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<story><title>Laptops Are Great, But Not During a Lecture or a Meeting</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/22/business/laptops-not-during-lecture-or-meeting.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Dave_TRS</author><text>My experience is that the bad professors are almost always the ones to ban laptops. Students pay attention to engaging professors and use their laptops for notes, and those good professors aren&amp;#x27;t phased by the laptops and rarely ban them.&lt;p&gt;But When students listen out of one ear and spend the rest of the class processing email, it&amp;#x27;s almost always an indication that the lecture is poor. That&amp;#x27;s what I&amp;#x27;ve seen over and over in 7 years of post secondary classes. I don&amp;#x27;t know much about the professor in the article, but I would suspect improving his lectures will be more effective in helping students learn than banning laptops.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dgacmu</author><text>I have a counterexample - CMU&amp;#x27;s 15-112 bans laptops. The professor for it for the previous 8 years, David Kosbie, is one of the most highly regarded professors in the university.&lt;p&gt;His primary rationale for it is the &amp;quot;externalized cost&amp;quot; effect described in the article, which I can attest is quite true in my experience teaching.&lt;p&gt;When you look out at a sea of faces, you can see where the laptops are because of the reactions of people &lt;i&gt;around&lt;/i&gt; them -- eyes keep flicking involuntarily to the interesting stuff happening on the screen, and then they peel themselves back to the lecture. It amounts to a long sequence of micro-distractions that have a pretty pronounced effect on learning. Humans are very attuned to things like motion, flickering, and changes in their field of view, and those are very present when browsing the web or reading facebook on your laptop in class. Second, laptop screens are backlit, which means that they may be the &lt;i&gt;brightest&lt;/i&gt; object in someone&amp;#x27;s field of view in the class.&lt;p&gt;Zoning out on a kindle or printed newspaper has much less of an effect on the people around you. I don&amp;#x27;t care if someone ignores my class -- that&amp;#x27;s their choice. I used to not ban laptops, but I&amp;#x27;ve become convinced that it&amp;#x27;s worth it for the &lt;i&gt;other&lt;/i&gt; students.&lt;p&gt;Also, think about the numbers. It&amp;#x27;s very possible to have a lecture that&amp;#x27;s very engaging for about 95% of the class (which is a pretty impressive rate all-told). But the remaining 5% have about 10 students each in a field behind them that can see their laptop screen, so a very small number of students goofing off on laptops can have a disproportionate effect on the class.</text></comment>

<story><title>Laptops Are Great, But Not During a Lecture or a Meeting</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/22/business/laptops-not-during-lecture-or-meeting.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Dave_TRS</author><text>My experience is that the bad professors are almost always the ones to ban laptops. Students pay attention to engaging professors and use their laptops for notes, and those good professors aren&amp;#x27;t phased by the laptops and rarely ban them.&lt;p&gt;But When students listen out of one ear and spend the rest of the class processing email, it&amp;#x27;s almost always an indication that the lecture is poor. That&amp;#x27;s what I&amp;#x27;ve seen over and over in 7 years of post secondary classes. I don&amp;#x27;t know much about the professor in the article, but I would suspect improving his lectures will be more effective in helping students learn than banning laptops.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>valine</author><text>Agreed. It’s also an issue of time management. If I can find a YouTube video that explains a concept better in 5 minutes than the hour long lecture explains it, I would rather spend my time working during the lecture than taking notes.</text></comment>

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<story><title>How to win a hackathon without coming in first place</title><url>https://strdr4605.github.io/how-to-win-a-hackathon</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ivolimmen</author><text>For me a hackethon is about having fun. Period. In my company I organized multiple hackethons. As soon as Corona is less of an issue I will organize the next. I just rent a nice place for a weekend and we all come with our laptop and code in the weekend. And if you don&amp;#x27;t want to code; that&amp;#x27;s fine too. Once a colleague of mine was improving his rc airplane. We all watched him fly it. Some of us like to cook as well so that option is also on the table (pun intended).</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>stavros</author><text>That sounds like the best kind of hackathon. I hate the corporate-sponsored ones, they&amp;#x27;re either &amp;quot;here&amp;#x27;s some food, come interview for us&amp;quot; if you&amp;#x27;re the public or &amp;quot;here&amp;#x27;s some food instead of overtime&amp;quot; if you&amp;#x27;re an employee.&lt;p&gt;Your kind sounds like the original spirit of the hackathon, just a bunch of people making things together.</text></comment>

<story><title>How to win a hackathon without coming in first place</title><url>https://strdr4605.github.io/how-to-win-a-hackathon</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ivolimmen</author><text>For me a hackethon is about having fun. Period. In my company I organized multiple hackethons. As soon as Corona is less of an issue I will organize the next. I just rent a nice place for a weekend and we all come with our laptop and code in the weekend. And if you don&amp;#x27;t want to code; that&amp;#x27;s fine too. Once a colleague of mine was improving his rc airplane. We all watched him fly it. Some of us like to cook as well so that option is also on the table (pun intended).</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>herodoturtle</author><text>Reminds me of when my friends and I used to have LAN parties in the 90s. Good times.&lt;p&gt;I like your idea of a hackathon. Might just arrange something like this post-Covid.</text></comment>

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<story><title>Apple No Longer in Talks to Invest in ChatGPT Maker OpenAI</title><url>https://www.macrumors.com/2024/09/30/apple-no-longer-investing-openai-chatgpt/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>ChrisArchitect</author><text>Actual article: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.wsj.com&amp;#x2F;tech&amp;#x2F;apple-no-longer-in-talks-to-join-openai-investment-round-e3be3e66&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.wsj.com&amp;#x2F;tech&amp;#x2F;apple-no-longer-in-talks-to-join-op...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;Actual discussion earlier: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&amp;#x2F;item?id=41677333&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&amp;#x2F;item?id=41677333&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>

<story><title>Apple No Longer in Talks to Invest in ChatGPT Maker OpenAI</title><url>https://www.macrumors.com/2024/09/30/apple-no-longer-investing-openai-chatgpt/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>LarsDu88</author><text>Perhaps the elimination of the most of the original leadership team along with the board of directors was seen as a red flag.&lt;p&gt;Alternatively, Apple could just invest in Anthropic instead which seems to have had less drama and a lot of the same talent.</text></comment>

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<story><title>First possible interstellar object detected in our solar system</title><url>https://www.nasa.gov/feature/jpl/small-asteroid-or-comet-visits-from-beyond-the-solar-system</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mustacheemperor</author><text>Anyone else thinking of Rendezvous with Rama by Arthur C Clarke right now?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jboggan</author><text>I&amp;#x27;m thinking more like The Expanse.</text></comment>

<story><title>First possible interstellar object detected in our solar system</title><url>https://www.nasa.gov/feature/jpl/small-asteroid-or-comet-visits-from-beyond-the-solar-system</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mustacheemperor</author><text>Anyone else thinking of Rendezvous with Rama by Arthur C Clarke right now?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>sizzzzlerz</author><text>Only if it starts to deaccelerate.</text></comment>

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<story><title>Origin of correlated isolated flat bands in LK99</title><url>https://arxiv.org/abs/2307.16892</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>raziel2701</author><text>Man, I&amp;#x27;m feeling stronger about LK-99 being it. This paper is theoretical and she finds that particular Cu substitutions onto specific Pb atomic sites are key to enabling a band structure that is usually linked to high Tc superconductors.&lt;p&gt;What this means for the more practical minded is that the synthesis of superconducting LK-99 is not trivial and you need to make the appropriate substitutional alloy for this to work.&lt;p&gt;This is a DFT paper, and a band structure that is usually seen in high Tc superconductors just naturally came out. She also talks about the strong electron-phonon coupling that naturally arose from the structure, which is always necessary for superconductivity.&lt;p&gt;I am, by far, the most excited I&amp;#x27;ve ever been about this being a RT, ambient pressure superconductor.</text></comment>

<story><title>Origin of correlated isolated flat bands in LK99</title><url>https://arxiv.org/abs/2307.16892</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>drones</author><text>Even if LK99 isn&amp;#x27;t the real deal, god has it been an exciting 2 weeks. Though I know absolutely nothing about material science, I have enjoyed the sheer enthusiasm and optimism the scientific community has shown. I feel like I&amp;#x27;m part of something unique and special, something which could have only been achieved by the medium of accessible mass communication. The excitement here is palpable. I feel fortunate to be part of this infinitesimally miniscule portion of human history where I can share this moment with so many people.</text></comment>

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<story><title>FCC Proposes to Fine Wireless Carriers $200M for Selling Customer Location Data</title><url>https://krebsonsecurity.com/2020/02/fcc-proposes-to-fine-wireless-carriers-200m-for-selling-customer-location-data/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>hedora</author><text>This should be set as a function of how much they made, and damages incurred. 10x amount they charged + $200&amp;#x2F;victim&amp;#x2F;incident (so, $200 for each record sent) seems reasonable to me.&lt;p&gt;The latter part of the fine should go to the victims, I think.&lt;p&gt;If this bankrupts them, the executives, then board, then shareholders should be the ones to take a bath. (Not pensions, etc). After that, the fine should be reduced until it leads to a net zero valuation of the company, with the difference being given to the victims by issuing stock at the resulting stock price.&lt;p&gt;I’d like the fines to be applicable to anyone selling location data (app developers, linking shady libraries, I’m looking at you), and enforceable via class action rights that can’t be waived, as well as small claims court.&lt;p&gt;The rules should also apply to data returned by any non-mandatory compliance with government requests.&lt;p&gt;For class actions, consumers should get at least $190 of the $200, regardless of any pre-trial settlements.&lt;p&gt;I think these are minimally adequate steps to end this behavior.</text></comment>

<story><title>FCC Proposes to Fine Wireless Carriers $200M for Selling Customer Location Data</title><url>https://krebsonsecurity.com/2020/02/fcc-proposes-to-fine-wireless-carriers-200m-for-selling-customer-location-data/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>grawprog</author><text>&amp;gt;The FCC proposed fining T-Mobile $91 million; AT&amp;amp;T faces more than $57 million in fines; Verizon is looking at more than $48 million in penalties; and the FCC said Sprint should pay more than $12 million&lt;p&gt;So that&amp;#x27;s actually $200 million split between four companies and what really amounts to not much more than cost od business for them.</text></comment>

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<story><title>Quindar Tones: the beeps heard in recordings of astronauts in space</title><url>https://jalopnik.com/theres-an-actual-name-and-reason-for-those-beeps-you-he-1841024797</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>bilekas</author><text>&amp;gt; if NASA wanted to send control signals like transmit on and off, they’d need to run a whole parallel set of wires, which would be expensive. So, they came up with a solution: use the same lines for control signals as well!&lt;p&gt;It really seems that in earlier years, when resources were limited, people really used their ingenuity far better than today.&lt;p&gt;Maybe I have rose tinted glasses, but the level of creativity and cleverness seen in old solutions to problems&amp;#x2F;challenges just blows my mind all the time.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>bmgxyz</author><text>I agree that it seems like engineers of the past were more clever than us today, but I suspect that we feel that way only because a lot of the garbage systems and code have been lost to time. The good stuff gets immortalized and passed down, while the bad stuff isn&amp;#x27;t, much in the same way that nobody will see my hacky Python scripts in 30 years (with any luck). It&amp;#x27;s a selection bias.&lt;p&gt;See also people who are convinced they were born in the wrong time period. Much more annoying that you or me, I&amp;#x27;d say, but the same principle nonetheless.</text></comment>

<story><title>Quindar Tones: the beeps heard in recordings of astronauts in space</title><url>https://jalopnik.com/theres-an-actual-name-and-reason-for-those-beeps-you-he-1841024797</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>bilekas</author><text>&amp;gt; if NASA wanted to send control signals like transmit on and off, they’d need to run a whole parallel set of wires, which would be expensive. So, they came up with a solution: use the same lines for control signals as well!&lt;p&gt;It really seems that in earlier years, when resources were limited, people really used their ingenuity far better than today.&lt;p&gt;Maybe I have rose tinted glasses, but the level of creativity and cleverness seen in old solutions to problems&amp;#x2F;challenges just blows my mind all the time.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>pjc50</author><text>Inband vs out-of-band signalling is one of those great debates in telecoms. You can see it in RS232 as well, with &amp;quot;XON&amp;#x2F;XOFF&amp;quot; characters versus &amp;quot;RTS&amp;#x2F;CTS&amp;quot; extra signalling lines.&lt;p&gt;Most internet protocols are &amp;quot;in-band&amp;quot;, but there are two big exceptions in FTP and SIP, which is very much an internet protocol designed by phone people.</text></comment>

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<story><title>How a U.S. citizen was mistakenly targeted for deportation. He’s not alone</title><url>http://beta.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ice-citizen-arrest-20171129-story.html#nws=mcnewsletter</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>Someone1234</author><text>I&amp;#x27;m a naturalised citizen.&lt;p&gt;I like to joke that I have more documenting showing my legal right to be in the US than my wife&amp;#x27;s grandmother. My wife&amp;#x27;s grandmother has a birth certificate but it is water damaged, illegible, and falling apart. Besides that she has no state ID (driver&amp;#x27;s license expired twenty years ago), and few other forms of identity.&lt;p&gt;Americans seem quite dead set against a national ID scheme (and associated database). The problem with that is that we wind up with a de-facto one, SSNs and social security cards being your main proof of who you are and your legal status. Birth certificates are problematic because they&amp;#x27;ve never been standardised, and have no real fraud mitigation mechanisms (e.g. watermarks). Certainly my daughter&amp;#x27;s US birth certificate would be trivial to duplicate.&lt;p&gt;This is in no small part why I ordered my daughter a US passport even before it was needed. It is one of the best forms of ID and citizenship proof you can have, even if it expires you remain in the database indefinitely. It is also why I ordered myself a US passport-card, so I have proof of citizenship in my wallet at all times.&lt;p&gt;ICE, interior immigration checkpoints, and other initiatives seem to be on the rise. Even legal immigrants and US citizens need to protect yourselves, particularly if you&amp;#x27;re more likely to be profiled due to race.</text></comment>

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

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<story><title>Software engineers should write</title><url>http://www.shubhro.com/2014/12/27/software-engineers-should-write/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>edpichler</author><text>Oh, I really appreciate your corrections, thank you! I understand that reading bad English is really annoying for natives. I try to be careful here on HN, but sometimes I do some mistakes.</text></item><item><author>sophacles</author><text>Tangential - Just want to give you some feedback on your comment, since you are wanting to improve your second language:&lt;p&gt;First: you&amp;#x27;ve overcome a big hurdle in learning a second language, I understood what you are trying to communicate, and I did so on my first reading of it. To me, this means you&amp;#x27;re already good at english! (By comparison if I tried in my second language, which is German, I would need a few drafts and a proof-reader).&lt;p&gt;Second: You&amp;#x27;re doing commas better than a lot of native english speakers. That&amp;#x27;s pretty impressive.&lt;p&gt;Third: There are a couple of grammatical&amp;#x2F;phrasing errors I&amp;#x27;ll tell you about in your comment. These are really common errors amongst people who learn English as a second (or Nth) language, and I&amp;#x27;m not doing it to belittle you, but to help your stated goal of improvement.&lt;p&gt;&lt;i&gt;I&amp;#x27;m doing it since 09&amp;#x2F;22&amp;#x2F;2014&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;This is one of those wierd places in English where the verbs &amp;quot;to do&amp;quot; or &amp;quot;to be&amp;quot; combine strangely with tenses and idioms. I&amp;#x27;m not so sure of the technical way of stating the problem, but here&amp;#x27;s a couple of examples of a more natural way to state it:&lt;p&gt;* I&amp;#x27;ve been doing it since 09&amp;#x2F;22&amp;#x2F;2014.&lt;p&gt;* I&amp;#x27;ve done it since 09&amp;#x2F;22&amp;#x2F;2014.&lt;p&gt;&lt;i&gt;but something in me tell me that&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;This is a small one, and maybe a typo, but it is part of a pattern I&amp;#x27;ve seen a lot. Again, not great at the technical grammar terms, but it should be:&lt;p&gt;* but something in me &lt;i&gt;tells&lt;/i&gt; me that&lt;p&gt;(notice the &amp;#x27;s&amp;#x27; on tells).&lt;p&gt;Anyway I&amp;#x27;m always impressed with people who can learn a second language well, and wanted to encourage it and help if can.</text></item><item><author>edpichler</author><text>&amp;quot;Even if nobody reads your essay, writing it will make an impact on you.&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;After reading a post in HN (&lt;a href=&quot;https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5614689&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&amp;#x2F;item?id=5614689&lt;/a&gt;) entitled &amp;quot;why you should write every day&amp;quot;, I&amp;#x27;ve being doing it daily in a private blog. I do it in English to improve my second language. My main language is Portuguese.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;m doing it since 09&amp;#x2F;22&amp;#x2F;2014. I try to write about my own ideas, because I believe is the right thing to do and it is the best subject to improve myself. It&amp;#x27;s not an easy task, and I do not feel I&amp;#x27;m improving yet, but something in me tell me that I should keep doing it.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>sophacles</author><text>You&amp;#x27;re welcome. Personally, I don&amp;#x27;t understand when people get annoyed by those things. I figure if someone has done me the favor of learning my language to communicate with me, and they&amp;#x27;ve done so well enough that I understand them, why should I nitpick little errors?&lt;p&gt;I only point out things like this to people who state they are actively trying to improve - because they&amp;#x27;ve done me a favor by being able to communicate with me, and I can return it by helping them at their goal.</text></comment>

<story><title>Software engineers should write</title><url>http://www.shubhro.com/2014/12/27/software-engineers-should-write/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>edpichler</author><text>Oh, I really appreciate your corrections, thank you! I understand that reading bad English is really annoying for natives. I try to be careful here on HN, but sometimes I do some mistakes.</text></item><item><author>sophacles</author><text>Tangential - Just want to give you some feedback on your comment, since you are wanting to improve your second language:&lt;p&gt;First: you&amp;#x27;ve overcome a big hurdle in learning a second language, I understood what you are trying to communicate, and I did so on my first reading of it. To me, this means you&amp;#x27;re already good at english! (By comparison if I tried in my second language, which is German, I would need a few drafts and a proof-reader).&lt;p&gt;Second: You&amp;#x27;re doing commas better than a lot of native english speakers. That&amp;#x27;s pretty impressive.&lt;p&gt;Third: There are a couple of grammatical&amp;#x2F;phrasing errors I&amp;#x27;ll tell you about in your comment. These are really common errors amongst people who learn English as a second (or Nth) language, and I&amp;#x27;m not doing it to belittle you, but to help your stated goal of improvement.&lt;p&gt;&lt;i&gt;I&amp;#x27;m doing it since 09&amp;#x2F;22&amp;#x2F;2014&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;This is one of those wierd places in English where the verbs &amp;quot;to do&amp;quot; or &amp;quot;to be&amp;quot; combine strangely with tenses and idioms. I&amp;#x27;m not so sure of the technical way of stating the problem, but here&amp;#x27;s a couple of examples of a more natural way to state it:&lt;p&gt;* I&amp;#x27;ve been doing it since 09&amp;#x2F;22&amp;#x2F;2014.&lt;p&gt;* I&amp;#x27;ve done it since 09&amp;#x2F;22&amp;#x2F;2014.&lt;p&gt;&lt;i&gt;but something in me tell me that&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;This is a small one, and maybe a typo, but it is part of a pattern I&amp;#x27;ve seen a lot. Again, not great at the technical grammar terms, but it should be:&lt;p&gt;* but something in me &lt;i&gt;tells&lt;/i&gt; me that&lt;p&gt;(notice the &amp;#x27;s&amp;#x27; on tells).&lt;p&gt;Anyway I&amp;#x27;m always impressed with people who can learn a second language well, and wanted to encourage it and help if can.</text></item><item><author>edpichler</author><text>&amp;quot;Even if nobody reads your essay, writing it will make an impact on you.&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;After reading a post in HN (&lt;a href=&quot;https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5614689&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&amp;#x2F;item?id=5614689&lt;/a&gt;) entitled &amp;quot;why you should write every day&amp;quot;, I&amp;#x27;ve being doing it daily in a private blog. I do it in English to improve my second language. My main language is Portuguese.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;m doing it since 09&amp;#x2F;22&amp;#x2F;2014. I try to write about my own ideas, because I believe is the right thing to do and it is the best subject to improve myself. It&amp;#x27;s not an easy task, and I do not feel I&amp;#x27;m improving yet, but something in me tell me that I should keep doing it.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>japhyr</author><text>Your English is not &amp;quot;bad&amp;quot;. There are some technical grammar issues you&amp;#x27;ll continue to work out, but the meaning in your writing is perfectly clear. That makes it pretty easy to overlook anything that&amp;#x27;s not quite correct in your writing.</text></comment>

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<story><title>Hacker Barnaby Jack has died</title><url>http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/07/26/us-hacker-death-idUSBRE96P0K120130726</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>tptacek</author><text>Barnaby Jack was part of the soul of the software security community. He had so many friends. Please today remember that he was a real human being, and that he had friends who might read HN.</text></comment>

<story><title>Hacker Barnaby Jack has died</title><url>http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/07/26/us-hacker-death-idUSBRE96P0K120130726</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>dbloom</author><text>Barnaby Jack &amp;quot;jackpotting&amp;quot; an ATM at BlackHat USA 2010: &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v-dS4UFomv0&amp;amp;t=5m47s&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.youtube.com&amp;#x2F;watch?v=v-dS4UFomv0&amp;amp;t=5m47s&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>

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<story><title>Hype and plunder: Domo a new low for self-indulgent IPOs</title><url>http://www.latimes.com/business/hiltzik/la-fi-hiltzik-domo-ipo-20180604-story.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>NorthOf33rd</author><text>I&amp;#x27;d love to see the LA Times go back and revisit the Utah Valley region and the culture that helped contribute to this. The Utah Valley is chock full of startups with a serious inferiority complex to their big brothers in Silicon Valley, hence derivative name. More importantly, Utah is the “multi-level marketing capital of the world [1]” This kind of sales and growth tactic is not limited to the diet smoothie and cosmetics world, but is absolutely pervasive in the valley. Note- SLC and the Utah Valley may be united in the Silicon Slopes moniker, but they are about as similar as Austin and Waco, TX.&lt;p&gt;A few observations on Domo&lt;p&gt;1) The product is weak. It’s pretty dashboards with very limited “real” BI capabilities. The connectors are custom, not OOB&amp;#x2F;end user configurable – unless end user happens to be IT.&lt;p&gt;2) They seem to be aware that the product is weak, as their demos include an NDA. Until recently there was almost no “real” information available on what exactly Domo is or does. Only void marketing speak.&lt;p&gt;3) Their absurd domopalooza (or DP for short, no joke) events included artists like Kesha and Macklemore.&lt;p&gt;4) Their totally overblown marketing hype surrounds an incoherent me-too product roadmap. Rather than focusing on building a quality product they are going for checkboxes and chasing after Slack etc with features like Chat&lt;p&gt;5) They have a billboard that reads “If Hillary Had DOMO She would have won.”&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;ve been predicting for a while that DOMO’s hubris would cause it to be one of the first in the scene to fail spectacularly. What worries me about that prediction is the economic harm that would do to the rest of the Valley especially given the impact of MLM economics.&lt;p&gt;1- &lt;a href=&quot;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;kutv.com&amp;#x2F;news&amp;#x2F;local&amp;#x2F;follow-the-profit-how-mormon-culture-made-utah-a-hotbed-for-multi-level-marketers&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;kutv.com&amp;#x2F;news&amp;#x2F;local&amp;#x2F;follow-the-profit-how-mormon-cult...&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>joshdance</author><text>I work in Utah Valley at a tech startup in the space.&lt;p&gt;While I agree that there are some startups with &amp;#x27;inferiority complex&amp;#x27; etc, there is a growing number who are happy and proud to be a Utah startup and what that entails, not just chasing Silicon Valley.&lt;p&gt;The instant connection to MLMs is unfortunate and something we are trying to move past. I would argue Utah has a very strong sales culture not solely because of MLMs but for other reasons.</text></comment>

<story><title>Hype and plunder: Domo a new low for self-indulgent IPOs</title><url>http://www.latimes.com/business/hiltzik/la-fi-hiltzik-domo-ipo-20180604-story.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>NorthOf33rd</author><text>I&amp;#x27;d love to see the LA Times go back and revisit the Utah Valley region and the culture that helped contribute to this. The Utah Valley is chock full of startups with a serious inferiority complex to their big brothers in Silicon Valley, hence derivative name. More importantly, Utah is the “multi-level marketing capital of the world [1]” This kind of sales and growth tactic is not limited to the diet smoothie and cosmetics world, but is absolutely pervasive in the valley. Note- SLC and the Utah Valley may be united in the Silicon Slopes moniker, but they are about as similar as Austin and Waco, TX.&lt;p&gt;A few observations on Domo&lt;p&gt;1) The product is weak. It’s pretty dashboards with very limited “real” BI capabilities. The connectors are custom, not OOB&amp;#x2F;end user configurable – unless end user happens to be IT.&lt;p&gt;2) They seem to be aware that the product is weak, as their demos include an NDA. Until recently there was almost no “real” information available on what exactly Domo is or does. Only void marketing speak.&lt;p&gt;3) Their absurd domopalooza (or DP for short, no joke) events included artists like Kesha and Macklemore.&lt;p&gt;4) Their totally overblown marketing hype surrounds an incoherent me-too product roadmap. Rather than focusing on building a quality product they are going for checkboxes and chasing after Slack etc with features like Chat&lt;p&gt;5) They have a billboard that reads “If Hillary Had DOMO She would have won.”&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;ve been predicting for a while that DOMO’s hubris would cause it to be one of the first in the scene to fail spectacularly. What worries me about that prediction is the economic harm that would do to the rest of the Valley especially given the impact of MLM economics.&lt;p&gt;1- &lt;a href=&quot;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;kutv.com&amp;#x2F;news&amp;#x2F;local&amp;#x2F;follow-the-profit-how-mormon-culture-made-utah-a-hotbed-for-multi-level-marketers&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;kutv.com&amp;#x2F;news&amp;#x2F;local&amp;#x2F;follow-the-profit-how-mormon-cult...&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>NorthOf33rd</author><text>I should say, in full disclosure, that it worries me because I&amp;#x27;m a product manager in the region. So, I am concerned about economic blow back to firms that have better business practices and therefore my ability to practice here. Though, I&amp;#x27;m currently seeking remote work opportunities as this is a pervasive issue.</text></comment>

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<story><title>Reddit started banning accounts that voted for content “against their policies”</title><url>https://old.reddit.com/r/WatchRedditDie/comments/hddnml/the_warnings_have_changed_into_bannings/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>abtom</author><text>This is super stupid. If they&amp;#x27;re so against the content why allow it to exist in the first place?</text></item><item><author>manfredo</author><text>Reddit admin message:&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; Your account has been suspended from for breaking the rules. Your account has been suspended for 3 day(s).&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt;&amp;gt; You recently upvoted a post or comment that was determined to be against our policies. Abusive content is not acceptable on Reddit nor is engaging with it. Please be thoughful about the content that you interact with.&lt;p&gt;Interestingly nothing in the Reddit policies seems to mention voting or engaging with content: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.redditinc.com&amp;#x2F;policies&amp;#x2F;content-policy&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.redditinc.com&amp;#x2F;policies&amp;#x2F;content-policy&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>defertoreptar</author><text>Whether they intended it this way or not, users will now be worried they&amp;#x27;re upvoting the &amp;quot;wrong&amp;quot; thing and will be less likely to vote unpopular opinions and political views, just in case.</text></comment>

<story><title>Reddit started banning accounts that voted for content “against their policies”</title><url>https://old.reddit.com/r/WatchRedditDie/comments/hddnml/the_warnings_have_changed_into_bannings/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>abtom</author><text>This is super stupid. If they&amp;#x27;re so against the content why allow it to exist in the first place?</text></item><item><author>manfredo</author><text>Reddit admin message:&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; Your account has been suspended from for breaking the rules. Your account has been suspended for 3 day(s).&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt;&amp;gt; You recently upvoted a post or comment that was determined to be against our policies. Abusive content is not acceptable on Reddit nor is engaging with it. Please be thoughful about the content that you interact with.&lt;p&gt;Interestingly nothing in the Reddit policies seems to mention voting or engaging with content: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.redditinc.com&amp;#x2F;policies&amp;#x2F;content-policy&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.redditinc.com&amp;#x2F;policies&amp;#x2F;content-policy&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>goodluckchuck</author><text>Leaving the content up allows Reddit to track users&amp;#x27; engagement and categorize&amp;#x2F;map their viewpoints.</text></comment>

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<story><title>Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy shows a higher-quality internet is possible</title><url>http://qz.com/480741/this-free-online-encyclopedia-has-achieved-what-wikipedia-can-only-dream-of/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Strilanc</author><text>This article says that the SEP is more comprehensive and more authoritative than Wikipedia. I agree that it&amp;#x27;s more authoritative, what with it being written by authorities in philosophy. But &amp;quot;more comprehensive&amp;quot;...?&lt;p&gt;Wikipedia is extremely broad. According to the article, the SEP has 1500 entries. Each of those is no doubt better than an individual Wikipedia article (more cohesive, more in-depth, etc), but I bet there&amp;#x27;s two orders of magnitude more Wiki articles on philosophy (nevermind &lt;i&gt;other&lt;/i&gt; topics!). It no doubt has much wider coverage. How&amp;#x27;s that for &amp;quot;more comprehensive&amp;quot;?&lt;p&gt;I guess I&amp;#x27;m just complaining about stretching a word to mean something more specific than it usually means. I think of comprehensive as including both in-depth focus and wide-ranging reach. So when the article counts only one of those aspects, and omits the other from the checklist, it feels like cherry-picking the outcome.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>TuringTest</author><text>Comprehensive within the field of philosophy? Yeah, I think that can be achieved. Wikipedia articles on core philosophical articles are often not much more than stubs - certainly the SEP examples seem more coherent and well structured. I don&amp;#x27;t think there will be more than 1500 articles better than C-class in Wikipedia&amp;#x27;s Philosophy category.</text></comment>

<story><title>Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy shows a higher-quality internet is possible</title><url>http://qz.com/480741/this-free-online-encyclopedia-has-achieved-what-wikipedia-can-only-dream-of/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Strilanc</author><text>This article says that the SEP is more comprehensive and more authoritative than Wikipedia. I agree that it&amp;#x27;s more authoritative, what with it being written by authorities in philosophy. But &amp;quot;more comprehensive&amp;quot;...?&lt;p&gt;Wikipedia is extremely broad. According to the article, the SEP has 1500 entries. Each of those is no doubt better than an individual Wikipedia article (more cohesive, more in-depth, etc), but I bet there&amp;#x27;s two orders of magnitude more Wiki articles on philosophy (nevermind &lt;i&gt;other&lt;/i&gt; topics!). It no doubt has much wider coverage. How&amp;#x27;s that for &amp;quot;more comprehensive&amp;quot;?&lt;p&gt;I guess I&amp;#x27;m just complaining about stretching a word to mean something more specific than it usually means. I think of comprehensive as including both in-depth focus and wide-ranging reach. So when the article counts only one of those aspects, and omits the other from the checklist, it feels like cherry-picking the outcome.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>njharman</author><text>I don&amp;#x27;t think your second meaning of the word is wide spread. Comprehensive is not expansive or all-encompassing. A single article can be comprehensive if it self-contained and complete.&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;complete; including all or nearly all elements or aspects of something&amp;quot;</text></comment>

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<story><title>Denied Entry</title><url>https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2017/06/28/denied-entry/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>dang</author><text>The thread from yesterday: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&amp;#x2F;item?id=14643467&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&amp;#x2F;item?id=14643467&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>

<story><title>Denied Entry</title><url>https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2017/06/28/denied-entry/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>jacquesm</author><text>Someone asked me today when I was going to visit the US again. I told them &lt;i&gt;never&lt;/i&gt;. That is, not until this madness stops. The US now treats citizens from allied countries as enemies and that&amp;#x27;s just plain rude and not called for. There isn&amp;#x27;t a shred of evidence that any of this has made America safer in any way and it would be pretty easy to argue that it has made America &lt;i&gt;less&lt;/i&gt; safe on account of pissing off large numbers of people both inside and outside the USA.</text></comment>

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<story><title>&quot;... so now I will jiggle things randomly until they unbreak&quot; is not acceptable&apos;</title><url>http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/1126136</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>eof</author><text>This, in turn, reminds me of a long-shot theory about how the universe works that I sometimes ponder.&lt;p&gt;I can&apos;t think of how many times someone has come to me with a computer problem, or I&apos;ve gone to a vendor/support chat with a problem that hasn&apos;t worked dozens or hundreds of times. Then suddenly, with the guru there, whether it is me or someone else, suddenly the problem evaporates.&lt;p&gt;I&apos;ve found myself wondering if this wasn&apos;t some illusion, but an actual artifact of the nature of the universe. Think about it: if noob&apos;s problems everywhere were actually the universe not letting their shit work, there would be &lt;i&gt;no one&lt;/i&gt; to ever notice it; because when the expert comes in and fixes it, it is magic to the noob anyway, and the expert is 100% used to mundanes not having their stuff work for any given reason.</text></item><item><author>j_baker</author><text>I can&apos;t help being reminded of this hacker koan:&lt;p&gt;A novice was trying to fix a broken Lisp machine by turning the power off and on.&lt;p&gt;Knight, seeing what the student was doing, spoke sternly: &quot;You cannot fix a machine by just power-cycling it with no understanding of what is going wrong.&quot;&lt;p&gt;Knight turned the machine off and on. The machine worked.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>freshhawk</author><text>There is already a scientific explanation for this.&lt;p&gt;It&apos;s called &quot;confirmation bias&quot;</text></comment>

<story><title>&quot;... so now I will jiggle things randomly until they unbreak&quot; is not acceptable&apos;</title><url>http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/1126136</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>eof</author><text>This, in turn, reminds me of a long-shot theory about how the universe works that I sometimes ponder.&lt;p&gt;I can&apos;t think of how many times someone has come to me with a computer problem, or I&apos;ve gone to a vendor/support chat with a problem that hasn&apos;t worked dozens or hundreds of times. Then suddenly, with the guru there, whether it is me or someone else, suddenly the problem evaporates.&lt;p&gt;I&apos;ve found myself wondering if this wasn&apos;t some illusion, but an actual artifact of the nature of the universe. Think about it: if noob&apos;s problems everywhere were actually the universe not letting their shit work, there would be &lt;i&gt;no one&lt;/i&gt; to ever notice it; because when the expert comes in and fixes it, it is magic to the noob anyway, and the expert is 100% used to mundanes not having their stuff work for any given reason.</text></item><item><author>j_baker</author><text>I can&apos;t help being reminded of this hacker koan:&lt;p&gt;A novice was trying to fix a broken Lisp machine by turning the power off and on.&lt;p&gt;Knight, seeing what the student was doing, spoke sternly: &quot;You cannot fix a machine by just power-cycling it with no understanding of what is going wrong.&quot;&lt;p&gt;Knight turned the machine off and on. The machine worked.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>arethuza</author><text>Sounds like quantum bogodynamics: &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/Q/quantum-bogodynamics.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/Q/quantum-bogodynamics.html&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>

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<story><title>A Moneymaking Machine Like Few Others</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-11-21/how-renaissance-s-medallion-fund-became-finance-s-blackest-box?cmpid%253D=socialflow-twitter-hedgebrief</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>pedalpete</author><text>I completely agree with you, but think your comment should be moderated down from &amp;#x27;They produce nothing usable&amp;#x27;, to &amp;#x27;They are paid exorbitant amounts compared to the value the produce for society as a whole&amp;#x27;.&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;but they manage your retirement fund&amp;quot;, really? do they? last I checked there are algorithms running the entire show and making sure I and every other little investor get screwed for every 10th of a cent so that a few investors at the top who already have loads of money can have more. They&amp;#x27;ve made a game out of moving money and skimming a bit off the top all the time. Let&amp;#x27;s not forget that they are actually taking money from your 401k every time they make these trades. Let&amp;#x27;s not pretend the financiers care about you, the little guy.&lt;p&gt;Another comment mentioned that YC is in finance, but let&amp;#x27;s be clear, YC is financing start-up businesses and helping them to grow. They&amp;#x27;re small finance. When I buy a share in Facebook, I&amp;#x27;m not helping it grow, I&amp;#x27;m betting on it&amp;#x27;s growth and the big finance industry is just the casino.</text></item><item><author>gdne</author><text>I feel sad that so much brain power goes into market arbitrage. They produce nothing usable by anyone else. Imagine if these people built companies that made new advances and new products.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>encoderer</author><text>Spreads on liquid stocks are a penny now. Most limit orders are price improved by a few tenths of a cent -- a better price than you asked for. These are both courtesy of algorithmic trading. If a HFT trader does arb between two diff exchanges he&amp;#x27;s not hurting you. You&amp;#x27;re conflating it with front running your orders. That is not really a problem for a retail trader who isn&amp;#x27;t moving large block trades.</text></comment>

<story><title>A Moneymaking Machine Like Few Others</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-11-21/how-renaissance-s-medallion-fund-became-finance-s-blackest-box?cmpid%253D=socialflow-twitter-hedgebrief</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>pedalpete</author><text>I completely agree with you, but think your comment should be moderated down from &amp;#x27;They produce nothing usable&amp;#x27;, to &amp;#x27;They are paid exorbitant amounts compared to the value the produce for society as a whole&amp;#x27;.&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;but they manage your retirement fund&amp;quot;, really? do they? last I checked there are algorithms running the entire show and making sure I and every other little investor get screwed for every 10th of a cent so that a few investors at the top who already have loads of money can have more. They&amp;#x27;ve made a game out of moving money and skimming a bit off the top all the time. Let&amp;#x27;s not forget that they are actually taking money from your 401k every time they make these trades. Let&amp;#x27;s not pretend the financiers care about you, the little guy.&lt;p&gt;Another comment mentioned that YC is in finance, but let&amp;#x27;s be clear, YC is financing start-up businesses and helping them to grow. They&amp;#x27;re small finance. When I buy a share in Facebook, I&amp;#x27;m not helping it grow, I&amp;#x27;m betting on it&amp;#x27;s growth and the big finance industry is just the casino.</text></item><item><author>gdne</author><text>I feel sad that so much brain power goes into market arbitrage. They produce nothing usable by anyone else. Imagine if these people built companies that made new advances and new products.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>aianus</author><text>What would a FB IPO have looked like without the expectation of a deep and liquid secondary market for the lifetime of the company?&lt;p&gt;If the secondary market wasn&amp;#x27;t so big and efficient, it would be more expensive for everyone to raise capital, from large corporations to one man seed rounds.</text></comment>

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<story><title>Scaling lessons learned at Dropbox (2012)</title><url>https://eranki.tumblr.com/post/27076431887/scaling-lessons-learned-at-dropbox-part-1</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>nosefrog</author><text>I was at Dropbox from 2015-2020, and it&amp;#x27;s funny how many things have changed and how many stay the same.&lt;p&gt;Changes:&lt;p&gt;- When I joined in 2015, it was already forbidden to just log text on the server. Only a small number of SREs even had access to the text logs. Any event that you cared about needed to be logged from the system described in &amp;quot;App-specific metrics&amp;quot;, which was pretty easy to use. (That said, on desktop we still used logspam because when you&amp;#x27;re debugging a desktop client doing the wrong thing, sometimes the only lead you have is tracing which lines of code are being run by looking at which logs are being printed.)&lt;p&gt;- Re: shards, by the time I joined most of the mysql was replaced by a homegrown KV&amp;#x2F;graph database on top of mysql that had a fixed number of shards (something like 255).&lt;p&gt;Things that didn&amp;#x27;t change (at least by the time I left in 2020):&lt;p&gt;- Everything was in UTC, including in the UIs for everything (e.g. metrics, exceptions, crashes, etc). I ended making a GPS clock that showed UTC to put on my desk as a fun project, and I know at least one SRE who had set basically all their clocks to UTC time (e.g. phone, laptop, calendar, etc). This is in contrast to Google, where almost every system either shows your local time or &amp;quot;Google Standard Time&amp;quot; (which is just Pacific Time).&lt;p&gt;- Python was still used for virtually everything.</text></comment>

<story><title>Scaling lessons learned at Dropbox (2012)</title><url>https://eranki.tumblr.com/post/27076431887/scaling-lessons-learned-at-dropbox-part-1</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>yaseer</author><text>This may be from 2012, but it&amp;#x27;s surprising just how much of the specific advice still applies.&lt;p&gt;Grep, sed, awk, xargs etc are still the canonical list of shell tools for debugging, and have been for decades.&lt;p&gt;Makes you realise, learning Unix tools will likely be a better long term time investment than the latest trendy framework. I wish I could go back in time and tell that to my younger self...</text></comment>

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<story><title>MySpace: what went wrong – by its former VP of online marketing</title><url>http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/mar/06/myspace-what-went-wrong-sean-percival-spotify</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>aaronchall</author><text>I was an early user of both MySpace and Facebook. MySpace came first. It seemed like an easy way to create a rather customizable web presence. I created a page myself. But the experience sucked. Most customizers turned their MySpace page into a really bad website, with (loud) music that would automatically start up, and you were always a click away from a near-pornographic image (uh, Dad, Mom, no it&amp;#x27;s just MySpace, I&amp;#x27;m not surfing for porn!)&lt;p&gt;The article seems off base. I don&amp;#x27;t get how Facebook avoids being all over the place. But, yeah, they did avoid the obnoxious ads (at first), and I can visit someone&amp;#x27;s page without blasting music or getting an eyeful of html poop.&lt;p&gt;Could they have avoided losing out to Facebook? I think if they created MySpace 2.0 without all the crap (essentially what Facebook did) and made it easy to migrate your accounts and activity, they could have prevented Facebook from taking over social. But they didn&amp;#x27;t, and it was crap, and I basically put up a MySpace message saying I was moving to Facebook for all the reasons, and that&amp;#x27;s where people could find me. And I think a lot of other people followed suit.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>krrrh</author><text>I totally agree with this, and when Facebook launched it was clear to me that the restrictions it placed on customization of profile pages, and providing smart defaults for layout, don&amp;#x27;t, and color would make social more functional and valuable for most users.&lt;p&gt;But I still appreciate Ze Frank&amp;#x27;s defense of ugly wrt MySpace democratizing design tools, and his observations that the fact that so many people were cutting, modifying, and pasting css was at the time weird and kind of wonderful.&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://interconnected.org/home/2012/05/22/ze_frank_on_ugly&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;interconnected.org&amp;#x2F;home&amp;#x2F;2012&amp;#x2F;05&amp;#x2F;22&amp;#x2F;ze_frank_on_ugly&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; As people start learning and experimenting with these languages authorship, they don&amp;#x27;t necessarily follow the rules of good taste. This scares the shit out of designers. &amp;gt; &amp;gt; In Myspace, millions of people have opted out of pre-made templates that &amp;quot;work&amp;quot; in exchange for ugly. Ugly when compared to pre-existing notions of taste is a bummer. But ugly as a representation of mass experimentation and learning is pretty damn cool.</text></comment>

<story><title>MySpace: what went wrong – by its former VP of online marketing</title><url>http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/mar/06/myspace-what-went-wrong-sean-percival-spotify</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>aaronchall</author><text>I was an early user of both MySpace and Facebook. MySpace came first. It seemed like an easy way to create a rather customizable web presence. I created a page myself. But the experience sucked. Most customizers turned their MySpace page into a really bad website, with (loud) music that would automatically start up, and you were always a click away from a near-pornographic image (uh, Dad, Mom, no it&amp;#x27;s just MySpace, I&amp;#x27;m not surfing for porn!)&lt;p&gt;The article seems off base. I don&amp;#x27;t get how Facebook avoids being all over the place. But, yeah, they did avoid the obnoxious ads (at first), and I can visit someone&amp;#x27;s page without blasting music or getting an eyeful of html poop.&lt;p&gt;Could they have avoided losing out to Facebook? I think if they created MySpace 2.0 without all the crap (essentially what Facebook did) and made it easy to migrate your accounts and activity, they could have prevented Facebook from taking over social. But they didn&amp;#x27;t, and it was crap, and I basically put up a MySpace message saying I was moving to Facebook for all the reasons, and that&amp;#x27;s where people could find me. And I think a lot of other people followed suit.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>catshirt</author><text>&amp;quot;I can visit someone&amp;#x27;s page without blasting music or getting an eyeful of html poop.&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;i hated auto-playing music until it didn&amp;#x27;t exist anymore. now i miss the individuality. not specifically the music but also the other ways you could customize the page. in case anyone isn&amp;#x27;t familiar, you could basically just embed arbitrary html&amp;#x2F;css&amp;#x2F;js.</text></comment>

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<story><title>Double-slit time diffraction at optical frequencies</title><url>https://www.nature.com/articles/s41567-023-01993-w</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>davnicwil</author><text>What do they mean by time slits? A beam of light twice gated in time... what does this mean?&lt;p&gt;Is it something like sending pulses of light towards each other separated by some very small amount of time and observing an interference pattern of some kind?</text></comment>

<story><title>Double-slit time diffraction at optical frequencies</title><url>https://www.nature.com/articles/s41567-023-01993-w</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>ssgh</author><text>&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;arxiv.org&amp;#x2F;abs&amp;#x2F;2206.04362&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;arxiv.org&amp;#x2F;abs&amp;#x2F;2206.04362&lt;/a&gt; [Submitted on 9 Jun 2022 (v1), last revised 16 Jun 2022 (this version, v2)]</text></comment>

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<story><title>What Does It Mean to Be Poor in Germany?</title><url>http://www.spiegel.de/international/tomorrow/a-1093371.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>zinssmeister</author><text>I read the german version of this article a few days ago and paired with my own experience (I was born and raised in Germany and lived there until the age of 25) I came to the conclusion that: a.) being poor in Germany is much much better than being poor in most other countries (incl. the United states, where I reside now) and b.) When you are poor in Germany you can drastically improve your cash flow by not living in one of the expensive cities. Living out in the country in a small village will enable you to stretch your welfare checks compared to living in Munich, where most things and most people around you are much more.&lt;p&gt;I also think Germany has a unique opportunity here to tackle the problem of social mobility and could improve the way they deploy the welfare budget. For example supporting a young family with many children before they face sliding into &amp;quot;poor status&amp;quot;, due to one parent staying home to take care of the family. The article did a great job highlighting three interesting situations and their challenges&amp;#x2F;opportunities.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>weinzierl</author><text>&amp;gt; The article did a great job highlighting three interesting situations and their challenges&amp;#x2F;opportunities.&lt;p&gt;Yes it did and I agree with all you said. As a German I just wanted to point out one thing that might not be clear to many readers not familiar with the situation in Germany:&lt;p&gt;And as you said the article was &amp;quot;highlighting the interesting situations&amp;quot;. These life stories are highly atypical.&lt;p&gt;Mr. Huber was an Engineer at Siemens. Even if he didn&amp;#x27;t make quite a career there, he had certainly one of the better paying jobs in Germany. He inherited a house at Tegernsee, which is wealthy area. In contrast to most other Germans he had all the chances he could have, but somehow (the article doesn&amp;#x27;t say) he lost everything.&lt;p&gt;The Ehlers&amp;#x27; trouble started with the birth of their forth child. Only 3.5% of all families with children in Germany have four or more kids [1].&lt;p&gt;Mrs. Kramer is seriously ill. She is a single parent but has (apparently) otherwise no family to support her. She lives in her own apartment and has a good education. Her case is certainly the most typical of all three.&lt;p&gt;What does typical poverty in Germany really look like?&lt;p&gt;15.4% of the German population is considered poor[2][3].&lt;p&gt;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt; - Single Parent 41.9% - Family with three or more children 24.6% - Unemployed 57.6% - Low level of education 30.8% - Foreign national 32.5% - Migration background 26.7% &lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt; [1] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.destatis.de&amp;#x2F;DE&amp;#x2F;PresseService&amp;#x2F;Presse&amp;#x2F;Pressekonferenzen&amp;#x2F;2013&amp;#x2F;Geburten_2012&amp;#x2F;Begleitheft_Geburten.pdf?__blob=publicationFile&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.destatis.de&amp;#x2F;DE&amp;#x2F;PresseService&amp;#x2F;Presse&amp;#x2F;Pressekonfer...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;[2] &lt;a href=&quot;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.zeit.de&amp;#x2F;wirtschaft&amp;#x2F;2016-02&amp;#x2F;armut-deutschland-2016-paritaetische-verband&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.zeit.de&amp;#x2F;wirtschaft&amp;#x2F;2016-02&amp;#x2F;armut-deutschland-2016...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;[3] &lt;a href=&quot;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.der-paritaetische.de&amp;#x2F;index.php?eID=tx_nawsecuredl&amp;amp;u=0&amp;amp;g=0&amp;amp;t=1465160658&amp;amp;hash=b1f7f86883b269c53d1a67812b32830d631b2e21&amp;amp;file=fileadmin&amp;#x2F;dokumente&amp;#x2F;2016_armutsbericht&amp;#x2F;ab2016_komplett_web.pdf&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.der-paritaetische.de&amp;#x2F;index.php?eID=tx_nawsecuredl...&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>

<story><title>What Does It Mean to Be Poor in Germany?</title><url>http://www.spiegel.de/international/tomorrow/a-1093371.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>zinssmeister</author><text>I read the german version of this article a few days ago and paired with my own experience (I was born and raised in Germany and lived there until the age of 25) I came to the conclusion that: a.) being poor in Germany is much much better than being poor in most other countries (incl. the United states, where I reside now) and b.) When you are poor in Germany you can drastically improve your cash flow by not living in one of the expensive cities. Living out in the country in a small village will enable you to stretch your welfare checks compared to living in Munich, where most things and most people around you are much more.&lt;p&gt;I also think Germany has a unique opportunity here to tackle the problem of social mobility and could improve the way they deploy the welfare budget. For example supporting a young family with many children before they face sliding into &amp;quot;poor status&amp;quot;, due to one parent staying home to take care of the family. The article did a great job highlighting three interesting situations and their challenges&amp;#x2F;opportunities.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jfaucett</author><text>Exactly this. I moved to Germany around 6 years ago, and I&amp;#x27;ve noticed huge differences in cost of living just in the few cities I&amp;#x27;ve lived in (southern Germany was the most expensive i.e. Munich).&lt;p&gt;Also, as someone who has lived in the US and Argentina, and has spent a good portion of life living in the &amp;quot;poorer class&amp;quot;, I have to say being &amp;quot;poor&amp;quot; in Germany seems lightyears better than it is in those two countries, although I haven&amp;#x27;t experienced being poor here, only in those others.&lt;p&gt;The first time I saw a German ghetto I thought it was joke. A German ghetto is a pretty nice place to live in most countries, in the US it&amp;#x27;d be like living in a multicultural poorer neighborhood where everyone has healthcare and there&amp;#x27;s no guns or violent crime.&lt;p&gt;Anyway, it still amazes me sometimes how far Germans go with the &amp;quot;lets help the world&amp;quot; mentality. One of the first things, I got asked after arriving in Germany was if I wanted Hartz IV? I already had a fulltime well-paying job, but hey I wouldn&amp;#x27;t start for a couple months so they wanted to give me money until then! What country does that? So sure, you pay huge taxes, you get safer cities and even &amp;quot;poor&amp;quot; people have apartments, healthcare, food, tv, internet, etc.&lt;p&gt;This isn&amp;#x27;t to say all is perfect. There&amp;#x27;s plenty of things wrong in Germany (aka 6 month winters), but on the issue of &amp;quot;quality of life as a poor person&amp;quot;, they are rocking it IMHO.</text></comment>

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<story><title>Eli Lilly pulls millions in Twitter advertising after fake account debacle</title><url>https://endpts.com/aa/GNCCE127YE96J7TZ/?utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=1596%20-%20Eli%20Lilly%20reportedly%20halts%20Twitter%20ad%20spending%20after%20fake%20accounts%20Intellia%20touts%20new%20data%20from%20gene%20editing%20therapy%20Basic&amp;utm_content=1596%20-%20Eli%20Lilly%20reportedly%20halts%20Twitter%20ad%20spending%20after%20fake%20accounts%20Intellia%20touts%20new%20data%20from%20gene%20editing%20therapy%20Basic+CID_0fa9b6fa9b5c73a2803c8bd50878620c&amp;utm_source=ENDPOINTS%20emails&amp;utm_term=Eli%20Lilly%20pulls%20millions%20in%20Twitter%20advertising%20after%20fake%20account%20debacle%20%20report</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>danudey</author><text>&amp;gt; Just to replace it with what he calls &amp;quot;payment verified&amp;quot;, which basically means you have 8$ and means to send it to twitter. Which apparently is worth less than nothing.&lt;p&gt;1. Create a new Apple account&lt;p&gt;2. Buy a $10 iTunes gift card&lt;p&gt;3. Use that to pay for Twitter Blue&lt;p&gt;Would I pay $10 and twenty minutes of my time to knock $20bn off of an insulin profiteer&amp;#x27;s stock price? Absolutely. Put me down for a recurring subscription.</text></item><item><author>scotty79</author><text>It&amp;#x27;s super funny that identity verification of authors of things published was basically more than half of the value twitter provided to its users, both readers and writers and the first thing Elon did was to destroy it.&lt;p&gt;Just to replace it with what he calls &amp;quot;payment verified&amp;quot;, which basically means you have 8$ and means to send it to twitter. Which apparently is worth less than nothing.&lt;p&gt;It kind of reminds me how a while back somebody posted proposed redesign of stackoverflow to make it more nice from UX perspective. However this person wasn&amp;#x27;t a user of stackoverflow and didn&amp;#x27;t understand how much value which features provide and suggested changes that would make very valuable features removed or made less easily accessible while bringing to the front features that are not very useful.&lt;p&gt;I think it just helps to be a user of the product and have a deep understanding for it before you make any changes. Elon used twitter a lot, but in pretty unusual fashion (because he&amp;#x27;s world famous billionaire) so he really didn&amp;#x27;t understand what&amp;#x27;s most valuable part and took it for granted.&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s really a bit surprising that noone told him that his tweets are worth anything only because people reading them can know they come from Elon not some guy who paid 8$ to call himself Elon on Twitter.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>partiallypro</author><text>You can block gift cards in most payment gateways, I imagine you could do similar with Apple&amp;#x27;s system.&lt;p&gt;There also is mixed evidence that Eli Lilly&amp;#x27;s stock actually went down from the tweet, given it reacted hours after the tweet and never recovered (usually fake news items effecting price will immediately correct back to the previous trading level.)&lt;p&gt;Several articles I read about it bury this deep in the article, basically alluding to &amp;quot;we&amp;#x27;ll never actually know why the stock went down.&amp;quot; I would imagine their new Alzheimer&amp;#x27;s drug looming had more to do with it, but idk. It also becomes slightly questionable about if a quant, etc fund would not know the difference between accounts, when you really think about it...it sounds improbable.</text></comment>

<story><title>Eli Lilly pulls millions in Twitter advertising after fake account debacle</title><url>https://endpts.com/aa/GNCCE127YE96J7TZ/?utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=1596%20-%20Eli%20Lilly%20reportedly%20halts%20Twitter%20ad%20spending%20after%20fake%20accounts%20Intellia%20touts%20new%20data%20from%20gene%20editing%20therapy%20Basic&amp;utm_content=1596%20-%20Eli%20Lilly%20reportedly%20halts%20Twitter%20ad%20spending%20after%20fake%20accounts%20Intellia%20touts%20new%20data%20from%20gene%20editing%20therapy%20Basic+CID_0fa9b6fa9b5c73a2803c8bd50878620c&amp;utm_source=ENDPOINTS%20emails&amp;utm_term=Eli%20Lilly%20pulls%20millions%20in%20Twitter%20advertising%20after%20fake%20account%20debacle%20%20report</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>danudey</author><text>&amp;gt; Just to replace it with what he calls &amp;quot;payment verified&amp;quot;, which basically means you have 8$ and means to send it to twitter. Which apparently is worth less than nothing.&lt;p&gt;1. Create a new Apple account&lt;p&gt;2. Buy a $10 iTunes gift card&lt;p&gt;3. Use that to pay for Twitter Blue&lt;p&gt;Would I pay $10 and twenty minutes of my time to knock $20bn off of an insulin profiteer&amp;#x27;s stock price? Absolutely. Put me down for a recurring subscription.</text></item><item><author>scotty79</author><text>It&amp;#x27;s super funny that identity verification of authors of things published was basically more than half of the value twitter provided to its users, both readers and writers and the first thing Elon did was to destroy it.&lt;p&gt;Just to replace it with what he calls &amp;quot;payment verified&amp;quot;, which basically means you have 8$ and means to send it to twitter. Which apparently is worth less than nothing.&lt;p&gt;It kind of reminds me how a while back somebody posted proposed redesign of stackoverflow to make it more nice from UX perspective. However this person wasn&amp;#x27;t a user of stackoverflow and didn&amp;#x27;t understand how much value which features provide and suggested changes that would make very valuable features removed or made less easily accessible while bringing to the front features that are not very useful.&lt;p&gt;I think it just helps to be a user of the product and have a deep understanding for it before you make any changes. Elon used twitter a lot, but in pretty unusual fashion (because he&amp;#x27;s world famous billionaire) so he really didn&amp;#x27;t understand what&amp;#x27;s most valuable part and took it for granted.&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s really a bit surprising that noone told him that his tweets are worth anything only because people reading them can know they come from Elon not some guy who paid 8$ to call himself Elon on Twitter.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>SoftTalker</author><text>And if you shorted Lilly at the same time, you&amp;#x27;ll probably soon be getting a visit from men in dark suits.</text></comment>

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<story><title>I have no side code projects to show you</title><url>https://www.codementor.io/ezekielbuchheit/no-i-have-no-side-code-projects-to-show-you-cz1tyhgdz</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>shortsightedsid</author><text>It&amp;#x27;s funny that the tech industry is so insistent on side projects. I mean - would you hire a marketing person based on their &amp;#x27;side projects&amp;#x27; or a corporate lawyer purely based on their pro-bono work? Likewise, who on earth asks a building contractor if they have any side projects? You would ask for references or find a contractor via someone you know. What about recruiters themselves? How does one judge if a person is going to be good recruiter or not? What about sales guys? Does anyone ask them - do you sell stuff on the side - Y&amp;#x27;know maybe you just do door-to-door selling as a hobby. Or what about other engineering disciplines? Does one really ask a Mechanical Engineer or a Civil Engineer about their side projects?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>TAForObvReasons</author><text>Side projects are for software what a portfolio is for other creative industries. You don&amp;#x27;t hire a designer sight unseen -- usually you ask for a sample. It makes perfect sense to expect the same of technology.</text></comment>

<story><title>I have no side code projects to show you</title><url>https://www.codementor.io/ezekielbuchheit/no-i-have-no-side-code-projects-to-show-you-cz1tyhgdz</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>shortsightedsid</author><text>It&amp;#x27;s funny that the tech industry is so insistent on side projects. I mean - would you hire a marketing person based on their &amp;#x27;side projects&amp;#x27; or a corporate lawyer purely based on their pro-bono work? Likewise, who on earth asks a building contractor if they have any side projects? You would ask for references or find a contractor via someone you know. What about recruiters themselves? How does one judge if a person is going to be good recruiter or not? What about sales guys? Does anyone ask them - do you sell stuff on the side - Y&amp;#x27;know maybe you just do door-to-door selling as a hobby. Or what about other engineering disciplines? Does one really ask a Mechanical Engineer or a Civil Engineer about their side projects?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>kelnos</author><text>The next time I&amp;#x27;m interviewing in front of a hiring manager who asks me about my side coding projects, I&amp;#x27;m going to ask them about their side managing projects.</text></comment>

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<story><title>Cartels Are an Emergent Phenomenon, Say Complexity Theorists</title><url>http://www.technologyreview.com/blog/arxiv/27512/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>wisty</author><text>A similar thing has already been shown by Steve Keen. First, he shows that if firms optimize by attempting to set the &lt;i&gt;total&lt;/i&gt; derivative of profits to zero, they behave like monopolies. Second, he uses a simple model in which firms randomly raise or lower prices, then revert if they lost money, and shows they converge to behaving like monopolies.&lt;p&gt;He also points out that many fundamental economic principles are flawed, and have been proven to be flawed for years, but economists lack rigor, and would rather live in their &quot;supply meets demand, actors are rational, and the market is in equilibrium&quot; fantasy-land.&lt;p&gt;Oh, and in about 2006, he warned that there&apos;d be a recession caused by a debt-deflation, just like in 1929. He warned that the government would continually underestimate its impact. He also thinks that the best way to &quot;reset&quot; the system is with a &quot;modern jubilee&quot; - the government engage in massive quantitative easing (which they won&apos;t, because they don&apos;t realise what&apos;s causing the crisis, and how bad it is), and should hand out the free money to tax-payers rather than giving it to banks, as the banks have lost their appetite for risk and won&apos;t create new money even if you feed them.&lt;p&gt;But mainstream economists only study basic calculus, linear algebra, and statistics, not ODEs, and don&apos;t believe anything they don&apos;t understand. A 50 year old professor (or central banker) isn&apos;t going to go back to school and sit in a class with sophomore engineers, just to be able to understand what &quot;complexity theorists&quot; and &quot;econophysists&quot; are talking about, so they just pretend that it doesn&apos;t exist. There&apos;s no conspiracy, they just don&apos;t read or teach anything more mathematically advanced than IS-LM (which is stone age). Their journals don&apos;t accept non-mainstream papers for &quot;methodological reasons&quot; (they don&apos;t understand basic differential equations), or because it &quot;doesn&apos;t sit well with the current theory&quot; (it proves them wrong) and since there&apos;s tens of thousands of them they tend to dominate the field.</text></comment>

<story><title>Cartels Are an Emergent Phenomenon, Say Complexity Theorists</title><url>http://www.technologyreview.com/blog/arxiv/27512/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>pash</author><text>Though a fun paper, Technology Review&apos;s write-up of it is worthless. At most, all you should take from reading this paper is that &quot;cartels&quot; potentially can emerge without coordination, not that they do or that they are likely to. Or that this phenomenon has anything at all to do with the dynamics of prices at your neighborhood gas-station.&lt;p&gt;As anyone who has studied complex systems understands, the evolution of interactions among even very simple agents is enormously sensitive to initial conditions. (That&apos;s often taken as the very definition of chaos in deterministic systems.) So it is almost always wrong to draw strong conclusions about a complex part of the real world based on your computational model of it: vary one parameter a little bit and you end up with something that looks completely different.&lt;p&gt;This is why agent-based models, like the one employed in this study, are widely despised in economics and the other social sciences despite offering a way to do experiments that would otherwise be impossible in these fields. We simply don&apos;t know enough about people and how they interact to build meaningful models, and we probably never will.&lt;p&gt;For example, an economist might point out that the model presented in this paper doesn&apos;t account for the spacial distribution of gas stations and consumers, for buyers&apos; and sellers&apos; expectations of future prices, or for any number of conceivable and inconceivable factors—almost all of which would affect aggregate outcomes in the model, I would bet, just as the authors found that the speed of reacting to price-changes did. (That was the only parameter the authors varied, by the way.) And of course we could model the problem in many fundamentally different ways to start with.&lt;p&gt;In other words, this is much different (and harder) than building an N-body model of the dynamics of Alpha Centauri, where&apos;s there&apos;s basically one force (gravity) that operates in the same way on a bunch of things that can all be described adequately by a single parameter (mass).</text></comment>

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<story><title>Genshin Impact made more money in its first year than any other game</title><url>https://gamerant.com/genshin-impact-made-more-money-in-its-first-year-than-any-other-game/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>spywaregorilla</author><text>I like playing gacha games when they&amp;#x27;re F2P friendly. It&amp;#x27;s a neat game mechanic. The resource conservation and gambling aspect is fun. But people who spend money on these games... are just so strange to me. The value of money spent is incredibly low. Genshin is one of the stingiest games. Yet on its recent first anniversary, people were surprised that they were, yet again, very stingy. The lack of self awareness of what they&amp;#x27;re playing on the gacha communities is so odd to me.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;m not super familiar with genshin specifically, but in a lot of these games, players don&amp;#x27;t really play the game. Like, they&amp;#x27;ll just lookup pre made team setups that allow them to win with no skill or input. This is the strangest thing to me. Why do people like just following along a game if they&amp;#x27;re not going to take any accountability. It&amp;#x27;s like the MMORPG grind of enjoying the numbers going up from yesteryear, but somehow, even one step further removed than before.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>kitsunesoba</author><text>&amp;gt; It&amp;#x27;s like the MMORPG grind of enjoying the numbers going up from yesteryear, but somehow, even one step further removed than before.&lt;p&gt;Speaking of MMORPGs, the mentality has spread there too. Lots of players don’t ever experiment with different builds for their character or just play the way they like, instead following an online guide for achieving hyperoptimization. Even questioning that way of playing gets you marked as a bad player.&lt;p&gt;It’s also become much more normal to pay significant sums of money for in-game currency that is then used to buy high end competitive content runs from other well geared players for gear and achievements. This especially seems entirely pointless to me… what good is the gear obtained this way? It’s not being used for anything that calls for it so at best it’s a trophy for your character to wear that you didn’t even earn yourself.&lt;p&gt;It’s so far divorced from the seemingly endless font of exploration, discovery, and character progression that defined seamless open world MMORPGs back in the early-mid 2000s.</text></comment>

<story><title>Genshin Impact made more money in its first year than any other game</title><url>https://gamerant.com/genshin-impact-made-more-money-in-its-first-year-than-any-other-game/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>spywaregorilla</author><text>I like playing gacha games when they&amp;#x27;re F2P friendly. It&amp;#x27;s a neat game mechanic. The resource conservation and gambling aspect is fun. But people who spend money on these games... are just so strange to me. The value of money spent is incredibly low. Genshin is one of the stingiest games. Yet on its recent first anniversary, people were surprised that they were, yet again, very stingy. The lack of self awareness of what they&amp;#x27;re playing on the gacha communities is so odd to me.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;m not super familiar with genshin specifically, but in a lot of these games, players don&amp;#x27;t really play the game. Like, they&amp;#x27;ll just lookup pre made team setups that allow them to win with no skill or input. This is the strangest thing to me. Why do people like just following along a game if they&amp;#x27;re not going to take any accountability. It&amp;#x27;s like the MMORPG grind of enjoying the numbers going up from yesteryear, but somehow, even one step further removed than before.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>eunos</author><text>As a non player (potato PC+phone -_-) I&amp;#x27;m still happy they released free and excellent OSTs and orchestra.</text></comment>

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<story><title>Curl is just the hobby</title><url>https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2024/04/22/curl-is-just-the-hobby/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>vermilingua</author><text>Off topic but I find it wild that SF has API ads on bus shelters. Is that unusual&amp;#x2F;right in a dev hotspot, or have I been well underestimating just how intrinsic the tech culture is there? (I’m an Australian, so I guess my question applies to the US as much as SF)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>__jonas</author><text>&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;nitter.poast.org&amp;#x2F;JosephPolitano&amp;#x2F;status&amp;#x2F;1683476652276236295&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;nitter.poast.org&amp;#x2F;JosephPolitano&amp;#x2F;status&amp;#x2F;1683476652276...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;I guess it just makes sense sometimes to do weird targeted public ads in specific areas?</text></comment>

<story><title>Curl is just the hobby</title><url>https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2024/04/22/curl-is-just-the-hobby/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>vermilingua</author><text>Off topic but I find it wild that SF has API ads on bus shelters. Is that unusual&amp;#x2F;right in a dev hotspot, or have I been well underestimating just how intrinsic the tech culture is there? (I’m an Australian, so I guess my question applies to the US as much as SF)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>thecosmicfrog</author><text>When in an Uber from the airport in San Francisco, I remember seeing a giant billboard for Twilio. I had a similar reaction.</text></comment>

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<story><title>North America is now the growth leader for new battery factories</title><url>https://electrek.co/2023/05/31/north-america-battery-factories/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>natnat</author><text>This is great, but keep in mind this is like a third derivative metric. North America is way behind China in number of batteries owned, batteries produced, and factories being built. This is just the growth rate of factories being built.</text></comment>

<story><title>North America is now the growth leader for new battery factories</title><url>https://electrek.co/2023/05/31/north-america-battery-factories/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>stuff4ben</author><text>Toyota also just recently announced an increase in battery production investment in North Carolina, &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.reuters.com&amp;#x2F;business&amp;#x2F;autos-transportation&amp;#x2F;toyota-pledges-21-bln-more-ev-battery-plant-north-carolina-2023-05-31&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.reuters.com&amp;#x2F;business&amp;#x2F;autos-transportation&amp;#x2F;toyota...&lt;/a&gt; bringing the total investment to close to $6 billion.&lt;p&gt;More info about the factory: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;pressroom.toyota.com&amp;#x2F;facility&amp;#x2F;toyota-battery-manufacturing-north-carolina-tbmnc&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;pressroom.toyota.com&amp;#x2F;facility&amp;#x2F;toyota-battery-manufac...&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>

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<story><title>Go turns three</title><url>http://blog.golang.org/2012/11/go-turns-three.html</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>lbarrow</author><text>We&apos;ve been playing around with Go where I work. The concurrency model is great, and the type/object/interface approach is pretty flexible. The language designers also succeeded in eliminating many of the pain points they felt with C/C++/Java: dependency bloat and compilation speed. My workflow with Go has more in common with an interpreted language than anything else.&lt;p&gt;However, the lack of generics seems like a pretty bad oversight. It&apos;s annoying to rewrite common functional operations (e.g. map, reduce) over and over again with slightly different argument types (or sprinkling type casts all over your code).</text></comment>

<story><title>Go turns three</title><url>http://blog.golang.org/2012/11/go-turns-three.html</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>jgrahamc</author><text>Congratulations to everyone involved with Go. I&apos;ve been loving using it and it&apos;s nice to see CloudFlare mentioned in that post as we are using Go more and more for our production systems.</text></comment>

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<story><title>Intel&apos;s New Optane 905P Is the Fastest SSD</title><url>https://www.tomshardware.com/news/intel-announces-optane-ssd-905p,36990.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>vbezhenar</author><text>I&amp;#x27;m surprised that many people don&amp;#x27;t realize that Optane to SSD for consumer computers is similar to SSD to HDD. Consumer computers don&amp;#x27;t run workloads with QD 32. Their workloads are overwhelmingly low-threaded, so random performance for low queue depths is what matters. And Optane beats even best SSDs by a large margin.&lt;p&gt;I guess that modern SSD are just so fast, that going faster is not that big deal. But if you want the best SSD for non-server workloads, Optane is a way to go.</text></comment>

<story><title>Intel&apos;s New Optane 905P Is the Fastest SSD</title><url>https://www.tomshardware.com/news/intel-announces-optane-ssd-905p,36990.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>mrb</author><text>It&amp;#x27;s not the &amp;quot;fastest SSD&amp;quot; on all metrics. My laptop&amp;#x27;s NVMe SSD, a Samsung PM981, benchmarks at 2100 MB&amp;#x2F;s sequential reads, whereas the Optane 905P measures only 1669 MB&amp;#x2F;s in Tom&amp;#x27;s Hardware bench.</text></comment>

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<story><title>We are not sustainable</title><url>https://frame.work/nl/en/blog/we-are-not-sustainable</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>icegreentea2</author><text>The life cycle assessment shows that over a five year life span, production is responsible for 65% of CO2e, and usage about 25% (out of a total estimated 200kg - roughly 86L of gasoline) using &amp;quot;a typical US energy mix&amp;quot;.&lt;p&gt;Component wise (during production), the largest CO2e contributor was the display at ~25%, then the mainboard at 20%, and then battery around 15%.&lt;p&gt;Take aways for me are that: from a sustainability standpoint, if you&amp;#x27;re going to buy new, then it makes sense to buy the most capable model that makes sense, and try to milk it for as long as possible. Also, I never would have guessed how high the impact of display production was. Certainly makes the harvesting of screens from dead laptops seem like a good option.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>gpm</author><text>&amp;gt; out of a total estimated 200kg - roughly 86L of gasoline&lt;p&gt;Five year CO2 production roughly equivalent to two tanks of gas in a honda civic.&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s not nothing, but if you&amp;#x27;re looking to reduce your CO2 footprint I&amp;#x27;m not sure this is what I&amp;#x27;d look towards as the low hanging fruit for just about anyone who can afford their product. For instance for most people driving less, or driving smaller vehicles, would be far more effective.</text></comment>

<story><title>We are not sustainable</title><url>https://frame.work/nl/en/blog/we-are-not-sustainable</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>icegreentea2</author><text>The life cycle assessment shows that over a five year life span, production is responsible for 65% of CO2e, and usage about 25% (out of a total estimated 200kg - roughly 86L of gasoline) using &amp;quot;a typical US energy mix&amp;quot;.&lt;p&gt;Component wise (during production), the largest CO2e contributor was the display at ~25%, then the mainboard at 20%, and then battery around 15%.&lt;p&gt;Take aways for me are that: from a sustainability standpoint, if you&amp;#x27;re going to buy new, then it makes sense to buy the most capable model that makes sense, and try to milk it for as long as possible. Also, I never would have guessed how high the impact of display production was. Certainly makes the harvesting of screens from dead laptops seem like a good option.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>steve_adams_86</author><text>Regarding display production: I recently bought a Studio Display from Apple with the thought that it should last a very long time.&lt;p&gt;It bricked itself with a software update after maybe 3 months. I realized these things depend on Apple supporting the A13 chip in order for it to remain compatible with new technologies and, absurdly, to remain secure from exploits. A monitor.&lt;p&gt;I couldn’t regret my purchase much more and feel pretty stupid for not figuring this stuff out before I pulled out my credit card.&lt;p&gt;To add insult to injury, the display has been getting repaired for almost 2 months and there’s still no ETA on a fix. I highly recommend looking elsewhere for a display, both for ecological reasons but also because these things likely have a software-driven expiry date, with their hardware being relatively complex and error prone compared to most displays.&lt;p&gt;Also, they come with a barely usable camera. Audio is fine but it’s mind boggling how bad the camera is. What a waste.</text></comment>

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<story><title>Ginzametrics (YC S10) Aims To Bring Simplicity To SEO Software</title><url>http://techcrunch.com/2010/08/20/ginzametrics-aims-to-bring-simplicity-to-seo-software/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>OmarIsmail</author><text>Overall I really like the idea, for anybody that&apos;s done serious SEO, it&apos;s very nice to have this kind of service. My major issue is that the pricing system makes me extremely nervous. We&apos;re one of those sites that has a &quot;gazillion&quot; keywords and when I see the price jumping from $50-$1000/month with just an increase of a few thousand keywords it makes me think that a few hundred thousand keywords will cost substantially more than my entire monthly revenue.&lt;p&gt;I think you created the pricing schedule based on your costs. The more keywords being tracked the more &quot;crawlers&quot; necessary, meaning the more servers you need and thus more cost. However, I think you need to establish a pricing schedule based on the customer&apos;s math. i.e. something that&apos;s directly related to revenue (most likely traffic, or maybe number of pages) so that the ROI calculation is easier.&lt;p&gt;Right now maybe I have a few hundred thousand keywords, is that going to cost me $100K/month? Even though 95% of them generate a small amount of traffic? So now I&apos;m doing a blind ROI calculation. Essentially I have to use your system (and pay for it) before I know how much I&apos;m going to be spending.&lt;p&gt;If you make your pricing based on something I know (# pages, monthly uniques, pageviews, etc) I have an actual idea on how much I&apos;m going to be paying and I can make an intelligent decision accordingly.&lt;p&gt;I guess I could use the &quot;personal&quot; free service to see just how many keywords your system will find and be able to do a better calculation, but that seems a little obtuse.&lt;p&gt;So I think the goal is to come up with a pricing structure that is easier to calculate, and on your end not have people crush your system with too many keywords. This can be done pretty easily I think: bucket keywords in priority (refreshed daily, once a week, once a month, etc).&lt;p&gt;Priority is based off of a few factors: traffic and historical volatility.&lt;p&gt;In this way you can intelligently and efficiently monitor hundreds of thousands, even millions of keywords with 1 cheap server (maybe $100/month) and charge out 500-1000/month. In that way you&apos;re still seeing fantastic margins, I&apos;m getting great use out of the system, and everybody&apos;s happy.</text></comment>

<story><title>Ginzametrics (YC S10) Aims To Bring Simplicity To SEO Software</title><url>http://techcrunch.com/2010/08/20/ginzametrics-aims-to-bring-simplicity-to-seo-software/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>richcollins</author><text>Anyone else get the feeling that Ginza just emailed that article to TC, who reposted it under &quot;Leena Rao&quot;&apos;s name?</text></comment>

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<story><title>MINIX: ​Intel&apos;s hidden in-chip operating system</title><url>http://www.zdnet.com/article/minix-intels-hidden-in-chip-operating-system/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>JepZ</author><text>While I am unsure if switchting to Linux for ME is a good solution, open sourcing whatever runs ME is a very important step towards user&amp;#x2F;customer security. And that is not because we all want to know intels secrets about &amp;#x27;how to make the fastest CPU&amp;#x27; but because ME can change the product on a fundamental level while we use the product.&lt;p&gt;The reason I doubt that Linux is a good solution is that linux wasn&amp;#x27;t built to run somewhere deep inside a cpu with very little overhead. Surely, it can run nearly everywhere, I just doubt that it is the best choice for that job.&lt;p&gt;Just to be clear: I love Linux, not just for what it is, but also for what it does and use it every day since more than a decade.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jabl</author><text>&amp;gt; While I am unsure if switchting to Linux for ME is a good solution&lt;p&gt;FWIW, this is NOT at all the goal of the NERF project that this zdnet article talks about. So what the idea is roughly:&lt;p&gt;- Remove or disable the ME as much as possible (impossible to do 100% since e.g. the ME is responsible for booting up the main CPU, but it appears you can remove a large part of it)&lt;p&gt;- Replace the upper levels of the UEFI firmware stack and the bootloader with Linux + a minimal userspace written in Go (u-root).&lt;p&gt;See &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;schd.ws&amp;#x2F;hosted_files&amp;#x2F;osseu17&amp;#x2F;84&amp;#x2F;Replace%20UEFI%20with%20Linux.pdf&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;schd.ws&amp;#x2F;hosted_files&amp;#x2F;osseu17&amp;#x2F;84&amp;#x2F;Replace%20UEFI%20wit...&lt;/a&gt; for more details.</text></comment>

<story><title>MINIX: ​Intel&apos;s hidden in-chip operating system</title><url>http://www.zdnet.com/article/minix-intels-hidden-in-chip-operating-system/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>JepZ</author><text>While I am unsure if switchting to Linux for ME is a good solution, open sourcing whatever runs ME is a very important step towards user&amp;#x2F;customer security. And that is not because we all want to know intels secrets about &amp;#x27;how to make the fastest CPU&amp;#x27; but because ME can change the product on a fundamental level while we use the product.&lt;p&gt;The reason I doubt that Linux is a good solution is that linux wasn&amp;#x27;t built to run somewhere deep inside a cpu with very little overhead. Surely, it can run nearly everywhere, I just doubt that it is the best choice for that job.&lt;p&gt;Just to be clear: I love Linux, not just for what it is, but also for what it does and use it every day since more than a decade.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>colejohnson66</author><text>Well, someone managed to get Linux running on a Motorola 68k of all things: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.bigmessowires.com&amp;#x2F;2014&amp;#x2F;11&amp;#x2F;17&amp;#x2F;68-katy-68000-linux-on-a-solderless-breadboard&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.bigmessowires.com&amp;#x2F;2014&amp;#x2F;11&amp;#x2F;17&amp;#x2F;68-katy-68000-linux...&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>

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<story><title>The Allure of Small Towns for Big City Freelancers</title><url>https://slate.com/human-interest/2018/07/big-city-freelancers-look-to-small-cities-to-lower-cost-of-living.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>3pt14159</author><text>The hard part, at least here in Ontario, is this:&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; 5 minutes walk or 1 minute drive to a shop for groceries, hardware, lumber, restaurants, kid parks.&lt;p&gt;Almost every small town in Ontario is car-centric. The big ugly parking lots push the shops further from the street. There is no bike lanes to speak of. The coffee shops don&amp;#x27;t feel lively, they feel depressed, and the coffee is usually Tim Hortons or worse.&lt;p&gt;What I want is a hipster small town, built around bikes and walkability. Close enough to a lake to be fun, but not so close to make it all about &amp;quot;water life&amp;quot;. I want a city where artists and computer scientists can both afford to be there. High property taxes, but with a per-person dividend &amp;#x2F; basic income so the effective property taxes are progressive.</text></item><item><author>tylerjwilk00</author><text>Finally - A positive perspective on small town living.&lt;p&gt;When I read the stories of big city lifestyles I&amp;#x27;m amazed so many people opt-in to it. Traffic, noise, concrete everywhere. Yuck - but to each their own.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;ll take my country life as a remote worker going on 8 years. Trees, forest, wildlife, fresh air, backyards. 5 minutes walk or 1 minute drive to a shop for groceries, hardware, lumber, restaurants, kid parks.&lt;p&gt;Everyone knows each other. Very tight knit community. Don&amp;#x27;t even get me started on cost of living differences. I&amp;#x27;ll never leave.&lt;p&gt;Remote work really levels the playing field and unlocks a lot of potential for rural and small towns. All happening at a time when the staple of resource extraction is declining but global connectivity is increasing. There may be a bright future for small towns yet.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jasonkester</author><text>Sounds like you want Europe then.&lt;p&gt;The best thing about living here (coming from the &amp;#x27;states) is the density in the cities and towns. You can realistically have a town with a vibrant center full of cafes, bakeries, a bar&amp;#x2F;brasserie or three, and a grocery store in a town of a couple thousand people, all living within the area equivalent to 4 square city blocks.&lt;p&gt;Walk a few hundred yards the other direction and you&amp;#x27;ll find yourself in the countryside.&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s quite refreshing after living in an American suburb where you can drive in a straight line in any directions and pass nothing but Albertsons, Starbucks, Apartment Complex, Walgreens, Albertsons, repeat for 20 miles... without ever escaping into the country.</text></comment>

<story><title>The Allure of Small Towns for Big City Freelancers</title><url>https://slate.com/human-interest/2018/07/big-city-freelancers-look-to-small-cities-to-lower-cost-of-living.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>3pt14159</author><text>The hard part, at least here in Ontario, is this:&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; 5 minutes walk or 1 minute drive to a shop for groceries, hardware, lumber, restaurants, kid parks.&lt;p&gt;Almost every small town in Ontario is car-centric. The big ugly parking lots push the shops further from the street. There is no bike lanes to speak of. The coffee shops don&amp;#x27;t feel lively, they feel depressed, and the coffee is usually Tim Hortons or worse.&lt;p&gt;What I want is a hipster small town, built around bikes and walkability. Close enough to a lake to be fun, but not so close to make it all about &amp;quot;water life&amp;quot;. I want a city where artists and computer scientists can both afford to be there. High property taxes, but with a per-person dividend &amp;#x2F; basic income so the effective property taxes are progressive.</text></item><item><author>tylerjwilk00</author><text>Finally - A positive perspective on small town living.&lt;p&gt;When I read the stories of big city lifestyles I&amp;#x27;m amazed so many people opt-in to it. Traffic, noise, concrete everywhere. Yuck - but to each their own.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;ll take my country life as a remote worker going on 8 years. Trees, forest, wildlife, fresh air, backyards. 5 minutes walk or 1 minute drive to a shop for groceries, hardware, lumber, restaurants, kid parks.&lt;p&gt;Everyone knows each other. Very tight knit community. Don&amp;#x27;t even get me started on cost of living differences. I&amp;#x27;ll never leave.&lt;p&gt;Remote work really levels the playing field and unlocks a lot of potential for rural and small towns. All happening at a time when the staple of resource extraction is declining but global connectivity is increasing. There may be a bright future for small towns yet.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>randomdata</author><text>&lt;i&gt;&amp;gt; most every small town in Ontario is car-centric.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;I don&amp;#x27;t know that I agree. I live in a small Ontario town. Pop. ~2,000. I don&amp;#x27;t ever feel the need to drive other than when leaving town to visit people who live outside of town. Everything I need on a day-to-day basis is easily walkable.&lt;p&gt;&lt;i&gt;&amp;gt; What I want is a hipster small town, built around bikes and walkability. Close enough to a lake to be fun, but not so close to make it all about &amp;quot;water life&amp;quot;. I want a city where artists and computer scientists can both afford to be there.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;I think you described the Ontario town I grew up in. Pop. ~1,000. Near the lake, hipster town that has a booming (relatively speaking) tech industry. The downside is that everyone wants to live in the kind of town you described, so housing there is now just about as expensive as Toronto. That includes me. I would love to go back. But the costs are tough to justify.</text></comment>

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<story><title>The Benjamin Franklin Method: How to Be a Better Writer</title><url>http://marketmeditations.com/benjamin-franklin-learn-to-write/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>liquidise</author><text>&amp;gt; &lt;i&gt;And the secret sauce is obsession.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;Correct. Above all else, passion and continued perseverance are the hallmarks of anyone truly successful at their trade. There is an excellent quote from Saint Francis of Assisi that, quite honestly, explains the software engineering field about as well as it did masonry in the 13th century (or writing in the 18th century).&lt;p&gt;&lt;i&gt;He who works with his hands is a laborer. He who works with his hands and his head is a craftsman. He who works with his hands and his head and his heart is an artist.&lt;/i&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jgraeme</author><text>That quote appears to be misattributed. Should be Louis Nizer (1948).&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikiquote.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Francis_of_Assisi#Misattributed&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikiquote.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Francis_of_Assisi#Misattribute...&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikiquote.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Louis_Nizer&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikiquote.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Louis_Nizer&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>

<story><title>The Benjamin Franklin Method: How to Be a Better Writer</title><url>http://marketmeditations.com/benjamin-franklin-learn-to-write/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>liquidise</author><text>&amp;gt; &lt;i&gt;And the secret sauce is obsession.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;Correct. Above all else, passion and continued perseverance are the hallmarks of anyone truly successful at their trade. There is an excellent quote from Saint Francis of Assisi that, quite honestly, explains the software engineering field about as well as it did masonry in the 13th century (or writing in the 18th century).&lt;p&gt;&lt;i&gt;He who works with his hands is a laborer. He who works with his hands and his head is a craftsman. He who works with his hands and his head and his heart is an artist.&lt;/i&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>_chu</author><text>I climbed back out of bed just to upvote this. It&amp;#x27;s going in my little file of quotes that give me &amp;quot;the tingles&amp;quot;. Thanks.</text></comment>

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<story><title>SQL is a better API language than GraphQL – Convince me otherwise</title><url>https://twitter.com/simonw/status/1250803209871847426</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>meritt</author><text>I feel like this thread is tongue-in-cheek to make people realize that &amp;quot;run any query on the client side&amp;quot; is a terrible idea, and that&amp;#x27;s exactly what most GraphQL installations offer.&lt;p&gt;As a penetration tester though I like GraphQL, it&amp;#x27;s a very handy data exfiltration engine. By default, there&amp;#x27;s no authorization, no authentication, and it even comes with introspection. One query and I get your entire schema! This trendy movement will be far worse for data security than SQL injection, unsecured S3 buckets, or misconfigured NoSQL instances.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>throw_m239339</author><text>&amp;gt; As a penetration tester though I like GraphQL, it&amp;#x27;s a very handy data exfiltration engine. By default, there&amp;#x27;s no authorization, no authentication, and it even comes with introspection. One query and I get your entire schema! This trendy movement will be far worse for data security than SQL injection, unsecured S3 buckets, or misconfigured NoSQL instances.&lt;p&gt;All of that has nothing to do with GraphQL though, it&amp;#x27;s just poor security. You&amp;#x27;d have the exact same issue with classic REST, SOAP, or whatever protocol one is using. I imagine the issue is that people are using &amp;quot;convenience&amp;quot; frameworks on top of their GraphQL libraries that do the glue between their databases and GraphQL and these frameworks don&amp;#x27;t have security as a priority.&lt;p&gt;Development-wise I&amp;#x27;d argue that the less endpoints, the more secure, but it doesn&amp;#x27;t mean an app should have the exact same GraphQL endpoint for both its admin and its user facing data.&lt;p&gt;The principle of the least privilege will always apply along with a rigorous security audit, code audit and third party lib audit.</text></comment>

<story><title>SQL is a better API language than GraphQL – Convince me otherwise</title><url>https://twitter.com/simonw/status/1250803209871847426</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>meritt</author><text>I feel like this thread is tongue-in-cheek to make people realize that &amp;quot;run any query on the client side&amp;quot; is a terrible idea, and that&amp;#x27;s exactly what most GraphQL installations offer.&lt;p&gt;As a penetration tester though I like GraphQL, it&amp;#x27;s a very handy data exfiltration engine. By default, there&amp;#x27;s no authorization, no authentication, and it even comes with introspection. One query and I get your entire schema! This trendy movement will be far worse for data security than SQL injection, unsecured S3 buckets, or misconfigured NoSQL instances.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>karatestomp</author><text>Yeah my first encounter with GraphQL was a client going &amp;quot;let&amp;#x27;s save development time by using graphql!&amp;quot; so I looked into it and it&amp;#x27;s &lt;i&gt;more fucking work&lt;/i&gt; unless your stack has one of those auto-GraphQL-to-and-from-DB generators (they&amp;#x27;d made a poor and somewhat obscure choice of DB for the project, over our advice, so there wasn&amp;#x27;t such a thing in this case anyway) and it happens to suit your needs very well—and even with the benefit of one of those I&amp;#x27;d &lt;i&gt;still&lt;/i&gt; lose sleep over security or DoS bugs lurking in that 3rd party code. Or in mine.</text></comment>

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<story><title>SanDisk 1-terabyte microSD card is now available</title><url>https://www.tomsguide.com/us/sandisk-1-tb-microsd-card,news-30079.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>narrator</author><text>I don&amp;#x27;t know how I remember this random crap, but way back in 1998 there was some guy on the LKML who said that a company was going to come out with a 90gb drive made from reverse engineered UFO technology that would be as big as as poker chip. Everyone though he was a kook of course. Interesting to think we&amp;#x27;ve exceeeded what would have been considered technology of extraterrestrial origin 20 years ago when it comes to data storage.&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;lkml.org&amp;#x2F;lkml&amp;#x2F;1998&amp;#x2F;3&amp;#x2F;10&amp;#x2F;213&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;lkml.org&amp;#x2F;lkml&amp;#x2F;1998&amp;#x2F;3&amp;#x2F;10&amp;#x2F;213&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>

<story><title>SanDisk 1-terabyte microSD card is now available</title><url>https://www.tomsguide.com/us/sandisk-1-tb-microsd-card,news-30079.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>madez</author><text>Given my experience with microSD cards, I wonder how reliable that device is. Is it even possible to write the full 1 terabyte successfully with a good chance?</text></comment>

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<story><title>Ten apps is all I need</title><url>http://37signals.com/svn/posts/2959-ten-apps-is-all-i-need</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dhh</author><text>I&apos;ve heard that mentioned before, but that&apos;s not what I&apos;m seeing. I don&apos;t use 10 random apps from the App Store. I use the 10 default apps that come with the phone. Except for Twitter, I consider the 3rd party apps to be completely expendable without materially affecting my enjoyment of the phone.&lt;p&gt;From other &quot;just a few apps on a daily basis&quot; users I&apos;ve seen, they tend to use the default apps as well. It&apos;s not a random cross section of the 200K apps in the App Store.</text></item><item><author>m0nastic</author><text>I feel like he&apos;s missing the point of an ecosystem.&lt;p&gt;It&apos;s fine that he only uses a few apps on his phone, and that most other people probably do the same.&lt;p&gt;The problem is that those &quot;few apps&quot; that most other people use aren&apos;t the same &quot;few apps&quot; that he uses.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>achompas</author><text>&lt;i&gt;Except for Twitter...&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;This is a variation of m0nitaly&apos;s point: I would say &quot;except for Instapaper, Reeder, and Twitter...&quot; and Jasber would say &quot;except for Rdio and RunKeeper...&quot;&lt;p&gt;Even if apps 1-10 are native, I&apos;m hanging onto my iPhone for numbers 11 and 12. The native iOS experience is great, but those two or three non-native apps make it sublime.</text></comment>

<story><title>Ten apps is all I need</title><url>http://37signals.com/svn/posts/2959-ten-apps-is-all-i-need</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dhh</author><text>I&apos;ve heard that mentioned before, but that&apos;s not what I&apos;m seeing. I don&apos;t use 10 random apps from the App Store. I use the 10 default apps that come with the phone. Except for Twitter, I consider the 3rd party apps to be completely expendable without materially affecting my enjoyment of the phone.&lt;p&gt;From other &quot;just a few apps on a daily basis&quot; users I&apos;ve seen, they tend to use the default apps as well. It&apos;s not a random cross section of the 200K apps in the App Store.</text></item><item><author>m0nastic</author><text>I feel like he&apos;s missing the point of an ecosystem.&lt;p&gt;It&apos;s fine that he only uses a few apps on his phone, and that most other people probably do the same.&lt;p&gt;The problem is that those &quot;few apps&quot; that most other people use aren&apos;t the same &quot;few apps&quot; that he uses.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>bradleyland</author><text>No argument on the app usage side of things. I think if you drew a giant venn diagram of actual app usage on iOS, it&apos;d look like a giant circle with fuzzy edges, but I think that&apos;s missing the point. &quot;The platform&quot; isn&apos;t synonymous with apps. The platform is becoming more than what runs on your phone; quite the opposite.&lt;p&gt;Both Google and Apple have built the type of platforms being referred to when casting doubt on the future of MeeGo. The central feature of those platforms, up until about six months ago, was their capability to run applications. This is shifting quickly to the ability to store data in a way that is transparent to the user.&lt;p&gt;Google can, right now, give you seamless, transparent access to documents on a phone, tablet, or desktop computer with no thought or action from the user outside of logging in and browsing to the location of the document. There is no syncing. The same is true for email, calendar, and contacts. When iCloud ships this fall, Apple will be in the same position. What would it take for Nokia to bring MeeGo to that point?&lt;p&gt;This is &quot;the platform&quot; that I can&apos;t see Nokia building, and I believe it&apos;s going to set the bar for every major player in the space in the coming years.</text></comment>

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<story><title>Show HN: A note-keeping system on top of Fossil SCM</title><url>https://github.com/rguiscard/fossil-notebook-demo</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>rguiscard</author><text>OP is here. First, thanks for all the comments. I am not aware that Fossil supports CGI and it open a new opportunity.&lt;p&gt;An important reason to use files instead of tickets or wiki is that not all my notes are in plaintext format. I unfortunately have many document in Office format. Therefore, I prefer not to use a system which solely supports text files. I need a system which can keep all the files while allow files to be opened by its application. Any system which do not have a local copy will not work well for me. Fossil does this well: it has a local copy so that files can be opened locally, it can sync to remote site, and text files can be read easily through web interface.&lt;p&gt;Another reason is that Fossil is local-first. I have written many versions of note keeping system in Rails. It is easy to start with and can be accessed easily. But migrating codes and database is not easy for someone who codes as a hobby. Keeping files in Fossil and synchronizing to other devices is just as easy as zipping all files and unzipping in another device. It is like rsync plus a web server in some sense. So instead of keeping a centralized database and maintaining it, Fossil allows me to work on files and I don’t need to worry about hosting and upgrading a database.&lt;p&gt;Of course all my comments are highly opinionated and are probably not applicable to others. It is just a demo and I appreciate all the comments. I choose Fossil because I happen to know it. I heard Hg, but never use it. So I cannot comment on the pros and cons.</text></comment>

<story><title>Show HN: A note-keeping system on top of Fossil SCM</title><url>https://github.com/rguiscard/fossil-notebook-demo</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>bachmeier</author><text>I used a note system built on top of Fossil as my primary system for quite a while. Here are the details in case anyone is interested.&lt;p&gt;Fossil allows CGI extensions[1]. There&amp;#x27;s a database for tickets, but that&amp;#x27;s just a regular SQLite table that you can use to store anything you want, and it&amp;#x27;s version controlled and queryable. I stored the notes plus metadata in the tickets database. The CGI returned HTML with the Ace editor for creating&amp;#x2F;editing notes.[2] Notes were stored using the command line.[3] I needed to add the web server user to the sudoers file to access the Fossil binary.&lt;p&gt;There were two reasons to use Fossil for this. The biggest was that it handled authentication. The second is that I had a version controlled database to do all the work for me.&lt;p&gt;I think I eventually moved away from it because I prefer working locally. The &amp;quot;transition&amp;quot; was dumping the data out of the database and into markdown files.&lt;p&gt;[1] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;fossil-scm.org&amp;#x2F;home&amp;#x2F;doc&amp;#x2F;trunk&amp;#x2F;www&amp;#x2F;serverext.wiki&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;fossil-scm.org&amp;#x2F;home&amp;#x2F;doc&amp;#x2F;trunk&amp;#x2F;www&amp;#x2F;serverext.wiki&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;[2] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;ace.c9.io&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;ace.c9.io&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;[3] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;fossil-scm.org&amp;#x2F;home&amp;#x2F;help?cmd=ticket&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;fossil-scm.org&amp;#x2F;home&amp;#x2F;help?cmd=ticket&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>

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<story><title>More invested in nuclear fusion in last 12 months than past decade</title><url>https://www.growthbusiness.co.uk/more-invested-in-nuclear-fusion-in-last-12-months-than-past-decade-2560528/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dignick</author><text>There are several problems with fission (probably fusion too) as I understand it:&lt;p&gt;1. Cost per MW compared to renewables (~$150 vs ~$40 and falling). Here in the UK the government is promising to subsidise this to make it viable.&lt;p&gt;2. Construction time - average is 10 years, we don’t have that long to wait.&lt;p&gt;3. Decommissioning is expensive and a long way in the future. Is that cost built into the cost per MW? How can we be sure the money will be protected, and will be enough to cover it?&lt;p&gt;4. Spent fuel. The project you mentioned isn’t complete yet, but even then it’s a huge liability to leave for future generations to manage indefinitely.&lt;p&gt;Meanwhile, renewables don’t have these problems and are available immediately. We should be building huge factories to produce wind and solar en masse.&lt;p&gt;Source for the figures: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.reuters.com&amp;#x2F;article&amp;#x2F;us-energy-nuclearpower-idUSKBN1W909J&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.reuters.com&amp;#x2F;article&amp;#x2F;us-energy-nuclearpower-idUSK...&lt;/a&gt;</text></item><item><author>acidburnNSA</author><text>But where are the fusion neutrons? (See Voodoo Fusion [1])&lt;p&gt;[1] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;vixra.org&amp;#x2F;pdf&amp;#x2F;1812.0382v1.pdf&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;vixra.org&amp;#x2F;pdf&amp;#x2F;1812.0382v1.pdf&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;m a professional fission guy. I started out in fusion and switched to advanced fission. These days I don&amp;#x27;t see why we don&amp;#x27;t just build lots more regular old LWR fission reactors.&lt;p&gt;Imagining that somehow fusion is going to a) work, b) be cheap (fuel cost is only 5% of total nuclear fission cost so who cares), and c) not have the same stigma as fission is kind of weird in my mind.&lt;p&gt;For example, there are leaks of tiny amounts of tritium at some fission plants and people lose their minds. Fusion reactors will have many orders of mag more tritium. Will people not lose their minds just the same? Tritium is notoriously hard to contain since it&amp;#x27;s so small. It can permeate through metal like a hot knife through butter.&lt;p&gt;Also, lots of people worry about fission and nuclear weapons proliferation. So does fusion get around this? Not really. In fact it&amp;#x27;s worse. Did you know that the two materials you need to make thermonuclear weapons are tritium and plutonium? Tritium breeding is required by almost all practical fusion power plants (the other reactions are 100s to 1000s of times harder, I don&amp;#x27;t care what x random fusion CEO says, they&amp;#x27;re in it for the sweet billionaire side project money).&lt;p&gt;Plutonium is made by irradiating natural uranium from the dirt with neutrons. Practical fusion reactors have lots of neutrons. Really high energy ones too.&lt;p&gt;Anyway let&amp;#x27;s just do fission you guys. It&amp;#x27;s way easier. It has been working fine since the 1950s. It&amp;#x27;s zero carbon. Waste problem is solved (see Onkalo, and reprocessing). It net saves millions of lives by displacing air pollution. It runs 24&amp;#x2F;7 on a tiny land and material footprint. We have enough uranium and thorium to run the whole world for 4 billion (with a b) years using breeder reactors (demonstrated in 1952 in Idaho). Get the Koreans over here to build some ARP1400s or the Chinese to build some Hualong Ones until we figure out how to project manage again and then call it good.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>formerly_proven</author><text>&amp;gt; 1. Cost per MW compared to renewables (~$150 vs ~$40 and falling). Here in the UK the government is promising to subsidise this to make it viable.&lt;p&gt;You can&amp;#x27;t directly compare cost per generating capacity, because nuclear, gas, coal etc. are available according to schedule, while most renewables aren&amp;#x27;t. Adding storage around renewables to make them schedulable raises costs.</text></comment>

<story><title>More invested in nuclear fusion in last 12 months than past decade</title><url>https://www.growthbusiness.co.uk/more-invested-in-nuclear-fusion-in-last-12-months-than-past-decade-2560528/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dignick</author><text>There are several problems with fission (probably fusion too) as I understand it:&lt;p&gt;1. Cost per MW compared to renewables (~$150 vs ~$40 and falling). Here in the UK the government is promising to subsidise this to make it viable.&lt;p&gt;2. Construction time - average is 10 years, we don’t have that long to wait.&lt;p&gt;3. Decommissioning is expensive and a long way in the future. Is that cost built into the cost per MW? How can we be sure the money will be protected, and will be enough to cover it?&lt;p&gt;4. Spent fuel. The project you mentioned isn’t complete yet, but even then it’s a huge liability to leave for future generations to manage indefinitely.&lt;p&gt;Meanwhile, renewables don’t have these problems and are available immediately. We should be building huge factories to produce wind and solar en masse.&lt;p&gt;Source for the figures: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.reuters.com&amp;#x2F;article&amp;#x2F;us-energy-nuclearpower-idUSKBN1W909J&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.reuters.com&amp;#x2F;article&amp;#x2F;us-energy-nuclearpower-idUSK...&lt;/a&gt;</text></item><item><author>acidburnNSA</author><text>But where are the fusion neutrons? (See Voodoo Fusion [1])&lt;p&gt;[1] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;vixra.org&amp;#x2F;pdf&amp;#x2F;1812.0382v1.pdf&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;vixra.org&amp;#x2F;pdf&amp;#x2F;1812.0382v1.pdf&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;m a professional fission guy. I started out in fusion and switched to advanced fission. These days I don&amp;#x27;t see why we don&amp;#x27;t just build lots more regular old LWR fission reactors.&lt;p&gt;Imagining that somehow fusion is going to a) work, b) be cheap (fuel cost is only 5% of total nuclear fission cost so who cares), and c) not have the same stigma as fission is kind of weird in my mind.&lt;p&gt;For example, there are leaks of tiny amounts of tritium at some fission plants and people lose their minds. Fusion reactors will have many orders of mag more tritium. Will people not lose their minds just the same? Tritium is notoriously hard to contain since it&amp;#x27;s so small. It can permeate through metal like a hot knife through butter.&lt;p&gt;Also, lots of people worry about fission and nuclear weapons proliferation. So does fusion get around this? Not really. In fact it&amp;#x27;s worse. Did you know that the two materials you need to make thermonuclear weapons are tritium and plutonium? Tritium breeding is required by almost all practical fusion power plants (the other reactions are 100s to 1000s of times harder, I don&amp;#x27;t care what x random fusion CEO says, they&amp;#x27;re in it for the sweet billionaire side project money).&lt;p&gt;Plutonium is made by irradiating natural uranium from the dirt with neutrons. Practical fusion reactors have lots of neutrons. Really high energy ones too.&lt;p&gt;Anyway let&amp;#x27;s just do fission you guys. It&amp;#x27;s way easier. It has been working fine since the 1950s. It&amp;#x27;s zero carbon. Waste problem is solved (see Onkalo, and reprocessing). It net saves millions of lives by displacing air pollution. It runs 24&amp;#x2F;7 on a tiny land and material footprint. We have enough uranium and thorium to run the whole world for 4 billion (with a b) years using breeder reactors (demonstrated in 1952 in Idaho). Get the Koreans over here to build some ARP1400s or the Chinese to build some Hualong Ones until we figure out how to project manage again and then call it good.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>bratbag</author><text>Cost factor isn&amp;#x27;t as relevant as you think, as this is an apple&amp;#x27;s to oranges comparison.&lt;p&gt;Renewables are too unreliable to act as baseline generation for a country.&lt;p&gt;In the UK last year for example we had very little wind, so we had to ramp up our gas power output to make up for our shortages in renewables. We burned through much of our gas reserves before the Ukraine war started, because of Renewable power unreliability.&lt;p&gt;Fission is the replacement for that baseline role that hydrocarbons currently fill, not the unpredictable-but-clean role that renewables fill.&lt;p&gt;The ideal future has both, with renewables producing as much power as possible and fission running on low capacity and ready to ramp up when renewables fall short.</text></comment>

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<story><title>Google Is Eating Our Mail</title><url>https://www.tablix.org/~avian/blog/archives/2019/04/google_is_eating_our_mail/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>bachmeier</author><text>Rule #1 if you&amp;#x27;re applying for jobs or graduate school - Don&amp;#x27;t use gmail for your email address.&lt;p&gt;Source: Led a hiring committee this year. Interview invitations and job offers went straight to the junk mail folder. Also serve as Director of Graduate Studies. Admissions and funding offers, as well as general inquiries about availability, all went straight to the junk mail folder. We&amp;#x27;re not going to change our email service.</text></item><item><author>reaperducer</author><text>Google has no incentive to fix these kinds of problems.&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s big enough that when someone complains that a message sent wasn&amp;#x27;t received, the intended recipient will say, &amp;quot;I never have problems with my Gmail account. It must be you.&amp;quot; And the sender has to switch to Gmail to reliably communicate with the outside world.&lt;p&gt;I wish this was just paranoia, but we&amp;#x27;ve seen multiple discussions on HN about Google programs and policies that alter the internet in ways that only benefit Big G. It&amp;#x27;s like we&amp;#x27;re heading back to the days when people didn&amp;#x27;t know the difference between AOL and &amp;quot;the internet.&amp;quot;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>awinder</author><text>This may be a fair sentiment for an educational institution (you&amp;#x27;re not directly making money from email sending &amp;#x2F; hopefully admissions marketing doesn&amp;#x27;t have this problem), but as a candidate I&amp;#x27;d be extremely concerned if a company I was going to work with A) couldn&amp;#x27;t deliver to gmail and B) held the view that it was everyone else&amp;#x27;s problem. As it is you&amp;#x27;re statistically leaving half the candidate pool at the door, which is recoverable. A biz that can&amp;#x27;t deliver to gmail is a terrible smell though.</text></comment>

<story><title>Google Is Eating Our Mail</title><url>https://www.tablix.org/~avian/blog/archives/2019/04/google_is_eating_our_mail/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>bachmeier</author><text>Rule #1 if you&amp;#x27;re applying for jobs or graduate school - Don&amp;#x27;t use gmail for your email address.&lt;p&gt;Source: Led a hiring committee this year. Interview invitations and job offers went straight to the junk mail folder. Also serve as Director of Graduate Studies. Admissions and funding offers, as well as general inquiries about availability, all went straight to the junk mail folder. We&amp;#x27;re not going to change our email service.</text></item><item><author>reaperducer</author><text>Google has no incentive to fix these kinds of problems.&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s big enough that when someone complains that a message sent wasn&amp;#x27;t received, the intended recipient will say, &amp;quot;I never have problems with my Gmail account. It must be you.&amp;quot; And the sender has to switch to Gmail to reliably communicate with the outside world.&lt;p&gt;I wish this was just paranoia, but we&amp;#x27;ve seen multiple discussions on HN about Google programs and policies that alter the internet in ways that only benefit Big G. It&amp;#x27;s like we&amp;#x27;re heading back to the days when people didn&amp;#x27;t know the difference between AOL and &amp;quot;the internet.&amp;quot;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>sevensor</author><text>Indeed, the spur for me to finally sign up for Fastmail was that I was applying for a job and I can&amp;#x27;t trust Google with crucial email. You get what you pay for.</text></comment>

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<story><title>Netflix Now The Largest Single Source of Internet Traffic In North America</title><url>http://techcrunch.com/2011/05/17/netflix-largest-internet-traffic/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>Lewisham</author><text>I hope we can now have the MPAA and RIAA realize that, actually, most people &lt;i&gt;do&lt;/i&gt; want to pay, they &lt;i&gt;don&apos;t&lt;/i&gt; choose to pirate because they are all inherently bad, and they don&apos;t need to be sued from the face of the Earth to show how bad they are.&lt;p&gt;What changed is what the customers value, and how much they will pay for it. The $9 I spend a month on Netflix is $108 a year, which is far more than I have paid for DVDs in the past. I don&apos;t value owning physical media or individual movies, I value streaming and libraries.&lt;p&gt;But, of course, why change now? Why should the RIAA bother trying to get Spotify-like services launched in the US? Who needs evidence and metrics when you can have vitriol and blame?</text></comment>

<story><title>Netflix Now The Largest Single Source of Internet Traffic In North America</title><url>http://techcrunch.com/2011/05/17/netflix-largest-internet-traffic/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>megamark16</author><text>It&apos;s certainly the largest single source of internet traffic at our house, and within that subset, streaming Dora the Explorer Season 1 is the largest single source of internet traffic coming from Netflix.</text></comment>

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<story><title>Obesity and Overweight Prevalence for the U.S</title><url>https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/obesity-overweight.htm</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>izietto</author><text>I&amp;#x27;m italian and I visited united states a couple of months ago. In my opinion the biggest problem is that you don&amp;#x27;t have decent food at affordable prices. Healthy food has nonsensical high prices and if you want something at a human price you don&amp;#x27;t have much choice except fast food. What a shame.</text></item><item><author>3pt14159</author><text>This is directly related to the way American cities are designed. It’s a car centric culture where big houses are far away from each other. That means driving everywhere. That means long commutes. That means TV over communal activity. That means big grocery runs with shelf stable food.&lt;p&gt;Then pile on hyper sweet drinks and nutritional misinformation campaigns, and of course Americans are going to be overweight. The worst part is it’s becoming culturally acceptable for children to be overweight. I do not advocate for fat shaming—but there is a limit to my tolerance. Children should not consume anywhere near the amounts of sugar that they do and the pervasive attitude of “just one [soda, ice cream, pop tart, pie slice, muffin, cupcake, cookie] won’t hurt!” is incredibly damaging. Five grams of refined sugar a day. That’s it. That is less than one tenth of a “personal” (16oz &amp;#x2F; 500ml) bottle of Coca Cola.&lt;p&gt;We’re poisoning our kids.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>pascalxus</author><text>That&amp;#x27;s partly because much of the government subsides go towards subsidizing corn, ending up in high fructose corn syrup and all the junk food most people consume. It&amp;#x27;s quite sad, that everyone is so okay with this.&lt;p&gt;Personally, I try to eat as healthy as possible and use my nutrient finder (&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;kale.world&amp;#x2F;c&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;kale.world&amp;#x2F;c&lt;/a&gt;) to find high nutrient, low calorie foods, which end up being mostly beans, vegetables and fruits.</text></comment>

<story><title>Obesity and Overweight Prevalence for the U.S</title><url>https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/obesity-overweight.htm</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>izietto</author><text>I&amp;#x27;m italian and I visited united states a couple of months ago. In my opinion the biggest problem is that you don&amp;#x27;t have decent food at affordable prices. Healthy food has nonsensical high prices and if you want something at a human price you don&amp;#x27;t have much choice except fast food. What a shame.</text></item><item><author>3pt14159</author><text>This is directly related to the way American cities are designed. It’s a car centric culture where big houses are far away from each other. That means driving everywhere. That means long commutes. That means TV over communal activity. That means big grocery runs with shelf stable food.&lt;p&gt;Then pile on hyper sweet drinks and nutritional misinformation campaigns, and of course Americans are going to be overweight. The worst part is it’s becoming culturally acceptable for children to be overweight. I do not advocate for fat shaming—but there is a limit to my tolerance. Children should not consume anywhere near the amounts of sugar that they do and the pervasive attitude of “just one [soda, ice cream, pop tart, pie slice, muffin, cupcake, cookie] won’t hurt!” is incredibly damaging. Five grams of refined sugar a day. That’s it. That is less than one tenth of a “personal” (16oz &amp;#x2F; 500ml) bottle of Coca Cola.&lt;p&gt;We’re poisoning our kids.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>lobster_johnson</author><text>I&amp;#x27;m curious about this. I lived in a predominantly Latino (mostly Puerto Rican) neighborhood of Brooklyn for a while a couple of years back. The supermarkets were full of fresh, cheap food, yet the customers (who were consistently overweight and often obese, including the kids) were piling their shopping carts up with terrible stuff -- sugary cereals (Froot Loops etc.), sugary drinks (sodas, fruit juices, Caprisun, iced tea), white bread, snacks (cookies, doughnuts, potato chips), tons of frozen microwave meals, etc. I never saw a shopping cart filled with anything healthy and unprocessed. And I realized that I was actually being very picky walking through this place. I had to ignore 90% of the stuff they stock their shelves with because it&amp;#x27;s unhealthy.&lt;p&gt;Places like Whole Foods have the same problem, of course -- it&amp;#x27;s also full of sugary drinks and cookies, except they&amp;#x27;re labeled &amp;quot;organic&amp;quot; and made with &amp;quot;natural sugar cane&amp;quot; or agave, or they&amp;#x27;re things low&amp;#x2F;no fat yogurt (containing more sugar than the full fat ones). You can get fat on Whole Foods groceries if you&amp;#x27;re not super picky.</text></comment>

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<story><title>The Aldi effect: how one discount supermarket transformed the way Britain shops</title><url>https://www.theguardian.com/business/2019/mar/05/long-read-aldi-discount-supermarket-changed-britain-shopping</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>temp-dude-87844</author><text>Aldi is really quite bizarre, in a way the article tries to capture. For all their rock-bottom prices on store brand goods, whose quality ranges from pretty good to never-again mediocre, they stock the store with a rotating selection of random crap that fell off the boat, baiting the impulse for an aspirational or just-in-case buy. But then again, by now, Amazon&amp;#x27;s front page recommends a carousel of similar dropshipped junk from vendors whose names appear to be machine-generated. At least Aldi bothers to &amp;quot;curate&amp;quot; in the sense of commissioning most of its stock as a store brand, whereas Amazon is seemingly devoid of the slightest amount of steering from above, save for locating popular items after-the-fact and releasing an AmazonBasics.&lt;p&gt;In the process, Aldi and its slightly-nicer copycats siphon away marketshare from normal stores who actually carry name-brand food and home goods you&amp;#x27;d want to buy again, if you weren&amp;#x27;t on a misguided mission to penny-pinch. Stores pivot towards overpriced premade sandwiches, cafes and hot buffets, and meal kits that make zero economic sense, because that&amp;#x27;s where you can still pull a good margin. The middle empties out.&lt;p&gt;If you look, you can see this same process play out in other areas of retail and services. Aldi&amp;#x27;s gain is our collective loss, the widespread embrace of an insincere &amp;quot;good enough&amp;quot;, either because our budgets are truly crunched, or because we don&amp;#x27;t let ourselves value our mundane maintenance desires. On the far side, people who have rejected this can look like they&amp;#x27;re engaging in conspicuous consumption. Sometimes they are.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jdietrich</author><text>A lot of the random stuff in the middle aisle is genuinely very good. Their own-brand chisels are something of a cult item among traditional woodworkers, because they&amp;#x27;re ludicrously cheap but perfectly capable of fine work. There&amp;#x27;s always excitement in the cycling and running communities when Aldi release a batch of sports kit, because it&amp;#x27;s excellent value and it does the job. You&amp;#x27;re never going to shop at Aldi for a pair of featherlight race shoes or an aero skinsuit, but their kit is brilliant for everyday training use.&lt;p&gt;I don&amp;#x27;t think that Aldi is bizarre, I just think it&amp;#x27;s very German. There&amp;#x27;s more to life than GDP. There&amp;#x27;s nothing insincere about &amp;quot;good enough&amp;quot;. Not everything has to be an ostentatious display of aspirational consumerism. Most of us are satisficers in some aspect of our lives. I&amp;#x27;ll spend stupid amounts of money on finding the perfect mechanical keyboard, but I just don&amp;#x27;t care very much about paper towels or laundry detergent or potato chips. I might shop elsewhere for some items, but I&amp;#x27;m perfectly happy to do the bulk of my shopping in a store with a very simple value proposition - perfectly acceptable quality at a consistently fair price.&lt;p&gt;In a mainstream supermarket, I have the pervasive feeling that I&amp;#x27;m being manipulated. There are too many SKUs, too many special offers, too many coupons and loyalty schemes. It&amp;#x27;s like shopping for a cell phone contract - you know you&amp;#x27;re being taken for a ride by a deliberately overcomplicated offering, but you don&amp;#x27;t have the time or the inclination to figure it out. I don&amp;#x27;t get that feeling in Aldi. I&amp;#x27;m in and out in half the time, I spent half as much and I&amp;#x27;m rarely disappointed. If that&amp;#x27;s the future of retail, then sign me up.</text></comment>

<story><title>The Aldi effect: how one discount supermarket transformed the way Britain shops</title><url>https://www.theguardian.com/business/2019/mar/05/long-read-aldi-discount-supermarket-changed-britain-shopping</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>temp-dude-87844</author><text>Aldi is really quite bizarre, in a way the article tries to capture. For all their rock-bottom prices on store brand goods, whose quality ranges from pretty good to never-again mediocre, they stock the store with a rotating selection of random crap that fell off the boat, baiting the impulse for an aspirational or just-in-case buy. But then again, by now, Amazon&amp;#x27;s front page recommends a carousel of similar dropshipped junk from vendors whose names appear to be machine-generated. At least Aldi bothers to &amp;quot;curate&amp;quot; in the sense of commissioning most of its stock as a store brand, whereas Amazon is seemingly devoid of the slightest amount of steering from above, save for locating popular items after-the-fact and releasing an AmazonBasics.&lt;p&gt;In the process, Aldi and its slightly-nicer copycats siphon away marketshare from normal stores who actually carry name-brand food and home goods you&amp;#x27;d want to buy again, if you weren&amp;#x27;t on a misguided mission to penny-pinch. Stores pivot towards overpriced premade sandwiches, cafes and hot buffets, and meal kits that make zero economic sense, because that&amp;#x27;s where you can still pull a good margin. The middle empties out.&lt;p&gt;If you look, you can see this same process play out in other areas of retail and services. Aldi&amp;#x27;s gain is our collective loss, the widespread embrace of an insincere &amp;quot;good enough&amp;quot;, either because our budgets are truly crunched, or because we don&amp;#x27;t let ourselves value our mundane maintenance desires. On the far side, people who have rejected this can look like they&amp;#x27;re engaging in conspicuous consumption. Sometimes they are.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>taneq</author><text>&amp;gt; they stock the store with a rotating selection of random crap that fell off the boat, baiting the impulse for an aspirational or just-in-case buy&lt;p&gt;I believe this is the key to their fanatical customer base. The random crap aisle means that when you go into the store &lt;i&gt;there&amp;#x27;s a chance&lt;/i&gt; of an awesome deal on &lt;i&gt;some random thing&lt;/i&gt;. This provides strong intermittent reinforcement which directly triggers the brain&amp;#x27;s reward mechanism, no different to loot drops in an MMO or payouts from a poker machine. People literally get addicted to Aldi&amp;#x27;s random-stuff aisle.&lt;p&gt;We&amp;#x27;ve actually taken to referring to Aldi as &amp;quot;visiting the casino&amp;quot;. :P</text></comment>

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<story><title>Woman Rides Bicycle to 183.9 MPH, a New World Record</title><url>https://www.npr.org/2018/09/18/649221471/woman-rides-bicycle-to-183-9-mph-a-new-world-record</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>gnulinux</author><text>I was maybe 10 or younger and I was speedbombing downhill with my younger sister. We were fearless and very, &lt;i&gt;very&lt;/i&gt; fast. Of course we weren&amp;#x27;t wearing any helmet or whatever. One time as we were racing, she was winning, she shifted her bike toward my direction and slowed down. I ran into her bike and flew out of my bike. Next thing I know I&amp;#x27;m in the air, falling down towards the hill. When I finally hit the ground, I uncontrollably rolled downhill another maybe 10 meters. All my face and body was covered in blood and soil. My mom, seeing this incident from far away, ran for help. She told me, when I grew up, that when she was close enough to see me she was sure I was dead because of all the blood on the asphalt and what not. But thanks to the gods of probability, I didn&amp;#x27;t even break a bone. I don&amp;#x27;t understand how can human body can be so resilient that a 10 year old kid can survive such an accident without any damage other than his skin (and it wasn&amp;#x27;t permenant, I forgot about this event until now). I was stupid and I probably did that again and again, possibly even the next day. Now 15 years later, I bike everyday, but I bike very cautiously. I was lucky once, I don&amp;#x27;t wanna try my luck again.</text></item><item><author>komali2</author><text>As I get older, every time I find myself cruising at 50mph in traffic on the freeway on my motorcycle, I ask myself how the fuck younger me thought this was an acceptable speed at which to start lanesplitting. Was I insane? Nowadays I&amp;#x27;ll start around 40, more like 30, and never more than 10 over.&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s a shame so many motorcyclists die young, before they get a chance to &amp;quot;grow into&amp;quot; some safety sense. I distinctly remember talking with my friends age 12 about how (apologies) &amp;quot;gay&amp;quot; helmets were on our bicycles. We&amp;#x27;d speedbomb hills too, it was fun. I remember feeling no fear back then. I remember my parents telling me &amp;quot;you&amp;#x27;re an idiot for thinking you&amp;#x27;re invulnerable.&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;Why do we think that way when we&amp;#x27;re young, that we&amp;#x27;re immune to damage? What changes? We experience more death firsthand? If I hadn&amp;#x27;t had to clean up car accidents and watch a friend lose her intelligence to a helmetless bicycle accident, would I still feel invulnerable?&lt;p&gt;I wonder about this woman - did she do this because she lacked the fear? Or did she feel it, and all the positives of doing it overruled her fear? Maybe she was just confident enough in her safety measures to do it anyway?</text></item><item><author>toomanybeersies</author><text>The fastest I&amp;#x27;ve ever gone on a pushbike was around 80 km&amp;#x2F;h (50 mph), down a hill.&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s pretty fun and a great adrenaline rush, but holy shit it&amp;#x27;s dangerous. It&amp;#x27;s not like I was wearing protective gear, my polystyrene helmet and lycra wasn&amp;#x27;t going to protect me at that speed. All it would&amp;#x27;ve taken for me to fuck myself up was a large stone or a nail in my tyre or even just speed wobbles.&lt;p&gt;I stopped hill bombing pretty quick. It&amp;#x27;s not really worth the risk.&lt;p&gt;The fastest I&amp;#x27;ve managed on a flat is around 60-70 km&amp;#x2F;h, drafting behind a random car. That&amp;#x27;s also not safe, if the driver tapped their brakes, I&amp;#x27;d go straight into them.&lt;p&gt;There&amp;#x27;s something so cool about going at car speeds, but without a motor.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>fian</author><text>Cyclists tend to break bones at slower speeds. Pro-cyclists racing down mountains will lose a lot of skin in a fall but unless they hit something hard (rock, pole, wall) they don&amp;#x27;t tend to break bones. At walking speeds, a sideways fall often results in broken collar bones and wrists.&lt;p&gt;It is all about the angular momentum of the cyclist wrt to the road.</text></comment>

<story><title>Woman Rides Bicycle to 183.9 MPH, a New World Record</title><url>https://www.npr.org/2018/09/18/649221471/woman-rides-bicycle-to-183-9-mph-a-new-world-record</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>gnulinux</author><text>I was maybe 10 or younger and I was speedbombing downhill with my younger sister. We were fearless and very, &lt;i&gt;very&lt;/i&gt; fast. Of course we weren&amp;#x27;t wearing any helmet or whatever. One time as we were racing, she was winning, she shifted her bike toward my direction and slowed down. I ran into her bike and flew out of my bike. Next thing I know I&amp;#x27;m in the air, falling down towards the hill. When I finally hit the ground, I uncontrollably rolled downhill another maybe 10 meters. All my face and body was covered in blood and soil. My mom, seeing this incident from far away, ran for help. She told me, when I grew up, that when she was close enough to see me she was sure I was dead because of all the blood on the asphalt and what not. But thanks to the gods of probability, I didn&amp;#x27;t even break a bone. I don&amp;#x27;t understand how can human body can be so resilient that a 10 year old kid can survive such an accident without any damage other than his skin (and it wasn&amp;#x27;t permenant, I forgot about this event until now). I was stupid and I probably did that again and again, possibly even the next day. Now 15 years later, I bike everyday, but I bike very cautiously. I was lucky once, I don&amp;#x27;t wanna try my luck again.</text></item><item><author>komali2</author><text>As I get older, every time I find myself cruising at 50mph in traffic on the freeway on my motorcycle, I ask myself how the fuck younger me thought this was an acceptable speed at which to start lanesplitting. Was I insane? Nowadays I&amp;#x27;ll start around 40, more like 30, and never more than 10 over.&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s a shame so many motorcyclists die young, before they get a chance to &amp;quot;grow into&amp;quot; some safety sense. I distinctly remember talking with my friends age 12 about how (apologies) &amp;quot;gay&amp;quot; helmets were on our bicycles. We&amp;#x27;d speedbomb hills too, it was fun. I remember feeling no fear back then. I remember my parents telling me &amp;quot;you&amp;#x27;re an idiot for thinking you&amp;#x27;re invulnerable.&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;Why do we think that way when we&amp;#x27;re young, that we&amp;#x27;re immune to damage? What changes? We experience more death firsthand? If I hadn&amp;#x27;t had to clean up car accidents and watch a friend lose her intelligence to a helmetless bicycle accident, would I still feel invulnerable?&lt;p&gt;I wonder about this woman - did she do this because she lacked the fear? Or did she feel it, and all the positives of doing it overruled her fear? Maybe she was just confident enough in her safety measures to do it anyway?</text></item><item><author>toomanybeersies</author><text>The fastest I&amp;#x27;ve ever gone on a pushbike was around 80 km&amp;#x2F;h (50 mph), down a hill.&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s pretty fun and a great adrenaline rush, but holy shit it&amp;#x27;s dangerous. It&amp;#x27;s not like I was wearing protective gear, my polystyrene helmet and lycra wasn&amp;#x27;t going to protect me at that speed. All it would&amp;#x27;ve taken for me to fuck myself up was a large stone or a nail in my tyre or even just speed wobbles.&lt;p&gt;I stopped hill bombing pretty quick. It&amp;#x27;s not really worth the risk.&lt;p&gt;The fastest I&amp;#x27;ve managed on a flat is around 60-70 km&amp;#x2F;h, drafting behind a random car. That&amp;#x27;s also not safe, if the driver tapped their brakes, I&amp;#x27;d go straight into them.&lt;p&gt;There&amp;#x27;s something so cool about going at car speeds, but without a motor.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jacquesm</author><text>The big factor is that you simply weigh less.</text></comment>

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<story><title>Teach Yourself Programming in Ten Years (1998)</title><url>http://norvig.com/21-days.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>blackSnake</author><text>I can relate to it through the lens of Karate. I&amp;#x27;ve been studying just about 10 years and I&amp;#x27;m just beginning to see the depth of the art. Its almost like you spend those 10 years building the foundation before you can start building the house.&lt;p&gt;One of the points in the article really jumps out and again, I use martial arts as a lens for comparison. Talking to other programmers extensively accelerates your growth. If I had tried to piece together the knowledge my Sensei taught me through &amp;quot;Youtube, books, &amp;amp; self-study&amp;quot;, I would have not gotten as far as I have. There&amp;#x27;s something about having a mentor that can warp-speed your progress. Anyone who has mentored under a master in their field would attest to that.&lt;p&gt;The programming culture is one where you&amp;#x27;re encouraged to go out and figure it out. Yes, there are teams and pair programming but I don&amp;#x27;t see most companies emphasizing mentorship as much because its not directly tangible on the books. Its more of a long-term investment and they see employees jumping around every couple of years, so why bother?&lt;p&gt;It would be interesting to see master programmers (30+ years of exp) offer year-long intensives for serious students who wanted to accelerate their growth. I bet you would get some excellent programmers.</text></comment>

<story><title>Teach Yourself Programming in Ten Years (1998)</title><url>http://norvig.com/21-days.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>bungie4</author><text>According to the owner of this company, it takes at least 3 days for somebody with absolutely no computer skills to learn programming. Apparently its the career path of choice for telephone operators in a call center.&lt;p&gt;What is funny, after programming professionally for about 30 years, Is I want that job in the call center answering telephones. Even more ironic, it takes 1 month of intensive training to do that job.</text></comment>

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<story><title>Kialo – a platform for rational debate</title><url>https://www.kialo.com/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>aidos</author><text>I like the idea but found it a little hard to follow the arguments. Especially difficult if you follow down the cons thread, because a con of a con is a pro of the original point.&lt;p&gt;I worry that it won’t really result in more rational outcome but I do wish it luck. Is there anyway to downvote the points for being, for example, strawman arguments?&lt;p&gt;Edit: maybe I’d parse it better if they were labelled “agree” and “disagree”?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>electrograv</author><text>I tried it a while ago, then left when I realized a terrible aspect of its’ design was being abused: The creator of a debate topic gets to moderate it, which basically includes full censorship powers of any pros or cons you don’t like.&lt;p&gt;It boggles my mind anyone designing Kialo would have thought that to be a good idea, or that they wouldn’t foresee it being abused regularly to nudge the tide of an argument in the preferred direction by the moderators.&lt;p&gt;I’ve seen it all the time: Depending on the agenda of the moderators, one side of the argument mysteriously receives an overwhelmingly large amount of “moderation” for minor technicalities or even outright nonsensical reasons.&lt;p&gt;I’ve even seen Kialo’s own confusing design you mention here used as a way to subtly suppress one side of an argument: Take any argument beyond the top level, and it’s very easy to simply claim it is a duplicate of a top level argument. For example, if I write a con of a con, moderators can remove it saying it resembled an argument they saw in a top level pro. Or if I write a pro or a pro, they can remove it by saying it’s a duplicate of its own parent!&lt;p&gt;And this technique applies any number of levels deep in the tree. When this “moderation” gets applies overwhelmingly on one side of an argument, you can shift the entire balance of a Kialo argument quite easily without revealing overt corruption on the surface of your actions.</text></comment>

<story><title>Kialo – a platform for rational debate</title><url>https://www.kialo.com/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>aidos</author><text>I like the idea but found it a little hard to follow the arguments. Especially difficult if you follow down the cons thread, because a con of a con is a pro of the original point.&lt;p&gt;I worry that it won’t really result in more rational outcome but I do wish it luck. Is there anyway to downvote the points for being, for example, strawman arguments?&lt;p&gt;Edit: maybe I’d parse it better if they were labelled “agree” and “disagree”?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>antpls</author><text>I would like to add that the &amp;quot;agree&amp;quot;&amp;#x2F;&amp;quot;disagree&amp;quot; or &amp;quot;pro&amp;quot;&amp;#x2F;&amp;quot;cons&amp;quot; should have a random placement (left or right) and also random colors every time the page is loaded. &amp;quot;Cons&amp;quot; shouldn&amp;#x27;t be red.&lt;p&gt;The brain has several cognitive biases, such as giving more value to the last paragraphes it reads (which are usually at the right, or at the end of a text block). Cultural biases, such as colors (red for &amp;quot;alert&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;bad&amp;quot; for example) also influence judgements.&lt;p&gt;By the way, the website doesn&amp;#x27;t look easily usable or accessible to impaired people</text></comment>

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<story><title>‘Alien calculus’ could save particle physics from infinities</title><url>https://www.quantamagazine.org/alien-calculus-could-save-particle-physics-from-infinities-20230406/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>omeysalvi</author><text>I really appreciate how writers at Quanta turn extremely complex and dry topics into a pleasurable read by mixing simple analogies with history. I really admire the skill it takes to break down these topics and make them fascinating for someone with no understanding of them, such as me.</text></comment>

<story><title>‘Alien calculus’ could save particle physics from infinities</title><url>https://www.quantamagazine.org/alien-calculus-could-save-particle-physics-from-infinities-20230406/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>pvitz</author><text>Écalle&amp;#x27;s own summary can be found here: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.imo.universite-paris-saclay.fr&amp;#x2F;~jean.ecalle&amp;#x2F;fichiersweb&amp;#x2F;WEB_tour_resur.pdf&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.imo.universite-paris-saclay.fr&amp;#x2F;~jean.ecalle&amp;#x2F;fich...&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>

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<story><title>Air pollution cancer breakthrough will rewrite the rules</title><url>https://www.bbc.com/news/health-62797777</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>gniv</author><text>&amp;gt; 99% of people in the world live in places where air pollution exceeds the WHO guidelines&lt;p&gt;Wow. I knew cities are polluted but this is extreme. In 50 years we might look at pollution as we look at smoking now, a terrible self-inflicted wound on civilization that took way too long to acknowledge and fix.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>AtlasBarfed</author><text>This is why BEV adoption should result in a very large drop in cancer and other health problems.&lt;p&gt;EV drivers have told me after a bit of ownership, they see ICE cars as thoroughly filthy, loud, dirty, inefficient, and almost rude.&lt;p&gt;Our addiction to being able to drive places with but a mere tap of a gas pedal has blinded us to the devil&amp;#x27;s bargain of the ICE. I honestly think that a great deal of the instinctive hatred of cyclists is tied to how deeply the power and convenience and freedom of driving has ensconced itself into our subconscious.&lt;p&gt;We shall see, I guess.</text></comment>

<story><title>Air pollution cancer breakthrough will rewrite the rules</title><url>https://www.bbc.com/news/health-62797777</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>gniv</author><text>&amp;gt; 99% of people in the world live in places where air pollution exceeds the WHO guidelines&lt;p&gt;Wow. I knew cities are polluted but this is extreme. In 50 years we might look at pollution as we look at smoking now, a terrible self-inflicted wound on civilization that took way too long to acknowledge and fix.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>DoingIsLearning</author><text>Don&amp;#x27;t forget the fraud of the whole Dieselgate scandal.&lt;p&gt;We were all getting excess NO2 pumped out of diesel engines. Effectively shortening all our lifespans.</text></comment>

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<story><title>Lyft for Work</title><url>https://www.lyft.com/work</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>titlex</author><text>Maybe they should actually find people who know how to drive first. I&amp;#x27;m getting sick of these ridershares and their terrible drivers. I&amp;#x27;m strictly speaking in San Francisco. It&amp;#x27;s ridiculous how many times they randomly stop in the middle of the street to pick someone up causing traffic jams or even stopping at a stop sign to drop or pick someone up. Plus all the illegal U-turns and crossing double yellow lines when they&amp;#x27;re not supposed to. I don&amp;#x27;t recall having this issue with cabs. It&amp;#x27;s almost unbearable to drive in the city now.</text></comment>

<story><title>Lyft for Work</title><url>https://www.lyft.com/work</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>derwiki</author><text>Is this really that common, an employer offering free taxi credits? I&amp;#x27;ve worked at a handful of software companies in SF, and I don&amp;#x27;t recall any of them doing this.</text></comment>

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<story><title>Cybercriminals pose as &quot;helpful&quot; Stack Overflow users to push malware</title><url>https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/cybercriminals-pose-as-helpful-stack-overflow-users-to-push-malware/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>bheadmaster</author><text>The root of the problem is allowing pip to execute arbitrary code when installing a package from PyPI (default package index), combined with the complete lack of vetting of PyPI packages. Even something as simple as mistyping a package name can cause malicious code to be executed on your computer.&lt;p&gt;Installing packages (i.e. source code) for programming languages should not execute arbitrary code.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>yeputons</author><text>Does installation matter at all? Once you&amp;#x27;ve installed a package, you&amp;#x27;re very likely to immediately include it in the project, build, and run. Any malicious code can easily run during the package&amp;#x27;s initialization in your app.&lt;p&gt;Seems like prohibiting arbitrary code in installation scripts would only help with issues like Bumblebee&amp;#x27;s `rm -rf`: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;github.com&amp;#x2F;MrMEEE&amp;#x2F;bumblebee-Old-and-abbandoned&amp;#x2F;issues&amp;#x2F;123&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;github.com&amp;#x2F;MrMEEE&amp;#x2F;bumblebee-Old-and-abbandoned&amp;#x2F;issue...&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>

<story><title>Cybercriminals pose as &quot;helpful&quot; Stack Overflow users to push malware</title><url>https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/cybercriminals-pose-as-helpful-stack-overflow-users-to-push-malware/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>bheadmaster</author><text>The root of the problem is allowing pip to execute arbitrary code when installing a package from PyPI (default package index), combined with the complete lack of vetting of PyPI packages. Even something as simple as mistyping a package name can cause malicious code to be executed on your computer.&lt;p&gt;Installing packages (i.e. source code) for programming languages should not execute arbitrary code.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mrspuratic</author><text>&amp;quot;curl ... | bash&amp;quot; makes me run away from a project.&lt;p&gt;There is the reductive argument that basically everything you download is arbitrary code, but throwing away the code that is run seems uniquely silly.&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&amp;#x2F;item?id=21490151&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&amp;#x2F;item?id=21490151&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>

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<story><title>YouTube millionaires are not your friends</title><url>https://www.vox.com/culture/23640192/sebastian-ghiorghiu-youtube-hustle-gurus-passive-income-dropshipping</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>BiteCode_dev</author><text>In person, I get it. You chill with someone you like, you don&amp;#x27;t need to do much to enjoy it. Like reading together, or just being there.&lt;p&gt;However, I don&amp;#x27;t get watching pewdiepie playing something. I just can&amp;#x27;t groke it. You don&amp;#x27;t know the person, the person is not in the room, the person is not even currently playing since it&amp;#x27;s a recording. It&amp;#x27;s a flat image of someone else having fun. And not somebody particularly good, interesting or special.&lt;p&gt;I tried to tell myself it&amp;#x27;s like watching porn: you watch somebody else having sex, why not play video game? But something doesn&amp;#x27;t click for me.&lt;p&gt;I miss the point entirely.</text></item><item><author>throw74648284</author><text>I relate to your sentiment, and then I think about how hard it was to explain to my parents why I enjoy watching others play video games.</text></item><item><author>BiteCode_dev</author><text>Just an aside, but I&amp;#x27;ve noticed a lot of popular video trends among the younger generation revolve around watching somebody you don&amp;#x27;t really know, doing things I would I&amp;#x27;ve done with friends.&lt;p&gt;Reaction videos, eating things, hanging out and making jokes, making a stupid contest, trying some new experience...&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s like there is an entire part of the children&amp;#x2F;teen population that have such a bland life they feel good while watching somebody else living it.&lt;p&gt;Just read my comment and realized how &amp;quot;old man yells at cloud&amp;quot; it sounds, but hey, maybe someone will have something interesting to answer.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>satvikpendem</author><text>You enjoy the feeling of having friends, as you develop a parasocial relationship with the person on the screen.&lt;p&gt;It is essentially a hack for the brain&amp;#x27;s social processing systems. Generally, we&amp;#x27;d have only seen others in real life and interacted with them. This confers evolutionary advantage so we feel good interacting further with people, and perhaps even seeing people do things we find enjoyable in the first place.&lt;p&gt;Now with video, we feel good as we &amp;quot;spend time&amp;quot; with the other person, even though they don&amp;#x27;t know of our existence. Our caveman brain doesn&amp;#x27;t know about this sort of one sided relationship at all, it wasn&amp;#x27;t present in the olden days.&lt;p&gt;We will see the same with AI and chatbots as the decades pass, only at least now we&amp;#x27;re actually able to interact in a two sided way. There are already people doing this with ChatGPT or even Replika.</text></comment>

<story><title>YouTube millionaires are not your friends</title><url>https://www.vox.com/culture/23640192/sebastian-ghiorghiu-youtube-hustle-gurus-passive-income-dropshipping</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>BiteCode_dev</author><text>In person, I get it. You chill with someone you like, you don&amp;#x27;t need to do much to enjoy it. Like reading together, or just being there.&lt;p&gt;However, I don&amp;#x27;t get watching pewdiepie playing something. I just can&amp;#x27;t groke it. You don&amp;#x27;t know the person, the person is not in the room, the person is not even currently playing since it&amp;#x27;s a recording. It&amp;#x27;s a flat image of someone else having fun. And not somebody particularly good, interesting or special.&lt;p&gt;I tried to tell myself it&amp;#x27;s like watching porn: you watch somebody else having sex, why not play video game? But something doesn&amp;#x27;t click for me.&lt;p&gt;I miss the point entirely.</text></item><item><author>throw74648284</author><text>I relate to your sentiment, and then I think about how hard it was to explain to my parents why I enjoy watching others play video games.</text></item><item><author>BiteCode_dev</author><text>Just an aside, but I&amp;#x27;ve noticed a lot of popular video trends among the younger generation revolve around watching somebody you don&amp;#x27;t really know, doing things I would I&amp;#x27;ve done with friends.&lt;p&gt;Reaction videos, eating things, hanging out and making jokes, making a stupid contest, trying some new experience...&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s like there is an entire part of the children&amp;#x2F;teen population that have such a bland life they feel good while watching somebody else living it.&lt;p&gt;Just read my comment and realized how &amp;quot;old man yells at cloud&amp;quot; it sounds, but hey, maybe someone will have something interesting to answer.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>theshrike79</author><text>I&amp;#x27;ve explained it to myself like this: It&amp;#x27;s exactly like watching sports.&lt;p&gt;You want to watch it live on tv, even though the fact that you&amp;#x27;re watching has zero impact on the result. You&amp;#x27;re just watching other people play a game. You could do anything else and just check the scores afterwards, but still you want to watch it.&lt;p&gt;Some people will watch a recording of the game and still enjoy it even though the scores were determined hours ago.&lt;p&gt;The younger generation does the same thing, but instead of sports they watch someone play a game.&lt;p&gt;I don&amp;#x27;t understand either, but I can live with it =)</text></comment>

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<story><title>Welcome to the new decade</title><url>http://twitter.com/phil_nash/status/21159419598</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jlgosse</author><text>I mostly agree with Phil, but I still wouldn&apos;t call Microsoft an underdog. I mean, I recently fell in love with OSX, but my opinion still stands that Windows 7 is f&apos;ing amazing, and still outsells (or is at least on more machines than) OSX by an IMMENSELY large proportion.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>sjs</author><text>There are more than a few of us who don&apos;t consider a machine suitable for real work unless it ships with a derivative of the bourne shell and makes it easy to run the same software we use on our servers.&lt;p&gt;My process to get up and running on a new machine is to change the keyboard layout to dvorak and run `wget -qO - bit.ly/newbox | sh`. On Windows I have to do everything in a Linux VM anyway, because I hate messing around with cygwin, coLinux, etc.&lt;p&gt;I know a lot of people will disagree with this, but to me a Windows box is a glorified Xbox with a web browser. Sure people work with them but unless you&apos;re using VS I don&apos;t really see the point of using Windows for development.&lt;p&gt;edit: I know I&apos;m not representative of the larger population but I think there are more people switching away from Windows than to it these days.</text></comment>

<story><title>Welcome to the new decade</title><url>http://twitter.com/phil_nash/status/21159419598</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jlgosse</author><text>I mostly agree with Phil, but I still wouldn&apos;t call Microsoft an underdog. I mean, I recently fell in love with OSX, but my opinion still stands that Windows 7 is f&apos;ing amazing, and still outsells (or is at least on more machines than) OSX by an IMMENSELY large proportion.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>houseabsolute</author><text>And apple can&apos;t even remotely be called a monopoly, unless you are referring to their monopoly on products sold by apple.</text></comment>

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<story><title>Hong Kong’s Clout as a Global Financial Center Clouded by Uncertainty</title><url>https://www.wsj.com/articles/hong-kongs-clout-as-a-global-financial-center-clouded-by-uncertainty-11560504645</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>kodz4</author><text>Ya one day they are moving out of London because of Brexit, another day out of Hong Kong because of China. If these Financial &amp;quot;Centers&amp;quot; are easy to move why does anyone need a Center in the first place?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>rolltiide</author><text>&amp;gt; If these Financial &amp;quot;Centers&amp;quot; are easy to move why does anyone need a Center in the first place?&lt;p&gt;Because at one point you did. And the existence of those places worked on removing barriers of trade. And now those places are being dismantled while the barriers of trade are already removed.&lt;p&gt;So you get the luxury to look at it through the lens of the present, ignoring how it came to be completely.&lt;p&gt;At this point financial centers offer different collections of favorable regulations that you can choose at your own whim.&lt;p&gt;Separate jurisdictions shift nuances of law around and compete on this still.&lt;p&gt;For example, many people access the US markets through Delaware &amp;quot;because they heard&amp;quot; and have no idea what the other 49 states, 1 district, and 5 territories offer despite having complete autonomy to compete over the last 30 years.&lt;p&gt;Some of those 55 jurisdictions are faster, cheaper, have Chancery courts, have favorable court rulings completely opposite of Delaware, can lean on Delaware case law if desired, have newer and more interesting business types you can create, may be more private and anonymous, may be better for your business.&lt;p&gt;Thats how centers develop and their utility. Its mostly the ease of getting the local government to listen to the desires of ephemeral entrepreneurs.</text></comment>

<story><title>Hong Kong’s Clout as a Global Financial Center Clouded by Uncertainty</title><url>https://www.wsj.com/articles/hong-kongs-clout-as-a-global-financial-center-clouded-by-uncertainty-11560504645</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>kodz4</author><text>Ya one day they are moving out of London because of Brexit, another day out of Hong Kong because of China. If these Financial &amp;quot;Centers&amp;quot; are easy to move why does anyone need a Center in the first place?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>lallysingh</author><text>For labor. People specialize and need a reasonable pool of employers in an area for wage competition. Not just at initial hiring time, but to keep the raises competitive.</text></comment>

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<story><title>ChatGPT 4 saved my dog’s life</title><url>https://twitter.com/peakcooper/status/1639716822680236032</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>extr</author><text>I&amp;#x27;ve been using ChatGPT as a health consultant for all sorts of things. If you&amp;#x27;ve ever experienced health anxiety, you know a huge problem is Googling your symptoms and the top links immediately going to diagnoses like lymphoma or HIV. There is no sense of the a priori likelihood of anything. But ChatGPT is pretty measured, and though it includes tons of disclaimers about needing to see a real doctor, it&amp;#x27;s impossible to definitely say, etc etc, it&amp;#x27;s much better about returning the REAL most likely reason you have a headache (you&amp;#x27;re dehydrated) rather than you have brain cancer.&lt;p&gt;Of course, you could argue this is lulling you in a false sense of security. But the same thing (arguably worse) happens when you go to a real doctor! Half the time they barely look at you and just kind of shrug off concerns&amp;#x2F;anxiety.&lt;p&gt;Edit: I got curious and ran an experiment. Typically when you are anxiously googling you are worried about the worst case (even if it&amp;#x27;s not rational).&lt;p&gt;Google: &amp;quot;headache brain tumor&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;First result, before links even, is a huge out-of-context info box from the Mayo Clinic on brain tumors that highlights the words &amp;quot;Or a brain tumor can cause swelling in the brain that increases pressure in the head and leads to a headache.&amp;quot; Jesus Christ!&lt;p&gt;ChatGPT 3.5: &amp;quot;I have a headache, could it be a brain tumor?&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;First two sentences: &amp;quot;A headache can have many different causes, and while a brain tumor is one possible cause, it is not the most common cause. Most headaches are not caused by brain tumors and are usually due to other factors such as tension, sinus issues, or migraine.&amp;quot; It then goes on to list tumor-specific headaches symptoms (like changes in vision or hearing) and calls out to see a doctor if you&amp;#x27;re getting those.&lt;p&gt;Which do you think is more likely to calm you down? Or is more legitimately helpful and going to provide good outcomes?</text></comment>

<story><title>ChatGPT 4 saved my dog’s life</title><url>https://twitter.com/peakcooper/status/1639716822680236032</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>raincole</author><text>It&amp;#x27;s incredible, but I think we&amp;#x27;re going to witness the first person who gets killed by GPT-4 in about 3~6 months.&lt;p&gt;Someone is going to blindly follow GPT-4&amp;#x27;s medical advice and meet their end.</text></comment>

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<story><title>Show HN: I made an open-source Bitly alternative</title><url>https://dub.sh/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>bluetidepro</author><text>FYI you have some rogue script or something on the page that brings my pretty hefty windows 10 pc to a halt. It spikes my CPU to 100% and the page is in like 1FPS. I think it&amp;#x27;s your countdown thing for pricing. Something is def up with it, you may want to disable that temp.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>steventey</author><text>Hey everyone! My good friend &amp;amp; colleague Shu just pushed a PR that should mitigate this: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;github.com&amp;#x2F;steven-tey&amp;#x2F;dub&amp;#x2F;pull&amp;#x2F;13&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;github.com&amp;#x2F;steven-tey&amp;#x2F;dub&amp;#x2F;pull&amp;#x2F;13&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;Can y&amp;#x27;all check again and let me know if the performance issue is still bad? Feel free to reply here or send me an email at steven[at]dub.sh&lt;p&gt;FYI Shu (&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;github.com&amp;#x2F;shuding&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;github.com&amp;#x2F;shuding&lt;/a&gt;) is the creator of the globe library that I&amp;#x27;m using on the home page: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;cobe.vercel.app&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;cobe.vercel.app&lt;/a&gt;, it&amp;#x27;s really good!</text></comment>

<story><title>Show HN: I made an open-source Bitly alternative</title><url>https://dub.sh/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>bluetidepro</author><text>FYI you have some rogue script or something on the page that brings my pretty hefty windows 10 pc to a halt. It spikes my CPU to 100% and the page is in like 1FPS. I think it&amp;#x27;s your countdown thing for pricing. Something is def up with it, you may want to disable that temp.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>stjohnswarts</author><text>I was doing &amp;quot;native compile&amp;quot; of several hundred el scripts for emacs and my computer was fine, clicked on that page and everything started taking a couple seconds to click afterwards lol. Definitely something up with the javascript on there.</text></comment>

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<story><title>Terminal – Virtual computers that start, resize, and scale in seconds</title><url>http://www.terminal.com</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ykumar6</author><text>Give &lt;a href=&quot;http://Runnable.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;Runnable.com&lt;/a&gt; a shot too :-) It&amp;#x27;s 100% free, and will remain so.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>itry</author><text>Cool. What&amp;#x27;s your business model?</text></comment>

<story><title>Terminal – Virtual computers that start, resize, and scale in seconds</title><url>http://www.terminal.com</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ykumar6</author><text>Give &lt;a href=&quot;http://Runnable.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;Runnable.com&lt;/a&gt; a shot too :-) It&amp;#x27;s 100% free, and will remain so.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ykumar6</author><text>Runnable provides containers across high-performance AWS virtual machines. We launch millions of containers every month. Publishing your own image is as simple as installing packages in our terminal and hitting &amp;quot;publish&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;- Yash (Founder, Runnable.com)</text></comment>

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<story><title>Time to Dump Time Zones</title><url>http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/06/opinion/sunday/time-to-dump-time-zones.html?_r=0</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>trjordan</author><text>Perhaps Hackers News is the wrong audience to suffer this problem, but coordinating meetings between companies (i.e., sales calls) is a mess. When a call winds down and you&amp;#x27;ve got two people on the phone coordinating their calendars, there&amp;#x27;s this hilarious, awkward dance that happens.&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;Great, sounds like we have a plan. When should we touch base again?&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;Let&amp;#x27;s aim for Monday. How&amp;#x27;s your afternoon?&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;Monday is no good, but Tuesday morning is free.&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;Um, mornings are no good for me, I&amp;#x27;m on the west coast. I could do anything after 10am your time.&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;OK, 1pm works.&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;1pm your time, great.&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;Oh, no, I meant 10am your time, 1pm eastern.&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;Oh, right, ok. Great, I&amp;#x27;ll send a meeting invite.&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;Time zones make this SO INSUFFERABLE. I&amp;#x27;m in the Bay Area now, and everybody still reverts to ET just to speak about the same thing. I actually have a biweekly call with people in DC, New York, Chicago, and SF, and it&amp;#x27;s hell to try to move by an hour. Everybody ends up speaking relative language, about &amp;quot;push it back an hour&amp;quot; or &amp;quot;same time tomorrow?&amp;quot;. There&amp;#x27;s still going to be problems with the east coast thinking 10am is a good time to meet, or people who are on the hook to spend money dragging their feet for no reason, but I would love to get everybody working on the same system.&lt;p&gt;(As a side note, meeting invites that work over email are god&amp;#x27;s gift companies. Getting on the conference call at the wrong time is remarkably rare, and nobody ever blames time zones, because software takes care of the problem once you&amp;#x27;ve picked the initial time.)</text></item><item><author>darawk</author><text>Hmm...this is an interesting idea. However, the core of the argument seems to be this:&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; “The economy — that’s all of us — would receive a permanent ‘harmonization dividend’ ”— the efficiency benefits that come from a unified time zone.&lt;p&gt;But this editorial is pretty light on actually supporting that. The basic argument seems to be that it reduces &amp;#x27;translation costs&amp;#x27;. But..does it? What about the benefits of being able to refer to times without having to localize them? If my friend on the other side of the country says &amp;quot;I woke up at 9 this morning&amp;quot;, I have a pretty good idea of what that means. If we used this new system, i&amp;#x27;d have to mentally translate.&lt;p&gt;In terms of scheduling things, it would get easier in some ways and likely harder in others. If say, I want to schedule a conference call at 3, yes, 3 is the same time for everyone, but i&amp;#x27;d still have to do some mental sanity checks to ensure that that time is reasonable for everyone who might be participating.&lt;p&gt;Overall, is there really an efficiency gain to be had here? I&amp;#x27;m not taking the firm position that there isn&amp;#x27;t, btw. Just a bit skeptical and curious to hear a better argument in its favor if anyone has got one.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>nikatwork</author><text>This might be useful: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.timeanddate.com&amp;#x2F;worldclock&amp;#x2F;meeting.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.timeanddate.com&amp;#x2F;worldclock&amp;#x2F;meeting.html&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>

<story><title>Time to Dump Time Zones</title><url>http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/06/opinion/sunday/time-to-dump-time-zones.html?_r=0</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>trjordan</author><text>Perhaps Hackers News is the wrong audience to suffer this problem, but coordinating meetings between companies (i.e., sales calls) is a mess. When a call winds down and you&amp;#x27;ve got two people on the phone coordinating their calendars, there&amp;#x27;s this hilarious, awkward dance that happens.&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;Great, sounds like we have a plan. When should we touch base again?&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;Let&amp;#x27;s aim for Monday. How&amp;#x27;s your afternoon?&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;Monday is no good, but Tuesday morning is free.&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;Um, mornings are no good for me, I&amp;#x27;m on the west coast. I could do anything after 10am your time.&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;OK, 1pm works.&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;1pm your time, great.&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;Oh, no, I meant 10am your time, 1pm eastern.&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;Oh, right, ok. Great, I&amp;#x27;ll send a meeting invite.&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;Time zones make this SO INSUFFERABLE. I&amp;#x27;m in the Bay Area now, and everybody still reverts to ET just to speak about the same thing. I actually have a biweekly call with people in DC, New York, Chicago, and SF, and it&amp;#x27;s hell to try to move by an hour. Everybody ends up speaking relative language, about &amp;quot;push it back an hour&amp;quot; or &amp;quot;same time tomorrow?&amp;quot;. There&amp;#x27;s still going to be problems with the east coast thinking 10am is a good time to meet, or people who are on the hook to spend money dragging their feet for no reason, but I would love to get everybody working on the same system.&lt;p&gt;(As a side note, meeting invites that work over email are god&amp;#x27;s gift companies. Getting on the conference call at the wrong time is remarkably rare, and nobody ever blames time zones, because software takes care of the problem once you&amp;#x27;ve picked the initial time.)</text></item><item><author>darawk</author><text>Hmm...this is an interesting idea. However, the core of the argument seems to be this:&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; “The economy — that’s all of us — would receive a permanent ‘harmonization dividend’ ”— the efficiency benefits that come from a unified time zone.&lt;p&gt;But this editorial is pretty light on actually supporting that. The basic argument seems to be that it reduces &amp;#x27;translation costs&amp;#x27;. But..does it? What about the benefits of being able to refer to times without having to localize them? If my friend on the other side of the country says &amp;quot;I woke up at 9 this morning&amp;quot;, I have a pretty good idea of what that means. If we used this new system, i&amp;#x27;d have to mentally translate.&lt;p&gt;In terms of scheduling things, it would get easier in some ways and likely harder in others. If say, I want to schedule a conference call at 3, yes, 3 is the same time for everyone, but i&amp;#x27;d still have to do some mental sanity checks to ensure that that time is reasonable for everyone who might be participating.&lt;p&gt;Overall, is there really an efficiency gain to be had here? I&amp;#x27;m not taking the firm position that there isn&amp;#x27;t, btw. Just a bit skeptical and curious to hear a better argument in its favor if anyone has got one.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>pbhjpbhj</author><text>Aviators&amp;#x2F;Military solve that by using Zulu time I believe (ie UTC).</text></comment>

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<story><title>Federal Reserve chair says decline in workers&apos; share of profits &apos;very troubling&apos;</title><url>http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-federal-reserve-powell-20180717-story.html#</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>methodover</author><text>The allocation of profits in startups, at least, feels... problematic.&lt;p&gt;I was the #2 engineer hire when I was hired five years ago. Since then, we haven&amp;#x27;t become super successful -- yet -- but we&amp;#x27;re at least at breakeven. We have three engineers and we&amp;#x27;re working on a huge new project that hopefully will really grow the company.&lt;p&gt;I have 1.8% equity.&lt;p&gt;Sometimes when I&amp;#x27;m working late or working on the weekend, which is often, I wonder: Is this really worth it?&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;m totally fine with taking a pay cut to build something new, in order to have the chance at making life changing money. But at the equity I have, we&amp;#x27;d need to be quite successful in order to get that.&lt;p&gt;The VCs who funded our seed and series A (the only funds we&amp;#x27;ve raised) will see the lion&amp;#x27;s share of the profits. Emotionally, that feels odd. We&amp;#x27;ve thrown a significant percentage of our lives, and they&amp;#x27;ve only thrown in money -- and a pretty small amount of it, really. I know it&amp;#x27;s supposed to make sense from a financial perspective or whatever, but &lt;i&gt;emotionally&lt;/i&gt; it doesn&amp;#x27;t feel fair.&lt;p&gt;But hey I guess it worked, I have what feels like a small percentage and yet I&amp;#x27;m throwing everything I have at this company. I&amp;#x27;m likely an outlier, though. I suspect that if VCs and founders gave employees a bigger piece of the pie, they&amp;#x27;d have a much more motivated workforce.</text></comment>

<story><title>Federal Reserve chair says decline in workers&apos; share of profits &apos;very troubling&apos;</title><url>http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-federal-reserve-powell-20180717-story.html#</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>legitster</author><text>To me it is pretty ridiculous how much labor is taxed, and how little capital is taxed. Especially if we are worried about automation and lack of productivity growth, it seems so counter-intuitive that we are completely stuck to a tax system that devalues workers.</text></comment>

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<story><title>Atari founder Nolan Bushnell on why life is &apos;a game&apos;</title><url>http://www.bbc.com/news/business-33117769</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>jen729w</author><text>&lt;i&gt;&amp;gt;&amp;quot;How many companies have you started by the time you&amp;#x27;re 18? If the answer&amp;#x27;s zero, I wouldn&amp;#x27;t invest in you,&amp;quot; he says of their entrepreneurial verve.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;Jesus christ, really? That sounds like a hideous childhood to me. Is this what we&amp;#x27;re becoming, a race of people obsessed with capital and business and work?&lt;p&gt;Go play in the dirt and ride your bike, kid. Work when you&amp;#x27;re old.</text></comment>

<story><title>Atari founder Nolan Bushnell on why life is &apos;a game&apos;</title><url>http://www.bbc.com/news/business-33117769</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>ux-app</author><text>&amp;gt; &amp;quot;I&amp;#x27;ve always valued passionate employees over anything else, and, it turns out that there&amp;#x27;s a huge percentage of the population that are actually dead - they don&amp;#x27;t know it, but, in terms of their processes, they&amp;#x27;re just waiting to be buried&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;m sure he did value passionate employees, especially in light of the positive way in which describes Jobs sleeping under his desk (and the poor bastards described in the article who were working on a Saturday). I wonder how many of those under the desk employees got a cut of his $30 million Atari payday. Not one I bet.&lt;p&gt;Wisdom is understanding that others don&amp;#x27;t have the same drives and ambitions that you do and not judging them for it. Sounds like this guy still hasn&amp;#x27;t learned this at 70+</text></comment>

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<story><title>Speeding Up Rendering Rails Pages with render_async</title><url>https://semaphoreci.com/blog/2017/06/08/speeding-up-rails-pages-with-render-async.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>matthewmacleod</author><text>That&amp;#x27;s actually a relatively nice, Rails-magic-style approach to solving this sort of thing. Of course, if you were building a more interactive application, you&amp;#x27;d already have a JS framework in place that would negate these benefits – but I&amp;#x27;m still convinced there&amp;#x27;s a nice middle-ground for server-rendered Rails apps that avoids the various problems of SPAs.&lt;p&gt;It would be nice if it worked without JavaScript though – an increasing pain-in-the-arse about the web generally. If only it were possible to have &amp;lt;iframe&amp;gt;s adjust to their content size, then we wouldn&amp;#x27;t need JavaScript at all!</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>kawsper</author><text>I was the original author of this gem, so it is nice to see it here on HN, I have since passed it on the the caring hands of Semaphore since they wanted to maintain and improve it :-)&lt;p&gt;The software was built for a forum where the admin buttons was only for specific users, but the rest of the frontend was the same, so we used render_async to render some content for some users, and other content for admins, and the rest of the page could be cached statically.&lt;p&gt;We later changed it to use edge side includes with Varnish. An example of this is where you add the to your HTML:&lt;p&gt;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt; &amp;lt;esi:include src=&amp;quot;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;example.com&amp;#x2F;1.html&amp;quot; alt=&amp;quot;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;bak.example.com&amp;#x2F;2.html&amp;quot; onerror=&amp;quot;continue&amp;quot;&amp;#x2F;&amp;gt; &lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt; This will make Varnish fetch the URL(s), assemble the page and present it to the client, so your backend might see more requests, but the client only sees one.</text></comment>

<story><title>Speeding Up Rendering Rails Pages with render_async</title><url>https://semaphoreci.com/blog/2017/06/08/speeding-up-rails-pages-with-render-async.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>matthewmacleod</author><text>That&amp;#x27;s actually a relatively nice, Rails-magic-style approach to solving this sort of thing. Of course, if you were building a more interactive application, you&amp;#x27;d already have a JS framework in place that would negate these benefits – but I&amp;#x27;m still convinced there&amp;#x27;s a nice middle-ground for server-rendered Rails apps that avoids the various problems of SPAs.&lt;p&gt;It would be nice if it worked without JavaScript though – an increasing pain-in-the-arse about the web generally. If only it were possible to have &amp;lt;iframe&amp;gt;s adjust to their content size, then we wouldn&amp;#x27;t need JavaScript at all!</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>realusername</author><text>I&amp;#x27;m also using react-rails on my case to make a bridge between rails and react and it has been very useful so far, you can even render components server-side to test them with rspec.</text></comment>

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<story><title>Breaking all macOS security layers with a single vulnerability</title><url>https://sector7.computest.nl/post/2022-08-process-injection-breaking-all-macos-security-layers-with-a-single-vulnerability/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>blinkingled</author><text>&amp;gt;Changing a security model that has been used for decades to a more restrictive model is difficult, especially in something as complicated as macOS. Attaching debuggers is just one example, there are many similar techniques that could be used to inject code into a different process. Apple has squashed many of these techniques, but many other ones are likely still undiscovered.&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; Aside from Apple’s own code, these vulnerabilities could also occur in third-party software. It’s quite common to find a process injection vulnerability in a specific application, which means that the permissions (TCC permissions and entitlements) of that application are up for grabs for all other processes. Getting those fixed is a difficult process, because many third-party developers are not familiar with this new security model. Reporting these vulnerabilities often requires fully explaining this new model! Especially Electron applications are infamous for being easy to inject into, as it is possible to replace their JavaScript files without invalidating the code signature.&lt;p&gt;It makes me sad that we are likely not going to see any new fundamental design rethink for security&amp;#x27;s sake in mainstream operating systems. It is cost prohibitive at this point to do something that gets security right for the world of 2022 and yet not break all the apps which would never be rewritten!&lt;p&gt;Mobile OSes were a good break off point as far as security goes but that came with a lot of functionality sacrifice.&lt;p&gt;Although something like QubesOS can theoretically dream of being semi-mainstream with support from hardware and OSS OS vendors like RH&amp;#x2F;Suse&amp;#x2F;Canonical or even Microsoft.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>userbinator</author><text>&lt;i&gt;It makes me sad that we are likely not going to see any new fundamental design rethink for security&amp;#x27;s sake in mainstream operating systems.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;Contrarily, that makes me happy because if that happens we are really going to lose what little computing freedom we have left, as it will only make the walled garden silos even stronger.</text></comment>

<story><title>Breaking all macOS security layers with a single vulnerability</title><url>https://sector7.computest.nl/post/2022-08-process-injection-breaking-all-macos-security-layers-with-a-single-vulnerability/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>blinkingled</author><text>&amp;gt;Changing a security model that has been used for decades to a more restrictive model is difficult, especially in something as complicated as macOS. Attaching debuggers is just one example, there are many similar techniques that could be used to inject code into a different process. Apple has squashed many of these techniques, but many other ones are likely still undiscovered.&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; Aside from Apple’s own code, these vulnerabilities could also occur in third-party software. It’s quite common to find a process injection vulnerability in a specific application, which means that the permissions (TCC permissions and entitlements) of that application are up for grabs for all other processes. Getting those fixed is a difficult process, because many third-party developers are not familiar with this new security model. Reporting these vulnerabilities often requires fully explaining this new model! Especially Electron applications are infamous for being easy to inject into, as it is possible to replace their JavaScript files without invalidating the code signature.&lt;p&gt;It makes me sad that we are likely not going to see any new fundamental design rethink for security&amp;#x27;s sake in mainstream operating systems. It is cost prohibitive at this point to do something that gets security right for the world of 2022 and yet not break all the apps which would never be rewritten!&lt;p&gt;Mobile OSes were a good break off point as far as security goes but that came with a lot of functionality sacrifice.&lt;p&gt;Although something like QubesOS can theoretically dream of being semi-mainstream with support from hardware and OSS OS vendors like RH&amp;#x2F;Suse&amp;#x2F;Canonical or even Microsoft.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>olliej</author><text>Fuchsia does a pure capability model, and resources, even as basic as the file system are provided through handles - and your file system handle is a handle to what would be a directory elsewhere, but that is the entire file system so it’s not a matter of finding a traversal exploit.&lt;p&gt;In principle you could do something similar with the Mac&amp;#x2F;iOS sandbox by starting a process with a compute only sandbox, and then provide it with specific sandbox entitlements (from the parent) which includes specific file systems, however they still in principle can see a full version of the fs.&lt;p&gt;And yeah, any OS that isn’t completely new is burdened with support for old apps, but then iOS which used its newness to have a stronger base security model is constantly beaten up for that model.</text></comment>

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<story><title>Petition To Fire Aaron Swartz’ Prosecutor Reaches Goal</title><url>http://falkvinge.net/2013/01/15/petition-to-fire-aaron-swartz-prosecutor-reaches-goal</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>numbsafari</author><text>It&apos;s 25 dead children who were completely innocent of any crime. It&apos;s an incident in a long line of incidents over many decades in which many innocent people were killed.&lt;p&gt;I think you need to calibrate your moral barometer a bit better.</text></item><item><author>fr0sty</author><text>&amp;#62; The main point is that action in government is slow. And for good reason. If people want to hold onto the fantasy that when a bunch of people get angry, the government will take drastic action...then fine...&lt;p&gt;Sandy Hook was one month ago and the President is having a big news conference tomorrow about the administrations response re: gun violence. Is that &quot;slow&quot;? &quot;drastic action&quot;? something else?</text></item><item><author>danso</author><text>&amp;#62; &lt;i&gt;Overall, there is a feeling that Aaron Swartz’ death has to mark the beginning of a change. This petition could be a ticket and an opportunity for the administration to begin such a change, if nothing else, just by firing an overreaching prosecutor. That would be a symbolic action that would still send a message, albeit a weak one, but it would go a long way for many. In contrast, a nonaction from the administration would be a signal that vigilante justice is the only remaining option, which would be unfortunate on many levels.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;This is a silly article. There are actually steps that happen before the firing of an official, most notably an investigation. But this article reads as: &quot;We got 25,000 signatures, if the President doesn&apos;t ax her then people will resort to armed revolt&quot;&lt;p&gt;(I&apos;ll skip the debate on whether it&apos;s good for a government to be directed by the popularity of an online petition, unless people favor the country renamed to &apos;The United States of Bieber&apos;)&lt;p&gt;The main point is that action in government is &lt;i&gt;slow&lt;/i&gt;. And for good reason. If people want to hold onto the fantasy that when a bunch of people get angry, the government will take drastic action...then fine...but people who really want to see change should be prepared to accept that the original problem (the case against Swartz) may not be satisfactory dealt with, but that attitudes change and reform can eventually happen, as long as the people who care continue to speak up and apply pressure.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>kelnos</author><text>Here&apos;s a likely controversial statement: I am much more worried about the effects of prosecutorial overreach on our society than I am about gun violence.&lt;p&gt;We are rapidly developing a &quot;criminalized culture&quot; to which the easy and popular response to everything is &quot;put them in jail&quot;. Sandy Hook was a horrible tragedy, to be sure, but in my mind, our growing population of prisoners is a much more concerning problem.</text></comment>

<story><title>Petition To Fire Aaron Swartz’ Prosecutor Reaches Goal</title><url>http://falkvinge.net/2013/01/15/petition-to-fire-aaron-swartz-prosecutor-reaches-goal</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>numbsafari</author><text>It&apos;s 25 dead children who were completely innocent of any crime. It&apos;s an incident in a long line of incidents over many decades in which many innocent people were killed.&lt;p&gt;I think you need to calibrate your moral barometer a bit better.</text></item><item><author>fr0sty</author><text>&amp;#62; The main point is that action in government is slow. And for good reason. If people want to hold onto the fantasy that when a bunch of people get angry, the government will take drastic action...then fine...&lt;p&gt;Sandy Hook was one month ago and the President is having a big news conference tomorrow about the administrations response re: gun violence. Is that &quot;slow&quot;? &quot;drastic action&quot;? something else?</text></item><item><author>danso</author><text>&amp;#62; &lt;i&gt;Overall, there is a feeling that Aaron Swartz’ death has to mark the beginning of a change. This petition could be a ticket and an opportunity for the administration to begin such a change, if nothing else, just by firing an overreaching prosecutor. That would be a symbolic action that would still send a message, albeit a weak one, but it would go a long way for many. In contrast, a nonaction from the administration would be a signal that vigilante justice is the only remaining option, which would be unfortunate on many levels.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;This is a silly article. There are actually steps that happen before the firing of an official, most notably an investigation. But this article reads as: &quot;We got 25,000 signatures, if the President doesn&apos;t ax her then people will resort to armed revolt&quot;&lt;p&gt;(I&apos;ll skip the debate on whether it&apos;s good for a government to be directed by the popularity of an online petition, unless people favor the country renamed to &apos;The United States of Bieber&apos;)&lt;p&gt;The main point is that action in government is &lt;i&gt;slow&lt;/i&gt;. And for good reason. If people want to hold onto the fantasy that when a bunch of people get angry, the government will take drastic action...then fine...but people who really want to see change should be prepared to accept that the original problem (the case against Swartz) may not be satisfactory dealt with, but that attitudes change and reform can eventually happen, as long as the people who care continue to speak up and apply pressure.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>fr0sty</author><text>I&apos;m not trying to equivocate.&lt;p&gt;GGP commment made an unqualified statement &quot;action in government is slow&quot; adding that the idea of &quot;drastic action&quot; was a &quot;fantasy&quot;. I countered by noting that in the present day the government is moving very fast on at least one particular issue. We will know tomorrow whether the action is drastic. Full stop.</text></comment>

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<story><title>Studying how the brain relinquishes childhood memories</title><url>http://nautil.us/issue/58/self/this-is-where-your-childhood-memories-went-rp</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>notahacker</author><text>Aside from the changes to the brain hardware, I&amp;#x27;d imagine the way in which we construct memories changes to a much higher level of abstraction in early childhood (e.g. building &amp;quot;photographic&amp;quot; memory from a set of concepts around location, lighting and types and condition of objects rather than simply colours and shapes, building our memory of human interaction from a mental model which assumes the other people have motivations and personality traits not just tones of voice etc). So even if some of the information from earlier years is actually preserved, our older brains may not be able to parse it unless it was important enough to reconstruct with a different mental model.</text></comment>

<story><title>Studying how the brain relinquishes childhood memories</title><url>http://nautil.us/issue/58/self/this-is-where-your-childhood-memories-went-rp</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>ggm</author><text>I try very hard to avoid making myself special in amongst the general case. But, I came here to observe I had verified memories from close to pre-verbal times, something I am told is not common.&lt;p&gt;If these were subsequent implants from conversation or comment from my elders, it was pretty subtle. The memories are far weaker now, but up to my twenties they were strong, lasting visual impressions of three specific locations.&lt;p&gt;(I&amp;#x27;m in my fifties now)</text></comment>

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<story><title>jQuery 3.6.2</title><url>https://blog.jquery.com/2022/12/13/jquery-3-6-2-released/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>omgomgomgomg</author><text>Sure jQuery as a selector engine has more or less been replaced, css has advanced etc.&lt;p&gt;But the jQuery UI widgets are battle hardened and easier to deploy, case in point , date pickers, calendaries and well, slideshows.&lt;p&gt;And you can kind of replicate some of reacts behaviour regarding state management.&lt;p&gt;If all you need to do is keep state on a handful of elements, there is no need to develop in react.&lt;p&gt;Infact, just like the jquery heydays, react is often overused, for the most simply web forms, menus, footers.&lt;p&gt;And, no need for router and other state management tools.&lt;p&gt;Might be a bit unpopular, but when its all said and done, its compiled to js either way, I kinda like jquery or vanilla js for the front end and node&amp;#x2F;express for the back end.&lt;p&gt;The amount of react devs which struggle with css and vanilla js appears to be higher than during the jquery days.</text></comment>

<story><title>jQuery 3.6.2</title><url>https://blog.jquery.com/2022/12/13/jquery-3-6-2-released/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>CM30</author><text>Sorry if this sounds naive, but... do people still use jQuery for new projects? I was genuinely surprised to see it was getting releases anymore, given how much of its functionality can be done with native JavaScript now.</text></comment>

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<story><title>Safe and Secure Drivers in High-Level Languages [video]</title><url>https://media.ccc.de/v/35c3-9670-safe_and_secure_drivers_in_high-level_languages</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>saagarjha</author><text>Personally, I&amp;#x27;d call this writing &amp;quot;Safer and More Secure Drivers in High-Level Languages&amp;quot;, because there are still unsafe operations going on (for DMA, etc.): &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;github.com&amp;#x2F;ixy-languages&amp;#x2F;ixy.swift&amp;#x2F;search?q=Unsafe&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;github.com&amp;#x2F;ixy-languages&amp;#x2F;ixy.swift&amp;#x2F;search?q=Unsafe&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;While it&amp;#x27;s great that you get improved safety (and often nicer and easier to reason about code) by using something other than C, you can still have memory safety issues from cavalier or incorrect usage of unsafe APIs, since they undermine the guarantees the language provides with regards to correctness.&lt;p&gt;Also, unrelated: does anyone actually have the slides (you know, the presentation file with text in it, rather than the mp4 that CCC is offering me) for this presentation? It&amp;#x27;s really annoying to scrub through a video to find stuff on a slow internet connection :(</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>pjmlp</author><text>Quite true, however the unsafety code coverage gets reduced quite significantly.&lt;p&gt;On the last Linux Kernel Summit, according to Google, 68% of Linux kernel security exploits are caused by C memory corruption issues due to lack of bounds checking.</text></comment>

<story><title>Safe and Secure Drivers in High-Level Languages [video]</title><url>https://media.ccc.de/v/35c3-9670-safe_and_secure_drivers_in_high-level_languages</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>saagarjha</author><text>Personally, I&amp;#x27;d call this writing &amp;quot;Safer and More Secure Drivers in High-Level Languages&amp;quot;, because there are still unsafe operations going on (for DMA, etc.): &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;github.com&amp;#x2F;ixy-languages&amp;#x2F;ixy.swift&amp;#x2F;search?q=Unsafe&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;github.com&amp;#x2F;ixy-languages&amp;#x2F;ixy.swift&amp;#x2F;search?q=Unsafe&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;While it&amp;#x27;s great that you get improved safety (and often nicer and easier to reason about code) by using something other than C, you can still have memory safety issues from cavalier or incorrect usage of unsafe APIs, since they undermine the guarantees the language provides with regards to correctness.&lt;p&gt;Also, unrelated: does anyone actually have the slides (you know, the presentation file with text in it, rather than the mp4 that CCC is offering me) for this presentation? It&amp;#x27;s really annoying to scrub through a video to find stuff on a slow internet connection :(</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>emmericp</author><text>I&amp;#x27;ve added them to the git repo: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;github.com&amp;#x2F;ixy-languages&amp;#x2F;ixy-languages&amp;#x2F;blob&amp;#x2F;master&amp;#x2F;slides&amp;#x2F;35C3.pdf&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;github.com&amp;#x2F;ixy-languages&amp;#x2F;ixy-languages&amp;#x2F;blob&amp;#x2F;master&amp;#x2F;s...&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>

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<story><title>The Sugar Conspiracy</title><url>http://www.theguardian.com/society/2016/apr/07/the-sugar-conspiracy-robert-lustig-john-yudkin</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>torgoguys</author><text>&amp;gt;If man made it, don&amp;#x27;t eat it&lt;p&gt;That&amp;#x27;s way too simple. It&amp;#x27;s a kind of naturalistic fallacy as applied to food.&lt;p&gt;If you think your produce area is where you should be getting your calories (not disagreeing), it fails the &amp;quot;if man made it, don&amp;#x27;t eat it&amp;quot; test spectacularly. Basically everything you see there has been shaped by man. A (stunning) example: one species of plant, brassica oleracea, has been selectively (i.e., artificially) bred to produce a wide range of different cultivars including, cauliflower, cabbage, kale, broccoli, kohlrabi, brussel sprouts, and more. NONE of these produce items are &amp;quot;natural.&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;Getting back to the linked article a bit, if you think fructose is bad, you should know it is very natural. Obviously it occurs in fruits and honey has more fructose than refined sugar and about the same as high fructose corn syrup.&lt;p&gt;(As a side note, I&amp;#x27;m of the opinion we &lt;i&gt;should&lt;/i&gt; be engineering foods to make them better for us. We as a species have been doing similar things to our food for thousands of years.)</text></item><item><author>leonroy</author><text>Jack Lalanne (American fitness guru) stated &amp;quot;If man made it, don&amp;#x27;t eat it&amp;quot;. I recall reading that and scratching my head at the sheer number of food products that encompassed. I thought it a rather presumptuous statement.&lt;p&gt;Five years later and after many books and articles on nutrition I now fully agree with him. When I hit the grocery store I skip the middle aisles and head straight for the fish and meat counter or the fresh fruit and veg section.&lt;p&gt;My only (dietary) vices are coffee and the odd glass of wine (both very much man made).&lt;p&gt;I think that the human body has evolved to run on a certain fuel and of course we adapt but it takes time. Grains and milk are relatively recent to our diet (past 10000 years) so you will see some people who can and some who can&amp;#x27;t digest them. Sugar however and all the other myriad man made products on store shelves are even more recent and apart from as occasional treats should really be avoided.&lt;p&gt;As an aside one incredibly beneficial thing people can do for their health is exercise. The lymphatic system which helps rid the body of waste substances is &amp;#x27;pumped&amp;#x27; by respiration and physical activity. If you want to eat that cupcake or enjoy that cold glass of beer be sure to exercise it off. It really is incredible how effective exercise can be at covering a multitude of dietary sins!</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jawilson2</author><text>&amp;gt; it fails the &amp;quot;if man made it, don&amp;#x27;t eat it&amp;quot; test spectacularly. Basically everything you see there has been shaped by man. A (stunning) example: one species of plant, brassica oleracea, has been selectively (i.e., artificially) bred to produce a wide range of different cultivars including, cauliflower, cabbage, kale, broccoli, kohlrabi, brussel sprouts, and more. NONE of these produce items are &amp;quot;natural.&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;You&amp;#x27;re overthinking this. &amp;quot;Is this food packaged and processed with preservatives, a list of 40 ingredients, and has a shelf life of 6 months to 5 years? Then I&amp;#x27;m not buying it. Is it meat or product? It&amp;#x27;s ok.&amp;quot; This is referring pretty specifically to Franken-foods, not GMOs (which I too think are a great idea, and essentially optimizing our agricultural practices over the last 20,000-whatever years).</text></comment>

<story><title>The Sugar Conspiracy</title><url>http://www.theguardian.com/society/2016/apr/07/the-sugar-conspiracy-robert-lustig-john-yudkin</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>torgoguys</author><text>&amp;gt;If man made it, don&amp;#x27;t eat it&lt;p&gt;That&amp;#x27;s way too simple. It&amp;#x27;s a kind of naturalistic fallacy as applied to food.&lt;p&gt;If you think your produce area is where you should be getting your calories (not disagreeing), it fails the &amp;quot;if man made it, don&amp;#x27;t eat it&amp;quot; test spectacularly. Basically everything you see there has been shaped by man. A (stunning) example: one species of plant, brassica oleracea, has been selectively (i.e., artificially) bred to produce a wide range of different cultivars including, cauliflower, cabbage, kale, broccoli, kohlrabi, brussel sprouts, and more. NONE of these produce items are &amp;quot;natural.&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;Getting back to the linked article a bit, if you think fructose is bad, you should know it is very natural. Obviously it occurs in fruits and honey has more fructose than refined sugar and about the same as high fructose corn syrup.&lt;p&gt;(As a side note, I&amp;#x27;m of the opinion we &lt;i&gt;should&lt;/i&gt; be engineering foods to make them better for us. We as a species have been doing similar things to our food for thousands of years.)</text></item><item><author>leonroy</author><text>Jack Lalanne (American fitness guru) stated &amp;quot;If man made it, don&amp;#x27;t eat it&amp;quot;. I recall reading that and scratching my head at the sheer number of food products that encompassed. I thought it a rather presumptuous statement.&lt;p&gt;Five years later and after many books and articles on nutrition I now fully agree with him. When I hit the grocery store I skip the middle aisles and head straight for the fish and meat counter or the fresh fruit and veg section.&lt;p&gt;My only (dietary) vices are coffee and the odd glass of wine (both very much man made).&lt;p&gt;I think that the human body has evolved to run on a certain fuel and of course we adapt but it takes time. Grains and milk are relatively recent to our diet (past 10000 years) so you will see some people who can and some who can&amp;#x27;t digest them. Sugar however and all the other myriad man made products on store shelves are even more recent and apart from as occasional treats should really be avoided.&lt;p&gt;As an aside one incredibly beneficial thing people can do for their health is exercise. The lymphatic system which helps rid the body of waste substances is &amp;#x27;pumped&amp;#x27; by respiration and physical activity. If you want to eat that cupcake or enjoy that cold glass of beer be sure to exercise it off. It really is incredible how effective exercise can be at covering a multitude of dietary sins!</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>slacka</author><text>&amp;gt;If man made it, don&amp;#x27;t eat it&lt;p&gt;I think a better heuristic, is &amp;quot;Just eat what your great-grandma ate&amp;quot;. Or avoid the middle of the supermarket as much as possible.&lt;p&gt;Simply eating more fat and less sugar&amp;#x2F;carbs, I have lost 10+ pounds and feel much better. These nutrition fads have done more harm than good. My mother switched from butter to Crisco when I was a kid, then she banned salt from the house, and bought (high sugare, low fat) snack wells for us. All based on poor&amp;#x2F;pseudo science.&lt;p&gt;The diabetes and obesity are modern problems caused by a diet that our bodies haven&amp;#x27;t evolved to handle.</text></comment>

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<story><title>Do Not Eat, Touch, or Even Inhale the Air Around the Manchineel Tree</title><url>http://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/whatever-you-do-do-not-eat-touch-or-even-inhale-the-air-around-the-manchineel-tree?utm_source=facebook.com&amp;utm_medium=theatlantic</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>antirez</author><text>If you live in central&amp;#x2F;north Europe, beware of Heracleum Mantegazzianum: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Heracleum_mantegazzianum&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Heracleum_mantegazzianum&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>krylon</author><text>When I was young, these grew in our neighborhood. I remember my parents giving me very stern warnings not to touch that plant. I found it strange that such a nasty plant was allowed to grow in a neighborhood with little kids around, but then again there&amp;#x27;s lots of nasty plants in German gardens.&lt;p&gt;After I made the mistake to touch a stinging nettle, I took such warnings more seriously.</text></comment>

<story><title>Do Not Eat, Touch, or Even Inhale the Air Around the Manchineel Tree</title><url>http://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/whatever-you-do-do-not-eat-touch-or-even-inhale-the-air-around-the-manchineel-tree?utm_source=facebook.com&amp;utm_medium=theatlantic</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>antirez</author><text>If you live in central&amp;#x2F;north Europe, beware of Heracleum Mantegazzianum: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Heracleum_mantegazzianum&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Heracleum_mantegazzianum&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>lost_my_pwd</author><text>We have to watch out for that in the US too, as well as wild parsnip.</text></comment>

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<story><title>Turo Requires a Driver&apos;s License Number and Credit Card to Show Full Price</title><text>I know they&amp;#x27;re simply following Airbnb&amp;#x27;s model of showing only the daily price, then tacking on extra fees at checkout, but it&amp;#x27;s hostile to the customer.&lt;p&gt;When the minimum final cost is 50% more than the list price, I suppose deception is the best way to drive signups.&lt;p&gt;Ironically, I may have been more likely to complete my purchase had I seen true numbers from the start. The initial fee had me thinking it was remarkably affordable.</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>systemvoltage</author><text>This is one area America needs to legislate which I am usually against.&lt;p&gt;There is no excuse but sleezy marketing to not show what something costs.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;d go far even to make sure every price sticker is regulated and should include &lt;i&gt;final sales price&lt;/i&gt;. That means, all taxes, all tips, everything. There is only one problem I see – sales taxes are state dependent so it puts a lot of burden on ecommerce&amp;#x2F;online stores to 1) Determine where the customer is from 2) Have a database of sales taxes for all states. But it can be done, I am sure.&lt;p&gt;Tips should be made illegal and employers should fairly compensate their workers.</text></item><item><author>crooked-v</author><text>The same happens with hotels and &amp;quot;resort fees&amp;quot;, especially in places like Las Vegas.</text></item><item><author>standyro</author><text>My trick with their system is to just look at every car, click through to the final receipt screen and then go back to find the cheapest one. It&amp;#x27;s a bit tedious and deceptive to the customer to present variable fee at the last part of the checkout process. Probably the worst modern &amp;quot;dark pattern&amp;quot; that I hope regulators take a look at.</text></item><item><author>megafauna</author><text>Last week I went through the tedium of providing all of the requisite information when trying to book a 2014 Toyota Prius for 1 day @ $50.40 through Turo. On the final step of the reservation flow, Turo revealed an additional $50.40 service fee. Seeing the total price double didn&amp;#x27;t sit well. I promptly exited the reservation flow and deleted my account.&lt;p&gt;I agree with your sentiment - if the app shared the service fee prior to the final step of the booking flow, I may have still reserved the car. Even at a total of $100.80, the price was still less than other nearby options.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>throwawayboise</author><text>&amp;gt; it puts a lot of burden on ecommerce&amp;#x2F;online stores to 1) Determine where the customer is from 2) Have a database of sales taxes for all states. But it can be done, I am sure.&lt;p&gt;Of course it can be done, because &lt;i&gt;they are already doing it&lt;/i&gt; in the final checkout. They just need to reveal the number earlier in the process. If they have to ask for a location to do that, just say so --- e.g. &amp;quot;We need your zip code to show you the final price including tax&amp;quot;</text></comment>

<story><title>Turo Requires a Driver&apos;s License Number and Credit Card to Show Full Price</title><text>I know they&amp;#x27;re simply following Airbnb&amp;#x27;s model of showing only the daily price, then tacking on extra fees at checkout, but it&amp;#x27;s hostile to the customer.&lt;p&gt;When the minimum final cost is 50% more than the list price, I suppose deception is the best way to drive signups.&lt;p&gt;Ironically, I may have been more likely to complete my purchase had I seen true numbers from the start. The initial fee had me thinking it was remarkably affordable.</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>systemvoltage</author><text>This is one area America needs to legislate which I am usually against.&lt;p&gt;There is no excuse but sleezy marketing to not show what something costs.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;d go far even to make sure every price sticker is regulated and should include &lt;i&gt;final sales price&lt;/i&gt;. That means, all taxes, all tips, everything. There is only one problem I see – sales taxes are state dependent so it puts a lot of burden on ecommerce&amp;#x2F;online stores to 1) Determine where the customer is from 2) Have a database of sales taxes for all states. But it can be done, I am sure.&lt;p&gt;Tips should be made illegal and employers should fairly compensate their workers.</text></item><item><author>crooked-v</author><text>The same happens with hotels and &amp;quot;resort fees&amp;quot;, especially in places like Las Vegas.</text></item><item><author>standyro</author><text>My trick with their system is to just look at every car, click through to the final receipt screen and then go back to find the cheapest one. It&amp;#x27;s a bit tedious and deceptive to the customer to present variable fee at the last part of the checkout process. Probably the worst modern &amp;quot;dark pattern&amp;quot; that I hope regulators take a look at.</text></item><item><author>megafauna</author><text>Last week I went through the tedium of providing all of the requisite information when trying to book a 2014 Toyota Prius for 1 day @ $50.40 through Turo. On the final step of the reservation flow, Turo revealed an additional $50.40 service fee. Seeing the total price double didn&amp;#x27;t sit well. I promptly exited the reservation flow and deleted my account.&lt;p&gt;I agree with your sentiment - if the app shared the service fee prior to the final step of the booking flow, I may have still reserved the car. Even at a total of $100.80, the price was still less than other nearby options.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>sandworm101</author><text>&amp;gt;&amp;gt; Tips should be made illegal&lt;p&gt;That&amp;#x27;s about as dystopian as possible. Telling people that they cannot just hand money to other people might be the end of the entire concept of charity.</text></comment>

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<story><title>Why Is the Surface So Bad?</title><url>http://www.slate.com/articles/technol/technology/2012/11/microsoft_surface_why_is_the_new_tablet_so_much_worse_than_the_ipad.single.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>firefoxman1</author><text>When I first got an HP Touchpad, the touchstone stand, and the keyboard I understood what the &quot;post-PC&quot; era really was. It was perfect: physical keyboard for productivity, yet a touchscreen with a tablet interface, and the mouse had finally seen its end. The Asus transformer was the next big step, I think. Again, keyboard and touchscreen, but this time a 19 hour battery. If it allowed dual booting it would be perfect.&lt;p&gt;So when I saw the Surface I thought &quot;yes Microsoft gets it!&quot; Then you use windows 8 RT and realize they&apos;re about as out-of-touch as ever. Behind that nice tablet interface is the same old windows. Ever try using classic windows interface with your bulky fingers? That&apos;s exactly what you have to do with essential apps like Office or anything written &amp;#62; 3 months ago. It&apos;s the exact reason tablets didn&apos;t catch on in the early 2000s: windows wasn&apos;t designed for use on a touchscreen.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>nooneelse</author><text>&amp;#62; The Asus transformer was the next big step, I think. Again, keyboard and touchscreen, but this time a 19 hour battery. If it allowed dual booting it would be perfect.&lt;p&gt;I&apos;m a fan of the Asus transformer too. One benefit from the keyboard having a battery that I didn&apos;t notice till I had been using it this way for a while is that I never charge the tablet directly. When it is low, I attach the keyboard and let that charge the tablet. Then when the keyboard is low I pull that off and charge it. So the tablet itself is never tied to a wall. Psychologically, the tablet feels a hair&apos;s breadth away from being a device I don&apos;t have to charge at all. The battery state is never in the way of me using it.</text></comment>

<story><title>Why Is the Surface So Bad?</title><url>http://www.slate.com/articles/technol/technology/2012/11/microsoft_surface_why_is_the_new_tablet_so_much_worse_than_the_ipad.single.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>firefoxman1</author><text>When I first got an HP Touchpad, the touchstone stand, and the keyboard I understood what the &quot;post-PC&quot; era really was. It was perfect: physical keyboard for productivity, yet a touchscreen with a tablet interface, and the mouse had finally seen its end. The Asus transformer was the next big step, I think. Again, keyboard and touchscreen, but this time a 19 hour battery. If it allowed dual booting it would be perfect.&lt;p&gt;So when I saw the Surface I thought &quot;yes Microsoft gets it!&quot; Then you use windows 8 RT and realize they&apos;re about as out-of-touch as ever. Behind that nice tablet interface is the same old windows. Ever try using classic windows interface with your bulky fingers? That&apos;s exactly what you have to do with essential apps like Office or anything written &amp;#62; 3 months ago. It&apos;s the exact reason tablets didn&apos;t catch on in the early 2000s: windows wasn&apos;t designed for use on a touchscreen.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>stephengillie</author><text>Having used the HP Touchsmart 2500 (2007 laptop/tablet convertible), I feel the same about the &quot;post-PC&quot; era. Moving my hand from keyboard to screen became more natural than moving from keyboard to touchpad, or keyboard to mouse. At the time, I physically administered rackmount servers through a console with a trackball - it was painful in comparison to the touchscreen.&lt;p&gt;&lt;i&gt;Ever try using classic windows interface with your bulky fingers?&lt;/i&gt; This is why the Touchsmart shipped with a weighted pen-sized stylus, even in models with the passive touchscreen.&lt;p&gt;How is Office with the Touchpad?</text></comment>

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<story><title>Pixel Shaders in Windows Terminal</title><url>https://github.com/microsoft/terminal/tree/main/samples/PixelShaders</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>DubiousPusher</author><text>This reminds me. At my college, it was required in our first semester that we make a windows command prompt based game.&lt;p&gt;Not having much love for text adventures, some of us got clever and figured out how to take over the buffer and draw characters. So, we made games with ascii heros, traps and enemies etc.&lt;p&gt;But one group took this to another level. They found the function to reduce the font size. They decreased it down to where it was about the size of a pixel or near enough. Then implemented a full CPU based renderer with perspective correct texture mapping and shaders.</text></comment>

<story><title>Pixel Shaders in Windows Terminal</title><url>https://github.com/microsoft/terminal/tree/main/samples/PixelShaders</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>smusamashah</author><text>Why often there is no screenshot for purely visual things?</text></comment>

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<story><title>Even 50-year-old climate models correctly predicted global warming</title><url>https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2019/12/even-50-year-old-climate-models-correctly-predicted-global-warming</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ekianjo</author><text>Where is the story hère though? So they looked retroactively and found some models in the past that fitted with current observations even though they had no clue that China would become such a powerful force in terms of CO2 emissions?&lt;p&gt;If you run random models and wait long enough you will always be able to find at least one model that predicted the current observations. That does NOT mean the models were right, it means that you are basically ignoring all the other models that made bad predictions. So in order to make a headline out of this you would need to make a extensive review of all the models we had back then and found out HOW MANY were actually not bad.&lt;p&gt;Would not make that much of a headline because you would find most models were bad. Anyone involved with forecasting will know what I mean.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>DennisP</author><text>Whether or not China emitted lots of CO2 doesn&amp;#x27;t matter here. The old studies didn&amp;#x27;t predict how much CO2 the world would emit. They predicted how much the planet would warm, for various amounts of CO2 emissions. It turned out they were correct about that.&lt;p&gt;Among the models this study looked at was Hansen&amp;#x27;s. That&amp;#x27;s the NASA scientist who testified about global warming to Congress in 1988. It&amp;#x27;d be quite a coincidence if there were lots of models with a wide variety of predictions, and the one model that was presented to Congress just happened by chance to be one of the few that got it right.&lt;p&gt;But if you can actually show that there were in fact a bunch of models by scientists of similar stature, which made really different predictions and were left out of this study, then that would be interesting.</text></comment>

<story><title>Even 50-year-old climate models correctly predicted global warming</title><url>https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2019/12/even-50-year-old-climate-models-correctly-predicted-global-warming</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ekianjo</author><text>Where is the story hère though? So they looked retroactively and found some models in the past that fitted with current observations even though they had no clue that China would become such a powerful force in terms of CO2 emissions?&lt;p&gt;If you run random models and wait long enough you will always be able to find at least one model that predicted the current observations. That does NOT mean the models were right, it means that you are basically ignoring all the other models that made bad predictions. So in order to make a headline out of this you would need to make a extensive review of all the models we had back then and found out HOW MANY were actually not bad.&lt;p&gt;Would not make that much of a headline because you would find most models were bad. Anyone involved with forecasting will know what I mean.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>starpilot</author><text>Yeah, this could be survivorship bias: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;motls.blogspot.com&amp;#x2F;2017&amp;#x2F;03&amp;#x2F;selection-of-climate-model-survivors.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;motls.blogspot.com&amp;#x2F;2017&amp;#x2F;03&amp;#x2F;selection-of-climate-mode...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;As someone who&amp;#x27;s written basic fluid dynamics codes, I&amp;#x27;m blown away by the complexity of climate models. The errors I ran into in debugging my relatively straightforward codes were incredibly subtle. Like pressures, velocities still &amp;quot;looking right&amp;quot; but still being wrong, due to numerical viscosity and other artifacts of the inexact solutions to Navier-Stokes. This is for flow in a box in a steady state. For an entire planetary atmosphere at a time scale of decades, I can&amp;#x27;t even imagine how they can track down every error without duct taping &amp;quot;corrections&amp;quot; (overfitting) on everything.</text></comment>

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<story><title>Man discovers that his wife is the best Tetris player (2007)</title><url>https://archive.boston.com/news/globe/magazine/articles/2007/08/19/bizarro_world/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>3np</author><text>One thing that irks me with this era is the conflation of &amp;quot;North-America&amp;quot; with &amp;quot;the World&amp;quot;. Records, tournaments, and championships were only announced, solicited, and held across USA+Canada, in English.&lt;p&gt;The same can be observed in the referenced &amp;quot;King of Kong&amp;quot; documentary, the &amp;quot;Nintendo World Championships&amp;quot; (organized only in NA by Nintendo of America), and the &amp;quot;Classic Tetris World Championship&amp;quot;.&lt;p&gt;They should just call it for what it was: North-American records.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>DizzyDoo</author><text>John Cleese had a joke about the Baseball World Series where he would quip &amp;quot;I notice you didn&amp;#x27;t invite Belgium this year.&amp;quot;</text></comment>

<story><title>Man discovers that his wife is the best Tetris player (2007)</title><url>https://archive.boston.com/news/globe/magazine/articles/2007/08/19/bizarro_world/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>3np</author><text>One thing that irks me with this era is the conflation of &amp;quot;North-America&amp;quot; with &amp;quot;the World&amp;quot;. Records, tournaments, and championships were only announced, solicited, and held across USA+Canada, in English.&lt;p&gt;The same can be observed in the referenced &amp;quot;King of Kong&amp;quot; documentary, the &amp;quot;Nintendo World Championships&amp;quot; (organized only in NA by Nintendo of America), and the &amp;quot;Classic Tetris World Championship&amp;quot;.&lt;p&gt;They should just call it for what it was: North-American records.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mbrameld</author><text>I mean, by that logic we really can&amp;#x27;t call anything a world record until we know the results of everyone who has ever done the thing. That not feasible, so instead we just call the best performance that is known to the public and verifiable the world record.</text></comment>

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<story><title>Building an AI game studio: what we&apos;ve learned so far</title><url>https://braindump.me/blog-posts/building-an-ai-game-studio</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Bjorkbat</author><text>I think a part of the reason why I&amp;#x27;m kind of dismissive of AI when it comes to creative endeavors is that I haven&amp;#x27;t seen it do something that isn&amp;#x27;t already possible using a &amp;quot;not-intelligent&amp;quot; solution.&lt;p&gt;For example, AI website builders. It&amp;#x27;s impressive as a tech demo that you can prompt an AI to make a website for you, but otherwise I don&amp;#x27;t think this is going to be disruptive to the web design industry since it&amp;#x27;s already pretty easy to make a website using a drag-and-drop builder like Squarespace or Webflow. Granted, it can get complex when you add certain special features on these platforms, but same goes for an AI-generated website. AI doesn&amp;#x27;t eliminate the complexity, it just hides it. At best it&amp;#x27;ll get you maybe 80% of where you want to go and you can get to the remaining 20% by hand. At worst, the complexity is so thoroughly hidden that addressing it isn&amp;#x27;t an option. It simply does not allow you to manually edit the outputs, or makes it unreasonably difficult to do so.&lt;p&gt;In that same vein, an AI game maker is pretty impressive as a tech demo, but I feel like it isn&amp;#x27;t a huge improvement over a code-light game maker. You&amp;#x27;re not eliminating the complexity of making a game, just hiding it.&lt;p&gt;Nonetheless, it&amp;#x27;s a pretty interesting tech demo.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>stubish</author><text>&amp;gt; haven&amp;#x27;t seen it do something that isn&amp;#x27;t already possible using a &amp;quot;not-intelligent&amp;quot; solution&lt;p&gt;This is dismissing time and resources. I think things like this game maker project are &lt;i&gt;extremely&lt;/i&gt; impressive, because it enables an individual to do in hours what it would take a team to do in months. Just &amp;#x27;5 different cats&amp;#x27; is impressive, because most game studios would just do one and repeat it, because their time is limited.&lt;p&gt;I don&amp;#x27;t know if this experiment will end up producing &amp;#x27;real&amp;#x27; games, probably not by most people&amp;#x27;s definitions. But I can see it being used as an amazing toy by individuals, such as kids. Generating a custom game in hours, much like they can already do in months or years using other products like RPGMaker.</text></comment>

<story><title>Building an AI game studio: what we&apos;ve learned so far</title><url>https://braindump.me/blog-posts/building-an-ai-game-studio</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Bjorkbat</author><text>I think a part of the reason why I&amp;#x27;m kind of dismissive of AI when it comes to creative endeavors is that I haven&amp;#x27;t seen it do something that isn&amp;#x27;t already possible using a &amp;quot;not-intelligent&amp;quot; solution.&lt;p&gt;For example, AI website builders. It&amp;#x27;s impressive as a tech demo that you can prompt an AI to make a website for you, but otherwise I don&amp;#x27;t think this is going to be disruptive to the web design industry since it&amp;#x27;s already pretty easy to make a website using a drag-and-drop builder like Squarespace or Webflow. Granted, it can get complex when you add certain special features on these platforms, but same goes for an AI-generated website. AI doesn&amp;#x27;t eliminate the complexity, it just hides it. At best it&amp;#x27;ll get you maybe 80% of where you want to go and you can get to the remaining 20% by hand. At worst, the complexity is so thoroughly hidden that addressing it isn&amp;#x27;t an option. It simply does not allow you to manually edit the outputs, or makes it unreasonably difficult to do so.&lt;p&gt;In that same vein, an AI game maker is pretty impressive as a tech demo, but I feel like it isn&amp;#x27;t a huge improvement over a code-light game maker. You&amp;#x27;re not eliminating the complexity of making a game, just hiding it.&lt;p&gt;Nonetheless, it&amp;#x27;s a pretty interesting tech demo.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>foota</author><text>I&amp;#x27;ve found this to be pretty amazing from the demos: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;stableprojectorz.com&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;stableprojectorz.com&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>

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<story><title>Little kids burn so much energy, they’re like a different species, study finds</title><url>https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2021/08/little-kids-burn-so-much-energy-they-re-different-species-study-finds</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tw04</author><text>This seems almost unbelievable to me. Almost everyone I know, with a handful of exceptions I can think of, had a dramatic change in what I can only say was metabolism at 30 declining steeply to 40. I can tell you personally my ability to lose weight when exercising daily has decreased significantly since 30. If it’s not metabolism, then what? Diet and exercise are almost identical.</text></item><item><author>Supersam654</author><text>Personally, I was more surprised by the various groups of people who _don&amp;#x27;t_ have higher metabolic rates:&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; Children’s metabolic rates stay high until age 5, but the rate slowly begins to glide down until it plateaus around age 20. Interestingly, adult rates are stable until age 60, when they begin to decline. After age 90, humans use about 26% less energy daily, Pontzer says.&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; The study also found that pregnant women don’t have higher metabolic rates than other adults; their energy use and calorie consumption scales up with body size&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; The metabolic rate didn’t zoom up in hungry teenagers either</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>hansvm</author><text>Without more details if be inclined to blame &amp;quot;almost identical&amp;quot; as the culprit (not an expert):&lt;p&gt;Making all your meals 5% bigger would cause a weight gain of nearly 10lbs&amp;#x2F;yr, and the kind of switch in diet that can happen naturally with age (especially including eating out more with friends) can make it hard to spot incremental changes.&lt;p&gt;Moreover, a lot of exercise doesn&amp;#x27;t actually do much for weight loss (it&amp;#x27;s still immensely beneficial for your health; please don&amp;#x27;t stop). To counteract the aforementioned 10lbs&amp;#x2F;yr you&amp;#x27;d have to walk an extra ~20 minutes per day. It isn&amp;#x27;t all that much per se, but if your exercise were 20 minutes of something high intensity and an hour of something low intensity every single day (a lot more than most people get) it&amp;#x27;d still be a noticeable demand on your time -- enough that I don&amp;#x27;t think you&amp;#x27;d call the extra exercise level &amp;quot;nearly identical.&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s also possible less visible culprits exist if you&amp;#x27;re used to average weight gains&amp;#x2F;losses of under a pound per month as a function of your diet&amp;#x2F;activity. E.g., iirc fidgiting and tapping your feet consumes nearly a pound per month in calories, and that doesn&amp;#x27;t seem like the kind of thing you&amp;#x27;d recognize stopping&amp;#x2F;starting over a timespan of decades.</text></comment>

<story><title>Little kids burn so much energy, they’re like a different species, study finds</title><url>https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2021/08/little-kids-burn-so-much-energy-they-re-different-species-study-finds</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tw04</author><text>This seems almost unbelievable to me. Almost everyone I know, with a handful of exceptions I can think of, had a dramatic change in what I can only say was metabolism at 30 declining steeply to 40. I can tell you personally my ability to lose weight when exercising daily has decreased significantly since 30. If it’s not metabolism, then what? Diet and exercise are almost identical.</text></item><item><author>Supersam654</author><text>Personally, I was more surprised by the various groups of people who _don&amp;#x27;t_ have higher metabolic rates:&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; Children’s metabolic rates stay high until age 5, but the rate slowly begins to glide down until it plateaus around age 20. Interestingly, adult rates are stable until age 60, when they begin to decline. After age 90, humans use about 26% less energy daily, Pontzer says.&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; The study also found that pregnant women don’t have higher metabolic rates than other adults; their energy use and calorie consumption scales up with body size&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; The metabolic rate didn’t zoom up in hungry teenagers either</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>epage</author><text>I can&amp;#x27;t say for the cases you named but its easy to overlook small lifestyle changes, like how much someone walked in college vs after. That was one shift for me.</text></comment>

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<story><title>Silicon Chasm: The class divide on America’s cutting edge</title><url>http://www.weeklystandard.com/articles/silicon-chasm_768037.html?page=1</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>blisterpeanuts</author><text>Interesting article. I wonder how much of the income disparity would be relieved if there was more room to build affordable housing, as in the &amp;quot;limitless&amp;quot; cities like Phoenix and Las Vegas where you can buy a nice 3 bedroom 2 bath for $150K.&lt;p&gt;In Phoenix, there are also rich people and poor people, but not the stark contrast of Silicon Valley. Fewer billionaires, I think and also the neighborhoods are so vast and more or less homogeneous in tract size that you don&amp;#x27;t really notice wealth disparity. The average family pretty much lives in a house with a yard and 2-car garage, regardless of income. You can get in your car and drive to tony gated communities in Scottsdale and peek over the walls, but who would? You have your job, your two cars, your Harley, and your flatscreen, and life is good.&lt;p&gt;Maybe California can find a way to build out onto the ocean as was done in Singapore, and relieve the housing pressure a little. God, I&amp;#x27;d love to be making the kinds of software engineer salaries that they offer out there, but the housing -- yikes!</text></comment>

<story><title>Silicon Chasm: The class divide on America’s cutting edge</title><url>http://www.weeklystandard.com/articles/silicon-chasm_768037.html?page=1</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>auggierose</author><text>&amp;gt; Yes! Let them eat beans!&lt;p&gt;Preferably in their apartments.&lt;p&gt;No, seriously now. I&amp;#x27;ve got a friend who 5 years ago decided that he needs &amp;quot;to straighten his life out&amp;quot;, and now he has a huge house in SV and is lead engineer at Apple. That&amp;#x27;s really fine, and obviously not everyone can have such a life. And people will really have to look inside themselves, and ask themselves what it REALLY is they want. If they want status and big houses, then they better be extraordinary smart &amp;amp; disciplined and&amp;#x2F;or rich. Me, I just want an office where I can do my thing, not being responsible to anyone else but myself.&lt;p&gt;A solution to this dystopian future would be the basic income as proposed in Switzerland. This is the only way in my opinion to make sure that a master&amp;#x2F;slave relationship will not exist, and people are really paid what the job is worth, unpressured by the need to survive.</text></comment>

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<story><title>A dwarf planet coming within 11 AU of the sun over the next 10 years</title><url>https://groups.io/g/mpml/topic/83645454#36493</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jessriedel</author><text>Yes, this is an aspect of orbital mechanics that people find unintuitive before they study it. You can&amp;#x27;t be captured by a planet&amp;#x27;s gravity alone. If you come in from infinity (i.e., not already captured) you will escape to infinity (remain not captured). The basic idea can be seen from the fact that gravitational dynamics are time-reversible, so if gravity could capture you like this you could also start in orbit around a planet and spontaneously be ejected.&lt;p&gt;Now, something like this can work if you use an &lt;i&gt;irreversible&lt;/i&gt; interaction like aerobreaking, but this dwarf planet has negligible atmosphere. You could also use the dwarf planet for a gravitational assist (basically bouncing off it like a billiard ball), but I think gravitational assists from the other planets are almost always more convenient and effective.</text></item><item><author>tonmoy</author><text>Is that really true? If we manage to get a spacecraft get captured by the dwarf planet&amp;#x27;s gravity and orbit it, would that not be a lot less delta-V compared to if we made the spacecraft achieve the dwarf planet&amp;#x27;s orbit around the sun just by itself?</text></item><item><author>jessriedel</author><text>If you launch your telescope on a spacecraft and get it to match speed with the dwarf planet (which is necessary for a soft landing), there&amp;#x27;s not much point in actually attaching it to the dwarf planet. That just blocks the view of half the sky.&lt;p&gt;Also, there will be nothing to see out there other than the dwarf planet itself.</text></item><item><author>Meerax</author><text>Is this something we could plan and manage to launch an orbiter&amp;#x2F;lander to in time? Has anyone thought about the possibility of slapping something like a telescope on that and letting it beam back data and images from veryyyyy far out eventually?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>azernik</author><text>It can &lt;i&gt;reduce&lt;/i&gt; the delta-V requirements, though - by the same principles as a gravity assist, a capture burn (especially into a loosely-bound planet-centric orbit) often takes less work than burning into the equivalent heliocentric orbit on your own.</text></comment>

<story><title>A dwarf planet coming within 11 AU of the sun over the next 10 years</title><url>https://groups.io/g/mpml/topic/83645454#36493</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jessriedel</author><text>Yes, this is an aspect of orbital mechanics that people find unintuitive before they study it. You can&amp;#x27;t be captured by a planet&amp;#x27;s gravity alone. If you come in from infinity (i.e., not already captured) you will escape to infinity (remain not captured). The basic idea can be seen from the fact that gravitational dynamics are time-reversible, so if gravity could capture you like this you could also start in orbit around a planet and spontaneously be ejected.&lt;p&gt;Now, something like this can work if you use an &lt;i&gt;irreversible&lt;/i&gt; interaction like aerobreaking, but this dwarf planet has negligible atmosphere. You could also use the dwarf planet for a gravitational assist (basically bouncing off it like a billiard ball), but I think gravitational assists from the other planets are almost always more convenient and effective.</text></item><item><author>tonmoy</author><text>Is that really true? If we manage to get a spacecraft get captured by the dwarf planet&amp;#x27;s gravity and orbit it, would that not be a lot less delta-V compared to if we made the spacecraft achieve the dwarf planet&amp;#x27;s orbit around the sun just by itself?</text></item><item><author>jessriedel</author><text>If you launch your telescope on a spacecraft and get it to match speed with the dwarf planet (which is necessary for a soft landing), there&amp;#x27;s not much point in actually attaching it to the dwarf planet. That just blocks the view of half the sky.&lt;p&gt;Also, there will be nothing to see out there other than the dwarf planet itself.</text></item><item><author>Meerax</author><text>Is this something we could plan and manage to launch an orbiter&amp;#x2F;lander to in time? Has anyone thought about the possibility of slapping something like a telescope on that and letting it beam back data and images from veryyyyy far out eventually?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>shkkmo</author><text>&amp;gt; You can&amp;#x27;t be captured by a planet&amp;#x27;s gravity alone&lt;p&gt;Technically, this isn&amp;#x27;t completely true. There are gravity assist techniques that will allow you to dump speed by essentially adding your momentum to the object you are trying to orbit. The is basically an anti-slingshot manuever.&lt;p&gt;In practice, I believe the range of scenarios when this is possible with a dwarf planet is so small as to be practically useless.</text></comment>

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<story><title>The Decline of the MacBook Pro</title><url>https://www.dannyguo.com/blog/the-decline-of-the-macbook-pro/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>woah</author><text>Unfortunately Mac is still miles ahead of Linux on usability. I recently got an XPS 13 and put Ubuntu on it, and immediately ran into many small issues such as:&lt;p&gt;- Touchpad had a very low resolution. This had to be fixed by using a different display server.&lt;p&gt;- Touchpad had nonexistent palm rejection. I fixed this by turning off tap to click which doesn’t actually fix the problem but stops it from causing an issue when typing.&lt;p&gt;- Touchpad generally had a very old fashioned layout with large zones for the right click button and scroll bar.&lt;p&gt;- All of these touchpad fixes had to be done with some strangely formatted text files.&lt;p&gt;- Key remapping also required diving into a whole set of text files and searching around for incomplete documentation wikis on it.&lt;p&gt;- Gestures do not work without switching back to the display server with the very low resolution touchpad.&lt;p&gt;- The windowing and multi desktop system is generally not as well thought out as Mac.&lt;p&gt;- Bluetooth just doesn’t work well. I need to “forget” and then reconnect to a device to join it again. Feels very buggy.&lt;p&gt;There are also a lot of other things I’m forgetting right now. Currently Linux does not offer a top tier desktop experience, and it’s been 90% of the way there for like 15 years, so I doubt it’s ever going to get better until the dynamics of the ecosystem change. My guess is that Linux developers don’t want to do boring stuff like fixing obscure bugs for certain peripherals, and they don’t want to listen to designers to create a polished unified experience.&lt;p&gt;I briefly used windows while installing Ubuntu and it was generally much smoother. If windows can get the Linux subsystem stuff working 100% my guess is that it will start to gain momentum as a developer OS.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>bmelton</author><text>I agree, but the problem is that if the MBP can&amp;#x27;t be considered &amp;#x27;reliable&amp;#x27;, then none of that really matters.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;ve been a happy Mac user for years now, and historically, on the very rare occasion that I had a problem, it was either fixed near immediately, or solved to &amp;#x27;better-than-satisfaction&amp;#x27; levels by the geniuses at the store.&lt;p&gt;My first Touchbar-equipped MBP has been the most problematic computer I&amp;#x27;ve ever owned. The keyboard, despite that I &lt;i&gt;love&lt;/i&gt; the short throw and initial feel of it, just stops working sometimes, or sticks, or becomes weirdly responsive. Five times in six months, I&amp;#x27;ve had an update fail to load, with the system complaining that the OS couldn&amp;#x27;t be detected. Easy to solve for techies, nearly impossible for the average user. Having to carry three dongles is just an inconvenience, but it&amp;#x27;s very much inconvenient. The touchbar? I don&amp;#x27;t even want to get into it. The physical power button has failed -- the whole thing is flaky as hell, and I&amp;#x27;m forced to choose between a touchbar system that works when it wants, or a tactile ESC key that is a full 1Ghz slower and arbitrarily feature restricted. So on and so forth.&lt;p&gt;Beyond that, for each of my many complaints, Genius bar appointments are being scheduled weeks out, and have been providing fixes that recur as quickly as the same day I receive the unit back.&lt;p&gt;They have problems. And while you&amp;#x27;re right that the next-best product is still way below the quality of even the worst MBP, that hasn&amp;#x27;t stopped me daydreaming of throwing this thing out the window and replacing it with a Thinkpad. As it stands, I&amp;#x27;ve retired my old Mac Pro and replaced it with Ubuntu 18 on a desktop. With a standard PC and mouse, the UI polish is still very noticeable, but the usability quirks aren&amp;#x27;t as apparent as trying to run Ubuntu on Mac hardware.</text></comment>

<story><title>The Decline of the MacBook Pro</title><url>https://www.dannyguo.com/blog/the-decline-of-the-macbook-pro/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>woah</author><text>Unfortunately Mac is still miles ahead of Linux on usability. I recently got an XPS 13 and put Ubuntu on it, and immediately ran into many small issues such as:&lt;p&gt;- Touchpad had a very low resolution. This had to be fixed by using a different display server.&lt;p&gt;- Touchpad had nonexistent palm rejection. I fixed this by turning off tap to click which doesn’t actually fix the problem but stops it from causing an issue when typing.&lt;p&gt;- Touchpad generally had a very old fashioned layout with large zones for the right click button and scroll bar.&lt;p&gt;- All of these touchpad fixes had to be done with some strangely formatted text files.&lt;p&gt;- Key remapping also required diving into a whole set of text files and searching around for incomplete documentation wikis on it.&lt;p&gt;- Gestures do not work without switching back to the display server with the very low resolution touchpad.&lt;p&gt;- The windowing and multi desktop system is generally not as well thought out as Mac.&lt;p&gt;- Bluetooth just doesn’t work well. I need to “forget” and then reconnect to a device to join it again. Feels very buggy.&lt;p&gt;There are also a lot of other things I’m forgetting right now. Currently Linux does not offer a top tier desktop experience, and it’s been 90% of the way there for like 15 years, so I doubt it’s ever going to get better until the dynamics of the ecosystem change. My guess is that Linux developers don’t want to do boring stuff like fixing obscure bugs for certain peripherals, and they don’t want to listen to designers to create a polished unified experience.&lt;p&gt;I briefly used windows while installing Ubuntu and it was generally much smoother. If windows can get the Linux subsystem stuff working 100% my guess is that it will start to gain momentum as a developer OS.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Steltek</author><text>Fwiw, I recently was forced to use a MBP at work after being full-on Linux for ~20 years. I find OSX to be irritating on a number of levels but coming from the opposite direction.&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; My guess is that Linux developers don’t want to do boring stuff like fixing obscure bugs for certain peripherals, and they don’t want to listen to designers to create a polished unified experience.&lt;p&gt;I think OSX offering a Unix-like experience drew away a lot of open source developers to donate their free time and expertise towards a commercial company like Apple rather than the community. If this had not happened, it&amp;#x27;s possible the Linux desktop experience may have kept up with the times better.&lt;p&gt;Decade old coreutils is closer to traditional Unix than Ubuntu. Heck, OSX started with tcsh as the default shell. OSX without the magnanimous gift of Homebrew seems pretty garbage.</text></comment>

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<story><title>Let&apos;s build a Chrome extension that steals as much data as possible</title><url>https://mattfrisbie.substack.com/p/spy-chrome-extension</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>metadat</author><text>&amp;gt; Chrome scrolls the permission warning message container, so more than half of the warning messages don’t even show up. I’d bet most users wouldn’t think twice about installing an extension that appears to ask for just 5 permissions.&lt;p&gt;An egregious and nearly unbelievable oversight on Google&amp;#x27;s part. :-\&lt;p&gt;As a developer, it&amp;#x27;s unimaginable to me to not test the extreme high and low numbers of inputs cases to ensure things look and operate as expected. Especially for a security sensitive UI element.&lt;p&gt;The chain of humans who&amp;#x27;ve been responsible for developing and testing Chrome Extension functionality and security has been asleep at the wheel this whole time, for something like 15 years.&lt;p&gt;There are so many risk-reduction controls in place; tons of red tape and umpteen security and privacy reviews required to ship even minor features or updates, yet here we are.&lt;p&gt;How many hands have been in the pot and not noticed&amp;#x2F;raised&amp;#x2F;resolved what amounts to a pretty obvious security vulnerability? And if this kind of issue can fly undetected for so long, what can organizations with drastically less resources than $GOOG do to ensure adequate velocity while not leaving the proverbial barn doors open?&lt;p&gt;The author deserves the highest tier of bug bounty reward for bringing this to light. What&amp;#x27;s that? It wasn&amp;#x27;t submitted through the proper channels to be eligible? Right.&lt;p&gt;&amp;lt;insert relevant Dildbort cartoon&amp;gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>aboodman</author><text>&amp;gt; The chain of humans who&amp;#x27;ve been responsible for developing and testing Chrome Extension functionality and security has been asleep at the wheel this whole time, for something like 15 years.&lt;p&gt;As the first in this chain of humans, I can tell you that (a) we obviously considered this in the first version of extensions and did not allow permissions &amp;quot;below&amp;quot; the fold, (b) Chrome&amp;#x27;s extension model dramatically improved on the previous state of the art which was Firefox&amp;#x27;s &amp;quot;every extension can do everything, extensions can&amp;#x27;t be uninstalled completely, and there&amp;#x27;s no review&amp;quot; [1], and (c) the install dialog is just one part in a bigger system which includes the review process.&lt;p&gt;I encourage the author to try and get this onto the store and get meaningful usage, then we can complain about how well the entire system works end to end. Examining just the install dialog alone is missing the point. I&amp;#x27;m not even certain that an extension that requests more than 5 permissions would be approved in the first place.&lt;p&gt;I also encourage readers to remember that generally speaking, you all _want_ extensions. When Chrome didn&amp;#x27;t have them, they were the &lt;i&gt;top&lt;/i&gt; feature request in the bug tracker. Real security is hard. If you don&amp;#x27;t solve user needs, users solve them themselves with solutions that are even worse (ie native code). Managing the browser extension system is a thankless painful job of delicately balancing incentives. Extensions need to work well enough that developers don&amp;#x27;t reach for more powerful and dangerous tools, but have enough controls that the majority of malware can be controlled. It sucks. Trust me you really don&amp;#x27;t want this job. Please spare a bit of empathy for the &amp;quot;chain of humans&amp;quot; that have had it.&lt;p&gt;[1] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;static.googleusercontent.com&amp;#x2F;media&amp;#x2F;research.google.com&amp;#x2F;en&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;pubs&amp;#x2F;archive&amp;#x2F;38394.pdf&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;static.googleusercontent.com&amp;#x2F;media&amp;#x2F;research.google.c...&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>

<story><title>Let&apos;s build a Chrome extension that steals as much data as possible</title><url>https://mattfrisbie.substack.com/p/spy-chrome-extension</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>metadat</author><text>&amp;gt; Chrome scrolls the permission warning message container, so more than half of the warning messages don’t even show up. I’d bet most users wouldn’t think twice about installing an extension that appears to ask for just 5 permissions.&lt;p&gt;An egregious and nearly unbelievable oversight on Google&amp;#x27;s part. :-\&lt;p&gt;As a developer, it&amp;#x27;s unimaginable to me to not test the extreme high and low numbers of inputs cases to ensure things look and operate as expected. Especially for a security sensitive UI element.&lt;p&gt;The chain of humans who&amp;#x27;ve been responsible for developing and testing Chrome Extension functionality and security has been asleep at the wheel this whole time, for something like 15 years.&lt;p&gt;There are so many risk-reduction controls in place; tons of red tape and umpteen security and privacy reviews required to ship even minor features or updates, yet here we are.&lt;p&gt;How many hands have been in the pot and not noticed&amp;#x2F;raised&amp;#x2F;resolved what amounts to a pretty obvious security vulnerability? And if this kind of issue can fly undetected for so long, what can organizations with drastically less resources than $GOOG do to ensure adequate velocity while not leaving the proverbial barn doors open?&lt;p&gt;The author deserves the highest tier of bug bounty reward for bringing this to light. What&amp;#x27;s that? It wasn&amp;#x27;t submitted through the proper channels to be eligible? Right.&lt;p&gt;&amp;lt;insert relevant Dildbort cartoon&amp;gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>crazygringo</author><text>&amp;gt; &lt;i&gt;An egregious and nearly unbelievable oversight on Google&amp;#x27;s part. :-\ &lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;I agree it&amp;#x27;s egregious, but it&amp;#x27;s quite easy to believe.&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s surely just using a standard modal and passing a string. The thing is, this is on a Mac that has scroll bars that are invisible until you scroll. It&amp;#x27;s easy to imagine testing was done other OS&amp;#x27;s where the scroll bars are obvious and the bottom line might be only partially hidden which makes it even clearer. And&amp;#x2F;or that testers never caught it on a Mac because they themselves never realized there were more.&lt;p&gt;I would &lt;i&gt;hope&lt;/i&gt; somebody sees this now and prioritzes a Chromium bug for it. Because on a Mac at least, this is pretty serious.&lt;p&gt;(And I&amp;#x27;m well aware this is a good example of a negative side effect of Apple&amp;#x27;s choice to make scroll bars visible by default only while scrolling.)</text></comment>

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<story><title>An Intuitive Guide to Linear Algebra (2012)</title><url>https://betterexplained.com/articles/linear-algebra-guide/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>xscott</author><text>I think this is spot on. Depending on what you&amp;#x27;re doing, a matrix can be:&lt;p&gt;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt; - A linear transformation - A basis set of column vectors - A set of equations (rows) to be solved - (your example: parity equations for coding theory) - The covariance of elements in a vector space - The Hessian of a function for numerical optimization - The adjacency representation of a graph - Just a 2D image (compression algorithms) ... (I&amp;#x27;m sure there are plenty of others) &lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt; For some of these, the matrix is really just a high dimensional number. You (rarely?) never think of covariance in a Kalman filter as a linear transform, but you still need to take its Eigen vectors if you want to draw ellipses.</text></item><item><author>nightcracker</author><text>&amp;gt; Linear algebra is really about linear transformations of vector spaces, which is not captured in this blog post.&lt;p&gt;I... disagree. Some of linear algebra is about that. And it&amp;#x27;s probably a good way to view it that way when learning.&lt;p&gt;But some of my current work (coding theory) involves linear algebra over finite fields. We use results from linear algebra, and interpret our problem using matrices, but really at no point are we viewing what we&amp;#x27;re doing as transforming a vector space, we&amp;#x27;re just solving equations with unknowns.</text></item><item><author>vecter</author><text>This is ok but nothing is as intuitive as 3B1B&amp;#x27;s series on YouTube that has been posted hundreds of times on HN [0].&lt;p&gt;Linear algebra is really about linear transformations of vector spaces, which is not captured in this blog post.&lt;p&gt;[0] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.youtube.com&amp;#x2F;watch?v=fNk_zzaMoSs&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.youtube.com&amp;#x2F;watch?v=fNk_zzaMoSs&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>obastani</author><text>The first three can reasonably be thought of as defining linear transformations. For linear systems of equations A x = b, x is an unknown vector in the input space that is mapped by A to b.&lt;p&gt;Both covariance matrices and Hessians are more naturally thought of as tensors, not matrices (and therefore not linear transformations). That is, they take in two vectors as input and produce a single real number as output.&lt;p&gt;As for graph adjacency matrix, this can actually be thought of as a linear transformation on the vector space where the basis vectors correspond to nodes in the graph. Linear combinations of these basis vectors correspond to probability distributions over the graph (if properly normalized).&lt;p&gt;2D images... Yes, these cannot really be interpreted as linear transformations. But I&amp;#x27;d say these aren&amp;#x27;t really matrices in the mathematical sense.</text></comment>

<story><title>An Intuitive Guide to Linear Algebra (2012)</title><url>https://betterexplained.com/articles/linear-algebra-guide/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>xscott</author><text>I think this is spot on. Depending on what you&amp;#x27;re doing, a matrix can be:&lt;p&gt;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt; - A linear transformation - A basis set of column vectors - A set of equations (rows) to be solved - (your example: parity equations for coding theory) - The covariance of elements in a vector space - The Hessian of a function for numerical optimization - The adjacency representation of a graph - Just a 2D image (compression algorithms) ... (I&amp;#x27;m sure there are plenty of others) &lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt; For some of these, the matrix is really just a high dimensional number. You (rarely?) never think of covariance in a Kalman filter as a linear transform, but you still need to take its Eigen vectors if you want to draw ellipses.</text></item><item><author>nightcracker</author><text>&amp;gt; Linear algebra is really about linear transformations of vector spaces, which is not captured in this blog post.&lt;p&gt;I... disagree. Some of linear algebra is about that. And it&amp;#x27;s probably a good way to view it that way when learning.&lt;p&gt;But some of my current work (coding theory) involves linear algebra over finite fields. We use results from linear algebra, and interpret our problem using matrices, but really at no point are we viewing what we&amp;#x27;re doing as transforming a vector space, we&amp;#x27;re just solving equations with unknowns.</text></item><item><author>vecter</author><text>This is ok but nothing is as intuitive as 3B1B&amp;#x27;s series on YouTube that has been posted hundreds of times on HN [0].&lt;p&gt;Linear algebra is really about linear transformations of vector spaces, which is not captured in this blog post.&lt;p&gt;[0] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.youtube.com&amp;#x2F;watch?v=fNk_zzaMoSs&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.youtube.com&amp;#x2F;watch?v=fNk_zzaMoSs&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>smallnamespace</author><text>A covariance matrix naturally transforms from the measured space to a space where things are approximately unit Gaussian distributed. This is identical to the Z transform in 1D case.&lt;p&gt;This can be useful in, say, exotic options trading - a natural unit of measurement is how many ‘vols’ an underlier has moved, e.g. a 10-vol move is very large.</text></comment>

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<story><title>Pyston v2: Faster Python</title><url>https://blog.pyston.org/2020/10/28/pyston-v2-20-faster-python/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>pwinnski</author><text>I feel like anybody really searching for speed is using something other than Python. I don&amp;#x27;t use Python for speed, but for ease-of-use.&lt;p&gt;It took me some clicks to see it&amp;#x27;s supposed to be a drop-in replacement, so that&amp;#x27;s good.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>chrisseaton</author><text>&amp;gt; I don&amp;#x27;t use Python for speed, but for ease-of-use.&lt;p&gt;Right - but if you can get that with better performance that&amp;#x27;s good isn&amp;#x27;t it?&lt;p&gt;I don&amp;#x27;t get why people object to performance work on languages not intended for performance.</text></comment>

<story><title>Pyston v2: Faster Python</title><url>https://blog.pyston.org/2020/10/28/pyston-v2-20-faster-python/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>pwinnski</author><text>I feel like anybody really searching for speed is using something other than Python. I don&amp;#x27;t use Python for speed, but for ease-of-use.&lt;p&gt;It took me some clicks to see it&amp;#x27;s supposed to be a drop-in replacement, so that&amp;#x27;s good.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>irrational</author><text>Maybe. One of my projects at work is supporting a legacy ColdFusion website that is nearly 20 years old (well, it was started 20 years ago, but has seen updates since). We&amp;#x27;d love to move it to something faster, but it is huge and it would literally take years to rewrite it. Other things take priority so it will probably never be rewritten. I imagine there are Python projects in a similar boat.</text></comment>

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<story><title>Redfin shares surge more than 30% in $138.5M real estate tech IPO</title><url>http://www.cnbc.com/2017/07/28/redfin-ipo-rdfn-stock-opening-trade.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jasondc</author><text>Looks like they&amp;#x27;re being valued like a tech firm, and not a traditional brokerage.&lt;p&gt;What makes Redfin a tech company? Why couldn&amp;#x27;t prudential (or another brokerage) build the same thing?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mlinsenbardt</author><text>As a past customer, I would say they&amp;#x27;re somewhere in between; perhaps leaning towards software. The process is highly automated, with 90% of the transaction handled via the apps&amp;#x2F;web and most hand holding in the beginning and the end of the transaction. While you are assigned an &amp;quot;agent&amp;quot;, you will also work with other random agents as you make requests and your requests are sent through some kind of queue workflow. Further, their staff is paid a salary, not commission as the traditional agent&amp;#x2F;broker. As a result, Redfin splits the traditional buyers commission with you and you may use those funds towards your closings, etc. I am a happy customer and would use them again.</text></comment>

<story><title>Redfin shares surge more than 30% in $138.5M real estate tech IPO</title><url>http://www.cnbc.com/2017/07/28/redfin-ipo-rdfn-stock-opening-trade.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jasondc</author><text>Looks like they&amp;#x27;re being valued like a tech firm, and not a traditional brokerage.&lt;p&gt;What makes Redfin a tech company? Why couldn&amp;#x27;t prudential (or another brokerage) build the same thing?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>zippergz</author><text>The reason I use Redfin is because of their technology. Their site, apps, and (probably most importantly) alerts are massively better than what I&amp;#x27;ve seen from any other brokerage. Sure, someone else could build the same thing, but thus far they haven&amp;#x27;t even come close. There must be a reason. My guess is that it&amp;#x27;s because it&amp;#x27;s actually &lt;i&gt;hard&lt;/i&gt;.</text></comment>

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<story><title>Vancouver Tax on Empty Homes to Target Near-Zero Rental Supply</title><url>http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-09-14/vancouver-tax-on-empty-homes-to-target-near-zero-rental-supply</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>djfergus</author><text>There is a lot of speculation that Chinese buyers are driving up the Canadian market. I have no insight to whether this is true but leaving homes vacant does correlate with my observations - Asian and especially Chinese property buyers value a home that has never been lived in significantly higher than a &amp;#x27;used&amp;#x27; home. This is regardless of age. From my understanding its a combination of feng shui&amp;#x2F;superstition (bad spirits!) and lack of taste&amp;#x2F;trust (interior decor preferences, dodgy renovations).&lt;p&gt;I saw this a lot in the Malaysian market during the previous frothy years until 2014, many many vacant units, zero ability to negotiate rent - owners were going to get their asking price (rent or sale) or sit on an empty house&amp;#x2F;apartment. They were making ~10% a year so who can blame them. Then the Malaysian government slapped a retroactive (!) punitive capital gains tax on foreigners. In addition Selangor state (think most of the Kuala Lumpur suburban area) banned foreigners from buying landed, non-strata property.&lt;p&gt;Instead of lowering prices, this had the effect of driving the transactions to almost zero (very few forced sellers), very little property over RM1m (the minimum limit for foreigner purchase) sells these days. Lots of RE agents are losing their jobs&amp;#x2F;driving uber to make ends meet. The foreign (predominantly Chinese) owners have deep pockets and holding power. The coming years will be interesting if it continues though.&lt;p&gt;I look forward to reading the economic thesis papers in the future on whether this Canadian measure works and what the unintended 2nd&amp;#x2F;3rd order effects are. Its fun when govt&amp;#x27;s experiment like this, good grist for the mill for economic&amp;#x2F;psychological research.</text></comment>

<story><title>Vancouver Tax on Empty Homes to Target Near-Zero Rental Supply</title><url>http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-09-14/vancouver-tax-on-empty-homes-to-target-near-zero-rental-supply</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>jacquesm</author><text>Until 2010, in NL in areas with housing shortages if a house was not occupied for 12 months it was legal to squat. This was a pretty good deterrent against &amp;#x27;empty homes&amp;#x27;.</text></comment>

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<story><title>Unity Software with a &apos;company reset&apos; walks away from film VFX and the Wētā Deal</title><url>https://www.fxguide.com/quicktakes/unity-software-with-a-company-reset-walks-away-from-film-vfx-and-the-weta-deal/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>AndrewKemendo</author><text>What a joke&lt;p&gt;I was there when the acquisition happened and it was both “yay” and “what?”&lt;p&gt;There was so little communication with the overall staff - even at the M9 level - and the management seemed to be doing their own thing.&lt;p&gt;My prediction: Unity is going to be BedBath&amp;amp;Beyonded</text></comment>

<story><title>Unity Software with a &apos;company reset&apos; walks away from film VFX and the Wētā Deal</title><url>https://www.fxguide.com/quicktakes/unity-software-with-a-company-reset-walks-away-from-film-vfx-and-the-weta-deal/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>dantondwa</author><text>Unity bought other things that then they just proceeded to close a bit after. Perhaps it was just a strategy to inflate their shares. See for example ArtEngine, which I loved and they just killed after acquiring it.&lt;p&gt;Now I’m so afraid for Parsec.</text></comment>

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<story><title>Apple loses patent claim against Samsung in Tokyo court</title><url>http://ibnlive.in.com/news/apple-loses-to-samsung-in-japan-patent-case/287057-11.html</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>veidr</author><text>It should be noted that in Japan, such cases aren&apos;t tried by lay juries. (Actually even for criminal cases, they are only just starting citizen jury trials.)&lt;p&gt;A judge, or panel of judges, decides such cases, and I believe that the ones who try patent cases are, generally speaking, reasonably competent (and thus much less likely to make the incontrovertible errors seen in the recent US Apple-Samsung case).</text></comment>

<story><title>Apple loses patent claim against Samsung in Tokyo court</title><url>http://ibnlive.in.com/news/apple-loses-to-samsung-in-japan-patent-case/287057-11.html</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>oemera</author><text>It&apos;s a shame that a &apos;article&apos; with so little information makes on the frontpage of HN. These days the headline needs just to name Apple and it is guaranteed to show up on the frontpage.&lt;p&gt;I wonder if someone could write a plugin to just ban all Apple news from HN.&lt;p&gt;Edit: typo.</text></comment>

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<story><title>An unexpected journey into Microsoft Defender&apos;s signature World</title><url>https://retooling.io/blog/an-unexpected-journey-into-microsoft-defenders-signature-world</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>Angostura</author><text>A note to the author: if you are going to include “ EDR and EPP” in the intro, please spell them out on first use</text></comment>

<story><title>An unexpected journey into Microsoft Defender&apos;s signature World</title><url>https://retooling.io/blog/an-unexpected-journey-into-microsoft-defenders-signature-world</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>FrostKiwi</author><text>Great deep dive! Always wondered about the details around this topic.&lt;p&gt;Did a bit of red teaming around the topic of reverse shells and privilege escalation and was pleasantly surprised, how much Windows Defender catches. Our IT Department recently switched away from a paid McAfee service doing end point security, which failed to detect unauthorized access in many instances.&lt;p&gt;Also, I totally read the intro as &amp;quot;addressing the ERP use-case&amp;quot;</text></comment>

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<story><title>Ad Blockers Are Also Changing the Game for SaaS and Web Developers</title><url>https://snipcart.com/blog/ad-blockers-saas-web-developers?utm_content=bufferd7420&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_source=twitter.com&amp;utm_campaign=buffer</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>joosters</author><text>Good! We need to ditch all the analytics software that rely on clients to make pointless HTTP requests. They are offloading their work on to the website visitors, wasting every user&amp;#x27;s bandwidth and slowing down internet connections worldwide.&lt;p&gt;If you want to know who is visiting your site, try reading your server logs.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>adrr</author><text>Server logs are missing important information like screen resolution, navigator.language etc. Server logs also can&amp;#x27;t report on element events. Nor does it work with things like single page apps. How can developers make their apps better without having the proper analytics to do so?</text></comment>

<story><title>Ad Blockers Are Also Changing the Game for SaaS and Web Developers</title><url>https://snipcart.com/blog/ad-blockers-saas-web-developers?utm_content=bufferd7420&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_source=twitter.com&amp;utm_campaign=buffer</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>joosters</author><text>Good! We need to ditch all the analytics software that rely on clients to make pointless HTTP requests. They are offloading their work on to the website visitors, wasting every user&amp;#x27;s bandwidth and slowing down internet connections worldwide.&lt;p&gt;If you want to know who is visiting your site, try reading your server logs.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mahyarm</author><text>Why don&amp;#x27;t they proxy host client-side analytics on their side, and don&amp;#x27;t put the word analytics in the endpoint names?&lt;p&gt;Most ads would be unblockable if you made the ads come from your domain and have them indistinguishable from your normal content in the URIs as far as I know.</text></comment>

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<story><title>Why brilliant people lose their touch</title><url>http://timharford.com/2019/06/why-brilliant-people-lose-their-touch/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mntmoss</author><text>This is related to the general &amp;quot;is it luck or is it skill&amp;quot; question: At the broadest scales, luck increasingly explains every factor of experience. But in the everyday situation you can always point to factors of skill, until you get down to the most raw performance indicators of speed, strength, reflexes, etc.: then it becomes luck, unless you have a way of training those things, improving them with nutrition, pharmaceuticals etc. And then it becomes skill again, until you are limited by stuff inherent to a human body, and then it could be luck that you have long swimmer arms or bodybuilder genetics. You can then switch to considering mechanical assistance and developing original inventions, and now you are considering mental performance. It goes on and on like that.&lt;p&gt;The most practical thing I&amp;#x27;ve found to do, in light of this problem, is to focus on developing better feedback: success and failure signals for each problem that you can use to summarize how you are doing. Then the skill&amp;#x2F;luck question becomes less reliant on external comparison and more on inner growth - hence more in control, more skill-driven.&lt;p&gt;But as a society our measures are mostly external. If someone succeeds, that&amp;#x27;s all we see.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>godelski</author><text>As to luck there&amp;#x27;s an old saying that I really like: the harder I work the luckier I get.&lt;p&gt;How I interpret this it that working hard increases your skills. If you are more skillful you are more able to take advantage of lucky situations you have. We all have lucky situations, some more than others (we can even say privilege plays a large role here). But here&amp;#x27;s the thing, if you don&amp;#x27;t have the skills to take advantage of these situations then they are useless.&lt;p&gt;Let&amp;#x27;s make up an egregious example. Let&amp;#x27;s say you are working on battery powered rockets that use AI. If you one day meet Elon Musk at your local grocery store and somehow strike up a conversation then he&amp;#x27;s probably going to be very interested in you and your background. He&amp;#x27;ll probably try to keep in contact with you and maybe offer you a job. Now let&amp;#x27;s consider without the skill. Well you met Elon Musk which is pretty cool, but you&amp;#x27;re probably not going to get a job.&lt;p&gt;It isn&amp;#x27;t so much luck vs skill, but the combination of the two. I would be willing to bet that there is not a single millionaire (yes, that low) that can&amp;#x27;t chalk up a significant portion of their wealth to something that others would consider luck. Such as family&amp;#x2F;friend&amp;#x27;s connections, stumbling into a situation, taking jobs that lead to other jobs in the right way, etc (this is why the specific wording of the previous sentence. Because most don&amp;#x27;t notice these kinds of things and when looking from the inside we notice the skill part and not the luck. Because we did in fact work hard, and you know... Human psychology)</text></comment>

<story><title>Why brilliant people lose their touch</title><url>http://timharford.com/2019/06/why-brilliant-people-lose-their-touch/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mntmoss</author><text>This is related to the general &amp;quot;is it luck or is it skill&amp;quot; question: At the broadest scales, luck increasingly explains every factor of experience. But in the everyday situation you can always point to factors of skill, until you get down to the most raw performance indicators of speed, strength, reflexes, etc.: then it becomes luck, unless you have a way of training those things, improving them with nutrition, pharmaceuticals etc. And then it becomes skill again, until you are limited by stuff inherent to a human body, and then it could be luck that you have long swimmer arms or bodybuilder genetics. You can then switch to considering mechanical assistance and developing original inventions, and now you are considering mental performance. It goes on and on like that.&lt;p&gt;The most practical thing I&amp;#x27;ve found to do, in light of this problem, is to focus on developing better feedback: success and failure signals for each problem that you can use to summarize how you are doing. Then the skill&amp;#x2F;luck question becomes less reliant on external comparison and more on inner growth - hence more in control, more skill-driven.&lt;p&gt;But as a society our measures are mostly external. If someone succeeds, that&amp;#x27;s all we see.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>alexpetralia</author><text>My theory: the tighter the causal feedback loop, the more agency you have (or perceive to have). For example if you want to knock over a cup, you can do that.&lt;p&gt;But if you want to knock over a cup across the world, or become rich overnight, this is a very complex feedback loop, so you exercise less agency (therefore more luck).</text></comment>

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<story><title>How mechanics keep 50-year-old BART trains running: Windows 98, eBay, and scraps</title><url>https://www.mercurynews.com/2022/09/17/how-clever-mechanics-keep-50-year-old-bart-trains-running-windows-98-ebay-and-scraps/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>carlivar</author><text>Was it necessary to do that? A stability problem elsewhere?</text></item><item><author>djbusby</author><text>It also makes the trains stable; wide stance.</text></item><item><author>carlivar</author><text>I&amp;#x27;m surprised the article didn&amp;#x27;t mention that BART is the only train in North America on the uncommon 5&amp;#x27;6&amp;quot; gauge. This is another factor making parts and equipment more difficult to source.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>gpapilion</author><text>I always heard it was an attempt to keep anyone using the rail for carrying cargo or other comercial traffic. They had concerns folks would sabotage their growth in order to resell the lines later.</text></comment>

<story><title>How mechanics keep 50-year-old BART trains running: Windows 98, eBay, and scraps</title><url>https://www.mercurynews.com/2022/09/17/how-clever-mechanics-keep-50-year-old-bart-trains-running-windows-98-ebay-and-scraps/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>carlivar</author><text>Was it necessary to do that? A stability problem elsewhere?</text></item><item><author>djbusby</author><text>It also makes the trains stable; wide stance.</text></item><item><author>carlivar</author><text>I&amp;#x27;m surprised the article didn&amp;#x27;t mention that BART is the only train in North America on the uncommon 5&amp;#x27;6&amp;quot; gauge. This is another factor making parts and equipment more difficult to source.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>potatochup</author><text>It was originally designed that way to cope with high winds across the Golden Gate Bridge (even though those plans got scrapped)</text></comment>

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<story><title>The Equifax Hack Has the Hallmarks of State-Sponsored Attack</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2017-09-29/the-equifax-hack-has-all-the-hallmarks-of-state-sponsored-pros</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>f055</author><text>I guess a &amp;quot;State-Sponsored Attack&amp;quot; sounds better than &amp;quot;we got pwned with a bug that was known since March that we didn&amp;#x27;t patch and could have been exploited by a guy in a basement&amp;quot; [&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;qz.com&amp;#x2F;1073221&amp;#x2F;the-hackers-who-broke-into-equifax-exploited-a-nine-year-old-security-flaw&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;qz.com&amp;#x2F;1073221&amp;#x2F;the-hackers-who-broke-into-equifax-ex...&lt;/a&gt;]</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>megamark16</author><text>I used to work for a company that had a big security hole that would allow you to log in as any user as long as you knew the user&amp;#x27;s UUID (I know, right?) I logged a ticket and raised the issue up the flagpole to let folks know that if someone slipped in some code (we ran a lot of third party javascript) to harvest UUIDs, they could fairly trivially log in as an admin and do some serious damage. The issue sat for months (MONTHS!) until finally a user complained about some non-https content being loaded on our login page, which sparked a whole security review, and gave me an opportunity to bring additional attention to my ticket, which finally got fixed.&lt;p&gt;This kind of crap is out there, and people don&amp;#x27;t give it the attention it deserves until they get bitten in the ass. Thankfully, my company didn&amp;#x27;t get bitten, but if we had, it could have been very bad, and the fact that the issue was called to people&amp;#x27;s attention and they didn&amp;#x27;t do anything about it would have made it look that much worse.</text></comment>

<story><title>The Equifax Hack Has the Hallmarks of State-Sponsored Attack</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2017-09-29/the-equifax-hack-has-all-the-hallmarks-of-state-sponsored-pros</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>f055</author><text>I guess a &amp;quot;State-Sponsored Attack&amp;quot; sounds better than &amp;quot;we got pwned with a bug that was known since March that we didn&amp;#x27;t patch and could have been exploited by a guy in a basement&amp;quot; [&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;qz.com&amp;#x2F;1073221&amp;#x2F;the-hackers-who-broke-into-equifax-exploited-a-nine-year-old-security-flaw&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;qz.com&amp;#x2F;1073221&amp;#x2F;the-hackers-who-broke-into-equifax-ex...&lt;/a&gt;]</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>pvarangot</author><text>It&amp;#x27;s fun how when a big corporation is hacked it&amp;#x27;s always &amp;quot;a sate sponsored group with 0-days worth millions of dollars&amp;quot;, but then again nation states themselves keep getting hacked by &amp;quot;a lonely autist in a basement that&amp;#x27;s just very smart for his own good&amp;quot;.</text></comment>

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<story><title>Assasination attempt on judge of the Epstein/Deutsche Bank case</title><url>https://www.cnn.com/2020/07/19/us/federal-judge-esther-salas-shooting-investigation/index.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>lykr0n</author><text>Wow. That&amp;#x27;s a great way to not only piss off the judge, but bring the full wrath of the federal government down on you.&lt;p&gt;Piss off is not the right word, because it marginalizes what happened. But man, that judge is not going to be on your side.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ForrestN</author><text>I’m not saying that the speculation implied by this headline is true, but, if this were related to the Epstein case, which explicitly involves the president, who just commuted the sentence of one of his several criminal associates... I’m not sure why you’d imagine the government would act with moral force and clarity here.</text></comment>

<story><title>Assasination attempt on judge of the Epstein/Deutsche Bank case</title><url>https://www.cnn.com/2020/07/19/us/federal-judge-esther-salas-shooting-investigation/index.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>lykr0n</author><text>Wow. That&amp;#x27;s a great way to not only piss off the judge, but bring the full wrath of the federal government down on you.&lt;p&gt;Piss off is not the right word, because it marginalizes what happened. But man, that judge is not going to be on your side.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>kgwxd</author><text>I&amp;#x27;m not too optimistic that this was a &amp;quot;bad&amp;quot; move, just a move by people that have already carefully considered the pros and cons and their conclusion was to make the move, meaning they found more pros than cons.</text></comment>

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<story><title>Deconstructing the DAO Attack: A Brief Code Tour</title><url>http://vessenes.com/deconstructing-thedao-attack-a-brief-code-tour/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>winteriscoming</author><text>The apparent typo is odd, IMO. I don&amp;#x27;t know the language in which that program is written, but looking at that snippet, &amp;quot;Transfer&amp;quot; takes 3 arguments whereas the &amp;quot;transfer&amp;quot; function takes 2 arguments. Isn&amp;#x27;t there any code review involved when this makes into the codebase. Assuming there was some code review and the reviewer just missed it (which is very much possible), a basic unit test case would have easily caught this bug, isn&amp;#x27;t it? After all, the test case would have checked for the balance etc... after execution of these functions. Aren&amp;#x27;t there any test cases around this?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>vessenes</author><text>I think after sleeping on it that I agree with you, this is more likely the outcome of bad refactoring. You can read the code commits on github if you like; I don&amp;#x27;t have them handy, unfortunately.&lt;p&gt;transfer is a very poorly named function, of that there is no doubt. And Transfer is badly named as well.&lt;p&gt;transferAndLockTokens vs LogTransfer would be much, much better.</text></comment>

<story><title>Deconstructing the DAO Attack: A Brief Code Tour</title><url>http://vessenes.com/deconstructing-thedao-attack-a-brief-code-tour/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>winteriscoming</author><text>The apparent typo is odd, IMO. I don&amp;#x27;t know the language in which that program is written, but looking at that snippet, &amp;quot;Transfer&amp;quot; takes 3 arguments whereas the &amp;quot;transfer&amp;quot; function takes 2 arguments. Isn&amp;#x27;t there any code review involved when this makes into the codebase. Assuming there was some code review and the reviewer just missed it (which is very much possible), a basic unit test case would have easily caught this bug, isn&amp;#x27;t it? After all, the test case would have checked for the balance etc... after execution of these functions. Aren&amp;#x27;t there any test cases around this?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>rrradical</author><text>Test cases...code review... How about type checking??&lt;p&gt;The idea of writing financial software without taking every available precaution to verify correctness is insane to me.</text></comment>

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<story><title>Elon Musk: Correcting the Record About My Divorce </title><url>http://www.huffingtonpost.com/elon-musk/correcting-the-record-abo_b_639625.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>commanda</author><text>Actually, yes.&lt;p&gt;Many marriages are entered into by two parties with the agreement that one party will be the primary caretaker of the children (home-maker), which is a profession that is unpaid. The other party will work outside the home and provide money for the family. In that case, the years of work that the home-maker has put in should be recognized as valid work, and in the event of a break-up of the marriage, the home-maker should continue to receive monetary support from the other party, as they (often) have no viable other professional skills. This needs to be enforceable in court in the interest of people whose profession is home-maker.&lt;p&gt;This is also why gay marriage (and gay divorce) should be legally codified like straight marriage is. People need legal recourse to persist their own standards of living.&lt;p&gt;If someone entering into a marriage does not want to take on the lifetime of responsibility of providing for the person who is promising to take on the role of home-maker in their household, perhaps they shouldn&apos;t enter into a marriage.</text></item><item><author>pohl</author><text>&lt;i&gt;What can we do?&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;Abandon the institution of marriage entirely. Nuke it from orbit, as it were. It&apos;s the only way to be sure.&lt;p&gt;The legal end of it is a mere wealth-redistribution mechanism. The social end of it is made of community who loves to witness people getting into marriages, but they scatter during the demise. So what function does it perform? From my perspective, it only serves to weaken commitment by trying to offload the responsibility of staying together to a legal framework.&lt;p&gt;Can anybody make a good case for continuing the charade?</text></item><item><author>lionhearted</author><text>&amp;#62; What caught me by surprise, and forced me to seek emergency loans from friends, were the enormous legal fees I had to pay my ex-wife&apos;s divorce lawyers. In a California divorce, the wealthier spouse must pay both sides of the battle even if they are not the aggressor.&lt;p&gt;&amp;#62; The legal and accounting bills for the divorce total four million dollars so far, which is an average of roughly $170,000 per month for the past 24 months. Journalists were quick to mock the poor &quot;broke&quot; guy that had $200k a month expenses, failing to note that legal fees constituted the majority.&lt;p&gt;That&apos;s utterly despicable - Grellas, can you help us put together a plan to disbar and exile everyone involved in the divorce racket or something? Talk about a destruction of wealth, energy, time, and life - it&apos;s embarrassing that we let this happen to people in the United States.&lt;p&gt;Our family/divorce courts and the associated personnel are destructive, vindictive, and capricious. This needs to change. Why do people stand for it? What can we do?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>barrkel</author><text>This is an argument for marriages as contracts, but no more. I don&apos;t read an argument in what you say in favour of a government involvement in defining what a marriage is. Contract law should be sufficient.</text></comment>

<story><title>Elon Musk: Correcting the Record About My Divorce </title><url>http://www.huffingtonpost.com/elon-musk/correcting-the-record-abo_b_639625.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>commanda</author><text>Actually, yes.&lt;p&gt;Many marriages are entered into by two parties with the agreement that one party will be the primary caretaker of the children (home-maker), which is a profession that is unpaid. The other party will work outside the home and provide money for the family. In that case, the years of work that the home-maker has put in should be recognized as valid work, and in the event of a break-up of the marriage, the home-maker should continue to receive monetary support from the other party, as they (often) have no viable other professional skills. This needs to be enforceable in court in the interest of people whose profession is home-maker.&lt;p&gt;This is also why gay marriage (and gay divorce) should be legally codified like straight marriage is. People need legal recourse to persist their own standards of living.&lt;p&gt;If someone entering into a marriage does not want to take on the lifetime of responsibility of providing for the person who is promising to take on the role of home-maker in their household, perhaps they shouldn&apos;t enter into a marriage.</text></item><item><author>pohl</author><text>&lt;i&gt;What can we do?&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;Abandon the institution of marriage entirely. Nuke it from orbit, as it were. It&apos;s the only way to be sure.&lt;p&gt;The legal end of it is a mere wealth-redistribution mechanism. The social end of it is made of community who loves to witness people getting into marriages, but they scatter during the demise. So what function does it perform? From my perspective, it only serves to weaken commitment by trying to offload the responsibility of staying together to a legal framework.&lt;p&gt;Can anybody make a good case for continuing the charade?</text></item><item><author>lionhearted</author><text>&amp;#62; What caught me by surprise, and forced me to seek emergency loans from friends, were the enormous legal fees I had to pay my ex-wife&apos;s divorce lawyers. In a California divorce, the wealthier spouse must pay both sides of the battle even if they are not the aggressor.&lt;p&gt;&amp;#62; The legal and accounting bills for the divorce total four million dollars so far, which is an average of roughly $170,000 per month for the past 24 months. Journalists were quick to mock the poor &quot;broke&quot; guy that had $200k a month expenses, failing to note that legal fees constituted the majority.&lt;p&gt;That&apos;s utterly despicable - Grellas, can you help us put together a plan to disbar and exile everyone involved in the divorce racket or something? Talk about a destruction of wealth, energy, time, and life - it&apos;s embarrassing that we let this happen to people in the United States.&lt;p&gt;Our family/divorce courts and the associated personnel are destructive, vindictive, and capricious. This needs to change. Why do people stand for it? What can we do?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>inerte</author><text>commanda, you&apos;re correct but you answered the wrong question, the poster wanted to know why have marriages at all and not why alimony exists :)</text></comment>

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<story><title>Amazon’s Twitch Acquisition Is Official</title><url>http://techcrunch.com/2014/08/25/amazon-will-officially-acquire-twitch/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>staunch</author><text>Twitch is not going to be another YouTube success story. There just aren&amp;#x27;t enough great uses for live streaming yet and video game streaming is very far from being mainstream. Twitch obviously can&amp;#x27;t believe it&amp;#x27;s very close to reaching NFL-like status either or it wouldn&amp;#x27;t sell for a mere billion and change.&lt;p&gt;Amazon or Google will piss off or drive away the Twitch user base. The users will all move to Hitbox.tv or any number of new sites that will pop up. It&amp;#x27;s easy to do live streaming, it&amp;#x27;s just expensive. This acquisition will bring funding and Yahoo will buy the next popular live streaming site.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>weixiyen</author><text>Twitch.tv is more important for anyone who follows E-Sports than any other property out there, Cable or Net.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;m on Twitch.tv more than ABC, NBC, CBS, etc for 8 months out of the year (football season excepted).&lt;p&gt;And I&amp;#x27;m definitely not the only person who is like this.&lt;p&gt;No kids are leaving Twitch as long as it doesn&amp;#x27;t get rebranded. Amazon just needs to run it as a separate product.</text></comment>

<story><title>Amazon’s Twitch Acquisition Is Official</title><url>http://techcrunch.com/2014/08/25/amazon-will-officially-acquire-twitch/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>staunch</author><text>Twitch is not going to be another YouTube success story. There just aren&amp;#x27;t enough great uses for live streaming yet and video game streaming is very far from being mainstream. Twitch obviously can&amp;#x27;t believe it&amp;#x27;s very close to reaching NFL-like status either or it wouldn&amp;#x27;t sell for a mere billion and change.&lt;p&gt;Amazon or Google will piss off or drive away the Twitch user base. The users will all move to Hitbox.tv or any number of new sites that will pop up. It&amp;#x27;s easy to do live streaming, it&amp;#x27;s just expensive. This acquisition will bring funding and Yahoo will buy the next popular live streaming site.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>vetler</author><text>It&amp;#x27;s true that video game streaming is far from being mainstream, but considering how engaged kids are in gaming now, I don&amp;#x27;t think it&amp;#x27;s far-fetched to see it only becoming more popular in the future.&lt;p&gt;There is already a lot of money in esports, so I&amp;#x27;ll go out on a limb here, and say that it&amp;#x27;s only a matter of time before it becomes mainstream.</text></comment>

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<story><title>The Society of the Spectacle</title><url>https://unredacted-word.pub/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>beepbooptheory</author><text>If you are in interested in this stuff at all, can&amp;#x27;t recommend enough McKenzie Wark&amp;#x27;s books on the subject, both &lt;i&gt;The Spectacle of Disintegration&lt;/i&gt; and &lt;i&gt;The Beach Beneath Street&lt;/i&gt;. They had a profound effect upon me.&lt;p&gt;Wark also, fwiw, wrote &lt;i&gt;the&lt;/i&gt; Hacker Manifesto [1]. Although, ironically, I can&amp;#x27;t imagine her views there would be that well received on HN.&lt;p&gt;1. &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.hup.harvard.edu&amp;#x2F;catalog.php?isbn=9780674015432&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.hup.harvard.edu&amp;#x2F;catalog.php?isbn=9780674015432&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>

<story><title>The Society of the Spectacle</title><url>https://unredacted-word.pub/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>antihero</author><text>I&amp;#x27;ve read quite a bit of this book, and situationalism is awesome - though I do find this writing style quite...fatiguing. Part of me can&amp;#x27;t work out whether it&amp;#x27;s written like this to fit a huge amount of meaning into one paragraph or whether it&amp;#x27;s just being flash or whether it&amp;#x27;s also a postmodernist nod to postmodernism itself (which...isn&amp;#x27;t all postmodernism?).</text></comment>

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<story><title>July 20, 1969: One Giant Leap For Mankind (2013)</title><url>http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/apollo/apollo11_40th.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>tdicola</author><text>The thing that really shocked me about the Apollo missions was how quickly they jumped from testing the hardware to actual mission to the moon. The _second_ manned launch of Apollo (and _first_ manned launch of the incredible Saturn V rocket) went straight out to the moon and orbited before returning back to Earth! The next missions did a few tests of the lunar lander in space, and the fifth manned mission was Apollo 11 which finally landed. Crazy to think of all the systems, hardware, etc. that just had a couple shakedown flights before the real deal. Incredibly impressive engineering to pull off such a feat without more problems.</text></comment>

<story><title>July 20, 1969: One Giant Leap For Mankind (2013)</title><url>http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/apollo/apollo11_40th.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>jf</author><text>I highly recommend the Discovery Channel mini-series &amp;quot;When We Left Earth: The NASA Missions&amp;quot;. This mini-series covers the entire breadth of the NASA missions, from Mercury to the International Space Station. This series is available on Netflix: www.netflix.com&amp;#x2F;WiMovie&amp;#x2F;70218722&lt;p&gt;If &amp;quot;When We Left Earth&amp;quot; sparks your interest. I suggest watching &amp;quot;Apollo 13&amp;quot; and &amp;quot;The Right Stuff&amp;quot; next.&lt;p&gt;Lastly, I&amp;#x27;m currently reading the excellent book &amp;quot;Moon Lander: How We Developed the Apollo Lunar Module&amp;quot;. This book gives an insiders view of what it took to build the Lunar Module (LM). I particularly appreciate that the book covers a lot of the hard work, arguments, and drama that are often forgotten when we romanticize the past.</text></comment>

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<story><title>NSA Wanted Backdoor Access in Linux, Says Linus Torvalds’ Father</title><url>https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2013/11/nsa-ask-linus-torvalds-include-backdoors-linux-father-says-yes</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>btilly</author><text>Anyone who doesn&amp;#x27;t think that NSA has backdoor access in Linux is a naïve optimist.&lt;p&gt;All that the NSA needs is a security hole. They can generate them by submitting reasonable code whose misbehavior is hard to spot, like &lt;a href=&quot;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.underhanded-c.org&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.underhanded-c.org&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt;, or by searching for holes that already exist in the wild. And if you wind up putting a proprietary driver into your computer and they got a hole in the driver, you do even better.&lt;p&gt;Given the NSA&amp;#x27;s resources and the rate at which groups like Project Zero find bugs, they certainly have multiple ways in to any system that they want.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>xorcist</author><text>&amp;gt; reasonable code whose misbehavior is hard to spot,&lt;p&gt;Have you submitted code to Linux? It&amp;#x27;s routine that people are told to rewrite something in a more clear way.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;m not saying that it&amp;#x27;s impossible, far from it, but it&amp;#x27;s not like you could just submit something and have it accepted. You&amp;#x27;d have to put a lot of work over a long time and be very careful, preferably with one of the more obscure drivers. Then again, enormous patience and budgets are what the three letter agencies are best at.</text></comment>

<story><title>NSA Wanted Backdoor Access in Linux, Says Linus Torvalds’ Father</title><url>https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2013/11/nsa-ask-linus-torvalds-include-backdoors-linux-father-says-yes</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>btilly</author><text>Anyone who doesn&amp;#x27;t think that NSA has backdoor access in Linux is a naïve optimist.&lt;p&gt;All that the NSA needs is a security hole. They can generate them by submitting reasonable code whose misbehavior is hard to spot, like &lt;a href=&quot;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.underhanded-c.org&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.underhanded-c.org&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt;, or by searching for holes that already exist in the wild. And if you wind up putting a proprietary driver into your computer and they got a hole in the driver, you do even better.&lt;p&gt;Given the NSA&amp;#x27;s resources and the rate at which groups like Project Zero find bugs, they certainly have multiple ways in to any system that they want.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dastx</author><text>I don&amp;#x27;t think people think that NSA doesn&amp;#x27;t have backdoor access in Linux.&lt;p&gt;But I think there&amp;#x27;s a huge difference between the maintainers purposefully implemented a backdoor for the NSA, and the NSA found exploits to gain backdoor.&lt;p&gt;Given that, what I&amp;#x27;m more interested in is why Linus would say no when asked.</text></comment>

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<story><title>2013 Automobile of the Year: Tesla Model S</title><url>http://www.automobilemag.com/features/awards/1301_2013_automobile_of_the_year_tesla_model_s/viewall.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>martythemaniak</author><text>Even if Tesla do not survive, ten years from now every new electric car will be a descendant of the Model S in all the major ways - floor-mounted battery pack, lack of physical buttons, etc.</text></comment>

<story><title>2013 Automobile of the Year: Tesla Model S</title><url>http://www.automobilemag.com/features/awards/1301_2013_automobile_of_the_year_tesla_model_s/viewall.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>rdl</author><text>If they can get to volume production, I think the $50-60k models, leased, could be great sellers. The really interesting thing would be to rip off Better Place&apos;s model and lease the cars at a discounted monthly payment plus a per-mile &quot;fuel equivalence&quot; charge. It&apos;s just accounting, but you could basically price the Model S at BMW 3-series lease rates (or even Toyota Avalon!), plus a per-mile fuel cost which was 10-20% less than gasoline. Combine that with the quality of the Model S, the environmental/status benefit (90+% of the girls I&apos;ve polled would be more impressed by a Model S than a 2-3x as expensive Ferrari), and HOV lane access, and it would be great.&lt;p&gt;The Leaf, which basically sucks by comparison as a car, is essentially free in California ($200/mo lease, $2500 California incentive tax credit covers the first year, fuel, HOV lane, and toll savings vs. a less-efficient gas car pretty much cover lease payments IMO).&lt;p&gt;I&apos;d have a Leaf as a hold-over until Teslas ship in quantity if I had a second parking space.</text></comment>

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<story><title>Are there more surviving ancient writings in Greek or Latin?</title><url>https://talesoftimesforgotten.com/2021/09/25/are-there-more-surviving-ancient-writings-in-greek-or-latin/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>Telemakhos</author><text>A more interesting knowledge-hole is Neo-Latin, Latin written from the Renaissance to today. Surviving from the sixteenth century alone are 10,000 times more different books in Latin than survive from all of antiquity (at least according to Jurgen Leonhardt&amp;#x27;s &amp;quot;Latin: Story of a World Language&amp;quot;). People think about the Romans when they hear Latin, but they forget that it was the international publishing language for academia into the nineteenth century (people were still writing dissertations in STEM in Latin at some European universities in the early twentieth century). Since the nineteenth century, fewer and fewer people have been learning Latin, and of those few care about anything except the Romans, so there is a vast and barely known volume of Latin out there waiting to be explored. Google Books is full of stuff that nobody has read in centuries.</text></comment>

<story><title>Are there more surviving ancient writings in Greek or Latin?</title><url>https://talesoftimesforgotten.com/2021/09/25/are-there-more-surviving-ancient-writings-in-greek-or-latin/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>pacman2</author><text>See also: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Quipu&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Quipu&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;and&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Maya_codices&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Maya_codices&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;Bishop De Landa, a Franciscan monk and conquistador during the Spanish conquest of Yucatán, wrote: &amp;quot;We found a large number of books in these characters and, as they contained nothing in which were not to be seen as superstition and lies of the devil, we burned them all, which they (the Maya) regretted to an amazing degree, and which caused them much affliction.&amp;quot; Only three extant codices are widely considered unquestionably authentic.&amp;quot;</text></comment>

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<story><title>The rise of batteries in six charts</title><url>https://rmi.org/the-rise-of-batteries-in-six-charts-and-not-too-many-numbers/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>sixstringtheory</author><text>This is a great set of charts and analysis, although I have two problems with it.&lt;p&gt;1. On the chart of energy density, I&amp;#x27;d like to see the the energy density of petrol for comparison. It&amp;#x27;s much higher, and even though extrapolation is dangerous, I&amp;#x27;d like to see how long it could take to reach parity given some of the different forecasting models they mention. Specifically regarding their mention of air travel, I&amp;#x27;d like to know what the minimum viable energy density would be for a vessel&amp;#x27;s fuel source, because my current understanding is that commercial air travel powered by electricity is not feasible.&lt;p&gt;2. They mention S-curve adoption, but that reaches a horizontal asymptote eventually, it doesn&amp;#x27;t go up forever. I&amp;#x27;d like to see more analysis on where we think we&amp;#x27;re at on the S-curve, and why. I&amp;#x27;d like to see a guess on where it levels out displayed on that chart, instead of the arrow simply pointing at the sky. If nothing else, show where the chemical limit might be based on current battery technology.&lt;p&gt;I want to displace fossil fuels and reduce pollution and slow the greenhouse effect as much as possible. I think transparency and realistic expectations need to be part of the transition. The more information available to markets, the more efficiently they can work towards the goal. I find it very difficult to get answers to these types of questions when discussing renewable energy generation and storage. I&amp;#x27;m sure part of it is my own ignorance on where to look, which is why I ask: especially here, hopefully an expert can see this and quickly point me in the right direction.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>thelastgallon</author><text>&amp;gt; I&amp;#x27;d like to see the the energy density of petrol for comparison.&lt;p&gt;Petrol&amp;#x27;s higher energy density doesn&amp;#x27;t matter as much as people think.&lt;p&gt;Electric vehicles are around four times as efficient as petrol. In a petrol car, only 20% of the energy is converted to motion. In electric cars, this is around 80% (with some variation dependent on regenerative braking). I wrote about this extensively in a previous article: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.sustainabilitybynumbers.com&amp;#x2F;p&amp;#x2F;electrification-energy-efficiency&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.sustainabilitybynumbers.com&amp;#x2F;p&amp;#x2F;electrification-en...&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>

<story><title>The rise of batteries in six charts</title><url>https://rmi.org/the-rise-of-batteries-in-six-charts-and-not-too-many-numbers/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>sixstringtheory</author><text>This is a great set of charts and analysis, although I have two problems with it.&lt;p&gt;1. On the chart of energy density, I&amp;#x27;d like to see the the energy density of petrol for comparison. It&amp;#x27;s much higher, and even though extrapolation is dangerous, I&amp;#x27;d like to see how long it could take to reach parity given some of the different forecasting models they mention. Specifically regarding their mention of air travel, I&amp;#x27;d like to know what the minimum viable energy density would be for a vessel&amp;#x27;s fuel source, because my current understanding is that commercial air travel powered by electricity is not feasible.&lt;p&gt;2. They mention S-curve adoption, but that reaches a horizontal asymptote eventually, it doesn&amp;#x27;t go up forever. I&amp;#x27;d like to see more analysis on where we think we&amp;#x27;re at on the S-curve, and why. I&amp;#x27;d like to see a guess on where it levels out displayed on that chart, instead of the arrow simply pointing at the sky. If nothing else, show where the chemical limit might be based on current battery technology.&lt;p&gt;I want to displace fossil fuels and reduce pollution and slow the greenhouse effect as much as possible. I think transparency and realistic expectations need to be part of the transition. The more information available to markets, the more efficiently they can work towards the goal. I find it very difficult to get answers to these types of questions when discussing renewable energy generation and storage. I&amp;#x27;m sure part of it is my own ignorance on where to look, which is why I ask: especially here, hopefully an expert can see this and quickly point me in the right direction.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Spinnaker_</author><text>The mention of air travel was strange. I wasn&amp;#x27;t aware of anyone who thought long range flight would ever be electrified. At least not without some fundamental breakthrough.&lt;p&gt;S-curves are hard to predict. Basically every time someone attempts to do it, they are way off. This [0] is a neat paper that addresses the question. We&amp;#x27;ve blown past every single prediction.&lt;p&gt;[0] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.inet.ox.ac.uk&amp;#x2F;files&amp;#x2F;energy_transition_paper-INET-working-paper.pdf&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.inet.ox.ac.uk&amp;#x2F;files&amp;#x2F;energy_transition_paper-INET...&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>

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<story><title>Announcing Go Support for AWS Lambda</title><url>https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/compute/announcing-go-support-for-aws-lambda/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>ramses0</author><text>What&amp;#x27;s the current state of the art for &amp;quot;I know I use AWS for my 9999-server production instance, but how can I test the majority of my services offline on an airplane w&amp;#x2F;o spending $199.99&amp;#x2F;mo to keep a fleet of test AWS servers&amp;#x2F;services at the ready&amp;quot;?&lt;p&gt;Last I looked the &amp;quot;fake-aws&amp;quot;, specifically &amp;quot;lambda&amp;quot; supported python, not JS&amp;#x2F;Node, which was not matching my use-case. Go is now on the radar as a usable programming language for this purpose, but what are the chances of being able to also use it with local test deployments?</text></comment>

<story><title>Announcing Go Support for AWS Lambda</title><url>https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/compute/announcing-go-support-for-aws-lambda/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>Corrado</author><text>I guess I&amp;#x27;m confused as to how the support of one compiled language differs from any other compiled language; couldn&amp;#x27;t you just replace &amp;quot;Go&amp;quot; with &amp;quot;Rust&amp;quot; at this point? I understand how Lambda would have to support scripting languages (NodeJS, Python, etc.) with built-in runtimes and such, but if you are going to compile down to a binary object anyway, why does it matter what language the binary object was written in?&lt;p&gt;Does it have to do with supporting libraries being pre-installed on the Lambda image or something? Couldn&amp;#x27;t they build a Lambda image that handles any language that can interface to common &amp;quot;C&amp;quot; headers?</text></comment>

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<story><title>Atlantic Canadian Founders Deserve Better Than FAN (First Angel Network)</title><url>http://startupnorth.ca/2013/02/19/atlantic-canadian-founders-deserve-better-than-first-angel-network-fan/</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>lkrubner</author><text>We would all be wise to remember that when a lot of money is being thrown around, some con artists will arrive. Scammers will haunt the edges of any scene where people are giving out something valuable. Those of us who read Hacker News are aware of the reputable investors who mean well, and who clearly want to help facilitate the creation of wealth. Anyone who reads this site can name at least a dozen investors and/or incubators that are honest. But we should not be innocent: whenever there is a gold rush, there will be liars and cheats.&lt;p&gt;I have written about this before, but in 2009 I was hired by a small startup in New York City. At that time I lived in Virginia but I had wanted to move to New York, and this job offer was the perfect chance. So I moved to New York. I had worked with startups in Virginia, and I had high hopes about the startup in New York.&lt;p&gt;All the same, what I saw at the startup was disturbing. The financing seemed questionable. The central figure ran what he called an investment firm. That meant he reached out to potential investors and he tried to get them to invest small amounts in his various projects. At any given time he had 10 to 12 projects that he was raising money for. He would raise $100,000 or more to get a startup going. Each project might have 10 investors.&lt;p&gt;I worked at that place for a few months, and then I was told that they had to close down because all the money was gone. The project manager/COO told me that they&apos;d spent $80,000 of the $100,000. I was not clear why things were closing down. He told me to send in my final invoice. I did. They never paid me. 2 months later I was told there was no money to pay me. I had long (sometimes angry) conversations with the COO about the money. He gave me some reassurances about the money, how much had been spent, how much had been raised, how much there was. But he also said that the main figure had never granted him (the COO) access to any of the financial statements, so he was not able to speak with 100% confidence about how much money there had been, or still was.&lt;p&gt;It is possible that all of this can be put down to the normal chaos of startups. But it seemed like the main figure here was raising $x amount for a startup, spending 80% of the money, and then telling investors that, sadly, the project had failed, they had not gotten enough momentum, these things are very risky, etc.&lt;p&gt;Maybe he had an understanding with the investors, but I very much had the impression that he kept 20% of the money for himself. And he was doing this constantly for 10 to 12 projects. He went to dozens of events in New York and in Boston, he was constantly pitching, constantly raising money. He was very good at getting people to hand him money. But I have my doubts about whether the money was being spent the way the investors would assume it was spent.&lt;p&gt;The normal chaos of startups can hide a lot of corruption. You can use the riskiness of startups as a cover for fleecing investors and delivering very little. In the end, all you have to say is &quot;I am very sorry, these things are very risky, I&apos;m sure you knew this was risky, we did our best but we failed to get momentum.&quot; And of course, startups are risky, that part is true, but the investor has the reasonable expectation that if they give you money, then you did everything possible to make your startup a success.&lt;p&gt;Here is a bit of age old wisdom: let the invest beware. (And likewise, beware of the exploitive investor pitch.)&lt;p&gt;The fact that there are some famous investors whose integrity is well known should not distract anyone from the fact that there are scam artists in every walk of life.</text></comment>

<story><title>Atlantic Canadian Founders Deserve Better Than FAN (First Angel Network)</title><url>http://startupnorth.ca/2013/02/19/atlantic-canadian-founders-deserve-better-than-first-angel-network-fan/</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>VonGuard</author><text>Soooooo, that $3,000 to pitch is actually a deal when compared to what TechCrunch charges, or what DEMO charges for a booth..... Both are wastes of money.</text></comment>