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<story><title>The tragic end of Telltale Games</title><url>https://www.theverge.com/2018/10/4/17934166/telltale-games-studio-closed-layoffs-end-the-walking-dead</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>gambiting</author><text>Just as a counterpoint - I&amp;#x27;ve worked for 4 years now as a programmer at one of the biggest publishers in the industry, and honestly, the work life balance is great, the pay is ok for the region(plus I get decent amount of shares every year), the work is varied, interesting and I like both what I do and people I work with. I think the last time I did overtime was 2 years ago, and even then it was only for a week around launch of the last project(in fact in every studio meeting we are constantly reminded that managers can NOT demand us to work overtime, if they do we need to report it higher up). Normally I get in at 8am, leave by 4pm, never work weekends or anything like that. Plus the usual for EU 25 paid days off(plus the studio is closed christmas to new years), unlimited paid sick leave, private health insurance.....really, it&amp;#x27;s pretty good.&lt;p&gt;But then again, I am aware that most studios are &lt;i&gt;not&lt;/i&gt; like that.</text></item><item><author>tablethnuser</author><text>Don&amp;#x27;t work in the games industry. This is the par story for game companies. Every little detail of this story I saw repeating on loop in a decade of working in games. The artists grabbing assets to stuff into their portfolios before two years of professional work disappears into a black hole, the ppl moving families across country to be laid off months later, the crunch, the over promising, it is all text book.&lt;p&gt;The games industry preys on young ppl who don&amp;#x27;t know what a healthy work&amp;#x2F;life balance looks like. The pay is lower because employees are passionate. Passion doesn&amp;#x27;t pay rent. It doesn&amp;#x27;t provide stability for your partner and children who all will suffer because you chose to work in games.&lt;p&gt;Your passion will be compromised endlessly by marketing and management who can air drop in and change a game&amp;#x27;s entire direction in one meeting. Because they saw a Minecraft commercial and their kid responded to it. They&amp;#x27;ll make you work weekend after weekend to fit their pivot into the original schedule and stop in for an hour to drop off donuts. Oh good, eight hours of work for a donut. Donuts also don&amp;#x27;t pay rent. They don&amp;#x27;t fix your marital problems.&lt;p&gt;Games is an industry stuck in a groundhog day loop of misery. This is my warning to anyone who thinks they like games enough to make them. You won&amp;#x27;t like them after making them. It isn&amp;#x27;t worth it.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>vvanders</author><text>Congrats, you&amp;#x27;ve found the 2% of the industry that isn&amp;#x27;t insane.&lt;p&gt;For many of us who fell into the other 98% the statistics aren&amp;#x27;t in your favor and some of the bigger publishers(EA, Microsoft) tend to go in ~6 year cycles.&lt;p&gt;Had a friend who worked on Dead Space, which should have been a stable thing. Alas, Visceral isn&amp;#x27;t around either.</text></comment>

<story><title>The tragic end of Telltale Games</title><url>https://www.theverge.com/2018/10/4/17934166/telltale-games-studio-closed-layoffs-end-the-walking-dead</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>gambiting</author><text>Just as a counterpoint - I&amp;#x27;ve worked for 4 years now as a programmer at one of the biggest publishers in the industry, and honestly, the work life balance is great, the pay is ok for the region(plus I get decent amount of shares every year), the work is varied, interesting and I like both what I do and people I work with. I think the last time I did overtime was 2 years ago, and even then it was only for a week around launch of the last project(in fact in every studio meeting we are constantly reminded that managers can NOT demand us to work overtime, if they do we need to report it higher up). Normally I get in at 8am, leave by 4pm, never work weekends or anything like that. Plus the usual for EU 25 paid days off(plus the studio is closed christmas to new years), unlimited paid sick leave, private health insurance.....really, it&amp;#x27;s pretty good.&lt;p&gt;But then again, I am aware that most studios are &lt;i&gt;not&lt;/i&gt; like that.</text></item><item><author>tablethnuser</author><text>Don&amp;#x27;t work in the games industry. This is the par story for game companies. Every little detail of this story I saw repeating on loop in a decade of working in games. The artists grabbing assets to stuff into their portfolios before two years of professional work disappears into a black hole, the ppl moving families across country to be laid off months later, the crunch, the over promising, it is all text book.&lt;p&gt;The games industry preys on young ppl who don&amp;#x27;t know what a healthy work&amp;#x2F;life balance looks like. The pay is lower because employees are passionate. Passion doesn&amp;#x27;t pay rent. It doesn&amp;#x27;t provide stability for your partner and children who all will suffer because you chose to work in games.&lt;p&gt;Your passion will be compromised endlessly by marketing and management who can air drop in and change a game&amp;#x27;s entire direction in one meeting. Because they saw a Minecraft commercial and their kid responded to it. They&amp;#x27;ll make you work weekend after weekend to fit their pivot into the original schedule and stop in for an hour to drop off donuts. Oh good, eight hours of work for a donut. Donuts also don&amp;#x27;t pay rent. They don&amp;#x27;t fix your marital problems.&lt;p&gt;Games is an industry stuck in a groundhog day loop of misery. This is my warning to anyone who thinks they like games enough to make them. You won&amp;#x27;t like them after making them. It isn&amp;#x27;t worth it.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>krinchan</author><text>&amp;gt; Plus the usual for EU 25 paid days off&lt;p&gt;Sometimes I really hate living in the US. -_-</text></comment>

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<story><title>Show HN: FlakeHub – Discover and publish Nix flakes</title><url>https://flakehub.com/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>unshavedyak</author><text>Wow, i wasn&amp;#x27;t interested at first because i&amp;#x27;m already using flakes and i didn&amp;#x27;t think this had much value to me - i don&amp;#x27;t mind adding a flakes repo directly, for example. Then someone linked the discussion on Discourse[1] which has..:&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; FlakeHub not only indexes flakes, but provides a mechanism for fetching compatible versions based on Semantic versioning — and, unlike pinning tags in your flake.nix inputs, keeping them up to date.&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; This means that you can specify that you want your input to be compatible with whatever is the latest release at the time that you add it, and get bugfixes with every nix flake update, without manually having to keep track of the releases made upstream, nor follow a development branch which may introduce breaking changes at any time.&lt;p&gt;Which is stupidly sexy to me. Semver-like is something i&amp;#x27;ve been wanting so badly from Flakes&amp;#x2F;Nix. This has my attention now.&lt;p&gt;[1]: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;discourse.nixos.org&amp;#x2F;t&amp;#x2F;introducing-flakehub&amp;#x2F;32044&amp;#x2F;6&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;discourse.nixos.org&amp;#x2F;t&amp;#x2F;introducing-flakehub&amp;#x2F;32044&amp;#x2F;6&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>

<story><title>Show HN: FlakeHub – Discover and publish Nix flakes</title><url>https://flakehub.com/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>grhmc</author><text>Hey folks, Graham -- CEO of DetSys here. So glad to be able to share FlakeHub, our most ambitious project yet.&lt;p&gt;FlakeHub brings a crates.io-like experience to Nix and flakes, with semver releases and publish-time checks to make sure the flake is easily distributable.&lt;p&gt;Check it out, let us know what you think! I&amp;#x27;ll be here answering questions all day.</text></comment>

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<story><title>The Social Recession: By the Numbers</title><url>https://novum.substack.com/p/social-recession-by-the-numbers</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>rayiner</author><text>Every single highly individualistic society seems to be in population decline (more so if you factor out immigrants from “anti-progressive” Muslim or Catholic countries). Individualism seems to be a self-limiting feature of society: it’s unpleasant to raise children in highly individualistic societies, which makes such societies inherently transitory.[1]&lt;p&gt;Is societal self-obsolescence how you define “progress?” How successful can your society really be if your people don’t seem to want to raise kids in it and perpetuate it? If you have to import people from collectivist societies just to take care of your elderly?&lt;p&gt;[1] The inverse is not true—many collectivist societies are also facing population walls—but for quite different reasons.</text></item><item><author>seydor</author><text>The US must not be a low-trust society. You should try to live in an actual low trust society (where people can&amp;#x27;t trust institutions and instead revert to their family or clan). The US is not like that, people seem to trust other people they have never seen before because they trust things like justice or the US army or google or apple.&lt;p&gt;Other than that, it seems that things are progressing as normal. Since the times of the Enlightenment, there was this oxymoron of idealizing individual empowerment, while advocating that humans are social animals that must act collectively. Which is it? Well with today&amp;#x27;s technology and abundance people are drifting deliberately and decisively towards more individualism. Perhaps it is about ime to stop describing these things as &amp;#x27;problems&amp;#x27; and realize that they are the new reality. Our politics worldwide is quite ancient , and not prepared for the next phase of individual empowerment. The places of the world that are stuck in collectivist mindsets are awfully deluded like Russia, or rigidly antiprogressive, like China.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>godelski</author><text>But many collective societies are also facing similar issues of loneliness and isolation. This isn&amp;#x27;t just a western problem. We also see this same problem all across Asia: India, Japan, China, Korea. Some of these countries even had a rise in isolation before the US. I don&amp;#x27;t think it is a individualism vs collectivism issue, though I&amp;#x27;m not going to dismiss it from the equation. I think it is that humans have just gotten comfortable as our lives have all tremendously benefited. We have little day to day problems. The problems we face now are much more abstract and existential than before, which tend to not be as motivating for adopting risky behavior.</text></comment>

<story><title>The Social Recession: By the Numbers</title><url>https://novum.substack.com/p/social-recession-by-the-numbers</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>rayiner</author><text>Every single highly individualistic society seems to be in population decline (more so if you factor out immigrants from “anti-progressive” Muslim or Catholic countries). Individualism seems to be a self-limiting feature of society: it’s unpleasant to raise children in highly individualistic societies, which makes such societies inherently transitory.[1]&lt;p&gt;Is societal self-obsolescence how you define “progress?” How successful can your society really be if your people don’t seem to want to raise kids in it and perpetuate it? If you have to import people from collectivist societies just to take care of your elderly?&lt;p&gt;[1] The inverse is not true—many collectivist societies are also facing population walls—but for quite different reasons.</text></item><item><author>seydor</author><text>The US must not be a low-trust society. You should try to live in an actual low trust society (where people can&amp;#x27;t trust institutions and instead revert to their family or clan). The US is not like that, people seem to trust other people they have never seen before because they trust things like justice or the US army or google or apple.&lt;p&gt;Other than that, it seems that things are progressing as normal. Since the times of the Enlightenment, there was this oxymoron of idealizing individual empowerment, while advocating that humans are social animals that must act collectively. Which is it? Well with today&amp;#x27;s technology and abundance people are drifting deliberately and decisively towards more individualism. Perhaps it is about ime to stop describing these things as &amp;#x27;problems&amp;#x27; and realize that they are the new reality. Our politics worldwide is quite ancient , and not prepared for the next phase of individual empowerment. The places of the world that are stuck in collectivist mindsets are awfully deluded like Russia, or rigidly antiprogressive, like China.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>seydor</author><text>&amp;gt; in population decline&lt;p&gt;So? It&amp;#x27;s not the most populous groups that dominate, quite the contrary. The world had half the population just 50 years ago.</text></comment>

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<story><title>Ask HN: What were your naivetés in your twenties?</title><text>Oh the wise elders of Hack News,&lt;p&gt;I&apos;d like to cheat in life and instead of learning my life lessons the hard way, I&apos;d like to skip ahead and read the ending of the current chapter that I&apos;m currently on.&lt;p&gt;When I was in middle school, my biggest worry was getting the latest Abercrombie &amp;#38; Fitch cargo pants to fit in on the school hallway, whether this girl on my school bus liked me, and if the size of my gentalia was on par with my peers back then.&lt;p&gt;When I was in high school, my biggest worry was doing well in school so that I could get into an ivy league school; tacking on a bunch of AP courses and extracurricular activities, not necessarily because I enjoyed AP Chemistry or the track team, but I had to, to get into a ivy league school; and trying to look &quot;cool,&quot; &quot;edgy,&quot; &amp;#38; &quot;artsy&quot; while caring to stay within the boundaries of MTV&apos;s and my high school&apos;s social conventions.&lt;p&gt;When I was in college, my biggest worry was doing well in school so I could go onto a top graduate/medical school or grab a six-figure salary at an i-bank upon graduation. Befriended certain people, chased certain girls (and botched things up royally after the chasing phase is over), got involved in some unsavory debauchery not necessarily because I wanted to live out the lives that &quot;burn, burn, burn&quot; but rather out of my fear of missing out on the &quot;college experience.&quot;&lt;p&gt;Of course, it didn&apos;t all seem that way when I was in the moment - and certainly I don&apos;t regret the things I did in the past (because I can&apos;t change the past) and I&apos;ll be certain to make lots of mistakes in the future too. And even if an older version of me, traveled back in time to my middle school, told me how stupid of me it was to spend $70 of my parents&apos; money on a pair of Abercrombie &amp;#38; Fitch cargo pants, I know that my middle school self would respond, &quot;are you crazy, I need to get these pants to impress this chick on my school bus!&quot;&lt;p&gt;I only beseech your wisdom about what mistakes/naivetes I&apos;ll incur in my twenties, oh the elders of the Hacker News, so that when I realize later how right you were after my twenties, I could slap myself silly and say to myself, in the place of your absence, &quot;see? I told you so!&quot;&lt;p&gt;Best, noname123</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>lionhearted</author><text>Man, forgive me for being blunt, but there&apos;s a lot of loser talk in this thread. &quot;Oh you can&apos;t learn from others mistakes, you&apos;ll make them, blah blah blah...&quot; - no, this is how people feel better about themselves for having not listened to advice and getting wrecked in their own life because of it. Sure, you&apos;ll make mistakes, but you shouldn&apos;t just accept wandering blindly through life dealing with stuff. This is what most people do, mind you - wander blindly through life. Like, there&apos;s tons of literature on good parenting. How many people read it? Like, none. So then they justify their bad parenting by saying &quot;well, we all have to make our mistakes&quot; - bullshit. Bullshit lazy talk. This is like the &quot;you&apos;ve got to earn your stripes the hard way&quot; thing - sometimes you do, but &lt;i&gt;sometimes you don&apos;t&lt;/i&gt;. But people who got their stripes the hard way often hate people who get them an easier way. Ignore those people.&lt;p&gt;Okay, that said, this thread was really good:&lt;p&gt;&quot;Ask HN: What streetsmarts have you learnt?&quot; &lt;a href=&quot;http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1366217&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1366217&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;I&apos;ll paste my comment from that thread, it&apos;s absolutely true and I learned it the hard way. Also, I admire you for being proactive and looking for advice to build a smarter, better life with.&lt;p&gt;--&lt;p&gt;Track record, track record, track record, track record. Look at the track record. Track records don&apos;t lie. Track record, track record, track record.&lt;p&gt;Someone fired from all their jobs is probably going to be a menace later in some form or fashion.&lt;p&gt;Someone who ended all their relationships on bad terms is going to end on bad terms with you.&lt;p&gt;Strong starters/non-finishers are going to start strong but likely won&apos;t be able to close it out without extra help later... which you might be oblivious to, because they&apos;d started so strongly.&lt;p&gt;Track records don&apos;t lie. Unless you&apos;re really good at spotting diamonds in the rough, don&apos;t grab someone with a bad track record for an important role in your business and life. I&apos;ve learned this one the hard way too many times. I still get tempted with, &quot;Wow, this guy/girl is so amazing, the problem must&apos;ve been the other people...&quot;&lt;p&gt;I&apos;m trying to not do that any more. Once? Quite possibly a fluke. Twice? Maybe... Three times? That&apos;s a track record. Also, people will always say they&apos;ve changed. It&apos;s probably a bad idea to be the first person to test out whether it&apos;s real or not.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>leelin</author><text>Weird, isn&apos;t your comment a bit self-contradicting?&lt;p&gt;Above the &amp;#60;hr&amp;#62; fold: &quot;Stop the loser talk. You can learn from others&apos; mistakes. Your fate is not sealed.&quot;&lt;p&gt;Below the fold: &quot;Track record is king. It&apos;s all DNA. People don&apos;t change. Your fate is sealed.&quot;&lt;p&gt;FWIW, I tend to agree more with your below-the-fold views based on most people I&apos;ve met.</text></comment>

<story><title>Ask HN: What were your naivetés in your twenties?</title><text>Oh the wise elders of Hack News,&lt;p&gt;I&apos;d like to cheat in life and instead of learning my life lessons the hard way, I&apos;d like to skip ahead and read the ending of the current chapter that I&apos;m currently on.&lt;p&gt;When I was in middle school, my biggest worry was getting the latest Abercrombie &amp;#38; Fitch cargo pants to fit in on the school hallway, whether this girl on my school bus liked me, and if the size of my gentalia was on par with my peers back then.&lt;p&gt;When I was in high school, my biggest worry was doing well in school so that I could get into an ivy league school; tacking on a bunch of AP courses and extracurricular activities, not necessarily because I enjoyed AP Chemistry or the track team, but I had to, to get into a ivy league school; and trying to look &quot;cool,&quot; &quot;edgy,&quot; &amp;#38; &quot;artsy&quot; while caring to stay within the boundaries of MTV&apos;s and my high school&apos;s social conventions.&lt;p&gt;When I was in college, my biggest worry was doing well in school so I could go onto a top graduate/medical school or grab a six-figure salary at an i-bank upon graduation. Befriended certain people, chased certain girls (and botched things up royally after the chasing phase is over), got involved in some unsavory debauchery not necessarily because I wanted to live out the lives that &quot;burn, burn, burn&quot; but rather out of my fear of missing out on the &quot;college experience.&quot;&lt;p&gt;Of course, it didn&apos;t all seem that way when I was in the moment - and certainly I don&apos;t regret the things I did in the past (because I can&apos;t change the past) and I&apos;ll be certain to make lots of mistakes in the future too. And even if an older version of me, traveled back in time to my middle school, told me how stupid of me it was to spend $70 of my parents&apos; money on a pair of Abercrombie &amp;#38; Fitch cargo pants, I know that my middle school self would respond, &quot;are you crazy, I need to get these pants to impress this chick on my school bus!&quot;&lt;p&gt;I only beseech your wisdom about what mistakes/naivetes I&apos;ll incur in my twenties, oh the elders of the Hacker News, so that when I realize later how right you were after my twenties, I could slap myself silly and say to myself, in the place of your absence, &quot;see? I told you so!&quot;&lt;p&gt;Best, noname123</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>lionhearted</author><text>Man, forgive me for being blunt, but there&apos;s a lot of loser talk in this thread. &quot;Oh you can&apos;t learn from others mistakes, you&apos;ll make them, blah blah blah...&quot; - no, this is how people feel better about themselves for having not listened to advice and getting wrecked in their own life because of it. Sure, you&apos;ll make mistakes, but you shouldn&apos;t just accept wandering blindly through life dealing with stuff. This is what most people do, mind you - wander blindly through life. Like, there&apos;s tons of literature on good parenting. How many people read it? Like, none. So then they justify their bad parenting by saying &quot;well, we all have to make our mistakes&quot; - bullshit. Bullshit lazy talk. This is like the &quot;you&apos;ve got to earn your stripes the hard way&quot; thing - sometimes you do, but &lt;i&gt;sometimes you don&apos;t&lt;/i&gt;. But people who got their stripes the hard way often hate people who get them an easier way. Ignore those people.&lt;p&gt;Okay, that said, this thread was really good:&lt;p&gt;&quot;Ask HN: What streetsmarts have you learnt?&quot; &lt;a href=&quot;http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1366217&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1366217&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;I&apos;ll paste my comment from that thread, it&apos;s absolutely true and I learned it the hard way. Also, I admire you for being proactive and looking for advice to build a smarter, better life with.&lt;p&gt;--&lt;p&gt;Track record, track record, track record, track record. Look at the track record. Track records don&apos;t lie. Track record, track record, track record.&lt;p&gt;Someone fired from all their jobs is probably going to be a menace later in some form or fashion.&lt;p&gt;Someone who ended all their relationships on bad terms is going to end on bad terms with you.&lt;p&gt;Strong starters/non-finishers are going to start strong but likely won&apos;t be able to close it out without extra help later... which you might be oblivious to, because they&apos;d started so strongly.&lt;p&gt;Track records don&apos;t lie. Unless you&apos;re really good at spotting diamonds in the rough, don&apos;t grab someone with a bad track record for an important role in your business and life. I&apos;ve learned this one the hard way too many times. I still get tempted with, &quot;Wow, this guy/girl is so amazing, the problem must&apos;ve been the other people...&quot;&lt;p&gt;I&apos;m trying to not do that any more. Once? Quite possibly a fluke. Twice? Maybe... Three times? That&apos;s a track record. Also, people will always say they&apos;ve changed. It&apos;s probably a bad idea to be the first person to test out whether it&apos;s real or not.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ErrantX</author><text>While there is truth in what you say I can only quote (or rather paraphrase from memory) Michael Mcintyre:&lt;p&gt;&lt;i&gt;have you ever noticed with ATM&apos;s, you go up to it and it says &quot;no, I have no money for you, go away&quot;. So, like a good citizen you turn round to the man behind you in the queue and say &quot;it is out of money&quot;. And he says &quot;thank you.....&quot;, and then steps up to try for himself anyway. &quot;thanks, but I don&apos;t believe you, it will work for me&quot;.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;So, no, you don&apos;t &lt;i&gt;have&lt;/i&gt; to &quot;learn things the hard way&quot;. But most people nod sagely when you give them advice and then do it anyway :) (and that is a good thing IMO)&lt;p&gt;(I agree with your track records thing; it&apos;s too easy to imagine you are giving a &quot;last chance&quot; and that it will really work out this time).</text></comment>

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<story><title>Single course of antibiotics can mess up the gut microbiome for a year</title><url>http://arstechnica.com/science/2015/11/single-course-of-antibiotics-can-mess-up-the-gut-microbiome-for-a-year/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Natsu</author><text>I simply took a probiotic after being on antibiotics for a couple months and it had a side effect of curing a lot of digestive problems I used to have. So there&amp;#x27;s that, too. Incidentally, my doctor was the one who advised this.&lt;p&gt;EDIT: The probiotic in my case was capsules of 15B cells of Lactobasillus GG. Marketing copy on the box suggests this is the &amp;quot;most clinically studied probiotic strain&amp;quot; but I&amp;#x27;m not able to verify that.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>homeslice</author><text>So I run a probiotics site...and what that marketing claim means is that that precise strain of Lactobacillus Rhamnosus is the most researched.&lt;p&gt;There are many more studies on the species of probiotic Lactobacillus Rhamnosus as a whole...but for that exact &amp;quot;cousin&amp;quot; of the species, it is likely the most clinically researched probiotic.&lt;p&gt;There&amp;#x27;s a bit more info on it here: &lt;a href=&quot;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;probiotics.org&amp;#x2F;lactobacillus-gg-benefits&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;probiotics.org&amp;#x2F;lactobacillus-gg-benefits&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>

<story><title>Single course of antibiotics can mess up the gut microbiome for a year</title><url>http://arstechnica.com/science/2015/11/single-course-of-antibiotics-can-mess-up-the-gut-microbiome-for-a-year/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Natsu</author><text>I simply took a probiotic after being on antibiotics for a couple months and it had a side effect of curing a lot of digestive problems I used to have. So there&amp;#x27;s that, too. Incidentally, my doctor was the one who advised this.&lt;p&gt;EDIT: The probiotic in my case was capsules of 15B cells of Lactobasillus GG. Marketing copy on the box suggests this is the &amp;quot;most clinically studied probiotic strain&amp;quot; but I&amp;#x27;m not able to verify that.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>tghw</author><text>My father ended up on months-long rounds of antibiotics and started taking probiotics as a result. He also said it helped some similar digestive problems he&amp;#x27;s had for years.</text></comment>

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<story><title>The Bulk of Software Engineering in 2018 Is Just Plumbing</title><url>https://www.karllhughes.com/posts/plumbing</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ellius</author><text>I&amp;#x27;m reading Thomas Sowell&amp;#x27;s &amp;quot;Intellectuals and Society,&amp;quot; and while I disagree with a lot in his arguments and his view of the world, I think he nails a key point about the philosophy behind free market economies. He says that conservative intellectuals don&amp;#x27;t view inequality and other social tragedies as mainly the consequence of policy, but rather as an inherent part of the human condition. Markets may act as a mechanism that &lt;i&gt;conveys&lt;/i&gt; those inequalities, but they are not necessarily their cause. Prices are his first example. Commanding a higher salary doesn&amp;#x27;t mean you&amp;#x27;re a harder or even more skilled worker, it just means that you produce something that is judged by buyers (employers) to have a higher positive impact on their well-being.</text></item><item><author>ken</author><text>&amp;gt; I believe that many in the field are overpaid relative to the difficulty of the work they do.&lt;p&gt;I believe that &lt;i&gt;every&lt;/i&gt; programmer is overpaid relative to the difficulty of the work they do -- or, more accurately, that The Market doesn&amp;#x27;t pay based on &lt;i&gt;difficulty&lt;/i&gt; of work. Software pays so well because the product scales so well.&lt;p&gt;Successful pop musicians don&amp;#x27;t do work that&amp;#x27;s 100 times more &amp;#x27;difficult&amp;#x27; than software engineering. They do work that scales even better (copying digital music; playing to arenas; branding on merch).&lt;p&gt;Having worked outside the software world, I absolutely do not believe that software people are any smarter, on average, than anyone else. Ever see a plumbing or electrical or structural system fail spectacularly? Other types of workers absolutely need to understand interactions between multiple complex systems, deal with obsolete and incompatible systems, and deal with changing and conflicting requirements and regulations.&lt;p&gt;If software is any more complex to deal with than physical systems, it&amp;#x27;s only because the architects and implementors let it get that way.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>sampl</author><text>Funny, I was just reading that same example of his in his book “basic economics”, and it makes sense.&lt;p&gt;Still, couldn’t you say the same for a feudal structure? That nature has power imbalances, and the role of king only conveys that inequality?&lt;p&gt;Instead, we’ve intentionally built a more egalitarian system (and we’ve all prospered because of it), seemingly against nature.</text></comment>

<story><title>The Bulk of Software Engineering in 2018 Is Just Plumbing</title><url>https://www.karllhughes.com/posts/plumbing</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ellius</author><text>I&amp;#x27;m reading Thomas Sowell&amp;#x27;s &amp;quot;Intellectuals and Society,&amp;quot; and while I disagree with a lot in his arguments and his view of the world, I think he nails a key point about the philosophy behind free market economies. He says that conservative intellectuals don&amp;#x27;t view inequality and other social tragedies as mainly the consequence of policy, but rather as an inherent part of the human condition. Markets may act as a mechanism that &lt;i&gt;conveys&lt;/i&gt; those inequalities, but they are not necessarily their cause. Prices are his first example. Commanding a higher salary doesn&amp;#x27;t mean you&amp;#x27;re a harder or even more skilled worker, it just means that you produce something that is judged by buyers (employers) to have a higher positive impact on their well-being.</text></item><item><author>ken</author><text>&amp;gt; I believe that many in the field are overpaid relative to the difficulty of the work they do.&lt;p&gt;I believe that &lt;i&gt;every&lt;/i&gt; programmer is overpaid relative to the difficulty of the work they do -- or, more accurately, that The Market doesn&amp;#x27;t pay based on &lt;i&gt;difficulty&lt;/i&gt; of work. Software pays so well because the product scales so well.&lt;p&gt;Successful pop musicians don&amp;#x27;t do work that&amp;#x27;s 100 times more &amp;#x27;difficult&amp;#x27; than software engineering. They do work that scales even better (copying digital music; playing to arenas; branding on merch).&lt;p&gt;Having worked outside the software world, I absolutely do not believe that software people are any smarter, on average, than anyone else. Ever see a plumbing or electrical or structural system fail spectacularly? Other types of workers absolutely need to understand interactions between multiple complex systems, deal with obsolete and incompatible systems, and deal with changing and conflicting requirements and regulations.&lt;p&gt;If software is any more complex to deal with than physical systems, it&amp;#x27;s only because the architects and implementors let it get that way.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jadedhacker</author><text>This is far too celebratory of markets. Markets pay for things that people of means want. If I make a useless toy that delights a rich person I am paid lavishly. If I make a useless toy that delights a poor person I get next to nothing.</text></comment>

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<story><title>Rust support in the Linux kernel</title><url>https://lkml.org/lkml/2021/12/6/461</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>NextHendrix</author><text>Will be interesting to see how much compile times suffer once rust starts being used more heavily in the kernel.&lt;p&gt;In my gentoo days I remember the compile time for firefox suddenly going up from 20 minutes to several hours which left a sour taste in my mouth with regards to rust.&lt;p&gt;Has there been much improvement in compile times in the past ~2 years?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>swsieber</author><text>Roughly dropped by about 30% or more? Here&amp;#x27;s a dashboard that tracks times of certain benchmark tasks by compiler version: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;perf.rust-lang.org&amp;#x2F;dashboard.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;perf.rust-lang.org&amp;#x2F;dashboard.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;Additionally, I would expect that the kernel would mostly avoid things that drive up compile time - generics and macros.&lt;p&gt;And as someone else mentioned, things should be able to be compiled in parallel.&lt;p&gt;Also, some crates for firefox are absurdly huge in terms of compile times - they are definitely outliers (IIUC). (Edit: I was thinking of this issue in Servo, so not definitely firefox releated: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;github.com&amp;#x2F;servo&amp;#x2F;servo&amp;#x2F;issues&amp;#x2F;1799&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;github.com&amp;#x2F;servo&amp;#x2F;servo&amp;#x2F;issues&amp;#x2F;1799&lt;/a&gt;)</text></comment>

<story><title>Rust support in the Linux kernel</title><url>https://lkml.org/lkml/2021/12/6/461</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>NextHendrix</author><text>Will be interesting to see how much compile times suffer once rust starts being used more heavily in the kernel.&lt;p&gt;In my gentoo days I remember the compile time for firefox suddenly going up from 20 minutes to several hours which left a sour taste in my mouth with regards to rust.&lt;p&gt;Has there been much improvement in compile times in the past ~2 years?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>howdydoo</author><text>&amp;gt;Has there been much improvement in compile times in the past ~2 years?&lt;p&gt;Yes. Source: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;nnethercote.github.io&amp;#x2F;2021&amp;#x2F;11&amp;#x2F;12&amp;#x2F;the-rust-compiler-has-gotten-faster-again.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;nnethercote.github.io&amp;#x2F;2021&amp;#x2F;11&amp;#x2F;12&amp;#x2F;the-rust-compiler-h...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;In my experience, compile times are more a function of project structure than anything else. The compilation unit is a crate, so keep your crates nice and small, and you&amp;#x27;ll be fine.</text></comment>

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<story><title>Tech firms face growing resentment of parent employees during Covid-19</title><url>https://www.cnet.com/news/tech-firms-face-growing-resentment-of-parent-employees-during-covid-19/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ng12</author><text>What I&amp;#x27;ve seen is the complaints are largely coming from couples that want to raise kids while both parents work full time jobs. Asking for fewer hours so you can continue that lifestyle is asking your employer and fellow employees to subsidize your second income, not your ability to have and raise children. My coworkers with SAH spouses aren&amp;#x27;t feeling the burn anywhere near as badly -- it&amp;#x27;s just an extended summer for them.&lt;p&gt;I feel a lot of empathy for single parents but those seem to be relatively rare in the field.</text></item><item><author>mc32</author><text>I agree. Parents are making sacrifices which benefit society as a whole. Those children the parents are taking care of now will be the ones who will provide for the one complaining now via taxes as well as services rendered to them.&lt;p&gt;If anything, companies should be providing more childcare so that more women (as well as some men) will have less of a burden balancing career and caregiving.&lt;p&gt;I see these people as being petty complainers who wouldn’t raise their own children (own or adopted) but complain someone else is willing to be a productive member of society engaging in the workforce and raising the productive adults of tomorrow when these complainers will be asking for benefits and services that would be unavailable without future adults.&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s similar to &amp;quot;I don&amp;#x27;t take the bus, why should my taxes pay for public transit.&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;I would concede if there are people exploiting this privilege then that’s a problem and management should address it.</text></item><item><author>hn_throwaway_99</author><text>I am a middle-aged adult with no children who&amp;#x27;s worked at tech firms for the past couple decades. To be honest, the &amp;quot;resentment&amp;quot; of those without children have for &amp;quot;benefits&amp;quot; those with children get strikes me as extremely selfish, immature and displaying a total lack of empathy. This is time off specifically to take care of children, something now that has become exceedingly more difficult in Covid times.&lt;p&gt;What&amp;#x27;s next, complaining that the cancer patient gets extra time off so why don&amp;#x27;t I?&lt;p&gt;If anything, I&amp;#x27;m thankful for all those people with kids who will (a) take care of the continuation of the human race, and more selfishly (b) support our society and economy when I am too old to do so.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>sulam</author><text>Just keep in mind, those people working two full time jobs might be barely making ends meeting in Silicon Valley. Maybe one is a tech writer earning 5-figures and the other is a nurse with a schedule they don&amp;#x27;t control and that doesn&amp;#x27;t give them real benefits (this is all too common). They can&amp;#x27;t afford to quit and now they have to juggle kids, too. Everything worked fine when the kids were in school and they could pay for after school care, but now both of those options have been removed. On top of everything else they also have to figure out how to organize their 3 bedroom place into two classrooms and an office. Oh and for the cherry on top, now you can&amp;#x27;t even be outside safely without a high quality mask on.&lt;p&gt;And yes, I&amp;#x27;m thinking of a specific couple -- this is not a made up situation.</text></comment>

<story><title>Tech firms face growing resentment of parent employees during Covid-19</title><url>https://www.cnet.com/news/tech-firms-face-growing-resentment-of-parent-employees-during-covid-19/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ng12</author><text>What I&amp;#x27;ve seen is the complaints are largely coming from couples that want to raise kids while both parents work full time jobs. Asking for fewer hours so you can continue that lifestyle is asking your employer and fellow employees to subsidize your second income, not your ability to have and raise children. My coworkers with SAH spouses aren&amp;#x27;t feeling the burn anywhere near as badly -- it&amp;#x27;s just an extended summer for them.&lt;p&gt;I feel a lot of empathy for single parents but those seem to be relatively rare in the field.</text></item><item><author>mc32</author><text>I agree. Parents are making sacrifices which benefit society as a whole. Those children the parents are taking care of now will be the ones who will provide for the one complaining now via taxes as well as services rendered to them.&lt;p&gt;If anything, companies should be providing more childcare so that more women (as well as some men) will have less of a burden balancing career and caregiving.&lt;p&gt;I see these people as being petty complainers who wouldn’t raise their own children (own or adopted) but complain someone else is willing to be a productive member of society engaging in the workforce and raising the productive adults of tomorrow when these complainers will be asking for benefits and services that would be unavailable without future adults.&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s similar to &amp;quot;I don&amp;#x27;t take the bus, why should my taxes pay for public transit.&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;I would concede if there are people exploiting this privilege then that’s a problem and management should address it.</text></item><item><author>hn_throwaway_99</author><text>I am a middle-aged adult with no children who&amp;#x27;s worked at tech firms for the past couple decades. To be honest, the &amp;quot;resentment&amp;quot; of those without children have for &amp;quot;benefits&amp;quot; those with children get strikes me as extremely selfish, immature and displaying a total lack of empathy. This is time off specifically to take care of children, something now that has become exceedingly more difficult in Covid times.&lt;p&gt;What&amp;#x27;s next, complaining that the cancer patient gets extra time off so why don&amp;#x27;t I?&lt;p&gt;If anything, I&amp;#x27;m thankful for all those people with kids who will (a) take care of the continuation of the human race, and more selfishly (b) support our society and economy when I am too old to do so.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jtsiskin</author><text>I’m not sure I buy this argument due to the disruptions of COVID. Pre-COVID, both parents working full time may have made total sense.&lt;p&gt;With daycare, nannies, and&amp;#x2F;or school it’s perfectly reasonable both parents can have full time jobs. One parent may have even delayed their career during the youngest years and only recently resumed work.&lt;p&gt;The issue now is COVID makes these childcare options impossible, so it isn’t the parents fault for both working, and they have a momentary huge increase in childcare responsibility. This is not something they could have planned for and suggesting one parent quits their job and stays at home is unfair.</text></comment>

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<story><title>Re-License Vaultwarden to AGPLv3</title><url>https://github.com/dani-garcia/vaultwarden/pull/2561</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>YPPH</author><text>The AGPL is an underrated licence. It solves the problem of $bigCorp taking free software, making significant improvements and then renting network access to that improved version without providing their changes to anyone. That&amp;#x27;s unfair.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>simiones</author><text>This has generally turned out to be a problem very few people have.&lt;p&gt;In practice, $bigCorp is happy to publicize all of the changes they make to this software.&lt;p&gt;They can then focus on out-competing anyone by offering a cheaper and&amp;#x2F;or better integrated managed version then the original creators can. This is explicitly why Mongo moved from the AGPL to a custom non-FOSS license; Elastic followed suite and skipped the AGPL altogether for a similar license.&lt;p&gt;Overall, $bigCorp love having any changes they make in upstream: less maintenance burden on them for the parts that are not in their direct business, more time spent on working on their value-adds.</text></comment>

<story><title>Re-License Vaultwarden to AGPLv3</title><url>https://github.com/dani-garcia/vaultwarden/pull/2561</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>YPPH</author><text>The AGPL is an underrated licence. It solves the problem of $bigCorp taking free software, making significant improvements and then renting network access to that improved version without providing their changes to anyone. That&amp;#x27;s unfair.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Macha</author><text>I&amp;#x27;d argue that the GPLv3 is even obsolete. If you don&amp;#x27;t care about third parties using it in proprietary software, use LGPLv3 or Apache 2.0. If you do care, then a license that fails to apply that restriction to the dominant form of software today seems pretty underwhelming and you should go straight to AGPLv3 instead.</text></comment>

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<story><title>Local TV stations pushed the same Amazon-scripted segment</title><url>https://couriernewsroom.com/2020/05/26/11-local-tv-stations-that-pushed-amazon-scripted-segment/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>hbosch</author><text>Yeah... my eyebrows raised the first time I heard about this type of thing. Someone I know was in a news segment shot and produced by some company I had never heard of before (I don&amp;#x27;t recall the name). They said it would be on the news. The segment was produced, and when I asked where it was going to air, they said &amp;quot;50-60 local news stations around the country&amp;quot; and I was baffled... don&amp;#x27;t local news stations just produce their own news? No, not all of it.&lt;p&gt;There are companies like Sinclair and Scripps that produce and purchase news segments, and then run them in their own markets, and sometimes these companies will literally BUY news from companies that the news is about! And those companies, sometimes marketing or PR companies, are telling their own stories. It&amp;#x27;s &amp;quot;white label news&amp;quot;. I guess the equivalent is what we call &amp;quot;advertorials&amp;quot; online?</text></comment>

<story><title>Local TV stations pushed the same Amazon-scripted segment</title><url>https://couriernewsroom.com/2020/05/26/11-local-tv-stations-that-pushed-amazon-scripted-segment/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>justinsaccount</author><text>This is literally all they do&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.youtube.com&amp;#x2F;watch?v=hWLjYJ4BzvI&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.youtube.com&amp;#x2F;watch?v=hWLjYJ4BzvI&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>

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<story><title>Is Every Speed Limit Too Low?</title><url>https://priceonomics.com/is-every-speed-limit-too-low/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>civilian</author><text>I agree, let&amp;#x27;s fucking reduce pedestrian deaths! But you&amp;#x27;re ignoring the analysis given in the article-- drivers already don&amp;#x27;t acknowledge speed limits. From the article:&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; &lt;i&gt;Luckily, there is some logic to the speed people choose other than the need for speed. The speed drivers choose is not based on laws or street signs, but the weather, number of intersections, presence of pedestrians and curves, and all the other information that factors into the principle, as Lt. Megge puts it, that “no one I know who gets into their car wants to crash.”&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;Rather than speed limits, we need to look at other avenues to reduce pedestrian traffic deaths. Just shooting from the hip, I think that we could do more to communicate to drivers the presence of pedestrians, and to make sure that rural highways and boulevards have shoulders or sidewalks for pedestrians.&lt;p&gt;A more complete analysis of pedestrian deaths: &lt;a href=&quot;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.popcenter.org&amp;#x2F;problems&amp;#x2F;pedestrian_injuries&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.popcenter.org&amp;#x2F;problems&amp;#x2F;pedestrian_injuries&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;Here are some useful factoids:&lt;p&gt;- &lt;i&gt;Finally, the more one drinks, the higher the risk of being involved in a pedestrian-vehicle crash resulting in a fatality. One study found that out of 176 pedestrian fatalities, 86 of those involved pedestrians who had been drinking, nearly all of whom had BACs of 0.10 percent or more.&lt;/i&gt; - &lt;i&gt;In addition, the same study noted that 71 percent of all fatal pedestrian-vehicle crashes in the United States in 2000 occurred in urban areas.&lt;/i&gt; - &lt;i&gt;Finally, the majority of pedestrian injuries and fatalities happen to males between the ages of 25 and 44.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;This gives us a pretty targeted demographic! Start a &amp;quot;dangers of the road&amp;quot; campaign targeted at pedestrians who are men, aged 25-44, drink at night and who live in rural areas.</text></item><item><author>mcfunk</author><text>This is a fine analysis if you imagine that every road only ever has cars on it. But this is not the reality, and speed of cars has a huge impact on the fatality rates of vulnerable road users when they are hit.&lt;p&gt;Results show that the average risk of severe injury for a pedestrian struck by a vehicle reaches 10% at an impact speed of 16 mph, 25% at 23 mph, 50% at 31 mph, 75% at 39 mph, and 90% at 46 mph. The average risk of death for a pedestrian reaches 10% at an impact speed of 23 mph, 25% at 32 mph, 50% at 42 mph, 75% at 50 mph, and 90% at 58 mph. Risks vary significantly by age. For example, the average risk of severe injury or death for a 70‐year‐old pedestrian struck by a car travelling at 25 mph is similar to the risk for a 30‐year‐old pedestrian struck at 35 mph. &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.aaafoundation.org&amp;#x2F;sites&amp;#x2F;default&amp;#x2F;files&amp;#x2F;2011PedestrianRiskVsSpeed.pdf&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.aaafoundation.org&amp;#x2F;sites&amp;#x2F;default&amp;#x2F;files&amp;#x2F;2011Pedest...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;Please think of everyone on the roads, not just drivers, when making arguments like these.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>sushisource</author><text>Not only that, the article &lt;i&gt;specifically addresses&lt;/i&gt; parent comment&amp;#x27;s concerns:&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; “I don’t want to lie to people,” Lt. Megge tells us. It may make parents feel better if the speed limit on their street is 25 mph instead of 35 mph, but that sign won’t make people drive any slower. Megge prefers speed limits that both allow people to drive at a safe speed legally, and that realistically reflect traffic speeds. People shouldn’t have a false sense of safety around roads, he says.&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; If people and politicians do want to reduce road speeds to improve safety, or make cities more pedestrian friendly, Megge says “there are a lot of other things you can do from an engineering standpoint.” Cities can reduce the number of lanes, change the parking situation, create wider bike paths, and so on. It’s more expensive, but unlike changing the number on a sign, it’s effective.&lt;p&gt;Read the article before commenting, people.</text></comment>

<story><title>Is Every Speed Limit Too Low?</title><url>https://priceonomics.com/is-every-speed-limit-too-low/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>civilian</author><text>I agree, let&amp;#x27;s fucking reduce pedestrian deaths! But you&amp;#x27;re ignoring the analysis given in the article-- drivers already don&amp;#x27;t acknowledge speed limits. From the article:&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; &lt;i&gt;Luckily, there is some logic to the speed people choose other than the need for speed. The speed drivers choose is not based on laws or street signs, but the weather, number of intersections, presence of pedestrians and curves, and all the other information that factors into the principle, as Lt. Megge puts it, that “no one I know who gets into their car wants to crash.”&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;Rather than speed limits, we need to look at other avenues to reduce pedestrian traffic deaths. Just shooting from the hip, I think that we could do more to communicate to drivers the presence of pedestrians, and to make sure that rural highways and boulevards have shoulders or sidewalks for pedestrians.&lt;p&gt;A more complete analysis of pedestrian deaths: &lt;a href=&quot;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.popcenter.org&amp;#x2F;problems&amp;#x2F;pedestrian_injuries&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.popcenter.org&amp;#x2F;problems&amp;#x2F;pedestrian_injuries&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;Here are some useful factoids:&lt;p&gt;- &lt;i&gt;Finally, the more one drinks, the higher the risk of being involved in a pedestrian-vehicle crash resulting in a fatality. One study found that out of 176 pedestrian fatalities, 86 of those involved pedestrians who had been drinking, nearly all of whom had BACs of 0.10 percent or more.&lt;/i&gt; - &lt;i&gt;In addition, the same study noted that 71 percent of all fatal pedestrian-vehicle crashes in the United States in 2000 occurred in urban areas.&lt;/i&gt; - &lt;i&gt;Finally, the majority of pedestrian injuries and fatalities happen to males between the ages of 25 and 44.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;This gives us a pretty targeted demographic! Start a &amp;quot;dangers of the road&amp;quot; campaign targeted at pedestrians who are men, aged 25-44, drink at night and who live in rural areas.</text></item><item><author>mcfunk</author><text>This is a fine analysis if you imagine that every road only ever has cars on it. But this is not the reality, and speed of cars has a huge impact on the fatality rates of vulnerable road users when they are hit.&lt;p&gt;Results show that the average risk of severe injury for a pedestrian struck by a vehicle reaches 10% at an impact speed of 16 mph, 25% at 23 mph, 50% at 31 mph, 75% at 39 mph, and 90% at 46 mph. The average risk of death for a pedestrian reaches 10% at an impact speed of 23 mph, 25% at 32 mph, 50% at 42 mph, 75% at 50 mph, and 90% at 58 mph. Risks vary significantly by age. For example, the average risk of severe injury or death for a 70‐year‐old pedestrian struck by a car travelling at 25 mph is similar to the risk for a 30‐year‐old pedestrian struck at 35 mph. &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.aaafoundation.org&amp;#x2F;sites&amp;#x2F;default&amp;#x2F;files&amp;#x2F;2011PedestrianRiskVsSpeed.pdf&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.aaafoundation.org&amp;#x2F;sites&amp;#x2F;default&amp;#x2F;files&amp;#x2F;2011Pedest...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;Please think of everyone on the roads, not just drivers, when making arguments like these.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>lmm</author><text>&amp;gt; Rather than speed limits, we need to look at other avenues to reduce pedestrian traffic deaths. Just shooting from the hip, I think that we could do more to communicate to drivers the presence of pedestrians, and to make sure that rural highways and boulevards have shoulders or sidewalks for pedestrians.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;ve seen it argued that shoulders&amp;#x2F;sidewalks actually make roads more dangerous, because drivers drive faster when they&amp;#x27;re present.&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; This gives us a pretty targeted demographic! Start a &amp;quot;dangers of the road&amp;quot; campaign targeted at pedestrians who are men, aged 25-44, drink at night and who live in rural areas.&lt;p&gt;Isn&amp;#x27;t that classic victim-blaming? Getting pedestrians off the road would reduce pedestrian deaths, but it&amp;#x27;s the wrong way to solve it as a matter of principle.</text></comment>

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<story><title>Two years of Rust</title><url>https://blog.rust-lang.org/2017/05/15/rust-at-two-years.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>brandur</author><text>I&amp;#x27;m consistently blown away by just how good the project management for this language is. It&amp;#x27;s not just the forward progress that the language is making (which is considerable), but also just how well they package the information up into a form that the rest of us who are not involved day to day can digest, like has been done here.&lt;p&gt;Another example is the &amp;quot;This Week in Rust&amp;quot; newsletter which takes progress that would&amp;#x27;ve taken you hours to read about yourself, and puts it into a succinct format that you can get through in minutes [1].&lt;p&gt;The Rust 2017 roadmap which targeted forward movement on all the language&amp;#x27;s weakest features was admirable in itself, but even moreso is how much progress has already been made. In particular, I&amp;#x27;m really excited about incremental compilation, which is showing as much as 5x speedups in early results [2].&lt;p&gt;I was also very happy to hear that the Rust team acknowledges that regardless of how performant they are, futures are &lt;i&gt;not&lt;/i&gt; a particularly ergonomic or maintainable way to write code, and are considering what new constructs might look like over the longer term:&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; &lt;i&gt;Over the rest of this year, we expect all of the above libraries to significantly mature; for a middleware ecosystem to sprout up; for the selection of supported protocols and services to grow; and, quite possibly, to tie all this all together with an async&amp;#x2F;await notation that works natively with Rust’s futures.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;m still on dabbling in Rust, but I&amp;#x27;m fairly convinced that in another few years after this Tokio churn has gotten a chance to settle down and the async patterns are more broadly refined, there won&amp;#x27;t be many justifiable reasons to &lt;i&gt;not&lt;/i&gt; write new projects in it, whether they&amp;#x27;re as low level as a Postgres extension, or as high level as a DB-backed HTTP application. It seems to have an almost perfect compromise between performance, safety, productivity, and ecosystem.&lt;p&gt;[1] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;this-week-in-rust.org&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;this-week-in-rust.org&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;[2] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;blog.rust-lang.org&amp;#x2F;2017&amp;#x2F;05&amp;#x2F;15&amp;#x2F;rust-at-two-years.html#rust-should-have-a-pleasant-edit-compile-debug-cycle&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;blog.rust-lang.org&amp;#x2F;2017&amp;#x2F;05&amp;#x2F;15&amp;#x2F;rust-at-two-years.html...&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>

<story><title>Two years of Rust</title><url>https://blog.rust-lang.org/2017/05/15/rust-at-two-years.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>webkike</author><text>A few years ago I was a C evangelist. C++ was and more so now is a fine language with a lot of features I want. But Rust has that simplicity in a systems language that I crave that lets me do my own thing. That elegence. It&amp;#x27;s my favourite language by far. Keep it up!</text></comment>

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<story><title>Protopiper: Physically Sketching Room-Sized Objects at Actual Scale</title><url>http://hpi.de/baudisch/projects/protopiper.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>modeless</author><text>You can do a very similar thing in virtual reality with TiltBrush. You don&amp;#x27;t get a physical object at the end but you do have a lot more flexibility in the structure and appearance, and, of course, the magical power of the undo button. And maybe you &lt;i&gt;could&lt;/i&gt; get a physical object out with the help of a 3D printer...&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;tiltbrush.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;tiltbrush.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;I believe 3D sketching and CAD will be the first popular non-game application of virtual reality. 3D CAD with 2D I&amp;#x2F;O (mouse and flat monitor) has always been a little too difficult for the masses. Virtual reality with natively 3D input and output makes 3D CAD an order of magnitude easier and more fun. It could give a real boost to the 3D printing market too, as once the masses start doing CAD they&amp;#x27;re definitely going to want to print their creations.</text></comment>

<story><title>Protopiper: Physically Sketching Room-Sized Objects at Actual Scale</title><url>http://hpi.de/baudisch/projects/protopiper.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>huuu</author><text>Very cool.&lt;p&gt;This reminds me of a talk by Brett Victor [1] &amp;quot;The Humane Representation of Thought&amp;quot;.&lt;p&gt;Brett thinks we are limiting ourselfs by expressing our thoughts in a mostly 2D scaled down domain.&lt;p&gt;This protopiper is a great example of what we will see in the future.&lt;p&gt;[1] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;vimeo.com&amp;#x2F;115154289&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;vimeo.com&amp;#x2F;115154289&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>

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<story><title>GitHub Copilot for individuals available without waitlist, with free trial</title><url>https://github.com/features/copilot</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>happyhardcore</author><text>I&amp;#x27;ve found copilot invaluable for throwing together quick scripts, especially in languages I don&amp;#x27;t quite understand. Writing e.g. a bash script, and being able to add a comment saying&lt;p&gt;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt; # Print an error message in red and exit if this program returns an error &lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt; and have it print out&lt;p&gt;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt; if ! some_program then echo -e &amp;quot;\e[31msome_program failed\e[0m&amp;quot; exit 1 fi &lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt; makes it so much quicker to cobble together something that works without having to context switch and go Google something. That being said, I&amp;#x27;ve found when writing more complex code it has a real tendency to introduce subtle bugs that can really catch you out if you&amp;#x27;re not paying attention.&lt;p&gt;Purely from the amount of time I&amp;#x27;ve saved I&amp;#x27;d say it&amp;#x27;s well worth the $10&amp;#x2F;mo for my employer (it only has to save a few minutes a day to be worthwhile). Very excited to see how they improve it in the future!</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dagw</author><text>&lt;i&gt;I&amp;#x27;ve found when writing more complex code it has a real tendency to introduce subtle bugs that can really catch you out if you&amp;#x27;re not paying attention.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;Yea, that is basically my experience as well. On balance I feel I wasted about as much time debugging broken copilot code as I&amp;#x27;ve saved from using it.</text></comment>

<story><title>GitHub Copilot for individuals available without waitlist, with free trial</title><url>https://github.com/features/copilot</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>happyhardcore</author><text>I&amp;#x27;ve found copilot invaluable for throwing together quick scripts, especially in languages I don&amp;#x27;t quite understand. Writing e.g. a bash script, and being able to add a comment saying&lt;p&gt;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt; # Print an error message in red and exit if this program returns an error &lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt; and have it print out&lt;p&gt;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt; if ! some_program then echo -e &amp;quot;\e[31msome_program failed\e[0m&amp;quot; exit 1 fi &lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt; makes it so much quicker to cobble together something that works without having to context switch and go Google something. That being said, I&amp;#x27;ve found when writing more complex code it has a real tendency to introduce subtle bugs that can really catch you out if you&amp;#x27;re not paying attention.&lt;p&gt;Purely from the amount of time I&amp;#x27;ve saved I&amp;#x27;d say it&amp;#x27;s well worth the $10&amp;#x2F;mo for my employer (it only has to save a few minutes a day to be worthwhile). Very excited to see how they improve it in the future!</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>croes</author><text>Maybe they can replace you with copilot and an unexperienced cheaper user.</text></comment>

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<story><title>Poll: Google+: Like it/prefer it to FaceBook</title><text></text></story><parent_chain><item><author>kloncks</author><text>You should add an option for those that haven&apos;t gotten a chance to try it out yet. Some people, including me, just aren&apos;t that cool yet :)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jpk</author><text>I&apos;m in the same boat because I have a Google Apps account, so Google Profiles (and thus Google+) isn&apos;t available to me (yet?).</text></comment>

<story><title>Poll: Google+: Like it/prefer it to FaceBook</title><text></text></story><parent_chain><item><author>kloncks</author><text>You should add an option for those that haven&apos;t gotten a chance to try it out yet. Some people, including me, just aren&apos;t that cool yet :)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mstolpm</author><text>Agreed. Count me in the &quot;I&apos;d like to have a chance to test it over Facebook&quot; section ;-)</text></comment>

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<story><title>Base editing: Revolutionary therapy clears girl&apos;s incurable cancer</title><url>https://www.bbc.com/news/health-63859184</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>DoreenMichele</author><text>In layman&amp;#x27;s terms: She had a particularly vicious form of cancer where the very cells that are supposed to protect your health -- your T-cells -- are the enemy. So they made three edits to donor cells and wiped out her compromised cells. Then gave her a bone marrow transplant afterwards to replenish her immune system with new cells.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;m squeamish about genetic research, but this looks really good to me. I hope she recovers fully and there are no further complications, though I imagine it&amp;#x27;s too early to guess what her prognosis might be.&lt;p&gt;&lt;i&gt;So there are already trials of base editing under way in sickle-cell disease, as well as high cholesterol that runs in families and the blood disorder beta-thalassemia.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;That&amp;#x27;s a big deal for people with those genetic disorders.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>sinenomine</author><text>&amp;gt;I&amp;#x27;m squeamish about genetic research&lt;p&gt;And I&amp;#x27;m sad about millions upon millions of mostly well-meaning people, who died of ultimately preventable causes - if only we could push the research from the lab to clinic faster.&lt;p&gt;Everybody is prone to ageing, and very soon it will be our turn.</text></comment>

<story><title>Base editing: Revolutionary therapy clears girl&apos;s incurable cancer</title><url>https://www.bbc.com/news/health-63859184</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>DoreenMichele</author><text>In layman&amp;#x27;s terms: She had a particularly vicious form of cancer where the very cells that are supposed to protect your health -- your T-cells -- are the enemy. So they made three edits to donor cells and wiped out her compromised cells. Then gave her a bone marrow transplant afterwards to replenish her immune system with new cells.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;m squeamish about genetic research, but this looks really good to me. I hope she recovers fully and there are no further complications, though I imagine it&amp;#x27;s too early to guess what her prognosis might be.&lt;p&gt;&lt;i&gt;So there are already trials of base editing under way in sickle-cell disease, as well as high cholesterol that runs in families and the blood disorder beta-thalassemia.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;That&amp;#x27;s a big deal for people with those genetic disorders.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>inglor_cz</author><text>Resetting the immune system can be already done and it seems to help against auto-immune diseases such as lupus, but it is very dangerous. Once you destroy the immune system of the patient, and before it grows back from donor cells, the patient is fatally vulnerable even to normally banal pathogens such as the common cold. Keeping the patient isolated and alive in a hospital full of germs is a major challenge.&lt;p&gt;That is why this kind of therapy is only used when the patient faces death anyway.</text></comment>

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<story><title>Anonymous message to NATO</title><url>http://circleof13.blogspot.com/2011/06/anonymous-message-to-nato.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>nextparadigms</author><text>I can&apos;t believe the Government is actually trying to defend HBGary after all that has been revealed about them. Are they doing it because they hired them to do all that? I suppose it wouldn&apos;t be much different than how they reacted in the Wikileaks case then. They&apos;d do anything to protect themselves regardless of how ethical or unethical it is.&lt;p&gt;EDIT: I also wonder if the way our democracy currently works has become obsolete. We vote for some people every 4 years and then they can basically do whatever they want, with the only repercussion being that their actions might be revealed to the press, and in some cases some scandals will be created, though rarely. If they&apos;re unlucky the people will vote for the other party on the next election. But does that truly matter if basically the parties are pretty much one and the same?&lt;p&gt;I think we&apos;ll eventually need a &quot;Liquid Democracy&quot; (perhaps sooner than expected). A democracy where decisions can be influenced by the people a lot more often than they are now, and the people can have a much more immediate impact on a politician&apos;s career or a Government if they screw up.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>cjoh</author><text>The problem really is procurement. If there&apos;s any thing I wish this community would understand, it&apos;s that.&lt;p&gt;See -- big government contractors have things locked up. They make campaign contributions to members of congress who create regulations that make it so that they&apos;re the only ones who can compete in an open competition. At the same time, Government has effectively replaced a substantial portion of its operational employees with contractors. I&apos;ve met tech teams, for instance, for all major agencies, and have yet to meet an actual programmer that works for the government, with the exception of &lt;i&gt;some&lt;/i&gt; but very few, in the defense community. Heck, even the armed guards who control access to our federal buildings are contractors rather than civil servants.&lt;p&gt;A lot of our issues revolve around procurement. Why did whitehouse.gov cost 12 Million dollars when BarackObama cost $1.2? Procurement. Recovery.gov? 18Million. Why? Only a handful giant companies were allowed to bid.&lt;p&gt;Why isn&apos;t congress talking about procurement reform when they&apos;re all about budget cuts?&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://influenceexplorer.com/organization/lockheed-martin/5516ba695ba741ab9f6ff35627621297&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://influenceexplorer.com/organization/lockheed-martin/55...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://influenceexplorer.com/organization/lockheed-martin/5516ba695ba741ab9f6ff35627621297&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://influenceexplorer.com/organization/lockheed-martin/55...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://influenceexplorer.com/organization/general-dynamics/4438cca4c4ae4715b1bf348629b68cc0&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://influenceexplorer.com/organization/general-dynamics/4...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://influenceexplorer.com/organization/northrop-grumman/6a2f5a216da4454198a2265b4955ff5d&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://influenceexplorer.com/organization/northrop-grumman/6...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;It&apos;s a messed up system that makes it so that government has to spend $93 Million Dollars a year on SharePoint when, for let&apos;s say 10% of those cases, they could be spending $200/mo on BaseCamp.</text></comment>

<story><title>Anonymous message to NATO</title><url>http://circleof13.blogspot.com/2011/06/anonymous-message-to-nato.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>nextparadigms</author><text>I can&apos;t believe the Government is actually trying to defend HBGary after all that has been revealed about them. Are they doing it because they hired them to do all that? I suppose it wouldn&apos;t be much different than how they reacted in the Wikileaks case then. They&apos;d do anything to protect themselves regardless of how ethical or unethical it is.&lt;p&gt;EDIT: I also wonder if the way our democracy currently works has become obsolete. We vote for some people every 4 years and then they can basically do whatever they want, with the only repercussion being that their actions might be revealed to the press, and in some cases some scandals will be created, though rarely. If they&apos;re unlucky the people will vote for the other party on the next election. But does that truly matter if basically the parties are pretty much one and the same?&lt;p&gt;I think we&apos;ll eventually need a &quot;Liquid Democracy&quot; (perhaps sooner than expected). A democracy where decisions can be influenced by the people a lot more often than they are now, and the people can have a much more immediate impact on a politician&apos;s career or a Government if they screw up.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>nodata</author><text>Mark Thomas&apos; book &quot;The People&apos;s Manifesto&quot;* suggests making political promises prior to entering elected office legally binding.&lt;p&gt;* &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_People%27s_Manifesto&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_People%27s_Manifesto&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>

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<story><title>It will be much harder to call findings ‘significant’ if a team gets its way</title><url>http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2017/07/it-will-be-much-harder-call-new-findings-significant-if-team-gets-its-way</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>elsherbini</author><text>There are two legitimate ways to get lower p-values: You can have a larger effect size, or you can have a larger number of samples[0]. Of course, you can&amp;#x27;t change the effect size, so this would lead to larger necessary samples sizes to study smaller effects.&lt;p&gt;I think in general though, at least in biology, people are waking up to the fact that p-values aren&amp;#x27;t magical, and that having a really small p-value isn&amp;#x27;t a goal in and of itself. It is, however, necessary to do some statistics on your data to get it published, but the p-value is just checking a box more than being used as a tool for discovery.&lt;p&gt;Yesterday a cool dataset was released from Jeff Leek which has over 3.6 million p-values from scientific literature[1]. The distribution is fun to look at by discipline[2].&lt;p&gt;[0] &lt;a href=&quot;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;rpsychologist.com&amp;#x2F;d3&amp;#x2F;NHST&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;rpsychologist.com&amp;#x2F;d3&amp;#x2F;NHST&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;[1] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;github.com&amp;#x2F;jtleek&amp;#x2F;tidypvals&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;github.com&amp;#x2F;jtleek&amp;#x2F;tidypvals&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;[2] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;twitter.com&amp;#x2F;drob&amp;#x2F;status&amp;#x2F;890260541876338690&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;twitter.com&amp;#x2F;drob&amp;#x2F;status&amp;#x2F;890260541876338690&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Amygaz</author><text>I just want to buffer a little bit what you said about &amp;quot;the p-value is just checking a box more than being used as a tool for discovery.&amp;quot;, but we are likely on the same page.&lt;p&gt;Sometimes, it is necessary to use a significance test in order to convince the reader that your conclusion based on your interpretation of your observations is sensical, which would be &amp;quot;checking a box&amp;quot;.&lt;p&gt;Other times, and as a frequent reviewer I do see that, infrequently, but still, where the authors see something where the only thing to see seems completely anecdotal (small N, large or fake error bars, no significance or ranking test), or to support their innacurate interpretation of a phenomenon (I see that with young and inexperienced graduate student in a young and inexperienced PI&amp;#x27;s lab). In these cases, having a proper experimental setup, sample size, and analysis, is part of the discovery.&lt;p&gt;At the end of the day, it is important to make sure that science stays evidence-based and statistic is one of the tools that can assist, but only assist, in doing that.</text></comment>

<story><title>It will be much harder to call findings ‘significant’ if a team gets its way</title><url>http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2017/07/it-will-be-much-harder-call-new-findings-significant-if-team-gets-its-way</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>elsherbini</author><text>There are two legitimate ways to get lower p-values: You can have a larger effect size, or you can have a larger number of samples[0]. Of course, you can&amp;#x27;t change the effect size, so this would lead to larger necessary samples sizes to study smaller effects.&lt;p&gt;I think in general though, at least in biology, people are waking up to the fact that p-values aren&amp;#x27;t magical, and that having a really small p-value isn&amp;#x27;t a goal in and of itself. It is, however, necessary to do some statistics on your data to get it published, but the p-value is just checking a box more than being used as a tool for discovery.&lt;p&gt;Yesterday a cool dataset was released from Jeff Leek which has over 3.6 million p-values from scientific literature[1]. The distribution is fun to look at by discipline[2].&lt;p&gt;[0] &lt;a href=&quot;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;rpsychologist.com&amp;#x2F;d3&amp;#x2F;NHST&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;rpsychologist.com&amp;#x2F;d3&amp;#x2F;NHST&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;[1] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;github.com&amp;#x2F;jtleek&amp;#x2F;tidypvals&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;github.com&amp;#x2F;jtleek&amp;#x2F;tidypvals&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;[2] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;twitter.com&amp;#x2F;drob&amp;#x2F;status&amp;#x2F;890260541876338690&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;twitter.com&amp;#x2F;drob&amp;#x2F;status&amp;#x2F;890260541876338690&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>BeetleB</author><text>&amp;gt;There are two legitimate ways to get lower p-values: You can have a larger effect size, or you can have a larger number of samples[0]. Of course, you can&amp;#x27;t change the effect size, so this would lead to larger necessary samples sizes to study smaller effects.&lt;p&gt;Be careful with this. Larger sample sizes are more likely to give you a significant result even if one doesn&amp;#x27;t exist.&lt;p&gt;Say my null hypothesis is that X=100. The alternative hypothesis is X&amp;gt;100.&lt;p&gt;What if in reality X is really 100.5? Depending on the problem domain, this may well be the same as the null hypothesis. But a larger sample size is much more likely to give a significant result.&lt;p&gt;There are ways to fix this, but one should just be aware, though.</text></comment>

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<story><title>Ask HN: Where do you go for civil discussion on the Internet?</title><text>Is there a place on the Internet for general -- including political and economic -- discussion that is filled with civil, insightful commentary?&lt;p&gt;Outside of specialist corners (such as HN), the Internet often appears to be filled primarily with hateful repetition of populist punchlines, providing little to no insight into the big topics that concern the world at the moment. This is such a shame, as the Internet really should be the enabler of discussion across borders and societies (which of course can become heated but should always be respectful and rooted in trying to understand each other!).&lt;p&gt;From what I have read, The WELL seems to have been such a place (or still is?) in the &amp;quot;old days&amp;quot;, but where do you go today for such an exchange of ideas on a variety of topics?&lt;p&gt;(Note: It is allowed to cost money.)</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>eevilspock</author><text>The problem with HN for politics and economics is its decidedly Silicon Valley, libertarian and white male slant, often self-servingly pedantically amoral. The civility here is often arrived at by burying comments that challenge this self-serving slant. Or by an algorithm that systematically buries articles and users (whose accounts accrue ranking penalties) that generate any heated debate by challenging the slant. We&amp;#x27;re not talking trolls.&lt;p&gt;Check out the top comment under &lt;i&gt;SF tech bro: ‘I shouldn’t have to see the pain, struggle, despair of homeless’&lt;/i&gt;. It was at least generating some good debate, but HN decided to flag and bury it. &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&amp;#x2F;item?id=11125896&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&amp;#x2F;item?id=11125896&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;See the dominant and buried comments for &lt;i&gt;272 Slaves Were Sold to Save Georgetown. What Does It Owe Their Descendants?&lt;/i&gt;: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&amp;#x2F;item?id=11512830&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&amp;#x2F;item?id=11512830&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;Why was &lt;i&gt;Neoliberalism – the ideology at the root of all our problems&lt;/i&gt; flagged to death? &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&amp;#x2F;item?id=12304414&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&amp;#x2F;item?id=12304414&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;Hell, even this post has been quickly taken off the front page despite having better numbers (70 votes in the last hour) than many items that are there now.&lt;p&gt;Politics and economics points of view are heavily filtered here. Rarely if ever does a challenge to the status quo make the front page. If one does it is then killed, ironically, for inspiring debate!</text></item><item><author>TeMPOraL</author><text>I mostly stay here. The amount of political and economic discussion here is what I personally consider enough in my life; I don&amp;#x27;t think looking for more sources would improve SNR for me.&lt;p&gt;I sometimes like to peruse Reddit for some well-defined topics - the trick is to find an appropriate subreddit for it. So, for instance, when I want to follow SpaceX news, I&amp;#x27;ll tune in to &amp;#x2F;r&amp;#x2F;spacex, because quite a lot of people there are aerospace engineers (and some are SpaceX employees), so you can expect detailed, up-to-date and to-the-point news.&lt;p&gt;My general observation is that the more specialized a community is, and the further it is from ego-involving topics (politics, economy, religion), the more civil the discussions are there. So I&amp;#x27;d focus on finding many specialized discussion places instead of one general.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dang</author><text>I&amp;#x27;m late to this thread but this is definitely not factual:&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; &lt;i&gt;The problem with HN for politics and economics is its decidedly Silicon Valley, libertarian and white male slant, often self-servingly pedantically amoral.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;There&amp;#x27;s a cognitive bias where everybody thinks the slant they disagree with is the one that dominates this site. If you held opposite views, you&amp;#x27;d be arguing that HN is dominated by liberals or what have you. Perhaps that&amp;#x27;s not obvious to you, but it is to us whose job it is to oversee HN as a whole. HN&amp;#x27;s archives are full of people complaining about this from all sides.&lt;p&gt;The point of view you describe (or, to be fair, caricature) does exist on HN, of course. But the community is politically divided, most claims people make about who dominates it are just a rhetorical device, i.e. to score cheap points in arguments.</text></comment>

<story><title>Ask HN: Where do you go for civil discussion on the Internet?</title><text>Is there a place on the Internet for general -- including political and economic -- discussion that is filled with civil, insightful commentary?&lt;p&gt;Outside of specialist corners (such as HN), the Internet often appears to be filled primarily with hateful repetition of populist punchlines, providing little to no insight into the big topics that concern the world at the moment. This is such a shame, as the Internet really should be the enabler of discussion across borders and societies (which of course can become heated but should always be respectful and rooted in trying to understand each other!).&lt;p&gt;From what I have read, The WELL seems to have been such a place (or still is?) in the &amp;quot;old days&amp;quot;, but where do you go today for such an exchange of ideas on a variety of topics?&lt;p&gt;(Note: It is allowed to cost money.)</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>eevilspock</author><text>The problem with HN for politics and economics is its decidedly Silicon Valley, libertarian and white male slant, often self-servingly pedantically amoral. The civility here is often arrived at by burying comments that challenge this self-serving slant. Or by an algorithm that systematically buries articles and users (whose accounts accrue ranking penalties) that generate any heated debate by challenging the slant. We&amp;#x27;re not talking trolls.&lt;p&gt;Check out the top comment under &lt;i&gt;SF tech bro: ‘I shouldn’t have to see the pain, struggle, despair of homeless’&lt;/i&gt;. It was at least generating some good debate, but HN decided to flag and bury it. &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&amp;#x2F;item?id=11125896&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&amp;#x2F;item?id=11125896&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;See the dominant and buried comments for &lt;i&gt;272 Slaves Were Sold to Save Georgetown. What Does It Owe Their Descendants?&lt;/i&gt;: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&amp;#x2F;item?id=11512830&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&amp;#x2F;item?id=11512830&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;Why was &lt;i&gt;Neoliberalism – the ideology at the root of all our problems&lt;/i&gt; flagged to death? &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&amp;#x2F;item?id=12304414&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&amp;#x2F;item?id=12304414&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;Hell, even this post has been quickly taken off the front page despite having better numbers (70 votes in the last hour) than many items that are there now.&lt;p&gt;Politics and economics points of view are heavily filtered here. Rarely if ever does a challenge to the status quo make the front page. If one does it is then killed, ironically, for inspiring debate!</text></item><item><author>TeMPOraL</author><text>I mostly stay here. The amount of political and economic discussion here is what I personally consider enough in my life; I don&amp;#x27;t think looking for more sources would improve SNR for me.&lt;p&gt;I sometimes like to peruse Reddit for some well-defined topics - the trick is to find an appropriate subreddit for it. So, for instance, when I want to follow SpaceX news, I&amp;#x27;ll tune in to &amp;#x2F;r&amp;#x2F;spacex, because quite a lot of people there are aerospace engineers (and some are SpaceX employees), so you can expect detailed, up-to-date and to-the-point news.&lt;p&gt;My general observation is that the more specialized a community is, and the further it is from ego-involving topics (politics, economy, religion), the more civil the discussions are there. So I&amp;#x27;d focus on finding many specialized discussion places instead of one general.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>smsm42</author><text>There&amp;#x27;s challenging and there&amp;#x27;s challenging. If you&amp;#x27;re starting discussion with &amp;quot;you&amp;#x27;re amoral white male so here shut up and listen I&amp;#x27;ll tell you what you have to do to redeem your sorry existence&amp;quot; (I&amp;#x27;m not saying &lt;i&gt;you&lt;/i&gt; do, it&amp;#x27;s just an example - but not too far from what I&amp;#x27;ve seen done in other places) - it&amp;#x27;s a challenge all right, but not one that would lead to a good discussion.&lt;p&gt;Also, experience suggests there are topics that generate almost no useful discussion and very quickly descend into a shoutfest, outgroup shaming and virtue posturing. It is possible that &lt;i&gt;this one&lt;/i&gt; discussion on the very topic will not follow the pattern that thousands before it did, but usually the risk is not worth it.&lt;p&gt;Not every debate is good. And so, generating debate by itself is not a virtue.</text></comment>

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<story><title>Population-based training of neural networks</title><url>https://deepmind.com/blog/population-based-training-neural-networks/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>knexer</author><text>Two things stick out to me after a first read:&lt;p&gt;First, this actually learns a schedule for each hyperparameter, not just a good set of fixed values, automatically discovering learning rate annealing and related techniques. This seems incredibly powerful. It is also learning hyperparameter schedules specific to a single training run - which seems interesting but not obviously helpful, especially since many of the learned schedules fairly closely match the baseline hand-tuned ones.&lt;p&gt;Second, it seems like they&amp;#x27;re optimizing against their validation metric directly; isn&amp;#x27;t that basically &amp;#x27;cheating&amp;#x27; (i.e. defeats much of the point of having a separate validation metric in the first place)? It also seems completely orthogonal to their technique - could they not have optimized for the same loss function as the network itself? Is this an improvement over state of the art, or is it just overfitting to the validation metric?</text></comment>

<story><title>Population-based training of neural networks</title><url>https://deepmind.com/blog/population-based-training-neural-networks/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>0x63_Problems</author><text>This is really cool! I haven&amp;#x27;t read through the real paper yet but it&amp;#x27;s very impressive that this method does not incur a significant performance cost. I had assumed that using a genetic-style algorithm would be costly since you would need to train a large number of networks individually, but treating all variations equally in terms of training time now seems naive. Distributing the training time using intelligent exploration and exploitation is an awesome idea to fix this.</text></comment>

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<story><title>What happened with ASUS routers this morning?</title><url>https://www.downtowndougbrown.com/2023/05/what-happened-with-asus-routers-this-morning/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>enlyth</author><text>There&amp;#x27;s also this one for Asus routers, I&amp;#x27;ve been using it without issues for a long time:&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.asuswrt-merlin.net&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.asuswrt-merlin.net&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt;</text></item><item><author>e3bc54b2</author><text>Boy am I glad I replaced stock firmware with OpenWRT the moment my router came out of box last week. It was also extremely painless experience, and I&amp;#x27;d really recommend people to buy routers with OpenWRT support, even if they cost a little more. A router is something you buy for a decade or more, and it&amp;#x27;s worth the investment. Our livelihood depends on network availability, and depending on whims of terrible router firmware is not something to rely on.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jareklupinski</author><text>the best part about it is Diversion and Skynet, a set of scripts that allows you to adblock inside your router (preventing even in-app ads from loading), and an actually viable outbound firewall&lt;p&gt;seeing weird IP addesses pinging my router from the outside is normal, but when i see something _inside_ my network trying to get _out_, that&amp;#x27;s when I know it&amp;#x27;s time to start reformatting</text></comment>

<story><title>What happened with ASUS routers this morning?</title><url>https://www.downtowndougbrown.com/2023/05/what-happened-with-asus-routers-this-morning/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>enlyth</author><text>There&amp;#x27;s also this one for Asus routers, I&amp;#x27;ve been using it without issues for a long time:&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.asuswrt-merlin.net&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.asuswrt-merlin.net&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt;</text></item><item><author>e3bc54b2</author><text>Boy am I glad I replaced stock firmware with OpenWRT the moment my router came out of box last week. It was also extremely painless experience, and I&amp;#x27;d really recommend people to buy routers with OpenWRT support, even if they cost a little more. A router is something you buy for a decade or more, and it&amp;#x27;s worth the investment. Our livelihood depends on network availability, and depending on whims of terrible router firmware is not something to rely on.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ipython</author><text>Seconded. I used Merlin before I switched to ubiquiti. My only issue with Merlin was intermittent problems with ipv6 router advertisements which caused connectivity issues. I’ve never had an issue since switching to an edgerouter.</text></comment>

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<story><title>Signal Is Back</title><url>https://twitter.com/signalapp/status/1350595202872823809/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>curiousmindz</author><text>We rarely get to see an app have to grow suddenly like that. And with Signal being open source, it must be very educational to follow.&lt;p&gt;Has anyone found a publication around what they had to do on the technical side (code)?&lt;p&gt;Edit: Their server&amp;#x27;s repo hasn&amp;#x27;t been updated since April 2020. Why?&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;github.com&amp;#x2F;signalapp&amp;#x2F;Signal-Server&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;github.com&amp;#x2F;signalapp&amp;#x2F;Signal-Server&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Arathorn</author><text>The lack of development-in-the-open on Signal-Server is a little concerning, in terms of not giving visibility on what&amp;#x27;s at least theoretically running serverside.&lt;p&gt;If you compare it with Matrix, the last commits to Synapse were ~32 hours ago, Dendrite was ~31 hours ago, and Conduit was 3 hours ago - so you can keep up with where development is at, and of course see what is meant to be running in production (and run it yourself if you&amp;#x27;re able to).&lt;p&gt;My assumption is that what&amp;#x27;s happening is that Signal-Server is going through contortions to switch everything to UUIDs, in order to avoid hardcoding phone numbers everywhere as identifiers, and this work is being done on a private branch. Meanwhile, there&amp;#x27;s presumably a private branch for the current live production deployment too. (For Matrix, we maintain a separate branch for the live matrix.org homeserver instance, to allow for hotfixes etc - although it&amp;#x27;s public, at &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;github.com&amp;#x2F;matrix-org&amp;#x2F;synapse&amp;#x2F;tree&amp;#x2F;matrix-org-hotfixes&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;github.com&amp;#x2F;matrix-org&amp;#x2F;synapse&amp;#x2F;tree&amp;#x2F;matrix-org-hotfix...&lt;/a&gt;)</text></comment>

<story><title>Signal Is Back</title><url>https://twitter.com/signalapp/status/1350595202872823809/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>curiousmindz</author><text>We rarely get to see an app have to grow suddenly like that. And with Signal being open source, it must be very educational to follow.&lt;p&gt;Has anyone found a publication around what they had to do on the technical side (code)?&lt;p&gt;Edit: Their server&amp;#x27;s repo hasn&amp;#x27;t been updated since April 2020. Why?&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;github.com&amp;#x2F;signalapp&amp;#x2F;Signal-Server&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;github.com&amp;#x2F;signalapp&amp;#x2F;Signal-Server&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>zie</author><text>The problem is 2 fold.&lt;p&gt;1) a bahillion new signups, so they just needed to deploy a bajillion more instances of the server.&lt;p&gt;2) The clients basically DDoS&amp;#x27;ing their servers.&lt;p&gt;If you look at the android client source, you can see all the commits they put in are about handling errors properly when the server(s) get overloaded.</text></comment>

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<story><title>Tesla is raising up to $1.5B through convertible note and share sale</title><url>https://techcrunch.com/2019/05/02/tesla-1-5-billion/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>yingw787</author><text>I was on Jeju Island in South Korea and apparently it&amp;#x27;s where the South Korean government tests renewable technologies like electric vehicles. Our tour guide had this electric Hyundai that was indistinguishable from the gas-powered version. It was quiet, and that&amp;#x27;s about it.&lt;p&gt;I remember thinking that this is the future of electric vehicles. Boring. Reliable. No drama or shenanigans about CEOs doing weed or pissing off regulators or stiffing suppliers or &amp;quot;production hells&amp;quot; or falcon wing doors and touchscreen dashboards or getting rich people to adopt it first and making everybody else wonder if the price will ever come down. Everything just works.&lt;p&gt;China&amp;#x27;s already there with electric buses and electric scooters. I think they own those markets now (well-deserved based on their execution BTW).&lt;p&gt;If you haven&amp;#x27;t been paying attention to renewable tech in East Asia, you should definitely explore more; I think it would be valuable experience for the rest of the world&amp;#x27;s big-volume automakers. At least I learned a lot.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>swamp40</author><text>The imitators always catch up to the innovators. Eventually. And everyone downplays the innovation, as if it were just part of some natural evolution of things.&lt;p&gt;But some people know the truth: That it could have easily been another 50 or 100 or 200 years before some OTHER innovator came along to lead the pack along.&lt;p&gt;The story is timeless.</text></comment>

<story><title>Tesla is raising up to $1.5B through convertible note and share sale</title><url>https://techcrunch.com/2019/05/02/tesla-1-5-billion/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>yingw787</author><text>I was on Jeju Island in South Korea and apparently it&amp;#x27;s where the South Korean government tests renewable technologies like electric vehicles. Our tour guide had this electric Hyundai that was indistinguishable from the gas-powered version. It was quiet, and that&amp;#x27;s about it.&lt;p&gt;I remember thinking that this is the future of electric vehicles. Boring. Reliable. No drama or shenanigans about CEOs doing weed or pissing off regulators or stiffing suppliers or &amp;quot;production hells&amp;quot; or falcon wing doors and touchscreen dashboards or getting rich people to adopt it first and making everybody else wonder if the price will ever come down. Everything just works.&lt;p&gt;China&amp;#x27;s already there with electric buses and electric scooters. I think they own those markets now (well-deserved based on their execution BTW).&lt;p&gt;If you haven&amp;#x27;t been paying attention to renewable tech in East Asia, you should definitely explore more; I think it would be valuable experience for the rest of the world&amp;#x27;s big-volume automakers. At least I learned a lot.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>barake</author><text>In the US, Hyundai sells the Ioniq with ICE, hybrid, and EV drive trains:&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.hyundaiusa.com&amp;#x2F;ioniq&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.hyundaiusa.com&amp;#x2F;ioniq&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;Hyundai is taking a smart approach, making sure new platforms support electrification to varying levels. Take the Kona for example, it was introduced as an ICE vehicle and is shaping up to be an intriguing EV.&lt;p&gt;Unfortunately they&amp;#x27;re limiting EV model sales to certain states. Hoping they expand beyond compliance car status soon. The Kona EV is _actually on lots_, around $40k before any rebates&amp;#x2F;credits&amp;#x2F;incentives, and has a ~250 mile range.</text></comment>

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<story><title>If AI seems smarter, it&apos;s thanks to smarter human trainers</title><url>https://www.reuters.com/technology/artificial-intelligence/if-your-ai-seems-smarter-its-thanks-smarter-human-trainers-2024-09-28/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>throwaway_2968</author><text>Throwaway account here. I recently spent a few months as a trainer for a major AI company&amp;#x27;s project. The well-paid gig mainly involved crafting specialized, reasoning-heavy questions that were supposed to stump the current top models. Most of the trainers had PhDs, and the company&amp;#x27;s idea was to use our questions to benchmark future AI systems.&lt;p&gt;It was a real challenge. I managed to come up with a handful of questions that tripped up the models, but it was clear they stumbled for pretty mundane reasons—outdated info or faulty string parsing due to tokenization. A common gripe among the trainers was the project&amp;#x27;s insistence on questions with clear-cut right&amp;#x2F;wrong answers. Many of us worked in fields where good research tends to be more nuanced and open to interpretation. I saw plenty of questions from other trainers that only had definitive answers if you bought into specific (and often contentious) theoretical frameworks in psychology, sociology, linguistics, history, and so on.&lt;p&gt;The AI company people running the projects seemed a bit out of their depth, too. Their detailed guidelines for us actually contained some fundamental contradictions that they had missed. (Ironically, when I ran those guidelines by Claude, ChatGPT, and Gemini, they all spotted the issues straight away.)&lt;p&gt;After finishing the project, I came away even more impressed by how smart the current models can be.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>EvgeniyZh</author><text>I&amp;#x27;m currently pursuing PhD in theoretical condensed matter physics. I tried submitting questions to Humanity Last Exam [1], and it was not too hard to think of a problem that none of top llms (Claude, gpt, Gemini + both o1 models) got right. What was surprising for me is how small my bag of tricks was. I could think of 5-6 questions in my direct area of expertise with simple numerical answer that were hard for llms, and another maybe 5 that they were able to solve. But basically that was all my expertise. Of course there is stuff that can&amp;#x27;t be checked with simple numerical answer (quite a lot in my case), and there are probably additional questions that would require more effort from me to give a correct answer. But all in all, I suddenly felt I&amp;#x27;m a one-trick pony, and that&amp;#x27;s given that my PhD is relatively diverse.&lt;p&gt;[1] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;agi.safe.ai&amp;#x2F;submit&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;agi.safe.ai&amp;#x2F;submit&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>

<story><title>If AI seems smarter, it&apos;s thanks to smarter human trainers</title><url>https://www.reuters.com/technology/artificial-intelligence/if-your-ai-seems-smarter-its-thanks-smarter-human-trainers-2024-09-28/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>throwaway_2968</author><text>Throwaway account here. I recently spent a few months as a trainer for a major AI company&amp;#x27;s project. The well-paid gig mainly involved crafting specialized, reasoning-heavy questions that were supposed to stump the current top models. Most of the trainers had PhDs, and the company&amp;#x27;s idea was to use our questions to benchmark future AI systems.&lt;p&gt;It was a real challenge. I managed to come up with a handful of questions that tripped up the models, but it was clear they stumbled for pretty mundane reasons—outdated info or faulty string parsing due to tokenization. A common gripe among the trainers was the project&amp;#x27;s insistence on questions with clear-cut right&amp;#x2F;wrong answers. Many of us worked in fields where good research tends to be more nuanced and open to interpretation. I saw plenty of questions from other trainers that only had definitive answers if you bought into specific (and often contentious) theoretical frameworks in psychology, sociology, linguistics, history, and so on.&lt;p&gt;The AI company people running the projects seemed a bit out of their depth, too. Their detailed guidelines for us actually contained some fundamental contradictions that they had missed. (Ironically, when I ran those guidelines by Claude, ChatGPT, and Gemini, they all spotted the issues straight away.)&lt;p&gt;After finishing the project, I came away even more impressed by how smart the current models can be.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>layer8</author><text>I wouldn’t look for questions with yes&amp;#x2F;no answers, but for questions where the answers can have correct&amp;#x2F;incorrect reasoning. Of course, you can’t turn those into automated benchmarks, but that’s maybe kinda the point.</text></comment>

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<story><title>Apple employees criticize work-from-home policy in open letter</title><url>https://www.engadget.com/apple-criticized-by-employees-over-working-from-home-policy-in-open-letter-123027735.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>post_break</author><text>The time theft of traffic, costs of fuel and wear and tear on your car, the cost of lunch if you don&amp;#x27;t pack a lunch. It all adds up when having to go back to the office. I hate that we had to return to the office because it was like getting a big pay cut. Even the 3 day a week thing, it&amp;#x27;s like what&amp;#x27;s the point? We can work from home obviously, what more does going in 3 times a week accomplish other than punish you, showing you how much it sucks to go to the office. All it really feels like is punishment forcing you to be under some managers thumb.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jsiepkes</author><text>&amp;gt; The time theft of traffic, costs of fuel and wear and tear on your car, the cost of lunch if you don&amp;#x27;t pack a lunch.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;m all for remote work but calling it &amp;quot;time theft&amp;quot; feels a bit weird.&lt;p&gt;You knew these things were a requirement when you signed your contract, right? If you didn&amp;#x27;t want these things then why didn&amp;#x27;t you either made a point of them in contract negotiations or simply went to a company that allowed remote work from the start?</text></comment>

<story><title>Apple employees criticize work-from-home policy in open letter</title><url>https://www.engadget.com/apple-criticized-by-employees-over-working-from-home-policy-in-open-letter-123027735.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>post_break</author><text>The time theft of traffic, costs of fuel and wear and tear on your car, the cost of lunch if you don&amp;#x27;t pack a lunch. It all adds up when having to go back to the office. I hate that we had to return to the office because it was like getting a big pay cut. Even the 3 day a week thing, it&amp;#x27;s like what&amp;#x27;s the point? We can work from home obviously, what more does going in 3 times a week accomplish other than punish you, showing you how much it sucks to go to the office. All it really feels like is punishment forcing you to be under some managers thumb.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>randomsearch</author><text>Fair point for some people.&lt;p&gt;Something I don’t see on HN is how the ideal wfh works for people who can’t afford a study. What if you live with your parents and share with a sibling?&lt;p&gt;This might not be the case for established six figure programmers in the states. But there are lots of people with less money who might value having a separate space to work.&lt;p&gt;Might even be the silent majority outside of highly paid developers.</text></comment>

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<story><title>Valley VCs Sit on Cash, Forcing Startups to Dial Back Ambition</title><url>http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-03-09/more-venture-investors-are-sitting-on-the-sidelines</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>freyr</author><text>&amp;gt; &lt;i&gt;unless it&amp;#x27;s a &amp;quot;network effect&amp;quot; situation like a social network, you probably don&amp;#x27;t need to grow fast.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;Uber seems like a weird example of this. It was said (and remains said) that they&amp;#x27;re operating in a winner-take-all space, and they expanded as if they were a social network.&lt;p&gt;Despite the aggressive expansion and marketing, a majority of people I know in the Bay Area now use Lyft exculsively. The last few times I&amp;#x27;ve said &amp;quot;I&amp;#x27;ll get an Uber,&amp;quot; somebody&amp;#x27;s actually paused and said &amp;quot;Wait, why don&amp;#x27;t we take Lyft?&amp;quot; I&amp;#x27;m not even sure why. When asked, they just reply that they don&amp;#x27;t like Uber for some non-specific reason.&lt;p&gt;They&amp;#x27;re expanding around the world and into new products and concepts, but haven&amp;#x27;t even seemed to nail down a loyal customer base on their home turf. Anecdotally speaking.</text></item><item><author>mindcrime</author><text>Here&amp;#x27;s the somewhat ironic &amp;quot;catch 22&amp;quot; to the whole thing:&lt;p&gt;If you&amp;#x27;re a startup and you &lt;i&gt;don&amp;#x27;t&lt;/i&gt; take VC funding, then you have the luxury of simply enjoying organic growth and funding expansion by re-investing profits into the company. Well, as long as you can do that in the face of competitive pressure. Strictly speaking, unless it&amp;#x27;s a &amp;quot;network effect&amp;quot; situation like a social network, you probably don&amp;#x27;t &lt;i&gt;need&lt;/i&gt; to grow fast.&lt;p&gt;Unless you take VC money. Then, the simple act of taking their money now means there &lt;i&gt;is&lt;/i&gt; pressure to grow fast, but it comes from the investors and not from the market per-se. And this is because VC funds are time-boxed and, by definition, have to generate whatever return they&amp;#x27;re going to generate by a fixed point in time. And the older a fund is (eg, the nearer it is to the end of it&amp;#x27;s life) the greater the pressure.&lt;p&gt;This is something I think more entrepreneurs should think long and hard about. Don&amp;#x27;t raise VC money just for the sake of doing it. Even if you can. Do it IF and only if it&amp;#x27;s the only (or at least surest) way to reach your goals. And always remember that the VC&amp;#x27;s interests do &lt;i&gt;not&lt;/i&gt; necessarily align with the founders (at least not 100% so).</text></item><item><author>delecti</author><text>It&amp;#x27;s really weird how this article tries to frame the situation. It&amp;#x27;s almost like the startups feel entitled to the funding.&lt;p&gt;The point of funding should really be to enable faster growth than they might otherwise have been able to achieve, but if a business can&amp;#x27;t at least survive without huge influxes of investments then is it really a business that they should be investing in in the first place?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mindcrime</author><text>I am a perfect example of somebody who &lt;i&gt;was&lt;/i&gt; a &amp;quot;loyal Uber user.&amp;quot; They were here (Raleigh&amp;#x2F;Durham&amp;#x2F;Chapel Hill) before Lyft, and I was already familiar with them and had an account and all from having used the service while I was in San Francisco visiting. And so when my car broke down and I decided to go car-less for a while, I started using Uber all the time (along with walking and bicycle riding).&lt;p&gt;And then... Uber lowered their rates. Good for me, right? Rides are cheaper now. BUT... it appears that as a result, a LOT of local Uber drivers have quit doing Uber and over the past month, it&amp;#x27;s become increasingly difficult to even get an Uber here. More and more often, I fire up the app and get &amp;quot;No UberX available&amp;quot; (and usually no UberXL or UberSelect either). So I installed the Lyft app, and I consistently find that Lyft can get me a ride when Uber can&amp;#x27;t.&lt;p&gt;I still usually at least try Uber first just out of habit, but they&amp;#x27;re definitely ceding ground to Lyft in this area, just due to availability if nothing else.&lt;p&gt;OTOH, Uber does do some neat stuff... like I noticed that in Portland, they have &amp;quot;UberPedal&amp;quot; where you can get a car with a bike rack. I find myself hoping they expand that to our area, as it would be nice to be able to bike to work, knowing that if it&amp;#x27;s raining or cold or something later, I can call up an UberPedal bike-rack equipped car for the trip home.</text></comment>

<story><title>Valley VCs Sit on Cash, Forcing Startups to Dial Back Ambition</title><url>http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-03-09/more-venture-investors-are-sitting-on-the-sidelines</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>freyr</author><text>&amp;gt; &lt;i&gt;unless it&amp;#x27;s a &amp;quot;network effect&amp;quot; situation like a social network, you probably don&amp;#x27;t need to grow fast.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;Uber seems like a weird example of this. It was said (and remains said) that they&amp;#x27;re operating in a winner-take-all space, and they expanded as if they were a social network.&lt;p&gt;Despite the aggressive expansion and marketing, a majority of people I know in the Bay Area now use Lyft exculsively. The last few times I&amp;#x27;ve said &amp;quot;I&amp;#x27;ll get an Uber,&amp;quot; somebody&amp;#x27;s actually paused and said &amp;quot;Wait, why don&amp;#x27;t we take Lyft?&amp;quot; I&amp;#x27;m not even sure why. When asked, they just reply that they don&amp;#x27;t like Uber for some non-specific reason.&lt;p&gt;They&amp;#x27;re expanding around the world and into new products and concepts, but haven&amp;#x27;t even seemed to nail down a loyal customer base on their home turf. Anecdotally speaking.</text></item><item><author>mindcrime</author><text>Here&amp;#x27;s the somewhat ironic &amp;quot;catch 22&amp;quot; to the whole thing:&lt;p&gt;If you&amp;#x27;re a startup and you &lt;i&gt;don&amp;#x27;t&lt;/i&gt; take VC funding, then you have the luxury of simply enjoying organic growth and funding expansion by re-investing profits into the company. Well, as long as you can do that in the face of competitive pressure. Strictly speaking, unless it&amp;#x27;s a &amp;quot;network effect&amp;quot; situation like a social network, you probably don&amp;#x27;t &lt;i&gt;need&lt;/i&gt; to grow fast.&lt;p&gt;Unless you take VC money. Then, the simple act of taking their money now means there &lt;i&gt;is&lt;/i&gt; pressure to grow fast, but it comes from the investors and not from the market per-se. And this is because VC funds are time-boxed and, by definition, have to generate whatever return they&amp;#x27;re going to generate by a fixed point in time. And the older a fund is (eg, the nearer it is to the end of it&amp;#x27;s life) the greater the pressure.&lt;p&gt;This is something I think more entrepreneurs should think long and hard about. Don&amp;#x27;t raise VC money just for the sake of doing it. Even if you can. Do it IF and only if it&amp;#x27;s the only (or at least surest) way to reach your goals. And always remember that the VC&amp;#x27;s interests do &lt;i&gt;not&lt;/i&gt; necessarily align with the founders (at least not 100% so).</text></item><item><author>delecti</author><text>It&amp;#x27;s really weird how this article tries to frame the situation. It&amp;#x27;s almost like the startups feel entitled to the funding.&lt;p&gt;The point of funding should really be to enable faster growth than they might otherwise have been able to achieve, but if a business can&amp;#x27;t at least survive without huge influxes of investments then is it really a business that they should be investing in in the first place?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>TheAceOfHearts</author><text>This is really interesting to me, because I&amp;#x27;ve noticed the same thing in the Bay Area.&lt;p&gt;I would conjecture that Uber constantly being under attack (i.e. having lots of negative articles about them) has played a significant role in this. So when people have to pick between Lyft and Uber, they go for the one that seems &amp;quot;less evil&amp;quot;. Perhaps the reason Lyft doesn&amp;#x27;t come under fire as much is because they haven&amp;#x27;t grown enough to divert attention from Uber?&lt;p&gt;If we consider the long-term outcome, is this actually a problem for Uber? If you move between places where both Lyft and Uber are available, and places that only have Uber, it doesn&amp;#x27;t seem unreasonable that you&amp;#x27;d just stick to using Uber. But anyway, once you have an account with one of the two services, what incentive do you have to create an account with the other one?</text></comment>

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<story><title>Introducing Pseudo IPv4</title><url>http://blog.cloudflare.com/eliminating-the-last-reasons-to-not-enable-ipv6</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>X-Istence</author><text>Except that in the past I&amp;#x27;ve had major issues with Cloudflare&amp;#x27;s IPv6 service, recently one of the issues was that Centurylink customers (at least in the Denver area) were unable to visit any Cloudflare hosted IPv6 sites.&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://twitter.com/bertjwregeer/status/470243728473325568&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;twitter.com&amp;#x2F;bertjwregeer&amp;#x2F;status&amp;#x2F;470243728473325568&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;Was my Tweet to Stackoverflow regarding the issue.&lt;p&gt;Here is the paste of the symptoms seen: &lt;a href=&quot;http://paste.ofcode.org/XQGqerxCNXwYsHDQMZ3aja&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;paste.ofcode.org&amp;#x2F;XQGqerxCNXwYsHDQMZ3aja&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;This meant that until I reported the issue to Cloudflare&amp;#x2F;StackExchange that people using IPv6 were UNABLE to access those resources needed to load the site (the server would hang indefinitely, so happy eyeballs did not work!). In the case of StackExchange on Centurylink that meant that CSS and other resources did not load, for my site (&lt;a href=&quot;http://defcne.net/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;defcne.net&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt;) that meant my site didn&amp;#x27;t load at all!&lt;p&gt;I absolutely love Cloudflare, but to me it is inexcusable that there is no monitoring to verify that these issues don&amp;#x27;t exist. It took me filing a report for them to fix the issue.&lt;p&gt;Ultimately it came down to this:&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;We had recently been experiencing IPv6 routing issues with one of our upstream providers for some of our data centers which may have contributed to the issues you had been seeing. We&amp;#x27;ve since disabled transit for that provider to temporarily work around the issue.&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;Yet this meant that my site&amp;#x2F;StackOverflow and countless other sites using Cloudflare were offline (if the customer has IPv6 enabled) for almost a week (first report from customer using CenturyLink, me trying to figure out what is going on, to CloudFlare fixing the issue).</text></comment>

<story><title>Introducing Pseudo IPv4</title><url>http://blog.cloudflare.com/eliminating-the-last-reasons-to-not-enable-ipv6</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>mischanix</author><text>&amp;gt;IPv6 can be adopted without a performance penalty&lt;p&gt;Sadly, in my case, this is untrue. If I enable v6 on my Comcast home connection, I see routes with consistently higher latency--around 50ms more for paths within the U.S. such that even a 200 mile destination (HSV =&amp;gt; ATL) is ~70ms away.</text></comment>

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<story><title>&apos;Passengers are afraid of this airplane&apos;: How Boeing is handling 737 Max problem</title><url>https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/the-national-737-max-boeing-1.5107529</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Someone1234</author><text>Airbus aircraft require three AoA sensors because they&amp;#x27;re considered safety critical. On the 737 Max they weren&amp;#x27;t safety critical right up until they added MCAS, at which point that changed, and the regulators should have required it but failed to (in part because Boeing mislead regulators about how much MCAS could adjust the deflection in the horizontal stabilizer, doubling it after regulators had already sign off on it[0]).&lt;p&gt;The fact that Boeing is able to skate by with two and a software off-switch if they disagree, while Airbus continues to be required to have triple redundancy says a lot about their respective regulators (EASA Vs FAA). I&amp;#x27;m sure &amp;quot;cost&amp;quot; was discussed given the 350+ aircraft already produced and how impractical it is to add a third AoA sensor, but that&amp;#x27;s literally putting cost over safety.&lt;p&gt;[0] See &amp;quot;Inaccurate limit&amp;quot;: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.seattletimes.com&amp;#x2F;business&amp;#x2F;boeing-aerospace&amp;#x2F;failed-certification-faa-missed-safety-issues-in-the-737-max-system-implicated-in-the-lion-air-crash&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.seattletimes.com&amp;#x2F;business&amp;#x2F;boeing-aerospace&amp;#x2F;faile...&lt;/a&gt;</text></item><item><author>CydeWeys</author><text>That they didn&amp;#x27;t add a third AoA sensor does not fill me with confidence that they&amp;#x27;ve done all they can to fix this fatal issue that&amp;#x27;s already claimed over 300 lives. I&amp;#x27;m skeptical that a software-only fix is good enough.&lt;p&gt;Airbus planes, by contrast, have three AoA sensors. How can Boeing justify doing fewer given how critically important these sensors are for preventing crashes?</text></item><item><author>dingaling</author><text>&amp;quot;We&amp;#x27;ll do everything possible to earn and re-earn that trust and confidence&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;Empty promises. Will they fly 10 empty aircraft 24&amp;#x2F;7 for a year on realistic routes to demonstrate that they&amp;#x27;ve resolved the problem? Will they integrate a third AoA sensor and retrofit it for no charge? Of course not.&lt;p&gt;They&amp;#x27;ll model the scenario and conclude that it is fixed.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mhandley</author><text>It won&amp;#x27;t just be the FAA that signs off on the Max this time - the review process is to be a collaborative international one. In part, this probably indicates how much the FAA&amp;#x27;s credibility has been damaged by the 737 Max:&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;af.reuters.com&amp;#x2F;article&amp;#x2F;worldNews&amp;#x2F;idAFKCN1RV1A1&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;af.reuters.com&amp;#x2F;article&amp;#x2F;worldNews&amp;#x2F;idAFKCN1RV1A1&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>

<story><title>&apos;Passengers are afraid of this airplane&apos;: How Boeing is handling 737 Max problem</title><url>https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/the-national-737-max-boeing-1.5107529</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Someone1234</author><text>Airbus aircraft require three AoA sensors because they&amp;#x27;re considered safety critical. On the 737 Max they weren&amp;#x27;t safety critical right up until they added MCAS, at which point that changed, and the regulators should have required it but failed to (in part because Boeing mislead regulators about how much MCAS could adjust the deflection in the horizontal stabilizer, doubling it after regulators had already sign off on it[0]).&lt;p&gt;The fact that Boeing is able to skate by with two and a software off-switch if they disagree, while Airbus continues to be required to have triple redundancy says a lot about their respective regulators (EASA Vs FAA). I&amp;#x27;m sure &amp;quot;cost&amp;quot; was discussed given the 350+ aircraft already produced and how impractical it is to add a third AoA sensor, but that&amp;#x27;s literally putting cost over safety.&lt;p&gt;[0] See &amp;quot;Inaccurate limit&amp;quot;: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.seattletimes.com&amp;#x2F;business&amp;#x2F;boeing-aerospace&amp;#x2F;failed-certification-faa-missed-safety-issues-in-the-737-max-system-implicated-in-the-lion-air-crash&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.seattletimes.com&amp;#x2F;business&amp;#x2F;boeing-aerospace&amp;#x2F;faile...&lt;/a&gt;</text></item><item><author>CydeWeys</author><text>That they didn&amp;#x27;t add a third AoA sensor does not fill me with confidence that they&amp;#x27;ve done all they can to fix this fatal issue that&amp;#x27;s already claimed over 300 lives. I&amp;#x27;m skeptical that a software-only fix is good enough.&lt;p&gt;Airbus planes, by contrast, have three AoA sensors. How can Boeing justify doing fewer given how critically important these sensors are for preventing crashes?</text></item><item><author>dingaling</author><text>&amp;quot;We&amp;#x27;ll do everything possible to earn and re-earn that trust and confidence&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;Empty promises. Will they fly 10 empty aircraft 24&amp;#x2F;7 for a year on realistic routes to demonstrate that they&amp;#x27;ve resolved the problem? Will they integrate a third AoA sensor and retrofit it for no charge? Of course not.&lt;p&gt;They&amp;#x27;ll model the scenario and conclude that it is fixed.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>CaptainZapp</author><text>&lt;i&gt;but that&amp;#x27;s literally putting cost over safety.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;Which seems to be fully in line with Boeing&amp;#x27;s business model and their behavior after the Lion Air crash.&lt;p&gt;Even after the Ethiopian crash they did just about everything to deflect, blame and obfuscate until this behavior was just no more maintainable based on the known facts.&lt;p&gt;Switching then to a &amp;quot;We apologise if your dead&amp;quot; marketing shtick.&lt;p&gt;I find it hard to believe, based on all the evidence, that this company put lifes before profit.</text></comment>

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<story><title>Apple unveils &apos;Passwords&apos; manager app at WWDC 2024</title><url>https://www.zdnet.com/article/forget-lastpass-apple-unveils-passwords-manager-app-at-wwdc-2024/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dylan604</author><text>I have been fighting switching to the SaaS version. Paying a monthly fee for access to my passwords is highway robbery. I do not want&amp;#x2F;need any of these other &amp;quot;services&amp;quot; they forced upon me. I have trying Apples keychain, but that migration is slow and a total pain in the ass. And it&amp;#x27;s not even a good replacement.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;m sure 1Password doesn&amp;#x27;t care one iota about loosing individual users with attitudes like this. Until the forced to a monthly rent seeking hand in my pocket policy was deployed, I had been a vocal advocate for 1Pass. Now, they&amp;#x27;re about to loose me altogether</text></item><item><author>ipqk</author><text>I&amp;#x27;ve been an avid 1Password user for over 10 years, but since they gone full-throttle targeting the enterprise market, I&amp;#x27;m getting more and more annoyed. It&amp;#x27;s increasingly buggy (right now, it thinks I haven&amp;#x27;t migrated from 1p7 which causes annoying interstitials that I can&amp;#x27;t close. Over a month and no fix yet.). They killed standalone vaults. Obvious feature requests (e.g archive an entire vault) sit there for years untouched. The value is increasingly not there anymore for me, and here&amp;#x27;s hoping I can finally jump ship this fall.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>troad</author><text>&amp;gt; I have been fighting switching to the SaaS version&lt;p&gt;I felt that way on principle for a long time, but honestly, on reflection, 1P is probably subscription that is most justifiable. I &lt;i&gt;want&lt;/i&gt; to outsource online security to people that know what they are doing. I want that to be a viable business for a long time into the future. And I want their funding model to be such that their interests are aligned with those of their paying users (me).&lt;p&gt;People can get so irrational when it comes to the cost of software. The same person who&amp;#x27;d pay hundreds of dollars for a cleaner, or a gym membership, will swear up and down that 70 bucks a year for an online bodyguard is highway robbery.</text></comment>

<story><title>Apple unveils &apos;Passwords&apos; manager app at WWDC 2024</title><url>https://www.zdnet.com/article/forget-lastpass-apple-unveils-passwords-manager-app-at-wwdc-2024/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dylan604</author><text>I have been fighting switching to the SaaS version. Paying a monthly fee for access to my passwords is highway robbery. I do not want&amp;#x2F;need any of these other &amp;quot;services&amp;quot; they forced upon me. I have trying Apples keychain, but that migration is slow and a total pain in the ass. And it&amp;#x27;s not even a good replacement.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;m sure 1Password doesn&amp;#x27;t care one iota about loosing individual users with attitudes like this. Until the forced to a monthly rent seeking hand in my pocket policy was deployed, I had been a vocal advocate for 1Pass. Now, they&amp;#x27;re about to loose me altogether</text></item><item><author>ipqk</author><text>I&amp;#x27;ve been an avid 1Password user for over 10 years, but since they gone full-throttle targeting the enterprise market, I&amp;#x27;m getting more and more annoyed. It&amp;#x27;s increasingly buggy (right now, it thinks I haven&amp;#x27;t migrated from 1p7 which causes annoying interstitials that I can&amp;#x27;t close. Over a month and no fix yet.). They killed standalone vaults. Obvious feature requests (e.g archive an entire vault) sit there for years untouched. The value is increasingly not there anymore for me, and here&amp;#x27;s hoping I can finally jump ship this fall.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>JumpCrisscross</author><text>&amp;gt; &lt;i&gt;Paying a monthly fee for access to my passwords is highway robber&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;It would be. Fortunately, 1Password doesn’t do that [1].&lt;p&gt;You’re paying for an important piece of software to be maintained.&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; &lt;i&gt;I&amp;#x27;m sure 1Password doesn&amp;#x27;t care one iota about loosing individual users with attitudes like this&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;Probably not. Emphasis on attitude.&lt;p&gt;[1] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;support.1password.com&amp;#x2F;frozen-account&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;support.1password.com&amp;#x2F;frozen-account&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>

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<story><title>Second-Guessing the Modern Web</title><url>https://macwright.org/2020/05/10/spa-fatigue.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>MattGaiser</author><text>&amp;gt; As a user and developer myself, that&amp;#x27;s the sort of selfish attitude that really really angers your users.&lt;p&gt;A user is only unhappy if they withhold some money over it.</text></item><item><author>userbinator</author><text>&lt;i&gt;It outweighs all the end-user-facing cons by a lot, because companies need us, and our salaries are expensive.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;As a user and developer myself, that&amp;#x27;s the sort of selfish attitude that really &lt;i&gt;really&lt;/i&gt; angers your users.&lt;p&gt;&lt;i&gt;I sometimes wonder if the people claiming to hate client-side technologies or disable JS in their browsers have actually ever had to build a complex website to put food on their table. My bet is the answer is often no, or they are a contrarian in general.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;ve worked on &amp;quot;complex&amp;quot;[1] websites in PHP, all static&amp;#x2F;server-side rendered; &lt;i&gt;zero&lt;/i&gt; need of JS, near instant load times, ultra low bandwidth and server CPU utilisation, and don&amp;#x27;t even need to think about &amp;quot;browser support&amp;quot; because it&amp;#x27;ll be usable with anything from the past two decades.&lt;p&gt;[1] complexity in terms of features and usefulness, not in terms of how much code and resources it needs. Unfortunately a lot of developers seem to think complexity as in the latter is a good thing.</text></item><item><author>luxphl</author><text>I empathize with the author but client-side technologies like React have a pretty clear advantage that explains why they&amp;#x27;re popular: for the people that are tasked to make websites (i.e. us, HN readers), they&amp;#x27;re easier to work with and they save us time. It outweighs all the end-user-facing cons by a lot, because companies need us, and our salaries are expensive.&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s true that they are largely more complex than O.G. web technologies, and it worries me that they create a sort of gatekeeping effect on the industry, but I think it&amp;#x27;s disingenuous to outright claim React &amp;amp; co. are bad from a development perspective. I sometimes wonder if the people claiming to hate client-side technologies or disable JS in their browsers have actually ever had to build a complex website to put food on their table. My bet is the answer is often no, or they are a contrarian in general.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;ve done lots of native development on Desktop and Mobile and I can sort of see how you get there if that&amp;#x27;s your point of reference, but if you work on web apps daily it&amp;#x27;s clear why the popular technologies are popular, and it&amp;#x27;s not hype.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>TeMPOraL</author><text>As others said, user != customer. A big chunk of software (perhaps the majority) is bought by someone other than the end-user. Think workplace, or all the OEM garbage that ships with your phone.&lt;p&gt;On top of that, on the mass market, customers don&amp;#x27;t have a meanigful choice. They can&amp;#x27;t signal desires in the entirety of concept space; they &lt;i&gt;choose out of what&amp;#x27;s available on the market&lt;/i&gt;. Which means the choice really lies with the vendors.</text></comment>

<story><title>Second-Guessing the Modern Web</title><url>https://macwright.org/2020/05/10/spa-fatigue.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>MattGaiser</author><text>&amp;gt; As a user and developer myself, that&amp;#x27;s the sort of selfish attitude that really really angers your users.&lt;p&gt;A user is only unhappy if they withhold some money over it.</text></item><item><author>userbinator</author><text>&lt;i&gt;It outweighs all the end-user-facing cons by a lot, because companies need us, and our salaries are expensive.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;As a user and developer myself, that&amp;#x27;s the sort of selfish attitude that really &lt;i&gt;really&lt;/i&gt; angers your users.&lt;p&gt;&lt;i&gt;I sometimes wonder if the people claiming to hate client-side technologies or disable JS in their browsers have actually ever had to build a complex website to put food on their table. My bet is the answer is often no, or they are a contrarian in general.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;ve worked on &amp;quot;complex&amp;quot;[1] websites in PHP, all static&amp;#x2F;server-side rendered; &lt;i&gt;zero&lt;/i&gt; need of JS, near instant load times, ultra low bandwidth and server CPU utilisation, and don&amp;#x27;t even need to think about &amp;quot;browser support&amp;quot; because it&amp;#x27;ll be usable with anything from the past two decades.&lt;p&gt;[1] complexity in terms of features and usefulness, not in terms of how much code and resources it needs. Unfortunately a lot of developers seem to think complexity as in the latter is a good thing.</text></item><item><author>luxphl</author><text>I empathize with the author but client-side technologies like React have a pretty clear advantage that explains why they&amp;#x27;re popular: for the people that are tasked to make websites (i.e. us, HN readers), they&amp;#x27;re easier to work with and they save us time. It outweighs all the end-user-facing cons by a lot, because companies need us, and our salaries are expensive.&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s true that they are largely more complex than O.G. web technologies, and it worries me that they create a sort of gatekeeping effect on the industry, but I think it&amp;#x27;s disingenuous to outright claim React &amp;amp; co. are bad from a development perspective. I sometimes wonder if the people claiming to hate client-side technologies or disable JS in their browsers have actually ever had to build a complex website to put food on their table. My bet is the answer is often no, or they are a contrarian in general.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;ve done lots of native development on Desktop and Mobile and I can sort of see how you get there if that&amp;#x27;s your point of reference, but if you work on web apps daily it&amp;#x27;s clear why the popular technologies are popular, and it&amp;#x27;s not hype.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>goatinaboat</author><text>&lt;i&gt;A user is only unhappy if they withhold some money over it.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;Yes and no. If you are selling to the CFO on the golf course, then you get paid &lt;i&gt;and&lt;/i&gt; all the actual users are unhappy. This is the entire ERP industry.</text></comment>

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<story><title>With a nudge from AI, ketamine emerges as a potential rare disease treatment</title><url>https://www.statnews.com/2021/08/05/artificial-intelligence-rare-disease-andp-medikanren/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>irthomasthomas</author><text>Sorry to burst your bubble but U.S. drug policy is not as progressive as you might think. Cannabis is still illegal under federal law. And right now America is petitioning the WHO for a GLOBAL ban on KRATOM, a herb which has been used in Asia for hundreds of years with no recorded deaths. It has been in use in Europe and America for a couple of decades and still there are no deaths recorded from pure Kratom use. Kratom can be used to treat or replace alcohol, cocaine and opiate addiction. It is a herb harvested from the leaves of a tree related to the coffee plant and has incredible pain relieving properties, as well as being a mild stimulant and mood regulator. For more info see this recent study &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov&amp;#x2F;pmc&amp;#x2F;articles&amp;#x2F;PMC6612999&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov&amp;#x2F;pmc&amp;#x2F;articles&amp;#x2F;PMC6612999&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;And please tell the FDA and WHO not to ban this awesome herb. The deadline for comments is August 9th. &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.americankratom.org&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.americankratom.org&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt;</text></item><item><author>tomato-sauce</author><text>It feels like in the last few years I have been constantly hearing about new research showing “fun” drugs as cures to a wide array of medical conditions. There’s marijuana for chronic pain, mushrooms for depression, mdma for ptsd, and now ketamine. They are often talked about as if they have little or no harmful side effects. I’m glad we are moving away from the incredibly destructive drug policies that have been in place for so long but I fear the pendulum may be swinging too far the other way. The opioid epidemic was largely caused by the idea of them being non addictive being heavy pushed by the pharmaceuticals industry. Are we going to see similar harms from these drugs a few years after they gain more popularity? So far the evidence doesn’t show anything near this level of harm. I’m just skeptical of anything that seems too good to be true.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>PragmaticPulp</author><text>Please don’t glorify Kratom as some sort of miracle herb without downsides.&lt;p&gt;Kratom is an opioid, full stop. People are under the mistaken impression that it’s less addictive because it’s less potent on a per-gram basis, but addicts simply end up consuming more grams to get similar highs.&lt;p&gt;It’s not a “mood regulator” in any magical sense other than it’s an opioid and opioids temporarily put people in good moods.&lt;p&gt;There are many communities dedicated to quitting Kratom and handling Kratom withdrawal, which is the same as withdrawing from other opioids (For instance: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.reddit.com&amp;#x2F;r&amp;#x2F;quittingkratom&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.reddit.com&amp;#x2F;r&amp;#x2F;quittingkratom&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt; ).&lt;p&gt;Whether or not you think Kratom should be legal, we shouldn’t be glorifying it as a harmless substance that somehow defies the realities of every other opioid.</text></comment>

<story><title>With a nudge from AI, ketamine emerges as a potential rare disease treatment</title><url>https://www.statnews.com/2021/08/05/artificial-intelligence-rare-disease-andp-medikanren/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>irthomasthomas</author><text>Sorry to burst your bubble but U.S. drug policy is not as progressive as you might think. Cannabis is still illegal under federal law. And right now America is petitioning the WHO for a GLOBAL ban on KRATOM, a herb which has been used in Asia for hundreds of years with no recorded deaths. It has been in use in Europe and America for a couple of decades and still there are no deaths recorded from pure Kratom use. Kratom can be used to treat or replace alcohol, cocaine and opiate addiction. It is a herb harvested from the leaves of a tree related to the coffee plant and has incredible pain relieving properties, as well as being a mild stimulant and mood regulator. For more info see this recent study &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov&amp;#x2F;pmc&amp;#x2F;articles&amp;#x2F;PMC6612999&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov&amp;#x2F;pmc&amp;#x2F;articles&amp;#x2F;PMC6612999&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;And please tell the FDA and WHO not to ban this awesome herb. The deadline for comments is August 9th. &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.americankratom.org&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.americankratom.org&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt;</text></item><item><author>tomato-sauce</author><text>It feels like in the last few years I have been constantly hearing about new research showing “fun” drugs as cures to a wide array of medical conditions. There’s marijuana for chronic pain, mushrooms for depression, mdma for ptsd, and now ketamine. They are often talked about as if they have little or no harmful side effects. I’m glad we are moving away from the incredibly destructive drug policies that have been in place for so long but I fear the pendulum may be swinging too far the other way. The opioid epidemic was largely caused by the idea of them being non addictive being heavy pushed by the pharmaceuticals industry. Are we going to see similar harms from these drugs a few years after they gain more popularity? So far the evidence doesn’t show anything near this level of harm. I’m just skeptical of anything that seems too good to be true.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>loeg</author><text>Kratom is fundamentally an opioid. It happens to be cheap and relatively safe (consumed by ingesting large quantities of plant matter, rather than injection or insufflation of some extremely potent compound). I think opioids are over-vilified in general, and I&amp;#x27;m on the side of legalization, but kratom isn&amp;#x27;t magic.</text></comment>

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<story><title>We are Google employees – Google must drop Dragonfly</title><url>https://medium.com/@googlersagainstdragonfly/we-are-google-employees-google-must-drop-dragonfly-4c8a30c5e5eb</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>nimbius</author><text>Pretty bold. A lot of people are saying this wont work, but speaking from my own experience, you&amp;#x27;d be surprised what companies are amicable to when it comes to business.&lt;p&gt;Im an engine mechanic by trade, and our shops handle bids for cash strapped local governments that outsource their motor pool maintenance. We do things like fire trucks and police cars, but we were working on a new regional idea as a &amp;quot;service center&amp;quot; for municipalities that purchased MRAP combat vehicles for their police departments. &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;MRAP&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;MRAP&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;We all, especially the veterans I work with, hated this idea. MRAP&amp;#x27;s are for combat, not police work, and have a dangerous propensity to roll over in city streets or escalate already violent situations. 14 of us sent a signed letter to the owner and senior management detailing our major concerns and heard nothing back for about a month. Then out of the blue we got a call for a meeting with 3-4 very senior managers at a local irish bar.&lt;p&gt;They paid for dinner and tried to explain how the business would be extremely lucrative. we would all see major bonuses, we could hire more workers, and grow the business faster than just large truck repair. It took 3 very emotional hours, but we eventually talked down a handful of people from making a very wrong decision.&lt;p&gt;for a week after, we were all sort of stunned that it actually worked at all. Tire cages meant for MRAP tires were cut up and turned into random parts holders, or as new hangers for air lines...one even replaced our mailbox post.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>alangibson</author><text>You deserve massive credit for striking a blow against this madness. A great example of how working people have more power than they think if they&amp;#x27;re willing to risk dollars and cents for matters of right and wrong.&lt;p&gt;I say that fully realizing that not everyone is in the financial position where they can risk a fight with their employer. You can&amp;#x27;t expect everyone to be Ghandi.</text></comment>

<story><title>We are Google employees – Google must drop Dragonfly</title><url>https://medium.com/@googlersagainstdragonfly/we-are-google-employees-google-must-drop-dragonfly-4c8a30c5e5eb</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>nimbius</author><text>Pretty bold. A lot of people are saying this wont work, but speaking from my own experience, you&amp;#x27;d be surprised what companies are amicable to when it comes to business.&lt;p&gt;Im an engine mechanic by trade, and our shops handle bids for cash strapped local governments that outsource their motor pool maintenance. We do things like fire trucks and police cars, but we were working on a new regional idea as a &amp;quot;service center&amp;quot; for municipalities that purchased MRAP combat vehicles for their police departments. &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;MRAP&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;MRAP&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;We all, especially the veterans I work with, hated this idea. MRAP&amp;#x27;s are for combat, not police work, and have a dangerous propensity to roll over in city streets or escalate already violent situations. 14 of us sent a signed letter to the owner and senior management detailing our major concerns and heard nothing back for about a month. Then out of the blue we got a call for a meeting with 3-4 very senior managers at a local irish bar.&lt;p&gt;They paid for dinner and tried to explain how the business would be extremely lucrative. we would all see major bonuses, we could hire more workers, and grow the business faster than just large truck repair. It took 3 very emotional hours, but we eventually talked down a handful of people from making a very wrong decision.&lt;p&gt;for a week after, we were all sort of stunned that it actually worked at all. Tire cages meant for MRAP tires were cut up and turned into random parts holders, or as new hangers for air lines...one even replaced our mailbox post.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>komali2</author><text>Damn, good for y&amp;#x27;all for sticking to your values. How did you argue against the inevitable &amp;quot;if we don&amp;#x27;t take this contract, dude across the street will&amp;quot;?</text></comment>

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<story><title>Revisiting why hyperlinks are blue</title><url>https://blog.mozilla.org/en/internet-culture/why-are-hyperlinks-blue-revisited/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>EGreg</author><text>Actually, it &lt;i&gt;was&lt;/i&gt; green.&lt;p&gt;I am always surprised whenever Mozilla posts this, that no one seems to go straight to the horse’s mouth. So I will:&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.w3.org&amp;#x2F;People&amp;#x2F;Berners-Lee&amp;#x2F;FAQ.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.w3.org&amp;#x2F;People&amp;#x2F;Berners-Lee&amp;#x2F;FAQ.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;i&gt;Rendition of links&lt;p&gt;Q: I&amp;#x27;m a student of visual communications and asked myself why links are blue. I found some answers that might be, for example blue is a color of learning, but I&amp;#x27;m not sure what is right. Is there any reason, why links are colored blue ?&lt;p&gt;A: There is no reason why one should use color, or blue, to signify links: it is just a default. I think the first WWW client (WorldWideWeb I wrote for the NeXT) used just underline to represent link, as it was a spare emphasis form which isn&amp;#x27;t used much in real documents. Blue came in as browsers went color - I don&amp;#x27;t remember which was the first to use blue. You can change the defaults in most browsers, and certainly in HTML documents, and of course with CSS style sheets. There are many examples of style sheets which use different colors.&lt;p&gt;My guess is that blue is the darkest color and so threatens the legibility least. I used green whenever I could in the early WWW design, for nature and because it is supposed to be relaxing. Robert Cailliau made the WWW icon in many colors but chose green as he had always seen W in his head as green.&lt;p&gt;One of the nicest link renditions was Dave Raggett&amp;#x27;s &amp;quot;Arena&amp;quot; browser which had a textured parchment background and embossed out the words of the link with a square apparently raised area.*&lt;/i&gt;</text></item><item><author>NoSorryCannot</author><text>I feel like the only other plausible color that could have been chosen is green, and even that seems too opinionated. Reasons being mostly associations (red, orange, yellow meaning danger or stop, and green meaning go) and legibility on white or gray backgrounds. Add to that that people seem to disproportionately pick blue as their favorite color and they especially seem to favor it as a conservative or relaxing color choice.&lt;p&gt;That is to say, I think the odds of two people independently picking blue are pretty good.</text></item><item><author>SeanLuke</author><text>This is a fun follow-on article building on another fun article. Unfortunately it seems that with a decent probability the entire premise of the first article is wrong.&lt;p&gt;The original article concludes that Marc Andreessen added blue hyperlinks to NCSA Mosaic in 1993, and that&amp;#x27;s where blue came from in web browsers. This appears to have stemmed from the mistaken notion that WWW.app (Tim Berners-Lee&amp;#x27;s browser) was only monochrome. And this follow-on article makes the same claim:&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; It is also interesting to note that WWW.app, the browser he was creating at the time, did not use blue hyperlinks.&lt;p&gt;But that&amp;#x27;s not true. It&amp;#x27;s true that WWW.app as originally created didn&amp;#x27;t have blue hyperlinks because it was written on early NeXT cubes, which were 2-bit monochrome. But NeXTs were color as of 1990. And it&amp;#x27;s clear that as of 1993 WWW.app had blue links, as we had dug up in &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&amp;#x2F;item?id=28318055&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&amp;#x2F;item?id=28318055&lt;/a&gt; In 1991 Tim Berners Lee had added comments indicating support for color hyperlinks in the immediate future. At some point between 1991 and 1993 this feature was turned on, and links were set to blue.&lt;p&gt;Since they both had or added blue by 1993, it is not clear whether Marc beat Tim to it or vice versa, but it seems to me likely that Tim was first. This is because (1) Since they both chose blue, it seems probable that one was copying the other. NCSA Mosaic was copying WWW.app wholesale in most aspects, and not the other way around AFAIK. And (2) Tim was influenced by earlier hypertext systems which used blue, as discussed in this article.&lt;p&gt;Unfortunately neither of these articles actually ask Tim when he added it: they just assume WWW.app ran only on monochrome machines when, long before 1993, NeXT workstations were in color.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>SeanLuke</author><text>I don&amp;#x27;t think he&amp;#x27;s saying the links were green here. At any rate, the links were clearly blue on early color WWW.app screenshots.&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;WorldWideWeb#&amp;#x2F;media&amp;#x2F;File:WorldWideWeb_FSF_GNU.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;WorldWideWeb#&amp;#x2F;media&amp;#x2F;File:World...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.w3.org&amp;#x2F;History&amp;#x2F;1994&amp;#x2F;WWW&amp;#x2F;Journals&amp;#x2F;CACM&amp;#x2F;screensnap2_24c.gif&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.w3.org&amp;#x2F;History&amp;#x2F;1994&amp;#x2F;WWW&amp;#x2F;Journals&amp;#x2F;CACM&amp;#x2F;screensnap...&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>

<story><title>Revisiting why hyperlinks are blue</title><url>https://blog.mozilla.org/en/internet-culture/why-are-hyperlinks-blue-revisited/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>EGreg</author><text>Actually, it &lt;i&gt;was&lt;/i&gt; green.&lt;p&gt;I am always surprised whenever Mozilla posts this, that no one seems to go straight to the horse’s mouth. So I will:&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.w3.org&amp;#x2F;People&amp;#x2F;Berners-Lee&amp;#x2F;FAQ.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.w3.org&amp;#x2F;People&amp;#x2F;Berners-Lee&amp;#x2F;FAQ.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;i&gt;Rendition of links&lt;p&gt;Q: I&amp;#x27;m a student of visual communications and asked myself why links are blue. I found some answers that might be, for example blue is a color of learning, but I&amp;#x27;m not sure what is right. Is there any reason, why links are colored blue ?&lt;p&gt;A: There is no reason why one should use color, or blue, to signify links: it is just a default. I think the first WWW client (WorldWideWeb I wrote for the NeXT) used just underline to represent link, as it was a spare emphasis form which isn&amp;#x27;t used much in real documents. Blue came in as browsers went color - I don&amp;#x27;t remember which was the first to use blue. You can change the defaults in most browsers, and certainly in HTML documents, and of course with CSS style sheets. There are many examples of style sheets which use different colors.&lt;p&gt;My guess is that blue is the darkest color and so threatens the legibility least. I used green whenever I could in the early WWW design, for nature and because it is supposed to be relaxing. Robert Cailliau made the WWW icon in many colors but chose green as he had always seen W in his head as green.&lt;p&gt;One of the nicest link renditions was Dave Raggett&amp;#x27;s &amp;quot;Arena&amp;quot; browser which had a textured parchment background and embossed out the words of the link with a square apparently raised area.*&lt;/i&gt;</text></item><item><author>NoSorryCannot</author><text>I feel like the only other plausible color that could have been chosen is green, and even that seems too opinionated. Reasons being mostly associations (red, orange, yellow meaning danger or stop, and green meaning go) and legibility on white or gray backgrounds. Add to that that people seem to disproportionately pick blue as their favorite color and they especially seem to favor it as a conservative or relaxing color choice.&lt;p&gt;That is to say, I think the odds of two people independently picking blue are pretty good.</text></item><item><author>SeanLuke</author><text>This is a fun follow-on article building on another fun article. Unfortunately it seems that with a decent probability the entire premise of the first article is wrong.&lt;p&gt;The original article concludes that Marc Andreessen added blue hyperlinks to NCSA Mosaic in 1993, and that&amp;#x27;s where blue came from in web browsers. This appears to have stemmed from the mistaken notion that WWW.app (Tim Berners-Lee&amp;#x27;s browser) was only monochrome. And this follow-on article makes the same claim:&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; It is also interesting to note that WWW.app, the browser he was creating at the time, did not use blue hyperlinks.&lt;p&gt;But that&amp;#x27;s not true. It&amp;#x27;s true that WWW.app as originally created didn&amp;#x27;t have blue hyperlinks because it was written on early NeXT cubes, which were 2-bit monochrome. But NeXTs were color as of 1990. And it&amp;#x27;s clear that as of 1993 WWW.app had blue links, as we had dug up in &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&amp;#x2F;item?id=28318055&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&amp;#x2F;item?id=28318055&lt;/a&gt; In 1991 Tim Berners Lee had added comments indicating support for color hyperlinks in the immediate future. At some point between 1991 and 1993 this feature was turned on, and links were set to blue.&lt;p&gt;Since they both had or added blue by 1993, it is not clear whether Marc beat Tim to it or vice versa, but it seems to me likely that Tim was first. This is because (1) Since they both chose blue, it seems probable that one was copying the other. NCSA Mosaic was copying WWW.app wholesale in most aspects, and not the other way around AFAIK. And (2) Tim was influenced by earlier hypertext systems which used blue, as discussed in this article.&lt;p&gt;Unfortunately neither of these articles actually ask Tim when he added it: they just assume WWW.app ran only on monochrome machines when, long before 1993, NeXT workstations were in color.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>kevingadd</author><text>That doesn&amp;#x27;t seem to suggest that links were green? &amp;quot;I used green whenever I could in the early WWW design&amp;quot; makes it sound like &lt;i&gt;webpages&lt;/i&gt; were green, which is why the icon ended up being green.</text></comment>

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<story><title>Factor 0.96 now available – over 1,100 commits</title><url>http://re-factor.blogspot.com/2013/04/factor-0-96-now-available.html</url><text></text></story><parent_chain><item><author>sherjilozair</author><text>I must say, that the syntax and semantics are not intuitive at all. I&apos;ve spent half an hour trying to learn how does this thing work, and have not been able to. I guess, a damn good tutorial is in order. I think one of the primary reasons Python took off really well, was because of very good tutorials available. The language of Factor&apos;s documentation is still only tuned for language designers, not language users.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>etfb</author><text>Concatenative language syntax is actually pretty easy at the basic level. I don&apos;t know Factor, but I used to dabble a lot in Forth. The single syntactical rule with Forth is that a symbol (called a &quot;word&quot;) is one or more non-space characters, delimited by spaces. So the following three things are all words: &lt;i&gt;SWAP .&quot; -1&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;Next, there&apos;s the idea of the stack. Every word is executed, one after the other, and the words operate on the stack. So the four-word sequence &lt;i&gt;3 4 + .&lt;/i&gt; puts a 3 on the stack, then puts a 4 on the stack, then pops the top two numbers from the stack and puts their sum on the stack, then prints the top number on the stack. So the result, naturally, is 11. (Well, it is if you&apos;re operating in base 6 at the time. Didn&apos;t want to make it TOO easy for you!)&lt;p&gt;Oh, and there&apos;s also the concept of interpreting vs compiling. The colon word, which is spelled &lt;i&gt;:&lt;/i&gt;, reads the very next word from the input and begins the definition of that word. Every word it encounters up to the next semi-colon is compiled, not executed. So if I did this&lt;p&gt;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt; 3 4 + : FOO SWAP DROP ; . &lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt; ... it would still print out the sum of 3 and 4, but in between it would also define a new word called FOO. Which would be a silly way to program, but it demonstrates the point.&lt;p&gt;So the short form is: begin reading at the top left, continue rightward and downward until you reach the bottom. There&apos;s no syntax as such, like Perl&apos;s &lt;i&gt;die &quot;Can&apos;t open file&quot; unless $fileopen;&lt;/i&gt; because Forth-like languages don&apos;t read ahead to the end of the line.&lt;p&gt;[Edited: HN doesn&apos;t do Markdown. WTF? Also, I don&apos;t know my left and right.]</text></comment>

<story><title>Factor 0.96 now available – over 1,100 commits</title><url>http://re-factor.blogspot.com/2013/04/factor-0-96-now-available.html</url><text></text></story><parent_chain><item><author>sherjilozair</author><text>I must say, that the syntax and semantics are not intuitive at all. I&apos;ve spent half an hour trying to learn how does this thing work, and have not been able to. I guess, a damn good tutorial is in order. I think one of the primary reasons Python took off really well, was because of very good tutorials available. The language of Factor&apos;s documentation is still only tuned for language designers, not language users.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>digitailor</author><text>That&apos;s what&apos;s cool about the Forth idea, and why it can be so effective. It&apos;s not that it&apos;s unintuitive, it just doesn&apos;t take Algol-style semantics as a given as we do today. (It was being used before C was even developed.) If we&apos;re interested, it&apos;s our job to see if we can fit our thought process into the Forth idea, not vice versa.&lt;p&gt;And it&apos;s a very coherent idea. It&apos;s meant to respect processor architecture while maintaining a good level of comprehensibility to the human. And it keeps a MUCH closer correspondence between &quot;word&quot; (essentially a routine) and actual instruction. That got WAY lost with C, enter the beast-compiler.&lt;p&gt;I think of it as a concept layer above assembly, that has features far beyond just mnemonic value. It&apos;s like Lisp to me- a language whose &quot;syntax&quot; is dictated by the functional necessity of a computing methodology, not the decisions of language designers. For me at least, the approach leads to much higher productivity for a variety of reasons.&lt;p&gt;There&apos;s also a very high probability that Forth is the first thing to be run when you turn on the computer or cellphone you&apos;re reading this from.&lt;p&gt;Now as to Factor... see my post above and help me out!</text></comment>

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<story><title>The Final Speech from The Great Dictator (1940)</title><url>https://www.charliechaplin.com/en/articles/29-the-final-speech-from-the-great-dictator-</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>qingcharles</author><text>I always liked this version with music added:&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.youtube.com&amp;#x2F;watch?v=WibmcsEGLKo&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.youtube.com&amp;#x2F;watch?v=WibmcsEGLKo&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;I remember sharing a jail cell with a 19-year-old Mexican kid once and we were talking about the guards being assholes and he said &amp;quot;they&amp;#x27;re like machine men&amp;quot;; and I said &amp;quot;with machine minds and machine hearts?&amp;quot; and he was like &amp;quot;YES! You know it?!&amp;quot; -- it was a good moment, we spent the next few days trying to remember the whole speech.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>TaylorAlexander</author><text>This speech reminds me of the anarchist Errico Malatesta. Some of his comrades tried to call him the “Lenin of Italy” and he said he never wants to be the ruler of others, and that no matter how good his heart is if he were put in that position he would be corrupted by power just as everyone else would be. This video covers it: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;youtu.be&amp;#x2F;KYI-Bra-hP0&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;youtu.be&amp;#x2F;KYI-Bra-hP0&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>

<story><title>The Final Speech from The Great Dictator (1940)</title><url>https://www.charliechaplin.com/en/articles/29-the-final-speech-from-the-great-dictator-</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>qingcharles</author><text>I always liked this version with music added:&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.youtube.com&amp;#x2F;watch?v=WibmcsEGLKo&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.youtube.com&amp;#x2F;watch?v=WibmcsEGLKo&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;I remember sharing a jail cell with a 19-year-old Mexican kid once and we were talking about the guards being assholes and he said &amp;quot;they&amp;#x27;re like machine men&amp;quot;; and I said &amp;quot;with machine minds and machine hearts?&amp;quot; and he was like &amp;quot;YES! You know it?!&amp;quot; -- it was a good moment, we spent the next few days trying to remember the whole speech.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>johnmaguire</author><text>My partner is very partial to this version: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.youtube.com&amp;#x2F;watch?v=ouzKl0oD6sU&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.youtube.com&amp;#x2F;watch?v=ouzKl0oD6sU&lt;/a&gt; :)</text></comment>

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<story><title>Tesla worker killed in fiery crash may be first &apos;Full Self-Driving&apos; fatality</title><url>https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/interactive/2024/tesla-full-self-driving-fatal-crash/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ra7</author><text>As I said in another comment, these two were idiots driving drunk. Let&amp;#x27;s get that out of the way.&lt;p&gt;The bigger issue here is how this deniability is all too convenient for Tesla. The process goes like this:&lt;p&gt;1. Ship a clearly half baked system called &amp;quot;Full Self Driving&amp;quot;.&lt;p&gt;2. Require driver&amp;#x27;s hands on the wheel at all times.&lt;p&gt;3. Be &lt;i&gt;extremely non-transparent&lt;/i&gt; about your system&amp;#x27;s safety. Tesla&amp;#x27;s crash reports in the public NHTSA database contains absolutely no details. Everything is redacted, we can&amp;#x27;t even know if the crash happened with FSD or with plain old Autopilot [1]. This is in stark contrast to the reports filed by driverless companies like Waymo and Cruise to the CA DMV [2], which Tesla refuses to do.&lt;p&gt;Also publish a &amp;quot;safety report&amp;quot; that&amp;#x27;s entirely marketing BS, which doesn&amp;#x27;t control for many factors (highway vs city streets, geography, time of day, age of cars, safety features, demographics) and hence is not apples-to-apples. Claim it&amp;#x27;s &amp;quot;safer than humans&amp;quot;.&lt;p&gt;[1] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.nhtsa.gov&amp;#x2F;laws-regulations&amp;#x2F;standing-general-order-crash-reporting#data&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.nhtsa.gov&amp;#x2F;laws-regulations&amp;#x2F;standing-general-orde...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;[2] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.dmv.ca.gov&amp;#x2F;portal&amp;#x2F;vehicle-industry-services&amp;#x2F;autonomous-vehicles&amp;#x2F;autonomous-vehicle-collision-reports&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.dmv.ca.gov&amp;#x2F;portal&amp;#x2F;vehicle-industry-services&amp;#x2F;auto...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;4. When an accident happens, just say it&amp;#x27;s the driver&amp;#x27;s fault and that they should&amp;#x27;ve known it&amp;#x27;s just an L2 system.&lt;p&gt;5. Tweet about FSD vN+1 that&amp;#x27;s going to totally bring Full Self Driving by end of the year.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>basisword</author><text>It should be illegal for them to call it full self drive. It&amp;#x27;s 100% false advertising not to mention the &amp;#x27;danger&amp;#x27; that people will assume it is what it says it is.</text></comment>

<story><title>Tesla worker killed in fiery crash may be first &apos;Full Self-Driving&apos; fatality</title><url>https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/interactive/2024/tesla-full-self-driving-fatal-crash/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ra7</author><text>As I said in another comment, these two were idiots driving drunk. Let&amp;#x27;s get that out of the way.&lt;p&gt;The bigger issue here is how this deniability is all too convenient for Tesla. The process goes like this:&lt;p&gt;1. Ship a clearly half baked system called &amp;quot;Full Self Driving&amp;quot;.&lt;p&gt;2. Require driver&amp;#x27;s hands on the wheel at all times.&lt;p&gt;3. Be &lt;i&gt;extremely non-transparent&lt;/i&gt; about your system&amp;#x27;s safety. Tesla&amp;#x27;s crash reports in the public NHTSA database contains absolutely no details. Everything is redacted, we can&amp;#x27;t even know if the crash happened with FSD or with plain old Autopilot [1]. This is in stark contrast to the reports filed by driverless companies like Waymo and Cruise to the CA DMV [2], which Tesla refuses to do.&lt;p&gt;Also publish a &amp;quot;safety report&amp;quot; that&amp;#x27;s entirely marketing BS, which doesn&amp;#x27;t control for many factors (highway vs city streets, geography, time of day, age of cars, safety features, demographics) and hence is not apples-to-apples. Claim it&amp;#x27;s &amp;quot;safer than humans&amp;quot;.&lt;p&gt;[1] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.nhtsa.gov&amp;#x2F;laws-regulations&amp;#x2F;standing-general-order-crash-reporting#data&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.nhtsa.gov&amp;#x2F;laws-regulations&amp;#x2F;standing-general-orde...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;[2] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.dmv.ca.gov&amp;#x2F;portal&amp;#x2F;vehicle-industry-services&amp;#x2F;autonomous-vehicles&amp;#x2F;autonomous-vehicle-collision-reports&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.dmv.ca.gov&amp;#x2F;portal&amp;#x2F;vehicle-industry-services&amp;#x2F;auto...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;4. When an accident happens, just say it&amp;#x27;s the driver&amp;#x27;s fault and that they should&amp;#x27;ve known it&amp;#x27;s just an L2 system.&lt;p&gt;5. Tweet about FSD vN+1 that&amp;#x27;s going to totally bring Full Self Driving by end of the year.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>EA-3167</author><text>I think the quote from the article really sums it up in plain language, and the argument Musk presents should be familiar to anyone here, who&amp;#x27;s heard the &amp;quot;Robots &amp;gt; Humans in a car&amp;quot; argument.&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; “Regardless of how drunk Hans was, Musk has claimed that this car can drive itself and is essentially better than a human,” Bass said. “We were sold a false sense of security.”</text></comment>

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<story><title>In 1919, an Army convoy drove cross-country from Washington to San Francisco</title><url>https://www.washingtonpost.com/history/2019/07/07/driving-cross-country-was-crazy-idea-an-army-convoy-set-out-show-it-could-be-done/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>seltzered_</author><text>For some time context, the first New York to San Francisco telephone call was in 1915:&lt;p&gt;“Six months later, amidst the celebrations surrounding the Panama–Pacific International Exposition, on January 25, 1915, Alexander Graham Bell, in New York City, repeated his famous statement &amp;quot;Mr. Watson, come here. I want you,&amp;quot; into the telephone, which was heard by his assistant Dr. Watson in San Francisco, for a long distance call of 3,400 miles (5,500 km).” &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;First_transcontinental_telephone_call&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;First_transcontinental_telepho...&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>

<story><title>In 1919, an Army convoy drove cross-country from Washington to San Francisco</title><url>https://www.washingtonpost.com/history/2019/07/07/driving-cross-country-was-crazy-idea-an-army-convoy-set-out-show-it-could-be-done/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>ceejayoz</author><text>With Dwight Eisenhower on board.&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; The heavy vehicles had damaged or destroyed 88 bridges and caused 230 road accidents.&lt;p&gt;No wonder he considered creating the Interstate system to be a critical piece of infrastructure.</text></comment>

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<story><title>Gmail blows up e-mail marketing by caching all images on Google servers</title><url>http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2013/12/gmail-blows-up-e-mail-marketing-by-caching-all-images-on-google-servers/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>necubi</author><text>There seems to be a lot of misinformation flying around. Here&amp;#x27;s [0] Google&amp;#x27;s support doc that clears up some of it.&lt;p&gt;The most important part is at the end:&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;In some cases, senders may be able to know whether an individual has opened a message with unique image links. As always, Gmail scans every message for suspicious content and if Gmail considers a sender or message potentially suspicious, images won’t be displayed and you’ll be asked whether you want to see the images.&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;So Google apparently does not see read receipts as a problem. The privacy and security protections are about preventing other information (like ip, browser headers, cookies) from leaking, rather than read notifications.&lt;p&gt;If you care about maintaining your privacy, I would recommend disabling the new functionality.&lt;p&gt;[0] &lt;a href=&quot;https://support.google.com/mail/answer/145919?hl=en&amp;amp;ctx=mail&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;support.google.com&amp;#x2F;mail&amp;#x2F;answer&amp;#x2F;145919?hl=en&amp;amp;ctx=mail&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Steuard</author><text>Wow, I&amp;#x27;m amazed by this. I was &lt;i&gt;convinced&lt;/i&gt; that Google wouldn&amp;#x27;t have rolled out this new feature unless they had a way to avoid this sort of tracking. Isn&amp;#x27;t this &lt;i&gt;exactly&lt;/i&gt; the privacy issue that led clients to adopt &amp;quot;Don&amp;#x27;t display images automatically by default&amp;quot; in the first place?&lt;p&gt;(Why wouldn&amp;#x27;t they let users &lt;i&gt;combine&lt;/i&gt; this behavior with the old one? That is, don&amp;#x27;t display images by default, but if you choose to display them anyway, get the file from Google&amp;#x27;s proxy server.)</text></comment>

<story><title>Gmail blows up e-mail marketing by caching all images on Google servers</title><url>http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2013/12/gmail-blows-up-e-mail-marketing-by-caching-all-images-on-google-servers/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>necubi</author><text>There seems to be a lot of misinformation flying around. Here&amp;#x27;s [0] Google&amp;#x27;s support doc that clears up some of it.&lt;p&gt;The most important part is at the end:&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;In some cases, senders may be able to know whether an individual has opened a message with unique image links. As always, Gmail scans every message for suspicious content and if Gmail considers a sender or message potentially suspicious, images won’t be displayed and you’ll be asked whether you want to see the images.&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;So Google apparently does not see read receipts as a problem. The privacy and security protections are about preventing other information (like ip, browser headers, cookies) from leaking, rather than read notifications.&lt;p&gt;If you care about maintaining your privacy, I would recommend disabling the new functionality.&lt;p&gt;[0] &lt;a href=&quot;https://support.google.com/mail/answer/145919?hl=en&amp;amp;ctx=mail&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;support.google.com&amp;#x2F;mail&amp;#x2F;answer&amp;#x2F;145919?hl=en&amp;amp;ctx=mail&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>cloudwalking</author><text>These two statements of yours seem at odds with each other:&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;The privacy and security protections are about preventing other information (like ip, browser headers, cookies) from leaking, rather than read notifications.&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;If you care about maintaining your privacy, I would recommend disabling the new functionality.&amp;quot;</text></comment>

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<story><title>Devpod: Remote development environment at Uber</title><url>https://www.uber.com/blog/devpod-improving-developer-productivity-at-uber/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>gandalfgeek</author><text>Back in the early 2000s, Sun (&amp;quot;the network is the computer&amp;quot;) had a similar solution that worked seamlessly for most of their software org-- the Sun Ray. &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Sun_Ray&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Sun_Ray&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;It was a network terminal. Your files and entire session were on the server. Your “local” terminal consisted only of a network interface and enough compute power to display your session. The way they had it set up was that you could insert your Sun employee ID – the same card used to get into the building – into a slot in the terminal. That authenticated you to the server and displayed your session instantly. Want to show a colleague something you’re working on? Just put your ID into their Sun Ray and show them exactly what you were doing. That was cool! It was a frictionless way to demo and collaborate.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>deng</author><text>I worked on a Sun Ray. I and many colleagues absolutely hated it.&lt;p&gt;These tiny machines were just way too slow to handle even the tiny amount of work they had to do. Also, everyone knows that X over network is just not made for modern applications (&amp;quot;modern&amp;quot; in the year 2000!). I worked with Matlab, and had a lot of fun trying to rotate 3D plots with a few thousand points. It was just unbearable.&lt;p&gt;Then of course the &amp;quot;single point of failure&amp;quot; thing. Network problems? No one can work. Main server has a drive failure? No one can work. Main server needs an upgrade? No one can work.&lt;p&gt;The Sun Rays had super-poor USB support. My ergonomic keyboard had no auto-repeat when connected to these things, absolutely impossible to fix or even debug. Then of course there was Sun software: although they invented Java, their JVM was leaking like a sieve and everything Java had to be restarted regularly. The Sun coreutils were just very limited compared to the GNU counterparts. We complained endlessly, and in the end, IT budged and we all got our dedicated Linux machines.</text></comment>

<story><title>Devpod: Remote development environment at Uber</title><url>https://www.uber.com/blog/devpod-improving-developer-productivity-at-uber/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>gandalfgeek</author><text>Back in the early 2000s, Sun (&amp;quot;the network is the computer&amp;quot;) had a similar solution that worked seamlessly for most of their software org-- the Sun Ray. &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Sun_Ray&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Sun_Ray&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;It was a network terminal. Your files and entire session were on the server. Your “local” terminal consisted only of a network interface and enough compute power to display your session. The way they had it set up was that you could insert your Sun employee ID – the same card used to get into the building – into a slot in the terminal. That authenticated you to the server and displayed your session instantly. Want to show a colleague something you’re working on? Just put your ID into their Sun Ray and show them exactly what you were doing. That was cool! It was a frictionless way to demo and collaborate.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jimmaswell</author><text>What&amp;#x27;s old is new again. How soon until we realize the X window system actually had some good ideas again and start running desktop apps on cloud servers for remote work?</text></comment>

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<story><title>Breaking the Zyzzyva encryption</title><url>https://medium.com/@14domino/breaking-the-zyzzyva-encryption-f00360b695d1</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>Hello71</author><text>&amp;gt; The real hackers will know that as soon as I found evidence of sqlite3_key_v2 in the Zyzzyva dylib file that getting the key was inevitable. I don’t actually know the steps for removing debug symbols from compiled code off the top of my head, but I bet if this had been done, this would have made my job much, much harder.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;m not entirely sure about OS X, but at least on Linux, system-assisted dynamic linking (i.e. not mmap(PROT_EXEC)) requires that all required symbols are exposed so that relocation can be done in the original executable; in other words, the OS needs to know where the functions in the library are so that it can tell the program how to call them.&lt;p&gt;Of course, you could obfuscate the function names, but then tracebacks wouldn&amp;#x27;t work properly and at that point you&amp;#x27;d be better off just statically linking the whole program.&lt;p&gt;Debug symbols are completely different; if you have those, you can simply do &amp;quot;frame variables&amp;quot; which shows the args with names.&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; Yesss. Time to get out the x86 assembly hats.&lt;p&gt;You don&amp;#x27;t even really need to do that. Since you know the function signature, you can assume (since it is in a separate library) that the function uses the standard System V AMD64 ABI where &amp;quot;the first six integer or pointer arguments are passed in registers RDI, RSI, RDX, RCX, R8, and R9&amp;quot; [0], meaning that the pKey pointer is probably in RDX. I know that the author said that it was in RAX, but since that is caller-saved, there must have been some copying or processing done to it inside the function.&lt;p&gt;[0] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;X86_calling_conventions#System_V_AMD64_ABI&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;X86_calling_conventions#System...&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>

<story><title>Breaking the Zyzzyva encryption</title><url>https://medium.com/@14domino/breaking-the-zyzzyva-encryption-f00360b695d1</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>leecb</author><text>Isn&amp;#x27;t this a violation of the DMCA&amp;#x27;s anti-circumvention section? This seems to be explicitly describing how to circumvent protection measures for a copyrighted work.&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.law.cornell.edu&amp;#x2F;uscode&amp;#x2F;text&amp;#x2F;17&amp;#x2F;1201&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.law.cornell.edu&amp;#x2F;uscode&amp;#x2F;text&amp;#x2F;17&amp;#x2F;1201&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>

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<story><title>Why we chose Elm for Humio’s web UI</title><url>https://www.humio.com/whats-new/blog/why-we-chose-elm-for-humio-s-web-ui</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dd82</author><text>Elm as a language is really nice, and I do like the goals of the project. I tried it out a bit, its a mind-bending paradigm for someone coming from OOP&amp;#x2F;prototype (Python, Java, JS) and I enjoyed the challenge.&lt;p&gt;The community, on the other hand, is what turned me off. It does seem very unfriendly to newcomers. In addition, &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;lukeplant.me.uk&amp;#x2F;blog&amp;#x2F;posts&amp;#x2F;why-im-leaving-elm&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;lukeplant.me.uk&amp;#x2F;blog&amp;#x2F;posts&amp;#x2F;why-im-leaving-elm&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt; amongst others, is an entire turnoff. And seems like this perception isn&amp;#x27;t isolated and has been discussed at &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&amp;#x2F;item?id=22821447&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&amp;#x2F;item?id=22821447&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;I hope things work out well for you in this project with Elm, now and in the future. But it doesn&amp;#x27;t seem like any of the issues with the community have been even attempted at being addressed, so I don&amp;#x27;t think I will give Elm another try.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>bwanab</author><text>I had a comment on that HN thread in which I mentioned how I liked elm, but probably wouldn’t use it again for many of the reason given in that post.&lt;p&gt;I’ve made a liar out of myself. I needed a GUI for a project I’ve been working on using Elixir. After looking at native Elixir alternatives (I even coded up a prototype using Scenic), I decided to give Elm another shot and I’ve had a great experience both with it and with the community.</text></comment>

<story><title>Why we chose Elm for Humio’s web UI</title><url>https://www.humio.com/whats-new/blog/why-we-chose-elm-for-humio-s-web-ui</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dd82</author><text>Elm as a language is really nice, and I do like the goals of the project. I tried it out a bit, its a mind-bending paradigm for someone coming from OOP&amp;#x2F;prototype (Python, Java, JS) and I enjoyed the challenge.&lt;p&gt;The community, on the other hand, is what turned me off. It does seem very unfriendly to newcomers. In addition, &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;lukeplant.me.uk&amp;#x2F;blog&amp;#x2F;posts&amp;#x2F;why-im-leaving-elm&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;lukeplant.me.uk&amp;#x2F;blog&amp;#x2F;posts&amp;#x2F;why-im-leaving-elm&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt; amongst others, is an entire turnoff. And seems like this perception isn&amp;#x27;t isolated and has been discussed at &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&amp;#x2F;item?id=22821447&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&amp;#x2F;item?id=22821447&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;I hope things work out well for you in this project with Elm, now and in the future. But it doesn&amp;#x27;t seem like any of the issues with the community have been even attempted at being addressed, so I don&amp;#x27;t think I will give Elm another try.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>antew</author><text>That &amp;quot;Why I&amp;#x27;m Leaving Elm&amp;quot; post comes up on most Elm discussions, and I would implore anyone to give it a try for themselves before deciding against it. I&amp;#x27;ve been working in Elm professionally for a few years now and I think Luke&amp;#x27;s experience in that blog post is certainly atypical.&lt;p&gt;For writing web applications Elm is an excellent language to work in, the compiler is friendly and fast, there are basically zero runtime exceptions, refactoring is a breeze, and it really shines on larger code bases. Web-components are discounted pretty quickly in that post, but they really fill an important gap where ports are awkward.&lt;p&gt;In the years I&amp;#x27;ve been using it I haven&amp;#x27;t run across a problem that I couldn&amp;#x27;t solve in a nice way. That is not to say my experience is universal, but the negative posts tend to garner a lot more attention than positive posts, and I&amp;#x27;d feel bad if someone were to skip over what is an awesome project due to them!</text></comment>

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<story><title>Section 230: A Key Legal Shield for Facebook, Google Is About to Change</title><url>https://www.npr.org/sections/alltechconsidered/2018/03/21/591622450/section-230-a-key-legal-shield-for-facebook-google-is-about-to-change</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>showerst</author><text>I disagree here. Child porn and trafficking are always the arguments used to go after free speech on the internet in the court of public opinion.&lt;p&gt;If we narrowly edit the law to specifically go after those cases, then it creates less opportunities for scandal later that end in much broader restriction.&lt;p&gt;Also -- although it should go without saying, those things are actually bad! So if an unintended interpretation is making them easier, clarifying (with as little collateral damage as possible) that is congress&amp;#x27; job.</text></item><item><author>mankash666</author><text>This law is not good for the internet. This isn&amp;#x27;t about Google and Facebook, it&amp;#x27;s about the open internet as we know it.&lt;p&gt;And, it&amp;#x27;s high time we recognize these services to be &amp;quot;infrastructure&amp;quot;. You don&amp;#x27;t persecute the street owner for vehicles that drive on it - if you could, the state would be liable for all crimes involving a vehicle</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>rayiner</author><text>Except that&amp;#x27;s not what the bill does. The bill takes an existing law, 18 USC 1591, which provides a narrow scope of liability for &amp;quot;participation in a venture&amp;quot; to perform sex trafficking. &lt;i&gt;I.e.&lt;/i&gt; running a sex trafficking business. It redefines &amp;quot;participation in a venture&amp;quot; to include &amp;quot;knowingly ... facilitating&amp;quot; sex trafficking, and then carves out 18 USC 1591 liability from the section 230 safe harbor.&lt;p&gt;This goes far beyond the backpage situation, which could&amp;#x27;ve been reached with a higher intent standard like &amp;quot;&lt;i&gt;intent&lt;/i&gt; to facilitate&amp;quot; sex trafficking.&lt;p&gt;If Google knows that sex traffickers are using gmail to coordinate their sex-trafficking activities, under the plain text of the statute, they&amp;#x27;d be liable for &amp;quot;knowingly facilitating&amp;quot; sex trafficking. This &lt;i&gt;will&lt;/i&gt; be abused by prosecutors and plaintiffs&amp;#x27; attorneys.</text></comment>

<story><title>Section 230: A Key Legal Shield for Facebook, Google Is About to Change</title><url>https://www.npr.org/sections/alltechconsidered/2018/03/21/591622450/section-230-a-key-legal-shield-for-facebook-google-is-about-to-change</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>showerst</author><text>I disagree here. Child porn and trafficking are always the arguments used to go after free speech on the internet in the court of public opinion.&lt;p&gt;If we narrowly edit the law to specifically go after those cases, then it creates less opportunities for scandal later that end in much broader restriction.&lt;p&gt;Also -- although it should go without saying, those things are actually bad! So if an unintended interpretation is making them easier, clarifying (with as little collateral damage as possible) that is congress&amp;#x27; job.</text></item><item><author>mankash666</author><text>This law is not good for the internet. This isn&amp;#x27;t about Google and Facebook, it&amp;#x27;s about the open internet as we know it.&lt;p&gt;And, it&amp;#x27;s high time we recognize these services to be &amp;quot;infrastructure&amp;quot;. You don&amp;#x27;t persecute the street owner for vehicles that drive on it - if you could, the state would be liable for all crimes involving a vehicle</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jessaustin</author><text>Reading the bill, it seems two-(or maybe 2.5-)pronged: it seeks to restrict prostitution, and it seeks to restrict &amp;quot;sex trafficking&amp;quot; a term which is undefined and appears three times in the text, one of those times with the modifier &amp;quot;child&amp;quot; preceding. This seems deliberately sloppy, to give prosecutors total discretion to do anything they want. We have far too many laws like that already. Most of the time, new laws targeted at prostitution end up hurting individual prostitutes more than prostitution itself. The innovation here is to hurt e.g. hotels that have websites more than prostitution itself.&lt;p&gt;IANAL. However, I&amp;#x27;ve seen &amp;quot;unintended&amp;quot; consequences often enough not to believe Hanlon. Also, it&amp;#x27;s far from clear that the best way of dealing with prostitution in this age is by prohibiting it.</text></comment>

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<story><title>Show HN: Your Social Media Fingerprint (maybe NSFW)</title><url>https://robinlinus.github.io/socialmedia-leak/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>zerognowl</author><text>This is why I use &amp;#x27;browser isolation&amp;#x27;, which is a way to separate different types of surfing activity into different buckets. Currently the best way to do this in Firefox is to create multiple profiles, or in Chrome, you can simply add a different user&amp;#x2F;persona.&lt;p&gt;Having one profile, or even an entire dedicated browser just for Twitter&amp;#x2F;FB ensures the login is not spilled over into other sites. If you&amp;#x27;re surfing the web heavily, I would recommend spawning a new private window so cookies, and other artefacts are not bleeding into your session.&lt;p&gt;It sounds like common sense, but many people have cookies and login information persisting for years at a time in their browsing sessions. The Mozilla Firefox team are planning to introduce a feature which makes compartmented surfing sessions a lot more user-friendly by separating sessions into tabs. Currently, the &amp;#x27;profiles&amp;#x27; feature of Firefox is not user friendly and requires a bit of tinkering with the filesystem.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Bartweiss</author><text>At risk of being depressing, it&amp;#x27;s worth knowing that a dedicated profiler can reconcile accounts across all of the protections you&amp;#x27;ve mentioned - not just as a targeted attack, but algorithmically.&lt;p&gt;There are a lot of fingerprinting tricks which transcend cookie restrictions and user profiles. The battery percent&amp;#x2F;value one will reconcile all accounts on one device (as will several other like fonts). If you log into one bucket on multiple devices, it becomes possible to traverse devices and reconcile one-device profiles via the shared profile. If I were truly paranoid, I would only trust &amp;quot;separation&amp;quot; if it involved a clean account on a clean device on a clean network.&lt;p&gt;None of which is to say that you shouldn&amp;#x27;t do this! I do lots of privacy things which aren&amp;#x27;t bulletproof, and I think other people should also. Fighting common tracking structures is still progress, and tools like bucketing and Privacy Badger are great ways to do this.&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s just also worth noting that dedicated profiling will break all but the most pathological defensive measures.</text></comment>

<story><title>Show HN: Your Social Media Fingerprint (maybe NSFW)</title><url>https://robinlinus.github.io/socialmedia-leak/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>zerognowl</author><text>This is why I use &amp;#x27;browser isolation&amp;#x27;, which is a way to separate different types of surfing activity into different buckets. Currently the best way to do this in Firefox is to create multiple profiles, or in Chrome, you can simply add a different user&amp;#x2F;persona.&lt;p&gt;Having one profile, or even an entire dedicated browser just for Twitter&amp;#x2F;FB ensures the login is not spilled over into other sites. If you&amp;#x27;re surfing the web heavily, I would recommend spawning a new private window so cookies, and other artefacts are not bleeding into your session.&lt;p&gt;It sounds like common sense, but many people have cookies and login information persisting for years at a time in their browsing sessions. The Mozilla Firefox team are planning to introduce a feature which makes compartmented surfing sessions a lot more user-friendly by separating sessions into tabs. Currently, the &amp;#x27;profiles&amp;#x27; feature of Firefox is not user friendly and requires a bit of tinkering with the filesystem.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>daleharvey</author><text>Its only in testing right now, but Firefox Nightly has &amp;quot;Containers&amp;quot; so you can exactly have different &amp;quot;buckets&amp;quot; for different types of browsing - &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;wiki.mozilla.org&amp;#x2F;Security&amp;#x2F;Contextual_Identity_Project&amp;#x2F;Containers&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;wiki.mozilla.org&amp;#x2F;Security&amp;#x2F;Contextual_Identity_Projec...&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>

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<story><title>Binance caught commingling funds between US and international exchanges</title><url>https://dirtybubblemedia.substack.com/p/is-binanceus-a-fake-exchange</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>keb_</author><text>I had recently remembered that I used Binance to purchase $100 worth of XRP in 2017 (around the time everyone was jumping on the crypto wagon), so I decided to try to log in to see how my investment was going.&lt;p&gt;This is when I found out Binance no longer allowed US investors, and I was redirected to a US site (Binance.us). The problem was my account was on Binance.com, and it was not migrated in anyway to this new US site.&lt;p&gt;I contacted support and they gave me a 7 day period to log in and withdraw my funds (which in itself is weird -- why not just migrate my account to the US site; why the sketchy, arbitrary 7 day period? whatever). I was finally able to log in! And I saw that my $100 investment had (unsurprisingly) turned into $17. I chuckled and tried to get my 17 bucks out anyway, only to find that the site no longer even offers a way to withdraw funds as an American!&lt;p&gt;This whole experience that spanned maybe an hour was hilarious. I&amp;#x27;ve resigned to the fact that I was scammed out of a hundred bucks. Woulda been nice to use that to buy a few games on Steam, but oh well, here we are. Hope this tale at least amuses or informs someone.</text></comment>

<story><title>Binance caught commingling funds between US and international exchanges</title><url>https://dirtybubblemedia.substack.com/p/is-binanceus-a-fake-exchange</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>eqmvii</author><text>IIRC this blog&amp;#x27;s 2022-11-04 article &amp;quot;Is Alameda Research Insolvent?&amp;quot; was a part of what kicked off the events leading to FTX&amp;#x27;s collapse: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;dirtybubblemedia.substack.com&amp;#x2F;p&amp;#x2F;is-alameda-research-insolvent&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;dirtybubblemedia.substack.com&amp;#x2F;p&amp;#x2F;is-alameda-research-...&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>

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<story><title>The Itanic Has Sunk</title><url>https://honeypot.net/post/the-itanic-has-sunk/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>sbierwagen</author><text>Fun fact, Intel did this &lt;i&gt;exact thing&lt;/i&gt; once before, in 1981, with the iAPX 432: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Intel_iAPX_432&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Intel_iAPX_432&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;They had made the 8008 and 8080, but those were awkward and ungainly chips meant to power &lt;i&gt;calculators,&lt;/i&gt; of all things. iAPX 432 was a clean sheet 32 bit design designed for high level languages and &lt;i&gt;real&lt;/i&gt; computers, kind of like mini Lisp machines, complete with native machine support for garbage collection. But it was taking a while to get out the door, and performance wasn&amp;#x27;t so great, so they hacked together a quick upgrade to the 8080... the 8088, which was used in the original IBM PC.&lt;p&gt;History takes over from there.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>masswerk</author><text>&amp;gt; They had made the 8008 and 8080, but those were awkward and ungainly chips meant to power calculators, of all things.&lt;p&gt;The 8008 was the (slower) single-chip implementation of the Datapoint 2200 terminal&amp;#x27;s processor. The DP 2200 was a serial terminal capable of running code on its own as a standalone machine, conceived in 1969 (originally as a drop-in replacement for the IBM 129 key punch), announced in 1970, and eventually introduced in 1971. Datapoint had commissioned the chip, but rejected the result, as it was slower than the discrete logic design, with rights for the chip-implementation remaining at Intel. This remarkable terminal has been with us ever since.&lt;p&gt;[0] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Datapoint_2200&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Datapoint_2200&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>

<story><title>The Itanic Has Sunk</title><url>https://honeypot.net/post/the-itanic-has-sunk/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>sbierwagen</author><text>Fun fact, Intel did this &lt;i&gt;exact thing&lt;/i&gt; once before, in 1981, with the iAPX 432: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Intel_iAPX_432&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Intel_iAPX_432&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;They had made the 8008 and 8080, but those were awkward and ungainly chips meant to power &lt;i&gt;calculators,&lt;/i&gt; of all things. iAPX 432 was a clean sheet 32 bit design designed for high level languages and &lt;i&gt;real&lt;/i&gt; computers, kind of like mini Lisp machines, complete with native machine support for garbage collection. But it was taking a while to get out the door, and performance wasn&amp;#x27;t so great, so they hacked together a quick upgrade to the 8080... the 8088, which was used in the original IBM PC.&lt;p&gt;History takes over from there.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>criticas</author><text>There were two competing schools of thought in the late &amp;#x27;70s and early &amp;#x27;80s.&lt;p&gt;One said that computer hardware should have hardware support for high level languages. That school led to the VAX, iAPX432, and 80X86. The other school said that computer hardware should be simple so that it could go faster, and that the compiler should be smart enough to map high level languages to simple hardware.&lt;p&gt;Intel was firmly in the first camp. It flirted with the second repeatedly: see the late &amp;#x27;80s i860&amp;#x2F;i960. Itanium was the biggest bet placed: it was a RISC-like architecture with the added complexity of multiple dispatch encoded in it&amp;#x27;s Very Long Instruction Word architecture. The compiler could rearrange instruction order to keep hardware busy, AND (to some extent) instruction contents.&lt;p&gt;Itanium seemed like a reasonable bet, and Intel (and HP) had the clout to convince others. It was a factor in the decline of the Alpha and MIPS server market, and even Sun hedged its bets by porting Solaris.</text></comment>

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<story><title>A/B testing gets misused to juice metrics in the short term</title><url>https://www.zumsteg.net/2022/07/05/unchecked-ab-testing-destroys-everything-it-touches/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>hbn</author><text>I&amp;#x27;ve talked about this on HN but I&amp;#x27;ll say it again.&lt;p&gt;A couple years ago, after being an Android fan for the better part of a decade, I finally bought myself an iPhone and pried myself away from Google&amp;#x27;s ecosystem wherever I could. And Apple didn&amp;#x27;t even need to do any work for me to make this decision. It was the years of abuse from Google that you experience when you decide to use a Google product or service. And a big part of that was the constant A&amp;#x2F;B&amp;#x2F;C&amp;#x2F;D&amp;#x2F;E&amp;#x2F;F testing. I never felt like I was using a complete product, everything felt like a constant beta that could be changed or rearranged at any point, and I was just doing free testing work for them while they harvest all my data.&lt;p&gt;Every app update was a risk of the app rearranging itself, or features appearing&amp;#x2F;disappearing. Eventually it didn&amp;#x27;t even come from app updates in the Play Store, and new interfaces would just appear one day when a server somewhere marked your account as being in the group that gets the new UI. This app that you were familiar with could at any point be rearranged when you open it on any given day. Then maybe a week later you open it and it&amp;#x27;s back to how it was before. A button you thought was here suddenly isn&amp;#x27;t, and you question whether something actually changed or if you&amp;#x27;re losing your mind. It&amp;#x27;s a subtle gaslighting that eventually I couldn&amp;#x27;t stand any more.&lt;p&gt;To me, A&amp;#x2F;B testing means you don&amp;#x27;t respect your users. You see them as just one factor in your money machine that can be poked and prodded to optimize how much money you can squeeze out of them. That&amp;#x27;s not to say a company like Apple is creating products out of the goodness of their heart, but at least it feels like it was developed by humans who made an opinionated call as to what they thought was the right design decision, and what they would want to use. And in my 2 years of owning an iPhone, I&amp;#x27;ve never opened my reminders app to find out that it&amp;#x27;s completely unrecognizable, or my messages app has been renamed or rethemed for the umpteenth time.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>costcofries</author><text>&amp;quot;To me, A&amp;#x2F;B testing means you don&amp;#x27;t respect your users. You see them as just one factor in your money machine that can be poked and prodded to optimize how much money you can squeeze out of them. &amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;Your perspective is extremely short-sighted. A&amp;#x2F;B testing can result in this type of behaviour but that&amp;#x27;s just poor A&amp;#x2F;B testing. Good A&amp;#x2F;B testing focuses on removing distractions from the experience and helping users derive more value from the product. Bad A&amp;#x2F;B testing tries to make things more discoverable, where discoverability is often just noise and distractions. Good A&amp;#x2F;B testing ensures that the money machine, as you put it, pays its dues to users by making the product experience delightful.</text></comment>

<story><title>A/B testing gets misused to juice metrics in the short term</title><url>https://www.zumsteg.net/2022/07/05/unchecked-ab-testing-destroys-everything-it-touches/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>hbn</author><text>I&amp;#x27;ve talked about this on HN but I&amp;#x27;ll say it again.&lt;p&gt;A couple years ago, after being an Android fan for the better part of a decade, I finally bought myself an iPhone and pried myself away from Google&amp;#x27;s ecosystem wherever I could. And Apple didn&amp;#x27;t even need to do any work for me to make this decision. It was the years of abuse from Google that you experience when you decide to use a Google product or service. And a big part of that was the constant A&amp;#x2F;B&amp;#x2F;C&amp;#x2F;D&amp;#x2F;E&amp;#x2F;F testing. I never felt like I was using a complete product, everything felt like a constant beta that could be changed or rearranged at any point, and I was just doing free testing work for them while they harvest all my data.&lt;p&gt;Every app update was a risk of the app rearranging itself, or features appearing&amp;#x2F;disappearing. Eventually it didn&amp;#x27;t even come from app updates in the Play Store, and new interfaces would just appear one day when a server somewhere marked your account as being in the group that gets the new UI. This app that you were familiar with could at any point be rearranged when you open it on any given day. Then maybe a week later you open it and it&amp;#x27;s back to how it was before. A button you thought was here suddenly isn&amp;#x27;t, and you question whether something actually changed or if you&amp;#x27;re losing your mind. It&amp;#x27;s a subtle gaslighting that eventually I couldn&amp;#x27;t stand any more.&lt;p&gt;To me, A&amp;#x2F;B testing means you don&amp;#x27;t respect your users. You see them as just one factor in your money machine that can be poked and prodded to optimize how much money you can squeeze out of them. That&amp;#x27;s not to say a company like Apple is creating products out of the goodness of their heart, but at least it feels like it was developed by humans who made an opinionated call as to what they thought was the right design decision, and what they would want to use. And in my 2 years of owning an iPhone, I&amp;#x27;ve never opened my reminders app to find out that it&amp;#x27;s completely unrecognizable, or my messages app has been renamed or rethemed for the umpteenth time.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>aceazzameen</author><text>You nailed it. Google is constantly forcing users to relearn most of their products year after year. Give me Google products from a decade ago and I&amp;#x27;d still be happy. Now I&amp;#x27;m moving on from Google also. It&amp;#x27;s an untrustworthy brand.</text></comment>

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<story><title>Compressing Images with Neural Networks</title><url>https://mlumiste.com/technical/compression-deep-learning/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>StiffFreeze9</author><text>How badly will its lossy-ness change critical things? In 2013, there were Xerox copiers with aggressive compression that changed numbers, &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.theregister.com&amp;#x2F;2013&amp;#x2F;08&amp;#x2F;06&amp;#x2F;xerox_copier_flaw_means_dodgy_numbers_and_dangerous_designs&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.theregister.com&amp;#x2F;2013&amp;#x2F;08&amp;#x2F;06&amp;#x2F;xerox_copier_flaw_mea...&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>

<story><title>Compressing Images with Neural Networks</title><url>https://mlumiste.com/technical/compression-deep-learning/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>Dwedit</author><text>There was an earlier article (Sep 20, 2022) about using the Stable Diffusion VAE to perform image compression. Uses the VAE to change from pixel space to latent space, dithers the latent space down to 256 colors, then when it&amp;#x27;s time to decompress it, it de-noises that.&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;pub.towardsai.net&amp;#x2F;stable-diffusion-based-image-compresssion-6f1f0a399202?gi=7b867b7b4c10&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;pub.towardsai.net&amp;#x2F;stable-diffusion-based-image-compr...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;HN discussion: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&amp;#x2F;item?id=32907494&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&amp;#x2F;item?id=32907494&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>

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<story><title>How much does Apple know about me? The answer surprised me</title><url>https://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/talkingtech/2018/05/04/asked-apple-everything-had-me-heres-what-got/558362002/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>mmastrac</author><text>I have a theory that the only reason Apple is today&amp;#x27;s beacon of user privacy is that they couldn&amp;#x27;t manage to compete in either the ad (iAd), mail (at least not at G-scale) or social network world (see: Ping).&lt;p&gt;The only path left for them was to say they were all about user privacy. If Apple &lt;i&gt;had&lt;/i&gt; succeeded wildly in any of those three spaces, I think they&amp;#x27;d be caught up like Google, Facebook et al.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;m not saying this is a bad thing for the tech ecosystem, but I do think it was lucky positioning on their part.&lt;p&gt;Interested to hear opposing opinion on this.</text></comment>

<story><title>How much does Apple know about me? The answer surprised me</title><url>https://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/talkingtech/2018/05/04/asked-apple-everything-had-me-heres-what-got/558362002/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>itsdrewmiller</author><text>Clickbait headline - could it get changed to clarify the alleged answer is “very little”?</text></comment>

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<story><title>Control Center on macOS is always re-rendering its SwiftUI causing 1% CPU load</title><url>https://twitter.com/praeclarum/status/1706356007348343064</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>DarkSkyGhost</author><text>Turning off &amp;quot;Display the time with seconds&amp;quot; lowers the 1% CPU load to 0% for me.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>TonyTrapp</author><text>When Microsoft finally added official support for that feature, people were mocking them for how long it took them, &amp;quot;how many resources could it possibly consume&amp;quot;. Here we see the result.</text></comment>

<story><title>Control Center on macOS is always re-rendering its SwiftUI causing 1% CPU load</title><url>https://twitter.com/praeclarum/status/1706356007348343064</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>DarkSkyGhost</author><text>Turning off &amp;quot;Display the time with seconds&amp;quot; lowers the 1% CPU load to 0% for me.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>michelb</author><text>Nice find. I always have seconds displayed, but disabling it reduced the CPU load to 0%</text></comment>

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<story><title>Two abandoned Soviet space shuttles left in the Kazakh steppe (2017)</title><url>http://edition.cnn.com/style/article/baikonur-buran-soviet-space-shuttle/index.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>cbanek</author><text>There was a great youtube video of some people visiting the site which I found absolutely riveting: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.youtube.com&amp;#x2F;watch?v=-q7ZVXOU3kM&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.youtube.com&amp;#x2F;watch?v=-q7ZVXOU3kM&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>adetrest</author><text>Isn&amp;#x27;t that trespassing on military property? I would shit myself, the risk is too high to be detained and accused of spying.</text></comment>

<story><title>Two abandoned Soviet space shuttles left in the Kazakh steppe (2017)</title><url>http://edition.cnn.com/style/article/baikonur-buran-soviet-space-shuttle/index.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>cbanek</author><text>There was a great youtube video of some people visiting the site which I found absolutely riveting: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.youtube.com&amp;#x2F;watch?v=-q7ZVXOU3kM&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.youtube.com&amp;#x2F;watch?v=-q7ZVXOU3kM&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jacquesm</author><text>Worth posting separately, awesome video, thank you.</text></comment>

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<story><title>Vermont will cover $10K of expenses for people who move there and work remotely</title><url>https://work.qz.com/1289727/vermont-will-pay-you-10000-to-move-there-and-work-remotely/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jackhack</author><text>For many, this won&amp;#x27;t even begin to offset the increase in income and property taxes from this notoriously high-tax state. Individual or business, you&amp;#x27;re likely to pay more.&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;money.cnn.com&amp;#x2F;gallery&amp;#x2F;smallbusiness&amp;#x2F;2012&amp;#x2F;10&amp;#x2F;15&amp;#x2F;state-taxes&amp;#x2F;4.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;money.cnn.com&amp;#x2F;gallery&amp;#x2F;smallbusiness&amp;#x2F;2012&amp;#x2F;10&amp;#x2F;15&amp;#x2F;state-...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt;&amp;gt;The income tax has a top rate of 8.95%. This ranks as the sixth-highest in the U.S., although it only applies to taxpayers making over $413,350 per year. Meanwhile, total state and local sales taxes range from 6% to 7%.&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt;&amp;gt;There are five income brackets. The highest marginal rate is 8.95% on any income over $388,350. That&amp;#x27;s on top of federal income taxes.&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt;&amp;gt;Businesses pay an effective property tax rate of 5.27%, the third highest in the country.&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt;&amp;gt;At 6%, sales taxes are also on the high side. Meanwhile, those businesses that pay corporate taxes get hit with an 8.5% rate for any profit made above $25,000.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jimhefferon</author><text>&amp;gt; notoriously high-tax state&lt;p&gt;Some societies think that it is wise to spend on some things such as education (see &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.washingtonpost.com&amp;#x2F;news&amp;#x2F;local&amp;#x2F;wp&amp;#x2F;2015&amp;#x2F;06&amp;#x2F;02&amp;#x2F;the-states-that-spend-the-most-and-the-least-on-education-in-one-map&amp;#x2F;?utm_term=.62e31ec15029&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.washingtonpost.com&amp;#x2F;news&amp;#x2F;local&amp;#x2F;wp&amp;#x2F;2015&amp;#x2F;06&amp;#x2F;02&amp;#x2F;the-...&lt;/a&gt;). Others think that lowering taxes at whatever cost is better. The former fits with my thinking, which is why I like it here.</text></comment>

<story><title>Vermont will cover $10K of expenses for people who move there and work remotely</title><url>https://work.qz.com/1289727/vermont-will-pay-you-10000-to-move-there-and-work-remotely/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jackhack</author><text>For many, this won&amp;#x27;t even begin to offset the increase in income and property taxes from this notoriously high-tax state. Individual or business, you&amp;#x27;re likely to pay more.&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;money.cnn.com&amp;#x2F;gallery&amp;#x2F;smallbusiness&amp;#x2F;2012&amp;#x2F;10&amp;#x2F;15&amp;#x2F;state-taxes&amp;#x2F;4.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;money.cnn.com&amp;#x2F;gallery&amp;#x2F;smallbusiness&amp;#x2F;2012&amp;#x2F;10&amp;#x2F;15&amp;#x2F;state-...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt;&amp;gt;The income tax has a top rate of 8.95%. This ranks as the sixth-highest in the U.S., although it only applies to taxpayers making over $413,350 per year. Meanwhile, total state and local sales taxes range from 6% to 7%.&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt;&amp;gt;There are five income brackets. The highest marginal rate is 8.95% on any income over $388,350. That&amp;#x27;s on top of federal income taxes.&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt;&amp;gt;Businesses pay an effective property tax rate of 5.27%, the third highest in the country.&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt;&amp;gt;At 6%, sales taxes are also on the high side. Meanwhile, those businesses that pay corporate taxes get hit with an 8.5% rate for any profit made above $25,000.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Liquix</author><text>On top of the taxes, housing is pretty bad too. You can be a reclusive hermit in southern &amp;#x2F; central VT on the cheap, but the closer you get to Burlington &amp;#x2F; Essex Jct the more expensive it gets. This is in part caused by the size of the University of Vermont - high demand for housing, small area. Many buildings have too many units crammed into them for the same reason. Not nearly as bad as the valley, but another reason not to pick this state for remote work...&lt;p&gt;Source: Vermont resident with a local IT career</text></comment>

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<story><title>The More Gender Equality, the Fewer Women in STEM (2018)</title><url>https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2018/02/the-more-gender-equality-the-fewer-women-in-stem/553592/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>partiallypro</author><text>I don&amp;#x27;t understand why modern society doesn&amp;#x27;t understand&amp;#x2F;want to believe that men and women have different career interests than men. Men and women value things differently, and it&amp;#x27;s not all because of society.</text></item><item><author>lgleason</author><text>It all comes down to equality of opportunity vs equality of outcome. When there is equality of opportunity women choose different fields...often (but not always) because of different interests. Equality of outcome forces people to do things that they may not have an interest in.&lt;p&gt;And that is before you get into interests vs natural talent and how that does or does not affect ones success in a field. On a fundamental level I personally prefer equality of opportunity and freedom of choice.&lt;p&gt;As to the men being jerks&amp;#x2F;toxic etc argument. Are there times when that is true? Absolutely. But, men do not have a monopoly on being jerks, creating toxic work environments or harassing people. Personally I&amp;#x27;ve seen bad behavior from both sides. I&amp;#x27;ve also seen exceptional talent, skill, empathy etc. come from both groups. Many corporate cultures are toxic to everybody, irregardless of your gender.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;m sure this will be down voted, but it is what it is.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>tarsinge</author><text>What I don’t understand is the obsession to draw conclusions as soon as possible. We just don’t have the data yet. From my experience developers are still seen as black magicians by other roles. Being initiated is having been a weird unpopular boy which used computer since he was young. It’s slowly starting to change, and maybe real trends will emerge in 20 years, but why the hurry?&lt;p&gt;Our only responsibility is that we provide welcoming environment and equality of opportunity. But I may be missing some US context on the obsession here.</text></comment>

<story><title>The More Gender Equality, the Fewer Women in STEM (2018)</title><url>https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2018/02/the-more-gender-equality-the-fewer-women-in-stem/553592/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>partiallypro</author><text>I don&amp;#x27;t understand why modern society doesn&amp;#x27;t understand&amp;#x2F;want to believe that men and women have different career interests than men. Men and women value things differently, and it&amp;#x27;s not all because of society.</text></item><item><author>lgleason</author><text>It all comes down to equality of opportunity vs equality of outcome. When there is equality of opportunity women choose different fields...often (but not always) because of different interests. Equality of outcome forces people to do things that they may not have an interest in.&lt;p&gt;And that is before you get into interests vs natural talent and how that does or does not affect ones success in a field. On a fundamental level I personally prefer equality of opportunity and freedom of choice.&lt;p&gt;As to the men being jerks&amp;#x2F;toxic etc argument. Are there times when that is true? Absolutely. But, men do not have a monopoly on being jerks, creating toxic work environments or harassing people. Personally I&amp;#x27;ve seen bad behavior from both sides. I&amp;#x27;ve also seen exceptional talent, skill, empathy etc. come from both groups. Many corporate cultures are toxic to everybody, irregardless of your gender.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;m sure this will be down voted, but it is what it is.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>smadurange</author><text>There&amp;#x27;s a whole lot of people who have studied fields that are irrelevant to today&amp;#x27;s industry needs and have ended up with no real marketable skill. Various forms of activist movements have money in it.&lt;p&gt;Modern developed societies have solved most of the serious, basic problems making it easier for a group of people to capitalise on solving more lofty problems. I have seen someone who did a degree in communication studies or something like that going after video games for sexism and raise millions for the cause.&lt;p&gt;This trend will probably continue until we have more serious things to worry about. This is very eloquently described in &amp;quot;Fate of empires&amp;quot; by Sir John Glubbs.</text></comment>

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<story><title>Nweb: a tiny, safe web server (static pages only)</title><url>http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/systems/library/es-nweb/index.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>kragen</author><text>A few months ago, I wrote httpdito, a tiny web server that serves static pages only. It&amp;#x27;s about the same amount of code as nweb, but less functionality, and I have more confidence in its security: &lt;a href=&quot;http://canonical.org/~kragen/sw/dev3/server.s&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;canonical.org&amp;#x2F;~kragen&amp;#x2F;sw&amp;#x2F;dev3&amp;#x2F;server.s&lt;/a&gt;, with README at &lt;a href=&quot;http://canonical.org/~kragen/sw/dev3/httpdito-readme&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;canonical.org&amp;#x2F;~kragen&amp;#x2F;sw&amp;#x2F;dev3&amp;#x2F;httpdito-readme&lt;/a&gt;. It&amp;#x27;s 296 instructions.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;m not saying it&amp;#x27;s secure, but I certainly intended it to be, and it doesn&amp;#x27;t suffer from the particular problems tptacek, evmar, kedean, and nknighthb identify in nweb. I&amp;#x27;d like to think I&amp;#x27;m not naïve enough to have written problems like that, but that&amp;#x27;s probably not true.&lt;p&gt;(I&amp;#x27;m pretty sure that &amp;quot;Try my new secure software!&amp;quot; is something that should not be followed with &amp;quot;I wrote it in C!&amp;quot; but usually assembly language is not going to be an improvement. In this case I think it happens to be.)&lt;p&gt;httpdito was discussed on HN a bit before it was finished; for example, it&amp;#x27;s no longer completely trivial to DoS it, although I could do more to protect it against that.</text></comment>

<story><title>Nweb: a tiny, safe web server (static pages only)</title><url>http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/systems/library/es-nweb/index.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>tptacek</author><text>Adding to what everyone else has said, this also &amp;quot;how not&amp;quot; to write socket code; for instance, the assumption that you can read a whole HTTP request &amp;quot;in one go&amp;quot; with a single large read call is false.&lt;p&gt;Also, casting function calls to (void) is nonsensical.&lt;p&gt;You can perhaps forgive the sprintf() call because, AIX. (Believe it or not, there was a time when snprintf was a portability problem). You can&amp;#x27;t forgive the log() function that doesn&amp;#x27;t explicitly bounds check its argument (though it&amp;#x27;s not exploitable in this code).</text></comment>

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<story><title>How Checkers Was Solved</title><url>https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2017/07/marion-tinsley-checkers/534111/?single_page=true</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>blahedo</author><text>It&amp;#x27;s good, really, that this article focussed on Tinsley. I saw a talk by Schaeffer about ten years ago, just as he was finishing up solving checkers, and it was an astonishingly depressing talk. He invested his whole &lt;i&gt;life&lt;/i&gt;—decades—as I recall his marriage failed partially as a result of his obsession with this—on what, in the end, was a lookup table. There was a lot of neat engineering he had to do along the way (storage, parallel work) but that&amp;#x27;s not what he cared about: he cared that he had solved checkers. Were there any insights about patterns that could be induced, maybe to teach humans how to do analysis or to learn some interesting mathematical fact about the graph structure of the board? No—you just see what the board state is, and look it up in the database to tell you the next move. I can&amp;#x27;t even tell you how demotivational this speech was.</text></comment>

<story><title>How Checkers Was Solved</title><url>https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2017/07/marion-tinsley-checkers/534111/?single_page=true</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>jpeanuts</author><text>A truly fascinating story. I recall reading another version with an additional detail: after Checkers was solved Schaeffer evaluated every recorded game Tinsley had played in his life - and determined that there were only a handful of moves that he ever made in competition that were not perfect (in the sense of perfect play). The vast majority of the time, if you were playing Tinsley, you literally could not possibly win.</text></comment>

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<story><title>Ex-SolarCity employees: We were fired after reporting millions in fake sales</title><url>https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2018/07/3-ex-solarcity-employees-claim-company-oversaw-bogus-sales-to-inflate-valuation</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mikro2nd</author><text>A trend that&amp;#x27;s been growing for quite a (long!) while now is exemplified by this article: &amp;quot;&lt;i&gt;Tesla did not respond to Ars’ request for comment on Sunday.&lt;/i&gt;&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;Who in their right minds realistically expects &lt;i&gt;any&lt;/i&gt; organisation to respond to some random journalistic enquiry &lt;i&gt;on a Sunday&lt;/i&gt;?&lt;p&gt;The other major variant of this shyster tactic is along the lines of, &amp;quot;Company X failed to respond &lt;i&gt;immediately&lt;/i&gt; when asked for comment.&amp;quot; No company is able to respond &lt;i&gt;immediately&lt;/i&gt;, particularly not on an issue that&amp;#x27;s likely contentious. Any response would need to be run by their PR and legal people at the very least.&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s a cheap and nasty way to make companies look&amp;#x2F;feel uncaring about the issue being reported, but imho it does nothing but reflect poorly on the reporter and publication using these smelly tactics, and leaves me wondering what other agendas they may have running.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>KirinDave</author><text>&amp;gt; Who in their right minds realistically expects any organisation to respond to some random journalistic enquiry on a Sunday?&lt;p&gt;My company did it. Heck, we did it when it was just me and my cofounder answering email. I&amp;#x27;ve worked for multiple companies that had folks who specifically had weekend comms duty, actually. When you reach a certain size this is as normal as having an operations expert on call.&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s... Weird to suggest that it&amp;#x27;s abnormal to be responsive to press within 24 hours for a company as big as Tesla.</text></comment>

<story><title>Ex-SolarCity employees: We were fired after reporting millions in fake sales</title><url>https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2018/07/3-ex-solarcity-employees-claim-company-oversaw-bogus-sales-to-inflate-valuation</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mikro2nd</author><text>A trend that&amp;#x27;s been growing for quite a (long!) while now is exemplified by this article: &amp;quot;&lt;i&gt;Tesla did not respond to Ars’ request for comment on Sunday.&lt;/i&gt;&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;Who in their right minds realistically expects &lt;i&gt;any&lt;/i&gt; organisation to respond to some random journalistic enquiry &lt;i&gt;on a Sunday&lt;/i&gt;?&lt;p&gt;The other major variant of this shyster tactic is along the lines of, &amp;quot;Company X failed to respond &lt;i&gt;immediately&lt;/i&gt; when asked for comment.&amp;quot; No company is able to respond &lt;i&gt;immediately&lt;/i&gt;, particularly not on an issue that&amp;#x27;s likely contentious. Any response would need to be run by their PR and legal people at the very least.&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s a cheap and nasty way to make companies look&amp;#x2F;feel uncaring about the issue being reported, but imho it does nothing but reflect poorly on the reporter and publication using these smelly tactics, and leaves me wondering what other agendas they may have running.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>princekolt</author><text>&amp;gt; Who in their right minds realistically expects any organisation to respond to some random journalistic enquiry on a Sunday?&lt;p&gt;Jeez. Considering the story was posted today, what this probably means is that they requested commentary &lt;i&gt;on&lt;/i&gt; Sunday, waited for the entirety of Monday, and didn&amp;#x27;t hear back until today, when they decided to post it.</text></comment>

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<story><title>Smart Guy Productivity Pitfalls</title><url>http://bookofhook.blogspot.de/2013/03/smart-guy-productivity-pitfalls.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>ebiester</author><text>When I hear people saying, &amp;quot;I can do what takes someone else a day to do...&amp;quot; they&amp;#x27;re not thinking that their coworker is also doing it in an hour or two, and wasting the rest of the day. So everyone thinks they&amp;#x27;re more productive than the next person.&lt;p&gt;And I&amp;#x27;ll look at that code and go, &amp;quot;You have no tests. You didn&amp;#x27;t think about these three things. There are two bugs waiting to happen. This code is messy and is going to be hard to change later. It took you two hours because you didn&amp;#x27;t do the other six hours of work required to get it &lt;i&gt;really&lt;/i&gt; done.&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;This is why I believe pair programming ends up not being a waste. Perhaps for the most disciplined programmers, they can go 8 hours without stopping, but most people don&amp;#x27;t.&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s much harder to slack when you&amp;#x27;re pairing. However, it&amp;#x27;s also much slower when you pair because you keep thinking of things to check, you write more test code, you write more robust code because two people are trying to attack it rather than one.</text></comment>

<story><title>Smart Guy Productivity Pitfalls</title><url>http://bookofhook.blogspot.de/2013/03/smart-guy-productivity-pitfalls.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>svantana</author><text>Good post, I just have a little problem with one advice: the &amp;quot;keep at it until you finish it&amp;quot; part. A lot of times, I set my mind to finishing something before goind home. It often ends up with me scratching my head until midnight, going to bed frustrated, and waking up with an obvious solution in my head. That&amp;#x27;s where I feel Rich Hickey&amp;#x27;s Hammock-driven development is a better way of thinking about productivity.</text></comment>

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<story><title>Formally Verified Software in the Real World (2018)</title><url>https://cacm.acm.org/magazines/2018/10/231372-formally-verified-software-in-the-real-world/fulltext</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>tpaschalis</author><text>Second day in a row where HN frontpage features formally verified software!&lt;p&gt;If you&amp;#x27;re like me, and would like to get started, or just see what this is all about, the TLA+ homepage and video course (narrated by Leslie Lamport himself), is a nice resource [1].&lt;p&gt;In about half an hour you will have a brief understanding of what &amp;quot;formal specification languages&amp;quot; are, write and &amp;#x27;prove&amp;#x27; your first small program&amp;#x2F;spec. If you have another hour to spend, keep the cheatsheet [2] near you and follow through, you will write and &amp;#x27;prove&amp;#x27; more complex specs, plus you&amp;#x27;ll start thinking about systems in a more abstract way. Finishing up the video course you&amp;#x27;ll be able to start reading complex specs others have written, or write a spec for any algorithm you think is fun!&lt;p&gt;[1] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;lamport.azurewebsites.net&amp;#x2F;video&amp;#x2F;videos.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;lamport.azurewebsites.net&amp;#x2F;video&amp;#x2F;videos.html&lt;/a&gt; [2] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;lamport.azurewebsites.net&amp;#x2F;tla&amp;#x2F;summary-standalone.pdf&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;lamport.azurewebsites.net&amp;#x2F;tla&amp;#x2F;summary-standalone.pdf&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>

<story><title>Formally Verified Software in the Real World (2018)</title><url>https://cacm.acm.org/magazines/2018/10/231372-formally-verified-software-in-the-real-world/fulltext</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>jschwartzi</author><text>I have wanted to see a real-world use of seL4 in a safety-critical system since I heard about it 2 years ago. This is really impressive, and I&amp;#x27;m very happy to see this here.</text></comment>

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<story><title>The Hottest New Thing in Seasteading Is Land</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-12-20/silicon-valley-seasteaders-go-looking-for-low-tax-sites-on-land</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>theflyinghorse</author><text>It really does sound like a bunch of wealthy folks (and I don&amp;#x27;t mean your-town&amp;#x27;s-surgeon wealthy, I mean billionaire-class-wealthy) want to further remove themselves from laws that govern everybody else. Imagine this - a group of super wealthy bound by no laws of any nation but benefiting from them all. Terrifying.</text></item><item><author>mindcrime</author><text>I don&amp;#x27;t know if they will ever succeed or not, but it sure is heart-warming to see people still pushing these ideas and trying to get something going. Competition is Good Thing and if we can come up with something better than nation-states, then we should. Personally I encourage these guys to keep experimenting, keep iterating, and keep pushing to break the mold.&lt;p&gt;Maybe &amp;quot;government&amp;quot; as we know it today is a just a &amp;quot;fashionable solution&amp;quot; - to riff on pg&amp;#x27;s earlier essay.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>BurningFrog</author><text>A city of all billionaires sounds like a very small city.&lt;p&gt;Also, hiring for service jobs might be hard :)</text></comment>

<story><title>The Hottest New Thing in Seasteading Is Land</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-12-20/silicon-valley-seasteaders-go-looking-for-low-tax-sites-on-land</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>theflyinghorse</author><text>It really does sound like a bunch of wealthy folks (and I don&amp;#x27;t mean your-town&amp;#x27;s-surgeon wealthy, I mean billionaire-class-wealthy) want to further remove themselves from laws that govern everybody else. Imagine this - a group of super wealthy bound by no laws of any nation but benefiting from them all. Terrifying.</text></item><item><author>mindcrime</author><text>I don&amp;#x27;t know if they will ever succeed or not, but it sure is heart-warming to see people still pushing these ideas and trying to get something going. Competition is Good Thing and if we can come up with something better than nation-states, then we should. Personally I encourage these guys to keep experimenting, keep iterating, and keep pushing to break the mold.&lt;p&gt;Maybe &amp;quot;government&amp;quot; as we know it today is a just a &amp;quot;fashionable solution&amp;quot; - to riff on pg&amp;#x27;s earlier essay.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>wavefunction</author><text>They&amp;#x27;d only be enabled by others whether that be robots or mercenaries&amp;#x2F;servants. Monetary wealth is a human construct given form by belief. They&amp;#x27;re still subject to the physical laws of reality.</text></comment>

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<story><title>How to excel in tech without learning to code</title><url>https://future.a16z.com/excel-in-tech-without-learning-to-code/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>jl2718</author><text>Okay, so basically, tell other people to code. Got it.&lt;p&gt;The only special thing about someone who ‘can code’ versus someone who ‘cannot’ is their persistence to do whatever is necessary to solve the problem at hand. At some point that skill was required. ‘Coders’ end up doing everything in a business: talk to customers, validate use cases, test, financial projection, write marketing copy, design interfaces, make a presentations to investors, build a web site, manage the database, onboard new hires, interview. They just do it for someone else to take the credit, because they’re too busy to play that game.&lt;p&gt;If you want to see this principle in action, try giving a coder a critical assignment from any other department&amp;#x2F;discipline, anything that is obviously more critical to the business than whatever they are doing. Watch them attack the problem relentlessly, failing over and over again until they get it. Then find someone from any other department: ask an HR person to do the CFO’s job, or a sales person to do security operations. They’ll tell you they don’t know how to do that, and that will be the end of it.</text></comment>

<story><title>How to excel in tech without learning to code</title><url>https://future.a16z.com/excel-in-tech-without-learning-to-code/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>phillipcarter</author><text>In my experience there&amp;#x27;s a lot more need for people who understand the data and data systems of a company and how to analyze that data than someone who can write some code. This is also technical work in my mind. Data analysis done correctly is very hard, because it&amp;#x27;s rarely the case that a company&amp;#x27;s data systems are well-formed, gather the right information without any gaps, and organize it effectively. Knowing how to wrangle that can make you incredibly valuable to everyone, and there&amp;#x27;s no need to know how to write product code to do it.</text></comment>

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<story><title>Science’s pirate queen</title><url>https://www.theverge.com/2018/2/8/16985666/alexandra-elbakyan-sci-hub-open-access-science-papers-lawsuit</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>hugofirth</author><text>Frankly, scientific publishers represent institutionalised theft of tax payer money:&lt;p&gt;- Academics (most often publicly funded via grants and university salaries) do the work for free.&lt;p&gt;- They are expected to learn to use LaTeX and to typeset their work for free.&lt;p&gt;- They are expected to copy-edit the papers for free, or else pay a copy editor themselves with, you guessed it, public funds.&lt;p&gt;- Volunteer Academics (on university time and therefore, again, public money) are expected to review the work for technical accuracy and novelty. If done well this is &lt;i&gt;extremely&lt;/i&gt; time consuming.&lt;p&gt;- Finally, the Journals have the temerity to charge the same universities who produce their product &lt;i&gt;millions&lt;/i&gt; of pounds a year in journal subscriptions and Open Access fees.&lt;p&gt;- Finally finally, none of the Authors are &lt;i&gt;ever&lt;/i&gt; paid for their work. Not that it matters, because again: public funding should mean public access.&lt;p&gt;The most frustrating part is that Academics themselves are locked into this system by the career prospects conferred by prestigious journals&amp;#x2F;conferences.&lt;p&gt;I’m not normally one for beating the “nationalise them” drum, but if there has ever been a case for businesses to be dismantled and put in public hands it’s these parasites.&lt;p&gt;Sincerely, a Scientist :-)</text></comment>

<story><title>Science’s pirate queen</title><url>https://www.theverge.com/2018/2/8/16985666/alexandra-elbakyan-sci-hub-open-access-science-papers-lawsuit</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>_emacsomancer_</author><text>There&amp;#x27;s a reference to one of the &amp;#x27;value-add&amp;#x27;s of commercial journals being copy-editing:&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; &amp;quot;For example, most of PLoS ONE’s editors are working scientists, and the journal does not perform functions such as copy-editing.&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;But, in fact, in my personal experience, the for-profit journals don&amp;#x27;t really do copy-editing anyway, but in fact &lt;i&gt;introduce&lt;/i&gt; new errors into the paper which then the author has to pain-stakingly track down (or not).</text></comment>

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<story><title>The F-35 Is a $1.4T National Disaster (2017)</title><url>http://nationalinterest.org/blog/the-buzz/the-f-35-14-trillion-dollar-national-disaster-19985</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>jpobst</author><text>It depends on what you consider the goal of the F-35 to be.&lt;p&gt;If you believe it&amp;#x27;s to build a next generation fighter plane then yes it&amp;#x27;s a disaster.&lt;p&gt;If you believe it&amp;#x27;s a way to funnel trillions of dollars of taxpayer money to private defense companies then it&amp;#x27;s a rousing success.</text></comment>

<story><title>The F-35 Is a $1.4T National Disaster (2017)</title><url>http://nationalinterest.org/blog/the-buzz/the-f-35-14-trillion-dollar-national-disaster-19985</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>rayvd</author><text>How do the issues with the F-35 platform stack up against those of earlier models? I&amp;#x27;ve read anecdotes that early on the F-16 and F-15 also had significant flaws, yet those were eventually sorted out and both have become mainstays of air forces around the world.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;ve no doubt there have been massive costs overruns (what government program doesn&amp;#x27;t), but would be willing to bet that the F-35 turns out to be a really good plane and does nothing to threaten the US&amp;#x27;s position as the premier air power.&lt;p&gt;Some good discussion:&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.quora.com&amp;#x2F;Is-the-F-35-as-bad-as-many-people-claim-Will-it-be-a-good-fighter-when-its-needed&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.quora.com&amp;#x2F;Is-the-F-35-as-bad-as-many-people-clai...&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>

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<story><title>New Skype Update Is Horrible</title><url>https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/skype/forum/skype_prevandroms-skype_messms/new-skype-update-is-horrible/bcc5c863-6358-43d2-ab1b-b55ff97eba0d</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>CSDude</author><text>I have witnessed Skype to go from almost perfect video &amp;amp; chat communicator to absolute crap over almost 10 years, and I feel very sad that it has come to rip off Snapchat. There is no alternative like the old Skype now in the desktop.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Fezzik</author><text>It really is astonishing. I remember using Skype around 2004&amp;#x2F;05 on a horribly crappy Dell laptop and it (Skype) worked flawlessly. It sort of boggles the mind how far in to the ground it has been driven.</text></comment>

<story><title>New Skype Update Is Horrible</title><url>https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/skype/forum/skype_prevandroms-skype_messms/new-skype-update-is-horrible/bcc5c863-6358-43d2-ab1b-b55ff97eba0d</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>CSDude</author><text>I have witnessed Skype to go from almost perfect video &amp;amp; chat communicator to absolute crap over almost 10 years, and I feel very sad that it has come to rip off Snapchat. There is no alternative like the old Skype now in the desktop.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>scrollaway</author><text>I have high hopes for Discord video, which is coming out soon. Knowing the discord team and seeing the quality of the voice product, I&amp;#x27;m finally going to be able to replace god-awful Google Hangouts.</text></comment>

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<story><title>OK Go’s video, for the song “The One Moment”, took only 4.2 seconds to film</title><url>http://www.npr.org/sections/allsongs/2016/11/23/503134502/ok-gos-new-video-for-the-one-moment-is-another-mind-blower</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>sleepychu</author><text>Title is inaccurate. &amp;gt;How long did the routine take in real time? The first three quarters of the video, from the beginning of the song until I pick up the umbrella at the a cappella breakdown, unfold over 4.2 seconds of real time. Then I lip sync in real time for about 16 seconds (we thought it was important to have a moment of human contact at this point in the song, so we returned to the realm of human experience) and we return to slow motion for the final chorus paint scene, which took a little longer than 3 seconds in real time.</text></comment>

<story><title>OK Go’s video, for the song “The One Moment”, took only 4.2 seconds to film</title><url>http://www.npr.org/sections/allsongs/2016/11/23/503134502/ok-gos-new-video-for-the-one-moment-is-another-mind-blower</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>stevewilhelm</author><text>The background notes are pretty interesting.&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;okgo.net&amp;#x2F;2016&amp;#x2F;11&amp;#x2F;23&amp;#x2F;background-notes-and-full-credits-for-the-one-moment-video&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;okgo.net&amp;#x2F;2016&amp;#x2F;11&amp;#x2F;23&amp;#x2F;background-notes-and-full-credits...&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>

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<story><title>Google says it doesn&apos;t monopolize digital ad market – senators don&apos;t buy it</title><url>https://www.npr.org/2020/09/15/913328975/google-says-it-doesnt-monopolize-digital-ad-market-senators-don-t-buy-it</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>throwaway_kufu</author><text>What so many people fail to realize about these issues vis-a-vis Google, it’s not so much the issues of Google having a monopoly or not on the ad market...in either case google is a dominant market incumbent that uses its position (in this case web traffic, data and online ad platform) to unfairly compete and stifle competition.&lt;p&gt;Google has often used data acquired through their market position to start subsidiaries to unfairly compete with their ad customers.&lt;p&gt;The reason it’s unfair is because Google has not just the ad data but the web search data, this often results in a Google ad customer going from #1 google Organic search result for key terms, to #2 to Google’s competing subsidiary.&lt;p&gt;Worse from going from #1 to #2 to a google product, the natural instinct to save the business is to increase ad spend to be sure you are still the #1 ad to our place the google at the top of organic search, of course ad spend goes right into the pocket of your new competitors core business anyway, and in many instances googles subsidiary will start bidding for your same keywords so they literally can’t lose competing with your business rather the have basically acquired an off form of rent seeking equity or they kill your business and become the market incumbent.&lt;p&gt;Of course the kicker are those instances a google subsidiary gets a custom tool at the top of google results (such as Flights) above both organic and ads.</text></comment>

<story><title>Google says it doesn&apos;t monopolize digital ad market – senators don&apos;t buy it</title><url>https://www.npr.org/2020/09/15/913328975/google-says-it-doesnt-monopolize-digital-ad-market-senators-don-t-buy-it</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>curiousgal</author><text>Same senators who thought Google made iPhones? Not defending Google but I am saying that most of those senators are not the holders of truth when it comes to technology.</text></comment>

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<story><title>Startup Puts Everything You Need for a Two-Acre Farm in a Shipping Container</title><url>http://www.smithsonianmag.com/innovation/san-francisco-startup-puts-everything-you-need-two-acre-farm-shipping-container-180961567/?no-ist</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mi100hael</author><text>&lt;i&gt;&amp;gt; All of those things affect the ultimate price of the box, and that’s why we have a range from about $50,000 to $60,000. If you were to a la carte all the different components that we put into this kit, it would end up costing you more than what we’re charging.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;I &lt;i&gt;seriously&lt;/i&gt; doubt that. $50k for what appears to basically be 2 acres of irrigation equipment and a solar-powered raspberry pi is absurd.&lt;p&gt;It also looks like they&amp;#x27;ve so far deployed exactly 1 of these setups in the real world and haven&amp;#x27;t even really started producing units for sale. Right now this venture is a complete pipe dream and feels awfully out of touch.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>nylonstrung</author><text>The 2 founders literally have no agricultural expertise. One&amp;#x27;s last job was at a no-name business school accelerator and another worked in an administrative role in the non-profit world. There is a conspicuous absence of any kind of agronomy experience here.&lt;p&gt;As someone who has some perspective on the conditions of the purported customer for this they are so out of touch it is ridiculous and.</text></comment>

<story><title>Startup Puts Everything You Need for a Two-Acre Farm in a Shipping Container</title><url>http://www.smithsonianmag.com/innovation/san-francisco-startup-puts-everything-you-need-two-acre-farm-shipping-container-180961567/?no-ist</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mi100hael</author><text>&lt;i&gt;&amp;gt; All of those things affect the ultimate price of the box, and that’s why we have a range from about $50,000 to $60,000. If you were to a la carte all the different components that we put into this kit, it would end up costing you more than what we’re charging.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;I &lt;i&gt;seriously&lt;/i&gt; doubt that. $50k for what appears to basically be 2 acres of irrigation equipment and a solar-powered raspberry pi is absurd.&lt;p&gt;It also looks like they&amp;#x27;ve so far deployed exactly 1 of these setups in the real world and haven&amp;#x27;t even really started producing units for sale. Right now this venture is a complete pipe dream and feels awfully out of touch.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>cylinder</author><text>My scam senses were tingling before I got to the comments. Most likely this is a routine NGO&amp;#x2F;EDU&amp;#x2F;Gov scam backed by an aggressive and shiny sales approach.</text></comment>

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<story><title>Clever code is probably the worst code you could write (2023)</title><url>https://read.engineerscodex.com/p/clever-code-is-probably-the-worst</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jawns</author><text>Here&amp;#x27;s an old joke about the progression from junior to mid-level to senior developer:&lt;p&gt;Junior dev: My code is simple, straightforward, and easy to understand.&lt;p&gt;Mid-level dev: My code is clever, innovative, expressive, hyper-optimized, and ingenious.&lt;p&gt;Senior dev: My code is simple, straightforward, and easy to understand.&lt;p&gt;In software development, &amp;quot;clever&amp;quot; solutions are like poems. In the best poems, there are usually multiple layers of meaning, nuances and subtleties, some harder to tease out than others. Sometimes you have to sit with a poem for a while before you are able to truly drink it all in. To mid-level engineers, writing this sort of poetic code has an intoxicating appeal. It allows them to flaunt their talents, demonstrate their mastery of the language, and impress their colleagues with their ingenuity.&lt;p&gt;But more often than not, what is really needed is the code version of ordinary prose: straightforward, with a preference for clarity over succinctness, easy for others to understand, easy to edit, and with fewer surprises and deviations from convention than a poem. With prose, particular the sort of no-nonsense style found in wire news reports and explanatory journalism, the best work is easy for the reader to comprehend and lends itself to being edited. For instance, a skilled copy editor can condense it to fit, if need be.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>TheCoelacanth</author><text>I don&amp;#x27;t think it&amp;#x27;s accurate, though. Junior devs often write overly complicated code because they don&amp;#x27;t really understand the problem they&amp;#x27;re trying to solve. Junior devs write unintentionally complex code, mid-level devs write intentionally complex code, senior devs write simple code.</text></comment>

<story><title>Clever code is probably the worst code you could write (2023)</title><url>https://read.engineerscodex.com/p/clever-code-is-probably-the-worst</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jawns</author><text>Here&amp;#x27;s an old joke about the progression from junior to mid-level to senior developer:&lt;p&gt;Junior dev: My code is simple, straightforward, and easy to understand.&lt;p&gt;Mid-level dev: My code is clever, innovative, expressive, hyper-optimized, and ingenious.&lt;p&gt;Senior dev: My code is simple, straightforward, and easy to understand.&lt;p&gt;In software development, &amp;quot;clever&amp;quot; solutions are like poems. In the best poems, there are usually multiple layers of meaning, nuances and subtleties, some harder to tease out than others. Sometimes you have to sit with a poem for a while before you are able to truly drink it all in. To mid-level engineers, writing this sort of poetic code has an intoxicating appeal. It allows them to flaunt their talents, demonstrate their mastery of the language, and impress their colleagues with their ingenuity.&lt;p&gt;But more often than not, what is really needed is the code version of ordinary prose: straightforward, with a preference for clarity over succinctness, easy for others to understand, easy to edit, and with fewer surprises and deviations from convention than a poem. With prose, particular the sort of no-nonsense style found in wire news reports and explanatory journalism, the best work is easy for the reader to comprehend and lends itself to being edited. For instance, a skilled copy editor can condense it to fit, if need be.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>aidos</author><text>With a slight difference that junior dev tends be proud of the code they’re added while a senior will be proud of the code they’ve removed…</text></comment>

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<story><title>Another Spanking for Apple from Judge Posner</title><url>http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20120704142749867</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>oemera</author><text>Sure 100 engineers would come up with the idea &quot;slide to unlock&quot;. After you see and use something it&apos;s always easier to find &lt;i&gt;this said solution&lt;/i&gt;. BUT before Apple it seems that none of the 100 engineers you mentioned came up with the idea and it was never build and that means it was never obvious before Apple created it.&lt;p&gt;Saying things are obvious after someone already &lt;i&gt;invented&lt;/i&gt; a dead simple and good solution for a problem we had for years is always easy.&lt;p&gt;EDIT: Grammer.</text></item><item><author>reitzensteinm</author><text>You don&apos;t even have to look that far back - pre iPhone, it was used on the Neonode N1m:&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://youtu.be/7ru2GjBTHRY?t=3m56s&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://youtu.be/7ru2GjBTHRY?t=3m56s&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;Even if the iPhone were the first to use it, the patent is still ridiculous. If you tasked 100 engineers to come up with an unlocking solution for touch screens before the iPhone existed, I&apos;d bet good money at least 50 of them would consider it an option. That&apos;s not non-obvious.&lt;p&gt;Patents in software are no longer about inventions, they&apos;re about being the first do obvious technique x in context y.&lt;p&gt;And sometimes, that&apos;s not even necessary - I&apos;ve had a technique I used for displaying cross domain ads in Flash that I considered obvious at the time patented out from under me later on. The &quot;in Flash&quot; bit being the novel part, I assume - I try not to spend too much time dissecting insanity.&lt;p&gt;At least we&apos;re starting to see notable investors rally against them, like pg and Fred Wilson - the very people who should be benefiting the most from a non broken patent system.&lt;p&gt;Edit: Clarified line about the 50/100 engineers.</text></item><item><author>chj</author><text>Somehow Apple forgot that he was borrowing (let&apos;s not use stealing) many ideas from other companies. The &quot;Slide to unlock&quot; probably was inspired by Sony walkman&apos;s &quot;slide to open&quot;. Surely, they must have got a lot of experience in suing other people over ideas they borrowed back from the windows GUI case in 80s.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>CamperBob2</author><text>The relevant question is, are the teachings of the patent likely to be necessary in order for a person of average skill in the art to implement the claimed technique(s)?&lt;p&gt;If the answer is not only &quot;No,&quot; but &quot;Are you joking?&quot;, then the patent should never have been issued.</text></comment>

<story><title>Another Spanking for Apple from Judge Posner</title><url>http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20120704142749867</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>oemera</author><text>Sure 100 engineers would come up with the idea &quot;slide to unlock&quot;. After you see and use something it&apos;s always easier to find &lt;i&gt;this said solution&lt;/i&gt;. BUT before Apple it seems that none of the 100 engineers you mentioned came up with the idea and it was never build and that means it was never obvious before Apple created it.&lt;p&gt;Saying things are obvious after someone already &lt;i&gt;invented&lt;/i&gt; a dead simple and good solution for a problem we had for years is always easy.&lt;p&gt;EDIT: Grammer.</text></item><item><author>reitzensteinm</author><text>You don&apos;t even have to look that far back - pre iPhone, it was used on the Neonode N1m:&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://youtu.be/7ru2GjBTHRY?t=3m56s&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://youtu.be/7ru2GjBTHRY?t=3m56s&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;Even if the iPhone were the first to use it, the patent is still ridiculous. If you tasked 100 engineers to come up with an unlocking solution for touch screens before the iPhone existed, I&apos;d bet good money at least 50 of them would consider it an option. That&apos;s not non-obvious.&lt;p&gt;Patents in software are no longer about inventions, they&apos;re about being the first do obvious technique x in context y.&lt;p&gt;And sometimes, that&apos;s not even necessary - I&apos;ve had a technique I used for displaying cross domain ads in Flash that I considered obvious at the time patented out from under me later on. The &quot;in Flash&quot; bit being the novel part, I assume - I try not to spend too much time dissecting insanity.&lt;p&gt;At least we&apos;re starting to see notable investors rally against them, like pg and Fred Wilson - the very people who should be benefiting the most from a non broken patent system.&lt;p&gt;Edit: Clarified line about the 50/100 engineers.</text></item><item><author>chj</author><text>Somehow Apple forgot that he was borrowing (let&apos;s not use stealing) many ideas from other companies. The &quot;Slide to unlock&quot; probably was inspired by Sony walkman&apos;s &quot;slide to open&quot;. Surely, they must have got a lot of experience in suing other people over ideas they borrowed back from the windows GUI case in 80s.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>reitzensteinm</author><text>Come on, I clearly meant &lt;i&gt;before&lt;/i&gt; Apple first used it. Today, 100 out of 100 engineers would consider it.&lt;p&gt;You are right that obviousness changes over time, and it&apos;s important to consider it from the perspective of the time of the invention.&lt;p&gt;But some things genuinely &lt;i&gt;were&lt;/i&gt; obvious at the time of their &apos;invention&apos;.</text></comment>

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<story><title>Edward Snowden, Whistle-Blower</title><url>http://www.nytimes.com/2014/01/02/opinion/edward-snowden-whistle-blower.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>umanwizard</author><text>I find it pleasantly surprising -- almost unbelievable, in fact -- that a highly sought-after fugitive accused of treason and practically certain to be found guilty of serious crimes is so widely supported by the public and the media.&lt;p&gt;Has there ever been another person whom the executive has done everything in its power to paint as a dangerous enemy of the state, whose approval rating was several points higher than the President&amp;#x27;s and several &lt;i&gt;times&lt;/i&gt; higher than that of Congress? Or is this a never-before-seen situation?&lt;p&gt;The inverted totalitarianism[1] we live in can seem almost invincible, but this to me is a big glimmer of hope that some people at least are still unwilling to swallow the (two-)party line.&lt;p&gt;I hope this leads to some real change, but then again, I can&amp;#x27;t exactly hold my breath.&lt;p&gt;[1]: &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inverted_totalitarianism&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Inverted_totalitarianism&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ewoodrich</author><text>An NBC&amp;#x2F;WSJ poll from late July [1] (the most recent poll I found that assessed general favorability of both President Obama and Edward Snowden, lists Snowden with a favorability of 11%, 37% behind Obama&amp;#x27;s number at that point in time.&lt;p&gt;A Harvard poll of millennials [2] (defined as 18-29) show that 22% consider him a &amp;quot;traitor&amp;quot;, 22% consider him a patriot, and the remainder are &amp;quot;not sure&amp;quot;.&lt;p&gt;Of course, polls which pose questions about approval of his release of documents may differ substantially, but then again, so do polls about specific actions the President has taken. I don&amp;#x27;t know where the data for your assertion comes from.&lt;p&gt;[1] &lt;a href=&quot;http://msnbcmedia.msn.com/i/MSNBC/Sections/A_Politics/_Today_Stories_Teases/130724-July-NBC-WSJ-poll.pdf&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;msnbcmedia.msn.com&amp;#x2F;i&amp;#x2F;MSNBC&amp;#x2F;Sections&amp;#x2F;A_Politics&amp;#x2F;_Today...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;[2] &lt;a href=&quot;http://iop.harvard.edu/blog/iop-releases-new-fall-poll-5-key-findings-and-trends-millennial-viewpoints&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;iop.harvard.edu&amp;#x2F;blog&amp;#x2F;iop-releases-new-fall-poll-5-key...&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>

<story><title>Edward Snowden, Whistle-Blower</title><url>http://www.nytimes.com/2014/01/02/opinion/edward-snowden-whistle-blower.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>umanwizard</author><text>I find it pleasantly surprising -- almost unbelievable, in fact -- that a highly sought-after fugitive accused of treason and practically certain to be found guilty of serious crimes is so widely supported by the public and the media.&lt;p&gt;Has there ever been another person whom the executive has done everything in its power to paint as a dangerous enemy of the state, whose approval rating was several points higher than the President&amp;#x27;s and several &lt;i&gt;times&lt;/i&gt; higher than that of Congress? Or is this a never-before-seen situation?&lt;p&gt;The inverted totalitarianism[1] we live in can seem almost invincible, but this to me is a big glimmer of hope that some people at least are still unwilling to swallow the (two-)party line.&lt;p&gt;I hope this leads to some real change, but then again, I can&amp;#x27;t exactly hold my breath.&lt;p&gt;[1]: &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inverted_totalitarianism&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Inverted_totalitarianism&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>visakanv</author><text>I think the last individual who might&amp;#x27;ve been in a somewhat similar position was Daniel Ellsberg, for releasing the Pentagon Papers.&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;For his disclosure of the Pentagon Papers, Ellsberg was initially charged with conspiracy, espionage and theft of government property, but the charges were later dropped after prosecutors investigating the Watergate Scandal soon discovered that the Nixon administration had ordered the so-called White House Plumbers to engage in unlawful efforts to discredit Ellsberg.&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;But I think Snowden opened a far bigger can of worms, considering that the Pentagon Papers didn&amp;#x27;t involve spying on US citizens, etc.&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Ellsberg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Daniel_Ellsberg&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pentagon_Papers&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Pentagon_Papers&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>

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<story><title>What&apos;s functional programming all about? (2017)</title><url>https://www.lihaoyi.com/post/WhatsFunctionalProgrammingAllAbout.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>yodsanklai</author><text>As a programmer, I don&amp;#x27;t know if it&amp;#x27;s still relevant to make a strict separation between programming paradigms. You can use immutable types, pure functions, closures and so on in most languages. Conversely, you can define mutable types and imperative code in most functional programming languages.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;m always surprised reading comments on these topics, people saying they don&amp;#x27;t grasp FP. But don&amp;#x27;t we use higher-order functions, closures, combinators all the time in most mainstream languages? How hard can it be to learn OCaml or Clojure for someone who use closures all over the place in JS?&lt;p&gt;Monads have a steeper learning curve, but besides Haskell, they aren&amp;#x27;t that pervasive. And there are constructs with similar flavor in mainstream languages too (result types in Rust...)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>majoe</author><text>True, the conceptual difference of (pure) functional and imperative programming is disguised by the many functional patterns most mainstream languages have absorbed. While these patterns are useful, there is more to say about pure functional programming.&lt;p&gt;I recently gave a talk to some colleagues about that, which was divided into two parts: Practical functional programming patterns we can use today in our codebases (we use mainly C++, Python) and a more abstract part about pure functional programming.&lt;p&gt;The first part basically boils down to using functions as first class &amp;quot;objects&amp;quot;, while the point of the second part was, that there can&amp;#x27;t be implicit state in pure functional language. The consequence of that is, that there is no strict order of execution, which is in direct contrast to imperative programming, which is all about list of statements, that are executed one after another.&lt;p&gt;I presented small code examples in Haskell and showed corresponding execution graphs to emphasise, that the compiler can easily optimise the execution order.&lt;p&gt;I like that POV, because it clearly distinguishes imperative from functional programming. Starting from there, it&amp;#x27;s also easy to understand the motivation behind monads or elaborate on architectural patterns like &amp;quot; functional core, imperatively shell&amp;quot;.</text></comment>

<story><title>What&apos;s functional programming all about? (2017)</title><url>https://www.lihaoyi.com/post/WhatsFunctionalProgrammingAllAbout.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>yodsanklai</author><text>As a programmer, I don&amp;#x27;t know if it&amp;#x27;s still relevant to make a strict separation between programming paradigms. You can use immutable types, pure functions, closures and so on in most languages. Conversely, you can define mutable types and imperative code in most functional programming languages.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;m always surprised reading comments on these topics, people saying they don&amp;#x27;t grasp FP. But don&amp;#x27;t we use higher-order functions, closures, combinators all the time in most mainstream languages? How hard can it be to learn OCaml or Clojure for someone who use closures all over the place in JS?&lt;p&gt;Monads have a steeper learning curve, but besides Haskell, they aren&amp;#x27;t that pervasive. And there are constructs with similar flavor in mainstream languages too (result types in Rust...)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>fire_lake</author><text>Mainstream languages are not expression orientated like true FP languages are. Most people working in mainstream languages aren’t aware of the significance of this and wonder why FP seems awkward in their language, despite it having closures, some immutable types, etc.</text></comment>

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<story><title>First stage POWER9 Firefox JIT passes tests</title><url>https://www.talospace.com/2021/11/51552-javascript-tests-cant-be-wrong.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>DeathArrow</author><text>Since POWER9 and OpenSPARC are open architectures with open ISAs, I don&amp;#x27;t see why companies like Facebook, Amazon, Alibaba aren&amp;#x27;t using them and trying instead to build CPUs based on ARM. Is there a much better performance&amp;#x2F;power ration which can be achieved by ARM and not by POWER or SPARC?</text></comment>

<story><title>First stage POWER9 Firefox JIT passes tests</title><url>https://www.talospace.com/2021/11/51552-javascript-tests-cant-be-wrong.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>nerdponx</author><text>What&amp;#x27;s the context for this? Is there a new JIT compiler for Javascript in Firefox? Or is it a 3rd-party &amp;quot;add-on&amp;quot; that improves performance on some specific machine that this company makes?</text></comment>

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<story><title>Mathematicians find hidden structure in a common type of space</title><url>https://www.quantamagazine.org/mathematicians-find-hidden-structure-in-a-common-type-of-space-20230412/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>hilbert42</author><text>I was just pondering whether this result would eventually be useful to physics or science generally in say ways like Galois&amp;#x27; ideas and Group Theory eventually became useful. Just a thought.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Paul-Craft</author><text>That&amp;#x27;s a good question. I certainly am not willing to rule it out. If you had asked me 20 years ago if I thought algebraic topology was going to be of any use to physics, I&amp;#x27;d have probably just laughed the question off. In retrospect, that seems a bit naive, since the Standard Model, mathematically speaking, is just setting up a Lie group and its corresponding group algebra, then turning some algebra cranks see what comes out, but I&amp;#x27;m not so sure I knew that back then.&lt;p&gt;Someone once told me that mathematicians are frequently doing &amp;quot;the science of 100 years from now.&amp;quot; I hope we don&amp;#x27;t have to wait that long to find out if design theory has a place in the Theory of Everything.&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;physics.stackexchange.com&amp;#x2F;questions&amp;#x2F;1603&amp;#x2F;applications-of-algebraic-topology-to-physics&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;physics.stackexchange.com&amp;#x2F;questions&amp;#x2F;1603&amp;#x2F;application...&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>

<story><title>Mathematicians find hidden structure in a common type of space</title><url>https://www.quantamagazine.org/mathematicians-find-hidden-structure-in-a-common-type-of-space-20230412/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>hilbert42</author><text>I was just pondering whether this result would eventually be useful to physics or science generally in say ways like Galois&amp;#x27; ideas and Group Theory eventually became useful. Just a thought.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>sthomer</author><text>The paper is way over my head, but it seems to be an important result in the field of finite geometry, i.e. linear algebra over finite fields. Finite geometry often provides the mathematical foundations for error-correcting coding schemes that are found in many applications where information needs to be transferred efficiently and robustly. So, I could guess that this result would have practical applications in at least that domain. However, since that domain is so important (e.g. packet transfer underlying the internet), this could be a very important paper indeed, even for &amp;quot;real-world&amp;quot; applications.</text></comment>

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<story><title>Harvard Quietly Amasses California Vineyards and the Water Underneath</title><url>https://www.wsj.com/articles/harvard-quietly-amasses-california-vineyardsand-the-water-underneath-1544456396</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ordinaryradical</author><text>I honestly think I wouldn&amp;#x27;t have a problem with this if they zeroed out tuition for students. That is the glaring absurdity of the Ivy Leagues.&lt;p&gt;I was in a program that more or less guaranteed some portion of its graduates to be perpetually in debt because the skills imparted, while taught by some of the most brilliant practitioners in the world, did not translate into real world earnings. I hate the idea of college being purely an exchange of money for future earning potential, but programs like mine I think are unethical at cost even as they are virtuous in learning.&lt;p&gt;Our culture needs non-STEM genius, that keeps the republic alive. Forcing people into a cauldron of debt for it is reprehensible.</text></item><item><author>kylec</author><text>Financially, Harvard is a hedge fund that also happens to own a university</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>runako</author><text>According to Harvard (&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.harvard.edu&amp;#x2F;about-harvard&amp;#x2F;harvard-glance&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.harvard.edu&amp;#x2F;about-harvard&amp;#x2F;harvard-glance&lt;/a&gt;):&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;The Harvard College financial aid program requires no contribution from Harvard families with annual incomes below $65,000; asks from 0 to 10% of income for those with incomes up to $150,000; and expects proportionally more from families with incomes above $150,000.&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;If your family makes &amp;lt;$150k, it sounds like Harvard costs up to about as much as the (public) University of Minnesota charges in-state residents. (Depending on your situation, Harvard may cost substantially less.) If you borrowed half of the $15k annually (the max 10% of $150k income), that&amp;#x27;s not an insane burden when paid over 30 years.&lt;p&gt;This seems fairly balanced. Granted they could zero out fees for families further up the income scale, but on the other hand &amp;quot;rich kids go to Harvard free&amp;quot; is maybe not the best use of the money.</text></comment>

<story><title>Harvard Quietly Amasses California Vineyards and the Water Underneath</title><url>https://www.wsj.com/articles/harvard-quietly-amasses-california-vineyardsand-the-water-underneath-1544456396</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ordinaryradical</author><text>I honestly think I wouldn&amp;#x27;t have a problem with this if they zeroed out tuition for students. That is the glaring absurdity of the Ivy Leagues.&lt;p&gt;I was in a program that more or less guaranteed some portion of its graduates to be perpetually in debt because the skills imparted, while taught by some of the most brilliant practitioners in the world, did not translate into real world earnings. I hate the idea of college being purely an exchange of money for future earning potential, but programs like mine I think are unethical at cost even as they are virtuous in learning.&lt;p&gt;Our culture needs non-STEM genius, that keeps the republic alive. Forcing people into a cauldron of debt for it is reprehensible.</text></item><item><author>kylec</author><text>Financially, Harvard is a hedge fund that also happens to own a university</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>whitepoplar</author><text>I think we need to rethink the concept of a university from first principles: How much does it actually cost to provide the best education in the world? A sizable library, an old building with empty rooms, and professors? I&amp;#x27;d bet you could make instruction 5x better with 5x lower costs than we have today. The real problem isn&amp;#x27;t building&amp;#x2F;finding a campus, though, it&amp;#x27;s figuring out how to make the cheap version of Harvard more prestigious than Harvard itself. Universities run on prestige and people pay vast amounts of money for social signaling (to others and even themselves).</text></comment>

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<story><title>Low-Cost VPS Testing</title><url>https://toys.lerdorf.com/low-cost-vps-testing</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>asdkhadsj</author><text>I can&amp;#x27;t wait for PaaS prices to drop. I know they&amp;#x27;ll always be relatively expensive, but I&amp;#x27;m primarily a dev &lt;i&gt;(not ops)&lt;/i&gt; and I don&amp;#x27;t have the time nor desire to manage my own servers securely.&lt;p&gt;Heroku lately has seemed a tempting offer, assuming I can run my apps on it &lt;i&gt;(Rust based)&lt;/i&gt;, but at $7&amp;#x2F;m for little side projects it felt.. expensive for a no user side project. They can add up. A $5&amp;#x2F;m DO box can host quite a few apps in containers, by comparison.&lt;p&gt;Perhaps Serverless would be a great playground for low&amp;#x2F;no traffic apps, but I&amp;#x27;ve not gotten into serverless much.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>thesandlord</author><text>Give Google Cloud Run a try. Can run any Docker container, and billing is per request. It is basically a fully managed knative.&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;cloud.google.com&amp;#x2F;run&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;cloud.google.com&amp;#x2F;run&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;My side projects all run for free.&lt;p&gt;(I work for Google Cloud)</text></comment>

<story><title>Low-Cost VPS Testing</title><url>https://toys.lerdorf.com/low-cost-vps-testing</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>asdkhadsj</author><text>I can&amp;#x27;t wait for PaaS prices to drop. I know they&amp;#x27;ll always be relatively expensive, but I&amp;#x27;m primarily a dev &lt;i&gt;(not ops)&lt;/i&gt; and I don&amp;#x27;t have the time nor desire to manage my own servers securely.&lt;p&gt;Heroku lately has seemed a tempting offer, assuming I can run my apps on it &lt;i&gt;(Rust based)&lt;/i&gt;, but at $7&amp;#x2F;m for little side projects it felt.. expensive for a no user side project. They can add up. A $5&amp;#x2F;m DO box can host quite a few apps in containers, by comparison.&lt;p&gt;Perhaps Serverless would be a great playground for low&amp;#x2F;no traffic apps, but I&amp;#x27;ve not gotten into serverless much.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>WrtCdEvrydy</author><text>I do CapRover + FaaS on the small $5 droplet on Linode. I run a lot of random stuff out of it, with the only change from me being increasing swap from 512MB to 2GB (it&amp;#x27;s all SSD backed anyways).</text></comment>

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<story><title>U.K. Police Have a Message for Crime Victims: Hand over Your Private Data</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/29/world/europe/rape-victim-data-privacy-uk.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>DanBC</author><text>I&amp;#x27;m not sure I understand your point.&lt;p&gt;In England we don&amp;#x27;t have a national police force; we have lots of local forces. There&amp;#x27;s wide variation in how they respond to crime. We noticed this variation was causing injustice: women (and men) who were raped were not having their crimes robustly investigated; men who were accused of rape were not having their defence robustly investigated.&lt;p&gt;The new guidance is telling police precisely what they can (and thus can&amp;#x27;t) ask for, and when (and thus when not) they can ask for it.&lt;p&gt;Fishing expeditions are not allowed.</text></item><item><author>dgellow</author><text>&amp;gt; Mr. Ephgrave, the assistant commissioner, acknowledged such concerns in his statement.&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; “We understand that how personal data is used can be a source of anxiety,” he said. “We would never want victims to feel that they can’t report crimes because of ‘intrusion’ in their data.”&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; “That’s why a new national form has been introduced,” replacing policies that varied from place to place, “to help police seek informed consent proportionately and consistently.”&lt;p&gt;I’m sorry for not having something smarter to say, but what the actual fuck? That sounds like what a tech company would say to try to justify their new data policy. That’s terrible coming from an institution that is supposed to protect people under its jurisdiction.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mirimir</author><text>Parent&amp;#x27;s point, I suspect, is about this:&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; “If information is identified from your device that suggests the commission of a separate criminal offense, other than the offense(s) under investigation, the relevant data may be retained and investigated by the police,” according to written statement to victims and witnesses that will accompany the consent form.&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; Anything the police find, it says, will be handed over to prosecutors. And in some cases, devices might not be given back to their owners for weeks or even months.&lt;p&gt;That sounds a lot like &amp;quot;fishing expeditions&amp;quot;.</text></comment>

<story><title>U.K. Police Have a Message for Crime Victims: Hand over Your Private Data</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/29/world/europe/rape-victim-data-privacy-uk.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>DanBC</author><text>I&amp;#x27;m not sure I understand your point.&lt;p&gt;In England we don&amp;#x27;t have a national police force; we have lots of local forces. There&amp;#x27;s wide variation in how they respond to crime. We noticed this variation was causing injustice: women (and men) who were raped were not having their crimes robustly investigated; men who were accused of rape were not having their defence robustly investigated.&lt;p&gt;The new guidance is telling police precisely what they can (and thus can&amp;#x27;t) ask for, and when (and thus when not) they can ask for it.&lt;p&gt;Fishing expeditions are not allowed.</text></item><item><author>dgellow</author><text>&amp;gt; Mr. Ephgrave, the assistant commissioner, acknowledged such concerns in his statement.&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; “We understand that how personal data is used can be a source of anxiety,” he said. “We would never want victims to feel that they can’t report crimes because of ‘intrusion’ in their data.”&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; “That’s why a new national form has been introduced,” replacing policies that varied from place to place, “to help police seek informed consent proportionately and consistently.”&lt;p&gt;I’m sorry for not having something smarter to say, but what the actual fuck? That sounds like what a tech company would say to try to justify their new data policy. That’s terrible coming from an institution that is supposed to protect people under its jurisdiction.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>claudiawerner</author><text>The point being made by GP is that the rules are already too broad; simply writing them down does very little (if anything) to address the worry about data intrusion. If I were to do something horrible to another person, they wouldn&amp;#x27;t have much reassurance if I said &amp;quot;here&amp;#x27;s a list of what I can (and thus can&amp;#x27;t) do to you, and when (and thus when not) I can do it to you&amp;quot;.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;m a very data security conscious person. If something bad happened to me the last thing I&amp;#x27;d want is for the police to say that they can&amp;#x27;t continue to work on my case unless I grant them access to my device(s) and then trust them to not be (deliberately or not) &amp;quot;incompetent&amp;quot; with what they&amp;#x27;re doing. If anything this should be part of a policy in which victims elect to volunteer information when asked if there&amp;#x27;s anything that could help the case. I can actually easily imagine a case in which I&amp;#x27;ve been sexually assaulted (and this has happened to me) and I would not go to the police if they had a policy like this.&lt;p&gt;If the police are searching on my phone, what if I have something illegal I don&amp;#x27;t want them to see? Something they might think is &amp;#x27;concerning&amp;#x27; that they can write down and decide to pursue later? What if I&amp;#x27;m a sex worker and they can find out through looking at my phone, and even gather proof that fact? And before we say that we can trust them to be competent, what about the other story here?[0] What about the myriad of horrible laws that are passed in England and Wales which restrain even private possession of comics?&lt;p&gt;[0] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&amp;#x2F;item?id=19785416&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&amp;#x2F;item?id=19785416&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>

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<story><title>Fastsocket – A highly scalable socket for Linux</title><url>https://github.com/fastos/fastsocket</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>bscanlan</author><text>The performance data looks interesting, but this is work based on a pretty old kernel (originally released in 2010 or so). There have been many changes and improvements added to the 3.x kernel that may overlap with this work. Publishing the code and details on github is great, but working with the kernel community and merging into the mainstream kernel is the only way for work like this to have a long-term meaningful existence - Google in particular have been doing a great job getting networking improvements in.&lt;p&gt;That said, it&amp;#x27;s interesting to have this kind of thing come out of large-scale production web environments in China.</text></comment>

<story><title>Fastsocket – A highly scalable socket for Linux</title><url>https://github.com/fastos/fastsocket</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>edsiper2</author><text>Looks like its based on 2.6.32 series. I would hope they start working with the upstream Kernel otherwise this project will stay stuck in Limbo as previous initiatives to improve TCP handling at kernel level (e.g: Megapipe).&lt;p&gt;This version do not support TCP_FASTOPEN, SO_REUSEPORT, TCP_AUTOCORKING, etc.</text></comment>

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<story><title>A Guide to Statistics on Historical Trends in Income Inequality</title><url>https://www.cbpp.org/research/poverty-and-inequality/a-guide-to-statistics-on-historical-trends-in-income-inequality</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>digitalmaster</author><text>So looks like the 80s is when things start going south (increased income inequality) so I looked up who was president during that time, then looked at their wiki page to see their economic policy and found this gem of a quote:&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;Soon after taking office, Reagan began implementing sweeping new political and economic initiatives. His supply-side economic policies, dubbed &amp;quot;Reaganomics&amp;quot;, advocated tax rate reduction to spur economic growth, economic deregulation, and reduction in government spending.&amp;quot;</text></comment>

<story><title>A Guide to Statistics on Historical Trends in Income Inequality</title><url>https://www.cbpp.org/research/poverty-and-inequality/a-guide-to-statistics-on-historical-trends-in-income-inequality</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>WhompingWindows</author><text>What&amp;#x27;s the best solution to this - if wealthy and high-income individuals get more power via political lobbying, they can then gain more wealth and higher incomes, gaining even more lobbying power. They can also flood the media with advertising money and propagandist messaging to convince voters to care more about less impactful issues. It feels like an endless cycle to me.&lt;p&gt;Other than war or complete societal upheaval, what can actually be done to solve the problem?</text></comment>

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<story><title>Familia Toledo: The most inexpensive computer USD $99.00</title><url>http://www.biyubi.com/eng_principal.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>maxmalkav</author><text>It&amp;#x27;s fun to see the Familia Toledo on HN, I discovered them through the Spanish online communities quite some years ago.&lt;p&gt;There is some charm in their naivety mixed with their display of self-importance. IIRC their &amp;quot;own&amp;quot; operating systems used to be derived from MenuetOS and similar open source projects.&lt;p&gt;As a side note, one of the family member (Óscar Toledo) seems to have been performing well in the International Obfuscated C Code Contest (IOCCC).</text></comment>

<story><title>Familia Toledo: The most inexpensive computer USD $99.00</title><url>http://www.biyubi.com/eng_principal.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>Animats</author><text>&lt;i&gt;&amp;quot;Familia Toledo do not manufactures G11 computers for direct sale to the public, they sell their prototypes to governments or original equipment manufactures.&amp;quot;&lt;/i&gt; That&amp;#x27;s the One Laptop Per Child business model. Dead end.&lt;p&gt;You can get laptops on Alibaba starting at $80. If they just loaded their software onto them, something they could probably get the OEM to do for them, they&amp;#x27;d be there. Instead of trying to cable stuff together with ribbon cables.&lt;p&gt;For $100, you can get a Windows 10 capable (but not including Windows 10) machine, with reasonable memory, disk, and WiFi.</text></comment>

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<story><title>The Art of Mathematics in Chalk</title><url>https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-art-of-mathematics-in-chalk/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>jstrieb</author><text>This article really resonated with me. I&amp;#x27;m an undergraduate math major, and classes being all-remote this past year have unfortunately reduced chalkboard use among both professors and students. Particularly, I have been unable to go into lecture halls after hours and do homework on chalkboards like I used to.&lt;p&gt;I much prefer to do work standing up at a board where I can physically step back to get a literally different perspective on what I have written. The ephemerality of a chalkboard also far surpasses paper, which means there is less commitment for writing anything down – it thus feels more conducive to proper scratch work where ideas are tested and perhaps backtracked. Plus, as the article covers, there is definitely a feeling of having created something artistic when the problem is solved and the board is covered top to bottom in symbols. (Though I haven&amp;#x27;t had occasion to draw any interesting, abstract topology in my studies.)&lt;p&gt;To make up for the lack of access to chalk boards on campus during the pandemic, I built one in my room, along with an automated system for scanning flattened images of it. It took about a weekend to set up, and I&amp;#x27;ve used it every day since. Some technical details for anyone who may be curious:&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&amp;#x2F;item?id=26872168&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&amp;#x2F;item?id=26872168&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>

<story><title>The Art of Mathematics in Chalk</title><url>https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-art-of-mathematics-in-chalk/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>varjag</author><text>An old Soviet joke.&lt;p&gt;Professor in a math class calls out a student to draw a circle on the blackboard. The student makes a perfect one; the Platonic ideal of a circle in one swift, generous motion. The professor is impressed and inquiries, how come?&lt;p&gt;- See, all I did in my two years of military service was operating a meat grinder.</text></comment>

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<story><title>Netflix replies to Verizon cease and desist letter</title><url>http://www.cnbc.com/id/101728447</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>josh2600</author><text>An ISP&amp;#x27;s job, as a private company, is to maximize shareholder value. The circuit consumers are sold is a &amp;quot;best-effort&amp;quot; connection in stark contrast to, say, a T1, which is a dedicated circuit.&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s also very hard to prove that Verizon is throttling, versus, say, simply physically underprovisioning the connection.&lt;p&gt;With respect to public money, I think you&amp;#x27;ve hit the nail on the head. The crux of the Net Neutrality debate, to my mind, is whether these networks are public or private. If they&amp;#x27;re private, Net Neutrality is bullshit. If they&amp;#x27;re public, it&amp;#x27;s obvious.&lt;p&gt;It is in consumer interest for the networks to be public, but the same could be said about the socialization of any number of industries. I&amp;#x27;m constantly fascinated by the way folks consider socializing the telecom industry to be incredibly reasonable and socializing, say, the healthcare industry to be insanity.&lt;p&gt;Edit: Maybe I need to tag all of these posts with #DevilsAdvocate to avoid being downvoted into oblivion.</text></item><item><author>ljd</author><text>An ISP&amp;#x27;s job is to provide internet access to last mile users, such as ourselves.&lt;p&gt;If they choose to reduce that speed for any reason, or throttle any kind of connection they are entitled to do that but they can&amp;#x27;t complain when someone else says that is what they are doing.&lt;p&gt;Personally, I think given how much public money has gone into infrastructure and the amount of money I pay in taxes it seems insane for me to first pay for the ISP&amp;#x27;s infrastructure with taxes then have to pay them again. So while they have a right to throttle, they don&amp;#x27;t have a right to throttle my connection on infrastructure that they did not pay 100% for. Which probably accounts for the majority of their infrastructure.</text></item><item><author>josh2600</author><text>Playing Devil&amp;#x27;s advocate here for a second:&lt;p&gt;If Netflix is 35% of global internet traffic at peak capacity (as per the Akamai CEO&amp;#x27;s comments at a number of events), is it really fair to treat them like every other company? That is to say, if Netflix is really the sole driver of Network upgrades, why does Verizon have to subsidize their costs of business?&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;m not taking the stance that this is correct, only querying as to why the dynamics here are such that we automatically assume Netflix is in the right. Guilt tripping Verizon into adding more routers is a major net positive to Netflix&amp;#x27;s business.&lt;p&gt;Yes, ISP customers are paying for access but the business reality is that the ARPU per subscriber is decreasing every year at a rate lower than additional subscriber acquisition can sate. As Wall Street demands growth, it has to come from somewhere, and since Carriers are not able to sell consumers additional services (no matter how hard they try), they need to find another set of wallets (content providers). They&amp;#x27;re not utilities and have a profit motive, right?&lt;p&gt;Again, I&amp;#x27;m not saying this is correct, simply trying to add another viewpoint to the conversation.</text></item><item><author>Arjuna</author><text>Awesome response to the C&amp;amp;D, via spokesman Jonathan Friedland:&lt;p&gt;&lt;i&gt;&amp;quot;This is about consumers not getting what they paid for from their broadband provider. We are trying to provide more transparency, just like we do with the ISP Speed Index, and Verizon is trying to shut down that discussion.&amp;quot;&lt;/i&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>DrJokepu</author><text>Oh no, not the &amp;quot;maximising shareholder value&amp;quot; argument again! This argument has three fundamental problems. First, it is difficult to tell what would &amp;quot;maximise shareholder value&amp;quot;. Second, it misses the fact that something that could &amp;quot;maximise shareholder value&amp;quot; on short term could very well minimise &amp;quot;shareholder value&amp;quot; on long term (or the other way around). Third, and this is the biggest one, people involved in a private company (employees, directors, shareholders) often have an agenda that goes beyond simply making more money. That&amp;#x27;s because they are human beings.</text></comment>

<story><title>Netflix replies to Verizon cease and desist letter</title><url>http://www.cnbc.com/id/101728447</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>josh2600</author><text>An ISP&amp;#x27;s job, as a private company, is to maximize shareholder value. The circuit consumers are sold is a &amp;quot;best-effort&amp;quot; connection in stark contrast to, say, a T1, which is a dedicated circuit.&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s also very hard to prove that Verizon is throttling, versus, say, simply physically underprovisioning the connection.&lt;p&gt;With respect to public money, I think you&amp;#x27;ve hit the nail on the head. The crux of the Net Neutrality debate, to my mind, is whether these networks are public or private. If they&amp;#x27;re private, Net Neutrality is bullshit. If they&amp;#x27;re public, it&amp;#x27;s obvious.&lt;p&gt;It is in consumer interest for the networks to be public, but the same could be said about the socialization of any number of industries. I&amp;#x27;m constantly fascinated by the way folks consider socializing the telecom industry to be incredibly reasonable and socializing, say, the healthcare industry to be insanity.&lt;p&gt;Edit: Maybe I need to tag all of these posts with #DevilsAdvocate to avoid being downvoted into oblivion.</text></item><item><author>ljd</author><text>An ISP&amp;#x27;s job is to provide internet access to last mile users, such as ourselves.&lt;p&gt;If they choose to reduce that speed for any reason, or throttle any kind of connection they are entitled to do that but they can&amp;#x27;t complain when someone else says that is what they are doing.&lt;p&gt;Personally, I think given how much public money has gone into infrastructure and the amount of money I pay in taxes it seems insane for me to first pay for the ISP&amp;#x27;s infrastructure with taxes then have to pay them again. So while they have a right to throttle, they don&amp;#x27;t have a right to throttle my connection on infrastructure that they did not pay 100% for. Which probably accounts for the majority of their infrastructure.</text></item><item><author>josh2600</author><text>Playing Devil&amp;#x27;s advocate here for a second:&lt;p&gt;If Netflix is 35% of global internet traffic at peak capacity (as per the Akamai CEO&amp;#x27;s comments at a number of events), is it really fair to treat them like every other company? That is to say, if Netflix is really the sole driver of Network upgrades, why does Verizon have to subsidize their costs of business?&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;m not taking the stance that this is correct, only querying as to why the dynamics here are such that we automatically assume Netflix is in the right. Guilt tripping Verizon into adding more routers is a major net positive to Netflix&amp;#x27;s business.&lt;p&gt;Yes, ISP customers are paying for access but the business reality is that the ARPU per subscriber is decreasing every year at a rate lower than additional subscriber acquisition can sate. As Wall Street demands growth, it has to come from somewhere, and since Carriers are not able to sell consumers additional services (no matter how hard they try), they need to find another set of wallets (content providers). They&amp;#x27;re not utilities and have a profit motive, right?&lt;p&gt;Again, I&amp;#x27;m not saying this is correct, simply trying to add another viewpoint to the conversation.</text></item><item><author>Arjuna</author><text>Awesome response to the C&amp;amp;D, via spokesman Jonathan Friedland:&lt;p&gt;&lt;i&gt;&amp;quot;This is about consumers not getting what they paid for from their broadband provider. We are trying to provide more transparency, just like we do with the ISP Speed Index, and Verizon is trying to shut down that discussion.&amp;quot;&lt;/i&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>couradical</author><text>I think the issue is more that the ISPs are demanding payment at both ends of the tunnel. They charge you and I for transit (best-effort though it may be) and then when a bulk of their customers traffic turns to a popular network, attempt to charge that network to upgrade their port speed. (something which is customarily handled for free between peered carriers since both are charging their customers) Think of it this way - it&amp;#x27;s as if I pay UPS to send packages and then they request fees from the cities they deliver to, or they only deliver 100 packages a day to the municipality. That would be insane, and laughed out of court, but that&amp;#x27;s what Comcast&amp;#x2F;Verizon are doing.&lt;p&gt;Also, intentionally physically underprovisioning the connection is throttling, plain and simple. You are limiting the amount of traffic that can traverse that network boundary to 10G&amp;#x2F;40G&amp;#x2F;Whatever your port speed is. What difference does it make if I do it in software or simply refuse to bind more ports to the team?</text></comment>

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<story><title>TurboTax Freemium Funnel: Critical Analysis and UX Teardown</title><url>https://medium.com/@brandonscottread/turbotax-design-1a37356adc61</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>djcapelis</author><text>I stopped using TurboTax some years ago and switched to TaxAct as a less bad alternative. I didn’t believe them to be necessarily tons better than giving money to TurboTax, but I figured at least it wouldn’t just keep solidifying a market leader who was capturing a significant market based mostly around actively lobbying to keep it that way.&lt;p&gt;In the last two years I took a leap to CreditKarma’s tax offering. It is a bit basic and not quite as endlessly full featured, but it is simple, efficient, pretty quick and quite fast. It’s also entirely free. The first year I used it I ran my numbers in a competing product to check, I was self employed at the time, which meant my tax situation wasn’t exactly easy that year.&lt;p&gt;Anyway, the numbers lined up perfectly. So I used CreditKarma to file and have been happy with it ever since. Honestly at this point I’d pay for it, just to give them a more solid business model and development budget, but as far as I know they don’t even have a paid option!&lt;p&gt;I filed in February this year. It was easy.&lt;p&gt;I actively avoid Intuit products now.&lt;p&gt;(Though, pragmatism wins here to some degree: I did use their self-employment accounting tool for a few years even when I had switched away from their tax software. That tool makes it annoyingly easy to keep accurate books and Xero just wasn’t as good and simple at what I was looking for. If I was doing it again today, I’d definitely again look for alternatives. And frankly I think I’d find them now.)</text></comment>

<story><title>TurboTax Freemium Funnel: Critical Analysis and UX Teardown</title><url>https://medium.com/@brandonscottread/turbotax-design-1a37356adc61</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>codehusker</author><text>This might not apply to many who frequent HN, but not enough people know about Free File options.&lt;p&gt;If your adjusted gross income is less than $66,000 you can likely file your federal and potentially state taxes for free.&lt;p&gt;If you make more than $66,00 AGI, the IRS provides fillable forms that are pretty easy to use for your federal but might not be applicable in all circumstances.&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.irs.gov&amp;#x2F;filing&amp;#x2F;free-file-do-your-federal-taxes-for-free&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.irs.gov&amp;#x2F;filing&amp;#x2F;free-file-do-your-federal-taxes-f...&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>

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<story><title>Worst economic crisis since 1930s depression, IMF says</title><url>https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-52236936</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>baby</author><text>The increase we’ve seen in the last two weeks make zero sense to me. It’s almost making me lose trust in the market as I feel like it’s rigged. We’re in a complete state of unknown, nobody knows when this will be over, unemployment raises like crazy, the US now realizes that coronavirus is hitting them the hardest...</text></item><item><author>mLuby</author><text>And yet the stock market is already recovering. I guess &amp;quot;worst crisis since Great Depression&amp;quot; has been priced in?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>blhack</author><text>The increase in the last two weeks is because it&amp;#x27;s becoming obvious that:&lt;p&gt;1) The US&amp;#x27;s response to this was competent.&lt;p&gt;2) The measures put in place are working.&lt;p&gt;3) The projections are improving &lt;i&gt;substantially&lt;/i&gt;.&lt;p&gt;4) The time horizon is shrinking.&lt;p&gt;5) We are starting to understand how to treat this.&lt;p&gt;(+ &amp;quot;in the us&amp;quot;).&lt;p&gt;Two weeks ago we were looking at places like Italy, and extrapolating that the US could see deaths in the &lt;i&gt;millions&lt;/i&gt;. A week ago that projection went down to 100-200k, and yesterday it went down to 60k. &lt;i&gt;Obviously&lt;/i&gt; that is still a massive catastrophe, but it&amp;#x27;s nowhere near the catastrophe we were fearing two weeks ago.&lt;p&gt;Additionally, the writing is on the wall that manufacturing is going to be moving away from China as much as possible in the near future. Much of that, for American companies at least, is going to come back to the US, probably at the hands of massive tariffs.&lt;p&gt;That&amp;#x27;s all good news for the US economy.&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt;US realizes the coronavirus is hitting them the hardest.&lt;p&gt;Where did you hear this? It is absolutely not true.</text></comment>

<story><title>Worst economic crisis since 1930s depression, IMF says</title><url>https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-52236936</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>baby</author><text>The increase we’ve seen in the last two weeks make zero sense to me. It’s almost making me lose trust in the market as I feel like it’s rigged. We’re in a complete state of unknown, nobody knows when this will be over, unemployment raises like crazy, the US now realizes that coronavirus is hitting them the hardest...</text></item><item><author>mLuby</author><text>And yet the stock market is already recovering. I guess &amp;quot;worst crisis since Great Depression&amp;quot; has been priced in?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>icelancer</author><text>A bunch of people sold off in a panic, a lot of volatility hit, people like Buffett bought at the bottom (and publicly advised others to do so), so who knows.&lt;p&gt;Unemployment is artificially high for now. Companies are incentivized through PPP to lay people off, especially with UI bonuses.</text></comment>

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<story><title>Ask HN: Is freelance web development still a viable path in 2019?</title><text>With the advent of wix, squarespace, and other code free forms of website developement, it seems as if the demand for custom built sites are at an all time low.&lt;p&gt;The little demand left is shared among a seemingly never ending hord of aspiring freelance developers, many of whom are willing to work at prices far below that of what their skills had once demanded.&lt;p&gt;With a market such as this what place, if any, is there for new developers who wish to break into freelancing? Is there any hope at all for these developers? Or have the days of freelancing been put to an end by abstraction and oversaturation?</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>CareyB</author><text>Not really. Wix and GoDaddy clobbered it, and now there are others. At one point I had over 30 sites requiring regular maintenance, and upgrades. Plus a few I developed, installed on other servers, and did not maintain. Now I’m down to about four. These days there’s almost always someone in a small business’ office with the requisite skills to do basic upgrades, and small changes. I get called when things go wrong, or there’s a major overhaul in the offing. Many small businesses do quite well with a Facebook page, or some other self development tool. The sites look amateurish, and derivative, but they get the job done. All you want is the ‘Who, what, where, when, and why’, and standards are so low there’s no functional penalty for having a lame Web presence. I find more clients hiring full time ‘social media’ specialists rather than me. I have pondered becoming a ‘social media expert’, but the fact that I have worked building some of the early experiments taints me against the concept.&lt;p&gt;Almost all Web sites are similar these days, and there’s a value to designing the UI&amp;#x2F;UX in a way users expect. I suggest that, for startups, and small businesses, there’s virtually no need for anything other than a basic Web presence. With the rise of social media, the appropriate account(s) will solve that problem for most.&lt;p&gt;I worked through the wild west of this industry, and it was semi-fun, but I think we’ve moved on, things have settled down, or are settling down, and there’s a minimum sufficient requirement for a Web presence that’s pretty freakin’ minimal.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mxuribe</author><text>100% THIS!&lt;p&gt;To your point about &amp;quot;becoming a social media expert&amp;quot;, I actually began lightly dabbling in this, and felt nauseous after some time...Allow me to describe:&lt;p&gt;You begin admirably trying to help a business (or individual) to gain legitimate views and insights from their audience...but hoping to grow to full, positive engagements, and so forth - not for merely having a social media presence, but rather, with the overarching goal of growing their business, or meeting some other business goal of theirs...and eventually, they begin to get addicted, and whether its a true value to their business goals or not, they begin chasing the dragon of growth. And, much like i can only imagine like drugs - they get hooked. Whatever ethical advice i would provide is ignored, and they only want advice on how to grow their audience like crazy (think: hockey stick growth numbers, etc.) including employing fake follow bot accounts, etc. Their &amp;quot;chase&amp;quot; for ever more audience continues on a darker route...wanting ever more clicks&amp;#x2F;likes&amp;#x2F;views&amp;#x2F;attention - even at the risk of their business&amp;#x27; main value proposition. They begin outright ignoring your continuous protests. You begin to feel sick - as if somehow you are the gun salesperson selling a gun to a person you are only now discovering is dangerous. Your client keeps pushing you for more and more dark patterns to employ, and you continue to refuse...ultimately ending the business relationship.&lt;p&gt;Now...are all clients like what i noted above? No, i&amp;#x27;m sure there are good clients out there that don&amp;#x27;t go dark...But for me, I kept encountering the dark ones. So, for what its worth, I would not go down the route of being a social media expert. Good luck, and cheers!</text></comment>

<story><title>Ask HN: Is freelance web development still a viable path in 2019?</title><text>With the advent of wix, squarespace, and other code free forms of website developement, it seems as if the demand for custom built sites are at an all time low.&lt;p&gt;The little demand left is shared among a seemingly never ending hord of aspiring freelance developers, many of whom are willing to work at prices far below that of what their skills had once demanded.&lt;p&gt;With a market such as this what place, if any, is there for new developers who wish to break into freelancing? Is there any hope at all for these developers? Or have the days of freelancing been put to an end by abstraction and oversaturation?</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>CareyB</author><text>Not really. Wix and GoDaddy clobbered it, and now there are others. At one point I had over 30 sites requiring regular maintenance, and upgrades. Plus a few I developed, installed on other servers, and did not maintain. Now I’m down to about four. These days there’s almost always someone in a small business’ office with the requisite skills to do basic upgrades, and small changes. I get called when things go wrong, or there’s a major overhaul in the offing. Many small businesses do quite well with a Facebook page, or some other self development tool. The sites look amateurish, and derivative, but they get the job done. All you want is the ‘Who, what, where, when, and why’, and standards are so low there’s no functional penalty for having a lame Web presence. I find more clients hiring full time ‘social media’ specialists rather than me. I have pondered becoming a ‘social media expert’, but the fact that I have worked building some of the early experiments taints me against the concept.&lt;p&gt;Almost all Web sites are similar these days, and there’s a value to designing the UI&amp;#x2F;UX in a way users expect. I suggest that, for startups, and small businesses, there’s virtually no need for anything other than a basic Web presence. With the rise of social media, the appropriate account(s) will solve that problem for most.&lt;p&gt;I worked through the wild west of this industry, and it was semi-fun, but I think we’ve moved on, things have settled down, or are settling down, and there’s a minimum sufficient requirement for a Web presence that’s pretty freakin’ minimal.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>elorant</author><text>Going down the social media expert path with a web development background can be very lucrative. 95% of the work done can be automated and the competition is primarily marketing guys who can&amp;#x27;t code shit. I&amp;#x27;ve been literally shocked when I realized what most shops charge to handle social media accounts for their clients considering the amount of work done, which basically is a few minutes per day.</text></comment>

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<story><title>Okay, I Like WezTerm</title><url>https://alexplescan.com/posts/2024/08/10/wezterm/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>throwanem</author><text>Does WezTerm support an equivalent of iTerm&amp;#x27;s &amp;quot;hotkey window&amp;quot;?&lt;p&gt;For those unfamiliar, that&amp;#x27;s a window tied to a show&amp;#x2F;hide keybinding which when shown floats above all other windows, making a terminal instantly available everywhere - a feature I could live without, but don&amp;#x27;t care to. I&amp;#x27;d love to switch for all of WezTerm&amp;#x27;s other features, but without that it&amp;#x27;s simply a nonstarter for me.</text></item><item><author>leblancfg</author><text>Recently switched to WezTerm and I&amp;#x27;m very happy. Was using kitty before that – loved the set up and simplicity coming from iTerm2. WezTerm is leaps and bounds better in terms of what comes out-of-the-box. My terminal config is short enough to sit all in one screen on my editor. After that, the terminal just... gets out of the way and I don&amp;#x27;t need to think about it.&lt;p&gt;But the straw that broke my back with using kitty was, I&amp;#x27;d end up encountering issues or trying to recreate some of iTerm2&amp;#x27;s features, only to end up time and again on kitty&amp;#x27;s maintainer&amp;#x27;s terse and dismissive comments.&lt;p&gt;e.g. IIRC his answer to &amp;quot;How do I set up tmux with kitty?&amp;quot; was something like &amp;quot;Don&amp;#x27;t, tmux is dumb&amp;quot; and closing it. Eventually I gave up.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>technojamin</author><text>Not out of the box, but I use Hammerspoon to implement a global hotkey to show WezTerm: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;github.com&amp;#x2F;jaminthorns&amp;#x2F;environment&amp;#x2F;blob&amp;#x2F;a609e81f3f4179d3c60b60bd729e6424916d3655&amp;#x2F;config&amp;#x2F;hammerspoon&amp;#x2F;init.lua#L21-L22&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;github.com&amp;#x2F;jaminthorns&amp;#x2F;environment&amp;#x2F;blob&amp;#x2F;a609e81f3f41...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;I don&amp;#x27;t have a keybinding to hide, but you could easily achieve that by inspecting the active window with `hs.window.focusedWindow()`&amp;#x2F;`hs.window.frontmostWindow()` and making the behavior conditional based on the application: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.hammerspoon.org&amp;#x2F;docs&amp;#x2F;hs.window.html#focusedWindow&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.hammerspoon.org&amp;#x2F;docs&amp;#x2F;hs.window.html#focusedWindo...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;In WezTerm, you can control whether the terminal is always on top with the `ToggleAlwaysOnTop` action: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;wezfurlong.org&amp;#x2F;wezterm&amp;#x2F;config&amp;#x2F;lua&amp;#x2F;keyassignment&amp;#x2F;ToggleAlwaysOnTop.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;wezfurlong.org&amp;#x2F;wezterm&amp;#x2F;config&amp;#x2F;lua&amp;#x2F;keyassignment&amp;#x2F;Togg...&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>

<story><title>Okay, I Like WezTerm</title><url>https://alexplescan.com/posts/2024/08/10/wezterm/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>throwanem</author><text>Does WezTerm support an equivalent of iTerm&amp;#x27;s &amp;quot;hotkey window&amp;quot;?&lt;p&gt;For those unfamiliar, that&amp;#x27;s a window tied to a show&amp;#x2F;hide keybinding which when shown floats above all other windows, making a terminal instantly available everywhere - a feature I could live without, but don&amp;#x27;t care to. I&amp;#x27;d love to switch for all of WezTerm&amp;#x27;s other features, but without that it&amp;#x27;s simply a nonstarter for me.</text></item><item><author>leblancfg</author><text>Recently switched to WezTerm and I&amp;#x27;m very happy. Was using kitty before that – loved the set up and simplicity coming from iTerm2. WezTerm is leaps and bounds better in terms of what comes out-of-the-box. My terminal config is short enough to sit all in one screen on my editor. After that, the terminal just... gets out of the way and I don&amp;#x27;t need to think about it.&lt;p&gt;But the straw that broke my back with using kitty was, I&amp;#x27;d end up encountering issues or trying to recreate some of iTerm2&amp;#x27;s features, only to end up time and again on kitty&amp;#x27;s maintainer&amp;#x27;s terse and dismissive comments.&lt;p&gt;e.g. IIRC his answer to &amp;quot;How do I set up tmux with kitty?&amp;quot; was something like &amp;quot;Don&amp;#x27;t, tmux is dumb&amp;quot; and closing it. Eventually I gave up.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ssijak</author><text>That is the first thing I configure in iTerm. To have it slide down like Quake terminal, and hide it from the dock</text></comment>

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<story><title>Show HN: Open source alternative to ChatGPT and ChatPDF-like AI tools</title><url>https://github.com/SecureAI-Tools/SecureAI-Tools</url><text>Hey everyone,&lt;p&gt;We have been building SecureAI Tools -- an open-source application layer for ChatGPT and ChatPDF-like AI tools.&lt;p&gt;It works with locally running LLMs as well as with OpenAI-compatible APIs. For local LLMs, it supports Ollama which supports all the gguf&amp;#x2F;ggml models.&lt;p&gt;Currently, it has two features: Chat-with-LLM, and Chat-with-PDFs. It is optimized for self-hosting use cases and comes with basic user management features.&lt;p&gt;Here are some quick demos:&lt;p&gt;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt; * Chat with documents using OpenAI&amp;#x27;s GPT3.5 model: https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.youtube.com&amp;#x2F;watch?v=Br2D3G9O47s * Chat with documents using a locally running Mistral model (M2 MacBook): https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.youtube.com&amp;#x2F;watch?v=UvRHL6f_w74 &lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt; Hope you all like it :)</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>caseyf7</author><text>How do you get value from chatting with documents? I can scan and read a pdf faster than I can chat with an AI about it. There must be more to it than I realize.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>capableweb</author><text>&amp;gt; There must be more to it than I realize.&lt;p&gt;PDF material comes with different information density. If you have a lose collection of 100 manuals, and you need to find a snippet of information that could be in 10 different ones, I&amp;#x27;m guessing something like this can help you navigate and locate what you need.</text></comment>

<story><title>Show HN: Open source alternative to ChatGPT and ChatPDF-like AI tools</title><url>https://github.com/SecureAI-Tools/SecureAI-Tools</url><text>Hey everyone,&lt;p&gt;We have been building SecureAI Tools -- an open-source application layer for ChatGPT and ChatPDF-like AI tools.&lt;p&gt;It works with locally running LLMs as well as with OpenAI-compatible APIs. For local LLMs, it supports Ollama which supports all the gguf&amp;#x2F;ggml models.&lt;p&gt;Currently, it has two features: Chat-with-LLM, and Chat-with-PDFs. It is optimized for self-hosting use cases and comes with basic user management features.&lt;p&gt;Here are some quick demos:&lt;p&gt;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt; * Chat with documents using OpenAI&amp;#x27;s GPT3.5 model: https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.youtube.com&amp;#x2F;watch?v=Br2D3G9O47s * Chat with documents using a locally running Mistral model (M2 MacBook): https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.youtube.com&amp;#x2F;watch?v=UvRHL6f_w74 &lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt; Hope you all like it :)</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>caseyf7</author><text>How do you get value from chatting with documents? I can scan and read a pdf faster than I can chat with an AI about it. There must be more to it than I realize.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>freedomben</author><text>a one-page PDF, sure. But if it&amp;#x27;s a 500 page pdf of a law and&amp;#x2F;or regulation, then definitely not.</text></comment>

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<story><title>There is now a European standard for measuring how easy it is to repair stuff</title><url>https://de.ifixit.com/News/35879/repairability-standard-en45554</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>_ph_</author><text>Whenever repairability of modern electronic devices is discussed, I have to look at my mechanical wristwatch. Yes, there is an enormeous amount of technology integrated into a smartphone or compact laptop, but my wristwatch contains over 100 moving parts in a tiny volume. And still, every trained watchmaker can open and service it. It requires specialized tools, but those have been avialable to watchmakers for hundreds of years. A time traveller could buy a current Rolex and have it serviced in 1950, possibly even in 1850. The watchmakers of those times wouldn&amp;#x27;t have access to the right spare parts - those are surprisingly high-tech, but basic service would be possible.&lt;p&gt;And that is why I cannot stand the current state of repairs in the electronic world. I am especially looking at Apple in this respect, because they have demonstrated a surprising skill at making things repairable, which they want to be serviceable. Just look at the brilliant mount for the USB ports in the new Air.&lt;p&gt;While end-user serviceability might not be desirable for something highly-integrated, the benchmark really should be whether someone trained like a watch-maker has the ability to service a device. Which would be great for the local economy wherever in the world a customer is, because traditionally most towns would have at least one watchmaker, a well paid professional who would keep the money local vs. creating more electronic waste and shipping a new device around the world.</text></comment>

<story><title>There is now a European standard for measuring how easy it is to repair stuff</title><url>https://de.ifixit.com/News/35879/repairability-standard-en45554</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>apexalpha</author><text>Let&amp;#x27;s hope this catches on just like the energy labels did. After the EU forced manufacturers to improve energy use in their devices it soon improved situations for everyone on this planet.&lt;p&gt;Many other countries follow EU regulations directly or indirectly so let&amp;#x27;s hope for some easily repairable products in the future!</text></comment>

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<story><title>Capitalism and Inequality</title><url>https://avc.com/2019/01/capitalism-and-inequality/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>helen___keller</author><text>This entire post is based on a strawman argument. AoC said that a system that allows billionaires to emerge alongside extreme poverty is immoral - with reference to hookworm(which she incorrectly referred to as ringworm) in Alabama. It&amp;#x27;s hard to disagree with that, and it&amp;#x27;s a VERY different point than claiming billionaires should not exist (which OP argues against).&lt;p&gt;By the way, the point AoC was trying to make when put in context is exactly the argument that the OP was making, which is that people getting rich is OK but it&amp;#x27;s immoral that people are getting rich and also people are living in extreme poverty, so we should improve the system so people aren&amp;#x27;t living in extreme poverty.&lt;p&gt;Where OP differs from AoC is (of course) in his assessment of &lt;i&gt;how&lt;/i&gt; we eliminate extreme poverty - AoC is famously advocating a 70% marginal tax rate, while OP suggested some unspecified mix of &amp;quot;technological improvement&amp;quot; and &amp;quot;re-imagining of government&amp;quot; to achieve elimination of poverty. Frankly I think OP is just naive. Maybe he thinks government is literally in the stone age with an army of clerks shuffling paperwork, but I just don&amp;#x27;t see how eliminating some unnecessary jobs (useful, yes) in government can achieve &amp;quot;medical care for all, affordable education for all, and some amount of income for all&amp;quot; (OP&amp;#x27;s listed aims).&lt;p&gt;On top of that, ANY change to government is inherently political. The kind of revolutionary upgrades in government efficiency that OP wants would need to be a major party initiative - which would be opposed by the opposite party, watered down during negotiations, and subjected to compromise by the political process. This is simply a fact about how the world works. We&amp;#x27;re not an autocracy which means we don&amp;#x27;t get a visionary Steve Jobs figure who can dictate what the government will do for the next 10 years, and we have to accept both the good and the bad that comes with that.&lt;p&gt;To think that technology will magically save us from real world problems plaguing real people by &amp;quot;reimagining government&amp;quot; and &amp;quot;cutting unnecessary jobs&amp;quot; is literally wishful thinking. It belongs in a bygone era where tech enthusiasts were sure facebook and google would revolutionize the world by spreading democratic and free speech ideals to every corner of the earth. There aren&amp;#x27;t easy solutions to every hard problem and OP doesn&amp;#x27;t seem to appreciate this fact.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ilikerashers</author><text>Well written comment. As someone close to the NHS and UK school system, Fred&amp;#x27;s type of mentality has hit these hard and contributed to Brexit. Both are constantly bringing in &amp;quot;change&amp;quot; type consultants. If only we can cut employees&amp;#x2F;use this software package&amp;#x2F;run it more like a business&amp;#x2F;get better leaders&amp;#x2F;have more digital strategies. No Fred, they just need money. They need money to pay doctors, they need money to fund beds, the need to pay teachers. Government doesn&amp;#x27;t run like business. A hospital can&amp;#x27;t just go bust, a council can&amp;#x27;t just shut up shop, this isn&amp;#x27;t how it should work either. His solution is roughly saying &amp;quot;well I like the status quo and if you come up with anything I&amp;#x27;ll take a look but will probably shoot it down&amp;quot;. Sorry Fred, you&amp;#x27;re on &amp;quot;the let them eat cake&amp;quot; side whether you recognize it or not. Roll on March 29th.</text></comment>

<story><title>Capitalism and Inequality</title><url>https://avc.com/2019/01/capitalism-and-inequality/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>helen___keller</author><text>This entire post is based on a strawman argument. AoC said that a system that allows billionaires to emerge alongside extreme poverty is immoral - with reference to hookworm(which she incorrectly referred to as ringworm) in Alabama. It&amp;#x27;s hard to disagree with that, and it&amp;#x27;s a VERY different point than claiming billionaires should not exist (which OP argues against).&lt;p&gt;By the way, the point AoC was trying to make when put in context is exactly the argument that the OP was making, which is that people getting rich is OK but it&amp;#x27;s immoral that people are getting rich and also people are living in extreme poverty, so we should improve the system so people aren&amp;#x27;t living in extreme poverty.&lt;p&gt;Where OP differs from AoC is (of course) in his assessment of &lt;i&gt;how&lt;/i&gt; we eliminate extreme poverty - AoC is famously advocating a 70% marginal tax rate, while OP suggested some unspecified mix of &amp;quot;technological improvement&amp;quot; and &amp;quot;re-imagining of government&amp;quot; to achieve elimination of poverty. Frankly I think OP is just naive. Maybe he thinks government is literally in the stone age with an army of clerks shuffling paperwork, but I just don&amp;#x27;t see how eliminating some unnecessary jobs (useful, yes) in government can achieve &amp;quot;medical care for all, affordable education for all, and some amount of income for all&amp;quot; (OP&amp;#x27;s listed aims).&lt;p&gt;On top of that, ANY change to government is inherently political. The kind of revolutionary upgrades in government efficiency that OP wants would need to be a major party initiative - which would be opposed by the opposite party, watered down during negotiations, and subjected to compromise by the political process. This is simply a fact about how the world works. We&amp;#x27;re not an autocracy which means we don&amp;#x27;t get a visionary Steve Jobs figure who can dictate what the government will do for the next 10 years, and we have to accept both the good and the bad that comes with that.&lt;p&gt;To think that technology will magically save us from real world problems plaguing real people by &amp;quot;reimagining government&amp;quot; and &amp;quot;cutting unnecessary jobs&amp;quot; is literally wishful thinking. It belongs in a bygone era where tech enthusiasts were sure facebook and google would revolutionize the world by spreading democratic and free speech ideals to every corner of the earth. There aren&amp;#x27;t easy solutions to every hard problem and OP doesn&amp;#x27;t seem to appreciate this fact.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>zethus</author><text>Completely unrelated to the content of your post, but I find it interesting that you lowercase the o in AOC as if it&amp;#x27;s a technology like IoT.</text></comment>

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<story><title>CIA agents who tortured are vulnerable to prosecution in any country</title><url>http://amanpour.blogs.cnn.com/2014/12/12/cia-agents-who-tortured-are-vulnerable-to-prosecution-in-any-country-in-the-world-says-u-n-official/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>beloch</author><text>It would actually be in the U.S.&amp;#x27;s own interests to prosecute these CIA agents and their superiors.&lt;p&gt;First, this would show support for international laws against torture and help put the lid back on Pandora&amp;#x27;s box. This would directly reduce the probability of captured U.S. citizens being tortured. No, that probably does not include those captured by ISIL, but are rogue terrorist organizations all U.S. citizens will need to worry about both now and in the future?&lt;p&gt;Second, it would close a dangerous precedent. Prosecuting those who committed illegal acts, even though they were assured of immunity, sends a clear message that individuals are still responsible for their actions. Without this sense of individual responsibility U.S. agencies will be capable of utterly &lt;i&gt;anything&lt;/i&gt; and, the way things work, capability becomes reality more often than not. Most Americans would sleep better knowing that the NSA&amp;#x27;s workers are accountable to the law rather than immune to it if their superiors say so, as is currently the case due to the precedent set by the CIA.&lt;p&gt;Third, the implications for future diplomacy are a nightmare if the U.S. does nothing. There will be no moral high ground for the U.S. to stand on if the U.S. refuses to seek justice.&lt;p&gt;Finally, it&amp;#x27;s the right thing to do. The U.S. could set an example for others to follow. To do nothing does precisely the opposite.</text></comment>

<story><title>CIA agents who tortured are vulnerable to prosecution in any country</title><url>http://amanpour.blogs.cnn.com/2014/12/12/cia-agents-who-tortured-are-vulnerable-to-prosecution-in-any-country-in-the-world-says-u-n-official/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>rasz_pl</author><text>We&amp;#x27;ve been over this already. US just fucking doesnt care. Extradition treaties are ONE WAY.&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/feb/13/italy-cia-rendition-abu-omar&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.theguardian.com&amp;#x2F;commentisfree&amp;#x2F;2013&amp;#x2F;feb&amp;#x2F;13&amp;#x2F;italy-c...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2012/aug/31/obama-justice-department-immunity-bush-cia-torturer&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.theguardian.com&amp;#x2F;commentisfree&amp;#x2F;2012&amp;#x2F;aug&amp;#x2F;31&amp;#x2F;obama-j...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;One of kidnapper&amp;#x2F;torturer fuckers was even apprehended, and despite international arrest warrant magically released very next day.&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Seldon_Lady&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Robert_Seldon_Lady&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;Those people are untouchable. They will remain untouchable until real revolution in US, or some sort of vigilantism movement. Any official charges against them would expose whole chain of command up to CIA&amp;#x2F;NSA directors to legal action, it will never happen.</text></comment>

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<story><title>OpenAI Committed to Buying $51M of AI Chips from a Startup Backed by Sam Altman</title><url>https://www.wired.com/story/openai-buy-ai-chips-startup-sam-altman/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>victor106</author><text>And yet in multiple interviews he says he is not in it for the money.&lt;p&gt;Saying that you are not in it for the money is becoming like a fashion statement. What’s wrong in saying that you’re in it for both money and passion?</text></item><item><author>nabla9</author><text>This kind of stuff is the reason why Altman was fired.&lt;p&gt;The board lost trust for his honesty from many small things that kept accumulating. Altman is back on condition that there is a investigation.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>s1gnp0st</author><text>I personally find the presentation of corporate missions in quasi-religious terminology extremely off-putting. The company might be doing great things, but there ought to be cultural space left for things much more important than companies.</text></comment>

<story><title>OpenAI Committed to Buying $51M of AI Chips from a Startup Backed by Sam Altman</title><url>https://www.wired.com/story/openai-buy-ai-chips-startup-sam-altman/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>victor106</author><text>And yet in multiple interviews he says he is not in it for the money.&lt;p&gt;Saying that you are not in it for the money is becoming like a fashion statement. What’s wrong in saying that you’re in it for both money and passion?</text></item><item><author>nabla9</author><text>This kind of stuff is the reason why Altman was fired.&lt;p&gt;The board lost trust for his honesty from many small things that kept accumulating. Altman is back on condition that there is a investigation.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>herval</author><text>The moral virtue of saying “I take one dollar a year salary” is a favorite among immorals</text></comment>

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<story><title>Google Says Everything at Stadia Is Fine, as the Water Reaches Their Noses</title><url>https://www.kotaku.com.au/2021/05/google-says-everything-at-stadia-is-fine-as-the-water-reaches-their-noses/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>creshal</author><text>Steam is a rent model too, but nobody seems to mind.&lt;p&gt;It helps that Steam also works offline, or on an alleged DSL connection out in the sticks, or when you&amp;#x27;re visiting your parents who still have the same awful wifi router you told them to get replaced 15 years ago, or …</text></item><item><author>liaukovv</author><text>It&amp;#x27;s not like the proposition is good from user point of view either. You &amp;quot;buy&amp;quot; a right to rent games, which right can be terminated by google for any reason, or no reason at all. Even if you really bought a game and google would give it back to you when they inevitably shut down the service, you still wouldnt be able to play it, since the whole point of stadia is to not own the hardware.</text></item><item><author>ajross</author><text>Yeah, the industry just seems not to have bitten. Which is a shame, because the technology really is just plain great. Play a AAA game on a $180 chromebook with basically identical resource consumption to watching Netflix.&lt;p&gt;But... the big studios don&amp;#x27;t want it because they don&amp;#x27;t want to lose control of distribution. The indie folks couldn&amp;#x27;t be wooed away from Steam, because Google just isn&amp;#x27;t going to match Valve&amp;#x27;s creator services community. Google isn&amp;#x27;t willing to drop the kind of cash MS or Sony do to buy themselves exclusives...&lt;p&gt;Frankly the best thing for the industry would be to spin it off and sell it to Valve. A Steam&amp;#x2F;Stadia would rule the world.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ergot_vacation</author><text>Steam is explicitly NOT a rental model. You buy games, and then you have them, on your hard drive, to play whenever you like. You could be banned from Steam, Gabe could personally make a youtube video telling you to fuck off, and you could still start up Steam in offline mode and play all the games just fine. The only thing you could THEORETICALLY lose is the ability to re-download games in your library, but to my knowledge this has never happened aside from accounts getting hacked etc.&lt;p&gt;Stadia, meanwhile, works like Netflix. Stop paying, or just anger the Stadia gods in some way, and all your games go away. I like owning things I pay for. Many other people do to. So it&amp;#x27;s gratifying to see that this one time, we don&amp;#x27;t have to have our rights trampled on. Good riddance to bad rubbish.</text></comment>

<story><title>Google Says Everything at Stadia Is Fine, as the Water Reaches Their Noses</title><url>https://www.kotaku.com.au/2021/05/google-says-everything-at-stadia-is-fine-as-the-water-reaches-their-noses/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>creshal</author><text>Steam is a rent model too, but nobody seems to mind.&lt;p&gt;It helps that Steam also works offline, or on an alleged DSL connection out in the sticks, or when you&amp;#x27;re visiting your parents who still have the same awful wifi router you told them to get replaced 15 years ago, or …</text></item><item><author>liaukovv</author><text>It&amp;#x27;s not like the proposition is good from user point of view either. You &amp;quot;buy&amp;quot; a right to rent games, which right can be terminated by google for any reason, or no reason at all. Even if you really bought a game and google would give it back to you when they inevitably shut down the service, you still wouldnt be able to play it, since the whole point of stadia is to not own the hardware.</text></item><item><author>ajross</author><text>Yeah, the industry just seems not to have bitten. Which is a shame, because the technology really is just plain great. Play a AAA game on a $180 chromebook with basically identical resource consumption to watching Netflix.&lt;p&gt;But... the big studios don&amp;#x27;t want it because they don&amp;#x27;t want to lose control of distribution. The indie folks couldn&amp;#x27;t be wooed away from Steam, because Google just isn&amp;#x27;t going to match Valve&amp;#x27;s creator services community. Google isn&amp;#x27;t willing to drop the kind of cash MS or Sony do to buy themselves exclusives...&lt;p&gt;Frankly the best thing for the industry would be to spin it off and sell it to Valve. A Steam&amp;#x2F;Stadia would rule the world.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>tomc1985</author><text>It&amp;#x27;s a licensing model, not a rental model. You&amp;#x27;re not paying anybody a monthly fee to play, you have all the files locally, and the threshold for revoking your license or otherwise losing access to a title is extremely high.&lt;p&gt;Even games with components that have expired licenses are kept on the account, your access is never really revoked -- even a VAC ban won&amp;#x27;t lose you your library.&lt;p&gt;You can&amp;#x27;t mod a Stadia game...</text></comment>

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<story><title>PS5 Teardown [video]</title><url>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CaAY-jAjm0w</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>rbanffy</author><text>&amp;gt; Microsoft who drew a box in AutoCad and called it a day&lt;p&gt;I actually like the simplicity of their design. The white one has a bit of Dieter Rams in it. The black tower is just that.&lt;p&gt;Form must follow function and the console itself has few simple functions: to house and properly cool the computer inside, and to make it easily accessible for repair and upgrades. It&amp;#x27;s hardly surprising it has few simple lines.&lt;p&gt;OTOH, the PS5 has a lot of lines to disguise a huge heat exchanger. It&amp;#x27;s not obvious how to even power it on.</text></item><item><author>ChuckNorris89</author><text>Yeah, as a hardware engineer this feels like porn to me but I also feel the whole thing is overengineered and expensive to design and build(for consumer electronics) versus Microsoft who drew a box in AutoCad and called it a day saving tons in R&amp;amp;D, tooling, materials and manufacturing which is how most hardware projects are ran nowadays in this industry since at that kind of scale the small things add up quickly, eroding your already razor-thin margins but maybe Sony has enough money to bankroll this project.&lt;p&gt;You can also notice the difference in cooling design. Sony has 2 heatsinks, a large and complex heatsink on the top with many heatpipes for cooling the APU and a small heatsink on the back for cooling just the VRMs stuck to the backplate with its own heatpipe(holy cow!) while XBOX is just a large copper plate with aluminum fins saving Microsoft tons in materials and build cost but they had better done their math right to make sure that it will be enough.&lt;p&gt;Sony had balls to go this route, I&amp;#x27;ll give them that. Respect.&lt;p&gt;I suspect Sony didn&amp;#x27;t penny pinch since they plan to make most of their money back from sales of games and services(ala Apple) while Microsoft probably wants to make more from the hardware itself(ala Android devices).&lt;p&gt;I have no dog in this fight, but my favorite part is the PS5 consumer friendly expandable storage via M.2 PciE drives(Yeeey!) vs the XboX overpriced and proprietary SSD cartridges(Booo!).</text></item><item><author>ch0I9daAiO</author><text>When he took the stand off, I was quite impressed it used a screw. Then they had a place for the screw in the stand, even more impressed. Then a dummy cover for the screw hole, wow. The whole stand assembly rotates to hide the screw storage compartment. And arms to mount that stand to the console to lay it flat? Stunning the amount of engineering they&amp;#x27;ve put in for a simple stand.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Polylactic_acid</author><text>The Xbox design looks classy but uninspiring. I like that. You can sit it under your tv and it will blend in with the style of most rooms.&lt;p&gt;The ps5 is designed to be eye catching which I think is a mistake because most people probably don&amp;#x27;t want a game console to be the centre of attention in the room.</text></comment>

<story><title>PS5 Teardown [video]</title><url>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CaAY-jAjm0w</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>rbanffy</author><text>&amp;gt; Microsoft who drew a box in AutoCad and called it a day&lt;p&gt;I actually like the simplicity of their design. The white one has a bit of Dieter Rams in it. The black tower is just that.&lt;p&gt;Form must follow function and the console itself has few simple functions: to house and properly cool the computer inside, and to make it easily accessible for repair and upgrades. It&amp;#x27;s hardly surprising it has few simple lines.&lt;p&gt;OTOH, the PS5 has a lot of lines to disguise a huge heat exchanger. It&amp;#x27;s not obvious how to even power it on.</text></item><item><author>ChuckNorris89</author><text>Yeah, as a hardware engineer this feels like porn to me but I also feel the whole thing is overengineered and expensive to design and build(for consumer electronics) versus Microsoft who drew a box in AutoCad and called it a day saving tons in R&amp;amp;D, tooling, materials and manufacturing which is how most hardware projects are ran nowadays in this industry since at that kind of scale the small things add up quickly, eroding your already razor-thin margins but maybe Sony has enough money to bankroll this project.&lt;p&gt;You can also notice the difference in cooling design. Sony has 2 heatsinks, a large and complex heatsink on the top with many heatpipes for cooling the APU and a small heatsink on the back for cooling just the VRMs stuck to the backplate with its own heatpipe(holy cow!) while XBOX is just a large copper plate with aluminum fins saving Microsoft tons in materials and build cost but they had better done their math right to make sure that it will be enough.&lt;p&gt;Sony had balls to go this route, I&amp;#x27;ll give them that. Respect.&lt;p&gt;I suspect Sony didn&amp;#x27;t penny pinch since they plan to make most of their money back from sales of games and services(ala Apple) while Microsoft probably wants to make more from the hardware itself(ala Android devices).&lt;p&gt;I have no dog in this fight, but my favorite part is the PS5 consumer friendly expandable storage via M.2 PciE drives(Yeeey!) vs the XboX overpriced and proprietary SSD cartridges(Booo!).</text></item><item><author>ch0I9daAiO</author><text>When he took the stand off, I was quite impressed it used a screw. Then they had a place for the screw in the stand, even more impressed. Then a dummy cover for the screw hole, wow. The whole stand assembly rotates to hide the screw storage compartment. And arms to mount that stand to the console to lay it flat? Stunning the amount of engineering they&amp;#x27;ve put in for a simple stand.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>neogodless</author><text>To this day I am not fond of the &amp;quot;touch&amp;quot; power control on the PS3! I hope the power control is more intuitive, fast and simple now!&lt;p&gt;... yeah I don&amp;#x27;t even have last generation consoles but I&amp;#x27;m considering this new generation.</text></comment>

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<story><title>All you should know about Flutter development</title><url>https://github.com/nepaul/awesome-flutter</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>udbhavs</author><text>I&amp;#x27;ve been wondering why webviews with native page transitions aren&amp;#x27;t a more commonly used thing. It improves the UX a lot by dealing with the abrupt navigation changes of regular web apps. There was a plugin for Cordova that did this (&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;github.com&amp;#x2F;Telerik-Verified-Plugins&amp;#x2F;NativePageTransitions&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;github.com&amp;#x2F;Telerik-Verified-Plugins&amp;#x2F;NativePageTransi...&lt;/a&gt;) but it&amp;#x27;s abandoned.</text></item><item><author>samwillis</author><text>I think developers often want to find a “one true cross platform toolkit for all cases” and I don’t believe that will ever exist. It depends so much on both your app&amp;#x2F;market but also the skills and experience within your team. No 1 priority is move quickly.&lt;p&gt;Flutter is brilliant, and probably the way to go, for some apps. A great example of a successful Flutter app is the Sonos app, relatively simple and responsive ui talking to an api. No “rich” or user supplied content. Although they haven’t replaced their desktop app with the flutter app, my guess is that it is the plan.&lt;p&gt;I think Flutter is brilliant for that type of IOT app, banking&amp;#x2F;crypto&amp;#x2F;utilities also the sort that would work well. I don’t think it’s best placed if you want to start using WebViews for some content, when I was last looking at it a year ago there were serious problems.&lt;p&gt;If you are building a social media app, either Native or React Native (or a combination) is probably the best way to go. You are aiming high so need the best performance and ux.&lt;p&gt;If you are building a b2b SAAS app I would probably reach for something like Ionic&amp;#x2F;Capacitor. You can share almost all you codebase with your web&amp;#x2F;PWA&amp;#x2F;desktop (electron) apps and can achieve it all with a tiny team. If you need a little more native functionality then adding in NativeScript to a Capacitor works very well.&lt;p&gt;For an e-commerce app I would probably go Iconic&amp;#x2F;Capacitor too, the Amazon app for example is mostly webviews.&lt;p&gt;Productivity apps are much more difficult to recommend for as you probably need large native components.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>joemasilotti</author><text>I use Turbo Native on iOS to do exactly this.&lt;p&gt;You render your mobile web view like normal, wire up a JavaScript handler (formerly known as Turbolinks), and push native screens on iOS. It works really well for CRUD and &amp;quot;boring&amp;quot; SAAS apps with little interaction outside of forms. And when you need higher fidelity dropping down to SwiftUI or UIKit is straightforward.&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;github.com&amp;#x2F;hotwired&amp;#x2F;turbo-ios&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;github.com&amp;#x2F;hotwired&amp;#x2F;turbo-ios&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;To make things even simpler, I built Jumpstart iOS, which takes care of all of the Swift boilerplate. Navigation, authentication, and push notifications all work out of the box after adding a few endpoints to your server.&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;jumpstartrails.com&amp;#x2F;ios&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;jumpstartrails.com&amp;#x2F;ios&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>

<story><title>All you should know about Flutter development</title><url>https://github.com/nepaul/awesome-flutter</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>udbhavs</author><text>I&amp;#x27;ve been wondering why webviews with native page transitions aren&amp;#x27;t a more commonly used thing. It improves the UX a lot by dealing with the abrupt navigation changes of regular web apps. There was a plugin for Cordova that did this (&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;github.com&amp;#x2F;Telerik-Verified-Plugins&amp;#x2F;NativePageTransitions&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;github.com&amp;#x2F;Telerik-Verified-Plugins&amp;#x2F;NativePageTransi...&lt;/a&gt;) but it&amp;#x27;s abandoned.</text></item><item><author>samwillis</author><text>I think developers often want to find a “one true cross platform toolkit for all cases” and I don’t believe that will ever exist. It depends so much on both your app&amp;#x2F;market but also the skills and experience within your team. No 1 priority is move quickly.&lt;p&gt;Flutter is brilliant, and probably the way to go, for some apps. A great example of a successful Flutter app is the Sonos app, relatively simple and responsive ui talking to an api. No “rich” or user supplied content. Although they haven’t replaced their desktop app with the flutter app, my guess is that it is the plan.&lt;p&gt;I think Flutter is brilliant for that type of IOT app, banking&amp;#x2F;crypto&amp;#x2F;utilities also the sort that would work well. I don’t think it’s best placed if you want to start using WebViews for some content, when I was last looking at it a year ago there were serious problems.&lt;p&gt;If you are building a social media app, either Native or React Native (or a combination) is probably the best way to go. You are aiming high so need the best performance and ux.&lt;p&gt;If you are building a b2b SAAS app I would probably reach for something like Ionic&amp;#x2F;Capacitor. You can share almost all you codebase with your web&amp;#x2F;PWA&amp;#x2F;desktop (electron) apps and can achieve it all with a tiny team. If you need a little more native functionality then adding in NativeScript to a Capacitor works very well.&lt;p&gt;For an e-commerce app I would probably go Iconic&amp;#x2F;Capacitor too, the Amazon app for example is mostly webviews.&lt;p&gt;Productivity apps are much more difficult to recommend for as you probably need large native components.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>danielvaughn</author><text>Wow that’s a really good idea. I love it.</text></comment>

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<story><title>One Twin Exercises, the Other Doesn’t</title><url>http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/03/04/one-twin-exercises-the-other-doesnt/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>gwern</author><text>Fulltext: &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.dropbox.com/s/gfch760k1ratwo3/2015-rottensteiner.pdf&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.dropbox.com&amp;#x2F;s&amp;#x2F;gfch760k1ratwo3&amp;#x2F;2015-rottensteiner...&lt;/a&gt; &amp;#x2F; &lt;a href=&quot;http://sci-hub.org/downloads/045f/[email protected]@generic-FD16BBD9129B.pdf&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;sci-hub.org&amp;#x2F;downloads&amp;#x2F;045f&amp;#x2F;[email protected]....&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;Buried some interesting points there:&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; The researchers were looking for young adult identical twins in their early- to mid-20s whose exercise habits had substantially diverged after they had left their childhood homes. These twins were not easy to find. Most of the pairs had maintained remarkably similar exercise routines, despite living apart.&lt;p&gt;Besides the testament to how &amp;#x27;everything is heritable&amp;#x27; inherent in that observation, it also raises the question: if they are so unusual, doesn&amp;#x27;t that make confounding more plausible?&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; Interestingly, the twins tended to have very similar diets, whatever their workout routines, so food choices were unlikely to have contributed to health differences.&lt;p&gt;Also very interesting, and counter to the usual narratives about health. (Everything is heritable...)&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; The twins’ brains also were unalike. The active twins had significantly more grey matter than the sedentary twins, especially in areas of the brain involved in motor control and coordination.&lt;p&gt;Warning sign: &amp;#x27;significantly&amp;#x27;. Does this mean, as any ordinary person would take it to mean (in conjunction with that lazy stock photo), &amp;#x27;a lot&amp;#x27; or does it mean &amp;#x27;p&amp;lt;0.05&amp;#x27;?&lt;p&gt;Trick question, of &lt;i&gt;course&lt;/i&gt; it means the latter, which is useless! Take a look at the fulltext, pg6, table 2, which spits out the &lt;i&gt;actual&lt;/i&gt; differences between the twin pairs. I hope you&amp;#x27;re ready to be wowed by how much difference an exercise regimen makes when you control for genetics (picking out a few I recognize):&lt;p&gt;1. BMI: -0.8&lt;p&gt;2. VO2max: 6.3&lt;p&gt;3. weight: -2kg&lt;p&gt;4. waist circumference: -3.3cm&lt;p&gt;5. fat percentage: -3.3 (!)&lt;p&gt;6. lean mass: 1.4kg&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;m not sure I&amp;#x27;ve seen such a damning indictment of exercise in a long time. (Less than 1 on BMI? 2kg of weight? I fluctuate more than that on a weekly basis...)</text></comment>

<story><title>One Twin Exercises, the Other Doesn’t</title><url>http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/03/04/one-twin-exercises-the-other-doesnt/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>AstroChimpHam</author><text>&amp;gt;But eventually the researchers homed in on 10 pairs of male identical twins, one of whom regularly exercised, while the other did not, usually because of work or family pressures, the researchers determined.&lt;p&gt;That &amp;quot;work and family pressure&amp;quot; sounds like stress and a pretty important confounding variable.</text></comment>

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<story><title>Tell HN: We&apos;re building a &quot;HN Office Hours&quot; app. Help us.</title><url>http://hnofficehours.com/</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>drewcrawford</author><text>I don&apos;t have regular office hours. I start work anywhere from 12-1pm and stop anywhere from midnight-5am. Sometimes I take days off. Sometimes I&apos;m too busy to answer the phone. My schedule for something like this is pretty much unpredictable.&lt;p&gt;Proposal: rather than specifying hours, just let me specify here / gone like a regular IM client. If it looks like it&apos;s going to be a slow day, I&apos;ll turn on the tap, and if things pick up I&apos;ll turn it off.</text></comment>

<story><title>Tell HN: We&apos;re building a &quot;HN Office Hours&quot; app. Help us.</title><url>http://hnofficehours.com/</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>SomeCallMeTim</author><text>Have you guys seen Aardvark? Aardvark sends questions to friends and friends-of-friends via IM and/or email. If HN readers all linked together as friends or friends-of-friends, then your questions would be routed to the appropriate people based on interests. And if no HN people are available to answer your questions, they get routed off to the rest of the Aardvark network.&lt;p&gt;Even if people don&apos;t like this idea, it wouldn&apos;t hurt to look at how their UI and features are set up, since they&apos;re one of the pioneers in doing exactly the same kind of thing the &quot;HN Office Hours&quot; app is trying to do.&lt;p&gt;You can link to me here: &lt;a href=&quot;http://vark.com/s/UR0C&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://vark.com/s/UR0C&lt;/a&gt; -- everyone who links to me will be a friend-of-a-friend and will be auto-networked by Aardvark, assuming they all use an IM program compatible with Google Chat or Yahoo IM. Or if someone else wants to volunteer to be the &quot;hub&quot; of HN users, feel free to post your link here.&lt;p&gt;Just a thought. :)</text></comment>

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<story><title>Checked exceptions: Java’s biggest mistake (2014)</title><url>http://literatejava.com/exceptions/checked-exceptions-javas-biggest-mistake/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>hota_mazi</author><text>Right.&lt;p&gt;They don&amp;#x27;t just &amp;quot;encourage&amp;quot; developers to consider error paths, they &amp;quot;force&amp;quot; them to do so.&lt;p&gt;The concept of checked exceptions is very sound, as is the more general concept of compiler enforced error checking. Very, very few languages have that (only Java and Kotlin in the mainstream league).&lt;p&gt;Languages with a solid implementation of algebraic data types offer a good first step in that direction but they still require users to manually bubble and compose monadic values, which introduces an unnecessary, and sometimes intractable, level of obfuscation and boiler plate.&lt;p&gt;All other languages provide weaker approaches to this concept that are library enforced, not language enforced, and therefore more prone to being overlooked since they require discipline from the developer.</text></item><item><author>alasdair_</author><text>I like checked exceptions. Yes, sometimes (especially in the oldest APIs when they were still figuring this stuff out), they were overused but mostly I think they encourage developers to really think about what happens in the failure case.&lt;p&gt;I notice this especially with less experienced developers and remote calls - a lot of JS code I’ve reviewed in the past assumes the remote call will always work, yet Java code from the &lt;i&gt;same&lt;/i&gt; developer will almost always correctly handle the situation, simply because the exception is explicitly required to be handled.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dllthomas</author><text>I conjecture that much of the &lt;i&gt;legitimate&lt;/i&gt; pain from checked exceptions in Java were because the language to talk about exceptions was so limited.&lt;p&gt;For instance, consider fold or map functions. There was no way of saying &amp;quot;this might throw anything that might throw&amp;quot;, so the only option was &amp;quot;this won&amp;#x27;t throw anything and &lt;i&gt;that cannot throw anything&lt;/i&gt;&amp;quot; or &amp;quot;this might throw anything&amp;quot;.&lt;p&gt;Without the necessary flexibility, developers aren&amp;#x27;t &amp;quot;forced&amp;quot; to consider only &lt;i&gt;error&lt;/i&gt; paths but also manifold &lt;i&gt;impossible&lt;/i&gt; paths that aren&amp;#x27;t easily distinguished from legitimate error paths.</text></comment>

<story><title>Checked exceptions: Java’s biggest mistake (2014)</title><url>http://literatejava.com/exceptions/checked-exceptions-javas-biggest-mistake/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>hota_mazi</author><text>Right.&lt;p&gt;They don&amp;#x27;t just &amp;quot;encourage&amp;quot; developers to consider error paths, they &amp;quot;force&amp;quot; them to do so.&lt;p&gt;The concept of checked exceptions is very sound, as is the more general concept of compiler enforced error checking. Very, very few languages have that (only Java and Kotlin in the mainstream league).&lt;p&gt;Languages with a solid implementation of algebraic data types offer a good first step in that direction but they still require users to manually bubble and compose monadic values, which introduces an unnecessary, and sometimes intractable, level of obfuscation and boiler plate.&lt;p&gt;All other languages provide weaker approaches to this concept that are library enforced, not language enforced, and therefore more prone to being overlooked since they require discipline from the developer.</text></item><item><author>alasdair_</author><text>I like checked exceptions. Yes, sometimes (especially in the oldest APIs when they were still figuring this stuff out), they were overused but mostly I think they encourage developers to really think about what happens in the failure case.&lt;p&gt;I notice this especially with less experienced developers and remote calls - a lot of JS code I’ve reviewed in the past assumes the remote call will always work, yet Java code from the &lt;i&gt;same&lt;/i&gt; developer will almost always correctly handle the situation, simply because the exception is explicitly required to be handled.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ragnese</author><text>Kotlin has no mechanism to force error handling. You may suggest that we use sealed classes as return values and match on them, which is okay-ish, but suffers from two big issues:&lt;p&gt;1. You are not forced to use the result, so if you call a function for its side effects, the compiler will not warn you that you should unwrap the value. Rust and Swift do not have this issue.&lt;p&gt;2. This is extremely tedious, as you mention. But it&amp;#x27;s specific to Kotlin and not generally true as you later suggest. Haskell had monad comprehension (do notation), Scala has the same thing, Rust has the ? operator.&lt;p&gt;Also, regarding Kotlin; no library, nor the standard library, does anything other than throw unchecked exceptions on all kinds of failures. Kotlin is a step backwards, IMO.&lt;p&gt;Also PHP has checked exceptions, like Java.</text></comment>

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<story><title>2023 was the year that GPUs stood still</title><url>https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/12/2023-was-the-year-that-gpus-stood-still/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>andrewstuart</author><text>Nvidia has a monopoly and for that reason has lost interest in giving value to customers. It’s busy with AI and no longer seems interested in gaming.&lt;p&gt;AMD seems to have no interest in competing with Nvidia and is content to release products that simply match Nvidia&amp;#x27;s terrible value. Despite being handed every possible chance to thrash Nvidia via competitive pricing, it simply releases slow GPUs at high prices and shrugs.&lt;p&gt;Intel competes hard since its in distant third place but it’s products are far far behind in terms of performance.&lt;p&gt;It’s lose lose lose for the GPU consumer.&lt;p&gt;The general attitude of GPU manufacturers is very different from CPUs where it is a knockdown beat up sprint fight to the death to make the fastest and cheapest CPUs possible shipped as quickly as possible with the goal of winning.&lt;p&gt;In GPUs it’s just a slow lazy fat gold grab in which no player is interested in making any further effort than they need to, for AMD and Nvidia anyway.</text></comment>

<story><title>2023 was the year that GPUs stood still</title><url>https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/12/2023-was-the-year-that-gpus-stood-still/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>jadbox</author><text>We need a lot more memory for desktop GPUs with the need to run AI locally for productivity and gaming. 48gb+ would be the minimum ideal for running 70b+ models. If Nvidia, AMD, and Intel fail to deliver more to desktop users, I can see a lot more people switching to Apple&amp;#x27;s M3 or later chips with 80-128gb shared memory.&lt;p&gt;Similar to rewind.ai, I want a 100% offline AI with Vision to run on every file and image I touch. Every file I use can be categorized and available to prompt against.</text></comment>

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<story><title>PHP&apos;s Git server compromised, moving to GitHub</title><url>https://news-web.php.net/php.internals/113838</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>Sebb767</author><text>Zerodium[0], the magic string searched for in the fake user agent, is a zero-day acquisition platform, in case anyone else is wondering. The third parameter to `zend_eval_string` in the commit [1] is the &amp;quot;filename&amp;quot; [2] of the executed code, which is probably used for stack traces. Which is quite a strange choice, because seeing that in the logs would probably ring alarm bells immediately. Overall, this commit seems strange in its structure IMO - not in a &amp;quot;good&amp;quot; covert way, but in a &amp;quot;why does it not try to hide better&amp;quot; way.&lt;p&gt;EDIT: According to zerodiums charts, this would have been a payout of up to 250k$. However, I&amp;#x27;m not quite sure what the attackers plan on cashing out on that would have been, given that the exploit would have quite obviously referenced zerodium and therefore would make the submitter the primary suspect of being the author. Maybe some APT used this &amp;quot;simple&amp;quot; format to disguise the actual power? But then again, it would be in their interest for the exploit to actually go through.&lt;p&gt;[0] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.zerodium.com&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.zerodium.com&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;[1] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;github.com&amp;#x2F;php&amp;#x2F;php-src&amp;#x2F;commit&amp;#x2F;c730aa26bd52829a49f2ad284b181b7e82a68d7d#diff-a35f2ee9e1d2d3983a3270ee10ec70bf86349c53febdeabdf104f88cb2167961R370&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;github.com&amp;#x2F;php&amp;#x2F;php-src&amp;#x2F;commit&amp;#x2F;c730aa26bd52829a49f2ad...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;[2] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;bugs.php.net&amp;#x2F;bug.php?id=78224&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;bugs.php.net&amp;#x2F;bug.php?id=78224&lt;/a&gt; (only mention I found with a documented use of the parameter)&lt;p&gt;[3] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;zerodium.com&amp;#x2F;program.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;zerodium.com&amp;#x2F;program.html&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>

<story><title>PHP&apos;s Git server compromised, moving to GitHub</title><url>https://news-web.php.net/php.internals/113838</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>lovedswain</author><text>Trying to sneak that diff in was a hugely wasted opportunity, it sticks out like a sore thumb. If they were going to commit anything, it should have looked like a legitimate change. Another option might have been to wait until just before a release and fiddle with the tags or the newly opened QA branch (if any).&lt;p&gt;Check out &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;freedom-to-tinker.com&amp;#x2F;2013&amp;#x2F;10&amp;#x2F;09&amp;#x2F;the-linux-backdoor-attempt-of-2003&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;freedom-to-tinker.com&amp;#x2F;2013&amp;#x2F;10&amp;#x2F;09&amp;#x2F;the-linux-backdoor-...&lt;/a&gt; for another attempt, that one at least requires careful review to notice the problem</text></comment>

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<story><title>I worked on the US drone program. The public should know what really goes on</title><url>http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/dec/29/drones-us-military</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ck2</author><text>&lt;i&gt;The feed is so pixelated, what if it&amp;#x27;s a shovel, and not a weapon? I felt this confusion constantly, as did my fellow UAV analysts. We always wonder if we killed the right people&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;If this question even comes up once, drones should never, ever be armed.&lt;p&gt;Why is is okay to repeatedly kill the wrong person in another country? Can you imagine if that happened even just once in the USA?&lt;p&gt;We need an international ban on armed drones before it is too late.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>melling</author><text>There you go again ck2. One of your classic comments.&lt;p&gt;We used to napalm people. Lots of &amp;quot;wrong people&amp;quot; get killed in all wars. Flying in B-17&amp;#x27;s and B-52&amp;#x27;s was pretty ugly too, we just couldn&amp;#x27;t record the carnage on video. There&amp;#x27;s probably never going to be a war where innocent people aren&amp;#x27;t killed. Precision weapons probably kill fewer people but if you want a &amp;quot;clean&amp;quot; war, I don&amp;#x27;t think that&amp;#x27;s possible.&lt;p&gt;The real solution, of course, is to avoid wars, and violence, in general. Supposedly, the world is more peaceful now than ever, even with Syria, the train station suicide bomber is Russia today, etc.&lt;p&gt;Personally, I don&amp;#x27;t want to see the US be the world police. There&amp;#x27;s a high cost in both money and American lives. Still, for the foreseeable future, the world needs to address the problems and try to solve the remaining problems. Otherwise, decades from now, people on HN will be complaining about how future weapon systems are killing innocent people.</text></comment>

<story><title>I worked on the US drone program. The public should know what really goes on</title><url>http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/dec/29/drones-us-military</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ck2</author><text>&lt;i&gt;The feed is so pixelated, what if it&amp;#x27;s a shovel, and not a weapon? I felt this confusion constantly, as did my fellow UAV analysts. We always wonder if we killed the right people&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;If this question even comes up once, drones should never, ever be armed.&lt;p&gt;Why is is okay to repeatedly kill the wrong person in another country? Can you imagine if that happened even just once in the USA?&lt;p&gt;We need an international ban on armed drones before it is too late.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ppod</author><text>The word &amp;#x27;drone&amp;#x27; should be excised from the discussion. Whether the pilot is sitting in a trailer outside LA or in the cockpit has very little to do with morality of the rules of engagement.&lt;p&gt;The US has been repeatedly killing the wrong people in another country since before the age of robotics. The issue we need to focus on (after the issue of whether we should be fighting the war in the first place), is the rules of engagement.&lt;p&gt;For example: &amp;quot;Positive identification (PID) is required prior to engagement. PID is a reasonable certainty that the proposed target is a legitimate military target.&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.hrw.org/reports/2003/usa1203/11.htm&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.hrw.org&amp;#x2F;reports&amp;#x2F;2003&amp;#x2F;usa1203&amp;#x2F;11.htm&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;How are operators trained to interpret &amp;quot;reasonable certainty&amp;quot;? How do we balance protection of local civilians with protection of US troops and the aims of the war? These issues are old, outside of the context of drones or even aircraft.</text></comment>

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<story><title>New York Governor announces 100% workforce reduction for non-essential services</title><url>https://techcrunch.com/2020/03/20/new-york-governor-announces-100-workforce-reduction-for-non-essential-services/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>throwaway5752</author><text>There is no doubt Cuomo should be the national point person for the response to the crisis based on his performance so far. He is independently working with regional manufacturing to retool to make critical medical PPE and ventilators, and has organized a regional coalition including CT, NJ, and PA. I have not agreed with him all the time, but his crisis management has been exemplary and he will have saved many lives in NY by the time this is done.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>vincentmarle</author><text>I think that Gov Newsom of CA has been doing a way better job than Cuomo:&lt;p&gt;- implements stricter measures faster and more decisively, while having a lower case count&lt;p&gt;- doesn&amp;#x27;t fight with his mayors or the President&lt;p&gt;- no false promises or statements that need to be taken back days later</text></comment>

<story><title>New York Governor announces 100% workforce reduction for non-essential services</title><url>https://techcrunch.com/2020/03/20/new-york-governor-announces-100-workforce-reduction-for-non-essential-services/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>throwaway5752</author><text>There is no doubt Cuomo should be the national point person for the response to the crisis based on his performance so far. He is independently working with regional manufacturing to retool to make critical medical PPE and ventilators, and has organized a regional coalition including CT, NJ, and PA. I have not agreed with him all the time, but his crisis management has been exemplary and he will have saved many lives in NY by the time this is done.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ransom1538</author><text>Sorry what? His state has the highest infection rate and he just &lt;i&gt;NOW&lt;/i&gt; did a 100% workforce reduction. He hasn&amp;#x27;t even issued &amp;quot;a shelter in place&amp;quot; order. BARS WERE OPEN MONDAY. Thousands of deaths will be on his hands. I think he should be criminally prosecuted.&lt;p&gt;NY needs to be locked down &lt;i&gt;NOW&lt;/i&gt;.</text></comment>

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<story><title>Google Abandons Open Standards for Instant Messaging</title><url>https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2013/05/google-abandons-open-standards-instant-messaging</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>cromwellian</author><text>To be fair, releasing an open source reference implementation takes a separate engineering effort. You can&apos;t just take Google services engineered for Borg/Spanner/et al, and drop them in OSS. It took Google Wave team a lot of resources to open source a non-Google-datacenterized version. Hangouts is also intertwined with lots of other Google services, so it&apos;s not a matter of just code dumping.&lt;p&gt;Imagine that you have a small team trying to hit 3 platforms (Web, Android, iOS), in time for Google I/O launch, packaging up an OSS release along with spec document is probably the least priority.</text></item><item><author>mindcrime</author><text>&lt;i&gt;Google has said that it was a difficult decision necessitated by new technical demands. But even if this new protocol responds to different technical requirements, that shouldn&apos;t prevent the company from making it public and interoperable.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;Indeed. If basic XMPP wasn&apos;t good enough for whatever reason, (or SIP or whatever other protocol already exists) then the &quot;right thing to do&quot; would have been to work with the respective standards body to extent / modify an existing standard to overcome whatever the restriction was. OR, as a secondary option, Google should at least release detailed specs for their new protocol, along with an open source reference implementation.&lt;p&gt;Creating more new walled-gardens is not a positive step forward here.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>RyanZAG</author><text>If the reason they can&apos;t document is because they have a small team, then this is an easy solution for Google - hire some people to document the system. They don&apos;t even have to be in direct contact with the actual development team, just access to the source code and developer design documents should be enough. For a company the size of Google with the amount of profits they make, &apos;small team&apos; is just not an excuse for anything.&lt;p&gt;The move is definitely deliberate, they can&apos;t have Skype come in and allow people with Skype to make calls to hangout when the hangout client can&apos;t make calls into Skype. It would make them look bad.</text></comment>

<story><title>Google Abandons Open Standards for Instant Messaging</title><url>https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2013/05/google-abandons-open-standards-instant-messaging</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>cromwellian</author><text>To be fair, releasing an open source reference implementation takes a separate engineering effort. You can&apos;t just take Google services engineered for Borg/Spanner/et al, and drop them in OSS. It took Google Wave team a lot of resources to open source a non-Google-datacenterized version. Hangouts is also intertwined with lots of other Google services, so it&apos;s not a matter of just code dumping.&lt;p&gt;Imagine that you have a small team trying to hit 3 platforms (Web, Android, iOS), in time for Google I/O launch, packaging up an OSS release along with spec document is probably the least priority.</text></item><item><author>mindcrime</author><text>&lt;i&gt;Google has said that it was a difficult decision necessitated by new technical demands. But even if this new protocol responds to different technical requirements, that shouldn&apos;t prevent the company from making it public and interoperable.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;Indeed. If basic XMPP wasn&apos;t good enough for whatever reason, (or SIP or whatever other protocol already exists) then the &quot;right thing to do&quot; would have been to work with the respective standards body to extent / modify an existing standard to overcome whatever the restriction was. OR, as a secondary option, Google should at least release detailed specs for their new protocol, along with an open source reference implementation.&lt;p&gt;Creating more new walled-gardens is not a positive step forward here.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mindcrime</author><text>True, but I still think they should commit to doing it eventually. Even if they just came out today and said &quot;We&apos;ll have an OSS reference implementation and detailed spec available within 6 months&quot; I think most people would be OK with that (as long as they followed through).&lt;p&gt;But just throwing a new protocol over the wall and creating more walled gardens is &lt;i&gt;not cool&lt;/i&gt;.</text></comment>

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<story><title>Portions of the brain fall asleep and wake back up all the time</title><url>http://news.stanford.edu/2016/12/01/portions-brain-fall-asleep-wake-back-time-stanford-researchers-find/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>nxc18</author><text>Taking some time to reflect on and consider my own thinking behavior has been interesting. Just like exploring any other system, subjecting myself to sleep stress (in order to meet aggressive deadlines) has allowed me to see what happens when certain things fail, revealing functional boundaries.&lt;p&gt;I see it as kind of analogous to when you starve a circuit&amp;#x2F;device of power - it behaves in unexpected ways, revealing implementation details.&lt;p&gt;Some examples that I remember: after a particularly long all nighter (I was a freshman in college and wanted to try it while I could still do it by choice and not necessity) I was editing an article I was writing for the school magazine. I was starting to fade and realized that I couldn&amp;#x27;t read and comprehend well-formed, meaningful sentences that I had just written.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;ve noticed that when sleep deprived I notice different things and have a more diverse set of emergent thoughts&amp;#x2F;recall events. For example, today I noticed the plug for an electric oven at a restaurant I have not only been to at least 100 times, but have worked at for months. I randomly remembered the lyrics to China&amp;#x27;s five-year-plan song walking home from class. I will suddenly remember and think fragments in Spanish, despite not touching it for years.&lt;p&gt;Truly, it appears the nature of effective cognition is &lt;i&gt;restricting&lt;/i&gt; all of the many responses to stimuli to those that are useful and relevant, and I think the parts of the brain that do that may have &amp;#x27;fallen asleep&amp;#x27; in all those instances.</text></comment>

<story><title>Portions of the brain fall asleep and wake back up all the time</title><url>http://news.stanford.edu/2016/12/01/portions-brain-fall-asleep-wake-back-time-stanford-researchers-find/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>j1vms</author><text>I think we are getting closer to furthering the concept that dreaming isn&amp;#x27;t just a side-effect of thinking (or simply a defrag&amp;#x2F;clean-up routine upon the previous day&amp;#x27;s thoughts or the mind&amp;#x27;s expectations for tomorrow). It &lt;i&gt;is&lt;/i&gt; itself the key to the thinking process, and sits above and commands the other &amp;quot;agents&amp;quot;. It helps us deal with uncertainty and lack of rationality inherent in the universe and our incomplete understanding of it.</text></comment>