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<story><title>ARIN Finally Runs Out of IPv4 Addresses</title><url>http://www.networkworld.com/article/2985340/ipv6/arin-finally-runs-out-of-ipv4-addresses.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>msbarnett</author><text>&amp;gt; What am I missing?&lt;p&gt;A few things.&lt;p&gt;There&amp;#x27;s only 4,294,967,296 addresses in IPv4, so if you hand out giant blocks, you run out quite fast, whereas with 340,282,366,920,938,463,463,374,607,431,768,211,456 you could hand out huge IPv4 &amp;#x2F;8 sized blocks from now until the heat death of the sun if you wanted to.&lt;p&gt;But there&amp;#x27;s more to it than that. Right now only 1&amp;#x2F;8th of the IPv6 address space is &amp;quot;assigned to the internet&amp;quot;, so there&amp;#x27;s effectively 7&amp;#x2F;8ths being held in reserve for the foreseable future -- this is partially to accommodate realistic router memory limits in the near term. IPv6 also has a more efficient hierarchical routing scheme than CIDR (which was kind of bolted on to IPv4 after-the-fact), which helps keep router tables from consuming terabytes of RAM. And IPv6 is designed to be more easily renumberable when we &lt;i&gt;do&lt;/i&gt; make mistakes with assignments, with a clear separation between subnet prefix all that requires is changing the routing prefix.&lt;p&gt;At the end of the day, with 340 trillion trillion trillion addresses, handing out too many isn&amp;#x27;t ever going to be a big worry in the foreseeable lifetime of...anything, really.</text></item><item><author>thaumasiotes</author><text>I have a hard time seeing how IPv6 solves this problem. If we allocate them all individually, we have a world-shattering routing table problem. If we allocate them in gargantuan blocks, we have the same problem we have now with IPv4 -- we can&amp;#x27;t reallocate because routing becomes an impossible task. What am I missing? We&amp;#x27;re certainly not going to get the allocation right by doing it all at the beginning.</text></item><item><author>msbarnett</author><text>Because address allocation is inefficient and it is impractical to address this inefficiency in IPv4.&lt;p&gt;ARIN is out but your ISP has extras. Why doesn&amp;#x27;t your ISP sell its extras, since a scarce resource should have monetary value?&lt;p&gt;&lt;i&gt;Routing tables&lt;/i&gt;.&lt;p&gt;Selling individual IPs off piecemeal isn&amp;#x27;t practical because routers simply do not have enough RAM to handle the enormous routing tables that would resultantly be necessary in order for packets to find their destinations.</text></item><item><author>lordnacho</author><text>If IP addresses are scarce, why does it not seem to cost me anything to get one? I&amp;#x27;ve had a bunch of online servers that came with a static IP, and an ISP service that came with one, at various times. It seldom seemed to be explicitly priced, and when it was the price was not really something worth considering.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>aexaey</author><text>The statement about IPv6 [internet] having 2^128 addresses is completely and utterly untrue, in the same way as it would be untrue to claim that IPv4 [internet] have 2^48 TCP ports.&lt;p&gt;What IPv6 have address-space-wise, is 2^64 subnets, out of which 2^61 is actually allocated to be routable over public internet.&lt;p&gt;Then comes granularity of &amp;#x2F;48 allocations (= 2^16 subnets) to end users and &amp;#x2F;32 allocations (= 2^32 subnets) to ISPs. That gives just 2^45 end users and 2^29 ISPs at best. In practice, if handing a user a &amp;#x2F;48 would become a common practice, all medium and large IPSs would start accumulating multiple &amp;#x2F;32s, then routing concerns would come back, and largest ISPs will start aggregating to &amp;#x2F;28s or &amp;#x2F;24s or whatnot.&lt;p&gt;That is still a whole lot of addresses (and IPv4 still looks laughably small in comparison), but actual, practical numbers are way, way lower then &amp;quot;340 undecillion&amp;quot; marketing figure being plastered all over the place.</text></comment>

<story><title>ARIN Finally Runs Out of IPv4 Addresses</title><url>http://www.networkworld.com/article/2985340/ipv6/arin-finally-runs-out-of-ipv4-addresses.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>msbarnett</author><text>&amp;gt; What am I missing?&lt;p&gt;A few things.&lt;p&gt;There&amp;#x27;s only 4,294,967,296 addresses in IPv4, so if you hand out giant blocks, you run out quite fast, whereas with 340,282,366,920,938,463,463,374,607,431,768,211,456 you could hand out huge IPv4 &amp;#x2F;8 sized blocks from now until the heat death of the sun if you wanted to.&lt;p&gt;But there&amp;#x27;s more to it than that. Right now only 1&amp;#x2F;8th of the IPv6 address space is &amp;quot;assigned to the internet&amp;quot;, so there&amp;#x27;s effectively 7&amp;#x2F;8ths being held in reserve for the foreseable future -- this is partially to accommodate realistic router memory limits in the near term. IPv6 also has a more efficient hierarchical routing scheme than CIDR (which was kind of bolted on to IPv4 after-the-fact), which helps keep router tables from consuming terabytes of RAM. And IPv6 is designed to be more easily renumberable when we &lt;i&gt;do&lt;/i&gt; make mistakes with assignments, with a clear separation between subnet prefix all that requires is changing the routing prefix.&lt;p&gt;At the end of the day, with 340 trillion trillion trillion addresses, handing out too many isn&amp;#x27;t ever going to be a big worry in the foreseeable lifetime of...anything, really.</text></item><item><author>thaumasiotes</author><text>I have a hard time seeing how IPv6 solves this problem. If we allocate them all individually, we have a world-shattering routing table problem. If we allocate them in gargantuan blocks, we have the same problem we have now with IPv4 -- we can&amp;#x27;t reallocate because routing becomes an impossible task. What am I missing? We&amp;#x27;re certainly not going to get the allocation right by doing it all at the beginning.</text></item><item><author>msbarnett</author><text>Because address allocation is inefficient and it is impractical to address this inefficiency in IPv4.&lt;p&gt;ARIN is out but your ISP has extras. Why doesn&amp;#x27;t your ISP sell its extras, since a scarce resource should have monetary value?&lt;p&gt;&lt;i&gt;Routing tables&lt;/i&gt;.&lt;p&gt;Selling individual IPs off piecemeal isn&amp;#x27;t practical because routers simply do not have enough RAM to handle the enormous routing tables that would resultantly be necessary in order for packets to find their destinations.</text></item><item><author>lordnacho</author><text>If IP addresses are scarce, why does it not seem to cost me anything to get one? I&amp;#x27;ve had a bunch of online servers that came with a static IP, and an ISP service that came with one, at various times. It seldom seemed to be explicitly priced, and when it was the price was not really something worth considering.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Sophira</author><text>The fact that only 1&amp;#x2F;8th is assigned to &amp;quot;the Internet&amp;quot; right now is worrying. After all, we know how that worked out with the 240.0.0.0&amp;#x2F;4 range in IPv4 - it was reserved for future use, but was never able to be used because by the time it would have been useful, everything classed it as non-routable. It&amp;#x27;s a huge swath of addresses that just can&amp;#x27;t be used.</text></comment>

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<story><title>Bookstore Chain Borders is Dead</title><url>http://blogs.wsj.com/deals/2011/07/18/its-almost-official-borders-is-dead/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>wheels</author><text>I can&apos;t tell if bookstores have gotten markedly worse or if I&apos;ve simply become more discriminating in what I&apos;m looking for. When Barnes and Noble, Borders, et al first swept through the US I thought it was wonderful. I&apos;ve spent an inordinate amount of money and time in big-box bookstores.&lt;p&gt;I moved to Germany some 9 years ago. In my first trips back to the US a bookstore was one of the detours I was most excited about. I&apos;d typically return to Germany with a couple hundred bucks worth of books stuffed into my bag. My family, noticing this, started a habit of buying me B&amp;#38;N gift certificates (a pattern that&apos;s continued to this day).&lt;p&gt;But now, 9 years and thousands of dollars of Amazon.de purchases later, I can&apos;t say that I&apos;m terribly excited about visiting the big box stores. I struggled to spend my most recent gift certificate. &lt;i&gt;Struggled!&lt;/i&gt; I went looking for books on Chinese history, and in a two story Barnes and Noble in an upscale Houston neighborhood there were &lt;i&gt;two&lt;/i&gt; books on the history of the most populous country in the world. There were huge aisles of random throwaway junk, games and other silliness and &lt;i&gt;two books on Chinese history&lt;/i&gt;. Nor did they have Bertrand Russel&apos;s &lt;i&gt;Principles of Mathematics&lt;/i&gt; or Aldous Huxley&apos;s &lt;i&gt;Chrome Yellow&lt;/i&gt;.&lt;p&gt;I love books. Paper books. I have around a thousand of them. But I won&apos;t cry for the passing of the big-box stores if they&apos;re bent on becoming the Wal-Mart of reading.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>makmanalp</author><text>I&apos;ll bring in another perspective. I&apos;m in a huge dilemma.&lt;p&gt;I love books. I also like paper books, but I believe that in the long run we&apos;re better off without them for economic and environmental reasons, and e-books are a pretty darned good alternative. I think that the inherent value of a book is its contents. Whether it is tangible or not doesn&apos;t matter as much.&lt;p&gt;Because of this, I think book romanticism is pretty stupid. However, I can&apos;t help but feel captivated by it. I have a few theories on why this may be so:&lt;p&gt;I do like that my books are tangible possessions, that I can look back at the notes my father made into them in college, that I can find an old train pass I used as a bookmark that brings back memories. Or I know that that mark is from when I spilled coffee all over my theory of computation book when I fell asleep studying for the final. I associate my books with other things, thoughts. Currently this doesn&apos;t quite work this way with e-books. That&apos;s why they don&apos;t feel &quot;personal&quot;. This can be remedied, but I don&apos;t know to what extent.&lt;p&gt;I don&apos;t give a damn about big box stores, but I care very much about my local stores. The difference is in experience. When I&apos;m buying a book, I don&apos;t want to feel like I&apos;m a standardized entity there to benefit a company whose sole purpose is to maximize profits. The alternative to this what I can only describe as &quot;intellectual flirtation&quot;.&lt;p&gt;Example: Today I happened to have some free time and I wandered into my favorite bookstore. I looked around, grabbed a book about Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and sat in a corner reading for an hour. No one nagged me to buy anything. The book was well written but it wasn&apos;t as comprehensive as I hoped, so I moved to the fiction section, and onto mathematics, dipping into books as I wished. Finally, I found a book about the role of Tea in Japanese culture and decided to buy it. While I was paying, the cashier struck up a conversation with me about the book itself and we had a small debate about the topic and he also recommended another author to me.&lt;p&gt;Now, as you can see the act of going to a bookstore is not a thing I do just to buy books. I do it so I can have a change of scenery and pace, relax, learn and have some personal time to just think (when do we do that, seriously?). I also do it because it&apos;s profoundly social (i.e. not web 2.0 style &quot;me too&quot; social). I like conversing about the things I find interesting, and it seems bookstores gather people like me, whether they work there or just visit to buy. Finally, the cost of all this is a possible few extra dollars on my book.&lt;p&gt;It&apos;s a tough choice for me.</text></comment>

<story><title>Bookstore Chain Borders is Dead</title><url>http://blogs.wsj.com/deals/2011/07/18/its-almost-official-borders-is-dead/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>wheels</author><text>I can&apos;t tell if bookstores have gotten markedly worse or if I&apos;ve simply become more discriminating in what I&apos;m looking for. When Barnes and Noble, Borders, et al first swept through the US I thought it was wonderful. I&apos;ve spent an inordinate amount of money and time in big-box bookstores.&lt;p&gt;I moved to Germany some 9 years ago. In my first trips back to the US a bookstore was one of the detours I was most excited about. I&apos;d typically return to Germany with a couple hundred bucks worth of books stuffed into my bag. My family, noticing this, started a habit of buying me B&amp;#38;N gift certificates (a pattern that&apos;s continued to this day).&lt;p&gt;But now, 9 years and thousands of dollars of Amazon.de purchases later, I can&apos;t say that I&apos;m terribly excited about visiting the big box stores. I struggled to spend my most recent gift certificate. &lt;i&gt;Struggled!&lt;/i&gt; I went looking for books on Chinese history, and in a two story Barnes and Noble in an upscale Houston neighborhood there were &lt;i&gt;two&lt;/i&gt; books on the history of the most populous country in the world. There were huge aisles of random throwaway junk, games and other silliness and &lt;i&gt;two books on Chinese history&lt;/i&gt;. Nor did they have Bertrand Russel&apos;s &lt;i&gt;Principles of Mathematics&lt;/i&gt; or Aldous Huxley&apos;s &lt;i&gt;Chrome Yellow&lt;/i&gt;.&lt;p&gt;I love books. Paper books. I have around a thousand of them. But I won&apos;t cry for the passing of the big-box stores if they&apos;re bent on becoming the Wal-Mart of reading.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>panacea</author><text>&amp;#62;But I won&apos;t cry for the passing of the big-box stores if they&apos;re bent on becoming the Wal-Mart of reading.&lt;p&gt;There&apos;s likely some bad decision making behind a move towards a &apos;Wal-Mart-ification&apos; of the big-box stores, but are you sure they could have survived if they tried to compete with the advantages of a warehouse full of diverse stock and shelf space that is virtual and costs nothing to expand by adding pages (ala Amazon).&lt;p&gt;It seems to me that they&apos;ve acted more like fish in a pond that&apos;s been drying up. Struggling to stay in a deep enough spot to keep breathing.&lt;p&gt;I get a better price, better selection and more information browsing Amazon, but I&apos;m not about to blame the physical book stores for going out of business because &lt;i&gt;they changed&lt;/i&gt;, &lt;i&gt;man&lt;/i&gt;.&lt;p&gt;Related: &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2011/07/12/the-secret-bookstore/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2011/07/12/the-secret-boo...&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>

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<story><title>A phone the FBI sold to criminals</title><url>https://www.vice.com/en/article/n7b4gg/anom-phone-arcaneos-fbi-backdoor</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>sergiomattei</author><text>Aight, this is some next-level stuff.&lt;p&gt;Hell, I&amp;#x27;d even call it badass. The FBI created a tech startup (even with the .io domain!) and sold devices with a custom Android distribution.&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s funny because you can search for the XDA-Developers thread mentioned in the article, they were pretty shocked to find a phone with modded software and a locked bootloader.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>bserge</author><text>It is pretty impressive, they made a whole company marketing secure phones, except the devices were wiretapped.&lt;p&gt;Aside from that, it sounds like a pretty decent secure phone, too.&lt;p&gt;Did they hire one of those TV show genius detectives to plan all this?&lt;p&gt;It sure seems more advanced than the usual FBI operations (or maybe we don&amp;#x27;t hear much about the good ones).</text></comment>

<story><title>A phone the FBI sold to criminals</title><url>https://www.vice.com/en/article/n7b4gg/anom-phone-arcaneos-fbi-backdoor</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>sergiomattei</author><text>Aight, this is some next-level stuff.&lt;p&gt;Hell, I&amp;#x27;d even call it badass. The FBI created a tech startup (even with the .io domain!) and sold devices with a custom Android distribution.&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s funny because you can search for the XDA-Developers thread mentioned in the article, they were pretty shocked to find a phone with modded software and a locked bootloader.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>34679</author><text>There are few limits to what one can accomplish with legal impunity and other people&amp;#x27;s money.</text></comment>

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<story><title>You Don&apos;t Batch Cook When You&apos;re Suicidal (2020)</title><url>https://cookingonabootstrap.com/2020/07/30/the-price-of-potatoes-and-the-value-of-compassion/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>WendyTheWillow</author><text>And a lot of people would be very wrong. There’s a floor to survivability, below which you can’t keep yourself alive, but there is no ceiling. If everyone is above the floor, there’s no reason for concern about those looking for the ceiling.&lt;p&gt;In the future we’ll pull people up to the floor, but that doesn’t require attaching a ceiling. The will never be a successful society that substantially punishes achievement above a certain point.</text></item><item><author>lwhi</author><text>Better at sports .. but I bet there&amp;#x27;s a fairly even distribution between people who have money and don&amp;#x27;t.&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; In the future, we may view enormous disparities in wealth as evil as we do racism today.&lt;p&gt;A lot of people already do.</text></item><item><author>dcist</author><text>Some people are indeed much better. Anyone who played sports as a kid understands this. Huge differences are immediately apparent in small children. But generally, I agree that, for most life tasks, the differences between people are not enormous. Humanity could do a much better job eliminating poverty. In the future, we may view enormous disparities in wealth as evil as we do racism today.</text></item><item><author>thiago_fm</author><text>That&amp;#x27;s one big paradox.&lt;p&gt;Coming from poverty, I work with plenty of talented people, but nowhere as talented as the people I&amp;#x27;ve studied in shitty schools.&lt;p&gt;Now most of those people from my poverty times continue to be poor, because of many problems poverty brought to them. I can clearly see that, and that I was the lucky one to find a way up many times.&lt;p&gt;Yet, my new social circle believe that I&amp;#x27;m talented because of my DNA and efforts, and blame others for their poverty.&lt;p&gt;But I know that those people making &amp;quot;poor&amp;quot; decisions in the view of riches are actually just trying to survive. With themselves, with the baggage they carry, and to the fact that they weren&amp;#x27;t as lucky as me.&lt;p&gt;Talent, intelligence is literally everywhere. People that are awesome and ambitious is abundant.&lt;p&gt;Nobody is really much better than others, but America post-ww2 managed to sell this idea to everyone, including many really smart and talented folks, that think they are gifted.&lt;p&gt;To sum up, nobody chooses to be poor and humanity could progress faster if we focused instead in eliminating poverty, creating more possibilities for everyone...&lt;p&gt;Than believing almost trillionaries will guide us to where we need it.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>matthewmacleod</author><text>I&amp;#x27;m not really sure that &amp;quot;it&amp;#x27;s okay if the billionares have space palaces so long as the poor aren&amp;#x27;t literally dying&amp;quot; is the optimal economic philosophy.</text></comment>

<story><title>You Don&apos;t Batch Cook When You&apos;re Suicidal (2020)</title><url>https://cookingonabootstrap.com/2020/07/30/the-price-of-potatoes-and-the-value-of-compassion/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>WendyTheWillow</author><text>And a lot of people would be very wrong. There’s a floor to survivability, below which you can’t keep yourself alive, but there is no ceiling. If everyone is above the floor, there’s no reason for concern about those looking for the ceiling.&lt;p&gt;In the future we’ll pull people up to the floor, but that doesn’t require attaching a ceiling. The will never be a successful society that substantially punishes achievement above a certain point.</text></item><item><author>lwhi</author><text>Better at sports .. but I bet there&amp;#x27;s a fairly even distribution between people who have money and don&amp;#x27;t.&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; In the future, we may view enormous disparities in wealth as evil as we do racism today.&lt;p&gt;A lot of people already do.</text></item><item><author>dcist</author><text>Some people are indeed much better. Anyone who played sports as a kid understands this. Huge differences are immediately apparent in small children. But generally, I agree that, for most life tasks, the differences between people are not enormous. Humanity could do a much better job eliminating poverty. In the future, we may view enormous disparities in wealth as evil as we do racism today.</text></item><item><author>thiago_fm</author><text>That&amp;#x27;s one big paradox.&lt;p&gt;Coming from poverty, I work with plenty of talented people, but nowhere as talented as the people I&amp;#x27;ve studied in shitty schools.&lt;p&gt;Now most of those people from my poverty times continue to be poor, because of many problems poverty brought to them. I can clearly see that, and that I was the lucky one to find a way up many times.&lt;p&gt;Yet, my new social circle believe that I&amp;#x27;m talented because of my DNA and efforts, and blame others for their poverty.&lt;p&gt;But I know that those people making &amp;quot;poor&amp;quot; decisions in the view of riches are actually just trying to survive. With themselves, with the baggage they carry, and to the fact that they weren&amp;#x27;t as lucky as me.&lt;p&gt;Talent, intelligence is literally everywhere. People that are awesome and ambitious is abundant.&lt;p&gt;Nobody is really much better than others, but America post-ww2 managed to sell this idea to everyone, including many really smart and talented folks, that think they are gifted.&lt;p&gt;To sum up, nobody chooses to be poor and humanity could progress faster if we focused instead in eliminating poverty, creating more possibilities for everyone...&lt;p&gt;Than believing almost trillionaries will guide us to where we need it.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>klabb3</author><text>Depends how much the people at the top (money-wise) are playing zero-sum games. If they are, to a large extent, engaging in asset acquisitions and passive growth of eg real estate, or monopolistic protectionism, then there’s plenty of room for others to engage in activities with positive externalities instead.&lt;p&gt;There’s no question a lot of people don’t get the opportunity to pursue their niche passions and drives, based on a bad birth lottery ticket. There’s a lot of wasted potential in countries that reduce aperture of the early success funnels.</text></comment>

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<story><title>Tips from the Pragmatic Programmer (2000)</title><url>https://pragprog.com/the-pragmatic-programmer/extracts/tips</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>dllthomas</author><text>&lt;i&gt;&amp;quot;DRY—Don’t Repeat Yourself Every piece of knowledge must have a single, unambiguous, authoritative representation within a system.&amp;quot;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;Always good to revisit original phrasings of things. I think the catchiness of the lower-information acronym did this one a disservice. I find myself explaining with some regularity that repetition of code is not &lt;i&gt;necessarily&lt;/i&gt; repetition of ideas, and if I have `f(x, g(y), h(z))` both here and there &lt;i&gt;but for different reasons&lt;/i&gt; then it&amp;#x27;s introducing artificial coupling to break it out into a single function. The focus, in the longer expression, on &lt;i&gt;knowledge&lt;/i&gt; is exactly right. DRY isn&amp;#x27;t a call for &amp;quot;Huffman coding&amp;quot;.</text></comment>

<story><title>Tips from the Pragmatic Programmer (2000)</title><url>https://pragprog.com/the-pragmatic-programmer/extracts/tips</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>lliamander</author><text>&amp;gt; Provide Options, Don’t Make Lame Excuses&lt;p&gt;This has helped my career more than any other single piece of advice. The critical mindset of the engineer can quickly lead to cynicism (especially when faced with bureaucracy). Don&amp;#x27;t get me wrong; cynics make great advisors. But the money is in solving problems, not (merely) pointing them out.</text></comment>

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<story><title>Udp.c in Linux kernel pre-4.5 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code</title><url>https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-10229#vulnDescriptionTitle</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>cyann</author><text>Red Hat (RHEL 5&amp;#x2F;6&amp;#x2F;7) not affected: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;access.redhat.com&amp;#x2F;security&amp;#x2F;cve&amp;#x2F;CVE-2016-10229&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;access.redhat.com&amp;#x2F;security&amp;#x2F;cve&amp;#x2F;CVE-2016-10229&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;Highest impact is on Android: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;source.android.com&amp;#x2F;security&amp;#x2F;bulletin&amp;#x2F;2017-04-01&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;source.android.com&amp;#x2F;security&amp;#x2F;bulletin&amp;#x2F;2017-04-01&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>

<story><title>Udp.c in Linux kernel pre-4.5 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code</title><url>https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-10229#vulnDescriptionTitle</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>danielparks</author><text>Looks like this was patched a while ago in both RedHat and Debian distros.&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;access.redhat.com&amp;#x2F;security&amp;#x2F;cve&amp;#x2F;cve-2016-10229&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;access.redhat.com&amp;#x2F;security&amp;#x2F;cve&amp;#x2F;cve-2016-10229&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;security-tracker.debian.org&amp;#x2F;tracker&amp;#x2F;CVE-2016-10229&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;security-tracker.debian.org&amp;#x2F;tracker&amp;#x2F;CVE-2016-10229&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>

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<story><title>Theo de Raadt summarizes the OpenBSD IPSec &quot;backdoor&quot; situation</title><url>http://marc.info/?l=openbsd-tech&amp;m=129296046123471&amp;w=2</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>lenni</author><text>People often complain about his erratic and uncontrollable behaviour, but I find Theo de Raadt comes across entirely reasonable in this message.&lt;p&gt;What&apos;s the history there?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dylanz</author><text>He&apos;s a very opinionated person. Just a personality type. There are others in the industry, like Linus, Zed, etc. Theo can be very direct, and throw in some spice for flavor.&lt;p&gt;Personally, I jive with these personality types, and, think Theo is a fantastic fit for OpenBSD.</text></comment>

<story><title>Theo de Raadt summarizes the OpenBSD IPSec &quot;backdoor&quot; situation</title><url>http://marc.info/?l=openbsd-tech&amp;m=129296046123471&amp;w=2</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>lenni</author><text>People often complain about his erratic and uncontrollable behaviour, but I find Theo de Raadt comes across entirely reasonable in this message.&lt;p&gt;What&apos;s the history there?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>tedunangst</author><text>Complaining about Theo is one of those things you do to prove you&apos;re tuned into the scene. Other people have read similar complaints, see your comment and think &quot;hey, this guy knows something&quot;, and presto! Instant upvotes.&lt;p&gt;Truth by consensus.</text></comment>

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<story><title>Nobody Likes the “Idea Guy”</title><url>https://www.riskology.co/idea-guy/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>lkrubner</author><text>About &amp;quot;idea guys&amp;quot;. During World War II, after the defeat at Dunkirk, Britain formed a national government, headed by Winston Churchill. This was not a Conservative government, but rather, was national, in that all parties were invited to participate. A number of MPs suggested that, to increase participation of small parties, Churchill should appoint a few &amp;quot;Ministers Without Portfolio&amp;quot;. He absolutely refused. He had previous experience with this and thought it was a disaster. &amp;quot;Ministers Without Portfolio&amp;quot; became &amp;quot;idea guys&amp;quot;. In meetings, they made lots of suggestions, and they held up conversations with their ideas, but they were not in charge of anything so they never really had to take responsibility when things went wrong. Perhaps worst of all, in Churchill&amp;#x27;s view, because such ministers had no real responsibilities, they aggravated everyone else by asking questions about what the ministers with real responsibilities were up to.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>maxxxxx</author><text>&amp;quot; &amp;quot;idea guys&amp;quot;. In meetings, they made lots of suggestions, and they held up conversations with their ideas, but they were not in charge of anything so they never really had to take responsibility when things went wrong&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;Reminds me of a whole layer of people at corporate headquarters of my company. They send out beautiful newsletters, hold seminars and meetings about all kinds of stuff but as soon as it has been published it fizzles out and nothing comes out of it.</text></comment>

<story><title>Nobody Likes the “Idea Guy”</title><url>https://www.riskology.co/idea-guy/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>lkrubner</author><text>About &amp;quot;idea guys&amp;quot;. During World War II, after the defeat at Dunkirk, Britain formed a national government, headed by Winston Churchill. This was not a Conservative government, but rather, was national, in that all parties were invited to participate. A number of MPs suggested that, to increase participation of small parties, Churchill should appoint a few &amp;quot;Ministers Without Portfolio&amp;quot;. He absolutely refused. He had previous experience with this and thought it was a disaster. &amp;quot;Ministers Without Portfolio&amp;quot; became &amp;quot;idea guys&amp;quot;. In meetings, they made lots of suggestions, and they held up conversations with their ideas, but they were not in charge of anything so they never really had to take responsibility when things went wrong. Perhaps worst of all, in Churchill&amp;#x27;s view, because such ministers had no real responsibilities, they aggravated everyone else by asking questions about what the ministers with real responsibilities were up to.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>NeedMoreTea</author><text>Of course Churchill was perhaps one of the biggest idea guys of the lot. He did plenty, but he also interfered and had bad ideas a plenty too. Thankfully, he was mostly open to being told to butt out.&lt;p&gt;The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare (SOE) was a famous Churchill enthusiasm, yet he had many useless impractical ones, that were a huge distraction, too.</text></comment>

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<story><title>Swift&apos;s Evolution</title><url>https://carpeaqua.com/2017/06/02/swifts-evolution/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>AsyncAwait</author><text>I think the author misses the fact that Swift wasn&amp;#x27;t truly &amp;#x27;done&amp;#x27; when it was introduced, (and still isn&amp;#x27;t). Objective-C had some 30+ years to evolve, but Swift can&amp;#x27;t have 3?&lt;p&gt;I get that if you&amp;#x27;re shipping Swift in production you want to refactor as little as possible, but it is pretty hard to come up with the ideal design straight out of the gate. Swift can stop evolving, but it will be THEN when it loses the reason to exist. If Swift is just going to be ObjC with a nicer syntax, (or the features that YOU personally find desirable), then why bother with it at all? Swift is trying to get its design right and that takes time, at the same time I wouldn&amp;#x27;t want to be stuck with a poorly designed language for the next 30 years, so it&amp;#x27;s worth the current turbulence for me.&lt;p&gt;(Rust was the same way 2011-2015 to a MUCH bigger degree and it did in fact eventually stabilize as promised.)&lt;p&gt;If it&amp;#x27;s that much of a problem, ObjC isn&amp;#x27;t going anywhere, it&amp;#x27;s your choice.&lt;p&gt;EDIT: Fixed a typo.</text></comment>

<story><title>Swift&apos;s Evolution</title><url>https://carpeaqua.com/2017/06/02/swifts-evolution/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>bsaul</author><text>I&amp;#x27;m actually pretty happy swift moves the server side story forward, because i&amp;#x27;m convinced the &amp;quot;next big language&amp;quot; will have to run on mobile and server. Actually, i think they don&amp;#x27;t go fast enough, especially regarding concurrency ( which on the server goes beyond just providing async await, as lattner said they were aiming at something closer to the actor model).&lt;p&gt;I don&amp;#x27;t think the &amp;quot;maybe objc is still relevant for new project&amp;quot; trend we&amp;#x27;ve been seeing the last few months on HN is going anywhere. I&amp;#x27;m currently in the process of converting a large codebase from objc to swift, and there is absolutely no doubt that the language is WAY better, and brings a lot of safety enhancements as well.&lt;p&gt;The only big remaining pain point now is clearly in the tooling, but now that they&amp;#x27;re stabilized the language a bit more, it&amp;#x27;s probably going to get better fast.</text></comment>

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<story><title>Betty White Dies at 99</title><url>https://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/ny-betty-white-dead-age-99-tv-icon-20211231-o2zcyf56yrdvvhvwrceinqqwgi-story.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>dorchadas</author><text>18 days away from hitting 100. Such a shame and a sad loss. Hopefully 2022 is better.</text></comment>

<story><title>Betty White Dies at 99</title><url>https://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/ny-betty-white-dead-age-99-tv-icon-20211231-o2zcyf56yrdvvhvwrceinqqwgi-story.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>junon</author><text>As if 2021 said &amp;quot;not done yet&amp;quot;. What a way to punctuate a terrible year.&lt;p&gt;This one stings.</text></comment>

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<story><title>Tech layoffs exceed 240k so far in 2023, 50% more than 2022</title><url>https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/companies/tech-layoffs-exceed-240000-so-far-in-2023-more-than-50-higher-than-in-all-of-2022/ar-AA1ib3AY</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>dublinben</author><text>The job market is still very strong right now. Don&amp;#x27;t be fooled by stories like this trying to convince you otherwise. The unemployment rate is back down to near-historic lows, under 4 percent.[0] Job openings are down slightly from the peak, but are still well higher than the two decades leading up to 2020.[1]&lt;p&gt;[0] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;fred.stlouisfed.org&amp;#x2F;series&amp;#x2F;UNRATE&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;fred.stlouisfed.org&amp;#x2F;series&amp;#x2F;UNRATE&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;[1] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;fred.stlouisfed.org&amp;#x2F;series&amp;#x2F;JTSJOL&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;fred.stlouisfed.org&amp;#x2F;series&amp;#x2F;JTSJOL&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>

<story><title>Tech layoffs exceed 240k so far in 2023, 50% more than 2022</title><url>https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/companies/tech-layoffs-exceed-240000-so-far-in-2023-more-than-50-higher-than-in-all-of-2022/ar-AA1ib3AY</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>sidcool</author><text>I worry about my future as a programmer&amp;#x2F;techie. Are the good times over?</text></comment>

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<story><title>Uber is laying off 3,700, as rides plummet due to Covid-19</title><url>https://techcrunch.com/2020/05/06/uber-is-laying-off-3700-as-rides-plummet-due-to-covid-19/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>hombre_fatal</author><text>Though I&amp;#x27;m kinda glad people who refund delivery food for being cold get kicked off the platform so that more reasonable people who know how to heat food up don&amp;#x27;t have to subsidize you and your expectations.&lt;p&gt;Btw how many times did you heat up and eat the food anyways after getting your refund?</text></item><item><author>Nextgrid</author><text>Same experience here, both with wrong food as well as a bug in the app which caused a cached, previous cart to be ordered instead of the new cart from a different restaurant. I actually provided detailed steps to reproduce this and screenshots and they couldn&amp;#x27;t care less.&lt;p&gt;Both cases ended up with a chargeback.&lt;p&gt;Deliveroo is similar, they banned a 2 year old account used multiple times every day (for both me and my flatmates) with over 2k spent on it for supposed fraud when I dared to ask for &amp;quot;too many&amp;quot; refunds because of cold&amp;#x2F;incorrect food (if you place many orders you have more probability that something goes wrong, but their &amp;quot;fraud&amp;quot; scoring algorithm - that also influences whether you can get one-click refunds directly in the app - doesn&amp;#x27;t seem to take that into account).&lt;p&gt;Both Deliveroo, Just Eat and Uber Eats also often lie and blame the restaurant for being slow when they can&amp;#x27;t assign a driver. I&amp;#x27;ve had multiple occurrences where an order is stuck on &amp;quot;Driver waiting at the restaurant&amp;quot; for 20+ minutes but calling the restaurant reveals that the food was ready long ago and nobody is coming to pick it up.</text></item><item><author>epylar</author><text>I ordered some things from UberEats early on in the quarantine. The restaurants made several errors and eventually UberEats said they wouldn&amp;#x27;t refund because I was having too many issues with my food, and it was &amp;#x27;unlikely&amp;#x27; that a person would have that many issues. So I don&amp;#x27;t use them any more.</text></item><item><author>rockarage</author><text>This is a failure in leadership at UberEats. Uber has more than one revenue source and delivery is in high demand, UberEats is severely losing to DoorDash in food delivery, despite Uber having significantly more resources than DoorDash. Uber has billions in the bank, Doordash only has hundreds of millions. At the time of this posting, Doordash is currently number #13 in the App store, UberEats is sitting at #62. Uber has access to capital and reserve in the bank. Reserves are often used for a rainy day, well it is pouring now. They should be using their position to gain market share during this time of peak demand for deliveries, should not be losing to DoorDash.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>lol636363</author><text>I don&amp;#x27;t think you can make excuses for UberEats or whatever. Food delivery is not a new problem. I have been ordering pizza and Chinese food for more than 2 decades. It is very rare when we received cold pizza. And most of the time when it happened resturants proactively refunded us or gave coupons for another time.&lt;p&gt;It is kind of amazing how many times UberEats, GrubHub, etc deliver cold food. Not just for me but vast majority of my friends report same thing.&lt;p&gt;As a consumer, I rather get refund so bad companies can go bankrupt before becoming too big to fail.</text></comment>

<story><title>Uber is laying off 3,700, as rides plummet due to Covid-19</title><url>https://techcrunch.com/2020/05/06/uber-is-laying-off-3700-as-rides-plummet-due-to-covid-19/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>hombre_fatal</author><text>Though I&amp;#x27;m kinda glad people who refund delivery food for being cold get kicked off the platform so that more reasonable people who know how to heat food up don&amp;#x27;t have to subsidize you and your expectations.&lt;p&gt;Btw how many times did you heat up and eat the food anyways after getting your refund?</text></item><item><author>Nextgrid</author><text>Same experience here, both with wrong food as well as a bug in the app which caused a cached, previous cart to be ordered instead of the new cart from a different restaurant. I actually provided detailed steps to reproduce this and screenshots and they couldn&amp;#x27;t care less.&lt;p&gt;Both cases ended up with a chargeback.&lt;p&gt;Deliveroo is similar, they banned a 2 year old account used multiple times every day (for both me and my flatmates) with over 2k spent on it for supposed fraud when I dared to ask for &amp;quot;too many&amp;quot; refunds because of cold&amp;#x2F;incorrect food (if you place many orders you have more probability that something goes wrong, but their &amp;quot;fraud&amp;quot; scoring algorithm - that also influences whether you can get one-click refunds directly in the app - doesn&amp;#x27;t seem to take that into account).&lt;p&gt;Both Deliveroo, Just Eat and Uber Eats also often lie and blame the restaurant for being slow when they can&amp;#x27;t assign a driver. I&amp;#x27;ve had multiple occurrences where an order is stuck on &amp;quot;Driver waiting at the restaurant&amp;quot; for 20+ minutes but calling the restaurant reveals that the food was ready long ago and nobody is coming to pick it up.</text></item><item><author>epylar</author><text>I ordered some things from UberEats early on in the quarantine. The restaurants made several errors and eventually UberEats said they wouldn&amp;#x27;t refund because I was having too many issues with my food, and it was &amp;#x27;unlikely&amp;#x27; that a person would have that many issues. So I don&amp;#x27;t use them any more.</text></item><item><author>rockarage</author><text>This is a failure in leadership at UberEats. Uber has more than one revenue source and delivery is in high demand, UberEats is severely losing to DoorDash in food delivery, despite Uber having significantly more resources than DoorDash. Uber has billions in the bank, Doordash only has hundreds of millions. At the time of this posting, Doordash is currently number #13 in the App store, UberEats is sitting at #62. Uber has access to capital and reserve in the bank. Reserves are often used for a rainy day, well it is pouring now. They should be using their position to gain market share during this time of peak demand for deliveries, should not be losing to DoorDash.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>onemoresoop</author><text>A restaurant business owner friend of mine is struggling to stay open and he lowered his fees to accept more orders on Seamless&amp;#x2F;Grubhub. Quite a bunch of people order food, receive it on time only to then, in a couple of hours, cancel the order. He filmed himself handing the delivery in to the person who ordered and showed it to the customer reps at Seamless&amp;#x2F;Grubhub and they don&amp;#x27;t do anything about it, he basically has to take the loss, multiple orders a day already. He isn&amp;#x27;t delivering to that address again if they re-order. But, at least here in NYC, there&amp;#x27;s no shortage of people who cancel they orders hours after they eat it.</text></comment>

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<story><title>Will Wright on designing user interfaces to simulation games (1996)</title><url>https://donhopkins.medium.com/designing-user-interfaces-to-simulation-games-bd7a9d81e62d</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>noduerme</author><text>As the presenter in the first video says, Will Wright lead to a &amp;quot;real shift&amp;quot; in the &amp;quot;younger generation&amp;quot; about how &amp;quot;people think about computers and about computing in general&amp;quot;. As a member of the Will Wright generation of 12 year old Mac programmers who tried to take his games apart with ResEdit and tried to make our own, with Perl and HyperCard, this was really resonant, really true.&lt;p&gt;When SimEarth came out, I spent hours and hours just rereading the thick paper manual of how it all worked, because the only places I could play it on the disks were in the computer lab after school, or for an hour a day on the home computer.&lt;p&gt;He turned incredibly complex systems into games and games into systems, so that reading his game manuals made you think about the whole world.&lt;p&gt;One thing sad to me now, with the focus on GPT or Diffusion prompts, is how much kids are no longer thinking about the actual systems or logical rules they&amp;#x27;re playing with, and just learning to trick something that&amp;#x27;s already inscrutable and smarter than them. Mastering AI prompts or even running your own neural net doesn&amp;#x27;t teach anything like logic or the kind of deep, recursive cause and effect structure you could get from Will Wright&amp;#x27;s toys, or even from CK3... even if you get all your prompts perfect to make what you want, it teaches something much more like dependence on a magical oracle than, say, a toy&amp;#x2F;game&amp;#x2F;sim that really encourages you to deconstruct and take pleasure in all its interconnections that you can understand.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>shagie</author><text>&amp;gt; When SimEarth came out, I spent hours and hours just rereading the thick paper manual of how it all worked, because the only places I could play it on the disks were in the computer lab after school, or for an hour a day on the home computer.&lt;p&gt;A copy of the manual can be found at &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;retro-commodore.eu&amp;#x2F;files&amp;#x2F;downloads&amp;#x2F;amigamanuals-xiik.net&amp;#x2F;Games&amp;#x2F;Sim%20Earth%20-%20Manual-ENG.pdf&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;retro-commodore.eu&amp;#x2F;files&amp;#x2F;downloads&amp;#x2F;amigamanuals-xiik...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;Page 149 (yes - it had a lot of pages) starts off with &amp;quot;An Introduction to Earth Science&amp;quot; and continues to the appendix on page 201. It has enough content to make a good starter for a grade school science class&amp;#x27;s syllabus.</text></comment>

<story><title>Will Wright on designing user interfaces to simulation games (1996)</title><url>https://donhopkins.medium.com/designing-user-interfaces-to-simulation-games-bd7a9d81e62d</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>noduerme</author><text>As the presenter in the first video says, Will Wright lead to a &amp;quot;real shift&amp;quot; in the &amp;quot;younger generation&amp;quot; about how &amp;quot;people think about computers and about computing in general&amp;quot;. As a member of the Will Wright generation of 12 year old Mac programmers who tried to take his games apart with ResEdit and tried to make our own, with Perl and HyperCard, this was really resonant, really true.&lt;p&gt;When SimEarth came out, I spent hours and hours just rereading the thick paper manual of how it all worked, because the only places I could play it on the disks were in the computer lab after school, or for an hour a day on the home computer.&lt;p&gt;He turned incredibly complex systems into games and games into systems, so that reading his game manuals made you think about the whole world.&lt;p&gt;One thing sad to me now, with the focus on GPT or Diffusion prompts, is how much kids are no longer thinking about the actual systems or logical rules they&amp;#x27;re playing with, and just learning to trick something that&amp;#x27;s already inscrutable and smarter than them. Mastering AI prompts or even running your own neural net doesn&amp;#x27;t teach anything like logic or the kind of deep, recursive cause and effect structure you could get from Will Wright&amp;#x27;s toys, or even from CK3... even if you get all your prompts perfect to make what you want, it teaches something much more like dependence on a magical oracle than, say, a toy&amp;#x2F;game&amp;#x2F;sim that really encourages you to deconstruct and take pleasure in all its interconnections that you can understand.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>emrah</author><text>&amp;gt; One thing sad to me now, with the focus on GPT or Diffusion prompts, is how much kids are no longer thinking about the actual systems or logical rules they&amp;#x27;re playing with, and just learning to trick something that&amp;#x27;s already inscrutable and smarter than them&lt;p&gt;This is something I don&amp;#x27;t understand. Sure, not every kid is going to think about that but that&amp;#x27;s ok. We need some kids to think about it, probably a small subset..&lt;p&gt;Back when computers were new, not every kid tried to make games or understand how they worked either. Only a small subset and that&amp;#x27;s how it is..</text></comment>

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<story><title>How to write a JavaScript-free todo app using just HTML and CSS</title><url>http://www.mattzeunert.com/2017/10/30/javascript-free-todo-app.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>Scryptonite</author><text>I made something very similar for fun a few years ago[0] and added it to a repository called You-Dont-Need-JavaScript[1].&lt;p&gt;CSS-only for this sort if thing is totally contrived, but making it still proved to be a fun little exercise.&lt;p&gt;[0]: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;codepen.io&amp;#x2F;scryptonite&amp;#x2F;pen&amp;#x2F;oLGzdj&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;codepen.io&amp;#x2F;scryptonite&amp;#x2F;pen&amp;#x2F;oLGzdj&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;[1]: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;github.com&amp;#x2F;you-dont-need&amp;#x2F;You-Dont-Need-JavaScript&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;github.com&amp;#x2F;you-dont-need&amp;#x2F;You-Dont-Need-JavaScript&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>

<story><title>How to write a JavaScript-free todo app using just HTML and CSS</title><url>http://www.mattzeunert.com/2017/10/30/javascript-free-todo-app.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>jordache</author><text>These exercises will be a lot more fruitful to read through if the author can acknowledge the contrived nature of these attempts and provide a real-world advantageous use case of the techniques outlined</text></comment>

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<story><title>Watch Netflix in Ubuntu today</title><url>https://insights.ubuntu.com/2014/10/10/watch-netflix-in-ubuntu-today/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>asadotzler</author><text>Why do these &amp;quot;Linux gets Netflix&amp;quot; stories not have the same bad attitude from folks as the &amp;quot;W3C caves to DRM&amp;quot; stories? They&amp;#x27;re the same topic, essentially.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>smacktoward</author><text>My guess would be that in the &amp;quot;Linux gets Netflix&amp;quot; story, the positive angle (&amp;quot;I get Netflix!&amp;quot;) is specific and concrete, while the negative (&amp;quot;More DRM, yuck&amp;quot;) is more abstract. Whereas in the &amp;quot;W3C caves to DRM&amp;quot; story, it&amp;#x27;s flipped; the negative is specific and concrete (&amp;quot;Standards body kowtows to corporate overlords&amp;quot;), while the positive (&amp;quot;maybe someday that will mean I can watch video on Linux&amp;quot;) is more abstract.</text></comment>

<story><title>Watch Netflix in Ubuntu today</title><url>https://insights.ubuntu.com/2014/10/10/watch-netflix-in-ubuntu-today/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>asadotzler</author><text>Why do these &amp;quot;Linux gets Netflix&amp;quot; stories not have the same bad attitude from folks as the &amp;quot;W3C caves to DRM&amp;quot; stories? They&amp;#x27;re the same topic, essentially.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>gph</author><text>I wasn&amp;#x27;t a vehement opponent of W3C implementing DRM, but I&amp;#x27;ll put my two cents in;&lt;p&gt;I don&amp;#x27;t mind if private companies implement DRM in their own products. I do mind DRM being standardized, meaning every vendor has to implement it in order to be complaint with the standard.&lt;p&gt;Ubuntu != linux, it is just a distro. Similarly Chrome is not the browser standard, it&amp;#x27;s only an implementation.&lt;p&gt;If this story was actually &amp;quot;Linux adds DRM to kernel for netflix and other media companies&amp;quot; I think you would see a huge reaction.</text></comment>

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<story><title>An iframe from googlesyndication.com tries to access the camera and microphone</title><url>https://techsparx.com/software-development/security/csp-camera-microphone.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tomudding</author><text>I think this sounds more like some sort of fingerprinting attempt. It good to see that random access to these kind of resources fails due to new(er) browser controls. However, this does not mean that the fingerprinting actually failed.&lt;p&gt;There is probably some way to determine if the request was denied automatically by the browser or manually by the user (e.g., time to get &amp;quot;response&amp;quot;), which is definitely something which can be used for fingerprinting.&lt;p&gt;Which reminds me of fingerprinting by tiny differences in the audio API provided by browsers [0]. Super interesting, but also a bit depressing. Also works for things like canvases and WebGL.&lt;p&gt;EFF allows you to check how fingerprintable your browser is [1]. Do note that the results may not be very accurate.&lt;p&gt;[0]: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;fingerprintjs.com&amp;#x2F;blog&amp;#x2F;audio-fingerprinting&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;fingerprintjs.com&amp;#x2F;blog&amp;#x2F;audio-fingerprinting&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;[1]: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;coveryourtracks.eff.org&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;coveryourtracks.eff.org&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>adtehcmadness1</author><text>As someone working on exactly this type of stuff, your&amp;#x27;e absolutely right. \*.safeframe.googlesyndication.com is Google&amp;#x27;s implementation of the IAB&amp;#x27;s safeframe standard[0], which is basically a cross origin iframe with an API that&amp;#x27;s exposed to the embedded 3rd party code (the ad). This is how its HTML looks like (some attributes removed for readability):&lt;p&gt;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt; &amp;lt;iframe src=&amp;quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;\*.safeframe.googlesyndication.com&amp;#x2F;safeframe&amp;#x2F;1-0-38&amp;#x2F;html&amp;#x2F;container.html&amp;quot; title=&amp;quot;3rd party ad content&amp;quot; sandbox=&amp;quot;allow-forms allow-popups allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox allow-same-origin allow-scripts allow-top-navigation-by-user-activation&amp;quot; allow=&amp;quot;attribution-reporting&amp;quot;&amp;gt;&amp;lt;&amp;#x2F;iframe&amp;gt; &lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt; As you can see, it has both sandbox[1] and allow[2] attributes. The former restricts certain behaviors of the embedded code (most notably, navigating the top window without user activation), and the latter restricts it from accessing certain APIs - this why the author saw errors in the console.&lt;p&gt;The script at &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;cdn.js7k.com&amp;#x2F;ix&amp;#x2F;talon-1.0.37.js&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;cdn.js7k.com&amp;#x2F;ix&amp;#x2F;talon-1.0.37.js&lt;/a&gt; is an ad verification library developed by Verizon Media (formerly Oath), and it does, among other things,, fingerprinting for bot detection purposes (because they want to prevent ad fraud). It was served together with the actual ad media (so called &amp;quot;creative&amp;quot;) into the safeframe.&lt;p&gt;This a relativity begin case. Iv&amp;#x27;e seen much more terrible stuff, from fingerprinting for user taking to straight out malware being served in ads. It&amp;#x27;s a wild west (or web).&lt;p&gt;[0]: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.iab.com&amp;#x2F;guidelines&amp;#x2F;safeframe&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.iab.com&amp;#x2F;guidelines&amp;#x2F;safeframe&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;[1]: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;developer.mozilla.org&amp;#x2F;en-US&amp;#x2F;docs&amp;#x2F;Web&amp;#x2F;HTML&amp;#x2F;Element&amp;#x2F;iframe#attr-sandbox&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;developer.mozilla.org&amp;#x2F;en-US&amp;#x2F;docs&amp;#x2F;Web&amp;#x2F;HTML&amp;#x2F;Element&amp;#x2F;if...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;[2]: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;developer.mozilla.org&amp;#x2F;en-US&amp;#x2F;docs&amp;#x2F;Web&amp;#x2F;HTML&amp;#x2F;Element&amp;#x2F;iframe#attr-allow&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;developer.mozilla.org&amp;#x2F;en-US&amp;#x2F;docs&amp;#x2F;Web&amp;#x2F;HTML&amp;#x2F;Element&amp;#x2F;if...&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>

<story><title>An iframe from googlesyndication.com tries to access the camera and microphone</title><url>https://techsparx.com/software-development/security/csp-camera-microphone.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tomudding</author><text>I think this sounds more like some sort of fingerprinting attempt. It good to see that random access to these kind of resources fails due to new(er) browser controls. However, this does not mean that the fingerprinting actually failed.&lt;p&gt;There is probably some way to determine if the request was denied automatically by the browser or manually by the user (e.g., time to get &amp;quot;response&amp;quot;), which is definitely something which can be used for fingerprinting.&lt;p&gt;Which reminds me of fingerprinting by tiny differences in the audio API provided by browsers [0]. Super interesting, but also a bit depressing. Also works for things like canvases and WebGL.&lt;p&gt;EFF allows you to check how fingerprintable your browser is [1]. Do note that the results may not be very accurate.&lt;p&gt;[0]: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;fingerprintjs.com&amp;#x2F;blog&amp;#x2F;audio-fingerprinting&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;fingerprintjs.com&amp;#x2F;blog&amp;#x2F;audio-fingerprinting&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;[1]: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;coveryourtracks.eff.org&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;coveryourtracks.eff.org&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dc3k</author><text>&amp;gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;fingerprintjs.com&amp;#x2F;blog&amp;#x2F;audio-fingerprinting&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;fingerprintjs.com&amp;#x2F;blog&amp;#x2F;audio-fingerprinting&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; It is particularly useful to identify malicious visitors attempting to circumvent tracking&lt;p&gt;Ah yes, the visitor trying to not be tracked is the malicious one. Barf.</text></comment>

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<story><title>Members of Congress Demand Answers for the Unjust Domain Name Seizures</title><url>https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2012/08/members-congress-demand-answers-homeland-securitys-unjust-domain-name-seizures</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>DanielBMarkham</author><text>It used to be that if you wanted to corrupt your government so that you could gain a business advantage, it took a while. You met some politicians, you made some donations, you &quot;entertained&quot; folks. Legislation was introduced. It might take several tries before it was passed.&lt;p&gt;What I see now is that the system has granted itself so much &lt;i&gt;administrative&lt;/i&gt; discretion that you can use government as a direct agent in trying to kill your competitors. The threshold for getting the big stick of the government out and whacking your competition is so low that you&apos;re presented with multiple choices: go for their domain name. Find a violation of the thousands of various codes they must comply with. Use your patents to start a patent war. And so on.&lt;p&gt;The beauty of this way of doing things is that the more you either screw somebody else over or get screwed over, the more you end up doing all the corruption activity that you used to have to do on the front end -- but this time it&apos;s to be left alone. So in this case we have people pleading with their Congressmen to try to get the system to work correctly. We&apos;ve switched from corrupting a somewhat honest system for your own purposes to paying off a somewhat corrupt system in order to be left alone. Based on this, I predict political campaigns will continue to draw exponentially more money as things progress.&lt;p&gt;Interesting times to live in. We obviously need a secure, private, P2P domain name system.</text></comment>

<story><title>Members of Congress Demand Answers for the Unjust Domain Name Seizures</title><url>https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2012/08/members-congress-demand-answers-homeland-securitys-unjust-domain-name-seizures</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>antidoh</author><text>Article says the material was legal, and that the govt was delaying while it waited on the &lt;i&gt;RIAA&lt;/i&gt; to conclude its investigation.&lt;p&gt;A proper investigation &lt;i&gt;prior to seizure&lt;/i&gt; would have uncovered this, and a self-respecting prosecutor or investigator would not have gone forward with seizure after learning that there was no violation.&lt;p&gt;This is what due process is for, to prevent injustices resulting from vigilantism, whether by citizens or governments.&lt;p&gt;This kind of thing makes us look like a banana republic. How fortunate that we don&apos;t have to send troops outside the country to prop ourselves up; we&apos;re already here.</text></comment>

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<story><title>French National Assembly approved Internet traffic monitoring system (French)</title><url>http://www.lemonde.fr/pixels/article/2015/04/16/les-deputes-approuvent-un-systeme-de-surveillance-du-trafic-sur-internet_4616652_4408996.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>gerty</author><text>French National Assembly has 577 delegates. According to Le Monde article, 25 voted for and 5 against. The rest, I suppose, didn&amp;#x27;t care to show up. This is beyond WTF.&lt;p&gt;I am a client at OVH and Gandi and I hope they send a big FU to the French government and relocate. I am willing to pay a premium for that.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dagw</author><text>&lt;i&gt;The rest, I suppose, didn&amp;#x27;t care to show up.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;m assuming it&amp;#x27;s largely strategic. &amp;quot;Everybody&amp;quot; wanted to pass the bill, but no one wanted it on their voting record since they knew it was controversial. So everybody got together and selected a small number of martyrs to go sully themselves while everybody else could keep their hands clean.</text></comment>

<story><title>French National Assembly approved Internet traffic monitoring system (French)</title><url>http://www.lemonde.fr/pixels/article/2015/04/16/les-deputes-approuvent-un-systeme-de-surveillance-du-trafic-sur-internet_4616652_4408996.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>gerty</author><text>French National Assembly has 577 delegates. According to Le Monde article, 25 voted for and 5 against. The rest, I suppose, didn&amp;#x27;t care to show up. This is beyond WTF.&lt;p&gt;I am a client at OVH and Gandi and I hope they send a big FU to the French government and relocate. I am willing to pay a premium for that.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>zz1</author><text>They announced that they are going to relocate, indeed: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;eu.ovh.com&amp;#x2F;fr&amp;#x2F;news&amp;#x2F;articles&amp;#x2F;a1743.le-gouvernement-veut-il-contraindre-les-hebergeurs-internet-a-l-exil&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;eu.ovh.com&amp;#x2F;fr&amp;#x2F;news&amp;#x2F;articles&amp;#x2F;a1743.le-gouvernement-ve...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;And launched a big initiative to federate tech actors against the bill: &lt;a href=&quot;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;ni-pigeons-ni-espions.fr&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;ni-pigeons-ni-espions.fr&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;######## Breaking ########&lt;p&gt;Octave Klaba finally declares that the bill doesn&amp;#x27;t compromise the trust chain. &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;twitter.com&amp;#x2F;olesovhcom&amp;#x2F;status&amp;#x2F;588666965755092993&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;twitter.com&amp;#x2F;olesovhcom&amp;#x2F;status&amp;#x2F;588666965755092993&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>

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<story><title>The Ladybird browser project</title><url>https://ladybird.dev/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>grey_earthling</author><text>&amp;gt; if it works in Chrome, all web developers will adopt it&lt;p&gt;This is why we, tech nerds who understand the problem, must resist monopolies: object to using such APIs. Chrome wouldn&amp;#x27;t be in quite this position if, instead of embracing the monopolist, more techies had warned their non-techy friends and family away from it, like they did with IE.</text></item><item><author>sph</author><text>It is not any easier, because we still have a monopoly running the show, only it&amp;#x27;s not called Microsoft anymore.&lt;p&gt;If anyone threatens Google position, they can literally throw money at the problem, invent some overcomplicated standard, implement it in Blink, and have the competition chase them. It doesn&amp;#x27;t need to go through W3C either, if it works in Chrome, all web developers will adopt it and any smaller engine will necessarily have to support it or risk losing whatever little market share they have left.&lt;p&gt;Having control of the internet now is of greater strategic importance than it was 20-30 years ago when Microsoft was king of the hill.</text></item><item><author>jug</author><text>It&amp;#x27;s been so inspiring to see him and his crew of hackers build a new, independent browser from scratch. I must admit I didn&amp;#x27;t think it was possible on this small scale in terms of man hours and funding.&lt;p&gt;However, the thought has also crossed my mind if we&amp;#x27;re finally seeing fruits of browsers being better standardized on &amp;quot;95%&amp;quot;+ of the popular features -- and if writing a browser today is in fact easier than both writing AND maintaining a browser a decade back. While the web is of course still evolving, it feels more &amp;quot;settled in&amp;quot; than 10-15 years ago.&lt;p&gt;There&amp;#x27;s also the factor that past developers didn&amp;#x27;t have the more complete roadmap set when they initially planned browser design, but now we have huge amounts of web standards already there AND also know how popular they got over time i.e. what to prioritize to support a modern web. One might superficially think there&amp;#x27;s simply more of everything, but I also think ideas that can be discarded. Just imagine that Internet Explorer had XSLT support, and FTP was common once upon a time!&lt;p&gt;It would be interesting to hear more about their own thoughts on these topics!&lt;p&gt;Edit: My bad; XSLT is still commonly supported and by all major browsers but a rarely used feature and stuck in limbo in XSLT 1.0. So it&amp;#x27;s probably among those things that can be safely omitted for quite some time.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>scblock</author><text>&amp;quot;Tech nerds&amp;quot; built web sites that only worked in IE back then and &amp;quot;tech nerds&amp;quot; are building websites now that only work in Chrome. Didn&amp;#x27;t have a clue back then, and don&amp;#x27;t have a clue now. Forget warning &amp;quot;non-techy&amp;quot; people and clean your own house first.</text></comment>

<story><title>The Ladybird browser project</title><url>https://ladybird.dev/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>grey_earthling</author><text>&amp;gt; if it works in Chrome, all web developers will adopt it&lt;p&gt;This is why we, tech nerds who understand the problem, must resist monopolies: object to using such APIs. Chrome wouldn&amp;#x27;t be in quite this position if, instead of embracing the monopolist, more techies had warned their non-techy friends and family away from it, like they did with IE.</text></item><item><author>sph</author><text>It is not any easier, because we still have a monopoly running the show, only it&amp;#x27;s not called Microsoft anymore.&lt;p&gt;If anyone threatens Google position, they can literally throw money at the problem, invent some overcomplicated standard, implement it in Blink, and have the competition chase them. It doesn&amp;#x27;t need to go through W3C either, if it works in Chrome, all web developers will adopt it and any smaller engine will necessarily have to support it or risk losing whatever little market share they have left.&lt;p&gt;Having control of the internet now is of greater strategic importance than it was 20-30 years ago when Microsoft was king of the hill.</text></item><item><author>jug</author><text>It&amp;#x27;s been so inspiring to see him and his crew of hackers build a new, independent browser from scratch. I must admit I didn&amp;#x27;t think it was possible on this small scale in terms of man hours and funding.&lt;p&gt;However, the thought has also crossed my mind if we&amp;#x27;re finally seeing fruits of browsers being better standardized on &amp;quot;95%&amp;quot;+ of the popular features -- and if writing a browser today is in fact easier than both writing AND maintaining a browser a decade back. While the web is of course still evolving, it feels more &amp;quot;settled in&amp;quot; than 10-15 years ago.&lt;p&gt;There&amp;#x27;s also the factor that past developers didn&amp;#x27;t have the more complete roadmap set when they initially planned browser design, but now we have huge amounts of web standards already there AND also know how popular they got over time i.e. what to prioritize to support a modern web. One might superficially think there&amp;#x27;s simply more of everything, but I also think ideas that can be discarded. Just imagine that Internet Explorer had XSLT support, and FTP was common once upon a time!&lt;p&gt;It would be interesting to hear more about their own thoughts on these topics!&lt;p&gt;Edit: My bad; XSLT is still commonly supported and by all major browsers but a rarely used feature and stuck in limbo in XSLT 1.0. So it&amp;#x27;s probably among those things that can be safely omitted for quite some time.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>razakel</author><text>We warned people that the government was snooping on everything you transmitted or received.&lt;p&gt;They didn&amp;#x27;t listen or care.</text></comment>

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<story><title>Migrating from RethinkDB to Postgres – An Experience Report</title><url>https://medium.com/fuzzy-sharp/migrating-to-postgres-2dc1519a6dc7</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>firasd</author><text>Sorry, I&amp;#x27;m just not buying that it&amp;#x27;s about the file size of data.&lt;p&gt;Right now I&amp;#x27;m working on an app that works with tweets. I want to find all tweets that link to iTunes.&lt;p&gt;When I was using:&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; select * from `tweets` where `url` not like &amp;#x27;%twitter.com%&amp;#x27; and `url` like &amp;#x27;%itunes.apple.com%&amp;#x27;&lt;p&gt;I could scale my server up to 16 CPUs, it would still take several minutes to search a few million tweets.&lt;p&gt;Yesterday I added another field to the database, `is_audio_url` where I pre-compute whether the URL is an itunes link (by string matching in the app code) when I insert the record into the database. So I can do:&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; select * from `tweets` where `is_audio_url` = 1&lt;p&gt;And now it&amp;#x27;s blazing fast. It is just my most recent of many experiences that MySQL really struggles with text matching.</text></item><item><author>qaq</author><text>I can assure you that Pinterest&amp;#x27;s dataset is vastly bigger than 100GB :) at certain scale RDBMS will obviously experience issues and might no longer be the optimal solution. For PG (hard to generalize) but beyond 10-20TB things become painful. Now the thing is that &amp;quot;limit&amp;quot; is constantly shifting so if you are starting with 100GB datasets and it is growing at 200GB a year you can basically stay on single instance RDBMS forever.</text></item><item><author>firasd</author><text>Do you have FULLTEXT indexes on those rows? I find it hard to believe that searching something like e.g. a fragment of text in Youtube comments can be as fast in a SQL system (even in RAM) as in Elasticsearch.&lt;p&gt;As for the other stuff I mentioned (recommendations, etc.) I&amp;#x27;m not just basing it on my personal experience--here&amp;#x27;s a write-up from Pinterest about having to dump all their MySQL data to Hadoop to drive various types of analysis. I doubt they would do it it if just putting the SQL DBs in RAM was adequate! &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;medium.com&amp;#x2F;@Pinterest_Engineering&amp;#x2F;tracker-ingesting-mysql-data-at-scale-part-1-424cf43fa7c3&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;medium.com&amp;#x2F;@Pinterest_Engineering&amp;#x2F;tracker-ingesting-...&lt;/a&gt;</text></item><item><author>qaq</author><text>We do exactly what you describe on about 80TB dataset stored across a number of PG instances. The 100GB comments are extremely clever because running a query against a dataset that fully fits in RAM will be blazingly fast. &amp;quot;Try doing text search on a few million SQL rows&amp;quot; we are doing it on billions of rows.</text></item><item><author>firasd</author><text>Interesting quote: &amp;quot;we decided to compute all statistics on demand. This was something we previously tried in RethinkDB, but the results were not good... When we tried implementing statistics as SQL queries in Postgres, we were amazed by the performance. We could implement complex statistics involving data from many tables.&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;I think standard line &amp;quot;use right tool for the job&amp;quot; is still the ultimate answer. Data in most applications is relational, and you need to query it in different ways that weren&amp;#x27;t anticipated at the beginning, hence the longevity of SQL.&lt;p&gt;That said, I too often see HN commentators say something like &amp;quot;this data was only 100 GB? Why didn&amp;#x27;t they just put it in Postgres?&amp;quot; which is not as clever as the writer may think. Try doing text search on a few million SQL rows, or generating product recommendations, or finding trending topics... Elasticsearch and other &amp;#x27;big data&amp;#x27; tools will do it much quicker than SQL because its a different category of problem. It&amp;#x27;s not about the data size, it&amp;#x27;s about the type of processing required. (Edited my last line here a bit based on replies below.)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Lazare</author><text>Full text search in Postgres is fast if you have it configured correctly.&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; It is just my most recent of many experiences that MySQL&lt;p&gt;1) You&amp;#x27;re using MySQL not Postgres; given that this is a discussion about whether Postgres can compete with Elasticsearch, that&amp;#x27;s not super relevant. :)&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; select * from `tweets` where `url` not like &amp;#x27;%twitter.com%&amp;#x27; and `url` like &amp;#x27;%itunes.apple.com%&amp;#x27;&lt;p&gt;2) That&amp;#x27;s not how you query a full text index; that&amp;#x27;s going to be glacially slow.&lt;p&gt;You need a FULLTEXT index and to use a MATCH...AGAINST query. Check out the docs[1].&lt;p&gt;[1]: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;dev.mysql.com&amp;#x2F;doc&amp;#x2F;refman&amp;#x2F;5.7&amp;#x2F;en&amp;#x2F;fulltext-search.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;dev.mysql.com&amp;#x2F;doc&amp;#x2F;refman&amp;#x2F;5.7&amp;#x2F;en&amp;#x2F;fulltext-search.html&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>

<story><title>Migrating from RethinkDB to Postgres – An Experience Report</title><url>https://medium.com/fuzzy-sharp/migrating-to-postgres-2dc1519a6dc7</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>firasd</author><text>Sorry, I&amp;#x27;m just not buying that it&amp;#x27;s about the file size of data.&lt;p&gt;Right now I&amp;#x27;m working on an app that works with tweets. I want to find all tweets that link to iTunes.&lt;p&gt;When I was using:&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; select * from `tweets` where `url` not like &amp;#x27;%twitter.com%&amp;#x27; and `url` like &amp;#x27;%itunes.apple.com%&amp;#x27;&lt;p&gt;I could scale my server up to 16 CPUs, it would still take several minutes to search a few million tweets.&lt;p&gt;Yesterday I added another field to the database, `is_audio_url` where I pre-compute whether the URL is an itunes link (by string matching in the app code) when I insert the record into the database. So I can do:&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; select * from `tweets` where `is_audio_url` = 1&lt;p&gt;And now it&amp;#x27;s blazing fast. It is just my most recent of many experiences that MySQL really struggles with text matching.</text></item><item><author>qaq</author><text>I can assure you that Pinterest&amp;#x27;s dataset is vastly bigger than 100GB :) at certain scale RDBMS will obviously experience issues and might no longer be the optimal solution. For PG (hard to generalize) but beyond 10-20TB things become painful. Now the thing is that &amp;quot;limit&amp;quot; is constantly shifting so if you are starting with 100GB datasets and it is growing at 200GB a year you can basically stay on single instance RDBMS forever.</text></item><item><author>firasd</author><text>Do you have FULLTEXT indexes on those rows? I find it hard to believe that searching something like e.g. a fragment of text in Youtube comments can be as fast in a SQL system (even in RAM) as in Elasticsearch.&lt;p&gt;As for the other stuff I mentioned (recommendations, etc.) I&amp;#x27;m not just basing it on my personal experience--here&amp;#x27;s a write-up from Pinterest about having to dump all their MySQL data to Hadoop to drive various types of analysis. I doubt they would do it it if just putting the SQL DBs in RAM was adequate! &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;medium.com&amp;#x2F;@Pinterest_Engineering&amp;#x2F;tracker-ingesting-mysql-data-at-scale-part-1-424cf43fa7c3&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;medium.com&amp;#x2F;@Pinterest_Engineering&amp;#x2F;tracker-ingesting-...&lt;/a&gt;</text></item><item><author>qaq</author><text>We do exactly what you describe on about 80TB dataset stored across a number of PG instances. The 100GB comments are extremely clever because running a query against a dataset that fully fits in RAM will be blazingly fast. &amp;quot;Try doing text search on a few million SQL rows&amp;quot; we are doing it on billions of rows.</text></item><item><author>firasd</author><text>Interesting quote: &amp;quot;we decided to compute all statistics on demand. This was something we previously tried in RethinkDB, but the results were not good... When we tried implementing statistics as SQL queries in Postgres, we were amazed by the performance. We could implement complex statistics involving data from many tables.&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;I think standard line &amp;quot;use right tool for the job&amp;quot; is still the ultimate answer. Data in most applications is relational, and you need to query it in different ways that weren&amp;#x27;t anticipated at the beginning, hence the longevity of SQL.&lt;p&gt;That said, I too often see HN commentators say something like &amp;quot;this data was only 100 GB? Why didn&amp;#x27;t they just put it in Postgres?&amp;quot; which is not as clever as the writer may think. Try doing text search on a few million SQL rows, or generating product recommendations, or finding trending topics... Elasticsearch and other &amp;#x27;big data&amp;#x27; tools will do it much quicker than SQL because its a different category of problem. It&amp;#x27;s not about the data size, it&amp;#x27;s about the type of processing required. (Edited my last line here a bit based on replies below.)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>qaq</author><text>I am not selling anything to you :) You can scale your server to even 100 vCpu or whatever blackbox name the provider is using and still have same speed mainly because MySQL does not have parallel query :). BTW you none ever mentioned MySQL but you keep brining it up.</text></comment>

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<story><title>U.S. To Collect Social Media Data on All Immigrants Entering Country</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/28/us/politics/immigrants-social-media-trump.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>knz</author><text>As a permanent resident with a pending citizenship application (who came on the visa mentioned at the end of this article), I find this incredibly alarming.&lt;p&gt;I have nothing to hide, despise terrorism and the fanatics that commit it, and wish no harm on others with different social, political, or religious views. But I&amp;#x27;m familiar enough with history to know how badly this can end. &amp;quot;Papers please&amp;quot; had consequences, especially for groups targeted for political reasons.&lt;p&gt;Just last night I was browsing Wikipedia articles on various Presidential&amp;#x2F;political assassinations after watching an episode of the PBS Vietnam War documentary that is currently being aired. Earlier this week I tried to sign up for Snapchat and discovered an active account based out of Saudi Arabia that someone had set up using my email address (via an unverified email address I assume - thanks SnapChat). I can&amp;#x27;t read arabic so have no idea what was being shared on that platform from &amp;quot;my&amp;quot; account but based upon the images it looked critical of America.&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s not much of a leap to imagine being accused of various things based upon your browsing history or social media, especially if actions like this (&lt;a href=&quot;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.npr.org&amp;#x2F;sections&amp;#x2F;thetwo-way&amp;#x2F;2017&amp;#x2F;08&amp;#x2F;15&amp;#x2F;543782396&amp;#x2F;doj-demands-files-on-anti-trump-activists-and-a-web-hosting-company-resists&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.npr.org&amp;#x2F;sections&amp;#x2F;thetwo-way&amp;#x2F;2017&amp;#x2F;08&amp;#x2F;15&amp;#x2F;543782396&amp;#x2F;...&lt;/a&gt;) become more common.&lt;p&gt;The rational part of my brain keeps screaming &amp;quot;This is America, it can&amp;#x27;t happen here, especially if you have nothing to hide&amp;quot; but I also find it difficult to ignore the historical and current warning signs.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>snarf21</author><text>This is scary and keeps getting worse. As a citizen, I&amp;#x27;m even worried about traveling and coming back. Do I want my phone confiscated because a friend from high school tagged me in a political post a random border patrol agent disagrees with? or worse?&lt;p&gt;Remember, they have not stopped any terrorist attacks in the US with all the new surveillance since 9&amp;#x2F;11 (to my knowledge).&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety.&amp;quot; -Ben Franklin</text></comment>

<story><title>U.S. To Collect Social Media Data on All Immigrants Entering Country</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/28/us/politics/immigrants-social-media-trump.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>knz</author><text>As a permanent resident with a pending citizenship application (who came on the visa mentioned at the end of this article), I find this incredibly alarming.&lt;p&gt;I have nothing to hide, despise terrorism and the fanatics that commit it, and wish no harm on others with different social, political, or religious views. But I&amp;#x27;m familiar enough with history to know how badly this can end. &amp;quot;Papers please&amp;quot; had consequences, especially for groups targeted for political reasons.&lt;p&gt;Just last night I was browsing Wikipedia articles on various Presidential&amp;#x2F;political assassinations after watching an episode of the PBS Vietnam War documentary that is currently being aired. Earlier this week I tried to sign up for Snapchat and discovered an active account based out of Saudi Arabia that someone had set up using my email address (via an unverified email address I assume - thanks SnapChat). I can&amp;#x27;t read arabic so have no idea what was being shared on that platform from &amp;quot;my&amp;quot; account but based upon the images it looked critical of America.&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s not much of a leap to imagine being accused of various things based upon your browsing history or social media, especially if actions like this (&lt;a href=&quot;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.npr.org&amp;#x2F;sections&amp;#x2F;thetwo-way&amp;#x2F;2017&amp;#x2F;08&amp;#x2F;15&amp;#x2F;543782396&amp;#x2F;doj-demands-files-on-anti-trump-activists-and-a-web-hosting-company-resists&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.npr.org&amp;#x2F;sections&amp;#x2F;thetwo-way&amp;#x2F;2017&amp;#x2F;08&amp;#x2F;15&amp;#x2F;543782396&amp;#x2F;...&lt;/a&gt;) become more common.&lt;p&gt;The rational part of my brain keeps screaming &amp;quot;This is America, it can&amp;#x27;t happen here, especially if you have nothing to hide&amp;quot; but I also find it difficult to ignore the historical and current warning signs.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>philk10</author><text>Same - resident alien going for citizenship next year. Active on Twitter and FB with plenty of political posts. Really looking forward to sending in my application next year....</text></comment>

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<story><title>Purge site data when site identified via old tracking cookies</title><url>https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1599262</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>JMTQp8lwXL</author><text>I wouldn&amp;#x27;t mind going back to a JavaScript-less web experience. I know not all tracking is based on JS, but the browser provides so many heuristics this way: screen size, cursor location, installed plugins. Give me reasonably formatted HTML, and something a little bit more powerful than curl.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>JohnFen</author><text>&amp;gt; I wouldn&amp;#x27;t mind going back to a JavaScript-less web experience.&lt;p&gt;My default policy is to not allow JS to run, so my experience is already mostly Javascriptless. And, I have to say, my user experience on most web sites is actually better when I don&amp;#x27;t allow Javascript to execute.</text></comment>

<story><title>Purge site data when site identified via old tracking cookies</title><url>https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1599262</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>JMTQp8lwXL</author><text>I wouldn&amp;#x27;t mind going back to a JavaScript-less web experience. I know not all tracking is based on JS, but the browser provides so many heuristics this way: screen size, cursor location, installed plugins. Give me reasonably formatted HTML, and something a little bit more powerful than curl.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>reificator</author><text>If &amp;quot;reasonably formatted&amp;quot; means CSS comes along for the ride, prepare for tracking pixels behind onhover rules, and on and on we go...</text></comment>

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<story><title>Thoughts about Twitter</title><url>https://nolancaudill.com/2022/11/04/thoughts-about-twitter/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mjr00</author><text>&amp;gt; But, what is gone? Twitter was a unique spot where journalists, celebrities, titans of industries, your family, friends and co-workers, would join a daily mosh pit filled with a mix of truly important cultural moments and the most inane things you’ve ever seen. [...] Twitter will likely go from Elon’s new toy that is too difficult for him to play with, to being passed on to his legal and finance advisers to sort out.&lt;p&gt;Regardless of your opinion on Elon, it&amp;#x27;s simply too early to conclude that this is &amp;quot;likely&amp;quot; to happen, or that all those people will stop using it.&lt;p&gt;For those old enough to remember, major social media platform changes have happened and users have sworn that it was (effectively) the end. Sometimes they are right: see new Digg causing a mass Reddit migration, or banning adult content on Tumblr, turning a dying platform into a dead one. Sometimes they are incredibly wrong: see new Reddit[0], or, amusingly, people who claimed that Facebook switching to an algorithmic news feed instead of chronological was the end of the platform. I can&amp;#x27;t remember how long ago that was, but I imagine Facebook has increased in userbase and value 3 or 4 orders of magnitudes since that change.&lt;p&gt;[0] Yes, I&amp;#x27;m aware old reddit is still accessible, but the vast majority of the userbase is on the mobile website or app.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>matwood</author><text>&amp;gt; Regardless of your opinion on Elon, it&amp;#x27;s simply too early to conclude that this is &amp;quot;likely&amp;quot; to happen, or that all those people will stop using it.&lt;p&gt;Agree. Twitter was a going nowhere dumpster fire &lt;i&gt;before&lt;/i&gt; the purchase. It&amp;#x27;s going to be a bumpy ride, but it could end up better or disappear. Either would be fine with me.&lt;p&gt;Everyone on this site (and even many non-tech people) had their own ideas on how to fix Twitter. It was a given that it was a mess. Musk had the money and hubris (I don&amp;#x27;t think he wanted to really buy it), to actually say hold my beer.&lt;p&gt;Regardless of what you think of Musk, he loves Twitter and now has a lot of financial incentive to make it function better as a business. So we&amp;#x27;ll see.</text></comment>

<story><title>Thoughts about Twitter</title><url>https://nolancaudill.com/2022/11/04/thoughts-about-twitter/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mjr00</author><text>&amp;gt; But, what is gone? Twitter was a unique spot where journalists, celebrities, titans of industries, your family, friends and co-workers, would join a daily mosh pit filled with a mix of truly important cultural moments and the most inane things you’ve ever seen. [...] Twitter will likely go from Elon’s new toy that is too difficult for him to play with, to being passed on to his legal and finance advisers to sort out.&lt;p&gt;Regardless of your opinion on Elon, it&amp;#x27;s simply too early to conclude that this is &amp;quot;likely&amp;quot; to happen, or that all those people will stop using it.&lt;p&gt;For those old enough to remember, major social media platform changes have happened and users have sworn that it was (effectively) the end. Sometimes they are right: see new Digg causing a mass Reddit migration, or banning adult content on Tumblr, turning a dying platform into a dead one. Sometimes they are incredibly wrong: see new Reddit[0], or, amusingly, people who claimed that Facebook switching to an algorithmic news feed instead of chronological was the end of the platform. I can&amp;#x27;t remember how long ago that was, but I imagine Facebook has increased in userbase and value 3 or 4 orders of magnitudes since that change.&lt;p&gt;[0] Yes, I&amp;#x27;m aware old reddit is still accessible, but the vast majority of the userbase is on the mobile website or app.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>vineyardmike</author><text>It’s too early to claim it’s dead but he’s right that it’s a coin toss to see if the service can stay running (without downtime). With 50% layoffs (and the rumors of how lax their security was) it’s only a matter of time before the on-call needed to save some issue won’t exist. A breach or bug or something is inevitable. Remember when meta -a far bigger and richer company- messed up basic networking and took the company down for a day?&lt;p&gt;Regardless of how you feel about free speech, not everyone likes it. Even the perception that twitter is getting toxic will drive people away… except the toxic people. The only thing holding twitter up is that there’s no alternative for the people that matter - the “blue checks” who drive most of their traffic and engagement. Yet Elon managed to piss them off anyways.</text></comment>

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<story><title>ProtonMail includes Google Recaptcha for login</title><url>https://github.com/ProtonMail/WebClient/issues/242</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>protonmail</author><text>A few comments about this.&lt;p&gt;A very small fraction of logins get the CAPTCHA challenge. We, and other services, face unrelenting brute force attacks on our login endpoints. If you are seeing a CAPTCHA on login, chances are that something about your connection is suspicious to our system. It&amp;#x27;s far from perfect, and we continue to improve it, but at most a percent or two of users are seeing CAPTCHA at any time.&lt;p&gt;The CAPTCHA is run in an iframe on a separate domain to sandbox it from the Proton login flow prevent it from compromising the webapp. Obviously Google still gets some information, but we do all we can to limit this.&lt;p&gt;CAPTCHAs are very hard to build, especially considering Google has a habit of clearing the field with it&amp;#x27;s own captcha-breaking code. Most companies do not have the resources to build their own. We had an alternative CAPTCHA we were going to use as a replacement a few years ago and then the company behind it went bankrupt. We are currently looking to replace ReCAPTCHA with hcaptcha, which should alleviate some of these problems.&lt;p&gt;We have other strategies which we are also exploring to try to reduce the need for CAPTCHAs entirely, but these are also not trivial to build and integrate into all clients.&lt;p&gt;TL;DR It&amp;#x27;s a small fraction of users who are affected, it&amp;#x27;s necessary to protect our users from brute force login attacks, we don&amp;#x27;t like it either and are working hard on replacements.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>neilv</author><text>I&amp;#x27;m going to put you on a spot a bit, because this seems important to ProtonMail&amp;#x27;s viability, and I want you to keep succeeding...&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; &lt;i&gt;Obviously Google still gets some information, but we do all we can to limit this.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;When you cause a request to be made for ReCaptcha, it seems that you&amp;#x27;re leaking enough information to (in many cases) link a possibly-pseudonymous Protonmail account to an identifiable individual.&lt;p&gt;(For example, even if you leak nothing else than &lt;i&gt;times&lt;/i&gt; that individuals identifiable by Google logged into &lt;i&gt;unidentified&lt;/i&gt; ProtonMail accounts, Google can already see various external activity of specific ProtonMail accounts, and you&amp;#x27;ve given them temporal correlations between activity of pseudonymous accounts and logins by identifiable individuals. That&amp;#x27;s not the only example, but even that alone seems a significant risk.)&lt;p&gt;And it&amp;#x27;s seems to be a real risk: Google is in the business of doing things like that, has a track record of doing things like that, and presumably is more than capable enough of doing it some more.&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; &lt;i&gt;but at most a percent or two of users are seeing CAPTCHA at any time.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;That sounds like a lot. And the &amp;quot;at any time&amp;quot; sounds like an even higher percentage of users are potentially being compromised by the use of ReCaptcha.&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; &lt;i&gt;we don&amp;#x27;t like it either&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;m not yet convinced that this is the least of all evils. And I don&amp;#x27;t know how much you have to dislike it before you decide not to do it.&lt;p&gt;For persuasive effect, is it helpful to imagine the reaction of your philosophical adversaries, when they heard that ProtonMail was using ReCaptcha? I just imagined some of them laughing derisively or incredulously. I don&amp;#x27;t say that to be mean, but I don&amp;#x27;t understand the rationale for using ReCaptcha, and I want to emphasize that it seems to be a problem that threatens ProtonMail&amp;#x27;s raison d&amp;#x27;etre and&amp;#x2F;or brand image.&lt;p&gt;(BTW, I&amp;#x27;m assuming this ReCaptcha choice &lt;i&gt;isn&amp;#x27;t&lt;/i&gt; due to legally-compelled cooperation in unmasking specific accounts -- in which case I wouldn&amp;#x27;t say anything -- since, in that case, I expect you&amp;#x27;d find a way to comply without misrepresenting the rationale to everyone else. I&amp;#x27;ve seen ProtonMail thinking ahead to avoid related conflicting obligations and assurances.)&lt;p&gt;(BTW, I&amp;#x27;m speaking here of Google as an adversary of your customers, and therefore of you, only because that seems to be how your product is positioned, and why you have customers at all, rather than everyone just using GMail. I&amp;#x27;m not saying that Google is bad; only that I think it should be considered an adversary from your perspective.)</text></comment>

<story><title>ProtonMail includes Google Recaptcha for login</title><url>https://github.com/ProtonMail/WebClient/issues/242</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>protonmail</author><text>A few comments about this.&lt;p&gt;A very small fraction of logins get the CAPTCHA challenge. We, and other services, face unrelenting brute force attacks on our login endpoints. If you are seeing a CAPTCHA on login, chances are that something about your connection is suspicious to our system. It&amp;#x27;s far from perfect, and we continue to improve it, but at most a percent or two of users are seeing CAPTCHA at any time.&lt;p&gt;The CAPTCHA is run in an iframe on a separate domain to sandbox it from the Proton login flow prevent it from compromising the webapp. Obviously Google still gets some information, but we do all we can to limit this.&lt;p&gt;CAPTCHAs are very hard to build, especially considering Google has a habit of clearing the field with it&amp;#x27;s own captcha-breaking code. Most companies do not have the resources to build their own. We had an alternative CAPTCHA we were going to use as a replacement a few years ago and then the company behind it went bankrupt. We are currently looking to replace ReCAPTCHA with hcaptcha, which should alleviate some of these problems.&lt;p&gt;We have other strategies which we are also exploring to try to reduce the need for CAPTCHAs entirely, but these are also not trivial to build and integrate into all clients.&lt;p&gt;TL;DR It&amp;#x27;s a small fraction of users who are affected, it&amp;#x27;s necessary to protect our users from brute force login attacks, we don&amp;#x27;t like it either and are working hard on replacements.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jjav</author><text>A captcha of any kind on a paid service (or a storefront where I&amp;#x27;m looking to pay money) is an absolute deal breaker for me. I will not be clicking on lights and stopsigns to be able to pay money.</text></comment>

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<story><title>16-year-old British girl earns £48,000 helping Chinese people name their babies</title><url>http://www.bbc.co.uk/newsbeat/article/37255033/a-16-year-old-british-girl-earns-48000-helping-chinese-people-name-their-babies</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tvanantwerp</author><text>My wife is Chinese and has told me many of the ridiculous English names people have. We&amp;#x27;ve heard Cinderella before. My favorite that we&amp;#x27;ve encountered was a young woman named Pancake.&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s not just a problem of limited access to information, but also limited knowledge of what qualifies as a good English name. All of the people we&amp;#x27;ve encountered were from Hong Kong, which has no Great Firewall to contend with. We&amp;#x27;ve also seen many people using names that haven&amp;#x27;t been popular in the West in a long time, like Eugene or Doris.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dilemma</author><text>I have friends named Dolphin, Fish and Shadow and they know perfectly well that their names are funny. I&amp;#x27;m certain that Pancake does too. Having an English name is a bit unreal for them just as it would be for you and me getting a Chinese name, so why not get a funny one?&lt;p&gt;Also, naming in another language is difficult. Microsoft knows that, as &amp;quot;Bing&amp;quot; means disease in mandarin.</text></comment>

<story><title>16-year-old British girl earns £48,000 helping Chinese people name their babies</title><url>http://www.bbc.co.uk/newsbeat/article/37255033/a-16-year-old-british-girl-earns-48000-helping-chinese-people-name-their-babies</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tvanantwerp</author><text>My wife is Chinese and has told me many of the ridiculous English names people have. We&amp;#x27;ve heard Cinderella before. My favorite that we&amp;#x27;ve encountered was a young woman named Pancake.&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s not just a problem of limited access to information, but also limited knowledge of what qualifies as a good English name. All of the people we&amp;#x27;ve encountered were from Hong Kong, which has no Great Firewall to contend with. We&amp;#x27;ve also seen many people using names that haven&amp;#x27;t been popular in the West in a long time, like Eugene or Doris.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>cafard</author><text>I guess that one could regard that as the counterpart to the odd Hanzi tattoos Americans get without having the slightest idea of whether they are done right.&lt;p&gt;And plenty of Americans choose odd names for their children--out of TV shows, movies, comic strips.</text></comment>

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<story><title>Bill seeks to put porn block on computers sold in SC</title><url>http://www.goupstate.com/news/20161217/bill-seeks-to-put-porn-block-on-computers-sold-in-sc</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dTal</author><text>The mindset that would even produce such an idea is incredibly dangerous. A computer-naive person might think that requiring that all computers be sold with specific software installed is no more burdensome that requiring that all cars be sold with safety belts. But we all know that making the infrastructure to actually enforce such a rule would lead us to Stallman&amp;#x27;s worst dystopian nightmare: a Central Authority that somehow dictates what must, and what cannot, run on your computer.&lt;p&gt;There&amp;#x27;s still a real danger that something like this will come to pass, especially when all the popular OSs come from centralised vendors upon whom pressure can be applied.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>speeder</author><text>In Brazil the dystopia is reality:&lt;p&gt;1. The law requires certain amount of Brazillian made bloatware stuff to be shipped with all phones. &amp;quot;Coincidentally&amp;quot; the software never ends being actually useful stuff, and is always the work of some company owned by a politician or by the friends and family of a politician.&lt;p&gt;2. To sell games in Brazil (physical board games and rpg books included) you must submit paperwork (of the dead tree kind) to the Ministry of Justice asking permission and asking for age rating. The government argues it is not censorship, only regulation, but it CAN legally refuse giving an age rating, de facto banning the game.&lt;p&gt;3. Possession, storage or even giving away games also fall in the previous point. It don&amp;#x27;t happened yet, but theoretically anyone can get up to two years in jail for owning a game that isn&amp;#x27;t rated by the Ministry of Justice.&lt;p&gt;4. Because of points 2 and 3, Brazil for many years didn&amp;#x27;t had the games categories in mobile stores (iTunes for example) and still to this day have less content than other countries in digital games platforms (Steam, Xbox Live, PSN...)&lt;p&gt;5. Brazil constitution banned censorship, and has freedom of expression explicitly protected, yet Brazil has more games judicially banned than China, usually on &amp;quot;morality&amp;quot; grounds, for example EverQuest was banned because it allowed players to do evil quests.</text></comment>

<story><title>Bill seeks to put porn block on computers sold in SC</title><url>http://www.goupstate.com/news/20161217/bill-seeks-to-put-porn-block-on-computers-sold-in-sc</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dTal</author><text>The mindset that would even produce such an idea is incredibly dangerous. A computer-naive person might think that requiring that all computers be sold with specific software installed is no more burdensome that requiring that all cars be sold with safety belts. But we all know that making the infrastructure to actually enforce such a rule would lead us to Stallman&amp;#x27;s worst dystopian nightmare: a Central Authority that somehow dictates what must, and what cannot, run on your computer.&lt;p&gt;There&amp;#x27;s still a real danger that something like this will come to pass, especially when all the popular OSs come from centralised vendors upon whom pressure can be applied.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Fuxy</author><text>Sigh.. I wish legislators would stop telling us what kind of porn we are or aren&amp;#x27;t allowed to watch.&lt;p&gt;For one thing default porn filter installed on all laptops doesn&amp;#x27;t make any kind of sense given most of the population is over 18.&lt;p&gt;Opt in makes a lot more sense than opt out in this case.&lt;p&gt;Plus the fact that they are asking for money from the manufacturer and the customer to opt out makes it look like just another scheme to make money under the theme &amp;quot;it&amp;#x27;s for the children&amp;quot;.&lt;p&gt;Honestly I&amp;#x27;m calling BS on this. It&amp;#x27;s just some greedy politicians trying to squeeze money out of people for stupid reasons.</text></comment>

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<story><title>Why winners become cheaters</title><url>https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2016/02/08/why-winners-become-cheaters/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>unabst</author><text>Armstrong was a true champion. It&amp;#x27;s the public that wasn&amp;#x27;t made aware of what the real game was. All the cyclists knew it as did the organization and everyone professionally close to pro cycling. It was a doping game. And out of all that doped, Armstrong won 7 years in a row. He was a true champion.&lt;p&gt;The more accurate statement here is &amp;quot;cheaters become winners&amp;quot; and not the other way around. Cheating implies rules, and most rules are stupid, especially in sports. Doping of course changes the &amp;quot;sport&amp;quot; in many ways, and is illegal for good reason, but in a true competition of life and death, of success and failure, of rags to riches, of maintaining a family legacy, or of simply &amp;quot;winning&amp;quot; in today&amp;#x27;s &amp;quot;winner&amp;#x27;s society&amp;quot;, the upside of cheating easily surpasses the downside. And for those who figure out how to cheat, it becomes easy, and part of the game. Then as they see everyone else cheat, the moral and ethical burden is easily nullified.&lt;p&gt;Rules in society are also pretty stupid. Drug dealers know this. Wall Street for sure knows this. And the smartest people who win, most often than not, do so by cheating, because it&amp;#x27;s all just a game. And it&amp;#x27;s okay to cheat in a game as long as you don&amp;#x27;t get caught. &amp;quot;Play dirty&amp;quot; is the western mantra that embodies this sentiment nicely, and it&amp;#x27;s a positive sentiment. It&amp;#x27;s antiestablishmentarianism, it&amp;#x27;s rock n&amp;#x27; roll, it&amp;#x27;s Bruce Willis in Die Hard.&lt;p&gt;Regardless of what anyone thinks of Lance Armstrong, you have to hand it to the guy. He certainly made the most out of his cheating win streak through one of the greatest charities of all time. Cheating in sports is one thing. His true legacy was doing whatever he could to help others cheat death as he did.&lt;p&gt;Devils don&amp;#x27;t save lives (people do).</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>the-dude</author><text>Spot on. I have heard it explained like this ( by Smeets, a Dutch reporter, whom I dislike ) :&lt;p&gt;My recollection:&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;The riders define &amp;#x27;doping&amp;#x27; as going over the limit of detection. They all use &amp;#x27;forbidden&amp;#x27; substances but below the limits. That is why they can say with a straight face on TV they are &amp;#x27;absolutely clean&amp;#x27;. And two weeks later be caught because of a dosing mistake.&amp;quot;</text></comment>

<story><title>Why winners become cheaters</title><url>https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2016/02/08/why-winners-become-cheaters/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>unabst</author><text>Armstrong was a true champion. It&amp;#x27;s the public that wasn&amp;#x27;t made aware of what the real game was. All the cyclists knew it as did the organization and everyone professionally close to pro cycling. It was a doping game. And out of all that doped, Armstrong won 7 years in a row. He was a true champion.&lt;p&gt;The more accurate statement here is &amp;quot;cheaters become winners&amp;quot; and not the other way around. Cheating implies rules, and most rules are stupid, especially in sports. Doping of course changes the &amp;quot;sport&amp;quot; in many ways, and is illegal for good reason, but in a true competition of life and death, of success and failure, of rags to riches, of maintaining a family legacy, or of simply &amp;quot;winning&amp;quot; in today&amp;#x27;s &amp;quot;winner&amp;#x27;s society&amp;quot;, the upside of cheating easily surpasses the downside. And for those who figure out how to cheat, it becomes easy, and part of the game. Then as they see everyone else cheat, the moral and ethical burden is easily nullified.&lt;p&gt;Rules in society are also pretty stupid. Drug dealers know this. Wall Street for sure knows this. And the smartest people who win, most often than not, do so by cheating, because it&amp;#x27;s all just a game. And it&amp;#x27;s okay to cheat in a game as long as you don&amp;#x27;t get caught. &amp;quot;Play dirty&amp;quot; is the western mantra that embodies this sentiment nicely, and it&amp;#x27;s a positive sentiment. It&amp;#x27;s antiestablishmentarianism, it&amp;#x27;s rock n&amp;#x27; roll, it&amp;#x27;s Bruce Willis in Die Hard.&lt;p&gt;Regardless of what anyone thinks of Lance Armstrong, you have to hand it to the guy. He certainly made the most out of his cheating win streak through one of the greatest charities of all time. Cheating in sports is one thing. His true legacy was doing whatever he could to help others cheat death as he did.&lt;p&gt;Devils don&amp;#x27;t save lives (people do).</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>softyeti</author><text>On one hand, yes, I think you can say that to be a winner, you had to dope. But if you took all of the dopers out, we would still have a winner.&lt;p&gt;Consider Cadel Evans. In my opinion, I don&amp;#x27;t think he doped. He was always in the conversation with Vinokourav, Ullrich, and the other top guys. For years.&lt;p&gt;He eventually won, but the sport was much cleaner by then.&lt;p&gt;I was a huge Armstrong fan. When I heard that Hincapie admitted to doping, I knew it was over. Over because Hincapie was always Lance&amp;#x27;s right-hand man, and also over because Armstrong wouldn&amp;#x27;t go after Hincapie.&lt;p&gt;I think Armstrong was one of the best cyclists ever, but he is tarnished now just like the others. It&amp;#x27;s a cruel sport.</text></comment>

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<story><title>I support Gus</title><url>http://supportgus.dk/</url><text></text></story><parent_chain><item><author>mzl</author><text>I really don&apos;t understand Denmark when it comes to migration issues. They make it so hard to move there for non-EU citizens that it is ridiculous.&lt;p&gt;As an example, I know of more than one married couple with one Dane and one non-eu citizen that have been forced to live in Sweden instead of in Denmark due to troubles getting residency permits. Not letting a legitimate spouse get at least residency is just crazy.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ThomPete</author><text>As a Dane I can only say I don&apos;t understand it either. But I can give you a couple of small hints as to why it (unfortunately) is like it is.&lt;p&gt;1. Denmark has a very beneficial social welfare system.&lt;p&gt;If you break your leg in Denmark visiting, we will pick up the bill through our taxes (there is talks about changing that now)&lt;p&gt;If you get approved to stay here you gain access to more or less all social welfare.&lt;p&gt;Some people feel that this is being misused by immigrants. When they normally talk about immigrants they talk about arabs, africans etc. And there is some truth to that.&lt;p&gt;If you marry someone not from the EU they will gain access to all social welfare.&lt;p&gt;Because the nineties where ruled by a government that &quot;just took people in&quot; it created a backlash as problems started arising with ghettoes. This among other things lead to a (european style conservative) government backed by Danish Peoples Party a political party critical towards immigrants.&lt;p&gt;Since they secure the parliamentary power they have been able to get a lot of cases through.&lt;p&gt;One of them being the 24 year rule which basically is meant to hinder forced marriage between muslims living in Denmark and their spouses living in a country outside of EU.&lt;p&gt;This has been criticized by both left and right side of the political spectrum and is why some people move to sweden because they are much more lax about these things.&lt;p&gt;Personally I am a proponent of an open borders closed boxes policy and is voting for the only true liberal (semi american style) party that exist right now (form an ideological point of view) and I am sad to see every time people like Gus get&apos;s en trouble because of the splash damage that some of these laws result in.&lt;p&gt;Good thing is that Denmark is a small country and there is an election year. I am pretty sure that this will be taken up by the newspapers in Denmark and hopefully make it&apos;s way into the political debates on television. It&apos;s a perfect case for that.&lt;p&gt;I am also pretty sure Gus will be able to stay. The current government simply don&apos;t want to run the risk of angering their political base.</text></comment>

<story><title>I support Gus</title><url>http://supportgus.dk/</url><text></text></story><parent_chain><item><author>mzl</author><text>I really don&apos;t understand Denmark when it comes to migration issues. They make it so hard to move there for non-EU citizens that it is ridiculous.&lt;p&gt;As an example, I know of more than one married couple with one Dane and one non-eu citizen that have been forced to live in Sweden instead of in Denmark due to troubles getting residency permits. Not letting a legitimate spouse get at least residency is just crazy.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>MindTwister</author><text>Ah, but you see, for some reason we are terribly afraid of pro forma marriages being used for residency as well as marriage being used for [Family reunification]{&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Family_reunification&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Family_reunification&lt;/a&gt;}</text></comment>

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<story><title>Facts about Wayland vs X</title><url>http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&amp;item=x_wayland_situation&amp;num=1</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>vardump</author><text>Wayland is a critical technology for Linux desktop community.&lt;p&gt;X11 has been a reliable workhorse, but its time is up - simply too much cruft accumulated over the years that&amp;#x27;s not even used anymore. Yet all of it needs to be continually supported, adding to complexity. No one uses X11 primitives for drawing apart from bitmap functionality - even repainting dirty regions (expose events) often involves sending over a new bitmap and using X11 to draw it. This is very inefficient.&lt;p&gt;To implement a reasonably fast GUI, X11 has essentially resorted to hacks (extensions). DRI2 (+GLX) is probably the most important of those. AFAIK, it&amp;#x27;s what almost everything uses for drawing, and does not work over network at all. Yes, modern X11 is local only. If you&amp;#x27;re on a network, it&amp;#x27;s back sending those uncompressed bitmaps. Even with all these hacks, X11+DRI2 can&amp;#x27;t even maintain tearing free display. Well, at least DRI3 should fix tearing...&lt;p&gt;So if none of modern software needs nothing but a bitmap surface to draw on, why implement and maintain anything else?&lt;p&gt;Which leaves us with Wayland criticizers&amp;#x27; favorite topic - network transparency (which X11 practically doesn&amp;#x27;t have either, but unfortunately that does little to stop some loud uninformed people):&lt;p&gt;Remote display software should use low latency video encoding for essentially same user experience as working locally. Preferably hardware accelerated. But even with software, you can encode a frame under 10ms, using for example a subset of h.264. Even if you added network latency, time for one frame network throughput and client display hardware retrace period, you&amp;#x27;d still typically end up with a figure well under 50ms. That&amp;#x27;d feel essentially local. It&amp;#x27;d beat easily X11 over network, VNC, RDP, etc. in latency and thus practical usability. Heck, that&amp;#x27;d even beat Xbox 360 or Playstation 3 game display latency when connected to a typical modern TV (70-170ms)! Many TVs do image processing that adds over 50ms of latency before image is actually displayed. (Note that this processing latency has nothing to do with &amp;quot;pixel response time&amp;quot;).&lt;p&gt;Why no one I know of has written remote display software that functions this way is beyond me. Anyone except OnLive and Gaikai, that is...&lt;p&gt;So, let the old X11 horse have its well-earned rest. It&amp;#x27;s time to move on.</text></comment>

<story><title>Facts about Wayland vs X</title><url>http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&amp;item=x_wayland_situation&amp;num=1</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>jmhain</author><text>Daniel Stone actually did a talk involving much of the same subject matter called &amp;quot;The Real Story behind Wayland and X&amp;quot;. I&amp;#x27;d recommend that over this article (which was partially written by the same guy). He&amp;#x27;s actually a really charismatic speaker.&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.youtube.com&amp;#x2F;watch?v=RIctzAQOe44&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.youtube.com&amp;#x2F;watch?v=RIctzAQOe44&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>

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<story><title>Pfizer board member suggests end to mask, vaccine mandates</title><url>https://ntdca.com/pfizer-board-member-suggests-end-to-mask-vaccine-mandates/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dahfizz</author><text>&amp;gt; Because the data shows they don&amp;#x27;t matter.&lt;p&gt;Source? Because the CDC says otherwise.&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; In the first full week of October, vaccinated New Yorkers with a prior Covid-19 case were 19.8 times less likely to catch the virus than their unvaccinated and uninfected peers, whereas people who were unvaccinated but previously infected were 14.7 times less likely, and vaccinated but uninfected New Yorkers were just 4.5 times less likely.&lt;p&gt;In other words, natural immunity alone can be up to 5X more protective than the vaccine alone, according to the CDC.&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.forbes.com&amp;#x2F;sites&amp;#x2F;joewalsh&amp;#x2F;2022&amp;#x2F;01&amp;#x2F;19&amp;#x2F;cdc-prior-covid-infection-offered-more-protection-against-delta-than-vaccines---but-both-together-did-best&amp;#x2F;?sh=140821063d04&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.forbes.com&amp;#x2F;sites&amp;#x2F;joewalsh&amp;#x2F;2022&amp;#x2F;01&amp;#x2F;19&amp;#x2F;cdc-prior-c...&lt;/a&gt;</text></item><item><author>bonzini</author><text>&amp;gt; why are they so adamant to vaccinate those with prior infection&lt;p&gt;Because the data shows they don&amp;#x27;t matter.&lt;p&gt;This is the same thing as deaths due to covid vs. deaths while positive to covid. Sure some people might have been miscounted as covid deaths but actually died due to cancer&amp;#x2F;car accident&amp;#x2F;whatever. Despite this the excess deaths over the past two years is much higher than the number of covid deaths; thus showing that miscounts must be a small minority which, in any case, is absolutely dwarfed by excess deaths not counted as covid deaths. It might even grow a little as testing improves but it still remains mostly irrelevant.&lt;p&gt;Likewise it may be that some people do not need a vaccination. However, we have a 30&amp;#x2F;70 split in number of covid hospitalizations, with 30 being vaccinated people, in countries where the split in the normal population is 90&amp;#x2F;10. This means that &lt;i&gt;despite&lt;/i&gt; some unvaccinated people having had prior infection the vaccine reduces hospitalizations by 20x. Given this data the most effective strategy is to just vaccinate everyone without what is effectively a pointless distinction.&lt;p&gt;As the number of unvaccinated but protected people will grow (through a combination of more infections, more vaccinations and more deaths), the proportion above will revert to 90&amp;#x2F;10 and unvaccinated people will not be an issue anymore. For now however analyzing the proportion of naturally immune people among the unvaccinated is, again, mostly irrelevant.</text></item><item><author>nu11ptr</author><text>Apologies in advance for getting on my soapbox, but this has been on my mind for a while.&lt;p&gt;The way in which the media has gotten everyone to say &amp;quot;the unvaccinated&amp;quot; is a &amp;#x27;disease&amp;#x27; against basic science (not even getting into the divisive nature of this). I would go as far as saying if you read any paper, study, or other that refers to the &amp;quot;unvaccinated&amp;quot; as a single cohort, you are reading vaccine propaganda, not science, or certainly not good science.&lt;p&gt;This must stop. Prior infection immunity is basic science that we&amp;#x27;ve known for eons, and ignoring it is so blatantly glaring an omission, it should make the most staunch pro-vaccine person pause and say: &amp;quot;why are they so adamant to vaccinate those with prior infection?&amp;quot;. One would expect prior infection to be robust, and multiple studies, including even the CDC&amp;#x27;s most recent shows it to be easily as good if not better and longer lasting than the vaccine. This should not come as a surprise to anyone.&lt;p&gt;If you think any of the above is &amp;quot;anti-vax&amp;quot; then I would suggest the media has won and science is dead. I&amp;#x27;m not suggesting the vaccine doesn&amp;#x27;t work. I&amp;#x27;m not suggesting it doesn&amp;#x27;t provide protection against severe disease and death. I&amp;#x27;m not suggesting anyone go out and intentionally try to get COVID, but a HUGE # of people have already had it and ignoring them is downright unscientific. If you are a rational person who wants to see good science and are unemotional and detached from outcomes, then you will want to see proper study cohorts, and combining prior infection in with the &amp;quot;unvaccinated&amp;quot; cohort, is just bad science. This bad science fuels the anti-vaxx movement even more, and honestly, it is hard blame them.</text></item><item><author>tzs</author><text>Something from the NYT mailing list yesterday:&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; The Covid vaccines are remarkably effective at preventing serious illness. If you’re vaccinated, your chances of getting severely sick are extremely low. Even among people 65 and older, the combination of the vaccines’ effectiveness and the Omicron variant’s relative mildness means that Covid now appears to present less danger than a normal flu.&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; For the unvaccinated, however, Covid is worse than any other common virus. It has killed more than 865,000 Americans, the vast majority unvaccinated. In the weeks before vaccines became widely available, Covid was the country’s No. 1 cause of death, above even cancer and heart disease.&lt;p&gt;At this point if an adult in the US is unvaccinated it is (1) almost certainly by choice (there are some people who cannot get it for medical reasons but they make up only a very tiny fraction of the unvaccinated), and (2) it is very unlikely that any evidence or logical arguments will chance their minds.&lt;p&gt;With COVID becoming endemic everyone is going to get antibodies, with the only choice being whether you get your first antibodies by vaccination or by getting COVID.&lt;p&gt;The only question really then is how fast do we want the unvaccinated to do the getting antibodies by getting COVID thing. The faster they get it, the faster we can be as done with COVID as we are ever going to be.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;d say the answer to that should be determined by the hospital capacity. If a region has sufficient hospital capacity that it would not be overwhelmed by the increase in COVID cases among the unvaccinated go ahead and lift most restrictions.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>lwkl</author><text>The person you are replying to is talking about hospitalizations for severe ilness. The study you are quoting is talking about covid infections in general. These two are not the same and the vaccine protects from the former (severe illness and death).</text></comment>

<story><title>Pfizer board member suggests end to mask, vaccine mandates</title><url>https://ntdca.com/pfizer-board-member-suggests-end-to-mask-vaccine-mandates/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dahfizz</author><text>&amp;gt; Because the data shows they don&amp;#x27;t matter.&lt;p&gt;Source? Because the CDC says otherwise.&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; In the first full week of October, vaccinated New Yorkers with a prior Covid-19 case were 19.8 times less likely to catch the virus than their unvaccinated and uninfected peers, whereas people who were unvaccinated but previously infected were 14.7 times less likely, and vaccinated but uninfected New Yorkers were just 4.5 times less likely.&lt;p&gt;In other words, natural immunity alone can be up to 5X more protective than the vaccine alone, according to the CDC.&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.forbes.com&amp;#x2F;sites&amp;#x2F;joewalsh&amp;#x2F;2022&amp;#x2F;01&amp;#x2F;19&amp;#x2F;cdc-prior-covid-infection-offered-more-protection-against-delta-than-vaccines---but-both-together-did-best&amp;#x2F;?sh=140821063d04&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.forbes.com&amp;#x2F;sites&amp;#x2F;joewalsh&amp;#x2F;2022&amp;#x2F;01&amp;#x2F;19&amp;#x2F;cdc-prior-c...&lt;/a&gt;</text></item><item><author>bonzini</author><text>&amp;gt; why are they so adamant to vaccinate those with prior infection&lt;p&gt;Because the data shows they don&amp;#x27;t matter.&lt;p&gt;This is the same thing as deaths due to covid vs. deaths while positive to covid. Sure some people might have been miscounted as covid deaths but actually died due to cancer&amp;#x2F;car accident&amp;#x2F;whatever. Despite this the excess deaths over the past two years is much higher than the number of covid deaths; thus showing that miscounts must be a small minority which, in any case, is absolutely dwarfed by excess deaths not counted as covid deaths. It might even grow a little as testing improves but it still remains mostly irrelevant.&lt;p&gt;Likewise it may be that some people do not need a vaccination. However, we have a 30&amp;#x2F;70 split in number of covid hospitalizations, with 30 being vaccinated people, in countries where the split in the normal population is 90&amp;#x2F;10. This means that &lt;i&gt;despite&lt;/i&gt; some unvaccinated people having had prior infection the vaccine reduces hospitalizations by 20x. Given this data the most effective strategy is to just vaccinate everyone without what is effectively a pointless distinction.&lt;p&gt;As the number of unvaccinated but protected people will grow (through a combination of more infections, more vaccinations and more deaths), the proportion above will revert to 90&amp;#x2F;10 and unvaccinated people will not be an issue anymore. For now however analyzing the proportion of naturally immune people among the unvaccinated is, again, mostly irrelevant.</text></item><item><author>nu11ptr</author><text>Apologies in advance for getting on my soapbox, but this has been on my mind for a while.&lt;p&gt;The way in which the media has gotten everyone to say &amp;quot;the unvaccinated&amp;quot; is a &amp;#x27;disease&amp;#x27; against basic science (not even getting into the divisive nature of this). I would go as far as saying if you read any paper, study, or other that refers to the &amp;quot;unvaccinated&amp;quot; as a single cohort, you are reading vaccine propaganda, not science, or certainly not good science.&lt;p&gt;This must stop. Prior infection immunity is basic science that we&amp;#x27;ve known for eons, and ignoring it is so blatantly glaring an omission, it should make the most staunch pro-vaccine person pause and say: &amp;quot;why are they so adamant to vaccinate those with prior infection?&amp;quot;. One would expect prior infection to be robust, and multiple studies, including even the CDC&amp;#x27;s most recent shows it to be easily as good if not better and longer lasting than the vaccine. This should not come as a surprise to anyone.&lt;p&gt;If you think any of the above is &amp;quot;anti-vax&amp;quot; then I would suggest the media has won and science is dead. I&amp;#x27;m not suggesting the vaccine doesn&amp;#x27;t work. I&amp;#x27;m not suggesting it doesn&amp;#x27;t provide protection against severe disease and death. I&amp;#x27;m not suggesting anyone go out and intentionally try to get COVID, but a HUGE # of people have already had it and ignoring them is downright unscientific. If you are a rational person who wants to see good science and are unemotional and detached from outcomes, then you will want to see proper study cohorts, and combining prior infection in with the &amp;quot;unvaccinated&amp;quot; cohort, is just bad science. This bad science fuels the anti-vaxx movement even more, and honestly, it is hard blame them.</text></item><item><author>tzs</author><text>Something from the NYT mailing list yesterday:&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; The Covid vaccines are remarkably effective at preventing serious illness. If you’re vaccinated, your chances of getting severely sick are extremely low. Even among people 65 and older, the combination of the vaccines’ effectiveness and the Omicron variant’s relative mildness means that Covid now appears to present less danger than a normal flu.&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; For the unvaccinated, however, Covid is worse than any other common virus. It has killed more than 865,000 Americans, the vast majority unvaccinated. In the weeks before vaccines became widely available, Covid was the country’s No. 1 cause of death, above even cancer and heart disease.&lt;p&gt;At this point if an adult in the US is unvaccinated it is (1) almost certainly by choice (there are some people who cannot get it for medical reasons but they make up only a very tiny fraction of the unvaccinated), and (2) it is very unlikely that any evidence or logical arguments will chance their minds.&lt;p&gt;With COVID becoming endemic everyone is going to get antibodies, with the only choice being whether you get your first antibodies by vaccination or by getting COVID.&lt;p&gt;The only question really then is how fast do we want the unvaccinated to do the getting antibodies by getting COVID thing. The faster they get it, the faster we can be as done with COVID as we are ever going to be.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;d say the answer to that should be determined by the hospital capacity. If a region has sufficient hospital capacity that it would not be overwhelmed by the increase in COVID cases among the unvaccinated go ahead and lift most restrictions.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>eli</author><text>I don&amp;#x27;t think your math is correct there and that data is pre-Omicron.&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.imperial.ac.uk&amp;#x2F;news&amp;#x2F;232698&amp;#x2F;omicron-largely-evades-immunity-from-past&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.imperial.ac.uk&amp;#x2F;news&amp;#x2F;232698&amp;#x2F;omicron-largely-evade...&lt;/a&gt; estimates that prior infection offered 85% protection against Delta but only 19% against Omicron.</text></comment>

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<story><title>Theranos destroyed subpoenaed SQL blood test database, prosecutors say</title><url>https://www.theregister.com/2021/01/12/theranos_database_loss/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>stevebmark</author><text>Theranos paid this company &amp;quot;IncRev&amp;quot;, and their CEO Shekar Chandrasekaran, $159,000&amp;#x2F;mo to host a database for them? That&amp;#x27;s an impressive scam! I wonder if it&amp;#x27;s money laundering or paying off friends, since any mildly competent technologist in the company would laugh them out of the room.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dmix</author><text>Nothing worse than Janet Yellen getting paid $500k speaker fees to talk to Citadel and a long list of other Wall St companies she will soon be directly regulating at the treasury dept.&lt;p&gt;She wasn’t getting paid the $7M total because of her deep interesting take on markets. They wanted direct access to the power players and to see how their mind works.&lt;p&gt;This revolving door with industry and policy makers gets a very uncritical eye by the media (especially compared to other frivolous background details) and obviously by the self morality of the participant speakers themselves.&lt;p&gt;I personally hope Chandrasekaran gets in trouble for hiding evidence. But nepotism and conflicts of interest seem to be super common in the upper tiers of industry and politics, which Theranos famously surrounded themselves with, right down to their board of directors being politicians and ex generals.</text></comment>

<story><title>Theranos destroyed subpoenaed SQL blood test database, prosecutors say</title><url>https://www.theregister.com/2021/01/12/theranos_database_loss/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>stevebmark</author><text>Theranos paid this company &amp;quot;IncRev&amp;quot;, and their CEO Shekar Chandrasekaran, $159,000&amp;#x2F;mo to host a database for them? That&amp;#x27;s an impressive scam! I wonder if it&amp;#x27;s money laundering or paying off friends, since any mildly competent technologist in the company would laugh them out of the room.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>silexia</author><text>I&amp;#x27;ve heard industry people tell of government contracts paying $300,000 a month to provide &amp;quot;support&amp;quot; for a WordPress site. They didn&amp;#x27;t get a single support request for over a year.</text></comment>

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<story><title>Who&apos;s behind the SWAT USA reshipping service?</title><url>https://krebsonsecurity.com/2023/11/whos-behind-the-swat-usa-reshipping-service/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Lacerda69</author><text>Why do these infamous master criminal hackers always reuse passwords&amp;#x2F;handles and leave traces?&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s relatively simple to use random credentials everywhere and to completely disconnect your hacker persona from RL.&lt;p&gt;Or is it that we only hear about those that do this...</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>devit</author><text>1. You learn about those and not the ones who successfully hide and keep a low profile&lt;p&gt;2. Proper security takes time and effort, so there is less time to devote to actual business, which means they are less likely to be successful at a scale that makes them widely known</text></comment>

<story><title>Who&apos;s behind the SWAT USA reshipping service?</title><url>https://krebsonsecurity.com/2023/11/whos-behind-the-swat-usa-reshipping-service/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Lacerda69</author><text>Why do these infamous master criminal hackers always reuse passwords&amp;#x2F;handles and leave traces?&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s relatively simple to use random credentials everywhere and to completely disconnect your hacker persona from RL.&lt;p&gt;Or is it that we only hear about those that do this...</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>krebsonsecurity</author><text>Some of the exposure in these cases is due to the fact that you have cybercriminals who&amp;#x27;ve been doing the same things for more than a decade. That is a very long time in which to make just a few key opsec mistakes, and also most RU cybercriminals back then did not take as much care to cover their tracks as they do today.</text></comment>

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<story><title>An Introduction to Programming C-64 Demos</title><url>http://www.antimon.org/code/Linus/</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>bemmu</author><text>For Amiga demo programming with 68000 assembler, this video tutorial series is great as well: &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p83QUZ1-P10&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.youtube.com&amp;#x2F;watch?v=p83QUZ1-P10&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;I wish I could send these back in time to my teenage self.</text></comment>

<story><title>An Introduction to Programming C-64 Demos</title><url>http://www.antimon.org/code/Linus/</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>antirez</author><text>Example final result, apparently coded by puterman (the author of the tutorial) and others: &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vfJjRRICzv8&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.youtube.com&amp;#x2F;watch?v=vfJjRRICzv8&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>

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<story><title>_why: A Tale Of A Post-Modern Genius</title><url>http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2010/05/15/why-a-tale-of-a-post-modern-genius/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>gdp</author><text>Articles about _why on HN seem to always take on a particularly sycophantic quality. As a non-fan of Ruby, his contributions to programming outside of that community seem minimal. The ethic that people appear to ascribe to him (&quot;programming as art&quot;) is precisely the opposite to that which I generally advocate (&quot;programming as science&quot;). I (and others) often suggest that the former approach is actually harmful to software quality in many cases, particularly within teams.&lt;p&gt;Fundamentally I think my objection is to elevating a slightly odd-ball programmer to messianic status based on a mildly creepy fandom that manifests primarily as people vastly over-stating the contributions of this one guy in HN comments.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>antirez</author><text>Programming as science: not consistent with reality IMHO. My argument is that it&apos;s pretty simple to build a good computer scientist: take a guy with good IQ and put it into a good university. But there are zero guarantees that you&apos;ll end with a good &lt;i&gt;coder&lt;/i&gt; also, as coding is a matter of taste, tradeoffs, design decisions, creativity, ability to think out of the box, and so forth.&lt;p&gt;The problem is that most of our industry is not ready to accept this news. There was &lt;i&gt;no&lt;/i&gt; so important economic process like IT in the past where creativity and art had the same impact as it is happening with programming. Check the software and the sites you are enjoying every day: are they made by great scientists? The big majority are not.&lt;p&gt;But at the same time, the reverse is true. If you have good scientists you can create any complex program or system without problems. Look at all the PHDs at google, the result is a wonderful piece of technology, from the search engine itself to the cluster and other stuff they are running. But this is an engineering problem indeed, so it is a perfect fit for them.&lt;p&gt;But not everything is like that in our field. This is why for instance a big company like Google is not having a big impact in programming itself. If you see the reality most of their products for the masses are not working well, Ruby on Rails was not produced there, and so forth. It&apos;s not that I&apos;ve something against Google but it is the perfect example of &quot;company of scientists&quot;.</text></comment>

<story><title>_why: A Tale Of A Post-Modern Genius</title><url>http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2010/05/15/why-a-tale-of-a-post-modern-genius/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>gdp</author><text>Articles about _why on HN seem to always take on a particularly sycophantic quality. As a non-fan of Ruby, his contributions to programming outside of that community seem minimal. The ethic that people appear to ascribe to him (&quot;programming as art&quot;) is precisely the opposite to that which I generally advocate (&quot;programming as science&quot;). I (and others) often suggest that the former approach is actually harmful to software quality in many cases, particularly within teams.&lt;p&gt;Fundamentally I think my objection is to elevating a slightly odd-ball programmer to messianic status based on a mildly creepy fandom that manifests primarily as people vastly over-stating the contributions of this one guy in HN comments.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>davidalln</author><text>I think dismissing &quot;programming as art&quot; as irrelevant and hurtful to the community is dangerous. Here we have the tools to create a near-infinite amount of almost everything that can run on a computer. We use code to run complicated robots that can drive a course without human input, solve the most complicated mathematic problems of today, and create artificial intelligence with the ability to learn as it ages. Yet at the same time, we use code to make short chiptune songs and fun small games hacked away in an hour or two.&lt;p&gt;Wikipedia defines art as &quot;the product of deliberately arranging elements in a way to affect the senses or emotions&quot;, and science as &quot;the systematic enterprise of gathering knowledge about the world and organizing and condensing that knowledge into testable laws and theories.&quot; Why do these two things have to be mutually exclusive? Through creation and exploring, such as in _why&apos;s projects, we are further &quot;gathering knowledge&quot; about the limits computers can be used. And at the same time, we are creating art as these programs have had a clear impact on at least the Ruby community.&lt;p&gt;And, bringing up a more &quot;sciencey&quot; example, if the fact that my handheld calculator can solve complicated algebra and calculus equations in less than a second doesn&apos;t &quot;affect [your] senses or emotions&quot;, then you need a reality check on just how impressive technology has come in such a short time.&lt;p&gt;I personally believe that programming is one of the rawest forms of creation imaginable, and therefore must be of some artistic worth. Simply calling it science and moving on does a disservice to those who slaved for so many hours working on their piece of computer science history.</text></comment>

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<story><title>Blocking Kiwifarms</title><url>https://blog.cloudflare.com/kiwifarms-blocked/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>danShumway</author><text>&amp;gt; It takes the the power of ideas and elevates them above physical force.&lt;p&gt;This is exactly why dropping Kiwi Farms was the right decision. There is a difference between saying hateful things and doxing and harassing people with threats of violence.&lt;p&gt;We don&amp;#x27;t even need to dip into the endless debate about tolerating hate -- there&amp;#x27;s no level of ideological indirection here, Kiwi Farms was just very straightforwardly driving people offline with threats of physical harm and real-world harassment.</text></item><item><author>xupybd</author><text>Free speech is about giving people the freedom to say things I find disgusting. It&amp;#x27;s about giving each individual the choice to listen to what ever influence they wish. It takes the the power of ideas and elevates them above physical force.</text></item><item><author>notatoad</author><text>&amp;gt;rather than free speech&lt;p&gt;i encourage anybody who is calls themselves a &amp;quot;free speech advocate&amp;quot; to consider what kiwifarms has been doing to &amp;quot;free speech&amp;quot;. their intimidation campaigns have been doing a lot more to harm the cause of free speech than this decision by cloudflare is. if you &lt;i&gt;really&lt;/i&gt; believe in free speech, you understand that trans people deserve free speech too, and kiwifarms harrasment campaigns have been harming their free speech. free speech is for &lt;i&gt;everybody&lt;/i&gt;, not just the people who have opinions you agree with, and being openly trans is a form of speech.</text></item><item><author>eastdakota</author><text>Reading over the comments I see everyone thinking this is about “free speech.” It is not. It’s about what in the US you’d call “due process” and in all the rest of the world you’d call “rule of law.”&lt;p&gt;Our decision today was that the risk created by the content could not be dealt with in a timely enough matter by the traditional rule of law systems.&lt;p&gt;That’s a failure of the rule of law on two dimensions: we shouldn’t be the ones making that call, and no one else who should was stepping up in spite of being aware of the threat.&lt;p&gt;Encourage you when these issues arise to think of them in the rule of law context, rather than free speech, in order to have a more robust conversation with frameworks that have an appeal and applicability across nearly every nation and government.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>xupybd</author><text>No that&amp;#x27;s why this issue should have been dealt with promptly and firmly by a justice system not by a corporate choice.&lt;p&gt;We can&amp;#x27;t have a society that requires CEO to decide who is morally acceptable and who is not.&lt;p&gt;If law&amp;#x27;s have been broken we need law enforcement.</text></comment>

<story><title>Blocking Kiwifarms</title><url>https://blog.cloudflare.com/kiwifarms-blocked/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>danShumway</author><text>&amp;gt; It takes the the power of ideas and elevates them above physical force.&lt;p&gt;This is exactly why dropping Kiwi Farms was the right decision. There is a difference between saying hateful things and doxing and harassing people with threats of violence.&lt;p&gt;We don&amp;#x27;t even need to dip into the endless debate about tolerating hate -- there&amp;#x27;s no level of ideological indirection here, Kiwi Farms was just very straightforwardly driving people offline with threats of physical harm and real-world harassment.</text></item><item><author>xupybd</author><text>Free speech is about giving people the freedom to say things I find disgusting. It&amp;#x27;s about giving each individual the choice to listen to what ever influence they wish. It takes the the power of ideas and elevates them above physical force.</text></item><item><author>notatoad</author><text>&amp;gt;rather than free speech&lt;p&gt;i encourage anybody who is calls themselves a &amp;quot;free speech advocate&amp;quot; to consider what kiwifarms has been doing to &amp;quot;free speech&amp;quot;. their intimidation campaigns have been doing a lot more to harm the cause of free speech than this decision by cloudflare is. if you &lt;i&gt;really&lt;/i&gt; believe in free speech, you understand that trans people deserve free speech too, and kiwifarms harrasment campaigns have been harming their free speech. free speech is for &lt;i&gt;everybody&lt;/i&gt;, not just the people who have opinions you agree with, and being openly trans is a form of speech.</text></item><item><author>eastdakota</author><text>Reading over the comments I see everyone thinking this is about “free speech.” It is not. It’s about what in the US you’d call “due process” and in all the rest of the world you’d call “rule of law.”&lt;p&gt;Our decision today was that the risk created by the content could not be dealt with in a timely enough matter by the traditional rule of law systems.&lt;p&gt;That’s a failure of the rule of law on two dimensions: we shouldn’t be the ones making that call, and no one else who should was stepping up in spite of being aware of the threat.&lt;p&gt;Encourage you when these issues arise to think of them in the rule of law context, rather than free speech, in order to have a more robust conversation with frameworks that have an appeal and applicability across nearly every nation and government.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>stale2002</author><text>Although this is an interesting argument, the issue in this context is that the US legal system, has yet to declare what it is that KF is doing to be illegal.&lt;p&gt;Maybe they would have lost in court. But as of yet, even though there has been multiple lawsuits against KFs, KF farms has won every thing lawsuit.&lt;p&gt;That is the issue you have to grapple with. That, for all known knowledge that we have, from the legal system, nobody has proven their actions to be illegal.</text></comment>

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<story><title>“Emergent” abilities in LLMs actually develop gradually and predictably – study</title><url>https://www.quantamagazine.org/how-quickly-do-large-language-models-learn-unexpected-skills-20240213/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Gisbitus</author><text>Just like it&amp;#x27;s mentioned later in the article: it doesn&amp;#x27;t really matter if you get an addition &lt;i&gt;mostly&lt;/i&gt; right. You either get it right or you don&amp;#x27;t. I still appreciate their effort though, because even after altering the grading system, there were still some emergent abilities.</text></item><item><author>a_wild_dandan</author><text>There are several issues with the study:&lt;p&gt;1. Replacing pass&amp;#x2F;fail accuracy with smoother alternatives (e.g token edit distance) could be a terrible proxy for skill, depending on the task.&lt;p&gt;2. Even by the authors&amp;#x27; metrics, they _still_ find a few potentially emergent abilities.&lt;p&gt;3. Hindsight is 20-20. Yes, we can revisit the data and fiddle until we find transforms that erase emergence from aptitude plots. The fact is, folk used commonplace test accuracy measurements, and the results were unpredictable and surprising. That&amp;#x27;s the true notable phenomenon.&lt;p&gt;I think there&amp;#x27;s value in the paper. Just...don&amp;#x27;t take its conclusions too far.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>arka2147483647</author><text>Assume we have a child, and we test him regularly:&lt;p&gt;- Test 1: First he can just draw squiggles on the math test&lt;p&gt;- Test 2: Then he can do arithmetic correctly&lt;p&gt;- Test 3: He fails on the last details on the algebraic calculation.&lt;p&gt;Now, event though he fails on all tests, any reasonable parent would see that he improving nicely, and would be able to work in his chosen field in a year or so.&lt;p&gt;Or alternatively, if we talk about AI, we can set the Test as a threshold, and we see the results are continuously trending upwards, and we can expect the curve to breach the threshold in the future.&lt;p&gt;That is; measuring improvement, instead of pass&amp;#x2F;fail, allows one to predict when we might be able to use the AI for something.</text></comment>

<story><title>“Emergent” abilities in LLMs actually develop gradually and predictably – study</title><url>https://www.quantamagazine.org/how-quickly-do-large-language-models-learn-unexpected-skills-20240213/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Gisbitus</author><text>Just like it&amp;#x27;s mentioned later in the article: it doesn&amp;#x27;t really matter if you get an addition &lt;i&gt;mostly&lt;/i&gt; right. You either get it right or you don&amp;#x27;t. I still appreciate their effort though, because even after altering the grading system, there were still some emergent abilities.</text></item><item><author>a_wild_dandan</author><text>There are several issues with the study:&lt;p&gt;1. Replacing pass&amp;#x2F;fail accuracy with smoother alternatives (e.g token edit distance) could be a terrible proxy for skill, depending on the task.&lt;p&gt;2. Even by the authors&amp;#x27; metrics, they _still_ find a few potentially emergent abilities.&lt;p&gt;3. Hindsight is 20-20. Yes, we can revisit the data and fiddle until we find transforms that erase emergence from aptitude plots. The fact is, folk used commonplace test accuracy measurements, and the results were unpredictable and surprising. That&amp;#x27;s the true notable phenomenon.&lt;p&gt;I think there&amp;#x27;s value in the paper. Just...don&amp;#x27;t take its conclusions too far.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>raincole</author><text>Human beings do arithmetic problems wrong all the time so I&amp;#x27;m not sure &amp;quot;doing addition 100% right&amp;quot; is a merit of intelligence.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;m not saying LLM will achieve AGI (I don&amp;#x27;t know if it will, or when it does we&amp;#x27;ll even know). But somehow people seem to be judging AI&amp;#x27;s intelligence with this simple procedural:&lt;p&gt;1. Find a task that AI can&amp;#x27;t do perfectly. 2. Gotcha! AI isn&amp;#x27;t intelligent.&lt;p&gt;It just makes me question humans&amp;#x27; intelligence if anything.</text></comment>

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<story><title>How the F.B.I. Can Detain, Render and Threaten Without Risk</title><url>http://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/03/opinion/how-the-fbi-can-detain-render-and-threaten-without-risk.html?_r=0</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jsprogrammer</author><text>Don&amp;#x27;t lie?&lt;p&gt;FBI would need to prove a lie anyway. Not the easiest thing.&lt;p&gt;Edit: Some of these responses seem to be assuming &amp;quot;Don&amp;#x27;t lie&amp;quot; is the logical complement of &amp;quot;tell the truth&amp;quot;. That is not the case.&lt;p&gt;Anyway, &amp;quot;tell the truth&amp;quot; is not a &lt;i&gt;real&lt;/i&gt; strategy. That is: the sentence is essentially meaningless. We already know that &lt;i&gt;actual&lt;/i&gt; truth is impossible to capture.</text></item><item><author>mox1</author><text>Well this is especially (aka more) important when talking to a &amp;quot;Federal Agent&amp;quot;. This can be US Marshals, Secret Service, Fish and Wildlife management, DEA, etc. (if you find yourself in this situation ask the person if they are an &amp;quot;1811&amp;quot; job series). Lying to a federal agent is always an actual felony (18 U.S.C. SECTION 1001).&lt;p&gt;Lying to a local police officer, state patrol is not always a crime (local, state laws).</text></item><item><author>ams6110</author><text>This is good advice for talking to any law enforcement really. They are not on your side if they are asking you questions.</text></item><item><author>dccoolgai</author><text>Advice from my father-in-law, who is a prominent attorney: &amp;quot;Never, ever talk to the FBI without a lawyer - even if you want to help them as a witness... because if they don&amp;#x27;t like the truth you&amp;#x27;re telling them, they can (and often do) say you lied to them which is a federal offense. If you have your attorney, they at least know there is a credible witness present who is keeping track of who said what.&amp;quot;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>bmelton</author><text>So, you tell them the truth, and say &amp;quot;Sorry officer, I wasn&amp;#x27;t in town that day,&amp;quot; only they later find out that there&amp;#x27;s an eyewitness who says that you were in town that day, and your credit card purchases show you buying a cup of coffee a few blocks from where the eyewitness saw you.&lt;p&gt;It doesn&amp;#x27;t matter that the eyewitness was mistaken, and just saw someone who looked like you who drove a similar looking vehicle, or that the purchase was made by your wife who was borrowing your credit card, because that coffee shop didn&amp;#x27;t have security cameras proving one way or the other.&lt;p&gt;At the end of the day, you&amp;#x27;re looked at as guilty, for a time at least, and possibly forever. You have to waste your every spare dollar hiring a defense attorney to prove your innocence. You have to fend off mobs of social justice warriors who have ruined your reputation on the internet and real life, who may have lowered your business&amp;#x27; Yelp score to approximately zero. You have to find a new job, because your old one fired you once you were indicted, and the newspapers justified them by placing your picture on the front page as the guilty party, but only printing the retraction months later on page 18.&lt;p&gt;And this is of course a scenario predicated on the notion that your attorney is able to actually get you found innocent, and you aren&amp;#x27;t further hindered by spending decades in prison for a crime you didn&amp;#x27;t commit.</text></comment>

<story><title>How the F.B.I. Can Detain, Render and Threaten Without Risk</title><url>http://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/03/opinion/how-the-fbi-can-detain-render-and-threaten-without-risk.html?_r=0</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jsprogrammer</author><text>Don&amp;#x27;t lie?&lt;p&gt;FBI would need to prove a lie anyway. Not the easiest thing.&lt;p&gt;Edit: Some of these responses seem to be assuming &amp;quot;Don&amp;#x27;t lie&amp;quot; is the logical complement of &amp;quot;tell the truth&amp;quot;. That is not the case.&lt;p&gt;Anyway, &amp;quot;tell the truth&amp;quot; is not a &lt;i&gt;real&lt;/i&gt; strategy. That is: the sentence is essentially meaningless. We already know that &lt;i&gt;actual&lt;/i&gt; truth is impossible to capture.</text></item><item><author>mox1</author><text>Well this is especially (aka more) important when talking to a &amp;quot;Federal Agent&amp;quot;. This can be US Marshals, Secret Service, Fish and Wildlife management, DEA, etc. (if you find yourself in this situation ask the person if they are an &amp;quot;1811&amp;quot; job series). Lying to a federal agent is always an actual felony (18 U.S.C. SECTION 1001).&lt;p&gt;Lying to a local police officer, state patrol is not always a crime (local, state laws).</text></item><item><author>ams6110</author><text>This is good advice for talking to any law enforcement really. They are not on your side if they are asking you questions.</text></item><item><author>dccoolgai</author><text>Advice from my father-in-law, who is a prominent attorney: &amp;quot;Never, ever talk to the FBI without a lawyer - even if you want to help them as a witness... because if they don&amp;#x27;t like the truth you&amp;#x27;re telling them, they can (and often do) say you lied to them which is a federal offense. If you have your attorney, they at least know there is a credible witness present who is keeping track of who said what.&amp;quot;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>kefka</author><text>&amp;quot;You wouldn&amp;#x27;t be there if you weren&amp;#x27;t guilty.&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;ve heard this line from people who&amp;#x27;ve served on juries before.</text></comment>

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<story><title>The Impossible Burger</title><url>https://www.wired.com/story/the-impossible-burger</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jxcole</author><text>The fact that they argued that leghemoglobin is safe because it is similar to other globins is kind of weird. A chemistry professor once told me that the chemical Thalidomide is a medicine that can be used to treat morning sickness, but if you only reverse the chirality it can cause birth defects.&lt;p&gt;In case you don&amp;#x27;t know, if you reverse the chirality of a molecule it is essentially what the same molecule would be when viewed in a mirror, with all it&amp;#x27;s directions reversed.&lt;p&gt;source: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikibooks.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Organic_Chemistry&amp;#x2F;Chirality&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikibooks.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Organic_Chemistry&amp;#x2F;Chirality&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>plus</author><text>The greater issue with thalidomide is that it racemizes in the body. That means even if you take the enantiomerically pure form of thalidomide which treats morning sickness, the teratogenic form will be generated in the body.</text></comment>

<story><title>The Impossible Burger</title><url>https://www.wired.com/story/the-impossible-burger</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jxcole</author><text>The fact that they argued that leghemoglobin is safe because it is similar to other globins is kind of weird. A chemistry professor once told me that the chemical Thalidomide is a medicine that can be used to treat morning sickness, but if you only reverse the chirality it can cause birth defects.&lt;p&gt;In case you don&amp;#x27;t know, if you reverse the chirality of a molecule it is essentially what the same molecule would be when viewed in a mirror, with all it&amp;#x27;s directions reversed.&lt;p&gt;source: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikibooks.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Organic_Chemistry&amp;#x2F;Chirality&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikibooks.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Organic_Chemistry&amp;#x2F;Chirality&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>legulere</author><text>If you look into the superfamily of globulins, globular proteins you can even find the highly toxic ricin.&lt;p&gt;Also wikipedia states about non-human globulins that &amp;quot;these proteins can cause allergic reactions if they bind with human IgE antibodies.&amp;quot; &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Globulin#Nonhuman_globulins&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Globulin#Nonhuman_globulins&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>

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<story><title>Nuclear Commission Approves a Safety Aspect of NuScale Power’s Advanced Reactor</title><url>http://www.powermag.com/press-releases/u-s-nuclear-regulatory-commission-approves-key-safety-aspect-to-nuscale-powers-advanced-reactor-design/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>gene-h</author><text>The headline is misleading, they haven&amp;#x27;t approved the design yet. However, they&amp;#x27;ve been able to certify that the reactor does not need a certain standard of backup power supply and electrical circuitry due to the passive safety features of the design. This standard essentially requires that nuclear power plants have a connection to the grid and an on site backup generator to safety systems that are on completely separate circuits from the nuclear power plant electrical generation systems.&lt;p&gt;Not having to do this makes it cheaper for NuScale to deploy powerplants. And it also makes it easier for them to build powerplants in remote places where a connection to the electrical grid is not available[0].&lt;p&gt;[0]&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.nrc.gov&amp;#x2F;docs&amp;#x2F;ML1616&amp;#x2F;ML16169A148.pdf&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.nrc.gov&amp;#x2F;docs&amp;#x2F;ML1616&amp;#x2F;ML16169A148.pdf&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>

<story><title>Nuclear Commission Approves a Safety Aspect of NuScale Power’s Advanced Reactor</title><url>http://www.powermag.com/press-releases/u-s-nuclear-regulatory-commission-approves-key-safety-aspect-to-nuscale-powers-advanced-reactor-design/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>CryoLogic</author><text>50MW per reactor at 12 per plant is 600MW. Or 600k homes powered by a single power plant. Nuclear is now very safe, and cleaner than coal. I am glad this project is moving forwards.&lt;p&gt;EDIT: Opportunities for more skilled jobs is always a plus too.</text></comment>

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<story><title>U.K. regulators order Meta to sell Giphy</title><url>https://www.axios.com/uk-regulators-order-facebook-meta-giphy-sale-457ccd20-f28e-4631-a508-a88639b1b121.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>pmontra</author><text>&amp;gt; Meta argued that the regulator was “sending a chilling message to start-up entrepreneurs: do not build new companies because you will not be able to sell them.”&lt;p&gt;This overlooks the traditional and perhaps now unpopular reason to start a company: making money by selling something useful. No need to sell the company. By the way, Facebook buys, does not sell.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>notahacker</author><text>Ironically, that statement is the strongest argument in favour of blocking the acquisition I&amp;#x27;ve heard.&lt;p&gt;Any company so arrogant about its market dominance it assumes that the only way for an entrepreneur to succeed in building a company in its market is to sell &lt;i&gt;to them&lt;/i&gt; deserves to be broken up.</text></comment>

<story><title>U.K. regulators order Meta to sell Giphy</title><url>https://www.axios.com/uk-regulators-order-facebook-meta-giphy-sale-457ccd20-f28e-4631-a508-a88639b1b121.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>pmontra</author><text>&amp;gt; Meta argued that the regulator was “sending a chilling message to start-up entrepreneurs: do not build new companies because you will not be able to sell them.”&lt;p&gt;This overlooks the traditional and perhaps now unpopular reason to start a company: making money by selling something useful. No need to sell the company. By the way, Facebook buys, does not sell.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>lordnacho</author><text>Indeed, you have to wonder if the world might be a better place if mergers were just not allowed. There&amp;#x27;s a famous Adam Smith quote about people in the same business coming together to screw the consumer. Mergers are perhaps the ultimate collusion.&lt;p&gt;For instance, what if the default position was that mergers were banned, except where you could convincingly show that everyone is better off? For instance in dying industries where scale is necessary.</text></comment>

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<story><title>Terms of Service; Didn&apos;t Read</title><url>http://tosdr.org/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>rossjudson</author><text>One straightforward fix: A law that says an &amp;quot;I Agree&amp;quot; button only binds the user to the text that&amp;#x27;s actually visible on the screen. More text? More buttons!&lt;p&gt;That will drastically cut down on the boilerplate. Want to straitjacket your users with 60 pages of user agreement? No problem! You&amp;#x27;re only 60 button clicks away from complete lack of liability.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>gyardley</author><text>Is this not already common in certain industries? I&amp;#x27;ve seen plenty of video game terms of service that make you scroll to the bottom before the &amp;#x27;accept&amp;#x27; button can be clicked, making all the text at least temporarily visible on the screen. (I recall the World of Warcraft client doing this after every single patch update - no idea if it still does. I&amp;#x27;m pretty sure every time I update my PS3 I go through this experience, too.)&lt;p&gt;That said, one can scroll rather quickly.</text></comment>

<story><title>Terms of Service; Didn&apos;t Read</title><url>http://tosdr.org/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>rossjudson</author><text>One straightforward fix: A law that says an &amp;quot;I Agree&amp;quot; button only binds the user to the text that&amp;#x27;s actually visible on the screen. More text? More buttons!&lt;p&gt;That will drastically cut down on the boilerplate. Want to straitjacket your users with 60 pages of user agreement? No problem! You&amp;#x27;re only 60 button clicks away from complete lack of liability.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>thaumasiotes</author><text>Some people have taller monitors than others. Some browse in different font sizes. There is no way, even in theory, of determining what was visible on screen.&lt;p&gt;edit: really, this is the exact same problem as &amp;quot;some people have taller screens than others&amp;quot;, but some people have taller browser windows than others too. If I want to get some text off screen before clicking &amp;quot;I agree&amp;quot;, it&amp;#x27;s fully within my power to do so.</text></comment>

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<story><title>Psilocybin-assisted psychotherapy vs. placebo in treatment of alcohol disorder</title><url>https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamapsychiatry/fullarticle/2795625</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>UniverseHacker</author><text>&amp;gt; I think it&amp;#x27;s possible that the phenomenological experience _is_ the mechanism of action for these substances, that the actual experience of the trip is what makes the difference.&lt;p&gt;I was really confused about the entire concept of blinding a study like this until I read your comment... Now I realize they are indeed proceeding from the assumption that the phenomenological experience is somehow distinct from the mechanism of action.&lt;p&gt;That seems really unlikely to me- these drugs are unique because of the phenomenological experience! It seems self evident that this experience is the reason for therapeutic effects.&lt;p&gt;Imagine the absurdity of trying to design a study blinding the effects of meditation for example. Meditation has measurable benefits, but what are the chances those aren&amp;#x27;t caused by the psychological effects of experiencing meditation?</text></item><item><author>roughly</author><text>Something that&amp;#x27;s going to be interesting with psychedelics and psychedelic research is that a lot of this sort of research seems to try to &amp;quot;control for&amp;quot; the phenomenological experience in favor of focusing on the biochemical mechanism of action - I think it&amp;#x27;s possible that the phenomenological experience _is_ the mechanism of action for these substances, that the actual experience of the trip is what makes the difference.</text></item><item><author>phren0logy</author><text>The comparison condition was psilocybin or diphenhydramine (Benadryl), and both groups got addiction counseling.&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt;Participants correctly guessed their treatment assignment in 93.6% of the first sessions, reporting a mean (SD) certainty of 88.5% (23.2%). In the second session, 94.7% guessed correctly, and mean (SD) certainty was 90.6% (21.5%). Study therapists correctly guessed treatment 92.4% of the time for first sessions and 97.4% for second sessions, and their mean (SD) certainties were 92.8% (16.3%) and 95.4% (2.9%), respectively.&lt;p&gt;This is not a criticism, as these trials are very hard to blind, but as you can see in hindsight they could as well have not bothered with blinding at all. So we need to interpret this as a randomized but unblinded trial.&lt;p&gt;The researchers are well aware of this, and I suspect it will inform the next steps of their research.&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt;Several limitations of the study warrant discussion. First, diphenhydramine was ineffective in maintaining the blind after drug administration, so biased expectancies could have influenced results. Control medications such as methylphenidate,42 niacin,2 and low-dose psilocybin1 likewise did not adequately maintain blinding in past psilocybin trials, so this issue remains a challenge for clinical research on psychedelics.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mrcartmeneses</author><text>It’s worth trying because it could be that there is a chemical mechanism rather than it being the trip. For example ketamine can ‘cure’ people of alcoholism and depression at doses that do not produce ‘profound’ experiences or at doses that do. Having said that I accidentally had a ‘therapy’ session while completely off my tits on LSD and it helped with things that I’d not previously been helped with on other trips.&lt;p&gt;The issues at hand are complex, it’s worth trying to control just to find out what the mechanisms are.&lt;p&gt;Also apologies for all of the air quotes in this ‘comment’</text></comment>

<story><title>Psilocybin-assisted psychotherapy vs. placebo in treatment of alcohol disorder</title><url>https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamapsychiatry/fullarticle/2795625</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>UniverseHacker</author><text>&amp;gt; I think it&amp;#x27;s possible that the phenomenological experience _is_ the mechanism of action for these substances, that the actual experience of the trip is what makes the difference.&lt;p&gt;I was really confused about the entire concept of blinding a study like this until I read your comment... Now I realize they are indeed proceeding from the assumption that the phenomenological experience is somehow distinct from the mechanism of action.&lt;p&gt;That seems really unlikely to me- these drugs are unique because of the phenomenological experience! It seems self evident that this experience is the reason for therapeutic effects.&lt;p&gt;Imagine the absurdity of trying to design a study blinding the effects of meditation for example. Meditation has measurable benefits, but what are the chances those aren&amp;#x27;t caused by the psychological effects of experiencing meditation?</text></item><item><author>roughly</author><text>Something that&amp;#x27;s going to be interesting with psychedelics and psychedelic research is that a lot of this sort of research seems to try to &amp;quot;control for&amp;quot; the phenomenological experience in favor of focusing on the biochemical mechanism of action - I think it&amp;#x27;s possible that the phenomenological experience _is_ the mechanism of action for these substances, that the actual experience of the trip is what makes the difference.</text></item><item><author>phren0logy</author><text>The comparison condition was psilocybin or diphenhydramine (Benadryl), and both groups got addiction counseling.&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt;Participants correctly guessed their treatment assignment in 93.6% of the first sessions, reporting a mean (SD) certainty of 88.5% (23.2%). In the second session, 94.7% guessed correctly, and mean (SD) certainty was 90.6% (21.5%). Study therapists correctly guessed treatment 92.4% of the time for first sessions and 97.4% for second sessions, and their mean (SD) certainties were 92.8% (16.3%) and 95.4% (2.9%), respectively.&lt;p&gt;This is not a criticism, as these trials are very hard to blind, but as you can see in hindsight they could as well have not bothered with blinding at all. So we need to interpret this as a randomized but unblinded trial.&lt;p&gt;The researchers are well aware of this, and I suspect it will inform the next steps of their research.&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt;Several limitations of the study warrant discussion. First, diphenhydramine was ineffective in maintaining the blind after drug administration, so biased expectancies could have influenced results. Control medications such as methylphenidate,42 niacin,2 and low-dose psilocybin1 likewise did not adequately maintain blinding in past psilocybin trials, so this issue remains a challenge for clinical research on psychedelics.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>BurningFrog</author><text>...or try to study the effects of a university education with a double blind study.&lt;p&gt;There are probably rules demanding blinding for these studies. Let&amp;#x27;s hope they don&amp;#x27;t hold back the research for too long.</text></comment>

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<story><title>W3C recommends WebAssembly</title><url>https://www.w3.org/blog/news/archives/8123</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>EvanAnderson</author><text>Even if we don&amp;#x27;t lose the HTML-centered model, we are probably going to lose control of our browsers. Eventually somebody is going to ship a product that&amp;#x27;s nothing more than a browser implemented in WASM that runs inside your browser. The &amp;quot;inner browser&amp;quot; won&amp;#x27;t have content filtering, privacy controls, DOM inspector, or a Javascript debugger (for the Javascript engine running on the &amp;quot;inner browser&amp;quot;) that you can interact with. You&amp;#x27;ll have to agree to let them run arbitrary code on your machine to even view the &amp;quot;website&amp;quot;. There will be no &amp;quot;browse w&amp;#x2F;o Javascript&amp;quot; option in that future.&lt;p&gt;The kind of jerks who liked adding Javascript to block right-clicking, blocking &amp;quot;Paste&amp;quot; into password fields, etc, are going to absolutely love using the browser-in-a-browser product to deliver their &amp;quot;website&amp;quot;.&lt;p&gt;For the inevitable replies: Yes-- you can already do this with minified Javascript. WASM, being targeted for performance, is just going to make this kind of asshattery faster.</text></item><item><author>6gvONxR4sf7o</author><text>Whatever you think about javascript, I love the historic separation between content and interactivity. I dislike that so many static pages won&amp;#x27;t load without JS and that we&amp;#x27;re moving further in that direction. I hope the evolution towards &amp;quot;browser as OS&amp;quot; doesn&amp;#x27;t hurt the content vs interactivity separation. Could we ever lose the HTML centered model?&lt;p&gt;That could mean we lose hackability and the ability to write extensions or even scrape the web without a BigCo webcrawler&amp;#x27;s level of infra investment. Is everything going to turn into an opaque single page app? Technically, webassembly is really cool, but I worry about where the browser is headed.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mahidhar</author><text>Unfortunately, I must agree with you that there are definitely some very troubling implications to how WebAssembly might be used to build more effective walled gardens on the web.&lt;p&gt;I can easily imagine a &amp;quot;platform&amp;quot; WASM module which acts as a runtime for other WASM modules built by &amp;quot;app&amp;quot; developers. This Platform module can be easily cached by FAANG or other big commercial interests, similar to AMP by Google (maybe even be pre-bundled into the browser?). The only way to discover, download and run these other apps is through this curated Platform module. All this could be rendered through something like the Canvas API instead of the DOM, which again is managed on a low level by the Platform and in turn exposes higher level API&amp;#x27;s for the Apps. The Platform also has built in support for Ad networks, tracking, etc., which cannot be disabled without disabling the whole ecosystem of apps. And of course, like any good play&amp;#x2F;app store, it is completely incompatible with anything else, leading to new levels of Balkanization of the web.&lt;p&gt;I hope that this isn&amp;#x27;t the case, and I&amp;#x27;m completely wrong about this. But I just can&amp;#x27;t shake the feeling that as a community, we are championing WebAssembly as purely a performance win, without considering how big commercial interests might seek to exploit this new technology.&lt;p&gt;Edit: typo with AMP</text></comment>

<story><title>W3C recommends WebAssembly</title><url>https://www.w3.org/blog/news/archives/8123</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>EvanAnderson</author><text>Even if we don&amp;#x27;t lose the HTML-centered model, we are probably going to lose control of our browsers. Eventually somebody is going to ship a product that&amp;#x27;s nothing more than a browser implemented in WASM that runs inside your browser. The &amp;quot;inner browser&amp;quot; won&amp;#x27;t have content filtering, privacy controls, DOM inspector, or a Javascript debugger (for the Javascript engine running on the &amp;quot;inner browser&amp;quot;) that you can interact with. You&amp;#x27;ll have to agree to let them run arbitrary code on your machine to even view the &amp;quot;website&amp;quot;. There will be no &amp;quot;browse w&amp;#x2F;o Javascript&amp;quot; option in that future.&lt;p&gt;The kind of jerks who liked adding Javascript to block right-clicking, blocking &amp;quot;Paste&amp;quot; into password fields, etc, are going to absolutely love using the browser-in-a-browser product to deliver their &amp;quot;website&amp;quot;.&lt;p&gt;For the inevitable replies: Yes-- you can already do this with minified Javascript. WASM, being targeted for performance, is just going to make this kind of asshattery faster.</text></item><item><author>6gvONxR4sf7o</author><text>Whatever you think about javascript, I love the historic separation between content and interactivity. I dislike that so many static pages won&amp;#x27;t load without JS and that we&amp;#x27;re moving further in that direction. I hope the evolution towards &amp;quot;browser as OS&amp;quot; doesn&amp;#x27;t hurt the content vs interactivity separation. Could we ever lose the HTML centered model?&lt;p&gt;That could mean we lose hackability and the ability to write extensions or even scrape the web without a BigCo webcrawler&amp;#x27;s level of infra investment. Is everything going to turn into an opaque single page app? Technically, webassembly is really cool, but I worry about where the browser is headed.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>IvanK_net</author><text>It makes no sense to me. You are saying, that instead a 5 kB webpage, you would load 50 MB code, which emulates a browser, just to show you the same webpage?&lt;p&gt;Every webpage pays for the traffic in some way, and everybody tries to save web traffic as much as possible (optimizing images, videos, minifying JS, CSS ...). It makes no sense to expect, that websites would turn the opposite way just for fun.&lt;p&gt;I would be very glad, if you can emulate a computer in a browser, so you can e.g. use VirtualBox or VMWare comfortably in your browser. Still, it will be sandboxed (it can not turn off your computer, or clear your hard drive, etc.).&lt;p&gt;I think the web is the most open, independent, secure and versatile platform today. And I hope it will become even better and more powerful in the future.</text></comment>

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<story><title>The birth of Microsoft&apos;s new web rendering engine</title><url>http://blogs.msdn.com/b/ie/archive/2015/02/26/a-break-from-the-past-the-birth-of-microsoft-s-new-web-rendering-engine.aspx</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>EdSharkey</author><text>YES! 1-2-3-4, I declare a browser war!&lt;p&gt;Finally. This is the Microsoft I&amp;#x27;ve been waiting for! No more rolling over and no defeatist talk of adopting WebKit or whatever. Microsoft is going to use its muscle and position to make a truly competitive browser.&lt;p&gt;We need more competition, and we need the default browser in Windows to be just as good as Chrome and Firefox.&lt;p&gt;Microsoft, I hope you pull every -ms- vendor flaggin&amp;#x27;, ring-0 kernel hookin&amp;#x27;, micro-optimizatin&amp;#x27;, site-specific D3D driver tweakin&amp;#x27; trick in the book as you reach for parity. This is going to be so fun to watch.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Throwaway90283</author><text>I&amp;#x27;d like to see some competition as well, but in my perspective, they&amp;#x27;re taking the wrong approach.&lt;p&gt;This entire project seems to be about improving compatibility with older websites, by adding more algorithms and layers to the rendering process. I don&amp;#x27;t believe everyone is using Firefox and Chrome because they have better compatibility than IE.&lt;p&gt;I think they should focus on cutting the fat, and making the lightest weight, fastest and standards compliant browser possible, with some popular third-party add-ons available, such as ad block. Or, leave IE11 as the default now for compatibility, and spin off a new browser called IE Lightning.&lt;p&gt;If people start to switch over, then more sites will be developed to work in IE Lightning.&lt;p&gt;In short, create a faster browser with a smaller memory footprint and ad block, get users, watch compatibility fix itself, then make this ship as the default browser in 5 years.</text></comment>

<story><title>The birth of Microsoft&apos;s new web rendering engine</title><url>http://blogs.msdn.com/b/ie/archive/2015/02/26/a-break-from-the-past-the-birth-of-microsoft-s-new-web-rendering-engine.aspx</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>EdSharkey</author><text>YES! 1-2-3-4, I declare a browser war!&lt;p&gt;Finally. This is the Microsoft I&amp;#x27;ve been waiting for! No more rolling over and no defeatist talk of adopting WebKit or whatever. Microsoft is going to use its muscle and position to make a truly competitive browser.&lt;p&gt;We need more competition, and we need the default browser in Windows to be just as good as Chrome and Firefox.&lt;p&gt;Microsoft, I hope you pull every -ms- vendor flaggin&amp;#x27;, ring-0 kernel hookin&amp;#x27;, micro-optimizatin&amp;#x27;, site-specific D3D driver tweakin&amp;#x27; trick in the book as you reach for parity. This is going to be so fun to watch.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>melling</author><text>We have a already have lot of competition. In fact, it&amp;#x27;s never been better: Chrome, Firefox, WebKit, Chromium, Opera. You can even get the source code for Firefox and Chrome and contribute. I&amp;#x27;m glad Microsoft is making a better go at it, but honestly, Microsoft could have built a more compliant browser any time they wanted too.&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://html5test.com/results/desktop.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;html5test.com&amp;#x2F;results&amp;#x2F;desktop.html&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>

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<story><title>The Pile is a 825 GiB diverse, open-source language modelling data set (2020)</title><url>https://pile.eleuther.ai/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Ninjinka</author><text>I raised a concern about the inclusion of books3 in the Pile back in 2020, and this is what the head of Eleuther (Stella Biderman) told me:&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;So here’s the big picture. There are three sets of datasets: 1. Data exists out there in the world. It has been collected into datasets and posted online. I’ll call this raw data. 2. We take that data, clean it, and process it for language modeling. I’ll call this per-set data. 3. We combine those per-set data into one massive dataset, the Pile. This is heavily processed, including weighing the components.&lt;p&gt;We created 2 and 3 and put them online. We put 2 online so that people can reweigh and remix the data if they wish, but we expect most people to just download 3 and use it out of the box. Access to 3 will be provided in several forms, including HuggingFace and from our website.&lt;p&gt;2 and 3 are not copyright violations, even if the data is copyrighted, because they fall under fair use (at least in the US).&lt;p&gt;The Pile contains code that turns 1 into 2 and code that turns 2 into 3.&lt;p&gt;When you download Maroon 5 from a website, you are creating a dataset corresponding to 2. That &lt;i&gt;can be&lt;/i&gt; copyright violation depending on what you do with it, but our use is not a copyright violation.&amp;quot;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>otterley</author><text>&amp;gt; 2 and 3 are not copyright violations, even if the data is copyrighted, because they fall under fair use (at least in the US).&lt;p&gt;This cannot be known until it is litigated. Fair Use is not something you can unilaterally declare and have it be so, just like you can&amp;#x27;t be like Michael Scott in the Office shouting &amp;quot;I declare bankruptcy!&amp;quot; OpenAI is currently defending itself against the New York Times for this very reason.&lt;p&gt;There&amp;#x27;s a multi-factor test that courts weigh the facts against in making a determination as to whether a &lt;i&gt;prima facie&lt;/i&gt; copyright violation would be protected under a Fair Use defense:&lt;p&gt;Factor 1: The Purpose and Character of the Use&lt;p&gt;Factor 2: The Nature of the Copyrighted Work&lt;p&gt;Factor 3: The Amount or Substantiality of the Portion Used&lt;p&gt;Factor 4: The Effect of the Use on the Potential Market for or Value of the Work&lt;p&gt;See &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;copyright.columbia.edu&amp;#x2F;basics&amp;#x2F;fair-use.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;copyright.columbia.edu&amp;#x2F;basics&amp;#x2F;fair-use.html&lt;/a&gt; for a pretty good overview of what the analysis entails.</text></comment>

<story><title>The Pile is a 825 GiB diverse, open-source language modelling data set (2020)</title><url>https://pile.eleuther.ai/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Ninjinka</author><text>I raised a concern about the inclusion of books3 in the Pile back in 2020, and this is what the head of Eleuther (Stella Biderman) told me:&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;So here’s the big picture. There are three sets of datasets: 1. Data exists out there in the world. It has been collected into datasets and posted online. I’ll call this raw data. 2. We take that data, clean it, and process it for language modeling. I’ll call this per-set data. 3. We combine those per-set data into one massive dataset, the Pile. This is heavily processed, including weighing the components.&lt;p&gt;We created 2 and 3 and put them online. We put 2 online so that people can reweigh and remix the data if they wish, but we expect most people to just download 3 and use it out of the box. Access to 3 will be provided in several forms, including HuggingFace and from our website.&lt;p&gt;2 and 3 are not copyright violations, even if the data is copyrighted, because they fall under fair use (at least in the US).&lt;p&gt;The Pile contains code that turns 1 into 2 and code that turns 2 into 3.&lt;p&gt;When you download Maroon 5 from a website, you are creating a dataset corresponding to 2. That &lt;i&gt;can be&lt;/i&gt; copyright violation depending on what you do with it, but our use is not a copyright violation.&amp;quot;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dougb5</author><text>I don&amp;#x27;t know what the right answer is to the copyright questions, but I hope that in 2024 we&amp;#x27;ll have a better attitude about the human labor that went into these models than &amp;quot;Data exists out there in the world&amp;quot; and the passive-voice &amp;quot;It has been collected into datasets&amp;quot;</text></comment>

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<story><title>Example: Why your Title to URL algorithm shouldn&apos;t chop off partial words...</title><url>http://www.bbc.co.uk/food/recipes/carrotsglazedwithcum_80467</url><text></text></story><parent_chain><item><author>ojbyrne</author><text>Funny, but more suited to reddit.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>spxdcz</author><text>That&apos;s an interesting comment. I&apos;m still trying to &apos;work out&apos; the Hacker News crowd (even though I&apos;ve been here almost two years!).&lt;p&gt;I&apos;ve submitted plenty of things that get to #1, or front page, but can&apos;t seem to find much consistency in what people like / don&apos;t like. Not as obviously as Reddit/Digg/Slashdot, anyway - which is a good thing! I&apos;m very pleased that HN isn&apos;t as one-dimensional as some other sites; it&apos;s what keeps me coming back.&lt;p&gt;But it is weird, what becomes popular and what doesn&apos;t. For example, I submitted this particular story, which I was a bit unsure about (like you say, more suited to Reddit), but still people vote it up.&lt;p&gt;Other times, I can submit content that I think is genuinely interesting/fascinating, that is much more technical and comprehensive than this rather silly BBC/URL story, and it doesn&apos;t get a single vote. Maybe it&apos;s the time of day / day of the week.&lt;p&gt;On that note, does anyone know of any data repositories for Hacker News front page items? An API or raw-data download that can be analyzed? I remember someone a few months ago doing some analysis on the best time of day to submit, but was wondering if there was any public data out there, or whether I should start spidering/collecting my own?</text></comment>

<story><title>Example: Why your Title to URL algorithm shouldn&apos;t chop off partial words...</title><url>http://www.bbc.co.uk/food/recipes/carrotsglazedwithcum_80467</url><text></text></story><parent_chain><item><author>ojbyrne</author><text>Funny, but more suited to reddit.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>j_baker</author><text>To be totally honest, I&apos;d rather have HN allow posts that are of dubious topicality than to turn into another stackoverflow where topics are closed/deleted if they don&apos;t meet the strictest definition of what&apos;s allowed on the site. Sometimes the harm of off-topic posts is much less than the harm in doing away with them.</text></comment>

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<story><title>Meta to ask many managers to become individual contributors or leave</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-02-07/meta-to-ask-many-managers-to-become-individual-contributors-or-leave</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>likeabbas</author><text>IMO the easiest way to solve this issue would be to normalize ICs making more than their managers. That way, only the people who really want to be managers are managing.</text></item><item><author>karaterobot</author><text>It&amp;#x27;s too bad, because the best managers I&amp;#x27;ve worked with were not good ICs, but they did &lt;i&gt;multiply&lt;/i&gt; the effectiveness of the ICs they worked with, and so were absolutely invaluable to the company in a way that may not have shown up on paper. If those people exist in FB, as I&amp;#x27;m sure they must, then they&amp;#x27;d presumably get jettisoned as a result of this choice. That would be bad long term.&lt;p&gt;I used to despise managers, until I met two really good ones. This is after working with hundreds of them as a consultant. Actual, natural-born managers are such an incredibly rare species that you can go a long time without seeing any in the wild. It&amp;#x27;s basically the equivalent of the legendary 10x programmer — you hear about them, but it&amp;#x27;s rare to actually meet one, and there are sure a lot more people claiming to be one than who actually are.&lt;p&gt;My theory is that there are a set number of great managers in the world, and that number doesn&amp;#x27;t scale with the number of people who take on the role. They&amp;#x27;re just out there, being awesome, while a bunch of pretty lousy ones share their job title.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>hn_throwaway_99</author><text>Not going to happen, fundamentally just due to supply and demand.&lt;p&gt;I have been a senior&amp;#x2F;principal engineer, as well as a director&amp;#x2F;senior director. The fact is that being a manager or director is just fundamentally a &lt;i&gt;much harder job&lt;/i&gt; than being an IC. It&amp;#x27;s not that it&amp;#x27;s inherently more difficult, it&amp;#x27;s just that the day-to-day is much more of a grind than being an IC. For people wondering why engineering interviews can be so obscure&amp;#x2F;difficult, it&amp;#x27;s often because the cost of a bad hire can be catastrophic to a manager. I had a great team of about 30 people, except for 1 person who just couldn&amp;#x27;t get along with others. I spent about 80% of my energy on that person, and it sucked.&lt;p&gt;So for people wondering why managers get paid more, it&amp;#x27;s just that it&amp;#x27;s a shittier job that fewer people want to do than program.</text></comment>

<story><title>Meta to ask many managers to become individual contributors or leave</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-02-07/meta-to-ask-many-managers-to-become-individual-contributors-or-leave</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>likeabbas</author><text>IMO the easiest way to solve this issue would be to normalize ICs making more than their managers. That way, only the people who really want to be managers are managing.</text></item><item><author>karaterobot</author><text>It&amp;#x27;s too bad, because the best managers I&amp;#x27;ve worked with were not good ICs, but they did &lt;i&gt;multiply&lt;/i&gt; the effectiveness of the ICs they worked with, and so were absolutely invaluable to the company in a way that may not have shown up on paper. If those people exist in FB, as I&amp;#x27;m sure they must, then they&amp;#x27;d presumably get jettisoned as a result of this choice. That would be bad long term.&lt;p&gt;I used to despise managers, until I met two really good ones. This is after working with hundreds of them as a consultant. Actual, natural-born managers are such an incredibly rare species that you can go a long time without seeing any in the wild. It&amp;#x27;s basically the equivalent of the legendary 10x programmer — you hear about them, but it&amp;#x27;s rare to actually meet one, and there are sure a lot more people claiming to be one than who actually are.&lt;p&gt;My theory is that there are a set number of great managers in the world, and that number doesn&amp;#x27;t scale with the number of people who take on the role. They&amp;#x27;re just out there, being awesome, while a bunch of pretty lousy ones share their job title.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ncann</author><text>I agree. Too often people feel becoming manager is the easiest way to advance their career (which most of the time equates to making more money). In many cases becoming manager is the only way to advance their career in the current org.</text></comment>

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<story><title>Hacker Steals 900 GB of Cellebrite Data</title><url>http://motherboard.vice.com/read/hacker-steals-900-gb-of-cellebrite-data</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>dhimes</author><text>From TFA, but I switched the paragraph order for this TLDR;&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;Cellebrite is an Israeli company whose main product, a typically laptop-sized device called the Universal Forensic Extraction Device (UFED), can rip data from thousands of different models of mobile phones. That data can include SMS messages, emails, call logs, and much more, as long as the UFED user is in physical possession of the phone.&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;The breach is the latest chapter in a growing trend of hackers taking matters into their own hands, and stealing information from companies that specialize in surveillance or hacking technologies.&amp;quot;</text></comment>

<story><title>Hacker Steals 900 GB of Cellebrite Data</title><url>http://motherboard.vice.com/read/hacker-steals-900-gb-of-cellebrite-data</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>ge96</author><text>Didn&amp;#x27;t read the article, curious how you steal 900GB of data, what kind of internet speed do you have? No one noticed this much data being pulled? I don&amp;#x27;t personally track my server&amp;#x27;s bandwidth usage. Guess it&amp;#x27;s time to read.</text></comment>

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<story><title>Washington State Ferries – Small Schedule</title><url>https://wsdot.com/Ferries/Schedule/Small/pda.aspx</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>jffry</author><text>I wish more sites offered simple, fast, &amp;quot;lite&amp;quot; versions.&lt;p&gt;For example, &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;lite.cnn.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;lite.cnn.com&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>

<story><title>Washington State Ferries – Small Schedule</title><url>https://wsdot.com/Ferries/Schedule/Small/pda.aspx</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>aaronbrethorst</author><text>You can also find Washington State Ferries data in OneBusAway, which is free, open source, and has just been rewritten in Swift: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;github.com&amp;#x2F;OneBusAway&amp;#x2F;onebusaway-ios&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;github.com&amp;#x2F;OneBusAway&amp;#x2F;onebusaway-ios&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;(and is also looking for volunteer developers and localizers.)</text></comment>

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<story><title>We should only work 25 hours a week, argues professor</title><url>http://sciencenordic.com/we-should-only-work-25-hours-week-argues-professor</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Zigurd</author><text>Until we come to grips with what will likely be a post-labor world, this is a good transitional approach. The 40 hour week is an arbitrary standard, and it may now be rational to reduce that number. Few jobs are now so arduous that 70 year olds cannot perform well. We are suffering from outdated standards for work weeks and retirement age, and un-sticking our assumptions is likely to benefit the situation.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>_delirium</author><text>More years at fewer hours per week is an interesting idea. Managing burnout could be one way to make it reasonable for people to work into older age, and having norms with fewer hours a week could be one part of that. You see a &lt;i&gt;lot&lt;/i&gt; of burnout in tech currently even by middle-age, but I&apos;m not sure the subject matter fundamentally requires it.</text></comment>

<story><title>We should only work 25 hours a week, argues professor</title><url>http://sciencenordic.com/we-should-only-work-25-hours-week-argues-professor</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Zigurd</author><text>Until we come to grips with what will likely be a post-labor world, this is a good transitional approach. The 40 hour week is an arbitrary standard, and it may now be rational to reduce that number. Few jobs are now so arduous that 70 year olds cannot perform well. We are suffering from outdated standards for work weeks and retirement age, and un-sticking our assumptions is likely to benefit the situation.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>rndmize</author><text>I&apos;m fairly sure the 40 hour week is far from arbitrary. There&apos;s someone on HN who has a long post about working hours and the wide variety of studies that were done demonstrating that 40 hours resulted in higher efficiency than 50 or more as far back as the 1930s, and that peak efficiency for white collar work is even less (6 hour days). I&apos;ll have to see if I can find it.</text></comment>

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<story><title>In ‘learning trap’ experiment, adults leap to conclusions while children explore</title><url>https://www.wsj.com/articles/why-children-learn-better-than-adults-11636033185</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>falcor84</author><text>&amp;gt;Children gathered much more evidence than the adults and were much better at learning. Most of the children did figure out the right rule. However, they earned fewer stars than the grown-ups.&lt;p&gt;For me, this sentence at the end breaks the whole argument down - so the adult strategy was indeed more effective at the the thing being optimized for!&lt;p&gt;The question then is - could they set this up such that kids actually perform better than adults?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ordu</author><text>&lt;i&gt;&amp;gt; For me, this sentence at the end breaks the whole argument down - so the adult strategy was indeed more effective at the the thing being optimized for!&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;I see no such an argument in the article. It is &lt;i&gt;modern&lt;/i&gt; psychology, it tries to avoid judgements like &amp;quot;good&amp;quot; or &amp;quot;bad&amp;quot;, it doesn&amp;#x27;t try to prove that kids are dumb (or geniuses), it tries to learn how it is. The core principle can be expressed roughly &amp;quot;people acts the best possible way until proven otherwise&amp;quot;. It is like an axiom, though it lacks a mathematical rigor. So this article points to an another direction: while it is beneficial for children to sacrifice material rewards in exchange for better learning, for adults it is more beneficial to concentrate on the rewards. This difference causes them to employ different strategies shown in the experiment. Though this last sentence is not proven by the experiment, there may be other causes, but Gopnik did a lot of research pointing to the same direction: babies and kids are optimized for the learning.&lt;p&gt;From this follows a practically helpful advice: if you cannot understand your kid&amp;#x27;s behavior, try to find what she&amp;#x2F;he is trying to learn by doing what is she&amp;#x2F;he doing. For example, you told her not to open a cupboard, you know she learned the rule &amp;quot;do not open the cupboard&amp;quot;, but now she opens it while looking you in the eye? (&amp;quot;terrible twos&amp;quot; may do this) She is trying to learn how would you react to her misbehavior, and what the best way to deal with it. So you&amp;#x27;d better get a grip on yourself, turn on your inner teacher and show her exemplary reaction to misbehavior, which she may adopt later herself against other people breaking rules. She needs to explore the role of a rule breaker to learn how to deal with the rule breaking from both sides, so let her play that role by playing the role of a rule enforcer.&lt;p&gt;&lt;i&gt;&amp;gt; The question then is - could they set this up such that kids actually perform better than adults?&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;Probably they can, but what the point of such an experiment? To prove that a strategy stressing learning can give more material rewards when compared to a strategy maximizing material rewards? It is not a psychology per se, it is more like a research of different strategies of a decision making, so it would be better if such a research was done by an AI-researcher.</text></comment>

<story><title>In ‘learning trap’ experiment, adults leap to conclusions while children explore</title><url>https://www.wsj.com/articles/why-children-learn-better-than-adults-11636033185</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>falcor84</author><text>&amp;gt;Children gathered much more evidence than the adults and were much better at learning. Most of the children did figure out the right rule. However, they earned fewer stars than the grown-ups.&lt;p&gt;For me, this sentence at the end breaks the whole argument down - so the adult strategy was indeed more effective at the the thing being optimized for!&lt;p&gt;The question then is - could they set this up such that kids actually perform better than adults?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>AussieWog93</author><text>Incidentally, I&amp;#x27;ve noticed the same outcome between groups of more or less curious adults.&lt;p&gt;The people who try to figure out the exact rules of everything they do tend to be less effective than people who figure out a strategy that works and simply execute.</text></comment>

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<story><title>The Plan for React 18</title><url>https://reactjs.org/blog/2021/06/08/the-plan-for-react-18.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tekstar</author><text>I use React (well, Preact) every day.&lt;p&gt;I use it 2014-style. Class-based components, componentWillMount, render, callbacks, and that&amp;#x27;s about it.&lt;p&gt;I love this workflow, and generally structure all my UIs this way regardless of platform - have a state struct and then fully render the UI as a function of the state. To me, that&amp;#x27;s the big hurrah for using React.&lt;p&gt;But I have no clue why React is at version 18 and why it keeps getting new features. I&amp;#x27;m perfectly happy making quite complicated UIs with the pattern I know well. Should I be following along? Does it matter?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>enlyth</author><text>I personally fell in love with hooks after initially disliking them, you should give it a try, maybe in a toy personal project, to see if you like it. It is great for separation of concerns.&lt;p&gt;You basically stick to writing pure functional components focused only on how to render, and try to abstract reusable logic into hooks, and expose only what you need&lt;p&gt;For example, you could make a useApi() hook and inside your component just do const { data, loading, error } = useApi(&amp;#x27;&amp;#x2F;endpoint&amp;#x27;), so you can hide everything you don&amp;#x27;t need away from the rendering logic</text></comment>

<story><title>The Plan for React 18</title><url>https://reactjs.org/blog/2021/06/08/the-plan-for-react-18.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tekstar</author><text>I use React (well, Preact) every day.&lt;p&gt;I use it 2014-style. Class-based components, componentWillMount, render, callbacks, and that&amp;#x27;s about it.&lt;p&gt;I love this workflow, and generally structure all my UIs this way regardless of platform - have a state struct and then fully render the UI as a function of the state. To me, that&amp;#x27;s the big hurrah for using React.&lt;p&gt;But I have no clue why React is at version 18 and why it keeps getting new features. I&amp;#x27;m perfectly happy making quite complicated UIs with the pattern I know well. Should I be following along? Does it matter?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dstaley</author><text>As someone who was initially resistant to hooks, I actually find that they&amp;#x27;re a more expressive API to how I was already thinking about my applications. There&amp;#x27;s footguns for sure, just like there are with class components, but I found that rewriting my class components with hooks instead actually made the code cleaner and easier to reason about. That being said, it&amp;#x27;s possible the benefit simply came from the rewrite, but even with newer components, I feel like hooks are a better API.</text></comment>

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<story><title>Tell HN: Cancelling HP Instant Ink prevents cartridges from being used</title><text>I bought an HP printer that came with an HP Instant Ink subscription a year ago. The subscription promises to send you ink when you&amp;#x27;re running low as long as you print within the designated number of pages.&lt;p&gt;I recently changed my card and figured I would let the subscription expire.&lt;p&gt;Fast forward to today. I go to print something and find that the printer is &amp;quot;unable to print&amp;quot; even though there is ample ink left in the cartridges. I press a button on the printer and it spits out a report that states the printer is unable to print, except for printer reports (!).&lt;p&gt;I dig a little (since the error message they show provides no additional information beyond not being able to print) and find this thread [0] in their support forum. It turns out that once the subscription is cancelled or suspended, you are no longer able to use the ink that has been sent to you. Some even report not being able to print with cartridges they bought independently.&lt;p&gt;It turns out that their terms state that you&amp;#x27;re buying the ability to print x pages and the ink is actually always owned by HP, even when in your possession.&lt;p&gt;This has to be one shadiest and just overall worst product experiences I&amp;#x27;ve come across in a while.&lt;p&gt;Printers have always been a bit of a pain but since when did they have to be near permanently connected to the internet else threaten to cut you off from all of their capabilities.&lt;p&gt;[0] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;web.archive.org&amp;#x2F;web&amp;#x2F;20230522114823&amp;#x2F;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;h30434.www3.hp.com&amp;#x2F;t5&amp;#x2F;Printers-Knowledge-Base&amp;#x2F;Cancelled-Instant-Ink-service-and-now-I-can-t-print&amp;#x2F;ta-p&amp;#x2F;7037780&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;web.archive.org&amp;#x2F;web&amp;#x2F;20230522114823&amp;#x2F;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;h30434.ww...&lt;/a&gt;</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>blitz</author><text>I’ve been a very happy Brothers customer for nearly two decades. We still have the same laser printer. Would highly recommend a laser printer over ink printers in most cases and would advocate for Brothers over any other brand printer at this point. The printer we have has never had any issues, including a situation where a bunch of boba tea spilled into the printer. Hosed it down, let it dry, and still works!</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>chandlerswift</author><text>I was looking into Brother (again) as a result of this post, and it turns out they also have their own Instant Ink-style program, with the same &amp;quot;cancel and we&amp;#x27;ll trash your still-full toner cartridge&amp;quot; terms[0]. Though, perhaps unsurprisingly, it does seem like they do a much better job about making it clearer what you&amp;#x27;re opting into, though the &amp;quot;we&amp;#x27;ll make your formerly-working cartridge unusable&amp;quot; note was fairly buried in the FAQs, and not terribly clear up front.&lt;p&gt;[0]: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.brother-usa.com&amp;#x2F;supplies&amp;#x2F;subscription-info&amp;#x2F;refresh-faqs#cancelling&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.brother-usa.com&amp;#x2F;supplies&amp;#x2F;subscription-info&amp;#x2F;refre...&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>

<story><title>Tell HN: Cancelling HP Instant Ink prevents cartridges from being used</title><text>I bought an HP printer that came with an HP Instant Ink subscription a year ago. The subscription promises to send you ink when you&amp;#x27;re running low as long as you print within the designated number of pages.&lt;p&gt;I recently changed my card and figured I would let the subscription expire.&lt;p&gt;Fast forward to today. I go to print something and find that the printer is &amp;quot;unable to print&amp;quot; even though there is ample ink left in the cartridges. I press a button on the printer and it spits out a report that states the printer is unable to print, except for printer reports (!).&lt;p&gt;I dig a little (since the error message they show provides no additional information beyond not being able to print) and find this thread [0] in their support forum. It turns out that once the subscription is cancelled or suspended, you are no longer able to use the ink that has been sent to you. Some even report not being able to print with cartridges they bought independently.&lt;p&gt;It turns out that their terms state that you&amp;#x27;re buying the ability to print x pages and the ink is actually always owned by HP, even when in your possession.&lt;p&gt;This has to be one shadiest and just overall worst product experiences I&amp;#x27;ve come across in a while.&lt;p&gt;Printers have always been a bit of a pain but since when did they have to be near permanently connected to the internet else threaten to cut you off from all of their capabilities.&lt;p&gt;[0] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;web.archive.org&amp;#x2F;web&amp;#x2F;20230522114823&amp;#x2F;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;h30434.www3.hp.com&amp;#x2F;t5&amp;#x2F;Printers-Knowledge-Base&amp;#x2F;Cancelled-Instant-Ink-service-and-now-I-can-t-print&amp;#x2F;ta-p&amp;#x2F;7037780&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;web.archive.org&amp;#x2F;web&amp;#x2F;20230522114823&amp;#x2F;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;h30434.ww...&lt;/a&gt;</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>blitz</author><text>I’ve been a very happy Brothers customer for nearly two decades. We still have the same laser printer. Would highly recommend a laser printer over ink printers in most cases and would advocate for Brothers over any other brand printer at this point. The printer we have has never had any issues, including a situation where a bunch of boba tea spilled into the printer. Hosed it down, let it dry, and still works!</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>hellcow</author><text>I also have a ~$70 black-and-white Brother laser printer which is more than a decade old at this point. Never had a single issue or complaint with it.</text></comment>

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<story><title>Jack Ma Agrees to Shrink His Business Empire, Bowing to China Pressure</title><url>https://relayvibes.co/jack-ma-agrees-to-shrink-his-business-empire-bowing-to-china-pressure/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>La1n</author><text>This website just changed out some words from this BI article, blatant plagiarism.&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.businessinsider.com&amp;#x2F;jack-mas-ant-group-plans-shrink-after-china-demands-wsj-2021-1?IR=T&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.businessinsider.com&amp;#x2F;jack-mas-ant-group-plans-shr...&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>

<story><title>Jack Ma Agrees to Shrink His Business Empire, Bowing to China Pressure</title><url>https://relayvibes.co/jack-ma-agrees-to-shrink-his-business-empire-bowing-to-china-pressure/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>ksec</author><text>&amp;gt; &lt;i&gt;&amp;quot;Ma, a larger-than-life figure, criticized China&amp;#x27;s financial regulatory system last year.He now appears to have been brought to heel by Beijing.&amp;quot;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;You can be larger than life in China, you just cant be larger than CCP.</text></comment>

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<story><title>Pissed off about functional programming (2005)</title><url>http://www.perlmonks.org/?node_id=450922</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>viraptor</author><text>Maybe I&amp;#x27;m missing something, but points 3 and 4 don&amp;#x27;t make much sense to me. Could someone tell me why I&amp;#x27;m wrong here?&lt;p&gt;In myth 3 he seems to mix words of description and the words describing logical equivalence. &amp;quot;even though equals(&amp;#x27;three&amp;#x27;,3) is true, length(&amp;#x27;three&amp;#x27;) does not equal length(3)&amp;quot; - while this is correct, it only seems to say anything about the myth because of the function name. Try this instead &amp;quot;even though foobar(&amp;#x27;three&amp;#x27;,3) is true, length(&amp;#x27;three&amp;#x27;) does not equal length(3)&amp;quot; - does this really prove anything? You could never substitute &amp;quot;three&amp;quot; with 3 at any point in the first place.&lt;p&gt;Specifically he hid a &amp;quot;$lut{ $str }&amp;quot; in equals(). It&amp;#x27;s not that 3 can be substituted with &amp;quot;three&amp;quot; - it can be substituted with &amp;quot;$lut{&amp;quot;three&amp;quot;}&amp;quot;.&lt;p&gt;In myth 4 he seems to play a similar trick of talking about the variable names. Sure, perl allows you to create a new block with a new variable of the same name. I&amp;#x27;m not sure what does that have to do with functional programming as a whole. It&amp;#x27;s just the language implementation that allowed you to play this trick - referring to a new thing by a name you used before.</text></comment>

<story><title>Pissed off about functional programming (2005)</title><url>http://www.perlmonks.org/?node_id=450922</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>judk</author><text>I assume this post is here to show us that the stupid argumentation about FP vs OOP vs DWIM have been going in circles forever and we should just stop and get back to work.</text></comment>

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<story><title>Akasha: A Social Media Network Powered by Ethereum and IPFS</title><url>http://akasha.world/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>kang</author><text>A service like this already exists - zapchain.com (bitcoin instead of ether). I have earned billions of satoshi on it but well, it is failing. Because identity could not be solved with partial blockchain, same mistake Akasha is doing.&lt;p&gt;An identity is a proxy for past work done, which the identifier further wishes to use as a proxy for future working. A blockchain bypasses this by directly asking a proof of current work, irrelevant of past work done.&lt;p&gt;When a system does not use an exclusive blockchain, the identity is unable to proxy itself through PoW. Spam rules zapchain now.&lt;p&gt;To make this work they need a PoW Akashacoin.</text></comment>

<story><title>Akasha: A Social Media Network Powered by Ethereum and IPFS</title><url>http://akasha.world/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>exolymph</author><text>It mystifies me that people seem to think users will suddenly start caring about decentralization and privacy. If either of those things is your social network&amp;#x27;s USP, you&amp;#x27;re sunk.</text></comment>

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<story><title>Depression, Anxiety, and Stress Spread Through Employee Mobility (2022)</title><url>https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/epub/10.1177/00018392211014819</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>whatshisface</author><text>&amp;gt;&lt;i&gt;Our findings reveal that when organizations hire employees from other, unhealthy organizations (those with a high prevalence of mental disorders), they “implant” depression, anxiety, and stress-related disorders into their workforces. Employees leaving unhealthy organizations act as “carriers” of these disorders regardless of whether they themselves have received a formal diagnosis of a mental disorder. The effect is especially pronounced if the newcomer holds a managerial position.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;The study sounds like it is trying to blame the problem on the suffers (the &amp;quot;contagion&amp;quot; of their depression), but the obvious explanation of this is that by hiring from organizations with high stress, you&amp;#x27;re likely to be hiring perpetrators. That explains why it is not more likely to happen when the individual being hired is diagnosed (&amp;quot;Employees leaving unhealthy organizations act as “carriers” of these disorders regardless of whether they themselves have received a formal diagnosis&amp;quot;), and also why it is more likely to happen when they enter a position of power (&amp;quot;The effect is especially pronounced if the newcomer holds a managerial position.&amp;quot;).&lt;p&gt;I am also not sure if the social contagion model has a lot of evidence for it. If you apply epidemiological models to any data you will get fits for epidemiological model parameters, and those will have a built-in epidemiological interpretation - but without prior knowledge that mental disorders are contagious (I thought most were definitely not?) you would just be making blind nonlinear curve fits to generic functions with many possible explanations.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>xyzelement</author><text>&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F; The study sounds like it is trying to blame the problem on the suffers (the &amp;quot;contagion&amp;quot; of their depression), but the obvious explanation of this is that by hiring from organizations with high stress, you&amp;#x27;re likely to be hiring perpetrators&lt;p&gt;Really strong disagree. In every company I&amp;#x27;ve worked at (4 so far) the level of mental illness I can observe among coworkers is directly related to who was hired, not what we do with them.&lt;p&gt;As an obvious example, I worked at a hedge fund that strongly filtered for resilience, ability to overcome obstacles, and desire to grow through tough feedback. Almost everyone I worked with there was rational, calm, and sane as a consequence.&lt;p&gt;At other places where mental attributes weren&amp;#x27;t considered (so let&amp;#x27;s say a pure tech interview that doesn&amp;#x27;t amp up the scenario) you could watch the &amp;quot;crazy&amp;quot; come out of the woodwork there moment something triggered it. And I think specifically you could see them feeding on each other&amp;#x27;s anxiety in the Slack hangouts, blind, etc.&lt;p&gt;At some point, seeing 400 people have a meltdown about the layoffs that happened, on daily basis for months, takes a toll on you that&amp;#x27;s worse than the impact of the layoff itself. So yes I see the chorus of crazies impact everyone negatively.</text></comment>

<story><title>Depression, Anxiety, and Stress Spread Through Employee Mobility (2022)</title><url>https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/epub/10.1177/00018392211014819</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>whatshisface</author><text>&amp;gt;&lt;i&gt;Our findings reveal that when organizations hire employees from other, unhealthy organizations (those with a high prevalence of mental disorders), they “implant” depression, anxiety, and stress-related disorders into their workforces. Employees leaving unhealthy organizations act as “carriers” of these disorders regardless of whether they themselves have received a formal diagnosis of a mental disorder. The effect is especially pronounced if the newcomer holds a managerial position.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;The study sounds like it is trying to blame the problem on the suffers (the &amp;quot;contagion&amp;quot; of their depression), but the obvious explanation of this is that by hiring from organizations with high stress, you&amp;#x27;re likely to be hiring perpetrators. That explains why it is not more likely to happen when the individual being hired is diagnosed (&amp;quot;Employees leaving unhealthy organizations act as “carriers” of these disorders regardless of whether they themselves have received a formal diagnosis&amp;quot;), and also why it is more likely to happen when they enter a position of power (&amp;quot;The effect is especially pronounced if the newcomer holds a managerial position.&amp;quot;).&lt;p&gt;I am also not sure if the social contagion model has a lot of evidence for it. If you apply epidemiological models to any data you will get fits for epidemiological model parameters, and those will have a built-in epidemiological interpretation - but without prior knowledge that mental disorders are contagious (I thought most were definitely not?) you would just be making blind nonlinear curve fits to generic functions with many possible explanations.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>steponlego</author><text>Is it unreasonable to suspect that depressed people can spread their attitudes to other people? The concept of purely social diseases is centuries old at this point.</text></comment>

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<story><title>Why do airplane windows have tiny holes?</title><url>http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_eye/2015/05/29/what_s_that_thing_why_are_there_holes_in_airplane_windows.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>re</author><text>If you shrank a 777 to the size of a soda can, its skin would be about four times thinner than the average can&amp;#x27;s.</text></item><item><author>oh_sigh</author><text>To put it another way: Fuselages are 20x thicker than the walls of soda cans.</text></item><item><author>hellyeasa</author><text>Here&amp;#x27;s another cool random plane tidbit.&lt;p&gt;Commercial jetliner fuselage wall thicknesses are typically around 1-2mm. They don&amp;#x27;t call &amp;#x27;em flying tincans for nothin! Think about that next time you fly!</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>achow</author><text>&amp;gt; &lt;i&gt;If you shrank a 777 to the size of a soda can, its skin would be about four times thinner than the average can&amp;#x27;s.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;My take.. The difference between inside and outside of soda can is approx 175 (kPa). The difference between inside and outside of aircraft cabin at the cruising altitude is 56.6 (kPa). So Soda can bears differential of approx 3 times than the pressure differential that aircraft cabin structure supports, with material 4 times thinner.&lt;p&gt;Aircraft is 12 times more safer than a soda can (!)&lt;p&gt;Interesting.. aircraft safety engineers at work.&lt;p&gt;Reference:&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Cabin_pressurization&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Cabin_pressurization&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.engineeringtoolbox.com&amp;#x2F;air-altitude-pressure-d_462.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.engineeringtoolbox.com&amp;#x2F;air-altitude-pressure-d_46...&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>

<story><title>Why do airplane windows have tiny holes?</title><url>http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_eye/2015/05/29/what_s_that_thing_why_are_there_holes_in_airplane_windows.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>re</author><text>If you shrank a 777 to the size of a soda can, its skin would be about four times thinner than the average can&amp;#x27;s.</text></item><item><author>oh_sigh</author><text>To put it another way: Fuselages are 20x thicker than the walls of soda cans.</text></item><item><author>hellyeasa</author><text>Here&amp;#x27;s another cool random plane tidbit.&lt;p&gt;Commercial jetliner fuselage wall thicknesses are typically around 1-2mm. They don&amp;#x27;t call &amp;#x27;em flying tincans for nothin! Think about that next time you fly!</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jonsen</author><text>So it would be unwise to fill a 777 with soda.</text></comment>

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<story><title>Thoughts on Time-series Databases</title><url>http://jmoiron.net/blog/thoughts-on-timeseries-databases/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tsdbase</author><text>I&amp;#x27;ve hit the same problem and I would like to move back to a SQL data store. However none of the nice dashboards &amp;#x2F; visualizations support postgres or any SQL database (for now)...&lt;p&gt;My question (to everyone): what do you use as replacement for kibana or grafana?</text></item><item><author>Everlag</author><text>I actually just migrated 20 million rows of Magic: the Gathering price data from influxDB to postgres this week. For a few days of effort, I decreased my query latency by an order of a magnitude; a full set query, roughly 270 cards, went from 30 to 3 seconds with a cold cache.&lt;p&gt;The migration was prompted by influxDB 0.8 eating 50% of the VPS&amp;#x27; cpu and 77% of the ram while idling. It had no capability to index along anything but time so every query, for my use case, required a full table scan. 0.9 was supposed to fix every issue I had with it but it was due to be &amp;#x27;production ready&amp;#x27; months ago.&lt;p&gt;Unless you&amp;#x27;re dealing with ingesting an absolutely insane amount of data indexed along time, I&amp;#x27;d have to say that postgres or comparable sql database should be more comfortable, more stable, and much more mature.&lt;p&gt;EDIT: I don&amp;#x27;t want to come off as shitting all over influxDB, to its credit it barely moved beyond idle resource usage when I was stuffing it full of data.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jrv</author><text>If you don&amp;#x27;t need to keep data forever, but only several weeks or months, and you only need numeric time series data and not raw event logs, Prometheus (&lt;a href=&quot;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;prometheus.io&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;prometheus.io&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt;) is your friend. Since it&amp;#x27;s optimized towards purely numeric time series (with arbitrary labeled dimensions), it currently uses an order of magnitude less disk space than InfluxDB for this use case, and I&amp;#x27;ve also heard a few reports of people&amp;#x27;s CPU+IO usage dropping drastically when they switched from InfluxDB to Prometheus for their metrics.&lt;p&gt;As dashboards for Prometheus, you can currently use PromDash (&lt;a href=&quot;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;prometheus.io&amp;#x2F;docs&amp;#x2F;visualization&amp;#x2F;promdash&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;prometheus.io&amp;#x2F;docs&amp;#x2F;visualization&amp;#x2F;promdash&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt;), Console HTML templates (&lt;a href=&quot;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;prometheus.io&amp;#x2F;docs&amp;#x2F;visualization&amp;#x2F;consoles&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;prometheus.io&amp;#x2F;docs&amp;#x2F;visualization&amp;#x2F;consoles&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt;), or Grafana (&lt;a href=&quot;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;prometheus.io&amp;#x2F;docs&amp;#x2F;visualization&amp;#x2F;grafana&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;prometheus.io&amp;#x2F;docs&amp;#x2F;visualization&amp;#x2F;grafana&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt;).&lt;p&gt;Durable long-term storage is still outstanding. Although replication into OpenTSDB and InfluxDB is experimentally there.</text></comment>

<story><title>Thoughts on Time-series Databases</title><url>http://jmoiron.net/blog/thoughts-on-timeseries-databases/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tsdbase</author><text>I&amp;#x27;ve hit the same problem and I would like to move back to a SQL data store. However none of the nice dashboards &amp;#x2F; visualizations support postgres or any SQL database (for now)...&lt;p&gt;My question (to everyone): what do you use as replacement for kibana or grafana?</text></item><item><author>Everlag</author><text>I actually just migrated 20 million rows of Magic: the Gathering price data from influxDB to postgres this week. For a few days of effort, I decreased my query latency by an order of a magnitude; a full set query, roughly 270 cards, went from 30 to 3 seconds with a cold cache.&lt;p&gt;The migration was prompted by influxDB 0.8 eating 50% of the VPS&amp;#x27; cpu and 77% of the ram while idling. It had no capability to index along anything but time so every query, for my use case, required a full table scan. 0.9 was supposed to fix every issue I had with it but it was due to be &amp;#x27;production ready&amp;#x27; months ago.&lt;p&gt;Unless you&amp;#x27;re dealing with ingesting an absolutely insane amount of data indexed along time, I&amp;#x27;d have to say that postgres or comparable sql database should be more comfortable, more stable, and much more mature.&lt;p&gt;EDIT: I don&amp;#x27;t want to come off as shitting all over influxDB, to its credit it barely moved beyond idle resource usage when I was stuffing it full of data.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>robochat</author><text>I&amp;#x27;ve just implemented a custom backend for graphite-api which seems to be working ok although I don&amp;#x27;t have crazy requirements. &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;github.com&amp;#x2F;brutasse&amp;#x2F;graphite-api&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;github.com&amp;#x2F;brutasse&amp;#x2F;graphite-api&lt;/a&gt; is a cleaned up fork of graphite (which is much easier to install). I&amp;#x27;m using grafana as the front-end and my data is in a postgresql database and graphite-api is linking them together.</text></comment>

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<story><title>Google removes all Danish music from YouTube</title><url>https://www.koda.dk/about-us/press-release-google-removes-all-danish-music-from-youtube</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>vermilingua</author><text>A schoolyard bully goes to a group of children, and tells one “I want all your lunches, or I’m going to break your legs.” The children refuse, and their legs are broken; but it’s the children’s fault for not allowing the bully to take some of their lunch, and break one of their legs each.</text></item><item><author>supernova87a</author><text>&amp;gt; &lt;i&gt;Google uses their dominant position to ask a reduction of 70%. How do you want Koda to accept those terms? Why would artists work with Koda if they don’t push back on such a ridiculous demand? It’s their job to say no here.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;That&amp;#x27;s fine. Just don&amp;#x27;t misrepresent that it&amp;#x27;s Google unilaterally removing people&amp;#x27;s content.&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;How do you want Koda to accept those terms?&amp;quot; However they wish to -- that&amp;#x27;s not my place to tell them. It&amp;#x27;s totally up to them. They can change their business model. They can come up with whatever ideas they want. Just like Google had to, to undercut all those old traditional advertisers who were charging ridiculous rates for print advertising. Just like every startup is trying to do to incumbents. Just like tons of people do every day without any desire for &lt;i&gt;any&lt;/i&gt; revenue, even.&lt;p&gt;Don&amp;#x27;t cherry pick the things you like about being able to create new things, and then suddenly demand barriers (on principle) to that same ability because you started making money on it. You just want your cut, just like Google.</text></item><item><author>dgellow</author><text>Google uses their dominant position to ask a reduction of 70%. How do you want Koda to accept those terms? Why would artists work with Koda if they don’t push back on such a ridiculous demand? It’s their job to say no here.</text></item><item><author>supernova87a</author><text>As in so many disputes, the parties (koda.dk here) will claim this is about principles and yada yada yada, &amp;quot;Google removes all Danish music from Youtube&amp;quot;, etc.&lt;p&gt;You can be guaranteed though, it&amp;#x27;s always just about the price and how the one party doesn&amp;#x27;t want to pay it, and the other party doesn&amp;#x27;t want to change it.&lt;p&gt;ESPN doesn&amp;#x27;t want to pay MLB, Comcast doesn&amp;#x27;t want to pay local stations, app developers don&amp;#x27;t want to pay Apple. It goes on and on.&lt;p&gt;The article has the headline &amp;quot;On the evening of Thursday 30 July, Google announced that they will soon remove all Danish music content on YouTube&amp;quot;.&lt;p&gt;Yet in the next paragraphs, it goes on to describe a change in terms promulgated by Google after a treaty expiration, and that &amp;quot;Of course, Koda cannot accept these terms&amp;quot;.&lt;p&gt;Well then, this is a decision by Google, and then a decision by Koda isn&amp;#x27;t it?&lt;p&gt;Yet they make it sound like Google is the big bad entity. Isn&amp;#x27;t that convenient.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>donor20</author><text>Is this a joke?&lt;p&gt;KODA and Gramex are monopolies. No one is forced to put their music on google, they do it voluntarily. Folks are FORCED to use KODA and Gramex.&lt;p&gt;Google is saying, if you want to put your music on our platform (which we then distribute for free globally for you at NO cost to you) then we can do it - but if you ask us to pay you more than X to distribute it for you that&amp;#x27;s not going to work.&lt;p&gt;Reality check for a minute - if koda did this type of global distribution for their artists they would CHARGE their artists a total fortune to do so, NOT pay them.</text></comment>

<story><title>Google removes all Danish music from YouTube</title><url>https://www.koda.dk/about-us/press-release-google-removes-all-danish-music-from-youtube</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>vermilingua</author><text>A schoolyard bully goes to a group of children, and tells one “I want all your lunches, or I’m going to break your legs.” The children refuse, and their legs are broken; but it’s the children’s fault for not allowing the bully to take some of their lunch, and break one of their legs each.</text></item><item><author>supernova87a</author><text>&amp;gt; &lt;i&gt;Google uses their dominant position to ask a reduction of 70%. How do you want Koda to accept those terms? Why would artists work with Koda if they don’t push back on such a ridiculous demand? It’s their job to say no here.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;That&amp;#x27;s fine. Just don&amp;#x27;t misrepresent that it&amp;#x27;s Google unilaterally removing people&amp;#x27;s content.&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;How do you want Koda to accept those terms?&amp;quot; However they wish to -- that&amp;#x27;s not my place to tell them. It&amp;#x27;s totally up to them. They can change their business model. They can come up with whatever ideas they want. Just like Google had to, to undercut all those old traditional advertisers who were charging ridiculous rates for print advertising. Just like every startup is trying to do to incumbents. Just like tons of people do every day without any desire for &lt;i&gt;any&lt;/i&gt; revenue, even.&lt;p&gt;Don&amp;#x27;t cherry pick the things you like about being able to create new things, and then suddenly demand barriers (on principle) to that same ability because you started making money on it. You just want your cut, just like Google.</text></item><item><author>dgellow</author><text>Google uses their dominant position to ask a reduction of 70%. How do you want Koda to accept those terms? Why would artists work with Koda if they don’t push back on such a ridiculous demand? It’s their job to say no here.</text></item><item><author>supernova87a</author><text>As in so many disputes, the parties (koda.dk here) will claim this is about principles and yada yada yada, &amp;quot;Google removes all Danish music from Youtube&amp;quot;, etc.&lt;p&gt;You can be guaranteed though, it&amp;#x27;s always just about the price and how the one party doesn&amp;#x27;t want to pay it, and the other party doesn&amp;#x27;t want to change it.&lt;p&gt;ESPN doesn&amp;#x27;t want to pay MLB, Comcast doesn&amp;#x27;t want to pay local stations, app developers don&amp;#x27;t want to pay Apple. It goes on and on.&lt;p&gt;The article has the headline &amp;quot;On the evening of Thursday 30 July, Google announced that they will soon remove all Danish music content on YouTube&amp;quot;.&lt;p&gt;Yet in the next paragraphs, it goes on to describe a change in terms promulgated by Google after a treaty expiration, and that &amp;quot;Of course, Koda cannot accept these terms&amp;quot;.&lt;p&gt;Well then, this is a decision by Google, and then a decision by Koda isn&amp;#x27;t it?&lt;p&gt;Yet they make it sound like Google is the big bad entity. Isn&amp;#x27;t that convenient.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>supernova87a</author><text>&amp;gt; &lt;i&gt;A schoolyard bully goes to a group of children, and tells one “I want all your lunches, or I’m going to break your legs.” The children refuse, and their legs are broken; but it’s the children’s fault for not allowing the bully to take some of their lunch, and break one of their legs each.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;Oh that&amp;#x27;s rich. Comparing a company that enabled a technology never seen before, which enters into voluntary agreements with other companies who create technology never seen before, to schoolyard bullies extorting kids and stealing their money.&lt;p&gt;I love how working in tech can warp your sense of reality.&lt;p&gt;And by the way, tell us, what analogy applies to the $ amounts that Koda takes off the top, before it pays its musicians royalties or gives them their share? I&amp;#x27;m sure that wouldn&amp;#x27;t be breaking legs in their view, now would it?</text></comment>

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<story><title>DuckDuckGo&apos;s bang</title><url>https://duckduckgo.com/bang</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>zumzumzum</author><text>I am a long time DDG user, going on 4 years? I am just now starting to revert back to google more and more as I start to find their results lacking. The main problem I have with bangs is that my mental mode for searching is always going directly to the search string first. The friction of having to back out of that and insert a bang is too much. I would love to be able to add the bang at the end, as it is often then that I realize a particular search string would be better suited for google or some other service (but mostly google). I&amp;#x27;ll send them that suggestion.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>0942v8653</author><text>I&amp;#x27;ve been adding the bang at the end of the string for years, and you can even add it in the middle:&lt;p&gt;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt; hacker news !g hacker news!g hacker !g news hacker!g news &lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt; all work.</text></comment>

<story><title>DuckDuckGo&apos;s bang</title><url>https://duckduckgo.com/bang</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>zumzumzum</author><text>I am a long time DDG user, going on 4 years? I am just now starting to revert back to google more and more as I start to find their results lacking. The main problem I have with bangs is that my mental mode for searching is always going directly to the search string first. The friction of having to back out of that and insert a bang is too much. I would love to be able to add the bang at the end, as it is often then that I realize a particular search string would be better suited for google or some other service (but mostly google). I&amp;#x27;ll send them that suggestion.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>magissima</author><text>Ecosia[0] does this by using a hash sign at the end of the string instead, like &amp;quot;query #g&amp;quot; to google &amp;quot;query&amp;quot;. I prefer that to DDG&amp;#x27;s bangs, but ecosia only has a couple of available options[1].&lt;p&gt;e: Apparently DDG can do this after all, so ecosia is actually less flexible since the search tag has to come at the end!&lt;p&gt;[0] ecosia.org&lt;p&gt;[1] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;ecosia.zendesk.com&amp;#x2F;hc&amp;#x2F;en-us&amp;#x2F;articles&amp;#x2F;201657321-What-are-search-tags-&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;ecosia.zendesk.com&amp;#x2F;hc&amp;#x2F;en-us&amp;#x2F;articles&amp;#x2F;201657321-What-...&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>

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<story><title>Too much serendipity</title><url>https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/oA23zoEjPnzqfHiCt/there-is-way-too-much-serendipity</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jdewerd</author><text>&amp;gt; there may be quantum effects involved&lt;p&gt;Quantum Mechanics is why atoms and molecules exist and form bonds. QM is the physics of chemistry. Without QM, chemistry does not happen. The universe would just be a big churning mess of particles and you would never get little lego pieces that snap together according to repeatable rules that, when repeated, form macroscopic substances of innumerable description up to and including life itself.&lt;p&gt;So QM is no doubt involved, but on this scale it is either a trivial fact or an indication that someone tried to lean on a classical approximation, it broke, and they had to revise it (which arguably says more about the approximation than it says about the underlying behavior).&lt;p&gt;Apologies for the nitpick. It&amp;#x27;s a pet peeve of mine that discussions of QM tend to focus so hard on the strange behavior that they forget to mention where QM fits into the bigger picture and leave people with the impression that it only matters under special circumstances when in fact it matters so much that you can hardly have &amp;quot;matter&amp;quot; without it.&lt;p&gt;------------&lt;p&gt;Re: anesthetic, a large fraction of simple halocarbon compounds have intense neural effects, so anyone doing halocarbon chemistry would quickly be put on the &amp;quot;scent&amp;quot; even if they weren&amp;#x27;t tasting everything in the Sigma Aldrich catalog.</text></item><item><author>johngossman</author><text>I recently learned that anesthesia is the same. Not only has no anesthesia ever been developed except through &amp;quot;serendipity.&amp;quot; Not only that, but anesthesia that works for humans also effect a wide range of things including plants and bacteria. But why is an active area of research. There are even speculations that there may be quantum effects involved. Biology and chemistry are insanely complex.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>akoboldfrying</author><text>I would say everyone understands that &amp;quot;quantum effects&amp;quot; refers to situations in which classical approximations break down.&lt;p&gt;Likewise when we say &amp;quot;numerical issues&amp;quot;, it&amp;#x27;s understood that we&amp;#x27;re talking about situations in which the usual approximation of real numbers by floating point representations breaks down. &amp;quot;Disk corruption&amp;quot; doesn&amp;#x27;t necessarily mean anything is physically wrong with the disk, only that its contents have become inconsistent with the filesystem abstraction it normally supports, etc.</text></comment>

<story><title>Too much serendipity</title><url>https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/oA23zoEjPnzqfHiCt/there-is-way-too-much-serendipity</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jdewerd</author><text>&amp;gt; there may be quantum effects involved&lt;p&gt;Quantum Mechanics is why atoms and molecules exist and form bonds. QM is the physics of chemistry. Without QM, chemistry does not happen. The universe would just be a big churning mess of particles and you would never get little lego pieces that snap together according to repeatable rules that, when repeated, form macroscopic substances of innumerable description up to and including life itself.&lt;p&gt;So QM is no doubt involved, but on this scale it is either a trivial fact or an indication that someone tried to lean on a classical approximation, it broke, and they had to revise it (which arguably says more about the approximation than it says about the underlying behavior).&lt;p&gt;Apologies for the nitpick. It&amp;#x27;s a pet peeve of mine that discussions of QM tend to focus so hard on the strange behavior that they forget to mention where QM fits into the bigger picture and leave people with the impression that it only matters under special circumstances when in fact it matters so much that you can hardly have &amp;quot;matter&amp;quot; without it.&lt;p&gt;------------&lt;p&gt;Re: anesthetic, a large fraction of simple halocarbon compounds have intense neural effects, so anyone doing halocarbon chemistry would quickly be put on the &amp;quot;scent&amp;quot; even if they weren&amp;#x27;t tasting everything in the Sigma Aldrich catalog.</text></item><item><author>johngossman</author><text>I recently learned that anesthesia is the same. Not only has no anesthesia ever been developed except through &amp;quot;serendipity.&amp;quot; Not only that, but anesthesia that works for humans also effect a wide range of things including plants and bacteria. But why is an active area of research. There are even speculations that there may be quantum effects involved. Biology and chemistry are insanely complex.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>PakG1</author><text>As a non-physicist and non-chemist who keeps running into quantum mechanics only through headlines, extra thanks for pointing this out. It&amp;#x27;s quite obvious in retrospect to acknowledge that quantum mechanics is the physics of chemistry, and I don&amp;#x27;t know why I didn&amp;#x27;t see that before. It certainly helps to view a lot of things in a new light.</text></comment>

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<story><title>The Terrifying Reality of Long-Term Unemployment</title><url>http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2013/04/the-terrifying-reality-of-longterm-unemployment/274957/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>enraged_camel</author><text>&amp;#62;&amp;#62;There is another side of this that the article doesn&apos;t touch on: home ownership.&lt;p&gt;Oh boy. There&apos;s so much I can say about this topic, and none of it is positive.&lt;p&gt;Basically, the way our culture mindlessly promotes home ownership is insane. &lt;i&gt;Absolutely insane!&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;Every time I hear people complaining about &quot;throwing away money&quot; by renting, and how they would rather put that money into a house, I want to hold them by the shoulders and shake them violently. It&apos;s like the housing market crash did not teach anyone anything!&lt;p&gt;It comes down to this: a house is a terrible, terrible means of investment. It&apos;s a fixed asset that, contrary to popular belief, is not guaranteed to always go up in value. In addition, people don&apos;t really take into account the negatives. Primarily, a house ties you down. You have zero mobility as a labor market participant if you own a house, and this significantly reduces your leveraging power when it comes to negotiating salary. Besides that though, houses have a ton of expenses, and as fixed assets they are subject to a lot of uncontrollable risk (fire, floods, earthquakes, the neighborhood depreciating, etc.).&lt;p&gt;Instead of having that money tied down on a house, people are much better investing in the stock market, which has, over the past 100 years, gone up by 7% annually.&lt;p&gt;The only time a house makes sense is when raising kids. The stability of the environment has a lot of positive benefits for their growth. It also makes social integration easier.&lt;p&gt;/rant</text></item><item><author>cletus</author><text>This doesn&apos;t surprise me at all. One thing I&apos;ve come to learn in life is the importance of social proof.&lt;p&gt;Social proof takes many form. It&apos;s why MIT and Stanford CS grads have tech companies come to their campuses and throw money at them (these institutions don&apos;t have a monopoly on good engineers). It&apos;s why if you have Google/Facebook/Twitter on your CV you are pretty much guaranteed a job. It&apos;s why academic staff who have a Harvard degree have a much easier time than those that don&apos;t.&lt;p&gt;How long you&apos;ve been out of work is more social proof. Were I in this situation I would absolutely without a second&apos;s doubt invent fictitious employment and get a friend to back up any reference check and I wouldn&apos;t feel the least bit bad about it. I know employers are filtering on superficial things and those that have had difficulty finding work is a pretty quick and easy filter.&lt;p&gt;There is another side of this that the article doesn&apos;t touch on: home ownership.&lt;p&gt;10+ years ago I remember reading a study in Europe that showed the rate of unemployment was directly proportional to the rate of home ownership across the entire EU with a very high correlation. Spain had the highest rate of home ownership and unemployment. Britain (then) had the lowest for both.&lt;p&gt;We push home ownership as a political agenda. While it has benefits for creating stable communities it also creates an inflexible labour market as people won&apos;t move to where the jobs are.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>nostromo</author><text>A few things you&apos;re not accounting for:&lt;p&gt;* Leverage. (The most you can leverage a stock investment is 2x. For homes people can leverage their money up to an insane 20x, for example: by buying a 500k home with 25k down. The proper comparison is not to compare buying a 500k home vs 500k worth of stocks; it&apos;s buying 25k or 50k worth of stocks vs a 500k home.)&lt;p&gt;* Mortgage deduction. (Imagine if you could invest 500k in the stock market with only 25k, and then the government let you deduct your interest payments!)&lt;p&gt;* Inflation. (I&apos;ve heard of people living in Manhattan in apartments they bought in the 1980s that pay a mortgage of $500. Inflation has reduced their mortgage debt to negligible levels. Time has in a very real way erased much of their debt.)</text></comment>

<story><title>The Terrifying Reality of Long-Term Unemployment</title><url>http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2013/04/the-terrifying-reality-of-longterm-unemployment/274957/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>enraged_camel</author><text>&amp;#62;&amp;#62;There is another side of this that the article doesn&apos;t touch on: home ownership.&lt;p&gt;Oh boy. There&apos;s so much I can say about this topic, and none of it is positive.&lt;p&gt;Basically, the way our culture mindlessly promotes home ownership is insane. &lt;i&gt;Absolutely insane!&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;Every time I hear people complaining about &quot;throwing away money&quot; by renting, and how they would rather put that money into a house, I want to hold them by the shoulders and shake them violently. It&apos;s like the housing market crash did not teach anyone anything!&lt;p&gt;It comes down to this: a house is a terrible, terrible means of investment. It&apos;s a fixed asset that, contrary to popular belief, is not guaranteed to always go up in value. In addition, people don&apos;t really take into account the negatives. Primarily, a house ties you down. You have zero mobility as a labor market participant if you own a house, and this significantly reduces your leveraging power when it comes to negotiating salary. Besides that though, houses have a ton of expenses, and as fixed assets they are subject to a lot of uncontrollable risk (fire, floods, earthquakes, the neighborhood depreciating, etc.).&lt;p&gt;Instead of having that money tied down on a house, people are much better investing in the stock market, which has, over the past 100 years, gone up by 7% annually.&lt;p&gt;The only time a house makes sense is when raising kids. The stability of the environment has a lot of positive benefits for their growth. It also makes social integration easier.&lt;p&gt;/rant</text></item><item><author>cletus</author><text>This doesn&apos;t surprise me at all. One thing I&apos;ve come to learn in life is the importance of social proof.&lt;p&gt;Social proof takes many form. It&apos;s why MIT and Stanford CS grads have tech companies come to their campuses and throw money at them (these institutions don&apos;t have a monopoly on good engineers). It&apos;s why if you have Google/Facebook/Twitter on your CV you are pretty much guaranteed a job. It&apos;s why academic staff who have a Harvard degree have a much easier time than those that don&apos;t.&lt;p&gt;How long you&apos;ve been out of work is more social proof. Were I in this situation I would absolutely without a second&apos;s doubt invent fictitious employment and get a friend to back up any reference check and I wouldn&apos;t feel the least bit bad about it. I know employers are filtering on superficial things and those that have had difficulty finding work is a pretty quick and easy filter.&lt;p&gt;There is another side of this that the article doesn&apos;t touch on: home ownership.&lt;p&gt;10+ years ago I remember reading a study in Europe that showed the rate of unemployment was directly proportional to the rate of home ownership across the entire EU with a very high correlation. Spain had the highest rate of home ownership and unemployment. Britain (then) had the lowest for both.&lt;p&gt;We push home ownership as a political agenda. While it has benefits for creating stable communities it also creates an inflexible labour market as people won&apos;t move to where the jobs are.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>kens</author><text>One thing that puzzles me is that rising house prices are treated as inherently good, and falling house prices are seen as inherently bad. But for most things, it&apos;s the exact opposite - rising prices are bad.&lt;p&gt;Is this just because newspaper articles are biased towards the perspective of real estate agents and homeowners? Or are high house prices good because houses are investments? Would cheap 3-d printed houses (hypothetically) make the country better off or worse off economically?</text></comment>

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<story><title>The pro-Israel information war</title><url>https://jackpoulson.substack.com/p/inside-the-pro-israel-information</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>A1kmm</author><text>I think the fundamental assumption of the analysis that there are two mutually exclusive groups, &amp;#x27;pro-Israel&amp;#x27; and &amp;#x27;pro-Palestine&amp;#x27; is flawed. It is possible to simultaneously support the interests of Palestinian and Israeli civilians (and support a peaceful Israel within the 1967 boundaries), while condemning the massacre of civilians under the orders of Likud (and other far right parties) and Hamas.&lt;p&gt;I think it is currently about an order of magnitude more civilians deaths have resulted from the actions of Likud (Netanyahu etc..., who control the government and hence the IDF) than from the actions of Hamas. IDF is apparently disrupting civilian aid, destroying infrastructure including hospitals, and causing mass population movements into areas that cannot support them, so the risk of death from starvation and infectious disease at a massive scale as an indirect result is high. The Likud-controlled IDF are also apparently enforcing a &amp;#x27;lock down&amp;#x27; of Palestinian civilians in the West Bank while allowing Israeli citizens to seize land by force and further expand the occupied territories.&lt;p&gt;So the scale of the atrocities seems to be much higher on the Likud side than the Hamas side, covers both the West Bank and Gaza, and it makes sense that the Palestinian victims of those atrocities would receive more support. That doesn&amp;#x27;t mean that all the people who care about the plight of the Palestinian population are anti-Israel (they are just not posting about it because they are likely prioritising issues).</text></item><item><author>jdross</author><text>Pro-Palestinian views outrank Pro-Israeli online by around 36 to 1 on TikTok and 8 to 1 on other online platforms. &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;twitter.com&amp;#x2F;antgoldbloom&amp;#x2F;status&amp;#x2F;1721561226151612602&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;twitter.com&amp;#x2F;antgoldbloom&amp;#x2F;status&amp;#x2F;1721561226151612602&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;If anything the skew within the platforms is to prioritize pro-palestinian views &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;twitter.com&amp;#x2F;committeeonccp&amp;#x2F;status&amp;#x2F;1732792434961031436&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;twitter.com&amp;#x2F;committeeonccp&amp;#x2F;status&amp;#x2F;173279243496103143...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;It also seems like these platforms create (rather than support) anti-Israeli views: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;twitter.com&amp;#x2F;antgoldbloom&amp;#x2F;status&amp;#x2F;1730255552738201854&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;twitter.com&amp;#x2F;antgoldbloom&amp;#x2F;status&amp;#x2F;1730255552738201854&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;US views skew pro-israel, and GenZ is closer to 50&amp;#x2F;50, so if there&amp;#x27;s something going on online, it&amp;#x27;s not in favor of Israel.&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s probably relevant that there are 1 billion Muslims to 16 million Jews, and that the largest relevant population of pro-Israeli internationals is India and Indian Hindus, and they are not on TikTok (blocked in India).</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>The_Colonel</author><text>I think that forcing this dichotomy is part of the deliberate pro-Israel media strategy - if you despise Hamas inhumane acts, then of course you need to be pro-Israel. They want you to focus on Hamas to steer away your attention from what Israel has been doing. (this is also one of the reasons why Hamas has historically been an asset for the Israeli right)</text></comment>

<story><title>The pro-Israel information war</title><url>https://jackpoulson.substack.com/p/inside-the-pro-israel-information</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>A1kmm</author><text>I think the fundamental assumption of the analysis that there are two mutually exclusive groups, &amp;#x27;pro-Israel&amp;#x27; and &amp;#x27;pro-Palestine&amp;#x27; is flawed. It is possible to simultaneously support the interests of Palestinian and Israeli civilians (and support a peaceful Israel within the 1967 boundaries), while condemning the massacre of civilians under the orders of Likud (and other far right parties) and Hamas.&lt;p&gt;I think it is currently about an order of magnitude more civilians deaths have resulted from the actions of Likud (Netanyahu etc..., who control the government and hence the IDF) than from the actions of Hamas. IDF is apparently disrupting civilian aid, destroying infrastructure including hospitals, and causing mass population movements into areas that cannot support them, so the risk of death from starvation and infectious disease at a massive scale as an indirect result is high. The Likud-controlled IDF are also apparently enforcing a &amp;#x27;lock down&amp;#x27; of Palestinian civilians in the West Bank while allowing Israeli citizens to seize land by force and further expand the occupied territories.&lt;p&gt;So the scale of the atrocities seems to be much higher on the Likud side than the Hamas side, covers both the West Bank and Gaza, and it makes sense that the Palestinian victims of those atrocities would receive more support. That doesn&amp;#x27;t mean that all the people who care about the plight of the Palestinian population are anti-Israel (they are just not posting about it because they are likely prioritising issues).</text></item><item><author>jdross</author><text>Pro-Palestinian views outrank Pro-Israeli online by around 36 to 1 on TikTok and 8 to 1 on other online platforms. &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;twitter.com&amp;#x2F;antgoldbloom&amp;#x2F;status&amp;#x2F;1721561226151612602&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;twitter.com&amp;#x2F;antgoldbloom&amp;#x2F;status&amp;#x2F;1721561226151612602&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;If anything the skew within the platforms is to prioritize pro-palestinian views &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;twitter.com&amp;#x2F;committeeonccp&amp;#x2F;status&amp;#x2F;1732792434961031436&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;twitter.com&amp;#x2F;committeeonccp&amp;#x2F;status&amp;#x2F;173279243496103143...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;It also seems like these platforms create (rather than support) anti-Israeli views: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;twitter.com&amp;#x2F;antgoldbloom&amp;#x2F;status&amp;#x2F;1730255552738201854&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;twitter.com&amp;#x2F;antgoldbloom&amp;#x2F;status&amp;#x2F;1730255552738201854&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;US views skew pro-israel, and GenZ is closer to 50&amp;#x2F;50, so if there&amp;#x27;s something going on online, it&amp;#x27;s not in favor of Israel.&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s probably relevant that there are 1 billion Muslims to 16 million Jews, and that the largest relevant population of pro-Israeli internationals is India and Indian Hindus, and they are not on TikTok (blocked in India).</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>meowface</author><text>I don&amp;#x27;t support how civilians are being treated in Palestine whatsoever, but:&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt;while condemning the massacre of civilians under the orders of Likud (and other far right parties)&lt;p&gt;When has Likud ordered massacres of civilians? Or when has any modern Israeli party? I also don&amp;#x27;t believe Likud is considered far-right in Israel; just &amp;quot;right&amp;quot;. There are parties far to the right of them. Not that that&amp;#x27;s necessarily a good thing, but it&amp;#x27;s a relative designation.</text></comment>

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<story><title>Plastic Straws Aren’t the Problem</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2018-06-07/plastic-straws-aren-t-the-problem</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>chewbacha</author><text>The plastic straw boycott is not meant to fix the problem, that’s been acknowledged [0]. It’s to help drive a message and teach awareness. The hope being that people shift behaviors that impact other areas.&lt;p&gt;Everything helps at this point. Because something helps less shouldn’t mean we bash it. Collectively we should do more.&lt;p&gt;[0] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.vox.com&amp;#x2F;2018&amp;#x2F;6&amp;#x2F;25&amp;#x2F;17488336&amp;#x2F;starbucks-plastic-straw-ban-ocean-pollution&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.vox.com&amp;#x2F;2018&amp;#x2F;6&amp;#x2F;25&amp;#x2F;17488336&amp;#x2F;starbucks-plastic-str...&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>throwaway76543</author><text>I don&amp;#x27;t think it&amp;#x27;s true that &amp;quot;everything helps.&amp;quot; I think many of these grandstanding initiatives are received with open mockery and I think they serve to undermine the credibility of the larger environmental effort.&lt;p&gt;Recently we have had some rather large political shifts which move the needle considerably further away from our ecological goals. If you look at what people are saying within these political circles you will see derisive phrases like &amp;quot;virtue signaling,&amp;quot; referring to exactly this sort of thing.&lt;p&gt;When you &amp;quot;send a message&amp;quot; you take work which might be perceived as mutually beneficial and you turn it into a fight. You should expect the response to be the inverse: People will begin to &lt;i&gt;intentionally destroy&lt;/i&gt; the environment to send you a message in return. This has been part of Trump&amp;#x27;s schtick over the last year. This is why there is a culture around &amp;quot;rolling coal.&amp;quot; This is actually happening.&lt;p&gt;This is extremely bad policy and it hurts the environment.</text></comment>

<story><title>Plastic Straws Aren’t the Problem</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2018-06-07/plastic-straws-aren-t-the-problem</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>chewbacha</author><text>The plastic straw boycott is not meant to fix the problem, that’s been acknowledged [0]. It’s to help drive a message and teach awareness. The hope being that people shift behaviors that impact other areas.&lt;p&gt;Everything helps at this point. Because something helps less shouldn’t mean we bash it. Collectively we should do more.&lt;p&gt;[0] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.vox.com&amp;#x2F;2018&amp;#x2F;6&amp;#x2F;25&amp;#x2F;17488336&amp;#x2F;starbucks-plastic-straw-ban-ocean-pollution&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.vox.com&amp;#x2F;2018&amp;#x2F;6&amp;#x2F;25&amp;#x2F;17488336&amp;#x2F;starbucks-plastic-str...&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Symmetry</author><text>I know, for myself, that people focusing on silly thing to &amp;quot;raise awareness&amp;quot; of a bigger problem has in the past tricked me into thinking that the larger problem was overblown. Because of that and because our bandwidth for reaching people and people&amp;#x27;s patience with environmental messages is finite we really ought to concentrate on important topics rather than obsess over minutia.</text></comment>

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<story><title>How I got into MIT when I was 14</title><url>http://laura-whatawonderfulworld.blogspot.com/2012/01/lovely-way-to-learn.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>droithomme</author><text>Just so everyone is clear, she was unschooled, which is pretty different from conventional homeschooling. There&apos;s no curriculum at all, kids drive their own learning. If they want to play video games all day they are welcome to. If they want to sleep till noon that is fine.&lt;p&gt;As unlikely as it seems to someone who has been through conventional schooling, what actually happens in these cases is the child&apos;s natural curiosity is not squashed by rote work. As a result they drive their own learning, motivated by the natural curiosity of all humans. It is hypothesized that punishment and boring tasks are needed to squash this natural state, and some like educational reformer John Galt [edit: sorry, I meant John Gatto; freudian slip there] even claim that doing so is the purpose of conventional modern classroom schooling which was established in the late 19th century to create an underclass of unquestioning factory workers who can obey directions from authority figures.&lt;p&gt;Regardless of how this all happens, unschoolers tend to be the most interesting and well educated people around. This idea is very threatening to most people, so reactions are often hostile when they are encountered and it is frequently claimed that each achieving unschooler is an aberration.</text></comment>

<story><title>How I got into MIT when I was 14</title><url>http://laura-whatawonderfulworld.blogspot.com/2012/01/lovely-way-to-learn.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>ChuckMcM</author><text>As a parent who made the decision to pull my kids out of school and to home school them, it is a scary thing. Every parent that I&apos;ve met has struggled with the question of &quot;Is this the right choice? if I choose differently will my child have a &apos;better&apos; life?&quot;&lt;p&gt;Once my wife and I decided, we were &apos;all in&apos; as it were and put the angst of &apos;what if&apos; behind us. It turned out to be the right choice for our kids, they thrived, and while it certainly had an economic impact, its hard to say of the three choices, private school + two parents working, public school + two parents working, or homeschool + one parent working what the opportunity cost was or would turn out to be, the opportunity to engage kids in learning for learning&apos;s sake is priceless.</text></comment>

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<story><title>Now ChatGPT is being (mis)used to do PeerReview</title><url>https://mstdn.science/@ukrio/110100752908161183</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>justusw</author><text>This completes the cycle.&lt;p&gt;Researchers use GPT to write papers and submit them (can be fully automated)&lt;p&gt;Journals review using GPT and (potentially) publish (can be fully automated)&lt;p&gt;GPT will create a borked summary and create fake citations for the next cycle of research. (again, can be fully automated)&lt;p&gt;Then, left on its own, we will have a bunch of robots worrying for us about impact factor and grant applications and we can get back to doing actual research again. Problem solved.</text></comment>

<story><title>Now ChatGPT is being (mis)used to do PeerReview</title><url>https://mstdn.science/@ukrio/110100752908161183</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>primitivesuave</author><text>This is exactly what people should fear about the AI future. A lazy judge, parole officer, loan reviewer, school counselor, or in this case - peer reviewer, delegating decisions that affect human lives to a black-box algorithm.</text></comment>

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<story><title>Apple iPhone SE Available on Apple Store Again</title><url>https://www.apple.com/shop/refurbished/clearance</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>taurath</author><text>I’m not so sure anymore - I have a 3.5 year old iPhone 6s, and replaced the battery with a brand new on from the Apple store not 6 months ago - already, the new battery is worse than the old one a year into the phones life. Random shut offs at 10% and not getting through a day are regular occurances, something that didn’t happen at all the first 2 years</text></item><item><author>o10449366</author><text>The one thing that Apple does well is prolonged support for their phones. I switched away from Android phones because I got sick of buying the latest flagships only to have them lose software, hardware, and security support 12-24 months after release.&lt;p&gt;The new iPhones don&amp;#x27;t appeal to me, but I&amp;#x27;m satisfied knowing I can get a few more years out of my SE. I got my battery replaced 4 months ago after owning it for two years and its been running like new since on the latest version of iOS.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>iliketosleep</author><text>I&amp;#x27;d say that you have a faulty battery. The iPhone 6s doesn&amp;#x27;t have the best battery life, but you should get at least one year of heavy usage before any noticeable degradation and 2 years of normal usage.</text></comment>

<story><title>Apple iPhone SE Available on Apple Store Again</title><url>https://www.apple.com/shop/refurbished/clearance</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>taurath</author><text>I’m not so sure anymore - I have a 3.5 year old iPhone 6s, and replaced the battery with a brand new on from the Apple store not 6 months ago - already, the new battery is worse than the old one a year into the phones life. Random shut offs at 10% and not getting through a day are regular occurances, something that didn’t happen at all the first 2 years</text></item><item><author>o10449366</author><text>The one thing that Apple does well is prolonged support for their phones. I switched away from Android phones because I got sick of buying the latest flagships only to have them lose software, hardware, and security support 12-24 months after release.&lt;p&gt;The new iPhones don&amp;#x27;t appeal to me, but I&amp;#x27;m satisfied knowing I can get a few more years out of my SE. I got my battery replaced 4 months ago after owning it for two years and its been running like new since on the latest version of iOS.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>switz</author><text>I&amp;#x27;m having the same exact experience. I&amp;#x27;m considering heading to the Apple store and asking for a fresh battery replacement.&lt;p&gt;I don&amp;#x27;t want to give up my headphone jack.</text></comment>

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<story><title>Craigslist, LinkedIn, Netflix, and others don&apos;t owe us anything.</title><url>http://monkeymace.com/post/25740159275/craigslist-linkedin-netflix-and-others-dont-owe-us-anyth</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>citricsquid</author><text>I think the reason people here feel this way is because the general consensus among HN users is that the best product wins and that&apos;s all that matters. If a company has a monopoly on data and refuses to provide an API they&apos;re saying that they don&apos;t want to compete on the quality of their product (craigslist for example) they want to keep their position without the benefits to the users.&lt;p&gt;Padmapper made craigslist apartment searches much better, instead of making their own apartment searches better craigslist shut Padmapper&apos;s access to craigslist data down. It shows that they value their own business more than they value the experience of their users, which to a lot of people here isn&apos;t exactly &quot;good&quot;.&lt;p&gt;Companies are free to do with their data whatever they want and they&apos;re free to restrict access to it however they like, sure, but it&apos;s still lame when a company does it because they don&apos;t want to improve their product and don&apos;t like competition.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>kenjackson</author><text>&lt;i&gt;If a company has a monopoly on data and refuses to provide an API they&apos;re saying that they don&apos;t want to compete on the quality of their product&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;This implies that part of the quality of a product is NOT the ability to gather data. This would be like me walking into a Walmart, setting up a cash register next to theirs and start ringing up customers and arguing that Walmart can&apos;t compare with my customer service. Ignoring that customer service is just one small part of the business. Walmart had to find the property, buy the property, do the legal work to get the product on the shevles, the negotiation, the supply chain management, etc... I can&apos;t just focus on the last mile and then argue that I&apos;m entitled to everything else they did.&lt;p&gt;Craigslist built its name, it&apos;s reputation, it&apos;s backend, it&apos;s API, vetted a business model for its services, scouted out regions to focus on etc...&lt;p&gt;Furthermore, people are arguing the data is the users, not CLs. True, but the user gave it to CL, not to you. When I loan books to a neighbor I assume they aren&apos;t going to create a library of my loaned books (unless they specifically told me so).</text></comment>

<story><title>Craigslist, LinkedIn, Netflix, and others don&apos;t owe us anything.</title><url>http://monkeymace.com/post/25740159275/craigslist-linkedin-netflix-and-others-dont-owe-us-anyth</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>citricsquid</author><text>I think the reason people here feel this way is because the general consensus among HN users is that the best product wins and that&apos;s all that matters. If a company has a monopoly on data and refuses to provide an API they&apos;re saying that they don&apos;t want to compete on the quality of their product (craigslist for example) they want to keep their position without the benefits to the users.&lt;p&gt;Padmapper made craigslist apartment searches much better, instead of making their own apartment searches better craigslist shut Padmapper&apos;s access to craigslist data down. It shows that they value their own business more than they value the experience of their users, which to a lot of people here isn&apos;t exactly &quot;good&quot;.&lt;p&gt;Companies are free to do with their data whatever they want and they&apos;re free to restrict access to it however they like, sure, but it&apos;s still lame when a company does it because they don&apos;t want to improve their product and don&apos;t like competition.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>heliodor</author><text>Actually, Craigslist values us, the users, more than most companies. You know how? By leaving so much money on the table that you can&apos;t help but love them! Craigslist is a breath of fresh air in a world where everything is optimized as much as possible to part us from our money!</text></comment>

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<story><title>No morphological differences between living and non-living systems are yet known</title><url>https://www.chemistryworld.com/opinion/shape-is-not-enough-to-distinguish-life-from-abiotic-systems/4017874.article</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>visarga</author><text>Not only religious minds, but modern philosophers too, hold onto dualism - David Chalmers and his &amp;quot;hard problem&amp;quot; of consciousness is a case in point. Here, &amp;quot;hard&amp;quot; signifies what science can&amp;#x27;t touch, suggesting a distinct domain.&lt;p&gt;Likewise, philosophers such as Giulio Tononi with his Integrated Information Theory are edging towards panpsychism, the idea that everything possesses a shred of consciousness. This, too, is a somewhat religious stance.&lt;p&gt;I personally see no hard problem and believe only certain systems harbor consciousness. The magic element is simply evolution. Evolution, an open-ended optimizer, crafted everything in a singular run.&lt;p&gt;Consciousness exists to safeguard the body and ensure self reproduction, it is the inner optimization loop, the outer one being evolution. That&amp;#x27;s the link I see between them, they work together and each one is creating&amp;#x2F;supporting the other.</text></item><item><author>Galaxeblaffer</author><text>many religious interpretations of &amp;quot;living&amp;quot; is that it&amp;#x27;s magic and beyond the grasp of science. it basically boils down to if you believe that life is an inherent property of matter or if you believe that some magic entity makes things live. i know there&amp;#x27;s a huge gradient in between for most people, but at least for me, i think that might be the root cause (besides a gazillion other reasons) of being an atheist.</text></item><item><author>zvmaz</author><text>&amp;gt; However, I&amp;#x27;ve never grabbed onto Dawkins atheism as much as come to believe that the ways things &amp;quot;live&amp;quot; is much more diverse and amazing than we can even imagine.&lt;p&gt;What has atheism to do with the &amp;quot;ways things &amp;quot;live&amp;quot;?</text></item><item><author>bentt</author><text>The Selfish Gene says pretty much this. &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.amazon.com&amp;#x2F;Selfish-Gene-Popular-Science&amp;#x2F;dp&amp;#x2F;0192860925&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.amazon.com&amp;#x2F;Selfish-Gene-Popular-Science&amp;#x2F;dp&amp;#x2F;01928...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;However, I&amp;#x27;ve never grabbed onto Dawkins atheism as much as come to believe that the ways things &amp;quot;live&amp;quot; is much more diverse and amazing than we can even imagine.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Shorel</author><text>&amp;gt; The magic element is simply evolution.&lt;p&gt;I can&amp;#x27;t agree with that. Maybe our brains are not big enough, or complex enough yet to really understand what is going on with such complex systems.&lt;p&gt;Evolution may be the mechanism these complex systems exist, but it doesn&amp;#x27;t explain how they work.&lt;p&gt;Even the simplest artificial evolutionary algorithms have created integrated circuits with features we can not understand or explain.&lt;p&gt;And part of the reason is physical properties of materials, and quantum stuff. The evolutionary algorithm doesn&amp;#x27;t understand those things, just puts them in some working configuration by chance.&lt;p&gt;Anyway, my point is that we can&amp;#x27;t also use evolution as a catch-all explanation. Complex things are complex, and they require proper understanding, an engineering understanding, not just the handwaving arguments of philosophers.&lt;p&gt;About consciousness: hardest problem ever. I don&amp;#x27;t think we will be able to understand it, because we have it and it becomes a kind of strange loop.</text></comment>

<story><title>No morphological differences between living and non-living systems are yet known</title><url>https://www.chemistryworld.com/opinion/shape-is-not-enough-to-distinguish-life-from-abiotic-systems/4017874.article</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>visarga</author><text>Not only religious minds, but modern philosophers too, hold onto dualism - David Chalmers and his &amp;quot;hard problem&amp;quot; of consciousness is a case in point. Here, &amp;quot;hard&amp;quot; signifies what science can&amp;#x27;t touch, suggesting a distinct domain.&lt;p&gt;Likewise, philosophers such as Giulio Tononi with his Integrated Information Theory are edging towards panpsychism, the idea that everything possesses a shred of consciousness. This, too, is a somewhat religious stance.&lt;p&gt;I personally see no hard problem and believe only certain systems harbor consciousness. The magic element is simply evolution. Evolution, an open-ended optimizer, crafted everything in a singular run.&lt;p&gt;Consciousness exists to safeguard the body and ensure self reproduction, it is the inner optimization loop, the outer one being evolution. That&amp;#x27;s the link I see between them, they work together and each one is creating&amp;#x2F;supporting the other.</text></item><item><author>Galaxeblaffer</author><text>many religious interpretations of &amp;quot;living&amp;quot; is that it&amp;#x27;s magic and beyond the grasp of science. it basically boils down to if you believe that life is an inherent property of matter or if you believe that some magic entity makes things live. i know there&amp;#x27;s a huge gradient in between for most people, but at least for me, i think that might be the root cause (besides a gazillion other reasons) of being an atheist.</text></item><item><author>zvmaz</author><text>&amp;gt; However, I&amp;#x27;ve never grabbed onto Dawkins atheism as much as come to believe that the ways things &amp;quot;live&amp;quot; is much more diverse and amazing than we can even imagine.&lt;p&gt;What has atheism to do with the &amp;quot;ways things &amp;quot;live&amp;quot;?</text></item><item><author>bentt</author><text>The Selfish Gene says pretty much this. &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.amazon.com&amp;#x2F;Selfish-Gene-Popular-Science&amp;#x2F;dp&amp;#x2F;0192860925&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.amazon.com&amp;#x2F;Selfish-Gene-Popular-Science&amp;#x2F;dp&amp;#x2F;01928...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;However, I&amp;#x27;ve never grabbed onto Dawkins atheism as much as come to believe that the ways things &amp;quot;live&amp;quot; is much more diverse and amazing than we can even imagine.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Lambdanaut</author><text>Yes. The burden is proof is supposed to be on the person making a claim that breaks the known pattern.&lt;p&gt;We can think of consciousness in it&amp;#x27;s most simple terms as an experience of any number of bits of data.&lt;p&gt;If we are to accept that we ourselves have experiences, which we must lest we go down a fun pathway to madness (that I highly recommend for those excited by the prospect of existential crises), then there is no reason to accept that &amp;quot;lower&amp;quot; life forms do not also have experiences.&lt;p&gt;This chain of reasoning follows down, down, down, into what we may think to be simpler and simpler experiences of being. Down to the insects, and then the microbes.&lt;p&gt;There comes a point where whether something is alive or not becomes more about its ability to create cogent copies of itself, which certainly does not feel like a requirement of having an experience.&lt;p&gt;Beyond that lies the Earth, the wind, the rain, the basic elements our ancestors have respected and reverred for millenia in societies that did not invent the patriarchal dichotomy between subject and object that teaches us the unfounded &amp;quot;fact&amp;quot; that there are some things called &amp;quot;objects&amp;quot; which have no experience of reality, that we the &amp;quot;subjects&amp;quot; may control entirely.&lt;p&gt;Get deeper into intuitive practices, and one may have experiences of interacting with so called &amp;quot;objects&amp;quot; in ways that suggest a deep union between subject and object.&lt;p&gt;A union that precludes the separation our hectic monkey minds have been taught.&lt;p&gt;It is as if every particle of this universe is &amp;quot;alive&amp;quot; in its own writhing way, at different scales. All feeling the subtle vibrations of others.&lt;p&gt;The burden of proof is on those that say that consciousness &amp;quot;stops&amp;quot; at some point and the entity becomes an object, yet a mechanism has never been found.&lt;p&gt;The belief in fully unconscious objects, is then, faith based.&lt;p&gt;The &amp;quot;hard&amp;quot; problem of consciousness is only a problem when you want it to be.</text></comment>

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<story><title>Dell in hot water for making shoppers think overpriced monitors were discounted</title><url>https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/06/dell-in-hot-water-for-making-shoppers-think-overpriced-monitors-were-discounted/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jerf</author><text>I just straight-up ignore &amp;quot;sale&amp;quot; claims now, unless I have personal experience that says this really is a sale. This is mostly limited to groceries where I definitely know that the $4 bag of chips really is on sale at $1.50. Along with all the active deception, I also just count all the times I&amp;#x27;ve gone price shopping for non-trivial things and the prices I see and how festooned with the word &amp;quot;sale&amp;quot; the page is is simply uncorrelated.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>tfandango</author><text>I have been truck shopping lately which means I&amp;#x27;m constantly hounded all day long by every dealership in the 4 state region. Last weekend they ALL had &amp;quot;Memorial Day Sales&amp;quot;! So I asked them all about the sale details... Every single one said if I came in they would try to make a deal with me. That&amp;#x27;s the same thing as no sale. Actually, it is worse for cars where a sale might entail negotiating against a dealer markup.</text></comment>

<story><title>Dell in hot water for making shoppers think overpriced monitors were discounted</title><url>https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/06/dell-in-hot-water-for-making-shoppers-think-overpriced-monitors-were-discounted/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jerf</author><text>I just straight-up ignore &amp;quot;sale&amp;quot; claims now, unless I have personal experience that says this really is a sale. This is mostly limited to groceries where I definitely know that the $4 bag of chips really is on sale at $1.50. Along with all the active deception, I also just count all the times I&amp;#x27;ve gone price shopping for non-trivial things and the prices I see and how festooned with the word &amp;quot;sale&amp;quot; the page is is simply uncorrelated.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>bibanez</author><text>I go to a store where they put the price per kilo, even when it is discounted. This way, I only need to compare price per kilo with other products to see if it&amp;#x27;s worth it!</text></comment>

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<story><title>Oroville Dam: Cost to repair spillways nearly doubles in price to $500M</title><url>http://www.mercurynews.com/2017/10/19/cost-of-repairing-oroville-dams-spillway-nearly-doubles-in-price-to-500-million/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jychang</author><text>I feel like this comment is callous, but unfairly downvoted.&lt;p&gt;All projects contain risk. Getting out of bed and taking a shower involves risk, you can slip and fall. The larger the project, the larger the sample size and the more statistical considerations for risk should be managed.&lt;p&gt;Modern western society has greatly lost all tolerance of risk. One difference that struck me for risk culture, compared to the past, is old footage of the 1955 Le Mans disaster: after the catastrophic crash, bystanders themselves helped carry bodies away from the scene, and clean up wreckage. This calmness and social damage tolerance in the process of a disaster is very different from a modern &amp;quot;evacuate and let the professionals handle it&amp;quot; attitude, and I think this is an example of a clear shift in social tolerance of risk.&lt;p&gt;I wonder if the Apollo project would have worked today, instead of in the 1960s. At the scale of an infrastructure project of half a billion dollars, we&amp;#x27;re not talking about something so big that zero injuries safety standards are bad. However, as you get larger projects, it is statistically impossible to keep risk at 0; I&amp;#x27;m not sure how willing modern society is to accept that injuries on large projects is inevitable.&lt;p&gt;Elsewhere in this thread, user JumpCrisscross comments about comparing the cost overrun to the second bid. Following up that comment, the top response is something along the lines of &amp;quot;nobody was injured, so showering the contractor with money is ok&amp;quot;. This attitude is prevalent in modern society, and it doesn&amp;#x27;t really get questioned. Let&amp;#x27;s pose a hypothetical scenario: If a person has their leg broken, let&amp;#x27;s say a platform caused someone to fall and hurt their back. Would that amount of damage be worth a $250million additional cost? Think of the amount of social good you can do with $250million. At what level does society overvalue the reduction of risk? This is an important question to ask.&lt;p&gt;Let&amp;#x27;s not even talk about minor injuries. Let&amp;#x27;s say 1 person died. If you walk up to a random person, tell them that they have the opportunity to die; BUT their immediate family would receive $125 million dollars, and $125million would be donated to the charity of their choice. I suspect a very large percentage of people would actually be willing to take that offer.&lt;p&gt;And yet, giving an extra $250million to a contractor to build something is considered &amp;quot;worth it&amp;quot; to the general public if no injuries were reported. At which point does society overvalue reducing risk?</text></item><item><author>jessriedel</author><text>If no one gets injured on a $500M project, safety standards are almost certainly too stringent.</text></item><item><author>pdkl95</author><text>I&amp;#x27;m not surprised at the cost, given the nature of the project. Filling in the &lt;i&gt;massive&lt;/i&gt; canyons that were cut when the spillway failed has taken an incredible amount of RCC (roller compacted concrete) and man-hours of difficult,dangerous labor. Last I heard the project is still zero injuries, which is really impressive.&lt;p&gt;The blancolirio channel that nraynaud mentioned has a &lt;i&gt;lot&lt;/i&gt; of very impressive reporting and flyover footage, and the CA DWR itself has also been posting regular drone footage[1], which I highly recommend for a sense of &lt;i&gt;scale&lt;/i&gt;. The spillway is a &lt;i&gt;lot&lt;/i&gt; larger than it looks like from most of the overview photos. The closeup drone footage that includes the repair crew shows how massive the structure really is. It&amp;#x27;s supposed to be able to handle 270,000 cfs outflow (the outflow that damaged the old spillway was &amp;quot;only&amp;quot; ~100,000 cfs).&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;d also like to point out this[2] video from blancolirio, which shows just how close the emergency spillway was to being undercut. Yah, this repair is going to be expensive, but it&amp;#x27;s good to see that proper repairs are being done. Some things are worth the money; the central valley flooding would be a lot worse.&lt;p&gt;[1] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.youtube.com&amp;#x2F;user&amp;#x2F;calwater&amp;#x2F;videos&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.youtube.com&amp;#x2F;user&amp;#x2F;calwater&amp;#x2F;videos&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;[2] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.youtube.com&amp;#x2F;watch?v=oU4AGuQ5gMo&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.youtube.com&amp;#x2F;watch?v=oU4AGuQ5gMo&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>quanticle</author><text>&amp;gt;I wonder if the Apollo project would have worked today, instead of in the 1960s.&lt;p&gt;George Mueller (who was head of NASA during the Apollo program) said that it would be impossible to repeat Apollo today without it being a classified program as Congress has passed so many laws and regulations in the meantime.&lt;p&gt;Source: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;dominiccummings.com&amp;#x2F;2017&amp;#x2F;06&amp;#x2F;12&amp;#x2F;the-unrecognised-simplicities-of-effective-action-2b-the-apollo-programme-the-tory-train-wreck-and-advice-to-spads-starting-work-today&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;dominiccummings.com&amp;#x2F;2017&amp;#x2F;06&amp;#x2F;12&amp;#x2F;the-unrecognised-simp...&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>

<story><title>Oroville Dam: Cost to repair spillways nearly doubles in price to $500M</title><url>http://www.mercurynews.com/2017/10/19/cost-of-repairing-oroville-dams-spillway-nearly-doubles-in-price-to-500-million/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jychang</author><text>I feel like this comment is callous, but unfairly downvoted.&lt;p&gt;All projects contain risk. Getting out of bed and taking a shower involves risk, you can slip and fall. The larger the project, the larger the sample size and the more statistical considerations for risk should be managed.&lt;p&gt;Modern western society has greatly lost all tolerance of risk. One difference that struck me for risk culture, compared to the past, is old footage of the 1955 Le Mans disaster: after the catastrophic crash, bystanders themselves helped carry bodies away from the scene, and clean up wreckage. This calmness and social damage tolerance in the process of a disaster is very different from a modern &amp;quot;evacuate and let the professionals handle it&amp;quot; attitude, and I think this is an example of a clear shift in social tolerance of risk.&lt;p&gt;I wonder if the Apollo project would have worked today, instead of in the 1960s. At the scale of an infrastructure project of half a billion dollars, we&amp;#x27;re not talking about something so big that zero injuries safety standards are bad. However, as you get larger projects, it is statistically impossible to keep risk at 0; I&amp;#x27;m not sure how willing modern society is to accept that injuries on large projects is inevitable.&lt;p&gt;Elsewhere in this thread, user JumpCrisscross comments about comparing the cost overrun to the second bid. Following up that comment, the top response is something along the lines of &amp;quot;nobody was injured, so showering the contractor with money is ok&amp;quot;. This attitude is prevalent in modern society, and it doesn&amp;#x27;t really get questioned. Let&amp;#x27;s pose a hypothetical scenario: If a person has their leg broken, let&amp;#x27;s say a platform caused someone to fall and hurt their back. Would that amount of damage be worth a $250million additional cost? Think of the amount of social good you can do with $250million. At what level does society overvalue the reduction of risk? This is an important question to ask.&lt;p&gt;Let&amp;#x27;s not even talk about minor injuries. Let&amp;#x27;s say 1 person died. If you walk up to a random person, tell them that they have the opportunity to die; BUT their immediate family would receive $125 million dollars, and $125million would be donated to the charity of their choice. I suspect a very large percentage of people would actually be willing to take that offer.&lt;p&gt;And yet, giving an extra $250million to a contractor to build something is considered &amp;quot;worth it&amp;quot; to the general public if no injuries were reported. At which point does society overvalue reducing risk?</text></item><item><author>jessriedel</author><text>If no one gets injured on a $500M project, safety standards are almost certainly too stringent.</text></item><item><author>pdkl95</author><text>I&amp;#x27;m not surprised at the cost, given the nature of the project. Filling in the &lt;i&gt;massive&lt;/i&gt; canyons that were cut when the spillway failed has taken an incredible amount of RCC (roller compacted concrete) and man-hours of difficult,dangerous labor. Last I heard the project is still zero injuries, which is really impressive.&lt;p&gt;The blancolirio channel that nraynaud mentioned has a &lt;i&gt;lot&lt;/i&gt; of very impressive reporting and flyover footage, and the CA DWR itself has also been posting regular drone footage[1], which I highly recommend for a sense of &lt;i&gt;scale&lt;/i&gt;. The spillway is a &lt;i&gt;lot&lt;/i&gt; larger than it looks like from most of the overview photos. The closeup drone footage that includes the repair crew shows how massive the structure really is. It&amp;#x27;s supposed to be able to handle 270,000 cfs outflow (the outflow that damaged the old spillway was &amp;quot;only&amp;quot; ~100,000 cfs).&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;d also like to point out this[2] video from blancolirio, which shows just how close the emergency spillway was to being undercut. Yah, this repair is going to be expensive, but it&amp;#x27;s good to see that proper repairs are being done. Some things are worth the money; the central valley flooding would be a lot worse.&lt;p&gt;[1] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.youtube.com&amp;#x2F;user&amp;#x2F;calwater&amp;#x2F;videos&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.youtube.com&amp;#x2F;user&amp;#x2F;calwater&amp;#x2F;videos&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;[2] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.youtube.com&amp;#x2F;watch?v=oU4AGuQ5gMo&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.youtube.com&amp;#x2F;watch?v=oU4AGuQ5gMo&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>falcolas</author><text>I honestly think this is just reflection of how the value of a human life has changed in the last few decades. The thought of spending millions of dollars you don&amp;#x27;t have to save a newborn with a serious heart defect is praiseworthy. The thought of bankrupting yourself and your loved ones for a chance at another year or two on the earth is normal.&lt;p&gt;What I can&amp;#x27;t say is whether this is a good thing or a bad thing. There&amp;#x27;s a part of me that recoils at the thought of putting a price on a life. Then there&amp;#x27;s another part of me that recoils at the selfishness of bankrupting my wife should I get cancer. That same selfishness recoils at the thought of bankrupting myself should she get cancer.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;m not looking forward to those decisions.</text></comment>

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<story><title>US and UK spy agencies defeat privacy and security on the internet</title><url>http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/sep/05/nsa-gchq-encryption-codes-security</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>mullingitover</author><text>Recall how Huawei got raked over the coals in the US congress, and now realize that every US networking hardware company is going to get the same treatment in pretty much every country in the world they try to sell to.</text></comment>

<story><title>US and UK spy agencies defeat privacy and security on the internet</title><url>http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/sep/05/nsa-gchq-encryption-codes-security</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>ihsw</author><text>And yet full and anonymous disclosure[1] is eschewed for &amp;quot;responsible&amp;quot; disclosure. Hopefully we can move beyond the insane money-making scheme known as &amp;quot;whitehat&amp;quot; and &amp;quot;ethical hacking&amp;quot; security research.&lt;p&gt;The zero-day exploit market[2] deserves fair mention too, especially since a variety of three-letter agencies across the planet are some of the largest purchasers. Zero-day exploit purchases and sales haven&amp;#x27;t had any news publicity at all, even though it&amp;#x27;s effectively comparable to trafficking nuclear warheads.&lt;p&gt;Both nuclear warheads and zero-day exploits are used as leverage between competing security organizations and competing nation states, both are being stockpiled, and both are exceedingly dangerous. We&amp;#x27;re on the cusp of global network warfare and it&amp;#x27;s just starting to become clear how terrifying and widespread it is. America&amp;#x27;s rivalry with China is in over-drive now.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;m not saying that security researchers don&amp;#x27;t deserve to be paid for their work, but that we should be plain and honest about their work: it can be for the good of humanity or it can be for the destruction of humanity, there&amp;#x27;s very little inbetween.&lt;p&gt;And yet what is it for? Fighting terrorists and drug dealers, and protecting children and intellectual property?&lt;p&gt;[1] &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.schneier.com/essay-146.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.schneier.com&amp;#x2F;essay-146.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;[2] &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2012/03/zero-day-exploit-sales-should-be-key-point-cybersecurity-debate&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.eff.org&amp;#x2F;deeplinks&amp;#x2F;2012&amp;#x2F;03&amp;#x2F;zero-day-exploit-sales...&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>

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<story><title>What the Royal Astronomical Society in 1884 Tells Us About Python Today</title><url>https://typesandtimes.net/2019/05/royal-astronomical-society-python</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>svat</author><text>It took me some effort to understand the issue here, so an alternative explanation in case it helps someone.&lt;p&gt;First, the part that&amp;#x27;s independent of programming language. You may want to read about absolute time and civil time (e.g. from &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;abseil.io&amp;#x2F;docs&amp;#x2F;cpp&amp;#x2F;guides&amp;#x2F;time&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;abseil.io&amp;#x2F;docs&amp;#x2F;cpp&amp;#x2F;guides&amp;#x2F;time&lt;/a&gt;) but if you don&amp;#x27;t, in short: “civil time” refers to something like “2019 May 26 at 2:45 pm in New York City” (or “in the America&amp;#x2F;New_York time zone”), which means (roughly) whatever time the locals in New York City (or a larger shared geo-political zone) would agree is 2:45 pm on that date. To convert this to an absolute time, or in other words to make sense of “2019-05-26 14:45 in America&amp;#x2F;New_York”, we need data about the real world &lt;i&gt;as of that date&lt;/i&gt;: most obviously we need to know whether Daylight-Saving Time was in effect on that date, but also what conventions were in use at the time. (This also means it&amp;#x27;s hard to know for certain what such a notation in the future means in terms of absolute time, as possibly DST could be abolished or the dates when it comes into effect could change.)&lt;p&gt;It so happens that in 1884 the conventions of New York City were such that it was about 4 minutes ahead of the then-recently standardized Eastern Time, so about 4 hours and 56 behind GMT.&lt;p&gt;So, in any “correct” library, we should see the following respected:&lt;p&gt;• “2019 May 26 at 2:45 pm in New York” should mean “2019 May 26 at 18:45 UTC” (timezone is EDT i.e. UTC minus 4 hours).&lt;p&gt;• “2019 Jan 26 at 2:45 pm in New York” should mean “2019 Jan 26 at 19:45 UTC” (timezone is EST, i.e. UTC minus 5 hours).&lt;p&gt;• “1884 Jan 26 at 2:45 pm in New York” should mean “1884 Jan 26 at 19:41 UTC” (timezone is... GMT minus 4 hours and 56 minutes).&lt;p&gt;----&lt;p&gt;Now the part that&amp;#x27;s Python-specific: the pytz library in Python provides two ways of constructing such a well-formed civil time. One is to call `.localize` on a timezone, and the other is to call `.astimezone` to convert from one civil time to its equivalent (the same absolute time) in another timezone, thus obtaining a new civil time. Both are illustrated below, showing it working properly:&lt;p&gt;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt; &amp;gt;&amp;gt;&amp;gt; pytz.timezone(&amp;#x27;America&amp;#x2F;New_York&amp;#x27;).localize(datetime.datetime(2019, 5, 26, 14, 45, 0)).astimezone(pytz.utc) datetime.datetime(2019, 5, 26, 18, 45, tzinfo=&amp;lt;UTC&amp;gt;) &amp;gt;&amp;gt;&amp;gt; pytz.timezone(&amp;#x27;America&amp;#x2F;New_York&amp;#x27;).localize(datetime.datetime(2019, 1, 26, 14, 45, 0)).astimezone(pytz.utc) datetime.datetime(2019, 1, 26, 19, 45, tzinfo=&amp;lt;UTC&amp;gt;) &amp;gt;&amp;gt;&amp;gt; pytz.timezone(&amp;#x27;America&amp;#x2F;New_York&amp;#x27;).localize(datetime.datetime(1884, 1, 26, 14, 45, 0)).astimezone(pytz.utc) datetime.datetime(1884, 1, 26, 19, 41, tzinfo=&amp;lt;UTC&amp;gt;) &lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt; Unfortunately, there&amp;#x27;s a third thing a programmer can do, which the documentation warns against (&lt;a href=&quot;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;pytz.sourceforge.net&amp;#x2F;#localized-times-and-date-arithmetic&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;pytz.sourceforge.net&amp;#x2F;#localized-times-and-date-arithm...&lt;/a&gt;), and that is to pass one of pytz&amp;#x27;s timezone objects as the “tzinfo” parameter to the standard library `datetime` function:&lt;p&gt;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt; &amp;gt;&amp;gt;&amp;gt; datetime.datetime(2019, 5, 26, 14, 45, 0, tzinfo=pytz.timezone(&amp;#x27;America&amp;#x2F;New_York&amp;#x27;)).astimezone(pytz.utc) # Don&amp;#x27;t do this! datetime.datetime(2019, 5, 26, 19, 41, tzinfo=&amp;lt;UTC&amp;gt;) &amp;gt;&amp;gt;&amp;gt; datetime.datetime(2019, 1, 26, 14, 45, 0, tzinfo=pytz.timezone(&amp;#x27;America&amp;#x2F;New_York&amp;#x27;)).astimezone(pytz.utc) # Don&amp;#x27;t do this! datetime.datetime(2019, 1, 26, 19, 41, tzinfo=&amp;lt;UTC&amp;gt;) &amp;gt;&amp;gt;&amp;gt; datetime.datetime(1884, 1, 26, 14, 45, 0, tzinfo=pytz.timezone(&amp;#x27;America&amp;#x2F;New_York&amp;#x27;)).astimezone(pytz.utc) # Don&amp;#x27;t do this! datetime.datetime(1884, 1, 26, 19, 41, tzinfo=&amp;lt;UTC&amp;gt;) &lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt; which is certainly consistent in its own way, but only the last one is correct. Oops.&lt;p&gt;The issue here is in the interaction between the “tzinfo” model of the standard-library `datetime` and pytz&amp;#x27;s timezone objects: the result is that when the two are used together in the above incorrect way, one ends up with a timezone that is a fixed offset from UTC, which is silly. A timezone like `America&amp;#x2F;New_York` is &lt;i&gt;not&lt;/i&gt; a fixed offset from UTC: not only does it change twice a year, it also has changed in arbitrary ways in the past, and may change in arbitrary ways in the future.&lt;p&gt;(Note that “fixing” the offset of 4 hour 56 minutes to 5 hours would not solve any problems as it would still be wrong many months of each year — arguably, having an obviously incorrect result may even be better than a sometimes-correct one.)&lt;p&gt;The linked blog post by Paul Ganssle (&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;blog.ganssle.io&amp;#x2F;articles&amp;#x2F;2018&amp;#x2F;03&amp;#x2F;pytz-fastest-footgun.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;blog.ganssle.io&amp;#x2F;articles&amp;#x2F;2018&amp;#x2F;03&amp;#x2F;pytz-fastest-footgu...&lt;/a&gt;), the author of the `dateutil` (not to be confused with the standard-library `datetime`) library, is also informative.</text></comment>

<story><title>What the Royal Astronomical Society in 1884 Tells Us About Python Today</title><url>https://typesandtimes.net/2019/05/royal-astronomical-society-python</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>bryanrasmussen</author><text>Ok, I don&amp;#x27;t understand though why the bug hasn&amp;#x27;t been fixed and is there any other widely used time localization library that makes the same mistake - not just in python but other languages?</text></comment>

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<story><title>Show HN: Axiom – No-code Browser Automation</title><url>https://axiom.ai/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>virvar</author><text>As someone who implemented and runs RPA in the public sector I would be interested if you made a couple of things come true.&lt;p&gt;No one offers an easy way to let employees build and share “personal” bots. Part of this has to do with non-programmers having a much harder time understanding things like loops than we imagined they would. Another problem is maintaining business process logic and knowledge as employees come and go. And lastly there is the security thing. In an enterprise setting you probably won’t want to run this in someone else’s cloud, you want to run it through your IT operations in your own onsite&amp;#x2F;cloud&amp;#x2F;whatever to both utilise your local accessing rights but also to make sure data never leaves you.&lt;p&gt;Maybe we’re not who you are targeting, but we’ve yet to find a product that actually lets us let employees build small bots in a way that fits into our IT operations, and this is quite a big market in my country.&lt;p&gt;Of course you’ll be late to the table, and not be what the big consultant agencies like EY are partnered with. But what they are currently selling isn’t actually what we need.&lt;p&gt;So good luck, I’ll certainly add you to our “keep a look out” list.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>eastendguy</author><text>&amp;quot; you want to run it ... in your own onsite&amp;#x2F;cloud&amp;#x2F;whatever&amp;quot; =&amp;gt; I agree. If security and&amp;#x2F;or privacy is an issue, better use a non SaaS solution. There are many options available, such as UIPath or UI.Vision, or simply Selenium if it is only about web automation.</text></comment>

<story><title>Show HN: Axiom – No-code Browser Automation</title><url>https://axiom.ai/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>virvar</author><text>As someone who implemented and runs RPA in the public sector I would be interested if you made a couple of things come true.&lt;p&gt;No one offers an easy way to let employees build and share “personal” bots. Part of this has to do with non-programmers having a much harder time understanding things like loops than we imagined they would. Another problem is maintaining business process logic and knowledge as employees come and go. And lastly there is the security thing. In an enterprise setting you probably won’t want to run this in someone else’s cloud, you want to run it through your IT operations in your own onsite&amp;#x2F;cloud&amp;#x2F;whatever to both utilise your local accessing rights but also to make sure data never leaves you.&lt;p&gt;Maybe we’re not who you are targeting, but we’ve yet to find a product that actually lets us let employees build small bots in a way that fits into our IT operations, and this is quite a big market in my country.&lt;p&gt;Of course you’ll be late to the table, and not be what the big consultant agencies like EY are partnered with. But what they are currently selling isn’t actually what we need.&lt;p&gt;So good luck, I’ll certainly add you to our “keep a look out” list.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>productive</author><text>Virvar - out of curiosity - why is it that you would like to let the users build those bots? Intuitively, users just don&amp;#x27;t have the skills, patience, the technical mindset, the understanding of the IT landscape (imagine some non-working SSO - which user is going to know how to get that to work!). Basically &amp;quot;what&amp;#x27;s wrong&amp;quot; with doing it &amp;#x27;the normal way&amp;#x27; - which is to have an IT team (in-house or external like EY) do the work?</text></comment>

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<story><title>Oak: A more portable alternative to C, powered by Brainfuck-inspired technology</title><url>https://github.com/adam-mcdaniel/oakc</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>isoprophlex</author><text>&amp;gt; About the Author&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; I&amp;#x27;m a freshly minted highschool graduate and freshman in college looking for work.&lt;p&gt;Jesus fuck that&amp;#x27;s impressive. At that age my mind was on being bad at skateboarding, casual arson and trolling pre-2000 online places</text></comment>

<story><title>Oak: A more portable alternative to C, powered by Brainfuck-inspired technology</title><url>https://github.com/adam-mcdaniel/oakc</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>jfim</author><text>Not to be confused with Oak [0], the precursor of the Java programming language.&lt;p&gt;[0] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.m.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Oak_(programming_language)&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.m.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Oak_(programming_language)&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>

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<story><title>Godot 4.0 will get a new lightmapper</title><url>https://godotengine.org/article/godot-40-will-get-new-modernized-lightmapper</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>_bxg1</author><text>Godot really seems to be taking off lately. It would be very exciting to see a true open-source competitor to Unity and Unreal. Unfortunately I think it&amp;#x27;ll be held back on that front until it supports console builds, but still, it&amp;#x27;s quite an impressive endeavor considering the size of the team and the funding model.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>noidexe</author><text>&amp;gt; Unfortunately I think it&amp;#x27;ll be held back on that front until it supports console builds&lt;p&gt;I think the Godot devs have not been clear enough communicating about console support. There are export templates ready to use, up to date and fully working on different consoles. They just can&amp;#x27;t be offered as part of the open source engine due to legal reasons. That actually applies to other engines too. In the case of Unity, to build for Switch you need to download the required software from the Nintendo Developers portal and it&amp;#x27;s only accessible to you if you get approved as a developer. If Nintendo wishes to do the same with Godot they can do it know since there are no technical or legal impediments. Since Nintendo hasn&amp;#x27;t done it so far and the Godot team can&amp;#x27;t do it for legal reasons, it falls to third parties to do it. One of those is Lone Worlf Technology LLC, owned by one of the co-founders of the engine, so it&amp;#x27;s as official as it can get. If you don&amp;#x27;t want to work with them you now have a second option that&amp;#x27;s called Pineapple Works.&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s not like you have to pay a company to port your game to switch from scratch. I think many people get that idea.&lt;p&gt;Edit: orthography&lt;p&gt;Edit2: Just to clarify even further. If you check the process to build for switch using Unreal you&amp;#x27;ll see that the process is exactly the same as with Godot, the only difference being that in the case of Unreal it&amp;#x27;s the same company providing the base engine and the switch export tools. &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.unrealengine.com&amp;#x2F;en-US&amp;#x2F;blog&amp;#x2F;launch-your-game-on-the-nintendo-switch-with-unreal-engine-4-16&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.unrealengine.com&amp;#x2F;en-US&amp;#x2F;blog&amp;#x2F;launch-your-game-on-...&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>

<story><title>Godot 4.0 will get a new lightmapper</title><url>https://godotengine.org/article/godot-40-will-get-new-modernized-lightmapper</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>_bxg1</author><text>Godot really seems to be taking off lately. It would be very exciting to see a true open-source competitor to Unity and Unreal. Unfortunately I think it&amp;#x27;ll be held back on that front until it supports console builds, but still, it&amp;#x27;s quite an impressive endeavor considering the size of the team and the funding model.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>TAForObvReasons</author><text>NDAs and other factors prohibit a truly open source release with direct support for official console APIs. Companies like &lt;a href=&quot;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;lonewolftechnology.com&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;lonewolftechnology.com&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt; help developers launch on consoles.&lt;p&gt;On the unofficial side, &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;github.com&amp;#x2F;Stary2001&amp;#x2F;godot&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;github.com&amp;#x2F;Stary2001&amp;#x2F;godot&lt;/a&gt; is a godot port that runs on the standard nintendo switch homebrew stack</text></comment>

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<story><title>Private Key Extraction from Qualcomm Hardware-Backed Keystores</title><url>https://www.nccgroup.trust/us/our-research/private-key-extraction-qualcomm-keystore/?research=Technical+advisories</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>AdmiralAsshat</author><text>&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.qualcomm.com&amp;#x2F;company&amp;#x2F;product-security&amp;#x2F;bulletins#_CVE-2018-11976&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.qualcomm.com&amp;#x2F;company&amp;#x2F;product-security&amp;#x2F;bulletins#...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;That&amp;#x27;s pretty much all the snapdragons in modern Android phones (page is not letting me copy+paste them here).&lt;p&gt;Has QC put out a patch yet?&lt;p&gt;EDIT: The April security patch looks like it took care of it:&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;source.android.com&amp;#x2F;security&amp;#x2F;bulletin&amp;#x2F;2019-04-01&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;source.android.com&amp;#x2F;security&amp;#x2F;bulletin&amp;#x2F;2019-04-01&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;EDIT 2: And of course, my Samsung Galaxy S8+, despite having received an update &lt;i&gt;in April&lt;/i&gt;, is only at the March 1st security patch level. So I&amp;#x27;m likely vulnerable until Samsung&amp;#x27;s next update.</text></comment>

<story><title>Private Key Extraction from Qualcomm Hardware-Backed Keystores</title><url>https://www.nccgroup.trust/us/our-research/private-key-extraction-qualcomm-keystore/?research=Technical+advisories</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>dlgeek</author><text>Not the best response from the vendor:&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; March 19, 2018: Contact Qualcomm Product Security with issue; receive confirmation of receipt&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; April, 2018: Request update on analysis of issue&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; May, 2018: Qualcomm confirms the issue and begins working on a fix</text></comment>

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<story><title>The End of Arduino 101: Intel Leaves Maker Market</title><url>http://hackaday.com/2017/07/25/the-end-of-arduino-101-intel-leaves-maker-market/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>wiremine</author><text>I work on IoT projects professionally, and we see a large gap between makers-grade hardware and production-quality systems. Every week we talk with startups and enterprise customers who start off on something like an Arduino, only to hit a wall because there is no good way to take it to production.&lt;p&gt;IMHO, the market is ripe for a hardware&amp;#x2F;software platform that bridges the ease of Arduino with a path to production. A bunch of the silicon vendors are in this space, but they offer weak solutions, and things like AWS IoT are really bad on the hardware side.</text></comment>

<story><title>The End of Arduino 101: Intel Leaves Maker Market</title><url>http://hackaday.com/2017/07/25/the-end-of-arduino-101-intel-leaves-maker-market/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>StavrosK</author><text>Was Intel ever seriously in the maker market? As a maker, I feel that it was kind of an afterthought for them. The Edison looked great on paper, but the price was wrong, the tooling was inadequate, and the whole attempt felt like an enterprise was just trying to cargo-cult its way into some marketshare.</text></comment>

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<story><title>React Fire: Modernizing React DOM</title><url>https://github.com/facebook/react/issues/13525</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>coltonv</author><text>I love the react team for what they&amp;#x27;re doing here, but I have a feeling that the className -&amp;gt; class change would be a huge mistake. It makes it so that the ({ class }) =&amp;gt; ... syntax would no longer work since it&amp;#x27;s a reserved keyword. A simple find and replace is not going to work and a pretty sophisticated code mod would be required, and even then it still means convenient practical uses like the syntax mentioned above would never be possible.&lt;p&gt;It also brings up significant package compatibility issues, if even a single package I use uses className I can&amp;#x27;t upgrade React, if a single one uses class I can&amp;#x27;t upgrade it. I&amp;#x27;d rather not deal with a Python 2 -&amp;gt; 3 situation in React.</text></comment>

<story><title>React Fire: Modernizing React DOM</title><url>https://github.com/facebook/react/issues/13525</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>icc97</author><text>I find it quite interesting how much of the public face of React that Dan Abramov has become. I really like the openness with which he speaks via his blog, but it feels like all the important React announcements come through him and I&amp;#x27;m sure there must be some other very senior FB developers who created React before he arrived who might not be so happy.</text></comment>

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<story><title>What is type safety?</title><url>http://www.pl-enthusiast.net/2014/08/05/type-safety/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>nmrm</author><text>I think &amp;quot;type safety&amp;quot; is one of those things that&amp;#x27;s so well-defined in theory that there&amp;#x27;s always a huge disconnect between people who know the theory and people who don&amp;#x27;t. Therefore, I always like to explain the &amp;quot;progress + preservation&amp;quot; view whenever describing type safety, because it illustrates the term really has a pretty precise meaning at least in the simple cases.&lt;p&gt;In the simplest case, think of your &amp;#x27;interpreter&amp;#x27; as a program that translates programs into values. For example, 1 is a value and \x.x+1 (the lambda expression) is a value, but (\x.x+1)1 is not a value because it evaluates to 2 (or, at least, to 1+1).&lt;p&gt;Let&amp;#x27;s say that your interpreter does this a single small step at a time; so for instance, if you have* f(x,y) = x+y, then f(1,2) |--&amp;gt; (x + 2)(1) |--&amp;gt; (1+2) |--&amp;gt; 3.&lt;p&gt;Type safety goes like this: If x has type T then either x |--&amp;gt; x&amp;#x27; or x is a value. Also, if x has type T and x |--&amp;gt; x&amp;#x27; then x&amp;#x27; also has type T.&lt;p&gt;The first property is &amp;quot;well-typed programs don&amp;#x27;t go wrong&amp;quot; and the second property closes a loophole (&amp;quot;if you&amp;#x27;re a well-typed program, then you&amp;#x27;re never going to evaluate to anything that isn&amp;#x27;t also well-typed&amp;quot;, so we never escape from the first property by evaluating)&lt;p&gt;* using the product syntax because some people will get confused by f 1 2, but that&amp;#x27;s in fact what I mean.</text></comment>

<story><title>What is type safety?</title><url>http://www.pl-enthusiast.net/2014/08/05/type-safety/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>lmm</author><text>I think it&amp;#x27;s worth talking about the ability to propagate user-defined invariants. To me the most useful aspect of a type system is that it enables you to declare that all Xs have some property, and then the language guarantees that this holds. &amp;quot;Has a method named .foo(...)&amp;quot;, while useful, shouldn&amp;#x27;t be the end of what we try to encode, but there&amp;#x27;s a big gap between allowing things like &amp;quot;an X is either a Y or a Z&amp;quot; and allowing arbitrary type-properties, liquidhaskell style, which the article just glosses over.&lt;p&gt;Which is a shame, because it&amp;#x27;s precisely this range - the gap between non-liquid Haskell or Ocaml and Java - which is most relevant to today&amp;#x27;s programmers making choices of programming language.</text></comment>

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<story><title>Z Garbage Collector: The Next Generation</title><url>https://inside.java/2023/04/23/levelup-zgc/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jwr</author><text>As a Clojure programmer, I&amp;#x27;m so happy that I&amp;#x27;m getting all these improvements over many years. It&amp;#x27;s fashionable to complain about Java — but I don&amp;#x27;t use Java, and yet I benefit from all the fantastic work that is being done on the JVM.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jpe90</author><text>The excellent backwards compatibility rocks too. This weekend I wanted a library to diagram the class hierarchy of a Java project I put together.&lt;p&gt;I found a 10 year old library that worked with no issues, I was done in minutes even though I rarely use Java or Clojure so my familiarity is low. There are very few languages where I would have a similar experience.&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;github.com&amp;#x2F;stuartsierra&amp;#x2F;class-diagram&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;github.com&amp;#x2F;stuartsierra&amp;#x2F;class-diagram&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>

<story><title>Z Garbage Collector: The Next Generation</title><url>https://inside.java/2023/04/23/levelup-zgc/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jwr</author><text>As a Clojure programmer, I&amp;#x27;m so happy that I&amp;#x27;m getting all these improvements over many years. It&amp;#x27;s fashionable to complain about Java — but I don&amp;#x27;t use Java, and yet I benefit from all the fantastic work that is being done on the JVM.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>pjmlp</author><text>That is the positive attitude, it always irks me when guest language comunities bash the platform that make their language even possible in first place.&lt;p&gt;Everything sucks, but then they gladly take the platform, the ecosystem of libraries, debuggers and what not from the host platform.</text></comment>

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<story><title>“Did you mean?” Experience in Ruby</title><url>http://www.yukinishijima.net/2014/10/21/did-you-mean-experience-in-ruby.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>derefr</author><text>A lot of people are recommending IDE-like tooling--but in truly dynamic language (one with a &amp;quot;living image&amp;quot; with path-dependent monkey-patched behavior that can&amp;#x27;t be replicated during static analysis, like Smalltalk--or, sometimes, Ruby) there&amp;#x27;s a more idiomatic way.&lt;p&gt;In a dynamic language, if you&amp;#x27;re at all unsure of what code you need to write, then you &lt;i&gt;don&amp;#x27;t write it in your editor in the first place.&lt;/i&gt; Instead, you build the expression you need, interactively, at the REPL—and then, once it works, you paste that &lt;i&gt;into&lt;/i&gt; your editor.&lt;p&gt;In dynamic languages, the &amp;quot;dead&amp;quot; code in modules is effectively a coagulation of previously &amp;quot;live&amp;quot; REPL incantations; to trust code that was written &amp;quot;dead&amp;quot; to work correctly &amp;quot;live&amp;quot; is madness (or just a recipe for really long iterations involving unit tests.)&lt;p&gt;If you take this approach far enough, though, you do get a sort of IDE—something that manages your expression experiments and the context harnesses they need, and re-runs experiments when you edit their dependent formulae. I am, of course, talking about &amp;quot;notebook&amp;quot; interfaces like IPython&amp;#x27;s.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>vidarh</author><text>And with Ruby, especially since you mention Smalltalk, we have a tool that is getting &lt;i&gt;closer&lt;/i&gt; to the kind of live introspection and modification that Smalltalk is famous for: Pry [1].&lt;p&gt;Pry lets you call &amp;quot;binding.pry&amp;quot; anywhere in your program to dump you into a shell within that context, with full access to local variables etc.. And tab-completion and plenty of introspection features. I frequently find myself triggering Pry in the middle of handling http requests if something doesn&amp;#x27;t work, for example. Letting me inspect the environment, modify stuff, and when I exit the request is completed.&lt;p&gt;It can also do things (with some limitations) like bring up an editor to where the current method was defined, and let you edit and reload the code.&lt;p&gt;And you can attach to it remotely using Drb in case the app in question doesn&amp;#x27;t run attached to a terminal.&lt;p&gt;At this point it&amp;#x27;s almost criminal to do Ruby development without Pry.&lt;p&gt;[1] &lt;a href=&quot;http://pryrepl.org/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;pryrepl.org&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>

<story><title>“Did you mean?” Experience in Ruby</title><url>http://www.yukinishijima.net/2014/10/21/did-you-mean-experience-in-ruby.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>derefr</author><text>A lot of people are recommending IDE-like tooling--but in truly dynamic language (one with a &amp;quot;living image&amp;quot; with path-dependent monkey-patched behavior that can&amp;#x27;t be replicated during static analysis, like Smalltalk--or, sometimes, Ruby) there&amp;#x27;s a more idiomatic way.&lt;p&gt;In a dynamic language, if you&amp;#x27;re at all unsure of what code you need to write, then you &lt;i&gt;don&amp;#x27;t write it in your editor in the first place.&lt;/i&gt; Instead, you build the expression you need, interactively, at the REPL—and then, once it works, you paste that &lt;i&gt;into&lt;/i&gt; your editor.&lt;p&gt;In dynamic languages, the &amp;quot;dead&amp;quot; code in modules is effectively a coagulation of previously &amp;quot;live&amp;quot; REPL incantations; to trust code that was written &amp;quot;dead&amp;quot; to work correctly &amp;quot;live&amp;quot; is madness (or just a recipe for really long iterations involving unit tests.)&lt;p&gt;If you take this approach far enough, though, you do get a sort of IDE—something that manages your expression experiments and the context harnesses they need, and re-runs experiments when you edit their dependent formulae. I am, of course, talking about &amp;quot;notebook&amp;quot; interfaces like IPython&amp;#x27;s.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>pjmlp</author><text>Funny that you mention Smalltalk, because of its image model, completion usually works quite well.&lt;p&gt;I remember using it on my Smalltalk days at the university in 1996.</text></comment>

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<story><title>Pilot-Wave Theory Gains Experimental Support</title><url>https://www.quantamagazine.org/20160517-pilot-wave-theory-gains-experimental-support/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>andybak</author><text>&amp;gt; According to Englert [...] the Bohm trajectories exist as mathematical objects but “lack physical meaning.”&lt;p&gt;That sounds strange coming from a defender of orthodoxy. By my (layman&amp;#x27;s) understanding the rallying cry of the Copenhagen school could be paraphrased as &amp;quot;Just do the maths. Everything else is just metaphysics&amp;quot; or to put it another way - questions about what the equations &amp;#x27;mean&amp;#x27; are unscientific and Occam&amp;#x27;s Razor supports Copenhagen because it is the simplest interpretation that doesn&amp;#x27;t contradict observation.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>GregBuchholz</author><text>For another take on &amp;quot;Just do the math&amp;quot; see, &amp;quot;Clearing Up Mysteries - The Original Goal&amp;quot; by E.T. Jaynes:&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;bayes.wustl.edu&amp;#x2F;etj&amp;#x2F;articles&amp;#x2F;cmystery.pdf&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;bayes.wustl.edu&amp;#x2F;etj&amp;#x2F;articles&amp;#x2F;cmystery.pdf&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt;While it is easy to understand and agree with this on the epistemological level, the answer that I and many others would give is that we expect a physical theory to do more than merely predict experimental results in the manner of an empirical equation; we want to come down to Einstein&amp;#x27;s ontological level and understand what is happening when an atom emits light, when a spin enters a Stern-Gerlach magnet, etc. The Copenhagen theory, having no answer to any question of the form: What is really happening when - - - ?&amp;quot;, forbids us to ask such questions and tries to persuade us that it is philosophically naive to want to know what is happening. But I do want to know, and I do not think this is naive; and so for me QM is not a physical theory at all, only an empty mathematical shell in which a future theory may, perhaps, be built.</text></comment>

<story><title>Pilot-Wave Theory Gains Experimental Support</title><url>https://www.quantamagazine.org/20160517-pilot-wave-theory-gains-experimental-support/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>andybak</author><text>&amp;gt; According to Englert [...] the Bohm trajectories exist as mathematical objects but “lack physical meaning.”&lt;p&gt;That sounds strange coming from a defender of orthodoxy. By my (layman&amp;#x27;s) understanding the rallying cry of the Copenhagen school could be paraphrased as &amp;quot;Just do the maths. Everything else is just metaphysics&amp;quot; or to put it another way - questions about what the equations &amp;#x27;mean&amp;#x27; are unscientific and Occam&amp;#x27;s Razor supports Copenhagen because it is the simplest interpretation that doesn&amp;#x27;t contradict observation.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>sampo</author><text>Funnily enough, a central piece of the Copenhagen Interpretation is the collapse of the wave function. But there is no mathematics to describe the actual process of the collapse, only the outcome. It even happens instantaneously and discontinuously, which natural processes usually don&amp;#x27;t.&lt;p&gt;I mean, it does it&amp;#x27;s job, it gives correct observable results. And everyone knows when and where to apply the &amp;quot;and then it just collapses&amp;quot; rule to get the results. But the rule is defined in English, not mathematically.</text></comment>

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<story><title>Telegram files EU antitrust complaint against Apple’s App Store</title><url>https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2020/07/telegram-files-eu-antitrust-complaint-against-apples-app-store/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>threeseed</author><text>I can&amp;#x27;t install the apps I wish to install on my Nintendo, Sony, Microsoft, Tesla, VW etc.&lt;p&gt;Your argument that &amp;quot;every platform must allow open access&amp;quot; is an unprecedented one that would destroy many business models.&lt;p&gt;Consoles being an obvious one.</text></item><item><author>holmesworcester</author><text>It&amp;#x27;s important to remember that the root issue is not Apple&amp;#x27;s profit margin, it&amp;#x27;s Apple&amp;#x27;s refusal to allow users to install the apps they wish to install on phones that they&amp;#x27;ve legally purchased.&lt;p&gt;The margin, if it is indeed very high—and common sense says it must be very high—is just an indicator of how much power this control gets them and what the degree of harm might be.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>AnthonyMouse</author><text>&amp;gt; I can&amp;#x27;t install the apps I wish to install on my Nintendo, Sony, Microsoft, Tesla, VW etc.&lt;p&gt;People keep bringing this up as if it wouldn&amp;#x27;t be better if they were required to allow competition too.&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; Your argument that &amp;quot;every platform must allow open access&amp;quot; is an unprecedented one that would destroy many business models.&lt;p&gt;The illegality of murder destroys the business model of hitmen. Destroying harmful business models is &lt;i&gt;the idea&lt;/i&gt;.&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s not as if consoles wouldn&amp;#x27;t exist under a different business model. The console itself would cost more (or just generate less profit) and the games would cost less. It&amp;#x27;s hard to see how that wouldn&amp;#x27;t be an improvement.</text></comment>

<story><title>Telegram files EU antitrust complaint against Apple’s App Store</title><url>https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2020/07/telegram-files-eu-antitrust-complaint-against-apples-app-store/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>threeseed</author><text>I can&amp;#x27;t install the apps I wish to install on my Nintendo, Sony, Microsoft, Tesla, VW etc.&lt;p&gt;Your argument that &amp;quot;every platform must allow open access&amp;quot; is an unprecedented one that would destroy many business models.&lt;p&gt;Consoles being an obvious one.</text></item><item><author>holmesworcester</author><text>It&amp;#x27;s important to remember that the root issue is not Apple&amp;#x27;s profit margin, it&amp;#x27;s Apple&amp;#x27;s refusal to allow users to install the apps they wish to install on phones that they&amp;#x27;ve legally purchased.&lt;p&gt;The margin, if it is indeed very high—and common sense says it must be very high—is just an indicator of how much power this control gets them and what the degree of harm might be.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>echelon</author><text>Consoles are single-purpose entertainment devices. There are dozens of choices in this market, even openly distributed PC games.&lt;p&gt;Pocket computers are generic compute devices. These should be the most open systems in the world, and yet, somehow we&amp;#x27;ve been mind controlled into them becoming locked down fiefdoms.&lt;p&gt;People take pictures, make calls, make payments, find love, do business, arrange their schedule, take notes, post online, order food. Literally everything. On these devices.&lt;p&gt;For most, they&amp;#x27;ve even taken the place of the PC.&lt;p&gt;They need to be open.&lt;p&gt;I continue to tell my representatives about this travesty.</text></comment>

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<story><title>Vinyl set to outsell CDs for first time since 1986</title><url>https://www.nme.com/news/music/vinyl-set-outsell-cds-first-time-since-1986-2545781</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tzs</author><text>Is anyone working on a reasonably priced turntable to play vinyl discs without degrading them? In the mid &amp;#x27;80s, Finial Technology announced such a turntable, and had a working unit at CES in 1986.&lt;p&gt;It had a stylus that contained laser interferometers that could very accurately and precisely measure the distance from the stylus to the grove walls. It kept the stylus near, but &lt;i&gt;not&lt;/i&gt; touching, the groove, getting the audio signals from the variations in the distance to the groove.&lt;p&gt;In addition to not causing any wear, I remember reading an article back then in one of the audiophile magazines that said it also made records that had already been played many times on regular turntables and were degraded sound new, because the Finial could use a part of the groove farther down than had been used by the regular stylus, and so was not worn.&lt;p&gt;It was going to be pretty expensive, around $8000 at today&amp;#x27;s prices, so was probably only going to be affordable to radio stations, archivists, and high end audiophiles. Then they got hit with the double whammy of a major recession and the rapid replacement of a large chunk of the vinyl market by CDs.&lt;p&gt;Finial was liquidated in 1989, and their patents ended up at a Japanese company. Development continued in Japan, and eventually resulted in a product [1]. They seem to be around $15000.&lt;p&gt;The Library of Congress and a couple of other places have a system that can recover the sound for vinyl records and old wax cylinders what works by photographing the grove through a confocal microscope. The thousands of photographs are then analyzed to figure out the audio signal. This is still research level stuff, I believe, not aimed toward producing a commercial product, and so would be even farther out of reach for consumers than the laser interferometer turntables are.&lt;p&gt;[1] &lt;a href=&quot;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.elpj.com&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.elpj.com&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>cosmotic</author><text>If only there were a durable music format that had absolute perfect quality, didn&amp;#x27;t need special handling, no DRM, no compression artifacts, was stereo, and handled frequencies all the way down and all the way up to where humans can hear. Oh, the CD!</text></comment>

<story><title>Vinyl set to outsell CDs for first time since 1986</title><url>https://www.nme.com/news/music/vinyl-set-outsell-cds-first-time-since-1986-2545781</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tzs</author><text>Is anyone working on a reasonably priced turntable to play vinyl discs without degrading them? In the mid &amp;#x27;80s, Finial Technology announced such a turntable, and had a working unit at CES in 1986.&lt;p&gt;It had a stylus that contained laser interferometers that could very accurately and precisely measure the distance from the stylus to the grove walls. It kept the stylus near, but &lt;i&gt;not&lt;/i&gt; touching, the groove, getting the audio signals from the variations in the distance to the groove.&lt;p&gt;In addition to not causing any wear, I remember reading an article back then in one of the audiophile magazines that said it also made records that had already been played many times on regular turntables and were degraded sound new, because the Finial could use a part of the groove farther down than had been used by the regular stylus, and so was not worn.&lt;p&gt;It was going to be pretty expensive, around $8000 at today&amp;#x27;s prices, so was probably only going to be affordable to radio stations, archivists, and high end audiophiles. Then they got hit with the double whammy of a major recession and the rapid replacement of a large chunk of the vinyl market by CDs.&lt;p&gt;Finial was liquidated in 1989, and their patents ended up at a Japanese company. Development continued in Japan, and eventually resulted in a product [1]. They seem to be around $15000.&lt;p&gt;The Library of Congress and a couple of other places have a system that can recover the sound for vinyl records and old wax cylinders what works by photographing the grove through a confocal microscope. The thousands of photographs are then analyzed to figure out the audio signal. This is still research level stuff, I believe, not aimed toward producing a commercial product, and so would be even farther out of reach for consumers than the laser interferometer turntables are.&lt;p&gt;[1] &lt;a href=&quot;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.elpj.com&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.elpj.com&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>explodingcamera</author><text>This seems kind of counterproductive for the (I think) vinyl target group. If I listen to vinyl, I want the kinda retro feeling &amp;quot;real&amp;quot; analog audio signal, else I&amp;#x27;d just get a CD or online download. A mid-range stylus is completly sufficient for a great experience without any noticable noise and next to no real wear on the records.</text></comment>

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<story><title>Show HN: Hacker News Comments</title><url>http://hncomments.nathancahill.com/</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>jere</author><text>&amp;#62;Although many websites and blogs have a comment system, the quality of the discussion on Hacker News tends to be much better.&lt;p&gt;Probably because your random internet stranger has never heard of HN.&lt;p&gt;It&apos;s a shame, for instance, that I was ever allowed to find this place.</text></comment>

<story><title>Show HN: Hacker News Comments</title><url>http://hncomments.nathancahill.com/</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>sgdesign</author><text>I&apos;d definitely use this on my blog (&lt;a href=&quot;http://sachagreif.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://sachagreif.com&lt;/a&gt;) if it was officially supported (or at least tolerated) by HN somehow.&lt;p&gt;And the fact that people can only comment if they have an HN account makes it even better!</text></comment>

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<story><title>Defensive tactics from the modern history of urban warfare</title><url>https://mwi.usma.edu/defending-the-city-an-overview-of-defensive-tactics-from-the-modern-history-of-urban-warfare/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ant6n</author><text>Kiev is the cradle of Russia. It would be like the US flattening London.</text></item><item><author>squarefoot</author><text>Flattening Kyiv is Putin&amp;#x27;s last resort: he can&amp;#x27;t retire and he can&amp;#x27;t drag things for too long, but should he give the order to level the city and reports would slip under the censorship to Russian people and the rest of the world, that would surely be the first day of his demise.</text></item><item><author>paganel</author><text>It can be, relatively speaking, quite easy to defend a city, the Syrian rebels in East Aleppo became quite good at it pretty fast, the same goes for the rebels in the Damascus neighbourhood of Jobar (for this latter example I recommend this video [1], it gives a general idea of how it well went; bear in mind that it was filmed from the pov of the government forces).&lt;p&gt;The problem is that the attacking force at some point realises that the defendants are pretty well dug in and the commanders of those attacking forces also realise that one of the few solutions available in order to achieve victory is to, almost quite literally, flatten the city. That&amp;#x27;s what happened in East Aleppo (with the help of the Russian airforce), that&amp;#x27;s what happened in Jobar, too. Not sure if the flattening of Kyiv would be the best thing for the Ukranian people going forward.&lt;p&gt;[1] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.youtube.com&amp;#x2F;watch?v=x9ZXPhmR7lQ&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.youtube.com&amp;#x2F;watch?v=x9ZXPhmR7lQ&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>bell-cot</author><text>+10 (if I could). For those less familiar with the role of Kiev in Russian history:&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;History_of_Russia&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;History_of_Russia&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Kievan_Rus&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Kievan_Rus&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>

<story><title>Defensive tactics from the modern history of urban warfare</title><url>https://mwi.usma.edu/defending-the-city-an-overview-of-defensive-tactics-from-the-modern-history-of-urban-warfare/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ant6n</author><text>Kiev is the cradle of Russia. It would be like the US flattening London.</text></item><item><author>squarefoot</author><text>Flattening Kyiv is Putin&amp;#x27;s last resort: he can&amp;#x27;t retire and he can&amp;#x27;t drag things for too long, but should he give the order to level the city and reports would slip under the censorship to Russian people and the rest of the world, that would surely be the first day of his demise.</text></item><item><author>paganel</author><text>It can be, relatively speaking, quite easy to defend a city, the Syrian rebels in East Aleppo became quite good at it pretty fast, the same goes for the rebels in the Damascus neighbourhood of Jobar (for this latter example I recommend this video [1], it gives a general idea of how it well went; bear in mind that it was filmed from the pov of the government forces).&lt;p&gt;The problem is that the attacking force at some point realises that the defendants are pretty well dug in and the commanders of those attacking forces also realise that one of the few solutions available in order to achieve victory is to, almost quite literally, flatten the city. That&amp;#x27;s what happened in East Aleppo (with the help of the Russian airforce), that&amp;#x27;s what happened in Jobar, too. Not sure if the flattening of Kyiv would be the best thing for the Ukranian people going forward.&lt;p&gt;[1] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.youtube.com&amp;#x2F;watch?v=x9ZXPhmR7lQ&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.youtube.com&amp;#x2F;watch?v=x9ZXPhmR7lQ&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>SergeAx</author><text>This is extremely bad and distracting analogy.</text></comment>

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<story><title>Show HN: React Geiger – performance profiling using sound</title><url>https://github.com/kristiandupont/react-geiger</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>ydant</author><text>Cool idea.&lt;p&gt;This makes me wonder if there&amp;#x27;s something similar for log files. I sometimes find myself doing adhoc analysis of live logs using visual cues, but auditory ones are really powerful - just never think of using sound for diagnosis&amp;#x2F;debugging purposes.</text></comment>

<story><title>Show HN: React Geiger – performance profiling using sound</title><url>https://github.com/kristiandupont/react-geiger</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>pcthrowaway</author><text>&amp;gt; Geiger: AudioContext did not start. To enable Geiger, you need to give permission to play audio on this page.&lt;p&gt;anyone know how to do this in chrome?</text></comment>

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<story><title>Police surveilled protests with help from Twitter-affiliated startup Dataminr</title><url>https://theintercept.com/2020/07/09/twitter-dataminr-police-spy-surveillance-black-lives-matter-protests/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>DoofusOfDeath</author><text>I get the sense that most HN commenters are against having police surveil this kind of event in the U.S.&lt;p&gt;Could someone share the reasons for this strong opposition?&lt;p&gt;Personally, I can imagine valid reasons &lt;i&gt;for and against&lt;/i&gt; conducting such surveillance. But given how many people feel otherwise, I wonder if I&amp;#x27;m missing something.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>stefan_</author><text>The first obvious point is that protesting is a constitutionally protected activity, as is any political speech on Twitter, and this is interpreted extremely widely - so why are public institutions in the business of surveilling this legal, ney protected activity?&lt;p&gt;But there is more to it. Courts have long recognized that state activity that can be reasonably construed to &lt;i&gt;chill&lt;/i&gt; exercise of ones constitutional freedoms is similarly an infringement on those rights, and certainly take a very dim look on any sort of surveillance of political activity.</text></comment>

<story><title>Police surveilled protests with help from Twitter-affiliated startup Dataminr</title><url>https://theintercept.com/2020/07/09/twitter-dataminr-police-spy-surveillance-black-lives-matter-protests/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>DoofusOfDeath</author><text>I get the sense that most HN commenters are against having police surveil this kind of event in the U.S.&lt;p&gt;Could someone share the reasons for this strong opposition?&lt;p&gt;Personally, I can imagine valid reasons &lt;i&gt;for and against&lt;/i&gt; conducting such surveillance. But given how many people feel otherwise, I wonder if I&amp;#x27;m missing something.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>colordrops</author><text>Because the political class has demonstrated repeatedly that they are mostly corrupt and will take advantage of the data illegally, just like with echelon and prism, and what they are now trying to do with the EARN IT act.</text></comment>

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<story><title>Incoming potentially catastrophic storm for SF area</title><url>https://forecast.weather.gov/product.php?site=MTR&amp;issuedby=MTR&amp;product=AFD&amp;format=CI&amp;version=1&amp;glossary=1</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>froofiethedog</author><text>Thanks. I see now that the Central Valley (Sacramento area) is expecting flooding through Thursday.&lt;p&gt;Not sure how to avoid freeways in California, though... Should I be looking at a trip to Nevada to avoid this?</text></item><item><author>raincom</author><text>Be careful, today a tesla fell off cliff at Devil&amp;#x27;s slide which is between Santa Cruz and SF. Stay away from major freeways as well: slides are expected. Central valley freeways may get flooded.</text></item><item><author>froofiethedog</author><text>You probably just saved my life. I was planning to drive the coast highway on Wednesday and Thursday, including the Golden Gate Bridge and Monterey Bay... Time to replan this trip...</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>raincom</author><text>Mountain passes across Sierra will be closed, so you can&amp;#x27;t travel to Reno, as I-80, SR-50 (Sacramento to south lake Tahoe), SR-88 (Carson Pass) will be closed. Even Altamont pass&amp;#x2F;I-580 had a slide a few days ago. SR-99 will get flooded, as it is parallel to I-5 from Sacramento to Bakersfield. So, expect long delays on both I-5 and I-80, since other secondary roads get flooded.&lt;p&gt;If you are planning to Vegas, you gonna have problems on SR-152&amp;#x2F;I-580 to I-5. Also, expect problems on SR-58 between Bakersfield and Barstow on I-15. Even if you want to go to Sacramento, expect long delays on all routes.&lt;p&gt;Whichever freeway you pick, you will have problems: bad visibility, very slow traffic, partial closures due to puddles, complete closures due to floods (like the north of SFO airport last time).&lt;p&gt;That&amp;#x27;s why CHP, Caltrans, NWS advise people to postpone their travel unless extremely necessary. No storm tourism either.</text></comment>

<story><title>Incoming potentially catastrophic storm for SF area</title><url>https://forecast.weather.gov/product.php?site=MTR&amp;issuedby=MTR&amp;product=AFD&amp;format=CI&amp;version=1&amp;glossary=1</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>froofiethedog</author><text>Thanks. I see now that the Central Valley (Sacramento area) is expecting flooding through Thursday.&lt;p&gt;Not sure how to avoid freeways in California, though... Should I be looking at a trip to Nevada to avoid this?</text></item><item><author>raincom</author><text>Be careful, today a tesla fell off cliff at Devil&amp;#x27;s slide which is between Santa Cruz and SF. Stay away from major freeways as well: slides are expected. Central valley freeways may get flooded.</text></item><item><author>froofiethedog</author><text>You probably just saved my life. I was planning to drive the coast highway on Wednesday and Thursday, including the Golden Gate Bridge and Monterey Bay... Time to replan this trip...</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>nostrademons</author><text>It&amp;#x27;s probably time to hunker down Weds&amp;#x2F;Thurs if you&amp;#x27;re in California.&lt;p&gt;Also, a lot of the small mountain roads between 1 and 280&amp;#x2F;101 washed out in the New Years Eve storm, so if you are stuck on the coast there&amp;#x27;s no guarantee you&amp;#x27;ll be able to get inland.</text></comment>

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<story><title>C++23: Removing garbage collection support</title><url>https://www.sandordargo.com/blog/2023/11/01/cpp23-garbage-collection</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Night_Thastus</author><text>You don&amp;#x27;t need to keep it all in your head. That wouldn&amp;#x27;t be practical or useful for most languages. Especially when libraries get involved.&lt;p&gt;I think the better answer is to just remember the bits that are frequently useful to you, and pull up a tab on the rest if and when you need it.</text></item><item><author>tempodox</author><text>&amp;gt; If you are surprised to learn that the C++ standard had support for GC, you are not alone.&lt;p&gt;I am relieved to learn that I wasn&amp;#x27;t sleeping too deeply.&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; A bit of simplification to the standard never hurts.&lt;p&gt;Absolutely right, but I&amp;#x27;m afraid it might be too little too late. I doubt any one person can keep all of C++ inside their head.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>SonOfLilit</author><text>In all other languages I worked in, I basically can keep the entire language (not stdlib) in my head, and it&amp;#x27;s extremely valuable to understand what&amp;#x27;s going on. In C++ I just can&amp;#x27;t.</text></comment>

<story><title>C++23: Removing garbage collection support</title><url>https://www.sandordargo.com/blog/2023/11/01/cpp23-garbage-collection</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Night_Thastus</author><text>You don&amp;#x27;t need to keep it all in your head. That wouldn&amp;#x27;t be practical or useful for most languages. Especially when libraries get involved.&lt;p&gt;I think the better answer is to just remember the bits that are frequently useful to you, and pull up a tab on the rest if and when you need it.</text></item><item><author>tempodox</author><text>&amp;gt; If you are surprised to learn that the C++ standard had support for GC, you are not alone.&lt;p&gt;I am relieved to learn that I wasn&amp;#x27;t sleeping too deeply.&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; A bit of simplification to the standard never hurts.&lt;p&gt;Absolutely right, but I&amp;#x27;m afraid it might be too little too late. I doubt any one person can keep all of C++ inside their head.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>kstrauser</author><text>I think I have about 95% of Python in my head. I occasionally see a new edge case I hadn’t considered, but it’s been a while. The language itself is rather compact. There aren’t so very many keywords or builtin functions. Even the stdlib is manageable, although I&amp;#x27;m always pleasantly surprised when a module has added some new functionality or convenience that will save me time. It’s knowable.</text></comment>

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<story><title>The world&apos;s loudest Lisp program to the rescue</title><url>https://blog.funcall.org//lisp%20psychoacoustics/2024/05/01/worlds-loudest-lisp-program/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>troad</author><text>This is a really cool story!&lt;p&gt;Perhaps a slight segue, but I recently tried to learn CL for the first time and I was genuinely surprised by all the decades of accumulated cruft (mainly masses of semi-redundant and soft-depreciated standard library functions, with bizarre names). The way people talk about Lisp, I&amp;#x27;d expected something more elegant. I suppose I should try something like Scheme or Racket, but it&amp;#x27;s hard to find an introduction to those that isn&amp;#x27;t bone dry. (Recommendations welcome!)&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;ve also heard people say reading Lisp functions, inside out, ensconced (heya) in their parentheses, is somehow more comprehensible than sequential C style, but this state of enlightenment thus far eludes me. I can only speak for myself, but I definitely reason about code outside in rather than inside out.</text></comment>

<story><title>The world&apos;s loudest Lisp program to the rescue</title><url>https://blog.funcall.org//lisp%20psychoacoustics/2024/05/01/worlds-loudest-lisp-program/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>mark_l_watson</author><text>Great writeup! I am a long time user and fan of Common Lisp, and this is one of the more interesting use cases I have seen!</text></comment>

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<story><title>Rethinking the D-Bus Message Bus</title><url>https://dvdhrm.github.io/rethinking-the-dbus-message-bus/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Animats</author><text>&lt;i&gt;We rather consider a bus a set of distinct peers with no global state.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;If they&amp;#x27;ve gone that far, they may as well implement QNX messaging, which is known to work well. QNX has an entire POSIX implementation based on QNX&amp;#x27;s messaging system, so it&amp;#x27;s known to work. Plus it does hard real time.&lt;p&gt;The basic primitives work like a subroutine call. There&amp;#x27;s MsgSend (send and wait for reply), MsgReceive (wait for a request), and MsgReply (reply to a request). There&amp;#x27;s also MsgSendPulse (send a message, no reply, no wait) but it&amp;#x27;s seldom used. Messages are just arrays of bytes; the messaging system has no interest in content. Receivers can tell the process ID of the sender, so they can do security checks. All I&amp;#x2F;O is done through this mechanism; when you call &amp;quot;write()&amp;quot;, the library does a MsgSend.&lt;p&gt;Services can give their endpoint a pathname, so callers can find them.&lt;p&gt;The call&amp;#x2F;reply approach makes the hard cases work right. If the receiver isn&amp;#x27;t there or has exited, the sender gets an error return. There&amp;#x27;s a timeout mechanism for sending; in QNX, anything that blocks can have a timeout. If a sender exits while waiting for a reply, that doesn&amp;#x27;t hurt the receiver. So the &amp;quot;cancellation&amp;quot; problem is solved. If you wan to do something else in a process while waiting for a reply, you can use more threads in the sender. On the receive side, you can have multiple threads taking requests via MsgReceive, handling the requests, and replying via MsgReply, so the system scales.&lt;p&gt;CPU scheduling is integrated with messaging. On a MsgSend, CPU control is usually transferred from sender to receiver immediately, without a pass through the scheduler. The sending thread blocks and the receiving thread unblocks.&lt;p&gt;With unidirectional messaging (Mach, etc.) and async systems, it&amp;#x27;s usually necessary to build some protocol on top of messaging to handle errors. It&amp;#x27;s easy to get stall situations. (&amp;quot;He didn&amp;#x27;t call back! He said he&amp;#x27;d call back! He promised he&amp;#x27;d call back!&amp;quot;) There&amp;#x27;s also a scheduling problem - A sends to B but doesn&amp;#x27;t block, B unblocks, A waits on a pipe&amp;#x2F;queue for B and blocks, B sends to A and doesn&amp;#x27;t block, A unblocks. This usually results in several trips through the scheduler and bad scheduling behavior when there&amp;#x27;s heavy traffic.&lt;p&gt;There&amp;#x27;s years (decades, even) of success behind QNX messaging, yet people keep re-inventing the wheel and coming up with inferior designs.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>tomegun</author><text>Please note that this is still an implementation of the D-Bus specification, but trying to adhere to the principle of distinct peers. As is explained, this is not entirely possible when implementing D-Bus, so it is nothing more than a guiding principle.</text></comment>

<story><title>Rethinking the D-Bus Message Bus</title><url>https://dvdhrm.github.io/rethinking-the-dbus-message-bus/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Animats</author><text>&lt;i&gt;We rather consider a bus a set of distinct peers with no global state.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;If they&amp;#x27;ve gone that far, they may as well implement QNX messaging, which is known to work well. QNX has an entire POSIX implementation based on QNX&amp;#x27;s messaging system, so it&amp;#x27;s known to work. Plus it does hard real time.&lt;p&gt;The basic primitives work like a subroutine call. There&amp;#x27;s MsgSend (send and wait for reply), MsgReceive (wait for a request), and MsgReply (reply to a request). There&amp;#x27;s also MsgSendPulse (send a message, no reply, no wait) but it&amp;#x27;s seldom used. Messages are just arrays of bytes; the messaging system has no interest in content. Receivers can tell the process ID of the sender, so they can do security checks. All I&amp;#x2F;O is done through this mechanism; when you call &amp;quot;write()&amp;quot;, the library does a MsgSend.&lt;p&gt;Services can give their endpoint a pathname, so callers can find them.&lt;p&gt;The call&amp;#x2F;reply approach makes the hard cases work right. If the receiver isn&amp;#x27;t there or has exited, the sender gets an error return. There&amp;#x27;s a timeout mechanism for sending; in QNX, anything that blocks can have a timeout. If a sender exits while waiting for a reply, that doesn&amp;#x27;t hurt the receiver. So the &amp;quot;cancellation&amp;quot; problem is solved. If you wan to do something else in a process while waiting for a reply, you can use more threads in the sender. On the receive side, you can have multiple threads taking requests via MsgReceive, handling the requests, and replying via MsgReply, so the system scales.&lt;p&gt;CPU scheduling is integrated with messaging. On a MsgSend, CPU control is usually transferred from sender to receiver immediately, without a pass through the scheduler. The sending thread blocks and the receiving thread unblocks.&lt;p&gt;With unidirectional messaging (Mach, etc.) and async systems, it&amp;#x27;s usually necessary to build some protocol on top of messaging to handle errors. It&amp;#x27;s easy to get stall situations. (&amp;quot;He didn&amp;#x27;t call back! He said he&amp;#x27;d call back! He promised he&amp;#x27;d call back!&amp;quot;) There&amp;#x27;s also a scheduling problem - A sends to B but doesn&amp;#x27;t block, B unblocks, A waits on a pipe&amp;#x2F;queue for B and blocks, B sends to A and doesn&amp;#x27;t block, A unblocks. This usually results in several trips through the scheduler and bad scheduling behavior when there&amp;#x27;s heavy traffic.&lt;p&gt;There&amp;#x27;s years (decades, even) of success behind QNX messaging, yet people keep re-inventing the wheel and coming up with inferior designs.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>AceJohnny2</author><text>So, SIMPL?&lt;p&gt;&lt;i&gt;Synchronous Interprocess Messaging Project for LINUX (SIMPL) is a free and open-source project that allows QNX-style synchronous message passing by adding a Linux library using user space techniques like shared memory and Unix pipes[3] to implement SendMssg&amp;#x2F;ReceiveMssg&amp;#x2F;ReplyMssg inter-process messaging mechanisms.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;SIMPL&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;SIMPL&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;icanprogram.com&amp;#x2F;simpl&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;icanprogram.com&amp;#x2F;simpl&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>

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<story><title>Comparing our Rust-based indexing and querying pipeline to Langchain</title><url>https://bosun.ai/posts/rust-for-genai-performance/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>pjmlp</author><text>Most of the Python libraries, are anyway bindings to native libraries.&lt;p&gt;Any other ecosystem is able to plug into the same underlying native libraries, or even call them directly in case of being the same language.&lt;p&gt;In a way it is kind of interesting the performance pressure that is going on Python world, otherwise CPython folks would never reconsider changing their stance on performance.</text></comment>

<story><title>Comparing our Rust-based indexing and querying pipeline to Langchain</title><url>https://bosun.ai/posts/rust-for-genai-performance/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>lmeyerov</author><text>At least for Louie.ai, basically genAI-native computational notebooks, where operational analysts ask for intensive analytics tasks for like pulling Splunk&amp;#x2F;Databricks&amp;#x2F;neo4j data, getting it wrangled in some runtime, cluster&amp;#x2F;graph&amp;#x2F;etc it, and generate interactive viz, Python has ups and downs:&lt;p&gt;On the plus side, it means our backend gets to handle small&amp;#x2F;mid datasets well. Apache Arrow adoption in analytics packages is strong, so zero copy &amp;amp; and columnar flows on many rows is normal. Pushing that to the GPU or another process is also great.&lt;p&gt;OTOH, one of our greatest issues is the GIL. Yes, it shows up a bit in single user code, and not discussed in the post, especially when doing divide-and-conquer flows for a user. However, the bigger issue is in stuffing many concurrent users into the same box to avoid blowing your budget. We would like the memory sharing benefits of threaded, but because of the GIL, want the isolation benefits of multiprocess. A bit same-but-different, we stream results to the browser as agents progress in your investigation, and that has not been as smooth as we have done with other languages.&lt;p&gt;And moving to multiprocess is no panacea. Eg, a local embedding engine is expensive to do in-process per worker because modern models have high RAM needs. So that biases to using a local inference server for what is meant to be an otherwise local call, which is doable, but representative of that extra work needed for production-grade software.&lt;p&gt;Interesting times!</text></comment>

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<story><title>C++23: Removing garbage collection support</title><url>https://www.sandordargo.com/blog/2023/11/01/cpp23-garbage-collection</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>wg0</author><text>I have this impression that modern C++ is far more complex with a far more large surface area (from the perspective of learning the language) than Rust.&lt;p&gt;Because I am not expert in both, what folks that came from C++ to Rust or have to work regularly work with both say about that?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>benreesman</author><text>I’ve done a pretty fair amount of both, more C++ in total, more recent work in Rust.&lt;p&gt;I think it really depends on whether you’ve got a mountain of legacy C++ with dated infrastructure and practices or a modern C++ code base at shop that runs a tight ship.&lt;p&gt;In the former case the incidental as opposed to inherent complexity in C++ is a real PITA compared to Rust (which isn’t exactly shy about gratuitous complexity especially in the trait system and going more than a bit overboard with macros IMHO). C++03 written without modern tooling and a hardass style guide and stuff is usually a nightmare. I would vastly prefer to work in almost any Rust codebase compared to a sprawling nightmare of code that still calls new&amp;#x2F;delete routinely.&lt;p&gt;A modern C++ codebase with all the best practices and tools and stuff? 6 one way half dozen the other more or less: Rust is now fast and feature full enough to be an option for most anything C++ would do. Do you like hardcore affine typing by default or dislike it?&lt;p&gt;Another way to think about it is that modulo &lt;i&gt;some&lt;/i&gt; big differences: Rust bundles (and mandates) a bunch of stuff you opt into in C++: a uniform set of best practices, hardcore static analysis, a credible strategy for catching memory safety issues and UB and thread safety issues. (The case is overstated about the difference in efficacy of e.g. ASAN and the borrow checker, they have pros and cons and it’s not a 1-bit debate).&lt;p&gt;C++ tooling has a few important edges (though Rust is catching up): clangd is usually (always?) faster and more stable than rust-analyzer but you can throw hardware at it so it’s not a huge deal.&lt;p&gt;Cargo is just a dunk below some project size. Above some project size the story is still evolving.&lt;p&gt;It’s just not as big of a difference as you often hear one way or the other. I’d probably default to Rust unless I had library interop reasons to go C++ (which is often).</text></comment>

<story><title>C++23: Removing garbage collection support</title><url>https://www.sandordargo.com/blog/2023/11/01/cpp23-garbage-collection</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>wg0</author><text>I have this impression that modern C++ is far more complex with a far more large surface area (from the perspective of learning the language) than Rust.&lt;p&gt;Because I am not expert in both, what folks that came from C++ to Rust or have to work regularly work with both say about that?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dthul</author><text>I work with both, having started with C++ about 17 years ago, and agree that Rust feels like a relatively simple language compared to C++. Rust might feel harder to learn initially because the borrow checker won&amp;#x27;t let you compile certain programs, but once you are over this initial hump, the rest is quite straightforward.</text></comment>

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<story><title>The Greatest Good: What is the best charitable cause in the world?</title><url>http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2015/06/what-is-the-greatest-good/395768?single_page=true</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>reasonattlm</author><text>Clearly the SENS Research Foundation, as a 501c3 charity that gives you the 80&amp;#x2F;20 win for a good expectation value for your dollars to do the most good in speeding up progress towards ending age-related disease. If you want to do better than the SRF at assigning dollars to speeding up progress towards ending age-related disease, you&amp;#x27;re going to have to spend some years reading research and making connections. (I wish more people would, actually, no such thing as too much help here).&lt;p&gt;Age-related disease kills ~100,000 people every day, and causes horrible day to day suffering for hundreds of millions of others. Nothing else comes even close as a single presently addressable cause of terrible things in the world, and lack of money is the greatest obstacle to progress towards meaningful treatments that address the root causes of aging and thus all age-related disease.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>baddox</author><text>Even if you assume that ending age-related disease is the best cause, you also have to estimate the likelihood of them actually being successful and weight your recommendations by that likelihood.</text></comment>

<story><title>The Greatest Good: What is the best charitable cause in the world?</title><url>http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2015/06/what-is-the-greatest-good/395768?single_page=true</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>reasonattlm</author><text>Clearly the SENS Research Foundation, as a 501c3 charity that gives you the 80&amp;#x2F;20 win for a good expectation value for your dollars to do the most good in speeding up progress towards ending age-related disease. If you want to do better than the SRF at assigning dollars to speeding up progress towards ending age-related disease, you&amp;#x27;re going to have to spend some years reading research and making connections. (I wish more people would, actually, no such thing as too much help here).&lt;p&gt;Age-related disease kills ~100,000 people every day, and causes horrible day to day suffering for hundreds of millions of others. Nothing else comes even close as a single presently addressable cause of terrible things in the world, and lack of money is the greatest obstacle to progress towards meaningful treatments that address the root causes of aging and thus all age-related disease.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>melling</author><text>Americans gave $358 billion in philanthropy last year.&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;philanthropy.com&amp;#x2F;interactives&amp;#x2F;giving-usa-2015&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;philanthropy.com&amp;#x2F;interactives&amp;#x2F;giving-usa-2015&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;A trillion dollars every 3 years. Simply trying to make every dollar more effective would go a long way. We probably need fewer, but more effective charities, for example. Identify the best ways to fund medical research.</text></comment>

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<story><title>How the dream of cheap streaming television became a pricey, complicated mess</title><url>https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2019/04/13/how-dream-cheap-streaming-television-became-pricey-complicated-mess/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>edgarvaldes</author><text>There is a view that has been expressed several times in HN when this topic is touched: &amp;quot;Netflix has enough current or future material (Netflix Originals) so that I can see it for the rest of my life, I do not really care if the quality is 10&amp;#x2F;10, I only use it as a form of light entertainment.&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;However, for other people, like me, the quality of art is essential, and we do want to see the best that has been produced this year and the past 100 years. Where is this material? How can I consume good European cinema from the 50s and 60s? Where can I consume the best Latin American cinema from the 80s? etc.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dre85</author><text>Maybe people don&amp;#x27;t want to watch exclusively Netflix&amp;#x27;s originals. I personally wish there was a UI feature to just hide all of Netflix&amp;#x27;s own crap and show me what else they have. Of course that feature will never exist.</text></comment>

<story><title>How the dream of cheap streaming television became a pricey, complicated mess</title><url>https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2019/04/13/how-dream-cheap-streaming-television-became-pricey-complicated-mess/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>edgarvaldes</author><text>There is a view that has been expressed several times in HN when this topic is touched: &amp;quot;Netflix has enough current or future material (Netflix Originals) so that I can see it for the rest of my life, I do not really care if the quality is 10&amp;#x2F;10, I only use it as a form of light entertainment.&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;However, for other people, like me, the quality of art is essential, and we do want to see the best that has been produced this year and the past 100 years. Where is this material? How can I consume good European cinema from the 50s and 60s? Where can I consume the best Latin American cinema from the 80s? etc.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>sithadmin</author><text>&amp;gt;However, for other people, like me, the quality of art is essential, and we do want to see the best that has been produced this year and the past 100 years. Where is this material? How can I consume good European cinema from the 50s and 60s? Where can I consume the best Latin American cinema from the 80s? etc.&lt;p&gt;Mubi is the best service I&amp;#x27;ve seen for this, but their catalog is generally quite limited at any given time, as it consists of a constantly rotating collection of films.</text></comment>

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<story><title>Gamification affects software developers: Cautionary evidence from GitHub</title><url>https://arxiv.org/abs/2006.02371</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>systemvoltage</author><text>&amp;gt; Coding 100 days straight with no breaks isn’t good for anyone.&lt;p&gt;Why? I&amp;#x27;ve done that and it has been amazing for me. I don&amp;#x27;t want other people telling me what&amp;#x27;s good or not. Absolute statements like this is just social malaise and not based in objectivity in the slightest.&lt;p&gt;The current social bandwagon can be summarized as: “Work is bad. Hard work is toxic. Perseverance is not healthy”.&lt;p&gt;HN is just reflecting r&amp;#x2F;antiwork ethics.&lt;p&gt;Complete and utter social non-sense. People have just stopped thinking for themselves.</text></item><item><author>martinwoodward</author><text>Martin from GitHub here. I think we’d consider this very much ‘by design’ in removing the streak counter so I’m glad it had the desired affect. Coding 100 days straight with no breaks isn’t good for anyone.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>viraptor</author><text>&amp;gt; Absolute statements like this is just social malaise&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; Complete and utter social non-sense. People have just stopped thinking for themselves.&lt;p&gt;Yes, absolute statements are a problem - including your comment. There&amp;#x27;s context around antiwork, there&amp;#x27;s context around grind culture - everything can be taken to an unhealthy extreme.</text></comment>

<story><title>Gamification affects software developers: Cautionary evidence from GitHub</title><url>https://arxiv.org/abs/2006.02371</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>systemvoltage</author><text>&amp;gt; Coding 100 days straight with no breaks isn’t good for anyone.&lt;p&gt;Why? I&amp;#x27;ve done that and it has been amazing for me. I don&amp;#x27;t want other people telling me what&amp;#x27;s good or not. Absolute statements like this is just social malaise and not based in objectivity in the slightest.&lt;p&gt;The current social bandwagon can be summarized as: “Work is bad. Hard work is toxic. Perseverance is not healthy”.&lt;p&gt;HN is just reflecting r&amp;#x2F;antiwork ethics.&lt;p&gt;Complete and utter social non-sense. People have just stopped thinking for themselves.</text></item><item><author>martinwoodward</author><text>Martin from GitHub here. I think we’d consider this very much ‘by design’ in removing the streak counter so I’m glad it had the desired affect. Coding 100 days straight with no breaks isn’t good for anyone.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>andrewjl</author><text>&amp;gt; People have just stopped thinking for themselves.&lt;p&gt;I see the opposite. People are thinking for themselves and are looking at empirical evidence like TFA to boot.&lt;p&gt;Edit: your other comment about needing targets makes me suspect you&amp;#x27;d benefit from using a personal task manager that can clearly and tangibly visualize progress if you aren&amp;#x27;t using one already.</text></comment>

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<story><title>Ukrainian Billionaires Allegedly Laundered Money in the US</title><url>https://gijn.org/2019/06/14/document-of-the-day-how-ukrainian-billionaires-allegedly-laundered-money-in-the-us/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>hn_throwaway_99</author><text>Admittedly, I didn&amp;#x27;t read every link in the article, but this quote is almost unbelievable to me: ---- From 2006 through December 2016, the total movement of funds (credits) into the [ultimate beneficiary owners’] laundering at PrivatBank Cyprus was $470 billion, which amounts to approximately double the Gross Domestic Product of Cyprus during the same period. ---- Nearly half a &lt;i&gt;trillion&lt;/i&gt; dollars??? That would make them the richest men in the world, many times over. How can that be possible?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>liara_k</author><text>A few possibilities:&lt;p&gt;First, the amount appears to be the total through a bank, where this number would be aggregated over a several (possibly many) individuals.&lt;p&gt;Second, the amounts reported do not reflect the total funds laundered (illicit funds made to appear legitimate) but the total revenue stream, which would be offset by liabilities. For example, one laundering technique I&amp;#x27;ve read about involves buying real estate and selling it at an inflated price to someone who has the illicit funds. For example, A has illicit cash and wants to transfer it to (apparently) legitimate profits by B. B buys a property for $1m. B sells the property to A1 for $2m. B keeps the $1m difference as profit. A1 later sells the property at a loss, and the cycle is complete. Repeat this a few thousand times, but probably with a smaller % margin. But assuming a 100% margin (and the whole laundering effort being exactly this scheme) that&amp;#x27;d be $450B total revenue but $225B actually laundered.&lt;p&gt;Interesting side effect: This pushes up the cost of housing in an area until the launderers abandon it, at which point demand and purchase volume dries up significantly and valuations sink. Additional profit could be made off this market manipulation.</text></comment>

<story><title>Ukrainian Billionaires Allegedly Laundered Money in the US</title><url>https://gijn.org/2019/06/14/document-of-the-day-how-ukrainian-billionaires-allegedly-laundered-money-in-the-us/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>hn_throwaway_99</author><text>Admittedly, I didn&amp;#x27;t read every link in the article, but this quote is almost unbelievable to me: ---- From 2006 through December 2016, the total movement of funds (credits) into the [ultimate beneficiary owners’] laundering at PrivatBank Cyprus was $470 billion, which amounts to approximately double the Gross Domestic Product of Cyprus during the same period. ---- Nearly half a &lt;i&gt;trillion&lt;/i&gt; dollars??? That would make them the richest men in the world, many times over. How can that be possible?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>pjc50</author><text>Even Ukrainian prosecutors think they &amp;quot;only&amp;quot; stole $40bn. &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.bbc.co.uk&amp;#x2F;news&amp;#x2F;uk-42950097&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.bbc.co.uk&amp;#x2F;news&amp;#x2F;uk-42950097&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>