this is not something you find in every system and also not something most people would use.&lt;p&gt;A barebones, simple, no-install, easy, not-necessarily-for-experienced-developers VCS is a good thing to have.&lt;p&gt;BTW it&amp;#x27;s going at 1 release per day. Heh :-)</text></item><item><author>awalton</author><text>I think in a strange way, this tool is actually not a terrible idea. Git is not a configuration management tool, no matter how hard people try to shoe-horn it into that role. A simpler Git designed for configuration management is indeed a good idea.&lt;p&gt;Unfortunately, I think the implementation leaves a lot to be desired. For one, not including the committer is an important flaw. If you&amp;#x27;re only managing your own system&amp;#x27;s configuration, it makes sense, but surely ESR realizes that UNIX-based OSes are multiuser systems, often administrated by teams of people. Being able to track whodunnit is definitely an important part of the equation. (It&amp;#x27;d be incredibly clever if it signed the log with the user&amp;#x27;s public key too, but that might be asking a lot.)&lt;p&gt;Needing something like SRC to track changes to a simple README or HOWTO? My local bin dir? Ehh not so much. Especially if it&amp;#x27;s a software project? No, that definitely should live in the VCS with the code, so that those who touch the code will also touch the documentation. It says a lot about src that it doesn&amp;#x27;t even live in a src repository.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>IshKebab</author><text>Are you serious? Git is by far the least user-friendly version control system I&amp;#x27;ve used (Mercurial being the best).&lt;p&gt;Here are some longer articles explaining why git sucks so much (from a convenience &amp;#x2F; user friendliness point of view):&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://reprog.wordpress.com/2010/05/10/git-is-a-harrier-jump-jet-and-not-in-a-good-way/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;reprog.wordpress.com&amp;#x2F;2010&amp;#x2F;05&amp;#x2F;10&amp;#x2F;git-is-a-harrier-jump...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://merrigrove.blogspot.co.uk/2014/02/why-heck-is-git-so-hard-places-model-ok.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;merrigrove.blogspot.co.uk&amp;#x2F;2014&amp;#x2F;02&amp;#x2F;why-heck-is-git-so-...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stevebennett.me/2012/02/24/10-things-i-hate-about-git/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;stevebennett.me&amp;#x2F;2012&amp;#x2F;02&amp;#x2F;24&amp;#x2F;10-things-i-hate-about-git...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;Version control is one of those annoying admin tasks that you have to do and what to think about as little as possible. Git makes you think about it &lt;i&gt;a lot&lt;/i&gt;.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Encryption, Privacy Are Larger Issues Than Fighting Terrorism</title><url>http://www.npr.org/2016/03/14/470347719/encryption-and-privacy-are-larger-issues-than-fighting-terrorism-clarke-says</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ptaipale</author><text>&amp;gt; &lt;i&gt;the perps are dead, did not appear to be part of some organized group&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;A reasonable reason for inquiry here is to actually try to make sure if they were part of some organized group. &amp;quot;Appear not to be&amp;quot; is not quite enough.&lt;p&gt;This is a valid reason to investigate even if they are dead. How did they get radicalized, etc.&lt;p&gt;Not that it is a good enough reason to enforce breaking of encryption in the way proposed, but in a murder inquiry, privacy of the perps has to give way.</text></item><item><author>jacquesm</author><text>&amp;gt; No, David. If I were in the job now, I would have simply told the FBI to call Fort Meade, the headquarters of the National Security Agency, and NSA would have solved this problem for them. They&amp;#x27;re not as interested in solving the problem as they are in getting a legal precedent.&lt;p&gt;That&amp;#x27;s quite the quote, especially given his history of employment.&lt;p&gt;The weirdest thing about this whole cell-phone saga to me is that the perps are dead, did not appear to be part of some organized group and that very little could be done to them that hasn&amp;#x27;t been done already based on evidence found on the phone.&lt;p&gt;Then there is the bit that a lot of the information that is on the phone is &lt;i&gt;also&lt;/i&gt; already in the log files of the carriers. It&amp;#x27;s as if that phone somehow magically is going to yield an entirely new class of information that may not even exist in the first place.&lt;p&gt;To me it has been evident from day one that this is not about this phone or the data that&amp;#x27;s on it but just about the legal precedent, getting it in black-and-white from the former head of counter terrorism is quite an indictment of his successors.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>danieldk</author><text>&lt;i&gt;A reasonable reason for inquiry here is to actually try to make sure if they were part of some organized group. &amp;quot;Appear not to be&amp;quot; is not quite enough.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;For a country that kills based on metadata[1], it seems quite far-fetched that they couldn&amp;#x27;t map out potentially interesting connections using just metadata.&lt;p&gt;Also, it would be pretty dumb to put any revealing data on a work phone with iCloud backups enabled (which is just not accessible due to the FBI&amp;#x27;s mistakes).&lt;p&gt;At any rate, this discussion is quite besides the point. Permitting this phone to be unlocked (or the hundred or so other phones mentioned) will open the floodgates for questionable regimes and a hunt for Apple&amp;#x27;s private key (more automation to handle requests will reduce security).&lt;p&gt;[1] &lt;a href=&quot;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.nybooks.com&amp;#x2F;daily&amp;#x2F;2014&amp;#x2F;05&amp;#x2F;10&amp;#x2F;we-kill-people-based-metadata&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.nybooks.com&amp;#x2F;daily&amp;#x2F;2014&amp;#x2F;05&amp;#x2F;10&amp;#x2F;we-kill-people-based...&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>
<story><title>Encryption, Privacy Are Larger Issues Than Fighting Terrorism</title><url>http://www.npr.org/2016/03/14/470347719/encryption-and-privacy-are-larger-issues-than-fighting-terrorism-clarke-says</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ptaipale</author><text>&amp;gt; &lt;i&gt;the perps are dead, did not appear to be part of some organized group&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;A reasonable reason for inquiry here is to actually try to make sure if they were part of some organized group. &amp;quot;Appear not to be&amp;quot; is not quite enough.&lt;p&gt;This is a valid reason to investigate even if they are dead. How did they get radicalized, etc.&lt;p&gt;Not that it is a good enough reason to enforce breaking of encryption in the way proposed, but in a murder inquiry, privacy of the perps has to give way.</text></item><item><author>jacquesm</author><text>&amp;gt; No, David. If I were in the job now, I would have simply told the FBI to call Fort Meade, the headquarters of the National Security Agency, and NSA would have solved this problem for them. They&amp;#x27;re not as interested in solving the problem as they are in getting a legal precedent.&lt;p&gt;That&amp;#x27;s quite the quote, especially given his history of employment.&lt;p&gt;The weirdest thing about this whole cell-phone saga to me is that the perps are dead, did not appear to be part of some organized group and that very little could be done to them that hasn&amp;#x27;t been done already based on evidence found on the phone.&lt;p&gt;Then there is the bit that a lot of the information that is on the phone is &lt;i&gt;also&lt;/i&gt; already in the log files of the carriers. It&amp;#x27;s as if that phone somehow magically is going to yield an entirely new class of information that may not even exist in the first place.&lt;p&gt;To me it has been evident from day one that this is not about this phone or the data that&amp;#x27;s on it but just about the legal precedent, getting it in black-and-white from the former head of counter terrorism is quite an indictment of his successors.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>nickik</author><text>From other intel they know that he did not use his work phone much and saw no need to destroy it. He did destroy his private phone, so I think its quite clear that their is nothing on that phone.&lt;p&gt;I think its reasonable for the FBI to want to access it, but lets not have any illusions, the change that their is any evidence on the phone is basically 0%.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Gmail is showing ads in the middle of the inbox</title><url>https://9to5google.com/2023/05/05/gmail-ads-increase-2023/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>bcrl</author><text>Some of us believe that content creators should get paid. It&amp;#x27;s a pity that ads are the lowest friction method easily available to the general public to accomplish this.</text></item><item><author>coldpie</author><text>I&amp;#x27;m always baffled when I see people using a desktop web browser without an ad blocker. We have the technology to fix this, folks! It takes like two clicks! Use it!&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;ublockorigin.com&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;ublockorigin.com&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>coldpie</author><text>I spend over $100&amp;#x2F;mo on Patreon. There are other options. IMO online ad-based business models are one of the biggest evils of the current age. Why does social media push the most outrage-bait content? Ads. Why is Google filled with SEO spam? Ads. Why can&amp;#x27;t non-ad business models get a foot in the door? Ads. We need to destroy online advertising as a viable business model. Using an ad blocker is the ethical choice.</text></comment>
<story><title>Gmail is showing ads in the middle of the inbox</title><url>https://9to5google.com/2023/05/05/gmail-ads-increase-2023/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>bcrl</author><text>Some of us believe that content creators should get paid. It&amp;#x27;s a pity that ads are the lowest friction method easily available to the general public to accomplish this.</text></item><item><author>coldpie</author><text>I&amp;#x27;m always baffled when I see people using a desktop web browser without an ad blocker. We have the technology to fix this, folks! It takes like two clicks! Use it!&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;ublockorigin.com&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;ublockorigin.com&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ravenstine</author><text>Creators can get paid in other ways. It&amp;#x27;s their choice to rely on something people both (rightfully) hate and are willing to block for revenue.&lt;p&gt;If a creator must make a living by throwing State Farm ads in front of me &lt;i&gt;again and again&lt;/i&gt;, I can&amp;#x27;t say I have much sympathy.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Senate passes copyright bill to end 140-year protection for old songs</title><url>https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2018/09/senate-passes-copyright-bill-to-end-140-year-protection-for-old-songs/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Spivak</author><text>The goal of copyright is not to put works into the public domain, it&amp;#x27;s to allow the creator to extract all the possible value from their work. This has been the basis for every copyright extension and the courts have agreed seeing little value in letting works go public domain.</text></item><item><author>swebs</author><text>Wow, from 140 years to 110 years.&lt;p&gt;For comparison, patents only last 20 years.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>telchar</author><text>Presumably you&amp;#x27;re speaking cynically about how copyright is treated. For the official, stated reason:&lt;p&gt;Article I Section 8. Clause 8 – Patent and Copyright Clause of the Constitution. [The Congress shall have power] “To promote the progress of science and useful arts, by securing for limited times to authors and inventors the exclusive right to their respective writings and discoveries.”[0]&lt;p&gt;[0] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;fairuse.stanford.edu&amp;#x2F;law&amp;#x2F;us-constitution&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;fairuse.stanford.edu&amp;#x2F;law&amp;#x2F;us-constitution&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>
<story><title>Senate passes copyright bill to end 140-year protection for old songs</title><url>https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2018/09/senate-passes-copyright-bill-to-end-140-year-protection-for-old-songs/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Spivak</author><text>The goal of copyright is not to put works into the public domain, it&amp;#x27;s to allow the creator to extract all the possible value from their work. This has been the basis for every copyright extension and the courts have agreed seeing little value in letting works go public domain.</text></item><item><author>swebs</author><text>Wow, from 140 years to 110 years.&lt;p&gt;For comparison, patents only last 20 years.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mtgx</author><text>&amp;gt; it&amp;#x27;s to allow the creator to extract all the possible value from their work&lt;p&gt;That may be why governments of the world keep passing copyright laws now and how they view copyright.&lt;p&gt;But copyright was established as a &amp;quot;balance&amp;quot; between making it profitable for the author to create the work (read: not to extract billions of dollars out of a work) in order to &lt;i&gt;benefit the public&lt;/i&gt;. The primary goal has &lt;i&gt;always&lt;/i&gt; been to benefit the public, not the author.&lt;p&gt;Also, one of the reasons why copyright &lt;i&gt;should&lt;/i&gt; be finite and not have too long of a term is because no author has ever created anything - anything at all - &lt;i&gt;from scratch&lt;/i&gt;. They themselves have built &lt;i&gt;upon the work of others&lt;/i&gt;. This is why copyright is meant to be a system where one creates something upon something else, and then someone new can create something new upon that previous work, and so on.&lt;p&gt;Copyright was meant to be a &lt;i&gt;kickstarting&lt;/i&gt; mechanism for authors, not a rent-seeking one, which is how it&amp;#x27;s used today.&lt;p&gt;If you still don&amp;#x27;t see this what I&amp;#x27;m trying to say from my comment, I highly suggest you watch this video:&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.youtube.com&amp;#x2F;watch?v=nJPERZDfyWc&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.youtube.com&amp;#x2F;watch?v=nJPERZDfyWc&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>
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<story><title>Fourth police officer who responded to Jan 6 attack dies by suicide</title><url>https://thehill.com/homenews/house/566040-fourth-police-officer-who-responded-to-jan-6-attack-dies-by-suicide-report</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>exo-pla-net</author><text>These officers faced BLM hostility on the left, as well as violence against them and accusations of being traitors from the right.&lt;p&gt;The public that they&amp;#x27;re supposed to serve was spitting on them and demonizing them from both sides.&lt;p&gt;Add a pandemic to the mix, and anybody&amp;#x27;s mental health would be flatlining. Suicide among some of them is tragic but not surprising.&lt;p&gt;I don&amp;#x27;t know how effective counseling services are, but if they do anything, they should be made available to the Jan 6 officers.&lt;p&gt;If anybody reading this is in a dark spot, the suicide lifeline is 800-273-8255, and it&amp;#x27;s available 24&amp;#x2F;7.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mjevans</author><text>Some communities have also been disproportionately persecuted by the police for, a very long time. Maybe it&amp;#x27;s a legacy of slavery and later segregation. Maybe it&amp;#x27;s a lack of unifying national spirit (the melting pot of cultural assimilation and a desire to be a small spice in a greater whole) which might have just been wishful thinking on the part of history book authors.&lt;p&gt;I suspect most of the non-anarchist who feel that way would agree with my take that &amp;quot;defund&amp;quot; might be better expressed as RE-form.&lt;p&gt;Re-form the Police in a de-militarized way. Structure community interaction so they are helpful, rather than penalizing. (E.G. more like Japanese neighborhood branches.) Split out social and mental health crisis, maybe with domestic violence response teams that include a mix of branches. Also, for mental health, make it easier to get interventions earlier, before assault with a deadly weapon leads to regrettable and unavoidably bad sets of outcomes.</text></comment>
<story><title>Fourth police officer who responded to Jan 6 attack dies by suicide</title><url>https://thehill.com/homenews/house/566040-fourth-police-officer-who-responded-to-jan-6-attack-dies-by-suicide-report</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>exo-pla-net</author><text>These officers faced BLM hostility on the left, as well as violence against them and accusations of being traitors from the right.&lt;p&gt;The public that they&amp;#x27;re supposed to serve was spitting on them and demonizing them from both sides.&lt;p&gt;Add a pandemic to the mix, and anybody&amp;#x27;s mental health would be flatlining. Suicide among some of them is tragic but not surprising.&lt;p&gt;I don&amp;#x27;t know how effective counseling services are, but if they do anything, they should be made available to the Jan 6 officers.&lt;p&gt;If anybody reading this is in a dark spot, the suicide lifeline is 800-273-8255, and it&amp;#x27;s available 24&amp;#x2F;7.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>elygre</author><text>I think I understand what you mean by “accusations of being traitors from the right”.&lt;p&gt;However, I was unaware of “BLM hostility on the left”. Could you share some more information about this?</text></comment>
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<story><title>A Food Shortage Revealed the Cause of Celiac Disease</title><url>https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/history-of-celiac-disease</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>zaroth</author><text>Stunning it was this hard to pin down an autoimmune disorder which is effectively a food allergy.&lt;p&gt;My daughter has celiac which we caught early (concomitant with T1D) although she is not as hypersensitive as some people I have met, it is still crucial to avoid all gluten as even without overt symptoms it effects overall growth and nutrition.&lt;p&gt;But some of our friends are so sensitive that even minuscule levels of gluten exposure cause intense distress within an hour.&lt;p&gt;You have a “wasting” disease which is clearly non-contagious. Is it not obvious to test various strict diets? I guess in advanced cases it takes months of a gluten-free diet for the intestine to start healing (years for full recovery) so short-term test diets would not have led to full recovery, but even if you just experiment with carb-free that would reduce gluten so much I would think someone would have caught onto this sooner!</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>lordnacho</author><text>Keep in mind the modern supermarket is a pretty recent thing. We take it for granted that you can get just about anything at any time of year, but it&amp;#x27;s not something most grandparents would recognise. Heck, even I find there are things in supermarkets that weren&amp;#x27;t around when I was a kid (Quinoa for instance).&lt;p&gt;So finding stuff without gluten might have been pretty hard.&lt;p&gt;Also with anything complex like medicine there are just so many confounding issues that until you have the actual cause, many things sound like they could be it. There would be lots of dead ends and things obscuring the the true cause.</text></comment>
<story><title>A Food Shortage Revealed the Cause of Celiac Disease</title><url>https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/history-of-celiac-disease</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>zaroth</author><text>Stunning it was this hard to pin down an autoimmune disorder which is effectively a food allergy.&lt;p&gt;My daughter has celiac which we caught early (concomitant with T1D) although she is not as hypersensitive as some people I have met, it is still crucial to avoid all gluten as even without overt symptoms it effects overall growth and nutrition.&lt;p&gt;But some of our friends are so sensitive that even minuscule levels of gluten exposure cause intense distress within an hour.&lt;p&gt;You have a “wasting” disease which is clearly non-contagious. Is it not obvious to test various strict diets? I guess in advanced cases it takes months of a gluten-free diet for the intestine to start healing (years for full recovery) so short-term test diets would not have led to full recovery, but even if you just experiment with carb-free that would reduce gluten so much I would think someone would have caught onto this sooner!</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>erikpukinskis</author><text>In the beginning, nothing was obvious. New things become obvious every day.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Astronomers Witness a Dying Star Reach Its Explosive End</title><url>https://keckobservatory.org/dying-star/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>marcodiego</author><text>Where are the actual images? The animation &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;player.vimeo.com&amp;#x2F;video&amp;#x2F;658748207?h=ce918acdf2&amp;amp;title=0&amp;amp;byline=0&amp;amp;portrait=0&amp;amp;speed=0&amp;amp;badge=0&amp;amp;autopause=0&amp;amp;player_id=0&amp;amp;app_id=58479&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;player.vimeo.com&amp;#x2F;video&amp;#x2F;658748207?h=ce918acdf2&amp;amp;title=...&lt;/a&gt; is beautiful, but it is not what I came there for.</text></comment>
<story><title>Astronomers Witness a Dying Star Reach Its Explosive End</title><url>https://keckobservatory.org/dying-star/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>mungoman2</author><text>If you want to get excited by this kind of thing, I can really recommend Big Bang by Simon Singh. It&amp;#x27;s a great intro and made me go from &amp;quot;meh&amp;quot; to &amp;quot;wow&amp;quot; about cosmological things.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Mapillary in the OpenStreetMap iD Editor</title><url>http://blog.mapillary.com/update/2014/10/21/iD-and-mapillary.html</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>a3_nm</author><text>Note that Mapillary has some downsides. In addition to the CC-BY-SA license, the Mapillary T&amp;amp;C (&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.mapillary.com/terms.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.mapillary.com&amp;#x2F;terms.html&lt;/a&gt; 1.3) give them the specific right to reuse user content as they wish, without attribution. (This is different from OSM, which uses the ODbL.)&lt;p&gt;Also, even though the license is CC-BY-SA, section 1.2 of the T&amp;amp;C prohibits commercial use. Further, I see no data dumps provided (or statement of intent to provide some eventually), unlike OSM, StackExchange, Wikimedia projects.&lt;p&gt;Last, the smartphone app seems to be closed-source. (If it is open-source, I couldn&amp;#x27;t find the source.)&lt;p&gt;It is great news that people are trying to develop a Google Street View replacement, but OSM&amp;#x27;s will to let people use this data to improve OSM (like they do for Bing satellite imagery) doesn&amp;#x27;t imply that this project is as free as OSM.</text></comment>
<story><title>Mapillary in the OpenStreetMap iD Editor</title><url>http://blog.mapillary.com/update/2014/10/21/iD-and-mapillary.html</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>rmc</author><text>For those who don&amp;#x27;t know, Mapillary is attempting to be an open source, crowd sourced equivalent of Google Street View. You can download the app on your phone and do some street view today.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Arkham Quixote (2020)</title><url>https://sherief.fyi/post/arkham-quixote/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>akkartik</author><text>&lt;i&gt;&amp;quot;A young computer engineer, known to be one of the most skillful in Westborough’s basement, said he had a fantasy about a better job than his. In it, he goes to work as a janitor for a computer company whose designs leave much to be desired. There, at night, disguised by mop and broom, he sneaks into the offices of the company’s engineers and corrects the designs on their blackboards and desks.”&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;― Tracy Kidder, The Soul of A New Machine</text></comment>
<story><title>Arkham Quixote (2020)</title><url>https://sherief.fyi/post/arkham-quixote/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>mrich</author><text>Well done, for finding the problem with analysis tools and especially lots of experience and even fixing it without source code.&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s puzzling why the studio couldn&amp;#x27;t do this. The problem itself is easy to spot by a performance engineer, and avoided in the first place by an experienced developer. Did all the leads leave after implementing the prototype? Did management fire the whole team after the release? Were sales good enough that nobody really cared?</text></comment>
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<story><title>Terraform 0.12</title><url>https://www.hashicorp.com/blog/announcing-terraform-0-12</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>_t0du</author><text>I honestly love Terraform as a product. It was one of probably three tools I&amp;#x27;ve used in my entire career that made me feel immediately more productive. After using it for a very short period of time I was shocked developers continued to struggle through CF templates and the fragility the whole process entailed.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>maxaf</author><text>Viewing Terraform solely through the lens of cloud automation and in comparison with CloudFormation is a shortsighted mistake. Terraform has providers for plenty of other services that don&amp;#x27;t qualify as &amp;quot;cloud things&amp;quot; and lack proper configuration of their own. In a very general sense, Terraform is a terrific resource management tool with state versioning &amp;amp; locking built in. For example, there&amp;#x27;s a terraform-kafka-provider[1], which can be used to manage topics in a Kafka cluster. Could shell scripts be written to accomplish the same goal? Of course. Would those scripts inevitably develop in a haphazard, organic way to form a buggy and incomplete implementation of something like Terraform? You bet!&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;Cloud&amp;quot; configuration may have been Terraform&amp;#x27;s proverbial toe in water, but the truly untapped potential lies in the other providers. Anything that can be packaged as a Terraform provider exposing resource abstractions can be easily managed using convenient HCL syntax. This, IMHO, is the unfortunately buried lede.&lt;p&gt;[1]: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;github.com&amp;#x2F;Mongey&amp;#x2F;terraform-provider-kafka&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;github.com&amp;#x2F;Mongey&amp;#x2F;terraform-provider-kafka&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>
<story><title>Terraform 0.12</title><url>https://www.hashicorp.com/blog/announcing-terraform-0-12</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>_t0du</author><text>I honestly love Terraform as a product. It was one of probably three tools I&amp;#x27;ve used in my entire career that made me feel immediately more productive. After using it for a very short period of time I was shocked developers continued to struggle through CF templates and the fragility the whole process entailed.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mirceal</author><text>this is short-sighted. Terraform and CloudFormation are not even in the same league. One of them works and actually can be used for Infrastructure as Code, the other one does not roll back in the face of failure - it effectively craps for reasons ranging from network failure, process crash, even normal operation. One is heavy kool-aid with bugs that go unresolved for years, the other behaves as advertised.&lt;p&gt;Sorry, but I have yet to meet a developer that used Terraform and willingly wants to keep using it after seeing it fail. When your tool cannot keep track of the resources it created or when it gets into situations where it doesn’t allow you to do certain things (like deleting all resources created) and you have to relearn how the underlying cloud works, it’s time to move on.&lt;p&gt;Do yourselves a favor and use Cloudformation (or your favorite cloud’s equivalent and just move on with your life)</text></comment>
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<story><title>Two Commits and the User Experience of Git</title><url>https://redfin.engineering/two-commits-that-wrecked-the-user-experience-of-git-f0075b77eab1</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>michael_storm</author><text>&amp;gt; &lt;i&gt;Today, I specifically want to call attention to two commits by the lead maintainer of Git, Junio Hamano, that left the deepest scars.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;Why call the maintainer out by name (and continually do so throughout the essay)? What purpose does that serve? To embarrass him for volunteering his time on an open source project that you&amp;#x27;ve built your business on, just because &lt;i&gt;you didn&amp;#x27;t like&lt;/i&gt; these two features he added? There was no personal behavior of his at play; he simply made some technical choices you disagree with.&lt;p&gt;Keep it technical, dude. This is ad-hominem and smug.</text></comment>
<story><title>Two Commits and the User Experience of Git</title><url>https://redfin.engineering/two-commits-that-wrecked-the-user-experience-of-git-f0075b77eab1</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>ajarmst</author><text>&lt;i&gt;&amp;quot;It&amp;#x27;s like Unix!&amp;quot; people say. &amp;quot;rm doesn&amp;#x27;t warn you, either!&amp;quot;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;Reminds me of one of my common complaints about that response. The difference is that &amp;#x27;rm&amp;#x27; doesn&amp;#x27;t do anything but remove stuff---it removing things isn&amp;#x27;t surprising. If a command has multiple potential effect types, and only some of them are destructive, then good UI would offer a warning.</text></comment>