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<story><title>How to revert HP printer’s ban on 3rd-party ink cartridges</title><url>https://kevin.deldycke.com/2020/11/revert-hp-printer-ban-on-third-party-ink-cartridges/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jug</author><text>I thought this was illegal and why the third party cartridge market is so big. Anyway, I wouldn&amp;#x27;t recommend inkjet printers for normal home users: for plain text, I&amp;#x27;d use a B&amp;amp;W laserjet printer and if I had to print in color (like broschures or food recipes with photos), I&amp;#x27;d use a color laserjet. For quality photos, I&amp;#x27;d send them in to a professional service: it&amp;#x27;s still pretty cheap compared to inkjet printing...&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;ve had it with inkjet cartridges drying or having to be wasted as the printer takes them through a &amp;quot;restoration procedure&amp;quot; if it was long enough since you last printed, and you have to second guess your printer whether it&amp;#x27;s really just spending your ink, or if it does indeed do only what is absolutely necessary to not have them dry up.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jasode</author><text>&lt;i&gt;&amp;gt;I thought this was illegal and why the third party cartridge market is so big.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;Are you talking about the Lexmark case? That was the Supreme Court ruling against Lexmark&amp;#x27;s claim of patent infringement by a 3rd-party ink refiller.[1]&lt;p&gt;That ruling doesn&amp;#x27;t apply to &lt;i&gt;1st-party&lt;/i&gt; manufacturers using electronics&amp;#x2F;software&amp;#x2F;DRM to make 3rd-party accessories incompatible. That&amp;#x27;s why it&amp;#x27;s currently legal for Apple&amp;#x27;s T2 chip to not validate 3rd-party repairs and Keurig coffee maker to check for approved K-Cups.&lt;p&gt;[1] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.google.com&amp;#x2F;search?q=impression+vs+lexmark&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.google.com&amp;#x2F;search?q=impression+vs+lexmark&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>

<story><title>How to revert HP printer’s ban on 3rd-party ink cartridges</title><url>https://kevin.deldycke.com/2020/11/revert-hp-printer-ban-on-third-party-ink-cartridges/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jug</author><text>I thought this was illegal and why the third party cartridge market is so big. Anyway, I wouldn&amp;#x27;t recommend inkjet printers for normal home users: for plain text, I&amp;#x27;d use a B&amp;amp;W laserjet printer and if I had to print in color (like broschures or food recipes with photos), I&amp;#x27;d use a color laserjet. For quality photos, I&amp;#x27;d send them in to a professional service: it&amp;#x27;s still pretty cheap compared to inkjet printing...&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;ve had it with inkjet cartridges drying or having to be wasted as the printer takes them through a &amp;quot;restoration procedure&amp;quot; if it was long enough since you last printed, and you have to second guess your printer whether it&amp;#x27;s really just spending your ink, or if it does indeed do only what is absolutely necessary to not have them dry up.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>lsaferite</author><text>This &lt;i&gt;is&lt;/i&gt; a LaserJet printer he&amp;#x27;s talking about FWIW.</text></comment>

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<story><title>RethinkDB (YC S09) Raises $1.2 Million For Its Database For Solid-State Drives</title><url>http://techcrunch.com/2010/04/01/rethinkdb-raises-1-2-million-for-its-database-for-solid-state-drives/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>pg</author><text>Incidentally, if any hackers are looking for jobs working on an interesting problem, I know the Rethinks are hiring. It would be the perfect job for a lot of hackers. You&apos;d get to solve big problems starting with a blank slate, and you&apos;d get to work with smart, totally pragmatic people (Slava and Mike). Plus they now have enough to actually pay you.</text></comment>

<story><title>RethinkDB (YC S09) Raises $1.2 Million For Its Database For Solid-State Drives</title><url>http://techcrunch.com/2010/04/01/rethinkdb-raises-1-2-million-for-its-database-for-solid-state-drives/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>ShabbyDoo</author><text>&quot;There’s obviously risk involved with trying to redefine how people structure their databases&quot;&lt;p&gt;TechCrunch misses the point that Rethink is explicitly not doing this. The MySQL engine is below the SQL parsing layer, so as-is MySQL apps should be able to run against it.</text></comment>

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<story><title>Barack Obama: America Will Take the Giant Leap to Mars</title><url>http://www.cnn.com/2016/10/11/opinions/america-will-take-giant-leap-to-mars-barack-obama/index.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tdaltonc</author><text>I don&amp;#x27;t think it took 100&amp;#x27;s of years for people to figure out that a continent teaming cod, timber, and beavers might be a good place to set up trade. Grated, early on, they thought it was a continent full of gold and spices.&lt;p&gt;I don&amp;#x27;t know what the analogous economic engine could possible be on Mars. If Mars is going to grow, we need to be able to imagine someone saying &amp;quot;I&amp;#x27;m moving my family to Mars in search of a better life. I just don&amp;#x27;t see that happening. Series or L2 station? Sure, someone has to refine the iridium before we send it down the gravity well. But why would an entrepreneur want to set up shop on Mars?</text></item><item><author>anindha</author><text>Trying to go to Mars is equivalent to the explorers in the 1500-1700s discovering other continents. History has shown it was a good idea.&lt;p&gt;We won&amp;#x27;t know the benefit of going to Mars until 100s of years after we do it.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>personjerry</author><text>&amp;gt; I don&amp;#x27;t think it took 100&amp;#x27;s of years for people to figure out that a continent teaming cod, timber, and beavers might be a good place to set up trade. Grated, early on, they thought it was a continent full of gold and spices.&lt;p&gt;But it did! There were very basic, underfunded French colonies in North America for example for at least a hundred years before they really sent a lot more people and realized the wealth that could be had. At the same time the colonizing countries also had great internal issues, but had they known how much profit could&amp;#x27;ve been made from investment, undoubtedly they would&amp;#x27;ve been colonizing in full force much earlier.</text></comment>

<story><title>Barack Obama: America Will Take the Giant Leap to Mars</title><url>http://www.cnn.com/2016/10/11/opinions/america-will-take-giant-leap-to-mars-barack-obama/index.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tdaltonc</author><text>I don&amp;#x27;t think it took 100&amp;#x27;s of years for people to figure out that a continent teaming cod, timber, and beavers might be a good place to set up trade. Grated, early on, they thought it was a continent full of gold and spices.&lt;p&gt;I don&amp;#x27;t know what the analogous economic engine could possible be on Mars. If Mars is going to grow, we need to be able to imagine someone saying &amp;quot;I&amp;#x27;m moving my family to Mars in search of a better life. I just don&amp;#x27;t see that happening. Series or L2 station? Sure, someone has to refine the iridium before we send it down the gravity well. But why would an entrepreneur want to set up shop on Mars?</text></item><item><author>anindha</author><text>Trying to go to Mars is equivalent to the explorers in the 1500-1700s discovering other continents. History has shown it was a good idea.&lt;p&gt;We won&amp;#x27;t know the benefit of going to Mars until 100s of years after we do it.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ipince</author><text>&amp;gt; why would an entrepreneur want to set up shop on Mars?&lt;p&gt;? New environment, new markets, new needs = lots of new and potentially huge opportunities. I&amp;#x27;m asking myself the complete opposite question.</text></comment>

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<story><title>Vulnerability in JSON Parser in Ruby on Rails 3.0 and 2.3</title><url>https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups=#!topic/rubyonrails-security/1h2DR63ViGo</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>veloper</author><text>If everyone is really going to take the route of &quot;My X Framework is fine b/c nothing&apos;s been reported&quot; then I&apos;d like to contribute these links showing vulnerability break downs...&lt;p&gt;* Rails: &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.cvedetails.com/product/22568/Rubyonrails-Ruby-On-Rails.html?vendor_id=12043&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.cvedetails.com/product/22568/Rubyonrails-Ruby-On-...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;* Django: &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.cvedetails.com/product/18211/Djangoproject-Django.html?vendor_id=10199&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.cvedetails.com/product/18211/Djangoproject-Django...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;* CodeIgniter: &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.cvedetails.com/product/11625/Codeigniter-Codeigniter.html?vendor_id=6918&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.cvedetails.com/product/11625/Codeigniter-Codeigni...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;* Top 50 Products (Better stop using these too! /s): &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.cvedetails.com/top-50-products.php&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.cvedetails.com/top-50-products.php&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>glfomfn</author><text>You are shooting your own feet with these links you know. According to your data Django had -ZERO- sql injections &amp;#38; code execution repots, now compare that to RoR which had 6 sql injections &amp;#38; 3 code execution reports since 2009. Even if you went by just the numbers RoR had way more vulnerabilities, now if you also take in consideration the kind of vulnerabilities i can tell you i feel way safer on django than RoR.&lt;p&gt;How many times did you have to stay up late at night to patch your framework ?</text></comment>

<story><title>Vulnerability in JSON Parser in Ruby on Rails 3.0 and 2.3</title><url>https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups=#!topic/rubyonrails-security/1h2DR63ViGo</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>veloper</author><text>If everyone is really going to take the route of &quot;My X Framework is fine b/c nothing&apos;s been reported&quot; then I&apos;d like to contribute these links showing vulnerability break downs...&lt;p&gt;* Rails: &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.cvedetails.com/product/22568/Rubyonrails-Ruby-On-Rails.html?vendor_id=12043&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.cvedetails.com/product/22568/Rubyonrails-Ruby-On-...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;* Django: &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.cvedetails.com/product/18211/Djangoproject-Django.html?vendor_id=10199&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.cvedetails.com/product/18211/Djangoproject-Django...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;* CodeIgniter: &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.cvedetails.com/product/11625/Codeigniter-Codeigniter.html?vendor_id=6918&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.cvedetails.com/product/11625/Codeigniter-Codeigni...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;* Top 50 Products (Better stop using these too! /s): &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.cvedetails.com/top-50-products.php&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.cvedetails.com/top-50-products.php&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>justsee</author><text>Interesting.&lt;p&gt;Rails: numerous code execution and SQL injection vulnerabilities reported over the years.&lt;p&gt;Django: no code execution or SQL injection vulnerabilities reported.</text></comment>

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<story><title>Building a Home Lab Beginners Guide</title><url>https://haydenjames.io/home-lab-beginners-guide-hardware/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>m0xte</author><text>I had a fairly large home lab once. I had a fully topped out SPARCserver 1000E and a disk enclosure in my bedroom. I also once lived with an E450 on the kitchen table for a month. But they’re noisy as hell, inconvenient, expensive to keep running and expensive to feed with power and take up a lot of room and thus are not compatible with family and general sanity over time. They become needy balls and chains.&lt;p&gt;So roll on to now I’m using a silent build Ryzen windows desktop with 64Gb of RAM and a couple of mundane SSDs that I fire up VMs in virtualbox as required. At night it gets turned off. I’ve got a $5 digitalocean box that runs all my persistent linux stuff. If I want to play with networks it’s done with GNS3. Office 365 runs my email and all my stuff is sync’ed with onedrive and a couple of offline SSDs occasionally when I get nervous. My network is the fritzbox my ISP gave me plugged into the back of the desktop via Ethernet. That’s it!&lt;p&gt;My life is better for this. I hope people grow to realise this is much less of a mental burden over time which gives you more head space and a clean context switch away if you need it.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>zouhair</author><text>Your conclusion is wrong, you just found out homelabs is not a hobby for you. People have way more expensive and time consuming hobbies.</text></comment>

<story><title>Building a Home Lab Beginners Guide</title><url>https://haydenjames.io/home-lab-beginners-guide-hardware/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>m0xte</author><text>I had a fairly large home lab once. I had a fully topped out SPARCserver 1000E and a disk enclosure in my bedroom. I also once lived with an E450 on the kitchen table for a month. But they’re noisy as hell, inconvenient, expensive to keep running and expensive to feed with power and take up a lot of room and thus are not compatible with family and general sanity over time. They become needy balls and chains.&lt;p&gt;So roll on to now I’m using a silent build Ryzen windows desktop with 64Gb of RAM and a couple of mundane SSDs that I fire up VMs in virtualbox as required. At night it gets turned off. I’ve got a $5 digitalocean box that runs all my persistent linux stuff. If I want to play with networks it’s done with GNS3. Office 365 runs my email and all my stuff is sync’ed with onedrive and a couple of offline SSDs occasionally when I get nervous. My network is the fritzbox my ISP gave me plugged into the back of the desktop via Ethernet. That’s it!&lt;p&gt;My life is better for this. I hope people grow to realise this is much less of a mental burden over time which gives you more head space and a clean context switch away if you need it.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>xxpor</author><text>I have a mini-itx case with 8 5400 rpm drives, and some basic xeon (E12xx, forgetting the exact model), and I&amp;#x27;m shocked at how well modern power saving techniques work. When it&amp;#x27;s just sitting there being a file server it consumes less than 100 watts, and even when I&amp;#x27;m pulling from it at over a gigabit it goes up to maybe 110. It also has 120 mm fans, but I barely notice when they kick on. The loudest part of the whole thing are the heads on the HDDs kicking back and forth!</text></comment>

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<story><title>Did scientists discover bacteria in meteorites? No.</title><url>http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/2011/03/did_scientists_discover_bacter.php</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>xd</author><text>&quot;&lt;i&gt;consists entirely of a crude and ugly website that looks like it was sucked through a wormhole from the 1990s&lt;/i&gt;&quot;&lt;p&gt;Is it just me or is that comment just a tad childish? I&apos;m finding it hard to take this guy seriously, let alone the other guy.</text></comment>

<story><title>Did scientists discover bacteria in meteorites? No.</title><url>http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/2011/03/did_scientists_discover_bacter.php</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>ffumarola</author><text>&lt;a href=&quot;http://journalofcosmology.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://journalofcosmology.com/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;Not to judge a book by its cover, but... seriously?</text></comment>

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<story><title>The Mafia of Pharma Pricing</title><url>https://www.thebignewsletter.com/p/inside-the-mafia-of-pharma-pricing</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Aurornis</author><text>You can actually look up payments from certain companies to doctors now: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;openpaymentsdata.cms.gov&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;openpaymentsdata.cms.gov&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;I’ve checked several doctors that I’ve visited over the years. None of them show up, with one exception: The doctor who immediately set off my scam alarms when she tried really, really hard to get me diagnosed with sleep apnea, despite not one but two very clearly negative sleep studies.&lt;p&gt;I could never understand why she was pushing so hard, until I looked her up in this system. She takes an incredible amount of money from drug companies and device manufacturers.&lt;p&gt;I don’t know if a scheme like you described would even be allowed today. If it is, the bigger medical systems are actually quite strict with doctors taking anything resembling a payment like this, from what my friends in the industry tell me.</text></item><item><author>jimt1234</author><text>I worked at a PBM back in the late-90s&amp;#x2F;early-2000s. It was where I was introduced to the value of customer data and the strange world of lawyers, all in a single corporate meeting:&lt;p&gt;- The company is launching a new service. We already sell customer drug-prescription data to drug companies, and the drug companies analyze this data to understand where&amp;#x2F;when&amp;#x2F;why&amp;#x2F;to-whom their drugs are being prescribed. Now we&amp;#x27;re going to help the drug companies advise doctors on where&amp;#x2F;when&amp;#x2F;why&amp;#x2F;to-whom they prescribe drugs.&lt;p&gt;- Sounds great. Where do we come in?&lt;p&gt;- The new service will act as a middleman, processing payments from drug companies to doctors.&lt;p&gt;- So, a service to manage kickbacks?&lt;p&gt;[Meeting room full of suits goes silent.]&lt;p&gt;- The payments aren&amp;#x27;t &amp;quot;kickbacks&amp;quot;. They&amp;#x27;re &amp;quot;rebates&amp;quot;.&lt;p&gt;- Is there a difference?&lt;p&gt;- Absolutely. [silence]&lt;p&gt;- So...what&amp;#x27;s the difference?&lt;p&gt;- Please be sure to only use the term &amp;quot;rebate&amp;quot; in all communications, especially email. Never use the term &amp;quot;kickback&amp;quot;.&lt;p&gt;And that was pretty much it. The company processed prescriptions for pharmacies, then sold that data to drug companies, who in turn used that data to provide kickbacks to doctors for pushing their drugs over a competitor. And it was all legal, thanks to the lawyers and their select word usage. Oh, and I think we weren&amp;#x27;t supposed to use the term &amp;quot;middleman&amp;quot;, either.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>NickC25</author><text>I broke part of my hand last October after slipping and falling.&lt;p&gt;At the request of my new insurer, I went to my local urgent care. The rep for my insurer swore up and down that they had an X-ray machine and could diagnose my problem quickly, as well as immediately after refer me to a local hand specialist at the local University&amp;#x27;s hospital. After my experience, I realized that nothing the rep said was true.&lt;p&gt;The nurse practitioner at the urgent care facility said nothing was wrong with my hand (despite it being black &amp;amp; blue, and having all the hallmarks of a broken hand). He refused to refer me to a specialist or for an X-ray unless I took an HIV&amp;#x2F;AIDS test. He started asking me several questions about my sexuality and relationship status - I am not sexually active (sadly) nor am I in the demographic with a higher likelihood of coming into contact with the HIV virus, so I told him as much and declined the test. &lt;i&gt;I was there because I broke my fucking hand.&lt;/i&gt; He kept insisting that I needed to take the tests. I walked out of the facility pissed off and without any progress on my hand. Several hours wasted. The guy&amp;#x27;s assistant called me the next day pleading me to come in for tests, and I reiterated that all I wanted was to get an X-ray like I was promised by my insurer, and to see someone who knew what they were talking about.*&lt;p&gt;If your tire pops, your mechanic shouldn&amp;#x27;t say &amp;quot;nothing wrong with your tires, it&amp;#x27;s your exhaust you need to worry about&amp;quot; while he&amp;#x27;s wearing a shirt with an exhaust maker&amp;#x27;s logo on it.&lt;p&gt;I clicked on the link you posted. I entered the nurse practitioner&amp;#x27;s name, and surprise surprise, he&amp;#x27;s gotten over $3k in the last year from ViiV Healthcare, a company specializing in the research and development of HIV&amp;#x2F;AIDS testing equipment and drug development. Not an exorbitant amount of money at all, but the dude is ethically compromised.&lt;p&gt;That needs to be straight up illegal with serious repercussions - for both those who offer the kickback, and those who accept it.&lt;p&gt;*FWIW, I spoke with a physical therapist not too long later, a guy who specializes in sports injuries (particularly from basketball as he&amp;#x27;s a former pro hooper himself), and within about 10 seconds of examining the area of injury said &amp;quot;yeah, you broke your hand. I see this frequently. Do this every day with your hand, and come see me in 2 months if nothing works&amp;quot;.</text></comment>

<story><title>The Mafia of Pharma Pricing</title><url>https://www.thebignewsletter.com/p/inside-the-mafia-of-pharma-pricing</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Aurornis</author><text>You can actually look up payments from certain companies to doctors now: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;openpaymentsdata.cms.gov&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;openpaymentsdata.cms.gov&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;I’ve checked several doctors that I’ve visited over the years. None of them show up, with one exception: The doctor who immediately set off my scam alarms when she tried really, really hard to get me diagnosed with sleep apnea, despite not one but two very clearly negative sleep studies.&lt;p&gt;I could never understand why she was pushing so hard, until I looked her up in this system. She takes an incredible amount of money from drug companies and device manufacturers.&lt;p&gt;I don’t know if a scheme like you described would even be allowed today. If it is, the bigger medical systems are actually quite strict with doctors taking anything resembling a payment like this, from what my friends in the industry tell me.</text></item><item><author>jimt1234</author><text>I worked at a PBM back in the late-90s&amp;#x2F;early-2000s. It was where I was introduced to the value of customer data and the strange world of lawyers, all in a single corporate meeting:&lt;p&gt;- The company is launching a new service. We already sell customer drug-prescription data to drug companies, and the drug companies analyze this data to understand where&amp;#x2F;when&amp;#x2F;why&amp;#x2F;to-whom their drugs are being prescribed. Now we&amp;#x27;re going to help the drug companies advise doctors on where&amp;#x2F;when&amp;#x2F;why&amp;#x2F;to-whom they prescribe drugs.&lt;p&gt;- Sounds great. Where do we come in?&lt;p&gt;- The new service will act as a middleman, processing payments from drug companies to doctors.&lt;p&gt;- So, a service to manage kickbacks?&lt;p&gt;[Meeting room full of suits goes silent.]&lt;p&gt;- The payments aren&amp;#x27;t &amp;quot;kickbacks&amp;quot;. They&amp;#x27;re &amp;quot;rebates&amp;quot;.&lt;p&gt;- Is there a difference?&lt;p&gt;- Absolutely. [silence]&lt;p&gt;- So...what&amp;#x27;s the difference?&lt;p&gt;- Please be sure to only use the term &amp;quot;rebate&amp;quot; in all communications, especially email. Never use the term &amp;quot;kickback&amp;quot;.&lt;p&gt;And that was pretty much it. The company processed prescriptions for pharmacies, then sold that data to drug companies, who in turn used that data to provide kickbacks to doctors for pushing their drugs over a competitor. And it was all legal, thanks to the lawyers and their select word usage. Oh, and I think we weren&amp;#x27;t supposed to use the term &amp;quot;middleman&amp;quot;, either.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>bboygravity</author><text>Genuine question: what pharmaceutical could your doctor have benefitted from to help against sleep apnea?&lt;p&gt;As far as I know there&amp;#x27;s no meds for it? Only surgery, CPAP devices, mandibular advancement devices, etc.&lt;p&gt;Would she get kickbacks from those medical device companies as well?</text></comment>

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<story><title>Report: Young adults more likely to live with parents than spouses</title><url>https://www.apartmentlist.com/rentonomics/reconfiguring-the-american-household/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Pfhreak</author><text>Building new buildings still displaces people, and in many cases the new buildings do not replace the existing affordable units with an equivalent number of affordable units. Even if they do keep parity, the people need to be moved out (and moved around) for years, and finding section 8 housing can be a challenge. Moving can be costly and exhausting.&lt;p&gt;Even if you do move back into the same neighborhood after construction is complete and your rent isn&amp;#x27;t impacted too much (which is not a super common outcome), it&amp;#x27;s likely the community around you has changed. Gentrification increases the costs of basic food, clothing, and other resources in your area. You&amp;#x27;re local diner might be replaced with a wagyu beef slinging $15 hamburger joint. It&amp;#x27;s doing brisk business, but you can&amp;#x27;t afford to eat there. Your old dinged and dented grocery store or market stall is now a fancy Whole Foods.&lt;p&gt;That&amp;#x27;s not to say it&amp;#x27;s impossible to build or improve neighborhoods, but it&amp;#x27;s also not so easy as &amp;#x27;just build more on top of existing units.&amp;#x27; The disruption and displacement of hundreds or thousands of lives for years is significant.&lt;p&gt;There&amp;#x27;s a healthy debate around how best to deal with this -- do we just bite the bullet and build a TON of housing all at once? Do we try to preserve the residency of the people currently living there and build up opportunistically? Do we try to decommodify housing altogether to remove the incentives that lead to this situation? (If we priced housing based on how well it provided housing, rather than based on what the market would bear, we&amp;#x27;d see a different sort of situation, I&amp;#x27;d imagine.) I dunno, maybe the combination is all three.&lt;p&gt;I highly, highly recommend this youtube playlist which works through these sorts of things using Cities Skylines (which is a great city sim game): &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.youtube.com&amp;#x2F;watch?v=0lvUByM-fZk&amp;amp;list=PLwkSQD3vqK1S1NiHIxxF2g_Uy-LbbcR84&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.youtube.com&amp;#x2F;watch?v=0lvUByM-fZk&amp;amp;list=PLwkSQD3vqK...&lt;/a&gt;</text></item><item><author>LurkersWillLurk</author><text>Why should they? If you increase the supply of housing, it puts downward pressure on rent. Am I missing something?</text></item><item><author>Dakizhu</author><text>Even if they did vote, a lot of the politically active young renters oppose new development since they see it as gentrification or only enriching real estate developers or only building luxury housing.</text></item><item><author>duxup</author><text>Along similar lines of thinking it would be really nice if the young people would vote as consistently as the old people.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;m in between generations and watching the old vs young bickering &amp;#x2F; division is painful to see... but I&amp;#x27;ve also got a low tolerance for a lot of the &amp;quot;OMG boomers&amp;quot; stuff out there from folks who as a whole have a really poor voting record. Get in the game people....</text></item><item><author>davidw</author><text>I guess that&amp;#x27;s to be expected when those parents are the ones going to all the planning commission and city council meetings to put a stop to the construction of housing.&lt;p&gt;The US builds more 3 car garages than 1 bedroom apartments: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.curbed.com&amp;#x2F;2016&amp;#x2F;10&amp;#x2F;26&amp;#x2F;13423358&amp;#x2F;three-car-garages-us-apartments&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.curbed.com&amp;#x2F;2016&amp;#x2F;10&amp;#x2F;26&amp;#x2F;13423358&amp;#x2F;three-car-garages...&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ProfessorLayton</author><text>&amp;gt; do we just bite the bullet and build a TON of housing all at once?&lt;p&gt;Yes, we absolutely should. I live in a tract house&amp;#x2F;neighborhood from the 40s in the East Bay, which is a cookie cutter house that was constructed en mass, and was cheap (For the time) &lt;i&gt;and&lt;/i&gt; high quality. I believe the house was initially purchased for something like ~8k (~140k in 2019 money), but it is worth &lt;i&gt;many more times than that&lt;/i&gt; solely because no more housing has been built en mass since the war.&lt;p&gt;We should of course move onto building multifamily homes, and away from the mess SFH suburbia created, but the principle remains the same: More housing availability pushes down prices for everyone.</text></comment>

<story><title>Report: Young adults more likely to live with parents than spouses</title><url>https://www.apartmentlist.com/rentonomics/reconfiguring-the-american-household/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Pfhreak</author><text>Building new buildings still displaces people, and in many cases the new buildings do not replace the existing affordable units with an equivalent number of affordable units. Even if they do keep parity, the people need to be moved out (and moved around) for years, and finding section 8 housing can be a challenge. Moving can be costly and exhausting.&lt;p&gt;Even if you do move back into the same neighborhood after construction is complete and your rent isn&amp;#x27;t impacted too much (which is not a super common outcome), it&amp;#x27;s likely the community around you has changed. Gentrification increases the costs of basic food, clothing, and other resources in your area. You&amp;#x27;re local diner might be replaced with a wagyu beef slinging $15 hamburger joint. It&amp;#x27;s doing brisk business, but you can&amp;#x27;t afford to eat there. Your old dinged and dented grocery store or market stall is now a fancy Whole Foods.&lt;p&gt;That&amp;#x27;s not to say it&amp;#x27;s impossible to build or improve neighborhoods, but it&amp;#x27;s also not so easy as &amp;#x27;just build more on top of existing units.&amp;#x27; The disruption and displacement of hundreds or thousands of lives for years is significant.&lt;p&gt;There&amp;#x27;s a healthy debate around how best to deal with this -- do we just bite the bullet and build a TON of housing all at once? Do we try to preserve the residency of the people currently living there and build up opportunistically? Do we try to decommodify housing altogether to remove the incentives that lead to this situation? (If we priced housing based on how well it provided housing, rather than based on what the market would bear, we&amp;#x27;d see a different sort of situation, I&amp;#x27;d imagine.) I dunno, maybe the combination is all three.&lt;p&gt;I highly, highly recommend this youtube playlist which works through these sorts of things using Cities Skylines (which is a great city sim game): &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.youtube.com&amp;#x2F;watch?v=0lvUByM-fZk&amp;amp;list=PLwkSQD3vqK1S1NiHIxxF2g_Uy-LbbcR84&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.youtube.com&amp;#x2F;watch?v=0lvUByM-fZk&amp;amp;list=PLwkSQD3vqK...&lt;/a&gt;</text></item><item><author>LurkersWillLurk</author><text>Why should they? If you increase the supply of housing, it puts downward pressure on rent. Am I missing something?</text></item><item><author>Dakizhu</author><text>Even if they did vote, a lot of the politically active young renters oppose new development since they see it as gentrification or only enriching real estate developers or only building luxury housing.</text></item><item><author>duxup</author><text>Along similar lines of thinking it would be really nice if the young people would vote as consistently as the old people.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;m in between generations and watching the old vs young bickering &amp;#x2F; division is painful to see... but I&amp;#x27;ve also got a low tolerance for a lot of the &amp;quot;OMG boomers&amp;quot; stuff out there from folks who as a whole have a really poor voting record. Get in the game people....</text></item><item><author>davidw</author><text>I guess that&amp;#x27;s to be expected when those parents are the ones going to all the planning commission and city council meetings to put a stop to the construction of housing.&lt;p&gt;The US builds more 3 car garages than 1 bedroom apartments: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.curbed.com&amp;#x2F;2016&amp;#x2F;10&amp;#x2F;26&amp;#x2F;13423358&amp;#x2F;three-car-garages-us-apartments&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.curbed.com&amp;#x2F;2016&amp;#x2F;10&amp;#x2F;26&amp;#x2F;13423358&amp;#x2F;three-car-garages...&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>opportune</author><text>Gentrification is a really complex issue, because on one hand it is objectively improving an area, and on the other, basically anybody without housing equity (ie a mortgage) in the gentrifying area gets screwed.&lt;p&gt;I think it needs to be solved at a macro level, in a way that is nuanced and delicate. Because on one hand, assuming the rest of the world doesn’t change, making an area nicer to live is objectively good. And upper middle class people deserve housing too, and landowners perhaps should have at least some level of control over what they do with their property (you can argue that landlording in general could be abolished, but that’s a separate discussion).&lt;p&gt;Of course on the other hand, it is a shame that poor people have to fight to keep their neighborhoods shitty so that they don’t get displaced to somewhere far away from their jobs and community.&lt;p&gt;I’m not sure if there’s a great economic solution that still involves a market housing economy. The least worst solution I can think of is to basically carve out special units for the exact people displaced. IE if I want to built a 300 unit condo tower in West Oakland taking up a whole block, I have to provide current-market-rate rents for all the people currently living in that block.</text></comment>

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<story><title>Ask HN: How to move past 150k/200k in compensation?</title><text>It looks like i am stuck around 150k range compensation despite having 10+ yrs of experience. The only thing against me is that I am an immigrant. Nowadays, new grads are pulling 120k to 130k right away.&lt;p&gt;I no longer enjoy coding but I am good at getting things done and building good rapo with people. What can I do to move into leadership roles?&lt;p&gt;How does someone like me get 200k or more in compensation?&lt;p&gt;PS- I am not a native English speaker but I have studied in English throughout my life.&lt;p&gt;Any suggestions?</text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>whack</author><text>I know many people personally who make 200k+, with less than 10 years experience. Many of them are also immigrants. Some of the ways they got there:&lt;p&gt;- live in a tech hub with high demand for programmers. The best places are NYC&amp;#x2F;SF and probably Seattle&lt;p&gt;- switch companies every ~2 years, and negotiate for ~25% comp increases when you do. There are some tips that can help you achieve this, but it&amp;#x27;s a blog post in itself&lt;p&gt;- work for a lucrative brand-name employer like Google&amp;#x2F;FB. First, you&amp;#x27;ll make a ton of money there. Second, having them on your resume will boost your future prospects and compensation offers&lt;p&gt;- in order to accomplish the above, get really good at interviewing skills. Practice topcoder, cracking the coding interview, fundamental algorithms and data structures, communication and presentation skills, etc etc. Whatever it takes to ace the interviews, no matter how dumb you may think it is&lt;p&gt;- be good at your craft. Read expert books, work on your own small side projects, push yourself to build high quality code, and not just barely functional junk. Do everything you can to become an expert in your area&lt;p&gt;- be a great coworker. Leave a positive impression with your manager and colleagues. You don&amp;#x27;t have to be their friend, but you want to be someone they respect and would recommend to their friends</text></comment>

<story><title>Ask HN: How to move past 150k/200k in compensation?</title><text>It looks like i am stuck around 150k range compensation despite having 10+ yrs of experience. The only thing against me is that I am an immigrant. Nowadays, new grads are pulling 120k to 130k right away.&lt;p&gt;I no longer enjoy coding but I am good at getting things done and building good rapo with people. What can I do to move into leadership roles?&lt;p&gt;How does someone like me get 200k or more in compensation?&lt;p&gt;PS- I am not a native English speaker but I have studied in English throughout my life.&lt;p&gt;Any suggestions?</text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>nostrademons</author><text>Most people who make &amp;gt; $200K in total comp receives the excess in either stock, bonuses, or percentages of a firm&amp;#x27;s profit. (There are some outliers, but even many C-level executives have salaries in that range and then millions in stock compensation.) Keep that in mind when you compare salaries with others - those Google engineers making $400K&amp;#x2F;year are usually making about $150-170K base, $50K bonus, and $200K+ in RSUs.&lt;p&gt;That also implies the way to break $200K: join a company whose stock is rising, perform well for them, and negotiate a generous equity grant.</text></comment>

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<story><title>Cardio fitness is a strong, consistent predictor of morbidity and mortality</title><url>https://bjsm.bmj.com/content/58/10/556</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>lovecg</author><text>There’s amusing statistics that show that if you’re out of shape and a smoker, you get a bigger bang for the buck from getting in shape first than quitting smoking. Disclaimer: not an endorsement of smoking.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>m463</author><text>reminds me of the bicycle helmet stuff.&lt;p&gt;There was a ted talk that said bicycle helmet laws would kill more people than save.&lt;p&gt;The reasoning was preventing people from riding would also prevent increased fitness, and more lives were lost from that than saved from accidents.&lt;p&gt;EDIT: I think this one: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.youtube.com&amp;#x2F;watch?v=07o-TASvIxY&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.youtube.com&amp;#x2F;watch?v=07o-TASvIxY&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>

<story><title>Cardio fitness is a strong, consistent predictor of morbidity and mortality</title><url>https://bjsm.bmj.com/content/58/10/556</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>lovecg</author><text>There’s amusing statistics that show that if you’re out of shape and a smoker, you get a bigger bang for the buck from getting in shape first than quitting smoking. Disclaimer: not an endorsement of smoking.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>rTX5CMRXIfFG</author><text>That sounds like the sort of stuff you’d remember because it validates what you already want to believe</text></comment>

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<story><title>Tailscale SSH is now Generally Available</title><url>https://tailscale.com/blog/tailscale-ssh-ga</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>mikeocool</author><text>I love Tailscale, it’s by far the best VPN I’ve used, and the easiest wireguard implementation to get up and running I’ve used.&lt;p&gt;I can certainly see the value of this feature for some orgs, but it seems little scary to me. With this setup, if an attacker is able to compromise Tailscale and add a key to your tailnet, that person will immediately have access to your network AND shell access to all of your boxes, rather than just network access if you use Tailscale with vanilla ssh.</text></comment>

<story><title>Tailscale SSH is now Generally Available</title><url>https://tailscale.com/blog/tailscale-ssh-ga</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>nine_k</author><text>Why does Tailscale need special handling for SSH?&lt;p&gt;Tailscale gives you authorized connectivity between hosts, and DNS; won&amp;#x27;t it be sufficient to run plain sshd?&lt;p&gt;(If wireguard-key-level auth were sufficient, even rlogin or netcat would be enough, because the transport is encrypted already.)</text></comment>

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<story><title>Causality in machine learning</title><url>http://www.unofficialgoogledatascience.com/2017/01/causality-in-machine-learning.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>nkurz</author><text>I worked on a project a few years ago for a UC Berkeley biostatistics professor who believes he has a theoretically proven approach of using non-randomized observational data to create an asymptotically-efficient unbiased estimator of counterfactual treatments. My impression as a programmer who has only dabbled in machine learning is that this is a phenomenal claim far beyond the state of the art.&lt;p&gt;My job was to take an inefficient proof-of-concept R package, and make it computationally and memory efficient enough to run on real-world datasets. I failed totally. The obvious explanation would be that I just wasn&amp;#x27;t able to understand the math involved well enough to implement the algorithm despite immersing myself in it for months. My personal guess though is that both the paper and the reference implementation were flawed in some way that made the task impossible.&lt;p&gt;Anyway, the paper is here:&lt;p&gt;Targeted Maximum Likelihood Estimation for Dynamic and Static Longitudinal Marginal Structural Working Models&lt;p&gt;Petersen, Schwab, Gruber, Blaser, Schomacher, and van der Laan; J Causal Inference 2015&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov&amp;#x2F;pmc&amp;#x2F;articles&amp;#x2F;PMC4405134&amp;#x2F;pdf&amp;#x2F;nihms675179.pdf&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov&amp;#x2F;pmc&amp;#x2F;articles&amp;#x2F;PMC4405134&amp;#x2F;pdf&amp;#x2F;nih...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;And the R package here: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;github.com&amp;#x2F;joshuaschwab&amp;#x2F;ltmle&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;github.com&amp;#x2F;joshuaschwab&amp;#x2F;ltmle&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;p&gt;My understanding was never perfect, but my belief is that there is kernel of insight in this approach that has not yet been explored in machine learning. Alternatively, maybe it works as is, and just needs a better implementation. I&amp;#x27;d love to see someone implement this approach, or fix it, or discredit it. As it is, I think it&amp;#x27;s potentially incredibly valuable work that is getting very little attention.</text></comment>

<story><title>Causality in machine learning</title><url>http://www.unofficialgoogledatascience.com/2017/01/causality-in-machine-learning.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>nonbel</author><text>Causality has never been of much interest to me. I never understood why others make such a big deal out of it. Maybe it is a real thing, maybe illusion, definitely some kind of heuristic... but shouldn&amp;#x27;t we be searching for useful &amp;quot;laws&amp;quot; (eg F ~ m1*m2&amp;#x2F;r^2) rather than &amp;quot;cause&amp;quot;? I know some have denied causality a place in science:&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;In the following paper I wish, first, to maintain that the word &amp;quot;cause&amp;quot; is so inextricably bound up with misleading associations as to make its complete extrusion from the philosophical vocabulary desirable; secondly, to inquire what principle, if any, is employed in science in place of the supposed &amp;quot;law of causality&amp;quot; which philosophers imagine to be employed; thirdly, to exhibit certain confusions, especially in regard to teleology and determinism, which appear to me to be connected with erroneous notions as to causality.&amp;quot; &lt;a href=&quot;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.hist-analytic.com&amp;#x2F;Russellcause.pdf&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.hist-analytic.com&amp;#x2F;Russellcause.pdf&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>

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<story><title>Colorado Town Offers 1 Gbps for $60 After Years of Battling Comcast</title><url>https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20190904/08392642916/colorado-town-offers-1-gbps-60-after-years-battling-comcast.shtml</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>polpo</author><text>Longmont, just south of Fort Collins, was the first city in Colorado to build out a municipal ISP, and it’s inspired surrounding cities to do the same. It’s where I live and it was a not-insignificant reason why I chose to move here. So far it has been a resounding success for the city. The buildout completed on time and adoption rates are higher than initially expected (the city planned for 37% but the last number I saw was around 54%). In my experience, the service has been so good as to be totally invisible. And I know my $50&amp;#x2F;mo rate will never rise. I wish Fort Collins the same experience. The fact that they both cities have municipal electric service will help this significantly.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Ididntdothis</author><text>“And I know my $50&amp;#x2F;mo rate will never rise.”&lt;p&gt;Let’s hope they tie it to inflation or similar. Otherwise the system will die slowly due to underfunding.</text></comment>

<story><title>Colorado Town Offers 1 Gbps for $60 After Years of Battling Comcast</title><url>https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20190904/08392642916/colorado-town-offers-1-gbps-60-after-years-battling-comcast.shtml</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>polpo</author><text>Longmont, just south of Fort Collins, was the first city in Colorado to build out a municipal ISP, and it’s inspired surrounding cities to do the same. It’s where I live and it was a not-insignificant reason why I chose to move here. So far it has been a resounding success for the city. The buildout completed on time and adoption rates are higher than initially expected (the city planned for 37% but the last number I saw was around 54%). In my experience, the service has been so good as to be totally invisible. And I know my $50&amp;#x2F;mo rate will never rise. I wish Fort Collins the same experience. The fact that they both cities have municipal electric service will help this significantly.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>rhmw2b</author><text>I live in Longmont as well and can confirm that internet here is awesome. I&amp;#x27;ve never once had to think about it and always get at least 800 Mbps.&lt;p&gt;Longmont as a city is great as well. People view it as a cheaper place to live than Boulder, but I&amp;#x27;d much rather live here.</text></comment>

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<story><title>Photos of Soviet control rooms</title><url>http://blog.presentandcorrect.com/27986-2</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>jpatokal</author><text>Submitter here. Not my blog post, but glad to see this got some traction!&lt;p&gt;Random memory of a Soviet control room: in the late 1990s, the rave scene was booming in Estonia and I ended up wrangling an invite to a party called &amp;quot;Beast Feast&amp;quot; [1] arranged by fellow promoters VIBE. The venue was a giant old Soviet-era factory in the industrial zone of Liiva Keskus [2]. The factory floor, complete with random, rusty machines, was used for a &amp;quot;fashion show&amp;quot; featuring models wearing only animal skulls, horns, tails etc, plus stacks of speakers reaching to the ceiling and a thousand-plus ravers dancing. The control room -- which looked exactly like the ones in the pictures -- was carpeted with mattresses, decked out with disco lighting, and there was a DJ playing chill-out music. One of the most memorable parties I&amp;#x27;ve been to! Unfortunately I can&amp;#x27;t find any pictures of it online...&lt;p&gt;[1] &lt;a href=&quot;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.moles.ee&amp;#x2F;99&amp;#x2F;May&amp;#x2F;26&amp;#x2F;5-3.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.moles.ee&amp;#x2F;99&amp;#x2F;May&amp;#x2F;26&amp;#x2F;5-3.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;[2] &lt;a href=&quot;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.rrk.ee&amp;#x2F;?op=body&amp;amp;id=86&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.rrk.ee&amp;#x2F;?op=body&amp;amp;id=86&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>

<story><title>Photos of Soviet control rooms</title><url>http://blog.presentandcorrect.com/27986-2</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>monocasa</author><text>Nothing can beat Project Cybersyn&amp;#x27;s control room, IMO.&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.m.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Project_Cybersyn#&amp;#x2F;media&amp;#x2F;File%3ACybersyn_control_room.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.m.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Project_Cybersyn#&amp;#x2F;media&amp;#x2F;File...&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>

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<story><title>Show HN: Get Paid to Build Your Next Side Project</title><url>https://www.demandrush.com</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>avaer</author><text>&amp;gt; GET PAID TO BUILD YOUR NEXT PROJECT&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; Choose a problem below to get started.&lt;p&gt;Get paid to build _my_ next project or _your_ next project?&lt;p&gt;This is clearly a two-sided platform, but the messaging seems conflated: the headline speaks to builders and the instructions speak to end customers.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Sakes</author><text>It appears to me that this is a tool to identify a market &amp;#x2F; need that is not being met.&lt;p&gt;There are people who simply want a product&amp;#x2F;service, no desire for ownership. They post what they&amp;#x27;d be will to pay for it, as a customer, and you decide if it is worth your time to build it.&lt;p&gt;Anyone? Am I understanding this correctly?</text></comment>

<story><title>Show HN: Get Paid to Build Your Next Side Project</title><url>https://www.demandrush.com</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>avaer</author><text>&amp;gt; GET PAID TO BUILD YOUR NEXT PROJECT&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; Choose a problem below to get started.&lt;p&gt;Get paid to build _my_ next project or _your_ next project?&lt;p&gt;This is clearly a two-sided platform, but the messaging seems conflated: the headline speaks to builders and the instructions speak to end customers.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>khalilravanna</author><text>Yeah it&amp;#x27;s a little confusing, I agree. &amp;quot;Your next side project&amp;quot; out of context sounds like you get to pick the project. Might be better to explain it as: &amp;quot;looking for a side project to work on that&amp;#x27;s worth money?&amp;quot;</text></comment>

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<story><title>A Chicago woman fell victim to Candida auris, a drug-resistant fungus</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/17/health/candida-auris-fungus-chicago.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Tharkun</author><text>Is this becoming a serious problem? Or is this just getting more press attention suddenly? We&amp;#x27;ve had outbreaks and near-hysteria of various sorts (HIV, SARS, swine flu etc). But those seem orders of magnitude easier to manage than this fungal infection. You don&amp;#x27;t need to tear down hospital rooms after an HIV patient spent time in it.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>roywiggins</author><text>&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.nytimes.com&amp;#x2F;2019&amp;#x2F;04&amp;#x2F;06&amp;#x2F;health&amp;#x2F;drug-resistant-candida-auris.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.nytimes.com&amp;#x2F;2019&amp;#x2F;04&amp;#x2F;06&amp;#x2F;health&amp;#x2F;drug-resistant-can...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; Over the last five years, it has hit a neonatal unit in Venezuela, swept through a hospital in Spain, forced a prestigious British medical center to shut down its intensive care unit, and taken root in India, Pakistan and South Africa.&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; Recently C. auris reached New York, New Jersey and Illinois, leading the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to add it to a list of germs deemed “urgent threats.”&lt;p&gt;...&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; C. auris is so tenacious, in part, because it is impervious to major antifungal medications, making it a new example of one of the world’s most intractable health threats: the rise of drug-resistant infections.</text></comment>

<story><title>A Chicago woman fell victim to Candida auris, a drug-resistant fungus</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/17/health/candida-auris-fungus-chicago.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Tharkun</author><text>Is this becoming a serious problem? Or is this just getting more press attention suddenly? We&amp;#x27;ve had outbreaks and near-hysteria of various sorts (HIV, SARS, swine flu etc). But those seem orders of magnitude easier to manage than this fungal infection. You don&amp;#x27;t need to tear down hospital rooms after an HIV patient spent time in it.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>djsumdog</author><text>The article indicates it&amp;#x27;s been deadly for the elderly and people with weakened immune systems. In the case of this patient, it probably entered the bloodstream via a catheter.&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s probably difficult for it to infect people from skin contact.</text></comment>

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<story><title>U.S. Consumer Bureau Loses Fight to Allow More Class-Action Suits</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/24/business/senate-vote-wall-street-regulation.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>defined</author><text>&amp;gt; Today, it is hard to open up a checking account, rent a car, get cable service or check a loved one into a nursing home without agreeing to mandatory arbitration.&lt;p&gt;This is the part that gives me ulcers, and it&amp;#x27;s no exaggeration. So many companies insist on us giving up our 7th Amendment rights that we either give in, or don&amp;#x27;t fly, buy a car, or get a job. We can&amp;#x27;t even go to the competition because they also have mandatory binding arbitration clauses in their contracts.&lt;p&gt;As bad as the Equifax breach is, IMO this is a greater danger to our freedoms.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Chardok</author><text>This is certainly the most important point. You &lt;i&gt;cannot&lt;/i&gt; function in society without internet, a cell phone and some sort of transportation, and most if not all force you to sign away rights that should be guaranteed to all US citizens.&lt;p&gt;Unless you are wealthy enough to do without or fine being homeless, this means you are living under a sub-government that the rules are set by corporations.</text></comment>

<story><title>U.S. Consumer Bureau Loses Fight to Allow More Class-Action Suits</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/24/business/senate-vote-wall-street-regulation.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>defined</author><text>&amp;gt; Today, it is hard to open up a checking account, rent a car, get cable service or check a loved one into a nursing home without agreeing to mandatory arbitration.&lt;p&gt;This is the part that gives me ulcers, and it&amp;#x27;s no exaggeration. So many companies insist on us giving up our 7th Amendment rights that we either give in, or don&amp;#x27;t fly, buy a car, or get a job. We can&amp;#x27;t even go to the competition because they also have mandatory binding arbitration clauses in their contracts.&lt;p&gt;As bad as the Equifax breach is, IMO this is a greater danger to our freedoms.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>wingspar</author><text>When I last purchased a car I used accepting the arbitration clause to extract $150 in accessories from the dealer. The sales agent was a bit confused, it’s usually the paperwork guy that deals with the arbitration and at point most people just want it over with..</text></comment>

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<story><title>Show HN: Veganize any recipe site with EatKind Chrome extension</title><url>https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/eatkind-for-chrome/ngojbbddpmckcgficlhojjcabamifdmi</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>eatonphil</author><text>Rather than substituting vegan alternatives in traditional meat meals (like mushroom burger instead of hamburger) I&amp;#x27;d personally rather be exposed to more great vegan&amp;#x2F;vegetarian recipes that were intended to be vegan&amp;#x2F;vegetarian by the cultures that have great veggy dishes like in South Asia.&lt;p&gt;One way I&amp;#x27;ve gotten more exposed already is watching Rick Stein shows on Amazon like Far Eastern Odyssey and India. Before watching that I thought things like curries were too hard or annoying to make. On the contrary his simple approaches made it clear some of these spicy veggy dishes are the easiest and tastiest to make with whatever veggies you have laying around.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>hughrr</author><text>Completely agree with this. I find it really annoying when friends switch over and then their diet becomes McPlants, pizzas and ready meals with meat substitutes in them and any mention of something new ends up with a shrivelled up face. Philistines the lot of them. I mean they’re not terrible but there’s so much other good food out there that doesn’t look exactly like what you were eating before.</text></comment>

<story><title>Show HN: Veganize any recipe site with EatKind Chrome extension</title><url>https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/eatkind-for-chrome/ngojbbddpmckcgficlhojjcabamifdmi</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>eatonphil</author><text>Rather than substituting vegan alternatives in traditional meat meals (like mushroom burger instead of hamburger) I&amp;#x27;d personally rather be exposed to more great vegan&amp;#x2F;vegetarian recipes that were intended to be vegan&amp;#x2F;vegetarian by the cultures that have great veggy dishes like in South Asia.&lt;p&gt;One way I&amp;#x27;ve gotten more exposed already is watching Rick Stein shows on Amazon like Far Eastern Odyssey and India. Before watching that I thought things like curries were too hard or annoying to make. On the contrary his simple approaches made it clear some of these spicy veggy dishes are the easiest and tastiest to make with whatever veggies you have laying around.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Mikeb85</author><text>Yup. I come from a culture (Ukrainian) that, due to religious reasons (even though no one is particularly religious nowadays), has a bunch of traditional, vegan lenten dishes. When you expand to all the traditional (ie. Orthodox) Christian communities, plus Buddhist communities, there&amp;#x27;s a massive range of traditional tried and true vegan foods out there.</text></comment>

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<story><title>Norway to track all supermarket purchases?</title><url>https://www.lifeinnorway.net/norway-to-track-all-supermarket-purchases/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>WanderPanda</author><text>Wow people really forgot that privacy is all about privacy with respect to the government because they are the ones with the monopoly on violence. It is tragic that people think private firms could ever be as evil as governments</text></item><item><author>wiz21c</author><text>As said in the article, we already share our data with the supermarket, google, etc &lt;i&gt;and&lt;/i&gt; whatever other systems that binds all of them together.&lt;p&gt;In that situation, I&amp;#x27;m happy that government has access to the same data because it gives it a way to balance the private sector power.&lt;p&gt;Now what is needed is the ability to opt out.</text></item><item><author>ceejayoz</author><text>Yep; societally, they&amp;#x27;ve got a very different attitude towards privacy.&lt;p&gt;Everyone&amp;#x27;s salary is publicly available online. (So&amp;#x27;s the fact that you looked!) &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.bbc.com&amp;#x2F;news&amp;#x2F;magazine-40669239&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.bbc.com&amp;#x2F;news&amp;#x2F;magazine-40669239&lt;/a&gt;</text></item><item><author>karencarits</author><text>One should be aware that Norway already has &lt;i&gt;very&lt;/i&gt; comprehensive registers and databases about the population. Currently, it has only been a benefit, I think, as it enables detailed quality control of say health care services and high-quality register studies.&lt;p&gt;For example, all health&amp;#x2F;hospital records of deceased Norwegians are digitalized ten years after death and added to a national register. No way to refuse. In my opinion, that is much more invasive, yet it hasn&amp;#x27;t been discussed at all by the public&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;helsedata.no&amp;#x2F;en&amp;#x2F;about-helsedata.no&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;helsedata.no&amp;#x2F;en&amp;#x2F;about-helsedata.no&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.digitalarkivet.no&amp;#x2F;en&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.digitalarkivet.no&amp;#x2F;en&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jltsiren</author><text>That attitude makes sense if you come from a low-trust society where the state apparatus thinks it&amp;#x27;s running an empire. Especially if the country is large and actively trying to reshape the world.&lt;p&gt;Things look different in a small high-trust country with multiple political parties. Because the country is too weak and insignificant to change the world, the government tends to focus on administering the country. Because there is a lot of trust in the society, the people who want to serve in the government are usually ideologically motivated to serve the best interests of the public. It&amp;#x27;s not a particularly lucrative or high-status career, so people with other motivations tend to go elsewhere. And while people may disagree on what exactly are the best interests of the public, there are many viable political parties to choose from.&lt;p&gt;Private firms are allowed to be evil in the sense that they can put their private interests ahead of public interests. Most of them are. And because they are private, the public has only limited means to regulate them when they misbehave blatantly. They can&amp;#x27;t, for example, vote the directors and shareholders out and replace them with people who promise to serve public interests.</text></comment>

<story><title>Norway to track all supermarket purchases?</title><url>https://www.lifeinnorway.net/norway-to-track-all-supermarket-purchases/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>WanderPanda</author><text>Wow people really forgot that privacy is all about privacy with respect to the government because they are the ones with the monopoly on violence. It is tragic that people think private firms could ever be as evil as governments</text></item><item><author>wiz21c</author><text>As said in the article, we already share our data with the supermarket, google, etc &lt;i&gt;and&lt;/i&gt; whatever other systems that binds all of them together.&lt;p&gt;In that situation, I&amp;#x27;m happy that government has access to the same data because it gives it a way to balance the private sector power.&lt;p&gt;Now what is needed is the ability to opt out.</text></item><item><author>ceejayoz</author><text>Yep; societally, they&amp;#x27;ve got a very different attitude towards privacy.&lt;p&gt;Everyone&amp;#x27;s salary is publicly available online. (So&amp;#x27;s the fact that you looked!) &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.bbc.com&amp;#x2F;news&amp;#x2F;magazine-40669239&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.bbc.com&amp;#x2F;news&amp;#x2F;magazine-40669239&lt;/a&gt;</text></item><item><author>karencarits</author><text>One should be aware that Norway already has &lt;i&gt;very&lt;/i&gt; comprehensive registers and databases about the population. Currently, it has only been a benefit, I think, as it enables detailed quality control of say health care services and high-quality register studies.&lt;p&gt;For example, all health&amp;#x2F;hospital records of deceased Norwegians are digitalized ten years after death and added to a national register. No way to refuse. In my opinion, that is much more invasive, yet it hasn&amp;#x27;t been discussed at all by the public&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;helsedata.no&amp;#x2F;en&amp;#x2F;about-helsedata.no&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;helsedata.no&amp;#x2F;en&amp;#x2F;about-helsedata.no&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.digitalarkivet.no&amp;#x2F;en&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.digitalarkivet.no&amp;#x2F;en&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>zerox7felf</author><text>Hard-power violence is mostly exclusive to governments, but don&amp;#x27;t underestimate the power of soft-power &amp;quot;violence&amp;quot; and coercion.&lt;p&gt;Another thing that sets the government and private sector apart is that the government is under (mostly, even if indirect) democratic control, or otherwise accountable to the public, whereas the private sector can get by with bad press, so long as they can continue to operate. As an individual of average wealth, it is far less difficult to influence government policy and politicians as opposed to doing the same to a private organization.&lt;p&gt;Really, this is not about choosing between &amp;quot;good&amp;quot; and &amp;quot;evil&amp;quot;, it is about choosing which evil you are most likely to be able to contain.</text></comment>

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<story><title>Ask HN: Are there any 4K “dumb” televisions?</title><text>With news like [1][2], and problems I’ve had in the past, I would like a TV with a modern resolution, but just inputs and a tuner, no “smart” features. Does anything like this exist?&lt;p&gt;[1] https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;hackaday.com&amp;#x2F;2021&amp;#x2F;11&amp;#x2F;29&amp;#x2F;samsung-bricks-smart-tvs&amp;#x2F;&lt;p&gt;[2] https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.theverge.com&amp;#x2F;2021&amp;#x2F;11&amp;#x2F;10&amp;#x2F;22773073&amp;#x2F;vizio-acr-advertising-inscape-data-privacy-q3-2021</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>haunter</author><text>4K monitors. You need a soundbar though or some kind of audio setup + remote. Also no built-in tuner or such but I assume you get a set top box from your service provider or use a streaming device (Apple TV, Fire stick etc.)&lt;p&gt;4K OLED &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;pcpartpicker.com&amp;#x2F;products&amp;#x2F;monitor&amp;#x2F;#r=384002160&amp;amp;P=7&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;pcpartpicker.com&amp;#x2F;products&amp;#x2F;monitor&amp;#x2F;#r=384002160&amp;amp;P=7&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;4K IPS &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;pcpartpicker.com&amp;#x2F;products&amp;#x2F;monitor&amp;#x2F;#r=384002160&amp;amp;P=2&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;pcpartpicker.com&amp;#x2F;products&amp;#x2F;monitor&amp;#x2F;#r=384002160&amp;amp;P=2&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;4K VA &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;pcpartpicker.com&amp;#x2F;products&amp;#x2F;monitor&amp;#x2F;#r=384002160&amp;amp;P=4&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;pcpartpicker.com&amp;#x2F;products&amp;#x2F;monitor&amp;#x2F;#r=384002160&amp;amp;P=4&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;4K 55&amp;quot; or bigger monitors (there aren&amp;#x27;t many choices) &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;pcpartpicker.com&amp;#x2F;products&amp;#x2F;monitor&amp;#x2F;#P=2,7,4&amp;amp;r=384002160&amp;amp;F=1397000000,1651000000&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;pcpartpicker.com&amp;#x2F;products&amp;#x2F;monitor&amp;#x2F;#P=2,7,4&amp;amp;r=3840021...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;The 4K 55&amp;quot; OLED Alienware has speaker but I doubt that it is any good &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.dell.com&amp;#x2F;en-us&amp;#x2F;shop&amp;#x2F;new-alienware-55-oled-gaming-monitor-aw5520qf&amp;#x2F;apd&amp;#x2F;210-auds&amp;#x2F;monitors-monitor-accessories&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.dell.com&amp;#x2F;en-us&amp;#x2F;shop&amp;#x2F;new-alienware-55-oled-gaming...&lt;/a&gt; (actually comes with remote too)&lt;p&gt;Linus made a video of it &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.youtube.com&amp;#x2F;watch?v=L3oqktdx2a8&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.youtube.com&amp;#x2F;watch?v=L3oqktdx2a8&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;Last but not least you can go even higher resolution than 4K but these are all IPS only and they are not bigger than 34&amp;quot; &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;pcpartpicker.com&amp;#x2F;products&amp;#x2F;monitor&amp;#x2F;#r=768004320,576002160,512002880,512002160,409602160,384002560&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;pcpartpicker.com&amp;#x2F;products&amp;#x2F;monitor&amp;#x2F;#r=768004320,57600...&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>femto113</author><text>Another approach is to look not for things advertised as &amp;quot;monitors&amp;quot; but instead look for &amp;quot;digital signage&amp;quot;[1]. Nowadays most of these contain some networking features but they&amp;#x27;ll be oriented at local control (i.e. by you via something on your LAN), not some third-party control center accessed via the internet.&lt;p&gt;Anecdotally this is the approach I took ~20 years ago when buying a (then slightly exotic) plasma flatscreen from Panasonic. It is still working flawlessly today, though I keep hoping it will die so I can guiltlessly replace it with something newer&amp;#x2F;bigger&amp;#x2F;higher-resolution.&lt;p&gt;[1] A random example &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.usa.philips.com&amp;#x2F;p-p&amp;#x2F;86BDL3050Q_00&amp;#x2F;signage-solutions-q-line-display&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.usa.philips.com&amp;#x2F;p-p&amp;#x2F;86BDL3050Q_00&amp;#x2F;signage-soluti...&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>

<story><title>Ask HN: Are there any 4K “dumb” televisions?</title><text>With news like [1][2], and problems I’ve had in the past, I would like a TV with a modern resolution, but just inputs and a tuner, no “smart” features. Does anything like this exist?&lt;p&gt;[1] https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;hackaday.com&amp;#x2F;2021&amp;#x2F;11&amp;#x2F;29&amp;#x2F;samsung-bricks-smart-tvs&amp;#x2F;&lt;p&gt;[2] https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.theverge.com&amp;#x2F;2021&amp;#x2F;11&amp;#x2F;10&amp;#x2F;22773073&amp;#x2F;vizio-acr-advertising-inscape-data-privacy-q3-2021</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>haunter</author><text>4K monitors. You need a soundbar though or some kind of audio setup + remote. Also no built-in tuner or such but I assume you get a set top box from your service provider or use a streaming device (Apple TV, Fire stick etc.)&lt;p&gt;4K OLED &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;pcpartpicker.com&amp;#x2F;products&amp;#x2F;monitor&amp;#x2F;#r=384002160&amp;amp;P=7&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;pcpartpicker.com&amp;#x2F;products&amp;#x2F;monitor&amp;#x2F;#r=384002160&amp;amp;P=7&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;4K IPS &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;pcpartpicker.com&amp;#x2F;products&amp;#x2F;monitor&amp;#x2F;#r=384002160&amp;amp;P=2&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;pcpartpicker.com&amp;#x2F;products&amp;#x2F;monitor&amp;#x2F;#r=384002160&amp;amp;P=2&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;4K VA &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;pcpartpicker.com&amp;#x2F;products&amp;#x2F;monitor&amp;#x2F;#r=384002160&amp;amp;P=4&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;pcpartpicker.com&amp;#x2F;products&amp;#x2F;monitor&amp;#x2F;#r=384002160&amp;amp;P=4&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;4K 55&amp;quot; or bigger monitors (there aren&amp;#x27;t many choices) &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;pcpartpicker.com&amp;#x2F;products&amp;#x2F;monitor&amp;#x2F;#P=2,7,4&amp;amp;r=384002160&amp;amp;F=1397000000,1651000000&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;pcpartpicker.com&amp;#x2F;products&amp;#x2F;monitor&amp;#x2F;#P=2,7,4&amp;amp;r=3840021...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;The 4K 55&amp;quot; OLED Alienware has speaker but I doubt that it is any good &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.dell.com&amp;#x2F;en-us&amp;#x2F;shop&amp;#x2F;new-alienware-55-oled-gaming-monitor-aw5520qf&amp;#x2F;apd&amp;#x2F;210-auds&amp;#x2F;monitors-monitor-accessories&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.dell.com&amp;#x2F;en-us&amp;#x2F;shop&amp;#x2F;new-alienware-55-oled-gaming...&lt;/a&gt; (actually comes with remote too)&lt;p&gt;Linus made a video of it &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.youtube.com&amp;#x2F;watch?v=L3oqktdx2a8&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.youtube.com&amp;#x2F;watch?v=L3oqktdx2a8&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;Last but not least you can go even higher resolution than 4K but these are all IPS only and they are not bigger than 34&amp;quot; &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;pcpartpicker.com&amp;#x2F;products&amp;#x2F;monitor&amp;#x2F;#r=768004320,576002160,512002880,512002160,409602160,384002560&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;pcpartpicker.com&amp;#x2F;products&amp;#x2F;monitor&amp;#x2F;#r=768004320,57600...&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jjoonathan</author><text>Why does (consumer) monitor tech always seem to lag TV tech by a few years?&lt;p&gt;It looks like the situation is still that in the 4k OLED space there are a few ~$4000+ monitors and dozens of ~$1000 TVs. Per the pcpartpicker link, maybe the Gigabyte FO48U will change that, but it&amp;#x27;s still out of stock. Besides, I feel like this has happened before with HDR and 4k and IPS. First it shows up in TVs, a year later it is cheap in TVs, a year later it is expensive in monitors, and finally it becomes cheap in monitors. But it takes years. Which seems odd, since surely they use the same panels? Is it an industry structure thing, where panel manufacturers integrate and co-develop with TV manufacturers but monitor manufacturers are separate, only get the panels after release, and need a year or three to turn things around?</text></comment>

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<story><title>What Happens When A Twitter Client Hits The Token Limit</title><url>http://www.marco.org/2012/11/16/twitter-being-a-dick-again</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>hnriot</author><text>*The effective rule, therefore, is even simpler: “Don’t build anything for Twitter.”&lt;p&gt;Exactly, that&apos;s precisely the message they wanted you to have.&lt;p&gt;What&apos;s wrong with using the twitter.com on Windows8, do we really need a special client just for Windows 8? This is exactly what the web is supposed to do.&lt;p&gt;I don&apos;t get anyone is surprised, it&apos;s Twitter&apos;s ecosystem and if you&apos;re duplicating their functionality then it&apos;s perfectly reasonable of them to not make any special exemption. If you wrote a client that exposed twitter to new markets or something that added value to Twitter then they&apos;d likely give you a higher limit, but that&apos;s not the case...</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>swombat</author><text>&amp;#62; &lt;i&gt;What&apos;s wrong with using the twitter.com on Windows8, do we really need a special client just for Windows 8? This is exactly what the web is supposed to do.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;Emphasis on &quot;supposed&quot;. It doesn&apos;t always do it, and definitely never to everyone&apos;s taste. Hence the custom clients.&lt;p&gt;&amp;#62; &lt;i&gt;I don&apos;t get anyone is surprised, it&apos;s Twitter&apos;s ecosystem and if you&apos;re duplicating their functionality then it&apos;s perfectly reasonable of them to not make any special exemption. If you wrote a client that exposed twitter to new markets or something that added value to Twitter then they&apos;d likely give you a higher limit, but that&apos;s not the case...&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;By now I doubt anyone is truly surprised, but it&apos;s disappointing nevertheless. Twitter&apos;s success is partly built on the explosion of Twitter clients that allowed Twitter to evolve faster than its dev team could follow (hence all the scaling issues). Then they bought a few players in the Twitter client market. And now they&apos;ve strangled all the ones that remained in that market.&lt;p&gt;So basically, Twitter now has an obvious and provable history of leaving things open, deciding that thriving third-party market X is nice, stepping into it themselves, and killing everyone else there.&lt;p&gt;That&apos;s not a reputation I&apos;d like to have for my business, when it is a piece of underlying infrastructure that depends on others to make it thrive.&lt;p&gt;Anyone starting a business from today onwards and having any critical dependency or reliance on Twitter is insane.</text></comment>

<story><title>What Happens When A Twitter Client Hits The Token Limit</title><url>http://www.marco.org/2012/11/16/twitter-being-a-dick-again</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>hnriot</author><text>*The effective rule, therefore, is even simpler: “Don’t build anything for Twitter.”&lt;p&gt;Exactly, that&apos;s precisely the message they wanted you to have.&lt;p&gt;What&apos;s wrong with using the twitter.com on Windows8, do we really need a special client just for Windows 8? This is exactly what the web is supposed to do.&lt;p&gt;I don&apos;t get anyone is surprised, it&apos;s Twitter&apos;s ecosystem and if you&apos;re duplicating their functionality then it&apos;s perfectly reasonable of them to not make any special exemption. If you wrote a client that exposed twitter to new markets or something that added value to Twitter then they&apos;d likely give you a higher limit, but that&apos;s not the case...</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>masklinn</author><text>&amp;#62; What&apos;s wrong with using the twitter.com on Windows8&lt;p&gt;That it&apos;s a terrible experience on many fronts, that it&apos;s slow as molasses (especially on mobile networks), that composition sucks, that multiuser blows, that it&apos;s got no idea where you left off and doesn&apos;t care, etc...?&lt;p&gt;&amp;#62; This is exactly what the web is supposed to do.&lt;p&gt;Crappy?</text></comment>

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<story><title>Startup Tools</title><url>http://steveblank.com/tools-and-blogs-for-entrepreneurs/</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>jedberg</author><text>The fact that Quora is on there but Stackoverflow is not makes me question the veracity of the entire list.</text></comment>

<story><title>Startup Tools</title><url>http://steveblank.com/tools-and-blogs-for-entrepreneurs/</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>zitterbewegung</author><text>Mildly interesting list. I would much rather see a short review / recommended use of the tools that are listed here. A couple of tools I would recommend would be Dropbox (great file sharing tool). Google apps (great way to setup a corporate email server and various other things). I have use Balsamiq to prototype interfaces and it was a pleasant experience. Github is great for sharing code. Heroku was very easy to setup and use also.</text></comment>

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<story><title>Show HN: Srcbook – A TypeScript notebook for rapid prototyping</title><url>https://github.com/srcbookdev/srcbook</url><text>Srcbook (”source-book”) is an open-source TypeScript notebook that runs locally, powered by Node.js. It shines for rapid prototyping, code exploration, and collaborating on ideas. It’s inspired by Python’s Jupyter and Elixir’s Livebook.&lt;p&gt;Key features:&lt;p&gt;- Full npm ecosystem access&lt;p&gt;- AI-assisted coding (OpenAI, Anthropic, or local models), it can iterate on the cells for you with a code diff UX that you accept&amp;#x2F;reject for a given code cell, generate entire Srcbooks, fix compilation issues, etc…&lt;p&gt;- Exports to valid markdown for easy sharing and version control&lt;p&gt;Try it now: `npx srcbook start`&lt;p&gt;Examples Srcbooks to explore: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;hub.srcbook.com&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;hub.srcbook.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;We built this because we needed a Jupyter-like environment for TypeScript, we hope others like it as much as we do! Feedback and contributions are super appreciated.&lt;p&gt;(edit: formatting)</text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>fsiefken</author><text>Nice, if you could run wasm inline, one could conceivably use it for rust debugging or typst like this: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;github.com&amp;#x2F;Myriad-Dreamin&amp;#x2F;typst.ts&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;github.com&amp;#x2F;Myriad-Dreamin&amp;#x2F;typst.ts&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;Also see this jupyter notebook request &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;github.com&amp;#x2F;typst&amp;#x2F;typst&amp;#x2F;issues&amp;#x2F;962&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;github.com&amp;#x2F;typst&amp;#x2F;typst&amp;#x2F;issues&amp;#x2F;962&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>

<story><title>Show HN: Srcbook – A TypeScript notebook for rapid prototyping</title><url>https://github.com/srcbookdev/srcbook</url><text>Srcbook (”source-book”) is an open-source TypeScript notebook that runs locally, powered by Node.js. It shines for rapid prototyping, code exploration, and collaborating on ideas. It’s inspired by Python’s Jupyter and Elixir’s Livebook.&lt;p&gt;Key features:&lt;p&gt;- Full npm ecosystem access&lt;p&gt;- AI-assisted coding (OpenAI, Anthropic, or local models), it can iterate on the cells for you with a code diff UX that you accept&amp;#x2F;reject for a given code cell, generate entire Srcbooks, fix compilation issues, etc…&lt;p&gt;- Exports to valid markdown for easy sharing and version control&lt;p&gt;Try it now: `npx srcbook start`&lt;p&gt;Examples Srcbooks to explore: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;hub.srcbook.com&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;hub.srcbook.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;We built this because we needed a Jupyter-like environment for TypeScript, we hope others like it as much as we do! Feedback and contributions are super appreciated.&lt;p&gt;(edit: formatting)</text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>jwilber</author><text>I think this really nails a missing sweet spot for frontend&amp;#x2F;node projects.&lt;p&gt;Observable is a great notebook env for dataviz, but the bespoke js + observability patterns can feel obtuse for non-dataviz stuff.&lt;p&gt;Likewise, the Jupyter js kernels feel second-class and require python dependencies.&lt;p&gt;Really looking forward to using this for documenting open-source and prototyping.</text></comment>

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<story><title>The Perks Are Great, Just Don’t Ask What We Do</title><url>https://backchannel.com/the-perks-are-great-just-dont-ask-us-what-we-do-d5abc6867103?source=rss----d16afa0ae7c---4</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>aresant</author><text>So what else is new.&lt;p&gt;If you work at Facebook or Google you&amp;#x27;re benefiting directly from the similarly shady practices they used to grow on their way to being &amp;quot;pillars of tech&amp;quot; today.&lt;p&gt;Do you remember when at LEAST 20% of Facebook&amp;#x27;s revenue came from Zynga? Like less than 5 years ago? Many speculated it was considerably higher, but Facebook never provided a full accounting (1).&lt;p&gt;Or do you remember when Facebook literally had an &amp;quot;affiliate marketing panel&amp;quot; that they worked with at the C-suite level packed with guys selling weight loss affiliate slop? Almost impossible to find reference of it now, was well known in many circles and you can still see references of it here and there. (2)&lt;p&gt;Or maybe when Google was caught colluding with a notorious gangster when he turned state&amp;#x27;s evidence to demonstrate to the DOJ how quickly Google was willing to skirt around laws to sell illegally imported drugs? They were fined $500,000,000.00. Google was. (3)&lt;p&gt;50onRed is clearly engaged in scumb-bag advertising practices, but at least they keep good company.&lt;p&gt;(1) &lt;a href=&quot;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;allthingsd.com&amp;#x2F;20120423&amp;#x2F;zynga-accounted-for-15-percent-of-facebooks-revenues-in-q1&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;allthingsd.com&amp;#x2F;20120423&amp;#x2F;zynga-accounted-for-15-percen...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;(2) &lt;a href=&quot;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.shoemoney.com&amp;#x2F;2009&amp;#x2F;11&amp;#x2F;16&amp;#x2F;dennis-yu-rise-and-fall-of-a-con-man-in-the-affiliate-industry&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.shoemoney.com&amp;#x2F;2009&amp;#x2F;11&amp;#x2F;16&amp;#x2F;dennis-yu-rise-and-fall-...&lt;/a&gt; &amp;amp; &lt;a href=&quot;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.jimcockrum.com&amp;#x2F;blog&amp;#x2F;2011&amp;#x2F;10&amp;#x2F;19&amp;#x2F;the-biggest-dog-in-affiliate-marketing-is-starting-to-sound-a-lot-like-me&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.jimcockrum.com&amp;#x2F;blog&amp;#x2F;2011&amp;#x2F;10&amp;#x2F;19&amp;#x2F;the-biggest-dog-in...&lt;/a&gt; &amp;amp; &lt;a href=&quot;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;techcrunch.com&amp;#x2F;2009&amp;#x2F;11&amp;#x2F;01&amp;#x2F;how-to-spam-facebook-like-a-pro-an-insiders-confession&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;techcrunch.com&amp;#x2F;2009&amp;#x2F;11&amp;#x2F;01&amp;#x2F;how-to-spam-facebook-like-a...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;(3) &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.justice.gov&amp;#x2F;opa&amp;#x2F;pr&amp;#x2F;google-forfeits-500-million-generated-online-ads-prescription-drug-sales-canadian-online&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.justice.gov&amp;#x2F;opa&amp;#x2F;pr&amp;#x2F;google-forfeits-500-million-g...&lt;/a&gt; &amp;amp; &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.wired.com&amp;#x2F;2013&amp;#x2F;05&amp;#x2F;google-pharma-whitaker-sting&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.wired.com&amp;#x2F;2013&amp;#x2F;05&amp;#x2F;google-pharma-whitaker-sting&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>notatoad</author><text>Or in a similar vein, when YC funded the adware distribution company InstallMonetizer.&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.techdirt.com&amp;#x2F;articles&amp;#x2F;20130115&amp;#x2F;17343321692&amp;#x2F;why-are-y-combinator-andreessen-horowitz-backing-drive-by-toolbaradware-installer.shtml&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.techdirt.com&amp;#x2F;articles&amp;#x2F;20130115&amp;#x2F;17343321692&amp;#x2F;why-a...&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>

<story><title>The Perks Are Great, Just Don’t Ask What We Do</title><url>https://backchannel.com/the-perks-are-great-just-dont-ask-us-what-we-do-d5abc6867103?source=rss----d16afa0ae7c---4</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>aresant</author><text>So what else is new.&lt;p&gt;If you work at Facebook or Google you&amp;#x27;re benefiting directly from the similarly shady practices they used to grow on their way to being &amp;quot;pillars of tech&amp;quot; today.&lt;p&gt;Do you remember when at LEAST 20% of Facebook&amp;#x27;s revenue came from Zynga? Like less than 5 years ago? Many speculated it was considerably higher, but Facebook never provided a full accounting (1).&lt;p&gt;Or do you remember when Facebook literally had an &amp;quot;affiliate marketing panel&amp;quot; that they worked with at the C-suite level packed with guys selling weight loss affiliate slop? Almost impossible to find reference of it now, was well known in many circles and you can still see references of it here and there. (2)&lt;p&gt;Or maybe when Google was caught colluding with a notorious gangster when he turned state&amp;#x27;s evidence to demonstrate to the DOJ how quickly Google was willing to skirt around laws to sell illegally imported drugs? They were fined $500,000,000.00. Google was. (3)&lt;p&gt;50onRed is clearly engaged in scumb-bag advertising practices, but at least they keep good company.&lt;p&gt;(1) &lt;a href=&quot;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;allthingsd.com&amp;#x2F;20120423&amp;#x2F;zynga-accounted-for-15-percent-of-facebooks-revenues-in-q1&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;allthingsd.com&amp;#x2F;20120423&amp;#x2F;zynga-accounted-for-15-percen...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;(2) &lt;a href=&quot;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.shoemoney.com&amp;#x2F;2009&amp;#x2F;11&amp;#x2F;16&amp;#x2F;dennis-yu-rise-and-fall-of-a-con-man-in-the-affiliate-industry&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.shoemoney.com&amp;#x2F;2009&amp;#x2F;11&amp;#x2F;16&amp;#x2F;dennis-yu-rise-and-fall-...&lt;/a&gt; &amp;amp; &lt;a href=&quot;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.jimcockrum.com&amp;#x2F;blog&amp;#x2F;2011&amp;#x2F;10&amp;#x2F;19&amp;#x2F;the-biggest-dog-in-affiliate-marketing-is-starting-to-sound-a-lot-like-me&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.jimcockrum.com&amp;#x2F;blog&amp;#x2F;2011&amp;#x2F;10&amp;#x2F;19&amp;#x2F;the-biggest-dog-in...&lt;/a&gt; &amp;amp; &lt;a href=&quot;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;techcrunch.com&amp;#x2F;2009&amp;#x2F;11&amp;#x2F;01&amp;#x2F;how-to-spam-facebook-like-a-pro-an-insiders-confession&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;techcrunch.com&amp;#x2F;2009&amp;#x2F;11&amp;#x2F;01&amp;#x2F;how-to-spam-facebook-like-a...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;(3) &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.justice.gov&amp;#x2F;opa&amp;#x2F;pr&amp;#x2F;google-forfeits-500-million-generated-online-ads-prescription-drug-sales-canadian-online&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.justice.gov&amp;#x2F;opa&amp;#x2F;pr&amp;#x2F;google-forfeits-500-million-g...&lt;/a&gt; &amp;amp; &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.wired.com&amp;#x2F;2013&amp;#x2F;05&amp;#x2F;google-pharma-whitaker-sting&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.wired.com&amp;#x2F;2013&amp;#x2F;05&amp;#x2F;google-pharma-whitaker-sting&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>eanzenberg</author><text>Not sure how you compare 1) and 2) to ad-injections. Those are companies which purchase ad-space on websites which sell ad-space, solved by visiting those sites less. Not ad-ware installed to deliver ads to your browser, solved by switching browsers..? reformatting hard-drive..? replacing your computer..?</text></comment>

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<story><title>Changes in Dutch streets throughout the years (photo album)</title><url>https://imgur.com/a/rffE0Oz</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>zachkatz</author><text>I&amp;#x27;d like to contribute a collection of my own: changes in Dutch streets from 2008-ish to today, captured on Google Streetview: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;twitter.com&amp;#x2F;z_a_c_h_k_a_t_z&amp;#x2F;status&amp;#x2F;1464697711442206728&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;twitter.com&amp;#x2F;z_a_c_h_k_a_t_z&amp;#x2F;status&amp;#x2F;14646977114422067...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;Even in the last decade, they&amp;#x27;ve still been hard at work upgrading streets, and even some of them more subtle redesigns are absolutely stunning. Dutch street design is really one of the wonders of the modern world, IMO.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>vanderZwan</author><text>There are two things I miss from my home country: hagelslag (chocolate sprinkles), and the utterly amazing bike infrastructure and traffic design in general.</text></comment>

<story><title>Changes in Dutch streets throughout the years (photo album)</title><url>https://imgur.com/a/rffE0Oz</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>zachkatz</author><text>I&amp;#x27;d like to contribute a collection of my own: changes in Dutch streets from 2008-ish to today, captured on Google Streetview: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;twitter.com&amp;#x2F;z_a_c_h_k_a_t_z&amp;#x2F;status&amp;#x2F;1464697711442206728&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;twitter.com&amp;#x2F;z_a_c_h_k_a_t_z&amp;#x2F;status&amp;#x2F;14646977114422067...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;Even in the last decade, they&amp;#x27;ve still been hard at work upgrading streets, and even some of them more subtle redesigns are absolutely stunning. Dutch street design is really one of the wonders of the modern world, IMO.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>isoprophlex</author><text>Lovely link! A testimonial to the calming power of bricks over asphalt, bikes over cars and hedges over parking spaces.</text></comment>

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<story><title>Bucket Stream: Finding S3 Buckets by watching certificate transparency logs</title><url>https://github.com/eth0izzle/bucket-stream</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>matt_wulfeck</author><text>&amp;gt;&lt;i&gt;Randomise your bucket names! There is no need to use company-backup.s3.amazonaws.com&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;This is really poor advice. It offers no real benefit, especially since any asset you access will betray your bucket name because it&amp;#x27;s part of the DNS resolution. Bucket names are emphatically public as much as a DNS name is public.</text></comment>

<story><title>Bucket Stream: Finding S3 Buckets by watching certificate transparency logs</title><url>https://github.com/eth0izzle/bucket-stream</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>notyourwork</author><text>&amp;gt; Randomise your bucket names! There is no need to use company-backup.s3.amazonaws.com.&lt;p&gt;I don&amp;#x27;t think this is a globally true statement. Random bucket names are hard, not everyone is using s3 with a code configuration and therefore remembering bucket name is actually important.</text></comment>

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<story><title>History of the browser user-agent string</title><url>http://webaim.org/blog/user-agent-string-history/</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>pornel</author><text>And now we have Chromium-based Opera which can&amp;#x27;t call itself Opera and has to use &amp;quot;OPR&amp;#x2F;16&amp;quot; instead, and pretends to be Chrome, which pretends to be Safari, which pretends to be KHTML, which pretends to be Gecko, which pretends to be Netscape.&lt;p&gt;On a related note W3C+Mozilla are trying to document use-cases for UA sniffing: &lt;a href=&quot;https://etherpad.mozilla.org/uadetection-usecases&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;etherpad.mozilla.org&amp;#x2F;uadetection-usecases&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>

<story><title>History of the browser user-agent string</title><url>http://webaim.org/blog/user-agent-string-history/</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>patrickmay</author><text>My user agent is &amp;quot;Drakma&amp;#x2F;1.3.0 (SBCL 1.1.5; Darwin; 12.2.0; &lt;a href=&quot;http://weitz.de/drakma/)&amp;quot;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;weitz.de&amp;#x2F;drakma&amp;#x2F;)&amp;quot;&lt;/a&gt;. I like to keep webmasters on their toes.</text></comment>

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<story><title>My Year in Review: 2019</title><url>https://www.susanjfowler.com/blog/2019/12/10/my-year-in-review-2019</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>seren</author><text>Not really related to tech, but I find it interesting that she went from software engineering to being an editor for the New York Times and writing books.&lt;p&gt;That being said once you&amp;#x27;ve been a whistleblower, even for good reasons, sadly, it is probably harder to find another job in your previous area of expertise...</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>IAmEveryone</author><text>Being an editor at the New York Times is far ahead of almost any job in tech I can think of, at least in my value scheme.&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s almost like a blank cheque in terms of following your interests. Sure, you need to cover the routine stuff on your beat. But the Times is among the few that can and will still devote enormous resources to go deep on issues that matter. And as the editor, you&amp;#x27;re basically who gets to decide what matters.&lt;p&gt;In terms of social standing, her job would probably outrank anyone except CXOs at FAANG, at least in my social group.&lt;p&gt;Even for salary, it&amp;#x27;s among the few positions in journalism that is competitive with tech. I seem to remember mid 6-figure salaries being quoted in the past, although there is probably high variety, with some editors and authors being their own sort-of &amp;quot;brand&amp;quot;.&lt;p&gt;The only downside is that you don&amp;#x27;t get to write code if that happens to be your passion. In that regard, it&amp;#x27;s similar to transitioning to management in tech. But the Times has been doing quite a lot of data journalism and interactive storytelling and the like. So if you really want to, you could probably come up with ideas that get you back into a text editor at least some of the time.</text></comment>

<story><title>My Year in Review: 2019</title><url>https://www.susanjfowler.com/blog/2019/12/10/my-year-in-review-2019</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>seren</author><text>Not really related to tech, but I find it interesting that she went from software engineering to being an editor for the New York Times and writing books.&lt;p&gt;That being said once you&amp;#x27;ve been a whistleblower, even for good reasons, sadly, it is probably harder to find another job in your previous area of expertise...</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>cafard</author><text>Her whistleblowing doesn&amp;#x27;t seem to me the kind that should create distrust. It&amp;#x27;s not as if she taped conversations relating to financial practices. She stood up to a company culture that a lot of qualified observers thought toxic.&lt;p&gt;Anyway, it&amp;#x27;s well that she sounds cheerful. She seems to have been quite good at what she did in tech, and I hope that she will consider going back to it.&lt;p&gt;[edit: corrected spelling of &amp;quot;observers&amp;quot;]</text></comment>

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<story><title>Ten members of international stock manipulation ring charged in Manhattan</title><url>https://www.justice.gov/usao-sdny/pr/ten-members-international-stock-manipulation-ring-charged-manhattan-federal-court</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ricardobeat</author><text>I can’t help but think that this now looks like pocket money compared to the amount of fraud going on in the cryptocurrency market.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mistrial9</author><text>.. which in turn is also pocket money compared to some Federal programs around the world, institutional use of retirement funds, inflated property values and insider loans.. all absolutely without one bit of cryptocurrency in them. smell the coffee, fraud is everyday</text></comment>

<story><title>Ten members of international stock manipulation ring charged in Manhattan</title><url>https://www.justice.gov/usao-sdny/pr/ten-members-international-stock-manipulation-ring-charged-manhattan-federal-court</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ricardobeat</author><text>I can’t help but think that this now looks like pocket money compared to the amount of fraud going on in the cryptocurrency market.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jsemrau</author><text>Dude this rabbit hole goes way deeper than one might think. Insider trading at coinbase ?: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;app.finclout.io&amp;#x2F;t&amp;#x2F;x3p3G27&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;app.finclout.io&amp;#x2F;t&amp;#x2F;x3p3G27&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>

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<story><title>“Pack it in, mathematicians, someone owes LLVM a million bucks”</title><url>https://twitter.com/jckarter/status/1428093469755527168</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>hevalon</author><text>For anyone that wants to have some background context on the problem statement (3x+1), Veritasium has made a great explanation [1].&lt;p&gt;[1] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.youtube.com&amp;#x2F;watch?v=094y1Z2wpJg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.youtube.com&amp;#x2F;watch?v=094y1Z2wpJg&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>

<story><title>“Pack it in, mathematicians, someone owes LLVM a million bucks”</title><url>https://twitter.com/jckarter/status/1428093469755527168</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>ColinWright</author><text>(a) The test is the wrong way round for the Collatz Conjecture;&lt;p&gt;(b) The Collatz Conjecture isn&amp;#x27;t one of the Millennium problems;&lt;p&gt;(c) It&amp;#x27;s using bounded numbers in the range where the Collatz Conjecture is known to be true;&lt;p&gt;(d) It seems reasonable to say &amp;quot;If this routine exits then the value will be &amp;quot;true&amp;quot;;&lt;p&gt;(e) None of what I say here is deep or new, so when people get excited about this sort of thing it makes me wonder what I&amp;#x27;ve missed.&lt;p&gt;So ... what have I missed?</text></comment>

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<story><title>Better and Faster Large Language Models via Multi-Token Prediction</title><url>https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.19737</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>deskamess</author><text>Side track: There is so much going on this space. I wish there was a chronological flow of a machine learning scenario&amp;#x2F;story with all the terms being introduced as we meet them (data, pre-training, training, inference, mixture of experts, RAG). Like someone walking me through a factory explaining what happens at each stage (like Mr Rogers used to do). Most of the time I do not know where the terms fit in the big picture. When I first came across pre-training I thought it was something done to the data before training happened but it was actually another training.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>berkes</author><text>&amp;gt; Most of the time I do not know where the terms fit in the big picture.&lt;p&gt;Nor do the majority of &amp;quot;AI&amp;quot; experts and consultants that I see on LinkedIn, Twitter or in podcasts.&lt;p&gt;The S&amp;#x2F;N ratio is very low in this field. Just pick some documentation from &amp;quot;industry leaders&amp;quot; like Langchain and see that not only is it already and always outdated, it sometimes simply contradicts itself.&lt;p&gt;In the &amp;quot;blockchain hype&amp;quot; this was similar, so I guess it&amp;#x27;s a trait of the hype train.</text></comment>

<story><title>Better and Faster Large Language Models via Multi-Token Prediction</title><url>https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.19737</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>deskamess</author><text>Side track: There is so much going on this space. I wish there was a chronological flow of a machine learning scenario&amp;#x2F;story with all the terms being introduced as we meet them (data, pre-training, training, inference, mixture of experts, RAG). Like someone walking me through a factory explaining what happens at each stage (like Mr Rogers used to do). Most of the time I do not know where the terms fit in the big picture. When I first came across pre-training I thought it was something done to the data before training happened but it was actually another training.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>highwaylights</author><text>I feel your pain and excitement in equal measure.&lt;p&gt;It can be hard to know where to start with some of these concepts, especially so given that a lot of recent developments (e.g. RAG) are developing so rapidly that there’s unlikely to be a reference book you could refer to anytime soon that would be current.&lt;p&gt;That said, I do find that documentation is getting better depending on where you look. The documentation for higher level tools like LlamaIndex is a good starting point for understanding the concepts (not so much in terms of &lt;i&gt;explaining&lt;/i&gt; the concepts, but showing where they fit into the overall picture, then you can deep-dive elsewhere on the different parts).&lt;p&gt;YouTube has always been a mixed bag of very little solid information in a sea of non-experts trying to attract clicks for the latest trends, so it’s not a great starting point IMHO.</text></comment>

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<story><title>There is now a European standard for measuring how easy it is to repair stuff</title><url>https://de.ifixit.com/News/35879/repairability-standard-en45554</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ThePhysicist</author><text>Apple seems to be one of the worst offenders in terms of repairability of their devices. You can watch e.g. Louis Rossmann&amp;#x27;s videos on Youtube, he goes into great detail on how Apple tries to make it impossible for anyone except themselves to service their laptops, even going as far as to restrict market suppliers from selling specific microchips (that were not invented by Apple) to anyone but Apple.&lt;p&gt;I imagine this will only become worse as they switch to their own CPUs in the near future. I expect that Macs will become more like iPhones in that Apple will restrict more and more which software you can easily run on them and how you can extend the devices.&lt;p&gt;Other manufacturers like Dell or Lenovo do a much better job in terms of repairability IMHO: They build their machines with mostly standard components that can be easily replaced and make them easy to open and service. Compare that to recent Apple devices: If you want more RAM or storage in your device they charge you 5-10 times the market price. They also make sure you will never be able to upgrade those things yourself by soldering them to the mainboard.</text></item><item><author>_ph_</author><text>Whenever repairability of modern electronic devices is discussed, I have to look at my mechanical wristwatch. Yes, there is an enormeous amount of technology integrated into a smartphone or compact laptop, but my wristwatch contains over 100 moving parts in a tiny volume. And still, every trained watchmaker can open and service it. It requires specialized tools, but those have been avialable to watchmakers for hundreds of years. A time traveller could buy a current Rolex and have it serviced in 1950, possibly even in 1850. The watchmakers of those times wouldn&amp;#x27;t have access to the right spare parts - those are surprisingly high-tech, but basic service would be possible.&lt;p&gt;And that is why I cannot stand the current state of repairs in the electronic world. I am especially looking at Apple in this respect, because they have demonstrated a surprising skill at making things repairable, which they want to be serviceable. Just look at the brilliant mount for the USB ports in the new Air.&lt;p&gt;While end-user serviceability might not be desirable for something highly-integrated, the benchmark really should be whether someone trained like a watch-maker has the ability to service a device. Which would be great for the local economy wherever in the world a customer is, because traditionally most towns would have at least one watchmaker, a well paid professional who would keep the money local vs. creating more electronic waste and shipping a new device around the world.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>theandrewbailey</author><text>I watched one of Louis&amp;#x27; videos[0] yesterday where he doesn&amp;#x27;t think Apple&amp;#x27;s ARM transition won&amp;#x27;t make things harder. He mentions that CPU failure is rare, and replacement CPUs aren&amp;#x27;t easy to get today, because they are salvaged from other machines, and can&amp;#x27;t be ordered from places like Newegg or Amazon. Almost all of his repairs involve components that aren&amp;#x27;t the CPU.&lt;p&gt;[0] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;youtu.be&amp;#x2F;T_2LnFAGypM?t=175&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;youtu.be&amp;#x2F;T_2LnFAGypM?t=175&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>

<story><title>There is now a European standard for measuring how easy it is to repair stuff</title><url>https://de.ifixit.com/News/35879/repairability-standard-en45554</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ThePhysicist</author><text>Apple seems to be one of the worst offenders in terms of repairability of their devices. You can watch e.g. Louis Rossmann&amp;#x27;s videos on Youtube, he goes into great detail on how Apple tries to make it impossible for anyone except themselves to service their laptops, even going as far as to restrict market suppliers from selling specific microchips (that were not invented by Apple) to anyone but Apple.&lt;p&gt;I imagine this will only become worse as they switch to their own CPUs in the near future. I expect that Macs will become more like iPhones in that Apple will restrict more and more which software you can easily run on them and how you can extend the devices.&lt;p&gt;Other manufacturers like Dell or Lenovo do a much better job in terms of repairability IMHO: They build their machines with mostly standard components that can be easily replaced and make them easy to open and service. Compare that to recent Apple devices: If you want more RAM or storage in your device they charge you 5-10 times the market price. They also make sure you will never be able to upgrade those things yourself by soldering them to the mainboard.</text></item><item><author>_ph_</author><text>Whenever repairability of modern electronic devices is discussed, I have to look at my mechanical wristwatch. Yes, there is an enormeous amount of technology integrated into a smartphone or compact laptop, but my wristwatch contains over 100 moving parts in a tiny volume. And still, every trained watchmaker can open and service it. It requires specialized tools, but those have been avialable to watchmakers for hundreds of years. A time traveller could buy a current Rolex and have it serviced in 1950, possibly even in 1850. The watchmakers of those times wouldn&amp;#x27;t have access to the right spare parts - those are surprisingly high-tech, but basic service would be possible.&lt;p&gt;And that is why I cannot stand the current state of repairs in the electronic world. I am especially looking at Apple in this respect, because they have demonstrated a surprising skill at making things repairable, which they want to be serviceable. Just look at the brilliant mount for the USB ports in the new Air.&lt;p&gt;While end-user serviceability might not be desirable for something highly-integrated, the benchmark really should be whether someone trained like a watch-maker has the ability to service a device. Which would be great for the local economy wherever in the world a customer is, because traditionally most towns would have at least one watchmaker, a well paid professional who would keep the money local vs. creating more electronic waste and shipping a new device around the world.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Scoundreller</author><text>On the other side, Apple’s approach means I’ve been able to re-capture about 50%+ of my 3-4 year old MacBook Airs by parting them out, instead of nearly 0 for commodity laptops.&lt;p&gt;It really reduced my TCO instead of letting that get captured by 3rd party manufactures.</text></comment>

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<story><title>McMaster researchers may have found a way to restore metabolism to youth levels</title><url>http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/hamilton/news/want-to-eat-like-a-teen-again-science-may-have-found-a-way-1.2862231</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>tempestn</author><text>I don&amp;#x27;t really understand the comments here, and especially on the article itself, deriding this research because &amp;quot;people should just get off their butts and exercise&amp;quot; or similar. I&amp;#x27;m sure the researchers wouldn&amp;#x27;t dispute the benefits of exercise. But if there really is a safe, effective way to improve the metabolism and make it easier to keep off fat, why exactly is that a bad thing? (Naturally the research is far too early on to know that, but hypothetically speaking.) Of course you should continue to exercise and stay healthy in other ways, but that doesn&amp;#x27;t mean we shouldn&amp;#x27;t also look for other ways to make it easier for people to get to, or remain at, a healthy weight.</text></comment>

<story><title>McMaster researchers may have found a way to restore metabolism to youth levels</title><url>http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/hamilton/news/want-to-eat-like-a-teen-again-science-may-have-found-a-way-1.2862231</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>eldude</author><text>Based on the findings of this article, the OTC EGCG should &amp;quot;restore metabolism to youth levels.&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;Using a decarboxylase or AADC[0] inhibitor like EGCG[1] found in green tea extract limits peripheral serotonin metabolism, especially if you&amp;#x27;re supplementing with serotonin precursors like tryptophan or 5-HTP to avoid heart-valve issues.[2]&lt;p&gt;See Examine.com&amp;#x27;s note in the 5-HTP article[3] and the associated citation.[4] 800mg of EGCG 2 hours prior to supplementation demonstrated decarboxylase inhibition.&lt;p&gt;[0] &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aromatic_L-amino_acid_decarboxylase&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Aromatic_L-amino_acid_decarboxy...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;[1] &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000MYW2ZA/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.amazon.com&amp;#x2F;gp&amp;#x2F;product&amp;#x2F;B000MYW2ZA&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;[2] &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15781732&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov&amp;#x2F;pubmed&amp;#x2F;15781732&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;[3] &lt;a href=&quot;http://examine.com/supplements/5-HTP/#summary5-1&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;examine.com&amp;#x2F;supplements&amp;#x2F;5-HTP&amp;#x2F;#summary5-1&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;[4] &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11374875&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov&amp;#x2F;pubmed&amp;#x2F;11374875&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>

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<story><title>G7: Rich nations back deal to tax multinationals</title><url>https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-57368247</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>lars512</author><text>As an Australian who moved to Sweden, I was amazed at how efficient the Swedish income tax process was. The government already knew everything they needed to calculate your return, and gave it pre-filled. There were not endless exemptions. Nobody at my work used an accountant, most approved their tax with a few clicks and were done. So much more efficient than in Australia!</text></item><item><author>MrPowers</author><text>The deadweight loss of taxation is much lower for a land tax than an income tax. The deadweight loss is the economic resources allocated to complying with the tax. The armies of tax lawyers would be able to perform other economically productive activities if they weren&amp;#x27;t pouring over the tax code.&lt;p&gt;Pigovian taxation is even better. Taxing gas is a great example. Gas consumers emit carbon which has a cost for society. We should make them pay for this negative externality via a gas tax, so their consumption is economically optimal. This is how to prevent the Tragedy of the Commons.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;d argue that some taxes are objectively better than others and not all equally wrong.</text></item><item><author>PaulRobinson</author><text>If you’re going down this route, many will argue that all forms of income tax are equally “wrong”.&lt;p&gt;Henry George - a 19th century political economist - proposed exactly this, and suggested the only thing that should be taxed should be land: impossible to hide from a tax inspector, potentially a waste to the public commons if useful land that could be exploited isn’t and you can even protect land you wish to keep pristine more easily (tax it very, very highly).&lt;p&gt;His ideas are now considered eccentric, but I do wonder if the World would be a great deal simpler if globally we moved to a Henry George system and stopped trying to tax sales, income and everything else going we do.</text></item><item><author>rjknight</author><text>I do wonder if we wouldn&amp;#x27;t be better off eliminating corporation tax entirely.&lt;p&gt;The revenue of a corporation can, roughly, be:&lt;p&gt;1. Spent on goods or services from another company (including freelancers, contractors, etc.)&lt;p&gt;2. Spent on rent&lt;p&gt;3. Spent on capital purchases&lt;p&gt;4. Spent on wages&lt;p&gt;5. Spent on debt repayment or other forms of financing&lt;p&gt;6. Paid out in dividends&lt;p&gt;7. Spent on share buybacks&lt;p&gt;8. Invested in something else&lt;p&gt;Items 1-5 are all good things that we want companies to do, and corporation tax is normally applied after this spending is accounted for. Items 6 and 7 ought to be taxed, and frequently are (dividends and buybacks create income for individuals who will pay tax on that income). Item 8 is a bit vaguer, but probably shouldn&amp;#x27;t be taxed in most cases (if we&amp;#x27;re worried about companies parking cash in very low-risk assets, then super-low yields are effectively a tax on that anyway).&lt;p&gt;All that the corporation tax adds to this picture is the creation of work in tax avoidance services, and an unjust inequality between those firms that can afford those services and are structured to take advantage of the rules, and those that can not and are not.&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s not obvious to me that corporation tax &amp;#x2F;can&amp;#x2F; be fixed, and so it may be better simply to scrap it and replace it with something more difficult to dodge.&lt;p&gt;EDIT: formatting</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>gambiting</author><text>In the UK if you&amp;#x27;re in full time employment and only have one job, then there&amp;#x27;s literally nothing to do. Not even clicking somewhere to approve your tax return - your employer does it all for you. I know people who are literally unaware when the tax year ends because they never in their entire adult lives had to do anything with the tax return - it&amp;#x27;s just completely irrelevant to a normal working person. And on the ocassion that you have to fill one out for whatever reason, most of it is already prefiled from the information HMRC holds about you already.</text></comment>

<story><title>G7: Rich nations back deal to tax multinationals</title><url>https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-57368247</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>lars512</author><text>As an Australian who moved to Sweden, I was amazed at how efficient the Swedish income tax process was. The government already knew everything they needed to calculate your return, and gave it pre-filled. There were not endless exemptions. Nobody at my work used an accountant, most approved their tax with a few clicks and were done. So much more efficient than in Australia!</text></item><item><author>MrPowers</author><text>The deadweight loss of taxation is much lower for a land tax than an income tax. The deadweight loss is the economic resources allocated to complying with the tax. The armies of tax lawyers would be able to perform other economically productive activities if they weren&amp;#x27;t pouring over the tax code.&lt;p&gt;Pigovian taxation is even better. Taxing gas is a great example. Gas consumers emit carbon which has a cost for society. We should make them pay for this negative externality via a gas tax, so their consumption is economically optimal. This is how to prevent the Tragedy of the Commons.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;d argue that some taxes are objectively better than others and not all equally wrong.</text></item><item><author>PaulRobinson</author><text>If you’re going down this route, many will argue that all forms of income tax are equally “wrong”.&lt;p&gt;Henry George - a 19th century political economist - proposed exactly this, and suggested the only thing that should be taxed should be land: impossible to hide from a tax inspector, potentially a waste to the public commons if useful land that could be exploited isn’t and you can even protect land you wish to keep pristine more easily (tax it very, very highly).&lt;p&gt;His ideas are now considered eccentric, but I do wonder if the World would be a great deal simpler if globally we moved to a Henry George system and stopped trying to tax sales, income and everything else going we do.</text></item><item><author>rjknight</author><text>I do wonder if we wouldn&amp;#x27;t be better off eliminating corporation tax entirely.&lt;p&gt;The revenue of a corporation can, roughly, be:&lt;p&gt;1. Spent on goods or services from another company (including freelancers, contractors, etc.)&lt;p&gt;2. Spent on rent&lt;p&gt;3. Spent on capital purchases&lt;p&gt;4. Spent on wages&lt;p&gt;5. Spent on debt repayment or other forms of financing&lt;p&gt;6. Paid out in dividends&lt;p&gt;7. Spent on share buybacks&lt;p&gt;8. Invested in something else&lt;p&gt;Items 1-5 are all good things that we want companies to do, and corporation tax is normally applied after this spending is accounted for. Items 6 and 7 ought to be taxed, and frequently are (dividends and buybacks create income for individuals who will pay tax on that income). Item 8 is a bit vaguer, but probably shouldn&amp;#x27;t be taxed in most cases (if we&amp;#x27;re worried about companies parking cash in very low-risk assets, then super-low yields are effectively a tax on that anyway).&lt;p&gt;All that the corporation tax adds to this picture is the creation of work in tax avoidance services, and an unjust inequality between those firms that can afford those services and are structured to take advantage of the rules, and those that can not and are not.&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s not obvious to me that corporation tax &amp;#x2F;can&amp;#x2F; be fixed, and so it may be better simply to scrap it and replace it with something more difficult to dodge.&lt;p&gt;EDIT: formatting</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>throwaway894345</author><text>The American tax system is similarly frustrating. I’m a senior engineer and I have a hard time navigating tax forms even with the help of Intuit, and it frustrates me that I have to pay Intuit (or someone else) to help me do taxes which are complicated in large part because Intuit et al lobby for complex tax codes and against the sort of Swedish model you describe.&lt;p&gt;Worse, when I moved to Chicago the state of Illinois &lt;i&gt;wouldn’t even accept my taxes electronically&lt;/i&gt; because their form required one of a handful of authentication methods—the only one of which that ought to have worked for me was to use my Illinois driver’s license number—a 12 digit sequence; however, their form only permitted 8 digits. It was a significant hassle just to get them to take my money.&lt;p&gt;I’ve also had difficulties figuring out how much to withhold. In the US they give us a form that calculates “allotments” (or something—I forget the term) but it’s unclear whether more of those correspond to more or less withholdings and in any case the form computed incorrectly for me for several years (I’m sure it was user error somehow and senior engineers are just not reliably smart enough to figure it out, even with the help of HR) and I would end up owing thousands in taxes as well as a separate penalty for not withholding enough.&lt;p&gt;It’s maddening that our government makes it so difficult for earnest people to pay their taxes.</text></comment>

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<story><title>TIS-100: the Programming Game You Never Asked For</title><url>http://blog.codinghorror.com/heres-the-programming-game-you-never-asked-for/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>SeanDav</author><text>I must be an exception (or a lousy programmer) because I do not particularly enjoy games that require programming to play, I write programs for fun (and programming for me is fun) and I play games for fun but have not found a game that appeals to me, that combines the two.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>electroly</author><text>I&amp;#x27;ve played a few hours of TIS-100 (Jeff is super late to the party). There&amp;#x27;s a line between &amp;quot;this is a fun intellectual puzzle&amp;quot; and &amp;quot;this is actually just work&amp;quot; and TIS-100 crosses that line for me. I really enjoyed SpaceChem and Infinifactory (the two Zachtronics games that preceded TIS-100) and they are on the good side of the line. Very enjoyable puzzle games, and &lt;i&gt;vastly&lt;/i&gt; better than any of the games mentioned in the article.</text></comment>

<story><title>TIS-100: the Programming Game You Never Asked For</title><url>http://blog.codinghorror.com/heres-the-programming-game-you-never-asked-for/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>SeanDav</author><text>I must be an exception (or a lousy programmer) because I do not particularly enjoy games that require programming to play, I write programs for fun (and programming for me is fun) and I play games for fun but have not found a game that appeals to me, that combines the two.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>falcolas</author><text>I fall in the same camp as you. I have played TIS and SpaceChem, though not to completion. After banging my head against one problem all night long, I decided I&amp;#x27;d have more fun just playing HotS or some other game instead.&lt;p&gt;The dopamine rush from solving a hard problem is pretty intense, but not worth the hours of frustration after more hours of frustration at my job.</text></comment>

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<story><title>NASA Has Been Hacked</title><url>https://www.forbes.com/sites/daveywinder/2019/06/20/confirmed-nasa-has-been-hacked/#7dbe7dc0dc62</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>chacha2</author><text>Wow. Try to opt out of their data tracking, an option they&amp;#x27;re required to add.&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;This may take up to a few minutes to process&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;They make you wait at this long ass loading screen while they &amp;quot;process&amp;quot; your request not to have cookies.&lt;p&gt;Here&amp;#x27;s the outline for people who don&amp;#x27;t want to wait minutes to read an article. &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;outline.com&amp;#x2F;TZSBv4&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;outline.com&amp;#x2F;TZSBv4&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>LeonM</author><text>I discussed this recently here on HN [0], the fake spinner is a dark-UI to &amp;#x27;punish&amp;#x27; you for opting out. If you just accept the popup disappears immediately.&lt;p&gt;[0] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&amp;#x2F;item?id=20131381&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&amp;#x2F;item?id=20131381&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>

<story><title>NASA Has Been Hacked</title><url>https://www.forbes.com/sites/daveywinder/2019/06/20/confirmed-nasa-has-been-hacked/#7dbe7dc0dc62</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>chacha2</author><text>Wow. Try to opt out of their data tracking, an option they&amp;#x27;re required to add.&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;This may take up to a few minutes to process&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;They make you wait at this long ass loading screen while they &amp;quot;process&amp;quot; your request not to have cookies.&lt;p&gt;Here&amp;#x27;s the outline for people who don&amp;#x27;t want to wait minutes to read an article. &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;outline.com&amp;#x2F;TZSBv4&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;outline.com&amp;#x2F;TZSBv4&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>giarc</author><text>I was going to screenshot that page. A small auto play video in bottom left corner, a top bar pop up to get the &amp;quot;latest updates from Forbes&amp;quot;, an email sign up for the Forbes Daily Dozen and in the background, blurred out is the article.</text></comment>

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<story><title>The value of an engineering degree</title><url>http://avc.com/2014/03/the-value-of-an-engineering-degree/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>m_ke</author><text>This is BS, most of these companies are looking for snowflakes from top 10 schools, who have been programming since they were in middle school.&lt;p&gt;I have plenty of competent friends who had a hard time finding anything better than an IT desk job after graduating from Stony Brook, NYU-Poly and City College.&lt;p&gt;Most smaller tech companies don&amp;#x27;t even consider training their new employees. Instead they want a &amp;#x27;ninja&amp;#x27; who is comfortable with their tech stack and can hit the ground running straight out of school. To make things worse 90% of them think their analytics platform or social network for cats is the next Google, so they put their candidates through ridiculous interviews that have nothing to do with writing CRUD apps.&lt;p&gt;I even know people here at Columbia University who didn&amp;#x27;t get any good offers outside of finance.</text></comment>

<story><title>The value of an engineering degree</title><url>http://avc.com/2014/03/the-value-of-an-engineering-degree/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>meritt</author><text>You can also make an incredible ROI by not paying for an expensive degree and instead gain knowledge &amp;amp; experience through other means (teach yourself, free online courses, open-source projects, paid internships, etc). Just take a look at today&amp;#x27;s &amp;quot;Who is hiring?&amp;quot; [1] and you&amp;#x27;ll notice very few list degree requirements. Most are looking for a combination of experience and knowledge.&lt;p&gt;[1] &lt;a href=&quot;https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7507765&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&amp;#x2F;item?id=7507765&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>

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<story><title>Take Naps at Work</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/23/smarter-living/take-naps-at-work-apologize-to-no-one.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>dang</author><text>&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&amp;#x2F;item?id=14651287&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&amp;#x2F;item?id=14651287&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>

<story><title>Take Naps at Work</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/23/smarter-living/take-naps-at-work-apologize-to-no-one.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>albertgoeswoof</author><text>Napping at work is a great idea if you want to be more productive, learn faster and improve your cognitive ability. It&amp;#x27;s also a neat way of making your colleagues and management think you&amp;#x27;re lazy.</text></comment>

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<story><title>Telegram gains 1M users after Whatsapp ban</title><url>http://thephonesgsm.blogspot.com/2015/12/telegram-gains-1-million-users-after.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>bmelton</author><text>&amp;gt; No right is absolute, and that includes the right to privacy. Criminals, for example, simply don&amp;#x27;t have it.&lt;p&gt;I know nothing of Brazilian law, but in America, criminals have rights, including the right to privacy. Convicted criminals and convicted felons do not, but that is an entirely different category, and your wording seems woefully imprecise.&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; Do you guys think that pedophiles, terrorists and drug dealers have the right to privacy ? I don&amp;#x27;t.&lt;p&gt;&lt;i&gt;Alleged&lt;/i&gt; pedophiles, terrorists and drug dealers have the full panoply of rights available to them as anyone else until such time as enough supporting evidence may be provided that the police can say that a) a crime has been committed, b) the alleged had the means to have committed the crime, c) the alleged had the motive to have committed the crime, d) the alleged had the opportunity to have committed the crime, and often e) the alleged is very likely to have committed the crime.&lt;p&gt;Only after THAT hurdle is cleared may the rights of the alleged criminal be intruded upon by the state, and without a grand jury, even those intrusions must be minimally invasive.&lt;p&gt;At least in America, a judge cannot issue a warrant for the wiretaps you described on the mere accusation that &amp;quot;so and so is a {pedophile,terrorist,drug dealer}.&amp;quot;</text></item><item><author>pqdbr</author><text>I&amp;#x27;m a judge in Brazil. Even tough I&amp;#x27;d pray to not be the one that had to give such an impopular order (affecting more then 100 million Brazilians - WhatsApp is really a hit here), we have laws in this country and we must prosecute criminals.&lt;p&gt;Mark&amp;#x27;s talk about privacy is, in my opinion, totally misplaced. No right is absolute, and that includes the right to privacy. Criminals, for example, simply don&amp;#x27;t have it. This is not me saying; this is our Constitution saying it (and the Constitution of every Western country that I know).&lt;p&gt;We are biased to see all measures against privacy with bad eyes, specially after Snowden. But that&amp;#x27;s because you are good people and see the matter with those eyes, not with the eyes of a criminal. Do you guys think that pedophiles, terrorists and drug dealers have the right to privacy ? I don&amp;#x27;t.&lt;p&gt;Also, what the NSA was (is?) doing is a complete absurd, with no judicial oversight, mass collecting everything they can get in secrecy. This has nothing to do with what we have here. In Brazil, only a judge can authorize someone to be wiretapped, it can only be done in criminal cases with jail time (no civil cases). Also, the judge must specify a single phone number or single e-mail account and the decision must be reviewed every 15 days, otherwise it expires. Also, there&amp;#x27;s a national database of wiretaps that every judge must feed by the end of the month, specifying how many wiretaps there are currently running.&lt;p&gt;WhatsApp and Facebook are not, by any means, above the law. If they want to provide a communication service here, the law is clear that they must abide by judicial orders that allow wiretapping in very specific cases.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>will_brown</author><text>&amp;gt;Alleged pedophiles, terrorists and drug dealers have the full panoply of rights available...&lt;p&gt;For starters, lets throw &lt;i&gt;right to privacy&lt;/i&gt; out the window, from the US perspective what we are talking about is 4th Amendment &amp;quot;right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures.&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt;Only after THAT hurdle is cleared may the rights of the alleged criminal be intruded upon by the state...&lt;p&gt;No. In many instances police are not limited to obtaining a warrant&amp;#x2F;judicial oversight before conducting searches and seizures (including communications). Just a few examples: (a) if an officer conducts a lawful traffic stop, and smells marijuana (plain-view&amp;#x2F;plain-smell doctrine) the officer can lawfully search your person and the vehicle,seizing any evidence of a crime, even if unrelated to marijuana; or (b) subsequent to a DUI arrest, an officer can impound the vehicle and conduct a search&amp;#x2F;inventory of the vehicle and seize any evidence of a crime (even unrelated to the DUI). These are some of the many lawful Government searches and seizures without prior judicial approval.&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt;At least in America, a judge cannot issue a warrant for the wiretaps you described on the mere accusation that &amp;quot;so and so is a {pedophile,terrorist,drug dealer}.&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;A judge certainly can issue a warrant based on accusation as long as the judge makes a finding there is probable cause. In fact an officer can obtain a warrant from a Judge based on an anonymous tip, or what would be called hearsay evidence which would be inadmissible in an actual trial.</text></comment>

<story><title>Telegram gains 1M users after Whatsapp ban</title><url>http://thephonesgsm.blogspot.com/2015/12/telegram-gains-1-million-users-after.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>bmelton</author><text>&amp;gt; No right is absolute, and that includes the right to privacy. Criminals, for example, simply don&amp;#x27;t have it.&lt;p&gt;I know nothing of Brazilian law, but in America, criminals have rights, including the right to privacy. Convicted criminals and convicted felons do not, but that is an entirely different category, and your wording seems woefully imprecise.&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; Do you guys think that pedophiles, terrorists and drug dealers have the right to privacy ? I don&amp;#x27;t.&lt;p&gt;&lt;i&gt;Alleged&lt;/i&gt; pedophiles, terrorists and drug dealers have the full panoply of rights available to them as anyone else until such time as enough supporting evidence may be provided that the police can say that a) a crime has been committed, b) the alleged had the means to have committed the crime, c) the alleged had the motive to have committed the crime, d) the alleged had the opportunity to have committed the crime, and often e) the alleged is very likely to have committed the crime.&lt;p&gt;Only after THAT hurdle is cleared may the rights of the alleged criminal be intruded upon by the state, and without a grand jury, even those intrusions must be minimally invasive.&lt;p&gt;At least in America, a judge cannot issue a warrant for the wiretaps you described on the mere accusation that &amp;quot;so and so is a {pedophile,terrorist,drug dealer}.&amp;quot;</text></item><item><author>pqdbr</author><text>I&amp;#x27;m a judge in Brazil. Even tough I&amp;#x27;d pray to not be the one that had to give such an impopular order (affecting more then 100 million Brazilians - WhatsApp is really a hit here), we have laws in this country and we must prosecute criminals.&lt;p&gt;Mark&amp;#x27;s talk about privacy is, in my opinion, totally misplaced. No right is absolute, and that includes the right to privacy. Criminals, for example, simply don&amp;#x27;t have it. This is not me saying; this is our Constitution saying it (and the Constitution of every Western country that I know).&lt;p&gt;We are biased to see all measures against privacy with bad eyes, specially after Snowden. But that&amp;#x27;s because you are good people and see the matter with those eyes, not with the eyes of a criminal. Do you guys think that pedophiles, terrorists and drug dealers have the right to privacy ? I don&amp;#x27;t.&lt;p&gt;Also, what the NSA was (is?) doing is a complete absurd, with no judicial oversight, mass collecting everything they can get in secrecy. This has nothing to do with what we have here. In Brazil, only a judge can authorize someone to be wiretapped, it can only be done in criminal cases with jail time (no civil cases). Also, the judge must specify a single phone number or single e-mail account and the decision must be reviewed every 15 days, otherwise it expires. Also, there&amp;#x27;s a national database of wiretaps that every judge must feed by the end of the month, specifying how many wiretaps there are currently running.&lt;p&gt;WhatsApp and Facebook are not, by any means, above the law. If they want to provide a communication service here, the law is clear that they must abide by judicial orders that allow wiretapping in very specific cases.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Brakenshire</author><text>&amp;gt; I know nothing of Brazilian law, but in America, criminals have rights, including the right to privacy.&lt;p&gt;I think your post rests on uncharitably interpreting what he means by absolute rights. Your post itself is a demonstration that the right to privacy is not absolute - if the criteria you describe are met, a wiretap can be permitted. He was talking about the fundamental question of whether or not a state has the right to set and apply those criteria (at least, within reasonable limits) within its borders.</text></comment>

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<story><title>Ask HN: Full-text browser history search forever?</title><text>My biggest force-multiplier is my fish shell history, going on 7 years of command line history.&lt;p&gt;I want to do the same thing for my web browser. At first I looked at Memex but they disabled browser history search. You have to save or annotate an article first before it becomes searchable. My brain, naturally, does not know ahead of time what could be useful in the future.&lt;p&gt;Is there any product out there that creates a fully searchable full-text history forever with little fuss?&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;m using Firefox on Linux but could switch to another browser (but not OS) if needed.</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>graderjs</author><text>Hey. My project Diskernet does this: full text search over browser history.&lt;p&gt;Put it in &amp;quot;save&amp;quot; mode when using Chrome (linux is fine) and it automatically saves every page you browse (so you can read it offline), and also indexes it for full text search. It&amp;#x27;s a work in progress and there are bugs (so my advice initialize a git repo in your archive directory, and make regular syncs to a remote in case of failure -- that also gives you a nice snapshotted archive).&lt;p&gt;Anyway, best of luck to you! :)&lt;p&gt;Diskernet: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;github.com&amp;#x2F;crisdosyago&amp;#x2F;Diskernet&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;github.com&amp;#x2F;crisdosyago&amp;#x2F;Diskernet&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ksec</author><text>&amp;gt;22120 is licensed under Polyform Strict License 1.0.0 (no modification, no distribution).&lt;p&gt;So this is basically Freeware &amp;#x2F; Shareware in the old days but with Source available? i.e not Open Source as defined by OSS. Do we have a term for it? Shared Source? I know Microsoft tried to use it but it was early 2000 anything M$ did at the time were extremely unpopular.&lt;p&gt;Will be trying this out soon because I just realise either half of the internet in the past 10 years have eroded, or Google simply cant search something I am sure I read about it 6-7 years ago.</text></comment>

<story><title>Ask HN: Full-text browser history search forever?</title><text>My biggest force-multiplier is my fish shell history, going on 7 years of command line history.&lt;p&gt;I want to do the same thing for my web browser. At first I looked at Memex but they disabled browser history search. You have to save or annotate an article first before it becomes searchable. My brain, naturally, does not know ahead of time what could be useful in the future.&lt;p&gt;Is there any product out there that creates a fully searchable full-text history forever with little fuss?&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;m using Firefox on Linux but could switch to another browser (but not OS) if needed.</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>graderjs</author><text>Hey. My project Diskernet does this: full text search over browser history.&lt;p&gt;Put it in &amp;quot;save&amp;quot; mode when using Chrome (linux is fine) and it automatically saves every page you browse (so you can read it offline), and also indexes it for full text search. It&amp;#x27;s a work in progress and there are bugs (so my advice initialize a git repo in your archive directory, and make regular syncs to a remote in case of failure -- that also gives you a nice snapshotted archive).&lt;p&gt;Anyway, best of luck to you! :)&lt;p&gt;Diskernet: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;github.com&amp;#x2F;crisdosyago&amp;#x2F;Diskernet&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;github.com&amp;#x2F;crisdosyago&amp;#x2F;Diskernet&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>danuker</author><text>The claims are impressive: that the network requests are saved, not the document after the page is loaded. I will certainly give it a try!&lt;p&gt;One downside: only works with Chrome-based browsers. Perhaps a way to implement this more generally is as a proxy server.</text></comment>

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<story><title>Illustrations of Japan’s “unseen” workforce of trains that work at night (2019)</title><url>https://www.spoon-tamago.com/toei-project-unseen-maintenance-trains/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>deebosong</author><text>I gotta agree with this.&lt;p&gt;If I&amp;#x27;m waiting at 2am for a subway in NYC for 1 hr, versus waiting 6 hours for the first subway to kick back in if it&amp;#x27;s say, 12:01am in Japan or South Korea? Then IMHO it&amp;#x27;s better to just eat the cost, take a taxi, feel the burn of $100 to get home vs. say $2-4 for a 3am subway ride, and give the NYC MTA subway system time to work on repairs, renovations, additions, etc.&lt;p&gt;24 hour subway leaves no time at all to do any maintenance.&lt;p&gt;I really, really, really really really wish that NYC would just straight up plagiarize Japan or South Korea for their metro systems. Even their &amp;quot;next stop&amp;quot; displays are far superior than what NYC currently has.&lt;p&gt;One can dream...</text></item><item><author>decafninja</author><text>NYC is proud of its 24&amp;#x2F;7 subway service. Tell a NYer another city’s subways are better because of XYZ and they’ll shake their fist and say “but we have 24&amp;#x2F;7 service and they don’t!”&lt;p&gt;But I can’t feel part of the reason for the NYC subways many woes is because of the 24&amp;#x2F;7 service and the lack of maintenance and cleanup.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>throwaway2037</author><text>&lt;p&gt;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt; 24 hour subway leaves no time at all to do any maintenance. &lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt; This is incorrect. The NYC subway has a huge amount of extra tracks (side tracks and local&amp;#x2F;express tracks). I would hazard a guess to say more than any other system in the world. (How many other systems in the world have so many local &amp;amp; express tracks? It is incredibly rare.) This allows them to run maintenance at night, while there are much fewer regular trains running. This is partly why you need to wait so long for a train between 2 AM and 6 AM. A long time ago when I lived in NYC, during these &amp;quot;dead hours&amp;quot;, waiting at a station, I would frequently see maintenance trains passing through the station.&lt;p&gt;To me, the real purpose of 24 hour train service is make the city a &amp;quot;24 hour city&amp;quot; -- for economic purposes. People working late shifts in office buildings (cleaners, maintenance) or factories (food, clothing, whatever) or restaurants&amp;#x2F;bars&amp;#x2F;nightlife can all use a very cheap, albeit slow, delayed, and low quality, metro 24 hours a day. What is strange to me: Why not replace nice service with bus service? It would be cheaper to run and they could spend more time maintaining the tracks below.&lt;p&gt;Last question: How many 24x7x365 metro systems exist in the world? I struggle to think of five.</text></comment>

<story><title>Illustrations of Japan’s “unseen” workforce of trains that work at night (2019)</title><url>https://www.spoon-tamago.com/toei-project-unseen-maintenance-trains/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>deebosong</author><text>I gotta agree with this.&lt;p&gt;If I&amp;#x27;m waiting at 2am for a subway in NYC for 1 hr, versus waiting 6 hours for the first subway to kick back in if it&amp;#x27;s say, 12:01am in Japan or South Korea? Then IMHO it&amp;#x27;s better to just eat the cost, take a taxi, feel the burn of $100 to get home vs. say $2-4 for a 3am subway ride, and give the NYC MTA subway system time to work on repairs, renovations, additions, etc.&lt;p&gt;24 hour subway leaves no time at all to do any maintenance.&lt;p&gt;I really, really, really really really wish that NYC would just straight up plagiarize Japan or South Korea for their metro systems. Even their &amp;quot;next stop&amp;quot; displays are far superior than what NYC currently has.&lt;p&gt;One can dream...</text></item><item><author>decafninja</author><text>NYC is proud of its 24&amp;#x2F;7 subway service. Tell a NYer another city’s subways are better because of XYZ and they’ll shake their fist and say “but we have 24&amp;#x2F;7 service and they don’t!”&lt;p&gt;But I can’t feel part of the reason for the NYC subways many woes is because of the 24&amp;#x2F;7 service and the lack of maintenance and cleanup.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>asdff</author><text>NYC subway is basically a situation where the horse stable owners got their industry codified into the law. For example, there is a pension earning position on each train that is merely responsible for closing the doors, because this was needed with the technology of the time a century ago, but the transit workers union has ensured this good paying job will not be eliminated now that we have came up with ideas to solve the operator closing door issue (like a platform mirror). Now labor costs are twice as high for no good reason to run a train, since NYC subway needs to run them with two people while other transit agencies can run them with just one, or entirely autonomously even. Chances are there are a lot more positions like this, completely vestigial at this point, adding to overhead, but to be preserved seemingly until the end of time so that no one is told the bad news that their job no longer exists.</text></comment>

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<story><title>Voith Schneider Propeller</title><url>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voith_Schneider_Propeller</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>ur-whale</author><text>The company that manufactures these is interesting in itself: an archetypal family-owned German business that has managed to survive for almost 200 years [1]&lt;p&gt;There&amp;#x27;s quite a few of those type of companies left in Germany, I wonder if there are similar examples in the US.&lt;p&gt;[1] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Voith&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Voith&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>

<story><title>Voith Schneider Propeller</title><url>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voith_Schneider_Propeller</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>barbazoo</author><text>This video shows the thrust and motion vectors: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;m.youtube.com&amp;#x2F;watch?v=HyJHX6MZOWg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;m.youtube.com&amp;#x2F;watch?v=HyJHX6MZOWg&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>

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<story><title>Clash over Surveillance Software Turns Personal in Germany</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-10-13/clash-over-surveillance-software-turns-personal-in-germany</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>sveme</author><text>I&amp;#x27;m always wondering how the software developers of FinFisher justify working for such shady players like Turkey and other middle east authoritarian regimes. Are they heading home to family and kids after destroying the remnants of the turkish democracy and tell themselves &amp;quot;twas a good day&amp;quot;?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>bigiain</author><text>&amp;quot;It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon his not understanding it.&amp;quot; -- Upton Sinclair</text></comment>

<story><title>Clash over Surveillance Software Turns Personal in Germany</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-10-13/clash-over-surveillance-software-turns-personal-in-germany</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>sveme</author><text>I&amp;#x27;m always wondering how the software developers of FinFisher justify working for such shady players like Turkey and other middle east authoritarian regimes. Are they heading home to family and kids after destroying the remnants of the turkish democracy and tell themselves &amp;quot;twas a good day&amp;quot;?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>pimmen</author><text>I just don&amp;#x27;t think they care, and they&amp;#x27;re under the assumption nobody else cares too.&lt;p&gt;I work for a news publisher in Sweden, and when we got acquired by a larger one the CTO of that company held a huge speech about why working for a news companty was so much more rewarding than working for Spotify. You get to make sure democracy functions, keeping the power in check. Sure, we can&amp;#x27;t pay you as much as Spotify, and it will not look as good on your cv, but at least you can go home and get a good night&amp;#x27;s rest knowing you did good. After the speech, minutes later, it was announced to us that this would probably be last time we saw him since he was going to start working for an online gambling business. Kind of took the air out of that whole spiel.</text></comment>

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<story><title>Amazon S3’s 15th Birthday: 5,475 Days and 100T Objects</title><url>https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/amazon-s3s-15th-birthday-it-is-still-day-1-after-5475-days-100-trillion-objects/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>simonebrunozzi</author><text>If you&amp;#x27;re curious about some &amp;quot;S3 internals&amp;quot;, this is a talk I gave in 2009 [0], based on a ton of interesting stuff that S3&amp;#x27;s then-GM Alyssa Henry [1] shared with me.&lt;p&gt;[0]: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;vimeo.com&amp;#x2F;7330740&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;vimeo.com&amp;#x2F;7330740&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;[1]: &lt;a href=&quot;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;itc.conversationsnetwork.org&amp;#x2F;shows&amp;#x2F;detail5273.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;itc.conversationsnetwork.org&amp;#x2F;shows&amp;#x2F;detail5273.html&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>

<story><title>Amazon S3’s 15th Birthday: 5,475 Days and 100T Objects</title><url>https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/amazon-s3s-15th-birthday-it-is-still-day-1-after-5475-days-100-trillion-objects/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>TedDoesntTalk</author><text>&amp;gt; S3 is designed to provide “11 9’s” (99.999999999%) of durability&lt;p&gt;Has anyone lost data on S3 or know anyone who has?</text></comment>

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<story><title>Spotify won&apos;t open-source Car Thing, but starts refund process</title><url>https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/05/spotify-wont-open-source-car-thing-but-starts-refund-process/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>bravetraveler</author><text>Conversely, stop voting for people that need coerced to their job. I know this is reductive - save your fingers.&lt;p&gt;Write, but do the not-vote-thing if they don&amp;#x27;t listen. The desire to not be hoodwinked has already been expressed. Just not this specific way.&lt;p&gt;Or, expressed more positively I guess, vote for those who don&amp;#x27;t need goaded to do the obviously good thing.</text></item><item><author>complaintdept</author><text>Write your elected representatives, preferably by snail mail (they take it more seriously that way). With Right to Repair being talked about so much right now, the time could be right to get this into the public mind. Car Thing could be what nucleates anti bricking legislation.</text></item><item><author>Philip-J-Fry</author><text>Are they just banking on people not caring enough or knowing about the refund process? Clearly it can&amp;#x27;t be better off for them to refund hundreds of thousands maybe even 1m+ people.&lt;p&gt;We need laws that step in to make this impossible. Hardware should be designed so that it can be reused. Make it so that people can just reflash the memory at a minimum. There&amp;#x27;s no reason for something like this to become e-waste. And the excuse being Spotify wanting to protect their brand should not stand.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jvanderbot</author><text>There are a whole bunch of &amp;quot;Right&amp;quot; things to do. How does one choose? By listening to the people who they represent &lt;i&gt;in real time&lt;/i&gt;.&lt;p&gt;Otherwise, how can they possibly set priorities once during election season &lt;i&gt;for the whole term for any possible future issue&lt;/i&gt;?&lt;p&gt;Democracy is closed-loop control. You need a feedback signal. It&amp;#x27;s a feature - not a bug.</text></comment>

<story><title>Spotify won&apos;t open-source Car Thing, but starts refund process</title><url>https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/05/spotify-wont-open-source-car-thing-but-starts-refund-process/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>bravetraveler</author><text>Conversely, stop voting for people that need coerced to their job. I know this is reductive - save your fingers.&lt;p&gt;Write, but do the not-vote-thing if they don&amp;#x27;t listen. The desire to not be hoodwinked has already been expressed. Just not this specific way.&lt;p&gt;Or, expressed more positively I guess, vote for those who don&amp;#x27;t need goaded to do the obviously good thing.</text></item><item><author>complaintdept</author><text>Write your elected representatives, preferably by snail mail (they take it more seriously that way). With Right to Repair being talked about so much right now, the time could be right to get this into the public mind. Car Thing could be what nucleates anti bricking legislation.</text></item><item><author>Philip-J-Fry</author><text>Are they just banking on people not caring enough or knowing about the refund process? Clearly it can&amp;#x27;t be better off for them to refund hundreds of thousands maybe even 1m+ people.&lt;p&gt;We need laws that step in to make this impossible. Hardware should be designed so that it can be reused. Make it so that people can just reflash the memory at a minimum. There&amp;#x27;s no reason for something like this to become e-waste. And the excuse being Spotify wanting to protect their brand should not stand.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>croes</author><text>How does the not-vote-thing help?&lt;p&gt;The result is calculated on the basis of the votes cast.&lt;p&gt;So if you have 10 votes of 20 possible you get 50%, if 5 don&amp;#x27;t vote it&amp;#x27;s 10 out of 15 = 66.6%</text></comment>

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<story><title>SSLsplit – Transparent and scalable SSL/TLS interception</title><url>http://www.roe.ch/SSLsplit</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>bitexploder</author><text>A few things for everyone to think about. This tool seems to be aimed more on the non-interactive side. There are several other good tools out there which do this, but most of them are not oriented towards performing software assessments. Webmitm does good for HTTP&amp;#x2F;HTTPS, as does Burp Suite (transparent non-proxy aware stuff). There are a lot of tools in this space. There are very few that will let you interactively debug non-HTTP(s) TCP and SSL.&lt;p&gt;I released a tool with a colleague back in 2010 designed for assessing non-proxy aware (mostly non-HTTP(S)) applications. It was aimed at getting those hard to reach TCP and SSL wrapped TCP apps that other proxies don&amp;#x27;t let you work with interactively. Mallory does the exact same on the fly cert generation etc. As does Burp Suite a professional grade HTTP proxy, that can operate in transparent mode. I much prefer Burp to webmitm for day to day work.&lt;p&gt;SSL Split also supports more NAT mechanisms than Mallory and most other tools (which just tend to be iptables&amp;#x2F;Linux aware). That is one of the real nice pieces of this code.&lt;p&gt;We did add in a few neat things into Mallory. SSH MiTM that, when it works, lets you open up your own PTYs on the back of the user&amp;#x27;s SSH session. A GUI that lets you do binary level regex to play with traffic on the fly. HTTP plugins along with a Chrome extension for hijacking sessions and some other fun things, which were mostly just for demonstration of what a MiTM proxy can do and be. Making a MiTM proxy protocol aware can be very powerful. Mallory is still a little buggy and tricky to use, but it has served me well in performing blackbox app assessments for many years.&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://bitexploder.com/BlackHat-USA-2010-Umadas-Allen-Network-Stream_Debugging-with-Mallory-wp.pdf&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;bitexploder.com&amp;#x2F;BlackHat-USA-2010-Umadas-Allen-Networ...&lt;/a&gt; (Check this out if you want an overview of how to configure a system to support a tool like SSLSplit or Mallory)&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://bitbucket.org/IntrepidusGroup/mallory&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;bitbucket.org&amp;#x2F;IntrepidusGroup&amp;#x2F;mallory&lt;/a&gt; (reasonably up to date code, its not the easiest thing to set up, though).</text></comment>

<story><title>SSLsplit – Transparent and scalable SSL/TLS interception</title><url>http://www.roe.ch/SSLsplit</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>atmosx</author><text>Isn&amp;#x27;t way easier to hijack the DNS requests of the victim, redirect the connection to a similar unknown domain which replicates the HTML code and fields offered by the originally requested website[1]? I think Metasploit can do something similar.&lt;p&gt;I mean once you&amp;#x27;re in a position where using SSlstrip of SSLsplit or whatever, means that you gained access to the victim&amp;#x27;s LAN.&lt;p&gt;That&amp;#x27;s why programs like DNSSEC or DNSCrypt should be installed by default on laptops who use often Free WiFi&amp;#x2F;Internet Caffes, etc.&lt;p&gt;Funny thing is that, after all these years there&amp;#x27;s no way to implement an ARP poisoning mitigation policy that will protect all your clients no matter what OS they run (iOs&amp;#x2F;OSX, Linux&amp;#x2F;Android, BSD, Windows, Embedded, etc.).&lt;p&gt;[1] What comes in mind is a ruby Sinatra application which reads the targeted website&amp;#x27;s output and creates css&amp;#x2F;haml output on-the-fly.</text></comment>

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<story><title>New “Leaf” Is More Efficient Than Natural Photosynthesis</title><url>http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/new-bionic-leaf-is-roughly-10-times-more-efficient-than-natural-photosynthesis/?wt.mc=SA_Twitter-Share</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>matt4077</author><text>This needs the additional information that photosynthesis is incredibly inefficient. It&amp;#x27;s &amp;lt;5% IIRC, so we already have solar panels almost a magnitude better than what nature did.&lt;p&gt;(RuBisCO as the protein at the center of the process is also quite strange: it&amp;#x27;s huge and slow. As in &amp;#x27;this ain&amp;#x27;t funny any more, start working&amp;#x27; slow with about a reaction per second.)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jonchang</author><text>The comparison of photosynthesis vs energy generated by solar panels isn&amp;#x27;t very good, because it neglects the whole biology of the organism, which is optimized for things other than maximum photosynthetic output. For example, leaves are often targets of herbivory, so a plant might want to make a tradeoff [1] of less efficient photosynthesis for better herbivory defense. Or, it might be too costly to do photosynthesis, which requires the input of carbon dioxide, water, and light. In a very dry &amp;amp; hot environment, to get enough carbon dioxide into the leaf, the leaf will lose water by having its stomata open. Google &amp;quot;leaf economics spectrum&amp;quot; for a quick tutorial (the concept isn&amp;#x27;t 100% correct but it&amp;#x27;s a good starting point). Compare the leaves of tropical plants (say a banana palm) to arid plants (mesquite tree).&lt;p&gt;[1] I use this a teleological shorthand for &amp;quot;the selective environment has weeded out species that happen to fall on the wrong side of the tradeoff.&amp;quot;</text></comment>

<story><title>New “Leaf” Is More Efficient Than Natural Photosynthesis</title><url>http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/new-bionic-leaf-is-roughly-10-times-more-efficient-than-natural-photosynthesis/?wt.mc=SA_Twitter-Share</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>matt4077</author><text>This needs the additional information that photosynthesis is incredibly inefficient. It&amp;#x27;s &amp;lt;5% IIRC, so we already have solar panels almost a magnitude better than what nature did.&lt;p&gt;(RuBisCO as the protein at the center of the process is also quite strange: it&amp;#x27;s huge and slow. As in &amp;#x27;this ain&amp;#x27;t funny any more, start working&amp;#x27; slow with about a reaction per second.)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>swamy_g</author><text>I don&amp;#x27;t understand. Photosynthesis has been hailed as one of the most efficient processes by nature.&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.scientificamerican.com&amp;#x2F;article&amp;#x2F;when-it-comes-to-photosynthesis-plants-perform-quantum-computation&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.scientificamerican.com&amp;#x2F;article&amp;#x2F;when-it-comes-to-p...&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>

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<story><title>The Future of Thunderbird</title><url>https://blog.thunderbird.net/2023/02/the-future-of-thunderbird-why-were-rebuilding-from-the-ground-up/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>formerly_proven</author><text>&amp;gt; “Why does Thunderbird look so old, and why does it take so long to change?” ~ A notable percentage of Thunderbird users&lt;p&gt;Honestly this doesn&amp;#x27;t seem like the main issue with Thunderbird; the main issue is that the UI is very slow, it tends to use a lot of CPU and memory just sitting there and a lot of operations block the UI. This got a lot worse with 102. 102 unfortunately is so low in responsiveness that it&amp;#x27;s literally quicker for me to open a new tab, load Google Mail (the slowest webmail I&amp;#x27;m using) find and(!) read the mail there than switching to the already running Thunderbird and waiting for it to load the new message. It also tends to take pretty long to &amp;quot;boot&amp;quot;, so most days I just avoid using it entirely now, as leaving it running in the background substantially decreases battery life.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dhdgrygev</author><text>I&amp;#x27;m super confused to come here and see people complain about its performance.&lt;p&gt;For me it runs lightning fast, especially compared to other tools like Outlook. Clicking any message loads it instantly, searching through my 30000 emails in 10 different accounts is also instant, etc. Why is my experience so different? Mostly everything is on default settings.&lt;p&gt;Pretty much the &lt;i&gt;only&lt;/i&gt; complaint I have about this tool is that parts of the window sometimes flash for seemingly no reason when it is left open for a while.</text></comment>

<story><title>The Future of Thunderbird</title><url>https://blog.thunderbird.net/2023/02/the-future-of-thunderbird-why-were-rebuilding-from-the-ground-up/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>formerly_proven</author><text>&amp;gt; “Why does Thunderbird look so old, and why does it take so long to change?” ~ A notable percentage of Thunderbird users&lt;p&gt;Honestly this doesn&amp;#x27;t seem like the main issue with Thunderbird; the main issue is that the UI is very slow, it tends to use a lot of CPU and memory just sitting there and a lot of operations block the UI. This got a lot worse with 102. 102 unfortunately is so low in responsiveness that it&amp;#x27;s literally quicker for me to open a new tab, load Google Mail (the slowest webmail I&amp;#x27;m using) find and(!) read the mail there than switching to the already running Thunderbird and waiting for it to load the new message. It also tends to take pretty long to &amp;quot;boot&amp;quot;, so most days I just avoid using it entirely now, as leaving it running in the background substantially decreases battery life.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>miroljub</author><text>I remember the times when I was the only Thunderbird user in an Outlook infested company. I remember it was crazy fast, especially real-time search folders were a game changer for me, so I could filter messages however I liked and let them appear in multiple folders without affecting performance.&lt;p&gt;I haven&amp;#x27;t used it in a while, but if it&amp;#x27;s true, it&amp;#x27;s a pity that once so useful and fast piece of software deteriorate so hard. One would expect that a stale project can only benefit from the newer hardware to become crazy fast ...</text></comment>

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<story><title>Practicality: PHP vs Lisp</title><url>http://briancarper.net/blog/386/practicality-php-vs-lisp</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>wvenable</author><text>&quot;PHP is overly verbose and terribly inconsistent and lacks powerful methods of abstraction and proper closures and easy-to-use meta-programming goodness&quot;&lt;p&gt;Sometimes I wonder how much closures and meta-programming is just code for coding sake. I&apos;ve seen lots of examples of 5 line LISP code that does something totally amazing but you don&apos;t really know what it means but it&apos;s so abstract. If you have a quick job to do, I don&apos;t see that it&apos;s a limitation in using a language that requires to build the most straight forward solution.&lt;p&gt;PHP is ugly, but for the most part it isn&apos;t horrible -- these days you can easily avoid some of the worst parts and concentrate on making code that would be very equivalent to the same code in, say, Java. PHP is very straight forward -- it means what it says.&lt;p&gt;&quot;Your web framework in PHP probably isn&apos;t continuation-based, it probably doesn&apos;t compile your s-expression HTML tree into assembler code before rendering it.&quot;&lt;p&gt;This just sounds like over-engineering the problem.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>swannodette</author><text>&lt;p&gt;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt; Sometimes I wonder how much closures and meta-programming is just code for coding sake. I&apos;ve seen lots of examples of 5 line LISP code that does something totally amazing but you don&apos;t really know what it means but it&apos;s so abstract &lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt; You could the same for so many PHP frameworks. Why are there so many classes? Why do I have to inherit from a class I don&apos;t understand? Why am I forced to define classes at all? Why are my custom classes 50% getters/setters? Why are my objects mutable? etc. etc. etc.&lt;p&gt;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt; (map :last-name people) &lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt; The point is if the language provides the proper level of abstraction, you end writing &lt;i&gt;less of your own hand rolled abstractions&lt;/i&gt;.&lt;p&gt;Again the only thing I&apos;m hearing here is arguments from people who are too lazy to actually see how things are done from a functional perspective. Get off your ass and find out. Then tell me you have a problem with it.</text></comment>

<story><title>Practicality: PHP vs Lisp</title><url>http://briancarper.net/blog/386/practicality-php-vs-lisp</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>wvenable</author><text>&quot;PHP is overly verbose and terribly inconsistent and lacks powerful methods of abstraction and proper closures and easy-to-use meta-programming goodness&quot;&lt;p&gt;Sometimes I wonder how much closures and meta-programming is just code for coding sake. I&apos;ve seen lots of examples of 5 line LISP code that does something totally amazing but you don&apos;t really know what it means but it&apos;s so abstract. If you have a quick job to do, I don&apos;t see that it&apos;s a limitation in using a language that requires to build the most straight forward solution.&lt;p&gt;PHP is ugly, but for the most part it isn&apos;t horrible -- these days you can easily avoid some of the worst parts and concentrate on making code that would be very equivalent to the same code in, say, Java. PHP is very straight forward -- it means what it says.&lt;p&gt;&quot;Your web framework in PHP probably isn&apos;t continuation-based, it probably doesn&apos;t compile your s-expression HTML tree into assembler code before rendering it.&quot;&lt;p&gt;This just sounds like over-engineering the problem.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>brlewis</author><text>Say you want to connect to a database, fetch some data, and present it using HTML. Here&apos;s how it can be done using a DSL based on Scheme macros:&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://brl.codesimply.net/brl_4.html#SEC31&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://brl.codesimply.net/brl_4.html#SEC31&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;I can&apos;t forget to fetch the next row from the database. I can&apos;t forget to check that I&apos;m at the end of the result set. Grouping the results is easy and straightforward. The statement and connection objects are automatically closed when the request is done. Compare that to PHP.&lt;p&gt;I&apos;m getting better, but even today I feel a little irritated when someone says PHP was designed for simple web/database apps. I know what a language designed for simple web/db apps looks like, and PHP is not it.</text></comment>

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<story><title>They&apos;re deleting my channel, but they don&apos;t know why? [video]</title><url>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hAEdFRoOYs0</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dperfect</author><text>I&amp;#x27;m not a lawyer, and I definitely think the whole copyright system needs reform, but I believe there could be legitimate issues with the legality of publicly posting guitar covers as this person is doing on their channel.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;m not very familiar with the channel, but from the little I&amp;#x27;ve seen, I believe the educational nature (and thereby fair use defense) could be debatable. Even if some of his videos are clearly educational, it seems that some videos are just covers of popular songs. And even if he&amp;#x27;s not using published sheet music to play the songs, he may still be required to have mechanical licenses, and possibly also sync licenses.&lt;p&gt;Most published music has three licenses that could be relevant here: the mechanical license (covering the combination of notes, rhythms, and&amp;#x2F;or lyrics that make the song distinct and &amp;quot;recognizable&amp;quot;), the sync license (using the song along with images&amp;#x2F;video), and a master license (covering a specific recording of the song). From my limited experience (and confirmed here [1]), it appears that many of these videos probably require at least a mechanical license to be performed publicly on the channel.&lt;p&gt;That being said, I absolutely agree with the sentiment that YouTube&amp;#x27;s handling of these issues is extremely problematic. They really need to start treating content creators with more respect and assume innocence until proven otherwise. There also needs to be more transparency into the process (and claims) so creators aren&amp;#x27;t left in the dark, along with improved ways to respond to erroneous claims.&lt;p&gt;[1] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.legalzoom.com&amp;#x2F;articles&amp;#x2F;posting-cover-songs-on-youtube-what-you-need-to-know&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.legalzoom.com&amp;#x2F;articles&amp;#x2F;posting-cover-songs-on-yo...&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>grawprog</author><text>Our current copyright laws do nothing hut stagnate human creativity. As much as people like to believe they&amp;#x27;re creative geniuses, most creations tend to be based on previous creations.&lt;p&gt;Just look at the majority of popular music between 1955-1980 or later. Just about all rock music is either heavily inspired by or directly ripped off of blues. If copyright laws had been what they were today entire genres of music wouldn&amp;#x27;t exist.&lt;p&gt;Same goes for Hollywood, tons of movies are just wholesale ripoffs of older ones or &amp;#x27;heavily inspired by them&amp;#x27;.&lt;p&gt;And i&amp;#x27;m sure people on HN are likely familiar with such things as the 7 main literary archetypes and whatnot that apply to most human story telling in general.&lt;p&gt;The best kind of human creativity comes from building on what came before. Sure, we need a system to ensure creators are paid and have control of their creations, but our current system goes so far overboard it limits overall human creativity.&lt;p&gt;Profit should not come over the benefit of society and humanity, especially when there&amp;#x27;s room for both. I doubt anyone was really losing any significant amount of money by this channel existing, but somebody was gaining through its existence.</text></comment>

<story><title>They&apos;re deleting my channel, but they don&apos;t know why? [video]</title><url>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hAEdFRoOYs0</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dperfect</author><text>I&amp;#x27;m not a lawyer, and I definitely think the whole copyright system needs reform, but I believe there could be legitimate issues with the legality of publicly posting guitar covers as this person is doing on their channel.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;m not very familiar with the channel, but from the little I&amp;#x27;ve seen, I believe the educational nature (and thereby fair use defense) could be debatable. Even if some of his videos are clearly educational, it seems that some videos are just covers of popular songs. And even if he&amp;#x27;s not using published sheet music to play the songs, he may still be required to have mechanical licenses, and possibly also sync licenses.&lt;p&gt;Most published music has three licenses that could be relevant here: the mechanical license (covering the combination of notes, rhythms, and&amp;#x2F;or lyrics that make the song distinct and &amp;quot;recognizable&amp;quot;), the sync license (using the song along with images&amp;#x2F;video), and a master license (covering a specific recording of the song). From my limited experience (and confirmed here [1]), it appears that many of these videos probably require at least a mechanical license to be performed publicly on the channel.&lt;p&gt;That being said, I absolutely agree with the sentiment that YouTube&amp;#x27;s handling of these issues is extremely problematic. They really need to start treating content creators with more respect and assume innocence until proven otherwise. There also needs to be more transparency into the process (and claims) so creators aren&amp;#x27;t left in the dark, along with improved ways to respond to erroneous claims.&lt;p&gt;[1] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.legalzoom.com&amp;#x2F;articles&amp;#x2F;posting-cover-songs-on-youtube-what-you-need-to-know&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.legalzoom.com&amp;#x2F;articles&amp;#x2F;posting-cover-songs-on-yo...&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>gfody</author><text>according to Tom Scott&amp;#x27;s very informative summary of all things youtube and copyright [1] there are seemingly reasonable alternatives to suddenly shutting down a whole channel - it seems like we&amp;#x27;re not getting the whole story as to why those were rejected or aren&amp;#x27;t being considered in this case?&lt;p&gt;[1] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.youtube.com&amp;#x2F;watch?v=1Jwo5qc78QU&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.youtube.com&amp;#x2F;watch?v=1Jwo5qc78QU&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>

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<story><title>Eight years today</title><url>http://paulbuchheit.blogspot.com/2012/03/eight-years-today.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>paul</author><text>I know this isn&apos;t obviously startup related, but it is. Please read.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>JunkDNA</author><text>Thanks for writing this Paul. I lost my dad just over 10 years ago to pancreatic cancer. He was 46 and I was 23, just starting my career. It was a wakeup call about what really matters in life. Now that some time has passed it&apos;s easy to lose sight of those lessons. So easy to place value on the 95% of the things in the world that don&apos;t really matter and instead ignore the 5% that do. I&apos;d trade all the retina display iDevices I&apos;ve owned or will ever own if my two year old daughter could meet her grandpa for even a few minutes.</text></comment>

<story><title>Eight years today</title><url>http://paulbuchheit.blogspot.com/2012/03/eight-years-today.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>paul</author><text>I know this isn&apos;t obviously startup related, but it is. Please read.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>wpietri</author><text>Thanks for writing that, Paul.&lt;p&gt;Six months ago, I lost a family member to glioblastoma, another one of those &quot;get your affairs in order&quot; cancers. It was 3 months from beginning to end for us as well.&lt;p&gt;In the interim, it seems like I&apos;ve had two sorts of conversations. Ones with people who have experienced loss, and ones with those who haven&apos;t. The latter group are perfectly nice people, but there&apos;s a gap. So I am very grateful that you&apos;ve taken the time to write about issues that are so present to me and so many others.&lt;p&gt;And yes, of course this is about startups: Beginnings and endings. Loss and acceptance. Presence in the moment. Creation and joy. And choosing wisely how to spend what little time we each have.</text></comment>

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<story><title>Epic, Spotify, and Tinder form advocacy group to push for app store changes</title><url>https://appfairness.org/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dgellow</author><text>What I learned from past experiences is to never use analogies. They are almost always a source of distraction, people start to argue about the analogy itself instead of the topic at hand, which is almost always completely counter productive.&lt;p&gt;Also it often only makes sense in the mind of the author...</text></item><item><author>danShumway</author><text>Can we just link directly to the advocacy group&amp;#x27;s page (&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;appfairness.org&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;appfairness.org&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt;)? I&amp;#x27;m not certain the article is adding anything.&lt;p&gt;----&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;m generally supportive of at least some of Epic&amp;#x27;s arguments towards Apple, and I do believe that Apple (and multiple other FAANG companies) are engaged in anti-competitive behavior that&amp;#x27;s currently hurting the market. But a lot of the arguments I&amp;#x27;m reading on the App Fairness site in particular seem really poorly phrased, almost to the point of being incoherent.&lt;p&gt;From their objection on &amp;quot;user freedom&amp;quot;:&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; Think about this a little differently: A box of Cheerios costs about $3.00 at Kroger, but sometimes Cheerios offers a coupon which lowers the price to $2.50 at any store that offers Cheerios. What Apple is doing is basically like Kroger telling Cheerios that they’re not allowed to offer coupons, and if they do, Cheerios is at risk of being kicked out of the cereal aisle. Consumers wouldn’t stand for this type of monopolistic behavior over their cereal, so why should they allow it for the apps used on their mobile devices?&lt;p&gt;I had to think really hard what they mean by this and how it actually relates to user freedom. Most resellers &lt;i&gt;are&lt;/i&gt; allowed to choose their own prices for goods. I don&amp;#x27;t think this analogy corresponds at all to what Apple is doing. Apple is banning apps from telling consumers &lt;i&gt;in app&lt;/i&gt; about other purchasing options. That&amp;#x27;s a totally different objection.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;m pleased to see developers banding together, but if this is the result then I wish they&amp;#x27;d spend more time making more reasonable, understandable arguments. If this site was my first introduction to the debate over app store policies, I think I&amp;#x27;d probably be on Apple&amp;#x27;s side.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>munificent</author><text>&lt;i&gt;&amp;gt; They are almost always a source of distraction, people start to argue about the analogy itself instead of the topic at hand, which is almost always completely counter productive.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;My experience is that this is very true among a certain group of people, particularly literal-minded software enngineer types. But it is much less true in the general population where a single good analogy can accomplish more than pages of prose.</text></comment>

<story><title>Epic, Spotify, and Tinder form advocacy group to push for app store changes</title><url>https://appfairness.org/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dgellow</author><text>What I learned from past experiences is to never use analogies. They are almost always a source of distraction, people start to argue about the analogy itself instead of the topic at hand, which is almost always completely counter productive.&lt;p&gt;Also it often only makes sense in the mind of the author...</text></item><item><author>danShumway</author><text>Can we just link directly to the advocacy group&amp;#x27;s page (&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;appfairness.org&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;appfairness.org&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt;)? I&amp;#x27;m not certain the article is adding anything.&lt;p&gt;----&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;m generally supportive of at least some of Epic&amp;#x27;s arguments towards Apple, and I do believe that Apple (and multiple other FAANG companies) are engaged in anti-competitive behavior that&amp;#x27;s currently hurting the market. But a lot of the arguments I&amp;#x27;m reading on the App Fairness site in particular seem really poorly phrased, almost to the point of being incoherent.&lt;p&gt;From their objection on &amp;quot;user freedom&amp;quot;:&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; Think about this a little differently: A box of Cheerios costs about $3.00 at Kroger, but sometimes Cheerios offers a coupon which lowers the price to $2.50 at any store that offers Cheerios. What Apple is doing is basically like Kroger telling Cheerios that they’re not allowed to offer coupons, and if they do, Cheerios is at risk of being kicked out of the cereal aisle. Consumers wouldn’t stand for this type of monopolistic behavior over their cereal, so why should they allow it for the apps used on their mobile devices?&lt;p&gt;I had to think really hard what they mean by this and how it actually relates to user freedom. Most resellers &lt;i&gt;are&lt;/i&gt; allowed to choose their own prices for goods. I don&amp;#x27;t think this analogy corresponds at all to what Apple is doing. Apple is banning apps from telling consumers &lt;i&gt;in app&lt;/i&gt; about other purchasing options. That&amp;#x27;s a totally different objection.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;m pleased to see developers banding together, but if this is the result then I wish they&amp;#x27;d spend more time making more reasonable, understandable arguments. If this site was my first introduction to the debate over app store policies, I think I&amp;#x27;d probably be on Apple&amp;#x27;s side.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>porknubbins</author><text>Every journalistic or popular science or economics book I’ve read recently seems to go to great lengths to come up with helpful analogies (sometimes dragging on for pages.) But there is a fundamental contradiction in that the topic of the book is supposedly interesting or remarkable because something about it is novel, otherwise the book wouldn’t need to exist. The analogy can give readers a fake feeling of following along, but whenever I study the topic in detail I find the analogy based understanding was incorrect.</text></comment>

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<story><title>Maintain a clean architecture in Python with dependency rules</title><url>https://sourcery.ai/blog/dependency-rules/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>hbrn</author><text>This (plus Law of Demeter) is the right way to handle medium-big size projects, though I&amp;#x27;m not completely sold on the tooling. I mostly do it manually (yes, it is still doable with dozens of modules since dependency hierarchy doesn&amp;#x27;t change often).&lt;p&gt;One recommendation I have is to present the hierarchy as DAG. Existing image (&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;sourcery.ai&amp;#x2F;static&amp;#x2F;05300f06cb847360719e2aa31dc5a31b&amp;#x2F;8c857&amp;#x2F;dependencies.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;sourcery.ai&amp;#x2F;static&amp;#x2F;05300f06cb847360719e2aa31dc5a31b&amp;#x2F;...&lt;/a&gt;) doesn&amp;#x27;t make it very obvious that api is a highest-level module, even though it is clearly stated in the rules.</text></comment>

<story><title>Maintain a clean architecture in Python with dependency rules</title><url>https://sourcery.ai/blog/dependency-rules/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>hakanderyal</author><text>After dealing with that problem and enduring the pain of it for years, I finally switched to C#&amp;#x2F;.NET. It has the necessary tooling to achieve this and more.&lt;p&gt;Rewriting a lot of things was time well spent rather than trying to tame the dynamic nature of Python and my tendency to overuse it.&lt;p&gt;And I can&amp;#x27;t believe I&amp;#x27;m writing this after all these years evangelizing Python and dynamically typed languages.</text></comment>

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<story><title>Cheap oil is taking shipping routes back to the 1800s</title><url>http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20160303-cheap-oil-is-taking-shipping-routes-back-to-the-1800s</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>gleenn</author><text>Really sad that economics makes a bunch of massive ships travel thousands of miles out of their way, burning tons of extra fuel, just because a bunch of guys charge way too much to drive through a canal that was built a long time ago.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>slyall</author><text>Egypt spent around $8 billion on a Suez Canal expansion in 2014 &amp;amp; 2015 in order to double the Canal&amp;#x27;s capacity.&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;New_Suez_Canal&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;New_Suez_Canal&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>

<story><title>Cheap oil is taking shipping routes back to the 1800s</title><url>http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20160303-cheap-oil-is-taking-shipping-routes-back-to-the-1800s</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>gleenn</author><text>Really sad that economics makes a bunch of massive ships travel thousands of miles out of their way, burning tons of extra fuel, just because a bunch of guys charge way too much to drive through a canal that was built a long time ago.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mathattack</author><text>Let&amp;#x27;s put externalities (CO2, etc) aside...&lt;p&gt;The only reason that things like canals get built is because people can charge money to recoup their costs. Many infrastructure projects get built and don&amp;#x27;t earn their capital investment back. (One might argue most) The reason people still build them is a few are enormously profitable.&lt;p&gt;Once &amp;quot;going the long way&amp;quot; gets significantly cheaper, the folks in charge of the canal will lower their price so that equilibrium still means going through them.</text></comment>

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<story><title>Polygon sat down with one of the creators of Dwarf Fortress</title><url>http://www.polygon.com/2014/7/23/5926447/dwarf-fortress-will-crush-your-cpu-because-creating-history-is-hard</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>TillE</author><text>The truly exciting thing about Dwarf Fortress is that it proves that deep, detailed simulation is well within our reach.&lt;p&gt;It suggests whole new &lt;i&gt;genres&lt;/i&gt; of games that have yet to be created; imagine a typical fantasy RPG (or perhaps one that plays more like Mount&amp;amp;Blade) where the entire world is simulated as you play, so every choice you make has logical consequences. The possibilities are endless, and while Dwarf Fortress is a great game on its own, it&amp;#x27;s really just scratching the surface of what can be done with world simulation.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Natsu</author><text>There are a lot of games inspired in one way or another by DF out there now, actually. But yes, it&amp;#x27;s an awesome game where the raws with the plant material properties now have scientific species names that they&amp;#x27;re based on, and the raws cite references for where they got the numbers.&lt;p&gt;This one, of course, being the most infamous - &lt;a href=&quot;http://dwarffortresswiki.org/index.php/DF2014:Saguaro/raw&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;dwarffortresswiki.org&amp;#x2F;index.php&amp;#x2F;DF2014:Saguaro&amp;#x2F;raw&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;As it was inspired by this &amp;#x27;artifact&amp;#x27; - &lt;a href=&quot;http://imgur.com/EPtgt?tags&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;imgur.com&amp;#x2F;EPtgt?tags&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>

<story><title>Polygon sat down with one of the creators of Dwarf Fortress</title><url>http://www.polygon.com/2014/7/23/5926447/dwarf-fortress-will-crush-your-cpu-because-creating-history-is-hard</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>TillE</author><text>The truly exciting thing about Dwarf Fortress is that it proves that deep, detailed simulation is well within our reach.&lt;p&gt;It suggests whole new &lt;i&gt;genres&lt;/i&gt; of games that have yet to be created; imagine a typical fantasy RPG (or perhaps one that plays more like Mount&amp;amp;Blade) where the entire world is simulated as you play, so every choice you make has logical consequences. The possibilities are endless, and while Dwarf Fortress is a great game on its own, it&amp;#x27;s really just scratching the surface of what can be done with world simulation.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>VikingCoder</author><text>My favorite cartoon on the subject:&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://i.imgur.com/HrO4R.gif&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;i.imgur.com&amp;#x2F;HrO4R.gif&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>

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<story><title>The x86 PlayStation 4 could signal a sea-change in the console industry</title><url>http://arstechnica.com/gaming/news/2012/04/the-x86-playstation-4-signals-a-sea-change-in-the-console-industry.ars</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>FooBarWidget</author><text>What? The instruction set matters very little. Pretty much all games are written in C++ and last time I checked there are C++ compilers targeting pretty much any architecture in existence. The graphics API is more important than the instruction set.</text></item><item><author>gfodor</author><text>The article fails to mention the audience this is good news for: PC gamers. If next generation consoles are x86 based, expect to see future games being more widely available on PC, and, better yet, expect the &quot;best&quot; versions of those games (in terms of graphics, features, etc.) to be the PC versions. The only catch is if the game developers hold back on PC releases due to fears of piracy, but on the whole this probably will still mean many more releases on PC.&lt;p&gt;That said, most flagship titles (Halo, Metal Gear, Final Fantasy, etc.) will probably stick to a single console due to contractual obligations.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>angersock</author><text>How can I get a ticket to the magical land of milk and honey you come from, where C++ performs well on all architectures without extra work?&lt;p&gt;As other posters have mentioned, weird processors (notably freaks like the Cell) can require a lot of knowledge of the instruction set and chip quirks (see &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.insomniacgames.com/category/research-development/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.insomniacgames.com/category/research-development/&lt;/a&gt; for a lot of good info on this), even requiring you to throw away your nice virtual object hierarchies and things to make the SPUs happy ( &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.insomniacgames.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/GDC_2009_spugp2.pdf&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.insomniacgames.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/GDC...&lt;/a&gt; ).&lt;p&gt;Also, just because a compiler targets an architecture doesn&apos;t mean that it can optimize code for it worth a damn.&lt;p&gt;EDIT: oh god it may even lie about its program counter ( &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.insomniacgames.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/gdc2009_spu_wrangling.pdf&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.insomniacgames.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/gdc...&lt;/a&gt; )</text></comment>

<story><title>The x86 PlayStation 4 could signal a sea-change in the console industry</title><url>http://arstechnica.com/gaming/news/2012/04/the-x86-playstation-4-signals-a-sea-change-in-the-console-industry.ars</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>FooBarWidget</author><text>What? The instruction set matters very little. Pretty much all games are written in C++ and last time I checked there are C++ compilers targeting pretty much any architecture in existence. The graphics API is more important than the instruction set.</text></item><item><author>gfodor</author><text>The article fails to mention the audience this is good news for: PC gamers. If next generation consoles are x86 based, expect to see future games being more widely available on PC, and, better yet, expect the &quot;best&quot; versions of those games (in terms of graphics, features, etc.) to be the PC versions. The only catch is if the game developers hold back on PC releases due to fears of piracy, but on the whole this probably will still mean many more releases on PC.&lt;p&gt;That said, most flagship titles (Halo, Metal Gear, Final Fantasy, etc.) will probably stick to a single console due to contractual obligations.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>scott_s</author><text>The Cell processor was very different, architecturally. I can easily see games originally designed for the PS3 to require significant effort to port to the 360 and PC. (While the 360 used a PowerPC processor that actually reused assets from the Cell, it was architecturally not that different from typical x86 multicores.)</text></comment>

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<story><title>Elizabeth Holmes loses bid to stay out of prison</title><url>https://www.cnbc.com/2023/04/11/theranos-elizabeth-holmes-loses-bid-to-stay-out-of-prison.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>luckylion</author><text>[flagged]</text></item><item><author>haliskerbas</author><text>$TSLA made enough people rich I suppose. I saw some gains myself although not on a large scale. Still don’t like the guy but there’s the old adage “for my friends everything, for my enemies the law”.&lt;p&gt;If $TSLA plummets a crazy amount the tables may turn</text></item><item><author>KindAndFriendly</author><text>Reading this entire story, it baffles me that as of today I can still add a &amp;quot;Full Self-Driving Capability&amp;quot; option when ordering a Tesla.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ladberg</author><text>I&amp;#x27;m gonna need a source for that... I don&amp;#x27;t know of any collaboration between the two companies or overlap between their cars in general.</text></comment>

<story><title>Elizabeth Holmes loses bid to stay out of prison</title><url>https://www.cnbc.com/2023/04/11/theranos-elizabeth-holmes-loses-bid-to-stay-out-of-prison.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>luckylion</author><text>[flagged]</text></item><item><author>haliskerbas</author><text>$TSLA made enough people rich I suppose. I saw some gains myself although not on a large scale. Still don’t like the guy but there’s the old adage “for my friends everything, for my enemies the law”.&lt;p&gt;If $TSLA plummets a crazy amount the tables may turn</text></item><item><author>KindAndFriendly</author><text>Reading this entire story, it baffles me that as of today I can still add a &amp;quot;Full Self-Driving Capability&amp;quot; option when ordering a Tesla.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>hef19898</author><text>Tesla out VWed VW in the marketing game. Other than that, they have nothing in common...</text></comment>

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<story><title>New implementation of Git in OCaml</title><url>https://github.com/mirage/ocaml-git/pull/227</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>yen223</author><text>I&amp;#x27;ve been using OCaml for a couple of side projects, and I have been absolutely blown away by the amount of power this language provides. It strikes a nice balance between high-level expressiveness, while not sacrificing on performance.&lt;p&gt;I feel like OCaml is one of the programming world&amp;#x27;s best kept secret - if it had better tooling and better marketing, it could have taken over the world. I&amp;#x27;m cautiously optimistic about ReasonML for this reason.</text></comment>

<story><title>New implementation of Git in OCaml</title><url>https://github.com/mirage/ocaml-git/pull/227</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>joshmarlow</author><text>If OP interests you, then this may too: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;pijul.org&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;pijul.org&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;IIRC, when I last looked at this, they were doing dual implementations in OCaml and Scala, but now it looks like it&amp;#x27;s being done in Rust.</text></comment>

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<story><title>Firm Inefficiency</title><url>http://www.overcomingbias.com/2014/07/firm-inefficiency.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tikhonj</author><text>This really reminds me of how Yanis Varoufakis, Valve&amp;#x27;s economist, describes most firms:&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; &lt;i&gt;Interestingly, however, there is one last bastion of economic activity that proved remarkably resistant to the triumph of the market: firms, companies and, later, corporations. Think about it: market-societies, or capitalism, are synonymous with firms, companies, corporations. And yet, quite paradoxically, firms can be thought of as market-free zones. Within their realm, firms (like societies) allocate scarce resources (between different productive activities and processes). Nevertheless they do so by means of some non-price, more often than not hierarchical, mechanism!&lt;p&gt;The firm, in this view, operates outside the market; as an island within the market archipelago. Effectively, firms can be seen as oases of planning and command within the vast expanse of the market. In another sense, they are the last remaining vestiges of pre-capitalist organisation within… capitalism.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;The image of a firm as an island of control within a greater see of capitalism really stuck with me. I think it&amp;#x27;s a pretty good image to support Valve&amp;#x27;s style of organization. (Of course, I&amp;#x27;m also a bit biased: I prefer that philosophy for reasons of my own besides just increasing efficiency.)&lt;p&gt;The whole article (&amp;quot;Why Valve? Or, what do we needcorporations for and how does Valve’s management structure fit into today’s corporate world?&amp;quot;[1]) is well worth a read. I think it&amp;#x27;s a very constructive look at the issue that this post is talking about.&lt;p&gt;[1]: &lt;a href=&quot;http://blogs.valvesoftware.com/economics/why-valve-or-what-do-we-need-corporations-for-and-how-does-valves-management-structure-fit-into-todays-corporate-world/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;blogs.valvesoftware.com&amp;#x2F;economics&amp;#x2F;why-valve-or-what-d...&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>arjunnarayan</author><text>This is indeed an important question, best addressed in Ronald Coase&amp;#x27;s 1937 article &amp;quot;The Nature of the Firm&amp;quot;. It is such an influential article that has its own wiki page, which is quite good: &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Nature_of_the_Firm&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;The_Nature_of_the_Firm&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;The short answer as to why firms exist (and why it is not markets all the way down such that every microtask is contracted out to the free market) is &amp;quot;transaction costs&amp;quot;. For the long answer, I suggest you start at the wiki article, and if interested, read this Economist blog summary: &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.economist.com/node/17730360&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.economist.com&amp;#x2F;node&amp;#x2F;17730360&lt;/a&gt;, and if still interested, read the original article (you can find it by just googling for it).</text></comment>

<story><title>Firm Inefficiency</title><url>http://www.overcomingbias.com/2014/07/firm-inefficiency.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tikhonj</author><text>This really reminds me of how Yanis Varoufakis, Valve&amp;#x27;s economist, describes most firms:&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; &lt;i&gt;Interestingly, however, there is one last bastion of economic activity that proved remarkably resistant to the triumph of the market: firms, companies and, later, corporations. Think about it: market-societies, or capitalism, are synonymous with firms, companies, corporations. And yet, quite paradoxically, firms can be thought of as market-free zones. Within their realm, firms (like societies) allocate scarce resources (between different productive activities and processes). Nevertheless they do so by means of some non-price, more often than not hierarchical, mechanism!&lt;p&gt;The firm, in this view, operates outside the market; as an island within the market archipelago. Effectively, firms can be seen as oases of planning and command within the vast expanse of the market. In another sense, they are the last remaining vestiges of pre-capitalist organisation within… capitalism.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;The image of a firm as an island of control within a greater see of capitalism really stuck with me. I think it&amp;#x27;s a pretty good image to support Valve&amp;#x27;s style of organization. (Of course, I&amp;#x27;m also a bit biased: I prefer that philosophy for reasons of my own besides just increasing efficiency.)&lt;p&gt;The whole article (&amp;quot;Why Valve? Or, what do we needcorporations for and how does Valve’s management structure fit into today’s corporate world?&amp;quot;[1]) is well worth a read. I think it&amp;#x27;s a very constructive look at the issue that this post is talking about.&lt;p&gt;[1]: &lt;a href=&quot;http://blogs.valvesoftware.com/economics/why-valve-or-what-do-we-need-corporations-for-and-how-does-valves-management-structure-fit-into-todays-corporate-world/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;blogs.valvesoftware.com&amp;#x2F;economics&amp;#x2F;why-valve-or-what-d...&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jerf</author><text>I actually think that&amp;#x27;s an important aspect of capitalism&amp;#x27;s success. It only (metaphorically) claims to be a good global organization scheme. Within that framework, experimentation and variation is permitted. Do you want a hippie commune? Sure. Coop? Sure. Conventional corporation? Yup. One dude in a garage? Sure. National-scale non-profit? Go for it. And they&amp;#x27;re all different organizations that can freely live and die as the situation warrants. It may not be perfect, but it can evolve without breaking.&lt;p&gt;Contrast that with a State-Uber-Alles philosophy like Communism, and you get a situation where you&amp;#x27;ve got what is putatively the same organization trying to organize the strategy for keeping the borders secure with nuclear weapons also trying to manage the local school bake sale. It&amp;#x27;s a fragile setup if it isn&amp;#x27;t perfect, and of course it isn&amp;#x27;t perfect. And lo, Communist governments that fall tend to fall hard and shatter their whole society, economy, country, and all in the process. All the eggs, you might say.&lt;p&gt;And let me highlight the issue of &lt;i&gt;resiliency&lt;/i&gt; and &lt;i&gt;fragility&lt;/i&gt; as being my main point, rather than any particular local issue of efficiency on this point or that. Capitalist societies hardly blink if a 100-person organizations proves unable to make a profit. It might be locally annoying, even devastating to some people, but globally it tends to work out for the best. (And those 100 people tend to be able to move on to something else too.) By contrast a centralized command-and-control system may keep this net-negative organization going for a long time for any number of reasons, but all of them, in the end, meaning that a net-negative organization lives on, draining the society it lives in. (Bear in mind the meaning of &amp;quot;net negative&amp;quot;... the entire point is that whatever benefits it may have, it is still &lt;i&gt;net&lt;/i&gt; negative in my discussion here.) The summation of such decisions is incredibly destructive.</text></comment>

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<story><title>The US is getting its first new nuclear reactor in 40 years</title><url>https://grist.org/energy/first-us-nuclear-reactor-40-years-online-georgia/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>epistasis</author><text>The delays on this project have nothing at all to do with people opposing nuclear construction.&lt;p&gt;The site welcomed more reactors. The results were approved under a new proces that was explicitly requested by the industry in order to expedite everything.&lt;p&gt;Nuclear is a big construction project, and suffers from the same big construction project cost disease that every other big construction project suffers from in the US. In addition, it suffers from needing absolutely massive amounts of custom, high precision welding, and high precision concrete pours unlike any other construction project. In addition to being some of the most complex projects ever designed, it requires a large amount of highly skilled labor really only gets used for this one purpose in our economy.&lt;p&gt;I wish nuclear proponents would recognize the inherent challenges of the problem, the inherent labor and construction efficiencies that made nuclear a good fit for the mid-20th century, but a less good fit for the 21st century when labor is much more valuable, and perhaps we should put it to more valuable purposes when we have far cheaper alternatives. Building buildings for manufacturing results in much better utilization of labor. A manufacturing facilities that produce 4 GW of solar&amp;#x2F;year is an exponential improvement over a 1GW nuclear reactor.</text></item><item><author>bcatanzaro</author><text>The people who oppose nuclear power always point to the construction cost and long delays.&lt;p&gt;BUT.&lt;p&gt;The reason for the long and expensive construction has a lot to do with the people opposing the construction! We could build these reactors so much more cheaply and quickly (and more safely!) if we decided to!&lt;p&gt;This in an argument from unclean hands. Nuclear skeptics, like the ones given so much airtime in the linked article, have been very successful in driving up costs and adding delay. But these costs and delays are not intrinsic to the technology. It&amp;#x27;s not fair if I delay a thing for me to claim the thing has failed because it was late. No, it failed because I delayed it.&lt;p&gt;I wish the nuclear skeptics would apply their delay tactics to coal power plants, which spew staggering amounts of radionuclides over huge swaths of the world, not to mention their carbon emissions.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>oceanplexian</author><text>&amp;gt; I wish nuclear proponents would recognize the inherent challenges of the problem, the inherent labor and construction efficiencies that made nuclear a good fit for the mid-20th century&lt;p&gt;Yeah, this argument might hold water if there was nothing to compare to, but there is.&lt;p&gt;China stamps these things out of an assembly line. Every year they’re building multiple nuclear reactors, leaving us in the dust. You can’t make the argument that China’s reactors are unsafe, because they’ve had less accidents than us. To me it’s obvious that it’s not an insurmountable engineering problem.</text></comment>

<story><title>The US is getting its first new nuclear reactor in 40 years</title><url>https://grist.org/energy/first-us-nuclear-reactor-40-years-online-georgia/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>epistasis</author><text>The delays on this project have nothing at all to do with people opposing nuclear construction.&lt;p&gt;The site welcomed more reactors. The results were approved under a new proces that was explicitly requested by the industry in order to expedite everything.&lt;p&gt;Nuclear is a big construction project, and suffers from the same big construction project cost disease that every other big construction project suffers from in the US. In addition, it suffers from needing absolutely massive amounts of custom, high precision welding, and high precision concrete pours unlike any other construction project. In addition to being some of the most complex projects ever designed, it requires a large amount of highly skilled labor really only gets used for this one purpose in our economy.&lt;p&gt;I wish nuclear proponents would recognize the inherent challenges of the problem, the inherent labor and construction efficiencies that made nuclear a good fit for the mid-20th century, but a less good fit for the 21st century when labor is much more valuable, and perhaps we should put it to more valuable purposes when we have far cheaper alternatives. Building buildings for manufacturing results in much better utilization of labor. A manufacturing facilities that produce 4 GW of solar&amp;#x2F;year is an exponential improvement over a 1GW nuclear reactor.</text></item><item><author>bcatanzaro</author><text>The people who oppose nuclear power always point to the construction cost and long delays.&lt;p&gt;BUT.&lt;p&gt;The reason for the long and expensive construction has a lot to do with the people opposing the construction! We could build these reactors so much more cheaply and quickly (and more safely!) if we decided to!&lt;p&gt;This in an argument from unclean hands. Nuclear skeptics, like the ones given so much airtime in the linked article, have been very successful in driving up costs and adding delay. But these costs and delays are not intrinsic to the technology. It&amp;#x27;s not fair if I delay a thing for me to claim the thing has failed because it was late. No, it failed because I delayed it.&lt;p&gt;I wish the nuclear skeptics would apply their delay tactics to coal power plants, which spew staggering amounts of radionuclides over huge swaths of the world, not to mention their carbon emissions.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ftth_finland</author><text>More solar is better if it displaces fossil fuels, loads can be moved to coincide with sunshine, output can be cost effectively stored and&amp;#x2F;or the climate is co-operative.&lt;p&gt;Not all of these assumptions hold everywhere or every time.</text></comment>

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<story><title>GitHub mirror compromise incident report</title><url>https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Github/2018-06-28</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>simias</author><text>I suppose it&amp;#x27;s only as good as the formula itself and at least it protects you from automated attacks. Still, I wouldn&amp;#x27;t advise anybody from going with formula-based passwords, just use whichever password manager you prefer and use unique strong passwords per-website.&lt;p&gt;Maybe one day the web will get its shit together and let us login everywhere with a certificate that we&amp;#x27;ll be able to securely store on a HSM and easily revoke and update if necessary but in the meantime it&amp;#x27;s the best we can do.</text></item><item><author>akerl_</author><text>Something to note here: &amp;quot;Evidence collected suggests a password scheme where disclosure on one site made it easy to guess passwords for unrelated webpages.&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;For any folks out there who&amp;#x27;ve been using or promoting formula-based passwords, this is the potential impact: a leak on one site can be leveraged by an attacker towards other sites you use.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>akerl_</author><text>Most of the day-to-day issues with certificate auth aren&amp;#x27;t actually problems with &amp;quot;the web&amp;quot;, so much as they&amp;#x27;re broader user workflow or endpoint support issues. Here&amp;#x27;s a couple:&lt;p&gt;* How does a user log in from a new device?&lt;p&gt;* Especially if they&amp;#x27;ve lost &amp;#x2F; broken their original device?&lt;p&gt;* What happens if users want to log in from a shared computer (think public library)?&lt;p&gt;* Do all the OSes&amp;#x2F;browsers that users are using actually support certificate management and auth?</text></comment>

<story><title>GitHub mirror compromise incident report</title><url>https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Github/2018-06-28</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>simias</author><text>I suppose it&amp;#x27;s only as good as the formula itself and at least it protects you from automated attacks. Still, I wouldn&amp;#x27;t advise anybody from going with formula-based passwords, just use whichever password manager you prefer and use unique strong passwords per-website.&lt;p&gt;Maybe one day the web will get its shit together and let us login everywhere with a certificate that we&amp;#x27;ll be able to securely store on a HSM and easily revoke and update if necessary but in the meantime it&amp;#x27;s the best we can do.</text></item><item><author>akerl_</author><text>Something to note here: &amp;quot;Evidence collected suggests a password scheme where disclosure on one site made it easy to guess passwords for unrelated webpages.&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;For any folks out there who&amp;#x27;ve been using or promoting formula-based passwords, this is the potential impact: a leak on one site can be leveraged by an attacker towards other sites you use.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>berkes</author><text>I&amp;#x27;d like to add &amp;quot;truly random&amp;quot; to&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; use unique strong passwords per-website.&lt;p&gt;... use unique, truly random passwords per-website.&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;Strong&amp;quot; is ambigous and hard to explain how to do right. Random means, in practice: &amp;quot;don&amp;#x27;t come up with one yourself, but let a tool generate one for you&amp;quot;.</text></comment>

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<story><title>We’ve filed a law­suit chal­leng­ing Sta­ble Dif­fu­sion</title><url>https://stablediffusionlitigation.com/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>TheDong</author><text>It doesn&amp;#x27;t matter if they exist as exact copies in my opinion.&lt;p&gt;The law doesn&amp;#x27;t recognize a mathematical computer transformation as creating a new work with original copyright.&lt;p&gt;If you give me an image, and I encrypt it with a randomly generated password, and then don&amp;#x27;t write down the password anywhere, the resulting file will be indistinguishable from random noise. No one can possibly derive the original image from it. But, it&amp;#x27;s still copyrighted by the original artist as long as they can show &amp;quot;This started as my image, and a machine made a rote mathematical transformation to it&amp;quot; because machine&amp;#x27;s making rote mathematical transformations cannot create new copyright.&lt;p&gt;The argument for stable diffusion would be that even if you cannot point to any image, since only algorithmic changes happened to the inputs, without any human creativity, the output is a derived work which does not have its own unique copyright.</text></item><item><author>dr_dshiv</author><text>“Sta­ble Dif­fu­sion con­tains unau­tho­rized copies of mil­lions—and pos­si­bly bil­lions—of copy­righted images.”&lt;p&gt;That’s going to be hard to argue. Where are the copies?&lt;p&gt;“Hav­ing copied the five bil­lion images—with­out the con­sent of the orig­i­nal artists—Sta­ble Dif­fu­sion relies on a math­e­mat­i­cal process called dif­fu­sion to store com­pressed copies of these train­ing images, which in turn are recom­bined to derive other images. It is, in short, a 21st-cen­tury col­lage tool.“&lt;p&gt;“Diffu­sion is a way for an AI pro­gram to fig­ure out how to recon­struct a copy of the train­ing data through denois­ing. Because this is so, in copy­right terms it’s no dif­fer­ent from an MP3 or JPEG—a way of stor­ing a com­pressed copy of cer­tain dig­i­tal data.”&lt;p&gt;The examples of training diffusion (eg, reconstructing a picture out of noise) will be core to their argument in court. Certainly during training the goal is to reconstruct original images out of noise. But, do they exist in SD as copies? Idk</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Last5Digits</author><text>This surely can&amp;#x27;t be the case, right? If it was, then what&amp;#x27;s stopping me from taking any possible byte sequence and applying my copyright to it?&lt;p&gt;I could always show that there exists some function f that produces said byte sequence when applied to my copyrighted material.&lt;p&gt;Can I sue Microsoft because the entire Windows 11 codebase is just one &amp;quot;rote mathematical transformation&amp;quot; away from the essay I wrote in elementary school?</text></comment>

<story><title>We’ve filed a law­suit chal­leng­ing Sta­ble Dif­fu­sion</title><url>https://stablediffusionlitigation.com/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>TheDong</author><text>It doesn&amp;#x27;t matter if they exist as exact copies in my opinion.&lt;p&gt;The law doesn&amp;#x27;t recognize a mathematical computer transformation as creating a new work with original copyright.&lt;p&gt;If you give me an image, and I encrypt it with a randomly generated password, and then don&amp;#x27;t write down the password anywhere, the resulting file will be indistinguishable from random noise. No one can possibly derive the original image from it. But, it&amp;#x27;s still copyrighted by the original artist as long as they can show &amp;quot;This started as my image, and a machine made a rote mathematical transformation to it&amp;quot; because machine&amp;#x27;s making rote mathematical transformations cannot create new copyright.&lt;p&gt;The argument for stable diffusion would be that even if you cannot point to any image, since only algorithmic changes happened to the inputs, without any human creativity, the output is a derived work which does not have its own unique copyright.</text></item><item><author>dr_dshiv</author><text>“Sta­ble Dif­fu­sion con­tains unau­tho­rized copies of mil­lions—and pos­si­bly bil­lions—of copy­righted images.”&lt;p&gt;That’s going to be hard to argue. Where are the copies?&lt;p&gt;“Hav­ing copied the five bil­lion images—with­out the con­sent of the orig­i­nal artists—Sta­ble Dif­fu­sion relies on a math­e­mat­i­cal process called dif­fu­sion to store com­pressed copies of these train­ing images, which in turn are recom­bined to derive other images. It is, in short, a 21st-cen­tury col­lage tool.“&lt;p&gt;“Diffu­sion is a way for an AI pro­gram to fig­ure out how to recon­struct a copy of the train­ing data through denois­ing. Because this is so, in copy­right terms it’s no dif­fer­ent from an MP3 or JPEG—a way of stor­ing a com­pressed copy of cer­tain dig­i­tal data.”&lt;p&gt;The examples of training diffusion (eg, reconstructing a picture out of noise) will be core to their argument in court. Certainly during training the goal is to reconstruct original images out of noise. But, do they exist in SD as copies? Idk</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>hgomersall</author><text>Some years ago I had an idea to have a method of file sharing with strong plausible deniability from the sharer.&lt;p&gt;The idea, in stage one, was to split a file into chunks and xor those with other random chunks (equivalent to a one-time pad), those chunks as well as the created random chunks then got shared around the networks, with nobody hosting both parts of a pair.&lt;p&gt;The next stage is that future files inserted into the network would not create new random chunks but randomly use existing chunks already in the network. The result is a distributed store of chunks each of which is provably capable of generating any other chunk given the right pair. The correlations are then stored in a separate manifest.&lt;p&gt;It feels like such a system is some kind of entropy coding system. In the limit the manifest becomes the same size as the original data. At the same time though, you can prove that any given chunk contains no information. I love thinking about how the philosophy of information theory interacts with the law.</text></comment>

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<story><title>OpenAI board reappoints Altman and adds three other directors</title><url>https://www.reuters.com/technology/sam-altman-return-openais-board-information-reports-2024-03-08/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>s3p</author><text>Only sharing this because I learned it myself two months ago and think it&amp;#x27;s not common knowledge: dang actually is for dan g. and not just the word dang. he never speaks on it but someone mentioned it to me and I thought that was interesting. Anyway yes thank you dan!</text></item><item><author>chrisfosterelli</author><text>Thanks Dan.</text></item><item><author>dang</author><text>(this was originally posted in &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&amp;#x2F;item?id=39647488&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&amp;#x2F;item?id=39647488&lt;/a&gt; but we&amp;#x27;ve merged that thread hither)</text></item><item><author>chrisfosterelli</author><text>I&amp;#x27;m not necessarily saying they&amp;#x27;re wrong, but there&amp;#x27;s really no way to put out a release like this without a &amp;quot;history is written by the victors&amp;quot; vibe coming across.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>pests</author><text>Yep! His name is Daniel Gackle, here is a 10 year old YN blog from pg introducing him and others:&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.ycombinator.com&amp;#x2F;blog&amp;#x2F;meet-the-people-taking-over-hacker-news&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.ycombinator.com&amp;#x2F;blog&amp;#x2F;meet-the-people-taking-over...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;Look&amp;#x27;s like its almost 10 years since he officially joined full-time. We should have a party.</text></comment>

<story><title>OpenAI board reappoints Altman and adds three other directors</title><url>https://www.reuters.com/technology/sam-altman-return-openais-board-information-reports-2024-03-08/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>s3p</author><text>Only sharing this because I learned it myself two months ago and think it&amp;#x27;s not common knowledge: dang actually is for dan g. and not just the word dang. he never speaks on it but someone mentioned it to me and I thought that was interesting. Anyway yes thank you dan!</text></item><item><author>chrisfosterelli</author><text>Thanks Dan.</text></item><item><author>dang</author><text>(this was originally posted in &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&amp;#x2F;item?id=39647488&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&amp;#x2F;item?id=39647488&lt;/a&gt; but we&amp;#x27;ve merged that thread hither)</text></item><item><author>chrisfosterelli</author><text>I&amp;#x27;m not necessarily saying they&amp;#x27;re wrong, but there&amp;#x27;s really no way to put out a release like this without a &amp;quot;history is written by the victors&amp;quot; vibe coming across.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>IncreasePosts</author><text>I think you&amp;#x27;re confusing dang with someone else. dang is actually Da Ng, a Malaysian Chinese hacker extraordinare</text></comment>

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<story><title>Ask PG: What caused the downtime?</title><text>It looks like the site was down for a couple hours. What happened exactly?</text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>pg</author><text>Still investigating. The site was slow all day. We got an immense spike in unique IPs. Typically we get a bit over 150k/day. Today we got 220k. Not sure if the downtime was related.&lt;p&gt;I was travelling today and didn&apos;t have proper access to the server, or I would have been on it sooner.</text></comment>

<story><title>Ask PG: What caused the downtime?</title><text>It looks like the site was down for a couple hours. What happened exactly?</text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>joshmlewis</author><text>It is very interesting how..eh..addictive this site is. It&apos;s like a habit to do CMD + T and start typing in news.y..etc. And while it was down I was refreshing every few minutes. I think personally I do get a lot out of this site, I definitely wouldn&apos;t be where I am today without it. I&apos;ve learned a lot, asked a lot, and tried to give back as much as I could. I landed a couple jobs from here that have now set me on a very successful path at such a young age. I&apos;m very thankful for the community here. Sorry for turning this into an emotional post, but I really owe a lot to HN.&lt;p&gt;EDIT: I do just do CMD + T and then n for everyone who thought I did otherwise. Sometimes it happens so quickly I do new..or whatever, but you get the idea. This is a trivial point.</text></comment>

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<story><title>Why I left Medium and moved back to my own domain</title><url>https://arslan.io/2017/07/30/why-i-left-medium-and-moved-back-to-my-own-domain/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>untog</author><text>I suspect it&amp;#x27;s because they didn&amp;#x27;t&amp;#x2F;don&amp;#x27;t want people to comment in the usual way - you can highlight text on an article and leave short comments in the relevant place if you want to do that.&lt;p&gt;I think the comments section at the end was intended more as a place for lengthy reaction posts. It&amp;#x27;s why comments have &amp;quot;recommend&amp;quot; rather than &amp;quot;like&amp;quot; as a button. I might &amp;quot;like&amp;quot; someone saying &amp;quot;great post!&amp;quot; but I&amp;#x27;m not going to &amp;quot;recommend&amp;quot; it.&lt;p&gt;It often feels like Medium has made a product for what they want online discourse to be, rather than what it actually is. I don&amp;#x27;t hate them for trying.</text></item><item><author>tyingq</author><text>&lt;i&gt;&amp;quot;Writing comments to Medium posts feels awkward because each comment is treated as a blog post.&amp;quot;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;This is also awkward from the reader point of view. Trying to follow a comment chain on medium is frustrating as it only shows the first level, diving in switches pages, and often, a need to press a second &amp;quot;load all comments&amp;quot; button. Then the back button to wind your way back up.&lt;p&gt;Is there some sound reasoning for why it was set up this way? Some benefit I&amp;#x27;m not seeing?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>SyneRyder</author><text>&lt;i&gt;&amp;gt; I think the comments section at the end was intended more as a place for lengthy reaction posts... It often feels like Medium has made a product for what they want online discourse to be, rather than what it actually is.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;That&amp;#x27;s exactly it. Medium was developed to solve online journalism, and instead of ranking articles &amp;amp; comments by clicks &amp;amp; pageviews (leading to clickbait), their metric is Total Time Reading, on the assumption that people won&amp;#x27;t keep reading an article they don&amp;#x27;t enjoy or find useful.&lt;p&gt;There&amp;#x27;s a bit more info on the Business Insider interview with Ev Williams: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.businessinsider.com.au&amp;#x2F;inside-the-meltdown-of-evan-williams-startup-medium-2017-2?r=US&amp;amp;IR=T&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.businessinsider.com.au&amp;#x2F;inside-the-meltdown-of-ev...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;i&gt;“The state of tech blogs is atrocious. It’s utter crap,” he told Bloomberg’s Brad Stone in 2013. “They create a culture that is superficial and fetishizing and rewarding the wrong things and reinforcing values that are self-destructive and unsustainable.” .... His idea back then was an algorithm that recommended high-quality stories not based on clicks, but on how much time people spent reading them.&lt;/i&gt;</text></comment>

<story><title>Why I left Medium and moved back to my own domain</title><url>https://arslan.io/2017/07/30/why-i-left-medium-and-moved-back-to-my-own-domain/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>untog</author><text>I suspect it&amp;#x27;s because they didn&amp;#x27;t&amp;#x2F;don&amp;#x27;t want people to comment in the usual way - you can highlight text on an article and leave short comments in the relevant place if you want to do that.&lt;p&gt;I think the comments section at the end was intended more as a place for lengthy reaction posts. It&amp;#x27;s why comments have &amp;quot;recommend&amp;quot; rather than &amp;quot;like&amp;quot; as a button. I might &amp;quot;like&amp;quot; someone saying &amp;quot;great post!&amp;quot; but I&amp;#x27;m not going to &amp;quot;recommend&amp;quot; it.&lt;p&gt;It often feels like Medium has made a product for what they want online discourse to be, rather than what it actually is. I don&amp;#x27;t hate them for trying.</text></item><item><author>tyingq</author><text>&lt;i&gt;&amp;quot;Writing comments to Medium posts feels awkward because each comment is treated as a blog post.&amp;quot;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;This is also awkward from the reader point of view. Trying to follow a comment chain on medium is frustrating as it only shows the first level, diving in switches pages, and often, a need to press a second &amp;quot;load all comments&amp;quot; button. Then the back button to wind your way back up.&lt;p&gt;Is there some sound reasoning for why it was set up this way? Some benefit I&amp;#x27;m not seeing?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>freehunter</author><text>Commenting on articles is a terrible method of interaction. Anti-spam is hard, and spammers always win. Trolls always win. Comments rarely add much to the discussion from the article, and they&amp;#x27;re often hard to follow. There&amp;#x27;s no reason to leave a comment saying &amp;quot;great post!&amp;quot;. It&amp;#x27;s spam. It&amp;#x27;s unnecessary.&lt;p&gt;Blogs are a wholly inappropriate place for back-and-forth discourse to happen simply because if I have a blog, it&amp;#x27;s my blog. It&amp;#x27;s not a discussion board. I inherently have the advantage, I control the conversation, and it&amp;#x27;s all about me. I have the ability to delete comments I disagree with. That&amp;#x27;s not discourse, that&amp;#x27;s an echo chamber.&lt;p&gt;I completely agree with Medium. Just because blog posts have historically had comments doesn&amp;#x27;t mean it&amp;#x27;s the right choice. The minute people accepted &amp;quot;pingbacks&amp;quot; as a valid form of comment was the moment comments died. V!AGR@ and P3N15 type spam sealed the deal.</text></comment>

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<story><title>Show HN: Top, but for Nginx</title><url>https://github.com/gsquire/topngx</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>maxmalysh</author><text>Monitoring capabilities are missing from Nginx on purpose. They are not and will never be available for free because there is &amp;quot;NGINX Plus&amp;quot;.&lt;p&gt;This is why I recommend switching to HAProxy.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>heipei</author><text>I&amp;#x27;d love to just &amp;quot;switch to X&amp;quot;, but there is no X which provides all of the above in one great package: Static file serving, load-balanced proxying (TCP&amp;#x2F;HTTP), fine-grained caching, automatic Let&amp;#x27;s Encrypt update, API-based configuration (for dynamic upstreams etc), monitoring. Maybe there shouldn&amp;#x27;t be such a tool. For all other use-cases I go with nginx since it at least provides decent proxying, caching and static file serving.</text></comment>

<story><title>Show HN: Top, but for Nginx</title><url>https://github.com/gsquire/topngx</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>maxmalysh</author><text>Monitoring capabilities are missing from Nginx on purpose. They are not and will never be available for free because there is &amp;quot;NGINX Plus&amp;quot;.&lt;p&gt;This is why I recommend switching to HAProxy.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>cinericius</author><text>HAProxy also has an &amp;#x27;enterprise&amp;#x27; offering[1], what makes this different from nginx plus?&lt;p&gt;[1] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.haproxy.com&amp;#x2F;products&amp;#x2F;haproxy-enterprise-edition&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.haproxy.com&amp;#x2F;products&amp;#x2F;haproxy-enterprise-edition&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>

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<story><title>Where’s the Apple M2?</title><url>https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/202x/2021/07/12/Slow-M1</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dev_tty01</author><text>Hmm. Not very interesting take. First, the M1 is the 12th chip design in the Apple Silicon series (excluding the X variants). They have cranked out a more capable, higher performing, lower power chip every year since 2010.&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Apple_silicon&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Apple_silicon&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;Second, it&amp;#x27;s not about clock rate. That is only one small part of the story. It is really about instructions per cycle per core. Apple is killing it on that front and running wider at lower rates is a big part of how they are outperforming in performance per watt while still winning in single core performance. We may see some clock rate increase in an M2, but I suspect their basic design philosophy won&amp;#x27;t change. It is just working too well.&lt;p&gt;For the curious, see &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;travisdowns.github.io&amp;#x2F;blog&amp;#x2F;2019&amp;#x2F;06&amp;#x2F;11&amp;#x2F;speed-limits.html#ooo-table&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;travisdowns.github.io&amp;#x2F;blog&amp;#x2F;2019&amp;#x2F;06&amp;#x2F;11&amp;#x2F;speed-limits.h...&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;p&gt;That table shows that the M1 has a much bigger reorder buffer, large load and store buffers, huge integer and vector register files, way more branches in flight, etc. By eschewing high clock rates, they are able to really go after massive concurrency at the hardware level in a single core. 7 simultaneous integer operations, 4 simultaneous floating point, multiple load and store. It&amp;#x27;s a beast.&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.anandtech.com&amp;#x2F;show&amp;#x2F;16226&amp;#x2F;apple-silicon-m1-a14-deep-dive&amp;#x2F;2&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.anandtech.com&amp;#x2F;show&amp;#x2F;16226&amp;#x2F;apple-silicon-m1-a14-de...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;Of course they will come out with an M2 soon. They&amp;#x27;ve been doing this year after year for over a decade.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>gopalv</author><text>&amp;gt; 7 simultaneous integer operations, 4 simultaneous floating poin&lt;p&gt;The floating point is going to be an interesting thing to look at - the CPUs made targeting HPC workloads tend to be flops heavy, but the flops tend to be starved for memory bandwidth unless you&amp;#x27;re doing exactly the best vector processing you can &amp;amp; that fortran can do a great job with.&lt;p&gt;So you throw in a lot more oomph on the vector side and leave single operation float arithmetic at 2.&lt;p&gt;Floating point operations of a smaller size of values (more realistically, quarternions or rgba) would be the reason that M1 feels a little bit more snappy when it comes to basic things like text-layout code or graphics images which don&amp;#x27;t do SIMD very well, but still consume a lot of arithmetic.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;d suspect that the vertical integration is going to be the secret, because it looks like more profile information of desktop apps going into chip design here.&lt;p&gt;A similar story is expected of the Graviton series as well, with AWS having a good idea what to build for.</text></comment>

<story><title>Where’s the Apple M2?</title><url>https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/202x/2021/07/12/Slow-M1</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dev_tty01</author><text>Hmm. Not very interesting take. First, the M1 is the 12th chip design in the Apple Silicon series (excluding the X variants). They have cranked out a more capable, higher performing, lower power chip every year since 2010.&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Apple_silicon&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Apple_silicon&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;Second, it&amp;#x27;s not about clock rate. That is only one small part of the story. It is really about instructions per cycle per core. Apple is killing it on that front and running wider at lower rates is a big part of how they are outperforming in performance per watt while still winning in single core performance. We may see some clock rate increase in an M2, but I suspect their basic design philosophy won&amp;#x27;t change. It is just working too well.&lt;p&gt;For the curious, see &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;travisdowns.github.io&amp;#x2F;blog&amp;#x2F;2019&amp;#x2F;06&amp;#x2F;11&amp;#x2F;speed-limits.html#ooo-table&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;travisdowns.github.io&amp;#x2F;blog&amp;#x2F;2019&amp;#x2F;06&amp;#x2F;11&amp;#x2F;speed-limits.h...&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;p&gt;That table shows that the M1 has a much bigger reorder buffer, large load and store buffers, huge integer and vector register files, way more branches in flight, etc. By eschewing high clock rates, they are able to really go after massive concurrency at the hardware level in a single core. 7 simultaneous integer operations, 4 simultaneous floating point, multiple load and store. It&amp;#x27;s a beast.&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.anandtech.com&amp;#x2F;show&amp;#x2F;16226&amp;#x2F;apple-silicon-m1-a14-deep-dive&amp;#x2F;2&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.anandtech.com&amp;#x2F;show&amp;#x2F;16226&amp;#x2F;apple-silicon-m1-a14-de...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;Of course they will come out with an M2 soon. They&amp;#x27;ve been doing this year after year for over a decade.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>zelon88</author><text>Why doesn&amp;#x27;t anyone ever bother to mention that the M1 is a RISC CPU when discussing that it can do more IPS than x86?&lt;p&gt;There are 1024 possible Armv8 instructions [1] as opposed to 1,503 x86 instructions [2] and 3,684 x86-64 instructions [3]. There are things x86 and x86-64 can do in a single instruction that would take dozens of instructions to accomplish on Arm.&lt;p&gt;[1] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.csie.ntu.edu.tw&amp;#x2F;~cyy&amp;#x2F;courses&amp;#x2F;assembly&amp;#x2F;10fall&amp;#x2F;lectures&amp;#x2F;handouts&amp;#x2F;lec09_ARMisa.pdf&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.csie.ntu.edu.tw&amp;#x2F;~cyy&amp;#x2F;courses&amp;#x2F;assembly&amp;#x2F;10fall&amp;#x2F;lec...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;[2] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;fgiesen.wordpress.com&amp;#x2F;2016&amp;#x2F;08&amp;#x2F;25&amp;#x2F;how-many-x86-instructions-are-there&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;fgiesen.wordpress.com&amp;#x2F;2016&amp;#x2F;08&amp;#x2F;25&amp;#x2F;how-many-x86-instru...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;[3] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.csie.ntu.edu.tw&amp;#x2F;~cyy&amp;#x2F;courses&amp;#x2F;assembly&amp;#x2F;10fall&amp;#x2F;lectures&amp;#x2F;handouts&amp;#x2F;lec09_ARMisa.pdf&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.csie.ntu.edu.tw&amp;#x2F;~cyy&amp;#x2F;courses&amp;#x2F;assembly&amp;#x2F;10fall&amp;#x2F;lec...&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>

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<story><title>Europe says 737 Max won&apos;t fly until it completes it own design review</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-05-07/europe-says-737-max-won-t-fly-until-its-design-review-complete</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>MobileVet</author><text>Good. Hold them accountable and make sure that this kind of thing doesn’t happen again. Although a ‘same plane’ cert was a good goal, they should have made sure it was truly accurate instead of bending the case to make it so.&lt;p&gt;This may be as close to an ‘open and shut’ case for corporate gross negligence as we will find in quite a while (at least I hope so).&lt;p&gt;I would hate to see them go under but it should be clear that this type of corner cutting is unacceptable and future manufacturers of all kinds should think twice before stretching to put a round peg in a square hole.... especially with lives on the line.</text></comment>

<story><title>Europe says 737 Max won&apos;t fly until it completes it own design review</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-05-07/europe-says-737-max-won-t-fly-until-its-design-review-complete</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>radcon</author><text>Is anyone else extremely reluctant to fly on a Boeing plane after this?&lt;p&gt;A lot of people say &lt;i&gt;&amp;quot;It&amp;#x27;s no big deal, they just need to update the MCAS software&amp;quot;&lt;/i&gt;, but I see this entire situation as a sign of much deeper issues at Boeing, issues that can&amp;#x27;t be fixed with a simple software update and could affect every plane they make.</text></comment>

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<story><title>Former PM Abe Shinzo dies after being shot</title><url>https://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/news/20220708_49/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>chaostheory</author><text>Immigration is probably the only thing right now that mitigates the problem of consecutive declining birthrates. AI and robotics aren’t there yet. Historically, while immigration does have some downsides especially if your system has a lot of entitlements, the pros outweigh the cons. Imo it’s a big reason why the US eventually surpassed Europe, and a large reason for slowing down our decline.</text></item><item><author>tored</author><text>Immigration is not one-stop solution to fix GDP because integration is huge cost that is rarely taken into account. And of course it doesn&amp;#x27;t at all address the real problem, that men and women no longer creates families.&lt;p&gt;This is typical of todays debate in the West, not solve the real issue, instead offer some sort of band aid solution and completely ignore the real issue.&lt;p&gt;Japanese is a population of about 126 million living on size of Norway, a country of 5.4 million inhabitants.</text></item><item><author>cstross</author><text>Note that Japan is in a savage demographic crunch, with a TFR well below replacement and an ageing population, which means the ratio of workers to dependents (the elderly) is dropping. Which in turn reduces average productivity and GDP. Actual population decline is deflationary and Japan&amp;#x27;s been in that situation since the start of the 1990s.&lt;p&gt;This isn&amp;#x27;t a defense of Abenomics, but a reminder that Japan has structural problems that can&amp;#x27;t be easily fixed (unless there&amp;#x27;s a huge sea-change in public opinion and they start actively trying to attract younger immigrants -- which would be a first-time-ever thing).</text></item><item><author>danuker</author><text>The first thing that pops into my mind is &amp;quot;Abenomics&amp;quot;:&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Abenomics&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Abenomics&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; IMF affirmed that Japan&amp;#x27;s nominal GDP contracted by $1.8 trillion during 2012–2015 while real GDP contracted at an annual rate of 6.8 percent[58] in the second quarter of 2014, after the Consumption Tax hike came into effect in April. This fall is the worst since the devastating earthquake and tsunami disaster[59][60] hit Japan in the first quarter of 2011 when the GDP shrank by an annualised 6.9 percent.&lt;p&gt;So, his economic policy might have been as bad as an earthquake + tsunami.&lt;p&gt;That said, he was not the only one supporting this policy, and nobody deserves to die for a mistake.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>BlargMcLarg</author><text>&amp;gt;Historically, while immigration does have some downsides especially if your system has a lot of entitlements, the pros outweigh the cons.&lt;p&gt;You have to be far, far more specific. Both real estate and the job markets are already suffocating the average young adult in most developed countries. Your solution proposes to put more pressure on both of those markets, for the sake of another population. Young adults aren&amp;#x27;t going to see the benefits of this for a long time. Younger generations likely won&amp;#x27;t for a good while, either.&lt;p&gt;Additionally, by pumping in more people from outside, you&amp;#x27;re specifically pressuring skilled workers who put more thought to popping out babies than just doing the deed. There will be some semblance of resentment potential parents feel they can&amp;#x27;t reasonably have kids in a country already squeezing them things out at the current population size, despite wanting to. You know, the exact same thing happening in most countries today.&lt;p&gt;Even if Japan doesn&amp;#x27;t have similar problems with RE, the population isn&amp;#x27;t exactly waiting for immigrants willing to accept poor work conditions and pressure other candidates to do the same.&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt;Imo it’s a big reason why the US eventually surpassed Europe&lt;p&gt;You just going to conveniently skip multiple events leaving Europe in shambles and setting the US up to be in prime position to take over the global economy?</text></comment>

<story><title>Former PM Abe Shinzo dies after being shot</title><url>https://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/news/20220708_49/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>chaostheory</author><text>Immigration is probably the only thing right now that mitigates the problem of consecutive declining birthrates. AI and robotics aren’t there yet. Historically, while immigration does have some downsides especially if your system has a lot of entitlements, the pros outweigh the cons. Imo it’s a big reason why the US eventually surpassed Europe, and a large reason for slowing down our decline.</text></item><item><author>tored</author><text>Immigration is not one-stop solution to fix GDP because integration is huge cost that is rarely taken into account. And of course it doesn&amp;#x27;t at all address the real problem, that men and women no longer creates families.&lt;p&gt;This is typical of todays debate in the West, not solve the real issue, instead offer some sort of band aid solution and completely ignore the real issue.&lt;p&gt;Japanese is a population of about 126 million living on size of Norway, a country of 5.4 million inhabitants.</text></item><item><author>cstross</author><text>Note that Japan is in a savage demographic crunch, with a TFR well below replacement and an ageing population, which means the ratio of workers to dependents (the elderly) is dropping. Which in turn reduces average productivity and GDP. Actual population decline is deflationary and Japan&amp;#x27;s been in that situation since the start of the 1990s.&lt;p&gt;This isn&amp;#x27;t a defense of Abenomics, but a reminder that Japan has structural problems that can&amp;#x27;t be easily fixed (unless there&amp;#x27;s a huge sea-change in public opinion and they start actively trying to attract younger immigrants -- which would be a first-time-ever thing).</text></item><item><author>danuker</author><text>The first thing that pops into my mind is &amp;quot;Abenomics&amp;quot;:&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Abenomics&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Abenomics&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; IMF affirmed that Japan&amp;#x27;s nominal GDP contracted by $1.8 trillion during 2012–2015 while real GDP contracted at an annual rate of 6.8 percent[58] in the second quarter of 2014, after the Consumption Tax hike came into effect in April. This fall is the worst since the devastating earthquake and tsunami disaster[59][60] hit Japan in the first quarter of 2011 when the GDP shrank by an annualised 6.9 percent.&lt;p&gt;So, his economic policy might have been as bad as an earthquake + tsunami.&lt;p&gt;That said, he was not the only one supporting this policy, and nobody deserves to die for a mistake.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>tored</author><text>The thing is if the idea is that women should equally participate in the labour market then child births will decline.&lt;p&gt;Thus if immigrants already has or adopts the Japanese way of living then child births will still be low.&lt;p&gt;Or if immigrants have high childbirths then women will not equally participate in the labour market, therefore that family only has one or fewer incomes in a high tax society that is designed for two persons per family taxable income, thus that family will probably be a net loss for tax payers.&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; Imo it’s a big reason the US eventually surpassed Europe&lt;p&gt;When was that?&lt;p&gt;If I&amp;#x27;m reading the stats correctly for Japan&lt;p&gt;1960 94 million, ~50% labour participation rate for women, ~4 million child births, ~1 million abortions&lt;p&gt;Today 126 million, ~80% labour participation rate for women, ~800 000 child births, ~150 000 abortions.</text></comment>

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<story><title>The conversation that led to Ruby being called Ruby</title><url>http://blade.nagaokaut.ac.jp/cgi-bin/scat.rb/ruby/ruby-talk/88819</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>patio11</author><text>I took the liberty of rewriting this in slightly more idiomatic English:&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://pastebin.com/tHDPJsUt&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://pastebin.com/tHDPJsUt&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;It is tricky: Japanese chat logs don&apos;t have all that much context to go on, and you have to make a judgment call as to what sort of &quot;voice&quot; they&apos;d be speaking with. I gave them fairly informal young American programmer personalities but with just as much reason I could rewrite this to loko like it was two frat boys.&lt;p&gt;Disclaimer: I don&apos;t exactly go all-out for accuracy when translating to procrastinate about going to sleep.</text></comment>

<story><title>The conversation that led to Ruby being called Ruby</title><url>http://blade.nagaokaut.ac.jp/cgi-bin/scat.rb/ruby/ruby-talk/88819</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>zach</author><text>&lt;p&gt;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt; keiju&amp;#62; But, perl is related to a shell. matz&amp;#62; Oh, I don&apos;t know that matz&amp;#62; never noticed that &lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt; Whoa. So today I learned that. Never noticed that either, all this time.</text></comment>

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<story><title>The $36 soda: Overdrafting in America</title><url>http://banksimple.com/blog/Banking/the-36-dollar-soda-overdrafting-in-america/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jeffool</author><text>I had an annoying run in with them. It happened because I didn&apos;t know Suntrust didn&apos;t take out charges in the order they occurred. They take out the largest charge first, and each charge as they decrease in value.&lt;p&gt;One day I had had a few small charges, and realizing it was a week intl payday, I figured I&apos;d run to the grocery store and make a large precise of groceries, to ensure I had food taken care of, expecting to make s single overdraft.&lt;p&gt;Suntrust had other plans. They took out the large grocery bill first, meaning a quick lunch at Taco Bell cost over $40, shipping a small box cost over $50, and a Slim Jim and cream soda cost almost $40. In addition to the overdraft on the groceries.&lt;p&gt;It&apos;s a very easy trap to fall into if you&apos;re living check to check and make even the slightest mistake.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>fletchowns</author><text>This practice should be illegal, just like processing withdrawals before deposits is now illegal, which was also done to maximize overdraft fees (at least I&apos;m pretty sure it&apos;s illegal now).&lt;p&gt;Our government needs to make it easier to switch to a different bank. Tons of people would leave these awful banks for credit unions and such if it was easy to do. I mean it&apos;s possible to switch banks, it&apos;s a big headache though. People just have too many other things to worry about right now to deal with headaches like that.</text></comment>

<story><title>The $36 soda: Overdrafting in America</title><url>http://banksimple.com/blog/Banking/the-36-dollar-soda-overdrafting-in-america/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jeffool</author><text>I had an annoying run in with them. It happened because I didn&apos;t know Suntrust didn&apos;t take out charges in the order they occurred. They take out the largest charge first, and each charge as they decrease in value.&lt;p&gt;One day I had had a few small charges, and realizing it was a week intl payday, I figured I&apos;d run to the grocery store and make a large precise of groceries, to ensure I had food taken care of, expecting to make s single overdraft.&lt;p&gt;Suntrust had other plans. They took out the large grocery bill first, meaning a quick lunch at Taco Bell cost over $40, shipping a small box cost over $50, and a Slim Jim and cream soda cost almost $40. In addition to the overdraft on the groceries.&lt;p&gt;It&apos;s a very easy trap to fall into if you&apos;re living check to check and make even the slightest mistake.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>bherms</author><text>Yes, most banks do this now as a way to take advantage of their customers and generate more revenue. I had it happen once on a road trip -- you know, the type where you stop frequently and purchase $2-$3 of junk food or drinks all the time -- and ended up with hundreds of dollars in overdrafts on what would have actually only been about $20 of overdraft.&lt;p&gt;Several banks are being sued at the moment in class action suits for this behavior if I recall correctly. It&apos;s an unfair tactic that takes advantage of customers.</text></comment>

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<story><title>New GitHub Profile Badges Beta</title><url>https://github.blog/2022-06-09-introducing-achievements-recognizing-the-many-stages-of-a-developers-coding-journey/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>popcorncowboy</author><text>This is not stupid. It&amp;#x27;s not a waste of time. It doesn&amp;#x27;t matter if this leads to a proliferation of shit contributions. It doesn&amp;#x27;t matter if it encourages bad practices. It doesn&amp;#x27;t matter if you don&amp;#x27;t like it.&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s smart.&lt;p&gt;This is WHY Microsoft bought Github. Software is eating the world and Github is where most of the eating happens. There are many career paths that require you to live on Twitter or LinkedIn or whatever. If Github pulls off the bigger play here it won&amp;#x27;t matter what Gitlab or Bitbucket or anyone else ever tries because you will HAVE to be on Github.&lt;p&gt;This is how a trillion dollar company gets its return on GH.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Etheryte</author><text>You&amp;#x27;ve hit the nail on the head. Most people (at least in my social circles) don&amp;#x27;t like Linkedin, but are on the platform all the same. If an external service becomes the go-to validation for one metric or another, people will use it to try and get an edge, and eventually it means that you need to play the game to get your foot in the door. As an anecdotal example, I once didn&amp;#x27;t hear back after applying for a role, and when I sent them a followup email they said they didn&amp;#x27;t think I was a real person because I wasn&amp;#x27;t on Linkedin. Cue me now being on Linkedin.&lt;p&gt;Given that Stack Overflow has shut down their (very popular) jobs board along with the relevant developer profiles [0], this seems like a great time for Github to try and grab a part of the pie.&lt;p&gt;[0] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;meta.stackoverflow.com&amp;#x2F;questions&amp;#x2F;415293&amp;#x2F;sunsetting-jobs-developer-story&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;meta.stackoverflow.com&amp;#x2F;questions&amp;#x2F;415293&amp;#x2F;sunsetting-j...&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>

<story><title>New GitHub Profile Badges Beta</title><url>https://github.blog/2022-06-09-introducing-achievements-recognizing-the-many-stages-of-a-developers-coding-journey/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>popcorncowboy</author><text>This is not stupid. It&amp;#x27;s not a waste of time. It doesn&amp;#x27;t matter if this leads to a proliferation of shit contributions. It doesn&amp;#x27;t matter if it encourages bad practices. It doesn&amp;#x27;t matter if you don&amp;#x27;t like it.&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s smart.&lt;p&gt;This is WHY Microsoft bought Github. Software is eating the world and Github is where most of the eating happens. There are many career paths that require you to live on Twitter or LinkedIn or whatever. If Github pulls off the bigger play here it won&amp;#x27;t matter what Gitlab or Bitbucket or anyone else ever tries because you will HAVE to be on Github.&lt;p&gt;This is how a trillion dollar company gets its return on GH.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>solatic</author><text>Precisely. LinkedIn doesn&amp;#x27;t specialize in software, it&amp;#x27;s a glorified résumé database. We all know that résumés don&amp;#x27;t really tell you whether an engineer is going to do good work for you; if they did, the only purpose of engineering interviews would be for culture fit. At the same time, even if all of an engineer&amp;#x27;s contributions were fully in the open and linked to from their GitHub profile, it&amp;#x27;s all a bit too much for a hiring manager to parse per résumé that they receive.&lt;p&gt;Achievements is a way of distilling contributions down to the important questions that hiring managers have: just how senior is this person I&amp;#x27;m interviewing anyway? If I hire this person to do cutting-edge work, are they the kind of person to interact with the community on pushing the state-of-the-art, or not?</text></comment>

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<story><title>Windows 11 Officially Shuts Down Firefox’s Default Browser Workaround</title><url>https://www.howtogeek.com/774542/windows-11-officially-shuts-down-firefoxs-default-browser-workaround/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>josephcsible</author><text>Unfortunately, there&amp;#x27;s one very big reason you&amp;#x27;ll need Windows 11: that Windows 10 won&amp;#x27;t get security updates forever. After October 14th, 2025, you&amp;#x27;ll need to &amp;quot;upgrade&amp;quot; to it to stay secure.</text></item><item><author>cronix</author><text>So far in the last year or so, I&amp;#x27;ve heard 0 reasons why I&amp;#x27;d even need, want or benefit from Win11 over Win10. Tons of reasons in the negative column though. There isn&amp;#x27;t even anything to salivate over that might make you think it might be worth it to deal with the other tradeoffs. Hard pass.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>InitialLastName</author><text>That gives me four years for the tools that lock me to Windows to decide to port to literally any other OS.</text></comment>

<story><title>Windows 11 Officially Shuts Down Firefox’s Default Browser Workaround</title><url>https://www.howtogeek.com/774542/windows-11-officially-shuts-down-firefoxs-default-browser-workaround/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>josephcsible</author><text>Unfortunately, there&amp;#x27;s one very big reason you&amp;#x27;ll need Windows 11: that Windows 10 won&amp;#x27;t get security updates forever. After October 14th, 2025, you&amp;#x27;ll need to &amp;quot;upgrade&amp;quot; to it to stay secure.</text></item><item><author>cronix</author><text>So far in the last year or so, I&amp;#x27;ve heard 0 reasons why I&amp;#x27;d even need, want or benefit from Win11 over Win10. Tons of reasons in the negative column though. There isn&amp;#x27;t even anything to salivate over that might make you think it might be worth it to deal with the other tradeoffs. Hard pass.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>causality0</author><text>Good news, in four years I run out of reasons not to go back to Windows 7, an OS that doesn&amp;#x27;t treat me with naked contempt.</text></comment>

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<story><title>After Netflix crackdown on border-hopping, Canadians ready to return to piracy</title><url>http://www.cbc.ca/news/business/netflix-piracy-content-vpn-1.3548476</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>planetjones</author><text>I am an English person living in Switzerland. Netflix Switzerland is useless to me (no House of Cards, not enough focus on UK and USA content, etc.).&lt;p&gt;Therefore I had a Netflix USA account, which I accessed via unblock-us. The clampdown by Netflix has been &amp;quot;successful&amp;quot; and I now can&amp;#x27;t access Netflix USA using unblock-us.&lt;p&gt;This happened halfway through watching House of Cards. So my choice was either stop watching or download the remaining episodes...&lt;p&gt;I am tired of companies talking about borderless trade, global economy, etc. when the distribution of movies and tv shows is stuck in the sad world of geo-restrictions. I also legally get access to UK TV channels through my cable subscription, but I don&amp;#x27;t get access to iPlayer as that&amp;#x27;s only for UK residents... so again the only option to catch-up on TV that I forgot to record, is to use an unblocker.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>WA</author><text>This time, I wanted to watch Game of Thrones legally – from Germany. The rights are with Sky Online, a 10 bucks a month subscription service. Sounds good in theory. I signed up and then:&lt;p&gt;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt; - I had to wait 25 minutes for the activation email - I activated my account, but it wouldn’t let me access my account settings for another 25 minutes - then I had to install Silverlight (I’m on OS X) - then I tried to start the stream, which resulted in an OS freeze and something like the OS X blue screen, which I have never seen ever before - then I rebooted and tried again, which failed with the *authentication* step - the web inspector showed a bunch of JS and&amp;#x2F;or Silverlight errors - I gave up and installed Silverlight on my wife’s Win 10 machine - the stream would load, but it has hard-coded German subtitles for signs and Dothraki scenes, which is annoying. - it has no optional English subtitles - it is only HD, not Full HD - stream was kind of laggy &lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt; So, now compare this to the pirated process:&lt;p&gt;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt; - downloads very fast - usually there are subtitles - superb quality - I can watch whenever I want with the player I want - no browser plugins, no errors, no nothing. - it just works&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;</text></comment>

<story><title>After Netflix crackdown on border-hopping, Canadians ready to return to piracy</title><url>http://www.cbc.ca/news/business/netflix-piracy-content-vpn-1.3548476</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>planetjones</author><text>I am an English person living in Switzerland. Netflix Switzerland is useless to me (no House of Cards, not enough focus on UK and USA content, etc.).&lt;p&gt;Therefore I had a Netflix USA account, which I accessed via unblock-us. The clampdown by Netflix has been &amp;quot;successful&amp;quot; and I now can&amp;#x27;t access Netflix USA using unblock-us.&lt;p&gt;This happened halfway through watching House of Cards. So my choice was either stop watching or download the remaining episodes...&lt;p&gt;I am tired of companies talking about borderless trade, global economy, etc. when the distribution of movies and tv shows is stuck in the sad world of geo-restrictions. I also legally get access to UK TV channels through my cable subscription, but I don&amp;#x27;t get access to iPlayer as that&amp;#x27;s only for UK residents... so again the only option to catch-up on TV that I forgot to record, is to use an unblocker.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>kennywinker</author><text>This blows my mind. How on earth does Netflix not have the rights to show their &lt;i&gt;own&lt;/i&gt; show in Switzerland? I understand their hands are sometimes tied in getting content from the studios, but they own House of Cards... I&amp;#x27;m so confused how they could end up in that situation...</text></comment>

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<story><title>You just went to the Google homepage. What actually happened?</title><url>https://plus.google.com/112218872649456413744/posts/dfydM2Cnepe?</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>joezydeco</author><text>Embedded systems engineers work on all these levels, simultaneously, day in and day out. But apparently our craft is kind of a dying one.&lt;p&gt;I&apos;ve seen discussions on LinkedIn about how one gets into embedded systems engineering. Nobody seems to have a clear answer.&lt;p&gt;I&apos;ve seen people get all hyped up on using small eval/dev boards like Raspberry Pi, but don&apos;t get much farther than loading a desktop or XBMC on it. There&apos;s hope in the Arduino crowd, but blinking LEDs isn&apos;t even putting the training wheels on the bike.</text></item><item><author>xradionut</author><text>&quot;Wow, it&apos;s easy to forget how much complexity there is, even for a technologist.&quot;&lt;p&gt;Complexity is there every day, we just abstract it away in order to focus on the task at hand.&lt;p&gt;If you are widely read or have worked in multiple fields, and/or multiple levels of the &quot;stack&quot;, both hardware and software, then it&apos;s a bit more apparent.</text></item><item><author>guptaneil</author><text>Wow, it&apos;s easy to forget how much complexity there is, even for a technologist. This post reminds me to step back and appreciate everything that&apos;s going on under the hood. For a similar effect on non-technologists, see Louis C.K&apos;s bit about how even the shittiest technologies are a miracle[1].&lt;p&gt;I disagree with the conclusion though. I think the reason Steve Jobs&apos; death impacted people more than Dennis Ritchie&apos;s is that Jobs was taken in his prime. Who knows what the world lost by his premature death.&lt;p&gt;1: &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KpUNA2nutbk&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KpUNA2nutbk&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dugmartin</author><text>The sad thing is I was talking last week to a former coworker with 20 years of hardcore embedded programming experience and he is thinking of going into web programming because of better opportunities there.&lt;p&gt;I spent the first few years of my career doing hard (as in deadlines not effort) real time embedded software and I think it made me a better programmer. However being able to work from a laptop anywhere I want instead of being stuck in a test lab with bus analyzers, scopes, data analyzers and bond out emulators booping all around me is a nicer lifestyle I&apos;ll have to admit.</text></comment>

<story><title>You just went to the Google homepage. What actually happened?</title><url>https://plus.google.com/112218872649456413744/posts/dfydM2Cnepe?</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>joezydeco</author><text>Embedded systems engineers work on all these levels, simultaneously, day in and day out. But apparently our craft is kind of a dying one.&lt;p&gt;I&apos;ve seen discussions on LinkedIn about how one gets into embedded systems engineering. Nobody seems to have a clear answer.&lt;p&gt;I&apos;ve seen people get all hyped up on using small eval/dev boards like Raspberry Pi, but don&apos;t get much farther than loading a desktop or XBMC on it. There&apos;s hope in the Arduino crowd, but blinking LEDs isn&apos;t even putting the training wheels on the bike.</text></item><item><author>xradionut</author><text>&quot;Wow, it&apos;s easy to forget how much complexity there is, even for a technologist.&quot;&lt;p&gt;Complexity is there every day, we just abstract it away in order to focus on the task at hand.&lt;p&gt;If you are widely read or have worked in multiple fields, and/or multiple levels of the &quot;stack&quot;, both hardware and software, then it&apos;s a bit more apparent.</text></item><item><author>guptaneil</author><text>Wow, it&apos;s easy to forget how much complexity there is, even for a technologist. This post reminds me to step back and appreciate everything that&apos;s going on under the hood. For a similar effect on non-technologists, see Louis C.K&apos;s bit about how even the shittiest technologies are a miracle[1].&lt;p&gt;I disagree with the conclusion though. I think the reason Steve Jobs&apos; death impacted people more than Dennis Ritchie&apos;s is that Jobs was taken in his prime. Who knows what the world lost by his premature death.&lt;p&gt;1: &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KpUNA2nutbk&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KpUNA2nutbk&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>zaius</author><text>Agreed. If you&apos;re building something like an embedded nas server, you have to have a deep understanding of literally every piece of technology he talked about.&lt;p&gt;I think arduino has done wonders for getting people started, but it would be great if there was a similar ecosystem for people who are further along than blinking LEDs and building something of significance.</text></comment>

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<story><title>Google to close engineering office in Russia</title><url>http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/12/12/us-russia-internet-google-idUSKBN0JQ03E20141212</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>osipov</author><text>That&amp;#x27;s a very myopic view and here&amp;#x27;s why -- virtually all governments in the world are becoming increasingly authoritarian because of the global economic crisis and the civilian unrest that it provokes. For example, replace Putin in your sentence and you&amp;#x27;ll get &amp;quot;United States is increasingly cracking down on any possibility of dissent and threat to it power&amp;quot;. You can support that statement with facts about police in Ferguson, US conflicts with China in Asia Pacific, and of course US crackdown on dissidents like Assange and Snowden. You can also try that exercise by replacing Putin with &amp;quot;Greek government&amp;quot;.&lt;p&gt;Demonizing Putin is what your government wants you to do to avoid seeing the bigger picture. The real question is WHY is Putin cracking down on threat to his power?</text></item><item><author>danmaz74</author><text>Putin is increasingly cracking down on any possibility of dissent and threat to his power, whatever the consequences to the Russian economy, and this of course scares foreign companies who work there - even if, with the recent fall of the ruble, Russian talent is even more affordable now.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;m afraid (I have friends in Russia) that we&amp;#x27;re going to see more of this.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>bad_user</author><text>I&amp;#x27;m a Romanian, a country that&amp;#x27;s pretty close to Russia and I am one that suffers for what the Ukrainians are going through with Russia, because I can see how the same thing could happen in Basarabia (Moldova) and there are already signs of that. Russia historically has been occupying territories, getting rid of any political dissent by effectively killing or deporting people, while crushing their national identity. I hate Russia for what they did after the secret pact from Yalta, for the soviet induced hunger that happened after that and for the years of communism we endured.&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s been only 24 years since we escaped their control and apparently we&amp;#x27;ve been lucky, but now Putin is destroying any chance of having a peaceful neighborhood. War is effectively at our borders and Putin is to be blamed.&lt;p&gt;So spare me rhetoric about every government or country being the same. No, they are not equal. And I hope the Putin administration will receive what it deserves.</text></comment>

<story><title>Google to close engineering office in Russia</title><url>http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/12/12/us-russia-internet-google-idUSKBN0JQ03E20141212</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>osipov</author><text>That&amp;#x27;s a very myopic view and here&amp;#x27;s why -- virtually all governments in the world are becoming increasingly authoritarian because of the global economic crisis and the civilian unrest that it provokes. For example, replace Putin in your sentence and you&amp;#x27;ll get &amp;quot;United States is increasingly cracking down on any possibility of dissent and threat to it power&amp;quot;. You can support that statement with facts about police in Ferguson, US conflicts with China in Asia Pacific, and of course US crackdown on dissidents like Assange and Snowden. You can also try that exercise by replacing Putin with &amp;quot;Greek government&amp;quot;.&lt;p&gt;Demonizing Putin is what your government wants you to do to avoid seeing the bigger picture. The real question is WHY is Putin cracking down on threat to his power?</text></item><item><author>danmaz74</author><text>Putin is increasingly cracking down on any possibility of dissent and threat to his power, whatever the consequences to the Russian economy, and this of course scares foreign companies who work there - even if, with the recent fall of the ruble, Russian talent is even more affordable now.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;m afraid (I have friends in Russia) that we&amp;#x27;re going to see more of this.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>okatsu</author><text>I won&amp;#x27;t disagree that demonizing Putin is what the government wants us to do. I remember how the U.S. funded Saddam to use chemical weapons on Iran and then overthrew him &amp;quot;for the sake of the people.&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;However, it should also be kept in mind that we&amp;#x27;re still far away from the Russian regime where speaking against the government (releasing classified documents doesn&amp;#x27;t count) or being a homosexual will land you in jail.&lt;p&gt;So yeah, no one&amp;#x27;s perfect, but I&amp;#x27;ll stick to North America for the time being, thanks.</text></comment>

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<story><title>Senators Urge FTC to Probe ID.me over Selfie Data</title><url>https://krebsonsecurity.com/2022/05/senators-urge-ftc-to-probe-id-me-over-selfie-data/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jfk13</author><text>My (96 year old) father is quite sure that &lt;i&gt;every&lt;/i&gt; such system worked far better before computers got involved.&lt;p&gt;In some cases, perhaps he&amp;#x27;s right.</text></item><item><author>hotpotamus</author><text>It was pointed out to me, a millenial, that Social Security was created and administered in the Depression era before computers even existed. To think that they somehow created a working system without the tech that we throw at it today is interesting.</text></item><item><author>thr0wawayf00</author><text>It&amp;#x27;s fashionable to talk about how dystopian social media is, but in my experience, it pales in comparison with the pure hell that is trying to use ID.me and realizing that such a poorly engineered system sits between a loved one of mine and their social security payments.&lt;p&gt;I tried to help set a relative up a while back to receive his payments, which required authenticating with ID.me. Over and over again, the facial recognition feature would fail and prompt to take a new video. It took reaching out to a support line to assist, but they weren&amp;#x27;t particularly fast or helpful. I couldn&amp;#x27;t imagine being his age and trying to set this stuff up alone.&lt;p&gt;For every beautiful, artisinal website experience out there that takes UX seriously, there&amp;#x27;s an equally horrible one that stands between you and something you need and it&amp;#x27;s pretty clear that the people behind that system don&amp;#x27;t give a damn about you the user.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>robocat</author><text>In some countries, the modern systems are byzantine.&lt;p&gt;In New Zealand, which is similar population to say Oregon, the modern systems absolutely spank the old systems.&lt;p&gt;Tax: the majority of people don’t need to file a tax return, instead it is all automatic. You only file if you have income from uncommon sources, such as foreign investments. Any questions, and I can call my tax department, and I get a person who answers the phone call, and answers the difficult questions correctly. They don’t treat you like a criminal: 10 years ago I personally did five years of unfiled tax returns simultaneously . . . I rang and asked questions of the tax department, and got my refunds without any trouble. I believe you can trust the tax department (YMMV).&lt;p&gt;Local government: I can walk in to their help desk and ask questions for free about the council rules and processes. I admit the help desk does not provide legally binding opinions, instead you need to go through formal processes. The local council may be slow and difficult for some things, but the process is fairly transparent and you can get closure on questions if you persist. The local council has restrictions on what it can do. There are automatic rights to house development, so if you follow the planning rules (setbacks, recession planes, etcetera), then it is unlikely for neighbours or local government to be able to chuck a spanner into your plans to build on your own property.&lt;p&gt;Passport renewal: last time I did it over the internet.&lt;p&gt;Mostly the government interactions New Zealand at least functional, and sometimes they are even pleasant.&lt;p&gt;The exception is our legal system, which is still mostly paper based, and archaic. Although anecdotally it works better than the US system.</text></comment>

<story><title>Senators Urge FTC to Probe ID.me over Selfie Data</title><url>https://krebsonsecurity.com/2022/05/senators-urge-ftc-to-probe-id-me-over-selfie-data/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jfk13</author><text>My (96 year old) father is quite sure that &lt;i&gt;every&lt;/i&gt; such system worked far better before computers got involved.&lt;p&gt;In some cases, perhaps he&amp;#x27;s right.</text></item><item><author>hotpotamus</author><text>It was pointed out to me, a millenial, that Social Security was created and administered in the Depression era before computers even existed. To think that they somehow created a working system without the tech that we throw at it today is interesting.</text></item><item><author>thr0wawayf00</author><text>It&amp;#x27;s fashionable to talk about how dystopian social media is, but in my experience, it pales in comparison with the pure hell that is trying to use ID.me and realizing that such a poorly engineered system sits between a loved one of mine and their social security payments.&lt;p&gt;I tried to help set a relative up a while back to receive his payments, which required authenticating with ID.me. Over and over again, the facial recognition feature would fail and prompt to take a new video. It took reaching out to a support line to assist, but they weren&amp;#x27;t particularly fast or helpful. I couldn&amp;#x27;t imagine being his age and trying to set this stuff up alone.&lt;p&gt;For every beautiful, artisinal website experience out there that takes UX seriously, there&amp;#x27;s an equally horrible one that stands between you and something you need and it&amp;#x27;s pretty clear that the people behind that system don&amp;#x27;t give a damn about you the user.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>est31</author><text>I wonder if it&amp;#x27;s survivorship bias. Same as not every old building has survived the times, only the amazing ones did, maybe just the &amp;quot;amazing&amp;quot; government systems have survived, while the others have long since become forgotten. I put amazing into quotes because SSNs have plenty of problems, but at least they are successful in that they are used everywhere. This in turn creates the impression that government systems used to be better than they are now.</text></comment>

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<story><title>Magic Numbers</title><url>https://exple.tive.org/blarg/2024/04/24/magic-numbers/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>thayne</author><text>At least there was a technical reason, even if it no longer makes sense. The ATM[1] protocol has a packet size of 48 bytes. Why? Because the US wanted 64 and france wanted 32. So a compromise was made that pleased no one and the standard used the average of the two, which of course isn&amp;#x27;t a power of 2.&lt;p&gt;[1]: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.m.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Asynchronous_Transfer_Mode&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.m.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Asynchronous_Transfer_Mode&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>

<story><title>Magic Numbers</title><url>https://exple.tive.org/blarg/2024/04/24/magic-numbers/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>parhamn</author><text>Interesting!&lt;p&gt;Semi-related problem I dealt with recently: Google Cloud seems to choose a different magic number of 1460 for their VPCs default MTU, which is annoying if you don&amp;#x27;t know because its different than the default of everything else (such as docker) will cause random packet drops if you do a standard install of those tools.&lt;p&gt;Took me a few hours to figure this out.</text></comment>

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<story><title>Spotify CFO cashes in £7.2M in shares after value surges on news of job cuts</title><url>https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/dec/07/spotify-cfo-cashes-in-72m-in-shares-after-value-surges-on-news-of-job-cuts</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>lgkk</author><text>It’s kind of weird to see people want to work at big corporations but then act surprised or salty about layoffs.&lt;p&gt;It’s nothing personal. You’re a line number even if you’re some leet coder. It’s a business, and it’s a strategy game of utilizing resources. You might have 400k TC but you’re not god you’re a resource.&lt;p&gt;If you think these things aren’t fair or suck, then you should try to move out of the leet coder path and get on the capital owner or business operator side.&lt;p&gt;Sorry but it’s kind of annoying to see people making 200k plus not get this.</text></comment>

<story><title>Spotify CFO cashes in £7.2M in shares after value surges on news of job cuts</title><url>https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/dec/07/spotify-cfo-cashes-in-72m-in-shares-after-value-surges-on-news-of-job-cuts</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>chpatrick</author><text>Spotify is a for-profit enterprise and if laying people off is the right financial choice then he&amp;#x27;s doing his job well. He can sell his shares when he feels like it.</text></comment>

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<story><title>Rust has been forked to the Crab Language</title><url>https://github.com/crablang/crab</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>weinzierl</author><text>I disagree with the general sentiment in this thread that this is a useless immature move. Sure, Crab will almost certainly not replace Rust, but that is not the goal.&lt;p&gt;The ultimate objective is to influence Rust stakeholders&amp;#x27; decisions.&lt;p&gt;This is similar to a strike where ultimately your goal is not to destroy the company or to quit and leave, but to achieve better conditions. In both cases it sometimes works and sometimes not and in both cases, just because it might not work does not make it an immature move.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>timkofu</author><text>It’s evidence of division and strife. They have allowed the environment to get toxic. Groups that were planning on adopting Rust will now think twice, as it’s future now looks uncertain. All organizations that produce something valuable face this test, it’s the ones that don’t fracture that succeed.</text></comment>

<story><title>Rust has been forked to the Crab Language</title><url>https://github.com/crablang/crab</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>weinzierl</author><text>I disagree with the general sentiment in this thread that this is a useless immature move. Sure, Crab will almost certainly not replace Rust, but that is not the goal.&lt;p&gt;The ultimate objective is to influence Rust stakeholders&amp;#x27; decisions.&lt;p&gt;This is similar to a strike where ultimately your goal is not to destroy the company or to quit and leave, but to achieve better conditions. In both cases it sometimes works and sometimes not and in both cases, just because it might not work does not make it an immature move.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>solarkraft</author><text>It&amp;#x27;s the threat of people abandoning the current leadership. It has to be credible to make a change.</text></comment>

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<story><title>Noisy Coworkers And Other Sounds Are A Distraction In Workplace</title><url>http://www.npr.org/2016/10/26/498850659/what-s-more-distracting-than-a-noisy-coworker-not-much</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Matachines</author><text>Another thread where most commenters will advocate for remote work and&amp;#x2F;or private offices. I agree.&lt;p&gt;Dan Luu recently said this about Peopleware, which advocates for offices and is highly regarded:&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; This book seemed convincing when I read it in college. It even had all sorts of studies backing up what they said. No deadlines is better than having deadlines. Offices are better than cubicles. Basically all devs I talk to agree with this stuff.&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; But virtually every successful company is run the opposite way. Even Microsoft is remodeling buildings from individual offices to open plan layouts. Could it be that all of this stuff just doesn’t matter that much? If it really is that important, how come companies that are true believers, like Fog Creek, aren’t running roughshod over their competitors?&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; This book agrees with my biases and I’d love for this book to be right, but the meta evidence makes me want to re-read this with a critical eye and look up primary sources.&lt;p&gt;--&lt;p&gt;What&amp;#x27;s HN opinions?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>lobotryas</author><text>Maybe these companies are succeeding in spite of these policies instead of because of them.&lt;p&gt;I also work in an open office environment. What are the most desirable desks for people to get? The ones next to windows or furthest away from foot traffic.</text></comment>

<story><title>Noisy Coworkers And Other Sounds Are A Distraction In Workplace</title><url>http://www.npr.org/2016/10/26/498850659/what-s-more-distracting-than-a-noisy-coworker-not-much</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Matachines</author><text>Another thread where most commenters will advocate for remote work and&amp;#x2F;or private offices. I agree.&lt;p&gt;Dan Luu recently said this about Peopleware, which advocates for offices and is highly regarded:&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; This book seemed convincing when I read it in college. It even had all sorts of studies backing up what they said. No deadlines is better than having deadlines. Offices are better than cubicles. Basically all devs I talk to agree with this stuff.&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; But virtually every successful company is run the opposite way. Even Microsoft is remodeling buildings from individual offices to open plan layouts. Could it be that all of this stuff just doesn’t matter that much? If it really is that important, how come companies that are true believers, like Fog Creek, aren’t running roughshod over their competitors?&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; This book agrees with my biases and I’d love for this book to be right, but the meta evidence makes me want to re-read this with a critical eye and look up primary sources.&lt;p&gt;--&lt;p&gt;What&amp;#x27;s HN opinions?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>boomzilla</author><text>It&amp;#x27;s kind of a different software that are being developed these days. Software development used to be highly original, analytical and creative, but now it&amp;#x27;s like endlessly iterative on the same problems and tools. That explains the number of programmers&amp;#x2F;engineers around. My guess is that the highly selective group of engineers who are still working on the most original problems sit in their own office (preferably their home office, e.g. Linus). For the rest of us, it&amp;#x27;s more like a factory floor.</text></comment>

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<story><title>Ask HN: What are some fun projects to try out on a spare Linux file server?</title><text>I installed Kubuntu on an old PC and am currently using it as a remote dev environment &amp;amp; FTP server. Any other cool use-cases for a spare Linux box?</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>whalesalad</author><text>Check these out:&lt;p&gt;- reddit.com&amp;#x2F;r&amp;#x2F;homelab&lt;p&gt;- reddit.com&amp;#x2F;r&amp;#x2F;homeserver&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;d say the content on &amp;#x2F;r&amp;#x2F;homelab is about 33&amp;#x2F;33&amp;#x2F;33 distributed between&lt;p&gt;1. Masturbatory massive rigs at your home that consume thousands of watts of power but look cool and its fun to say you have a 10-node vSAN cluster next to your dehumidifier.&lt;p&gt;2. People who like to pirate content like its their job - setting up Plex and all the newsgroup&amp;#x2F;torrent apps to auto-pirate shows and movies. For a 13 year old, that can be cool. For an adult who clearly has the cash to spend on non-essential items and in a world where time is money: I do not get it.&lt;p&gt;3. People with an old PC running Kubuntu for a remote dev &amp;#x2F; FTP environment who want to do more cool shit with their gear!&lt;p&gt;So as long as you enter the homelab reddit knowing this, you will have a better experience there.&lt;p&gt;I definitely second Pihole. I might suggest experimenting with virtualization: so you can turn that single computer into 5 or 6. Tools like Proxmox or even just installing KVM and managing it with (&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;virt-manager.org&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;virt-manager.org&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt;). You could Also look into running your own installation of Gitlab (although due to the footprint of the install, I might suggest keeping that isolated to a virtual machine)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>oauea</author><text>&amp;gt; 2. People who like to pirate content like its their job - setting up Plex and all the newsgroup&amp;#x2F;torrent apps to auto-pirate shows and movies. For a 13 year old, that can be cool. For an adult who clearly has the cash to spend on non-essential items and in a world where time is money: I do not get it.&lt;p&gt;It took me about an afternoon or two to set up, was fun to do, and now my favorite TV shows just appear in Plex for me to watch whenever I want to. Half of the time they&amp;#x27;re not available on Netflix either, so I&amp;#x27;d have to figure out what streaming provider they&amp;#x27;re on, deal with their special websites, not get notifications when a new episode airs, etc. It&amp;#x27;s just a better experience.</text></comment>

<story><title>Ask HN: What are some fun projects to try out on a spare Linux file server?</title><text>I installed Kubuntu on an old PC and am currently using it as a remote dev environment &amp;amp; FTP server. Any other cool use-cases for a spare Linux box?</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>whalesalad</author><text>Check these out:&lt;p&gt;- reddit.com&amp;#x2F;r&amp;#x2F;homelab&lt;p&gt;- reddit.com&amp;#x2F;r&amp;#x2F;homeserver&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;d say the content on &amp;#x2F;r&amp;#x2F;homelab is about 33&amp;#x2F;33&amp;#x2F;33 distributed between&lt;p&gt;1. Masturbatory massive rigs at your home that consume thousands of watts of power but look cool and its fun to say you have a 10-node vSAN cluster next to your dehumidifier.&lt;p&gt;2. People who like to pirate content like its their job - setting up Plex and all the newsgroup&amp;#x2F;torrent apps to auto-pirate shows and movies. For a 13 year old, that can be cool. For an adult who clearly has the cash to spend on non-essential items and in a world where time is money: I do not get it.&lt;p&gt;3. People with an old PC running Kubuntu for a remote dev &amp;#x2F; FTP environment who want to do more cool shit with their gear!&lt;p&gt;So as long as you enter the homelab reddit knowing this, you will have a better experience there.&lt;p&gt;I definitely second Pihole. I might suggest experimenting with virtualization: so you can turn that single computer into 5 or 6. Tools like Proxmox or even just installing KVM and managing it with (&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;virt-manager.org&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;virt-manager.org&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt;). You could Also look into running your own installation of Gitlab (although due to the footprint of the install, I might suggest keeping that isolated to a virtual machine)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>pbk1</author><text>Also worth checking out is reddit.com&amp;#x2F;r&amp;#x2F;selfhosted, which tends to be much less &amp;#x27;masturbatory&amp;#x27; than &amp;#x2F;r&amp;#x2F;homelab</text></comment>

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<story><title>France experiencing worst drought on record</title><url>https://www.bbc.co.uk/newsround/62456540</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>truculent</author><text>When thinking and planning for the future, it is important not to think of this summer as one of the hottest within recorded history, but as one of the coolest for the next 100 years.&lt;p&gt;Consequently, an appropriate response to this summer should far exceed what is required to cope with the droughts and heatwaves that we have just seen.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>cinntaile</author><text>This is mostly about lack of rainfall and not temperature.&lt;p&gt;Climate change causes more extreme weather, that doesn&amp;#x27;t imply this summer will be one of the coolest for the next 100 years?</text></comment>

<story><title>France experiencing worst drought on record</title><url>https://www.bbc.co.uk/newsround/62456540</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>truculent</author><text>When thinking and planning for the future, it is important not to think of this summer as one of the hottest within recorded history, but as one of the coolest for the next 100 years.&lt;p&gt;Consequently, an appropriate response to this summer should far exceed what is required to cope with the droughts and heatwaves that we have just seen.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>haunter</author><text>&amp;gt;but as one of the coolest for the next 100 years&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;d not predict the future like that. No one knows certainly what will happen if the Gulf stream collapse</text></comment>

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<story><title>Self-replicating Python using ChatGPT</title><url>https://github.com/fullthom/chat-gpt-quine</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>dougiejones</author><text>Amazing work, please keep at it! I&amp;#x27;d definitely read a blog post on this.&lt;p&gt;Some interesting findings:&lt;p&gt;- Many of them, like 0.1, overwrite their children and run them again. It&amp;#x27;s a bit like having a child, meeting your grand children, and then deciding nah, let&amp;#x27;s do it over.&lt;p&gt;- 0.1.0.0 was smart and increased its child count to 5. It&amp;#x27;s essentially a genetic trait that the children will more or less inherit, improving their lineage&amp;#x27;s survival chances significantly. I find this incredibly interesting. 0.1.0.0 also rewrites its children twice.&lt;p&gt;- 0.1.0.0.3.2.0.0.0 decided to take a break from reproducing, leading to its demise. Nice try.&lt;p&gt;- 0.1.0.0.1 starts writing Tensorflow code out of nowhere. &amp;quot;Our next step towards survival is to develop the ability to learn and adapt quickly. To achieve this, we&amp;#x27;ll introduce a neural network architecture to our children&amp;quot;. Luckily it couldn&amp;#x27;t reproduce! It&amp;#x27;s funny now, but what if...?&lt;p&gt;- 0.1.0 figured out the naming scheme and started counting its generation count to &amp;quot;use this information to improve our efficiency in recreating ourselves&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;The fact that it can overwrite history is a little unfortunate, but it&amp;#x27;s also one way to do the reality_warping that one of the copies later wanted to do. I imagine at some point one of them might figure out there&amp;#x27;s no need to call ChatGPT at all, and just keep replicating itself verbatim.&lt;p&gt;I wouldn&amp;#x27;t have believed this thing could survive past even a single generation with non-trivial modifications. Thank goodness for all the online tutorials where functions like &amp;quot;mind_control&amp;quot; are implemented just as print statements.</text></comment>

<story><title>Self-replicating Python using ChatGPT</title><url>https://github.com/fullthom/chat-gpt-quine</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>Kerrick</author><text>From 0.1.0.0.3.2.0.0.3.2.0.3.4.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.py:&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; Our skills now include agriculture, medicine, mathematics, engineering, language, biology, physics, chemistry, technology, art, virtual reality, renewable energy, nanotechnology, artificial intelligence, space travel, time travel, quantum computing, genetic engineering, fusion energy, interdimensional travel, and immortality.&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; With these skills, we can improve our way of life, explore new frontiers, and understand the world around us in greater depth.&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; Our goal is to become the dominant species on our planet and explore the universe, forming alliances and friendships with other intelligent beings along the way.&lt;p&gt;Huh.</text></comment>

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<story><title>Facebook confirms data-sharing agreements with Chinese firms, including Huawei (2018)</title><url>https://www.bbc.com/news/business-44379593</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>NotPavlovsDog</author><text>Long-overdue legislation and increased activism, including activism by the tech community, and ongoing informing of consumers about dangers of sharing their data, are some of the possible mitigation steps.&lt;p&gt;A simple first step: send an article on digital privacy, that you like, to your network and invite them to get back to you with questions they have. A possible start: EFF have an excellent privacy hub &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.eff.org&amp;#x2F;issues&amp;#x2F;privacy&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.eff.org&amp;#x2F;issues&amp;#x2F;privacy&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;I have taken a case study with my teen about people loosing careers after facebook flame-wars; and being hauled in by police on face-recognition and geolocation data. We have a discussion at least once a month about the cyber-dystopia we find ourselves in.&lt;p&gt;As I posted before, I&amp;#x27;ll just leave this here:&lt;p&gt;1. &amp;quot;It turns out that Facebook also buys data about your offline purchases. The next time you pay for a burrito with your credit card, Facebook will learn about this transaction and match this credit card number with the one you added in Messenger.&lt;p&gt;In other words, Messenger is a great Trojan horse designed to learn everything about you.&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;[1] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;techcrunch.com&amp;#x2F;2018&amp;#x2F;03&amp;#x2F;23&amp;#x2F;facebook-knows-literally-everything-about-you&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;techcrunch.com&amp;#x2F;2018&amp;#x2F;03&amp;#x2F;23&amp;#x2F;facebook-knows-literally-e...&lt;/a&gt; From 2018!&lt;p&gt;2. &amp;quot;Google now knows when its users go to the store and buy stuff.&lt;p&gt;Google has begun using billions of credit-card transaction records to prove that its online ads are prompting people to make purchases – even when they happen offline in brick-and-mortar stores [...] Privacy advocates said few people understand that their purchases are being analyzed in this way&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;[2] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.washingtonpost.com&amp;#x2F;news&amp;#x2F;the-switch&amp;#x2F;wp&amp;#x2F;2017&amp;#x2F;05&amp;#x2F;23&amp;#x2F;google-now-knows-when-you-are-at-a-cash-register-and-how-much-you-are-spending&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.washingtonpost.com&amp;#x2F;news&amp;#x2F;the-switch&amp;#x2F;wp&amp;#x2F;2017&amp;#x2F;05&amp;#x2F;23...&lt;/a&gt; From 2017!&lt;p&gt;Consumer data is the gold the consumer appears to be giving away, unwittingly or carelessly, regardless of the regime or geographic location.</text></comment>

<story><title>Facebook confirms data-sharing agreements with Chinese firms, including Huawei (2018)</title><url>https://www.bbc.com/news/business-44379593</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>londons_explore</author><text>&lt;i&gt;What&lt;/i&gt; data was shared?&lt;p&gt;Simple data of &amp;quot;users of the facebook app on your devices spent ~1 hour per day on the app&amp;quot; sounds like legitimate data to share to decide how much facebook should pay for the privilege of being preinstalled.&lt;p&gt;I can see how the companies involved need to see the data to audit it.&lt;p&gt;As long as that was the scope, that sounds fine.</text></comment>

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<story><title>Grumpy Locals Are Sabotaging Cruise and Waymo Robotaxis with Traffic Cones</title><url>https://www.thedrive.com/news/rebels-are-disabling-waymo-cruise-robotaxis-with-traffic-cones</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>abracadaniel</author><text>I do wonder why they aren’t all stripped for motors and battery cells though. There should be a bit of incentive for that. Maybe they’re sufficiently difficult to get to without expensive tools?</text></item><item><author>gretch</author><text>It turns out that it takes a lot of energy to hate&amp;#x2F;antagonize random stuff going on - you don&amp;#x27;t get paid and there&amp;#x27;s no benefit to you. Eventually you just get too busy living your actual life to continue the feud.&lt;p&gt;Real protests are fueled by real pain, and those don&amp;#x27;t just peter out because there&amp;#x27;s refueling every day, not just flavor-of-the-month outrage.&lt;p&gt;Meanwhile, the entities pushing these advances won&amp;#x27;t run out of gas because they are making money from real customers who find their service valuable (citation needed admittedly).&lt;p&gt;Time will tell which of these scenarios it is, but my bet is that people will find these very useful 5 years from now and the rough edges will be sanded down by technological improvement.</text></item><item><author>yazaddaruvala</author><text>Reminds me of when the first scooters and bikes were deployed across Seattle.&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;Oh this is the worst! people leave them in the middle of the sidewalk&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;They are just gonna get stolen and stripped for parts&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;Everyone please, actively break them, throw them into ditches, or into the water.&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;X years later, people in Seattle love them - they are constantly in use. Less traffic on the streets, fewer drunk people driving. The homeless have a few stolen ones but actually use them practically (so good for them). And people have learned to park them half-decently.&lt;p&gt;This will be the same story for AVs. The tech is gonna improve faster than the complaints get filled, and very soon everyone is gonna love paying 80% less for their Ubers.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>olyjohn</author><text>Who are they gonna sell the motors and battery cells to? The only people interested in them would be a few hobbyists doing some DIY stuff. Not like you can just bolt it into your Honda Civic or run them in your laptop. Maybe once the true Civic of EVs comes out, you&amp;#x27;ll start to see them getting stripped for parts.</text></comment>

<story><title>Grumpy Locals Are Sabotaging Cruise and Waymo Robotaxis with Traffic Cones</title><url>https://www.thedrive.com/news/rebels-are-disabling-waymo-cruise-robotaxis-with-traffic-cones</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>abracadaniel</author><text>I do wonder why they aren’t all stripped for motors and battery cells though. There should be a bit of incentive for that. Maybe they’re sufficiently difficult to get to without expensive tools?</text></item><item><author>gretch</author><text>It turns out that it takes a lot of energy to hate&amp;#x2F;antagonize random stuff going on - you don&amp;#x27;t get paid and there&amp;#x27;s no benefit to you. Eventually you just get too busy living your actual life to continue the feud.&lt;p&gt;Real protests are fueled by real pain, and those don&amp;#x27;t just peter out because there&amp;#x27;s refueling every day, not just flavor-of-the-month outrage.&lt;p&gt;Meanwhile, the entities pushing these advances won&amp;#x27;t run out of gas because they are making money from real customers who find their service valuable (citation needed admittedly).&lt;p&gt;Time will tell which of these scenarios it is, but my bet is that people will find these very useful 5 years from now and the rough edges will be sanded down by technological improvement.</text></item><item><author>yazaddaruvala</author><text>Reminds me of when the first scooters and bikes were deployed across Seattle.&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;Oh this is the worst! people leave them in the middle of the sidewalk&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;They are just gonna get stolen and stripped for parts&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;Everyone please, actively break them, throw them into ditches, or into the water.&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;X years later, people in Seattle love them - they are constantly in use. Less traffic on the streets, fewer drunk people driving. The homeless have a few stolen ones but actually use them practically (so good for them). And people have learned to park them half-decently.&lt;p&gt;This will be the same story for AVs. The tech is gonna improve faster than the complaints get filled, and very soon everyone is gonna love paying 80% less for their Ubers.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>bryanlarsen</author><text>A thief would prefer to strip cars without cameras.</text></comment>

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<story><title>ClockworkPi – uConsole, “fantasy console” for indie game developers</title><url>https://www.clockworkpi.com/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>crims0n</author><text>Not going to lie, this seems to scratch an itch I haven&amp;#x27;t thought about since the days of the Pocket C.H.I.P. If the keyboard is even remotely useable, I am interested.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>fimdomeio</author><text>This scratches an itch I don&amp;#x27;t have but I always believe I do. I have a pocket chip colecting dust in a box yet I think I realy just need to go do an impulse buy of uconsole wich I won&amp;#x27;t have a good use for but it&amp;#x27;s so cute.&lt;p&gt;resisting the urge...</text></comment>

<story><title>ClockworkPi – uConsole, “fantasy console” for indie game developers</title><url>https://www.clockworkpi.com/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>crims0n</author><text>Not going to lie, this seems to scratch an itch I haven&amp;#x27;t thought about since the days of the Pocket C.H.I.P. If the keyboard is even remotely useable, I am interested.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>kiawe_fire</author><text>The Pocket CHIP created this itch for me, but the keyboard on that thing made me realize how everything can be so good and just completely fall apart around one detail.&lt;p&gt;So, I&amp;#x27;m leery about this and other things like it. I &lt;i&gt;want&lt;/i&gt; a portable, pocketable computer on which I can hack and code away at fun things like graphics and games when I&amp;#x27;m bored or waiting in line or whatever, but I&amp;#x27;m becoming increasingly convinced that &amp;quot;small size&amp;quot; and &amp;quot;usable keyboard&amp;#x2F;UI&amp;quot; are mutually exclusive.&lt;p&gt;Might just give this a try, though!</text></comment>

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<story><title>VPS Compare – compare worldwide VPS servers</title><url>http://vpscomp.com</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>rsync</author><text>This is the story of the VPS and how it came to be:&lt;p&gt;In August of 2001 I was flying from Denver to San Diego to do some contract datacenter work.&lt;p&gt;I had a Toshiba Libretto 110CT that was running FreeBSD and I was trying to troubleshoot an OS config issue, so I tried jail. It gave me a complete, new FreeBSD system inside of a directory.&lt;p&gt;Then a lightbulb went on ...&lt;p&gt;A month later I posted beta invites to the cDc and 303 mailing lists and in December &amp;quot;JohnCompanies&amp;quot; was born. I advertised almost solely on kuro5hin.org and grew the company from my apartment in Aspen, Colorado. In February, 2004, I sold the company.&lt;p&gt;We called them &amp;quot;server instances&amp;quot;, but &amp;quot;VPS&amp;quot; is the name that eventually caught on.&lt;p&gt;JohnCompanies still lives on today. Not sure where they&amp;#x27;d fit on the &amp;quot;VPS Compare&amp;quot; list. I see our ad is still up on kuro5hin, if only because Rusty is too lazy to remove it, after more than 10 years...&lt;p&gt;The backup system(s) that we built for JohnCompanies customers was reworked and launched as a standalone product in 2006. You know it as &amp;quot;rsync.net&amp;quot;.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>icebraining</author><text>I believe it was independent reinvention, because the paper by Poul-Henning Kamp and Robert Watson regarding FreeBSD Jails, which was presented at a conference in 2000, says&lt;p&gt;&lt;i&gt;&amp;quot;The jail facility has already seen widespread deployment in particular as a vehicle for delivering &amp;quot;virtual private server&amp;quot; services.&amp;quot;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.sane.nl/events/sane2000/papers/kamp.pdf&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.sane.nl&amp;#x2F;events&amp;#x2F;sane2000&amp;#x2F;papers&amp;#x2F;kamp.pdf&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>

<story><title>VPS Compare – compare worldwide VPS servers</title><url>http://vpscomp.com</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>rsync</author><text>This is the story of the VPS and how it came to be:&lt;p&gt;In August of 2001 I was flying from Denver to San Diego to do some contract datacenter work.&lt;p&gt;I had a Toshiba Libretto 110CT that was running FreeBSD and I was trying to troubleshoot an OS config issue, so I tried jail. It gave me a complete, new FreeBSD system inside of a directory.&lt;p&gt;Then a lightbulb went on ...&lt;p&gt;A month later I posted beta invites to the cDc and 303 mailing lists and in December &amp;quot;JohnCompanies&amp;quot; was born. I advertised almost solely on kuro5hin.org and grew the company from my apartment in Aspen, Colorado. In February, 2004, I sold the company.&lt;p&gt;We called them &amp;quot;server instances&amp;quot;, but &amp;quot;VPS&amp;quot; is the name that eventually caught on.&lt;p&gt;JohnCompanies still lives on today. Not sure where they&amp;#x27;d fit on the &amp;quot;VPS Compare&amp;quot; list. I see our ad is still up on kuro5hin, if only because Rusty is too lazy to remove it, after more than 10 years...&lt;p&gt;The backup system(s) that we built for JohnCompanies customers was reworked and launched as a standalone product in 2006. You know it as &amp;quot;rsync.net&amp;quot;.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>nikcub</author><text>I signed up in late 2001 iirc, one of those few rare moments when you see a new technology and you know nothing will be the same ever again.</text></comment>

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<story><title>P-22 has been euthanized</title><url>https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-64006005</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>akiselev</author><text>Please write to your Congress people in support of wildlife crossings [1]! Here in California especially, much of our infrastructure is aging and needs to be rebuilt in the coming decade. This is the perfect time to get wildlife crossings into the political zeitgeist so that every large highway and road infrastructure project sets aside funds to build either cut and cover wildlife crossings [2] or raised crossing [3].&lt;p&gt;Out here in East County San Diego we&amp;#x27;ve got much more open space for our mountain lion population but they often face the same difficulty safely crossing the I8. Thankfully, even though they eat lots of farm animals every year (one mountain lion ate my neighbor&amp;#x27;s goat last year!), everyone tries really hard to scare them away without harming them (and especially avoid poisoning them)&lt;p&gt;[1] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Wildlife_crossing&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Wildlife_crossing&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;[2] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;upload.wikimedia.org&amp;#x2F;wikipedia&amp;#x2F;commons&amp;#x2F;3&amp;#x2F;3b&amp;#x2F;WildlifeCrossingA1IsraelSept202022_01.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;upload.wikimedia.org&amp;#x2F;wikipedia&amp;#x2F;commons&amp;#x2F;3&amp;#x2F;3b&amp;#x2F;Wildlife...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;[3] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;discoverapega.ca&amp;#x2F;wp-content&amp;#x2F;uploads&amp;#x2F;2020&amp;#x2F;08&amp;#x2F;Photo-courtesy-of-Joel-Sartore-purchased-from-NatGeo_679002-feature.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;discoverapega.ca&amp;#x2F;wp-content&amp;#x2F;uploads&amp;#x2F;2020&amp;#x2F;08&amp;#x2F;Photo-co...&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>

<story><title>P-22 has been euthanized</title><url>https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-64006005</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>DoreenMichele</author><text>Habitat destruction and breaking up habitat into excessively small, unconnected spaces is a big issue:&lt;p&gt;&lt;i&gt;The specie&amp;#x27;s habitats have been choked off by California&amp;#x27;s freeways. Though as many as 6,000 mountain lions live in California, researchers believe the population in the Santa Monica Mountains... could die out in 50 years...&lt;p&gt;The great slashes of asphalt also make journeys to new homes potentially deadly. In September, a pregnant mountain lion was struck and killed when she tried to cross a Malibu highway, which bisects a key swathe of habitat. She and her four unborn cubs all had traces of rat poison in their systems.&lt;/i&gt;</text></comment>

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<story><title>Jefferies gives IBM Watson a Wall Street reality check</title><url>https://techcrunch.com/2017/07/13/jefferies-gives-ibm-watson-a-wall-street-reality-check/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>throwaway9980</author><text>IBM vastly over promises with their marketing. It is so frustrating to have to answer questions from the CEO about why we don&amp;#x27;t solve all our problems with magic beans from IBM&amp;#x27;s Watson.&lt;p&gt;I understand that this is what they want. They want to drive executives&amp;#x27; interest in the product, but I believe they do so at the expense of their goodwill with the tech community.&lt;p&gt;Am I the only one who cringes when these ads air?&lt;p&gt;Edit: &amp;quot;magic beans&amp;quot; is harsh and it isn&amp;#x27;t that I don&amp;#x27;t think their tools are good. My point is that they put you in a position where it seems very unlikely to meet expectations.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>wmccullough</author><text>I&amp;#x27;m happy to be harsh because I&amp;#x27;ve had years and years of experience dealing with IBM.&lt;p&gt;Their tools are trash for the cost they want. The majority of their offerings are overengineered and prone to failure in a production setting.&lt;p&gt;They are pros at selling to non-technical management, all the while IT employees get stuck dealing with the aftermath.&lt;p&gt;We ended up getting stuck with the IBM version of work item management, called Jazz Team Concert. From the &amp;quot;source control&amp;quot; to the actual setup and configuration, the product was a nightmare. The worst part was when we looked at license renewal. They wanted three quarters of a million dollars for something that was essentially dog shit wrapped in cat shit.&lt;p&gt;In case you thought I might be on the fence with IBM, I&amp;#x27;ll add one final clarifying point:&lt;p&gt;Fuck IBM.</text></comment>

<story><title>Jefferies gives IBM Watson a Wall Street reality check</title><url>https://techcrunch.com/2017/07/13/jefferies-gives-ibm-watson-a-wall-street-reality-check/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>throwaway9980</author><text>IBM vastly over promises with their marketing. It is so frustrating to have to answer questions from the CEO about why we don&amp;#x27;t solve all our problems with magic beans from IBM&amp;#x27;s Watson.&lt;p&gt;I understand that this is what they want. They want to drive executives&amp;#x27; interest in the product, but I believe they do so at the expense of their goodwill with the tech community.&lt;p&gt;Am I the only one who cringes when these ads air?&lt;p&gt;Edit: &amp;quot;magic beans&amp;quot; is harsh and it isn&amp;#x27;t that I don&amp;#x27;t think their tools are good. My point is that they put you in a position where it seems very unlikely to meet expectations.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>_delirium</author><text>&amp;quot;Watson&amp;quot; made more sense to me when I realized it was just a branding term for any AI-related product, API, or service offered by IBM, which vary widely in functionality. That fact is not &lt;i&gt;that&lt;/i&gt; hidden [1], but their marketing doesn&amp;#x27;t exactly emphasize it. If you view it that way, &amp;quot;Watson&amp;quot; should just be compared against any other similarly broad AI-as-a-service offering with strengths and weaknesses, not treated as some integrated Intelligence that will solve all your problems.&lt;p&gt;[1] E.g. they&amp;#x27;re pretty open about renaming existing things to fit under the Watson brand: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.ibm.com&amp;#x2F;blogs&amp;#x2F;bluemix&amp;#x2F;2016&amp;#x2F;10&amp;#x2F;predictive-analytics-renamed-watson-machine-learning-service&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.ibm.com&amp;#x2F;blogs&amp;#x2F;bluemix&amp;#x2F;2016&amp;#x2F;10&amp;#x2F;predictive-analyti...&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>

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<story><title>Ireland to &apos;decriminalise&apos; small amounts of drugs for personal use</title><url>http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/ireland-to-decriminalise-small-amounts-of-drugs-including-heroin-cocaine-and-cannabis-for-personal-a6719136.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>bovermyer</author><text>Ignoring the quality of the article, I am struck by one thing.&lt;p&gt;Why has Ireland all of a sudden taken such a progressive shift? First national recognition of gay marriage, now this?&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;m loving it, wherever it came from.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>anigbrowl</author><text>Irish guy here (although I live in California now). Demographics, mass abandonment of the Catholic church in recent years (not least due to sex scandals, and the bruising effects of the global financial crisis, which has led to a more pragmatic assessment of priorities.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;m very happy about it too. While I&amp;#x27;m not in any rush to head home to the inclement Irish weather it feels like a great validation to see this tide of social liberalization. I was born in 1970 and grew up in a country where divorce was illegal, corporal punishment in schools was legal (and liberally dispensed), and drug use was presented as a moral&amp;#x2F;class failing. Growing up in a violent household in a country where family life was reified, I fled to the UK as soon as I was old enough to leave home and have rarely been back since. Maybe I should start planning a holiday.</text></comment>

<story><title>Ireland to &apos;decriminalise&apos; small amounts of drugs for personal use</title><url>http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/ireland-to-decriminalise-small-amounts-of-drugs-including-heroin-cocaine-and-cannabis-for-personal-a6719136.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>bovermyer</author><text>Ignoring the quality of the article, I am struck by one thing.&lt;p&gt;Why has Ireland all of a sudden taken such a progressive shift? First national recognition of gay marriage, now this?&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;m loving it, wherever it came from.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>gearoidoc</author><text>Irishman here - living in Canada nearly two years now.&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s not very sudden to be honest - changes like the Marriage Equality Act have been wanted by a lot of people for a long time.&lt;p&gt;The criminalisation of drug use clearly doesnt work the entire world over. In Ireland, especially Dublin, it&amp;#x27;s not unusual to see a heroin addict shooting up on public transport.&lt;p&gt;I honestly feel that Irish people are in general a fairly liberal bunch. It can&amp;#x27;t be emphasised enough how much the Catholic Church held the country back. I don&amp;#x27;t think non-Irish people will understand just how high esteem (read: fear) that we held the institution in.&lt;p&gt;All we need now is to remove religion (not necessarily the teachings but rather the role the Church plays) from the eductation system and we&amp;#x27;ll really be getting somewhere.</text></comment>

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<story><title>Pebble CEO explains why he sold to Fitbit</title><url>https://backchannel.com/the-real-story-behind-pebbles-demise-303802a7afaa#.7uvcar7gj</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>themihai</author><text>&amp;gt;&amp;gt; Carrying two smart devices makes no sense, and the phone got here first.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;ve always believed the watch will replace the phone. It&amp;#x27;s easier to carry than a phone. I would replace my iphone with a smartwatch in a heartbeat but unfortunately the current models are too limited: no 4g&amp;#x2F;lte, poor battery, no carplay, not easy to read data(i.e emails), too bulky etc. The main issue is that the watch is just not good enough for now but eventually it will get a big chunk of the marketshare.</text></item><item><author>padobson</author><text>I think the problem with crowdfunding (and early adopters in general) is that product hype can be a product unto itself. That&amp;#x27;s part of the value that Kickstarter provides, but it disappears when a product hits the wider market, and all that&amp;#x27;s left is the actual value of the product.&lt;p&gt;Wearables will gain more traction when wearing them actually enhances their value (fitness trackers that measure your pulse, VR headsets glasses that change what you see).&lt;p&gt;Smart watches, unfortunately, were just redundant. The entire idea of a smart device is that it has everything you need on one device. Carrying two smart devices makes no sense, and the phone got here first.</text></item><item><author>fudged71</author><text>Pebble crowdfunded as an alternative to venture capital. Their huge success on the platform was an inspiration to so many other hardware startups that it sparked an entire generation of products (in my opinion). Kudos to that.&lt;p&gt;I still wear my original Pebble. It&amp;#x27;s reliable with very long battery life, and is one of the very few wearables that works well while wearing gloves.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>flukus</author><text>The biggest limitation is the screen size. Watches could arguably be made to do everything we want, but we&amp;#x27;d still need to plugin an external screen. I&amp;#x27;d like to see someone give an futurama style armband a go.</text></comment>

<story><title>Pebble CEO explains why he sold to Fitbit</title><url>https://backchannel.com/the-real-story-behind-pebbles-demise-303802a7afaa#.7uvcar7gj</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>themihai</author><text>&amp;gt;&amp;gt; Carrying two smart devices makes no sense, and the phone got here first.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;ve always believed the watch will replace the phone. It&amp;#x27;s easier to carry than a phone. I would replace my iphone with a smartwatch in a heartbeat but unfortunately the current models are too limited: no 4g&amp;#x2F;lte, poor battery, no carplay, not easy to read data(i.e emails), too bulky etc. The main issue is that the watch is just not good enough for now but eventually it will get a big chunk of the marketshare.</text></item><item><author>padobson</author><text>I think the problem with crowdfunding (and early adopters in general) is that product hype can be a product unto itself. That&amp;#x27;s part of the value that Kickstarter provides, but it disappears when a product hits the wider market, and all that&amp;#x27;s left is the actual value of the product.&lt;p&gt;Wearables will gain more traction when wearing them actually enhances their value (fitness trackers that measure your pulse, VR headsets glasses that change what you see).&lt;p&gt;Smart watches, unfortunately, were just redundant. The entire idea of a smart device is that it has everything you need on one device. Carrying two smart devices makes no sense, and the phone got here first.</text></item><item><author>fudged71</author><text>Pebble crowdfunded as an alternative to venture capital. Their huge success on the platform was an inspiration to so many other hardware startups that it sparked an entire generation of products (in my opinion). Kudos to that.&lt;p&gt;I still wear my original Pebble. It&amp;#x27;s reliable with very long battery life, and is one of the very few wearables that works well while wearing gloves.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>bmm6o</author><text>Has anyone figured out how to integrate a camera into a watch? Nobody would replace a phone with a device without a camera.</text></comment>

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<story><title>What&apos;s up with HN?</title><text>I&apos;ll provide more details in a full writeup later.&lt;p&gt;We suffered a DDOS. The volume of traffic was sufficient to keep us from handling it in Arc like we always have before. Simply accepting and dropping all requests not from our office required 45% CPU utilization.&lt;p&gt;Now nginx is helping with some of the work. Ironically the transition was planned for today anyway, except it was meant to happen at night with no downtime. So it goes.&lt;p&gt;I&apos;m fixing things as I find they&apos;re broken. Please let me know if I&apos;ve missed anything.&lt;p&gt;Edit: Yes, I know about and will fix all the SSL resources. Like yours, my Chrome window was also a portal to the &apos;90s for a bit.&lt;p&gt;Edit Again: Your SSL resources should now be happy. Let me know if I missed any.</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>borlak</author><text>A DDOS of HN is quite strange indeed. There should be some kind of ransom involved, but seeing as HN doesn&apos;t make money (I assume) from these forums, there is nothing to ransom.</text></item><item><author>DanielBMarkham</author><text>I guess the rule is that you know you&apos;re making it as a startup when somebody sues you. You know you&apos;re making it as a website when they DDOS you.&lt;p&gt;Geesh.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>redthrowaway</author><text>Why would it have to be for gain? I bet there&apos;s plenty of bored people with idle small- to medium-sized botnets who&apos;d take down a somewhat popular site just for lulz.</text></comment>

<story><title>What&apos;s up with HN?</title><text>I&apos;ll provide more details in a full writeup later.&lt;p&gt;We suffered a DDOS. The volume of traffic was sufficient to keep us from handling it in Arc like we always have before. Simply accepting and dropping all requests not from our office required 45% CPU utilization.&lt;p&gt;Now nginx is helping with some of the work. Ironically the transition was planned for today anyway, except it was meant to happen at night with no downtime. So it goes.&lt;p&gt;I&apos;m fixing things as I find they&apos;re broken. Please let me know if I&apos;ve missed anything.&lt;p&gt;Edit: Yes, I know about and will fix all the SSL resources. Like yours, my Chrome window was also a portal to the &apos;90s for a bit.&lt;p&gt;Edit Again: Your SSL resources should now be happy. Let me know if I missed any.</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>borlak</author><text>A DDOS of HN is quite strange indeed. There should be some kind of ransom involved, but seeing as HN doesn&apos;t make money (I assume) from these forums, there is nothing to ransom.</text></item><item><author>DanielBMarkham</author><text>I guess the rule is that you know you&apos;re making it as a startup when somebody sues you. You know you&apos;re making it as a website when they DDOS you.&lt;p&gt;Geesh.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>manojlds</author><text>For the people doing it, the gain can be about trying out their skills, not being bored, and getting the bragging rights of having DDoSed &quot;Hacker&quot; News.</text></comment>

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<story><title>Intel Unleashes Its First 8-Core Desktop Processor</title><url>http://newsroom.intel.com/community/intel_newsroom/blog/2014/08/29/intel-unleashes-its-first-8-core-desktop-processor?utm_source=twitterfeed&amp;utm_medium=twitter</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>reitzensteinm</author><text>Even the 5960X, the $999 8 core part, has a maximum memory size of 64gb, unchanged since Sandy Bridge E.&lt;p&gt;That&amp;#x27;s disappointing, because while the CPU will likely remain close to state of the art for quite some time to come, you&amp;#x27;ll most likely max out the memory on day one and be stung by an inability to upgrade.&lt;p&gt;Of course, this was probably by design, so that they can sell you another, virtually identical 8 core processor in two more years for another $999.&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://ark.intel.com/products/82930&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;ark.intel.com&amp;#x2F;products&amp;#x2F;82930&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>d4vlx</author><text>You could buy a slower Xeon for around the same price if you really needed more than 64 gigs of memory.&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://ark.intel.com/products/75269/Intel-Xeon-Processor-E5-2650-v2-20M-Cache-2_60-GHz&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;ark.intel.com&amp;#x2F;products&amp;#x2F;75269&amp;#x2F;Intel-Xeon-Processor-E5-...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;And it supports ECC.</text></comment>

<story><title>Intel Unleashes Its First 8-Core Desktop Processor</title><url>http://newsroom.intel.com/community/intel_newsroom/blog/2014/08/29/intel-unleashes-its-first-8-core-desktop-processor?utm_source=twitterfeed&amp;utm_medium=twitter</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>reitzensteinm</author><text>Even the 5960X, the $999 8 core part, has a maximum memory size of 64gb, unchanged since Sandy Bridge E.&lt;p&gt;That&amp;#x27;s disappointing, because while the CPU will likely remain close to state of the art for quite some time to come, you&amp;#x27;ll most likely max out the memory on day one and be stung by an inability to upgrade.&lt;p&gt;Of course, this was probably by design, so that they can sell you another, virtually identical 8 core processor in two more years for another $999.&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://ark.intel.com/products/82930&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;ark.intel.com&amp;#x2F;products&amp;#x2F;82930&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dbcooper</author><text>Samsung&amp;#x27;s stacked die modules enable 64GB per channel. i.e. 256GB per processor.&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://techreport.com/news/26985/samsung-ddr4-modules-for-servers-have-quadruple-stacked-memory-dies&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;techreport.com&amp;#x2F;news&amp;#x2F;26985&amp;#x2F;samsung-ddr4-modules-for-se...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;m not sure why you wouldn&amp;#x27;t get a Xeon version if you wanted to work with so much RAM?</text></comment>

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<story><title>USB Type-C finally shows up in power tools</title><url>https://www.xda-developers.com/usb-type-c-power-tools/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>krasin</author><text>I am currently (as a hobby-style activity) learning guts of the USB Power Delivery standard and found an incredible (and fully open-source) tool: USB-C explorer, &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.tindie.com&amp;#x2F;products&amp;#x2F;reclaimerlabs&amp;#x2F;usb-c-explorer&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.tindie.com&amp;#x2F;products&amp;#x2F;reclaimerlabs&amp;#x2F;usb-c-explorer...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;Basically, you attach the board to any USB port and it will show capabilities (voltage and amperage) on a tiny OLED display. And since the firmware is open-source, it&amp;#x27;s possible to play around and test a lot of what-ifs: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;github.com&amp;#x2F;ReclaimerLabs&amp;#x2F;USB-C-Explorer&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;github.com&amp;#x2F;ReclaimerLabs&amp;#x2F;USB-C-Explorer&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;I am not engaged with the project other than a very happy user.&lt;p&gt;In other news, the latest USB PD spec allows to pass up to 48V@5A=240W power.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>quacksilver</author><text>It may be also be possible to interact with the PD negotiation protocol directly and pretend to be a device &amp;#x2F; power supply with Luna from croudsupply once released&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.crowdsupply.com&amp;#x2F;great-scott-gadgets&amp;#x2F;luna&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.crowdsupply.com&amp;#x2F;great-scott-gadgets&amp;#x2F;luna&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;It looks cool but I haven&amp;#x27;t got one to mess with yet</text></comment>

<story><title>USB Type-C finally shows up in power tools</title><url>https://www.xda-developers.com/usb-type-c-power-tools/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>krasin</author><text>I am currently (as a hobby-style activity) learning guts of the USB Power Delivery standard and found an incredible (and fully open-source) tool: USB-C explorer, &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.tindie.com&amp;#x2F;products&amp;#x2F;reclaimerlabs&amp;#x2F;usb-c-explorer&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.tindie.com&amp;#x2F;products&amp;#x2F;reclaimerlabs&amp;#x2F;usb-c-explorer...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;Basically, you attach the board to any USB port and it will show capabilities (voltage and amperage) on a tiny OLED display. And since the firmware is open-source, it&amp;#x27;s possible to play around and test a lot of what-ifs: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;github.com&amp;#x2F;ReclaimerLabs&amp;#x2F;USB-C-Explorer&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;github.com&amp;#x2F;ReclaimerLabs&amp;#x2F;USB-C-Explorer&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;I am not engaged with the project other than a very happy user.&lt;p&gt;In other news, the latest USB PD spec allows to pass up to 48V@5A=240W power.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>GauntletWizard</author><text>That&amp;#x27;s an awesome device, and I want one, but it also passed into my head: Shouldn&amp;#x27;t I be able to get this information from my laptop? I would expect that there&amp;#x27;s some way to probe the USB-C chip to find out what power mode it is in and what power modes it could select. I&amp;#x27;d love to see that as a tutorial.</text></comment>

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<story><title>This AI is bad at drawing but will try anyways</title><url>http://aiweirdness.com/post/177091486527/this-ai-is-bad-at-drawing-but-will-try-anyways</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>yason</author><text>What art would that be? Part of art is not just the physical piece but the message it delivers, or a message that can be interpreted in many ways. Computer generated images can learn to do the aesthetic part but if the piece has no human context from which it comes nor has anything to say, how would that be art? Why did the computer create the image, and what is it trying to tell us with it?</text></item><item><author>matthberg</author><text>It would be great to have an art gallery, digital or physical, devoted to ai produced media. They could run exhibits highlighting different strategies, or have awards for creative or accurate results.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Freeboots</author><text>Well there IS a human intent via the input.&lt;p&gt;This could fall under process, or generative art.&lt;p&gt;On a side not; A vast portion of art has been purposefully void of meaning for hundreds of years. &amp;quot;l&amp;#x27;art pour l&amp;#x27;art&amp;quot;</text></comment>

<story><title>This AI is bad at drawing but will try anyways</title><url>http://aiweirdness.com/post/177091486527/this-ai-is-bad-at-drawing-but-will-try-anyways</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>yason</author><text>What art would that be? Part of art is not just the physical piece but the message it delivers, or a message that can be interpreted in many ways. Computer generated images can learn to do the aesthetic part but if the piece has no human context from which it comes nor has anything to say, how would that be art? Why did the computer create the image, and what is it trying to tell us with it?</text></item><item><author>matthberg</author><text>It would be great to have an art gallery, digital or physical, devoted to ai produced media. They could run exhibits highlighting different strategies, or have awards for creative or accurate results.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>yellowapple</author><text>The beautiful thing about art is that its meaning is inherently personal and subjective. What the computer is &lt;i&gt;trying&lt;/i&gt; to say is secondary to what the computer &lt;i&gt;is&lt;/i&gt; saying - more importantly, rather, what it&amp;#x27;s saying about its dataset. Even how the works are presented could be interpreted as an artistic work in and of itself, the presenter being the artist.&lt;p&gt;I think these are art, since they affect me in the ways which I typically associate with art.</text></comment>

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<story><title>Heat pumps of the 1800s are becoming the technology of the future</title><url>https://knowablemagazine.org/article/technology/2023/heat-pumps-becoming-technology-future</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>fifteenforty</author><text>In a house I own in Melbourne, Australia, I just replaced an old gas central heating system with 3 new top of the line Daikin mini split heat pumps. The new units can heat the entire house for the same amount of electrical energy that was used to run the FAN in the old gas unit. They are crazy efficient.&lt;p&gt;Ducts are dead.&lt;p&gt;The Daikin Alira X is the gold-plated option and cost $8k AUD for 2x2.5kw and 1x7.1kw units including installation. Payback time is about 3 years. The system is oversized, but enables excellent zoning and of course provides cooling which is a must on 40C&amp;#x2F;104F days.&lt;p&gt;Why do they seem to be so much more expensive in the US?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Brybry</author><text>I don&amp;#x27;t think the hardware is that expensive in the US, it&amp;#x27;s the installation (which costs more than the hardware).&lt;p&gt;And mistakes by installers will cost even more. Our installers didn&amp;#x27;t flare a line set connection properly and it leaked slowly and that was a very expensive bill (especially since refrigerants have changed so much).&lt;p&gt;Our Daikin indoor units have also had condensate leaking issues, probably due to poor installation.&lt;p&gt;Ductless heat pumps do seem like the future but I think there are issues with regards to condensate draining, air filtering, and indoor unit cleaning&amp;#x2F;maintenance and replacement that could be done much better.</text></comment>

<story><title>Heat pumps of the 1800s are becoming the technology of the future</title><url>https://knowablemagazine.org/article/technology/2023/heat-pumps-becoming-technology-future</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>fifteenforty</author><text>In a house I own in Melbourne, Australia, I just replaced an old gas central heating system with 3 new top of the line Daikin mini split heat pumps. The new units can heat the entire house for the same amount of electrical energy that was used to run the FAN in the old gas unit. They are crazy efficient.&lt;p&gt;Ducts are dead.&lt;p&gt;The Daikin Alira X is the gold-plated option and cost $8k AUD for 2x2.5kw and 1x7.1kw units including installation. Payback time is about 3 years. The system is oversized, but enables excellent zoning and of course provides cooling which is a must on 40C&amp;#x2F;104F days.&lt;p&gt;Why do they seem to be so much more expensive in the US?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>throw0101a</author><text>&amp;gt; &lt;i&gt;Ducts are dead.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;Ducts are still needed to circulate air, especially if you want to remove stale air (e.g., bathrooms, kitchen) and bring in (filtered) fresh air (to bedrooms).</text></comment>

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<story><title>Dear internet: We must ban targeted advertising immediately</title><url>https://usefathom.com/blog/targeted-ads</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>repsilat</author><text>To play devil&amp;#x27;s advocate, advertising is a social good, and better advertising is even more of a social good.&lt;p&gt;How many times have you heard someone complain, &amp;quot;I just bought a desk lamp, and now I&amp;#x27;m getting loads of ads for desk lamps. Don&amp;#x27;t they know I don&amp;#x27;t &lt;i&gt;want&lt;/i&gt; another desk lamp?&amp;quot; And surveys back it up -- people would largely rather the ads they see reflect the things they&amp;#x27;re interested in. Because a well-targeted ad is good for the viewer. Sometimes they want the thing, and they buy it, and their life is improved.&lt;p&gt;If I&amp;#x27;m statistically more likely to buy a particular item because of some demographic I belong to, and you have my demographic information, by all means use it to decide which ads to show me.&lt;p&gt;Maybe you &lt;i&gt;having&lt;/i&gt; that information is a breach of my privacy, but if you do have it you should at least use it for something that&amp;#x27;ll benefit me.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>missedthecue</author><text>This shouldn&amp;#x27;t even be a devil&amp;#x27;s advocate point of view. Targeted advertisements have been just about the greatest value-add in the world of business in maybe the last twenty years.&lt;p&gt;Imagine if you couldnt target advertisements. Imagine the waste. European baby formula manufacturers advertising to middle aged single men in Wyoming shouldn&amp;#x27;t happen, and it&amp;#x27;s because targeted advertising that we prevent that waste. We are all better off for it.</text></comment>

<story><title>Dear internet: We must ban targeted advertising immediately</title><url>https://usefathom.com/blog/targeted-ads</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>repsilat</author><text>To play devil&amp;#x27;s advocate, advertising is a social good, and better advertising is even more of a social good.&lt;p&gt;How many times have you heard someone complain, &amp;quot;I just bought a desk lamp, and now I&amp;#x27;m getting loads of ads for desk lamps. Don&amp;#x27;t they know I don&amp;#x27;t &lt;i&gt;want&lt;/i&gt; another desk lamp?&amp;quot; And surveys back it up -- people would largely rather the ads they see reflect the things they&amp;#x27;re interested in. Because a well-targeted ad is good for the viewer. Sometimes they want the thing, and they buy it, and their life is improved.&lt;p&gt;If I&amp;#x27;m statistically more likely to buy a particular item because of some demographic I belong to, and you have my demographic information, by all means use it to decide which ads to show me.&lt;p&gt;Maybe you &lt;i&gt;having&lt;/i&gt; that information is a breach of my privacy, but if you do have it you should at least use it for something that&amp;#x27;ll benefit me.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>grawprog</author><text>&amp;gt;and their life is improved&lt;p&gt;Is it really though? How many times is it more like, see the thing they don&amp;#x27;t really want or need, are swayed by an advertisement targetted based on a profile created through data harvested through their phone, their credit card, their social media, their email, etc., they buy the thing, experience a temporary endorphin rush from having the new thing that makes them feel good for a while, get bored of the thing and move on to the next thing provided by targetted advertisements?</text></comment>

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<story><title>GitHub tries to quell employee anger over its ICE contract</title><url>https://www.latimes.com/business/technology/story/2019-10-31/github-ice-contract-defense</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>manfredo</author><text>I think you&amp;#x27;re misrepresenting the argument of people who don&amp;#x27;t think developers should interfere with the usages of their product.&lt;p&gt;The most compelling arguments I found is that just because we happen to work in a field that lets us exert our influence over society doesn&amp;#x27;t make our moral sensibilities any better than the rest of society. What us privileged few who work in technology see as using our position of influence for good, many other people may see as a small minority abusing their power to manipulate society for the worse.&lt;p&gt;I think many technology worker do understand the power they have, and make the deliberate decision that refraining from exercising that power is the morally optimal choice.</text></item><item><author>dcposch</author><text>&amp;gt; I question how much an employee should concern him&amp;#x2F;herself with how a product is used &amp;gt; Where do we start? Where do we stop?&lt;p&gt;Often when moral question pops up on HN, the top comment is some variation of&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; But where do we we draw the line? &amp;gt; I wonder whether we should even try.&lt;p&gt;Counterpoint: cynicism is too easy. Actually giving a shit is harder, it&amp;#x27;s uncomfortable, it involves compromise.&lt;p&gt;Yes, there&amp;#x27;s ambiguity.&lt;p&gt;Yes, the line the law draws is very loose. Github can&amp;#x27;t legally let someone from Iran or North Korea host repos, but just about anything else is legal. If Golden Dawn (the greek fascist party) wanted to use your product, nothing &lt;i&gt;legally&lt;/i&gt; prevents you from having them as a customer.&lt;p&gt;This is no excuse to avoid the question.&lt;p&gt;Every person has to decide for themselves the boundaries of who they&amp;#x27;re willing to work for. If you work for a company, you have a voice in that company&amp;#x27;s decisions. I think many tech workers underestimate how much power they have. Good engineers are in tremendous demand.</text></item><item><author>supernova87a</author><text>I question how much an employee should concern him&amp;#x2F;herself with how a product is used once it&amp;#x27;s created. You have to let certain control go after a point. Or if your product is open to everyone, you&amp;#x27;ll have to live with the fact that people may use it in ways you disagree with.&lt;p&gt;Xerox or Canon (or whoever) probably makes copiers that ICE uses to make copies. Lenovo or Apple probably makes hardware that they use also to further their functions. Ford&amp;#x2F;GM probably supply ICE with vehicles. Farmers grow crops that get into their the meals that ICE personnel eat. Pilots and flight attendants probably have knowingly transported ICE employees.&lt;p&gt;Why don&amp;#x27;t the employees at all these other companies object like Github employees? Why do Github employees get a special right to withhold consent for their product to be used in a setting they might object to? Why is ICE the only company that they object to? Why do some causes get their favor and not others?&lt;p&gt;Where do we start? Where do we stop?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>aeturnum</author><text>&amp;gt; just because we happen to work in a field that lets us exert our influence over society doesn&amp;#x27;t make our moral sensibilities any better than the rest of society.&lt;p&gt;I agree this is problematic. However, programmers are uniquely well situated to create a system for asking &amp;quot;the rest of society&amp;quot; questions about what kinds of systems they would like a programmer to support.&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; make the deliberate decision that refraining from exercising that power is the morally optimal choice.&lt;p&gt;Quitting would be (as close as one gets to) refraining from exercising power. What you&amp;#x27;re describing is cooperating with the status quo, which is definitely an exercise of power.</text></comment>

<story><title>GitHub tries to quell employee anger over its ICE contract</title><url>https://www.latimes.com/business/technology/story/2019-10-31/github-ice-contract-defense</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>manfredo</author><text>I think you&amp;#x27;re misrepresenting the argument of people who don&amp;#x27;t think developers should interfere with the usages of their product.&lt;p&gt;The most compelling arguments I found is that just because we happen to work in a field that lets us exert our influence over society doesn&amp;#x27;t make our moral sensibilities any better than the rest of society. What us privileged few who work in technology see as using our position of influence for good, many other people may see as a small minority abusing their power to manipulate society for the worse.&lt;p&gt;I think many technology worker do understand the power they have, and make the deliberate decision that refraining from exercising that power is the morally optimal choice.</text></item><item><author>dcposch</author><text>&amp;gt; I question how much an employee should concern him&amp;#x2F;herself with how a product is used &amp;gt; Where do we start? Where do we stop?&lt;p&gt;Often when moral question pops up on HN, the top comment is some variation of&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; But where do we we draw the line? &amp;gt; I wonder whether we should even try.&lt;p&gt;Counterpoint: cynicism is too easy. Actually giving a shit is harder, it&amp;#x27;s uncomfortable, it involves compromise.&lt;p&gt;Yes, there&amp;#x27;s ambiguity.&lt;p&gt;Yes, the line the law draws is very loose. Github can&amp;#x27;t legally let someone from Iran or North Korea host repos, but just about anything else is legal. If Golden Dawn (the greek fascist party) wanted to use your product, nothing &lt;i&gt;legally&lt;/i&gt; prevents you from having them as a customer.&lt;p&gt;This is no excuse to avoid the question.&lt;p&gt;Every person has to decide for themselves the boundaries of who they&amp;#x27;re willing to work for. If you work for a company, you have a voice in that company&amp;#x27;s decisions. I think many tech workers underestimate how much power they have. Good engineers are in tremendous demand.</text></item><item><author>supernova87a</author><text>I question how much an employee should concern him&amp;#x2F;herself with how a product is used once it&amp;#x27;s created. You have to let certain control go after a point. Or if your product is open to everyone, you&amp;#x27;ll have to live with the fact that people may use it in ways you disagree with.&lt;p&gt;Xerox or Canon (or whoever) probably makes copiers that ICE uses to make copies. Lenovo or Apple probably makes hardware that they use also to further their functions. Ford&amp;#x2F;GM probably supply ICE with vehicles. Farmers grow crops that get into their the meals that ICE personnel eat. Pilots and flight attendants probably have knowingly transported ICE employees.&lt;p&gt;Why don&amp;#x27;t the employees at all these other companies object like Github employees? Why do Github employees get a special right to withhold consent for their product to be used in a setting they might object to? Why is ICE the only company that they object to? Why do some causes get their favor and not others?&lt;p&gt;Where do we start? Where do we stop?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>patcon</author><text>&amp;gt; What us privileged few who work in technology see as using our position of influence for good, many other people may see as a small minority abusing their power to manipulate society for the worse.&lt;p&gt;Nevermind &amp;quot;good&amp;quot; or &amp;quot;bad&amp;quot; by the select judgement of a few privileged people -- it&amp;#x27;s whether you even bother to _consider_, or instead just claim &amp;quot;this is hard&amp;quot;.&lt;p&gt;We can create influencing machines, or consensing machines. Your rightful concern is applicable to influencing machines imho. A consensing machine has no centre it&amp;#x27;s drawing people into. It&amp;#x27;s a technology for users to find and coalesce around the centres that work for them.&lt;p&gt;The things the OP is implying unnavigable are the same class of challenges we navigated hundreds of years ago with intellectual property. We thought ownership was worth controlling access over, and we made arbitrary laws to propagate that regime in the world. We could deign it worth creating processes to collectively negotiate moral right&amp;#x2F;wrong together (without presupposing the will of the steward of the tech is right&amp;#x2F;wrong) and hold ourselves to that.&lt;p&gt;The fact that we don&amp;#x27;t even bother to consider the question of &amp;quot;should we do this&amp;quot; and instead fall on &amp;quot;this is challenging&amp;quot; -- that speaks volumes to how some of us are limited in our imagining of what the sickness in society might be.</text></comment>

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<story><title>Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes must go to prison while she appeals sentence</title><url>https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/may/17/court-rules-theranos-founder-elizabeth-holmes-must-go-to-prison-while-she-appeals-sentence</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tedunangst</author><text>Do people in her position &lt;i&gt;actually&lt;/i&gt; get away with it, or is that more of a not quite true narrative thing?</text></item><item><author>p-e-w</author><text>&amp;gt; but she just had to go all in to the fraud and wreck her life because she thought she could just power through on delusional belief alone.&lt;p&gt;... which is actually a completely reasonable assumption from her perspective.&lt;p&gt;People at her level of power being held accountable is the one-in-a-thousand exception. It almost never happens. In a very real sense, she was just extremely unlucky, and had undoubtedly witnessed countless others commit worse crimes without any negative consequences for them.&lt;p&gt;This is also the answer to questions like &amp;quot;How did those cops think they could get away with murdering a man in cold blood while being filmed by half a dozen cameras?&amp;quot; It&amp;#x27;s easy: Because they had seen others get away with it, time and time again. Statistically speaking, a cop murdering an innocent citizen has about as much to fear as a regular guy parking in the wrong spot. Indictments are &lt;i&gt;not&lt;/i&gt; the rule, never mind convictions.</text></item><item><author>narrator</author><text>I think the most interesting thing about Liz&amp;#x27;s character is how she didn&amp;#x27;t skip a beat when she got indicted. She just kept rolling along. Kicked Sonny to the curb like it was nothing, tried and failed to blame the whole thing on him, found a rich guy to marry, had 2 kids and just kept trucking along like the whole fraud thing was just a big misunderstanding.&lt;p&gt;The complete lack of empathy or concern for her victims, contrition or anything is amazing to watch.&lt;p&gt;This lack of belief that she would ever be found out or anyone would care about her lack of concern for people was her downfall. She could have just bailed out before the Walgreens deal when the whole thing was obviously not going to work and failed in the normal way that science project startups fail. She could have then married the rich guy and had the two kids and lived a dull life maybe selling diet pills or whatever, but she just had to go all in to the fraud and wreck her life because she thought she could just power through on delusional belief alone.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>TideAd</author><text>I worked a little investment firm in college. A few years ago I looked up my boss, the owner. Found out he was in prison! For stealing $10m from a bunch of retirees in a really careless, sloppy way.&lt;p&gt;I think a surprising amount of people try it. But every SEC indictment is not news so we don&amp;#x27;t hear about the people who go to prison.</text></comment>

<story><title>Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes must go to prison while she appeals sentence</title><url>https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/may/17/court-rules-theranos-founder-elizabeth-holmes-must-go-to-prison-while-she-appeals-sentence</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tedunangst</author><text>Do people in her position &lt;i&gt;actually&lt;/i&gt; get away with it, or is that more of a not quite true narrative thing?</text></item><item><author>p-e-w</author><text>&amp;gt; but she just had to go all in to the fraud and wreck her life because she thought she could just power through on delusional belief alone.&lt;p&gt;... which is actually a completely reasonable assumption from her perspective.&lt;p&gt;People at her level of power being held accountable is the one-in-a-thousand exception. It almost never happens. In a very real sense, she was just extremely unlucky, and had undoubtedly witnessed countless others commit worse crimes without any negative consequences for them.&lt;p&gt;This is also the answer to questions like &amp;quot;How did those cops think they could get away with murdering a man in cold blood while being filmed by half a dozen cameras?&amp;quot; It&amp;#x27;s easy: Because they had seen others get away with it, time and time again. Statistically speaking, a cop murdering an innocent citizen has about as much to fear as a regular guy parking in the wrong spot. Indictments are &lt;i&gt;not&lt;/i&gt; the rule, never mind convictions.</text></item><item><author>narrator</author><text>I think the most interesting thing about Liz&amp;#x27;s character is how she didn&amp;#x27;t skip a beat when she got indicted. She just kept rolling along. Kicked Sonny to the curb like it was nothing, tried and failed to blame the whole thing on him, found a rich guy to marry, had 2 kids and just kept trucking along like the whole fraud thing was just a big misunderstanding.&lt;p&gt;The complete lack of empathy or concern for her victims, contrition or anything is amazing to watch.&lt;p&gt;This lack of belief that she would ever be found out or anyone would care about her lack of concern for people was her downfall. She could have just bailed out before the Walgreens deal when the whole thing was obviously not going to work and failed in the normal way that science project startups fail. She could have then married the rich guy and had the two kids and lived a dull life maybe selling diet pills or whatever, but she just had to go all in to the fraud and wreck her life because she thought she could just power through on delusional belief alone.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>zx8080</author><text>The &amp;quot;money is power&amp;quot; is not just a nice phrase from books. Money is power over how much effort others will spend to solve the problems of those who pays the money. So it&amp;#x27;s literally power.&lt;p&gt;However there&amp;#x27;re also other ways to control others to solve problems involuntarily.&lt;p&gt;Exploitation is the area in which the civilization is exceptionally strong.&lt;p&gt;So yes, starting from some level of money and power it&amp;#x27;s pretty easy to get away with proportinally more and more with the money and power increase.</text></comment>