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<story><title>Study: Kids whose parents hold them back from school a year have advantages</title><url>http://www.inc.com/bill-murphy-jr/science-says-were-sending-our-kids-to-school-much-too-early-and-that-can-hurt-th.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>rhapsodic</author><text>For two of my children, my spouse and I decided to send them early because they missed the cutoff by a few months. Our reasoning was, we could either give them an extra year of preschool childhood, or post-school adulthood, and we decided the latter was more valuable.&lt;p&gt;From an academic standpoint, both children were able to excel. There was no question they were smart enough to start school.&lt;p&gt;But one child was shy, and not socially adept. And I think we made a mistake with that one. That child is the smarter of the two, but is not doing so great as an adult.&lt;p&gt;The other was both socially and intellectually gifted as a preschool child. That child is still in high school, and is thriving both academically and socially, and has very specific, ambitious goals for college and career.&lt;p&gt;Gender indicators in this post have been left out deliberately. I realize they could be germane to the discussion, but I left them out for the sake of privacy.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>barking</author><text>I think that the fact that one of your children was naturally shy is the real issue. Shy people tend to have difficulties that non-shy people don&amp;#x27;t have. I could be wrong of course, but that&amp;#x27;s what I believe, as a shy person who on account of my birthday started school about a later than average. I also have siblings who are utterly different to me and who are high achievers etc.</text></comment>

<story><title>Study: Kids whose parents hold them back from school a year have advantages</title><url>http://www.inc.com/bill-murphy-jr/science-says-were-sending-our-kids-to-school-much-too-early-and-that-can-hurt-th.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>rhapsodic</author><text>For two of my children, my spouse and I decided to send them early because they missed the cutoff by a few months. Our reasoning was, we could either give them an extra year of preschool childhood, or post-school adulthood, and we decided the latter was more valuable.&lt;p&gt;From an academic standpoint, both children were able to excel. There was no question they were smart enough to start school.&lt;p&gt;But one child was shy, and not socially adept. And I think we made a mistake with that one. That child is the smarter of the two, but is not doing so great as an adult.&lt;p&gt;The other was both socially and intellectually gifted as a preschool child. That child is still in high school, and is thriving both academically and socially, and has very specific, ambitious goals for college and career.&lt;p&gt;Gender indicators in this post have been left out deliberately. I realize they could be germane to the discussion, but I left them out for the sake of privacy.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>nemonemo</author><text>Thank you for sharing your story. Last year, I and my wife deliberately decided to minimize applications to schools with my kid who seems to have similar social&amp;#x2F;academic tendency as your first one. We applied one school where such kids could also be thriving, and ended up not getting accepted. She would need to go to a school this year, and within a year, my kid became much more mature than a year before, and we &amp;amp; people around her think the delay was probably good for her. Just wanted to add my anecdote.</text></comment>

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<story><title>Cow Game Extracted Facebook Data</title><url>https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2018/03/my-cow-game-extracted-your-facebook-data/556214/?single_page=true</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>throwaway84742</author><text>Google must be sweating bullets right now. Every single Android app seems to require access to every single thing, and there are hundreds of thousands of them with a significant user base. Some do most certainly misuse the data they collect. Maybe a small percentage, but a small percentage of 100k is still a large number.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>leggomylibro</author><text>Google is in a bit of a different position. The most information that a malicious app on my friend&amp;#x27;s phone can access about me is what my friend has stored on their phone about me.&lt;p&gt;Personal things like messaging history and contact information are certainly enough to build a &amp;#x27;social graph&amp;#x27;, but what Google does not let apps do is access the information &lt;i&gt;that Google stores about me on their servers&lt;/i&gt; just because my friend has both my number and a greedy app on their phone.</text></comment>

<story><title>Cow Game Extracted Facebook Data</title><url>https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2018/03/my-cow-game-extracted-your-facebook-data/556214/?single_page=true</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>throwaway84742</author><text>Google must be sweating bullets right now. Every single Android app seems to require access to every single thing, and there are hundreds of thousands of them with a significant user base. Some do most certainly misuse the data they collect. Maybe a small percentage, but a small percentage of 100k is still a large number.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>guelo</author><text>Google might know a lot about you but they have never exposed that to third party apps. Facebook&amp;#x27;s data is much more personal. With a user&amp;#x27;s &amp;quot;Like&amp;quot; stream it&amp;#x27;s possible to build a surprisingly accurate personality profile.&lt;p&gt;The worst Android offenders, as always, are the big ad libraries that are installed across a lot of apps. They&amp;#x27;re able to build a rough personality profile based on the types of apps someone has installed. So they can generally say if a user is into categories like music or politics or comedy. But that problem exists on iOS and the web.&lt;p&gt;Android has also tightened up its permission model considerably over the last several years.</text></comment>

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<story><title>Indian government empowers itself to “fact check,” delete social media posts</title><url>https://restofworld.org/2023/indian-government-fact-check-delete-social-media/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>SomeCallMeTim</author><text>Ten years ago I would have agreed.&lt;p&gt;Today? I&amp;#x27;m not sure you&amp;#x27;re right about which is the greater threat.&lt;p&gt;Yes, state censorship can be abused. But promoting misinformation is a &lt;i&gt;known&lt;/i&gt; threat to Democracy &lt;i&gt;today&lt;/i&gt;. Right now.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;m not sure what the real answer should be. If &amp;quot;the market&amp;quot; manages to get the propaganda farms&amp;#x27; misinformation under control, then great. If they &lt;i&gt;don&amp;#x27;t&lt;/i&gt;, the only answer I can see is for government to step in.&lt;p&gt;As they say, the Constitution is not a suicide pact. Dying to protect absolute freedom of speech when bad actors are abusing it to destroy the country is not wise.</text></item><item><author>autoexec</author><text>I&amp;#x27;m not even opposed to flagging posts as “fake, false or misleading” because abusing those flags will cause them to be ignored, but removing content is a problem. State censorship is a much bigger threat to Democracy than false or misleading tweets and facebook posts.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>citizen_friend</author><text>How do you reconcile the premise of democracy (that the general public will be able to discern and organize for good) with calls to supervise what opinions they can be exposed to?</text></comment>

<story><title>Indian government empowers itself to “fact check,” delete social media posts</title><url>https://restofworld.org/2023/indian-government-fact-check-delete-social-media/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>SomeCallMeTim</author><text>Ten years ago I would have agreed.&lt;p&gt;Today? I&amp;#x27;m not sure you&amp;#x27;re right about which is the greater threat.&lt;p&gt;Yes, state censorship can be abused. But promoting misinformation is a &lt;i&gt;known&lt;/i&gt; threat to Democracy &lt;i&gt;today&lt;/i&gt;. Right now.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;m not sure what the real answer should be. If &amp;quot;the market&amp;quot; manages to get the propaganda farms&amp;#x27; misinformation under control, then great. If they &lt;i&gt;don&amp;#x27;t&lt;/i&gt;, the only answer I can see is for government to step in.&lt;p&gt;As they say, the Constitution is not a suicide pact. Dying to protect absolute freedom of speech when bad actors are abusing it to destroy the country is not wise.</text></item><item><author>autoexec</author><text>I&amp;#x27;m not even opposed to flagging posts as “fake, false or misleading” because abusing those flags will cause them to be ignored, but removing content is a problem. State censorship is a much bigger threat to Democracy than false or misleading tweets and facebook posts.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>thewanderer1983</author><text>&amp;gt;Yes, state censorship can be abused. But promoting misinformation is a known threat to Democracy today. Right now.&lt;p&gt;State Censorship is being abused today right now. State Censorship is also a threat to Democracy. It&amp;#x27;s giving the most powerful institutions the tools to attack Democracy.&lt;p&gt;Who gets to decide what is mis&amp;#x2F;mal&amp;#x2F;dis information? The government? We as human beings are constantly weighing up information and evaluating details to inform our actions. Why do you think they have better tools to decide this for you? Who are these individuals in Government that have worked out all the truths of the world and why do you buy into them deciding this? Has anyone here worked for Government?&lt;p&gt;All the worlds information isn&amp;#x27;t easily summed up into Scientific truths that can be instantly fact checked by Government and everything else. This power your giving the government to decide what information you can see and not. Doesn&amp;#x27;t empower you the citizen to make good decisions. It allows government to sway your information to guide the outcome they want. Which is known as Public Policy, and they have decided that Public Policy is no longer up for debate for the plebs.</text></comment>

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<story><title>GitHub Broken Download URLs</title><url>https://github.com/github/feedback/discussions/8149</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>gudmundur</author><text>Hi everyone. I&amp;#x27;m an engineer at GitHub and I just posted a response to this issue here: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;github.com&amp;#x2F;github&amp;#x2F;feedback&amp;#x2F;discussions&amp;#x2F;8149#discussioncomment-1712006&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;github.com&amp;#x2F;github&amp;#x2F;feedback&amp;#x2F;discussions&amp;#x2F;8149#discussi...&lt;/a&gt;.</text></comment>

<story><title>GitHub Broken Download URLs</title><url>https://github.com/github/feedback/discussions/8149</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>the_duke</author><text>At least now I know why my nix builds are failing...&lt;p&gt;Odd for something like this to slip through and not be rolled back immediately.&lt;p&gt;Unless it was intentional, in which case it would be even more odd to not communicate this widely beforehand.</text></comment>

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<story><title>Using the linear distance operator in Postgres 12 to find the closest match</title><url>https://www.2ndquadrant.com/en/blog/postgresql-12-implementing-k-nearest-neighbor-space-partitioned-generalized-search-tree-indexes/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>miles-po</author><text>While the unindexed time is impressive for the lack of index, the GIST and SP-GIST times are not 0.939 sec and 0.358 sec. All times are in &lt;i&gt;milliseconds&lt;/i&gt;. GIST returns in slightly less than 1ms, not 1s. SP-GIST returns in slightly more than 1&amp;#x2F;3 of a millisecond.&lt;p&gt;Performance for GIST and SP-GIST are in fact three orders of magnitude better than what the author summarized!</text></comment>

<story><title>Using the linear distance operator in Postgres 12 to find the closest match</title><url>https://www.2ndquadrant.com/en/blog/postgresql-12-implementing-k-nearest-neighbor-space-partitioned-generalized-search-tree-indexes/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>zRedShift</author><text>So it&amp;#x27;s using a K-D-B-Tree under the hood? SP-GiST, that is.&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;K-D-B-tree&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;K-D-B-tree&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>

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<story><title>PC market has seen its first growth quarter in six years</title><url>https://venturebeat.com/2018/07/12/gartner-global-pc-shipments-grew-1-4-in-q2-2018-first-increase-in-6-years/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>ksec</author><text>Interesting lot of people thought it was business cycles. Which is only partly true. There is China and PC Gaming. Both are now a huge market. For the past 4 - 5 years, if it wasn&amp;#x27;t for PC gaming, Unit Shipment would have been falling 10%+ YoY.&lt;p&gt;Many years ago people thought console would take over gaming. And it turns out Keyboard and Mouse are irreplaceable for certain type of games. You may never play PSE or FIFA on your PC any more, but many more strategy games, Online Games, FPS are still on PC. And as generation of people who grew up in gaming, there is ever increasing number of people on Twitch or other E-Sport streaming site.&lt;p&gt;Unfortunately Apple thinks Gaming is a waste of time. And therefore Mac doesn&amp;#x27;t really cater for Games Developers. iOS Gaming is still a result of iOS popularity rather then Apple making it better. We can used to argue PC gaming is niche, for nerds, Riva TNT, 3Dfx, Rage 128, Radeon, Geforce.....&lt;p&gt;Now PC Gaming is no longer a small communities, and will continue to grow into much larger in the years to come.</text></comment>

<story><title>PC market has seen its first growth quarter in six years</title><url>https://venturebeat.com/2018/07/12/gartner-global-pc-shipments-grew-1-4-in-q2-2018-first-increase-in-6-years/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>raverbashing</author><text>I wonder if this is due to a refresh cycle from PS bought in the past 3-5 years&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s 1.4% growth of something that was going downhill for a while already, so it might not be too impactful</text></comment>

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<story><title>Pixelfed – Federated Image Sharing</title><url>https://pixelfed.org/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>rohan1024</author><text>This is how we probably should proceed with decentralization.&lt;p&gt;The problem that I see currently with this approach is not many are willing to host there own servers. Even people who are fairly tech savy won&amp;#x27;t host any server because of the costs involved. I am not going to host a server unless I get benefit out of it or its dirt cheap to host them.&lt;p&gt;The solution I think is instead of hosting it on cloud we host it at home. This way we have control over the cost. Again, if I can choose the kind of content that I am hosting then that would be great. I like to save images on certain topics. I don&amp;#x27;t mind serving them from my home since I already have unlimited data connection. Running a server on Raspberry PI would be ideal. There are already millions of PIs out there and they can be used for decentralization of apps. In the end, we might even be able to convince general population to host there own content. We will have to provide them tools and utilities to make hosting as easy as possible.&lt;p&gt;The major problem I think is NAT which is preventing direct hosting of content from home. Solve that and you most probably have solved decentralization.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>MadWombat</author><text>&amp;gt; The major problem I think is NAT&lt;p&gt;NAT is not a problem. All you have to do is configure port forwarding on your router correctly. Dynamic IP assignment is a bit more of a problem, but it can be overcome by using dynamic DNS services. All of this is fairly trivial.&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; I don&amp;#x27;t mind serving them from my home&lt;p&gt;I do. And I think it goes for a lot of people. My connection is residential, so somewhere in the ToS it says that I cannot run public servers off of it. Besides, there is no guaranteed uptime, I would need to deal with things like backups, hardware replacements and whatever other maintenance myself. Whereas with a service like Instagram, I just take pictures on my phone and upload. There is no overhead, my stuff is always available and I don&amp;#x27;t have to worry about backups.</text></comment>

<story><title>Pixelfed – Federated Image Sharing</title><url>https://pixelfed.org/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>rohan1024</author><text>This is how we probably should proceed with decentralization.&lt;p&gt;The problem that I see currently with this approach is not many are willing to host there own servers. Even people who are fairly tech savy won&amp;#x27;t host any server because of the costs involved. I am not going to host a server unless I get benefit out of it or its dirt cheap to host them.&lt;p&gt;The solution I think is instead of hosting it on cloud we host it at home. This way we have control over the cost. Again, if I can choose the kind of content that I am hosting then that would be great. I like to save images on certain topics. I don&amp;#x27;t mind serving them from my home since I already have unlimited data connection. Running a server on Raspberry PI would be ideal. There are already millions of PIs out there and they can be used for decentralization of apps. In the end, we might even be able to convince general population to host there own content. We will have to provide them tools and utilities to make hosting as easy as possible.&lt;p&gt;The major problem I think is NAT which is preventing direct hosting of content from home. Solve that and you most probably have solved decentralization.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>olah_1</author><text>That&amp;#x27;s exactly what FreedomBox is trying to do. &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;freedombox.org&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;freedombox.org&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;They have a lot of work to do on user friendliness and design though.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;d rather see something like YUNOHOST partner with a hardware provider.</text></comment>

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<story><title>Governments Turn to Commercial Spyware to Intimidate Dissidents</title><url>http://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/30/technology/governments-turn-to-commercial-spyware-to-intimidate-dissidents.html?ref=technology&amp;_r=0</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>JustUhThought</author><text>Do other HN readers find themselves on the receiving end of ridicule by their fam &amp;amp; friends for taking this privacy stuff seriously? I&amp;#x27;m constantly being told I&amp;#x27;m unreasonably worried, borderline tin-hat wearing paranoid, for being concerned by the surveillance capabilities built into our modern consumer electronics which are available to governments and business alike.&lt;p&gt;But if someone my parents know have their identity stolen by stealing credit card bills and applications from their mailbox and then find themselves on the hook for $30,000 in fraudulent charges, well then it&amp;#x27;s all my parents talk about for the next 2 days.&lt;p&gt;That I understand the technology and they do not, seems to keep them from taking the issue seriously.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>pascalmemories</author><text>Yup. I actively work in security consultancy. &lt;i&gt;Everyone&lt;/i&gt; outside of tech thinks and treats me like some sort of tinfoil hat salesperson. I get sent all sorts of crazy conspiracy theory links because &amp;quot;that&amp;#x27;s the stuff you&amp;#x27;re really into.&amp;quot; on a daily basis.&lt;p&gt;Even when people read about Snowden, they just don&amp;#x27;t get it. This past weekend, he came up and the response was, yeah, but Snowden was saying the spying is only on terrorists, they don&amp;#x27;t collect any information on people who are not terrorists because that would be way more information than they want. Trying to explain that is the opposite of what Snowden was saying was pointless and futile because it just made me sound like the crazy one.&lt;p&gt;The NSA must be rolling around laughing as they listen in to peoples naive conversations about Snowden.&lt;p&gt;edit: oops, removed link added on the wrong posting. Sorry. And a typo. Sorry again.</text></comment>

<story><title>Governments Turn to Commercial Spyware to Intimidate Dissidents</title><url>http://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/30/technology/governments-turn-to-commercial-spyware-to-intimidate-dissidents.html?ref=technology&amp;_r=0</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>JustUhThought</author><text>Do other HN readers find themselves on the receiving end of ridicule by their fam &amp;amp; friends for taking this privacy stuff seriously? I&amp;#x27;m constantly being told I&amp;#x27;m unreasonably worried, borderline tin-hat wearing paranoid, for being concerned by the surveillance capabilities built into our modern consumer electronics which are available to governments and business alike.&lt;p&gt;But if someone my parents know have their identity stolen by stealing credit card bills and applications from their mailbox and then find themselves on the hook for $30,000 in fraudulent charges, well then it&amp;#x27;s all my parents talk about for the next 2 days.&lt;p&gt;That I understand the technology and they do not, seems to keep them from taking the issue seriously.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ottertown</author><text>For my family, definitely yes. Though it may just be that non-technical people are going to take longer to understand the gravity of technical problems, and I think that&amp;#x27;s compounded by most people&amp;#x27;s latent contempt for software &amp;#x2F; IT people.&lt;p&gt;My family initially decided Edward Snowden was a traitor and coward for &amp;#x27;fleeing&amp;#x27; to Russia. They threw every stale argument at me, from &amp;quot;I have nothing to hide&amp;quot; to &amp;quot;everyone is spying on everyone, what&amp;#x27;s the big deal?&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;They&amp;#x27;ve started to backtrack from these positions. I&amp;#x27;m not sure why or how, but I suspect they just needed people they trust (e.g. some columnist in the NY Times) to tell them they&amp;#x27;re wrong.</text></comment>

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<story><title>Introducing Topics</title><url>https://github.com/blog/2309-introducing-topics</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>securingsincity</author><text>I tagged a few of my repos. What I&amp;#x27;d be excited for is topics that are not simply languages or frameworks but concepts. As an example my feature toggle library in elixir should be tagged with feature-toggle which if you are looking for that kind of tool in that language here it is. I could see this being really helpful for &amp;quot;how have others solved X problem in Y language so I don&amp;#x27;t have to?&amp;quot;</text></comment>

<story><title>Introducing Topics</title><url>https://github.com/blog/2309-introducing-topics</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>orb_yt</author><text>I like this feature, it&amp;#x27;s very reminiscent of StackOverflow&amp;#x27;s tags. I do however think this would be better used as a menu or at the bottom of the page, out of the way, as this information will not be relevant on most repository visits. It adds unneeded complexity to the top and most important part of the page where before it felt simple.</text></comment>

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<story><title>Matcha.css – Drop-in semantic styling library in pure CSS</title><url>https://matcha.mizu.sh/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>mushufasa</author><text>I love the concept of re-invigorating html as the only source of truth for document layout -- and I totally see this being productive for documents that don&amp;#x27;t need complex design.&lt;p&gt;That said, I don&amp;#x27;t love the default design choices here -- colors and &amp;quot;polish.&amp;quot; I&amp;#x27;m not a professionally trained designer, but I&amp;#x27;ve hand rolled enough software that users eventually complained about to sense when something &amp;quot;feels off&amp;quot; compared to what a really good designer creates with a background in color theory, information density, gradient shadings etc.&lt;p&gt;If the author is here, have you considered leveraging the aesthetics from other FOSS projects like bulma or tailwind, or collaborating with a professional designer? I know jgthms is sometimes on this site.</text></comment>

<story><title>Matcha.css – Drop-in semantic styling library in pure CSS</title><url>https://matcha.mizu.sh/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>runlaszlorun</author><text>I love little libraries like this. I currently use pico.css and will check this one out. This is what our standard DOM elements in the browser should look like. But given that they don’t, there’s libraries like this.&lt;p&gt;I googled what “classless” meant for this library after another user commented and found the link below if folks are interested in similar libraries.&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;github.com&amp;#x2F;dbohdan&amp;#x2F;classless-css&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;github.com&amp;#x2F;dbohdan&amp;#x2F;classless-css&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>

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<story><title>Ask HN: Is there an “uncanny valley” effect with startup MVPs?</title><text>I am asking because I have noticed that as I build better landing pages for my MVPs I get judged more harshly. This got me thinking if there is a way in which having a not particularly attractive landing page might get people to approach the product in a different way.</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>SenHeng</author><text>Foreigners in Japan have the same issue. Pretend not to speak a lick of Japanese and you&amp;#x27;ll get great service. Speak just a little and suddenly they think you can read Archimedes (or the Japanese equivalent).</text></item><item><author>ChrisMarshallNY</author><text>I worked (in the US), with a French guy, who had lived in the US for many years (as an adult).&lt;p&gt;He had very little accent. He had obviously worked very hard to remove the accent (big job), but he still understood English as a secondary language, and sometimes had difficulty comprehending dialogue (especially in New York, where we talk quickly).&lt;p&gt;People didn’t cut him slack for the lack of comprehension, where I think they would have, if he had a stronger accent.&lt;p&gt;I also knew an Italian, who had a strong accent, but a better command of English than most native speakers. I think he deliberately played his accent up.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>wccrawford</author><text>My wife and I went to Tokyo, and it stayed in a hotel by Disney. We spent like 4-5 days in Tokyo itself, and another 4-5 at the Disney parks.&lt;p&gt;My experience, everywhere in Tokyo from small restaurants to Disney, was that everyone was nervous to try to speak English with me, but willing to try. Even the waitress at one restaurant that clearly didn&amp;#x27;t speak much English.&lt;p&gt;When I tried to speak Japanese, they were &lt;i&gt;delighted&lt;/i&gt;. My language partners have highly praised my accent, which I understand to mean that I&amp;#x27;m not completely horrible. And I have a decent basic vocabulary and horrible grammar.&lt;p&gt;I have had some instances (both in Tokyo and with my language partners who were &lt;i&gt;not&lt;/i&gt; in Tokyo) where they suddenly started talking way above my level, and I had to ask them to explain things, but I think that&amp;#x27;s just the weirdness of talking to a full grown adult that speaks like a child, and trying to manage that situation.</text></comment>

<story><title>Ask HN: Is there an “uncanny valley” effect with startup MVPs?</title><text>I am asking because I have noticed that as I build better landing pages for my MVPs I get judged more harshly. This got me thinking if there is a way in which having a not particularly attractive landing page might get people to approach the product in a different way.</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>SenHeng</author><text>Foreigners in Japan have the same issue. Pretend not to speak a lick of Japanese and you&amp;#x27;ll get great service. Speak just a little and suddenly they think you can read Archimedes (or the Japanese equivalent).</text></item><item><author>ChrisMarshallNY</author><text>I worked (in the US), with a French guy, who had lived in the US for many years (as an adult).&lt;p&gt;He had very little accent. He had obviously worked very hard to remove the accent (big job), but he still understood English as a secondary language, and sometimes had difficulty comprehending dialogue (especially in New York, where we talk quickly).&lt;p&gt;People didn’t cut him slack for the lack of comprehension, where I think they would have, if he had a stronger accent.&lt;p&gt;I also knew an Italian, who had a strong accent, but a better command of English than most native speakers. I think he deliberately played his accent up.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>bitwize</author><text>My experience was the opposite. Pretend to speak no Japanese and you will get baffled looks and maybe asked to leave the store. At best you will be treated a little coldly. Speak a little and they will be most accommodating. They will help you fill in the gaps of your language knowledge and do their best to make your experience in Japan smoother.&lt;p&gt;Overall, Japanese people really are culturally and linguistically fairly isolated on their little island chain -- &lt;i&gt;and they hate it&lt;/i&gt;. One of the upshots of this is that fluent or even conversational English speakers are quite rare in Japan; and another is that anything and anyone from &amp;quot;overseas&amp;quot; is a potential source of fascination and wonder. (A little scary, too.) So when it comes particularly to the young (&amp;lt; 50 y.o. give or take), as a foreign tourist you will find yourself surrounded by people mildly to extremely intrigued in making a cross-cultural connection -- seeking a &amp;quot;borderless feeling&amp;quot; -- but they have no idea how. With a bit of conversational Japanese, you can establish lines of communication with the Japanese you meet and kick off that connection process, for which they will be quite grateful.&lt;p&gt;At the very least, learn how to ask for an English speaker if one is available. I did this once in a frozen yogurt shop, and was introduced to the manager, a 22-year-old who wanted to tell me all about her time as an exchange student in California (as well as how to buy yogurt in the shop).&lt;p&gt;Of course, this was Osaka. So maybe they were just super-accommodating to me so they would get my business. (By comparison to Tokyo, Osaka is hustle town -- matters of decorum and cultural appropriateness can be put aside if it means more business.)</text></comment>

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<story><title>Why Finnish babies sleep in cardboard boxes</title><url>http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-22751415</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jan_g</author><text>It is worth noting that all this is not free, but paid for by the tax payer. Many European countries have similar arrangements.&lt;p&gt;Personally, I think all this is money well spent by the governments as it gives nice financial boost to young parents and a sense that someone/something cares about them and their baby.</text></item><item><author>ProcessBlue</author><text>Lovely article. However, I must say that the box is only the tip of the iceberg. It&apos;s been almost four years since we went through the gauntlet so my memory may be a bit fuzzy but if I remember correctly the FREE tier of forming babby in Finland includes:&lt;p&gt;- Initially monthly (increaing to weekly) pre-natal checkups that include bloodwork, metabolism tests, ultrasounds and any treatments necessary to ensure the baby&apos;s and mother&apos;s health.&lt;p&gt;- About 12 hours of parental training which I found surprisingly useful (containing none of the Lamaze class stereotypes I had been expecting). Also, our group of people contained an absolutely adorable teenage couple, everybody else was in their late twenties to mid thirties.&lt;p&gt;- The whole &quot;actual business&quot;. Now this bit we did have to pay for, about $80 per day that we stayed in one of the maternity ward&apos;s private rooms with full room service.&lt;p&gt;- First weekly and later monthly post natal checkups (also for the mom) including vaccinations. At two years the schedule switches to annual checkups and starts including dental chaeckups. At some point during the first months a doctor actually visits your home to check up on how you are dealing with the whole situation. If there are clear indicators of problems (e.g. alcoholism) the doc can point you in the direction for help.&lt;p&gt;- You start getting about $150/month from the state for the baby (until it is 18 years old), this is about half of the cost of municpal daycare. In addition to this you get financial support during (m|p)aternity leave (the amount is actually scaled based on your salary). Maternity leave is about 100 days, paternity leave is about 50 days and on top of that you are entitled to 160 days of parental leave (either mom or dad can take this). Your place of employment can get state compensation if they decide to pay you a full salaray during your leave. Then there is a general child care leave than can extend to three years, it gets nitty gritty with the bureaucracy of compensations but effectively it is possible to take care of your kid for the first three years and still have your old job back when you&apos;re done. In our circle of friends there are at least a couple of &quot;career women&quot; who have checked out for ~5 years to have two kids and successfully gotten back into the game.&lt;p&gt;So yeah, the box is nice but it is only the icing on the fabulous cake that is having a baby in Finland :-).</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mikeash</author><text>Why exactly is this worth noting?&lt;p&gt;Nobody jumps to point out that there&apos;s still somebody paying for the &quot;free&quot; tiers of Dropbox or GitHub or whatever. Yet the moment somebody mentions a &quot;free&quot; social program, people suddenly have to hammer on the point that &lt;i&gt;somebody&lt;/i&gt; pays for it.&lt;p&gt;We&apos;re not a bunch of imbeciles who think that social programs just rain from the sky....</text></comment>

<story><title>Why Finnish babies sleep in cardboard boxes</title><url>http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-22751415</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jan_g</author><text>It is worth noting that all this is not free, but paid for by the tax payer. Many European countries have similar arrangements.&lt;p&gt;Personally, I think all this is money well spent by the governments as it gives nice financial boost to young parents and a sense that someone/something cares about them and their baby.</text></item><item><author>ProcessBlue</author><text>Lovely article. However, I must say that the box is only the tip of the iceberg. It&apos;s been almost four years since we went through the gauntlet so my memory may be a bit fuzzy but if I remember correctly the FREE tier of forming babby in Finland includes:&lt;p&gt;- Initially monthly (increaing to weekly) pre-natal checkups that include bloodwork, metabolism tests, ultrasounds and any treatments necessary to ensure the baby&apos;s and mother&apos;s health.&lt;p&gt;- About 12 hours of parental training which I found surprisingly useful (containing none of the Lamaze class stereotypes I had been expecting). Also, our group of people contained an absolutely adorable teenage couple, everybody else was in their late twenties to mid thirties.&lt;p&gt;- The whole &quot;actual business&quot;. Now this bit we did have to pay for, about $80 per day that we stayed in one of the maternity ward&apos;s private rooms with full room service.&lt;p&gt;- First weekly and later monthly post natal checkups (also for the mom) including vaccinations. At two years the schedule switches to annual checkups and starts including dental chaeckups. At some point during the first months a doctor actually visits your home to check up on how you are dealing with the whole situation. If there are clear indicators of problems (e.g. alcoholism) the doc can point you in the direction for help.&lt;p&gt;- You start getting about $150/month from the state for the baby (until it is 18 years old), this is about half of the cost of municpal daycare. In addition to this you get financial support during (m|p)aternity leave (the amount is actually scaled based on your salary). Maternity leave is about 100 days, paternity leave is about 50 days and on top of that you are entitled to 160 days of parental leave (either mom or dad can take this). Your place of employment can get state compensation if they decide to pay you a full salaray during your leave. Then there is a general child care leave than can extend to three years, it gets nitty gritty with the bureaucracy of compensations but effectively it is possible to take care of your kid for the first three years and still have your old job back when you&apos;re done. In our circle of friends there are at least a couple of &quot;career women&quot; who have checked out for ~5 years to have two kids and successfully gotten back into the game.&lt;p&gt;So yeah, the box is nice but it is only the icing on the fabulous cake that is having a baby in Finland :-).</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>naradaellis</author><text>Also there is more bang for the buck making sure babies are raised well and healthy, over trying to fix maladjusted and unhealthy teenagers and adults years later.</text></comment>

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<story><title>Things You Notice When You Quit the News</title><url>http://www.raptitude.com/2016/12/five-things-you-notice-when-you-quit-the-news/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>cloakandswagger</author><text>Look at recent events if you need further evidence of this. The term &amp;quot;fake news&amp;quot; has exploded in just under a month in the mainstream media.&lt;p&gt;If my memory serves me, tabloids like The Enquirer have been sitting on news stands for as long as I can remember. So how did this fervor over &amp;quot;fake news&amp;quot; coalesce so quickly and uniformly?&lt;p&gt;Mainstream outlets move in lockstep with each other and these are the final, desperate death throes of an outdated and superfluous institution. Don&amp;#x27;t expect they&amp;#x27;ll go down without a fight though.</text></item><item><author>pipio21</author><text>5. You are being manipulated by mainstream news.&lt;p&gt;You can learn Arabic or Russian and go to Ukraine or Syria or Iraq and inform yourself talking to the people there, both sides of the story, or you can let the TV media tell you what is happening.&lt;p&gt;I have done it(I don&amp;#x27;t know much Arabic and a little Russian but I have traveled there) and it is quite an astonishment that what TV shows you has nothing to do with reality. I remember talking with a Syrian showing me a CNN video from US News of a Syrian manifestation(from natives that were being flood by foreigners with bad intentions), they reduced the audio volume and told everybody the manifestation was from the other side(the side that US was supporting).&lt;p&gt;The fact is that people that understood Arabic could listen what the protesters were saying and they(CNN) DID NOT CARE.&lt;p&gt;They did not care because it is a numbers thing, most Americans don&amp;#x27;t know Arabic, and millions of them will watch the channel and make themselves an idea from the eyes and ears that people in power have chosen for them.&lt;p&gt;The city where the protesters went into war and was bombarded for years and nobody displayed it on the news. Now it is displayed every single day because the people the US is supporting is losing there. Now it is so important civilians in this city, when for years they simply did not exist.&lt;p&gt;If you control the perception, you control the emotions that people will feel, and you could make them do exactly what you want. They will even believe they are &amp;quot;free&amp;quot;, because they are to behave as they wish, but they are not because emotions are quite automatic.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>gnarbarian</author><text>The whole FUD campaign regarding &amp;quot;Fake News&amp;quot; is comically hypocritical in my opinion. Glenn Greenwald has an excellent article calling them out for it:&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;theintercept.com&amp;#x2F;2016&amp;#x2F;12&amp;#x2F;09&amp;#x2F;a-clinton-fan-manufactured-fake-news-that-msnbc-personalities-spread-to-discredit-wikileaks-docs&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;theintercept.com&amp;#x2F;2016&amp;#x2F;12&amp;#x2F;09&amp;#x2F;a-clinton-fan-manufactur...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;Edit: Ironically, that post was doing great until it got flagged.&lt;p&gt;Edit 2: It has been unflagged&lt;p&gt;Edit 3: Flagged again.</text></comment>

<story><title>Things You Notice When You Quit the News</title><url>http://www.raptitude.com/2016/12/five-things-you-notice-when-you-quit-the-news/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>cloakandswagger</author><text>Look at recent events if you need further evidence of this. The term &amp;quot;fake news&amp;quot; has exploded in just under a month in the mainstream media.&lt;p&gt;If my memory serves me, tabloids like The Enquirer have been sitting on news stands for as long as I can remember. So how did this fervor over &amp;quot;fake news&amp;quot; coalesce so quickly and uniformly?&lt;p&gt;Mainstream outlets move in lockstep with each other and these are the final, desperate death throes of an outdated and superfluous institution. Don&amp;#x27;t expect they&amp;#x27;ll go down without a fight though.</text></item><item><author>pipio21</author><text>5. You are being manipulated by mainstream news.&lt;p&gt;You can learn Arabic or Russian and go to Ukraine or Syria or Iraq and inform yourself talking to the people there, both sides of the story, or you can let the TV media tell you what is happening.&lt;p&gt;I have done it(I don&amp;#x27;t know much Arabic and a little Russian but I have traveled there) and it is quite an astonishment that what TV shows you has nothing to do with reality. I remember talking with a Syrian showing me a CNN video from US News of a Syrian manifestation(from natives that were being flood by foreigners with bad intentions), they reduced the audio volume and told everybody the manifestation was from the other side(the side that US was supporting).&lt;p&gt;The fact is that people that understood Arabic could listen what the protesters were saying and they(CNN) DID NOT CARE.&lt;p&gt;They did not care because it is a numbers thing, most Americans don&amp;#x27;t know Arabic, and millions of them will watch the channel and make themselves an idea from the eyes and ears that people in power have chosen for them.&lt;p&gt;The city where the protesters went into war and was bombarded for years and nobody displayed it on the news. Now it is displayed every single day because the people the US is supporting is losing there. Now it is so important civilians in this city, when for years they simply did not exist.&lt;p&gt;If you control the perception, you control the emotions that people will feel, and you could make them do exactly what you want. They will even believe they are &amp;quot;free&amp;quot;, because they are to behave as they wish, but they are not because emotions are quite automatic.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>michaelchisari</author><text>Because this is the first election where &amp;quot;spirit cooking&amp;quot; and &amp;quot;pizzagate&amp;quot; conspiracies were put on equal footing with foreign policy and economic positions.</text></comment>

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<story><title>Arm64 on GitHub Actions</title><url>https://github.blog/2024-06-03-arm64-on-github-actions-powering-faster-more-efficient-build-systems/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>suryao</author><text>I&amp;#x27;m so glad that GitHub finally offers this.&lt;p&gt;They&amp;#x27;re just more efficient for certain kinds of workflows - both cheaper and faster.&lt;p&gt;If you&amp;#x27;re building for arm64 targets or android, this is a no brainer because it sidesteps the emulation requirements.&lt;p&gt;We&amp;#x27;ve been offering arm64 runners for a few months now (up to 32 vcpu) with WarpBuild and our users love it.&lt;p&gt;In general, there are lots of inefficiencies in CI starting from the lack of visibility, debugging ease, performance, runner config customization, persistence, etc. We&amp;#x27;re out to solve it and make the world&amp;#x27;s fastest CI cloud ecosystem on top of existing CI providers with WarpBuild.</text></comment>

<story><title>Arm64 on GitHub Actions</title><url>https://github.blog/2024-06-03-arm64-on-github-actions-powering-faster-more-efficient-build-systems/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>joshstrange</author><text>GitHub’s runners are a joke. Switching to WarpBuild was the best decision I made for my CI&amp;#x2F;CD. I halved my build time and got cheaper minutes.&lt;p&gt;GH’s macOS runners particularly were complete trash.</text></comment>

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<story><title>Kaggle Learn review: there is a deep learning track and it is worth your time</title><url>https://techandmortals.wordpress.com/2018/01/27/kaggle-learn-review-there-is-a-deep-learning-track-and-it-is-worth-your-time/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>minimaxir</author><text>Since the &amp;quot;How Do I Learn AI&amp;#x2F;ML&amp;quot; question pops up on Hacker News once a month (most recent: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&amp;#x2F;item?id=16138353&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&amp;#x2F;item?id=16138353&lt;/a&gt;), here&amp;#x27;s my comments:&lt;p&gt;Yes, Al&amp;#x2F;ML MOOCs teach the corresponding tools well, and the creation of new tools like Keras make the field much more accessable. The obsolete gatekeeping by the AI&amp;#x2F;ML elites who say &amp;quot;you can&amp;#x27;t use AI&amp;#x2F;ML unless you have a PhD&amp;#x2F;5 years research experience&amp;quot; is one of the things I &lt;i&gt;really&lt;/i&gt; hate about the industry.&lt;p&gt;&lt;i&gt;However&lt;/i&gt;, contrary to the thought pieces that tend to pop up, taking and passing a MOOC doesn&amp;#x27;t mean you&amp;#x27;ll be an expert in the field (and this applies for most MOOCs, honestly). They&amp;#x27;re very good for learning an overview of the technology, but &lt;i&gt;nothing&lt;/i&gt; beats appling the tools on a real-world, &lt;i&gt;noisy&lt;/i&gt; dataset, and solving the inevitable little problems that crop up during the process.&lt;p&gt;Reviewing the Keras documentation (&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;keras.io&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;keras.io&lt;/a&gt;) and examples (&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;github.com&amp;#x2F;keras-team&amp;#x2F;keras&amp;#x2F;tree&amp;#x2F;master&amp;#x2F;examples&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;github.com&amp;#x2F;keras-team&amp;#x2F;keras&amp;#x2F;tree&amp;#x2F;master&amp;#x2F;examples&lt;/a&gt;) are honestly much better teachers of AI&amp;#x2F;ML than any MOOC, in my opinion.</text></comment>

<story><title>Kaggle Learn review: there is a deep learning track and it is worth your time</title><url>https://techandmortals.wordpress.com/2018/01/27/kaggle-learn-review-there-is-a-deep-learning-track-and-it-is-worth-your-time/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>dbecker</author><text>I&amp;#x27;m the lead on the Kaggle Learn project, and the author of the deep learning track.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;m happy to answer questions here.&lt;p&gt;I agree with the commenter saying you need to do your own projects to understand these topics.&lt;p&gt;Our deep learning track is meant to be the fastest path to knowing enough to do your own projects. You can do the entire track, including the hands-on exercises, in a single sitting.&lt;p&gt;We won&amp;#x27;t make you an expert in an afternoon, but you&amp;#x27;ll know enough to start doing your own projects. For most people that&amp;#x27;s also the point where Deep Learning becomes fun enough that you&amp;#x27;ll find time to keep learning.&lt;p&gt;Kaggle Learn is still in a very early stage. We&amp;#x27;ll add more lessons soon. But we&amp;#x27;ll stay committed to the goal of getting you up-to-speed quickly, so you can take on your own projects.</text></comment>

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<story><title>Facebook Wanted Gizmodo to Kill Investigative Tool</title><url>https://gizmodo.com/facebook-wanted-us-to-kill-this-investigative-tool-1826620111</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>colechristensen</author><text>Everybody used to be in the phone book, a few people were unlisted and it seemed a bit strange but otherwise you could just look anybody up in a directory and call them.&lt;p&gt;I don&amp;#x27;t really understand the motivation trying to keep one&amp;#x27;s phone number or address secret.</text></item><item><author>docker_up</author><text>I realized the futility of trying to keep my data private. I used to never upload my contacts to any site, because I valued my privacy and my contacts&amp;#x27; privacy. Then I found things like my phone number being detected by Facebook, and I realized that it didn&amp;#x27;t matter what I did. Any one of the hundreds of people who had my phone number could upload my information without my consent, and thus nothing I did mattered. I was infuriated but now I just give up, because there&amp;#x27;s no way to control your own information.&lt;p&gt;Even something as private as DNA is no longer under my own control. A sibling signed himself up for 23andme, and I realized that once he did that, I&amp;#x27;m as good as being up there too. My entire family tree can now be identified because of that single person, which is scary as hell.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>aroberge</author><text>I&amp;#x27;m old enough to have lived with a phone number published and not have to worry about it. Then came the telemarketers. Still, long distance calls were expensive and such calls were relatively rare. Next, long distance calling became effectively free and telemarketing calls were becoming frequent. However, it was still only a dumb phone - so nothing to worry about. Then, smart phones came along, storing personal information and being potentially vulnerable to threats. They were also used for authentication. But hey, not to worry, since it&amp;#x27;s just like before: everybody used to be in the phone book ...</text></comment>

<story><title>Facebook Wanted Gizmodo to Kill Investigative Tool</title><url>https://gizmodo.com/facebook-wanted-us-to-kill-this-investigative-tool-1826620111</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>colechristensen</author><text>Everybody used to be in the phone book, a few people were unlisted and it seemed a bit strange but otherwise you could just look anybody up in a directory and call them.&lt;p&gt;I don&amp;#x27;t really understand the motivation trying to keep one&amp;#x27;s phone number or address secret.</text></item><item><author>docker_up</author><text>I realized the futility of trying to keep my data private. I used to never upload my contacts to any site, because I valued my privacy and my contacts&amp;#x27; privacy. Then I found things like my phone number being detected by Facebook, and I realized that it didn&amp;#x27;t matter what I did. Any one of the hundreds of people who had my phone number could upload my information without my consent, and thus nothing I did mattered. I was infuriated but now I just give up, because there&amp;#x27;s no way to control your own information.&lt;p&gt;Even something as private as DNA is no longer under my own control. A sibling signed himself up for 23andme, and I realized that once he did that, I&amp;#x27;m as good as being up there too. My entire family tree can now be identified because of that single person, which is scary as hell.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>AlexeyBrin</author><text>&amp;gt; I don&amp;#x27;t really understand the motivation trying to keep one&amp;#x27;s phone number or address secret.&lt;p&gt;Random people&amp;#x2F;companies calling you at home, harassment, generally people on the internet being less than civil especially if you are a woman.</text></comment>

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<story><title>Flicks – A unit of time defined in C++</title><url>https://github.com/OculusVR/Flicks</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>btown</author><text>This reminds me of how MIDI files [0] represent time offsets, in integral &amp;quot;delta-time&amp;quot; units which can be set to either an arbitrary unit fraction of a quarter note, or an arbitrary unit fraction of an SMPTE frame (which itself can be specified in frames per second). Combined with an ability to dynamically set tempo (at any delta-time offset) in microseconds per quarter note, this allows practically any (Western) music to be represented with just integer delta-times between notes, including crazy tuples and polyrhythms, in a tempo-independent way; just find the greatest common denominator for your subdivisions. You could have thousands of minute tempo changes over the course of a performance and never lose fidelity due to rounding errors.&lt;p&gt;Apple&amp;#x27;s (formerly emagic&amp;#x27;s) Logic software actually made this visible to the user, using 3840 delta-time units per quarter note and presenting an Event List interface [1] where you could edit integers for offset and length directly. As opposed to other WYSIWIG notation software like Finale and Sibelius, it felt like Logic was hiding nothing from you; you could be sure that everything you saw and heard was rendered declaratively from the same underlying data. Moreover, if you were ever having trouble zooming&amp;#x2F;subdividing the drag-and-drop user interface for whatever crazy triplet sequence you wanted, you could just break out a calculator and specify exactly what you want, knowing that you wouldn&amp;#x27;t be &amp;quot;fuzzing&amp;quot; anything by typing in a rounded decimal number.&lt;p&gt;(It&amp;#x27;s a good lesson for us as developers - while it can be extra work to build an interface that doesn&amp;#x27;t hide complexity, professional users will often figure out how to use this to work around other shortcomings in your interface, buying you time to fix them the right way. It&amp;#x27;s just a matter of finding the right abstractions - representing time as integers is just one example.)&lt;p&gt;[0] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.csie.ntu.edu.tw&amp;#x2F;~r92092&amp;#x2F;ref&amp;#x2F;midi&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.csie.ntu.edu.tw&amp;#x2F;~r92092&amp;#x2F;ref&amp;#x2F;midi&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;[1] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;support.apple.com&amp;#x2F;kb&amp;#x2F;PH13096?locale=en_US&amp;amp;viewlocale=en_US&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;support.apple.com&amp;#x2F;kb&amp;#x2F;PH13096?locale=en_US&amp;amp;viewlocale...&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>

<story><title>Flicks – A unit of time defined in C++</title><url>https://github.com/OculusVR/Flicks</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>jhallenworld</author><text>I&amp;#x27;m not sure I understand this:&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;The NTSC variations (~29.97, etc) are actually defined as 24 * 1000&amp;#x2F;1001 and 30 * 1000&amp;#x2F;1001, which are impossible to represent exactly in a way where 1 second is exact, so we don&amp;#x27;t bother - they&amp;#x27;ll be inexact in any circumstance.&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;The NTSC color subcarrier is exactly 315&amp;#x2F;88 MHz, so one could make the flick something like 1&amp;#x2F;528th of this period. The frame is related to the subcarrier by 525 lines by 455&amp;#x2F;2 color clocks.&lt;p&gt;See: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Colorburst&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Colorburst&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;So one NTSC frame is exactly 63063 flicks, one 30 Hz frame is exactly 63000 of them, one 24 Hz frame is 78750 of them and one second is exactly 1890000000 of them.</text></comment>

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<story><title>Facial recognition database used by FBI is out of control</title><url>https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/mar/27/us-facial-recognition-database-fbi-drivers-licenses-passports</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>Eyas</author><text>&amp;gt; Database contains photos of half of US adults without consent, and algorithm is wrong nearly 15% of time and is more likely to misidentify black people&lt;p&gt;I think technology is often a very effective way to describe what &amp;quot;systemic racism&amp;quot; is.&lt;p&gt;Racism propagates easily, and race-blind &amp;#x2F; race-agnostic &amp;#x2F; race-indifferent behavior does not combat it or counteract it.&lt;p&gt;Imagine a majority-white tech team, largely color-blind, yet still (by virtue of economic and geographic segregation) in a mostly white-centric bubble. The training set might be largely white. If some preprocessing or feature-detection is taking place on the raw images, it might be tracking features that could have higher variability among white people while overlooking other features.&lt;p&gt;If you don&amp;#x27;t know to go out of your way to check for, include tests, and give thought to mitigating imbalances caused by race (because you &amp;quot;see no race&amp;quot;) then you allow this problem to propagate. In the case of computer vision, you will inherit the &amp;quot;racism&amp;quot; of every library you import from.&lt;p&gt;This reminds me of gender biased found in Word2vec[1]. It is hard to accuse the dataset of being sexist, especially when viewing it as a reflection of language in news article. Yet, people using Word2vec use it as a representative of language, not a representative of language in news, with all the baggage in today&amp;#x27;s (and past) culture. As a result, sexism can propagate, autocomplete and query suggestions might be biased. Then spending habits might be biased, etc.&lt;p&gt;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt; [1]: https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.technologyreview.com&amp;#x2F;s&amp;#x2F;602025&amp;#x2F;how-vector-space-mathematics-reveals-the-hidden-sexism-in-language&amp;#x2F;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;</text></comment>

<story><title>Facial recognition database used by FBI is out of control</title><url>https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/mar/27/us-facial-recognition-database-fbi-drivers-licenses-passports</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>abandonliberty</author><text>I wrote a class paper about the threat to privacy&amp;#x2F;freedom from data mining and advanced algorithms in 2003.&lt;p&gt;Unfortunately the risks they highlight exist without facial recognition. It&amp;#x27;s interesting to see facial recognition as a point of debate because the battle has been largely lost.&lt;p&gt;The quantity and intimacy of personal data already captured is much more damaging. Amazon figured out a teen girl was pregnant in 2012 [0]. IMO face recognition isn&amp;#x27;t even the most invasive modern technology. Sure it helps close the loop on a few Luddites but most of us willingly handed over the keys to our lives long ago.&lt;p&gt;[0] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.forbes.com&amp;#x2F;sites&amp;#x2F;kashmirhill&amp;#x2F;2012&amp;#x2F;02&amp;#x2F;16&amp;#x2F;how-target-figured-out-a-teen-girl-was-pregnant-before-her-father-did&amp;#x2F;#269d6b256668&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.forbes.com&amp;#x2F;sites&amp;#x2F;kashmirhill&amp;#x2F;2012&amp;#x2F;02&amp;#x2F;16&amp;#x2F;how-targ...&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>

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<story><title>A self-killing web site requested by a customer (2011)</title><url>https://rachelbythebay.com/w/2011/06/28/sp/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>ciprian_craciun</author><text>I found it interesting because such a simple task (requiring at least a number of on-line servers before the load-balancer starts serving requests), required a custom binary controlled the webserver and had to cross-monitor each server.&lt;p&gt;For example with HAProxy (my favorite load-balancer and HTTP &amp;quot;router&amp;quot;) this can be easily achieved by using `nbsrv`, creating an ACL and only routing requests to the backend based on that ACL. Based on the documentation bellow:&lt;p&gt;* &lt;a href=&quot;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;cbonte.github.io&amp;#x2F;haproxy-dconv&amp;#x2F;2.1&amp;#x2F;configuration.html#7.3.1-nbsrv&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;cbonte.github.io&amp;#x2F;haproxy-dconv&amp;#x2F;2.1&amp;#x2F;configuration.html...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;* &lt;a href=&quot;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;cbonte.github.io&amp;#x2F;haproxy-dconv&amp;#x2F;2.1&amp;#x2F;configuration.html#4.2-monitor%20fail&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;cbonte.github.io&amp;#x2F;haproxy-dconv&amp;#x2F;2.1&amp;#x2F;configuration.html...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;One can write this:&lt;p&gt;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt; ~~~~ frontend www mode http acl site_alive nbsrv(dynamic) gt 2 use_backend dynamic if site_alive ~~~~ &lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt; [This article was linked from the original article described in (&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&amp;#x2F;item?id=23099347&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&amp;#x2F;item?id=23099347&lt;/a&gt;).]</text></comment>

<story><title>A self-killing web site requested by a customer (2011)</title><url>https://rachelbythebay.com/w/2011/06/28/sp/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>nicbou</author><text>This is called a cascading failure. It&amp;#x27;s also a problem with the electric grid, and more terrifyingly with global finance.&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Cascading_failure&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Cascading_failure&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>

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<story><title>As Protesters Fill Hong Kong’s Streets, Businesses Are Alarmed, Too</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/12/business/hong-kong-china-protests-business.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>taiwanboy</author><text>I think if you are a businessman&amp;#x2F;woman that have significant assets in China, you must be aware that the current Chinese government is fighting 4 wars right now:&lt;p&gt;1.) political conflict between xi jing Ping the new guards, and the old guards that control the state owned firms&lt;p&gt;2.) internal conflicts in xinjiang, Tibet, and Hong Kong&lt;p&gt;3.) near neighbor conflicts with Vietnam, Philippines, Taiwan, Indonesia, and Australia&lt;p&gt;4.) trade war with US and its allies (Japan, EU, Canada, Mexico, etc)&lt;p&gt;And the Chinese government doesn’t have the financial or the political assets to fight any of these wars, let alone all 4 at once. IMO it is losing all of them right now.&lt;p&gt;So if you were a businessman, it is probably safe to move out of such a risky place for your assets</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>heraclius</author><text>It’s certainly more comforting to imagine that Xi is losing all four wars. But I do not see effective opposition anywhere. The party has lost, hence the removal of term limits. There is no effective protest in Xinjiang or Tibet. HK will soon follow once pan-democrats can be extradited and executed. China has the advantage in the South China Sea in that it has the equivalent of several aircraft carriers in the islands it controls under the status quo. It is only the trade war that might go awry for Xi, and rare earths are a relatively credible threat.&lt;p&gt;I would however withdraw money, because loss on those fronts isn’t necessary to cause unhelpful instability.</text></comment>

<story><title>As Protesters Fill Hong Kong’s Streets, Businesses Are Alarmed, Too</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/12/business/hong-kong-china-protests-business.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>taiwanboy</author><text>I think if you are a businessman&amp;#x2F;woman that have significant assets in China, you must be aware that the current Chinese government is fighting 4 wars right now:&lt;p&gt;1.) political conflict between xi jing Ping the new guards, and the old guards that control the state owned firms&lt;p&gt;2.) internal conflicts in xinjiang, Tibet, and Hong Kong&lt;p&gt;3.) near neighbor conflicts with Vietnam, Philippines, Taiwan, Indonesia, and Australia&lt;p&gt;4.) trade war with US and its allies (Japan, EU, Canada, Mexico, etc)&lt;p&gt;And the Chinese government doesn’t have the financial or the political assets to fight any of these wars, let alone all 4 at once. IMO it is losing all of them right now.&lt;p&gt;So if you were a businessman, it is probably safe to move out of such a risky place for your assets</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>fwip</author><text>Is that unusual for a superpower?&lt;p&gt;For example, the US government is fighting wars in the Middle East, the aforementioned trade war, internal conflicts between the increasingly radicalized left&amp;amp;right, and to say there&amp;#x27;s political conflict is a bit of an understatement.</text></comment>

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<story><title>School of Haskell 2.0</title><url>https://www.fpcomplete.com/blog/2015/05/school-of-haskell-2</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>thedudemabry</author><text>Wow. I&amp;#x27;m unfamiliar with the project, but their planned features would be amazing in any language. I&amp;#x27;ll give it a try, for sure.&lt;p&gt;Detecting HTTP servers and interacting with them in an iframe is especially brilliant.</text></comment>

<story><title>School of Haskell 2.0</title><url>https://www.fpcomplete.com/blog/2015/05/school-of-haskell-2</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>irickt</author><text>They&amp;#x27;re asking for input from the community regarding license, markdown version, and other issues.</text></comment>

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<story><title>It’s Never Going to Be Perfect, So Just Get It Done</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/07/smarter-living/its-never-going-to-be-perfect-so-just-get-it-done.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>paddlepop</author><text>This doesn&amp;#x27;t work so well for video games. Reviews come out saying its thin on content with a score to match and can kill a game before its had a chance to expand. Developers have started trying to do this more often lately with mixed results, DICE and Blizzard are high profile examples of this. Blizzards latest World of Warcraft expansion was heavily criticized for the lack of content on release day and has yet to shake the bad blood even after two big content patches. DICE tried this with Star Wars Battlefront but couldn&amp;#x27;t keep fans long enough with the limited maps it released with.</text></item><item><author>bluGill</author><text>For software you should make something - any part - work and release it. Then do regular feature releases after that.&lt;p&gt;If you are not working alone you can ask your marketing people for help, sometimes it is worth waiting for a big bang release, sometimes not (For some things if you miss Christmas you should delay until next Christmas). I recommend you err on the side of release too soon - customers are the ultimate answer, if their feedback on what is important is useful to have (but their feedback is not always correct!)</text></item><item><author>CM30</author><text>Well, they&amp;#x27;ve got a point. There are definitely quite a few projects whose creators needed to step back, stop spending years focusing on the wrong things and actually get something done. I mean, look at Duke Nukem Forever. Might have done pretty well had they not spent 14 years on it. Same with many other games and pieces of art that spent decades in development, and sometimes bankrupted&amp;#x2F;broke their creators in the process.&lt;p&gt;Does that mean you should rush? Obviously not. Does that mean having an eye for detail is bad? No, not at all.&lt;p&gt;But it does mean you should try to finish your projects at some point. Something that never gets released at all is pretty much useless, and it&amp;#x27;s probably better to get your products while you&amp;#x27;re alive rather than have them released posthumously by your estate.&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s also probably worth pointing out that a creator will likely never be as happy with their work as a customer will. After all, you created it, you&amp;#x27;ve got nothing to be surprised by. So right off the bat, some of the &amp;#x27;magic&amp;#x27; found in experiencing a piece of fiction&amp;#x2F;work of art for the first time is immediately gone.&lt;p&gt;You&amp;#x27;re also quite likely to see all the flaws, all the things you could have done better, all the possibilities that didn&amp;#x27;t pan out yet, etc and feel disappointed compared to some ideal you had in your mind.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>nostrademons</author><text>It doesn&amp;#x27;t work for AAA games, but it can work really well for indie games. Think of something like Factorio, where version 0.1 looked like this:&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.factorio.com&amp;#x2F;blog&amp;#x2F;post&amp;#x2F;fff-184&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.factorio.com&amp;#x2F;blog&amp;#x2F;post&amp;#x2F;fff-184&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;Then they just kept releasing every week for 7 years, and now you have people building CPUs and explaining Apache Kafka with it.&lt;p&gt;Ostriv is another recent game that comes to mind as having a similar development cycle. Also many F2P MMOs - most of the non-Blizzard online games I know do regular releases that frequently change the game mechanics (often, to a big player uproar) but still keep their userbase. Fortnight and Pokemon Go are two big ones here.</text></comment>

<story><title>It’s Never Going to Be Perfect, So Just Get It Done</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/07/smarter-living/its-never-going-to-be-perfect-so-just-get-it-done.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>paddlepop</author><text>This doesn&amp;#x27;t work so well for video games. Reviews come out saying its thin on content with a score to match and can kill a game before its had a chance to expand. Developers have started trying to do this more often lately with mixed results, DICE and Blizzard are high profile examples of this. Blizzards latest World of Warcraft expansion was heavily criticized for the lack of content on release day and has yet to shake the bad blood even after two big content patches. DICE tried this with Star Wars Battlefront but couldn&amp;#x27;t keep fans long enough with the limited maps it released with.</text></item><item><author>bluGill</author><text>For software you should make something - any part - work and release it. Then do regular feature releases after that.&lt;p&gt;If you are not working alone you can ask your marketing people for help, sometimes it is worth waiting for a big bang release, sometimes not (For some things if you miss Christmas you should delay until next Christmas). I recommend you err on the side of release too soon - customers are the ultimate answer, if their feedback on what is important is useful to have (but their feedback is not always correct!)</text></item><item><author>CM30</author><text>Well, they&amp;#x27;ve got a point. There are definitely quite a few projects whose creators needed to step back, stop spending years focusing on the wrong things and actually get something done. I mean, look at Duke Nukem Forever. Might have done pretty well had they not spent 14 years on it. Same with many other games and pieces of art that spent decades in development, and sometimes bankrupted&amp;#x2F;broke their creators in the process.&lt;p&gt;Does that mean you should rush? Obviously not. Does that mean having an eye for detail is bad? No, not at all.&lt;p&gt;But it does mean you should try to finish your projects at some point. Something that never gets released at all is pretty much useless, and it&amp;#x27;s probably better to get your products while you&amp;#x27;re alive rather than have them released posthumously by your estate.&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s also probably worth pointing out that a creator will likely never be as happy with their work as a customer will. After all, you created it, you&amp;#x27;ve got nothing to be surprised by. So right off the bat, some of the &amp;#x27;magic&amp;#x27; found in experiencing a piece of fiction&amp;#x2F;work of art for the first time is immediately gone.&lt;p&gt;You&amp;#x27;re also quite likely to see all the flaws, all the things you could have done better, all the possibilities that didn&amp;#x27;t pan out yet, etc and feel disappointed compared to some ideal you had in your mind.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>michaelbrave</author><text>You are right, but the situations with wow and battlefront are a bit more complex than that. Wow was more due to unfun mechanics and poor reward systems than lack of content (though that was a factor). Also battlefront had a size-able protest due to pricing disagreements. Both of which are dependent on community so as it diminishes it rolls downhill fast.</text></comment>

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<story><title>Surviving the Series A Crunch</title><url>http://blog.42floors.com/surviving-series-crunch/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>peterjancelis</author><text>If the founder can get the 90K cost constant and keep the rev growing at 9% per month, there is only a $10K shortage by month 7 (and cash runs out in month 6 only). This can easily be solved with some annual prepayments.&lt;p&gt;Source: &lt;a href=&quot;https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1RSHx9pwrSKfOlUr2jyqKvaJiF4BgYfO-rvh0btojRkg/edit?usp=sharing&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;docs.google.com&amp;#x2F;spreadsheets&amp;#x2F;d&amp;#x2F;1RSHx9pwrSKfOlUr2jyqK...&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>nlh</author><text>Funny - you did exactly the same thing I did while reading the article - our spreadsheets are basically identical :)&lt;p&gt;So here&amp;#x27;s my thoughts -- I think some outside &amp;quot;real world&amp;quot; perspective is needed here. While 9% M-M growth may seem OK in the VC-fueled hockeystick growth world, in the real world of profitable businesses it&amp;#x27;s spectacular. Some companies spend years running losses trying to get to profitability, and if that 9% is real (and sustainable), then I can think of only two things going on here: A) Either the whole world has gone crazy or B) More likely - there&amp;#x27;s missing information here.&lt;p&gt;As peter points out -- at a 9% growth rate the business turns profitable after 6 months and on the 13th month is net profitable. Any rational investor would be frothing to get involved in that sort of business - it becomes a money-printing machine in short order.&lt;p&gt;So I&amp;#x27;m assuming that there&amp;#x27;s missing information here -- either the 9% monthly growth isn&amp;#x27;t sustainable (then it&amp;#x27;s not a true 9% M-M growth rate) or the costs must rise substantially to sustain it. And if that&amp;#x27;s the case, then you can start to see the real reason VCs might be hesitating.&lt;p&gt;So I guess my point is: Don&amp;#x27;t obsess over the raw growth number as the sole problem. That sets the wrong target. In the end, profits drive businesses, and massively profitable businesses can go public (and get great valuations), and public companies make VCs happy.</text></comment>

<story><title>Surviving the Series A Crunch</title><url>http://blog.42floors.com/surviving-series-crunch/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>peterjancelis</author><text>If the founder can get the 90K cost constant and keep the rev growing at 9% per month, there is only a $10K shortage by month 7 (and cash runs out in month 6 only). This can easily be solved with some annual prepayments.&lt;p&gt;Source: &lt;a href=&quot;https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1RSHx9pwrSKfOlUr2jyqKvaJiF4BgYfO-rvh0btojRkg/edit?usp=sharing&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;docs.google.com&amp;#x2F;spreadsheets&amp;#x2F;d&amp;#x2F;1RSHx9pwrSKfOlUr2jyqK...&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>limejuice</author><text>Yea, I was running the numbers in my head as I read the article, and thinking this company is not in that bad a predicament. They look to be very close to turning the corner. Without knowing more about the business, it&amp;#x27;s hard to say if 9% month&amp;#x2F;month growth is bad or not. Some of these Saas business start out slow and then they take off once they get some critical mass.</text></comment>

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<story><title>Shitbowl: The algorithmically powered in-home physical caching platform</title><url>https://www.shitbowl.com/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>montenegrohugo</author><text>Your first example could have a different explanation, assuming she is the one that more often does the laundry. Ordering clothes by type is cognitively easy: a shirt is a shirt, shorts are shorts. When you have a stack of freshly washed clothes, sorting them according to type is so trivial it is a thoughtless process.&lt;p&gt;However, sorting according to use case is more involved. For each piece of clothing in the clothes pile, the clothes organizer must think of how this particular piece of cloth is used. Is this just an old t-shirt? Or is this particular old t-shirt out of favor with my husband and so he uses it for his workout? Or should it go in the pyjama t-shirts pile?&lt;p&gt;So writes seem to be much more costly (cognitively) when organizing clothes according to usage rather than type (if these clothes are not your own in which case determining their usage does seem trivial), and your wife may be optimizing for it (again, see initial assumption)</text></item><item><author>xyzelement</author><text>This reminded - I noticed a while ago that being a computer science guy makes me think differently about physical storage and retrieval.&lt;p&gt;For example - my wife likes &amp;quot;shorts&amp;quot; to be in one drawer and &amp;quot;t-shirts&amp;quot; in another. I like for one drawer to be &amp;quot;workout clothes&amp;quot; and have the mix of gym shorts and t-shirts. To me this feels &amp;quot;obviously&amp;quot; right because the use-case requires both items so why pay for two costly &amp;quot;open drawer&amp;quot; IOs?&lt;p&gt;Similarly, she is very organized with her paper files, I just throw mine into a box. In the rare event I need something (eg when doing taxes) I don&amp;#x27;t mind scanning through the whole mess. Seems like a better strategy than making each &amp;quot;write&amp;quot; costly (neatly organizing) since writes are frequent and reads are rare.&lt;p&gt;Anyone else like that?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Taniwha</author><text>I think that if you want your own classification you have to put away your own laundry ...</text></comment>

<story><title>Shitbowl: The algorithmically powered in-home physical caching platform</title><url>https://www.shitbowl.com/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>montenegrohugo</author><text>Your first example could have a different explanation, assuming she is the one that more often does the laundry. Ordering clothes by type is cognitively easy: a shirt is a shirt, shorts are shorts. When you have a stack of freshly washed clothes, sorting them according to type is so trivial it is a thoughtless process.&lt;p&gt;However, sorting according to use case is more involved. For each piece of clothing in the clothes pile, the clothes organizer must think of how this particular piece of cloth is used. Is this just an old t-shirt? Or is this particular old t-shirt out of favor with my husband and so he uses it for his workout? Or should it go in the pyjama t-shirts pile?&lt;p&gt;So writes seem to be much more costly (cognitively) when organizing clothes according to usage rather than type (if these clothes are not your own in which case determining their usage does seem trivial), and your wife may be optimizing for it (again, see initial assumption)</text></item><item><author>xyzelement</author><text>This reminded - I noticed a while ago that being a computer science guy makes me think differently about physical storage and retrieval.&lt;p&gt;For example - my wife likes &amp;quot;shorts&amp;quot; to be in one drawer and &amp;quot;t-shirts&amp;quot; in another. I like for one drawer to be &amp;quot;workout clothes&amp;quot; and have the mix of gym shorts and t-shirts. To me this feels &amp;quot;obviously&amp;quot; right because the use-case requires both items so why pay for two costly &amp;quot;open drawer&amp;quot; IOs?&lt;p&gt;Similarly, she is very organized with her paper files, I just throw mine into a box. In the rare event I need something (eg when doing taxes) I don&amp;#x27;t mind scanning through the whole mess. Seems like a better strategy than making each &amp;quot;write&amp;quot; costly (neatly organizing) since writes are frequent and reads are rare.&lt;p&gt;Anyone else like that?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>chaboud</author><text>Personal optimization schemes fall apart when we have to interoperate with others, just like in system architectures.&lt;p&gt;Think about the cognitive load of your spouse when you decide how a system should work.</text></comment>

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<story><title>Amazon Chime</title><url>https://chime.aws/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Jaruzel</author><text>What you need there then (if you are a Windows shop - unlikely), is Lync or Skype for Business.&lt;p&gt;Despite it being Microsoft, I&amp;#x27;ve found it to be the most reliable and seamless system for multi-party Audio, Video, and Screen-sharing based meetings - and I&amp;#x27;ve used at some time or another in my career almost all the other big hitters in the corporate virtual-conferencing space.&lt;p&gt;Combine Lync&amp;#x2F;SfB with one of those nice multi-camera units[1] that sit in the middle of the meeting table and provide audio tracking of the speaker (the active camera switches to the person speaking) along with always-on 360 degree video as well - and it&amp;#x27;s the closest you can get to being there.&lt;p&gt;---&lt;p&gt;[1] &lt;a href=&quot;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.polycom.co.uk&amp;#x2F;products-services&amp;#x2F;products-for-microsoft&amp;#x2F;lync-optimized&amp;#x2F;cx5500-unified-conference-station.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.polycom.co.uk&amp;#x2F;products-services&amp;#x2F;products-for-micr...&lt;/a&gt;</text></item><item><author>ryandrake</author><text>Most place I&amp;#x27;ve worked, we&amp;#x27;d waste anywhere from 5-10 minutes at the beginning of every meeting just trying to get A&amp;#x2F;V systems and voice conferencing to work.&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;Anyone there? Hello? Crap, someone needs to dial in as the host. OK Is everyone dialed in? Good. Oh, wait, Roger can&amp;#x27;t hear us. Roger, dial back in. OK. Hey, whoever is at the cocktail party, can you go on mute?? Thank you. All right. Who&amp;#x27;s projecting? The projector is VGA, does anyone have a laptop with VGA? How about a dongle? Great, we can see it now. Can everyone who&amp;#x27;s remote see the screen sharing? No? OK let&amp;#x27;s restart the screen sharing program. How about now? Shit, we lost Roger again! Why is the screen 640x480? Damnit, can we just use a different laptop? E-mail the presentation to Diane, we can use her laptop. Did Roger dial back in yet??&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s almost universally an awful UX.</text></item><item><author>krashidov</author><text>Enterprise conferencing software is so bad and so expensive I&amp;#x27;m astonished it took this long for a decent competitor to come in. I&amp;#x27;m really surprised Google didn&amp;#x27;t go all in with making Hangouts a decent competitor. I have a feeling this will make a lot of money.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>wRastel27</author><text>Our company has used 3 generations of polycom devices and they have all been terrible&amp;#x2F;unusable. Those units are just an IT nightmare because of how they are set up. The newer ones require two ethernet ports if you want them wired (because reasons?), and then also act as a weird computer joining the meeting. If you are in a room with a device, the room has to be invited and join the meeting, then you have to make sure that polycom device is set up with sound but that everything else in the room is muted or else the electronic Harpies will be unleashed. Then if you want screen sharing and video, since the video is regulated by the polycom but screen is shared on a laptop, you can potentially get the video in video in video recursive fun time which will result in fun buffering.&lt;p&gt;We have &amp;quot;quick&amp;quot; instructions on how to use these devices and they take up a whole page. Most of the devices are abandoned or just left there gathering dust while we use a simple Jabra speaker puck.&lt;p&gt;PS - Most of these experiences are with SfB. These devices are somehow worse with Webex.</text></comment>

<story><title>Amazon Chime</title><url>https://chime.aws/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Jaruzel</author><text>What you need there then (if you are a Windows shop - unlikely), is Lync or Skype for Business.&lt;p&gt;Despite it being Microsoft, I&amp;#x27;ve found it to be the most reliable and seamless system for multi-party Audio, Video, and Screen-sharing based meetings - and I&amp;#x27;ve used at some time or another in my career almost all the other big hitters in the corporate virtual-conferencing space.&lt;p&gt;Combine Lync&amp;#x2F;SfB with one of those nice multi-camera units[1] that sit in the middle of the meeting table and provide audio tracking of the speaker (the active camera switches to the person speaking) along with always-on 360 degree video as well - and it&amp;#x27;s the closest you can get to being there.&lt;p&gt;---&lt;p&gt;[1] &lt;a href=&quot;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.polycom.co.uk&amp;#x2F;products-services&amp;#x2F;products-for-microsoft&amp;#x2F;lync-optimized&amp;#x2F;cx5500-unified-conference-station.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.polycom.co.uk&amp;#x2F;products-services&amp;#x2F;products-for-micr...&lt;/a&gt;</text></item><item><author>ryandrake</author><text>Most place I&amp;#x27;ve worked, we&amp;#x27;d waste anywhere from 5-10 minutes at the beginning of every meeting just trying to get A&amp;#x2F;V systems and voice conferencing to work.&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;Anyone there? Hello? Crap, someone needs to dial in as the host. OK Is everyone dialed in? Good. Oh, wait, Roger can&amp;#x27;t hear us. Roger, dial back in. OK. Hey, whoever is at the cocktail party, can you go on mute?? Thank you. All right. Who&amp;#x27;s projecting? The projector is VGA, does anyone have a laptop with VGA? How about a dongle? Great, we can see it now. Can everyone who&amp;#x27;s remote see the screen sharing? No? OK let&amp;#x27;s restart the screen sharing program. How about now? Shit, we lost Roger again! Why is the screen 640x480? Damnit, can we just use a different laptop? E-mail the presentation to Diane, we can use her laptop. Did Roger dial back in yet??&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s almost universally an awful UX.</text></item><item><author>krashidov</author><text>Enterprise conferencing software is so bad and so expensive I&amp;#x27;m astonished it took this long for a decent competitor to come in. I&amp;#x27;m really surprised Google didn&amp;#x27;t go all in with making Hangouts a decent competitor. I have a feeling this will make a lot of money.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>XJOKOLAT</author><text>Barfs.&lt;p&gt;Sorry, Lync&amp;#x2F;Skype for Business has been awful for us.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;ll be fair and state that I don&amp;#x27;t if it is Microsoft&amp;#x27;s or our tech teams fault.</text></comment>

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<story><title>Cruise (GM) receives permit for fully driverless cars</title><url>https://medium.com/cruise/its-time-to-drive-change-f447f27cb353</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dheera</author><text>I think the upside of this is that if you get hit by a self-driving car, due to the way the media behaves around self-driving accidents, you can be almost sure that they will deal with it professionally and pay off all damages if it&amp;#x27;s even remotely their fault.&lt;p&gt;They might not leave a note on your windshield but they would surely acknowledge the accident and as a company, would have to cooperate with any investigations. It&amp;#x27;s not some random dude that if they hit and run off you will never see them again.</text></item><item><author>slg</author><text>I wonder what happens when these cars get in an accident. I don&amp;#x27;t even mean in the legal sense. What happens in the immediate wake of an accident? Is there a note on the car about what the other driver should do? Is there a way for someone back in the office to communicate to the other driver on the scene? Does the other driver need to wait around until some human shows up?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jeroenhd</author><text>&amp;gt; I think the upside of this is that if you get hit by a self-driving car, due to the way the media behaves around self-driving accidents, you can be almost sure that they will deal with it professionally and pay off all damages if it&amp;#x27;s even remotely their fault.&lt;p&gt;Tesla and Uber have shown that this is not the case. Tesla tries to throw the driver under the bus or, if that fails, the victim, and Uber has acted especially despicably after their fatal crash.&lt;p&gt;Perhaps &amp;quot;traditional&amp;quot; car manufacturers with less of a cult behind them will take the PR route, but the behaviour of current companies involved in self-driving vehicles isn&amp;#x27;t very encouraging.</text></comment>

<story><title>Cruise (GM) receives permit for fully driverless cars</title><url>https://medium.com/cruise/its-time-to-drive-change-f447f27cb353</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dheera</author><text>I think the upside of this is that if you get hit by a self-driving car, due to the way the media behaves around self-driving accidents, you can be almost sure that they will deal with it professionally and pay off all damages if it&amp;#x27;s even remotely their fault.&lt;p&gt;They might not leave a note on your windshield but they would surely acknowledge the accident and as a company, would have to cooperate with any investigations. It&amp;#x27;s not some random dude that if they hit and run off you will never see them again.</text></item><item><author>slg</author><text>I wonder what happens when these cars get in an accident. I don&amp;#x27;t even mean in the legal sense. What happens in the immediate wake of an accident? Is there a note on the car about what the other driver should do? Is there a way for someone back in the office to communicate to the other driver on the scene? Does the other driver need to wait around until some human shows up?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>staticassertion</author><text>Wouldn&amp;#x27;t they, as a company, be incentivized to fight desperately to avoid potentially setting a costly precendent?</text></comment>

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<story><title>Findaway&apos;s new terms of service are unacceptable</title><url>https://mwl.io/archives/23448</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>HillRat</author><text>If you&amp;#x27;ve ever been involved in ToS drafting, you&amp;#x27;re used to customers panicking over clauses that you and your attorneys crafted to deal with pretty standard business requirements, such as granting adaptation rights so you can create thumbnails or summaries of user-generated content, for example.&lt;p&gt;This ... is not that. This is &lt;i&gt;facially&lt;/i&gt; overbroad, lacks any kind of even indicative usage limitations, and likely breaks a lot of standard negotiating and contracting for authors within the publishing (and related) industries. While I&amp;#x27;ve seen bad and overbroad adhesion contracts that were cut-and-paste jobs not created by actual counsel, I don&amp;#x27;t think I&amp;#x27;ve seen something this audacious that went through legal review. It&amp;#x27;s predatory.</text></comment>

<story><title>Findaway&apos;s new terms of service are unacceptable</title><url>https://mwl.io/archives/23448</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>Fraterkes</author><text>IANAL but this seems like a textbook example of the kinde of tos abuse that will not be enforcable. &amp;quot;If you click this checkbox you give us usage rights of your IP in perpetuity for free&amp;quot;.</text></comment>

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<story><title>Archaeologists uncover ancient street food shop in Pompeii</title><url>https://www.reuters.com/article/italy-pompeii-idUSKBN2900D3</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>KhoomeiK</author><text>The way the art has been preserved makes you sorta realize that &amp;quot;ancient times&amp;quot; weren&amp;#x27;t &lt;i&gt;that&lt;/i&gt; long ago.&lt;p&gt;2000 &amp;#x2F; 25 = ~80 generations&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s not some uncountable number with a million zeros. Assuming everyone knew one of their grandparents, it&amp;#x27;s more like 40 interpersonal &amp;quot;links&amp;quot;.&lt;p&gt;I honestly feel like if Europe didn&amp;#x27;t have the Early Middle Ages (~500-1000AD), we would feel pretty connected to all the history that happened before in the same way that we feel pretty connected to Copernicus developing Heliocentrism or Columbus arriving in the New World.&lt;p&gt;I wonder whether civilizations with seemingly more continuous histories like China feel more connection to the rest of their history. India&amp;#x27;s history was sort of interrupted by Islamic invasions starting from the 1200s. The Middle East, despite its tremendously long history, experienced a significant shift in culture with the rise of Christianity and then Islam.&lt;p&gt;If Chinese people don&amp;#x27;t feel that historical connection, on the other hand, it might mean that our disconnect with ancient history might more just be a product of Modernity and the rapid change of the last couple centuries.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mulmen</author><text>A few years ago I was lucky enough to visit the National Palace Museum in Taipei, Taiwan. The Jade Cabbage was the headline attraction at the time. The thing that stood out the most to me was a tea cup. The date was ~1800. I was impressed by a 215 year old tea cup. Then I realized the date was 1800 &lt;i&gt;bc&lt;/i&gt;. A 3800 year old &lt;i&gt;cup&lt;/i&gt;!&lt;p&gt;I had a similar experience in Japan last year when I learned the same family has ruled for something like 1500 years and trace their history back 2600 years.</text></comment>

<story><title>Archaeologists uncover ancient street food shop in Pompeii</title><url>https://www.reuters.com/article/italy-pompeii-idUSKBN2900D3</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>KhoomeiK</author><text>The way the art has been preserved makes you sorta realize that &amp;quot;ancient times&amp;quot; weren&amp;#x27;t &lt;i&gt;that&lt;/i&gt; long ago.&lt;p&gt;2000 &amp;#x2F; 25 = ~80 generations&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s not some uncountable number with a million zeros. Assuming everyone knew one of their grandparents, it&amp;#x27;s more like 40 interpersonal &amp;quot;links&amp;quot;.&lt;p&gt;I honestly feel like if Europe didn&amp;#x27;t have the Early Middle Ages (~500-1000AD), we would feel pretty connected to all the history that happened before in the same way that we feel pretty connected to Copernicus developing Heliocentrism or Columbus arriving in the New World.&lt;p&gt;I wonder whether civilizations with seemingly more continuous histories like China feel more connection to the rest of their history. India&amp;#x27;s history was sort of interrupted by Islamic invasions starting from the 1200s. The Middle East, despite its tremendously long history, experienced a significant shift in culture with the rise of Christianity and then Islam.&lt;p&gt;If Chinese people don&amp;#x27;t feel that historical connection, on the other hand, it might mean that our disconnect with ancient history might more just be a product of Modernity and the rapid change of the last couple centuries.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ImaCake</author><text>&amp;gt;I wonder whether civilizations with seemingly more continuous histories like China feel more connection to the rest of their history.&lt;p&gt;This is a really good point actually. I have talked recently to Persian coworkers about their nation&amp;#x27;s history. They identify with the full length of recorded Persian history. That is, all ~5000 years of it. I have read elsewhere that this is possibly a modern trend, that is, they didn&amp;#x27;t teach Persian history as the history of &lt;i&gt;their&lt;/i&gt; current country at some points in the past.&lt;p&gt;I suspect their emotional attachment to events 2000 years ago feels a bit different to mine then. They might feel a whole lot closer to the Sassasinds than I do to Boudicca. But maybe that has not always been the case.</text></comment>

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<story><title>VW brand joins Audi in ending combustion engine development</title><url>https://www.electrive.com/2021/03/22/vw-brand-joins-audi-in-ending-combustion-engine-development/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>IgorPartola</author><text>I suspect swappable batteries and&amp;#x2F;or standardized battery tech would be a huge boon. Plus expansion of available charging stations. Those kinds of things would really move the tech forward.</text></item><item><author>agumonkey</author><text>I wonder how much improvements EV will see now that capitals are going into it hard. Beside economy of scale.. really new battery chemistry, induction motor efficiency etc</text></item><item><author>oblio</author><text>Well, it&amp;#x27;s a huge decision and my guess is that they want to have as much exposure as they can get from this decision.&lt;p&gt;They&amp;#x27;re the world&amp;#x27;s second largest automaker (and they tend to switch places with the first one, Toyota, periodically): &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Automotive_industry#By_manufacturer&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Automotive_industry#By_manufac...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;And they&amp;#x27;ve just announced they&amp;#x27;re going to invest $86 bn in electric vehicles over the next 5 years: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.reuters.com&amp;#x2F;article&amp;#x2F;volkswagen-strategy-idUSKBN27T24O&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.reuters.com&amp;#x2F;article&amp;#x2F;volkswagen-strategy-idUSKBN2...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;They&amp;#x27;ve just launched a modular electric platform that will probably be used in tens if not hundreds of new models (in the US only VW ID.4 has been launched so far).</text></item><item><author>arethuza</author><text>This just sounds like VW Group have made a strategic decision to stop ICE development and they are letting each subsidiary announce it separately. Perhaps Porsche, Bugatti and Lamborghini will take longest to admit it?&lt;p&gt;Edit: VW Group already has a &lt;i&gt;huge&lt;/i&gt; range of petrol engines:&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;List_of_Volkswagen_Group_petrol_engines&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;List_of_Volkswagen_Group_petro...&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>intrasight</author><text>Of course swappable and standardized would be a huge benefit. Imagine if AA, C, a D batteries hadn&amp;#x27;t been made a thing and instead we just had every maker of flashlights and transistor radios use their own proprietary batteries. Never mind - we don&amp;#x27;t have to imagine, as that&amp;#x27;s where we&amp;#x27;ve now arrived with consumer electronics. Nowadays, companies like &amp;quot;standards&amp;quot; only when used as a weapon to undermine their competitors.&lt;p&gt;But in the long run, I do suspect a return to swappable and standardized. It many require government regulation.</text></comment>

<story><title>VW brand joins Audi in ending combustion engine development</title><url>https://www.electrive.com/2021/03/22/vw-brand-joins-audi-in-ending-combustion-engine-development/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>IgorPartola</author><text>I suspect swappable batteries and&amp;#x2F;or standardized battery tech would be a huge boon. Plus expansion of available charging stations. Those kinds of things would really move the tech forward.</text></item><item><author>agumonkey</author><text>I wonder how much improvements EV will see now that capitals are going into it hard. Beside economy of scale.. really new battery chemistry, induction motor efficiency etc</text></item><item><author>oblio</author><text>Well, it&amp;#x27;s a huge decision and my guess is that they want to have as much exposure as they can get from this decision.&lt;p&gt;They&amp;#x27;re the world&amp;#x27;s second largest automaker (and they tend to switch places with the first one, Toyota, periodically): &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Automotive_industry#By_manufacturer&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Automotive_industry#By_manufac...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;And they&amp;#x27;ve just announced they&amp;#x27;re going to invest $86 bn in electric vehicles over the next 5 years: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.reuters.com&amp;#x2F;article&amp;#x2F;volkswagen-strategy-idUSKBN27T24O&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.reuters.com&amp;#x2F;article&amp;#x2F;volkswagen-strategy-idUSKBN2...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;They&amp;#x27;ve just launched a modular electric platform that will probably be used in tens if not hundreds of new models (in the US only VW ID.4 has been launched so far).</text></item><item><author>arethuza</author><text>This just sounds like VW Group have made a strategic decision to stop ICE development and they are letting each subsidiary announce it separately. Perhaps Porsche, Bugatti and Lamborghini will take longest to admit it?&lt;p&gt;Edit: VW Group already has a &lt;i&gt;huge&lt;/i&gt; range of petrol engines:&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;List_of_Volkswagen_Group_petrol_engines&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;List_of_Volkswagen_Group_petro...&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>VBprogrammer</author><text>I don&amp;#x27;t see swappable batteries in the future. Those things weigh 500kg or more. Sure you could theoretically build a machine which is capable of swapping it but that&amp;#x27;s a big bit of infrastructure and the constraints it would impose on the design of the car would be huge.&lt;p&gt;That said, I do have hopes for more standardisation in battery form factors. I&amp;#x27;d like for there to come a day when changing a battery is no more hassle than say having a new exhaust installed currently.</text></comment>

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<story><title>Tribler: An attack-resilient micro-economy for media</title><url>https://github.com/Tribler/tribler/wiki</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>heycosmo</author><text>I think many proposed solutions to the creator compensation problem end up glossing over a fundamental difficulty: once an easily-distributed work (like anything digital) is in a consumable state (and thus copy-able), it becomes basically free.&lt;p&gt;The idea that $10 for a digital copy of an album that is already on youtube (or a friend&amp;#x27;s harddrive) should be a viable business model is weird to me in this day and age.&lt;p&gt;I have recently been wondering about a threshold-based &amp;quot;media economy&amp;quot; where creators don&amp;#x27;t actually show us anything (except for clips or samples or low-res versions, etc) until they are guaranteed a certain amount of income. It&amp;#x27;s basically kickstarter. A musician makes an album, goes on kickstarter and asks for $10,000 to release it. Once $10k is reached, the songs go up on a server, or are released on bandcamp, spotify, or any of the usual channels. Additional money beyond the threshold can be made, but it will be as difficult as it is now. But they have already reached $10k (set by them) so everyone can feel good that the musician has earned what they feel they deserve.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;m sure there are many problems with this. For one, many artists aren&amp;#x27;t creating just for money. They want to show us their creations, and with a threshold, they would have to hold back until it is reached (in the case of musicians, they might not even be able to play a new song at a show until the threshold is reached, b&amp;#x2F;c smartphones).&lt;p&gt;There may be a critical mass problem, too. If two artists are similar and one releases immediately while the other waits for the threshold payment, the latter may drift into obscurity. There must be some allure to the withholding, though?&lt;p&gt;What other problems kill this approach?&lt;p&gt;Could it work for open source software, too? Make your thing, don&amp;#x27;t share it. Demo it, ask for the release payment, then put it on github.</text></comment>

<story><title>Tribler: An attack-resilient micro-economy for media</title><url>https://github.com/Tribler/tribler/wiki</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>synctext</author><text>Tribler founding professor here, AMA.&lt;p&gt;2x on HN frontpage! Most attention we had during 18 years of coding.</text></comment>

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<story><title>Beam has raised $9.5M to reinvent the browser</title><url>https://sifted.eu/articles/beam/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>munificent</author><text>&lt;i&gt;&amp;gt; And yet instead of feeling accomplished, several years ago Leca realised he felt an internal void.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;i&gt;&amp;gt; Has anything he’s built really improved people’s lives?&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;i&gt;&amp;gt; To hear Leca describe it, the development of Beam is as much an effort to improve the web browsing experience as it is a spiritual quest for meaning.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;i&gt;&amp;gt; “The only reason I’m doing this is to be working for the greater good,” Leca said. “Is this something I can explain to my kid and be proud of the fact that it’s not just a stupid business to make money?”&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;This reads like a parody of SV hubris. It&amp;#x27;s a startup to slap note-taking onto a browser shell. It&amp;#x27;s not curing cancer. I do believe that creating software can be a deeply meaningful experience, and that software can change people&amp;#x27;s lives for the better in real ways. But... this is a VC-funded startup for a browser shell.&lt;p&gt;&lt;i&gt;&amp;gt; “What do I have for all these hours I spent on the internet?” he said. “Nothing. I’ve got three bookmarks and a few notes here and everything else is basically lost.”&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s crazy to me that the author thought that and their solution was &amp;quot;I should make it easier to take notes&amp;quot; and not &amp;quot;I should spend less time fucking around on the Internet mindlessly consuming media.&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;The knowledge base should be primarily in your head. If your mind doesn&amp;#x27;t feel like a knowledge base to you, it&amp;#x27;s because we&amp;#x27;re all so busy jamming new data into it that we never slow down and take the time to reflect and process what we&amp;#x27;ve already consumed.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>derf_</author><text>&lt;i&gt;&amp;gt; It&amp;#x27;s not curing cancer. I do believe that creating software can be a deeply meaningful experience, and that software can change people&amp;#x27;s lives for the better in real ways. But... this is a VC-funded startup for a browser shell.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;I have worked on software for treating cancer, and I have worked for Mozilla. And boy, let me tell you, the latter sure felt like it had a much bigger impact on the world.</text></comment>

<story><title>Beam has raised $9.5M to reinvent the browser</title><url>https://sifted.eu/articles/beam/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>munificent</author><text>&lt;i&gt;&amp;gt; And yet instead of feeling accomplished, several years ago Leca realised he felt an internal void.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;i&gt;&amp;gt; Has anything he’s built really improved people’s lives?&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;i&gt;&amp;gt; To hear Leca describe it, the development of Beam is as much an effort to improve the web browsing experience as it is a spiritual quest for meaning.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;i&gt;&amp;gt; “The only reason I’m doing this is to be working for the greater good,” Leca said. “Is this something I can explain to my kid and be proud of the fact that it’s not just a stupid business to make money?”&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;This reads like a parody of SV hubris. It&amp;#x27;s a startup to slap note-taking onto a browser shell. It&amp;#x27;s not curing cancer. I do believe that creating software can be a deeply meaningful experience, and that software can change people&amp;#x27;s lives for the better in real ways. But... this is a VC-funded startup for a browser shell.&lt;p&gt;&lt;i&gt;&amp;gt; “What do I have for all these hours I spent on the internet?” he said. “Nothing. I’ve got three bookmarks and a few notes here and everything else is basically lost.”&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s crazy to me that the author thought that and their solution was &amp;quot;I should make it easier to take notes&amp;quot; and not &amp;quot;I should spend less time fucking around on the Internet mindlessly consuming media.&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;The knowledge base should be primarily in your head. If your mind doesn&amp;#x27;t feel like a knowledge base to you, it&amp;#x27;s because we&amp;#x27;re all so busy jamming new data into it that we never slow down and take the time to reflect and process what we&amp;#x27;ve already consumed.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jeromenerf</author><text>&amp;gt; The knowledge base should be primarily in your head.&lt;p&gt;I agree generally, then there is also a case to be made about writing down notes as a way to memorize the information. Particularly useful when starting on a new subject and could be great for teaching.&lt;p&gt;There is also information that isn’t worth memorizing but worth annotating. Shopping for instance.&lt;p&gt;I would appreciate a 2-way annotation system, where existing notes would appear when visiting a page and where pages would appear when visiting organized notes.</text></comment>

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<story><title>Managing my personnal servers in 2020 with K3s</title><url>https://github.com/erebe/personal-server/blob/master/README.md</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dsr_</author><text>I&amp;#x27;m not deploying; this is &lt;i&gt;&lt;/i&gt;the server&lt;i&gt;&lt;/i&gt;. I do backups, and I keep config in git.&lt;p&gt;Reproducibility? This is &lt;i&gt;&lt;/i&gt;the server&lt;i&gt;&lt;/i&gt;. I will restore from backups. There is no point in scaling.&lt;p&gt;If you want to argue that containerization and VMs are portable and deployable and all that, I agree. This is not a reasonable place to do that extra work.</text></item><item><author>gavinray</author><text>Containerization and container orchestration platforms are only partly about scalability.&lt;p&gt;The primary appeal for me is ease of deployment and reproducibility. This is why I develop everything in Docker Compose locally.&lt;p&gt;Maybe the equivalent here would be something like Guix or Nix for declaratively writing the entire state of all the desired system packages and services + versions but honestly (without personal experience using these) they seem harder than containers.</text></item><item><author>dsr_</author><text>&amp;quot;When you try to CRAM everything (mail, webserver, gitlab, pop3, imap, torrent, owncloud, munin, ...) into a single machine on Debian, you ultimately end-up activating unstable repository to get the latest version of packages and end-up with conflicting versions between softwares to the point that doing an apt-get update &amp;amp;&amp;amp; apt-get upgrade is now your nemesis.&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;This is not my experience.&lt;p&gt;My main house server runs:&lt;p&gt;mail: postfix, dovecot, clamav (SMTP, IMAP)&lt;p&gt;web: nginx, certbot, pelican, smokeping, dokuwiki, ubooquity, rainloop, privoxy (personal pages, blog, traffic tracking, wiki, comic-book server, webmail, anti-ad proxy)&lt;p&gt;git, postgresql, UPS monitoring, NTP, DNS, and DHCPd.&lt;p&gt;Firewalling, more DNS and the other part of DHCPd failover is on the router.&lt;p&gt;Package update is a breeze. The only time I waste the overhead of a virtual machine is when I&amp;#x27;m testing out new configurations and don&amp;#x27;t want to break what I have.&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;just having the Kubernetes server components running add a 10% CPU on my Intel(R) Atom(TM) CPU C2338 @ 1.74GHz.&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;Containerization is not a win here. Where&amp;#x27;s the second machine to fail over to?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>lmilcin</author><text>Hey, do whatever floats your boat. Nobody said there is a single solution to every problem.&lt;p&gt;Don&amp;#x27;t pick up a fight because you are satisfied with &lt;i&gt;your&lt;/i&gt; solution that is different from somebody else&amp;#x27;s solution.&lt;p&gt;I personally like docker-compose and Vagrant for my private services and development environments.&lt;p&gt;I use Vagrant for when I need a complete VM. Think in terms of VM for doing embedded development where I need a large number of tools in very specific versions and I need them still working in 3 years without maintenance even if I change a lot about my PC setup (I run Linux &lt;i&gt;everywhere&lt;/i&gt;).&lt;p&gt;I create separate Vagrant for every project and this way I can reinstate complete environment at a moments notice, whenever I want.&lt;p&gt;I use docker-compose for most everything else. Work on an application that needs MongoDB, Kafka, InfluxDB, Graphana and so on and so forth? Docker Compose to rule them all. You type one command and everything&amp;#x27;s up. You type another and everything&amp;#x27;s down.&lt;p&gt;I use the same for my other services like mail, NAS, personal website, database, block storage, etc. Containers let me preserve the environment and switch between versions easily and I am not tied to the binary version of the Linux on the server.&lt;p&gt;I hate it when I run a huge amount of services and then a single upgrade causes some of them to stop working. I want to be able to be constantly updated and have my services working with minimum maintenance. Containers let me make decision on each of the services separately.</text></comment>

<story><title>Managing my personnal servers in 2020 with K3s</title><url>https://github.com/erebe/personal-server/blob/master/README.md</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dsr_</author><text>I&amp;#x27;m not deploying; this is &lt;i&gt;&lt;/i&gt;the server&lt;i&gt;&lt;/i&gt;. I do backups, and I keep config in git.&lt;p&gt;Reproducibility? This is &lt;i&gt;&lt;/i&gt;the server&lt;i&gt;&lt;/i&gt;. I will restore from backups. There is no point in scaling.&lt;p&gt;If you want to argue that containerization and VMs are portable and deployable and all that, I agree. This is not a reasonable place to do that extra work.</text></item><item><author>gavinray</author><text>Containerization and container orchestration platforms are only partly about scalability.&lt;p&gt;The primary appeal for me is ease of deployment and reproducibility. This is why I develop everything in Docker Compose locally.&lt;p&gt;Maybe the equivalent here would be something like Guix or Nix for declaratively writing the entire state of all the desired system packages and services + versions but honestly (without personal experience using these) they seem harder than containers.</text></item><item><author>dsr_</author><text>&amp;quot;When you try to CRAM everything (mail, webserver, gitlab, pop3, imap, torrent, owncloud, munin, ...) into a single machine on Debian, you ultimately end-up activating unstable repository to get the latest version of packages and end-up with conflicting versions between softwares to the point that doing an apt-get update &amp;amp;&amp;amp; apt-get upgrade is now your nemesis.&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;This is not my experience.&lt;p&gt;My main house server runs:&lt;p&gt;mail: postfix, dovecot, clamav (SMTP, IMAP)&lt;p&gt;web: nginx, certbot, pelican, smokeping, dokuwiki, ubooquity, rainloop, privoxy (personal pages, blog, traffic tracking, wiki, comic-book server, webmail, anti-ad proxy)&lt;p&gt;git, postgresql, UPS monitoring, NTP, DNS, and DHCPd.&lt;p&gt;Firewalling, more DNS and the other part of DHCPd failover is on the router.&lt;p&gt;Package update is a breeze. The only time I waste the overhead of a virtual machine is when I&amp;#x27;m testing out new configurations and don&amp;#x27;t want to break what I have.&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;just having the Kubernetes server components running add a 10% CPU on my Intel(R) Atom(TM) CPU C2338 @ 1.74GHz.&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;Containerization is not a win here. Where&amp;#x27;s the second machine to fail over to?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>coldtea</author><text>&amp;gt;&lt;i&gt;I&amp;#x27;m not deploying; this is the server.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;Err, that&amp;#x27;s the very definition of deploying. Putting stuff on &amp;quot;the server&amp;quot;.&lt;p&gt;What you mean is not that you&amp;#x27;re not deploying, you&amp;#x27;re not testing&amp;#x2F;staging -- you change things and test new stuff directly in your production server.</text></comment>

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<story><title>Show HN: LlamaGPT – Self-hosted, offline, private AI chatbot, powered by Llama 2</title><url>https://github.com/getumbrel/llama-gpt</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>ccozan</author><text>Ok, since is running all private, how can I add my own private data? For example I have a 20+ years of an email archive that I&amp;#x27;d like to be ingested.</text></comment>

<story><title>Show HN: LlamaGPT – Self-hosted, offline, private AI chatbot, powered by Llama 2</title><url>https://github.com/getumbrel/llama-gpt</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>belval</author><text>Nice project! I could not find the information in the README.md, can I run this with a GPU? If so what do I need to change? Seems like it&amp;#x27;s hardcoded to 0 in the run script: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;github.com&amp;#x2F;getumbrel&amp;#x2F;llama-gpt&amp;#x2F;blob&amp;#x2F;master&amp;#x2F;api&amp;#x2F;run.sh#L12&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;github.com&amp;#x2F;getumbrel&amp;#x2F;llama-gpt&amp;#x2F;blob&amp;#x2F;master&amp;#x2F;api&amp;#x2F;run.s...&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>

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<story><title>Yield Curves Invert in U.S., U.K</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-08-14/u-k-yield-curve-inverts-for-first-time-since-financial-crisis</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>apo</author><text>Key recession indicator is flashing red. Unlike the stock market, which is both backward- and forward-looking, the bond market is myopically forward-looking.&lt;p&gt;When the yield between the 10-year and 2-year US treasury inverts, a recession is months away.&lt;p&gt;This chart, showing the difference between the yield (or spread), shows recessions in grey:&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;journal.firsttuesday.us&amp;#x2F;using-the-yield-spread-to-forecast-recessions-and-recoveries&amp;#x2F;2933&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;journal.firsttuesday.us&amp;#x2F;using-the-yield-spread-to-fo...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;Notice how even getting close to zero spread can sometimes be followed by a recession. But a negative spread always does.&lt;p&gt;Point to consider is the effect of Quantitative Easing (QE). Here, the Fed buys long-term treasuries such as 10-years. This makes long-term rates appear lower than they would otherwise be.&lt;p&gt;The Fed only slightly unwound this policy, meaning it still holds most of the long-term bonds it bought to fix the 2008&amp;#x2F;2009 crisis.&lt;p&gt;The net effect is that the Fed could be triggering an early recession warning here.&lt;p&gt;Regardless, combining this leading indicator with others such as transportation weakness, manufacturing slowdowns, and other economies tipping into recession (despite the loosest central bank policies in modern memory) leads to only one conclusion.&lt;p&gt;Prepare for the inevitable recession. It&amp;#x27;s not different this time.&lt;p&gt;Edit: one way to play this as an investor is to buy long-term treasuries. The idea being that as interest rates fall, the value of these assets increases (bond prices move inversely with interest rates). Go as long out on the yield curve as you can. Then when the Fed inevitably rides to the rescue, begin to unwind and capture the capital gains. Or not. Instead, just continue to receive above-market rate interest payments. There&amp;#x27;s risk here because there&amp;#x27;s no way to know how low long-term rates will fall before reversing course (and eroding any capital gains you might have picked up).</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>cletus</author><text>I&amp;#x27;d just like to point out that the yield curve inverted in 2018 [1] yet here we are.&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; Prepare for the inevitable recession. It&amp;#x27;s not different this time.&lt;p&gt;This point is tautological. Of course there will eventually be a recession. No one can say when.&lt;p&gt;There are different factors in every cycle. The QE period is essentially unprecedented. The rise of tech stocks in the last 20 years is a once-in-a-century type structural change in the economy.&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s fair to say the market is currently closer to the top than the bottom and above the historical mean and a reversion to mean is inevitable but whether the current mode goes on for days, months or even years is anyone&amp;#x27;s guess.&lt;p&gt;[1] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.bloomberg.com&amp;#x2F;opinion&amp;#x2F;articles&amp;#x2F;2018-12-03&amp;#x2F;u-s-yield-curve-just-inverted-that-s-huge&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.bloomberg.com&amp;#x2F;opinion&amp;#x2F;articles&amp;#x2F;2018-12-03&amp;#x2F;u-s-yi...&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>

<story><title>Yield Curves Invert in U.S., U.K</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-08-14/u-k-yield-curve-inverts-for-first-time-since-financial-crisis</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>apo</author><text>Key recession indicator is flashing red. Unlike the stock market, which is both backward- and forward-looking, the bond market is myopically forward-looking.&lt;p&gt;When the yield between the 10-year and 2-year US treasury inverts, a recession is months away.&lt;p&gt;This chart, showing the difference between the yield (or spread), shows recessions in grey:&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;journal.firsttuesday.us&amp;#x2F;using-the-yield-spread-to-forecast-recessions-and-recoveries&amp;#x2F;2933&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;journal.firsttuesday.us&amp;#x2F;using-the-yield-spread-to-fo...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;Notice how even getting close to zero spread can sometimes be followed by a recession. But a negative spread always does.&lt;p&gt;Point to consider is the effect of Quantitative Easing (QE). Here, the Fed buys long-term treasuries such as 10-years. This makes long-term rates appear lower than they would otherwise be.&lt;p&gt;The Fed only slightly unwound this policy, meaning it still holds most of the long-term bonds it bought to fix the 2008&amp;#x2F;2009 crisis.&lt;p&gt;The net effect is that the Fed could be triggering an early recession warning here.&lt;p&gt;Regardless, combining this leading indicator with others such as transportation weakness, manufacturing slowdowns, and other economies tipping into recession (despite the loosest central bank policies in modern memory) leads to only one conclusion.&lt;p&gt;Prepare for the inevitable recession. It&amp;#x27;s not different this time.&lt;p&gt;Edit: one way to play this as an investor is to buy long-term treasuries. The idea being that as interest rates fall, the value of these assets increases (bond prices move inversely with interest rates). Go as long out on the yield curve as you can. Then when the Fed inevitably rides to the rescue, begin to unwind and capture the capital gains. Or not. Instead, just continue to receive above-market rate interest payments. There&amp;#x27;s risk here because there&amp;#x27;s no way to know how low long-term rates will fall before reversing course (and eroding any capital gains you might have picked up).</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>nguoi</author><text>You don&amp;#x27;t have a time machine. Economic indicators work every time - until they don&amp;#x27;t.&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt;Notice how even getting close to zero spread can sometimes be followed by a recession. But a negative spread always does.&lt;p&gt;Everything since the last recession is, on some timescale, followed by a recession. So, technically, you&amp;#x27;ll be correct. But so were the people saying this in each of the years since 2008. If you don&amp;#x27;t have an upper bound on this, it&amp;#x27;s unfalsifiable and, when taken as advice, can&amp;#x27;t be used for any concrete actions.&lt;p&gt;If investors were as certain as you, a recession would be happening now.</text></comment>

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<story><title>YouTube has become the world&apos;s nanny</title><url>https://qz.com/youtube-has-become-the-worlds-nanny-1850047610</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>OscarTheGrinch</author><text>As a parent, screen time vs no screen time is a fine line that we have to continually renegotiate.&lt;p&gt;Screens can be great, there is so much good information out there that can enrich our lives. I wouldn&amp;#x27;t go the &amp;quot;no screens ever&amp;quot; route because that&amp;#x27;s just being a luddite, robbing them of the change to experience, and acquire expertise in, the digital world that they will be interacting with for the rest of their lives.&lt;p&gt;However, I am not letting my kid roam the internet, there be dragons. In particular YouTube&amp;#x27;s recommendation algorithm, even in their YouTube kids app, seems to default to serving up horrible brain melting crap instead of anything pedagogical. I am against kids content that is designed solely to entrance and keep them sitting still, it&amp;#x27;s the equivalent of digital candy floss. For example, the whole &amp;quot;surprise egg&amp;quot; trend, which basically is a video version of the lootbox &amp;#x2F; Deal Or No Deal, mechanic, is some of the most popular and recommended videos to children on youtube. &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.youtube.com&amp;#x2F;results?sp=mAEB&amp;amp;search_query=surprise+egg&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.youtube.com&amp;#x2F;results?sp=mAEB&amp;amp;search_query=surpris...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;All three of the frist vids we were served by YouTube kids were surprise egg videos. Hard uninstall.&lt;p&gt;Curating content and setting limits on screen time is your job as a parent in this era. We cannot outsource this responsibility to companies and AIs because there is simply no way an algorithm find the stuff that is just right for your child.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>furyg3</author><text>Curation is key and there need to be better tools. I strongly limit my kid&amp;#x27;s screen time, and was pleasantly surprised by the PBS kids video app (and to some extent the games app). I felt very comfortable leaving her alone with that at the designated screen times, as most programs had at least &lt;i&gt;some&lt;/i&gt; educational component... or at least had some generic but positive moral lessons. And (key!) she gets personal choice in what she watches, out of a curated garden.&lt;p&gt;As she&amp;#x27;s gotten older these programs are not cutting it, though, and she is asking for Netflix more and more. The problem is that the vast majority of kids shows are just garbage. Basically the equivalent of sitcoms or (worse) dramas about girls being cliquey or mean or whatever. I&amp;#x27;m looking for another garden with a wide variety of bigger kid shows that have some positive qualities to them.&lt;p&gt;Sure, there are great programs on there, but I wish I could pre-select those programs and give her a selection out of them. Netflix lets me set age limits and &lt;i&gt;block&lt;/i&gt; programs, but I&amp;#x27;d rather spend some time selecting 20-30 shows&amp;#x2F;movies that allows her to feel free while still giving me some control</text></comment>

<story><title>YouTube has become the world&apos;s nanny</title><url>https://qz.com/youtube-has-become-the-worlds-nanny-1850047610</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>OscarTheGrinch</author><text>As a parent, screen time vs no screen time is a fine line that we have to continually renegotiate.&lt;p&gt;Screens can be great, there is so much good information out there that can enrich our lives. I wouldn&amp;#x27;t go the &amp;quot;no screens ever&amp;quot; route because that&amp;#x27;s just being a luddite, robbing them of the change to experience, and acquire expertise in, the digital world that they will be interacting with for the rest of their lives.&lt;p&gt;However, I am not letting my kid roam the internet, there be dragons. In particular YouTube&amp;#x27;s recommendation algorithm, even in their YouTube kids app, seems to default to serving up horrible brain melting crap instead of anything pedagogical. I am against kids content that is designed solely to entrance and keep them sitting still, it&amp;#x27;s the equivalent of digital candy floss. For example, the whole &amp;quot;surprise egg&amp;quot; trend, which basically is a video version of the lootbox &amp;#x2F; Deal Or No Deal, mechanic, is some of the most popular and recommended videos to children on youtube. &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.youtube.com&amp;#x2F;results?sp=mAEB&amp;amp;search_query=surprise+egg&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.youtube.com&amp;#x2F;results?sp=mAEB&amp;amp;search_query=surpris...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;All three of the frist vids we were served by YouTube kids were surprise egg videos. Hard uninstall.&lt;p&gt;Curating content and setting limits on screen time is your job as a parent in this era. We cannot outsource this responsibility to companies and AIs because there is simply no way an algorithm find the stuff that is just right for your child.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>passwordoops</author><text>&amp;gt;Curating content and setting limits on screen time is your job as a parent in this era.&lt;p&gt;This, 100%! We&amp;#x27;re at the point where the tablet is for podcasts, and we can watch instructional videos with a specific topic in mind (e.g. tips on drawing anime characters). And that&amp;#x27;s it. It&amp;#x27;s been a month and we saw a noticeable change literally overnight in quality and amount of sleep, quality of conversation, and the child is generally happier</text></comment>

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<story><title>Starlink Is a Big Deal</title><url>https://sneak.berlin/20200129/starlink/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>modeless</author><text>Just going to plug my Starlink tracker here: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;james.darpinian.com&amp;#x2F;satellites&amp;#x2F;?special=starlink&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;james.darpinian.com&amp;#x2F;satellites&amp;#x2F;?special=starlink&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;It tells you when to go outside and look up to see the satellites as they pass over your house. It&amp;#x27;s a cool sight to see because there are up to 60 of them crossing the sky at the same time in a line.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>thombat</author><text>That was unexpectedly splendid: my city isn&amp;#x27;t covered by StreetView, with the sole exception of the interior of the city museum in the old palace. So according to the simulated view tomorrow at 0612 I can look for a string of pearls gliding across the gilded baroque ceiling of my unaccustomedly spacious bedroom.</text></comment>

<story><title>Starlink Is a Big Deal</title><url>https://sneak.berlin/20200129/starlink/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>modeless</author><text>Just going to plug my Starlink tracker here: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;james.darpinian.com&amp;#x2F;satellites&amp;#x2F;?special=starlink&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;james.darpinian.com&amp;#x2F;satellites&amp;#x2F;?special=starlink&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;It tells you when to go outside and look up to see the satellites as they pass over your house. It&amp;#x27;s a cool sight to see because there are up to 60 of them crossing the sky at the same time in a line.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>saganus</author><text>It would be nice if I could select the location manually, since I don&amp;#x27;t like sharing my location directly by a prompt.&lt;p&gt;When I got the location permission request I denied it and then it says there were no sightings available for the next 5 days :(</text></comment>

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<story><title>Native Americans say U.S. does not own land it is about to give to Rio Tinto</title><url>https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-mining-resolution/native-americans-say-u-s-does-not-own-land-it-is-about-to-give-to-rio-tinto-idUSKBN29J2R9</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>VWWHFSfQ</author><text>I wish I could find the court case, but the gist of it was that there was an enormous amount of &amp;quot;public land&amp;quot; in Oklahoma (I think) that a court ruled was actually owned by a Native American tribe and the deed&amp;#x2F;land was given to them. Access to the public was immediately revoked and multiple casinos were built on the part of the land near a lake and closest to the highway that ran through the land.&lt;p&gt;Is this a similar case? Also if anyone has a recollection of what I&amp;#x27;m referring to, that would be awesome. My search skills are failing me.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>magicalist</author><text>&amp;gt; &lt;i&gt;Access to the public was immediately revoked and multiple casinos were built on the part of the land near a lake and closest to the highway that ran through the land.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;Now that you&amp;#x27;ve been pointed to the story and found this is not at all what happened, it would be nice if you could edit your post to say so (or at least post a follow up saying the same if it&amp;#x27;s too late to edit).</text></comment>

<story><title>Native Americans say U.S. does not own land it is about to give to Rio Tinto</title><url>https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-mining-resolution/native-americans-say-u-s-does-not-own-land-it-is-about-to-give-to-rio-tinto-idUSKBN29J2R9</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>VWWHFSfQ</author><text>I wish I could find the court case, but the gist of it was that there was an enormous amount of &amp;quot;public land&amp;quot; in Oklahoma (I think) that a court ruled was actually owned by a Native American tribe and the deed&amp;#x2F;land was given to them. Access to the public was immediately revoked and multiple casinos were built on the part of the land near a lake and closest to the highway that ran through the land.&lt;p&gt;Is this a similar case? Also if anyone has a recollection of what I&amp;#x27;m referring to, that would be awesome. My search skills are failing me.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>lozaning</author><text>McGIRT v. OKLAHOMA maybe?&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.supremecourt.gov&amp;#x2F;opinions&amp;#x2F;19pdf&amp;#x2F;18-9526_9okb.pdf&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.supremecourt.gov&amp;#x2F;opinions&amp;#x2F;19pdf&amp;#x2F;18-9526_9okb.pdf&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;Half of oklahoma was ruled to be on a reservation somewhat recently. Never heard any casino new related to this ruling though.</text></comment>

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<story><title>What Template Haskell gets wrong and Racket gets right</title><url>http://blog.ezyang.com/2016/07/what-template-haskell-gets-wrong-and-racket-gets-right/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>dleslie</author><text>FYI, Racket&amp;#x27;s syntax macros is from its Scheme roots. For further information on what Scheme provides, by standard revision:&lt;p&gt;R5RS: [0]&lt;p&gt;R6RS: [1]&lt;p&gt;R7RS: [2] (Page 22)&lt;p&gt;And many Schemes provide non-standard extensions; for instance, Chicken supports non-hygienic macros[3].&lt;p&gt;FWIW, I prefer to think of the two stages as &amp;quot;syntax expansion&amp;quot; and &amp;quot;evaluation&amp;quot;, and not &amp;quot;compile time&amp;quot; and &amp;quot;run time&amp;quot;. Compilation and running are loaded terms that don&amp;#x27;t appropriately capture the totality of situations where this behaviour applies, in Scheme.&lt;p&gt;0: &lt;a href=&quot;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;schemers.org&amp;#x2F;Documents&amp;#x2F;Standards&amp;#x2F;R5RS&amp;#x2F;HTML&amp;#x2F;r5rs-Z-H-8.html#%_sec_5.3&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;schemers.org&amp;#x2F;Documents&amp;#x2F;Standards&amp;#x2F;R5RS&amp;#x2F;HTML&amp;#x2F;r5rs-Z-H-8...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;1: &lt;a href=&quot;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.r6rs.org&amp;#x2F;final&amp;#x2F;html&amp;#x2F;r6rs&amp;#x2F;r6rs-Z-H-14.html#node_sec_11.2.2&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.r6rs.org&amp;#x2F;final&amp;#x2F;html&amp;#x2F;r6rs&amp;#x2F;r6rs-Z-H-14.html#node_se...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;2: &lt;a href=&quot;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;trac.sacrideo.us&amp;#x2F;wg&amp;#x2F;raw-attachment&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;WikiStart&amp;#x2F;r7rs.pdf&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;trac.sacrideo.us&amp;#x2F;wg&amp;#x2F;raw-attachment&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;WikiStart&amp;#x2F;r7r...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;3: &lt;a href=&quot;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;wiki.call-cc.org&amp;#x2F;explicit-renaming-macros&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;wiki.call-cc.org&amp;#x2F;explicit-renaming-macros&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>

<story><title>What Template Haskell gets wrong and Racket gets right</title><url>http://blog.ezyang.com/2016/07/what-template-haskell-gets-wrong-and-racket-gets-right/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>kccqzy</author><text>Maybe this is heretical among Haskell lovers, but my personal, rather undeveloped, feeling is that Haskell syntax is too complicated for macros. Sure, Haskell code feels natural to read, but in fact they had a lot of &amp;quot;superficial complexity&amp;quot;[1], i.e. the syntax supports many ways of expressing the same thing. This makes any sorts of introspection at compile-time troublesome. Compile-time code generation is less of a problem but still it makes the experience less pleasant.&lt;p&gt;[1]: Hudak P., Hughes J., Peyton Jones, S., Wadler P. (2007). &lt;i&gt;A History of Haskell: Being Lazy With Class.&lt;/i&gt;</text></comment>

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<story><title>How a U.S. citizen was mistakenly targeted for deportation. He’s not alone</title><url>http://beta.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ice-citizen-arrest-20171129-story.html#nws=mcnewsletter</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>rdtsc</author><text>Hopefully he gets some money out of this. Can&amp;#x27;t imagine being grabbed, held in a cell somewhere, and then told I had to be deported all of the sudden.&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; Carrillo said his son brought a passport and a certificate of citizenship the government issued Carrillo but that ICE officers refused to review the documents.&lt;p&gt;Well that&amp;#x27;s just baffling. What exactly would they consider proof of citizenship if a passport and the certificate doesn&amp;#x27;t do it. What would it take? What if he didn&amp;#x27;t have a passport. Many people I know don&amp;#x27;t have one or have an expired one. Certainly not a requirement to have one.&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; The refusal by ICE officials to listen to Carrillo’s claims of citizenship appeared to violate an agency policy that requires officers to thoroughly and quickly investigate such claims&lt;p&gt;It also violates decency and common sense as well, and veers into plain old brutality.&lt;p&gt;Rant: One thing I don&amp;#x27;t understand is why don&amp;#x27;t people have national ID cards in US. Most countries I know of have them, here it is a complicated mess of drivers license, SSN, birth certificates, each states makes their own ID card thing for those that don&amp;#x27;t drive. Every single time elections come around there is talk of ID cards and supposed voter fraud for months afterwards, with everyone pointing fingers and insinuating things. Then there are cases like these. People&amp;#x27;s identities are stolen based on the stupid SSN number and a name, most of those are already on the black market somewhere already.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>aero142</author><text>The culture of the US has 2 parts that really don&amp;#x27;t like national IDs. A strong distrust of the federal government and a large number of evangelical christians. The natural distrust means that people generally don&amp;#x27;t want to give anything more to the federal government in general so it would take enormous political capital to add this. Second, the evangelical christians take end times prophesies from Revalation in the Bible very seriously. They believe that a national ID card is the &amp;quot;mark of the beast&amp;quot; that will be how the world is enslaved. It&amp;#x27;s a bit weird to outsiders, but it&amp;#x27;s a surprisingly common belief.&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.thefamilyinternational.org&amp;#x2F;en&amp;#x2F;viewpoints&amp;#x2F;future&amp;#x2F;65&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.thefamilyinternational.org&amp;#x2F;en&amp;#x2F;viewpoints&amp;#x2F;future&amp;#x2F;...&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>

<story><title>How a U.S. citizen was mistakenly targeted for deportation. He’s not alone</title><url>http://beta.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ice-citizen-arrest-20171129-story.html#nws=mcnewsletter</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>rdtsc</author><text>Hopefully he gets some money out of this. Can&amp;#x27;t imagine being grabbed, held in a cell somewhere, and then told I had to be deported all of the sudden.&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; Carrillo said his son brought a passport and a certificate of citizenship the government issued Carrillo but that ICE officers refused to review the documents.&lt;p&gt;Well that&amp;#x27;s just baffling. What exactly would they consider proof of citizenship if a passport and the certificate doesn&amp;#x27;t do it. What would it take? What if he didn&amp;#x27;t have a passport. Many people I know don&amp;#x27;t have one or have an expired one. Certainly not a requirement to have one.&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; The refusal by ICE officials to listen to Carrillo’s claims of citizenship appeared to violate an agency policy that requires officers to thoroughly and quickly investigate such claims&lt;p&gt;It also violates decency and common sense as well, and veers into plain old brutality.&lt;p&gt;Rant: One thing I don&amp;#x27;t understand is why don&amp;#x27;t people have national ID cards in US. Most countries I know of have them, here it is a complicated mess of drivers license, SSN, birth certificates, each states makes their own ID card thing for those that don&amp;#x27;t drive. Every single time elections come around there is talk of ID cards and supposed voter fraud for months afterwards, with everyone pointing fingers and insinuating things. Then there are cases like these. People&amp;#x27;s identities are stolen based on the stupid SSN number and a name, most of those are already on the black market somewhere already.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>losvedir</author><text>&lt;i&gt;Hopefully he gets some money out of this. Can&amp;#x27;t imagine being grabbed, held in a cell somewhere, and then told I had to be deported all of the sudden.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;From the article:&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; On Wednesday, attorneys for Carrillo announced a settlement deal in which the government will pay him $20,000 to resolve a civil lawsuit he filed over the arrest.</text></comment>

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<story><title>Telegram: No-SIM Signup, Auto-Delete All Chats, Topics 2.0 and more</title><url>https://telegram.org/blog/ultimate-privacy-topics-2-0/fr?setln=en</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Anunayj</author><text>I am a little confused as to why a blockchain was necessary here? Since Telegram is a centralized platform, couldn&amp;#x27;t they just roll their own &amp;quot;usernames&amp;quot; which they already do.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>transcriptase</author><text>Honestly. Telegram is a superb chat client, but there’s no reason for this blockchain nonsense. Let users choose a username and password like services have been doing for decades.</text></comment>

<story><title>Telegram: No-SIM Signup, Auto-Delete All Chats, Topics 2.0 and more</title><url>https://telegram.org/blog/ultimate-privacy-topics-2-0/fr?setln=en</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Anunayj</author><text>I am a little confused as to why a blockchain was necessary here? Since Telegram is a centralized platform, couldn&amp;#x27;t they just roll their own &amp;quot;usernames&amp;quot; which they already do.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>frollo</author><text>Durov has been pushing a lot of blockchain nonsense over his app. I really like Telegram as a chat app, but his stunts are making me wonder whether it&amp;#x27;s still a good idea to depend so much on it.</text></comment>

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<story><title>Driving a Car in Manhattan Could Cost $11 Under Congestion Plan</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/18/nyregion/driving-manhattan-congestion-traffic.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>hartator</author><text>I think you have to live in big city and have taken public transportation on a daily basis, to understand the frustations, the dalays, the insecurity, the smell, the crowdness, and the freedom reducing of it.</text></item><item><author>rsynnott</author><text>It&amp;#x27;s amazing how habit-forming driving seems to be. A friend was recently talking about a colleague of his who lives right next to a tram stop and works right next to another stop on the same tram line. 20 minute tram journey, tram every five minutes at peak time. And instead they drive an hour to work at rush hour, because they&amp;#x27;re from a rural area and are used to driving. Makes no sense to me at all...</text></item><item><author>Nav_Panel</author><text>People are stuck in old modes of thinking about the city. When my parents lived in the city during the 80s, it wasn&amp;#x27;t safe to take the subway. Everybody owned a car, even in Manhattan. Now, none of my (20-something) friends own cars, but I imagine a lot of older people don&amp;#x27;t want to give it up.&lt;p&gt;It does seem pretty nice to drive to work rather than cramming into a subway car for a half hour, even if you&amp;#x27;re stuck in traffic...</text></item><item><author>rthomas6</author><text>This is one of the only places in the US where public transportation is kind of good. Many people in NYC don&amp;#x27;t own a car and don&amp;#x27;t even know how to drive. It boggles my mind the amount of people complaining about how expensive it is to drive to Manhattan. ...Why did you drive in the first place? Unless you need to carry something large&amp;#x2F;heavy, there&amp;#x27;s no real reason to drive there. Just park, take a cab&amp;#x2F;train there, and once you&amp;#x27;re there, it&amp;#x27;s &lt;i&gt;faster&lt;/i&gt; than driving to use the subway to get places.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>kuschku</author><text>I&amp;#x27;ve been using public transportation every day since I&amp;#x27;ve been 18 (before that, I mostly biked), and I just have to disagree. Transit is so much more freedom than driving or biking for me. I don&amp;#x27;t have to care about where I park, or the bike getting stolen, or about being stuck in traffic. Whenever I need to get anywhere, I go to the next spot, wait 5min, and just hop onto the next one. It&amp;#x27;s amazing how much freedom this gives me.</text></comment>

<story><title>Driving a Car in Manhattan Could Cost $11 Under Congestion Plan</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/18/nyregion/driving-manhattan-congestion-traffic.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>hartator</author><text>I think you have to live in big city and have taken public transportation on a daily basis, to understand the frustations, the dalays, the insecurity, the smell, the crowdness, and the freedom reducing of it.</text></item><item><author>rsynnott</author><text>It&amp;#x27;s amazing how habit-forming driving seems to be. A friend was recently talking about a colleague of his who lives right next to a tram stop and works right next to another stop on the same tram line. 20 minute tram journey, tram every five minutes at peak time. And instead they drive an hour to work at rush hour, because they&amp;#x27;re from a rural area and are used to driving. Makes no sense to me at all...</text></item><item><author>Nav_Panel</author><text>People are stuck in old modes of thinking about the city. When my parents lived in the city during the 80s, it wasn&amp;#x27;t safe to take the subway. Everybody owned a car, even in Manhattan. Now, none of my (20-something) friends own cars, but I imagine a lot of older people don&amp;#x27;t want to give it up.&lt;p&gt;It does seem pretty nice to drive to work rather than cramming into a subway car for a half hour, even if you&amp;#x27;re stuck in traffic...</text></item><item><author>rthomas6</author><text>This is one of the only places in the US where public transportation is kind of good. Many people in NYC don&amp;#x27;t own a car and don&amp;#x27;t even know how to drive. It boggles my mind the amount of people complaining about how expensive it is to drive to Manhattan. ...Why did you drive in the first place? Unless you need to carry something large&amp;#x2F;heavy, there&amp;#x27;s no real reason to drive there. Just park, take a cab&amp;#x2F;train there, and once you&amp;#x27;re there, it&amp;#x27;s &lt;i&gt;faster&lt;/i&gt; than driving to use the subway to get places.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>TheCoelacanth</author><text>I have been taking public transportation for my commute for the past three years and I never want to go back to driving. The stress reduction of avoiding traffic is immense.</text></comment>

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<story><title>ZFS 2.1.6</title><url>https://github.com/openzfs/zfs/releases/tag/zfs-2.1.6</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>waynesonfire</author><text>Anyone know if there is a way to install this on a Ubuntu 16.04 system? Would like to update from 0.8.4-1 but jonathonf hasn&amp;#x27;t build anything newer for this version of Ubuntu.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>_joel</author><text>Wouldn&amp;#x27;t it better updating OS. I mean, I&amp;#x27;m all for stability and if it&amp;#x27;s isolated no problem it not getting patches, but it if you&amp;#x27;re going in for kinda hackish updates to 16.04 kernels then maybe bumping to a later OS version might be better? You&amp;#x27;re already adding volatility and potential issues, but at least with a supported build it reduces the latter (and former really)</text></comment>

<story><title>ZFS 2.1.6</title><url>https://github.com/openzfs/zfs/releases/tag/zfs-2.1.6</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>waynesonfire</author><text>Anyone know if there is a way to install this on a Ubuntu 16.04 system? Would like to update from 0.8.4-1 but jonathonf hasn&amp;#x27;t build anything newer for this version of Ubuntu.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>yjftsjthsd-h</author><text>I &lt;i&gt;think&lt;/i&gt; you can just download the source and build it as if Ubuntu didn&amp;#x27;t support ZFS. &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;openzfs.github.io&amp;#x2F;openzfs-docs&amp;#x2F;Developer%20Resources&amp;#x2F;Building%20ZFS.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;openzfs.github.io&amp;#x2F;openzfs-docs&amp;#x2F;Developer%20Resources...&lt;/a&gt; I haven&amp;#x27;t done this on Ubuntu, but I can attest that it works on Debian so unless Canonical did something &amp;quot;interesting&amp;quot; to break things it should Just Work™.</text></comment>

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<story><title>Report warns computers may threaten constitutional rights (1982)</title><url>https://archive.org/stream/80_Microcomputing_Issue_26_1982-02_1001001_US#page/n295/mode/2up</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>mtgx</author><text>I wonder if the people who wrote the report were also considered cuckoo crazy conspiracy theorists then (as Richard Stallman has been since around the same time).&lt;p&gt;Good thing they gutted it in 1995, I guess. Congress didn&amp;#x27;t want the public to find out about such facts.&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; &lt;i&gt;Criticism of the agency was fueled by Fat City, a 1980 book by Donald Lambro that was regarded favorably by the Reagan administration; it called OTA an &amp;quot;unnecessary agency&amp;quot; that duplicated government work done elsewhere. OTA was abolished (technically &amp;quot;de-funded&amp;quot;) in the &amp;quot;Contract with America&amp;quot; period of Newt Gingrich&amp;#x27;s Republican ascendancy in Congress.&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; When the 104th Congress withdrew funding for OTA, it had a full-time staff of 143 people and an annual budget of $21.9 million. The Office of Technology Assessment closed on September 29, 1995. The move was criticized at the time, including by Republican representative Amo Houghton, who commented at the time of OTA’s defunding that &amp;quot;we are cutting off one of the most important arms of Congress when we cut off unbiased knowledge about science and technology&amp;quot;.[1]&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; Critics of the closure saw it as an example of politics overriding science, and a variety of scientists such as biologist PZ Myers have called for the agency&amp;#x27;s reinstatement.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Office_of_Technology_Assessment#Closure&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Office_of_Technology_Assessmen...&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>

<story><title>Report warns computers may threaten constitutional rights (1982)</title><url>https://archive.org/stream/80_Microcomputing_Issue_26_1982-02_1001001_US#page/n295/mode/2up</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>quadhome</author><text>The report in question:&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;govinfo.library.unt.edu&amp;#x2F;ota&amp;#x2F;Ota_5&amp;#x2F;DATA&amp;#x2F;1981&amp;#x2F;8109.PDF&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;govinfo.library.unt.edu&amp;#x2F;ota&amp;#x2F;Ota_5&amp;#x2F;DATA&amp;#x2F;1981&amp;#x2F;8109.PDF&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>

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<story><title>Are Aerospike Engines Better Than Traditional Rocket Engines?</title><url>http://everydayastronaut.com/aerospikes/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>orbital-decay</author><text>A spike isn&amp;#x27;t the only way to compensate for altitude, it&amp;#x27;s just the most popularized one. There are also expansion-deflection nozzles, expanding nozzles and notably removable inserts for ordinary bell nozzles, which are simple, good enough and are being used on real rockets for a long time.&lt;p&gt;&lt;i&gt;&amp;gt; But all in all, I think the best way I can summarize the Aerospike is to compare it to like the rotary engine seen on cars like the Mazda RX-7 and RX-8 and their predecessors.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;This is a great analogy.</text></comment>

<story><title>Are Aerospike Engines Better Than Traditional Rocket Engines?</title><url>http://everydayastronaut.com/aerospikes/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>blakes</author><text>Here&amp;#x27;s an interesting interview the author did with Elon Musk: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.youtube.com&amp;#x2F;watch?v=cIQ36Kt7UVg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.youtube.com&amp;#x2F;watch?v=cIQ36Kt7UVg&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;Fun to see how interested Elon is with the engineering of rockets, looks like he could talk for days if he had the time.</text></comment>

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<story><title>Metaprogramming in Python</title><url>https://developer.ibm.com/tutorials/ba-metaprogramming-python/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>samwillis</author><text>This oft-repeated quote is always relevant on Python metaclass posts:&lt;p&gt;“[Metaclasses] are deeper magic than 99% of users should ever worry about. If you wonder whether you need them, you don’t (the people who actually need them know with certainty that they need them, and don’t need an explanation about why).”&lt;p&gt;&lt;i&gt;Tim Peters, Inventor of the timsort algorithm and prolific Python contributor&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.oreilly.com&amp;#x2F;library&amp;#x2F;view&amp;#x2F;fluent-python&amp;#x2F;9781491946237&amp;#x2F;ch21.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.oreilly.com&amp;#x2F;library&amp;#x2F;view&amp;#x2F;fluent-python&amp;#x2F;978149194...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.m.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Tim_Peters_(software_engineer)&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.m.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Tim_Peters_(software_enginee...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;I would then also concur with the other comment that if you “know” you need metaclasses, 99% of the time actually you only need __subclass_init__.&lt;p&gt;A lot of online literature about Python meta programming misses out __subclass_init__ as it was only added to Python 3.6 in 2015 via PEP 487.&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;peps.python.org&amp;#x2F;pep-0487&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;peps.python.org&amp;#x2F;pep-0487&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>

<story><title>Metaprogramming in Python</title><url>https://developer.ibm.com/tutorials/ba-metaprogramming-python/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>kkirsche</author><text>Thanks for sharing! Instead of using meta classes for subclass registration though, please just use __subclass_init__ instead. It’ll often be simpler unless you have a complex use case.&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;docs.python.org&amp;#x2F;3&amp;#x2F;reference&amp;#x2F;datamodel.html#object.__init_subclass__&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;docs.python.org&amp;#x2F;3&amp;#x2F;reference&amp;#x2F;datamodel.html#object.__...&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>

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<story><title>Germany’s great tuition fees U-turn</title><url>http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/features/feature-germanys-great-tuition-fees-u-turn/2011168.fullarticle</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>saool</author><text>I wish the debate focused less on cost-benefit analysis and on ways to engineer a just &amp;quot;chargeback&amp;quot; using loans or taxes and more about the idea that maybe people should be encouraged to pursue education just for the sake of it, to become free men and free thinkers, regardless of whether they&amp;#x27;d be economically better off by taking electricity at trade school just to quickly join the assembly line at Volkswagen so that they can make money to buy a bigger plasma TV. &amp;#x2F;rant</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ahomescu1</author><text>&amp;gt; [...] just for the sake of it, to become free men and free thinkers [...]&lt;p&gt;You&amp;#x27;re assuming that one can only be a free thinker or a free man after 4 years of university, as opposed to the ignorant slaves that are the rest. What makes you believe this?</text></comment>

<story><title>Germany’s great tuition fees U-turn</title><url>http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/features/feature-germanys-great-tuition-fees-u-turn/2011168.fullarticle</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>saool</author><text>I wish the debate focused less on cost-benefit analysis and on ways to engineer a just &amp;quot;chargeback&amp;quot; using loans or taxes and more about the idea that maybe people should be encouraged to pursue education just for the sake of it, to become free men and free thinkers, regardless of whether they&amp;#x27;d be economically better off by taking electricity at trade school just to quickly join the assembly line at Volkswagen so that they can make money to buy a bigger plasma TV. &amp;#x2F;rant</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>virtue3</author><text>This was the case at one point in time. But only the independently wealthy could afford to do this.&lt;p&gt;As much as I wish your sentiment could be true, it&amp;#x27;s just not realistic in an economically driven world :&amp;#x2F;</text></comment>

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<story><title>Announcing YouTube-8M: A Large and Diverse Labeled Video Dataset for Research</title><url>https://research.googleblog.com/2016/09/announcing-youtube-8m-large-and-diverse.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>JosephRedfern</author><text>If, for some reason, you wanted a list of all of the video IDs (I couldn&amp;#x27;t easily find such a list), then I wrote a crappy scraper to pull them out: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;gist.github.com&amp;#x2F;JosephRedfern&amp;#x2F;d60bdc584d84b1451cc6052e955b755c&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;gist.github.com&amp;#x2F;JosephRedfern&amp;#x2F;d60bdc584d84b1451cc605...&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;p&gt;I can post a URL to the output once it&amp;#x27;s finished running, if it&amp;#x27;d be of any use to anyone. Oh, and be warned, there&amp;#x27;s a strong chance that it&amp;#x27;s buggy. It&amp;#x27;s certainly not optimised (no threads).&lt;p&gt;EDIT: The script has now run. I&amp;#x27;ve scraped ~10,000,000 Video IDs, but only ~5.5m of these IDs are unique, so there&amp;#x27;s probably a bug in my script somewhere (but I need sleep now). Files containing IDs for various categories are listed here: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;redfern.me&amp;#x2F;public&amp;#x2F;yt8m&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;redfern.me&amp;#x2F;public&amp;#x2F;yt8m&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt;, some notes are here: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;redfern.me&amp;#x2F;public&amp;#x2F;yt8m&amp;#x2F;README.md&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;redfern.me&amp;#x2F;public&amp;#x2F;yt8m&amp;#x2F;README.md&lt;/a&gt;, and .tar.gz&amp;#x27;d archive is available here: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;redfern.me&amp;#x2F;public&amp;#x2F;yt8m&amp;#x2F;yt8m-ids-probably-incomplete.tar.gz&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;redfern.me&amp;#x2F;public&amp;#x2F;yt8m&amp;#x2F;yt8m-ids-probably-incomplete....&lt;/a&gt;.</text></comment>

<story><title>Announcing YouTube-8M: A Large and Diverse Labeled Video Dataset for Research</title><url>https://research.googleblog.com/2016/09/announcing-youtube-8m-large-and-diverse.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>iverjo</author><text>This is nice :) Kudos to the Youtube guys for releasing this. I&amp;#x27;m a data scientist in a startup where one of the things I do is create multi-label models for classifying YouTube videos. My current model has 90 % precision and 69 % recall, while Youtube-8M has 78 % precision and 14 % recall, with respect to the human raters. I guess one of the reasons is that my model only has around 100 categories, while Youtube-8M has 4800. It&amp;#x27;s like comparing apples with pears, but still interesting.</text></comment>

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<story><title>Google Titan Security Key now available</title><url>https://store.google.com/us/product/titan_security_key_kit?hl=en-US</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Someone1234</author><text>The wireless key is the &amp;quot;Feitian MultiPass FIDO Security Key&amp;quot; I&amp;#x27;d caution people to read the Amazon reviews (specifically people found it unreliable and it would break if dropped&amp;#x2F;roughly handled).&lt;p&gt;They both seem to be re-branded Feitian, which cost less ($25 + $17 = $42) when purchased under that brand from Amazon than the Google Titan moniker.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>amelius</author><text>Given the recent amount of reports of counterfeiting on Amazon (not specifically this product), I&amp;#x27;d buy my security keys elsewhere.</text></comment>

<story><title>Google Titan Security Key now available</title><url>https://store.google.com/us/product/titan_security_key_kit?hl=en-US</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Someone1234</author><text>The wireless key is the &amp;quot;Feitian MultiPass FIDO Security Key&amp;quot; I&amp;#x27;d caution people to read the Amazon reviews (specifically people found it unreliable and it would break if dropped&amp;#x2F;roughly handled).&lt;p&gt;They both seem to be re-branded Feitian, which cost less ($25 + $17 = $42) when purchased under that brand from Amazon than the Google Titan moniker.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>rahimnathwani</author><text>&amp;quot;Firmware for Titan Security Keys is engineered by Google, to verify the key’s integrity.&amp;quot;</text></comment>

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<story><title>Time-saving tips for Linux</title><url>http://www.quora.com/Linux/What-are-some-time-saving-tips-that-every-Linux-user-should-know</url><text></text></story><parent_chain><item><author>jrockway</author><text>I don&apos;t think these tips are that great. Some random criticisms:&lt;p&gt;ifconfig is deprecated (use &quot;ip&quot; instead).&lt;p&gt;There is not much value in knowing vim if you know Emacs. If you want to edit something in your terminal, well, emacsclient -t to your Emacs session. Or use mg, which is a very fast and light Emacs workalike -- just enough for editing your /etc/apt/sources.list to get Emacs installed :)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mattdeboard</author><text>You don&apos;t think these tip are that great &lt;i&gt;for you&lt;/i&gt;. But they&apos;re not written for Unix command-line ninjas. They&apos;re written for average users (like me) who run Ubuntu or some other flavor of Linux and just use the basic commands. I bookmarked the tips and will definitely be revisiting them regularly to improve my command line fu.&lt;p&gt;Sorry you didn&apos;t get anything out of it, but I suspect you don&apos;t need tips like &quot;learn vim&quot; and &quot;be familiar with chown&quot;.</text></comment>

<story><title>Time-saving tips for Linux</title><url>http://www.quora.com/Linux/What-are-some-time-saving-tips-that-every-Linux-user-should-know</url><text></text></story><parent_chain><item><author>jrockway</author><text>I don&apos;t think these tips are that great. Some random criticisms:&lt;p&gt;ifconfig is deprecated (use &quot;ip&quot; instead).&lt;p&gt;There is not much value in knowing vim if you know Emacs. If you want to edit something in your terminal, well, emacsclient -t to your Emacs session. Or use mg, which is a very fast and light Emacs workalike -- just enough for editing your /etc/apt/sources.list to get Emacs installed :)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jrussbowman</author><text>Functionally as a sysadmin, I&apos;ve heard ifconfig is deprecated before yet I&apos;ve never used ip. just &apos;ifconfig&apos; on the command line tells me everything I need to know about what interfaces are up, their status and basic info.&lt;p&gt;&apos;ip&apos; just gives me the standard syntax description.&lt;p&gt;The power of the basic shell is that there&apos;s usually a few hundred ways to skin a cat. And just because there&apos;s documentation saying something is deprecated as often as not it&apos;s still so widely used that in practice, it&apos;s not.</text></comment>

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<story><title>Richard Lynch, an awesome PHP community guy and former colleague needs our help</title><url>http://richardlynch.blogspot.com/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jwdunne</author><text>I&amp;#x27;m from the UK. The NHS is shambles and is spread very, very thin. Doctors are pissed off. Patients are pissed off. The government seems to be too. However I would prefer the 3 hour A&amp;amp;E (ER) waiting times, being spoken to like shit if it isn&amp;#x27;t as serious as originally thought and epic waiting lists for outpatient services than having companies profit from my health and the massive vulnerability that puts me in (on top of just bad health). Even for all the bad of the NHS, when things really to hit the fan, I can be sure I get seen to ASAP when it is deadly serious.&lt;p&gt;Just last month my pregnant fiancée was very ill with an infection and she was examined straight away at A&amp;amp;E, bypassing the 3 hour waiting time. It&amp;#x27;s for cases like here that the 3 hour wait is in place. There was no cost to me for any of that, perhaps except national insurance which is very small payments out of my pay packet each month a d the £7 for the course of anti-biotics&lt;p&gt;The real problem is how do we adequately reward doctors who spend such a massive amount of effort and time not just in school but in work? The NYS cannot do this, there are targets like &amp;quot;15 mins per patient on ward rounds&amp;quot;. Each doctor needs to spend 10 years in the NHS before private practice. How is a system like this sustainable with a massive budget deficit to boot and government that would like to see its end?</text></item><item><author>lucisferre</author><text>You would be surprised. It wasn&amp;#x27;t long ago when I met an intelligent and otherwise very well informed American who truly believed that the &amp;quot;socialized&amp;quot; Canadian healthcare system was a 3rd rate disaster and feared any change to the precious US system would lead to a similar situation.&lt;p&gt;Don&amp;#x27;t get me wrong he acknowledged it wasn&amp;#x27;t great, but there is more than sufficient doubt and confusion amongst most Americans with regards to what the actual problem is an how to fix it to prevent any kind of attempt and changing things.</text></item><item><author>lotharbot</author><text>&amp;gt; &lt;i&gt;&amp;quot;you can get this public picture that everything is great&amp;quot;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;m not aware of anyone, from any political background, who thinks the US system is anything above &amp;quot;pretty crappy&amp;quot;. I&amp;#x27;ve heard some people express positive sentiments regarding small parts of the system -- the quality of certain types of care, for example -- but never for the system as a whole.&lt;p&gt;The primary disagreements I&amp;#x27;m aware of concern how to fix the current worst-of-both-worlds system. Do we put it entirely in government hands? Do we enact more regulations to try to force down costs? Do we remove or relax regulations that appear to drive up costs? How do we create transparency in pricing? How do we respond to innovative groups like Qliance? How should we balance the role of government, individuals, families, employers, and charity in health care?&lt;p&gt;Do not mistake disagreement on how to answer those questions as support for the current system.</text></item><item><author>benched</author><text>Very sorry. Speaking from experience, this is exactly how it is. When there&amp;#x27;s a serious medical situation, the focus is necessarily on the bills. They even send you separate envelopes for every little line item and provider, staggered over time, even more than a year after the service, so you can never stop thinking about it. Always fearing opening the mailbox, having to deal with confusing hard to reconcile charges, trying to catch double-billing, dealing with payments to multiple providers. The stress of the bills can easily make the illness worse. The US is truly a barbaric system. But it has this small bubble of well-off people, who have a disproportionate platform for their propaganda, so you can get this public picture that everything is great. Everyone beams smiles in the commercials, consuming the miracle products. The well-off only associate with others who are well-off, so they can pat each other on the back and say &amp;quot;What a country! All this opportunity for those with the right sort of character, like us!&amp;quot;</text></item><item><author>piratebroadcast</author><text>My mom just got diagnosed with extensive small cell lung cancer (thats spread to her brain) and I am fucking terrified about whats going to happen to us financially. I can&amp;#x27;t even focus completely on my mother as a person because I&amp;#x27;m wondering about the bills, then I feel bad for worrying. It fucking sucks.</text></item><item><author>amix</author><text>I donated $50, but I really wish US (and other countries) would reconsider their broken healthcare systems. My dad died of cancer a few years ago and I am really glad we lived in Denmark when he got it - - with a great public healthcare system. He lived 2 years with his cancer, which is a lot when you are counting days. Not many normal people can afford these things (as each of my dads treatments cost about 20.000USD+ and he had a lot of them).&lt;p&gt;Also, just yesterday DHH posted this: &amp;quot;Top income tax rate for California residents is 51.6%. Top for Danish residents is 51.7%. (Kicking at $500k+ vs $70K+, though).&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;Which puts things in perspective.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>thorin</author><text>I just had a baby daughter. The care was excellent at a hospital a couple of miles from home. At one point we had 3 midwives helping, then the anaesthetist and for the delivery we had 3 doctors at one point. After-birth care was great too and we were encouraged to stay at the hospital until we felt comfortable going home all the while with adequate food and a private room.&lt;p&gt;We had to go to A and E with our daughter a couple of weeks ago. We were seen before I even had time to park my car after dropping off the wife and baby! The doctor and nurse were both very supportive and were happy to see us even reassuring us that we were absolutely right to come in even though no treatment was required in the end.&lt;p&gt;Around 10 years ago I had months of physio on the NHS and a series of consultant appointments. I was very happy with the service.&lt;p&gt;Yes, the NHS is struggling like all public services, but the media seem keen to trash the NHS and force us into privacy to keep the (mainly conservative) MP&amp;#x27;s happy and help their friends get the big contracts. It makes mistakes and isn&amp;#x27;t perfect but in general I&amp;#x27;ve had good experiences.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;ve also had surgery and a lengthy hospital stay in California. An excellent standard of service but at a massive cost (fortunately fully paid by my travel insurance).&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;d prefer the service as it is in the UK where everyone is equal insurance or not even if the quality is not quite as high as places where the end user is paying for the service.</text></comment>

<story><title>Richard Lynch, an awesome PHP community guy and former colleague needs our help</title><url>http://richardlynch.blogspot.com/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jwdunne</author><text>I&amp;#x27;m from the UK. The NHS is shambles and is spread very, very thin. Doctors are pissed off. Patients are pissed off. The government seems to be too. However I would prefer the 3 hour A&amp;amp;E (ER) waiting times, being spoken to like shit if it isn&amp;#x27;t as serious as originally thought and epic waiting lists for outpatient services than having companies profit from my health and the massive vulnerability that puts me in (on top of just bad health). Even for all the bad of the NHS, when things really to hit the fan, I can be sure I get seen to ASAP when it is deadly serious.&lt;p&gt;Just last month my pregnant fiancée was very ill with an infection and she was examined straight away at A&amp;amp;E, bypassing the 3 hour waiting time. It&amp;#x27;s for cases like here that the 3 hour wait is in place. There was no cost to me for any of that, perhaps except national insurance which is very small payments out of my pay packet each month a d the £7 for the course of anti-biotics&lt;p&gt;The real problem is how do we adequately reward doctors who spend such a massive amount of effort and time not just in school but in work? The NYS cannot do this, there are targets like &amp;quot;15 mins per patient on ward rounds&amp;quot;. Each doctor needs to spend 10 years in the NHS before private practice. How is a system like this sustainable with a massive budget deficit to boot and government that would like to see its end?</text></item><item><author>lucisferre</author><text>You would be surprised. It wasn&amp;#x27;t long ago when I met an intelligent and otherwise very well informed American who truly believed that the &amp;quot;socialized&amp;quot; Canadian healthcare system was a 3rd rate disaster and feared any change to the precious US system would lead to a similar situation.&lt;p&gt;Don&amp;#x27;t get me wrong he acknowledged it wasn&amp;#x27;t great, but there is more than sufficient doubt and confusion amongst most Americans with regards to what the actual problem is an how to fix it to prevent any kind of attempt and changing things.</text></item><item><author>lotharbot</author><text>&amp;gt; &lt;i&gt;&amp;quot;you can get this public picture that everything is great&amp;quot;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;m not aware of anyone, from any political background, who thinks the US system is anything above &amp;quot;pretty crappy&amp;quot;. I&amp;#x27;ve heard some people express positive sentiments regarding small parts of the system -- the quality of certain types of care, for example -- but never for the system as a whole.&lt;p&gt;The primary disagreements I&amp;#x27;m aware of concern how to fix the current worst-of-both-worlds system. Do we put it entirely in government hands? Do we enact more regulations to try to force down costs? Do we remove or relax regulations that appear to drive up costs? How do we create transparency in pricing? How do we respond to innovative groups like Qliance? How should we balance the role of government, individuals, families, employers, and charity in health care?&lt;p&gt;Do not mistake disagreement on how to answer those questions as support for the current system.</text></item><item><author>benched</author><text>Very sorry. Speaking from experience, this is exactly how it is. When there&amp;#x27;s a serious medical situation, the focus is necessarily on the bills. They even send you separate envelopes for every little line item and provider, staggered over time, even more than a year after the service, so you can never stop thinking about it. Always fearing opening the mailbox, having to deal with confusing hard to reconcile charges, trying to catch double-billing, dealing with payments to multiple providers. The stress of the bills can easily make the illness worse. The US is truly a barbaric system. But it has this small bubble of well-off people, who have a disproportionate platform for their propaganda, so you can get this public picture that everything is great. Everyone beams smiles in the commercials, consuming the miracle products. The well-off only associate with others who are well-off, so they can pat each other on the back and say &amp;quot;What a country! All this opportunity for those with the right sort of character, like us!&amp;quot;</text></item><item><author>piratebroadcast</author><text>My mom just got diagnosed with extensive small cell lung cancer (thats spread to her brain) and I am fucking terrified about whats going to happen to us financially. I can&amp;#x27;t even focus completely on my mother as a person because I&amp;#x27;m wondering about the bills, then I feel bad for worrying. It fucking sucks.</text></item><item><author>amix</author><text>I donated $50, but I really wish US (and other countries) would reconsider their broken healthcare systems. My dad died of cancer a few years ago and I am really glad we lived in Denmark when he got it - - with a great public healthcare system. He lived 2 years with his cancer, which is a lot when you are counting days. Not many normal people can afford these things (as each of my dads treatments cost about 20.000USD+ and he had a lot of them).&lt;p&gt;Also, just yesterday DHH posted this: &amp;quot;Top income tax rate for California residents is 51.6%. Top for Danish residents is 51.7%. (Kicking at $500k+ vs $70K+, though).&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;Which puts things in perspective.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>cowls</author><text>The NHS is not a shambles. Its puts a lot of other countries health care system to shame.&lt;p&gt;Your moaning about having a 3 hour wait for non urgent cases, when in other countries you&amp;#x27;d have to pay a fortune for such treatment.&lt;p&gt;And who cares how they talk to you, as long as you end up getting the treatment you need that&amp;#x27;s all that matters.</text></comment>

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<story><title>I won a suit against a party that sent me an unsolicited text message</title><url>https://twitter.com/dweekly/status/1552148207248896001</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>throw8383833jj</author><text>I think a much easier way would be if we just taxed phone calls at 1 cent each. I mean absolutely everything else is already taxed: you pay taxes just to stay alive. the least that could be done is add a 1 cent tax to each phone call, just enough to stop the mass phone calling.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>vorpalhex</author><text>An online game, Eve Online, let&amp;#x27;s you set a fee for anyone not in your contacts to message you, with a default fee. You get some of it and &amp;quot;the government&amp;quot; (the game) gets the rest. The first time you message someone, you get prompted to pay the fee or discard your message.&lt;p&gt;I want this in real life. Set a default of a $1 or so. Your carrier gets $0.25, you get $0.75. You can adjust the fee to $0 or $1000. Carrier gets 25%.</text></comment>

<story><title>I won a suit against a party that sent me an unsolicited text message</title><url>https://twitter.com/dweekly/status/1552148207248896001</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>throw8383833jj</author><text>I think a much easier way would be if we just taxed phone calls at 1 cent each. I mean absolutely everything else is already taxed: you pay taxes just to stay alive. the least that could be done is add a 1 cent tax to each phone call, just enough to stop the mass phone calling.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>flerchin</author><text>Yep, and folks could even have a credit of 500 phone calls a month, or whatever a reasonable number would be, so no cost to consumers at all. Instead of a tax, it should be a minimum charge that goes to the carriers. So that they would be incentivized to collect it.</text></comment>

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<story><title>Secure Randomness in Go 1.22</title><url>https://go.dev/blog/chacha8rand?hn=1</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>nickcw</author><text>From the article&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; Go aims to help developers write code that is secure by default. When we observe a common mistake with security consequences, we look for ways to reduce the risk of that mistake or eliminate it entirely. In this case, math&amp;#x2F;rand’s global generator was far too predictable, leading to serious problems in a variety of contexts.&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; For example, when Go 1.20 deprecated math&amp;#x2F;rand’s Read, we heard from developers who discovered (thanks to tooling pointing out use of deprecated functionality) they had been using it in places where crypto&amp;#x2F;rand’s Read was definitely needed, like generating key material.&lt;p&gt;I made exactly this mistake in rclone. I refactored some code which was using the Read function from crypt&amp;#x2F;rand and during the process the import got automatically changed (probably by goimports when mixing code which did use math&amp;#x2F;rand) to math&amp;#x2F;rand. So it changed from using a secure random number generator to a deterministic one rclone seeded with the time of day. I didn&amp;#x27;t notice in the diffs :-( Hence&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.cvedetails.com&amp;#x2F;cve&amp;#x2F;CVE-2020-28924&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.cvedetails.com&amp;#x2F;cve&amp;#x2F;CVE-2020-28924&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;So this change gets a big :+1: from me.</text></comment>

<story><title>Secure Randomness in Go 1.22</title><url>https://go.dev/blog/chacha8rand?hn=1</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>room271</author><text>Russell Cox consistently produces excellent technical blogs and proposals (and work). If you want to improve the clarity of your writing and thinking, he is a great place to start.</text></comment>

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<story><title>A highly efficient, real-time text-to-speech system deployed on CPUs</title><url>https://ai.facebook.com/blog/a-highly-efficient-real-time-text-to-speech-system-deployed-on-cpus/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>thelazydogsback</author><text>Personally, I find I dislike any &amp;quot;emotion&amp;quot; added to TTS -- I find Alexa&amp;#x27;s emo markup, a la:&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;developer.amazon.com&amp;#x2F;en-US&amp;#x2F;blogs&amp;#x2F;alexa&amp;#x2F;alexa-skills-kit&amp;#x2F;2019&amp;#x2F;11&amp;#x2F;new-alexa-emotions-and-speaking-styles&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;developer.amazon.com&amp;#x2F;en-US&amp;#x2F;blogs&amp;#x2F;alexa&amp;#x2F;alexa-skills-...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;to be disturbing and without much added value. (Such as used with games like Jeopardy.)&lt;p&gt;If used, the application of these tags needs to be both meticulous in its proper context, somewhat non-deterministically applied, and with randomized prosody. Repeated usage of the same overstated emotive content is annoying and unnatural (worse than a &amp;quot;flat&amp;quot; presentation) and only serves to underscore the underlying inflexible conversational content.</text></comment>

<story><title>A highly efficient, real-time text-to-speech system deployed on CPUs</title><url>https://ai.facebook.com/blog/a-highly-efficient-real-time-text-to-speech-system-deployed-on-cpus/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>ekelsen</author><text>Exciting to see our research making broad impact across the industry! &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;arxiv.org&amp;#x2F;abs&amp;#x2F;1802.08435&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;arxiv.org&amp;#x2F;abs&amp;#x2F;1802.08435&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>

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<story><title>Elm from a Business Perspective</title><url>http://www.gizra.com/content/elm-business-perspective/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dkarapetyan</author><text>The academics always miss this part. They assume the most elegant and concise form of expression for an idea or a concept is equivalent to pragmatism. When in reality pragmatism in software engineering is mostly about making things obvious enough at a cheap enough price point. This is why golang is so popular even though all the academics on r&amp;#x2F;programming hate it.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>chrisdone</author><text>There are many points to respond to here.&lt;p&gt;1. Evan (the Elm author) has pledged to support type-classes, it&amp;#x27;s on the issue tracker, and because he believes that they are useful.&lt;p&gt;2. &amp;quot;The academics&amp;quot; is a mischaracterization. I use Haskell and PureScript professionally and share the same problem of the &amp;quot;Elm is Wrong&amp;quot; author, which is that it&amp;#x27;s impossible to do any generic programming.&lt;p&gt;3. Generic programming is important for something as simple as inserting my own data types as keys into a dictionary. So is being able to write &amp;quot;show x&amp;quot; and just have the thing showed if it has the instance of a showable class. Or to parse a nested data structure of various types from JSON.&lt;p&gt;4. Being able to use my own types as keys in a dictionary is pretty pragmatic, I think. A typical pattern in ML-style languages is to wrap types like Int in a UserId type that just wraps it and protects it from being mistakenly used with other Ints. Now try to make a dictionary of users via the UserId type. Nope.&lt;p&gt;5. &amp;quot;They&amp;quot; in this case aren&amp;#x27;t concerned with elegance or concision for the sake of it, but because the features under discussion help them do their job better, avoid mistakes, reduce maintenance cost, and that&amp;#x27;s good for business.&lt;p&gt;6. Go has non-academic, purely pragmatic problems that are orthogonal to its popularity, as does PHP or nodejs.&lt;p&gt;None of the things under discussion are difficult to implement, novel or exotic. Given that other languages like PureScript exist under the same domain and from the same family of languages, we have the luxury of holding other languages up to the same standard. In this particular point, Elm is a -1.</text></comment>

<story><title>Elm from a Business Perspective</title><url>http://www.gizra.com/content/elm-business-perspective/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dkarapetyan</author><text>The academics always miss this part. They assume the most elegant and concise form of expression for an idea or a concept is equivalent to pragmatism. When in reality pragmatism in software engineering is mostly about making things obvious enough at a cheap enough price point. This is why golang is so popular even though all the academics on r&amp;#x2F;programming hate it.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>sotojuan</author><text>This is interesting because Elm has been removing features that Evan considers &amp;quot;too hard&amp;quot; and confusing for the average developer. I&amp;#x27;d argue it&amp;#x27;s not &amp;quot;academic&amp;quot; any more (though it might be interesting for an academic who wants to do UI).</text></comment>

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<story><title>The best way to get unstuck</title><url>https://ggnotes.com/the-best-way-to-get-unstuck</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>sverhagen</author><text>I would add that gold plating, in the software engineering sense, is also a form of being stuck. You may be telling yourself you&amp;#x27;re doing useful work, like making the code prettier, or lifting test coverage up from 98%, all the way to 98.5%. But in reality, you&amp;#x27;re just buying time until taking on the next real new task. Because new tasks are scary, and require extra determination, and thus energy (and remember, you&amp;#x27;re tired!), before you have conquered them to a point of comfort, where the gold plating soon looms again. Rinse. Repeat.</text></comment>

<story><title>The best way to get unstuck</title><url>https://ggnotes.com/the-best-way-to-get-unstuck</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>theideaofcoffee</author><text>I don’t know where I heard it, maybe it’s just a pithy saying, maybe it’s more profound with some history behind it. Regardless, I’ve always had success with: “Begin. The rest is easy.”&lt;p&gt;Which I guess goes along with his point, just do something.</text></comment>

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<story><title>Why Minecraft Matters</title><url>http://www.crunchgear.com/2011/01/15/a-brief-explanation-of-why-minecraft-matters/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>chipsy</author><text>But here&apos;s the thing: Who is pushing the idea that people want the God of War cow? Are players really asking for that, or is it a fantasy on the part of publishers?&lt;p&gt;Publishers definitely like the idea of pumping up their games with unnecessarily large budgets, even though it works against them on a risk/reward basis, because, at least in theory, throwing money into a game will lead to a work of higher quality than the competition. And internally, everyone in charge of such projects can fall back on the prestige and instant attention assumed from having such an obviously detailed, polished work.&lt;p&gt;And yet Nintendo has never felt much need to compete on that level. They give their games plenty of marketing, for sure, but product development stays pretty tight. As far as the public knows, they never let a product explode into a monumental 4-year effort. But their games are still good and still attract a sizable audience, and they&apos;ve had the most success of the big publishers in substantially expanding the game market.&lt;p&gt;Comparing the two approaches, I take the opinion that most of the console publishers are overextending themselves with an outdated strategy. It was more compelling to try to push the budget upwards in past eras, where the technology was just barely making new things possible each time, and the market was full of early-adopter types who wanted to see the shiniest thing around. But the differences between the best-looking games of 2011 and the best-looking games of 2006 are pretty subtle to the uninitiated viewer, nothing like the gap between any previous five-year comparison. And the overall trend of gaming has been towards more accessibility and less (overt) complexity. So our notions of quality have to change with it, and that greatly upsets the balance of power in game development.</text></item><item><author>Goladus</author><text>The audiences are different, it&apos;s possible for people to like Minecraft and God of War, but for different reasons. That&apos;s what I mean by different audiences. I like classical Opera and NFL Football, but they have different audiences.&lt;p&gt;I picked GoW to contast with Minecraft because its a big-budget title with exactly the strengths that Minecraft lacks. It&apos;s narrowly focused on the theme of a god-slayer who engages in brutal close-combat. It&apos;s loaded with detailed, hand-crafted content that all fits together coherently, supporting that theme. The story, the art, the scenario/level design, the cinematic design, which is seamlessly integrated into the actual gameplay and superb performance on its target hardware (at least, for the length of time I&apos;ve played it) all make a difference.&lt;p&gt;A cow in Minecraft looks like a Gateway computer box: &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eD6qUTQDvU4&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eD6qUTQDvU4&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;A cow in God of War is a 35-foot tall minotaur whose armor spews some sort of steam as Kratos rends it asunder: &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B_xbbD7RgCg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B_xbbD7RgCg&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;I&apos;m not taking anything away from Minecraft here. It is a fantastic game-- the point of Minecraft is entirely different from the point of GoW. Anyone playing Minecraft cares more about what the cow represents than what it looks like. But people playing GoW care a great deal what that Minotaur looks like. They care how he looks, how he moves, how the camera tracks him during the encounter, whether there is a brief fps hit when the garbage collector kicks in, etc. Currently, to get a game full of scenes like the one linked in that GoW youtube video, you need a team of designers, artists, and developers working with excellent directors and leaders.</text></item><item><author>solipsist</author><text>But the idea is that it doesn&apos;t matter if the game genres are completely different. What matters is that indie developers like &lt;i&gt;notch&lt;/i&gt; have shown that they can make games that will become immensely successful in new genres, such as sandbox games. Perhaps the audiences are different, although I&apos;m sure there is still quite an overlap. However, even if the audiences are different, this just goes to show that indie developers are beating top notch companies (no pun intended) to taking advantage of these audiences.</text></item><item><author>Goladus</author><text>&lt;i&gt;The reason you should care is because a team of four or five people using free libraries and cross-platform tools have just made a mockery of the last five years of franchise-oriented, $50 million budget, yearly-release, AAA game development.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;Eh, I would not say that. Minecraft is not seriously competing with AAA big-budget titles like God of War. They have completely different audiences. Yes, GoW is extraordinarily expensive to create, but it offers a gameplay experience that Minecraft doesn&apos;t and never will. Or at least, by the time minecraft can procedurally generate an experience like GoW, the big-budget AAA franchises will have moved on to something flashier.&lt;p&gt;And certain franchise titles are attractive because of the licensing, eg the NFL. That is unfortunate but not something the gaming industry can do much about immediately.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>commandar</author><text>&amp;#62;Who is pushing the idea that people want the God of War cow?&lt;p&gt;The people buying games? God of War 3 moved 1.1 million units in a single month[1] at ~$60 retail. Minecraft just topped 1 million units &lt;i&gt;total&lt;/i&gt; last week, at $13-20 a piece.&lt;p&gt;This isn&apos;t taking away from Minecraft&apos;s success at all -- and what was essentially a one-man show making $15M+ off a single title is absolutely phenomenal success -- but I think it&apos;s silly trying to directly compare the two given the differences in scale. Neither is a replacement for the other.&lt;p&gt;[1] &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.next-gen.biz/news/npd-god-of-war-iii-tops-march-sales-chart&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.next-gen.biz/news/npd-god-of-war-iii-tops-march-s...&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>

<story><title>Why Minecraft Matters</title><url>http://www.crunchgear.com/2011/01/15/a-brief-explanation-of-why-minecraft-matters/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>chipsy</author><text>But here&apos;s the thing: Who is pushing the idea that people want the God of War cow? Are players really asking for that, or is it a fantasy on the part of publishers?&lt;p&gt;Publishers definitely like the idea of pumping up their games with unnecessarily large budgets, even though it works against them on a risk/reward basis, because, at least in theory, throwing money into a game will lead to a work of higher quality than the competition. And internally, everyone in charge of such projects can fall back on the prestige and instant attention assumed from having such an obviously detailed, polished work.&lt;p&gt;And yet Nintendo has never felt much need to compete on that level. They give their games plenty of marketing, for sure, but product development stays pretty tight. As far as the public knows, they never let a product explode into a monumental 4-year effort. But their games are still good and still attract a sizable audience, and they&apos;ve had the most success of the big publishers in substantially expanding the game market.&lt;p&gt;Comparing the two approaches, I take the opinion that most of the console publishers are overextending themselves with an outdated strategy. It was more compelling to try to push the budget upwards in past eras, where the technology was just barely making new things possible each time, and the market was full of early-adopter types who wanted to see the shiniest thing around. But the differences between the best-looking games of 2011 and the best-looking games of 2006 are pretty subtle to the uninitiated viewer, nothing like the gap between any previous five-year comparison. And the overall trend of gaming has been towards more accessibility and less (overt) complexity. So our notions of quality have to change with it, and that greatly upsets the balance of power in game development.</text></item><item><author>Goladus</author><text>The audiences are different, it&apos;s possible for people to like Minecraft and God of War, but for different reasons. That&apos;s what I mean by different audiences. I like classical Opera and NFL Football, but they have different audiences.&lt;p&gt;I picked GoW to contast with Minecraft because its a big-budget title with exactly the strengths that Minecraft lacks. It&apos;s narrowly focused on the theme of a god-slayer who engages in brutal close-combat. It&apos;s loaded with detailed, hand-crafted content that all fits together coherently, supporting that theme. The story, the art, the scenario/level design, the cinematic design, which is seamlessly integrated into the actual gameplay and superb performance on its target hardware (at least, for the length of time I&apos;ve played it) all make a difference.&lt;p&gt;A cow in Minecraft looks like a Gateway computer box: &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eD6qUTQDvU4&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eD6qUTQDvU4&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;A cow in God of War is a 35-foot tall minotaur whose armor spews some sort of steam as Kratos rends it asunder: &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B_xbbD7RgCg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B_xbbD7RgCg&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;I&apos;m not taking anything away from Minecraft here. It is a fantastic game-- the point of Minecraft is entirely different from the point of GoW. Anyone playing Minecraft cares more about what the cow represents than what it looks like. But people playing GoW care a great deal what that Minotaur looks like. They care how he looks, how he moves, how the camera tracks him during the encounter, whether there is a brief fps hit when the garbage collector kicks in, etc. Currently, to get a game full of scenes like the one linked in that GoW youtube video, you need a team of designers, artists, and developers working with excellent directors and leaders.</text></item><item><author>solipsist</author><text>But the idea is that it doesn&apos;t matter if the game genres are completely different. What matters is that indie developers like &lt;i&gt;notch&lt;/i&gt; have shown that they can make games that will become immensely successful in new genres, such as sandbox games. Perhaps the audiences are different, although I&apos;m sure there is still quite an overlap. However, even if the audiences are different, this just goes to show that indie developers are beating top notch companies (no pun intended) to taking advantage of these audiences.</text></item><item><author>Goladus</author><text>&lt;i&gt;The reason you should care is because a team of four or five people using free libraries and cross-platform tools have just made a mockery of the last five years of franchise-oriented, $50 million budget, yearly-release, AAA game development.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;Eh, I would not say that. Minecraft is not seriously competing with AAA big-budget titles like God of War. They have completely different audiences. Yes, GoW is extraordinarily expensive to create, but it offers a gameplay experience that Minecraft doesn&apos;t and never will. Or at least, by the time minecraft can procedurally generate an experience like GoW, the big-budget AAA franchises will have moved on to something flashier.&lt;p&gt;And certain franchise titles are attractive because of the licensing, eg the NFL. That is unfortunate but not something the gaming industry can do much about immediately.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>stcredzero</author><text>&lt;i&gt;internally, everyone in charge of such projects can fall back on the prestige and instant attention assumed from having such an obviously detailed, polished work.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;Reminds me of what I heard happened with American cars. The more space your team&apos;s components had under the hood, the more prestige you had in the company. As a result, American cars kept on getting bigger and bigger. American companies kept on ignoring the small car market, which left an inroad for foreign companies.</text></comment>

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<story><title>Myron Ebell Takes On the E.P.A.</title><url>http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/12/science/myron-ebell-trump-epa.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>matwood</author><text>I&amp;#x27;m not sure why everyone thinks Obama killed coal. Cratering natural gas prices are what killed coal. So short of artificially raising the price of nat gas, coal is not coming back regardless of who is in charge.&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;reason.com&amp;#x2F;blog&amp;#x2F;2016&amp;#x2F;10&amp;#x2F;11&amp;#x2F;natural-gas-ambush-killed-off-coal-minin&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;reason.com&amp;#x2F;blog&amp;#x2F;2016&amp;#x2F;10&amp;#x2F;11&amp;#x2F;natural-gas-ambush-killed-...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;oilprice.com&amp;#x2F;Energy&amp;#x2F;Energy-General&amp;#x2F;Cheap-Natural-Gas-To-Spark-Another-Wave-Of-Coal-Plant-Retirements.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;oilprice.com&amp;#x2F;Energy&amp;#x2F;Energy-General&amp;#x2F;Cheap-Natural-Gas-...&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>greendesk</author><text>It is a perception issue; apparently coal miners are swayed to believe a people decided to close coal mines.&lt;p&gt;For some people, it is easier to perceive that a bureaucrat is against your industry, as opposed to find out that the economic value created is exceptionally low. When a person loses a job, it will be heartbreaking for the person to realise the job performed earlier has low economical value.&lt;p&gt;Telling someone &amp;quot;We do not need your services anymore&amp;quot; is harder than telling &amp;quot;Well, all those bureaucrats that live elsewhere decided it...&amp;quot;.&lt;p&gt;I do think that economic value of coal is low and it is economically swapped out for other sources.</text></comment>

<story><title>Myron Ebell Takes On the E.P.A.</title><url>http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/12/science/myron-ebell-trump-epa.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>matwood</author><text>I&amp;#x27;m not sure why everyone thinks Obama killed coal. Cratering natural gas prices are what killed coal. So short of artificially raising the price of nat gas, coal is not coming back regardless of who is in charge.&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;reason.com&amp;#x2F;blog&amp;#x2F;2016&amp;#x2F;10&amp;#x2F;11&amp;#x2F;natural-gas-ambush-killed-off-coal-minin&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;reason.com&amp;#x2F;blog&amp;#x2F;2016&amp;#x2F;10&amp;#x2F;11&amp;#x2F;natural-gas-ambush-killed-...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;oilprice.com&amp;#x2F;Energy&amp;#x2F;Energy-General&amp;#x2F;Cheap-Natural-Gas-To-Spark-Another-Wave-Of-Coal-Plant-Retirements.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;oilprice.com&amp;#x2F;Energy&amp;#x2F;Energy-General&amp;#x2F;Cheap-Natural-Gas-...&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>pmorici</author><text>It&amp;#x27;s not like Obama did nothing that effected coal. The industry lost over 83k coal mining jobs during the last 8 years. Hillary lost Pennsylvania, a big coal mining state, by 68,236 votes.&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.theatlantic.com&amp;#x2F;technology&amp;#x2F;archive&amp;#x2F;2016&amp;#x2F;01&amp;#x2F;coal-obama-federal-land&amp;#x2F;424422&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.theatlantic.com&amp;#x2F;technology&amp;#x2F;archive&amp;#x2F;2016&amp;#x2F;01&amp;#x2F;coal-o...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;dailycaller.com&amp;#x2F;2016&amp;#x2F;09&amp;#x2F;05&amp;#x2F;obama-kept-his-promise-83000-coal-jobs-lost-and-400-mines-shuttered&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;dailycaller.com&amp;#x2F;2016&amp;#x2F;09&amp;#x2F;05&amp;#x2F;obama-kept-his-promise-830...&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>

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<story><title>Shenanigans on Microsoft Feedback Hub</title><url>https://thomask.sdf.org/blog/2022/01/16/shenanigans-on-microsoft-feedback-hub.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>cjbgkagh</author><text>Former MSFTy, don’t bother wasting your time giving feedback. Nobody cares, those that cared left. Microsoft has a weird culture, very top down, very passive aggressive between departments. For a brief while I would diligently prepare bugs for the dog food software. I would even walk over to visit people responsible for it and chat about it. Even for software where ‘zero bugs’ was important they’d just delete a whole bunch of bugs and see if any bounce (come back). Eventually people get sick of refilling so they get to zero bug bounce by exhausting the very people trying to help them.&lt;p&gt;Enough social media pressure may end up risking a line item in a PMs yearly goals. So that might get looked at.&lt;p&gt;Even the some of the most backward laggards (e.g. government departments) are sick to death of Microsoft and have long been introducing policies that all new software has to be web only.&lt;p&gt;Those pointing to Azure as the future should known that they have very aggressive sales who often vastly oversell to customers. Customers aren’t renewing at the same level. Plus I don’t see them being able to compete with Amazon long term. You can only buy Skype for the bundled government customer so many times.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>WhyNotHugo</author><text>&amp;gt; Even for software where ‘zero bugs’ was important they’d just delete a whole bunch of bugs and see if any bounce (come back). Eventually people get sick of refilling so they get to zero but bounce by exhausting the very people eying time help them.&lt;p&gt;The open-source equivalent of this behaviour is &amp;quot;stale bots&amp;quot; that close or lock issues with no activity. Or &amp;quot;moving discussion to a separate tracker&amp;quot;, with all bugs getting closed and a polite request to re-open them. Or a &amp;quot;locking bugs older than X months, please open a new one if still applicable&amp;quot;.&lt;p&gt;Sure, opening it again isn&amp;#x27;t a big deal. Re-opening all bugs ever opened by all humans is just pointless work for no obvious benefit.&lt;p&gt;Having zero open issues should never be a goal, any mature project has open issues. Trying to reach zero is chasing a number that won&amp;#x27;t make a product better; it&amp;#x27;s just a number.</text></comment>

<story><title>Shenanigans on Microsoft Feedback Hub</title><url>https://thomask.sdf.org/blog/2022/01/16/shenanigans-on-microsoft-feedback-hub.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>cjbgkagh</author><text>Former MSFTy, don’t bother wasting your time giving feedback. Nobody cares, those that cared left. Microsoft has a weird culture, very top down, very passive aggressive between departments. For a brief while I would diligently prepare bugs for the dog food software. I would even walk over to visit people responsible for it and chat about it. Even for software where ‘zero bugs’ was important they’d just delete a whole bunch of bugs and see if any bounce (come back). Eventually people get sick of refilling so they get to zero bug bounce by exhausting the very people trying to help them.&lt;p&gt;Enough social media pressure may end up risking a line item in a PMs yearly goals. So that might get looked at.&lt;p&gt;Even the some of the most backward laggards (e.g. government departments) are sick to death of Microsoft and have long been introducing policies that all new software has to be web only.&lt;p&gt;Those pointing to Azure as the future should known that they have very aggressive sales who often vastly oversell to customers. Customers aren’t renewing at the same level. Plus I don’t see them being able to compete with Amazon long term. You can only buy Skype for the bundled government customer so many times.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>zitterbewegung</author><text>I would rather have a bug report basically ignored than actually modified. There is a big difference between ignored and modified because it speaks to not only we are going to ignore this but no one will respect the content of the forum.&lt;p&gt;I remember when an admin for reddit changed a bunch of comments and it was controversial when he did it an they introduced a policy that would disallow engineers to have that kind of access to the database [1]</text></comment>

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<story><title>Scientists who say the lab-leak hypothesis for SARS-CoV-2 shouldn&apos;t be ruled out</title><url>https://www.technologyreview.com/2021/03/18/1021030/coronavirus-leak-wuhan-lab-scientists-conspiracy/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>lostinquebec</author><text>I don&amp;#x27;t understand how this works, so forgive my ignorance.&lt;p&gt;Wouldn&amp;#x27;t the Wuhan lab be able to disprove this really easily? How often do they sequence viruses? Couldn&amp;#x27;t they show categorically that COVID-19 is not a descendant of a virus they were working with&amp;#x2F;on?</text></item><item><author>NineStarPoint</author><text>It’s worth noting that in both the Sverdlov case and in this one, world scientists are only being given access to the situation in an extremely controlled fashion. A primary reason we can’t say more on what happened in this case is the CCP’s tight control over access that could help clarify the situation.&lt;p&gt;Which will always look suspicious, whether it was actually a completely natural virus or not.</text></item><item><author>loveistheanswer</author><text>&amp;gt;I can say the vast majority of us are not qualified to answer the question either way though.&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s also worth noting that even the leading experts can get these things wrong, as was the case with the Sverdlovsk lab leak.&lt;p&gt;Soviet authorities covered it up by blaming local meat markets, and leading US experts concurred with them, only to reverse their conclusion 6 years later.&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.m.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Sverdlovsk_anthrax_leak#Accident&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.m.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Sverdlovsk_anthrax_leak#Acci...&lt;/a&gt;</text></item><item><author>eightysixfour</author><text>I feel like people are doing a poor job distinguishing between &amp;quot;engineered&amp;quot; and &amp;quot;leaked.&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;There is, from my understanding, reasonable evidence to conclude the virus was not engineered from the perspective of &amp;quot;we took genes from one virus and moved them to this virus,&amp;quot; but there&amp;#x27;s no evidence disproving the idea that it was the result of gain of function research.&lt;p&gt;My personal feeling is that these statements are true:&lt;p&gt;* The virus is unlikely to have been engineered (in the way I described above) and leaked.&lt;p&gt;* There is circumstantial evidence the virus was the result of gain of function research and it leaked.&lt;p&gt;* There is circumstantial evidence the virus was a natural research sample and it leaked.&lt;p&gt;* There is circumstantial evidence the virus was introduced by an animal&amp;#x2F;person who traveled to the wet market.&lt;p&gt;Some of these are more likely than others, and an individual&amp;#x27;s own calibration for what is likely or unlikely will probably come into play more than evidence in the short term and possibly long term as well. I can say the vast majority of us are not qualified to answer the question either way though.</text></item><item><author>loveistheanswer</author><text>Judging by the comments in this thread, it seems a lot of people are still unaware that:&lt;p&gt;1. Gain of function research primarily uses samples collected from nature, and seeks to stimulate their evolution in as natural a way as possible to learn how viruses evolve in nature. If such viruses were to escape the lab, they would appear &amp;quot;natural&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;2. It&amp;#x27;s not xenophobic for people from the US to suggest the possibility of a lab leak, because the US was itself funding gain of function research on novel coronaviruses in the Wuhan BSL4 lab&lt;p&gt;3. Lab leaks happen more often than most people realize[1]&lt;p&gt;[1]&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.vox.com&amp;#x2F;future-perfect&amp;#x2F;2019&amp;#x2F;3&amp;#x2F;20&amp;#x2F;18260669&amp;#x2F;deadly-pathogens-escape-lab-smallpox-bird-flu&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.vox.com&amp;#x2F;future-perfect&amp;#x2F;2019&amp;#x2F;3&amp;#x2F;20&amp;#x2F;18260669&amp;#x2F;deadly...&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>inciampati</author><text>No, it&amp;#x27;s impossible for them to categorically show that it wasn&amp;#x27;t. However, they could make an extremely strong case if they completely documented all ongoing research activities in the lab before the beginning of the pandemic. This would involve total disclosure of the activity of every researcher, open access to all materials and the sequencing of all viral samples and cultures.&lt;p&gt;It is not feasible to do this probably. The WIV even claims to have completely consumed all biosamples related to RaTG13, which is the most-closely-related known virus to SARS-CoV-2. Supporting such an investigation is completely counter to their interests (speaking both of the institute and the CCP).&lt;p&gt;The overwhelming evidence is that SARS-CoV-2 emerged completely adapted to humans. This has been confirmed by the amazing lack of initial adaptation to the new human host. We only saw major changes in the spike resulting in a change in phenotype later in 2020. The proximal origins of the spike protein suggest a primate or human host. For this to happen, a natural origin in another species is astronomically improbable. It&amp;#x27;s the strongest evidence that we&amp;#x27;ll ever have as to the origins of the virus, and to this biologist it is completely indicative of what happened. We will only know the full truth if people speak out.</text></comment>

<story><title>Scientists who say the lab-leak hypothesis for SARS-CoV-2 shouldn&apos;t be ruled out</title><url>https://www.technologyreview.com/2021/03/18/1021030/coronavirus-leak-wuhan-lab-scientists-conspiracy/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>lostinquebec</author><text>I don&amp;#x27;t understand how this works, so forgive my ignorance.&lt;p&gt;Wouldn&amp;#x27;t the Wuhan lab be able to disprove this really easily? How often do they sequence viruses? Couldn&amp;#x27;t they show categorically that COVID-19 is not a descendant of a virus they were working with&amp;#x2F;on?</text></item><item><author>NineStarPoint</author><text>It’s worth noting that in both the Sverdlov case and in this one, world scientists are only being given access to the situation in an extremely controlled fashion. A primary reason we can’t say more on what happened in this case is the CCP’s tight control over access that could help clarify the situation.&lt;p&gt;Which will always look suspicious, whether it was actually a completely natural virus or not.</text></item><item><author>loveistheanswer</author><text>&amp;gt;I can say the vast majority of us are not qualified to answer the question either way though.&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s also worth noting that even the leading experts can get these things wrong, as was the case with the Sverdlovsk lab leak.&lt;p&gt;Soviet authorities covered it up by blaming local meat markets, and leading US experts concurred with them, only to reverse their conclusion 6 years later.&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.m.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Sverdlovsk_anthrax_leak#Accident&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.m.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Sverdlovsk_anthrax_leak#Acci...&lt;/a&gt;</text></item><item><author>eightysixfour</author><text>I feel like people are doing a poor job distinguishing between &amp;quot;engineered&amp;quot; and &amp;quot;leaked.&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;There is, from my understanding, reasonable evidence to conclude the virus was not engineered from the perspective of &amp;quot;we took genes from one virus and moved them to this virus,&amp;quot; but there&amp;#x27;s no evidence disproving the idea that it was the result of gain of function research.&lt;p&gt;My personal feeling is that these statements are true:&lt;p&gt;* The virus is unlikely to have been engineered (in the way I described above) and leaked.&lt;p&gt;* There is circumstantial evidence the virus was the result of gain of function research and it leaked.&lt;p&gt;* There is circumstantial evidence the virus was a natural research sample and it leaked.&lt;p&gt;* There is circumstantial evidence the virus was introduced by an animal&amp;#x2F;person who traveled to the wet market.&lt;p&gt;Some of these are more likely than others, and an individual&amp;#x27;s own calibration for what is likely or unlikely will probably come into play more than evidence in the short term and possibly long term as well. I can say the vast majority of us are not qualified to answer the question either way though.</text></item><item><author>loveistheanswer</author><text>Judging by the comments in this thread, it seems a lot of people are still unaware that:&lt;p&gt;1. Gain of function research primarily uses samples collected from nature, and seeks to stimulate their evolution in as natural a way as possible to learn how viruses evolve in nature. If such viruses were to escape the lab, they would appear &amp;quot;natural&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;2. It&amp;#x27;s not xenophobic for people from the US to suggest the possibility of a lab leak, because the US was itself funding gain of function research on novel coronaviruses in the Wuhan BSL4 lab&lt;p&gt;3. Lab leaks happen more often than most people realize[1]&lt;p&gt;[1]&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.vox.com&amp;#x2F;future-perfect&amp;#x2F;2019&amp;#x2F;3&amp;#x2F;20&amp;#x2F;18260669&amp;#x2F;deadly-pathogens-escape-lab-smallpox-bird-flu&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.vox.com&amp;#x2F;future-perfect&amp;#x2F;2019&amp;#x2F;3&amp;#x2F;20&amp;#x2F;18260669&amp;#x2F;deadly...&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>seoaeu</author><text>How would you know they provided a complete list of viruses they were working on? Couldn&amp;#x27;t they just leave off anything incriminating?</text></comment>

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<story><title>Stranger Strings: An exploitable flaw in SQLite</title><url>https://blog.trailofbits.com/2022/10/25/sqlite-vulnerability-july-2022-library-api/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>gregors</author><text>Great work!!!&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;SQLite is extensively tested with 100% branch test coverage. We discovered this vulnerability despite the tests, which raises the question: how did the tests miss it?&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;Tests only validate known behavior. They didn&amp;#x27;t have a test that exercised a large string. I don&amp;#x27;t know how their test suite works but I&amp;#x27;m curious if quickcheck might have possibly found this or if the 32-bit viewpoint of the programmer at the time would have also limited possible generated values?</text></comment>

<story><title>Stranger Strings: An exploitable flaw in SQLite</title><url>https://blog.trailofbits.com/2022/10/25/sqlite-vulnerability-july-2022-library-api/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>harryvederci</author><text>&amp;quot;This bug is an array-bounds overflow. The bug is only accessible when using some of the C-language APIs provided by SQLite. The bug cannot be reached using SQL nor can it be reached by providing SQLite with a corrupt database file. The bug only comes up when very long string inputs (greater than 2 billion bytes in length) are provided as arguments to a few specific C-language interfaces, and even then only under special circumstances.&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;Source: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.sqlite.org&amp;#x2F;cves.html#status_of_recent_sqlite_cves&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.sqlite.org&amp;#x2F;cves.html#status_of_recent_sqlite_cve...&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>

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<story><title>Apple selling a $79 MacBook Pro power adapter without a USB-C cable goes too far</title><url>https://9to5mac.com/2016/11/10/opinion-macbook-pro-power-adapter/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>micaksica</author><text>Too far? Apple is a luxury good. You are buying the Prada, the Audi&amp;#x2F;BMW&amp;#x2F;Benz&amp;#x2F;etc of laptops - they position themselves at the high end market and will extract as much margin as they can from that market. These price increases follow suit with their aspirational positioning. There is no &amp;quot;too far&amp;quot;, just what their target market with a lot of discretionary income will still purchase.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>flashman</author><text>Apple is a &lt;i&gt;premium&lt;/i&gt; brand, not a luxury one. Premium products are mass marketed and justify their price premium with higher quality and useful extra features. Luxury products are niche targeted and justify their price premium with exclusivity and unnecessary extra features.&lt;p&gt;Put it this way: an iPhone is premium, manufactured in the millions. A &lt;i&gt;gold&lt;/i&gt; iPhone is luxury, manufactured in the thousands.</text></comment>

<story><title>Apple selling a $79 MacBook Pro power adapter without a USB-C cable goes too far</title><url>https://9to5mac.com/2016/11/10/opinion-macbook-pro-power-adapter/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>micaksica</author><text>Too far? Apple is a luxury good. You are buying the Prada, the Audi&amp;#x2F;BMW&amp;#x2F;Benz&amp;#x2F;etc of laptops - they position themselves at the high end market and will extract as much margin as they can from that market. These price increases follow suit with their aspirational positioning. There is no &amp;quot;too far&amp;quot;, just what their target market with a lot of discretionary income will still purchase.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mattdennewitz</author><text>a prada bag comes with its straps, gratis. an audi&amp;#x27;s battery is connected to the engine for no extra charge.</text></comment>

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<story><title>Why ContentEditable Is Terrible, Or: How the Medium Editor Works (2014)</title><url>https://medium.com/medium-eng/why-contenteditable-is-terrible-122d8a40e480</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>morgante</author><text>This article was very inspirational for me when developing the CMS for a previous startup and informed that development extensively.&lt;p&gt;Personally, I found the most beneficial thing to be abandoning HTML entirely. Instead I developed a JSON data structure for documents which was stored internally. This is very powerful for a couple of reasons:&lt;p&gt;1. Any user input can be mapped as pure functions on top of your internal document structure. This way you can also enforce business rules easily. Additionally, any function which you don&amp;#x27;t support will &lt;i&gt;never&lt;/i&gt; occur. (No more Word garbage!) ContentEditable works fine as an &lt;i&gt;input&lt;/i&gt; though.&lt;p&gt;2. You can write functionally pure mappings from your internal structure to other formats. This of course includes HTML, but isn&amp;#x27;t exclusive to HTML. Content can also be mapped into native mobile components as well.&lt;p&gt;3. You can be flexible with input types. For example, it was fairly trivial to (for fun) add a Markdown mode which would map any Markdown input onto the internal document representation and then back to Markdown.&lt;p&gt;4. You can introduce new semantic concepts which HTML doesn&amp;#x27;t have elements for, like a &amp;quot;quiz.&amp;quot; This makes it easy to rejigger the display of such elements later on, or to have the same semantic element render completely differently on mobile and desktop (for example). With HTML, you&amp;#x27;re stuck doing error-prone tree parsing or Regexes.</text></comment>

<story><title>Why ContentEditable Is Terrible, Or: How the Medium Editor Works (2014)</title><url>https://medium.com/medium-eng/why-contenteditable-is-terrible-122d8a40e480</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>georgestephanis</author><text>Yup. Wysiwygs are hard. But just saying &amp;quot;You can edit paragraphs, that&amp;#x27;s all you get&amp;quot; is worse. Clients need to be able to do more advanced things in an editor, and coding a hard limit on never being able to do them feels like pure folly.&lt;p&gt;Is TinyMCE perfect? Far from it. But it&amp;#x27;s stable and reliable across browsers, with a well-defined API, and it gets the job done.&lt;p&gt;I know a lot of folks here would just as soon just use Markdown for all content writing. I like Markdown. Clients hate it. It feels like an obscure language, when they just want something &amp;quot;like Microsoft Word&amp;quot;.&lt;p&gt;And CMS&amp;#x27;s can hardly say &amp;quot;Yeah, we know we used to support these greater markup sets, but now we&amp;#x27;re just not going to, so don&amp;#x27;t open up your old posts, or they&amp;#x27;re going to lose some content in our bright shiny new editor&amp;quot; -- that&amp;#x27;s massively problematic as well for user trust.&lt;p&gt;If you&amp;#x27;re starting something new, and want to place a hard cap on what your users can do markup-wise, sure, give this a shot. But be very aware of the restrictions that you&amp;#x27;re imposing.</text></comment>

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<story><title>RFC: Blanking all Wikipedia as SOPA protest</title><url>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Jimbo_Wales#Request_for_Comment:_SOPA_and_a_strike</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>snowwrestler</author><text>As a 501(c)3, the Wikimedia Foundation is legally required to stay out of politics, and has limits on how it can lobby Congress on specific pieces of legislation. This is why, for example, the Sierra Club is not a 501(c)3.&lt;p&gt;Changing Wikipedia, and tying it to a specific bill like SOPA, would likely tread very closely to that line, or over it. That really WOULD threaten the future of Wikipedia as it would face legal sanctions, or be forced to give up its 501(c)3 status, meaning that donations would no longer be tax-deductible.</text></item><item><author>bittermang</author><text>There seems to be a lot of sentiment that Wikipedia should stay out of politics. This is not a maintainable stance. In the vein of the oft quoted &quot;First they came...&quot; (which has it&apos;s own wiki page, &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_they_came%E2%80%A6&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_they_came%E2%80%A6&lt;/a&gt;), sites like Wikipedia cannot ignore a law like SOPA and have to make their position heard. Wikipedia is not sticking their nose where it doesn&apos;t belong, politics have come to them pitchforks and torches in hand.&lt;p&gt;Do it. Paint it black.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>rosser</author><text>IANAL (particularly a tax attorney), so no-one — least of all the Wikimedia Foundation — should be taking my advice on this, but it was my understanding that the rules surrounding 501(c)(3) organizations and political action had more to do with endorsing for or against &lt;i&gt;candidates&lt;/i&gt; than taking overt positions on specific issues.&lt;p&gt;For example, from a 2007 IRS ruling on the subject: &quot;Section 501(c)(3) organizations may take positions on public policy issues, including issues that divide candidates in an election for public office. However, section 501(c)(3) organizations must avoid any issue advocacy that functions as political campaign intervention.&quot; [1]&lt;p&gt;Further details in the referenced ruling suggest that if WM were to make reference to specific legislators and their respective positions, for or against SOPA, and thus even &lt;i&gt;implying&lt;/i&gt; that WM wanted you to vote one way or another for those candidates, they&apos;d have crossed the line.&lt;p&gt;Simply saying, &quot;We don&apos;t like SOPA. Here&apos;s why it&apos;s the worst bill since the Let&apos;s All Grind Up Babies For Pet Food Act of 1887...&quot; OTOH, seems to be kosher, per my reading on the subject.&lt;p&gt;[1] &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-drop/rr-07-41.pdf&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-drop/rr-07-41.pdf&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;(EDIT: clarification.)</text></comment>

<story><title>RFC: Blanking all Wikipedia as SOPA protest</title><url>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Jimbo_Wales#Request_for_Comment:_SOPA_and_a_strike</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>snowwrestler</author><text>As a 501(c)3, the Wikimedia Foundation is legally required to stay out of politics, and has limits on how it can lobby Congress on specific pieces of legislation. This is why, for example, the Sierra Club is not a 501(c)3.&lt;p&gt;Changing Wikipedia, and tying it to a specific bill like SOPA, would likely tread very closely to that line, or over it. That really WOULD threaten the future of Wikipedia as it would face legal sanctions, or be forced to give up its 501(c)3 status, meaning that donations would no longer be tax-deductible.</text></item><item><author>bittermang</author><text>There seems to be a lot of sentiment that Wikipedia should stay out of politics. This is not a maintainable stance. In the vein of the oft quoted &quot;First they came...&quot; (which has it&apos;s own wiki page, &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_they_came%E2%80%A6&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_they_came%E2%80%A6&lt;/a&gt;), sites like Wikipedia cannot ignore a law like SOPA and have to make their position heard. Wikipedia is not sticking their nose where it doesn&apos;t belong, politics have come to them pitchforks and torches in hand.&lt;p&gt;Do it. Paint it black.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>philipn</author><text>501(c)3 organizations can engage in lobbying as long as it does not constitute a substancial portion of the organization&apos;s activity. 501(c)3 organizations have an absolute ban on lobbying for candidates for public office, however.&lt;p&gt;This would not threaten Wikipedia&apos;s tax-exempt status.</text></comment>

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<story><title>87% of American teens own an iPhone; 88% expect an iPhone to be their next phone</title><url>https://www.pipersandler.com/1col.aspx?id=6216</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>m348e912</author><text>(iPhone user here) It does seem to me that Apple isn&amp;#x27;t playing fair and this is no longer the technical issue it once was. Apple has so far refused to adopt RCS (the successor to SMS and MMS) which is now an industry standard for text messaging. Because of that, aside from the green bubble, the text messaging experience with non-iPhone users is subpar. Images and videos are compressed and things like tapback and group texts just stink.&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.android.com&amp;#x2F;get-the-message&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.android.com&amp;#x2F;get-the-message&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt;</text></item><item><author>rsync</author><text>My two oldest children - 13 and 15 - have &lt;i&gt;loudly&lt;/i&gt; proclaimed that having a &amp;quot;green bubble&amp;quot; would be &lt;i&gt;worse than death&lt;/i&gt;.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dalyons</author><text>RCS is awful. It’s an out-of-date, encumbered “standard” with poor global commonality in adoption. It exists for one reason only - because US carriers wanted some way to keep charging per message like their old sms cash cow, instead of being reduced to just proving dumb internet piping. Despite that, the carriers couldnt even agree amongst themselves on the &amp;quot;standard&amp;quot; RCS features to deploy for 10 years or so, until google co-opted the effort for their own goals semi-recently. Let it die.</text></comment>

<story><title>87% of American teens own an iPhone; 88% expect an iPhone to be their next phone</title><url>https://www.pipersandler.com/1col.aspx?id=6216</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>m348e912</author><text>(iPhone user here) It does seem to me that Apple isn&amp;#x27;t playing fair and this is no longer the technical issue it once was. Apple has so far refused to adopt RCS (the successor to SMS and MMS) which is now an industry standard for text messaging. Because of that, aside from the green bubble, the text messaging experience with non-iPhone users is subpar. Images and videos are compressed and things like tapback and group texts just stink.&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.android.com&amp;#x2F;get-the-message&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.android.com&amp;#x2F;get-the-message&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt;</text></item><item><author>rsync</author><text>My two oldest children - 13 and 15 - have &lt;i&gt;loudly&lt;/i&gt; proclaimed that having a &amp;quot;green bubble&amp;quot; would be &lt;i&gt;worse than death&lt;/i&gt;.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>nsxwolf</author><text>Given the iPhone&amp;#x27;s marketshare, is it RCS really the industry standard?</text></comment>

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<story><title>A critical Windows component expires in 25 hours</title><url>http://hexatomium.github.io/2015/09/22/expires-25h/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>erikpt</author><text>Is anyone else concerned that the disallowed certs list is downloaded over plaintext HTTP?</text></item><item><author>geofft</author><text>Following up: if anyone wants to poke around at the file, the download URL is &lt;a href=&quot;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;ctldl.windowsupdate.com&amp;#x2F;msdownload&amp;#x2F;update&amp;#x2F;v3&amp;#x2F;static&amp;#x2F;trustedr&amp;#x2F;en&amp;#x2F;disallowedcertstl.cab&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;ctldl.windowsupdate.com&amp;#x2F;msdownload&amp;#x2F;update&amp;#x2F;v3&amp;#x2F;static&amp;#x2F;t...&lt;/a&gt; , a CAB archive that contains a single file disallowedcert.stl. That file itself is DER-formatted ASN.1, evidently a PKCS7-signed &amp;quot;Certificate Trust List&amp;quot; (1.3.6.1.4.1.311.10.1). `openssl asn1parse -inform der -in disallowedcert.stl` reads it just fine.&lt;p&gt;There&amp;#x27;s a reference to the date 150923203626Z (2015-09-23 20:36:26 UTC) somewhere in there, but I&amp;#x27;m having trouble figuring out what it applies to.</text></item><item><author>geofft</author><text>Is that the time it was last &lt;i&gt;modified&lt;/i&gt; or the time it was last &lt;i&gt;signed&lt;/i&gt;?&lt;p&gt;The last high-profile mis-issued cert was last week, and didn&amp;#x27;t even escape the control of people who were entrusted with the CA private key. So MS might not even be manually revoking it. Before that, the last blog post on googleonlinesecurity.blogspot.com about a mis-issued certificate was ... March 23.&lt;p&gt;I would guess that it&amp;#x27;s re-signed daily, but only changes when there&amp;#x27;s an actual change to be made.</text></item><item><author>BHSPitMonkey</author><text>In the screenshot, it says that CTL was last modified in March. Judging by the date, I&amp;#x27;d guess it has an expiration of 6 months after it is issued. So, it&amp;#x27;s been nearly 6 months since the daily updates stopped occurring.</text></item><item><author>cammsaul</author><text>So the Untrusted CTL has an expiration of 25 hours. Your screenshot says &amp;quot;Did you know? ... the Untrusted CTL is updated once per day&amp;quot;. Doesn&amp;#x27;t that explain it?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>geofft</author><text>It appears to be a signed message, and for these sorts of things, I&amp;#x27;m more of a fan of signed data (and the transport being unimportant) than a signed transport and unsigned data: there&amp;#x27;s a lot less attack surface on both ends.&lt;p&gt;apt, yum, PGP, etc. work the same way. There remains a decent argument for a secure transport anyway for privacy &amp;#x2F; avoiding side channels, or a general desire for HTTP delenda est, but it&amp;#x27;s nowhere near as strong an argument, HTTPS only provides marginal benefit to the side channels (Tor to a hidden service is much more effective), and other engineering concerns can legitimately override these concerns.</text></comment>

<story><title>A critical Windows component expires in 25 hours</title><url>http://hexatomium.github.io/2015/09/22/expires-25h/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>erikpt</author><text>Is anyone else concerned that the disallowed certs list is downloaded over plaintext HTTP?</text></item><item><author>geofft</author><text>Following up: if anyone wants to poke around at the file, the download URL is &lt;a href=&quot;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;ctldl.windowsupdate.com&amp;#x2F;msdownload&amp;#x2F;update&amp;#x2F;v3&amp;#x2F;static&amp;#x2F;trustedr&amp;#x2F;en&amp;#x2F;disallowedcertstl.cab&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;ctldl.windowsupdate.com&amp;#x2F;msdownload&amp;#x2F;update&amp;#x2F;v3&amp;#x2F;static&amp;#x2F;t...&lt;/a&gt; , a CAB archive that contains a single file disallowedcert.stl. That file itself is DER-formatted ASN.1, evidently a PKCS7-signed &amp;quot;Certificate Trust List&amp;quot; (1.3.6.1.4.1.311.10.1). `openssl asn1parse -inform der -in disallowedcert.stl` reads it just fine.&lt;p&gt;There&amp;#x27;s a reference to the date 150923203626Z (2015-09-23 20:36:26 UTC) somewhere in there, but I&amp;#x27;m having trouble figuring out what it applies to.</text></item><item><author>geofft</author><text>Is that the time it was last &lt;i&gt;modified&lt;/i&gt; or the time it was last &lt;i&gt;signed&lt;/i&gt;?&lt;p&gt;The last high-profile mis-issued cert was last week, and didn&amp;#x27;t even escape the control of people who were entrusted with the CA private key. So MS might not even be manually revoking it. Before that, the last blog post on googleonlinesecurity.blogspot.com about a mis-issued certificate was ... March 23.&lt;p&gt;I would guess that it&amp;#x27;s re-signed daily, but only changes when there&amp;#x27;s an actual change to be made.</text></item><item><author>BHSPitMonkey</author><text>In the screenshot, it says that CTL was last modified in March. Judging by the date, I&amp;#x27;d guess it has an expiration of 6 months after it is issued. So, it&amp;#x27;s been nearly 6 months since the daily updates stopped occurring.</text></item><item><author>cammsaul</author><text>So the Untrusted CTL has an expiration of 25 hours. Your screenshot says &amp;quot;Did you know? ... the Untrusted CTL is updated once per day&amp;quot;. Doesn&amp;#x27;t that explain it?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>kbenson</author><text>I think that may be purposeful. If your local certificate management system is on the fritz, you don&amp;#x27;t want that rejecting updates to the core cert lists. Probably better to fall back on some other cryptological system on the files themselves, since the content is not private, it&amp;#x27;s just the authenticity you care about.</text></comment>

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<story><title>Arizona passes law criminalizing recording of police (within 8 ft)</title><url>https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2022/07/07/arizona-recording-police-illegal/10009423002/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Spacemolte</author><text>I cannot help to wonder how long it will take for the following scenario to play out.&lt;p&gt;1. Someone films the police from a distance. 2. The police moves closer, and either gets too close and arrests you. or.. 3. You start moving away from them, and they yell stop, and arrest you for trying to run from them, or for not complying.&lt;p&gt;I hope you guys fix whatever is going on in your country.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ryandrake</author><text>This is the predictable and obvious goal of the law: To give law enforcement an easy way to criminalize someone who is trying to hold them accountable. All the police have to do to arrest a photographer is suddenly run up within 8 feet of them. They can also now fan out in a cop-mesh, 8 feet from one another, so that nobody without a telephoto lens can get close enough to film their ill deeds.</text></comment>

<story><title>Arizona passes law criminalizing recording of police (within 8 ft)</title><url>https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2022/07/07/arizona-recording-police-illegal/10009423002/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Spacemolte</author><text>I cannot help to wonder how long it will take for the following scenario to play out.&lt;p&gt;1. Someone films the police from a distance. 2. The police moves closer, and either gets too close and arrests you. or.. 3. You start moving away from them, and they yell stop, and arrest you for trying to run from them, or for not complying.&lt;p&gt;I hope you guys fix whatever is going on in your country.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>pif</author><text>You forgot 4: you keep filming while they are far enough and stop when they get close to you. This way, you comply with the law, and you have enough material for court in case of misbehavior.</text></comment>

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<story><title>Citymapper Joins Via</title><url>https://content.citymapper.com/news/2582/citymapper-joins-via</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>folkrav</author><text>Just chiming in with another option. May have been cause they are Montreal based, but back when I still lived there and regularly used public transport, Transit[1] was my favorite.&lt;p&gt;[1] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;transitapp.com&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;transitapp.com&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt;</text></item><item><author>hnarn</author><text>I&amp;#x27;ve always loved Citymapper, it made using public transport when living in a new city a breeze. It&amp;#x27;s really sad they don&amp;#x27;t support my current city, I&amp;#x27;d be willing to put in free work to make it happen but I&amp;#x27;ve never seen any way of helping out.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>valarauko</author><text>Transit&amp;#x27;s UI is superior to any other comparable app, but I find CityMapper&amp;#x27;s routes superior (at least in NYC).&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;ve also had issues with Transit surfacing incorrect bus routes based on cancelled buses (but scheduled) which CityMapper somehow could account for. Transit knows the next scheduled bus two minutes away isn&amp;#x27;t &amp;quot;live&amp;quot; (icons are different) but still surfaces it as a primary suggestion, while Citymapper wouldn&amp;#x27;t.</text></comment>

<story><title>Citymapper Joins Via</title><url>https://content.citymapper.com/news/2582/citymapper-joins-via</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>folkrav</author><text>Just chiming in with another option. May have been cause they are Montreal based, but back when I still lived there and regularly used public transport, Transit[1] was my favorite.&lt;p&gt;[1] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;transitapp.com&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;transitapp.com&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt;</text></item><item><author>hnarn</author><text>I&amp;#x27;ve always loved Citymapper, it made using public transport when living in a new city a breeze. It&amp;#x27;s really sad they don&amp;#x27;t support my current city, I&amp;#x27;d be willing to put in free work to make it happen but I&amp;#x27;ve never seen any way of helping out.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>clairity</author><text>i use transit in LA (where it&amp;#x27;s the default app for metro) and it has a huge glaring UX failure in that the departure times list at the bottom of the line details screen takes up at least a 1&amp;#x2F;3 of the screen, and when you want to see more of the map and try to push the list down, it closes the details screen. it&amp;#x27;s so frustrating, because i end up doing this 2-3 times per use, needlessly tapping back and forth. there&amp;#x27;s already a close button available so scroll to bottom to dismiss is wholly unnecessary. the departure times list wastes a ton of precious screen real estate as well - it could simply be a comma-delimited list on one line that could scroll sideways, and thus obviating the need for 1&amp;#x2F;3 of the screen for mostly whitespace.&lt;p&gt;i do like that the departure times are (slightly) more accurate because of the crowd-sourcing. however, the underlying data from metro is a mess, so they end up looking bad anyway because trains and buses still show up (or don&amp;#x27;t) unexpectedly due to metro&amp;#x27;s unreliable data.</text></comment>

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<story><title>Iaito – A Qt and C++ GUI for radare2 reverse engineering framework</title><url>https://github.com/hteso/iaito</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>Insanity</author><text>&amp;gt; I had never coded Qt nor C++ until I started Iaitō,&lt;p&gt;Well, a project like that is surely a good way to just jump right in and learn it! Kudos for that!</text></comment>

<story><title>Iaito – A Qt and C++ GUI for radare2 reverse engineering framework</title><url>https://github.com/hteso/iaito</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>Longhanks</author><text>Really appreciate the choice of Qt and not Electron.</text></comment>

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<story><title>Gallery – Making Molecules</title><url>https://www.makingmolecules.com/handouts</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>solardev</author><text>Out of curiosity, what do professional chemists refer to when they need a quick reference for something like this? Is it all in their heads by that point, or is there special software that they use every day (some sort of knowledge base type thing...?) or how does it all work?&lt;p&gt;As a software dev I think I take it for granted that I can look up anything I need to in a second or two. How does it work for other professions with special knowledge bubbles?</text></comment>

<story><title>Gallery – Making Molecules</title><url>https://www.makingmolecules.com/handouts</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>AlbertCory</author><text>My brief extension course introduction to chem and mol bio gave me an enormous appreciation for chemistry illustrations. &lt;i&gt;Molecular Biology of the Cell&lt;/i&gt; is one of the best textbooks ever written.</text></comment>

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<story><title>Mojo is a much better “Objective-C without the C” than Swift ever was</title><url>https://blog.metaobject.com/2023/06/mojo-is-much-better-without-c-than.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>simias</author><text>I chuckled a bit when I saw that they market themselves as &amp;quot;faster than C&amp;quot;. Is it 2005 again? Do modern developers even have any notion of how fast C runs to use as a baseline?&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s really minor thing but a pet peeve of mine, I remember how twenty years ago every new language claimed to be as fast or faster than C, and every time the benchmark was some ultra-optimized non-idiomatic program in that new language against a naive C implementation, and the C version was usually still 20% faster and use 10% as much RAM with the right compile flags.&lt;p&gt;Are there even Mojo benchmark in the wild? The FAQ entry[1] just finds excuses for situations where it does &lt;i&gt;not&lt;/i&gt; perform well...&lt;p&gt;[1] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;docs.modular.com&amp;#x2F;mojo&amp;#x2F;faq.html#performance&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;docs.modular.com&amp;#x2F;mojo&amp;#x2F;faq.html#performance&lt;/a&gt;</text></item><item><author>nbittich</author><text>[edited] afaict: 1) Mojo isn&amp;#x27;t opensource (yet?) 2) I can&amp;#x27;t test mojo (yet?) 3) Mojo does bold claims like being a better python with performance close to C, like V did, yet no one seems to call them out (yet????)&lt;p&gt;Anyway, never gonna try it, unless I&amp;#x27;m absolutely forced. I hate their marketing strategy, it sounds too bad.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Certhas</author><text>The benchmarks they give here [1] show generic code on par with specialized libraries that are typically written in assembler. These are vastly faster than naive C implementations, so your pet peeve really does not apply here.&lt;p&gt;[1] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.modular.com&amp;#x2F;blog&amp;#x2F;the-worlds-fastest-unified-matrix-multiplication&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.modular.com&amp;#x2F;blog&amp;#x2F;the-worlds-fastest-unified-matr...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;I kind of agree with the obnoxiousness of the marketing, but it pays to actually read a little of what they do before jumping to conclusions.&lt;p&gt;If only because its Chris Lattner behind it, obviously not someone who is your average &amp;quot;modern programmer&amp;quot;.</text></comment>

<story><title>Mojo is a much better “Objective-C without the C” than Swift ever was</title><url>https://blog.metaobject.com/2023/06/mojo-is-much-better-without-c-than.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>simias</author><text>I chuckled a bit when I saw that they market themselves as &amp;quot;faster than C&amp;quot;. Is it 2005 again? Do modern developers even have any notion of how fast C runs to use as a baseline?&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s really minor thing but a pet peeve of mine, I remember how twenty years ago every new language claimed to be as fast or faster than C, and every time the benchmark was some ultra-optimized non-idiomatic program in that new language against a naive C implementation, and the C version was usually still 20% faster and use 10% as much RAM with the right compile flags.&lt;p&gt;Are there even Mojo benchmark in the wild? The FAQ entry[1] just finds excuses for situations where it does &lt;i&gt;not&lt;/i&gt; perform well...&lt;p&gt;[1] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;docs.modular.com&amp;#x2F;mojo&amp;#x2F;faq.html#performance&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;docs.modular.com&amp;#x2F;mojo&amp;#x2F;faq.html#performance&lt;/a&gt;</text></item><item><author>nbittich</author><text>[edited] afaict: 1) Mojo isn&amp;#x27;t opensource (yet?) 2) I can&amp;#x27;t test mojo (yet?) 3) Mojo does bold claims like being a better python with performance close to C, like V did, yet no one seems to call them out (yet????)&lt;p&gt;Anyway, never gonna try it, unless I&amp;#x27;m absolutely forced. I hate their marketing strategy, it sounds too bad.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>boxed</author><text>I mean.. it does depend on what you mean by &amp;quot;faster than C&amp;quot; of course. Writing the straight forward naive solution in Mojo for some problems can produce code that can run on both CPUs and GPUs and be super fast. Can you get the same performance from C? Probably.. with lots on intrinsics and one code base for GPUs and one for CPUs, where the GPU codebase might even be multiple code bases for different vendors.&lt;p&gt;I would say &amp;quot;faster than C if you want to keep your sanity and don&amp;#x27;t have infinite time&amp;quot;. It doesn&amp;#x27;t roll off the tongue though :P</text></comment>

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<story><title>Toxic Productivity</title><url>https://paperform.co/blog/toxic-productivity/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>PheonixPharts</author><text>A related issue is that many technical people mistake a passion for their &lt;i&gt;craft&lt;/i&gt; with a passion for their &lt;i&gt;work&lt;/i&gt;.&lt;p&gt;For example, I am very passionate about statistics, I spend a tremendous amount of my free time studying it. I also work as a data scientist. For far too long I mistook a passion for statistics as a passion for data science. I know many software engineers make a similar mistake regarding their passion for programming.&lt;p&gt;This is a surprisingly big issue in my experience because commitment to your craft can lead to friction with your work and vice versa. This is not a problem when you realize these are two distinct things, but can lead to problems if you aren&amp;#x27;t aware of this difference.&lt;p&gt;The most obvious one is that confusing work for craft means you can put more energy into your employer&amp;#x27;s goals than ones related to bettering your craft (and also yourself). For a software engineer, at first, a late night coding session can benefit both. However in the long run if you keep spending time solving your employers problems, you will have less energy to study and practice software for it&amp;#x27;s own sake. This can also lead to burn out in which you start to lose you passion for your craft as well.&lt;p&gt;The reverse of this is also true: being very good at your craft can hurt you professionally. Your employer doesn&amp;#x27;t care about good code, or the correct statistical models. In the past, whenever I saw fundamentally incorrect statistical tools being used in production at work I couldn&amp;#x27;t stop and try to correct it. I&amp;#x27;ve seen many software engineers struggle similarly when orgs make bad technical decisions.&lt;p&gt;I failed many interviews because the interviewer had a mistaken view of things, and rather than just play along, I would try to correct them (I&amp;#x27;ve learned that no matter how sincere and kind you are in your correction, it is always a mistake to correct an interviewer). I distinctly remember the first time an interviewer incorrectly &amp;quot;corrected&amp;quot; me, and instead of justifying my decision, I just said &amp;quot;wow you&amp;#x27;re right, I was just sketching out some ideas here, but that path is worth investigating&amp;quot;. Got that job very easily.&lt;p&gt;Eventually I realized that I am passionate about statistics and mathematical modeling, these are related but ultimately tangential to my day job. It&amp;#x27;s great that I get paid well to do something closely related to what I love to study, but at the end of the day it&amp;#x27;s no different than a true coffee lover working at starbucks.</text></item><item><author>bibliographer</author><text>&amp;gt; 1. Untangle your self-worth and your work&lt;p&gt;When you are passionate about your work, it can easily bleed into every other area of your life — you read about work-related topics in your free time, you think about a particularly challenging problem in the shower, you journal about your work, etc. It also changes ones social circle: hanging out with an ambitious and curious start-up crowd easily leads to work as the default topic in a gathering of friends. Once you have work deeply embedded in your interests and social life, it does not take a huge mental leap to &amp;quot;work is what defines me as an individual&amp;quot;.&lt;p&gt;That then leads to a precarious &amp;quot;all eggs in one basket&amp;quot; situation that leaves you vulnerable in cases of professional failure (&amp;quot;My start-up is not doing well; I am a failure&amp;quot;) or burnout (&amp;quot;I&amp;#x27;m cynical about my work; nothing matters&amp;quot;).&lt;p&gt;It took quite a bit of time to disentangle my self-worth and my professional identity, but it makes life so much better.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>djmips</author><text>It funny you mentioned the interview thing. I interviewed at Google with someone who obviously has the wrong mental model of how multi-threading worked at the OS and hardware level and I got into that exact situation. I could tell they were annoyed and I realized my miscue immediately. Didn&amp;#x27;t get that job even when the rest of the day long interview went very well.</text></comment>

<story><title>Toxic Productivity</title><url>https://paperform.co/blog/toxic-productivity/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>PheonixPharts</author><text>A related issue is that many technical people mistake a passion for their &lt;i&gt;craft&lt;/i&gt; with a passion for their &lt;i&gt;work&lt;/i&gt;.&lt;p&gt;For example, I am very passionate about statistics, I spend a tremendous amount of my free time studying it. I also work as a data scientist. For far too long I mistook a passion for statistics as a passion for data science. I know many software engineers make a similar mistake regarding their passion for programming.&lt;p&gt;This is a surprisingly big issue in my experience because commitment to your craft can lead to friction with your work and vice versa. This is not a problem when you realize these are two distinct things, but can lead to problems if you aren&amp;#x27;t aware of this difference.&lt;p&gt;The most obvious one is that confusing work for craft means you can put more energy into your employer&amp;#x27;s goals than ones related to bettering your craft (and also yourself). For a software engineer, at first, a late night coding session can benefit both. However in the long run if you keep spending time solving your employers problems, you will have less energy to study and practice software for it&amp;#x27;s own sake. This can also lead to burn out in which you start to lose you passion for your craft as well.&lt;p&gt;The reverse of this is also true: being very good at your craft can hurt you professionally. Your employer doesn&amp;#x27;t care about good code, or the correct statistical models. In the past, whenever I saw fundamentally incorrect statistical tools being used in production at work I couldn&amp;#x27;t stop and try to correct it. I&amp;#x27;ve seen many software engineers struggle similarly when orgs make bad technical decisions.&lt;p&gt;I failed many interviews because the interviewer had a mistaken view of things, and rather than just play along, I would try to correct them (I&amp;#x27;ve learned that no matter how sincere and kind you are in your correction, it is always a mistake to correct an interviewer). I distinctly remember the first time an interviewer incorrectly &amp;quot;corrected&amp;quot; me, and instead of justifying my decision, I just said &amp;quot;wow you&amp;#x27;re right, I was just sketching out some ideas here, but that path is worth investigating&amp;quot;. Got that job very easily.&lt;p&gt;Eventually I realized that I am passionate about statistics and mathematical modeling, these are related but ultimately tangential to my day job. It&amp;#x27;s great that I get paid well to do something closely related to what I love to study, but at the end of the day it&amp;#x27;s no different than a true coffee lover working at starbucks.</text></item><item><author>bibliographer</author><text>&amp;gt; 1. Untangle your self-worth and your work&lt;p&gt;When you are passionate about your work, it can easily bleed into every other area of your life — you read about work-related topics in your free time, you think about a particularly challenging problem in the shower, you journal about your work, etc. It also changes ones social circle: hanging out with an ambitious and curious start-up crowd easily leads to work as the default topic in a gathering of friends. Once you have work deeply embedded in your interests and social life, it does not take a huge mental leap to &amp;quot;work is what defines me as an individual&amp;quot;.&lt;p&gt;That then leads to a precarious &amp;quot;all eggs in one basket&amp;quot; situation that leaves you vulnerable in cases of professional failure (&amp;quot;My start-up is not doing well; I am a failure&amp;quot;) or burnout (&amp;quot;I&amp;#x27;m cynical about my work; nothing matters&amp;quot;).&lt;p&gt;It took quite a bit of time to disentangle my self-worth and my professional identity, but it makes life so much better.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>karmakaze</author><text>An interesting distinction. I think I&amp;#x27;ve somehow found subconscious ways to keep these aligned. I suspect that my craft is finding creative technical&amp;#x2F;programming solutions to semi-well-defined problems so that intersects with work. If there&amp;#x27;s a lack of such problems and learning opportunities, I&amp;#x27;d look elsewhere. I&amp;#x27;ll be thinking about this more from now on and seeing how I can do things differently. I should at least be able to identify some cases where I don&amp;#x27;t like the feeling of something then learn why.</text></comment>

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<story><title>The Mars Helicopter Is Online and Getting Ready to Fly</title><url>https://www.universetoday.com/150224/the-mars-helicopter-is-online-and-getting-ready-to-fly/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>julienchastang</author><text>Fun fact: This is not the first time a space program has flown on another planet. The Soviets launched weather balloons on Venus during the Venera missions [1]&lt;p&gt;[1] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Vega_program#Balloon&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Vega_program#Balloon&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ChuckMcM</author><text>And given the density of Venus&amp;#x27; atmosphere, here is a fun thought experiment.&lt;p&gt;It may be possible to make &amp;#x27;titanium&amp;#x27; balloons for longer term operation. The would work by creating the balloon envelope on earth, have a sealing mechanism that you activated in orbit so they had vacuum inside. And then drop them into the atmosphere.&lt;p&gt;Same idea a glass floats on fishing nets[1] except with titanium (so they can withstand the compression forces given they have a vacuum inside). It might be useful&amp;#x2F;necessary to put some additional structure inside the envelope for strength but like eggs, the sphere is a pretty good shape for distributing compressive force.&lt;p&gt;Anyway, put a number of them on tethers attached to the instrument payload and drop it off into the atmosphere once you&amp;#x27;ve gone trans-sonic with parachutes or retro rockets. The platform will then fall to the point where the lifting force of the floats is equal to the weight of the platform.&lt;p&gt;Ideally the titanium would be impervious to the atmospherics&amp;#x27;s corrosive effects.&lt;p&gt;[1]&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Glass_float&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Glass_float&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>

<story><title>The Mars Helicopter Is Online and Getting Ready to Fly</title><url>https://www.universetoday.com/150224/the-mars-helicopter-is-online-and-getting-ready-to-fly/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>julienchastang</author><text>Fun fact: This is not the first time a space program has flown on another planet. The Soviets launched weather balloons on Venus during the Venera missions [1]&lt;p&gt;[1] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Vega_program#Balloon&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Vega_program#Balloon&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>endymi0n</author><text>This is so cool, I didn‘t know about these yet and I‘d call myself a space buff...&lt;p&gt;Speaking of flight and picking the nits here — looks like Wikipedia also isn‘t completely correct here:&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; It is planned to make the first powered flight on any planet beyond Earth&lt;p&gt;...arguably the first _powered_ flights were done by the sky cranes of Opportunity and Perseverance</text></comment>

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<story><title>In a study of senior CS majors, U.S. students are tops in skills</title><url>https://spectrum.ieee.org/view-from-the-valley/at-work/education/us-students-have-achieved-world-domination-in-computer-science-skillsfor-now</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>bfrydl</author><text>I took a look at the sample questions for the test, having never heard of it. It&amp;#x27;s 66 multiple choice questions, and many of them seem like “gotcha” questions where one of the answers is an off-by-one error or something like that.&lt;p&gt;And how about this lovely question:&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; A personal identification number that opens a certain lock consists of a sequence of 3 DIFFERENT digits from 0 though 9, inclusive. How many possible PINs are there?&lt;p&gt;Putting aside the value of this question in the first place, the correct answer is 720 but it also includes the answer 1000 in case you didn&amp;#x27;t notice the emphasis on “different”.&lt;p&gt;Doesn&amp;#x27;t seem like a great test to me unless it&amp;#x27;s about your reading comprehension and ability to decipher code with single-letter variable names.</text></item><item><author>harias</author><text>&amp;gt; Once the students were selected, the researchers then administered the Major Field Test in Computer Science, an exam that was developed by the U.S. Educational Testing Service and is regularly updated.&lt;p&gt;There is a huge variation among countries in how subjects are taught and tested. I would like to add that many of my peers have resorted to streamlining for whiteboard interviews, and unsurprisingly, they end up with well-paying jobs.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ajross</author><text>&amp;gt; Doesn&amp;#x27;t seem like a great test to me unless it&amp;#x27;s about your reading comprehension and ability to decipher code with single-letter variable names.&lt;p&gt;Really? I mean, to first approximation, all software engineering work is debugging. And to first approximation, all debugging is about carefully reading results and the code that generated them. That sounds pretty spot-on to my eyes.&lt;p&gt;And the variable naming quip... are you serious? One of the &lt;i&gt;&lt;/i&gt;worst&lt;i&gt;&lt;/i&gt; mistakes you can make when trying to read code for understanding is to rely on documentation layers like comments and variable names. &lt;i&gt;Those things lie&lt;/i&gt;. Read the code.&lt;p&gt;I mean, obviously people do rely on those things for understanding, so when &lt;i&gt;writing&lt;/i&gt; code it&amp;#x27;s important to have good semantically and contextually clear names for stuff (which certainly can include single letter names for local symbols repeated often!). But for debugging, you really have to train yourself to read the code, not the names.</text></comment>

<story><title>In a study of senior CS majors, U.S. students are tops in skills</title><url>https://spectrum.ieee.org/view-from-the-valley/at-work/education/us-students-have-achieved-world-domination-in-computer-science-skillsfor-now</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>bfrydl</author><text>I took a look at the sample questions for the test, having never heard of it. It&amp;#x27;s 66 multiple choice questions, and many of them seem like “gotcha” questions where one of the answers is an off-by-one error or something like that.&lt;p&gt;And how about this lovely question:&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; A personal identification number that opens a certain lock consists of a sequence of 3 DIFFERENT digits from 0 though 9, inclusive. How many possible PINs are there?&lt;p&gt;Putting aside the value of this question in the first place, the correct answer is 720 but it also includes the answer 1000 in case you didn&amp;#x27;t notice the emphasis on “different”.&lt;p&gt;Doesn&amp;#x27;t seem like a great test to me unless it&amp;#x27;s about your reading comprehension and ability to decipher code with single-letter variable names.</text></item><item><author>harias</author><text>&amp;gt; Once the students were selected, the researchers then administered the Major Field Test in Computer Science, an exam that was developed by the U.S. Educational Testing Service and is regularly updated.&lt;p&gt;There is a huge variation among countries in how subjects are taught and tested. I would like to add that many of my peers have resorted to streamlining for whiteboard interviews, and unsurprisingly, they end up with well-paying jobs.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>kristopolous</author><text>Asking &amp;quot;how many 3 digit numbers are there where each digit of the number only appears once?&amp;quot; is nearly a mathematically identical problem but without the fake backstory.&lt;p&gt;Being able to go from some constructed story to a math problem is a skill that can be tested elsewhere (and really, should be assumed if someone clearly has proficient enough numeracy to do combinatorics) Questions should be testing one thing as isolated as possible, not the same things repeatedly.</text></comment>

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<story><title>A dive into the world of MS-DOS viruses</title><url>https://blog.benjojo.co.uk/post/dive-into-the-world-of-dos-viruses</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>alyandon</author><text>Ah yes, I have fond memories of writing TSR pranks that hooked common DOS interrupts (not technically viruses since they didn&amp;#x27;t infect&amp;#x2F;replicate) that did things like:&lt;p&gt;1) buffer 1 keystroke in memory (so typing diw&amp;lt;backspace&amp;gt;r would leave &amp;quot;di&amp;quot; on screen - then they&amp;#x27;d type &amp;quot;r&amp;quot; and get an &amp;quot;r&amp;quot; and then hit enter and get another &amp;quot;r&amp;quot;, then they&amp;#x27;d hit backspace to correct the &amp;quot;dirr&amp;quot; and the command would execute, etc)&lt;p&gt;2) hooked the printer interrupt to introduce typos in printouts&lt;p&gt;3) randomly swap letters on the screen periodically&lt;p&gt;Fun times. It&amp;#x27;s probably for the best that I grew up in the era that I did since pulling pranks like these has a high risk of getting slapped with felony charges in this day and age.</text></comment>

<story><title>A dive into the world of MS-DOS viruses</title><url>https://blog.benjojo.co.uk/post/dive-into-the-world-of-dos-viruses</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>kazinator</author><text>Guilty. In 1988 or so I made a virus that attached to .com files, which would spread it to others when executed. It was never released into the open. On each infection, it incremented a generation counter. Upon reaching a certain value, the payload would trigger, causing a message to be printed.&lt;p&gt;What the heck was I using? MASM? TASM? I cannot remember.&lt;p&gt;IIRC, looking for other .com files was just using DOS&amp;#x27;s FindFirst and FindNext functions at int 21h. (I&amp;#x27;m now naming them in terms of their Win32 counterparts.)&lt;p&gt;I think I didn&amp;#x27;t have a sanity check against duplicate infection in the early versions and added that during testing. 17 year old&amp;#x27;s programmer&amp;#x27;s &amp;quot;doh&amp;quot; moment.&lt;p&gt;I remember that I ran the experiments in a subdirectory called &amp;quot;petridir&amp;quot;. :)</text></comment>

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<story><title>Show HN: Electrico – Electron Without Node and Chrome</title><url>https://github.com/thomastschurtschenthaler/electrico</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>5kyn3t</author><text>Is it possible to have some kind of electron&amp;#x2F;tauri&amp;#x2F;,.. based runtime, but without the actual app? The users would need to install this runtime only once. The apps would need to be installed separately. The apps could be just the plain html&amp;#x2F;js&amp;#x2F;css&amp;#x2F;assets maybe packed within a zip, with a dedicated extension. The runtime would take care of the installation. That way the devs could develop with their FE-stack of their choice and ship just the small packages. Does this make sense?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>WorldMaker</author><text>It does sound a lot like what Progressive Web Apps (PWAs) are supposed to be. It&amp;#x27;s very close to how the original Manifest.json worked when given an html&amp;#x2F;js&amp;#x2F;css&amp;#x2F;assets list.&lt;p&gt;Only a couple of browsers supported that version of Manifest.json. Chrome developers thought it was too much of an 80&amp;#x2F;20 solution and decided to get deep in the weeds of the 20% instead of delivering the 80% solution while they worked. That&amp;#x27;s what got us the way too low level and hard to reason with Service Worker APIs for PWAs. It&amp;#x27;s over-engineered for the 20% of use cases in a way that makes &amp;quot;easy&amp;quot; 80% so much harder than it ever should have been. Chrome developers still randomly promise the web that the &amp;quot;easy high level API&amp;quot; will arrive any day now, but looking at the mess that is Workbox (their team&amp;#x27;s supposed-to-be high level building block library for Service Worker PWA APIs) it still doesn&amp;#x27;t look like it will happen any time soon.&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s more the shame because we briefly had a simple JSON manifest format for assets. That JSON format should have been easy to emulate in the Service Worker APIs if those APIs truly were meant to solve the problem, not just solving more interesting problems in a related space that a minority of use cases needed. Google doesn&amp;#x27;t currently have enough incentive to make PWAs easy to build, and as long as Chrome is the majority browser, Google is the major obstacle.</text></comment>

<story><title>Show HN: Electrico – Electron Without Node and Chrome</title><url>https://github.com/thomastschurtschenthaler/electrico</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>5kyn3t</author><text>Is it possible to have some kind of electron&amp;#x2F;tauri&amp;#x2F;,.. based runtime, but without the actual app? The users would need to install this runtime only once. The apps would need to be installed separately. The apps could be just the plain html&amp;#x2F;js&amp;#x2F;css&amp;#x2F;assets maybe packed within a zip, with a dedicated extension. The runtime would take care of the installation. That way the devs could develop with their FE-stack of their choice and ship just the small packages. Does this make sense?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>wruza</author><text>This doesn’t work. Developers move on to a next version for reasons out of their control. Now a user has a version hell, just like c:\python{all, sorts, of, versions}, and probably a versioned file extension. Bundling tens of megabytes is not a problem for the last ten years. Having everything you need right in your backpack is a good thing for everyone.&lt;p&gt;It could be feasible if software communities didn’t tend to underimplement features and then solve them by intertwining all sorts of dependencies and their maintenance policies. For example, for as controlled thing as typescript, there are at least four popular ways to “just run” projects, all with different quirks and issues (tsc &amp;amp; node, ts-node, swc-node, tsx). Although it was obvious that people would want to run and watch .ts files based on tsconfig.json, without an explicit compilation step.</text></comment>

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<story><title>More Subprime Borrowers Are Missing Loan Payments</title><url>https://www.wsj.com/articles/more-subprime-borrowers-are-missing-loan-payments-11652952602</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>nimbius</author><text>worth mentioning: the auto lending market in the US is a 1.6 trillion dollar time bomb and has been ever since Cash for Clunkers saw two rounds of federal funding.&lt;p&gt;the average period for an auto loan in the US is over 64 months. any disruption to the paycheck-to-paycheck living of 64% of americans could have a catastrophic effect on the ability to service this debt.</text></item><item><author>yardie</author><text>From the article: car loans, credit, and person loans (payday loans). Mortgages are highly regulated since 2008&amp;#x27;s financial crisis. Those subprime lenders exited the mortgage business and jumped into high interest used car loans. And I&amp;#x27;m right there with you on the anal probing I had to practically get to qualify for a mortgage.</text></item><item><author>ryanSrich</author><text>How are people with a subprime score even getting a loan? When I took out a mortgage in 2015 and then again in 2017 they scrutinized my entire life. I have no idea how we’ve regressed back to 2008 after years of very strict regulations.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>JumpCrisscross</author><text>&amp;gt; &lt;i&gt;auto lending market in the US is a 1.6 trillion dollar time bomb&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;It &lt;i&gt;was&lt;/i&gt; a time bomb. Cars are easier to seize than houses. Given the present shortages, re-selling them at close to the loan balance shouldn&amp;#x27;t be an issue.&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s still a tale of personal tragedy. I know people on the new-car-every-two-years bandwagon who will get screwed when they have an income interruption. But it&amp;#x27;s not a broader risk, at least not at this time.</text></comment>

<story><title>More Subprime Borrowers Are Missing Loan Payments</title><url>https://www.wsj.com/articles/more-subprime-borrowers-are-missing-loan-payments-11652952602</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>nimbius</author><text>worth mentioning: the auto lending market in the US is a 1.6 trillion dollar time bomb and has been ever since Cash for Clunkers saw two rounds of federal funding.&lt;p&gt;the average period for an auto loan in the US is over 64 months. any disruption to the paycheck-to-paycheck living of 64% of americans could have a catastrophic effect on the ability to service this debt.</text></item><item><author>yardie</author><text>From the article: car loans, credit, and person loans (payday loans). Mortgages are highly regulated since 2008&amp;#x27;s financial crisis. Those subprime lenders exited the mortgage business and jumped into high interest used car loans. And I&amp;#x27;m right there with you on the anal probing I had to practically get to qualify for a mortgage.</text></item><item><author>ryanSrich</author><text>How are people with a subprime score even getting a loan? When I took out a mortgage in 2015 and then again in 2017 they scrutinized my entire life. I have no idea how we’ve regressed back to 2008 after years of very strict regulations.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>avs733</author><text>and the auto loan business is shady a.f.&lt;p&gt;We ended up invovled with the state A.G.&amp;#x27;s office investigating our dealer. They &amp;#x27;accidentally&amp;#x27; put a typo in my wife&amp;#x27;s SSN when pulling the credit report. That justified a higher interest rate - which they offered us without explaining why.&lt;p&gt;We weren&amp;#x27;t super worried because we were going to pay the car off in a couple months anyways, we just wanted the financing to shift some cap gains taxes to a different year. Then we got a letter in the mail from the lender explaining why our interest rate was so high.&lt;p&gt;We called the dealer - and almost no questions asked they offered to send us a check for the difference. Red flag raised we filed a complaint with the state A.G., and it turns out it was a common practice at that dealership.</text></comment>

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<story><title>George Hotz cancels his Tesla Autopilot-like ‘comma one’</title><url>https://electrek.co/2016/10/28/george-hotz-cancels-his-tesla-autopilot-like-comma-one-after-request-from-nhtsa/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>phasmantistes</author><text>I love this paragraph of the Request:&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; The singular includes the plural; the plural includes the singular. The masculine gender includes the feminine and neuter genders; and the neuter gender includes the masculine and feminine genders. &amp;quot;And&amp;quot; as well as &amp;quot;or&amp;quot; shall be construed either disjunctively or conjunctively, to bring within scope of this Special Order all responses that might otherwise be construed to be outside the scope. &amp;quot;Each&amp;quot; shall be construed to include &amp;quot;every&amp;quot;, and &amp;quot;every&amp;quot; shall be construed to include &amp;quot;each&amp;quot;. &amp;quot;Any&amp;quot; shall be construed to include &amp;quot;all&amp;quot;, and &amp;quot;all&amp;quot; shall be construed to include &amp;quot;any&amp;quot;. The use of a verb in any tense shall be construed as the use of the verb in a past or present tense, whenever necessary to bring within the scope of the document requests all responses which might otherwise be construed to be outside its scope.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;ve seen similar paragraphs on other legal documents, but this is the most thorough I&amp;#x27;ve seen. It&amp;#x27;s basically just a huge middle finger to all (any?) armchair lawyers who want to weasel out of the order.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>AceJohnny2</author><text>See also RFC 2119 that disambiguates the meaning of &amp;quot;must&amp;quot;, &amp;quot;shall&amp;quot;, &amp;quot;may&amp;quot; and others in specs. It&amp;#x27;s because of that RFC that you often see those words in caps in a spec.&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.ietf.org&amp;#x2F;rfc&amp;#x2F;rfc2119.txt&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.ietf.org&amp;#x2F;rfc&amp;#x2F;rfc2119.txt&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>

<story><title>George Hotz cancels his Tesla Autopilot-like ‘comma one’</title><url>https://electrek.co/2016/10/28/george-hotz-cancels-his-tesla-autopilot-like-comma-one-after-request-from-nhtsa/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>phasmantistes</author><text>I love this paragraph of the Request:&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; The singular includes the plural; the plural includes the singular. The masculine gender includes the feminine and neuter genders; and the neuter gender includes the masculine and feminine genders. &amp;quot;And&amp;quot; as well as &amp;quot;or&amp;quot; shall be construed either disjunctively or conjunctively, to bring within scope of this Special Order all responses that might otherwise be construed to be outside the scope. &amp;quot;Each&amp;quot; shall be construed to include &amp;quot;every&amp;quot;, and &amp;quot;every&amp;quot; shall be construed to include &amp;quot;each&amp;quot;. &amp;quot;Any&amp;quot; shall be construed to include &amp;quot;all&amp;quot;, and &amp;quot;all&amp;quot; shall be construed to include &amp;quot;any&amp;quot;. The use of a verb in any tense shall be construed as the use of the verb in a past or present tense, whenever necessary to bring within the scope of the document requests all responses which might otherwise be construed to be outside its scope.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;ve seen similar paragraphs on other legal documents, but this is the most thorough I&amp;#x27;ve seen. It&amp;#x27;s basically just a huge middle finger to all (any?) armchair lawyers who want to weasel out of the order.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>d0vs</author><text>Need me one of those for internet comments.</text></comment>

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<story><title>Antenna Theory (2016)</title><url>http://www.antenna-theory.com/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>etaioinshrdlu</author><text>I think with good simulation tools, optimization processes, maybe even deep learning, we could make it a lot less of black magic. Make it boring and approachable instead.&lt;p&gt;It kind of reminds me of chemistry. You have physical laws that are fairly simple but the interactions are hard to describe without a bunch of computation.</text></item><item><author>dazhbog</author><text>I once went to an antenna tuning&amp;#x2F;design&amp;#x2F;factory for my startup&amp;#x27;s product and I told the guy there, I want an antenna to support X frequencies, this that dBs, good VSWR, hopefully achieve X kilometers range, etc etc.&lt;p&gt;Two days later he had 3 designs of antennas ready to be made into a flexible PCB and two days after that we got the FPCB samples.&lt;p&gt;I was amazed so I asked to see how he works. He took copper tape, and with a boxcutter he carves the antenna, and adds solder blobs to tune with the network analyzer. Then, once he was satisfied, he shoved them into the anechoic chamber and boom, done. Black magic stuff.&lt;p&gt;Antenna intuition is really hard to attain, it takes years playing with the right equipment in the right environment..</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>pavel_lishin</author><text>How does slathering deep learning onto something make it &lt;i&gt;less&lt;/i&gt; of a black magic?</text></comment>

<story><title>Antenna Theory (2016)</title><url>http://www.antenna-theory.com/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>etaioinshrdlu</author><text>I think with good simulation tools, optimization processes, maybe even deep learning, we could make it a lot less of black magic. Make it boring and approachable instead.&lt;p&gt;It kind of reminds me of chemistry. You have physical laws that are fairly simple but the interactions are hard to describe without a bunch of computation.</text></item><item><author>dazhbog</author><text>I once went to an antenna tuning&amp;#x2F;design&amp;#x2F;factory for my startup&amp;#x27;s product and I told the guy there, I want an antenna to support X frequencies, this that dBs, good VSWR, hopefully achieve X kilometers range, etc etc.&lt;p&gt;Two days later he had 3 designs of antennas ready to be made into a flexible PCB and two days after that we got the FPCB samples.&lt;p&gt;I was amazed so I asked to see how he works. He took copper tape, and with a boxcutter he carves the antenna, and adds solder blobs to tune with the network analyzer. Then, once he was satisfied, he shoved them into the anechoic chamber and boom, done. Black magic stuff.&lt;p&gt;Antenna intuition is really hard to attain, it takes years playing with the right equipment in the right environment..</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>nisuni</author><text>What’s the point of applying deep learning to something for which we have an exact mathematical theory?</text></comment>

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<story><title>Question for PG/HN: Where do you think we stand on your list of &quot;ideas&quot;?</title><text>About three years ago, Paul penned his essay &quot;Startup Ideas We&apos;d Like to Fund&quot;. Three years along, how do you think this list stands up today? Are any solved (in part or in whole)? Anything new you would add to the list?&lt;p&gt;I ask, because I remember reading this years ago and getting inspired to work on a few things (that didn&apos;t pan out). Given the popularity of (and success of YC), it would be interesting to see what Paul and HN see as the state of the world for this list.</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>andrewstuart</author><text>We built something alot like: 22. A web-based Excel/database hybrid.&lt;p&gt;The question is though, what problem does it solve? It was very hard to explain to people why they would need it or care about it.&lt;p&gt;Spent a year developing it and spent alot of money on it. For nothing in the end. A very cool technology and I still like it alot.&lt;p&gt;Lesson: build something people want, or that solves a real problem. Don&apos;t build a solution looking for a problem.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>david927</author><text>That&apos;s funny because I&apos;m also building a web-based Excel/database hybrid, and I&apos;m also a bit concerned about demand. But your story doesn&apos;t deter me at all, for two reasons: one, because I&apos;m crazy; two because of La Femme Nikita. Let me explain.&lt;p&gt;People talk about ideas as being worthless, etc. No, they&apos;re not. You can&apos;t get an oak tree with a mustard seed. But there&apos;s a big difference between even oak trees. Idea and execution are the same thing, just two ends of a continuous line.&lt;p&gt;The films &lt;i&gt;La Femme Nikita&lt;/i&gt; and &lt;i&gt;Point of No Return&lt;/i&gt; have nearly the exact same plot. The former is one of the greatest action films ever made; the latter is one of the worst.&lt;p&gt;That whole &quot;build something people want&quot; is only for people who want to make money. And honestly, if what you want is to make money, be a dentist.&lt;p&gt;People waant Facebook and Twitter and Farmville. But they need core technological innovation. They need better ways to work with data. You did the right thing, Andrew. It wasn&apos;t a waste of time. And I won&apos;t stop either, because the world has far too much of what it wants and far too little of what it needs.</text></comment>

<story><title>Question for PG/HN: Where do you think we stand on your list of &quot;ideas&quot;?</title><text>About three years ago, Paul penned his essay &quot;Startup Ideas We&apos;d Like to Fund&quot;. Three years along, how do you think this list stands up today? Are any solved (in part or in whole)? Anything new you would add to the list?&lt;p&gt;I ask, because I remember reading this years ago and getting inspired to work on a few things (that didn&apos;t pan out). Given the popularity of (and success of YC), it would be interesting to see what Paul and HN see as the state of the world for this list.</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>andrewstuart</author><text>We built something alot like: 22. A web-based Excel/database hybrid.&lt;p&gt;The question is though, what problem does it solve? It was very hard to explain to people why they would need it or care about it.&lt;p&gt;Spent a year developing it and spent alot of money on it. For nothing in the end. A very cool technology and I still like it alot.&lt;p&gt;Lesson: build something people want, or that solves a real problem. Don&apos;t build a solution looking for a problem.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>josephcooney</author><text>Are you kidding? 80% of &apos;enterprise&apos; systems involve a spreadsheet that is (conceptually) a database. Some business users use the words spreadsheet and database interchangeably. Almost every enterprise system I&apos;ve build involved Excel as one of it&apos;s data sources. Users often give you requirements in terms of excel formulate etc, or ask for screens that are &apos;just like excel&apos;. Microsoft has even recognized this and now offers &apos;server-side excel&apos; as part of office 2007. &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Excel_Services&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Excel_Services&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;I&apos;d suggest that if this product wasn&apos;t a success you either didn&apos;t understand how end-users currently use spreadsheets as a &apos;poor man&apos;s database&apos; or the marketing let you down.</text></comment>

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<story><title>Sam Altman: ‘Too many’ Y Combinator companies raise money</title><url>https://venturebeat.com/2017/12/21/sam-altman-too-many-y-combinator-companies-raise-money/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>sama</author><text>I am interested in trying some version of this! Have been thinking about all the edge cases.</text></item><item><author>jpao79</author><text>Was just thinking the other day, it&amp;#x27;d be super interesting if YC ran some YC Equity&amp;#x2F;YC UBI experiments within its own network. Basically in joining YC, each YC member would be granted a percentage of YC&amp;#x27;s 7% stake in all of the YC companies which would reduce their need to fundraise. In theory, YC members should all be highly motivated achievers and use that percentage stake to move their diverse set of businesses forward.&lt;p&gt;Since there is such a high barrier to entry into YC, it might not prove shared equity&amp;#x2F;UBI would 100% work in the real world. However, coming at it from the other side, it could provide some early clues as to whether a shared equity&amp;#x2F;UBI could ever work at all. For example:&lt;p&gt;- Would YC companies cheer each other on with positive peer pressure&amp;#x2F;be more motivated to knowledge share or would low achieving YC companies de-motivate high achieving YC companies? Would YC companies who fold be allowed to retain their percentage of the YC stake?&lt;p&gt;- Would high achieving startups bypass YC or be attracted to YC?&lt;p&gt;- Would every set of new annual entrants into YC be seen as diluting the value of the existing YC equity or additive? Would existing YC companies want more say in the selection process? Would Airbnb, Dropbox, Stripe receive the same percentage of YC stake as new entrants?&lt;p&gt;- How do you socialize the concept with existing stakeholders (i.e. existing YC partners) who would be diluted?&lt;p&gt;- Is it better to implement it as a single monolithic YC group or divide it by YC Class?&lt;p&gt;Assuming ~1500 YC companies with ~10 employees each, that&amp;#x27;d be about 15,000 participants, which would be a pretty good dogfooding [0] experiment!&lt;p&gt;[0] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Eating_your_own_dog_food&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Eating_your_own_dog_food&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dzink</author><text>Edge cases:&lt;p&gt;A. If you give the equity to the startups:&lt;p&gt;1. There is a risk of activist or corporate acquirers getting a substantial share of YC after buying out startups. Contract clauses can eliminate that, and prevent dilution, but value of extended network advocacy is lost too.&lt;p&gt;2. Do dead startups lose their share? If they do, you would see more zombies, which is not ideal. If they don’t who keeps the equity when founders part ways? If it’s the founders based on equity share - see (B)&lt;p&gt;3. Competing startups could have shares in the successful one, and potential vote, which leads Oracle&amp;#x2F;Salesforce type battles. Potential swinging votes during corporate governance, but also potential helpful behavior, which while nice could be seen collusion by regulators at scale. That said, startups win with monopoly characteristics, so that may be less of an issue.&lt;p&gt;B. If you give the equity to individual members:&lt;p&gt;1. There is selection bias where alumnae help friends and go through the program multiple times - you risk having portfolio maximization and groups voting buddies in for control over YC. Even if you don’t see clique battles, there will still be: Vote these guys in because they were Stanford alumns too. Over time you will lose even more diversity in the network and a broader network that captures the next wave of breakouts not seen by the less diverse YC will gain speed.&lt;p&gt;2. The resume stuffing and portfolio padding motif to join YC will be dominant to the “let’s build a unicorn” motif. People who pursue status and do YC as the next Harvard will have more easy access (B1) and more reason to go for it.&lt;p&gt;3. To boost the unicorn incentive the above equity distribution needs to continue only if you have a startup within YC that is actively growing by certain criteria or has had a meaningful exit for the YC network. Another way to protect integrity of the network, is to allow equity in YC to be stacked only if the person has been a founder of more than one startup still growing or with a meaningful exit. This scenario may be enhanced with some incentive for people who join other YC startups meaningfully, but how complicated a structure will be too complicated for investors in the YC startups themselves?&lt;p&gt;This is first layer of brainstorming with minimal info.</text></comment>

<story><title>Sam Altman: ‘Too many’ Y Combinator companies raise money</title><url>https://venturebeat.com/2017/12/21/sam-altman-too-many-y-combinator-companies-raise-money/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>sama</author><text>I am interested in trying some version of this! Have been thinking about all the edge cases.</text></item><item><author>jpao79</author><text>Was just thinking the other day, it&amp;#x27;d be super interesting if YC ran some YC Equity&amp;#x2F;YC UBI experiments within its own network. Basically in joining YC, each YC member would be granted a percentage of YC&amp;#x27;s 7% stake in all of the YC companies which would reduce their need to fundraise. In theory, YC members should all be highly motivated achievers and use that percentage stake to move their diverse set of businesses forward.&lt;p&gt;Since there is such a high barrier to entry into YC, it might not prove shared equity&amp;#x2F;UBI would 100% work in the real world. However, coming at it from the other side, it could provide some early clues as to whether a shared equity&amp;#x2F;UBI could ever work at all. For example:&lt;p&gt;- Would YC companies cheer each other on with positive peer pressure&amp;#x2F;be more motivated to knowledge share or would low achieving YC companies de-motivate high achieving YC companies? Would YC companies who fold be allowed to retain their percentage of the YC stake?&lt;p&gt;- Would high achieving startups bypass YC or be attracted to YC?&lt;p&gt;- Would every set of new annual entrants into YC be seen as diluting the value of the existing YC equity or additive? Would existing YC companies want more say in the selection process? Would Airbnb, Dropbox, Stripe receive the same percentage of YC stake as new entrants?&lt;p&gt;- How do you socialize the concept with existing stakeholders (i.e. existing YC partners) who would be diluted?&lt;p&gt;- Is it better to implement it as a single monolithic YC group or divide it by YC Class?&lt;p&gt;Assuming ~1500 YC companies with ~10 employees each, that&amp;#x27;d be about 15,000 participants, which would be a pretty good dogfooding [0] experiment!&lt;p&gt;[0] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Eating_your_own_dog_food&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Eating_your_own_dog_food&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jacquesm</author><text>That&amp;#x27;ll be expensive. On the order of 100&amp;#x27;s of millions per year at that scale. 15,000 * 1000 = 15 M &amp;#x2F; month for an amount that would move the needle, but still not enough to live off.</text></comment>

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<story><title>Year of the Voice – Chapter 2: Let&apos;s talk</title><url>https://www.home-assistant.io/blog/2023/04/27/year-of-the-voice-chapter-2/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>balloob</author><text>Founder Home Assistant here. Let me know if anyone has any questions.&lt;p&gt;Edit: if you want to keep in the loop of the work we&amp;#x27;re doing, subscribe to our free monthly newsletter @ &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;building.open-home.io&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;building.open-home.io&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>

<story><title>Year of the Voice – Chapter 2: Let&apos;s talk</title><url>https://www.home-assistant.io/blog/2023/04/27/year-of-the-voice-chapter-2/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>pwpw</author><text>A local voice assistant is the last link missing in my entirely local smart home setup, so this is exciting news. I would love if I could convert a google home mini that I have on hand to use with this, but my understanding is that the hardware is too locked down for tinkering with.&lt;p&gt;I love the VOIP integration shown off that can hook up to an old phone. One of my guilty pleasures is using peak forms of technology from the 20th century when things were more analog. It could be a lot of fun to bring an old phone into the mix to complement my turntable and PVM.</text></comment>

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<story><title>Avremu: An AVR Emulator Written in Pure LaTeX</title><url>https://gitlab.brokenpipe.de/stettberger/avremu/tree/master</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>jpallen</author><text>This is awesome, great job! How long before we can write ShareLaTeX in ShareLaTeX? ;)&lt;p&gt;I once got as far as writing and http server that used the flexibility of TeX macros to turn headers like &amp;#x27;content-length:&amp;#x27; into TeX commands that recorded their value, and then processed the incoming request as if it were TeX code. It wasn&amp;#x27;t pretty...</text></comment>

<story><title>Avremu: An AVR Emulator Written in Pure LaTeX</title><url>https://gitlab.brokenpipe.de/stettberger/avremu/tree/master</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>tptacek</author><text>This is obviously impressive. AVR is surprisingly annoying to emulate! If you&amp;#x27;re looking to emulate enough to run C on, two platforms that are significantly less painful:&lt;p&gt;* MSP430, whose instruction set fits on a single Wikipedia page while simultaneously being nicer to program than AVR&lt;p&gt;* The c4 compiler&amp;#x27;s stack machine VM, which was designed specifically to be a minimal machine on which to run C in the smallest number of lines of code.</text></comment>

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<story><title>The Secret to Becoming an Annoyingly Productive Early Morning Person</title><url>https://nickwignall.com/the-secret-to-productive-mornings/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ams6110</author><text>Yes, but they&amp;#x27;re all single or otherwise have no family obligations. Once you have a family and have to deal with school and other activities it&amp;#x27;s pretty hard to deviate much from the normal 9-5 workday.</text></item><item><author>Mizza</author><text>Fuck this. I&amp;#x27;m a night time person and I feel like I&amp;#x27;m constantly punished by a society that places a moral value on waking up early.&lt;p&gt;In all seriousness, I&amp;#x27;m thinking about starting a &amp;quot;night company&amp;quot; for night time people. Come in at 2, work until 10. Is there anybody out there who&amp;#x27;d be interested in something like that?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>bobwaycott</author><text>Single dad, night-person here—I far prefer working at night once the kids are in bed over trying to squeeze meaningful productivity in between school hours, dinner, activities, father-son time, etc. I&amp;#x27;ve trained myself to do &lt;i&gt;something&lt;/i&gt; from 9-4, as those are my remaining school-age son&amp;#x27;s school hours, but it&amp;#x27;s nowhere near as satisfying as working at night when the world is asleep.</text></comment>

<story><title>The Secret to Becoming an Annoyingly Productive Early Morning Person</title><url>https://nickwignall.com/the-secret-to-productive-mornings/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ams6110</author><text>Yes, but they&amp;#x27;re all single or otherwise have no family obligations. Once you have a family and have to deal with school and other activities it&amp;#x27;s pretty hard to deviate much from the normal 9-5 workday.</text></item><item><author>Mizza</author><text>Fuck this. I&amp;#x27;m a night time person and I feel like I&amp;#x27;m constantly punished by a society that places a moral value on waking up early.&lt;p&gt;In all seriousness, I&amp;#x27;m thinking about starting a &amp;quot;night company&amp;quot; for night time people. Come in at 2, work until 10. Is there anybody out there who&amp;#x27;d be interested in something like that?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>AndrewKemendo</author><text>No that&amp;#x27;s bogus. I have three kids and am very much a night person.&lt;p&gt;Usually in bed around 2.</text></comment>

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<story><title>Valve releasing Dota2 for Linux</title><url>http://dev.dota2.com/showthread.php?t=96878</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Glyptodon</author><text>Unfortunately Dota is not so much skill based as it is trivia based -- you need to know many many many combinations of item progressions to match your hero&amp;#x27;s stats and abilities. The gameplay of Dota, creep denial or not, isn&amp;#x27;t that deep, but the sheer complexity of items and purchase order is overwhelming. So more about trivia, not so much skill.&lt;p&gt;Classic FPS&amp;#x27;s in minstagib mode are generally very simple to play with a total of about 3&amp;#x2F;4 controls and are very much skill, not trivia based, and an anathema to console gamers and noobs. Skill is not about memorizing dictionaries of trivia.&lt;p&gt;Anyway, key word is &lt;i&gt;trivia.&lt;/i&gt;</text></item><item><author>psykotic</author><text>How can the existence and relative success of this game offend you so? Virtually all games out there nowadays are newbie friendly and watered down to a fault. People with your preferences are drowning in choices. For those of us who enjoy uncompromising skill-based games, the only AAA titles to come along in recent memory have been Dota 2, Dark Souls and a handful of RTS and fighting games.&lt;p&gt;League of Legends addresses many of your apparent concerns with Dota&amp;#x27;s game design. But guess what? Its online community is every bit as toxic and obnoxious. Both are skill-based team games that are played over the Internet, require a lot of coordination, and usually take over 30 minutes per match. You can address in-game bad manners at the margins with something like Riot&amp;#x27;s tribunal system or Valve&amp;#x27;s reporting system, but I doubt you can do much to eliminate the problem without also eliminating those essential features of their game design.</text></item><item><author>Pxtl</author><text>I&amp;#x27;m actually really sad that these take off so well, because imho the DOTA format is the &lt;i&gt;worst&lt;/i&gt; thing to happen to online gaming. The game is feels &lt;i&gt;deliberately&lt;/i&gt; brutal to newbies in so very many ways. The whole genre seems utterly dysfunctional for any kind of player who doesn&amp;#x27;t have a tight, committed clan to play with.&lt;p&gt;Long high-commitment match-ups make it bad for people with other committments, a hyperlong list of powers and heroes makes for a tremendous amount of trivia to learn, there&amp;#x27;s the various play mechanics that make you &lt;i&gt;hate&lt;/i&gt; the weakest man on your team (and can examine his failings in detail), and the way DOTA2 embraces counterintuitive hardcore tweaks that were eradicated in other iterations (like killing your own troops to deny the opponents XP).&lt;p&gt;I like the pro gaming circuit, but a truly good game is one that&amp;#x27;s approachable, friendly, &lt;i&gt;and&lt;/i&gt; deep.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Keyneston</author><text>Our office has a lot of Dota players so we regularly play five man dota. We range in skill from very noob to ex-pro.&lt;p&gt;The difference in skill between the ex-pro, or even several of the just very talented players and the rest of us is immense.&lt;p&gt;The trivia helps, knowing counter items and the like helps but at high level play all sorts of things become very important. For example positioning of your unit(s), to either miss a spell being cast or to physically block the person you are trying to kill makes the difference between a major win or complete loss of a fight. Or your ability to farm, last hitting creeps, stacking&amp;#x2F;jungling and maximizing your gold per second.&lt;p&gt;So yes at low level Dota is all about the trivia. I&amp;#x27;m a better player then a random new player because I know the characters, their abilities and the items. But at the end of the day despite putting in hundreds of hours I pale in comparison to a &lt;i&gt;Excellent&lt;/i&gt; player because I don&amp;#x27;t have the reflexes, or the split second analytical mind. In addition, and most importantly, I&amp;#x27;ve not put in the hours upon hours of purposeful practice that a pro dota player has.&lt;p&gt;Dota is a skill based game.</text></comment>

<story><title>Valve releasing Dota2 for Linux</title><url>http://dev.dota2.com/showthread.php?t=96878</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Glyptodon</author><text>Unfortunately Dota is not so much skill based as it is trivia based -- you need to know many many many combinations of item progressions to match your hero&amp;#x27;s stats and abilities. The gameplay of Dota, creep denial or not, isn&amp;#x27;t that deep, but the sheer complexity of items and purchase order is overwhelming. So more about trivia, not so much skill.&lt;p&gt;Classic FPS&amp;#x27;s in minstagib mode are generally very simple to play with a total of about 3&amp;#x2F;4 controls and are very much skill, not trivia based, and an anathema to console gamers and noobs. Skill is not about memorizing dictionaries of trivia.&lt;p&gt;Anyway, key word is &lt;i&gt;trivia.&lt;/i&gt;</text></item><item><author>psykotic</author><text>How can the existence and relative success of this game offend you so? Virtually all games out there nowadays are newbie friendly and watered down to a fault. People with your preferences are drowning in choices. For those of us who enjoy uncompromising skill-based games, the only AAA titles to come along in recent memory have been Dota 2, Dark Souls and a handful of RTS and fighting games.&lt;p&gt;League of Legends addresses many of your apparent concerns with Dota&amp;#x27;s game design. But guess what? Its online community is every bit as toxic and obnoxious. Both are skill-based team games that are played over the Internet, require a lot of coordination, and usually take over 30 minutes per match. You can address in-game bad manners at the margins with something like Riot&amp;#x27;s tribunal system or Valve&amp;#x27;s reporting system, but I doubt you can do much to eliminate the problem without also eliminating those essential features of their game design.</text></item><item><author>Pxtl</author><text>I&amp;#x27;m actually really sad that these take off so well, because imho the DOTA format is the &lt;i&gt;worst&lt;/i&gt; thing to happen to online gaming. The game is feels &lt;i&gt;deliberately&lt;/i&gt; brutal to newbies in so very many ways. The whole genre seems utterly dysfunctional for any kind of player who doesn&amp;#x27;t have a tight, committed clan to play with.&lt;p&gt;Long high-commitment match-ups make it bad for people with other committments, a hyperlong list of powers and heroes makes for a tremendous amount of trivia to learn, there&amp;#x27;s the various play mechanics that make you &lt;i&gt;hate&lt;/i&gt; the weakest man on your team (and can examine his failings in detail), and the way DOTA2 embraces counterintuitive hardcore tweaks that were eradicated in other iterations (like killing your own troops to deny the opponents XP).&lt;p&gt;I like the pro gaming circuit, but a truly good game is one that&amp;#x27;s approachable, friendly, &lt;i&gt;and&lt;/i&gt; deep.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>KVFinn</author><text>&amp;gt;but the sheer complexity of items and purchase order is overwhelming.&lt;p&gt;There are built in user contributed guides that suggest what what to build and why, with the guide&amp;#x27;s author comments on both individual items and skills, for every hero and numerous alternative builds. There is in game voting on the quality of each guide. It&amp;#x27;s a cinch now in Dota 2 to buy basic stuff even if you&amp;#x27;ve literally never played a hero before, and also easy to try experimental builds for fun right in game.&lt;p&gt;The skill is all judgement calls and spacing. Memorizing item or skill progressions is irrelevant and indeed &amp;quot;trivial&amp;quot; in the sense that it plays little part in the game or your thinking during it. On the other hand, having the skill to use the blink dagger and catch opponents or save yourself is essential.</text></comment>

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<story><title>D.E. Shaw and how computer geeks and English majors transformed Wall St. (2018)</title><url>https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2018/01/d-e-shaw-the-first-great-quant-hedge-fund.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>scottlocklin</author><text>What a marketing submarine! [0]&lt;p&gt;Let me count the vastly more transformational and earlier quantitative funds just off the top of my head: Princeton Newport, Commodities Corporation, Tudor, RenTech, Chicago Research; hell even Soros and the Tigers were more influential and just as quantitative. DE Shaw was an early mover for certain kinds of automated trading, but if he had never met Nunzio Tartaglia (and basically stole his secret sauce -hey at least they mentioned Morgan Stanley), he&amp;#x27;d still be writing shitty papers on parallel computing models at Columbia. He got lucky, and was able to take advantage of his luck, but he is also a garbage human being who has made the world worse[1][2]. His company once offered me a job: I told them to go fuck themselves, and the only better &amp;quot;no&amp;quot; decision I made was saying no to Bear Stearns in 2006.&lt;p&gt;[0] &lt;a href=&quot;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;paulgraham.com&amp;#x2F;submarine.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;paulgraham.com&amp;#x2F;submarine.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;[1]&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;nymag.com&amp;#x2F;intelligencer&amp;#x2F;2019&amp;#x2F;09&amp;#x2F;david-e-shaw-college-donations.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;nymag.com&amp;#x2F;intelligencer&amp;#x2F;2019&amp;#x2F;09&amp;#x2F;david-e-shaw-college...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;[2]&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.propublica.org&amp;#x2F;article&amp;#x2F;hedge-fund-billionaires-donations-college-admissions-elite-universities&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.propublica.org&amp;#x2F;article&amp;#x2F;hedge-fund-billionaires-d...&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>

<story><title>D.E. Shaw and how computer geeks and English majors transformed Wall St. (2018)</title><url>https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2018/01/d-e-shaw-the-first-great-quant-hedge-fund.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>dcaisen</author><text>Is David Shaw brilliant? Absolutely. Has the quant&amp;#x2F;technology revolution been a positive development for financial markets? No doubt.&lt;p&gt;But secondary trading is still a zero-sum game. Firms like D.E. Shaw are profit maximizing and extract a huge amount of value from society. Probably less than the old boys club they replaced, but probably much more than necessary. There is a great deal of competition among quant trading firms overall, and their rise has coincided with electronification of markets, tighter spreads, lower commissions - all good things. But if the forces of capitalism are truly working, you have to wonder why so many firms like these continue to print money year after year (although there have been some new developments-- for example, stock exchanges have gotten much more effective at monetizing their access and data feeds, which has really put the squeeze HFT market makers; still, zero-sum game though).&lt;p&gt;There&amp;#x27;s no good reason we can&amp;#x27;t have it all: efficiently-priced modern-technology financial markets without these huge rents being pulled out. And I shouldn&amp;#x27;t pick on quant firms specifically - every layer of the system extracts its share, and I&amp;#x27;d argue brokers and exchanges are much worse since they&amp;#x27;re fiduciaries and semi-regulatory entities, respectively, and riddled with conflicts of interest.&lt;p&gt;Disclaimer: former co-founder&amp;#x2F;head quant at IEX (Flash Boys), current CEO of Proof Trading (YC S19)</text></comment>

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<story><title>Advanced Compilers: Self-Guided Online Course</title><url>https://www.cs.cornell.edu/courses/cs6120/2020fa/self-guided/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>ibains</author><text>I’ve worked on multiple compilers (optimizations expert) at MSFT on VS and CUDA and gave developed a DSL and worked on Database Compilers. I can’t hire compiler people with right skills. We’re building an IDE and those parsers are written differently, and we use Scala packrat parser combinators. These courses teach very little judgement or industry relevant stuff. When do you use packrat parser vs LALR vs LL? Good luck hiring an engineer with advanced compiler courses knowing any of this. I’d like to sit down all university professors who teach compiler courses and teach them a course on what’s relevant.</text></comment>

<story><title>Advanced Compilers: Self-Guided Online Course</title><url>https://www.cs.cornell.edu/courses/cs6120/2020fa/self-guided/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>37ef_ced3</author><text>Domain-specific compilers are a bigger field, where there&amp;#x27;s more opportunity to do something interesting&lt;p&gt;Take C (or some other language) and its mature optimizing compilers as a foundation, and write a program that compiles a high-level description of a domain-specific program into C&lt;p&gt;For example, NN-512 (&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;NN-512.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;NN-512.com&lt;/a&gt;) is a compiler that takes as input a simple text description of a convolutional neural net inference graph and produces as output a stand-alone C implementation of that graph&lt;p&gt;GNU Bison (&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.gnu.org&amp;#x2F;software&amp;#x2F;bison&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.gnu.org&amp;#x2F;software&amp;#x2F;bison&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt;) is another example, where the output is a parser: &lt;i&gt;Bison reads a specification of a context-free language, warns about any parsing ambiguities, and generates a parser (either in C, C++, or Java) which reads sequences of tokens and decides whether the sequence conforms to the syntax specified by the grammar&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;Halide (&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;halide-lang.org&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;halide-lang.org&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt;) is a language for fast, portable computation on images and tensors, and it originally generated human-readable C++ code as output (but not anymore, now it feeds directly into LLVM)&lt;p&gt;Can anyone provide other examples? (Code generators for network packet processing?)</text></comment>

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<story><title>Google Tech Talks: &quot;All Questions Answered&quot; by Donald Knuth</title><url>http://www.clicker.com/web/google-tech-talks/-all-questions-answered-by-donald-knuth-1558044/</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>theodpHN</author><text>Compare the reception Googlers gave Lady Gaga vs. Donald Knuth &lt;a href=&quot;http://youtubedoubler.com/?video1=hNa_-1d_0tA&amp;#38;start1=115&amp;#38;video2=xLBvCB2kr4Q&amp;#38;start2=65&amp;#38;authorName=Gaga+vs.+Knuth&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://youtubedoubler.com/?video1=hNa_-1d_0tA&amp;#38;start1=115...&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>

<story><title>Google Tech Talks: &quot;All Questions Answered&quot; by Donald Knuth</title><url>http://www.clicker.com/web/google-tech-talks/-all-questions-answered-by-donald-knuth-1558044/</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>staunch</author><text>Direct: &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xLBvCB2kr4Q&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xLBvCB2kr4Q&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>

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<story><title>1.7M Hondas are being investigated for phantom braking</title><url>https://arstechnica.com/cars/2022/02/nhtsa-to-investigate-honda-accords-and-cr-vs-over-phantom-braking/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jacquesm</author><text>I got rid of a Mercedes C class for this exact same reason, it tried to kill me - twice - and that was enough for me. No more automatic brakes on my cars, the risks don&amp;#x27;t seem to outweigh the advantages. At least Honda seems to be responsible enough to address this. According to MB there was absolutely nothing wrong with my car, it was &amp;#x27;operating as designed&amp;#x27;.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>blueprint</author><text>Mercedes treated me similarly. I had a brand new sprinter van. The power braking fluid lines exploded just after I got off the highway. I got extremely lucky it didn&amp;#x27;t happen 5 seconds earlier than it did. Turns out they use plastic rings instead of metal ones and it turns out it happens to &lt;i&gt;lots&lt;/i&gt; of people. They refused to buy back the vehicle. I wanted to sue them but I&amp;#x27;ve got too much stuff on my plate, or so I tell myself. Needless to say, I lost a lot of trust in them and (perhaps stupidly) sold the van shortly afterwards.</text></comment>

<story><title>1.7M Hondas are being investigated for phantom braking</title><url>https://arstechnica.com/cars/2022/02/nhtsa-to-investigate-honda-accords-and-cr-vs-over-phantom-braking/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jacquesm</author><text>I got rid of a Mercedes C class for this exact same reason, it tried to kill me - twice - and that was enough for me. No more automatic brakes on my cars, the risks don&amp;#x27;t seem to outweigh the advantages. At least Honda seems to be responsible enough to address this. According to MB there was absolutely nothing wrong with my car, it was &amp;#x27;operating as designed&amp;#x27;.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jeffbee</author><text>On the other hand the IIHS says the MB C-Class has a fatality rate of zero, from 2015-2017, the latest data available. They must have done something right.</text></comment>

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<story><title>Why read Aristotle today?</title><url>https://aeon.co/essays/what-can-aristotle-teach-us-about-the-routes-to-happiness</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>ropeadopepope</author><text>Because human behavior boils down to Plato vs Aristotle. If you don&amp;#x27;t read both, then there is a segment of the population who&amp;#x27;s actions and opinions are going to be a complete mystery to you.</text></comment>

<story><title>Why read Aristotle today?</title><url>https://aeon.co/essays/what-can-aristotle-teach-us-about-the-routes-to-happiness</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>bshepard</author><text>The parts in Guy Robinson&amp;#x27;s &amp;quot;Philosophy and Mystifications&amp;quot; about Aristotle still resonate with me in one way or another a few years after reading it. The book is happily available online: &lt;a href=&quot;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.spiritual-minds.com&amp;#x2F;philosophy&amp;#x2F;assorted&amp;#x2F;0415178517%20-%20Guy%20Robinson%20-%20Philosophy%20And%20Mystification~%20A%20Reflection%20On%20Nonsense%20And%20Clarity%20-%20Routledge.pdf&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.spiritual-minds.com&amp;#x2F;philosophy&amp;#x2F;assorted&amp;#x2F;041517851...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;Here&amp;#x27;s a relevant bit:&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;When Aristotle looks for a place to begin the investigation of any topic he suggests that we begin with “the opinions of the many or the wise.” This is hardly because those opinions are thought to be infallible. We need not have a mystical view about “the collective wisdom of humanity” to think it sensible to start there. It simply makes more sense than wasting our time with random fanciful or extraordinary views, views that have come out of nowhere and are likely only to lead nowhere, the wild suppositions of impossible happenings: colors that change on a certain date, universes that consist only of sounds or of one object, and so forth. Under the influence of Descartes’s method, these imaginings have been thought to reveal “conceptual boundaries.”</text></comment>

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<story><title>Each Firefox download has a unique identifier</title><url>https://www.ghacks.net/2022/03/17/each-firefox-download-has-a-unique-identifier/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>abandonliberty</author><text>I can&amp;#x27;t believe the apologists commenting on this.&lt;p&gt;Firefox put a lot of effort into tracking download to install behavior. Maybe this is the only violation you know about. There&amp;#x27;s no reason to continue to believe in Mozilla&amp;#x27;s good faith. They&amp;#x27;ve been captured, and are 90% dependent on Google revenue.&lt;p&gt;Discussion here: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&amp;#x2F;item?id=28954390&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&amp;#x2F;item?id=28954390&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;Firefox is dead. It&amp;#x27;s time to move past denial. It doesn&amp;#x27;t stand for anything you think it does. I&amp;#x27;m sad, too. Time to bury the putrid, rotting corpse.</text></item><item><author>car_analogy</author><text>Suppose you want to do something anonymously.&lt;p&gt;1. Download installer from Mozilla from your home network - Mozilla now has your home IP and installer ID.&lt;p&gt;2. Transfer it via USB key to a secure, anonymous computer - one not linked to you, on a network not associated with you, such as public WiFi.&lt;p&gt;3. Install Firefox using that installer on said computer. It transmits the installer ID to Mozilla, which matches the one given to your home IP, thereby deanonymizing you.&lt;p&gt;4. Mozilla receives a warrant for this information, or it is hacked, or the organization is infiltrated by a single government or corporate spy.&lt;p&gt;Edit: It gets worse. Suppose a newspaper IT department takes care of providing Firefox and other trusted software installers to their reporters. Now Mozilla can determine who that newspaper helped with IT, such as journalists or sources. Or if you provide trusted software to your friends, Mozilla gets part of your social graph.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>pigbearpig</author><text>I can. I&amp;#x27;d still rather use Firefox than Chrome or Edge when it comes to privacy. &amp;quot;Firefox is dead ... Time to bury the putrid, rotting corpse&amp;quot; is ridiculously dramatic.</text></comment>

<story><title>Each Firefox download has a unique identifier</title><url>https://www.ghacks.net/2022/03/17/each-firefox-download-has-a-unique-identifier/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>abandonliberty</author><text>I can&amp;#x27;t believe the apologists commenting on this.&lt;p&gt;Firefox put a lot of effort into tracking download to install behavior. Maybe this is the only violation you know about. There&amp;#x27;s no reason to continue to believe in Mozilla&amp;#x27;s good faith. They&amp;#x27;ve been captured, and are 90% dependent on Google revenue.&lt;p&gt;Discussion here: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&amp;#x2F;item?id=28954390&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&amp;#x2F;item?id=28954390&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;Firefox is dead. It&amp;#x27;s time to move past denial. It doesn&amp;#x27;t stand for anything you think it does. I&amp;#x27;m sad, too. Time to bury the putrid, rotting corpse.</text></item><item><author>car_analogy</author><text>Suppose you want to do something anonymously.&lt;p&gt;1. Download installer from Mozilla from your home network - Mozilla now has your home IP and installer ID.&lt;p&gt;2. Transfer it via USB key to a secure, anonymous computer - one not linked to you, on a network not associated with you, such as public WiFi.&lt;p&gt;3. Install Firefox using that installer on said computer. It transmits the installer ID to Mozilla, which matches the one given to your home IP, thereby deanonymizing you.&lt;p&gt;4. Mozilla receives a warrant for this information, or it is hacked, or the organization is infiltrated by a single government or corporate spy.&lt;p&gt;Edit: It gets worse. Suppose a newspaper IT department takes care of providing Firefox and other trusted software installers to their reporters. Now Mozilla can determine who that newspaper helped with IT, such as journalists or sources. Or if you provide trusted software to your friends, Mozilla gets part of your social graph.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>rackjack</author><text>What&amp;#x27;re the alternatives to Firefox? The only ones that come to mind are Opera and Brave, and Brave had some controversy too.</text></comment>

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<story><title>J.S. Bach the Rebel: The subversive practice of a canonical composer</title><url>https://www.laphamsquarterly.org/roundtable/js-bach-rebel</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>jancsika</author><text>&amp;gt; take, for example, the B minor fugue in Book I of The Well-Tempered Clavier, whose theme employs all twelve notes of the chromatic sequence, defying traditional notions of what constituted a beautiful melody.&lt;p&gt;Chromaticism doesn&amp;#x27;t defy traditional notions of melody. For example, Purcell&amp;#x27;s got all kinds of chromatic noodles in his melodies and people love to sing them.&lt;p&gt;What&amp;#x27;s melodically defiant is how disjunct that fugue subject is-- it keeps leaping around different registers with two-note sighing motives. In that sense it sounds like what a string instrument should be doing in the inner voices to fill out the harmony. Instead, it&amp;#x27;s presented unaccompanied at the beginning of the fugue because... that&amp;#x27;s how fugues typically work.&lt;p&gt;The reason it works is because the people who play and listen to Bach understand fugal forms and textures. They know that an unaccompanied fugal subject often has rhythmic and melodic holes in it precisely to leave silence that gets filled in later with the arrival of two or more additional melodies.&lt;p&gt;Lest you think you&amp;#x27;re too uninformed to hear any of this-- listen to Conlon Nancarrow&amp;#x27;s Study No.36 for Player Piano[1]. It&amp;#x27;s a four-part canon where, like Bach&amp;#x27;s fugue, Nancarrow leaves rhythmic and melodic space for the other voices to fill in as they enter. Except Nancarrow tweaks the tempo of each voice so that they move with a ratio of tempos that equals 17&amp;#x2F;18&amp;#x2F;19&amp;#x2F;20. If the result sounds unhinged to you, then congratulations-- you understand and can hear the basic musical premises that underpin Baroque period fugal forms.&lt;p&gt;1: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.youtube.com&amp;#x2F;watch?v=ubepzLKAcCo&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.youtube.com&amp;#x2F;watch?v=ubepzLKAcCo&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>

<story><title>J.S. Bach the Rebel: The subversive practice of a canonical composer</title><url>https://www.laphamsquarterly.org/roundtable/js-bach-rebel</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>motohagiography</author><text>Seems tendentious to secularize Bach. There&amp;#x27;s something to be said for deistic awe for creating great art.&lt;p&gt;If you were just getting interested, here are some contemporary performances:&lt;p&gt;BWV 1006 by Nigel Kennedy: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;youtu.be&amp;#x2F;nWx4pIe7FoE?t=179&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;youtu.be&amp;#x2F;nWx4pIe7FoE?t=179&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;BWV 988 (goldberg variations) Glenn Gould &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;youtu.be&amp;#x2F;p4yAB37wG5s?t=169&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;youtu.be&amp;#x2F;p4yAB37wG5s?t=169&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;from BWV 816, Gigue, Andreas Schiff: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;youtu.be&amp;#x2F;f_U0lm6HZMk?t=777&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;youtu.be&amp;#x2F;f_U0lm6HZMk?t=777&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>

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<story><title>Nintendo Switch Emulator: Progress Report December 2023</title><url>https://blog.ryujinx.org/progress-report-december-2023/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>nazgulsenpai</author><text>&amp;gt; Fashion Designer, a game which we’re sure will be topping Game of the Year charts across the globe, was exhibiting a particularly strange glitch.&lt;p&gt;The tone in which this blog post is written is very entertaining while being informative. Thank you to the Ryujinx team, and all emulation projects for that matter, for their work in game preservation!</text></comment>

<story><title>Nintendo Switch Emulator: Progress Report December 2023</title><url>https://blog.ryujinx.org/progress-report-december-2023/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>marksomnian</author><text>Interesting that Ryujinx is written in C# - I&amp;#x27;m not sure why, but at first thought I&amp;#x27;d have expected something like a console emulator (where one would have to do &amp;quot;unusual&amp;quot; memory &amp;#x2F; GPU operations to fully match the quirks of the platform) to be written in C or C++, like Dolphin or PCSX2 (Wii &amp;#x2F; PS2 emulators) are. Though clearly they can make C# work well for it, and the benefits of working in a managed language are probably worth it.</text></comment>

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<story><title>Experience porting 4k lines of C code to go</title><url>http://blog.kowalczyk.info/article/af1h/Experience-porting-4k-lines-of-C-code-to-go.html</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>zokier</author><text>On a semi-related note: I find it bit strange that C, language that is widely used for over 30 years, has no defacto standard container library. I mean, it&apos;s bit ridiculous that a 4kloc project uses 1kloc to create something as basic as a dynamic array.</text></comment>

<story><title>Experience porting 4k lines of C code to go</title><url>http://blog.kowalczyk.info/article/af1h/Experience-porting-4k-lines-of-C-code-to-go.html</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>Groxx</author><text>&amp;#62;&lt;i&gt;The C code implements parsing by partying on char &lt;/i&gt; pointers.*&lt;p&gt;That&apos;s an excellent quote. And it describes a &lt;i&gt;lot&lt;/i&gt; of C code I&apos;ve seen (good and bad).</text></comment>

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<story><title>U.S. Labor Department allows unemployment benefits for coronavirus</title><url>https://www.reuters.com/article/usa-economy-labor/u-s-labor-department-allows-unemployment-benefits-for-coronavirus-idUSW1N29L03G</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>thrill</author><text>If we can afford a $1.5 trillion injection into the markets, then we can afford moving the SS retirement age to 60 where the most vulnerable exist.</text></item><item><author>zymhan</author><text>That would both put a massive strain on the Social Security trust and not pressure employers at all, since they&amp;#x27;d likely be happy to have the most expensive employees retire early.</text></item><item><author>thrill</author><text>You know what else would help? Since the risk curve bends sharply upward at age 60, immediately allow anyone to start drawing full social security payments at age 60, without any sort of penalty. Those companies that value their older workers would now be in the position of &lt;i&gt;making&lt;/i&gt; work-from-home a full-fledged option, because the bargaining power would shift to where it belongs - the worker.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>QuesnayJr</author><text>The $1.5 trillion injection doesn&amp;#x27;t actually cost any money. The Fed is making short-term fully-collateralized loans.</text></comment>

<story><title>U.S. Labor Department allows unemployment benefits for coronavirus</title><url>https://www.reuters.com/article/usa-economy-labor/u-s-labor-department-allows-unemployment-benefits-for-coronavirus-idUSW1N29L03G</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>thrill</author><text>If we can afford a $1.5 trillion injection into the markets, then we can afford moving the SS retirement age to 60 where the most vulnerable exist.</text></item><item><author>zymhan</author><text>That would both put a massive strain on the Social Security trust and not pressure employers at all, since they&amp;#x27;d likely be happy to have the most expensive employees retire early.</text></item><item><author>thrill</author><text>You know what else would help? Since the risk curve bends sharply upward at age 60, immediately allow anyone to start drawing full social security payments at age 60, without any sort of penalty. Those companies that value their older workers would now be in the position of &lt;i&gt;making&lt;/i&gt; work-from-home a full-fledged option, because the bargaining power would shift to where it belongs - the worker.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>OscarCunningham</author><text>The money being &amp;quot;injected into the market&amp;quot; is in exchange for assets. They&amp;#x27;re not just giving it away.</text></comment>

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<story><title>On becoming an expert C programmer</title><url>http://www.isthe.com/chongo/tech/comp/c/expert.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>informatimago</author><text>Not mentionned, about being an expert C programmer, is knowing the pitfalls of C, (cf. undefined behaviors), and reading and knowing the ANSI C standard.&lt;p&gt;Of course, just knowing the language in and out is not enough, you also have to be a good programmer in general (algorithms, &amp;quot;design patterns&amp;quot;, software architecture, software engineering, etc).&lt;p&gt;But writing C code without undefined behavior, and avoiding its numerous pitfalls is absolutely necessary.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Htsthbjig</author><text>&amp;quot;Not mentionned, about being an expert C programmer, is knowing the pitfalls of C, (cf. undefined behaviors)&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;I am an expert in C, I had been decades writing on it and other languages, and managing teams of coders. We created a company that used it a lot.&lt;p&gt;I can&amp;#x27;t understand what undefined behaviors C has, because it is the most simple and defined language I do know of. I have lots of experience writing assembler,fortran, Lisp, c++, python, objective C and also use C#, java, javascript and other web languages and functional languages from time to time.&lt;p&gt;c++, java could be extremely undefined because the behavior depends on conventions, committees and implementations. E.g we had to change some code because of different compilers interpretation of the standars.&lt;p&gt;But c? c is basically portable assembler. If you understand how computers work it is extremely reliable bar none. We have ported years of work of dozen programmers in one day. With c++ and &amp;quot;write once, run everywhere marketing&amp;quot; java we spent months.&lt;p&gt;It was also terribly frustrating for the team. Fontforge author had a similar experience writing c++ compilers and that experience was so traumatic the interface of Fontforge is so ugly as he does not want to use c++ with a ten foot pole.&lt;p&gt;We try to avoid pitfalls more in high level languages because the programmer has the ability to write code without understanding what is really happening in the processor, or even in the program. Recipe programmers population is growing a lot this days.</text></comment>

<story><title>On becoming an expert C programmer</title><url>http://www.isthe.com/chongo/tech/comp/c/expert.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>informatimago</author><text>Not mentionned, about being an expert C programmer, is knowing the pitfalls of C, (cf. undefined behaviors), and reading and knowing the ANSI C standard.&lt;p&gt;Of course, just knowing the language in and out is not enough, you also have to be a good programmer in general (algorithms, &amp;quot;design patterns&amp;quot;, software architecture, software engineering, etc).&lt;p&gt;But writing C code without undefined behavior, and avoiding its numerous pitfalls is absolutely necessary.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>humanrebar</author><text>&amp;gt; But writing C code without undefined behavior, and avoiding its numerous pitfalls is absolutely necessary.&lt;p&gt;I rarely (as in unicorns) see C code that consistently checks for unsigned integer overflow. Or signed integer overflow for that matter, but that&amp;#x27;s defined behavior.&lt;p&gt;Point being, I also encourage people to avoid undefined behavior, but whether and how one does that has subtleties in practice.</text></comment>

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<story><title>Lack of sunlight makes our cells store more fat (2018)</title><url>https://www.ualberta.ca/folio/2018/01/reduced-sunlight-may-contribute-to-winter-weight-gain.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>rob74</author><text>Hmmm... what struck me is that this effect is &lt;i&gt;local&lt;/i&gt;, i.e. the skin cells exposed to sunlight will store less fat, and the places usually prone to excess fat accumulation will rarely be exposed to the sun, even in summer. Of course, some sunlight will probably go through a t-shirt, while it certainly won&amp;#x27;t get through several layers of clothes...</text></comment>

<story><title>Lack of sunlight makes our cells store more fat (2018)</title><url>https://www.ualberta.ca/folio/2018/01/reduced-sunlight-may-contribute-to-winter-weight-gain.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>JackFr</author><text>Dr. Peter &lt;i&gt;Light&lt;/i&gt; promotes research saying &lt;i&gt;light&lt;/i&gt; can reduce fat.&lt;p&gt;Sounds a little fishy to me.</text></comment>

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<story><title>CSS3 Isometric text</title><url>http://www.midwinter-dg.com/permalink-css3-isometric-text-demo-2011-03-14.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>panic</author><text>Enter&lt;p&gt;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt; javascript:document.getElementsByClassName(&apos;text-block&apos;)[0].contentEditable=true &lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt; into your address field and you can edit the isometric text! Pretty neat.</text></comment>

<story><title>CSS3 Isometric text</title><url>http://www.midwinter-dg.com/permalink-css3-isometric-text-demo-2011-03-14.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>kmfrk</author><text>The best thing is the cross-browser compatibility. Normally, you see fancy things that only work on Webkit browsers or some such, which gives it little application.</text></comment>

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<story><title>The far-reaching effects of air conditioning</title><url>http://www.bbc.com/news/business-39735802</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>arethuza</author><text>I suspect it very much depends what you are used to - I probably think of 15C as &amp;quot;comfortable&amp;quot; and 25C inside would be sweltering. Having said that I&amp;#x27;m in Scotland - the other day we had heavy rain and it was 8C which is weather we could get at any time of the year!</text></item><item><author>eBombzor</author><text>Decreasing the AC doesn&amp;#x27;t mean people will start sweating themselves. 75 - 78 F is perfect but most buildings for some reason turn their ACs all the way down to the 60s.&lt;p&gt;For athletic centers, of course it makes sense. But in big open libraries, lecture halls, places with little activity in general, it&amp;#x27;s awful. It&amp;#x27;s especially bad for your health if you live in a hot region like southern California since your body has to keep adjusting between the scorching heat outside to the freezing cold inside.</text></item><item><author>pitaj</author><text>Better have it too cold and people where extra clothing than have people sweating themselves. You can always put more clothes on, you can&amp;#x27;t take off your skin.</text></item><item><author>jay-anderson</author><text>&amp;gt; A study in Phoenix, Arizona, found the hot air pumped out of air conditioning units increased the city&amp;#x27;s night-time temperature by 2C&lt;p&gt;Often I wish places of business and work places wouldn&amp;#x27;t turn up the AC so much. I have a jacket at work in Phoenix during the summer because they keep it so cold.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>tbihl</author><text>Maybe I&amp;#x27;m being dense and saying the same thing as you, but it&amp;#x27;s more about the difference from outside to inside. In the mid Atlantic of the US, 22C can be pretty pleasant, but in the South turning it below 26C is a much more pleasant setting. Meanwhile, spend time in Southern China and you&amp;#x27;ll be laughed at for going below 30C, because it makes you nearly unable to go outside. If I feel like the humidity outside is going to condense on me when I take the dog out, I&amp;#x27;m cooling my house too aggressively.&lt;p&gt;Similarly, I don&amp;#x27;t heat above 15C in the winter. That way, getting dressed to go outside is less complex than suiting up for a space walk.</text></comment>

<story><title>The far-reaching effects of air conditioning</title><url>http://www.bbc.com/news/business-39735802</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>arethuza</author><text>I suspect it very much depends what you are used to - I probably think of 15C as &amp;quot;comfortable&amp;quot; and 25C inside would be sweltering. Having said that I&amp;#x27;m in Scotland - the other day we had heavy rain and it was 8C which is weather we could get at any time of the year!</text></item><item><author>eBombzor</author><text>Decreasing the AC doesn&amp;#x27;t mean people will start sweating themselves. 75 - 78 F is perfect but most buildings for some reason turn their ACs all the way down to the 60s.&lt;p&gt;For athletic centers, of course it makes sense. But in big open libraries, lecture halls, places with little activity in general, it&amp;#x27;s awful. It&amp;#x27;s especially bad for your health if you live in a hot region like southern California since your body has to keep adjusting between the scorching heat outside to the freezing cold inside.</text></item><item><author>pitaj</author><text>Better have it too cold and people where extra clothing than have people sweating themselves. You can always put more clothes on, you can&amp;#x27;t take off your skin.</text></item><item><author>jay-anderson</author><text>&amp;gt; A study in Phoenix, Arizona, found the hot air pumped out of air conditioning units increased the city&amp;#x27;s night-time temperature by 2C&lt;p&gt;Often I wish places of business and work places wouldn&amp;#x27;t turn up the AC so much. I have a jacket at work in Phoenix during the summer because they keep it so cold.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>_0w8t</author><text>What closing do you use at 15C? After a few years in Norway I can be OK in a t-shirt at 18C. Anything below that still requires a jacket or sweater to stay comfortable.</text></comment>

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<story><title>List of open source applications for macOS</title><url>https://github.com/serhii-londar/open-source-mac-os-apps</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>nikivi</author><text>I have a personal list of macOS apps I use that is similar &amp;amp; goes in detail in how I use the apps.&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;github.com&amp;#x2F;nikitavoloboev&amp;#x2F;my-mac-os&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;github.com&amp;#x2F;nikitavoloboev&amp;#x2F;my-mac-os&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;Karabiner specifically is life changing software.&lt;p&gt;At this point ALL keys on my keyboard are custom modifier keys. It&amp;#x27;s wild.&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;github.com&amp;#x2F;nikitavoloboev&amp;#x2F;dotfiles&amp;#x2F;blob&amp;#x2F;master&amp;#x2F;karabiner&amp;#x2F;karabiner.edn&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;github.com&amp;#x2F;nikitavoloboev&amp;#x2F;dotfiles&amp;#x2F;blob&amp;#x2F;master&amp;#x2F;karab...&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>submeta</author><text>Thank you very much for sharing. Using almost all of the tools you mention myself[^1]. But you give lots of new inspiration. And mention many new tools that I will explore.&lt;p&gt;Funny that today I started using SublimeText again for the exact same purpose you describe: Creating a wiki &amp;#x2F; knowledge base that is text based (markdown FTW), editing those markdown files, quickly jumping to files within nested folders (via Cmd+P = Goto anywhere). Was searching an alternative to `Quiver App` or `Dash App` to create a code snippet database &amp;#x2F; repository.&lt;p&gt;After I started using `iA Writer` for writing markdown, I realized how much better it is to move away from Evernote, Quiver or other proprietary writing apps to markdown (=plaintext) + folders. A little research later I narrowed down to: Emacs+Orgmode+Terminal or Vim+FZF+Ripgrep+Terminal. I realized that SublimeText gives me all the Ripgrep+FZF capabilities, and a decent markdown editor. (Still I love and use `iA Writer` for non-technical writing and SublimeText for all else.)&lt;p&gt;[^1]: Karabiner Elements, Alfred App, Keyboard Maestro and many more.</text></comment>

<story><title>List of open source applications for macOS</title><url>https://github.com/serhii-londar/open-source-mac-os-apps</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>nikivi</author><text>I have a personal list of macOS apps I use that is similar &amp;amp; goes in detail in how I use the apps.&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;github.com&amp;#x2F;nikitavoloboev&amp;#x2F;my-mac-os&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;github.com&amp;#x2F;nikitavoloboev&amp;#x2F;my-mac-os&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;Karabiner specifically is life changing software.&lt;p&gt;At this point ALL keys on my keyboard are custom modifier keys. It&amp;#x27;s wild.&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;github.com&amp;#x2F;nikitavoloboev&amp;#x2F;dotfiles&amp;#x2F;blob&amp;#x2F;master&amp;#x2F;karabiner&amp;#x2F;karabiner.edn&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;github.com&amp;#x2F;nikitavoloboev&amp;#x2F;dotfiles&amp;#x2F;blob&amp;#x2F;master&amp;#x2F;karab...&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ronyeh</author><text>OMG, I skimmed over your mappings and macros.&lt;p&gt;The keyboard maestro and karabiner folks need to hire you to help them market their tools.&lt;p&gt;I thought I was pretty good with karabiner and KM. You... are a true power user!</text></comment>

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<story><title>S&amp;P 500 Buybacks Now Outpace All R&amp;D Spending in the US</title><url>https://thesoundingline.com/sp-500-buybacks-now-outpace-all-rd-spending-in-the-us/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>crazygringo</author><text>That doesn&amp;#x27;t make any sense. The market is the most efficient capital allocator because &lt;i&gt;shareholders&lt;/i&gt; are the market, not companies.&lt;p&gt;Companies are giving their cash back to shareholders because &lt;i&gt;each individual company&lt;/i&gt; thinks their shareholders can &lt;i&gt;better&lt;/i&gt; allocate the cash, rather than the companies themselves. This is equally true for both buybacks and dividends.&lt;p&gt;This is because most companies have no wish to operate like broad VC firms or investment firms. While plenty of shareholders do.&lt;p&gt;The government has all the infinite &amp;quot;dibs&amp;quot; it wants, they&amp;#x27;re called taxes. If the government wants to tax buybacks further it doesn&amp;#x27;t need any particular logic of &amp;quot;dibs&amp;quot; to do so. And right now buybacks &lt;i&gt;are&lt;/i&gt; taxed in exactly the same way as capital gains, which is the same way qualified dividends are taxed too. And corporate profits are already taxed too.</text></item><item><author>try-perforate</author><text>Read an idea in American Affairs in support of taxing buybacks. The logic goes that if all companies have a fiduciary duty to shareholders because the market is the most efficient capital allocator, AND all companies are giving their cash back to shareholders, THEN it must be true that the market can not figure out how to efficiently allocate this $1T of capital. Thus, the government should have “next dibs” for items on the agenda that it knows need capital, namely infrastructure and healthcare.&lt;p&gt;Thought that was an interesting take.&lt;p&gt;Edit: here is the link but it may be behind a paywall. &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;americanaffairsjournal.org&amp;#x2F;2018&amp;#x2F;12&amp;#x2F;share-buybacks-and-the-contradictions-of-shareholder-capitalism&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;americanaffairsjournal.org&amp;#x2F;2018&amp;#x2F;12&amp;#x2F;share-buybacks-an...&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>aczerepinski</author><text>Buying back stock only creates value for shareholders if the stock is trading for less than its intrinsic value. Above that price buybacks destroy shareholder value.&lt;p&gt;Executives are doing this to meet performance targets and get bonuses. Not to allocate capital efficiently.</text></comment>

<story><title>S&amp;P 500 Buybacks Now Outpace All R&amp;D Spending in the US</title><url>https://thesoundingline.com/sp-500-buybacks-now-outpace-all-rd-spending-in-the-us/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>crazygringo</author><text>That doesn&amp;#x27;t make any sense. The market is the most efficient capital allocator because &lt;i&gt;shareholders&lt;/i&gt; are the market, not companies.&lt;p&gt;Companies are giving their cash back to shareholders because &lt;i&gt;each individual company&lt;/i&gt; thinks their shareholders can &lt;i&gt;better&lt;/i&gt; allocate the cash, rather than the companies themselves. This is equally true for both buybacks and dividends.&lt;p&gt;This is because most companies have no wish to operate like broad VC firms or investment firms. While plenty of shareholders do.&lt;p&gt;The government has all the infinite &amp;quot;dibs&amp;quot; it wants, they&amp;#x27;re called taxes. If the government wants to tax buybacks further it doesn&amp;#x27;t need any particular logic of &amp;quot;dibs&amp;quot; to do so. And right now buybacks &lt;i&gt;are&lt;/i&gt; taxed in exactly the same way as capital gains, which is the same way qualified dividends are taxed too. And corporate profits are already taxed too.</text></item><item><author>try-perforate</author><text>Read an idea in American Affairs in support of taxing buybacks. The logic goes that if all companies have a fiduciary duty to shareholders because the market is the most efficient capital allocator, AND all companies are giving their cash back to shareholders, THEN it must be true that the market can not figure out how to efficiently allocate this $1T of capital. Thus, the government should have “next dibs” for items on the agenda that it knows need capital, namely infrastructure and healthcare.&lt;p&gt;Thought that was an interesting take.&lt;p&gt;Edit: here is the link but it may be behind a paywall. &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;americanaffairsjournal.org&amp;#x2F;2018&amp;#x2F;12&amp;#x2F;share-buybacks-and-the-contradictions-of-shareholder-capitalism&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;americanaffairsjournal.org&amp;#x2F;2018&amp;#x2F;12&amp;#x2F;share-buybacks-an...&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>tw04</author><text>The point is both the companies in question and the ultra-wealthy that are the beneficiaries of the vast majority of these buybacks AREN&amp;#x27;T paying taxes, so it&amp;#x27;s another way for the government to at least attempt to capture the $$ that should already be going into the treasury instead of offshore accounts&amp;#x2F;subsidiaries&amp;#x2F;whatever double dutch triple lux tax evasion scheme of the month they&amp;#x27;re using.</text></comment>