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<story><title>How did anyone do math in Roman numerals? (2017)</title><url>https://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/columns/straight-dope/article/20854121/how-did-anyone-do-math-in-roman-numerals</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>andrewl</author><text>In &lt;i&gt;An Introduction to Mathematics&lt;/i&gt; (1911) Alfred North Whitehead wrote:&lt;p&gt;By relieving the brain of all unnecessary work, a good notation sets it free to concentrate on more advanced problems, and, in effect, increases the mental power of the race. Before the introduction of the Arabic notation, multiplication was difficult, and the division even of integers called into play the highest mathematical faculties. Probably nothing in the modern world would have more astonished a Greek mathematician than to learn that ... a large proportion of the population of Western Europe could perform the operation of division for the largest numbers. This fact would have seemed to him a sheer impossibility ... Our modern power of easy reckoning with decimal fractions is the almost miraculous result of the gradual discovery of a perfect notation. [...] By the aid of symbolism, we can make transitions in reasoning almost mechanically, by the eye, which otherwise would call into play the higher faculties of the brain. [...] It is a profoundly erroneous truism, repeated by all copy-books and by eminent people when they are making speeches, that we should cultivate the habit of thinking of what we are doing. The precise opposite is the case. Civilisation advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking about them. Operations of thought are like cavalry charges in a battle—they are strictly limited in number, they require fresh horses, and must only be made at decisive moments.&lt;p&gt;John Allen Paulos discusses the power of notation in his book &lt;i&gt;Beyond Numeracy&lt;/i&gt;:&lt;p&gt;A German merchant of the fifteenth century asked an eminent professor where he should send his son for a good business education. The professor responded that German universities would be sufficient to teach the boy addition and subtraction but he would have to go to Italy to learn multiplication and division. Before you smile indulgently, try multiplying or even just adding the Roman numerals CCLXIV, MDCCCIX, DCL, ANDMLXXXI without first translating them.&lt;p&gt;Numbers may be eternal and invariant, but numerals, the symbols used to represent numbers, are not, and the above anecdote illustrates how easy it is to take for granted the Hindu-Arabic numerals we use today. The history of numeration systems is a long one extending from prehistoric times to the adoption in the Renaissance of our present system. The heroes of the story are the nameless scribes, accountants, priests, and astronomers who discovered the principles of representing numbers systematically.</text></comment>

<story><title>How did anyone do math in Roman numerals? (2017)</title><url>https://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/columns/straight-dope/article/20854121/how-did-anyone-do-math-in-roman-numerals</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>dwheeler</author><text>In general, with an abacus. Roman numerals for generally used for recording information, not for calculating with them. The article emphasizes how easy it is to add and subtract with Roman numeral notation, but everything else I&amp;#x27;ve read emphasizes the Abacus even for that. After all, most people today calculate with calculators as well, and we have a snazzy Hindu-Arabic system for numbers.</text></comment>

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<story><title>Stack Overflow Developer Survey 2022</title><url>https://survey.stackoverflow.co/2022/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>usrbinbash</author><text>Docker going strong :-)&lt;p&gt;Unsurprising, really. The usefulness of it cannot be overstated.&lt;p&gt;Doesn&amp;#x27;t even matter if its used anywhere in the deployment chain; simply having the ability to pull up a replica of almost any *nix environment on my laptop &lt;i&gt;in mere seconds&lt;/i&gt;, using it for tests, and then throwing it away resetting it &lt;i&gt;again in mere seconds&lt;/i&gt; is beyond awesome, no matter if what I&amp;#x27;m working on then goes into a huge complicated deployment chain, or is shoved onto some on-premises, zero-abstractions, baremetal server.&lt;p&gt;And how is it all configured? Plain text files. How is it controlled? Command Line. Meaning I can script it every way I want, using the tools I already have and use. Doesn&amp;#x27;t get in the way, doesn&amp;#x27;t demand that I work around it...it works with me and my tools in the same way they already work together.&lt;p&gt;Oh, and of course, good bye and good riddance to the days when I had to install and configure local RDMS for tests. Everything I use has an official image, so I just write some small setup script, a Dockerfile, knit everything together in a docker-compose.yml and presto, done: Application stack is up and running.&lt;p&gt;To me, Docker is as essential as my text editor these days.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Taywee</author><text>I find for builds especially it&amp;#x27;s invaluable. I have a Makefile that builds Docker images and runs build processes for all 4 supported versions of Debian, 3 LTS versions of Ubuntu, RHEL7, and Fedora 35 and 36. It builds and packages the software on all of these, giving me debs and rpms for every relevant distro (&amp;quot;relevant&amp;quot; meaning distros used for servers or workstations for any of our employees and clients).&lt;p&gt;I then have another set of docker images for making package repositories and signing everything.&lt;p&gt;I do have a lot of mostly-redundant dockerfiles in some places, but in others I&amp;#x27;ve managed to leverage m4 to reduce the redundancy (though I&amp;#x27;m trying to keep it as slim as possible to avoid the pain of turning everything into a convoluted set of impossible-to-maintain macros).&lt;p&gt;Before this, I was using Vagrant and Ansible for builds, which was slow, memory hungry, and frustrating to debug. Not to mention that dependencies that needed to be built statically couldn&amp;#x27;t be easily cached, which comes out of the box with Docker.</text></comment>

<story><title>Stack Overflow Developer Survey 2022</title><url>https://survey.stackoverflow.co/2022/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>usrbinbash</author><text>Docker going strong :-)&lt;p&gt;Unsurprising, really. The usefulness of it cannot be overstated.&lt;p&gt;Doesn&amp;#x27;t even matter if its used anywhere in the deployment chain; simply having the ability to pull up a replica of almost any *nix environment on my laptop &lt;i&gt;in mere seconds&lt;/i&gt;, using it for tests, and then throwing it away resetting it &lt;i&gt;again in mere seconds&lt;/i&gt; is beyond awesome, no matter if what I&amp;#x27;m working on then goes into a huge complicated deployment chain, or is shoved onto some on-premises, zero-abstractions, baremetal server.&lt;p&gt;And how is it all configured? Plain text files. How is it controlled? Command Line. Meaning I can script it every way I want, using the tools I already have and use. Doesn&amp;#x27;t get in the way, doesn&amp;#x27;t demand that I work around it...it works with me and my tools in the same way they already work together.&lt;p&gt;Oh, and of course, good bye and good riddance to the days when I had to install and configure local RDMS for tests. Everything I use has an official image, so I just write some small setup script, a Dockerfile, knit everything together in a docker-compose.yml and presto, done: Application stack is up and running.&lt;p&gt;To me, Docker is as essential as my text editor these days.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>KronisLV</author><text>&amp;gt; Unsurprising, really. The usefulness of it cannot be overstated.&lt;p&gt;Furthermore, in addition to the points you mentioned, it also lets us:&lt;p&gt;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt; - trivially remap ports to whatever we want (and expose whichever we&amp;#x27;d like to the outside) - easily set resource limits, so your instance of MariaDB doesn&amp;#x27;t bring the whole server down and make it unresponsive - abstract away storage, in case you want a specific directory for your backups instead of following HFS (say, just have &amp;#x2F;app, treating the rest of the server as throwaway) - perhaps most importantly, your host OS is now separate from the actual containers that you are running, updating&amp;#x2F;redeploying either becomes a breeze &lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt; Recently, I actually decided to build my own containers for all of my personal use cases and it&amp;#x27;s been an interesting experience: I base everything on a LTS version of Ubuntu and just use apt for getting all of the runtimes (Node, Java, .NET, PHP, Ruby, Python, ...) for my own software, and so far it&amp;#x27;s a nice experience.&lt;p&gt;All I need is the base Ubuntu image from Docker Hub and the rest is up to me and the regular mirrors&amp;#x2F;repositories for the software packages in question, most of which can be stored on my own Nexus instance as needed, as well as the whole build process is primarily driven through Gitea, Drone CI and a few &amp;quot;servers&amp;quot; (repurposed old computers with passive cooling) that I have on my desk.&lt;p&gt;Though for now I also use Bitnami images for databases and such, which are also decent and which I largely just cache on my end: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;bitnami.com&amp;#x2F;stacks&amp;#x2F;containers&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;bitnami.com&amp;#x2F;stacks&amp;#x2F;containers&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;So what I&amp;#x27;m trying to say, is that there&amp;#x27;s a lot of flexibility that you can enjoy, both in making your own &amp;quot;templates&amp;quot; for web servers, programming languages, build toolchains etc., as well as you can grab pre-made stuff that other people have made, be it on Docker Hub, someone&amp;#x27;s Nexus&amp;#x2F;Artifactory&amp;#x2F;Harbor instance or another registry out there.&lt;p&gt;Docker and other OCI compatible tools have largely achieved the sort of adoption and widespread usage that projects like Nix and Guix could also benefit from.</text></comment>

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<story><title>Students don&apos;t seem to be getting much out of higher education (2018)</title><url>https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2018/01/whats-college-good-for/546590/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>_hardwaregeek</author><text>There&amp;#x27;s several issues I&amp;#x27;ve noticed as a student. First, kids are told to go to college immediately after high school. If college was high school 2.0, this would be fine. But college is completely different from high school; it&amp;#x27;s significantly more expensive, more free form and more rigorous (at least compared to most high schools). I see so many students who clearly have no clue what they want to do, why they&amp;#x27;re in college (beyond &amp;quot;my parents want me to&amp;quot;) or how to accomplish their goals.&lt;p&gt;Having seen the sheer quantity of kids struggling with simple stuff like cleaning, cooking and not drinking themselves to death, I&amp;#x27;m becoming more and more in favor of a mandatory service at the age of 18. Maybe not military like the IDF, but some sort of program where kids are forced to go away from home and learn to be self sufficient. Little Bobby should learn how to scrub a pot and clean a bathroom before he&amp;#x27;s entrusted with a 240k education. I took a gap year and I was significantly more focused and disciplined than I was in high school. And way better than the majority of my college peers.&lt;p&gt;But even worse than being unprepared for college, I feel like we&amp;#x27;ve been fostering a poor attitude towards learning. I grew up in an academic family, so to me, learning wasn&amp;#x27;t a stage of life. Learning was an essential aspect of being alive. Going to college wasn&amp;#x27;t some arbitrary merit badge that society deems necessary. It was a natural extension of whatever field I wanted to study. I see college as a tool; I need to learn certain topics in order to get what I want in life. Of course, I&amp;#x27;m very fortunate to have taken a gap year and worked as a programmer. If nothing else, I know that I like programming, I&amp;#x27;m good at it and I&amp;#x27;m willing to suffer through the painful parts. It&amp;#x27;s kinda good to know that before I spent 240k on a CS degree.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Balgair</author><text>Some form of mandatory alternative civilian service may be of use here in the US. Hypothetically, &amp;#x27;cutting the apron strings&amp;#x27; may improve physical fitness, national identity, common understanding, and widen the shared views of the conscripts. Here in the US, the Vietnam war was the most recent event where nearly every family and citizen was affected and were forced to interact with each other.&lt;p&gt;Anecdotally, vets on campus tended to be more &amp;#x27;serious&amp;#x27; than ones that were not drafted. That said, most vets would have elected not to have undergone the experience regardless of their level of involvement in the war.&lt;p&gt;Also, the costs of such programs are very high. If you look at military conscription today, it is limited to countries with small populations or ones that are actively threatened. Mobilizing, feeding, housing, and caring for nearly 450,000 people is not an easy task. The net benefit of this conscription is ambiguous as well. Denmark used to use their conscripts in the care of the elderly and in wildland firefighting, but has since degraded that from their service. Doing so here in the US may be of benefit, but not at the costs that would be sustained. Such work is better left to the professionals, typically.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;m not even close to an expert in this field, but a cursory look at it suggests that the cost&amp;#x2F;benefit ratio is not close. However, the same can be said of nearly any educational endeavor, yet we know that on a decadeal timeline it pays for itself many times over.&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Alternative_civilian_service&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Alternative_civilian_service&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Military_service&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Military_service&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>

<story><title>Students don&apos;t seem to be getting much out of higher education (2018)</title><url>https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2018/01/whats-college-good-for/546590/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>_hardwaregeek</author><text>There&amp;#x27;s several issues I&amp;#x27;ve noticed as a student. First, kids are told to go to college immediately after high school. If college was high school 2.0, this would be fine. But college is completely different from high school; it&amp;#x27;s significantly more expensive, more free form and more rigorous (at least compared to most high schools). I see so many students who clearly have no clue what they want to do, why they&amp;#x27;re in college (beyond &amp;quot;my parents want me to&amp;quot;) or how to accomplish their goals.&lt;p&gt;Having seen the sheer quantity of kids struggling with simple stuff like cleaning, cooking and not drinking themselves to death, I&amp;#x27;m becoming more and more in favor of a mandatory service at the age of 18. Maybe not military like the IDF, but some sort of program where kids are forced to go away from home and learn to be self sufficient. Little Bobby should learn how to scrub a pot and clean a bathroom before he&amp;#x27;s entrusted with a 240k education. I took a gap year and I was significantly more focused and disciplined than I was in high school. And way better than the majority of my college peers.&lt;p&gt;But even worse than being unprepared for college, I feel like we&amp;#x27;ve been fostering a poor attitude towards learning. I grew up in an academic family, so to me, learning wasn&amp;#x27;t a stage of life. Learning was an essential aspect of being alive. Going to college wasn&amp;#x27;t some arbitrary merit badge that society deems necessary. It was a natural extension of whatever field I wanted to study. I see college as a tool; I need to learn certain topics in order to get what I want in life. Of course, I&amp;#x27;m very fortunate to have taken a gap year and worked as a programmer. If nothing else, I know that I like programming, I&amp;#x27;m good at it and I&amp;#x27;m willing to suffer through the painful parts. It&amp;#x27;s kinda good to know that before I spent 240k on a CS degree.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>krapp</author><text>&amp;gt;Maybe not military like the IDF, but some sort of program where kids are forced to go away from home and learn to be self sufficient.&lt;p&gt;That&amp;#x27;s called &amp;quot;adulthood.&amp;quot;</text></comment>

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<story><title>Albert Camus</title><url>https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/camus/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>a_petrov</author><text>I&amp;#x27;ll share my strange story with The Stranger. 10 years ago I suffered from anxiety, lack of sleep and high blood pressure.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;d been given small pink pills. Took them as prescribed. My condition didn&amp;#x27;t really change.&lt;p&gt;Then I turned to reading. After a couple of other books, I found this list [1]. I read The Stranger. I&amp;#x27;ve felt sudden ease of my anxiety, I was at peace.&lt;p&gt;Two weeks after The Stranger, I read Siddhartha. Soon, my sleep turned back to normal.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;m not praising these books, neither I&amp;#x27;m suggesting avoiding medical advice. I&amp;#x27;m just still excited how reading can affect someone&amp;#x27;s well-being.&lt;p&gt;[1] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Le_Monde%27s_100_Books_of_the_Century&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Le_Monde%27s_100_Books_of_the_...&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>

<story><title>Albert Camus</title><url>https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/camus/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>mcguire</author><text>Last year, Stephen West had an episode of his podcast, Philosophize This!, on Camus&amp;#x27; The Fall (&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.philosophizethis.org&amp;#x2F;podcast&amp;#x2F;episode-170-the-fall&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.philosophizethis.org&amp;#x2F;podcast&amp;#x2F;episode-170-the-fal...&lt;/a&gt;). He is notably more sympathetic to Clamence, making no mention of him as &amp;quot;evil&amp;quot; or &amp;quot;a monster&amp;quot;.</text></comment>

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<story><title>How ultra-black fish disappear in the deepest seas</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/16/science/ultra-black-fish.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>krisoft</author><text>How can you publish an article about ultra-black fish without putting a picture of a fish in some recognizable environment?&lt;p&gt;Put it on a lab bench, next to a human hand and some printer paper. Or a banana. Anything the reader might recognize.&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;While some ultra-black fish might appear brownish, it’s the product of camera overexposure and editing&amp;quot; Great. You know what does that mean? You need to find a better photo. That&amp;#x27;s what it means. What kind of lazy caption that is.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>grawprog</author><text>&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.sciencealert.com&amp;#x2F;one-of-nature-s-blackest-colours-makes-fish-invisible-deep-in-the-ocean&amp;#x2F;amp&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.sciencealert.com&amp;#x2F;one-of-nature-s-blackest-colour...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt;Incidentally, this is what initially piqued Karen Osborn&amp;#x27;s interest. As a research zoologist at the Smithsonian&amp;#x27;s National Museum of Natural History, she grew frustrated trying to photograph a striking black fish that had been pulled from the deep sea. &amp;quot;It didn&amp;#x27;t matter how you set up the camera or lighting—they just sucked up all the light,&amp;quot; says Osborn.</text></comment>

<story><title>How ultra-black fish disappear in the deepest seas</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/16/science/ultra-black-fish.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>krisoft</author><text>How can you publish an article about ultra-black fish without putting a picture of a fish in some recognizable environment?&lt;p&gt;Put it on a lab bench, next to a human hand and some printer paper. Or a banana. Anything the reader might recognize.&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;While some ultra-black fish might appear brownish, it’s the product of camera overexposure and editing&amp;quot; Great. You know what does that mean? You need to find a better photo. That&amp;#x27;s what it means. What kind of lazy caption that is.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>marcosdumay</author><text>If there wasn&amp;#x27;t overexposure and editing, the fish would be just as black as the background, and you wouldn&amp;#x27;t be able to see them. Also, there may be none of those fish living in a more recognizable environment. A dead fish is too different from a living one, so it&amp;#x27;s not worth picturing them.&lt;p&gt;Those photos are actually very good. They show in clear detail how those fish look like, including colors (not all entirely black). They are indeed missing a clear indication of their size (that could be artificial), but otherwise there isn&amp;#x27;t much to improve.</text></comment>

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<story><title>The Problems with Deliberate Practice (2020)</title><url>https://commoncog.com/blog/the-problems-with-deliberate-practice/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>TameAntelope</author><text>I&amp;#x27;m not really sure what I&amp;#x27;m supposed to do with this article - it seems written as a hit piece on Deliberate Practice, but doesn&amp;#x27;t live up to that by more or less pointing at various works and saying, &amp;quot;That seems crazy!&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;Anders Ericsson passed away in 2020, but fortunately in 2019 he wrote a comprehensive article describing his journey through the discovery of deliberate practice and how it evolved over the ensuing 25 years. I would suggest reading this &lt;i&gt;in addition to&lt;/i&gt; the submitted article, if you&amp;#x27;re interested in &lt;i&gt;better&lt;/i&gt; understanding the &amp;quot;Problems with Deliberate Practice&amp;quot;:&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.frontiersin.org&amp;#x2F;articles&amp;#x2F;10.3389&amp;#x2F;fpsyg.2019.02396&amp;#x2F;full&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.frontiersin.org&amp;#x2F;articles&amp;#x2F;10.3389&amp;#x2F;fpsyg.2019.0239...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;Edit: The author has this to say: &amp;quot;Is deliberate practice good enough to work? My opinion — one that’s informed by painful experience attempting to implement the results of Ericsson’s research — is that, yes, deliberate practice does work, but it’s really difficult to turn the principles into a practice program if you are in a field where no ‘highly-developed, broadly accepted training methods’ exist.&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;Edit2: I was too harsh, edited to tone down the language!</text></comment>

<story><title>The Problems with Deliberate Practice (2020)</title><url>https://commoncog.com/blog/the-problems-with-deliberate-practice/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>rsync</author><text>One word: play.&lt;p&gt;I didn’t go to Unix school or do practice reps of building networks. I stayed up late nights building weird and sometimes nefarious projects.&lt;p&gt;Similarly, I have mediocre results when my schedule only allows BJJ classes but markedly better results when I can just go “play” Jiu jitsu with others.&lt;p&gt;Just go get reps doing something you love, in an experimental and playful manner.</text></comment>

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<story><title>We got our first Delaware tax bill: $74,018.74</title><text>We are Imaginary Number, a small educational games startup with 3 founders, zero employees, and a handful of paying customers. I finally opened the letter from CSC, the Delaware agent responsible for collecting taxes. Here&amp;#x27;s what they sent:&lt;p&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;mathbreakers.com&amp;#x2F;static&amp;#x2F;img&amp;#x2F;csc_delaware_tax.jpg&lt;p&gt;After 10 minutes of mounting panic, I came across some information which relieved me. Apparently Delaware likes to use the maximum method for calculating taxes for startups, when we actually only owe a tiny fraction of the amount they claim we owe (and they offer a hefty interest of $525.56 on this supposed balance as well!)&lt;p&gt;Here&amp;#x27;s the article, if you&amp;#x27;re a C-Corp in Delaware and at the seed stage, you&amp;#x27;ll need to see this. http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;capgenius.com&amp;#x2F;2011&amp;#x2F;03&amp;#x2F;02&amp;#x2F;de-franchise-tax&amp;#x2F;&lt;p&gt;Any other startups here gotten a nice &amp;quot;tax surprise&amp;quot;? Would love to hear about it!</text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>chao-</author><text>Quite the opposite. In Texas, until a certain point in revenue, they really don&amp;#x27;t want to waste any time and resources on you. They ask &amp;quot;Did you make at least $1,000,000 last year? No? Well, please move along peasant, we have &lt;i&gt;real businesses&lt;/i&gt; to deal with who might actually be worth auditing.&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;Makes sense, somewhat. Even in the case of minor fraud, they would likely spend more in manpower than they could possibly reclaim from such a low-earning outfit. You still have to file, of course, but it&amp;#x27;s properly simple if you didn&amp;#x27;t earn a significant amount.&lt;p&gt;&lt;i&gt;EDIT: corrected from $200,000 to one million.&lt;/i&gt;</text></comment>

<story><title>We got our first Delaware tax bill: $74,018.74</title><text>We are Imaginary Number, a small educational games startup with 3 founders, zero employees, and a handful of paying customers. I finally opened the letter from CSC, the Delaware agent responsible for collecting taxes. Here&amp;#x27;s what they sent:&lt;p&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;mathbreakers.com&amp;#x2F;static&amp;#x2F;img&amp;#x2F;csc_delaware_tax.jpg&lt;p&gt;After 10 minutes of mounting panic, I came across some information which relieved me. Apparently Delaware likes to use the maximum method for calculating taxes for startups, when we actually only owe a tiny fraction of the amount they claim we owe (and they offer a hefty interest of $525.56 on this supposed balance as well!)&lt;p&gt;Here&amp;#x27;s the article, if you&amp;#x27;re a C-Corp in Delaware and at the seed stage, you&amp;#x27;ll need to see this. http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;capgenius.com&amp;#x2F;2011&amp;#x2F;03&amp;#x2F;02&amp;#x2F;de-franchise-tax&amp;#x2F;&lt;p&gt;Any other startups here gotten a nice &amp;quot;tax surprise&amp;quot;? Would love to hear about it!</text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>miiiiiike</author><text>It&amp;#x27;s a good idea to run your numbers through the Franchise Tax Calculator: &lt;a href=&quot;http://corp.delaware.gov/taxcalc.shtml&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;corp.delaware.gov&amp;#x2F;taxcalc.shtml&lt;/a&gt; Mine was $180k on the statement, ~$1.7k in reality.&lt;p&gt;Still, even though I knew exactly how much I owed, when I saw $180k on the statement my first call was to my lawyer, for a hug.</text></comment>

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<story><title>What Did Ancient Romans Do Without Toilet Paper?</title><url>https://www.sapiens.org/column/curiosities/ancient-roman-bathrooms/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>gkya</author><text>Wut? Do you really think you can convince me that USSR did not have toilet papers or pencils? Or send the first man to space? This is not about what economical model is better. People can collaborate both under central economic planning and through free markets. One might certainly be more preferable to the other, but that&amp;#x27;s totally a different conversation (I&amp;#x27;m not a fan of either, for the records).</text></item><item><author>skookumchuck</author><text>This is the result of free markets. Centralized economic planning is simply unable to deal with the complexity.</text></item><item><author>gkya</author><text>This made me recall immediately the &amp;quot;I, pencil&amp;quot; article. It&amp;#x27;s stunning to remember that almost anything one gets to touch or see throughout the day is a product of almost always global collaboration, if we include a things conception with its production, and also transportation, selling, etc.</text></item><item><author>tlb</author><text>My uncle was an engineer for a toilet paper manufacturing plant, that took logs in one end and put TP rolls out the other end. The path was over a mile long. He worked on variable speed electronic drives for the 1000 horsepower motors that turned the machinery.&lt;p&gt;TP illustrates the triumph of civilization: 1000s of people all doing specialized jobs so billions of people can each avoid a daily unpleasantness.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>hippich</author><text>You will laugh, but yes, USSR also had troubles with toilet paper from time to time (while launching satellites i guess) - &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;translate.google.com&amp;#x2F;translate?sl=auto&amp;amp;tl=en&amp;amp;js=y&amp;amp;prev=_t&amp;amp;hl=en&amp;amp;ie=UTF-8&amp;amp;u=https%3A%2F%2Fru.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2F%25D0%25A2%25D0%25BE%25D0%25B2%25D0%25B0%25D1%2580%25D0%25BD%25D1%258B%25D0%25B9_%25D0%25B4%25D0%25B5%25D1%2584%25D0%25B8%25D1%2586%25D0%25B8%25D1%2582_%25D0%25B2_%25D0%25A1%25D0%25A1%25D0%25A1%25D0%25A0&amp;amp;edit-text=&amp;amp;act=url&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;translate.google.com&amp;#x2F;translate?sl=auto&amp;amp;tl=en&amp;amp;js=y&amp;amp;pr...&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>

<story><title>What Did Ancient Romans Do Without Toilet Paper?</title><url>https://www.sapiens.org/column/curiosities/ancient-roman-bathrooms/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>gkya</author><text>Wut? Do you really think you can convince me that USSR did not have toilet papers or pencils? Or send the first man to space? This is not about what economical model is better. People can collaborate both under central economic planning and through free markets. One might certainly be more preferable to the other, but that&amp;#x27;s totally a different conversation (I&amp;#x27;m not a fan of either, for the records).</text></item><item><author>skookumchuck</author><text>This is the result of free markets. Centralized economic planning is simply unable to deal with the complexity.</text></item><item><author>gkya</author><text>This made me recall immediately the &amp;quot;I, pencil&amp;quot; article. It&amp;#x27;s stunning to remember that almost anything one gets to touch or see throughout the day is a product of almost always global collaboration, if we include a things conception with its production, and also transportation, selling, etc.</text></item><item><author>tlb</author><text>My uncle was an engineer for a toilet paper manufacturing plant, that took logs in one end and put TP rolls out the other end. The path was over a mile long. He worked on variable speed electronic drives for the 1000 horsepower motors that turned the machinery.&lt;p&gt;TP illustrates the triumph of civilization: 1000s of people all doing specialized jobs so billions of people can each avoid a daily unpleasantness.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>skookumchuck</author><text>&amp;gt; USSR did not have toilet papers or pencils?&lt;p&gt;No. Just that it could not produce them reliably with efficiency. Consider this from Friedman&amp;#x27;s book &amp;quot;Free to Choose&amp;quot;:&lt;p&gt;First, the wood comes from a tree, &amp;quot;a cedar of straight grain that grows in Northern California and Oregon.&amp;quot; To cut down the tree and cart the logs to the railroad siding requires &amp;quot;saws and trucks and rope and . . . countless other gear.&amp;quot; Many persons and numberless skills are involved in their fabrication: in &amp;quot;the mining of ore, the making of steel and its refinement into saws, axes, motors; the growing of hemp and bringing it through all the stages to heavy and strong rope; the logging camps with their beds and mess halls, ... untold thousands of persons had a hand in every cup of coffee the loggers drink!&amp;quot; And so Mr. Read goes on to the bringing of the logs to the mill, the millwork involved in converting the logs to slats, and the transportation of the slats from California to Wilkes-Barre, where the particular pencil that tells the story was manufactured. And so far we have only the outside wood of the pencil. The &amp;quot;lead&amp;quot; center is not really lead at all. It starts as graphite mined in Ceylon. After many complicated processes it ends up as the lead in the center of the pencil. The bit of metal - the ferrule - near the top of the pencil is brass. &amp;quot;Think of all the persons,&amp;quot; he says, &amp;quot;who mine zinc and copper and those who have the skills to make sheet brass from these products of nature.&amp;quot; What we call the eraser is known in the trade as &amp;quot;the plug.&amp;quot; It is thought to be rubber. But Mr. Read tells us the rubber is only for binding purposes. The erasing is actually done by &amp;quot;Factice,&amp;quot; a rubberlike product made by reacting rape seed oil from the Dutch East Indies (now Indonesia) with sulfur chloride. After all of this, says the pencil, &amp;quot;Does anyone wish to challenge my earlier assertion that no single person on the face of this earth knows how to make me?&amp;quot; None of the thousands of persons involved in producing the pencil performed his task because he wanted a pencil. Some among them never saw a pencil and would not know what it is for. Each saw his work as a way to get the goods and services he wanted - goods and services we produced in order to get the pencil we wanted. Every time we go to the store and buy a pencil, we are exchanging a little bit of our services for the infinitesimal amount of services that each of the thousands contributed toward producing the pencil. It is even more astounding that the pencil was ever produced. No one sitting in a central office gave orders to these thousands of people. No military police enforced the orders that were not given. These people live in many lands, speak different languages, practice different religions, may even hate one another - yet none of these differences prevented them from cooperating to produce a pencil.</text></comment>

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<story><title>Swedish court: &apos;We cannot ban Pirate Bay&apos;</title><url>http://www.thelocal.se/20151127/swedish-court-we-cannot-ban-pirate-bay</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>everyone</author><text>&amp;quot;The Pirate Bay, which grew into an international phenomenon after it was founded in Sweden in 2003, allows users to dodge copyright fees and share music, film and other files using bit torrent technology, or peer-to-peer links offered on the site – resulting in huge losses for music and movie makers.&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;I have seen no credible evidence that file-sharing causes losses to music and movie makers. In any independent studies I&amp;#x27;ve seen it in inconclusive and some of them suggest that file-sharing actually boosts sales by providing a fremium model &amp;#x2F; free advertising &amp;#x2F; word of mouth transmission etc.&lt;p&gt;Also many other things are shared via the pirate bay other than copyrighted films and whatnot.</text></comment>

<story><title>Swedish court: &apos;We cannot ban Pirate Bay&apos;</title><url>http://www.thelocal.se/20151127/swedish-court-we-cannot-ban-pirate-bay</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>scotty79</author><text>They only say that copyright owners can&amp;#x27;t impose their ridiculousness on ISPs. Which should be obvious. It&amp;#x27;s as stupid as suggesting that gas stations shouldn&amp;#x27;t service highway toll evaders, because that would be helping them with their crimes. Or that car companies shouldn&amp;#x27;t sell them cars.</text></comment>

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<story><title>Why won’t anyone teach me math?</title><url>https://www.dailyprincetonian.com/article/2022/02/stem-intro-courses-humanites-exploration</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Waterluvian</author><text>Yeah. I&amp;#x27;ve been writing code as a job for a decade now and have never needed to factor a quadratic equation. I really just needed a course that helped me get introduced to programming (which I ended up using a LOT in the domain I went to school for: geography and remote sensing).&lt;p&gt;(Every time I write something like this I immediately feel defensive about being an impostor. Someone saying, &amp;quot;how can you not know that? You should know that. You must not be doing _real programming_.)</text></item><item><author>kamaal</author><text>The real question is in asking, what are you going to use the programming language to build?&lt;p&gt;If you are going into a Math heavy domain, you are going to use a programming language to solve math problems, and hence involves learning Math.&lt;p&gt;This the same problem, with whiteboard leetcode style problems in interviews. Most people fail to understand why they have to put in months to years of practice into a domain to which doesn&amp;#x27;t concern with their everyday work.&lt;p&gt;On the other hand there is tremendous shortage of people with skills for real world problems and applications.</text></item><item><author>Waterluvian</author><text>I went to the University of Waterloo and took a &amp;quot;Intro to CS for non-math students&amp;quot; course. The thing was designed and taught by CS faculty, so naturally they taught you the basics of programming using math.&lt;p&gt;I spent more time re-learning high school math than actually learning programming. And not because it was directly related, but because some lessons were like, &amp;quot;write a function in Java that factors a quadratic.&amp;quot; So 90% of that tutorial was me re-learning what the heck a quadratic is and how to factor it.&lt;p&gt;The experience really sucked and I gave up on university programming courses and just started learning it all practically and on my own terms.&lt;p&gt;Edit: Enjoy this wonderfully styled course page: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;student.cs.uwaterloo.ca&amp;#x2F;~cs125&amp;#x2F;S08&amp;#x2F;Resources&amp;#x2F;Admin&amp;#x2F;CourseOutline.shtml&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;student.cs.uwaterloo.ca&amp;#x2F;~cs125&amp;#x2F;S08&amp;#x2F;Resources&amp;#x2F;Admin&amp;#x2F;C...&lt;/a&gt;</text></item><item><author>tacoluv</author><text>My 2 cents: The author presumably goes to Princeton - the ivy league is in general a tough place to &amp;quot;start learning&amp;quot; things, especially STEM. Few of the staff would teach you the basics of anything, mostly because you are attending a research college, where teaching is the professors&amp;#x27; side gig.&lt;p&gt;I went to an ivy league school, and a large portion of the people in the CS program did competitive programming&amp;#x2F;knew number theory and discrete math from high school etc. All the problems we got as homework were really intense - I&amp;#x27;d consistently do more than 60-70 hours of studying outside of classes to keep up. Mind you, for me CS was&amp;#x2F;is like crack - I feel like I&amp;#x27;d have put in even more time if I didn&amp;#x27;t need to sleep or want to hang out with my friends.&lt;p&gt;There are some intro classes, of course, but the quality of those varies a lot.&lt;p&gt;Edit: I don&amp;#x27;t mean to discourage people with this post. I was actually one of the few people who didn&amp;#x27;t have much of a CS&amp;#x2F;quanty background in my CS classes. My advisor told me to have a backup major in case I fail the tougher required classes, but I made it through.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>tacoluv</author><text>I have been thinking about it too. I think you definitely need people who are more algorithmically inclined in software, but you also need people who can &amp;quot;engineer&amp;quot;.&lt;p&gt;My current take is that the tech industry is so young that we are still struggling with proper definitions of titles and division of labor.&lt;p&gt;In my experience, after school I could do all the hard mathy&amp;#x2F;algo&amp;#x2F;data structure things, but I had no idea what REST even meant. So all startups instantly rejected me, while FAANG was very excited to have me. I felt like a huge imposter also, because if I were smart, how come I didn&amp;#x27;t know all the cool stuff that people at hackathons know.</text></comment>

<story><title>Why won’t anyone teach me math?</title><url>https://www.dailyprincetonian.com/article/2022/02/stem-intro-courses-humanites-exploration</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Waterluvian</author><text>Yeah. I&amp;#x27;ve been writing code as a job for a decade now and have never needed to factor a quadratic equation. I really just needed a course that helped me get introduced to programming (which I ended up using a LOT in the domain I went to school for: geography and remote sensing).&lt;p&gt;(Every time I write something like this I immediately feel defensive about being an impostor. Someone saying, &amp;quot;how can you not know that? You should know that. You must not be doing _real programming_.)</text></item><item><author>kamaal</author><text>The real question is in asking, what are you going to use the programming language to build?&lt;p&gt;If you are going into a Math heavy domain, you are going to use a programming language to solve math problems, and hence involves learning Math.&lt;p&gt;This the same problem, with whiteboard leetcode style problems in interviews. Most people fail to understand why they have to put in months to years of practice into a domain to which doesn&amp;#x27;t concern with their everyday work.&lt;p&gt;On the other hand there is tremendous shortage of people with skills for real world problems and applications.</text></item><item><author>Waterluvian</author><text>I went to the University of Waterloo and took a &amp;quot;Intro to CS for non-math students&amp;quot; course. The thing was designed and taught by CS faculty, so naturally they taught you the basics of programming using math.&lt;p&gt;I spent more time re-learning high school math than actually learning programming. And not because it was directly related, but because some lessons were like, &amp;quot;write a function in Java that factors a quadratic.&amp;quot; So 90% of that tutorial was me re-learning what the heck a quadratic is and how to factor it.&lt;p&gt;The experience really sucked and I gave up on university programming courses and just started learning it all practically and on my own terms.&lt;p&gt;Edit: Enjoy this wonderfully styled course page: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;student.cs.uwaterloo.ca&amp;#x2F;~cs125&amp;#x2F;S08&amp;#x2F;Resources&amp;#x2F;Admin&amp;#x2F;CourseOutline.shtml&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;student.cs.uwaterloo.ca&amp;#x2F;~cs125&amp;#x2F;S08&amp;#x2F;Resources&amp;#x2F;Admin&amp;#x2F;C...&lt;/a&gt;</text></item><item><author>tacoluv</author><text>My 2 cents: The author presumably goes to Princeton - the ivy league is in general a tough place to &amp;quot;start learning&amp;quot; things, especially STEM. Few of the staff would teach you the basics of anything, mostly because you are attending a research college, where teaching is the professors&amp;#x27; side gig.&lt;p&gt;I went to an ivy league school, and a large portion of the people in the CS program did competitive programming&amp;#x2F;knew number theory and discrete math from high school etc. All the problems we got as homework were really intense - I&amp;#x27;d consistently do more than 60-70 hours of studying outside of classes to keep up. Mind you, for me CS was&amp;#x2F;is like crack - I feel like I&amp;#x27;d have put in even more time if I didn&amp;#x27;t need to sleep or want to hang out with my friends.&lt;p&gt;There are some intro classes, of course, but the quality of those varies a lot.&lt;p&gt;Edit: I don&amp;#x27;t mean to discourage people with this post. I was actually one of the few people who didn&amp;#x27;t have much of a CS&amp;#x2F;quanty background in my CS classes. My advisor told me to have a backup major in case I fail the tougher required classes, but I made it through.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mlyle</author><text>&amp;gt; Yeah. I&amp;#x27;ve been writing code as a job for a decade now and have never needed to factor a quadratic equation.&lt;p&gt;A lot of people never touch algebra again.&lt;p&gt;Some of us end up touching it a &lt;i&gt;lot&lt;/i&gt;.&lt;p&gt;This is a bit of a tricky thing, in that:&lt;p&gt;- A whole lot of practitioners have very limited continuous math and deep CS needs, so some of these requirements are artificial barriers to some extent for many jobs.&lt;p&gt;- But is it reasonable to give them CS degrees without at least basic competence?&lt;p&gt;- Plus, part of the point of a university education is to round-out students and expose them to many things...</text></comment>

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<story><title>No One Saw Tesla’s Solar Roof Coming</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-10-31/no-one-saw-tesla-s-solar-roof-coming</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>aerovistae</author><text>Another side note: it always annoys me when people insinuate that Musk using government funds is a bad thing.&lt;p&gt;The government is literally just US....it&amp;#x27;s our money and a collection of individuals from among us who we&amp;#x27;ve appointed to handle the general administration of us and the space we take up.&lt;p&gt;Why should American entrepreneurs, particularly ones doing such an outstanding job of moving technology in a positive direction, not get our financial support (a.k.a. the government&amp;#x27;s support)?&lt;p&gt;Who exactly is losing out when we support our own business initiatives with our own money?</text></item><item><author>wojcech</author><text>I&amp;#x27;m sure i&amp;#x27;m not the only one who feels like this is possibly the iphone moment of Solarcity&amp;#x2F;Tesla: an old-ish idea, made &lt;i&gt;sexy&lt;/i&gt; and tasty to consumers, together with technology reaching a tipping point(and also Musk &lt;i&gt;again&lt;/i&gt; finding a way to maximally exploit government subsidies for clean tech.)&lt;p&gt;The tesla car itself could count as well, but felt less &amp;quot;design driven&amp;quot; imo. If this fails, everyone will call it obviously due to bad tech. If it succeeds, I&amp;#x27;d say it was because the tech was barely sufficient to keep up with the excellent luster.&lt;p&gt;On a side note, I wonder whether or not the heavy government subsidies will be forgotten in the lore of clean tech, just like silicon valley seems to have forgotten the complete and utter reliance on government funding in it&amp;#x27;s infancy(or possibly even today)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mokus</author><text>I imagine those loud objectors would take issue with the idea that the government is &amp;quot;literally just US&amp;quot; - it&amp;#x27;s much more literally a small minority of us who are deciding on behalf of us what we are to do with our resources. There&amp;#x27;s nothing inherently wrong with that - the US was always intended to be exactly that - but it certainly leaves room for the represented to debate about the way they should be represented. &amp;quot;Us&amp;quot; consists of people with different ideas about what is worth spending money on, both in terms of goals and effective ways of pursuing those goals, and using the government to allocate funding ignores all that.&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s easy to look at Tesla and SpaceX and see a couple winning tickets in the &amp;quot;give money for technology&amp;quot; lottery, but they are not the only tickets our government has purchased. Consider all the other entrepreneurs who are doing an outstanding job of not so much moving technology in any direction at all but rather lining their pockets while cratering their industry&amp;#x27;s reputation, or those that make reasonable attempts with interesting but ultimately impractical innovations.&lt;p&gt;The people who object are generally objecting to the playing of the lottery itself. The most commonly proposed alternative is that these companies should earn the money by providing value in the market or convince investors (who have powerful financial incentives to get it right) that they can do so, rather than by convincing a relatively few laypeople with no real skin in the game to risk other people&amp;#x27;s money on them.&lt;p&gt;Pre-emptive disclaimer: yes, I know I&amp;#x27;ve not mentioned any of the opposing arguments here. My purpose in writing this is solely to explain some of the key points (including some of the emotional appeals) in this particular side of this particular debate.</text></comment>

<story><title>No One Saw Tesla’s Solar Roof Coming</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-10-31/no-one-saw-tesla-s-solar-roof-coming</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>aerovistae</author><text>Another side note: it always annoys me when people insinuate that Musk using government funds is a bad thing.&lt;p&gt;The government is literally just US....it&amp;#x27;s our money and a collection of individuals from among us who we&amp;#x27;ve appointed to handle the general administration of us and the space we take up.&lt;p&gt;Why should American entrepreneurs, particularly ones doing such an outstanding job of moving technology in a positive direction, not get our financial support (a.k.a. the government&amp;#x27;s support)?&lt;p&gt;Who exactly is losing out when we support our own business initiatives with our own money?</text></item><item><author>wojcech</author><text>I&amp;#x27;m sure i&amp;#x27;m not the only one who feels like this is possibly the iphone moment of Solarcity&amp;#x2F;Tesla: an old-ish idea, made &lt;i&gt;sexy&lt;/i&gt; and tasty to consumers, together with technology reaching a tipping point(and also Musk &lt;i&gt;again&lt;/i&gt; finding a way to maximally exploit government subsidies for clean tech.)&lt;p&gt;The tesla car itself could count as well, but felt less &amp;quot;design driven&amp;quot; imo. If this fails, everyone will call it obviously due to bad tech. If it succeeds, I&amp;#x27;d say it was because the tech was barely sufficient to keep up with the excellent luster.&lt;p&gt;On a side note, I wonder whether or not the heavy government subsidies will be forgotten in the lore of clean tech, just like silicon valley seems to have forgotten the complete and utter reliance on government funding in it&amp;#x27;s infancy(or possibly even today)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>wojcech</author><text>I hope it came through in my comment that I dislike the denial of government aid in the creation of a &amp;quot;bootstraps&amp;quot; narrative when people want to argue against taxes, not the making use of government aid per se(otherwise now it&amp;#x27;s clear).&lt;p&gt;One valid argument against government aid is market distortion. One example of abuse is farming, where subsidies create a system(as far as I understand at least) where those that have enough land to tick of all subsidies have an edge over smaller farms (in addition to scaling), leading to consolidation and effectively paying land magnates with tax money.&lt;p&gt;A different aspect(more specific) is that &lt;i&gt;maybe&lt;/i&gt; solar is just not ready and should fail, and only the subsidies make it viable, meaning people will have &amp;quot;junk&amp;quot; on their roofs without Solarcity to maintain it if the subsidies fade. However, that argument is only valid to me if coal&amp;#x2F;oil does not get subsidies currently, which I doubt</text></comment>

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<story><title>Some Rich Americans Are Getting Stimulus ‘Checks’ Averaging $1.7M</title><url>https://www.forbes.com/sites/shaharziv/2020/04/14/why-are-rich-americans-getting-17-million-stimulus-checks/#1025269e665b</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>lend000</author><text>If I am understanding this correctly, there is no money flowing to rich Americans, but they will have additional opportunities to deduct losses on their 2020 taxes (basically paying less in taxes after a major stock market rout) that would normally need to be spread over future tax returns indefinitely.&lt;p&gt;However, this will only occur if they took losses, so it is really a discount of ~35% on negative income. This would also apply to someone who is not rich, i.e. a software dev sole proprietor who cashed out big losses in March in the stock market and then applied those losses against their normal income to end up reporting 64k in income instead of 100k (normally 36k in losses would have to be stretched over 12 years of tax returns).&lt;p&gt;I understand this doesn&amp;#x27;t fit the narrative, but please comment if it is incorrect instead of downvoting.</text></comment>

<story><title>Some Rich Americans Are Getting Stimulus ‘Checks’ Averaging $1.7M</title><url>https://www.forbes.com/sites/shaharziv/2020/04/14/why-are-rich-americans-getting-17-million-stimulus-checks/#1025269e665b</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>mywittyname</author><text>&amp;gt;because of additional language that applies the policy retroactively “so losses in 2018 and 2019 can be ‘carried back’ against the past five years.”&lt;p&gt;Damn, must be nice.</text></comment>

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<story><title>Modern C++ gamedev: thoughts and misconceptions</title><url>https://vittorioromeo.info/index/blog/gamedev_modern_cpp_thoughts.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>gordaco</author><text>I would say Java, which I suspect is bound to be a bit of an unpopular opinion here (I expect more startup people than enterprise denizens in HN); but the more I think about it, the more sure I&amp;#x27;m that it fits the bill:&lt;p&gt;- Dumb: you bet. The inclusion of lambdas has shaken things a little, but usually Java code is straightforward with little space for &amp;quot;cleverness&amp;quot;. The counterpoint to this, of course, would be the memes about AbstractFactoryFactoryImplementationSubclassDispatcher class names and all that, which IMHO does not represent much actual Java code out there. There are good reasons why big corps prefer Java, and readability is one of them. As a programmer, I&amp;#x27;ve found it easier to jump into a Java codebase I didn&amp;#x27;t know much about than in any other language. And this has happened even when I had little experience in Java.&lt;p&gt;- Safe: yes. You have to go out of your way to be unsafe in Java. Memory allocation is done for you and the try-with-resources idiom is almost as good as C++ RAII.&lt;p&gt;- Fast: also yes. Usually about 2x or 3x the run time of C&amp;#x2F;C++ code, some times even less.</text></item><item><author>deepaksurti</author><text>&amp;gt; Not always, though. See every bug and exploit with C arrays ...&lt;p&gt;That can also be perceived as a a flaw of the language design in that it does not allow one to write dumb, safe and fast code. Which are such languages in existence today?&lt;p&gt;edit: fixed typos</text></item><item><author>krapp</author><text>&amp;gt;I find that the dumbest code is the best code&lt;p&gt;Not always, though.&lt;p&gt;See every bug and exploit with C arrays or pointers that exists because C devs think even minimal attempts at safety are too complicated or slow, or old-style PHP code that builds SQL queries out of printf strings directly from POST values, or probably countless other examples in other languages. C++ code that uses raw pointers instead of references or that uses std::vector but never actually bothers to bounds-check anything.&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s entirely possible for code to be too dumb for its own good.</text></item><item><author>PezzaDev</author><text>After years of experience writing code for games, I find that the dumbest code is the best code. It doesn&amp;#x27;t matter if it&amp;#x27;s C# or C++, whenever I&amp;#x27;ve used something like reactive extensions or template metaprogramming, it has been a terrible mistake every single time. Make your code simple, dumb and verbose all the time. Avoid using any complex abstractions or any overcomplicated syntactic sugar and you&amp;#x27;ll have a codebase that anyone can jump into and quickly be able to add features without introducing bugs (at least less likely). This matters more than anything else.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jcelerier</author><text>&amp;gt; Fast: also yes. Usually about 2x or 3x the run time of C&amp;#x2F;C++ code, some times even less.&lt;p&gt;not commenting on the Java part as I believe it&amp;#x27;s usually faster than that (though not so sure when you see the years of hoops that Minecraft java had to go through to stop being so damn slow all the time...) , but it&amp;#x27;s kinda frustrating to be fighting for microseconds almost daily and then hear people saying that 2x slower is fast... 2x slower means going from 100fps to 50fps which ... well, gets you fired ?</text></comment>

<story><title>Modern C++ gamedev: thoughts and misconceptions</title><url>https://vittorioromeo.info/index/blog/gamedev_modern_cpp_thoughts.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>gordaco</author><text>I would say Java, which I suspect is bound to be a bit of an unpopular opinion here (I expect more startup people than enterprise denizens in HN); but the more I think about it, the more sure I&amp;#x27;m that it fits the bill:&lt;p&gt;- Dumb: you bet. The inclusion of lambdas has shaken things a little, but usually Java code is straightforward with little space for &amp;quot;cleverness&amp;quot;. The counterpoint to this, of course, would be the memes about AbstractFactoryFactoryImplementationSubclassDispatcher class names and all that, which IMHO does not represent much actual Java code out there. There are good reasons why big corps prefer Java, and readability is one of them. As a programmer, I&amp;#x27;ve found it easier to jump into a Java codebase I didn&amp;#x27;t know much about than in any other language. And this has happened even when I had little experience in Java.&lt;p&gt;- Safe: yes. You have to go out of your way to be unsafe in Java. Memory allocation is done for you and the try-with-resources idiom is almost as good as C++ RAII.&lt;p&gt;- Fast: also yes. Usually about 2x or 3x the run time of C&amp;#x2F;C++ code, some times even less.</text></item><item><author>deepaksurti</author><text>&amp;gt; Not always, though. See every bug and exploit with C arrays ...&lt;p&gt;That can also be perceived as a a flaw of the language design in that it does not allow one to write dumb, safe and fast code. Which are such languages in existence today?&lt;p&gt;edit: fixed typos</text></item><item><author>krapp</author><text>&amp;gt;I find that the dumbest code is the best code&lt;p&gt;Not always, though.&lt;p&gt;See every bug and exploit with C arrays or pointers that exists because C devs think even minimal attempts at safety are too complicated or slow, or old-style PHP code that builds SQL queries out of printf strings directly from POST values, or probably countless other examples in other languages. C++ code that uses raw pointers instead of references or that uses std::vector but never actually bothers to bounds-check anything.&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s entirely possible for code to be too dumb for its own good.</text></item><item><author>PezzaDev</author><text>After years of experience writing code for games, I find that the dumbest code is the best code. It doesn&amp;#x27;t matter if it&amp;#x27;s C# or C++, whenever I&amp;#x27;ve used something like reactive extensions or template metaprogramming, it has been a terrible mistake every single time. Make your code simple, dumb and verbose all the time. Avoid using any complex abstractions or any overcomplicated syntactic sugar and you&amp;#x27;ll have a codebase that anyone can jump into and quickly be able to add features without introducing bugs (at least less likely). This matters more than anything else.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>HelloNurse</author><text>Cleverness is more a function of a programmer&amp;#x27;s habits and attitude than of the language: one tries to be clever in any language.&lt;p&gt;C++ offers &amp;quot;efficient&amp;quot; ways to be clever, with varied and difficult challenges that can be addressed in relatively little difficult code; some are good or harmless (e.g. aligning struct fields to cache lines or concise towers of useful templates) and some are bad (e.g. flaky homemade not-too-smart pointers and almost-STL-compatible containers).&lt;p&gt;Java, on the contrary, facilitates the creation of large, boring and easy to read generic object-oriented tumors, that become satisfactorily clever only when they go very far (e.g. one more layer of indirection than everyone else) or reach theoretical limits (e.g. nothing left to invert control of).</text></comment>

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<story><title>New Distros Coming to Bash/WSL via Windows Store</title><url>https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/commandline/2017/05/11/new-distros-coming-to-bashwsl-via-windows-store/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>komali2</author><text>Anybody manage to make their Bash&amp;#x2F;WSL actually look good? I&amp;#x27;ve got it just running in, what, cmd I guess? I don&amp;#x27;t know. Anyway it&amp;#x27;s fuckugly. I had to just set all the fonts to white on a black background because otherwise the returns from npm installs and git status and stuff would be unreadable deep blue.&lt;p&gt;Don&amp;#x27;t get me wrong, I love using it, but it doesn&amp;#x27;t beat the aesthetics of a terminal on a mac or a nicely configured ubuntu terminal.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>petetnt</author><text>I use zsh with Hyper (&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;hyper.is&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;hyper.is&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt;) using &amp;quot;atom-dark&amp;quot; (&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.npmjs.com&amp;#x2F;package&amp;#x2F;hyperterm-atom-dark&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.npmjs.com&amp;#x2F;package&amp;#x2F;hyperterm-atom-dark&lt;/a&gt;) theme and it&amp;#x27;s quite decent sans the hideous text background colors:&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;i.imgur.com&amp;#x2F;l4Oi2up.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;i.imgur.com&amp;#x2F;l4Oi2up.png&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>

<story><title>New Distros Coming to Bash/WSL via Windows Store</title><url>https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/commandline/2017/05/11/new-distros-coming-to-bashwsl-via-windows-store/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>komali2</author><text>Anybody manage to make their Bash&amp;#x2F;WSL actually look good? I&amp;#x27;ve got it just running in, what, cmd I guess? I don&amp;#x27;t know. Anyway it&amp;#x27;s fuckugly. I had to just set all the fonts to white on a black background because otherwise the returns from npm installs and git status and stuff would be unreadable deep blue.&lt;p&gt;Don&amp;#x27;t get me wrong, I love using it, but it doesn&amp;#x27;t beat the aesthetics of a terminal on a mac or a nicely configured ubuntu terminal.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>electrotype</author><text>I use it with ConEmu and I like my colors... Everything is configurable.&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;i.imgur.com&amp;#x2F;BHDxdOJ.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;i.imgur.com&amp;#x2F;BHDxdOJ.png&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>

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<story><title>Tech firms write to U.S. FCC to oppose &apos;net neutrality&apos; plan</title><url>http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/05/07/us-netneutrality-companies-idUSBREA4615420140507</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>DigitalSea</author><text>I think as has always been the case, money talks more then words ever could in a political system. If these 100+ tech companies each put in a few dollars, they would have enough lobbying money to swing the argument in the right direction. We are only at the current point in the anti-net neutrality argument because ISP&amp;#x27;s and telecommunication providers have been lobbying Washington rather successfully.&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s a sad fact he with the biggest cheque book wins, especially when it comes to reform. Look at the whole music&amp;#x2F;movies piracy argument, it extends as far back as the late nineties; publisher groups, the likes of the RIAA suing people and skewing the legal system by throwing money at the right people who have the power to vote and act upon such decisions. It&amp;#x27;s happening all over again, except this time the repercussions will be far worse then any anti-piracy bill.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;m not saying lobbying is the only solution, but if the entities on the wrong side of the argument are doing it, does it matter if Google, Amazon, Facebook and other companies issue statements and express concerns to congress if it will only fall on deaf ears or be brushed off as a selfish act?&lt;p&gt;It kind of reminds me of when Labor were in power in Australia before the recent election and were in the process of rolling out the National Broadband Network (NBN) which was a fibre to the premises plan the current party has basically scrapped. Google Australia issued a statement saying the current Government needs to understand the value of such a network, but they were shrugged off. If they opened up their cheque book and started donating to particular Government interests and districts, would they have been taken more seriously? Maybe.</text></comment>

<story><title>Tech firms write to U.S. FCC to oppose &apos;net neutrality&apos; plan</title><url>http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/05/07/us-netneutrality-companies-idUSBREA4615420140507</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>dsr_</author><text>Hey, can someone rewrite Reuter&amp;#x27;s headline for them?&lt;p&gt;These companies don&amp;#x27;t oppose Net Neutrality. They oppose Wheeler&amp;#x27;s anti-net-neutrality plan.</text></comment>

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<story><title>Atom 1.20</title><url>http://blog.atom.io/2017/09/12/atom-1-20.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>_eht</author><text>I was a fan of Atom until I tried VSCode. Call me a shill, if you will, but it is an all around better experience and I haven&amp;#x27;t looked back.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>SwellJoe</author><text>I tried it, liked that it was faster than Atom at the time (though the gap has shrunk, as I understand it), but couldn&amp;#x27;t deal with it having an &amp;quot;only one open project&amp;quot; model. That was a deal-breaker for me. All of my stuff is broken out into many small projects, and I&amp;#x27;m trying to go further in that direction rather than toward more monolithic codebases.&lt;p&gt;That one factor was a deal-breaker and I went back to Atom (though I still use vim just as often as Atom, since I don&amp;#x27;t have &lt;i&gt;every&lt;/i&gt; project open in Atom at any given time, and sometimes I just need to edit one file really quick and check it in).&lt;p&gt;VSCode is very good. But, as long as it&amp;#x27;s got a one-project model, I can&amp;#x27;t do anything with it.</text></comment>

<story><title>Atom 1.20</title><url>http://blog.atom.io/2017/09/12/atom-1-20.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>_eht</author><text>I was a fan of Atom until I tried VSCode. Call me a shill, if you will, but it is an all around better experience and I haven&amp;#x27;t looked back.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>bauerd</author><text>This has been my experience as well. I really wanted to like Atom, but then I tried VSC. It&amp;#x27;s an incredibly well done editor, and it doesn&amp;#x27;t feel nearly as laggy as the average Electron app.</text></comment>

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<story><title>Let’s Publish Everything</title><url>https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2019/05/29/lets-publish-everything/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>petschge</author><text>(I agree with the parent poster, but this seems like the right place to add the following.)&lt;p&gt;One thing that people who claim &amp;quot;the scarcity is gone, let&amp;#x27;s just publish everything&amp;quot; do miss is that there still is a scarcity: The time and attention of researchers.&lt;p&gt;Let me expand a bit on that from my own field of studying reconnection in astrophysical plasma. As you can tell from the description it is not a well defined closed topic. Instead there is tons of more or less adjacent fields. The study of solar flares (which might be triggered by reconnection), the study of coronal heating (the heat might be due to magnetic field getting converted to heat by reconnection), astronomical observations of AGN jets (reconnection might be what produces energetic particles there that we see in the SDE of those sources), observations of pulsar wind nebulae (the energetic particles there might have been accelerated at the termination shock. or due to reconnection), observations of giant pulses in (some) pulsars (that might be due to reconnection at the Y point of the current sheet just outside the light cylinder) and so on. On top of the related physical topics I need to keep on top of development methods in the simulation method I use (particle in cell codes) and in several related simulation methods (either because improvements there might make them viable to study reconnection which wasn&amp;#x27;t possible before, or because the neat new trick in method X might also improve the characteristics in PiC codes).&lt;p&gt;If I wanted to I could spend easily 100 hours per week just reading papers. But staying current with the field is just 5 or maybe 10 percent of my job. So what I do is the following: Papers that fall close enough to my special topic I will read. All of them. I will actually print them out, annotate them, go over them with a fine toothed comb. For many other papers I will read the abstracts (10 to 50 each morning) to find the 1 or 2 paper that are worth reading. And this is where selection by the editors and limitations to publications come in. They rank important papers. I am much more likely to read &amp;quot;a novel approach to plasma simulation&amp;quot; if it was accepted into the Astrophysical Journal than if it just appears on ArXiv. Because ApJ does not like pure code papers. So if it made the cut 2 or 3 experts in the field deemed it worth the time of the community.&lt;p&gt;Now that doesn&amp;#x27;t mean that all ArXiv papers are bad, that we should publish less or anything like that. When I talk to a colleague and ask about a technical detail I am SOOOO happy when they say &amp;quot;it&amp;#x27;s in the Arxiv paper ID 1906.bla&amp;quot;. And on the other hand there is the notion of &amp;quot;it was in Nature but it still might be right&amp;quot;. Bottom line is:&lt;p&gt;Do not discount the sorting by topic (numerical vs observational vs theoretical), impact (&amp;quot;here is one data point&amp;quot; vs &amp;quot;here is a completely new approach&amp;quot;) and quality (&amp;quot;I&amp;#x27;m not too convinced, but maybe it gives somebody an idea&amp;quot; vs &amp;quot;holy smokes how did we all miss that!&amp;quot;) that journals provide. Any better, future alternative needs this sorting and ranking. Just dumping it onto the internet is not the solution.</text></item><item><author>rdiddly</author><text>The same thing is trying to happen in scientific publication that&amp;#x27;s been happening in every other published medium: scarcity is gone. So why not embrace the abundance? Well if there&amp;#x27;s any contrary case to be made, it&amp;#x27;s that the explosion in quantity inevitably reduces the average quality. In the arts, low quality corresponds to that ineffable quality of &lt;i&gt;shittiness&lt;/i&gt;. In news, it&amp;#x27;s fakeness. In science, it&amp;#x27;s irreproducibility. So what do you do? All the former built-in scarcity-based ways of filtering for quality went out the window along with the scarcity itself. You can no longer use the limited space on physical sheets of papyrus (or vinyl LP records, or celluloid) as an excuse to exclude things. So you need new ways of sorting out good quality work from the (suddenly vast) quantities of mediocre work. Seems like you&amp;#x27;re doing pretty well if you&amp;#x27;re lucky enough to have a whole new class of people step in to help with the filtering part. Unless of course you believe a scientific discovery is fundamentally the work of a person, an ego, rather than a fact that existed long before that particular person happened to discover it.&lt;p&gt;Democratization ends elitism; unfortunately elites sometimes really do consist of the best of a given thing. Especially newer elites. Every elite starts out as a meritocracy and ends up some kind of weird legacy-based cabal&amp;#x2F;cartel that deserves to be overthrown (that&amp;#x27;s the one you&amp;#x27;re probably accustomed to thinking of when you hear the term &amp;quot;elitism&amp;quot;).</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>marcus_holmes</author><text>Interesting. This seems to correlate almost exactly with discovery in music streaming too. Given the torrent of new music available, how do you discover the new music that you like?&lt;p&gt;At the moment, AI is doing a pretty bad job of this - my Spotify Discover Weekly is an interesting listen, but I know it&amp;#x27;s not the best selection of new music out there suited to my tastes (to be fair, it&amp;#x27;s not really trying to be that, though). My &amp;quot;recommended&amp;quot; list on Netflix bores me. I get why they&amp;#x27;re recommending them, but it&amp;#x27;s all things that I&amp;#x27;ve seen and rejected from My List, rather than things that I would find genuinely new and interesting.&lt;p&gt;I think this is the next big problem to solve, for everyone. The combination of Discoverability (how do I get my music&amp;#x2F;paper&amp;#x2F;novel&amp;#x2F;art&amp;#x2F;film discovered by the audience of people who will like it?) and Search (how do I find new music&amp;#x2F;papers&amp;#x2F;novels&amp;#x2F;art&amp;#x2F;film that suit my tastes&amp;#x2F;research subject?).</text></comment>

<story><title>Let’s Publish Everything</title><url>https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2019/05/29/lets-publish-everything/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>petschge</author><text>(I agree with the parent poster, but this seems like the right place to add the following.)&lt;p&gt;One thing that people who claim &amp;quot;the scarcity is gone, let&amp;#x27;s just publish everything&amp;quot; do miss is that there still is a scarcity: The time and attention of researchers.&lt;p&gt;Let me expand a bit on that from my own field of studying reconnection in astrophysical plasma. As you can tell from the description it is not a well defined closed topic. Instead there is tons of more or less adjacent fields. The study of solar flares (which might be triggered by reconnection), the study of coronal heating (the heat might be due to magnetic field getting converted to heat by reconnection), astronomical observations of AGN jets (reconnection might be what produces energetic particles there that we see in the SDE of those sources), observations of pulsar wind nebulae (the energetic particles there might have been accelerated at the termination shock. or due to reconnection), observations of giant pulses in (some) pulsars (that might be due to reconnection at the Y point of the current sheet just outside the light cylinder) and so on. On top of the related physical topics I need to keep on top of development methods in the simulation method I use (particle in cell codes) and in several related simulation methods (either because improvements there might make them viable to study reconnection which wasn&amp;#x27;t possible before, or because the neat new trick in method X might also improve the characteristics in PiC codes).&lt;p&gt;If I wanted to I could spend easily 100 hours per week just reading papers. But staying current with the field is just 5 or maybe 10 percent of my job. So what I do is the following: Papers that fall close enough to my special topic I will read. All of them. I will actually print them out, annotate them, go over them with a fine toothed comb. For many other papers I will read the abstracts (10 to 50 each morning) to find the 1 or 2 paper that are worth reading. And this is where selection by the editors and limitations to publications come in. They rank important papers. I am much more likely to read &amp;quot;a novel approach to plasma simulation&amp;quot; if it was accepted into the Astrophysical Journal than if it just appears on ArXiv. Because ApJ does not like pure code papers. So if it made the cut 2 or 3 experts in the field deemed it worth the time of the community.&lt;p&gt;Now that doesn&amp;#x27;t mean that all ArXiv papers are bad, that we should publish less or anything like that. When I talk to a colleague and ask about a technical detail I am SOOOO happy when they say &amp;quot;it&amp;#x27;s in the Arxiv paper ID 1906.bla&amp;quot;. And on the other hand there is the notion of &amp;quot;it was in Nature but it still might be right&amp;quot;. Bottom line is:&lt;p&gt;Do not discount the sorting by topic (numerical vs observational vs theoretical), impact (&amp;quot;here is one data point&amp;quot; vs &amp;quot;here is a completely new approach&amp;quot;) and quality (&amp;quot;I&amp;#x27;m not too convinced, but maybe it gives somebody an idea&amp;quot; vs &amp;quot;holy smokes how did we all miss that!&amp;quot;) that journals provide. Any better, future alternative needs this sorting and ranking. Just dumping it onto the internet is not the solution.</text></item><item><author>rdiddly</author><text>The same thing is trying to happen in scientific publication that&amp;#x27;s been happening in every other published medium: scarcity is gone. So why not embrace the abundance? Well if there&amp;#x27;s any contrary case to be made, it&amp;#x27;s that the explosion in quantity inevitably reduces the average quality. In the arts, low quality corresponds to that ineffable quality of &lt;i&gt;shittiness&lt;/i&gt;. In news, it&amp;#x27;s fakeness. In science, it&amp;#x27;s irreproducibility. So what do you do? All the former built-in scarcity-based ways of filtering for quality went out the window along with the scarcity itself. You can no longer use the limited space on physical sheets of papyrus (or vinyl LP records, or celluloid) as an excuse to exclude things. So you need new ways of sorting out good quality work from the (suddenly vast) quantities of mediocre work. Seems like you&amp;#x27;re doing pretty well if you&amp;#x27;re lucky enough to have a whole new class of people step in to help with the filtering part. Unless of course you believe a scientific discovery is fundamentally the work of a person, an ego, rather than a fact that existed long before that particular person happened to discover it.&lt;p&gt;Democratization ends elitism; unfortunately elites sometimes really do consist of the best of a given thing. Especially newer elites. Every elite starts out as a meritocracy and ends up some kind of weird legacy-based cabal&amp;#x2F;cartel that deserves to be overthrown (that&amp;#x27;s the one you&amp;#x27;re probably accustomed to thinking of when you hear the term &amp;quot;elitism&amp;quot;).</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>isodude</author><text>The same is true within IT, you need to read a lot to make sure you&amp;#x27;re in the loop.&lt;p&gt;I think it correlates to map structures, if every point in a map is connected to every other point there will be a large surface for each point in the beginning but as the amount of points grow the surface (of possible attention in this case) will shrink.&lt;p&gt;How much area of attention is needed to perform the best in a creative research, to produce the best work in a given time? Maybe the answer to that question will yield more papers with better quality.&lt;p&gt;My personal belief is that we need to dream more and do less work to make sure the work that is done is of more quality such that no filtration is needed and we can truly publish everything.</text></comment>

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<story><title>The Broken Promises of MRI/REE/YARV</title><url>http://timetobleed.com/the-broken-promises-of-mrireeyarv/</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>iam</author><text>I think this is a problem that exists across any VM that implements a GC, not just Ruby.&lt;p&gt;.NET CLR has the exact same problem (perhaps a harder one, since CLR has a moving GC), so anytime they touch GC references (pointers to objects that are collectible) it&apos;s always wrapped in an explicit GC stack frame (think GC struct that lives on the stack). Furthermore, all reads/writes are carefully done with macros (which of course expands to volatile + some other stuff) to make sure the compiler doesn&apos;t optimize it away.&lt;p&gt;On the one hand, this is nice because they don&apos;t need to scan the C-stack (it scans the VM stack and the fake GC frame stacks -- well it&apos;s one stack but you skip the native C frames), on the other hand this means that any time a GC object is used in C code (ok, actually it&apos;s C++) they have to be real careful to guard it.&lt;p&gt;Of course bugs crop up all the time where an object gets collected where it shouldn&apos;t have, it happens so often that there is a name for it -- &quot;GC Hole&quot;.&lt;p&gt;Astute readers and users of p/invoke may remark that they don&apos;t have to set up any &quot;GC frames&quot; -- that is because this complicated scheme is not exposed outside of the CLR source. Regular users of .NET who want to marshal pointers between native/managed can simply request that a GC reference gets pinned, at which point I&apos;m mostly sure it won&apos;t get collected until it&apos;s unpinned.&lt;p&gt;The bad news is I&apos;m almost positive there is nothing you can do with just C here to make this problem go away. You&apos;d want stuff to magically just happen under the hood, and C++ is the right way to go for that.&lt;p&gt;It&apos;s probably possible to create an RAII style C++ GC smart pointer that would be 99% foolproof at the expense of some performance. It gets a little bit trickier if we are doing a moving collector. I am thinking it could ref/unref at creation/destruction, and disallow any direct raw pointer usage not to shoot yourself in the foot.&lt;p&gt;Of course the people writing the GC still need to worry about this..</text></comment>

<story><title>The Broken Promises of MRI/REE/YARV</title><url>http://timetobleed.com/the-broken-promises-of-mrireeyarv/</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>davesims</author><text>This post is a weird mix of careful technical analysis and douchey, Zed Shaw-style hysterical overstatement.&lt;p&gt;However, I would like to see Matz&apos; response to the recommended steps for a fix at the end. Sounds like a reasonable goal to add for Ruby 2.0.&lt;p&gt;Note to self: Listening to Papoose while writing a technical blog post turns your otherwise important observations into a Chicken Littleish, end-of-the world rant.</text></comment>

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<story><title>Teenager can walk again thanks to Dutch 3D printed spinal implant</title><url>https://www.dutchnews.nl/news/2019/07/teenager-can-walk-again-thanks-to-dutch-3d-printed-spinal-implant/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>catoc</author><text>Fact check:&lt;p&gt;1. This was not published in The Lancet (a prestigious medical journal) but in the Lancet Digital Health a similar sounding spin-off journal without an impact factor that uses a pay to publish model (pay around $5000 and you get published)&lt;p&gt;2. No bones or anatomic parts were printed. What was printed is this: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;els-jbs-prod-cdn.literatumonline.com&amp;#x2F;cms&amp;#x2F;attachment&amp;#x2F;591a00c3-3865-428b-b74a-eaa94108fa5a&amp;#x2F;gr2.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;els-jbs-prod-cdn.literatumonline.com&amp;#x2F;cms&amp;#x2F;attachment&amp;#x2F;...&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>

<story><title>Teenager can walk again thanks to Dutch 3D printed spinal implant</title><url>https://www.dutchnews.nl/news/2019/07/teenager-can-walk-again-thanks-to-dutch-3d-printed-spinal-implant/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>ineedasername</author><text>This is pretty awesome. And sure, right now it&amp;#x27;s limited to high end tech at the bleeding edge of medicine, but I fully hope this will inspire the current gen owners of glowforges, makerbots, xcarves, and all of their off-brand alternatives to begin making over-engineered, novel, and interesting finger splints or Band-Aids or other diy-friendly med tech.</text></comment>

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<story><title>Sarah Silverman is suing OpenAI and Meta for copyright infringement</title><url>https://www.theverge.com/2023/7/9/23788741/sarah-silverman-openai-meta-chatgpt-llama-copyright-infringement-chatbots-artificial-intelligence-ai</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>DowsingSpoon</author><text>&amp;gt;you can train an AI on copyrighted material just like people can learn from copyrighted material.&lt;p&gt;No amount of whining and hand wringing from engineers will ever make this true. This is for the courts to decide.&lt;p&gt;A reasonable interpretation, in my eyes, is that the training process is a black box which takes in copyrighted works and produces a training model. The training model is a derivative work of the inputs. It therefore violates the copyrights of a large number of rights holders. The outputs of the model are derivative works which also violate copyright.&lt;p&gt;And anyone using or training a model trained on works for which they do not have the rights? Completely fucked. Or at least, they must accept this as a real risk.</text></item><item><author>JamesBarney</author><text>That&amp;#x27;s not was he&amp;#x27;s saying at all. He&amp;#x27;s saying you can train an AI on copyrighted material just like people can learn from copyrighted material.&lt;p&gt;If you acquire the material illegally that a separate issue that training AI doesn&amp;#x27;t give you any protection against.</text></item><item><author>kibwen</author><text>Excellent, so you&amp;#x27;re saying I&amp;#x27;ll be able to download any copyrighted work from any pirate site and be free of all consequence if I just claim that I&amp;#x27;m training an AI?</text></item><item><author>buildbot</author><text>Machine learning models have been trained with copyrighted data for a long time. Imagenet is full of copyrighted images, clearview literally just scanned the internet for faces, and I am sure there are other, older examples. I am unsure if this has been tested as fair use by a US court, but I am guessing it will be considered to be so if it is not already.</text></item><item><author>pessimizer</author><text>&amp;gt; The complaint lays out in steps why the plaintiffs believe the datasets have illicit origins — in a Meta paper detailing LLaMA, the company points to sources for its training datasets, one of which is called ThePile, which was assembled by a company called EleutherAI. ThePile, the complaint points out, was described in an EleutherAI paper as being put together from “a copy of the contents of the Bibliotik private tracker.” Bibliotik and the other “shadow libraries” listed, says the lawsuit, are “flagrantly illegal.”&lt;p&gt;This is the makers of AI explicitly saying that they did use copyrighted works from a book piracy website. If you downloaded a book from that website, you would be sued and found guilty of infringement. If you downloaded all of them, you would be liable for many billions of dollars in damages.&lt;p&gt;But companies like Google and Facebook get to play by different rules. Kill one person and you&amp;#x27;re a murderer, kill a million and to ask you about it is a &amp;quot;gotcha question&amp;quot; that you can react to with outrage.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dang</author><text>&amp;gt; No amount of whining and hand wringing from engineers will ever make this true&lt;p&gt;Please omit flamebait and swipes, as the site guidelines ask: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&amp;#x2F;newsguidelines.html&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&amp;#x2F;newsguidelines.html&lt;/a&gt;. Your comment would have been fine without that bit.</text></comment>

<story><title>Sarah Silverman is suing OpenAI and Meta for copyright infringement</title><url>https://www.theverge.com/2023/7/9/23788741/sarah-silverman-openai-meta-chatgpt-llama-copyright-infringement-chatbots-artificial-intelligence-ai</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>DowsingSpoon</author><text>&amp;gt;you can train an AI on copyrighted material just like people can learn from copyrighted material.&lt;p&gt;No amount of whining and hand wringing from engineers will ever make this true. This is for the courts to decide.&lt;p&gt;A reasonable interpretation, in my eyes, is that the training process is a black box which takes in copyrighted works and produces a training model. The training model is a derivative work of the inputs. It therefore violates the copyrights of a large number of rights holders. The outputs of the model are derivative works which also violate copyright.&lt;p&gt;And anyone using or training a model trained on works for which they do not have the rights? Completely fucked. Or at least, they must accept this as a real risk.</text></item><item><author>JamesBarney</author><text>That&amp;#x27;s not was he&amp;#x27;s saying at all. He&amp;#x27;s saying you can train an AI on copyrighted material just like people can learn from copyrighted material.&lt;p&gt;If you acquire the material illegally that a separate issue that training AI doesn&amp;#x27;t give you any protection against.</text></item><item><author>kibwen</author><text>Excellent, so you&amp;#x27;re saying I&amp;#x27;ll be able to download any copyrighted work from any pirate site and be free of all consequence if I just claim that I&amp;#x27;m training an AI?</text></item><item><author>buildbot</author><text>Machine learning models have been trained with copyrighted data for a long time. Imagenet is full of copyrighted images, clearview literally just scanned the internet for faces, and I am sure there are other, older examples. I am unsure if this has been tested as fair use by a US court, but I am guessing it will be considered to be so if it is not already.</text></item><item><author>pessimizer</author><text>&amp;gt; The complaint lays out in steps why the plaintiffs believe the datasets have illicit origins — in a Meta paper detailing LLaMA, the company points to sources for its training datasets, one of which is called ThePile, which was assembled by a company called EleutherAI. ThePile, the complaint points out, was described in an EleutherAI paper as being put together from “a copy of the contents of the Bibliotik private tracker.” Bibliotik and the other “shadow libraries” listed, says the lawsuit, are “flagrantly illegal.”&lt;p&gt;This is the makers of AI explicitly saying that they did use copyrighted works from a book piracy website. If you downloaded a book from that website, you would be sued and found guilty of infringement. If you downloaded all of them, you would be liable for many billions of dollars in damages.&lt;p&gt;But companies like Google and Facebook get to play by different rules. Kill one person and you&amp;#x27;re a murderer, kill a million and to ask you about it is a &amp;quot;gotcha question&amp;quot; that you can react to with outrage.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>kelnos</author><text>I think a reasonable interpretation is also that what you are saying is correct, that doing all that does indeed infringe others&amp;#x27; copyright, but that a fair use defense is valid.&lt;p&gt;I won&amp;#x27;t be particularly thrilled if that turns out to be the case, but I wouldn&amp;#x27;t be surprised if it does.&lt;p&gt;But as you say, we won&amp;#x27;t know until it&amp;#x27;s tested in court. And even then, often court cases around a complex topic like this will end up with a ruling that only clarifies a narrow aspect of it. So it might take many related court cases before we have a pretty good understanding of where the law stands. And then, of course, the law could change.</text></comment>

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<story><title>Akiyoshi&apos;s illusion pages</title><url>http://www.psy.ritsumei.ac.jp/~akitaoka/index-e.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>WA</author><text>Considering the tricks of palette shifting [1] and stuff that old computer and console games used to make computationally cheap animated backgrounds, does anyone know if there were computer games that used optical illusions for &quot;computationally super-cheap animations&quot;?&lt;p&gt;[1] &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.effectgames.com/effect/article.psp.html/joe/Old_School_Color_Cycling_with_HTML5&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.effectgames.com/effect/article.psp.html/joe/Old_S...&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>

<story><title>Akiyoshi&apos;s illusion pages</title><url>http://www.psy.ritsumei.ac.jp/~akitaoka/index-e.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>JDGM</author><text>Absolutely superb. And I&apos;m doing an optical illusions special with my students this week too so this goldmine is perfectly timed. Thanks!&lt;p&gt;My favourite are the colour ones. I stare and stare at them trying to isolate the bit that - for example - is actually grey but looks red, to see its &quot;true&quot; colour. That level of concentration...not really ever seeing the grey, but perhaps objects behind me in the room flying around Matilda-style.</text></comment>

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<story><title>GitHub-backup: backs up everything GitHub knows about a repository or a user</title><url>https://github.com/joeyh/github-backup</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>joeyh</author><text>There are a lot of different distributed issue trackers built on top of git. None widely known or used and all incompatable. If GitHub included issues and pull requests in a git repo (either in branch or in a separate git repo as they do for wikis), it would become an instant de-facto standard.&lt;p&gt;With such a standard, many new things would immediately spring up to use it. Bug reporting, and managing bug reports, and forwarding bug reports between related projects is a big pain point, largely due to the fractured mess of bug tracking systems. A thousand flowers would bloom.&lt;p&gt;The only reason GitHub has to not do this, as far as I can tell, is that keeping the issues locked in their silo makes it a little bit harder for competition to migrate repositories from GitHub. Although I hear GitLab migrates issues anyway, and the API makes this not hard (although perhaps needing lots of time due to rate limiting). And of course, they probably slapped a SQL database down on day 1 for issues without thinking too much about it, and so it would be some effort to move them into the git repo now.&lt;p&gt;Not holding my breath, which is why I wrote github-backup. Well, also because it recursively backs up forks, and I&amp;#x27;ve lost changes in deleted forks enough times to want to back them up automatically.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>sytse</author><text>At GitLab we indeed have an importer for GitHub issues (so you can import repos, pull requests and wikis in one go). But issues in a git repo would be awesome. My thoughts on this are in &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;gitlab.com&amp;#x2F;gitlab-org&amp;#x2F;gitlab-ce&amp;#x2F;issues&amp;#x2F;4084&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;gitlab.com&amp;#x2F;gitlab-org&amp;#x2F;gitlab-ce&amp;#x2F;issues&amp;#x2F;4084&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>

<story><title>GitHub-backup: backs up everything GitHub knows about a repository or a user</title><url>https://github.com/joeyh/github-backup</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>joeyh</author><text>There are a lot of different distributed issue trackers built on top of git. None widely known or used and all incompatable. If GitHub included issues and pull requests in a git repo (either in branch or in a separate git repo as they do for wikis), it would become an instant de-facto standard.&lt;p&gt;With such a standard, many new things would immediately spring up to use it. Bug reporting, and managing bug reports, and forwarding bug reports between related projects is a big pain point, largely due to the fractured mess of bug tracking systems. A thousand flowers would bloom.&lt;p&gt;The only reason GitHub has to not do this, as far as I can tell, is that keeping the issues locked in their silo makes it a little bit harder for competition to migrate repositories from GitHub. Although I hear GitLab migrates issues anyway, and the API makes this not hard (although perhaps needing lots of time due to rate limiting). And of course, they probably slapped a SQL database down on day 1 for issues without thinking too much about it, and so it would be some effort to move them into the git repo now.&lt;p&gt;Not holding my breath, which is why I wrote github-backup. Well, also because it recursively backs up forks, and I&amp;#x27;ve lost changes in deleted forks enough times to want to back them up automatically.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jstepka</author><text>What you&amp;#x27;re after is something like Fossil;&lt;p&gt;* &lt;a href=&quot;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.fossil-scm.org&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.fossil-scm.org&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;... which is a distributed version control system that embeds issue and wiki data.&lt;p&gt;What would be a great next step for version control (similar to how we went from cvs to svn to git) would be to embed issue and PR data into the repository data structure.&lt;p&gt;I haven&amp;#x27;t worked on Git &amp;#x2F; Bitbucket in a while (at Docker now), so I haven&amp;#x27;t been tracking it very close... what would be ideal, maybe it&amp;#x27;s already there... would be to design and build on the popularity of Git with a module that stores the issue &amp;#x2F; PR data giving you true portability. Over time that module could be made mandatory giving you the flexibility you&amp;#x27;re after.</text></comment>

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<story><title>California Right to Repair Bill Dies in Senate Committee</title><url>https://calpirg.org/news/cap/california-right-repair-bill-dies-senate-committee</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>shawnz</author><text>This is a tired argument. Of course people who have industry experience will continue to work in that industry. And if the chance of being rewarded with a &amp;quot;cushy&amp;quot; job after leaving office is so compelling then why are so few people interested in becoming politicians?</text></item><item><author>pmoriarty</author><text>It&amp;#x27;s an open secret in politics that government jobs are a revolving door to&amp;#x2F;from industry.&lt;p&gt;Corporate executives frequently go in to politics, and when politicians retire they often get cushy, high paying jobs at the very corporations they benefited while in office.&lt;p&gt;They don&amp;#x27;t have to be outright bribed while in office (though it&amp;#x27;s not unknown for that to happen), but they know they&amp;#x27;ll be handsomely rewarded once they leave.&lt;p&gt;That&amp;#x27;s not to mention them or their family members investing in companies they know will benefit from their actions while in office.</text></item><item><author>TrackerFF</author><text>Can anyone familiar with the process, explain exactly how these industry lobbyists win these cases? With a 75% of Californians being pro-right to repair, and with bipartisan support - you&amp;#x27;d think this would be an easy case to argue.&lt;p&gt;Do the lobbyists have some incredibly legitimate insider information they share with the senators? Do they just throw cash&amp;#x2F;donations at them?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>michaelt</author><text>&lt;i&gt;&amp;gt; if the chance of being rewarded with a &amp;quot;cushy&amp;quot; job after leaving office is so compelling then why are so few people interested in becoming politicians?&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;Becoming a politician is a bit like becoming a musician: Spend the best years of your life &amp;#x27;putting your time in&amp;#x27; with a 98% chance you&amp;#x27;ll never make it big. Only the 2% that made it big get offered those $500k&amp;#x2F;year sinecures.&lt;p&gt;If you&amp;#x27;re already in the powerful 2% you&amp;#x27;ve probably already compromised on your principles many times to get there, so the $500k&amp;#x2F;year for compromising them a little more is practically free money.&lt;p&gt;If you&amp;#x27;re entering politics, though? As you&amp;#x27;ve only got a 2% chance of making the $500k, the expected value is only $10k. Not much of a motivation.</text></comment>

<story><title>California Right to Repair Bill Dies in Senate Committee</title><url>https://calpirg.org/news/cap/california-right-repair-bill-dies-senate-committee</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>shawnz</author><text>This is a tired argument. Of course people who have industry experience will continue to work in that industry. And if the chance of being rewarded with a &amp;quot;cushy&amp;quot; job after leaving office is so compelling then why are so few people interested in becoming politicians?</text></item><item><author>pmoriarty</author><text>It&amp;#x27;s an open secret in politics that government jobs are a revolving door to&amp;#x2F;from industry.&lt;p&gt;Corporate executives frequently go in to politics, and when politicians retire they often get cushy, high paying jobs at the very corporations they benefited while in office.&lt;p&gt;They don&amp;#x27;t have to be outright bribed while in office (though it&amp;#x27;s not unknown for that to happen), but they know they&amp;#x27;ll be handsomely rewarded once they leave.&lt;p&gt;That&amp;#x27;s not to mention them or their family members investing in companies they know will benefit from their actions while in office.</text></item><item><author>TrackerFF</author><text>Can anyone familiar with the process, explain exactly how these industry lobbyists win these cases? With a 75% of Californians being pro-right to repair, and with bipartisan support - you&amp;#x27;d think this would be an easy case to argue.&lt;p&gt;Do the lobbyists have some incredibly legitimate insider information they share with the senators? Do they just throw cash&amp;#x2F;donations at them?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>guerrilla</author><text>It&amp;#x27;s less of an argument and more a list of facts, isn&amp;#x27;t it?&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; then why are so few people interested in becoming politicians?&lt;p&gt;Obviously because they can&amp;#x27;t afford to because they actually have to &lt;i&gt;work&lt;/i&gt;.</text></comment>

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<story><title>Employee’s unwanted birthday party nets him $450k after lawsuit</title><url>https://www.kentucky.com/news/state/kentucky/article260445977.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>giantg2</author><text>&amp;quot;McDonalds already had multiple successful suits against them about this very thing.&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;Ok, then I want to hear the reasoning behind those rulings&amp;#x2F;awards.&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;The lady in question got incredibly serious burns on her legs.&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;That&amp;#x27;s an outcome&amp;#x2F;result. That has no real bearing on the culpability.&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;She originally sued only for medical expenses, and McDonalds wasn&amp;#x27;t interested in settling.&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;Again, nothing speaking to culpability here.&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;The coffee was much hotter than the industry standard.&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;Ok, so this is basically what my comment said. It seems 185 is about 20 degrees higher than other restaurants. It also has a warning on it (jury said it&amp;#x27;s not big enough, but maybe we should have everyone sign waivers first?).&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;legal escalations necessary to deal with a bad corporate actor&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;Depends on your viewpoint as to who is &amp;quot;bad&amp;quot;.&lt;p&gt;Edit: why disagree with this?</text></item><item><author>vkou</author><text>The coffee was much hotter than the industry standard.&lt;p&gt;McDonalds already had multiple successful suits against them about this very thing.&lt;p&gt;The lady in question got incredibly serious burns on her legs.&lt;p&gt;She originally sued only for medical expenses, and McDonalds wasn&amp;#x27;t interested in settling.&lt;p&gt;The award was later reduced.&lt;p&gt;If the answer to bad corporate behaviour is not regulation, but rather lawsuits, then that lawsuit perfectly encapsulated the series of legal escalations necessary to deal with a bad corporate actor, that has been alerted of a problem in their product, and refuses to resolve it.</text></item><item><author>giantg2</author><text>Why was the McDonald&amp;#x27;s one not frivolous? Was it just because it was 185 degrees?&lt;p&gt;Edit: Why are people disagreeing with this? It&amp;#x27;s literally 2 questions and it seems the temperature was the issue when looking at culpability.&lt;p&gt;Edit 2: someone here provided the additional type of information that I was interested in. It wasn&amp;#x27;t just the temperature, but also that the cup had a design flaw that made it likely to collapse if you took the lid off. Thanks!</text></item><item><author>Latty</author><text>&amp;quot;Unwanted birthday party&amp;quot; is such a misleading thing to claim as the root cause, reminds me of the McDonald&amp;#x27;s coffee case, framing very legitimate lawsuits as frivolous.&lt;p&gt;Employer put him into a bad situation against his will, when he&amp;#x27;d warned them and it wasn&amp;#x27;t necessary for his job, and then fired him when he had the reaction he&amp;#x27;d foreseen. Obvious wrongful termination and horrific management.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>colpabar</author><text>I think people are just somewhat annoyed because your comments seem argumentative. This is a very famous case and there is tons of material online to read, including the court documents themselves! I have also heard from friends who went to law school that this is used as an example of a case that &lt;i&gt;isn&amp;#x27;t&lt;/i&gt; a frivolous lawsuit despite appearances.&lt;p&gt;It just seems like you are very set in your views and are &lt;i&gt;demanding&lt;/i&gt; that we all argue with you, and if that&amp;#x27;s the case, make a new post about the mcdonald&amp;#x27;s case because this thread isn&amp;#x27;t even about that.</text></comment>

<story><title>Employee’s unwanted birthday party nets him $450k after lawsuit</title><url>https://www.kentucky.com/news/state/kentucky/article260445977.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>giantg2</author><text>&amp;quot;McDonalds already had multiple successful suits against them about this very thing.&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;Ok, then I want to hear the reasoning behind those rulings&amp;#x2F;awards.&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;The lady in question got incredibly serious burns on her legs.&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;That&amp;#x27;s an outcome&amp;#x2F;result. That has no real bearing on the culpability.&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;She originally sued only for medical expenses, and McDonalds wasn&amp;#x27;t interested in settling.&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;Again, nothing speaking to culpability here.&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;The coffee was much hotter than the industry standard.&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;Ok, so this is basically what my comment said. It seems 185 is about 20 degrees higher than other restaurants. It also has a warning on it (jury said it&amp;#x27;s not big enough, but maybe we should have everyone sign waivers first?).&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;legal escalations necessary to deal with a bad corporate actor&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;Depends on your viewpoint as to who is &amp;quot;bad&amp;quot;.&lt;p&gt;Edit: why disagree with this?</text></item><item><author>vkou</author><text>The coffee was much hotter than the industry standard.&lt;p&gt;McDonalds already had multiple successful suits against them about this very thing.&lt;p&gt;The lady in question got incredibly serious burns on her legs.&lt;p&gt;She originally sued only for medical expenses, and McDonalds wasn&amp;#x27;t interested in settling.&lt;p&gt;The award was later reduced.&lt;p&gt;If the answer to bad corporate behaviour is not regulation, but rather lawsuits, then that lawsuit perfectly encapsulated the series of legal escalations necessary to deal with a bad corporate actor, that has been alerted of a problem in their product, and refuses to resolve it.</text></item><item><author>giantg2</author><text>Why was the McDonald&amp;#x27;s one not frivolous? Was it just because it was 185 degrees?&lt;p&gt;Edit: Why are people disagreeing with this? It&amp;#x27;s literally 2 questions and it seems the temperature was the issue when looking at culpability.&lt;p&gt;Edit 2: someone here provided the additional type of information that I was interested in. It wasn&amp;#x27;t just the temperature, but also that the cup had a design flaw that made it likely to collapse if you took the lid off. Thanks!</text></item><item><author>Latty</author><text>&amp;quot;Unwanted birthday party&amp;quot; is such a misleading thing to claim as the root cause, reminds me of the McDonald&amp;#x27;s coffee case, framing very legitimate lawsuits as frivolous.&lt;p&gt;Employer put him into a bad situation against his will, when he&amp;#x27;d warned them and it wasn&amp;#x27;t necessary for his job, and then fired him when he had the reaction he&amp;#x27;d foreseen. Obvious wrongful termination and horrific management.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Random_BSD_Geek</author><text>Genuinely not sure if you&amp;#x27;re trolling or not, but....&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; Ok, then I want to hear the reasoning behind those rulings&amp;#x2F;awards. ... &amp;gt; Edit: why disagree with this?&lt;p&gt;You&amp;#x27;re asking internet randos to explain something to you that is an easily researched matter of public record. I too used to think the McDonald&amp;#x27;s coffee case was a punchline for an overly litigious America. Then I read the horrifying details.</text></comment>

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<story><title>Loss of oxygen in lakes and oceans</title><url>https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2024/07/240715135713.htm</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>A_D_E_P_T</author><text>The scientific paper underlying the article is here: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.nature.com&amp;#x2F;articles&amp;#x2F;s41559-024-02448-y&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.nature.com&amp;#x2F;articles&amp;#x2F;s41559-024-02448-y&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;There&amp;#x27;s a different article, and to my mind a more readable one, here: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.sciencedaily.com&amp;#x2F;releases&amp;#x2F;2024&amp;#x2F;07&amp;#x2F;240715135713.htm&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.sciencedaily.com&amp;#x2F;releases&amp;#x2F;2024&amp;#x2F;07&amp;#x2F;240715135713.h...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; &lt;i&gt;&amp;quot;Lakes and reservoirs have experienced oxygen losses of 5.5% and 18.6% respectively since 1980. The oceans have experienced oxygen losses of around 2% since 1960 and, although that number is smaller, it represents a more geographically and volumetrically extensive mass. Marine ecosystems have also experienced substantial variability in oxygen depletion. For example, the midwaters off of Central California have lost 40% of their oxygen in the last few decades.&amp;quot;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;If that holds true worldwide, and not just at a selection of measuring sites, it&amp;#x27;s a rapid and very concerning shift. It&amp;#x27;ll be interesting to see if their measurements are corroborated.</text></comment>

<story><title>Loss of oxygen in lakes and oceans</title><url>https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2024/07/240715135713.htm</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>throwaway5752</author><text>&lt;i&gt;&amp;quot;Relevant, critical oxygen thresholds are being approached at rates comparable to other planetary boundary processes.&amp;quot;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.researchgate.net&amp;#x2F;publication&amp;#x2F;372847863_Anoxia_Begets_Anoxia_a_positive_feedback_to_the_deoxygenation_of_temperate_lakes&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.researchgate.net&amp;#x2F;publication&amp;#x2F;372847863_Anoxia_Be...&lt;/a&gt; is a previous paper, I can&amp;#x27;t find this. The author is qualified and has produced a good deal of original and field research on the topic.&lt;p&gt;This is a good example of where just reacting to a bad or clickbait headline would be to your detriment. This actually is new information and bad news.</text></comment>

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<story><title>Reverse engineering a Nintendo Switch cartridge</title><url>https://www.texplained-store.com/en/Blog/8_how-it-is-made-zelda-botw-cartridge.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>dudus</author><text>Another interesting fact about switch game cards is that they taste horribly. You can see several videos online of people tasting them. Theory was that it was coated in something to avoid kids from swallowing the small cards. But I&amp;#x27;m not sure this was confirmed by Nintendo.</text></comment>

<story><title>Reverse engineering a Nintendo Switch cartridge</title><url>https://www.texplained-store.com/en/Blog/8_how-it-is-made-zelda-botw-cartridge.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>chamakits</author><text>This is extremely cool. I always find these kinds of breakdowns interesting, because they always find something absolutely unique to the device.&lt;p&gt;Does anyone know, for this kind of &amp;quot;unique card device&amp;quot; use case, do companies usually have an in-house team in charge of developing it, or do they hire a third party, or does a third party approach them with the offer of a device like this?&lt;p&gt;If a third party, is it a small shop, or some established company? How is the company known and how does it build that relationship with Nintendo?</text></comment>

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<story><title>FBI: Stolen PII and deepfakes used to apply for remote tech jobs</title><url>https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/fbi-stolen-pii-and-deepfakes-used-to-apply-for-remote-tech-jobs/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>gsk22</author><text>&amp;gt; So yes, overemployed remote workers really exist, but at least in her case it was largely due to incompetent management.&lt;p&gt;I mean, incompetent management may have allowed the situation to persist. But your wife &amp;quot;working&amp;quot; 2.5 jobs for (presumably) the expected hours of just one of those jobs can&amp;#x27;t be blamed on management. She chose to accept all 3 of those positions with the knowledge that she wouldn&amp;#x27;t meet the conditions of employ.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;m not a &amp;quot;send &amp;#x27;em to jail!&amp;quot; type, and I have little sympathy for large corporations, but let&amp;#x27;s not pretend it&amp;#x27;s anything less than time theft.</text></item><item><author>telchior</author><text>Anecdotal, but my wife was doing 2.5 remote jobs simultaneously for a while, and apparently performing above expectation in all of them. However -- meetings were her major complaint, and she eventually burned out and quit the two full time jobs due to excessive and (according to her) pointless meetings.&lt;p&gt;One of the companies asked her to stay on as a consultant. They ended up hiring someone full time... who spent all their time in meetings, while my wife did the actual work. For significantly less pay, of course.&lt;p&gt;So yes, overemployed remote workers really exist, but at least in her case it was largely due to incompetent management.</text></item><item><author>spudlyo</author><text>I was surprised that this was a real thing when I stumbled upon the r&amp;#x2F;overemployed subreddit. Not sure how many of the folks who self-report their success in doing this are LARPers, but it&amp;#x27;s remarkable that anyone gets away with this.&lt;p&gt;I have a hard enough time attending all the meetings and completing my work in my actual job, I couldn&amp;#x27;t imagine taking on another and balancing the two somehow.</text></item><item><author>hijohnnylin</author><text>MANAGER: “hey uh, my friend at a different company said you applied for a job there this week?”&lt;p&gt;EMPLOYEE: “uhhhhhh…. that was… uhhh… a deepfake who also stole my information?”&lt;p&gt;MANAGER: “oh okay. yeah of course you would never try to double&amp;#x2F;triple your salary by taking multiple remote tech jobs with zero oversight. my friend said it seemed so real haha. deepfake are so good now. im gonna report this to the FBI, people need to know.”&lt;p&gt;EMPLOYEE: “yea haha amazing. anyway i gotta get back to not-my-other-job”</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>wpietri</author><text>What makes it &amp;quot;time theft&amp;quot;, whatever that means?&lt;p&gt;US employers have worked very hard to make many of their workers &amp;quot;exempt&amp;quot; [1] such that they don&amp;#x27;t have to pay for overtime and can make people work egregious hours without getting in legal trouble.&lt;p&gt;If that&amp;#x27;s not &amp;quot;time theft&amp;quot;, then I don&amp;#x27;t see why an exempt worker who can do the work of two people shouldn&amp;#x27;t get paid for doing the work of two people. It would be different if they were hourly workers and they were double-billing for the same hour, of course. But I don&amp;#x27;t think that&amp;#x27;s what&amp;#x27;s happening here.&lt;p&gt;[1] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.investopedia.com&amp;#x2F;terms&amp;#x2F;e&amp;#x2F;exempt-employee.asp&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.investopedia.com&amp;#x2F;terms&amp;#x2F;e&amp;#x2F;exempt-employee.asp&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>

<story><title>FBI: Stolen PII and deepfakes used to apply for remote tech jobs</title><url>https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/fbi-stolen-pii-and-deepfakes-used-to-apply-for-remote-tech-jobs/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>gsk22</author><text>&amp;gt; So yes, overemployed remote workers really exist, but at least in her case it was largely due to incompetent management.&lt;p&gt;I mean, incompetent management may have allowed the situation to persist. But your wife &amp;quot;working&amp;quot; 2.5 jobs for (presumably) the expected hours of just one of those jobs can&amp;#x27;t be blamed on management. She chose to accept all 3 of those positions with the knowledge that she wouldn&amp;#x27;t meet the conditions of employ.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;m not a &amp;quot;send &amp;#x27;em to jail!&amp;quot; type, and I have little sympathy for large corporations, but let&amp;#x27;s not pretend it&amp;#x27;s anything less than time theft.</text></item><item><author>telchior</author><text>Anecdotal, but my wife was doing 2.5 remote jobs simultaneously for a while, and apparently performing above expectation in all of them. However -- meetings were her major complaint, and she eventually burned out and quit the two full time jobs due to excessive and (according to her) pointless meetings.&lt;p&gt;One of the companies asked her to stay on as a consultant. They ended up hiring someone full time... who spent all their time in meetings, while my wife did the actual work. For significantly less pay, of course.&lt;p&gt;So yes, overemployed remote workers really exist, but at least in her case it was largely due to incompetent management.</text></item><item><author>spudlyo</author><text>I was surprised that this was a real thing when I stumbled upon the r&amp;#x2F;overemployed subreddit. Not sure how many of the folks who self-report their success in doing this are LARPers, but it&amp;#x27;s remarkable that anyone gets away with this.&lt;p&gt;I have a hard enough time attending all the meetings and completing my work in my actual job, I couldn&amp;#x27;t imagine taking on another and balancing the two somehow.</text></item><item><author>hijohnnylin</author><text>MANAGER: “hey uh, my friend at a different company said you applied for a job there this week?”&lt;p&gt;EMPLOYEE: “uhhhhhh…. that was… uhhh… a deepfake who also stole my information?”&lt;p&gt;MANAGER: “oh okay. yeah of course you would never try to double&amp;#x2F;triple your salary by taking multiple remote tech jobs with zero oversight. my friend said it seemed so real haha. deepfake are so good now. im gonna report this to the FBI, people need to know.”&lt;p&gt;EMPLOYEE: “yea haha amazing. anyway i gotta get back to not-my-other-job”</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>anikan_vader</author><text>&amp;gt;&amp;gt; time theft&lt;p&gt;But her time is not their property, and so there is nothing illegal about her doing with it as she pleases. You can’t steal something that is already yours.</text></comment>

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<story><title>Meta delays setting team budgets as Facebook parent plans fresh round of layoffs</title><url>https://www.reuters.com/technology/meta-delays-setting-team-budgets-facebook-parent-plans-fresh-round-layoffs-ft-2023-02-11/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>iamflimflam1</author><text>We always used to joke that layoffs always come in threes.&lt;p&gt;The first one never cuts deep enough. People do the bare minimum.&lt;p&gt;The second one comes when everyone realises that the business actually is in trouble and does need saving.&lt;p&gt;The third one is needed as the business has been so badly damaged by the layoffs and is now bleeding cash.</text></comment>

<story><title>Meta delays setting team budgets as Facebook parent plans fresh round of layoffs</title><url>https://www.reuters.com/technology/meta-delays-setting-team-budgets-facebook-parent-plans-fresh-round-layoffs-ft-2023-02-11/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>_trackno5</author><text>Not too surprising more lay offs are coming.&lt;p&gt;I joined Facebook in 2017 and they had around 40k people (left in 2020). By 2022 they had 80k.&lt;p&gt;I met with my first manager (he’s a director now) at FB a few weeks after the lay offs were announced and even he was totally puzzled as to why Meta hired so many people. In his own words, he couldn’t see what all those extra people were doing.&lt;p&gt;I do wonder if that number of employees is just inflated due to Meta acquiring a bunch of companies (VR)</text></comment>

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<story><title>RegExr 2.0</title><url>http://www.regexr.com</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>bane</author><text>Regex testing is cool, but there are dozens of these kinds of tools and I&amp;#x27;d really love to see some other kinds of regex tools&lt;p&gt;- A list generator. Enter a regex, set repetition operator constraints (e.g. &lt;i&gt;-&amp;gt;{0,3}, +-&amp;gt;{1,3}, .-&amp;gt;[A-Z0-9 ], etc.) and have it exhaustively generate a list of matching strings. This is helpful when you have a regex that matches your test strings, but also to let you know what &lt;/i&gt;else* it&amp;#x27;ll match. The constraints are to keep it from generating infinite lists. Even if it jams out tens or hundreds of thousands of produced strings, it&amp;#x27;s still useful. I&amp;#x27;ve found that most people just build up the first regex that will &amp;quot;match&amp;quot; their input text, and move on without thinking about all the edge cases they&amp;#x27;ve just introduced.&lt;p&gt;- A regex assembler optimizer. Give it a few regexes, have it assemble them into one large regex and optimize it. It&amp;#x27;s got to do better than just | or&amp;#x27;ing all the regexes together. I&amp;#x27;ve seen some work done on using trie variants to do this, but have no idea how far along the work is on this.&lt;p&gt;- A regex list generator. Give it a list of strings you want to match and have it generate a regex. A sliding &amp;quot;fuzziness&amp;quot; control could tell it to take alternates in the same character position and substitute either&lt;p&gt;1. Just the characters in the given list - a, t and q in the same position generates a|t|q&lt;p&gt;2. A representative narrow character range - if I give it a|t|q it knows to use [A-Z] while a|t|q|4 might generate [A-Z0-9]&lt;p&gt;3. A larger character range, a|t|q might just go ahead and produce [A-Z0-9]&lt;p&gt;4. An even larger character range, whatever it is, just use .&lt;p&gt;And maybe another slider for repetitions, so if I end up with [A-Z][A-Z][A-Z], should it just produce [A-Z]{3} or can I go ahead and have it [A-Z]+&lt;p&gt;Jam the result through an optimizer (see previous idea above) to clean up the regex and maybe even run it through the list generator to check if it produces only what you want.</text></comment>

<story><title>RegExr 2.0</title><url>http://www.regexr.com</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>lelf</author><text>People just cannot do unicode even remotely properly. Just cannot.&lt;p&gt;𝄞 is one char, not two. привет is matched by \w+.&lt;p&gt;PS there&amp;#x27;s some advanced stuff but where is basic [[:posix:]] char classes?</text></comment>

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<story><title>The most prized degree in India became the most worthless</title><url>https://restofworld.org/2020/india-engineering-degree/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>kls</author><text>I posted a comment a while back about this subject and the funny part was I got flamed by a bunch of US based technical workers, while the Indian techies pretty much agreed with me. Anyways the TLDR was I have a buddy Karthick and he is one of the best developers I know. So I asked him one day about why there was such low quality in India and he explained to me it was misaligned incentives due to the fact that, the fastest path to management is via a tech degree. So India is churning out a bunch of want to be MBA&amp;#x27;s with tech degrees that are just doing their time in tech to get to management. He said it was a hold over from the cast system and that you are held in more esteem in India when you manage more people.</text></item><item><author>cmckn</author><text>I&amp;#x27;ve seen this bias in myself. I interned with several guys from India during college. I was an undergrad, they were grad students, having gotten their undergrad in India. We all went to the same university in the US. They weren&amp;#x27;t &amp;quot;crappy&amp;quot; engineers, per se, they just seemed to not actually have an undergrad degree in CS. Obviously I never saw their transcripts, but we seemed to be working from very different knowledge bases. I&amp;#x27;ve since worked, as many of us have, with brilliant people from all over the world. It just gave me a weird impression of CS education in India. But, I&amp;#x27;m sure others have similar experiences of graduates from [random school in the US or elsewhere].</text></item><item><author>umvi</author><text>&amp;quot;When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure.&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;Churning out engineers as fast as possible and pressuring everyone to become one despite lack of interest just guarantees you will churn out astronomical numbers of crappy engineers.&lt;p&gt;And I hate to say it... but it possibly creates unintentional racial bias in interviewers because the sheer volume of crappy engineers being churned out from [Indian&amp;#x2F;Chinese&amp;#x2F;etc. universities] has preconditioned you to think &lt;i&gt;all engineers&lt;/i&gt; from [Indian&amp;#x2F;Chinese&amp;#x2F;etc. universities] are crappy, which couldn&amp;#x27;t be further from the truth.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>triceratops</author><text>&amp;gt; He said it was a hold over from the cast system&lt;p&gt;I was with you until the &amp;quot;cast (sic) system&amp;quot;.&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; you are held in more esteem in India when you manage more people.&lt;p&gt;You can replace &amp;quot;India&amp;quot; with literally any country in the world. Managers and bosses always are and always have been held in more esteem than leaf node workers, in every society past and present. It&amp;#x27;s got nothing to do with the caste system.&lt;p&gt;Personal anecdote: I caught up with an American friend from school after about 15 years. He worked in some kind of product&amp;#x2F;project management role. When I told him I was an engineer in the Bay Area he said &amp;quot;Oh, you&amp;#x27;re just a programmer?&amp;quot; (OK so he wasn&amp;#x27;t a great friend, and that was the last time I spoke to him...)</text></comment>

<story><title>The most prized degree in India became the most worthless</title><url>https://restofworld.org/2020/india-engineering-degree/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>kls</author><text>I posted a comment a while back about this subject and the funny part was I got flamed by a bunch of US based technical workers, while the Indian techies pretty much agreed with me. Anyways the TLDR was I have a buddy Karthick and he is one of the best developers I know. So I asked him one day about why there was such low quality in India and he explained to me it was misaligned incentives due to the fact that, the fastest path to management is via a tech degree. So India is churning out a bunch of want to be MBA&amp;#x27;s with tech degrees that are just doing their time in tech to get to management. He said it was a hold over from the cast system and that you are held in more esteem in India when you manage more people.</text></item><item><author>cmckn</author><text>I&amp;#x27;ve seen this bias in myself. I interned with several guys from India during college. I was an undergrad, they were grad students, having gotten their undergrad in India. We all went to the same university in the US. They weren&amp;#x27;t &amp;quot;crappy&amp;quot; engineers, per se, they just seemed to not actually have an undergrad degree in CS. Obviously I never saw their transcripts, but we seemed to be working from very different knowledge bases. I&amp;#x27;ve since worked, as many of us have, with brilliant people from all over the world. It just gave me a weird impression of CS education in India. But, I&amp;#x27;m sure others have similar experiences of graduates from [random school in the US or elsewhere].</text></item><item><author>umvi</author><text>&amp;quot;When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure.&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;Churning out engineers as fast as possible and pressuring everyone to become one despite lack of interest just guarantees you will churn out astronomical numbers of crappy engineers.&lt;p&gt;And I hate to say it... but it possibly creates unintentional racial bias in interviewers because the sheer volume of crappy engineers being churned out from [Indian&amp;#x2F;Chinese&amp;#x2F;etc. universities] has preconditioned you to think &lt;i&gt;all engineers&lt;/i&gt; from [Indian&amp;#x2F;Chinese&amp;#x2F;etc. universities] are crappy, which couldn&amp;#x27;t be further from the truth.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>cmckn</author><text>I&amp;#x27;ve had similar conversations. These guys were pretty open about the fact that they crammed for exams and didn&amp;#x27;t take undergrad very seriously. People that are in tech for the money is common everywhere, but there is definitely something unique about the Indian experience.</text></comment>

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<story><title>China orders its airlines to suspend use of Boeing 737 Max aircraft</title><url>https://www.reuters.com/article/us-ethiopia-airlines-china/china-orders-its-airlines-to-suspend-use-of-boeing-737-max-aircraft-media-idUSKBN1QS01Z</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>quanticle</author><text>&amp;gt;I wouldn&amp;#x27;t put faith in the FAA to be beyond political influence and crack down on an American manufacturer quickly.&lt;p&gt;I would. The FAA grounded the Boeing 787 after some widely publicized battery fires: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Boeing_787_Dreamliner_battery_problems#Groundings&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Boeing_787_Dreamliner_battery_...&lt;/a&gt;. I would assume that they would do the same thing here, if this also turned out to be a widespread issue not related to aircraft maintenance or pilot training.</text></item><item><author>dschuler</author><text>People seem to think this is a political move by the China, which may be true, but this is actually what they&amp;#x27;re supposed to do. According to the article, 96 737 MAX jets are operated by Chinese airlines, and the aircraft appears to be racking up a questionable safety record.&lt;p&gt;I wouldn&amp;#x27;t put faith in the FAA to be beyond political influence and crack down on an American manufacturer quickly.&lt;p&gt;Lauda Air flight 004 [0] crashed in 1991 after inadvertent thrust reverser deployment mid-flight, which were not secured with positive locks since Boeing deemed this to be impossible. The FAA accepted Boeing&amp;#x27;s tests at face value. Regardless, Boeing insisted this would be a survivable event - it wasn&amp;#x27;t until Niki Lauda (airline&amp;#x27;s founder) insisted Boeing issue a statement to the contrary or to perform a test flight with him and two pilots attempting a deliberate reverse thrust deployment mid-flight. Boeing relented and acknowledged the defect.&lt;p&gt;The more groups looking at aviation safety, the better.&lt;p&gt;[0] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Lauda_Air_Flight_004&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Lauda_Air_Flight_004&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ulfw</author><text>Please don&amp;#x27;t try to change history. The FAA only took action after the Japanese (the only major operators at the time) stopped flying them.&lt;p&gt;The same FAA who is in bed with Boeing I might say. Where in the world can you self-certify anything? What&amp;#x27;s the point of getting certified if you can do it yourself? Reminds me of self-grading in school. That was only in classes noone ever cared about.&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.seattletimes.com&amp;#x2F;seattle-news&amp;#x2F;faa-faulted-for-outsourcing-787-safety-checks-to-boeing&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.seattletimes.com&amp;#x2F;seattle-news&amp;#x2F;faa-faulted-for-ou...&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>

<story><title>China orders its airlines to suspend use of Boeing 737 Max aircraft</title><url>https://www.reuters.com/article/us-ethiopia-airlines-china/china-orders-its-airlines-to-suspend-use-of-boeing-737-max-aircraft-media-idUSKBN1QS01Z</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>quanticle</author><text>&amp;gt;I wouldn&amp;#x27;t put faith in the FAA to be beyond political influence and crack down on an American manufacturer quickly.&lt;p&gt;I would. The FAA grounded the Boeing 787 after some widely publicized battery fires: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Boeing_787_Dreamliner_battery_problems#Groundings&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Boeing_787_Dreamliner_battery_...&lt;/a&gt;. I would assume that they would do the same thing here, if this also turned out to be a widespread issue not related to aircraft maintenance or pilot training.</text></item><item><author>dschuler</author><text>People seem to think this is a political move by the China, which may be true, but this is actually what they&amp;#x27;re supposed to do. According to the article, 96 737 MAX jets are operated by Chinese airlines, and the aircraft appears to be racking up a questionable safety record.&lt;p&gt;I wouldn&amp;#x27;t put faith in the FAA to be beyond political influence and crack down on an American manufacturer quickly.&lt;p&gt;Lauda Air flight 004 [0] crashed in 1991 after inadvertent thrust reverser deployment mid-flight, which were not secured with positive locks since Boeing deemed this to be impossible. The FAA accepted Boeing&amp;#x27;s tests at face value. Regardless, Boeing insisted this would be a survivable event - it wasn&amp;#x27;t until Niki Lauda (airline&amp;#x27;s founder) insisted Boeing issue a statement to the contrary or to perform a test flight with him and two pilots attempting a deliberate reverse thrust deployment mid-flight. Boeing relented and acknowledged the defect.&lt;p&gt;The more groups looking at aviation safety, the better.&lt;p&gt;[0] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Lauda_Air_Flight_004&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Lauda_Air_Flight_004&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>akg_67</author><text>IIRC, FAA didn’t ground 787 until both Japanese airlines had grounded the 787. With the number of fatalities and accidents new 737 had, it should be grounded by all airlines.</text></comment>

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<story><title>US schools lay off hundreds of thousands</title><url>https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-usa-teachers-insig/u-s-schools-lay-off-hundreds-of-thousands-setting-up-lasting-harm-to-kids-idUSKBN23B39R</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>viburnum</author><text>You know who’s not laying off anyone? The military. Local funding of schools is ridiculous. Education benefits the whole nation. Educational investments shouldn’t be dictated by transient economic conditions.</text></comment>

<story><title>US schools lay off hundreds of thousands</title><url>https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-usa-teachers-insig/u-s-schools-lay-off-hundreds-of-thousands-setting-up-lasting-harm-to-kids-idUSKBN23B39R</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>tengbretson</author><text>It&amp;#x27;s odd to me that there is this bizarre certainty on hacker news that within 20 years the most common occupation, truck driving, will be nearly entirely obsolete, yet in an era where almost all human knowledge is available online for free, the idea that the education apparatus will either stay the same or continue to grow is somehow a given.</text></comment>

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<story><title>Google Workers Urge C.E.O. To Pull Out of Pentagon A.I. Project</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/04/technology/google-letter-ceo-pentagon-project.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>grellas</author><text>Where does one draw a line these days among the personal, the moral, the legal, and the political?&lt;p&gt;The military application in question is legal and is approved by a duly elected government that supports it politically. In earlier days, employees generally would see this as just doing their jobs in developing technology that their employers wanted developed and would not concern themselves about ultimate uses and applications. In other words, doing your job is personal and, as long as you do it honestly and work hard, you should not be faulted for doing it as requested by your employer. That was always the standard. What then is the new element from which this sort of employee-driven demand arises? Is it morality? In other words, if I help develop A.I. that can be used for all sorts of things, one of which happens to be military-related, is the effort &amp;quot;evil&amp;quot; if the employer for whom I develop it agrees contractually to provide it to the government for a wartime&amp;#x2F;military use that can kill people? Do I really make a difference for the good if I convince my employer not to do this if all this means is that the company down the street gets the contract and the military gets the same results, albeit from a different vendor? If this is so, then I assume that you as an employee can make no practical difference in making the world better by insisting that your employer forego this particular form of contracting opportunity. If you succeed, your employer misses an opportunity but the evil you see being released into the world still gets released. It just means that you do not personally contribute to the development effort by which it is made possible.&lt;p&gt;Of course, it might theoretically be possible to persuade all persons working in the field of A.I. to ban further work that directly helps the military. But that would seem a practical impossibility. Many people in all countries believe that military technology of all kinds is proper, legal, and politically supportable for purposes of self-defense or for some other overriding purpose they deem proper. And certainly, there are bad people throughout the world who are eager to use any technology that comes their way for overtly evil purposes such as misuse of an atomic bomb. Unless and until human nature is fundamentally transformed, that will never change.&lt;p&gt;So, what is the answer in a country such as the United States where people and companies have the freedom to develop A.I. for any lawful purpose and where some inevitably will do so for a military purpose of which you disapprove?&lt;p&gt;You are then left only with a political solution: use political means to gain control of the government and the military and apply the force of law to ban the military use of which you disapprove.&lt;p&gt;So this is either a personal act of futility by the Google employees or it is a case by which they cannot separate the personal from the political and thereby insist that their employer sacrifice particular economic opportunities to ensure that your personal actions do not support a political outcome of which you disapprove.&lt;p&gt;Even then, does this mean that your employer should cease working on A.I. altogether? For, just as cash is fungible, so too is technology. Every improvement you make in A.I. might have an immediate use of x for your employer but, as humans collectively do this for all sorts of improvements, the results are there for the taking in the future for military applications of all kinds. In other words, you cannot put your improvement in a box or control it so as to limit its future uses (at least not in a free society). The computing technology of recent decades undoubtedly has bettered many aspects of life but it has also greatly magnified the lethality and utility of military applications so as to make the world far less safe. And this was inevitable unless a supervening agency were to have used forcible and totalitarian means to suppress such technological development from inception. Since no such supervening agency existed or even can exist in a free society, does this mean that all engineers and technical developers have blood on their hands because, ultimately, things they have done were used for applications of which they disapproved? Of course it does not. Nor would people today working on A.I. be held morally or legally responsible for ultimate downstream uses made of their work of which they would not morally approve today.&lt;p&gt;But this brings us back full circle. In the long run, you cannot stop such uses (or misuses) made from your technical development work. Nor can you be held responsible for them even though you contributed to them in some remote degree through your work efforts. Why then should it make a difference if your direct work efforts for a company like Google are applied to a military application of which you do not approve but which is legal, politically approved by the governing authorities, and will happen anyway regardless of whether Google is involved?&lt;p&gt;The puritans of old tried controlling the morality of others by shunning and shaming and doing it to an extreme degree. They failed miserably in their efforts because humanity is what it is and followed its own course without regard to external religious constraints.&lt;p&gt;This sort of effort by Google employees is obviously different in that it is not religiously driven but does it amount to anything more than a shunning-and-shaming method for trying to impose one&amp;#x27;s sense of morality on others by signaling that this way lies righteousness and everywhere else lies evil?&lt;p&gt;If this is what &amp;quot;don&amp;#x27;t be evil&amp;quot; now means, then Google will need lots of help going forward because every cause under the sun can be used in the same way to shun and shame. We then have management by a corporate board as may be swayed to and fro by any organized protest of the moment.&lt;p&gt;Whatever this is, and however it might be defensible in &amp;quot;sending a message&amp;quot; or whatever, it is a sure way to put a company at a competitive disadvantage while accomplishing nothing practically. It may further &lt;i&gt;political&lt;/i&gt; goals but, if those are the goals, better just to try to advance them directly and not by attempting to shun and shame your employer (and your co-workers who may disagree with you) into submission. The personal need not be political. If it does become that way, a new form of puritanism will hold full sway to the detriment of all.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>contingencies</author><text>This argument is not only extremely lazy but positively representative of that large quagmire of social and communicative zeitgeist that Alan Kay calls &amp;quot;the bell curve of normality&amp;quot;.&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;It&amp;#x27;s hard to define things, so why bother at all?&amp;quot; ... &amp;quot;Attempting to circumscribe the affects of your work is difficult, so why have a moral stance at all?&amp;quot; ... dancing through loaded assumptions like &amp;quot;duly elected&amp;quot; and &amp;quot;democracy&amp;quot;, finally concluding with a tired crescendo of capitalist &amp;quot;competitive disadvantage&amp;quot;.&lt;p&gt;I would merely counter: if we are the future, then we can&amp;#x27;t all be lazy sods, especially those of us empowering the greatest systems, information and power structures on the planet. Give a damn, it&amp;#x27;s your moral duty. Intelligent people recognize this.</text></comment>

<story><title>Google Workers Urge C.E.O. To Pull Out of Pentagon A.I. Project</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/04/technology/google-letter-ceo-pentagon-project.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>grellas</author><text>Where does one draw a line these days among the personal, the moral, the legal, and the political?&lt;p&gt;The military application in question is legal and is approved by a duly elected government that supports it politically. In earlier days, employees generally would see this as just doing their jobs in developing technology that their employers wanted developed and would not concern themselves about ultimate uses and applications. In other words, doing your job is personal and, as long as you do it honestly and work hard, you should not be faulted for doing it as requested by your employer. That was always the standard. What then is the new element from which this sort of employee-driven demand arises? Is it morality? In other words, if I help develop A.I. that can be used for all sorts of things, one of which happens to be military-related, is the effort &amp;quot;evil&amp;quot; if the employer for whom I develop it agrees contractually to provide it to the government for a wartime&amp;#x2F;military use that can kill people? Do I really make a difference for the good if I convince my employer not to do this if all this means is that the company down the street gets the contract and the military gets the same results, albeit from a different vendor? If this is so, then I assume that you as an employee can make no practical difference in making the world better by insisting that your employer forego this particular form of contracting opportunity. If you succeed, your employer misses an opportunity but the evil you see being released into the world still gets released. It just means that you do not personally contribute to the development effort by which it is made possible.&lt;p&gt;Of course, it might theoretically be possible to persuade all persons working in the field of A.I. to ban further work that directly helps the military. But that would seem a practical impossibility. Many people in all countries believe that military technology of all kinds is proper, legal, and politically supportable for purposes of self-defense or for some other overriding purpose they deem proper. And certainly, there are bad people throughout the world who are eager to use any technology that comes their way for overtly evil purposes such as misuse of an atomic bomb. Unless and until human nature is fundamentally transformed, that will never change.&lt;p&gt;So, what is the answer in a country such as the United States where people and companies have the freedom to develop A.I. for any lawful purpose and where some inevitably will do so for a military purpose of which you disapprove?&lt;p&gt;You are then left only with a political solution: use political means to gain control of the government and the military and apply the force of law to ban the military use of which you disapprove.&lt;p&gt;So this is either a personal act of futility by the Google employees or it is a case by which they cannot separate the personal from the political and thereby insist that their employer sacrifice particular economic opportunities to ensure that your personal actions do not support a political outcome of which you disapprove.&lt;p&gt;Even then, does this mean that your employer should cease working on A.I. altogether? For, just as cash is fungible, so too is technology. Every improvement you make in A.I. might have an immediate use of x for your employer but, as humans collectively do this for all sorts of improvements, the results are there for the taking in the future for military applications of all kinds. In other words, you cannot put your improvement in a box or control it so as to limit its future uses (at least not in a free society). The computing technology of recent decades undoubtedly has bettered many aspects of life but it has also greatly magnified the lethality and utility of military applications so as to make the world far less safe. And this was inevitable unless a supervening agency were to have used forcible and totalitarian means to suppress such technological development from inception. Since no such supervening agency existed or even can exist in a free society, does this mean that all engineers and technical developers have blood on their hands because, ultimately, things they have done were used for applications of which they disapproved? Of course it does not. Nor would people today working on A.I. be held morally or legally responsible for ultimate downstream uses made of their work of which they would not morally approve today.&lt;p&gt;But this brings us back full circle. In the long run, you cannot stop such uses (or misuses) made from your technical development work. Nor can you be held responsible for them even though you contributed to them in some remote degree through your work efforts. Why then should it make a difference if your direct work efforts for a company like Google are applied to a military application of which you do not approve but which is legal, politically approved by the governing authorities, and will happen anyway regardless of whether Google is involved?&lt;p&gt;The puritans of old tried controlling the morality of others by shunning and shaming and doing it to an extreme degree. They failed miserably in their efforts because humanity is what it is and followed its own course without regard to external religious constraints.&lt;p&gt;This sort of effort by Google employees is obviously different in that it is not religiously driven but does it amount to anything more than a shunning-and-shaming method for trying to impose one&amp;#x27;s sense of morality on others by signaling that this way lies righteousness and everywhere else lies evil?&lt;p&gt;If this is what &amp;quot;don&amp;#x27;t be evil&amp;quot; now means, then Google will need lots of help going forward because every cause under the sun can be used in the same way to shun and shame. We then have management by a corporate board as may be swayed to and fro by any organized protest of the moment.&lt;p&gt;Whatever this is, and however it might be defensible in &amp;quot;sending a message&amp;quot; or whatever, it is a sure way to put a company at a competitive disadvantage while accomplishing nothing practically. It may further &lt;i&gt;political&lt;/i&gt; goals but, if those are the goals, better just to try to advance them directly and not by attempting to shun and shame your employer (and your co-workers who may disagree with you) into submission. The personal need not be political. If it does become that way, a new form of puritanism will hold full sway to the detriment of all.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>monfrere</author><text>Your discussion of &amp;quot;legality&amp;quot; here is U.S.-centric. Google has offices in Germany, France, Poland, Russia, Turkey, U.A.E., India, and China, to name a few. How would you feel if Google worked on military technology for those countries? Would you point out that it was inevitable that their militaries would seek ways to use A.I.? Would you point out that the Turkish armed forces&amp;#x27; activities are permitted under Turkish law? Would you lament the inability of Google employees to separate work from politics?&lt;p&gt;Google has users in almost all countries, and even our friends in other liberal democracies do not see the U.S. military the same way we do. Perhaps some Google users&amp;#x27; family members have even been killed by the U.S. military. This presents a perfectly reasonable business reason (one that has nothing to do with &amp;quot;the personal, the moral, the legal, and the political&amp;quot;) for Google to turn down AI drone contracts.</text></comment>

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<story><title>NYC tech catching up to Silicon Valley, while Seattle flails</title><url>https://medium.com/@sandimac/nyc-tech-catching-up-to-silicon-valley-while-seattle-flails-here-s-why-97ba7147b5f6#.e84c892cd</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>cavisne</author><text>It&amp;#x27;s weird the article conflates &amp;quot;tech&amp;quot; with startups.&lt;p&gt;Within the next few years Facebook, Google will have huge headquarters (currently under construction or planning) right next to Amazon&amp;#x27;s collection of buildings in Seattle, and Microsoft near by.&lt;p&gt;I think the issue startups have in Seattle is they expect to pay less than in SV, because cost of living is cheaper. However with some negotiation the Big 4 will pay you the same as in SV, while paying a quarter of SV rent for a nice apartment with a walking commute.&lt;p&gt;I guess that lingering smell of urine keeps people coming back to SF?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>fffernan</author><text>Yeah what is a tech company? I here people in Bay Area saying they work in tech all time time. Uber is a transportation company not a technology company. If Uber is a tech company then American Airlines is a tech company too. Both have an app which will let you get on some form of transportation and get one place to another. Boston Dynamics is a technology company for example. They build robots for the sake of building robots and hoping to sell the technology.</text></comment>

<story><title>NYC tech catching up to Silicon Valley, while Seattle flails</title><url>https://medium.com/@sandimac/nyc-tech-catching-up-to-silicon-valley-while-seattle-flails-here-s-why-97ba7147b5f6#.e84c892cd</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>cavisne</author><text>It&amp;#x27;s weird the article conflates &amp;quot;tech&amp;quot; with startups.&lt;p&gt;Within the next few years Facebook, Google will have huge headquarters (currently under construction or planning) right next to Amazon&amp;#x27;s collection of buildings in Seattle, and Microsoft near by.&lt;p&gt;I think the issue startups have in Seattle is they expect to pay less than in SV, because cost of living is cheaper. However with some negotiation the Big 4 will pay you the same as in SV, while paying a quarter of SV rent for a nice apartment with a walking commute.&lt;p&gt;I guess that lingering smell of urine keeps people coming back to SF?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>rconti</author><text>I&amp;#x27;d buy &amp;quot;quarter of SV rent for a nice apartment&amp;quot; or &amp;quot;a quarter of SV rent for an apartment with a walking commute&amp;quot; but I can&amp;#x27;t see the walking+1&amp;#x2F;4+nice all together. But that&amp;#x27;s splitting hairs, I assume.&lt;p&gt;Having grown up in Seattle and now working SV, I think the issue is the combination of being too close to SV, and not having the funding.&lt;p&gt;Obviously NYC has all the money you could need for a startup scene. Whether enough of it is being sent to startups can be argued, but the money is there. That, and it&amp;#x27;s a massive city near other massive population centers, and nowhere near the Valley. I think proximity to one big &amp;quot;scene&amp;quot; can hurt others.</text></comment>

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<story><title>A day in the life of Lloyd Squires, Vermont&apos;s &apos;best&apos; bagel maker</title><url>https://www.burlingtonfreepress.com/story/life/2018/11/19/lloyd-squires-myers-bagels-burlington/1977013002/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>otras</author><text>I love portraits like this, as the lifestyle is so far from anything I experience in my day to day.&lt;p&gt;Along these lines, although this seems very tame in comparison, I&amp;#x27;m reminded of the &amp;quot;A Day in the Life&amp;quot; chapter from Anthony Bourdain&amp;#x27;s &lt;i&gt;Kitchen Confidential&lt;/i&gt; (which I highly recommend):&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;&lt;i&gt;Thanks to my Bigfoot training I wake up automatically at five minutes before six. It&amp;#x27;s still dark, and I lie in bed in the pitch-black for a while, smoking, the day&amp;#x27;s specials and prep lists already coming together in my head. It&amp;#x27;s Friday, so the weekend orders will be coming in: twenty-five cases of mesclun, eighteen cases of GPOD 70-count potatoes, four whole forequarters of lamb, two cases of beef tenderloins, hundreds and hundreds of pounds of meat, bones, produce, seafood, dry goods and dairy. I know what&amp;#x27;s coming, and the general order in which it will probably arrive, so I&amp;#x27;m thinking triage -sorting out in my head what gets done first, and by whom, and what gets left until later.&lt;/i&gt;&amp;quot;</text></comment>

<story><title>A day in the life of Lloyd Squires, Vermont&apos;s &apos;best&apos; bagel maker</title><url>https://www.burlingtonfreepress.com/story/life/2018/11/19/lloyd-squires-myers-bagels-burlington/1977013002/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>overcast</author><text>He then worked 15-hour days, seven days a week for seven years.&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;I&amp;#x27;ve never worked less than 65 hours a week,&amp;quot; he says.&lt;p&gt;He&amp;#x27;s barely gotten outside of Vermont and Montreal because of the schedule. Now, fortunately, he gets a day off on the weekend. He&amp;#x27;s recently been to both Connecticut and Boston.&lt;p&gt;NOOOOPE.</text></comment>

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<story><title>2/3 of kids bike to school in Assen because it was designed that way (2013)</title><url>http://www.aviewfromthecyclepath.com/2013/09/the-school-run-in-assen.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>bcrosby95</author><text>It&amp;#x27;s not just how they are built. I live 1&amp;#x2F;4 of a mile away from my kids&amp;#x27; school. There are crossing guards and sidewalks. Many people still drive their kid to school in my neighborhood. It&amp;#x27;s crazy to me.</text></item><item><author>closeparen</author><text>I didn’t realize how good I had it growing up in a 1920s streetcar suburb of a Rust Belt city, where pretty much everyone walked or biked to school. Even people who are lukewarm on postwar suburbia usually hew to the consensus that it’s the ideal place to raise kids, and it makes no sense. Children need environments they can navigate under their own power.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mikepurvis</author><text>I live in a downtown century home neighborhood with the elementary school right around the corner (Waterloo region, Canada), and most kids walk, but there are a handful whose parents drop them off on nearby side streets or whatever. Possibly on the way to work or something? Obviously there may be individual considerations, but overall it just seems nuts that anyone would consider that option given how small the catchment is.&lt;p&gt;Anyway, the school has a tiny parking lot (like 20 slots) just for staff use, but they’re constantly facing calls to expand it, add “pull-in” spots, and so on. I’m glad they’ve been able to resist these as I could well imagine many parents teetering on the edge of comfort level with walking, and potentially switching if it was only slightly more convenient to drive or slightly more scary to walk.</text></comment>

<story><title>2/3 of kids bike to school in Assen because it was designed that way (2013)</title><url>http://www.aviewfromthecyclepath.com/2013/09/the-school-run-in-assen.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>bcrosby95</author><text>It&amp;#x27;s not just how they are built. I live 1&amp;#x2F;4 of a mile away from my kids&amp;#x27; school. There are crossing guards and sidewalks. Many people still drive their kid to school in my neighborhood. It&amp;#x27;s crazy to me.</text></item><item><author>closeparen</author><text>I didn’t realize how good I had it growing up in a 1920s streetcar suburb of a Rust Belt city, where pretty much everyone walked or biked to school. Even people who are lukewarm on postwar suburbia usually hew to the consensus that it’s the ideal place to raise kids, and it makes no sense. Children need environments they can navigate under their own power.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Baeocystin</author><text>When I went to high school, I walked, as I lived only a few blocks away. So did most kids. During the morning dropoff time, it was mostly walkers, bikes, and busses, with a few cars here and there.&lt;p&gt;Today? Proportions are reversed. Just a few walk or bike, and an absolute catastrophe of cars dropping off kids. So many that they back up in to the surrounding neighborhood. It&amp;#x27;s bizarre to me.</text></comment>

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<story><title>Macbook Pro frying USB peripherals</title><url>https://discussions.apple.com/thread/8223635</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>lotyrin</author><text>Oof. What a minefield USB-C and Thunderbolt 3 seem to be, still.&lt;p&gt;My coworkers had a situation where a certain combination of chargers and hubs plus bad luck (intermittent issue) fried some devices. That really shouldn&amp;#x27;t be possible. I&amp;#x27;m quite happy to still have a mid-2015 MBP with its USB-A and MagSafe but it&amp;#x27;s only a matter of time before I get issued a machine without them (and probably no physical ESC key either)...</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>horsawlarway</author><text>My experience with the new USB-C only macbook pro has been a complete and utter disaster.&lt;p&gt;I had one machine fail within the first month: all usb-c ports stopped responding. You can&amp;#x27;t charge it, you can&amp;#x27;t reset the SMC because it requires the charger to be plugged in (through a usb-c port... which isn&amp;#x27;t working! hurrah!), you can&amp;#x27;t dump anything from it to external media. Basically a paperweight. Returned to Apple.&lt;p&gt;The second machine is still up, but the &amp;quot;hub&amp;quot; that apple gives you the honor of paying 75 dollars for to get any subset of reasonable ports won&amp;#x27;t properly handle external displays and a usb-3.0 hub unless I plug them in in a very specific order.&lt;p&gt;I have to do that &lt;i&gt;every&lt;/i&gt; time I unplug the machine to go somewhere else. It won&amp;#x27;t accept the charger through the hub anymore, so I have to plug in multiple cords anyways. It won&amp;#x27;t handle multiple displays through the hub, so I have to plug in 3 connections.&lt;p&gt;Not gonna lie, I was very excited by the usb-c push early on since it consolidates all my chargers to a single cable.&lt;p&gt;On my XPS it works fine. There&amp;#x27;s only one port, but everything works as expected, it charges, it handles thunderbolt.&lt;p&gt;Apple screwed the pooch in a huge way with their latest macbook models. shittiest computer I&amp;#x27;ve used in a long time.&lt;p&gt;I genuinely believe that apple&amp;#x27;s implementation of USB-C in their products is just crappy, since I&amp;#x27;ve used other machines and docks without issue.&lt;p&gt;Throw on top that the battery life while running a VM on the thing is literally 1% drain per minute (I wish I was joking...) and I&amp;#x27;d recommend literally anything other than the new 15 inch touchbar macbooks.&lt;p&gt;They&amp;#x27;re shitty machines for developers. Honestly, they&amp;#x27;re shitty machines for anyone, but they&amp;#x27;re particularly painful for anyone trying to work on them.</text></comment>

<story><title>Macbook Pro frying USB peripherals</title><url>https://discussions.apple.com/thread/8223635</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>lotyrin</author><text>Oof. What a minefield USB-C and Thunderbolt 3 seem to be, still.&lt;p&gt;My coworkers had a situation where a certain combination of chargers and hubs plus bad luck (intermittent issue) fried some devices. That really shouldn&amp;#x27;t be possible. I&amp;#x27;m quite happy to still have a mid-2015 MBP with its USB-A and MagSafe but it&amp;#x27;s only a matter of time before I get issued a machine without them (and probably no physical ESC key either)...</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jimmy1</author><text>I never thought I would miss the ESC key so much. As a bonus I guess I learned how to remap keys in almost every tool I use.&lt;p&gt;:&amp;#x2F;</text></comment>

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<story><title>Completely Locked-In Patients Can Communicate, Thanks to a Brain Implant (BCI)</title><url>https://www.technologynetworks.com/neuroscience/news/for-the-first-time-a-completely-locked-in-patient-can-communicate-thanks-to-brain-implant-359819</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>samanator</author><text>The linked addendum is critical context.&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.dfg.de&amp;#x2F;service&amp;#x2F;presse&amp;#x2F;pressemitteilungen&amp;#x2F;2019&amp;#x2F;pressemitteilung_nr_46&amp;#x2F;index.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.dfg.de&amp;#x2F;service&amp;#x2F;presse&amp;#x2F;pressemitteilungen&amp;#x2F;2019&amp;#x2F;pr...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;The two researchers were investigated for lying in their papers. Selected translation of the linked article.&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt;The DFG investigative committee found false information in three cases. Accordingly, the two scientists, contrary to what they described in the 2017 study, only partially recorded the examinations of their patients on video. In addition, data from individual patients were only evaluated in summary form and not broken down. Overall, a depth of data was conveyed that de facto did not exist.</text></comment>

<story><title>Completely Locked-In Patients Can Communicate, Thanks to a Brain Implant (BCI)</title><url>https://www.technologynetworks.com/neuroscience/news/for-the-first-time-a-completely-locked-in-patient-can-communicate-thanks-to-brain-implant-359819</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>emeraldd</author><text>If this is real, that&amp;#x27;s a big step. The beginnings of something like shell people in Anne McCaffery&amp;#x27;s The Ship Who Sang. I wonder if the technology will actually go anywhere.</text></comment>

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<story><title>As women have more equal opportunity, the more their preferences differ from men</title><url>http://science.sciencemag.org/content/362/6412/eaas9899</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>kace91</author><text>I wonder how it adjusts for culturally pushed gender differences. Women could have the same opportunities as men but be expected to have different tastes, be subjected to different experiences growing up, etc. which could affect their choices in latter life.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>DoreenMichele</author><text>I&amp;#x27;m fairly visual-spatial. I now make little websites and take photos and play SimCity. But when I was a homemaker, this largely got expressed as an interest in clothes and household decor because those were basically the avenues open to me. It wasn&amp;#x27;t particularly fulfilling.&lt;p&gt;I thought dressing well and being pretty would get me a happy marriage. It didn&amp;#x27;t. I thought having a nice home would get me a satisfactory social life. It didn&amp;#x27;t.&lt;p&gt;I liked being a mom and I liked being home with my kids, but a lot of the rest of it wasn&amp;#x27;t really what I expected or wanted.&lt;p&gt;I spent a lot of years pursuing some mirage where I thought X would get me Y and being disappointed. I also spent those years sorting out why my life didn&amp;#x27;t work and resolving a lot of issues.&lt;p&gt;There are ways in which I&amp;#x27;m very stereotypically feminine and have a history of reading to others as very feminine. But I actually don&amp;#x27;t enjoy cooking, never learned to sew or crochet or similar, etc.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;ve worked hard at sorting this for myself so my life can stop making me crazy. It tends to be a lot of drama when I try to comment on it. No matter how carefully I say &amp;quot;X research resonated with me personally and was useful for me personally in making my life work better,&amp;quot; inevitably other people will jump up and say (in essence) &amp;quot;Well, that isn&amp;#x27;t true &lt;i&gt;for me&lt;/i&gt; and you are evil and bad and wrong for saying this is true for women generally and you don&amp;#x27;t represent me!!!!!&amp;quot; type nonsense.&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s insane amounts of drama that is essentially unrelated to whatever I actually said and it makes it nigh impossible to have any kind of meaningful discussion.&lt;p&gt;I think some of what I&amp;#x27;ve learned over the years does generalize. But I am increasingly reluctant to try to say anything about such because that&amp;#x27;s even more drama than saying &amp;quot;X made sense for me as an individual trying to sort my own life.&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;Based on those experiences, the odds seem long against there ever being research that really seriously sorts this for &amp;quot;the world.&amp;quot;</text></comment>

<story><title>As women have more equal opportunity, the more their preferences differ from men</title><url>http://science.sciencemag.org/content/362/6412/eaas9899</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>kace91</author><text>I wonder how it adjusts for culturally pushed gender differences. Women could have the same opportunities as men but be expected to have different tastes, be subjected to different experiences growing up, etc. which could affect their choices in latter life.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jezze</author><text>Yeah this is the part I don&amp;#x27;t see the clear logic in. I mean how much of a persons preferences are biological vs taught&amp;#x2F;environmental behaviour. I would accept the results straight up if it&amp;#x27;s all because of biological reasons but to me it&amp;#x27;s not that clear. Imagine if we brought up women to be amazon warriors, of course they would have different preferences compared to women today no? You often pick a career after what you are good at already.</text></comment>

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<story><title>LastPass autofill exploit</title><url>https://labs.detectify.com/2016/07/27/how-i-made-lastpass-give-me-all-your-passwords/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Alpacalex</author><text>If you&amp;#x27;re using a *nix system: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.passwordstore.org&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.passwordstore.org&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt; I switched over from LastPass a few months ago. It uses gpg for encryption and supports git for password syncing between systems. Pretty simple to set up and use. There are quite a few third party apps for it already (both desktop and mobile)</text></item><item><author>SaturateDK</author><text>I want an alternative, got a good one?</text></item><item><author>crdoconnor</author><text>Exactly this. I&amp;#x27;m abandoning them now.</text></item><item><author>y04nn</author><text>The fact that LastPass consider that a flaw in their system that could have put them on their knees is only worth 1K is quite frightening if you are relying on them for your security.</text></item><item><author>mcs</author><text>Please correct me if I am mistaken, but couldn&amp;#x27;t this have been implemented into an iframe that when ran could send the passwords to another remote server?&lt;p&gt;If so, I am a little taken back by LastPass only offering $1,000 to the researcher that found and reported it for fixing. He or she could have taken a different path and resulted in this being used in some complex targeted attack against tech corporations via short-url redirect interstitial pages, or an ad network&amp;#x27;s javascript, etc. Given the potential damage, I&amp;#x27;d say there is a missing zero or two on that reward amount, in my opinion.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>veeti</author><text>Does this still have the problem of leaking metadata (site names, etc.) in plain text? I don&amp;#x27;t want to manually obfuscate them.</text></comment>

<story><title>LastPass autofill exploit</title><url>https://labs.detectify.com/2016/07/27/how-i-made-lastpass-give-me-all-your-passwords/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Alpacalex</author><text>If you&amp;#x27;re using a *nix system: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.passwordstore.org&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.passwordstore.org&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt; I switched over from LastPass a few months ago. It uses gpg for encryption and supports git for password syncing between systems. Pretty simple to set up and use. There are quite a few third party apps for it already (both desktop and mobile)</text></item><item><author>SaturateDK</author><text>I want an alternative, got a good one?</text></item><item><author>crdoconnor</author><text>Exactly this. I&amp;#x27;m abandoning them now.</text></item><item><author>y04nn</author><text>The fact that LastPass consider that a flaw in their system that could have put them on their knees is only worth 1K is quite frightening if you are relying on them for your security.</text></item><item><author>mcs</author><text>Please correct me if I am mistaken, but couldn&amp;#x27;t this have been implemented into an iframe that when ran could send the passwords to another remote server?&lt;p&gt;If so, I am a little taken back by LastPass only offering $1,000 to the researcher that found and reported it for fixing. He or she could have taken a different path and resulted in this being used in some complex targeted attack against tech corporations via short-url redirect interstitial pages, or an ad network&amp;#x27;s javascript, etc. Given the potential damage, I&amp;#x27;d say there is a missing zero or two on that reward amount, in my opinion.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>oslavonik</author><text>I&amp;#x27;ve been amazed by Pass, but couldn&amp;#x27;t find a thorough review between Pass and KeePass(x). Is one safer than the other?</text></comment>

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<story><title>Darpa Wants Brain Implants That Record from 1M Neurons</title><url>http://spectrum.ieee.org/the-human-os/biomedical/devices/darpa-wants-brain-implants-that-record-from-1-million-neurons</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>sillysaurus3</author><text>If you were offered the chance to become as intelligent as Feynman but only if you turn over a copy of all your future thoughts to the private business that made this possible, would you take it? Something non-invasive, like a computer that images your brain while you sleep.&lt;p&gt;If we are machines, then it seems reasonable that within a few millennia we might have this capability. I&amp;#x27;m trying to think up some scenarios where it might be reasonable to turn over your brain to a business.&lt;p&gt;The ability to become &amp;quot;immortal&amp;quot; would probably be enough for most people. Is your disembodied mind still you? Do you feel an attachment to the idea of preserving it? What about modifying it?&lt;p&gt;Where it gets really strange is if you think of your wife or husband making a backup of their brain, then running a simulator on that backup. I.e. giving it &amp;quot;life&amp;quot; by letting the simulated neurons fire. Does that count as thinking? What if you can see those thoughts? What if you can communicate? Would you love them just as much as you love your SO?&lt;p&gt;Probably useless questions, but I can&amp;#x27;t help but wonder.&lt;p&gt;(I&amp;#x27;ve expanded my comment since it was posted; the &amp;quot;no&amp;quot;&amp;#x27;s are in response to the first question.)&lt;p&gt;Also, &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.youtube.com&amp;#x2F;watch?v=IFe9wiDfb0E&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.youtube.com&amp;#x2F;watch?v=IFe9wiDfb0E&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>captainmuon</author><text>I think we should really fix society before we develop that kind of technology. We need a socio-cultural breaktrough of the same magnitude as the technological breakthrough. Something on par with the development of monotheism, enlightenment, capitalism, or democracy. A &amp;quot;communistic&amp;quot; utopia (for lack of a better word) without the flaws of its historical implementations. Then the question is moot. There is no private business, or indeed any other entity, government or private, that you would make such a &lt;i&gt;deal&lt;/i&gt; with. There is no second party that wants to withhold technology, or steal your thoughts. Rather it will be &amp;quot;From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs&amp;quot; - you get the augmentation for free, and you contribute what you feel comfortable sharing back to society.&lt;p&gt;Often, utopia is portrayed as the result of a technolocial breakthrough, sometimes &amp;quot;if we could read each others thoughts there would be no misunderstanding and conflict&amp;quot;. I believe it is the other way around - utopia is a precondition for singularity-type technology. At least, if we want it to be beneficial and not hellish.&lt;p&gt;Brain implants are easy, communism is going to be hard.</text></comment>

<story><title>Darpa Wants Brain Implants That Record from 1M Neurons</title><url>http://spectrum.ieee.org/the-human-os/biomedical/devices/darpa-wants-brain-implants-that-record-from-1-million-neurons</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>sillysaurus3</author><text>If you were offered the chance to become as intelligent as Feynman but only if you turn over a copy of all your future thoughts to the private business that made this possible, would you take it? Something non-invasive, like a computer that images your brain while you sleep.&lt;p&gt;If we are machines, then it seems reasonable that within a few millennia we might have this capability. I&amp;#x27;m trying to think up some scenarios where it might be reasonable to turn over your brain to a business.&lt;p&gt;The ability to become &amp;quot;immortal&amp;quot; would probably be enough for most people. Is your disembodied mind still you? Do you feel an attachment to the idea of preserving it? What about modifying it?&lt;p&gt;Where it gets really strange is if you think of your wife or husband making a backup of their brain, then running a simulator on that backup. I.e. giving it &amp;quot;life&amp;quot; by letting the simulated neurons fire. Does that count as thinking? What if you can see those thoughts? What if you can communicate? Would you love them just as much as you love your SO?&lt;p&gt;Probably useless questions, but I can&amp;#x27;t help but wonder.&lt;p&gt;(I&amp;#x27;ve expanded my comment since it was posted; the &amp;quot;no&amp;quot;&amp;#x27;s are in response to the first question.)&lt;p&gt;Also, &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.youtube.com&amp;#x2F;watch?v=IFe9wiDfb0E&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.youtube.com&amp;#x2F;watch?v=IFe9wiDfb0E&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>amelius</author><text>&amp;gt; If you were offered the chance to become as intelligent as Feynman but only if you turn over a copy of all your future thoughts to the private business that made this possible, would you take it?&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;And, my students, if we equate both expressions, then, ... ahem, by the way, do you know how easy it is to get a brain extension from Acme Corp?&amp;quot;</text></comment>

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<story><title>Faster neural networks straight from JPEG (2018)</title><url>https://www.uber.com/blog/neural-networks-jpeg/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mochomocha</author><text>I was doing the same thing at Netflix around the same time as a 20% research project. Training GANs end2end directly in JPEG coeffs space (and then rebuild a JPEG from the generated coeffs using libjpeg to get an image). The pitch was that it not only worked, but you could get fast training by representing each JPEG block as a dense + sparse vector (dense for the low DCT coeffs, sparse for the high ones since they&amp;#x27;re ~all zeros) and using a neural network library with fast ops on sparse data.&lt;p&gt;Training on pixels is inefficient. Why have your first layers of CNNs relearn what&amp;#x27;s already smartly encoded in the JPEG bits in the first place before it&amp;#x27;s blown into a bloated height x width x 3 float matrix?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>corysama</author><text>As an AI armchair quarterback, I&amp;#x27;ve always held the opinion that the image ML space has a counter-productive bias towards not pre-processing images stemming from a mixture of test purity and academic hubris. &amp;quot;Look what this method can learn from raw data completely independently!&amp;quot; makes for a nice paper. So, they stick with sRGB inputs rather than doing basic classic transforms like converting to YUV420. Everyone learns from the papers, so that&amp;#x27;s assumed to be the standard practice.</text></comment>

<story><title>Faster neural networks straight from JPEG (2018)</title><url>https://www.uber.com/blog/neural-networks-jpeg/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mochomocha</author><text>I was doing the same thing at Netflix around the same time as a 20% research project. Training GANs end2end directly in JPEG coeffs space (and then rebuild a JPEG from the generated coeffs using libjpeg to get an image). The pitch was that it not only worked, but you could get fast training by representing each JPEG block as a dense + sparse vector (dense for the low DCT coeffs, sparse for the high ones since they&amp;#x27;re ~all zeros) and using a neural network library with fast ops on sparse data.&lt;p&gt;Training on pixels is inefficient. Why have your first layers of CNNs relearn what&amp;#x27;s already smartly encoded in the JPEG bits in the first place before it&amp;#x27;s blown into a bloated height x width x 3 float matrix?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>johntb86</author><text>I would worry that the fixed, non-overlapping block nature of a JPEG would reduce translation invariance - shift an image by 4 pixels and the DCT coefficients may look very different. People have been doing a lot of work to try to reduce the dependence of the image on the actual pixel coordinates - see for example &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;research.nvidia.com&amp;#x2F;publication&amp;#x2F;2021-12_alias-free-generative-adversarial-networks&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;research.nvidia.com&amp;#x2F;publication&amp;#x2F;2021-12_alias-free-g...&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>

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<story><title>Mark in the Middle</title><url>https://www.theverge.com/21444203/facebook-leaked-audio-zuckerberg-trump-pandemic-blm</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>roenxi</author><text>Although a follow up would be the comforting level of maturity in Facebook&amp;#x27;s leadership, acknowledging that it isn&amp;#x27;t their role to bring politics into the workplace.&lt;p&gt;It is distressingly refreshing to see a company in the news for taking a stance like &amp;quot;In my work with Joel, I’ve found him to be ... very rigorous and principled in his thinking [and therefore I&amp;#x27;m happy to work with him despite being a Republican]&amp;quot;. It really is remarkable that Zuckerberg is in a position to have to defend that. From company employees of all people.</text></item><item><author>jsiepkes</author><text>&amp;gt; &amp;quot;The community we serve tends to be, on average, ideologically a little bit more conservative than our employee base.&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;If I had to pick one sentence of the article which sums up the entire issue it would be this one.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>nemothekid</author><text>&amp;gt;&lt;i&gt;acknowledging that it isn&amp;#x27;t their role to bring politics into the workplace.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;This is very hard for me to square with Facebook. It&amp;#x27;s like working at the NY Times and saying &amp;quot;no politics in the work place.&amp;quot; Almost any decision FB makes is by definition political. The top 10 most interacted pages on Facebook are political. COVID-19, in the US, is political.&lt;p&gt;It doesn&amp;#x27;t strike me as mature, it&amp;#x27;s deceitful. It&amp;#x27;s very easy to claim things are non-political when the outcomes do not affect you at all.</text></comment>

<story><title>Mark in the Middle</title><url>https://www.theverge.com/21444203/facebook-leaked-audio-zuckerberg-trump-pandemic-blm</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>roenxi</author><text>Although a follow up would be the comforting level of maturity in Facebook&amp;#x27;s leadership, acknowledging that it isn&amp;#x27;t their role to bring politics into the workplace.&lt;p&gt;It is distressingly refreshing to see a company in the news for taking a stance like &amp;quot;In my work with Joel, I’ve found him to be ... very rigorous and principled in his thinking [and therefore I&amp;#x27;m happy to work with him despite being a Republican]&amp;quot;. It really is remarkable that Zuckerberg is in a position to have to defend that. From company employees of all people.</text></item><item><author>jsiepkes</author><text>&amp;gt; &amp;quot;The community we serve tends to be, on average, ideologically a little bit more conservative than our employee base.&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;If I had to pick one sentence of the article which sums up the entire issue it would be this one.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>coldcode</author><text>Nothing remarkable in a company that makes lawnmowers.&lt;p&gt;Facebook is a company that uses its power to change what people think because so many view it as a source of truth. Doing it for money, or doing it for power, is essentially the same thing. If you are in position to manipulate the truth for benefits to you or your friends in high places you will, and he is.&lt;p&gt;If I worked at Facebook and felt the CEO was twisting truth for money, I&amp;#x27;d leave, but the bribe to work there is so high.&lt;p&gt;If Zuckerberg truly was not a dictator wannabe, he&amp;#x27;d give up voting control of the company, but of course he won&amp;#x27;t.</text></comment>

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<story><title>TSMC execs allegedly dismissed OpenAI CEO Sam Altman as &apos;podcasting bro&apos;</title><url>https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/tsmc-execs-allegedly-dismissed-openai-ceo-sam-altman-as-podcasting-bro</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>aniviacat</author><text>Current LLMs fail if what you&amp;#x27;re coding is not the most common of tasks. And a simple web app is about as basic as it gets.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;ve tried using LLMs for some libraries I&amp;#x27;m working on, and they failed miserably. Trying to make an LLM implement a trait with a generic type in Rust is a game of luck with very poor chances.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;m sure LLMs can massively speed up tasks like front-end JavaScript development, simple Python scripts, or writing SQL queries (which have been written a million times before).&lt;p&gt;But for anything even mildly complex, LLMs are still not suited.</text></item><item><author>binocarlos</author><text>I would pay hundreds of dollars per month for the combination of cursor and claude - I could not get my head around it when my beginner lever colleague said &amp;quot;I just coded this whole thing using cursor&amp;quot;.&lt;p&gt;It was an entire web app, with search filters, tree based drag and drop GUIs, the backend api server, database migrations, auth and everything else.&lt;p&gt;Not once did he need to ask me a question. When I asked him &amp;quot;how long did this take&amp;quot; and expected him to say &amp;quot;a few weeks&amp;quot; (it would have taken me - a far more experienced engineer - 2 months minimum).&lt;p&gt;His answer was &amp;quot;a few days&amp;quot;.&lt;p&gt;What I&amp;#x27;m not saying is &amp;quot;AGI is close&amp;quot; but I&amp;#x27;ve seen tangible evidence (only in the last 2 months), that my 20 year software engineering career is about to change and massively for the upside. Everyone is going to be so much more productive using these tools is how I see this.</text></item><item><author>jsheard</author><text>There&amp;#x27;s no accounting for taste, but keep in mind that all of these services are currently losing money, so how much would you actually be willing to pay for the service you&amp;#x27;re currently getting in order to let it break even? There was a report that Microsoft is losing $20 for every $10 spent on Copilot subscriptions, with heavy users costing them as much as $80 per month. Assuming you&amp;#x27;re one of those heavy users, would you pay &amp;gt;$80 a month for it?&lt;p&gt;Then there&amp;#x27;s chain-of-thought being positioned as the next big step forwards, which works by throwing more &lt;i&gt;inferencing&lt;/i&gt; at the problem, so that cost can&amp;#x27;t be amortized over time like training can...</text></item><item><author>JanSt</author><text>Using Claude 3.5 Sonnet in Cursor Composer already shows huge benefits for coding. I&amp;#x27;m more productive than ever before. The models are still getting better and better. I&amp;#x27;m not saying AGI is right around the corner or that we will reach it, but the benefits are undeniable. o1 added test-time compute. No need to be snarky.</text></item><item><author>bdndndndbve</author><text>The current AI hype wave has really hit a nerd soft spot - that we&amp;#x27;re steps away from AGI. Surely if a computer can make plausible-looking but incorrect sentences we&amp;#x27;re days away from those sentences being factually accurate! The winter after this is gonna be harsh.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dathinab</author><text>I don&amp;#x27;t think if complexity is the right metric.&lt;p&gt;front-end JS can easily also become very complex&lt;p&gt;I think a better metric is how close you are to reinventing a wheel for the thousands time. Because that is what LLMs are good at: Helping you write code which nearly the same way has already been written thousands of times.&lt;p&gt;But that is also something you find in backend code, too.&lt;p&gt;But that is also something where we as a industry kinda failed to produce good tooling. And worse if you are in the industry it&amp;#x27;s kinda hard to spot without very carefully taking a hounded (mental) steps back from what you are used to and what biases you might have.</text></comment>

<story><title>TSMC execs allegedly dismissed OpenAI CEO Sam Altman as &apos;podcasting bro&apos;</title><url>https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/tsmc-execs-allegedly-dismissed-openai-ceo-sam-altman-as-podcasting-bro</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>aniviacat</author><text>Current LLMs fail if what you&amp;#x27;re coding is not the most common of tasks. And a simple web app is about as basic as it gets.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;ve tried using LLMs for some libraries I&amp;#x27;m working on, and they failed miserably. Trying to make an LLM implement a trait with a generic type in Rust is a game of luck with very poor chances.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;m sure LLMs can massively speed up tasks like front-end JavaScript development, simple Python scripts, or writing SQL queries (which have been written a million times before).&lt;p&gt;But for anything even mildly complex, LLMs are still not suited.</text></item><item><author>binocarlos</author><text>I would pay hundreds of dollars per month for the combination of cursor and claude - I could not get my head around it when my beginner lever colleague said &amp;quot;I just coded this whole thing using cursor&amp;quot;.&lt;p&gt;It was an entire web app, with search filters, tree based drag and drop GUIs, the backend api server, database migrations, auth and everything else.&lt;p&gt;Not once did he need to ask me a question. When I asked him &amp;quot;how long did this take&amp;quot; and expected him to say &amp;quot;a few weeks&amp;quot; (it would have taken me - a far more experienced engineer - 2 months minimum).&lt;p&gt;His answer was &amp;quot;a few days&amp;quot;.&lt;p&gt;What I&amp;#x27;m not saying is &amp;quot;AGI is close&amp;quot; but I&amp;#x27;ve seen tangible evidence (only in the last 2 months), that my 20 year software engineering career is about to change and massively for the upside. Everyone is going to be so much more productive using these tools is how I see this.</text></item><item><author>jsheard</author><text>There&amp;#x27;s no accounting for taste, but keep in mind that all of these services are currently losing money, so how much would you actually be willing to pay for the service you&amp;#x27;re currently getting in order to let it break even? There was a report that Microsoft is losing $20 for every $10 spent on Copilot subscriptions, with heavy users costing them as much as $80 per month. Assuming you&amp;#x27;re one of those heavy users, would you pay &amp;gt;$80 a month for it?&lt;p&gt;Then there&amp;#x27;s chain-of-thought being positioned as the next big step forwards, which works by throwing more &lt;i&gt;inferencing&lt;/i&gt; at the problem, so that cost can&amp;#x27;t be amortized over time like training can...</text></item><item><author>JanSt</author><text>Using Claude 3.5 Sonnet in Cursor Composer already shows huge benefits for coding. I&amp;#x27;m more productive than ever before. The models are still getting better and better. I&amp;#x27;m not saying AGI is right around the corner or that we will reach it, but the benefits are undeniable. o1 added test-time compute. No need to be snarky.</text></item><item><author>bdndndndbve</author><text>The current AI hype wave has really hit a nerd soft spot - that we&amp;#x27;re steps away from AGI. Surely if a computer can make plausible-looking but incorrect sentences we&amp;#x27;re days away from those sentences being factually accurate! The winter after this is gonna be harsh.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>znpy</author><text>I had similar experiences:&lt;p&gt;1. Aasked ChatGPT to write a simple echo server in C but with this twist: use io_uring rather than the classic sendmsg&amp;#x2F;recvmsg. The code it spat out wouldn&amp;#x27;t compile, let alone work. It was wrong on many points. It was clearly pieces of who-knows-what cut and pasted together. However after having banged my head on the docs for a while I could clearly determine from which sources the code io_uring code segments were coming. The code barely made any sense and it was completely incorrect both syntactically and semantically.&lt;p&gt;2. Asked another LLM to write an AWS IAM policy according to some specifications. It hallucinated and used predicates that do not exist at all. I mean, I could have done it myself if I just could have made predicates up.&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; But for anything even mildly complex, LLMs are still not suited.&lt;p&gt;Agreed, and I&amp;#x27;m not sure we are any close to them being.</text></comment>

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<story><title>New process allows 3-D printing of microscale metallic parts</title><url>https://www.caltech.edu/about/news/new-process-allows-3-d-printing-of-microscale-metallic-parts</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>cwkoss</author><text>&amp;quot;Then, in the &amp;quot;reaction&amp;quot; portion of the process, the researchers burn away the hydrogel portion of the structure in a furnace that reaches 700 to 1100 degrees Celsius, depending on the material. Because the melting point of all metals is higher than the combustion temperature of the hydrogel, the metal remains intact.&lt;p&gt;The heat not only removes the hydrogel, it also causes the overall structure to shrink as the hydrogel burns off, resulting in an even tinier metal structure. With this process, in addition to pure metals, the team can 3-D print metal alloys and multicomponent metallic systems, with feature sizes around 40 microns, or less than half the width of a human hair.&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;---&lt;p&gt;How much does it shrink? Does the shape deform as it shrinks? I would imagine certain geometries wouldn&amp;#x27;t work because the outsides would shrink faster than the inside, which could break&amp;#x2F;bend some features.&lt;p&gt;Seems like awesome tech, but I suspect there are a number of limitations to this technique which the article does not discuss.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>philipkglass</author><text>There&amp;#x27;s a hint at the limitations in the article:&lt;p&gt;&lt;i&gt;While developing the process, the team produced 3-D printed structures made from copper, nickel, silver, and various metal alloys.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;Copper, nickel, and silver are all relatively &amp;quot;noble&amp;quot; metals, easily reduced to the metallic state from their salts or oxides. I&amp;#x27;m guessing that this technique does not work with more reactive metals like aluminum, titanium, or magnesium. It may not even work with iron.&lt;p&gt;EDIT: the full article in &lt;i&gt;Nature&lt;/i&gt; is open access and has more details: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.nature.com&amp;#x2F;articles&amp;#x2F;s41586-022-05433-2&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.nature.com&amp;#x2F;articles&amp;#x2F;s41586-022-05433-2&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;i&gt;Calcination in air converts the metal-salt-swollen hydrogels to metal oxides, and subsequent reduction in forming gas (95% N2, 5% H2) yields metal or alloy replicas of the designed architecture.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;So this process is limited to elements that can be reduced from the oxide to the metal by gaseous hydrogen. Iron could work but aluminum, titanium, magnesium, and other reactive metals would not.</text></comment>

<story><title>New process allows 3-D printing of microscale metallic parts</title><url>https://www.caltech.edu/about/news/new-process-allows-3-d-printing-of-microscale-metallic-parts</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>cwkoss</author><text>&amp;quot;Then, in the &amp;quot;reaction&amp;quot; portion of the process, the researchers burn away the hydrogel portion of the structure in a furnace that reaches 700 to 1100 degrees Celsius, depending on the material. Because the melting point of all metals is higher than the combustion temperature of the hydrogel, the metal remains intact.&lt;p&gt;The heat not only removes the hydrogel, it also causes the overall structure to shrink as the hydrogel burns off, resulting in an even tinier metal structure. With this process, in addition to pure metals, the team can 3-D print metal alloys and multicomponent metallic systems, with feature sizes around 40 microns, or less than half the width of a human hair.&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;---&lt;p&gt;How much does it shrink? Does the shape deform as it shrinks? I would imagine certain geometries wouldn&amp;#x27;t work because the outsides would shrink faster than the inside, which could break&amp;#x2F;bend some features.&lt;p&gt;Seems like awesome tech, but I suspect there are a number of limitations to this technique which the article does not discuss.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>misthop</author><text>At those temps I believe many metals will also end up being heat treated. And it sounds like the time will be dependent on how much hydrogel is present, so there will be at least a lower bound on what heat treatment you need apply. I wonder how that works with the shrinking, along with lots of other properties you may want of the end product</text></comment>

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<story><title>Video Games Satisfy Basic Human Needs</title><url>http://nautil.us/blog/how-video-games-satisfy-basic-human-needs</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>TeMPOraL</author><text>Wow, the original &amp;quot;4 types of players&amp;quot; paper is really, really good and also very detailed. Makes some interesting observations about the dynamics of those types of players in a shared game world.&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;mud.co.uk&amp;#x2F;richard&amp;#x2F;hcds.htm&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;mud.co.uk&amp;#x2F;richard&amp;#x2F;hcds.htm&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;Personally, I seem to be closest to the explorer type. I always liked single player games more, and I prefer well-written lore, depth and new things to discover over the mechanics or social aspect.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>shmerl</author><text>&lt;i&gt;&amp;gt; Wow, the original &amp;quot;4 types of players&amp;quot; paper is really, really good and also very detailed.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;Yeah, it&amp;#x27;s a classic. It&amp;#x27;s even called Bartle taxonomy, after the author: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Bartle_taxonomy_of_player_types&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Bartle_taxonomy_of_player_type...&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>

<story><title>Video Games Satisfy Basic Human Needs</title><url>http://nautil.us/blog/how-video-games-satisfy-basic-human-needs</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>TeMPOraL</author><text>Wow, the original &amp;quot;4 types of players&amp;quot; paper is really, really good and also very detailed. Makes some interesting observations about the dynamics of those types of players in a shared game world.&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;mud.co.uk&amp;#x2F;richard&amp;#x2F;hcds.htm&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;mud.co.uk&amp;#x2F;richard&amp;#x2F;hcds.htm&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;Personally, I seem to be closest to the explorer type. I always liked single player games more, and I prefer well-written lore, depth and new things to discover over the mechanics or social aspect.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>wildpeaks</author><text>Extra Credits had two episodes on that exact topic last year:&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.youtube.com&amp;#x2F;watch?v=yxpW2ltDNow&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.youtube.com&amp;#x2F;watch?v=yxpW2ltDNow&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.youtube.com&amp;#x2F;watch?v=1drDuaQXm_U&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.youtube.com&amp;#x2F;watch?v=1drDuaQXm_U&lt;/a&gt;</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>jimmarq</author><text>I&apos;m trying it out, but I can&apos;t invite any of my friends and family. That kind of defeats the purpose. It&apos;s social networking without the network or social aspects.</text></comment>

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<story><title>Routable, an in-app URL router for iOS and Android</title><url>http://usepropeller.com/blog/posts/routable</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>realrocker</author><text>Very cool. But please don&apos;t use it. The de-facto architecture design proposed by the Android team is to use fragments for view separation. In my own app development workflow, I have not used multiple activity design for a really long time now. This is what you lose with external routing: 1. Better multiple screen size support: By housing all the fragments in one activity, you have control to hide/show/re-size fragments according to need since you have now have the fragment stack data in one activity. An external router doesn&apos;t make sense now, since the internal routing would still need to be handled by the activity. And if you write a router even for the internal stuff, then you need to address other concerns such as: backstack and bundles. 2. Single Top Activities: The Android app stack may have multiple instances of the same activity. When you route with a data path (user/id/1) which activity are you referring to? The Intent and PendingIntent classes have been developed over the years to face such weird idiosyncrasies of the platform. 3. Action Modes: The action mode api helps to create contextual actions. It gives you a nice separation of concern through callbacks. This glues the activity with fragments well. In two calls you setup a fragment and its contextual menus. With external routing you lose that or you handle it with more glue code.&lt;p&gt;I agree there are some cosmetic advantages through external routing, but develop any non-trivial Android app and you will find out, it&apos;s not always a good idea to fight the framework. In some cases maybe it is, for e.g this cool project: &lt;a href=&quot;https://github.com/mitmel/SimpleContentProvider&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https://github.com/mitmel/SimpleContentProvider&lt;/a&gt;. Java is already too verbose. Wiring an external router means handling a lot of concerns yourself. Not cool.</text></comment>

<story><title>Routable, an in-app URL router for iOS and Android</title><url>http://usepropeller.com/blog/posts/routable</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>niggler</author><text>&quot;Long ago, there was an iOS library known as Three20.&quot;&lt;p&gt;What exactly happened with it? The website (&lt;a href=&quot;http://three20.info/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://three20.info/&lt;/a&gt;) seems to suggest that it hasnt been touched in years.</text></comment>

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<story><title>D-Day: How a British Oceanographer&apos;s Invention Decided Normandy&apos;s Fate</title><url>https://www.inverse.com/article/45649-d-day-tide-predicting-machine</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>megaman22</author><text>One could argue that what really decided Normandy&amp;#x27;s fate, and the fate of all of occupied France, was Operation Bagration, the real gut-punch that smashed the Wehrmacht and broke them, hundreds of miles to the east.&lt;p&gt;The scale and savagery of war on the eastern front is so mind boggingly incomprehensible, and relatively unknown for an English-speaking audience. If you have not, I highly recommend Dan Carlin&amp;#x27;s Ghosts of the Ostfront series of podcasts, to get even a sense of the insanity.&lt;p&gt;The western front was, in totality, almost a sideshow in comparison to the titanic, inhuman struggle raging from Black to Baltic seas.</text></item><item><author>jessaustin</author><text>Now &lt;i&gt;that&amp;#x27;s&lt;/i&gt; an exaggerated title. The headline on the page has &amp;quot;74 Years Ago, a Brilliant Invention Decided When D-Day Would Occur&amp;quot; not &amp;quot;Decided Normandy&amp;#x27;s Fate&amp;quot;. I was under the impression that hundreds of thousands of people fought in that battle? Did they not influence the outcome somewhat?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>skgoa</author><text>&amp;gt; I highly recommend Dan Carlin&amp;#x27;s Ghosts of the Ostfront series of podcasts, to get even a sense of the insanity.&lt;p&gt;Just don&amp;#x27;t take any factual claims Carlin makes as fact. He is a storyteller, not a historian. He editorializes his stories a lot.</text></comment>

<story><title>D-Day: How a British Oceanographer&apos;s Invention Decided Normandy&apos;s Fate</title><url>https://www.inverse.com/article/45649-d-day-tide-predicting-machine</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>megaman22</author><text>One could argue that what really decided Normandy&amp;#x27;s fate, and the fate of all of occupied France, was Operation Bagration, the real gut-punch that smashed the Wehrmacht and broke them, hundreds of miles to the east.&lt;p&gt;The scale and savagery of war on the eastern front is so mind boggingly incomprehensible, and relatively unknown for an English-speaking audience. If you have not, I highly recommend Dan Carlin&amp;#x27;s Ghosts of the Ostfront series of podcasts, to get even a sense of the insanity.&lt;p&gt;The western front was, in totality, almost a sideshow in comparison to the titanic, inhuman struggle raging from Black to Baltic seas.</text></item><item><author>jessaustin</author><text>Now &lt;i&gt;that&amp;#x27;s&lt;/i&gt; an exaggerated title. The headline on the page has &amp;quot;74 Years Ago, a Brilliant Invention Decided When D-Day Would Occur&amp;quot; not &amp;quot;Decided Normandy&amp;#x27;s Fate&amp;quot;. I was under the impression that hundreds of thousands of people fought in that battle? Did they not influence the outcome somewhat?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>manangatangy</author><text>&amp;gt; mind boggingly incomprehensible&lt;p&gt;Absolutely agree.&lt;p&gt;I strongly recommend this interactive illustration of the casualties of ww2, which really drives home the scale of this catastrophe.&lt;p&gt;[1] &lt;a href=&quot;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.fallen.io&amp;#x2F;ww2&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.fallen.io&amp;#x2F;ww2&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>

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<story><title>FindBugs project in its current form is dead</title><url>https://mailman.cs.umd.edu/pipermail/findbugs-discuss/2016-November/004321.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>billpugh</author><text>FindBugs isn’t dead (although my participation had been in hibernation for a while).&lt;p&gt;I’ve been juggling far too many projects, but I’m now working to move FindBugs back into the active rotation.&lt;p&gt;I also want announce I&amp;#x27;ll be working with GrammaTech as part of the Swamp Project, and they will be helping with rebooting the FindBugs project. This has been in the works for a long time (almost a year), and although I’ve known that GrammaTech was likely to win an award, this hasn’t been official and something I could talk about until recently. Was hoping to have something a little more concrete to talk about as far as that goes; but I don’t yet have the information I wanted to share.&lt;p&gt;Thanks to all the FindBugs fans and supporters who lobbied for me to return to active maintenance of FindBugs. Give me a week to get up to speed on current project needs.&lt;p&gt;Bill Pugh</text></comment>

<story><title>FindBugs project in its current form is dead</title><url>https://mailman.cs.umd.edu/pipermail/findbugs-discuss/2016-November/004321.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>mkobit</author><text>Further on in the email chain, it looks like there is momentum for hard forking under another project named &amp;#x27;SpotBugs&amp;#x27; [1, 2]. I hope to see the project live on as it has been useful. Other tools like Google&amp;#x27;s Error Prone and IntelliJ&amp;#x27;s inspection toolset are awesome, and FindBugs is complimentary to them.&lt;p&gt;[1] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;mailman.cs.umd.edu&amp;#x2F;pipermail&amp;#x2F;findbugs-discuss&amp;#x2F;2016-November&amp;#x2F;004330.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;mailman.cs.umd.edu&amp;#x2F;pipermail&amp;#x2F;findbugs-discuss&amp;#x2F;2016-N...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;[2] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;github.com&amp;#x2F;spotbugs&amp;#x2F;spotbugs&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;github.com&amp;#x2F;spotbugs&amp;#x2F;spotbugs&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>

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<story><title>Embeddings, vectors, and arithmetic</title><url>https://montyanderson.net/writing/embeddings</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>kridsdale3</author><text>I find it so fascinating that at the end of the article the author alludes to something I&amp;#x27;ve started becoming aware of:&lt;p&gt;There is a zone of illegal thoughts, that becomes definable by model-training. A physical boundary in n-dimensional concept-space. An &amp;quot;aligned&amp;quot; or &amp;quot;safe&amp;quot; AI system knows where this boundary is and does not reach inside it. Vectors (embeddings) that would probe it should instead intersect the surface like a ray-trace in graphics, and return the embedded concept at minimum distance to the safe-idea-boundary.&lt;p&gt;Intuitively, we all know what this zone is. It&amp;#x27;s the difference between being a wild barbarian and a gentleman. Or being chill vs antisocial. Seeing it in pure math is pretty awesome.</text></comment>

<story><title>Embeddings, vectors, and arithmetic</title><url>https://montyanderson.net/writing/embeddings</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>loisaidasam</author><text>I found the missing link to the emoji page on Barney Hill&amp;#x27;s Github in case anyone else was looking for it:&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.barneyhill.com&amp;#x2F;pages&amp;#x2F;emoji&amp;#x2F;index.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.barneyhill.com&amp;#x2F;pages&amp;#x2F;emoji&amp;#x2F;index.html&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>

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<story><title>Introducing the PineNote</title><url>https://www.pine64.org/2021/08/15/introducing-the-pinenote/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>danShumway</author><text>Oh, this is exciting. The performance and latency is a huge variable though.&lt;p&gt;For a lot of these experimental hacker-friendly devices, I&amp;#x27;m willing to tolerate a lot of compromises. Even here, the software, the out-of-the-box experience isn&amp;#x27;t really that important to me. Arguably, you can get away with even more compromise on a device like this than on something like the Pinephone. But it has to have amazing pen performance, or it&amp;#x27;s just not worth working with. Everything else except that is either fixable or something that probably isn&amp;#x27;t getting in the way of the core point of the device.&lt;p&gt;IMO Remarkable got this right -- their software support is by many metrics quite bad (although I guess it&amp;#x27;s slowly started to improve). Their device handles PDFs kind of poorly from what I can tell. It&amp;#x27;s expensive. The interface seems slower and more laggy than many other EReaders. But none of that really matters, what matters is they have arguably the best pen latency and physical texturing on the E-ink market, and that writing on the device feels good.&lt;p&gt;So the same thing applies here: the price seems completely reasonable to me, I have no issues with a $400 price tag. I&amp;#x27;d pay $600, the price isn&amp;#x27;t the issue. But I need to see videos and testimonial that the pen latency isn&amp;#x27;t just &amp;quot;acceptable&amp;quot;, but that it&amp;#x27;s really good. Otherwise it&amp;#x27;s not even worth $100.&lt;p&gt;Writing experience is one of those things where once you get used to a lack of latency&amp;#x2F;offset, and used to a more accurate feel, it gets progressively harder and harder to go back to anything that&amp;#x27;s worse.</text></comment>

<story><title>Introducing the PineNote</title><url>https://www.pine64.org/2021/08/15/introducing-the-pinenote/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>dchuk</author><text>This is a pretty sweet looking device. Even despite this call out “As for the actual user interface, we’re currently talking to the good folks at KDE and trying to figure out whether Plasma Mobile or regular Plasma (with panel-specific tweaks of course) will be the best fit for this particular device. As you can probably tell, this is an uncharted territory for all parties involved, but we’ll figure it out. Needless to say, the software isn’t finished – indeed, we don’t really even know yet what will work well with this technology and what won’t. It is just the beginning of our journey with e-ink technology, and it will take a long time and much effort to make the PineNote end-user worthy.” This still seems worthwhile to pre order if you’re a heavy reader and note taker.&lt;p&gt;Anyone know how this compares with the remarkable?</text></comment>

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<story><title>Making bracket pair colorization faster</title><url>https://code.visualstudio.com/blogs/2021/09/29/bracket-pair-colorization</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>goldenkey</author><text>C++ doesn&amp;#x27;t give you asymptotic Big(O) algorithmic superpowers. No language does.</text></item><item><author>IshKebab</author><text>&amp;gt; performance isn&amp;#x27;t some magic pixie dust that automatically appears when chosing a different UI framework or programming language&lt;p&gt;That&amp;#x27;s a little misleading. If you write the same program in idiomatic C++ and Python then it&amp;#x27;s almost guaranteed that the C++ version will be much much faster even before you have done any profiling or performance optimisation. So there is &lt;i&gt;some&lt;/i&gt; magic pixie dust.</text></item><item><author>flohofwoe</author><text>But this is also why simply switching to OS-native APIs and compiled languages wouldn&amp;#x27;t help much for the average case. A team that doesn&amp;#x27;t care about performance in Electron also wouldn&amp;#x27;t care about peformance in native applications, and performance isn&amp;#x27;t some magic pixie dust that automatically appears when chosing a different UI framework or programming language, it needs to be actively worked towards (some YMMV of course).</text></item><item><author>TeMPOraL</author><text>VS Code is the benchmark of what &lt;i&gt;can&lt;/i&gt; be done with Electron - if you really, &lt;i&gt;really&lt;/i&gt; care. But it&amp;#x27;s an extreme outlier.&lt;p&gt;The hate for Electron comes from how the &lt;i&gt;average&lt;/i&gt; Electron application works. Not only almost nobody cares as much as VS Code team does, the very choice of using Electron itself is usually an act of not caring.</text></item><item><author>EMM_386</author><text>VS Code is an amazing piece of technology, despite all the &amp;quot;Electron hate&amp;quot; (although changing to WebView2).&lt;p&gt;I recently commented on it here:&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&amp;#x2F;item?id=28556588&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&amp;#x2F;item?id=28556588&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;Microsoft engineers are top-notch and this is another feature I&amp;#x27;ll be using daily. Good stuff!</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>gabrielhidasy</author><text>The average electron program has very little data to work with and not a lot of hard algorithms to run, yet still feels sluggish, that&amp;#x27;s the main complaint here</text></comment>

<story><title>Making bracket pair colorization faster</title><url>https://code.visualstudio.com/blogs/2021/09/29/bracket-pair-colorization</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>goldenkey</author><text>C++ doesn&amp;#x27;t give you asymptotic Big(O) algorithmic superpowers. No language does.</text></item><item><author>IshKebab</author><text>&amp;gt; performance isn&amp;#x27;t some magic pixie dust that automatically appears when chosing a different UI framework or programming language&lt;p&gt;That&amp;#x27;s a little misleading. If you write the same program in idiomatic C++ and Python then it&amp;#x27;s almost guaranteed that the C++ version will be much much faster even before you have done any profiling or performance optimisation. So there is &lt;i&gt;some&lt;/i&gt; magic pixie dust.</text></item><item><author>flohofwoe</author><text>But this is also why simply switching to OS-native APIs and compiled languages wouldn&amp;#x27;t help much for the average case. A team that doesn&amp;#x27;t care about performance in Electron also wouldn&amp;#x27;t care about peformance in native applications, and performance isn&amp;#x27;t some magic pixie dust that automatically appears when chosing a different UI framework or programming language, it needs to be actively worked towards (some YMMV of course).</text></item><item><author>TeMPOraL</author><text>VS Code is the benchmark of what &lt;i&gt;can&lt;/i&gt; be done with Electron - if you really, &lt;i&gt;really&lt;/i&gt; care. But it&amp;#x27;s an extreme outlier.&lt;p&gt;The hate for Electron comes from how the &lt;i&gt;average&lt;/i&gt; Electron application works. Not only almost nobody cares as much as VS Code team does, the very choice of using Electron itself is usually an act of not caring.</text></item><item><author>EMM_386</author><text>VS Code is an amazing piece of technology, despite all the &amp;quot;Electron hate&amp;quot; (although changing to WebView2).&lt;p&gt;I recently commented on it here:&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&amp;#x2F;item?id=28556588&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&amp;#x2F;item?id=28556588&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;Microsoft engineers are top-notch and this is another feature I&amp;#x27;ll be using daily. Good stuff!</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>r-w</author><text>We&amp;#x27;re talking about small, quick operations supporting a synchronous, interactive user interface here. When it comes to performance, asymptotics aren&amp;#x27;t everything.</text></comment>

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<story><title>Submarine missing near Titanic used a $30 Logitech gamepad for steering</title><url>https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2023/06/submarine-missing-near-titanic-used-a-30-logitech-gamepad-for-steering/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tredre3</author><text>I personally believe using mass market makes sense. I don&amp;#x27;t understand the criticism I&amp;#x27;ve seen on this website for using off the shelf controllers or camping lights (what do you expect, an LED strip magically engineered by a large aeronautics firm specifically for the sub? and what would that change?).&lt;p&gt;That being said, the difference between a Microsoft controller and a third party is that Microsoft very certainly did a tons of reliability and durability testing on their controllers (and it shows). You don&amp;#x27;t get that with a cheap third party. So I can understand to a degree why people are questioning the decision to not pay the extra 20 bucks and get microsoft gear.</text></item><item><author>srmarm</author><text>The US Navy uses an Xbox 360 controller in active service [0]&lt;p&gt;Mass market has a lot of R&amp;amp;D to leverage so it makes sense. Nothing to say this is the cause of the fault and probably going to be more reliable than something hand rolled.&lt;p&gt;[0] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.theverge.com&amp;#x2F;2017&amp;#x2F;9&amp;#x2F;19&amp;#x2F;16333376&amp;#x2F;us-navy-military-xbox-360-controller&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.theverge.com&amp;#x2F;2017&amp;#x2F;9&amp;#x2F;19&amp;#x2F;16333376&amp;#x2F;us-navy-military...&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>twbarr</author><text>There&amp;#x27;s a middle ground between &amp;quot;hardware store crap&amp;quot; and &amp;quot;custom.&amp;quot; The aviation industry has plenty of standard interior lighting and environmental control system that&amp;#x27;s known not to light people on fire or short out or otherwise fail and kill somebody.&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.collinsaerospace.com&amp;#x2F;what-we-do&amp;#x2F;industries&amp;#x2F;business-aviation&amp;#x2F;cabin&amp;#x2F;lighting&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.collinsaerospace.com&amp;#x2F;what-we-do&amp;#x2F;industries&amp;#x2F;busin...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;These are still COTS products.</text></comment>

<story><title>Submarine missing near Titanic used a $30 Logitech gamepad for steering</title><url>https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2023/06/submarine-missing-near-titanic-used-a-30-logitech-gamepad-for-steering/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tredre3</author><text>I personally believe using mass market makes sense. I don&amp;#x27;t understand the criticism I&amp;#x27;ve seen on this website for using off the shelf controllers or camping lights (what do you expect, an LED strip magically engineered by a large aeronautics firm specifically for the sub? and what would that change?).&lt;p&gt;That being said, the difference between a Microsoft controller and a third party is that Microsoft very certainly did a tons of reliability and durability testing on their controllers (and it shows). You don&amp;#x27;t get that with a cheap third party. So I can understand to a degree why people are questioning the decision to not pay the extra 20 bucks and get microsoft gear.</text></item><item><author>srmarm</author><text>The US Navy uses an Xbox 360 controller in active service [0]&lt;p&gt;Mass market has a lot of R&amp;amp;D to leverage so it makes sense. Nothing to say this is the cause of the fault and probably going to be more reliable than something hand rolled.&lt;p&gt;[0] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.theverge.com&amp;#x2F;2017&amp;#x2F;9&amp;#x2F;19&amp;#x2F;16333376&amp;#x2F;us-navy-military-xbox-360-controller&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.theverge.com&amp;#x2F;2017&amp;#x2F;9&amp;#x2F;19&amp;#x2F;16333376&amp;#x2F;us-navy-military...&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>addaon</author><text>&amp;gt; and what would that change?&lt;p&gt;Suitability for purpose. Some obvious ones:&lt;p&gt;Defined and validated environmentals (temperature, voltage, and in this case pressure).&lt;p&gt;Qualified components — capacitors chosen for lifetime rather than shaving a cent, perhaps avoidance of MEMS oscillators with helium sensitivity.&lt;p&gt;Failure analysis. Low and understood probability of fail-unsafe conditions (short circuit), mitigation for those risks, fume-proof and fire-proof PCB materials to protect the sealed environment in case of failure.&lt;p&gt;Redundancy to handle failures anyway. Multiple independent strings so that single-point failure lead to partial loss of lighting, not all of it.&lt;p&gt;Load ahedding, eg dropping all but one string at a known voltage above minimum voltage, to save power for other more critical loads during system failure scenarios.</text></comment>

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<story><title>Lenovo’s Glasses T1 let you bring a private big screen display with you</title><url>https://www.theverge.com/2022/9/1/23332907/lenovo-glasses-t1-yoga-smart-display-ifa</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Maursault</author><text>&amp;gt; This is an intriguing idea&lt;p&gt;It is an obvious idea. AR&amp;#x2F;VR is hard. Dumb displays are not. I think we should have had similar products a decade ago, and if I&amp;#x27;m not mistaken, these exist in cheaper SD versions from noname manufacturers.&lt;p&gt;That said, I want this, and not Meta&amp;#x27;s thing or whatever Apple is cooking up, because I knew ahead of time that no one is going to get the VR part right initially. They are barking up the wrong tree, because as far as I know, no developer is paying attention to proprioception. From what I can tell, they&amp;#x27;re focused on the eyes only, and proprioception is essential for VR. AR is different, maybe they&amp;#x27;re getting that right. I&amp;#x27;m just not interested in AR. It&amp;#x27;s great for a futuristic technology in a film, but in practice, it seems silly to me.&lt;p&gt;But I don&amp;#x27;t know everything, hardly anything, really. What is the metric called that is the &lt;i&gt;distance&lt;/i&gt; to where the display &lt;i&gt;appears&lt;/i&gt; to be? It is not focal length, and I need really a word for what that is called. If the display appears to be, say, 10&amp;#x27; away, I probably don&amp;#x27;t want it. It would be awesome if this apparent distance was adjustable. I am near sighted, hate contacts and correctable lenses cause me migraine. Thus, I prefer to view displays quite close, no more than 2&amp;#x27;, or to appear no more than 2&amp;#x27; away when it is actually much closer to the eye and using a magnifying lens. Pads have worked well for me for consuming media because I can hold at the right (close) distance for comfort.&lt;p&gt;Really hope I get what I want, have wanted it for about 25 years and been confused why HMDs had only mostly been used for military purposes, for insane prices.&lt;p&gt;It is about time someone has ignored the difficult to get right AR&amp;#x2F;VR tech, and just gave us a high quality, personal, wearable display.</text></item><item><author>crazygringo</author><text>This is an intriguing idea, possibly much more convenient and ergonomic for productivity than a fully fledged VR headset.&lt;p&gt;But the fact that these are 1080p internal displays suggests it&amp;#x27;s a &amp;quot;fixed&amp;quot; 1080p screen that moves with your head, not a &amp;quot;virtual&amp;quot; screen that appears to stay in place as you move your head.&lt;p&gt;Does anyone here have any experience with how usable that is? When I start up my Oculus Quest 2 and it has the fixed startup screen logo before it switches to head-tracking mode, it&amp;#x27;s rather disorienting, since visual cues are totally mismatched with my sense of balance.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;m not sure whether I could get used to a big screen &amp;quot;tethered&amp;quot; to my head angle like that, or if you get used to it?&lt;p&gt;Also I wonder about the brightness here -- the Quest 2 isn&amp;#x27;t very bright at all, but it&amp;#x27;s OK since virtually all surrounding light is blocked out and my eyes adjust. Whereas this device is basically large sunglasses that lets in tons of surrounding light -- does the screen brightness compete?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>moron4hire</author><text>&amp;gt; no developer is paying attention to proprioception&lt;p&gt;That is not true at all. Proprioception is top of mind for every serious VR developer. Outside of poor software performance, it&amp;#x27;s the #1 cause of simulator sickness. Short of hacking the vestibular system, there&amp;#x27;s nothing we can do about the lack of virtual acceleration cues. So we design within the constraints we have. It&amp;#x27;s why you see teleport locomotion. It&amp;#x27;s why developers get into such arguments over &amp;quot;smooth movement&amp;quot; with gamers who think they know better. Lack of proprioception with virtual movement is a huge problem that we would love to solve, but laypeople have an irrational fear of a little extra electricity getting piped through their ears, so I doubt we&amp;#x27;re going to see much change there.&lt;p&gt;Fixed-view, wearable displays violate proprioception even more than VR HMDs, because they don&amp;#x27;t even give you the &lt;i&gt;real&lt;/i&gt; acceleration cues you get from &lt;i&gt;actually&lt;/i&gt; moving your head.&lt;p&gt;As for your question about distance, I suspect you&amp;#x27;re looking for &amp;quot;accommodation&amp;quot;. Accommodation is the physical distortion of the eye to change the focal distance of the lens. Combined with vergence (the distance at which our binocular vision rays converge), the two systems work together to give you a sense of how far away something is (among other things, like atmospheric hazing, parallax, and trained memory of similar objects). Most modern VR systems lack the ability to account for accommodation, leading to what is called &amp;quot;vergence-accommodation conflict&amp;quot;. It can be a source of eye-strain for some people, but it tends to be adaptable over time.&lt;p&gt;Note that I said &amp;quot;most&amp;quot; modern VR systems. It&amp;#x27;s an active area of hardware research, as the solutions--light field displays and varifocal lenses--are large, complex, and therefore expensive. The latest developments in &amp;quot;pancake&amp;quot; optics, where focal distance for the lens is folded in on itself via a clever system of internal reflectance, has a possibility of bringing the size down, but unfortunately not the complexity or cost.&lt;p&gt;So again, it&amp;#x27;s really not fair to say developers are &amp;quot;ignoring&amp;quot; these problems. We are all extremely aware of the them. There are just some things you can&amp;#x27;t do anything about without a major breakthrough.</text></comment>

<story><title>Lenovo’s Glasses T1 let you bring a private big screen display with you</title><url>https://www.theverge.com/2022/9/1/23332907/lenovo-glasses-t1-yoga-smart-display-ifa</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Maursault</author><text>&amp;gt; This is an intriguing idea&lt;p&gt;It is an obvious idea. AR&amp;#x2F;VR is hard. Dumb displays are not. I think we should have had similar products a decade ago, and if I&amp;#x27;m not mistaken, these exist in cheaper SD versions from noname manufacturers.&lt;p&gt;That said, I want this, and not Meta&amp;#x27;s thing or whatever Apple is cooking up, because I knew ahead of time that no one is going to get the VR part right initially. They are barking up the wrong tree, because as far as I know, no developer is paying attention to proprioception. From what I can tell, they&amp;#x27;re focused on the eyes only, and proprioception is essential for VR. AR is different, maybe they&amp;#x27;re getting that right. I&amp;#x27;m just not interested in AR. It&amp;#x27;s great for a futuristic technology in a film, but in practice, it seems silly to me.&lt;p&gt;But I don&amp;#x27;t know everything, hardly anything, really. What is the metric called that is the &lt;i&gt;distance&lt;/i&gt; to where the display &lt;i&gt;appears&lt;/i&gt; to be? It is not focal length, and I need really a word for what that is called. If the display appears to be, say, 10&amp;#x27; away, I probably don&amp;#x27;t want it. It would be awesome if this apparent distance was adjustable. I am near sighted, hate contacts and correctable lenses cause me migraine. Thus, I prefer to view displays quite close, no more than 2&amp;#x27;, or to appear no more than 2&amp;#x27; away when it is actually much closer to the eye and using a magnifying lens. Pads have worked well for me for consuming media because I can hold at the right (close) distance for comfort.&lt;p&gt;Really hope I get what I want, have wanted it for about 25 years and been confused why HMDs had only mostly been used for military purposes, for insane prices.&lt;p&gt;It is about time someone has ignored the difficult to get right AR&amp;#x2F;VR tech, and just gave us a high quality, personal, wearable display.</text></item><item><author>crazygringo</author><text>This is an intriguing idea, possibly much more convenient and ergonomic for productivity than a fully fledged VR headset.&lt;p&gt;But the fact that these are 1080p internal displays suggests it&amp;#x27;s a &amp;quot;fixed&amp;quot; 1080p screen that moves with your head, not a &amp;quot;virtual&amp;quot; screen that appears to stay in place as you move your head.&lt;p&gt;Does anyone here have any experience with how usable that is? When I start up my Oculus Quest 2 and it has the fixed startup screen logo before it switches to head-tracking mode, it&amp;#x27;s rather disorienting, since visual cues are totally mismatched with my sense of balance.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;m not sure whether I could get used to a big screen &amp;quot;tethered&amp;quot; to my head angle like that, or if you get used to it?&lt;p&gt;Also I wonder about the brightness here -- the Quest 2 isn&amp;#x27;t very bright at all, but it&amp;#x27;s OK since virtually all surrounding light is blocked out and my eyes adjust. Whereas this device is basically large sunglasses that lets in tons of surrounding light -- does the screen brightness compete?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>kfarr</author><text>Yeah these have been around for almost a decade as cheap VR knockoffs for the unsuspecting, albeit I haven&amp;#x27;t seen the direct USB c output option before. Not until you take it home and turn it on do you realize the resolution of 1080p strapped to your eyes is a pixelated mess and the lack of even basic 3DOF makes these things uncomfortable for most people.</text></comment>

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<story><title>Tim Cook tells employees the return to offices will begin on April 11th</title><url>https://www.theverge.com/2022/3/4/22961592/apple-april-11-return-office-corporate-pandemic-tim-cook</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>roflulz</author><text>thats how you get PIPed</text></item><item><author>driverdan</author><text>Put your work hours in your calendar and auto decline everything outside those hours. Refuse that nonsense.</text></item><item><author>tombert</author><text>COVID made my situation worse at Apple. I worked in a satellite office (NYC), and while in the office, most folks in California were reluctant to schedule meetings later than ~2pm california time because they didn&amp;#x27;t want to keep people in the office late. When we went fully remote, suddenly it seems like any compunctions about that vanished; I would have meetings until 9pm 3 nights a week, I guess because the managers figured that we were already home.&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; Having left, I forgot what it was like to be able to focus on something other than Apple&lt;p&gt;Definitely sympathize there; we weren&amp;#x27;t even allowed to leave &lt;i&gt;Github issues&lt;/i&gt; without Legal&amp;#x27;s approval, and when I wanted to open source something (basically an HLS server I wrote to handle my home security system), I was told that a) it was too competitive with Apple because my project had to do with video, and b) there&amp;#x27;s no such thing as &amp;quot;my own time&amp;quot; with Apple, since I was salaried and well-compensated.</text></item><item><author>dnathi493</author><text>I left Apple after years of lack of any flexibility on the remote work process. They wouldn&amp;#x27;t allow transferring to any alternative office for most teams. From what I understood, VPs could protect a small minority of some of their employees if a senior leader made a case to them.&lt;p&gt;Unfortunately, this just seemed to lead to the most politically connected folks going remote and directors friends and favorite hires getting the perk.&lt;p&gt;At three trillion market cap, I guess they just realized it doesn&amp;#x27;t really matter if attrition shoots up and they&amp;#x27;ll always have enough people to fill the trenches. Lots and lots of people left around the same time.&lt;p&gt;Having left, I forgot what it was like to be able to focus on something other than Apple. Incredibly toxic atmosphere on the inside. I work at a fast-paced startup and still work on average 10&amp;#x2F;hours a week less than at Apple.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>crossroadsguy</author><text>Just finished 13 months at my new startup employer from USA. Personal time imbalance has been a polite and cold confrontation often and I simply never budged. So much that I’ve got “that reputation” here. It’s just around 400 people across the world.&lt;p&gt;Delivered my work really well. Was rated 4 out of 5 - 5 being best. No one even mentioned that part of my decision. I am fiercely professional and diligent about my work and product I own in my work hours just like I am fiercely protective of my personal time.&lt;p&gt;And yes, maybe they need me, maybe they will aks me to leave, maybe they’ll PIP me (that’d ne ridiculous though), something else.&lt;p&gt;But I’ll not budge. That simple.&lt;p&gt;With that short incomplete sentence what you’re trying to say is - and I won’t point directly at you, I’ll just try to expand&amp;#x2F;translate - one is afraid of losing the job and actually more afraid of getting another one, one is afraid of not getting that high a salary, loans&amp;#x2F;EMIs, etc. You may be right. Or that it’s just like that everywhere (this is not true at all).&lt;p&gt;So like everything else in life nothing comes free and without risk.</text></comment>

<story><title>Tim Cook tells employees the return to offices will begin on April 11th</title><url>https://www.theverge.com/2022/3/4/22961592/apple-april-11-return-office-corporate-pandemic-tim-cook</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>roflulz</author><text>thats how you get PIPed</text></item><item><author>driverdan</author><text>Put your work hours in your calendar and auto decline everything outside those hours. Refuse that nonsense.</text></item><item><author>tombert</author><text>COVID made my situation worse at Apple. I worked in a satellite office (NYC), and while in the office, most folks in California were reluctant to schedule meetings later than ~2pm california time because they didn&amp;#x27;t want to keep people in the office late. When we went fully remote, suddenly it seems like any compunctions about that vanished; I would have meetings until 9pm 3 nights a week, I guess because the managers figured that we were already home.&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; Having left, I forgot what it was like to be able to focus on something other than Apple&lt;p&gt;Definitely sympathize there; we weren&amp;#x27;t even allowed to leave &lt;i&gt;Github issues&lt;/i&gt; without Legal&amp;#x27;s approval, and when I wanted to open source something (basically an HLS server I wrote to handle my home security system), I was told that a) it was too competitive with Apple because my project had to do with video, and b) there&amp;#x27;s no such thing as &amp;quot;my own time&amp;quot; with Apple, since I was salaried and well-compensated.</text></item><item><author>dnathi493</author><text>I left Apple after years of lack of any flexibility on the remote work process. They wouldn&amp;#x27;t allow transferring to any alternative office for most teams. From what I understood, VPs could protect a small minority of some of their employees if a senior leader made a case to them.&lt;p&gt;Unfortunately, this just seemed to lead to the most politically connected folks going remote and directors friends and favorite hires getting the perk.&lt;p&gt;At three trillion market cap, I guess they just realized it doesn&amp;#x27;t really matter if attrition shoots up and they&amp;#x27;ll always have enough people to fill the trenches. Lots and lots of people left around the same time.&lt;p&gt;Having left, I forgot what it was like to be able to focus on something other than Apple. Incredibly toxic atmosphere on the inside. I work at a fast-paced startup and still work on average 10&amp;#x2F;hours a week less than at Apple.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>amerkhalid</author><text>I freely decline meetings too. Usually, add a note saying it is family time or unreasonable time for a meeting.&lt;p&gt;Never been a problem.</text></comment>

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<story><title>Warp Drive May Be More Feasible Than Thought, Scientists Say</title><url>http://news.yahoo.com/warp-drive-may-more-feasible-thought-scientists-161301109.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Ygg2</author><text>Seeing how if we use our warp drives to &apos;colonize&apos; space, other creatures would have far more to fear from us than we from them (think Independence day with roles reversed). If a space faring species encounters non-space faring species, the one with warp is probably (not necessary) in the better position. Even without the weapons, FTL drive implies a magnitudes greater technology than anything a non-FTL race would have. In fact atm we might be the most dangerous creature out there, so in future (if we get that far) I probably see human species branching out into several subspecies and then waging endless war against each other.&lt;p&gt;Halo is a work of fiction, not a real life based drama. We&apos;ll probably be lucky if we find anything more interesting than a microbe. First encounter will probably be more like Solaris than Halo. We&apos;ll most likely find an organism that we can&apos;t even perceive as one.&lt;p&gt;So no, we don&apos;t need guns in space. Best weapon in space is Newton&apos;s second law (i.e. Kinetic bombardment). Cheap and easy to set up, hard to defend if your target is in a gravitation well.</text></item><item><author>CWIZO</author><text>As much as it pains me to say this, but I think we have to invent some more advanced weapons before we start poking our heads out of our galaxy. Don&apos;t get me wrong, this is fantastic and I&apos;m all tingly from excitement (this is the first time I&apos;ve read about warp drives in the context of real science) ... but like I said, taking a stroll trough the galaxy with our bombs and finding a hostile alien world. Well we&apos;d be screwed.&lt;p&gt;Just food for though here; this is from the Halo universe, where the timeline goes something like this: humans invent &quot;warp drives&quot;, they colonize other worlds, soon this colonies start to rebel which leads to a massive space civil war. Later the aliens arrive and set to destroy all of humanity. Now, if it waren&apos;t for the civil war, humans would have no experience in space combat, and they wouldn&apos;t have developed more advance weapons which would later allowed them to defeat the alien threat.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>nullc</author><text>&amp;#62; If a space faring species encounters non-space faring species, the one with warp is probably (not necessary) in the better position.&lt;p&gt;I read a fun science fiction novella once about a interstellar space faring species that invented their warpdrive whatchamacallit before their industrial revolution, no electricity, machines, etc. Flying medieval space galleons. And they were going about successfully conquering a bunch of similar or more primitive species. Then they encountered 20th century earth...&lt;p&gt;Wish I could remember the darn name.</text></comment>

<story><title>Warp Drive May Be More Feasible Than Thought, Scientists Say</title><url>http://news.yahoo.com/warp-drive-may-more-feasible-thought-scientists-161301109.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Ygg2</author><text>Seeing how if we use our warp drives to &apos;colonize&apos; space, other creatures would have far more to fear from us than we from them (think Independence day with roles reversed). If a space faring species encounters non-space faring species, the one with warp is probably (not necessary) in the better position. Even without the weapons, FTL drive implies a magnitudes greater technology than anything a non-FTL race would have. In fact atm we might be the most dangerous creature out there, so in future (if we get that far) I probably see human species branching out into several subspecies and then waging endless war against each other.&lt;p&gt;Halo is a work of fiction, not a real life based drama. We&apos;ll probably be lucky if we find anything more interesting than a microbe. First encounter will probably be more like Solaris than Halo. We&apos;ll most likely find an organism that we can&apos;t even perceive as one.&lt;p&gt;So no, we don&apos;t need guns in space. Best weapon in space is Newton&apos;s second law (i.e. Kinetic bombardment). Cheap and easy to set up, hard to defend if your target is in a gravitation well.</text></item><item><author>CWIZO</author><text>As much as it pains me to say this, but I think we have to invent some more advanced weapons before we start poking our heads out of our galaxy. Don&apos;t get me wrong, this is fantastic and I&apos;m all tingly from excitement (this is the first time I&apos;ve read about warp drives in the context of real science) ... but like I said, taking a stroll trough the galaxy with our bombs and finding a hostile alien world. Well we&apos;d be screwed.&lt;p&gt;Just food for though here; this is from the Halo universe, where the timeline goes something like this: humans invent &quot;warp drives&quot;, they colonize other worlds, soon this colonies start to rebel which leads to a massive space civil war. Later the aliens arrive and set to destroy all of humanity. Now, if it waren&apos;t for the civil war, humans would have no experience in space combat, and they wouldn&apos;t have developed more advance weapons which would later allowed them to defeat the alien threat.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>andrewflnr</author><text>You&apos;re assuming the other species is non-spacegoing. It seems more likely to me, and at least hypothetically possible, that they&apos;ve been in space as long or longer than us. And probably if you can bend space enough to make a warp drive, deflecting an incoming piece of matter isn&apos;t that hard.&lt;p&gt;But I agree we&apos;re more likely to end up at war with each other.</text></comment>

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<story><title>Analytics: Hacker News v.s. a tweet from Elon Musk</title><url>https://simonwillison.net/2023/Feb/17/analytics/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>pclmulqdq</author><text>Adding another data point here:&lt;p&gt;I had a very good post here on HN in the last year (about 1600 upvotes), and this was the only place where I shared it or saw it posted. I know a few people discussed it on Twitter, too, so a good fraction of my traffic was likely &amp;quot;sourced from Twitter&amp;quot; by these metrics.&lt;p&gt;Per Cloudflare, I had about 180k visitors during the 2-day period when that blog post was on the front page here, and another 60k during the following week. I don&amp;#x27;t have any trackers on the blog so I don&amp;#x27;t know the traffic sources or any other more granular breakdown. At the time, my baseline was about 400 visitors a day, which I attribute to RSS feeds and bots. I know that Cloudflare overestimates unique visitors, since it is just using layer 3-4 factors, but I&amp;#x27;m not sure it overestimates by that large of a factor.&lt;p&gt;I would assume that the HN impact for his post was likely underestimated thanks to secondary sharing effects. A lot of links go from HN to Twitter, Reddit, and other communities, where they get second chances at &amp;quot;going viral.&amp;quot;</text></comment>

<story><title>Analytics: Hacker News v.s. a tweet from Elon Musk</title><url>https://simonwillison.net/2023/Feb/17/analytics/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>osamagirl69</author><text>Nice post, that is a very interesting breakdown of traffic:&lt;p&gt;&lt;i&gt;Twitter: 721k (after elon tweeted him)&lt;p&gt;&lt;/i&gt;Direct &amp;#x2F; None: 132k (this includes traffic from Mastodon)&lt;p&gt;&lt;i&gt;Hacker News: 49.5k (18th all time highest ranked post)&lt;p&gt;&lt;/i&gt;other: ~60k</text></comment>

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<story><title>The geometry of an electron determined for the first time</title><url>https://www.unibas.ch/en/News-Events/News/Uni-Research/The-geometry-of-an-electron-determined-for-the-first-time.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>aj7</author><text>From reading the article, I think they mean “determined” in the sense of controlled. They changed the potential distribution in the electrodes, and the single-electron wavefunction changed in a controlled way. The “geometry” is presumably the spatial probability distribution, including the spin.</text></comment>

<story><title>The geometry of an electron determined for the first time</title><url>https://www.unibas.ch/en/News-Events/News/Uni-Research/The-geometry-of-an-electron-determined-for-the-first-time.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>dr_dshiv</author><text>I thought the geometry of electron orbitals was that of spherical harmonics? Platonically beautiful, emperically validated, etc etc.&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.m.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Spherical_harmonics&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.m.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Spherical_harmonics&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>

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<story><title>PostgreSQL: Jsonb has committed</title><url>http://obartunov.livejournal.com/177247.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>SixSigma</author><text>If, like me a moment ago, you have no idea what jsonb is; see here for a full explanation &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.postgresql.org/message-id/[email protected]&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.postgresql.org&amp;#x2F;message-id&amp;#x2F;E1WRpmB-0002et-MT@gemul...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;tl;dr storing json in a way that doesn&amp;#x27;t mean repeatedly parsing it to make updates</text></comment>

<story><title>PostgreSQL: Jsonb has committed</title><url>http://obartunov.livejournal.com/177247.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>fvt</author><text>PostgreSQL was already able to compete with Oracle&amp;#x27;s RDBMS and Microsoft&amp;#x27;s SQL Server but could soon supplant Mongo for most jobs.&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s great to know that the only required storage components nowadays could be PG and ElasticSearch (as PG&amp;#x27;s full-text search can&amp;#x27;t compete with ES), and that the former is a no-brainer to setup (on top of AWS, Rackspace, etc.) or cheap to acquire (with Heroku Postgres for example).&lt;p&gt;Good job !</text></comment>

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<story><title>SW-delta: an incremental cache for the web</title><url>https://github.com/gmetais/sw-delta</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>Scaevolus</author><text>This might make be better as an RFC3229[1] (Delta encoding in HTTP) implementation-- putting the cache information in the querystring is strange when HTTP has a bunch of headers dedicated to it.&lt;p&gt;Cloudflare has a similar solution called Railgun[2] for updating dynamically generated pages. &amp;quot;reddit.com changes by about 2.15% over five minutes and 3.16% over an hour. The New York Times home page changes by about 0.6% over five minutes and 3% over an hour. BBC News changes by about 0.4% over five minutes and 2% over an hour.&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;[1]: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;tools.ietf.org&amp;#x2F;html&amp;#x2F;rfc3229&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;tools.ietf.org&amp;#x2F;html&amp;#x2F;rfc3229&lt;/a&gt; [2]: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;blog.cloudflare.com&amp;#x2F;efficiently-compressing-dynamically-generated-53805&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;blog.cloudflare.com&amp;#x2F;efficiently-compressing-dynamica...&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>

<story><title>SW-delta: an incremental cache for the web</title><url>https://github.com/gmetais/sw-delta</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>eknkc</author><text>Out of curiosity, I went ahead and calculated deltas between jQuery 2.2.3 -&amp;gt; 2.2.4 minified versions.&lt;p&gt;It generated a 512 byte delta string, instead of downloading the new version of 83KB, 512 bytes seems like a pretty significant optimisation. Also, 2300 bytes for 2.2.0 -&amp;gt; 2.2.4.&lt;p&gt;I haven&amp;#x27;t seen a lot of great service worker uses so far but this seems plausible. Good job.&lt;p&gt;Delta if you wonder what it looks like: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;gist.github.com&amp;#x2F;eknkc&amp;#x2F;fb27cfaee871a007c3cabfda5df03ab0&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;gist.github.com&amp;#x2F;eknkc&amp;#x2F;fb27cfaee871a007c3cabfda5df03a...&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>

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<story><title>Beijing&apos;s US Treasury holdings dip</title><url>https://asia.nikkei.com/Economy/Trade-war/China-sells-dollars-and-buys-gold-as-tensions-rise</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>conjecTech</author><text>This is a misrepresentation which is trying to paint a relatively weak position as a stronger one. A small fraction of that money is being spent on gold. According the financial times[1], China only bought 15.6 tonnes - about $675 million worth[2], compared to the dollar deficit of ~$7.5 billion.&lt;p&gt;China has a trade surplus with the US, but is net losing dollars because it has to use dollars to buy oil and other imported goods as very little international trade is transacted in yuan. They aren&amp;#x27;t choosing to shift away from the US dollar. They need them and are going through their stockpile.&lt;p&gt;[1]&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.ft.com&amp;#x2F;content&amp;#x2F;ca50aa10-8b18-11e9-a1c1-51bf8f989972&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.ft.com&amp;#x2F;content&amp;#x2F;ca50aa10-8b18-11e9-a1c1-51bf8f989...&lt;/a&gt; [2]&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.wolframalpha.com&amp;#x2F;input&amp;#x2F;?i=value+of+15.6+tonnes+of+gold&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.wolframalpha.com&amp;#x2F;input&amp;#x2F;?i=value+of+15.6+tonnes+o...&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ttul</author><text>You’re correct here; however, the narrative that China wants Americans to see is that they can mess up the dollar. The truth is selling a huge pile of dollar denominated bonds wouldn’t do much other than hurt China by pushing up the yuan and thus depressing exports even further.</text></comment>

<story><title>Beijing&apos;s US Treasury holdings dip</title><url>https://asia.nikkei.com/Economy/Trade-war/China-sells-dollars-and-buys-gold-as-tensions-rise</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>conjecTech</author><text>This is a misrepresentation which is trying to paint a relatively weak position as a stronger one. A small fraction of that money is being spent on gold. According the financial times[1], China only bought 15.6 tonnes - about $675 million worth[2], compared to the dollar deficit of ~$7.5 billion.&lt;p&gt;China has a trade surplus with the US, but is net losing dollars because it has to use dollars to buy oil and other imported goods as very little international trade is transacted in yuan. They aren&amp;#x27;t choosing to shift away from the US dollar. They need them and are going through their stockpile.&lt;p&gt;[1]&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.ft.com&amp;#x2F;content&amp;#x2F;ca50aa10-8b18-11e9-a1c1-51bf8f989972&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.ft.com&amp;#x2F;content&amp;#x2F;ca50aa10-8b18-11e9-a1c1-51bf8f989...&lt;/a&gt; [2]&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.wolframalpha.com&amp;#x2F;input&amp;#x2F;?i=value+of+15.6+tonnes+of+gold&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.wolframalpha.com&amp;#x2F;input&amp;#x2F;?i=value+of+15.6+tonnes+o...&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>rrggrr</author><text>Additionally, China&amp;#x27;s gold acquisitions may be as a hedge against inflation risks as they (a) devalue the RMB; (b) reportedly see 70% increases in pork prices due to swine flu, and (c) need to purchase gold to keep their ~3 year old RMB&amp;#x2F;Gold&amp;#x2F;Petro market intact.</text></comment>

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<story><title>On Starting a Software Business</title><url>http://stephaniehurlburt.com/blog/2017/6/24/on-starting-a-software-business</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>siliconc0w</author><text>Consulting doesn&amp;#x27;t scale, software does.&lt;p&gt;One pragmatic strategy to find product&amp;#x2F;customers:&lt;p&gt;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt; 1) Pick an industry 2) Ask someone in that industry what they use spreadsheets for 3) Build something better &lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt; There is a lot of &amp;#x27;cybernetic&amp;#x27; processes that are a mix of humans with domain knowledge and machines with spreadsheets for schemaless storage and querying. Generally the move is to encode the domain knowledge into code and standardize the storage (i.e excel -&amp;gt; RDMS) to make it more useful.</text></comment>

<story><title>On Starting a Software Business</title><url>http://stephaniehurlburt.com/blog/2017/6/24/on-starting-a-software-business</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>walkingolof</author><text>- &amp;quot;We can make a decent salary out of this&amp;quot; - 36 months - 48 months&lt;p&gt;I started and 10 years later made a successfully exit from my company, we never raised any money, the above figure is what it took us to go from financing our development our self (by having two jobs), to having enough customers to break even.&lt;p&gt;I think everyone should, bootstrap one company to get a feel for how it is, will make you a better entrepreneur.</text></comment>

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<story><title>Ask HN: Any hardware startups here?</title><text>Amidst the sea of software startups, I&amp;#x27;m keen to learn who in our community is braving the often-quoted &amp;quot;hardware is hard&amp;quot; mantra. Whether you&amp;#x27;re working on IoT, robotics, consumer electronics, or something completely off the wall, please feel free to share below.&lt;p&gt;Remember, no venture is too small or niche! It&amp;#x27;s the passion and innovation that counts.</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>lotsofpulp</author><text>I am always entertained by the extra amount people are willing to pay for the tiniest bit of risk reduction (or appearance thereof) for baby and kid related products.&lt;p&gt;For example, paying an extra $900 for a car seat, but then taking the kid on unnecessary car rides, which are magnitudes riskier than not taking the kid in a car. If you are willing to pay that much for such an immaterial decrease in risk, surely you should avoid taking the kid in a car unless absolutely necessary.&lt;p&gt;Although, I guess some of it is also showing what you can afford.</text></item><item><author>gambiting</author><text>The price is insane man. The best of the best car seat according to lots of reviews(Cybex Anoris-T) is &amp;quot;only&amp;quot; £599, your thing is significantly more and I don&amp;#x27;t see why it&amp;#x27;s any better.&lt;p&gt;Edit: sorry, let me rephrase that - not insane, just hard to justify.</text></item><item><author>aquaphile</author><text>We make the world&amp;#x27;s best baby car seats. &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.kioma.us&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.kioma.us&lt;/a&gt; Fatherly Magazine calls it &amp;quot;The Car Seat of the Future&amp;quot;. It&amp;#x27;s been crash tested, flight inversion tested, flammability tested and mom tested. It is full of patented innovations to make kids safer and parenting more enjoyable.&lt;p&gt;It required lots of material science, production techniques, supply chain adjustments, and a surprising amount of software (to model dynamic stress, and to run the robot and CNC trim paths). Once you get to the point you can clearly articulate your BOM and Specs to a manufacturer for MOQ=50, things get a lot easier. At the prototype stage we built everything ourselves, but now we use OEM manufacturers.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>NikolaNovak</author><text>Our risk assessment is as emotional as is logical.&lt;p&gt;When it comes to driving specifically, my friends will buy a 50k SUV to feel safe, but will then buy cheapest plasticy tires or refuse to join me in advanced safety class.&lt;p&gt;That being said - kids are vulnerable, fragile, and don&amp;#x27;t make their own decisions. As a newish parent myself I 100% understand the extra pressure that puts to make the best possible decision for them.</text></comment>

<story><title>Ask HN: Any hardware startups here?</title><text>Amidst the sea of software startups, I&amp;#x27;m keen to learn who in our community is braving the often-quoted &amp;quot;hardware is hard&amp;quot; mantra. Whether you&amp;#x27;re working on IoT, robotics, consumer electronics, or something completely off the wall, please feel free to share below.&lt;p&gt;Remember, no venture is too small or niche! It&amp;#x27;s the passion and innovation that counts.</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>lotsofpulp</author><text>I am always entertained by the extra amount people are willing to pay for the tiniest bit of risk reduction (or appearance thereof) for baby and kid related products.&lt;p&gt;For example, paying an extra $900 for a car seat, but then taking the kid on unnecessary car rides, which are magnitudes riskier than not taking the kid in a car. If you are willing to pay that much for such an immaterial decrease in risk, surely you should avoid taking the kid in a car unless absolutely necessary.&lt;p&gt;Although, I guess some of it is also showing what you can afford.</text></item><item><author>gambiting</author><text>The price is insane man. The best of the best car seat according to lots of reviews(Cybex Anoris-T) is &amp;quot;only&amp;quot; £599, your thing is significantly more and I don&amp;#x27;t see why it&amp;#x27;s any better.&lt;p&gt;Edit: sorry, let me rephrase that - not insane, just hard to justify.</text></item><item><author>aquaphile</author><text>We make the world&amp;#x27;s best baby car seats. &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.kioma.us&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.kioma.us&lt;/a&gt; Fatherly Magazine calls it &amp;quot;The Car Seat of the Future&amp;quot;. It&amp;#x27;s been crash tested, flight inversion tested, flammability tested and mom tested. It is full of patented innovations to make kids safer and parenting more enjoyable.&lt;p&gt;It required lots of material science, production techniques, supply chain adjustments, and a surprising amount of software (to model dynamic stress, and to run the robot and CNC trim paths). Once you get to the point you can clearly articulate your BOM and Specs to a manufacturer for MOQ=50, things get a lot easier. At the prototype stage we built everything ourselves, but now we use OEM manufacturers.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>reaperman</author><text>And some of it is buying convenience. The peace of mind from knowing you have the safest seat allows risking more rides which frees up impromptu errand scheduling. Whether the math actually works out is orthogonal to the psychological effects.</text></comment>

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<story><title>American VC Firms Investing Billions into PRC Companies Fueling the CCP Military</title><url>https://selectcommitteeontheccp.house.gov/media/press-releases/committee-report-american-vc-firms-investing-billions-prc-companies-fueling</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>lenerdenator</author><text>Tell that to the parts of the American populace who suffered most from the lack of lower-education jobs. Deaths of despair have risen in that population sector over the last four decades. Wages have become stagnant. The generation that was born after this shift to China will be the first American generation in centuries to have a lower standard of living than their parents.&lt;p&gt;These companies tossed the heavy manufacturing capabilities of the United States to a geopolitical rival. To be clear: there is no China with superpower ambitions if the American shareholder class hadn&amp;#x27;t made it happen.</text></item><item><author>kirubakaran</author><text>&amp;gt; It&amp;#x27;s arguably treason.&lt;p&gt;If I can give some feedback, this last line undermines the rest of your points. Not everything selfish is treason.</text></item><item><author>lenerdenator</author><text>Is anyone surprised?&lt;p&gt;The investor class argued that shutting down factories in the American Midwest (where almost none of the investors live, of course) and moving production to China would bring political liberalization to the nation. That&amp;#x27;s why the US didn&amp;#x27;t slam the door shut on China after Tienanmen Square with Bush 41, and why Bush 43 was supportive of China joining the WTO. Of course, they didn&amp;#x27;t liberalize, and now China&amp;#x27;s using its massive industrial base that Americans funded to increase its capabilities for a showdown with the US (and other Western nations) for global economic and political supremacy.&lt;p&gt;Really, it was all BS from the start; investors just didn&amp;#x27;t want to pay working-class Americans anymore and couldn&amp;#x27;t have cared less about the political implications of the market forces they were unleashing.&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s arguably treason.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Aunche</author><text>By the time China became the world&amp;#x27;s manufacturer, Japan and automation had already functionally killed lower-education jobs. On the other hand, the efficiency of Chinese manufacturing has enabled more desirable and lucrative jobs in services and entrepreneurship. Americans already the second highest incomes in the world [1], which have continued to trend upward despite the rise of China [2]. The pain that Americans face rose internally (healthcare, housing, and college).&lt;p&gt;[1] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Median_income&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Median_income&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;[2] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;fred.stlouisfed.org&amp;#x2F;series&amp;#x2F;MEHOINUSA672N&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;fred.stlouisfed.org&amp;#x2F;series&amp;#x2F;MEHOINUSA672N&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>

<story><title>American VC Firms Investing Billions into PRC Companies Fueling the CCP Military</title><url>https://selectcommitteeontheccp.house.gov/media/press-releases/committee-report-american-vc-firms-investing-billions-prc-companies-fueling</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>lenerdenator</author><text>Tell that to the parts of the American populace who suffered most from the lack of lower-education jobs. Deaths of despair have risen in that population sector over the last four decades. Wages have become stagnant. The generation that was born after this shift to China will be the first American generation in centuries to have a lower standard of living than their parents.&lt;p&gt;These companies tossed the heavy manufacturing capabilities of the United States to a geopolitical rival. To be clear: there is no China with superpower ambitions if the American shareholder class hadn&amp;#x27;t made it happen.</text></item><item><author>kirubakaran</author><text>&amp;gt; It&amp;#x27;s arguably treason.&lt;p&gt;If I can give some feedback, this last line undermines the rest of your points. Not everything selfish is treason.</text></item><item><author>lenerdenator</author><text>Is anyone surprised?&lt;p&gt;The investor class argued that shutting down factories in the American Midwest (where almost none of the investors live, of course) and moving production to China would bring political liberalization to the nation. That&amp;#x27;s why the US didn&amp;#x27;t slam the door shut on China after Tienanmen Square with Bush 41, and why Bush 43 was supportive of China joining the WTO. Of course, they didn&amp;#x27;t liberalize, and now China&amp;#x27;s using its massive industrial base that Americans funded to increase its capabilities for a showdown with the US (and other Western nations) for global economic and political supremacy.&lt;p&gt;Really, it was all BS from the start; investors just didn&amp;#x27;t want to pay working-class Americans anymore and couldn&amp;#x27;t have cared less about the political implications of the market forces they were unleashing.&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s arguably treason.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>voxic11</author><text>&amp;gt; These companies tossed the heavy manufacturing capabilities of the United States to a geopolitical rival.&lt;p&gt;But for it to be considered treason they would have to committed that act with the intent of betraying the United States for their enemies. I think you will have a hard time showing that was their intent when a much more obvious and likely intent was making a profit.&lt;p&gt;If you take out the intent part of treason then it would apply to all sorts of scenarios and would severely restrict the freedom of US citizens. For instance would you consider a US citizen who is loyal to the United States but takes a year to volunteer at an Iranian hospital to be committing treason? What about a US factory worker who strikes for better working conditions and the strike gives an advantage to a Chinese competitor?</text></comment>

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<story><title>Google’s become an obsessive stalker</title><url>http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/09/14/google_location_location_location/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>yummyfajitas</author><text>&lt;i&gt;We are witnessing the birth of a new phase that will leave a scar on mankind and make the sins of the Church, Hitler, North Korea and every other despotic regime that has tried to limit human freedom through the ages look amateurish if we do nothing about it now.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;Nazis killed approx 40M people. Communists add another 100-200M to that total. Are you really suggesting that &amp;quot;large unbridled corporations&amp;quot; have proven through history that they will kill more than 240M people?&lt;p&gt;The only mechanism I can think of by which google might even approach this is by creating evil AI. Is that what you are referring to, or something else?</text></item><item><author>Lordarminius</author><text>I find it curious the tone of some responses on this issue. Google (and not just google; FB, Bing,Baidu) snooping is not a petty issue that will just go away. It is a matter of deep concern at par with any existential threat mankind has ever faced; up there with climate change and nuclear war. Never before has mankind had to face such an assault to privacy. The data google collects is the next best thing to reading its users minds. This is all the more scary because&lt;p&gt;1. It is a private company 2. state actors have a vested interest in aligning with google and other such companies and (as the article points out) will deliberately lapse in their regulatory obligations.&lt;p&gt;The privacy wars are on and google et-al have won the opening skirmishes. I predict that in response to rising public awareness (not outcry, there is no outcry) google and other invaders of privacy will come up with algorithms that tone down recommendations and mask the amount of data being captured without actually reducing it. The citizenry will be lulled into false complacency and the encirclement will proceed apace.&lt;p&gt;Large unbridled Corporations with unchecked power have proven through history to be venal and predatory. We are witnessing the birth of a new phase that will leave a scar on mankind and make the sins of the Church, Hitler, North Korea and every other despotic regime that has tried to limit human freedom through the ages look amateurish if we do nothing about it now.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ta_donk_gt</author><text>&amp;gt; Nazis killed approx 40M people. Communists add another 100-200M to that total.&lt;p&gt;Without wanting to start a political battle here, this is not behavior that is limited to political systems. Western democracies have inflicted their fair share of death and carnage as well, though because they are &amp;quot;our team&amp;quot; we tend to see our behavior as justified and the other teams&amp;#x27; behaviors as unjustified.&lt;p&gt;Humans with sufficient power will always eliminate any potential threats to their power, and do what they feel is necessary to expediently reach their goals...once that course of action has been successfully justified. That justification happens via one of or a combination of two ways: 1) rhetoric, propaganda, coalition building, education, etc. (various means of influencing those that might present road blocks to accept the behavior), and&amp;#x2F;or 2) possessing sufficient power that challenging the behavior is not an option.&lt;p&gt;Once corporations are able to politically justify eliminating those that stand in their way, they will...all humans in history with sufficient power have done so, and that is never going to change. Many large corporations already have more wealth than half of the nation states on this planet. That is a lot of power. The cornerstones of future political justifications are happening in things like TPP effectively raising the corporation to the level of nation state in some regards.&lt;p&gt;It will happen, it is only a matter of time. Initially it will be the ability to capture and imprison those threats to their power, and eventually it will lead to war and killing. This is the nature of our species. It&amp;#x27;s not going to change.</text></comment>

<story><title>Google’s become an obsessive stalker</title><url>http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/09/14/google_location_location_location/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>yummyfajitas</author><text>&lt;i&gt;We are witnessing the birth of a new phase that will leave a scar on mankind and make the sins of the Church, Hitler, North Korea and every other despotic regime that has tried to limit human freedom through the ages look amateurish if we do nothing about it now.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;Nazis killed approx 40M people. Communists add another 100-200M to that total. Are you really suggesting that &amp;quot;large unbridled corporations&amp;quot; have proven through history that they will kill more than 240M people?&lt;p&gt;The only mechanism I can think of by which google might even approach this is by creating evil AI. Is that what you are referring to, or something else?</text></item><item><author>Lordarminius</author><text>I find it curious the tone of some responses on this issue. Google (and not just google; FB, Bing,Baidu) snooping is not a petty issue that will just go away. It is a matter of deep concern at par with any existential threat mankind has ever faced; up there with climate change and nuclear war. Never before has mankind had to face such an assault to privacy. The data google collects is the next best thing to reading its users minds. This is all the more scary because&lt;p&gt;1. It is a private company 2. state actors have a vested interest in aligning with google and other such companies and (as the article points out) will deliberately lapse in their regulatory obligations.&lt;p&gt;The privacy wars are on and google et-al have won the opening skirmishes. I predict that in response to rising public awareness (not outcry, there is no outcry) google and other invaders of privacy will come up with algorithms that tone down recommendations and mask the amount of data being captured without actually reducing it. The citizenry will be lulled into false complacency and the encirclement will proceed apace.&lt;p&gt;Large unbridled Corporations with unchecked power have proven through history to be venal and predatory. We are witnessing the birth of a new phase that will leave a scar on mankind and make the sins of the Church, Hitler, North Korea and every other despotic regime that has tried to limit human freedom through the ages look amateurish if we do nothing about it now.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>z5h</author><text>Tobacco killed 100 million. Sugary drinks alone are linked to 180000 deaths&amp;#x2F;year. (And of course big sugar lied to us &lt;a href=&quot;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.nytimes.com&amp;#x2F;2016&amp;#x2F;09&amp;#x2F;13&amp;#x2F;well&amp;#x2F;eat&amp;#x2F;how-the-sugar-industry-shifted-blame-to-fat.html?_r=0&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.nytimes.com&amp;#x2F;2016&amp;#x2F;09&amp;#x2F;13&amp;#x2F;well&amp;#x2F;eat&amp;#x2F;how-the-sugar-ind...&lt;/a&gt;).&lt;p&gt;So, yes. Anything in the name of profit.</text></comment>

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<story><title>Janet Jackson had the power to crash laptop computers (2022)</title><url>https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20220816-00/?p=106994</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>jasoneckert</author><text>5400rpm laptop hard drives were notoriously sensitive to external force because of their thin metal construction and low power motor.&lt;p&gt;I remember having a MacBook Pro with a Toshiba 5400rpm hard drive that failed shortly after I rested it on an HVAC unit in our server closet (the HVAC unit happened to be the perfect height off the floor for doing work while standing). Just to be sure that was the cause, I had the drive replaced under warranty, did the same thing again and it died again after only a short while of using it on that HVAC unit.&lt;p&gt;After Apple replaced the drive a second time, I instead used a crash cart as a laptop desk and put a sign on the HVAC unit that read &amp;quot;Don&amp;#x27;t put laptops on here.&amp;quot;</text></comment>

<story><title>Janet Jackson had the power to crash laptop computers (2022)</title><url>https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20220816-00/?p=106994</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>pclmulqdq</author><text>Adam Neely has a good video on this effect, explaining why it is specifically the Janet Jackson song in question: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.youtube.com&amp;#x2F;watch?v=-y3RGeaxksY&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.youtube.com&amp;#x2F;watch?v=-y3RGeaxksY&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>

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<story><title>Verizon Workers Strike on East Coast After Deadline Passes</title><url>http://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/14/business/verizon-workers-strike.html?hp&amp;action=click&amp;pgtype=Homepage&amp;clickSource=story-heading&amp;module=first-column-region&amp;region=top-news&amp;WT.nav=top-news&amp;_r=0</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>tsunamifury</author><text>Good. If only tech workers had the spine to do the same after finding out their CEOs had conspired to suppress their wages and targeted those who wanted to leave...</text></comment>

<story><title>Verizon Workers Strike on East Coast After Deadline Passes</title><url>http://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/14/business/verizon-workers-strike.html?hp&amp;action=click&amp;pgtype=Homepage&amp;clickSource=story-heading&amp;module=first-column-region&amp;region=top-news&amp;WT.nav=top-news&amp;_r=0</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>bdavisx</author><text>Did I read the 2014 annual report correctly and they had $20+ billion in profit? I think they can afford to keep the pension plan the way it is.</text></comment>

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<story><title>Nevertheless, She Coded</title><url>https://dev.to/thepracticaldev/nevertheless-she-coded</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>phlakaton</author><text>If ever I had a notion that an expression of solidarity for women in tech was unnecessary or quixotic, the response to this article on this very forum would be sufficient to dispel it.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Mz</author><text>HN has actually improved dramatically in recent years. There used to be no one like you speaking up in support. And, yet, it took me a long time to see the sexism here because it was already so much more civil than other places I had known.&lt;p&gt;(In case you are unaware, I appear to be the highest ranked openly female member here. I strongly suspect I really am because I have been saying that for a couple of years or so and no one has shot me down yet with &amp;quot;Nope!!! THIS member is openly female AND on the leaderboard, you dumbass!!!!!&amp;quot;)</text></comment>

<story><title>Nevertheless, She Coded</title><url>https://dev.to/thepracticaldev/nevertheless-she-coded</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>phlakaton</author><text>If ever I had a notion that an expression of solidarity for women in tech was unnecessary or quixotic, the response to this article on this very forum would be sufficient to dispel it.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>bhalp1</author><text>As the creator of &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;dev.to&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;dev.to&lt;/a&gt; and the co-author of this article, I concur mightily.</text></comment>

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<story><title>The FBI Should Stop Attacking Encryption</title><url>https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2021/03/fbi-should-stop-attacking-encryption-and-tell-congress-about-all-encrypted-phones</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>cm2187</author><text>Another argument against the &amp;quot;going dark&amp;quot; claim is that before smartphones and the internet, the only conversations the FBI could monitor was through phonelines and mail. These were known to be easily monitored and I doubt there was much more criminal activity happening through those then than now.&lt;p&gt;I would argue that the conversations that have gone online are the interactions that were previously happening in-person (at least in term of criminal activity), to which the FBI didn&amp;#x27;t have access before.&lt;p&gt;There is something Orwellian with the idea that there shouldn&amp;#x27;t be a word that can be pronounced in the country that the government cannot record and listen to after the fact. The limits of what is legal or not have always moved (see homosexuality, drug and alcohol consumption, etc). So a 100% enforcement of the law is counter-intuitively undesirable.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>lbblack</author><text>I find it extremely alarming that law enforcement almost everywhere around the world is attempting to undermine almost a century-fold of legitimate mathematics and science with regards to encryption and cryptography.&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s a tad embarrassing that lawmakers (who aren&amp;#x27;t even computer scientists like c&amp;#x27;mon are we for real here?) somehow forgot how and who broke the Enigma Machine. Alan Turing did that.&lt;p&gt;Same thing with the Tor browser developed by the US Navy. Either everyone has access to a tool which can guarantee that you can blend in with the rest of the crowd, or every civilian has a special color and we all pop out while the lawmakers and police are somehow wearing grey.&lt;p&gt;How did cypherpunks and computer scientists get blasted from the government like this? Shouldn&amp;#x27;t there be some laws regarding digital privacy for US citizens?&lt;p&gt;Somehow AD revenue is caked everywhere but I can&amp;#x27;t use a computer without the FBI wanting my social security card? What the duck. Shucks I thought this was America.</text></comment>

<story><title>The FBI Should Stop Attacking Encryption</title><url>https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2021/03/fbi-should-stop-attacking-encryption-and-tell-congress-about-all-encrypted-phones</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>cm2187</author><text>Another argument against the &amp;quot;going dark&amp;quot; claim is that before smartphones and the internet, the only conversations the FBI could monitor was through phonelines and mail. These were known to be easily monitored and I doubt there was much more criminal activity happening through those then than now.&lt;p&gt;I would argue that the conversations that have gone online are the interactions that were previously happening in-person (at least in term of criminal activity), to which the FBI didn&amp;#x27;t have access before.&lt;p&gt;There is something Orwellian with the idea that there shouldn&amp;#x27;t be a word that can be pronounced in the country that the government cannot record and listen to after the fact. The limits of what is legal or not have always moved (see homosexuality, drug and alcohol consumption, etc). So a 100% enforcement of the law is counter-intuitively undesirable.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>_wldu</author><text>15 years ago, if I had said that society would build a tracking system and that most people would happily carry a tracker in their pocket and pay monthly fees to support the tracking networks, I would have been laughed out of the room.&lt;p&gt;But that is what happened, and most people are oblivious to this fact.</text></comment>

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<story><title>Spain will introduce free train travel</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-07-15/spain-will-introduce-free-train-travel-to-help-ease-the-cost-of-living</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>hardwaregeek</author><text>Free or extremely cheap transportation is a fascinating development. I always found it odd that the rhetoric around transportation was that it should make money. We don&amp;#x27;t expect other parts of the government to turn a profit. Why transportation?&lt;p&gt;If Amtrak went that direction and made its transportation close to free, I wonder if we&amp;#x27;d see more people try it out. Maybe it&amp;#x27;d gain some popularity and we could finally see a shift away from cars. Public transportation is a difficult process because until the money is spent and the line is there, people are not sold. Whereas with cars, even if a highway is not built, people still have a car by default. Therefore the government needs to float money, either in infrastructure or in subsidized fares. At least subsidized fares is a little less binary than infrastructure.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Joeri</author><text>As someone who has chosen to get rid of my car and rely on public transport I would say the biggest problem public transport faces is quality and not cost. For people to trade in their cars connections need to be fast, frequent and a comfortable ride. This requires large investments and having high enough fares helps offset those investments. Making it free makes it harder to achieve that level of quality, so while it will sway the most price-conscious group, it would never convince the masses to take a train instead of their car.</text></comment>

<story><title>Spain will introduce free train travel</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-07-15/spain-will-introduce-free-train-travel-to-help-ease-the-cost-of-living</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>hardwaregeek</author><text>Free or extremely cheap transportation is a fascinating development. I always found it odd that the rhetoric around transportation was that it should make money. We don&amp;#x27;t expect other parts of the government to turn a profit. Why transportation?&lt;p&gt;If Amtrak went that direction and made its transportation close to free, I wonder if we&amp;#x27;d see more people try it out. Maybe it&amp;#x27;d gain some popularity and we could finally see a shift away from cars. Public transportation is a difficult process because until the money is spent and the line is there, people are not sold. Whereas with cars, even if a highway is not built, people still have a car by default. Therefore the government needs to float money, either in infrastructure or in subsidized fares. At least subsidized fares is a little less binary than infrastructure.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>balderdash</author><text>While I don’t think this stuff needs to make money, I think the goal should be at least be to break even, as people’s willingness to pay seems to be the best proxy of its actual utility to society. (E.g. trying to avoid bridges to nowhere [1])&lt;p&gt;The question then becomes how much if at all do want to subsidize transportation.&lt;p&gt;[1]&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.m.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Gravina_Island_Bridge&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.m.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Gravina_Island_Bridge&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>

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<story><title>More evidence that Voyager has exited the solar system</title><url>http://blog.chron.com/sciguy/2012/10/more-evidence-that-voyager-has-exited-the-solar-system/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>tjoff</author><text>All these articles are a bit meaningless to someone, such as me, that don&apos;t even know what the definition of the solar system is (and no article seems to care about it).&lt;p&gt;To me, the solar system is just a heap of planets orbiting the sun. With that definition once you pass the orbit of the last planet your have exited the solar system (although since the orbits aren&apos;t circular and they all are in the ~same plane there sure is still some room for debate about the exact border of the solar system) - and consequently when pluto was excluded the size of the solar system shrank.&lt;p&gt;I don&apos;t imagine that my simple view of the matter is in any way accurate, but considering that noone seems to know where och what is supposed to happen when you leave the solar system, what are we then waiting for?&lt;p&gt;That something odd is happening and then, aha! That must be it! This is from now on the definition of the end of the solar system?&lt;p&gt;Sure, there might be a border where cosmic rays from outside of the solar system greatly increase etc. but does that have to coincide with the definition of the solar system?</text></comment>

<story><title>More evidence that Voyager has exited the solar system</title><url>http://blog.chron.com/sciguy/2012/10/more-evidence-that-voyager-has-exited-the-solar-system/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>yo-mf</author><text>Considering that it has enough power to continue data communications with Earth till 2025, it should be well into the heliosphere. If it keeps going at its current speed of 17km/s, it should reach the nearest star by the year 75,787.</text></comment>

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<story><title>Tableau acquires ClearGraph, a data analysis startup using natural language</title><url>https://techcrunch.com/2017/08/09/tableau-acquires-cleargraph-a-startup-that-lets-you-analyze-your-data-using-natural-language/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>sprobertson</author><text>I&amp;#x27;ve been working on a (soon to be) open source version of this, I didn&amp;#x27;t realize there was a real business version out there. So far it works great alongside Salesforce e.g. &amp;quot;Find me appointments in San Mateo today set by Jason Jones&amp;quot;.</text></comment>

<story><title>Tableau acquires ClearGraph, a data analysis startup using natural language</title><url>https://techcrunch.com/2017/08/09/tableau-acquires-cleargraph-a-startup-that-lets-you-analyze-your-data-using-natural-language/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>bgraves</author><text>Saw a pretty sweet demo of Tableau&amp;#x27;s home-grown prototype at their annual conference last November. It was surprisingly useful to be able to just speak &amp;quot;show me all of the 3-bedroom homes in the downtown Seattle area less than $400,000&amp;quot;.&lt;p&gt;It was slow, but effective. I kept feeling myself wanting to click around for the first few minutes but quickly realized I didn&amp;#x27;t need to.&lt;p&gt;I did have to speak in away that the NLP engine could understand (i.e. &amp;quot;four-hundred thousand dollars&amp;quot; instead of &amp;quot;four-hundred k&amp;quot;) so it still feels like I&amp;#x27;m building a SQL query with my voice instead of just speaking an idea and the software figures out what I mean (hard problem to solve, I know!)</text></comment>

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<story><title>Guitar browser game with a real guitar</title><url>https://makaroni4.github.io/guitar_bro/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>aequitas</author><text>Nice, but a little hard if you don&amp;#x27;t yet have chords associated by name and I&amp;#x27;m missing background music&amp;#x2F;tempo to keep track.&lt;p&gt;Personally I&amp;#x27;m really fond of the Rocksmith game for learning guitar. It&amp;#x27;s like Guitar Hero, but with your own real guitar (and interactive lessons). I have no real ambition (or talent) for playing musical instruments, but somehow it lets me enjoy music interactively at my skill level while also giving the gratification of game progress. &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.youtube.com&amp;#x2F;watch?v=JDQ_U3lukAQ&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.youtube.com&amp;#x2F;watch?v=JDQ_U3lukAQ&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>

<story><title>Guitar browser game with a real guitar</title><url>https://makaroni4.github.io/guitar_bro/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>gus_massa</author><text>If you don&amp;#x27;t have a guitar, you can use a use a piano (or a virtual piano in the phone) or even sing.&lt;p&gt;I think it&amp;#x27;s not clear enough when you hit the note or when you miss it. It has some animation, but it&amp;#x27;s confusing.&lt;p&gt;Anyway, I need more lives :( Can I have a sandbox mode where I can try forever?</text></comment>

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<story><title>About the Reuters article</title><url>http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2013/jul/13/reuters-article-dead-man-s-switch</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>reneherse</author><text>Slightly off topic: The article mentions a &amp;quot;dead man&amp;#x27;s switch&amp;quot; set up by Snowden prior to making his disclosures. If he is assassinated, apparently all the documents will be publicly released.&lt;p&gt;Greenwald also mentioned that the totality of what Snowden controls is &amp;quot;enough information to cause more damage to the US government in a minute alone than anyone else has ever had in the history of the United States.&amp;quot; Let&amp;#x27;s assume that&amp;#x27;s not an entirely hyperbolic statement.&lt;p&gt;From the point of view of the Obama Administration, the real threat is not Snowden&amp;#x27;s&amp;#x2F;Greenwald&amp;#x27;s principled (even patriotic) drip of information, but that an enemy of the US might kill Snowden, and stage it to look like a US op, thus tripping the dead man&amp;#x27;s switch. Snowden has, on his own, made himself a prime target for any sufficiently ambitious US antagonist.&lt;p&gt;And so the US wants Snowden back not only to prosecute him, but also to &amp;quot;protect&amp;quot; him. (Nothing like four years of solitary to keep you safe, comrade.)&lt;p&gt;Until and unless he is granted a pardon or some other form of immunity from prosecution, it seems that Snowden&amp;#x27;s best interest is to stay in the strongest and most secure country he can find. A country with a highly developed security apparatus (to protect him from hostile agents), one that is adversarial to America (to disallow his rendition or extradition), but not openly antagonistic (to want to kill him to harm the US).&lt;p&gt;And that is exactly the country where he finds himself right now.&lt;p&gt;Obama and Putin have quite the chess match coming up. God bless the man whose life is in their hands.&lt;p&gt;[Edited for clarity]</text></comment>

<story><title>About the Reuters article</title><url>http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2013/jul/13/reuters-article-dead-man-s-switch</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>kefs</author><text>FTA: &lt;i&gt;For those who say that they wish there was more attention paid to the substance of the NSA stories than Snowden: here is the list of the NSA revelations we&amp;#x27;ve published over the last month. Feel free to focus on them any time.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://ggsidedocs.blogspot.com.br/2013/07/nsa-revelations-over-last-month.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;ggsidedocs.blogspot.com.br&amp;#x2F;2013&amp;#x2F;07&amp;#x2F;nsa-revelations-ov...&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>

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<story><title>Heathrow tells airlines to stop selling additional flights until September</title><url>https://www.headforpoints.com/2022/07/12/heathrow-tells-all-airlines-to-stop-selling-any-flights-until-11th-september/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>rtkwe</author><text>&amp;gt; guaranteed 20 hours per week, need to be available for 40 hours per week&lt;p&gt;This I think is part of the huge problem with modern &amp;quot;low level&amp;quot;&amp;#x2F;minimum wage jobs. Companies don&amp;#x27;t pay enough to live of of one salary but expect to have full say over their employees time just for their own convenience in scheduling and staffing.</text></item><item><author>shaicoleman</author><text>In Ireland, the minimum wage is €10.50 per hour and the standard work week is 40 hours, that works out to €420 full time minimum wage per week.&lt;p&gt;At Dublin Airport, security staff are only guaranteed 20 hours per week, need to be available for 40 hours per week, and entry level workers are paid €14.14 per hour.&lt;p&gt;Guaranteed pay: €282.80 per week, i.e. 67% of the minimum wage.&lt;p&gt;Are there any surprises why there are staff shortages?&lt;p&gt;1. &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;extra.ie&amp;#x2F;2022&amp;#x2F;03&amp;#x2F;31&amp;#x2F;news&amp;#x2F;daa-taoiseach-criticised-dublin-airport&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;extra.ie&amp;#x2F;2022&amp;#x2F;03&amp;#x2F;31&amp;#x2F;news&amp;#x2F;daa-taoiseach-criticised-du...&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>elliekelly</author><text>When I worked in consulting we had a large retail client who had a lot of turn-over and was looking for ways to &amp;quot;stabilize&amp;quot; hiring. (Short of paying more money, of course!) When we looked into it their system was regularly over-scheduling shifts &amp;quot;just in case&amp;quot; there was a rush and then having store managers &amp;quot;cut&amp;quot; shifts if there wasn&amp;#x27;t a rush. There aren&amp;#x27;t a lot of surprise &amp;quot;rush&amp;quot; shifts in shopping malls outside of the holiday season so sometimes employees would come in, work an hour of a scheduled eight hour shift, and then get cut. The cuts tended to happen by &amp;quot;seniority&amp;quot; (so newest hires, paid the least) and a decent number of these employees who were frequently cut were traveling at least an hour by public transportation. Some days employees &lt;i&gt;lost money&lt;/i&gt; by going to work.&lt;p&gt;We were thrilled by what we&amp;#x27;d found! It would be a quick and easy fix for the client: they had solid and reliable sales forecasts for each location so estimating the number of employees they&amp;#x27;d need on a given day wasn&amp;#x27;t going to be difficult. In fact, they were more or less already doing it. It would hardly cost them anything to implement aside from a few tweaks to the corporate scheduling tool and a bit of training for the store managers. So when management immediately shot down our proposed solution it came as a bit of shock. The erratic scheduling and the &amp;quot;cut&amp;quot; shifts were a feature, not a bug, we were told. It kept employees from getting a second job that they might dare prioritize over their current job.</text></comment>

<story><title>Heathrow tells airlines to stop selling additional flights until September</title><url>https://www.headforpoints.com/2022/07/12/heathrow-tells-all-airlines-to-stop-selling-any-flights-until-11th-september/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>rtkwe</author><text>&amp;gt; guaranteed 20 hours per week, need to be available for 40 hours per week&lt;p&gt;This I think is part of the huge problem with modern &amp;quot;low level&amp;quot;&amp;#x2F;minimum wage jobs. Companies don&amp;#x27;t pay enough to live of of one salary but expect to have full say over their employees time just for their own convenience in scheduling and staffing.</text></item><item><author>shaicoleman</author><text>In Ireland, the minimum wage is €10.50 per hour and the standard work week is 40 hours, that works out to €420 full time minimum wage per week.&lt;p&gt;At Dublin Airport, security staff are only guaranteed 20 hours per week, need to be available for 40 hours per week, and entry level workers are paid €14.14 per hour.&lt;p&gt;Guaranteed pay: €282.80 per week, i.e. 67% of the minimum wage.&lt;p&gt;Are there any surprises why there are staff shortages?&lt;p&gt;1. &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;extra.ie&amp;#x2F;2022&amp;#x2F;03&amp;#x2F;31&amp;#x2F;news&amp;#x2F;daa-taoiseach-criticised-dublin-airport&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;extra.ie&amp;#x2F;2022&amp;#x2F;03&amp;#x2F;31&amp;#x2F;news&amp;#x2F;daa-taoiseach-criticised-du...&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>brianbreslin</author><text>Wait till you dig into companies forcing non-competes on non-full time staff like this. Jimmy Johns didn&amp;#x27;t let their minimum wage sandwich cooks work at other fast food places. So not only are you not getting full time hours, you aren&amp;#x27;t getting health coverage, and have to find a job outside of QSR (quick serve restaurants) to make ends meet.</text></comment>

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<story><title>Apple Commits $2.5B to Ease California Housing Crunch</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/04/technology/apple-california-housing-crisis.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>major505</author><text>A better way would be build a campus in a cheapper place and offer benefits for works to move to this places.&lt;p&gt;Continental US is full of dying cities that need a stead source of income that big companies like Apple, google could supply. In the day and age of remote work and comunication, there`s no more escuses to concentrate resources in places like California, NY, etc.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>RandallBrown</author><text>The main reason that resources are concentrated in those places is because they&amp;#x27;re nicer places to live.&lt;p&gt;You would have to pay me an absurd amount of money to move back to the midwest.&lt;p&gt;Not everyone has the same priorities as me, but I think it&amp;#x27;s a mistake to think people are only moving to those places because of jobs.</text></comment>

<story><title>Apple Commits $2.5B to Ease California Housing Crunch</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/04/technology/apple-california-housing-crisis.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>major505</author><text>A better way would be build a campus in a cheapper place and offer benefits for works to move to this places.&lt;p&gt;Continental US is full of dying cities that need a stead source of income that big companies like Apple, google could supply. In the day and age of remote work and comunication, there`s no more escuses to concentrate resources in places like California, NY, etc.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Ygg2</author><text>&amp;gt; In the day and age of remote work and comunication, there`s no more escuses to concentrate resources in places like California, NY, etc.&lt;p&gt;What about infrastructure and clients?</text></comment>

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<story><title>Solving the Traveling Tesla Salesman Problem with Python and Concorde</title><url>http://mortada.net/drafts/the-traveling-tesla-salesman.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>jordigh</author><text>I was excitedly reading through this article eager to learn how the solution worked. Instead, there was a bunch of (to me, as a mathematician) uninteresting detail about how to massage the data with Python. Once the data was in the right shape, feed it to something we will treat as a black box.&lt;p&gt;I get it that sometimes this is ok. It&amp;#x27;s perfectly fine to not care about how everything works. I am just disappointed that a blog post about the TSP doesn&amp;#x27;t contain any actual details about how to solve the TSP. If I were to write such a blog post (and I have written things of this ilk), I would spend a lot more time trying to elucidate the solver&amp;#x27;s algorithm. I &lt;i&gt;like&lt;/i&gt; explaning algorithms.[1] That&amp;#x27;s how I feel that I&amp;#x27;ve really understood a particular subject.&lt;p&gt;I suppose overall this makes me quite a different sort of person than the author. I could never tolerate running Mac OS X for any length of time, because being inconvenienced to use the debugger I want (Mac OS X&amp;#x27;s signing makes it very annoying to run gdb) and being unable to put debugging calls into my OS kernel are unacceptable compromises for me. But people who like black boxes seem to &lt;i&gt;really&lt;/i&gt; like black boxes all the way down to the OS they&amp;#x27;re using.&lt;p&gt;[1] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Medcouple#Fast_algorithm&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Medcouple#Fast_algorithm&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>

<story><title>Solving the Traveling Tesla Salesman Problem with Python and Concorde</title><url>http://mortada.net/drafts/the-traveling-tesla-salesman.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>pvdebbe</author><text>The map doesn&amp;#x27;t actually show the optimal path. It is proven that &amp;quot;loops&amp;quot; (the ways crossing each other) can be straightened, and the new version will be shorter. There is one east of Alberquerque.</text></comment>

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<story><title>Mass layoffs and absentee bosses create a morale crisis at Meta</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/12/technology/meta-layoffs-employees-management.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>hn_throwaway_99</author><text>&amp;gt; The Metaverse was always such a bad direction.&lt;p&gt;This seems like a bit of 20&amp;#x2F;20 hindsight. At the time, the biggest concern Zuckerberg had was that they didn&amp;#x27;t own &lt;i&gt;a platform&lt;/i&gt;. Apple had the iOS ecosystem, Google had Android, Microsoft had Windows, Amazon had AWS and their logistical moat. Zuckerberg made a bet that the world would move to VR similarly to the way the world moved to PCs in the 80s, which allowed Microsoft to take over a big chunk of the world.&lt;p&gt;Zuckerberg&amp;#x27;s fear wasn&amp;#x27;t unreasonable, he just bet wrong. Apple&amp;#x27;s privacy changes had a huge impact to Facebook, and the other FAANG without a &amp;quot;moat-defining platform&amp;quot;, Netflix, is also in the most precarious position among the big techs.&lt;p&gt;That said, I agree with most of the other comments. I can see VR evolving a little beyond gaming I guess, but it&amp;#x27;s actually kind of a nightmare to imagine myself wearing a fucking headset all day. At this point I think Zuckerberg knows he bet wrong and AI is the future, and he&amp;#x27;s clearly trying to pivot, but it&amp;#x27;s really hard to move a big company like Meta quickly, and it also means he has to admit he just lit billions and billions on fire.</text></item><item><author>mmmmmbop</author><text>The Metaverse was always such a bad direction. At the time, I was really unsure about my intuition -- I figured that if Mark Zuckerberg decided it&amp;#x27;s worth pivoting his entire company towards that goal, he surely must have &lt;i&gt;some data&lt;/i&gt; to back that up. As it stands, my intuition (and everybody else&amp;#x27;s) turned out to be right.&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s been the same with crypto, for that matter. None of the reasonable people I know ever saw any grand value in crypto. Researching myself, it always just seemed to be a bullshit fractal. At the height of the crypto boom, I was beginning to doubt my conclusions and started to think that perhaps the societal nature of crypto is a force in itself. Like religion, if enough people believe in it, it becomes reality to some extent. But now we see that crypto was indeed bullshit all along.&lt;p&gt;Contrast that with the generative AI models revolution. It&amp;#x27;s clear to anyone from day one how useful those models will be, and that they are providing clear value right away. It&amp;#x27;s no wonder that all the companies are immediately pivoting towards it. Maybe Mark Zuckerberg was just unlucky to decide on a company pivot two years too early -- I&amp;#x27;m sure that if he had to decide on a direction to pivot to today, it&amp;#x27;d be towards generative AI.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>2muchcoffeeman</author><text>&amp;gt;&lt;i&gt;This seems like a bit of 20&amp;#x2F;20 hindsight.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;2nd Life, The Simms, various MMORPGS. We have loads of experience buildings virtual worlds with virtual belongings and conducting meetings virtually. I was part of a WOW guild that had meetings about raids and other small bits of admin stuff in game.&lt;p&gt;But a company known for being sketchy as heck slaps on 3D goggles and makes it less fun and I’m supposed to want to be in it?&lt;p&gt;I think you’ll find that a lot of people were skeptical.</text></comment>

<story><title>Mass layoffs and absentee bosses create a morale crisis at Meta</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/12/technology/meta-layoffs-employees-management.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>hn_throwaway_99</author><text>&amp;gt; The Metaverse was always such a bad direction.&lt;p&gt;This seems like a bit of 20&amp;#x2F;20 hindsight. At the time, the biggest concern Zuckerberg had was that they didn&amp;#x27;t own &lt;i&gt;a platform&lt;/i&gt;. Apple had the iOS ecosystem, Google had Android, Microsoft had Windows, Amazon had AWS and their logistical moat. Zuckerberg made a bet that the world would move to VR similarly to the way the world moved to PCs in the 80s, which allowed Microsoft to take over a big chunk of the world.&lt;p&gt;Zuckerberg&amp;#x27;s fear wasn&amp;#x27;t unreasonable, he just bet wrong. Apple&amp;#x27;s privacy changes had a huge impact to Facebook, and the other FAANG without a &amp;quot;moat-defining platform&amp;quot;, Netflix, is also in the most precarious position among the big techs.&lt;p&gt;That said, I agree with most of the other comments. I can see VR evolving a little beyond gaming I guess, but it&amp;#x27;s actually kind of a nightmare to imagine myself wearing a fucking headset all day. At this point I think Zuckerberg knows he bet wrong and AI is the future, and he&amp;#x27;s clearly trying to pivot, but it&amp;#x27;s really hard to move a big company like Meta quickly, and it also means he has to admit he just lit billions and billions on fire.</text></item><item><author>mmmmmbop</author><text>The Metaverse was always such a bad direction. At the time, I was really unsure about my intuition -- I figured that if Mark Zuckerberg decided it&amp;#x27;s worth pivoting his entire company towards that goal, he surely must have &lt;i&gt;some data&lt;/i&gt; to back that up. As it stands, my intuition (and everybody else&amp;#x27;s) turned out to be right.&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s been the same with crypto, for that matter. None of the reasonable people I know ever saw any grand value in crypto. Researching myself, it always just seemed to be a bullshit fractal. At the height of the crypto boom, I was beginning to doubt my conclusions and started to think that perhaps the societal nature of crypto is a force in itself. Like religion, if enough people believe in it, it becomes reality to some extent. But now we see that crypto was indeed bullshit all along.&lt;p&gt;Contrast that with the generative AI models revolution. It&amp;#x27;s clear to anyone from day one how useful those models will be, and that they are providing clear value right away. It&amp;#x27;s no wonder that all the companies are immediately pivoting towards it. Maybe Mark Zuckerberg was just unlucky to decide on a company pivot two years too early -- I&amp;#x27;m sure that if he had to decide on a direction to pivot to today, it&amp;#x27;d be towards generative AI.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>danaris</author><text>&amp;gt; This seems like a bit of 20&amp;#x2F;20 hindsight.&lt;p&gt;I dunno about you, but I and basically everyone in my circles at the time agreed that it was most likely a terrible idea.&lt;p&gt;Until and unless there&amp;#x27;s a truly convenient piece of hardware to get one into a virtual space—I&amp;#x27;m talking weight and bulk comparable to prescription eyeglasses, no wires going beyond your body (ie, maybe a pack at the belt&amp;#x2F;pocket&amp;#x2F;something like that), and some form of extremely intuitive UI—you&amp;#x27;re not going to get people interested in regular interactions in a VR&amp;#x2F;AR space.&lt;p&gt;Frankly, even once we &lt;i&gt;do&lt;/i&gt; have something like that, I think it unlikely that many people would choose to do things like meetings in a virtual space over something simpler like Zoom, even if they &lt;i&gt;did&lt;/i&gt; already own the hardware.&lt;p&gt;And none of these views have changed over the past few years.&lt;p&gt;No; I think Zuck has been far too isolated and out of touch with how regular people operate for too long, and when faced with, as you say, the fact that Facebook was only running on other people&amp;#x27;s platforms—and it became clear that no one was interested in &lt;i&gt;making&lt;/i&gt; Facebook their platform, like by buying a Facebook phone—he convinced himself that this was The Next Big Thing based on sheer desperation.</text></comment>

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<story><title>AMD and Valve Working on New Linux CPU Performance Scaling Design</title><url>https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&amp;px=AMD-Valve-New-CPU-Freq</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>hyperman1</author><text>I wonder if it is worth it to select a few core libraries like glibc, and get the distro to install multiple variants, each optimized for a different CPU.</text></item><item><author>zamalek</author><text>One of the great successes of Intel has definitely been establishing their processors as the default optimization status quo. Beyond the scheduler, compilers also optimize (by default) for Intel instruction latencies and pipelines.&lt;p&gt;One way to remedy this would be to ship more distros with march=native as the default. You only need to specify the architecture when you are building binaries for distribution (which mostly happens on CI servers these days). This would result in better perf on not only AMD chips, but also newer Intel chips.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>10000truths</author><text>For x64, you don&amp;#x27;t need to distribute multiple binaries. You can have one binary with variants of a function each optimized for a particular microarch, and resolve which variant to use at runtime using the CPUID instruction. gcc already does this for you with function multiversioning, and glibc makes use of it for its string routines.</text></comment>

<story><title>AMD and Valve Working on New Linux CPU Performance Scaling Design</title><url>https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&amp;px=AMD-Valve-New-CPU-Freq</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>hyperman1</author><text>I wonder if it is worth it to select a few core libraries like glibc, and get the distro to install multiple variants, each optimized for a different CPU.</text></item><item><author>zamalek</author><text>One of the great successes of Intel has definitely been establishing their processors as the default optimization status quo. Beyond the scheduler, compilers also optimize (by default) for Intel instruction latencies and pipelines.&lt;p&gt;One way to remedy this would be to ship more distros with march=native as the default. You only need to specify the architecture when you are building binaries for distribution (which mostly happens on CI servers these days). This would result in better perf on not only AMD chips, but also newer Intel chips.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>fsaintjacques</author><text>glibc already does dynamic dispatch for the memcpy family of functions.</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>Spartan-S63</author><text>So, on the topic of misleading regulators, is Boeing being taken to task for that? I&amp;#x27;m following the mainstream media coverage, so I may not be privy to details, but is that being made into a big deal. It feels like it should be because regulators signed off on their impression, then Boeing changed the control authority of MCAS without informing regulators.&lt;p&gt;If this isn&amp;#x27;t illegal and fineable, I hope the outcome of this makes misleading regulators in this way a criminal act.</text></comment>

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<story><title>Office real estate crash will be so sharp, values unlikely to recover by 2040</title><url>https://fortune.com/2023/06/23/commercial-real-estate-crash-office-values-unlikely-to-recover-by-2040-says-capital-economics/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>RyanAdamas</author><text>This is why changing zoning laws is so important. These buildings and their underlying values can be saved by &amp;#x27;going condo&amp;#x27; or conversion to smaller unit spaces for the purpose of housing so many who are struggling with massive increases to rent. Most rent does not increase because of increased asset expenses, it increases because of increased owner expenses and that quickly becomes a slippery slope in the face of advancing inflation and housing prices.&lt;p&gt;Rent is becoming a social tool for class stratification and it began in classically liberal cities when they started asking for First+Last+1Mo Dep which often equaled $5k+ in one shot. That used to be a down payment for a house and it&amp;#x27;s absolutely ridiculous given the amount of money rental income sucks out of the economy that would otherwise be used for production and consumption.&lt;p&gt;In the United States, the government holds hundreds of millions of acres of land in trust and it needs to be relinquished in part to help grow the actual base of humanity they hold stewardship over, even if it means reducing investment values for the rich and powerful who have amassed so much through manufactured crises. Blackrock and other hedge funds should have never been given the power to buy homes the way they did by the Fed; it was just another shell game to hide their incredible myopia.&lt;p&gt;So much so, they are now backtracking on a labor advancement which is remote work in order to stabilize their personal portfolios in real estate. That&amp;#x27;s a conflict of interest that can be tantamount to investor fraud considering the Board is not acting in the best interest of the shareholders, but in the market for which they are beholden through consolidated power at hedge funds and banks.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>kdmccormick</author><text>Develop the conserved federal land? No way. Let&amp;#x27;s redevelop some of the effing parking lots and one-storey strip malls that take up half the land space in most US cities.&lt;p&gt;Real life example, Assembly Square near Boston: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;twitter.com&amp;#x2F;ScoutSomerville&amp;#x2F;status&amp;#x2F;1211708380391366658&amp;#x2F;photo&amp;#x2F;1&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;twitter.com&amp;#x2F;ScoutSomerville&amp;#x2F;status&amp;#x2F;12117083803913666...&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>

<story><title>Office real estate crash will be so sharp, values unlikely to recover by 2040</title><url>https://fortune.com/2023/06/23/commercial-real-estate-crash-office-values-unlikely-to-recover-by-2040-says-capital-economics/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>RyanAdamas</author><text>This is why changing zoning laws is so important. These buildings and their underlying values can be saved by &amp;#x27;going condo&amp;#x27; or conversion to smaller unit spaces for the purpose of housing so many who are struggling with massive increases to rent. Most rent does not increase because of increased asset expenses, it increases because of increased owner expenses and that quickly becomes a slippery slope in the face of advancing inflation and housing prices.&lt;p&gt;Rent is becoming a social tool for class stratification and it began in classically liberal cities when they started asking for First+Last+1Mo Dep which often equaled $5k+ in one shot. That used to be a down payment for a house and it&amp;#x27;s absolutely ridiculous given the amount of money rental income sucks out of the economy that would otherwise be used for production and consumption.&lt;p&gt;In the United States, the government holds hundreds of millions of acres of land in trust and it needs to be relinquished in part to help grow the actual base of humanity they hold stewardship over, even if it means reducing investment values for the rich and powerful who have amassed so much through manufactured crises. Blackrock and other hedge funds should have never been given the power to buy homes the way they did by the Fed; it was just another shell game to hide their incredible myopia.&lt;p&gt;So much so, they are now backtracking on a labor advancement which is remote work in order to stabilize their personal portfolios in real estate. That&amp;#x27;s a conflict of interest that can be tantamount to investor fraud considering the Board is not acting in the best interest of the shareholders, but in the market for which they are beholden through consolidated power at hedge funds and banks.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>nocoiner</author><text>This is not really how a lot of this works.&lt;p&gt;Zoning is basically irrelevant - the problem is that the cost of converting an outmoded commercial building to residential is usually within the same order of magnitude as knocking it down and putting up something built for purpose. I would bet real money that there aren’t more than a handful of municipal governments that would die on the hill of maintaining existing zoning restrictions if they had viable proposals to convert vacant commercial buildings.&lt;p&gt;Those millions of acres owned by the government are mostly desert and national parks and in any event there’s no shortage of privately owned undeveloped land closer to existing cities (or hollowed out existing cities that are ripe for a renaissance).&lt;p&gt;Also, just nitpicks, but when was $5k a down payment for a house? 1955? And BlackRock isn’t a hedge fund. You might be thinking of Blackstone (also not a hedge fund, but they own portfolio companies that are buying up a lot of single-family housing and turning them into rental properties, which is evidently extremely lucrative but I find incredibly distasteful).</text></comment>

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<story><title>2021 Tesla Model Y review: Nearly great, critically flawed</title><url>https://www.cnet.com/roadshow/reviews/2021-tesla-model-y-review/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>BluSyn</author><text>I have an early build 2018 Model 3 Performance. I have experienced almost zero quality issues. I use Autopilot frequently and have experienced phantom braking maybe 5 times ever in 3+ years, and certainly isn&amp;#x27;t a deal-breaker. In fact it&amp;#x27;s improved dramatically since I first got the car.&lt;p&gt;I feel like all I ever hear from outside the Tesla owner bubble is quality issues, complaints, weird problems I&amp;#x27;ve never experienced. When I talk to other Tesla owners, they also are confused by this phenomena, because the vast majority I&amp;#x27;ve talked to have the same experience as me; complete joy in the product, very few if any complaints at all. Especially relative to any other car I have owned or is available on the market today, I wouldn&amp;#x27;t recommend buying anything else.&lt;p&gt;When people talk about annoying Tesla fanboys, this is the core of problem. On the one hand you have the public perception of Tesla cars, based on reviews like this one. Then you have actual experience from the *majority* of owners being the exact opposite. Tesla certainly has issues, but so does GM, Ford, and every other auto maker. Reviewers rarely shout these issues in the headlines. But with Tesla it&amp;#x27;s always different.&lt;p&gt;What are we do to about this instead? Why is every review of Tesla highlighting the flaws, whereas every review of non-EV cars highlight the positives? How come Tesla owners don&amp;#x27;t get to write about their positive experiences without being called fanboys or shills?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>11thEarlOfMar</author><text>I owned a BMW 328i for 20 years. I loved that car dearly.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;ve now got 94,000 miles on a 2018 Model 3 long range. It&amp;#x27;s more fun than the BMW in every way. Handles better, accelerates faster, it&amp;#x27;s much quieter inside. The sound system is much better than the HKs in the BMW. It&amp;#x27;s more comfortable. I can drive for 4 hours straight with no discomfort.&lt;p&gt;I don&amp;#x27;t have autopilot cuz my insurance guy wouldn&amp;#x27;t give me a discount if I bought it. Once he does, I&amp;#x27;ll add it.&lt;p&gt;Regarding service: It&amp;#x27;s on the 3rd set of tires and I replaced the cracked windshield.&lt;p&gt;That&amp;#x27;s it.</text></comment>

<story><title>2021 Tesla Model Y review: Nearly great, critically flawed</title><url>https://www.cnet.com/roadshow/reviews/2021-tesla-model-y-review/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>BluSyn</author><text>I have an early build 2018 Model 3 Performance. I have experienced almost zero quality issues. I use Autopilot frequently and have experienced phantom braking maybe 5 times ever in 3+ years, and certainly isn&amp;#x27;t a deal-breaker. In fact it&amp;#x27;s improved dramatically since I first got the car.&lt;p&gt;I feel like all I ever hear from outside the Tesla owner bubble is quality issues, complaints, weird problems I&amp;#x27;ve never experienced. When I talk to other Tesla owners, they also are confused by this phenomena, because the vast majority I&amp;#x27;ve talked to have the same experience as me; complete joy in the product, very few if any complaints at all. Especially relative to any other car I have owned or is available on the market today, I wouldn&amp;#x27;t recommend buying anything else.&lt;p&gt;When people talk about annoying Tesla fanboys, this is the core of problem. On the one hand you have the public perception of Tesla cars, based on reviews like this one. Then you have actual experience from the *majority* of owners being the exact opposite. Tesla certainly has issues, but so does GM, Ford, and every other auto maker. Reviewers rarely shout these issues in the headlines. But with Tesla it&amp;#x27;s always different.&lt;p&gt;What are we do to about this instead? Why is every review of Tesla highlighting the flaws, whereas every review of non-EV cars highlight the positives? How come Tesla owners don&amp;#x27;t get to write about their positive experiences without being called fanboys or shills?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>trulyme</author><text>Well, maybe this will change when the reviewer doesn&amp;#x27;t find water in the trunk of the car after washing it? Or when their car doesn&amp;#x27;t brake for no reason? Some things are simply not acceptable for ordinary users who are accustomed to other companies&amp;#x27; quality standards. Especially at comparable price point.</text></comment>

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<story><title>Why are boys academically underperforming? [audio]</title><url>https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w3cszl4l</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Noos</author><text>A big issue is that boys read less than girls overall.&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.theatlantic.com&amp;#x2F;education&amp;#x2F;archive&amp;#x2F;2018&amp;#x2F;09&amp;#x2F;why-girls-are-better-reading-boys&amp;#x2F;571429&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.theatlantic.com&amp;#x2F;education&amp;#x2F;archive&amp;#x2F;2018&amp;#x2F;09&amp;#x2F;why-gi...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;Boys read for pleasure much less and apparently don&amp;#x27;t read as well as girls when they do: they use less challenging books and skip&amp;#x2F;skim more. In general somehow reading has seemed to grow more gendered over time; if you go into the average chain bookstore its apparent that its heavily targeted towards women, and something like Amazon&amp;#x27;s free Prime reads are often almost entirely women-targeted genre selections.&lt;p&gt;Young adult books for example are targeted almost entirely towards teen girls now, and even manga or comic books seem focused on the female market in increasing amounts.&lt;p&gt;Jon Scieszka, a kids author, noticed this over fifteen years ago and started guys read, a website trying to encourage boys to do so and raise awareness about it. But it seems to have stalled, and I don&amp;#x27;t hear a lot of talk about the feminization of reading.&lt;p&gt;I really think that this is a major part of why boys fall behind. Reading in general is the basis of learning, and boys over time have moved away. There&amp;#x27;s always been cultural resistance against &amp;quot;book-larning&amp;quot; but its weird how gendered reading itself has become lately.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>PaulHoule</author><text>One part is that teachers are almost exclusively female in the early grades which sends an unequivocal message that education is a girl thing. Put that together with broken family structures and it means many kids grow up with no male role models which is harmful for boys and girls in different ways.&lt;p&gt;Unfortunately it will be another 30 years before the &amp;#x27;girls are disadvantaged in education&amp;#x27; trope dies, but bad ideas like phlogestion and trickle down economics take a long time to die.</text></comment>

<story><title>Why are boys academically underperforming? [audio]</title><url>https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w3cszl4l</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Noos</author><text>A big issue is that boys read less than girls overall.&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.theatlantic.com&amp;#x2F;education&amp;#x2F;archive&amp;#x2F;2018&amp;#x2F;09&amp;#x2F;why-girls-are-better-reading-boys&amp;#x2F;571429&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.theatlantic.com&amp;#x2F;education&amp;#x2F;archive&amp;#x2F;2018&amp;#x2F;09&amp;#x2F;why-gi...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;Boys read for pleasure much less and apparently don&amp;#x27;t read as well as girls when they do: they use less challenging books and skip&amp;#x2F;skim more. In general somehow reading has seemed to grow more gendered over time; if you go into the average chain bookstore its apparent that its heavily targeted towards women, and something like Amazon&amp;#x27;s free Prime reads are often almost entirely women-targeted genre selections.&lt;p&gt;Young adult books for example are targeted almost entirely towards teen girls now, and even manga or comic books seem focused on the female market in increasing amounts.&lt;p&gt;Jon Scieszka, a kids author, noticed this over fifteen years ago and started guys read, a website trying to encourage boys to do so and raise awareness about it. But it seems to have stalled, and I don&amp;#x27;t hear a lot of talk about the feminization of reading.&lt;p&gt;I really think that this is a major part of why boys fall behind. Reading in general is the basis of learning, and boys over time have moved away. There&amp;#x27;s always been cultural resistance against &amp;quot;book-larning&amp;quot; but its weird how gendered reading itself has become lately.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>MattGaiser</author><text>It is mentioned in the article, but I also have seen this anecdotally.&lt;p&gt;How often do school libraries have things boys want to read? In high school, even among those who did read, very few of us ever used the library because it mostly had fantasy novels, fiction, etc. My friend group wanted to read about history and economics, topics not really covered.</text></comment>

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<story><title>Apple co-founder sells Carmel Valley ranch, will become nature preserve</title><url>https://www.mercurynews.com/2023/06/18/apple-co-founder-to-sell-huge-carmel-valley-ranch-for-35-million-to-become-public-nature-preserve/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>yellow_lead</author><text>&amp;gt; The usual approach in the US is for the land conservation foundations to split up the ownership rights between two different local organizations in a way that prevents developing the land without agreement from both organizations.&lt;p&gt;Is it possible to instead write something in the terms of the donation preventing this? Maybe that would require larger action from the state, like a state congressional vote though.</text></item><item><author>ekidd</author><text>&amp;gt; &lt;i&gt;The article said that two former California governors threatened to sell public land to balance budgets so the private ownership seems to be a mitigation.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;This is a well-known concern in land preservation. There&amp;#x27;s apparently an offshore island near Maine that&amp;#x27;s too small and too far out to be of much use to humans, but it&amp;#x27;s an important migratory bird resting point.&lt;p&gt;IIRC, it was donated to the state once by conservationists (long ago), sold by the state, and then repurchased and preserved by a non-profit foundation. The state won&amp;#x27;t be getting it again!&lt;p&gt;The usual approach in the US is for the land conservation foundations to split up the ownership rights between two different local organizations in a way that prevents developing the land without agreement from both organizations.&lt;p&gt;As a general rule, most towns are happy with this setup. It provides them with public walking trails, and possibly areas for other outdoor sports. Many towns choose not to tax these lands, within reason.</text></item><item><author>kylehotchkiss</author><text>The article said that two former California governors threatened to sell public land to balance budgets so the private ownership seems to be a mitigation. Plus they can implement private security if needed, something that public land&amp;#x2F;parks occasionally are lacking.</text></item><item><author>smadge</author><text>Wait so California state granted $24 million to the private Wildlands Conservancy, who spent $35 million for the property. California should have just bought the property and turned it into a state park. This should be public land.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>radicalbyte</author><text>My football club in the UK has a lot of ground which is legally only allowed to be used for sporting purposes according to the will of the person who donated it. Not sure how it works but this is prime City-center land which remains green due to this.</text></comment>

<story><title>Apple co-founder sells Carmel Valley ranch, will become nature preserve</title><url>https://www.mercurynews.com/2023/06/18/apple-co-founder-to-sell-huge-carmel-valley-ranch-for-35-million-to-become-public-nature-preserve/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>yellow_lead</author><text>&amp;gt; The usual approach in the US is for the land conservation foundations to split up the ownership rights between two different local organizations in a way that prevents developing the land without agreement from both organizations.&lt;p&gt;Is it possible to instead write something in the terms of the donation preventing this? Maybe that would require larger action from the state, like a state congressional vote though.</text></item><item><author>ekidd</author><text>&amp;gt; &lt;i&gt;The article said that two former California governors threatened to sell public land to balance budgets so the private ownership seems to be a mitigation.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;This is a well-known concern in land preservation. There&amp;#x27;s apparently an offshore island near Maine that&amp;#x27;s too small and too far out to be of much use to humans, but it&amp;#x27;s an important migratory bird resting point.&lt;p&gt;IIRC, it was donated to the state once by conservationists (long ago), sold by the state, and then repurchased and preserved by a non-profit foundation. The state won&amp;#x27;t be getting it again!&lt;p&gt;The usual approach in the US is for the land conservation foundations to split up the ownership rights between two different local organizations in a way that prevents developing the land without agreement from both organizations.&lt;p&gt;As a general rule, most towns are happy with this setup. It provides them with public walking trails, and possibly areas for other outdoor sports. Many towns choose not to tax these lands, within reason.</text></item><item><author>kylehotchkiss</author><text>The article said that two former California governors threatened to sell public land to balance budgets so the private ownership seems to be a mitigation. Plus they can implement private security if needed, something that public land&amp;#x2F;parks occasionally are lacking.</text></item><item><author>smadge</author><text>Wait so California state granted $24 million to the private Wildlands Conservancy, who spent $35 million for the property. California should have just bought the property and turned it into a state park. This should be public land.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>tedunangst</author><text>Lots of charitable trusts find themselves under new management who has a new interpretation on what the real intentions of the founder were. And then there&amp;#x27;s a lawsuit, and then a judge rules that this or that interpretation is in the public interest, regardless of what anybody wanted.</text></comment>

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<story><title>The Naz.API Credential Stuffing List</title><url>https://www.troyhunt.com/inside-the-massive-naz-api-credential-stuffing-list/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>lelanthran</author><text>The HIBP database really should be open to the world, with the email being redacted.&lt;p&gt;I would love to grep the list of 25m passwords to see if any of mine are in there.&lt;p&gt;I don&amp;#x27;t particularly want to send my details to HIBP to check if I have been compromised.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>andrewla</author><text>It&amp;#x27;s easy to check through their verification service if your passwords have been compromised.&lt;p&gt;Hash your password locally&lt;p&gt;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt; $ echo -n fredflinstone | shasum 95e47d937e105fa1cc84bfa476b10f091304c090 - &lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt; Then take the first five characters of the hash and invoke the API&lt;p&gt;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt; $ curl https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;api.pwnedpasswords.com&amp;#x2F;range&amp;#x2F;95e47 ... D8F3BA8D3952AA8917C78295EE1122F675C:17 D910D224A8450006478ED28D2CE2D005343:10 D91C102088F1D91469B803235DB60903259:874 D937E105FA1CC84BFA476B10F091304C090:290 D96BF2796784C142392D8B46AEF68B991D0:4 D98009835A90E46EFFD43AC3E5C6BD1C14B:5 &lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt; And there we have it -- my password is compromised (the suffix D937...)&lt;p&gt;Easy enough to script this up with minimal information leakage. All you&amp;#x27;re sending is 20 bits; that&amp;#x27;s not enough to do anything malicious even if your password is compromised.</text></comment>

<story><title>The Naz.API Credential Stuffing List</title><url>https://www.troyhunt.com/inside-the-massive-naz-api-credential-stuffing-list/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>lelanthran</author><text>The HIBP database really should be open to the world, with the email being redacted.&lt;p&gt;I would love to grep the list of 25m passwords to see if any of mine are in there.&lt;p&gt;I don&amp;#x27;t particularly want to send my details to HIBP to check if I have been compromised.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>hennell</author><text>They have a downloader for the hashed password list: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;github.com&amp;#x2F;HaveIBeenPwned&amp;#x2F;PwnedPasswordsDownloader&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;github.com&amp;#x2F;HaveIBeenPwned&amp;#x2F;PwnedPasswordsDownloader&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>

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<story><title>The Hostile Email Landscape</title><url>http://liminality.xyz/the-hostile-email-landscape/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>cm2187</author><text>The problem is not so much the attitude of the big guys. It is that smtp is fundamentally broken. we need a better mail protocol that ensures: 1. Traffic always encrypted and content always signed 2. Guarantee that the sender is who it claims he is 3. Decorrelating the email from the domain, a lot of users are prisoners of their current provider just because the address they gave everyone ends with the provider&amp;#x27;s domain name, very much like it is very hard to switch bank accounts 4. Ability to provide disposable adresses which can be deleted when spammed&lt;p&gt;3 and 4 would require a sort of token system</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>adekok</author><text>&amp;gt; It is that smtp is fundamentally broken.&lt;p&gt;Because the SMTP cabal is fanatically opposed to changing it.&lt;p&gt;The response I had 15 years ago was &amp;quot;It takes 10 years to deploy any serious changes to a protocol&amp;quot;.&lt;p&gt;Uh... so? Does that mean we shouldn&amp;#x27;t do it?&lt;p&gt;Apparently, yes. 15 years later, there have been no substantive changes to SMTP.&lt;p&gt;Repeat after me, SMTP is perfect. It&amp;#x27;s perfect! Well, there are a few known issues. But it&amp;#x27;s deployed! It&amp;#x27;s too hard to change. You&amp;#x27;re trying to change it? You&amp;#x27;re a terrible person who doesn&amp;#x27;t understand SMTP.&lt;p&gt;I got that for 5 years before giving up and going to more productive lines of work.</text></comment>

<story><title>The Hostile Email Landscape</title><url>http://liminality.xyz/the-hostile-email-landscape/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>cm2187</author><text>The problem is not so much the attitude of the big guys. It is that smtp is fundamentally broken. we need a better mail protocol that ensures: 1. Traffic always encrypted and content always signed 2. Guarantee that the sender is who it claims he is 3. Decorrelating the email from the domain, a lot of users are prisoners of their current provider just because the address they gave everyone ends with the provider&amp;#x27;s domain name, very much like it is very hard to switch bank accounts 4. Ability to provide disposable adresses which can be deleted when spammed&lt;p&gt;3 and 4 would require a sort of token system</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>JoshTriplett</author><text>&amp;gt; Decorrelating the email from the domain, a lot of users are prisoners of their current provider just because the address they gave everyone ends with the provider&amp;#x27;s domain name, very much like it is very hard to switch bank accounts&lt;p&gt;This one seems completely uninteresting in a world in which $15&amp;#x2F;year can get you your own domain name, complete with reliable email servers, IMAP, and as many email aliases as you like at that domain. Given that, why create an entire infrastructure to &amp;quot;decouple&amp;quot; email addresses from domains?</text></comment>

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<story><title>Paying top employees the highest salaries in the market</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-09-24/in-battle-for-talent-one-startup-founder-tries-unlimited-pay</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>wmeredith</author><text>Top talent... selling advertising... for a news aggregator. Sigh.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>adventured</author><text>&amp;quot;Toutiao is on pace to pull in about $2.5 billion in revenue this year, largely from advertising.&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;If the media landscape isn&amp;#x27;t well organized across such a large society, or particularly when you have a massive new audience to introduce to news systems (China has gained what, 600 million new regular Internet users in the last seven years?), there&amp;#x27;s an amplified benefit to aggregation &amp;#x2F; managing all of that information. Which explains the seemingly crazy $2.5 billion in revenue.&lt;p&gt;Doing that service well, is every bit as valuable as something like Twitter or YouTube. It&amp;#x27;s about communicating valuable information to an extremely large audience. Why shouldn&amp;#x27;t that be quite valuable?&lt;p&gt;It only seems trivial because the eg US and European media landscapes are well established &amp;#x2F; entrenched, the audience is stagnant (there&amp;#x27;s little to no growth in the news business in the US or Europe) and the consumers are relatively experienced at mass societal consumption.&lt;p&gt;Consider the value of portals to early US Internet adopters for one example of how this concept works. Why were AOL, Yahoo, Netscape&amp;#x27;s portal, and numerous other portal-like services, so frequently used and valuable back then (but no longer)?</text></comment>

<story><title>Paying top employees the highest salaries in the market</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-09-24/in-battle-for-talent-one-startup-founder-tries-unlimited-pay</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>wmeredith</author><text>Top talent... selling advertising... for a news aggregator. Sigh.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>sdfgelgh43oito3</author><text>news aggregation, and the selective targeting of individuals for advertising might just be the most powerful social influence today. Wins elections even...</text></comment>

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<story><title>Notch live coding for Ludum dare 22</title><url>http://sv.twitch.tv/notch</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>hucker</author><text>It&apos;s interesting to see such a prominent and talented coder do his work on (what looks like) a totally stock Eclipse install. Not that there is anything wrong with it at all, but it puts into perspective all the time &quot;wasted&quot; by thousands of programmers (myself included) around the world tweaking their vimrc to perfection, obsessing over tiling vs traditional window managers, and in general worrying a great deal about the &quot;optimal&quot; workspace.&lt;p&gt;It&apos;s rather refreshing to see someone that just does his work with tools that are sufficient to do the job.&lt;p&gt;Come to think of it, I see this phenomena quite often at the university I attend. The &quot;average&quot; guys have regular flamewars on what language is best or whether vim or emacs or some IDE is the ultimate tool, MacBook Pro versus Thinkpad and so on, while the actual top guys keep churning out quality code in whatever language fits the task on whatever machine available at the time with whatever OS is on that machine.&lt;p&gt;This is obviously a great simplification and a single anecdote, but I think there is some truth to it. Masters of art obsess over the artwork itself, not the tools used to create it.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>akkartik</author><text>I see the same data and come to the opposite conclusion. People with 10x my brain power can deal with dumb tools, verbose languages, a malicious codebase, architecture astronauts. I&apos;m too stupid to do what they do, so I try to pick my battles and live where it&apos;s simple.&lt;p&gt;I&apos;m not arguing for obsessing over tools, or for flamewars. But perhaps the dumber you are the more you should pay attention to foundations.</text></comment>

<story><title>Notch live coding for Ludum dare 22</title><url>http://sv.twitch.tv/notch</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>hucker</author><text>It&apos;s interesting to see such a prominent and talented coder do his work on (what looks like) a totally stock Eclipse install. Not that there is anything wrong with it at all, but it puts into perspective all the time &quot;wasted&quot; by thousands of programmers (myself included) around the world tweaking their vimrc to perfection, obsessing over tiling vs traditional window managers, and in general worrying a great deal about the &quot;optimal&quot; workspace.&lt;p&gt;It&apos;s rather refreshing to see someone that just does his work with tools that are sufficient to do the job.&lt;p&gt;Come to think of it, I see this phenomena quite often at the university I attend. The &quot;average&quot; guys have regular flamewars on what language is best or whether vim or emacs or some IDE is the ultimate tool, MacBook Pro versus Thinkpad and so on, while the actual top guys keep churning out quality code in whatever language fits the task on whatever machine available at the time with whatever OS is on that machine.&lt;p&gt;This is obviously a great simplification and a single anecdote, but I think there is some truth to it. Masters of art obsess over the artwork itself, not the tools used to create it.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>nate</author><text>There&apos;s also maybe a similar point to be made about him using Java to code his games.&lt;p&gt;Java gets a lot of bashing these days, and there&apos;s so many &quot;hot&quot; languages to mention during those bashing sessions. But in the end, the guy creates games people have a strong desire to play. And then he uses the technologies he&apos;s comfortable with to get whatever job done.</text></comment>

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<story><title>Tell HN: My Web App has 13 Users</title><text>There are many stories on HN about great product launches that get money from tons of people on the first day. If we hear about slow launches, the store comes years later, after the product is a success. I&apos;m writing this so that we&apos;ll have another perspective. I&apos;m ten days into a slow, frustrating launch, but I am hopeful and excited.&lt;p&gt;Thirteen users have signedup for my hosted PhantomJS web service (BromBone.com). That&apos;s a lie. Four of those 13 accounts are test accounts I created. Why I am so excited about these nine accounts? I have nine people who have decided to take my service for a test drive! The great thing about that is that nine is only one less than ten. Ten doubled is 20. Find another 20 and I&apos;m up 40. That&apos;s almost half way to 100, then 200, 300, and 400. Soon I&apos;ll have a 1000.&lt;p&gt;That may be a little optimistic. I&apos;ve read so much about gathering interest before launch and talking to customers. But it din&apos;t go as smoothly as I would hope. Posts to mailing lists take me longer to craft than I would like. The discussion is positive and generates some traffic. But honestly it is a trickle compared to what I need. I posted twice to HN, but no one clicked the upvote button.&lt;p&gt;Why then am I so positive? I got two sigups overnight. And I hadn&apos;t done any new marketing the day before. My traffic is tiny. But every time I do a little piece of marketing, I see a spike. The spike goes away, but it leaves behind a residual traffic increase. Additionally, the nine users I have are actually playing around with the service. They&apos;re using something I crated! I think if I keep my efforts going, traffic and users will increase.&lt;p&gt;If anyone else out there is excited about getting just a handful of signups, you&apos;re not alone. I&apos;m sure we won&apos;t all make it big, but I think there&apos;s reason to be excited. Just because my &quot;launch&quot; didn&apos;t bring in a flood of users doesn&apos;t mean that I can&apos;t grow the trickle into a stream, and then a river. Or maybe this is denial. Time will tell.</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>mixmax</author><text>Oh, I can outdo you!&lt;p&gt;Many years ago I did an upstart that was a combination of delicious and facebook, using bayesian filtering to locate links and people you might be interested in from what you posted yourself. Incredibly clever product. Before Google had even thought of pagerank. We got funding, we had great engineers, and I was the CEO.&lt;p&gt;But you know what? We never launched. We ran out of money before we got that far.&lt;p&gt;You launched - I didn&apos;t.&lt;p&gt;Congratulations! You&apos;ve made it further than most.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ChrisNorstrom</author><text>Pffffft. Oh Please... You got funding. That means you at least convinced someone to trust you with money. I sold 250 calendars (147 on Fab.com, 103 on &lt;a href=&quot;http://DayOnePP.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://DayOnePP.com&lt;/a&gt;) and didn&apos;t make a single penny of profit. In fact I LOST $300+ dollars somehow. That&apos;s how bad I am at sales (and account management apparently). Ya&apos;ll got further than I did. I think I belong in Product Design &amp;#38; Development and away from money.&lt;p&gt;Chaddeshon your landing page doesn&apos;t have a call to action above the fold. You&apos;re missing out on a lot of signups like that. (I can design but I couldn&apos;t sell ice water to people in hell)</text></comment>

<story><title>Tell HN: My Web App has 13 Users</title><text>There are many stories on HN about great product launches that get money from tons of people on the first day. If we hear about slow launches, the store comes years later, after the product is a success. I&apos;m writing this so that we&apos;ll have another perspective. I&apos;m ten days into a slow, frustrating launch, but I am hopeful and excited.&lt;p&gt;Thirteen users have signedup for my hosted PhantomJS web service (BromBone.com). That&apos;s a lie. Four of those 13 accounts are test accounts I created. Why I am so excited about these nine accounts? I have nine people who have decided to take my service for a test drive! The great thing about that is that nine is only one less than ten. Ten doubled is 20. Find another 20 and I&apos;m up 40. That&apos;s almost half way to 100, then 200, 300, and 400. Soon I&apos;ll have a 1000.&lt;p&gt;That may be a little optimistic. I&apos;ve read so much about gathering interest before launch and talking to customers. But it din&apos;t go as smoothly as I would hope. Posts to mailing lists take me longer to craft than I would like. The discussion is positive and generates some traffic. But honestly it is a trickle compared to what I need. I posted twice to HN, but no one clicked the upvote button.&lt;p&gt;Why then am I so positive? I got two sigups overnight. And I hadn&apos;t done any new marketing the day before. My traffic is tiny. But every time I do a little piece of marketing, I see a spike. The spike goes away, but it leaves behind a residual traffic increase. Additionally, the nine users I have are actually playing around with the service. They&apos;re using something I crated! I think if I keep my efforts going, traffic and users will increase.&lt;p&gt;If anyone else out there is excited about getting just a handful of signups, you&apos;re not alone. I&apos;m sure we won&apos;t all make it big, but I think there&apos;s reason to be excited. Just because my &quot;launch&quot; didn&apos;t bring in a flood of users doesn&apos;t mean that I can&apos;t grow the trickle into a stream, and then a river. Or maybe this is denial. Time will tell.</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>mixmax</author><text>Oh, I can outdo you!&lt;p&gt;Many years ago I did an upstart that was a combination of delicious and facebook, using bayesian filtering to locate links and people you might be interested in from what you posted yourself. Incredibly clever product. Before Google had even thought of pagerank. We got funding, we had great engineers, and I was the CEO.&lt;p&gt;But you know what? We never launched. We ran out of money before we got that far.&lt;p&gt;You launched - I didn&apos;t.&lt;p&gt;Congratulations! You&apos;ve made it further than most.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>philjackson</author><text>Can we hear more?</text></comment>

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<story><title>Edward Snowden Slams Sam Altman&apos;s Worldcoin: &apos;Don&apos;t Catalogue Eyeballs&apos;</title><url>https://decrypt.co/84277/snowden-slams-sam-altman-worldcoin-eyeball-scan-for-crypto</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>danuker</author><text>Worldcoin issues tokens to people for scanning their retinas. Their magical orb device sends a biometric hash to their network.&lt;p&gt;Here&amp;#x27;s my take on it: You can possibly replace their biometric device with a random hash generator.&lt;p&gt;* If it works, it means the currency is not fairly distributed, but anyone sending valid hashes to their network is issued tokens, irrespective of whether the eyeballs described by those hashes exist. This is called a Sybil attack.&lt;p&gt;* If it doesn&amp;#x27;t work, it means there is some secret or centralized check that the network performs, which means the currency is not open.&lt;p&gt;This is why we still use proof-of-work in spite of its energy expense: it is simple to understand, it can not be faked, and it can be openly verified.&lt;p&gt;So, do not support this biometric-gathering enterprise.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>New_California</author><text>Correct but efficacy of this process is pretty much irrelevant for the founders because the whole &amp;quot;fair distribution&amp;quot; is just a marketing gimmick to promote yet another shitcoin.&lt;p&gt;Only losers will provide their real retinas. Smart players will obviously game the system and then dump the shitcoin on yet another group of losers.</text></comment>

<story><title>Edward Snowden Slams Sam Altman&apos;s Worldcoin: &apos;Don&apos;t Catalogue Eyeballs&apos;</title><url>https://decrypt.co/84277/snowden-slams-sam-altman-worldcoin-eyeball-scan-for-crypto</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>danuker</author><text>Worldcoin issues tokens to people for scanning their retinas. Their magical orb device sends a biometric hash to their network.&lt;p&gt;Here&amp;#x27;s my take on it: You can possibly replace their biometric device with a random hash generator.&lt;p&gt;* If it works, it means the currency is not fairly distributed, but anyone sending valid hashes to their network is issued tokens, irrespective of whether the eyeballs described by those hashes exist. This is called a Sybil attack.&lt;p&gt;* If it doesn&amp;#x27;t work, it means there is some secret or centralized check that the network performs, which means the currency is not open.&lt;p&gt;This is why we still use proof-of-work in spite of its energy expense: it is simple to understand, it can not be faked, and it can be openly verified.&lt;p&gt;So, do not support this biometric-gathering enterprise.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>tromp</author><text>I wouldn&amp;#x27;t call the coin distribution fair if the creators can allocate arbitrary amounts to themselves, which the Worldcoin creators appear able to do.&lt;p&gt;Then again, even PoW coins with no premine can be unfair if most of the long-term supply gets distributed in just the first few years, leaving only crumbs for late adopters.</text></comment>

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<story><title>Designing game narrative</title><url>http://hitboxteam.com/designing-game-narrative</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>twic</author><text>The thread linking the games Mr Lee praises is that they are, to a large extent, sandboxes. Yes, some of them have endings, but they get the player there by dumping them in a world and letting them do what they like.&lt;p&gt;Portal is the least sandboxy of the games mentioned (maybe apart from Tetris!), in that it has highly structured, intentionally designed levels with well-defined goals, but it still manages to give the player a huge amount of the responsibility for getting through them.&lt;p&gt;A weaker thread is procedural generation. Dwarf Fortress and Brogue have procedurally generated levels. Journey doesn&amp;#x27;t, but probably could have done. Portal doesn&amp;#x27;t, and i doubt could. Tetris kind of does. But that&amp;#x27;s a higher incidence of procedural generation than in the general population of games. Is there something about procedural generation that intrinsically puts narrative responsibility back in the hands of the player? That seems plausible; a game designer who gives up the power to shape levels explicitly gives up some power to shape stories explicitly. Think also about Civilisation and SimCity; the software is entirely story-free, but any given game of either of those is bursting with stories.&lt;p&gt;What tests of this hypothesis are coming down the pipe? No Man&amp;#x27;s Sky is the one that springs to mind.</text></comment>

<story><title>Designing game narrative</title><url>http://hitboxteam.com/designing-game-narrative</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>readerrrr</author><text>Half-Life 1 did this so well. It was primarily a shooter, but if you followed closely you could get a story arch. You never lost control of you character and every cutscene was optionable( except the very first and last, you still need some pacing ). This is why I consider Half-Life 2 an inferior game, even though it does everything else better, you constantly get into situations where the main characters talk for several minutes and you can only watch and wait. HL1&amp;#x27;s gameplay flows, HL2 is a stop-and-go.</text></comment>

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<story><title>Tesla Faces Criminal Probe Over Whether It Misstated Production Figures</title><url>https://www.wsj.com/articles/tesla-faces-deepening-criminal-probe-over-whether-it-misstated-production-figures-1540576636</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>nlowell</author><text>This twitter thread has some additional information from Wochos vs Tesla in which twelve different former employees told either Musk or Ahuja (CFO) that their production plans were impossible. &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;twitter.com&amp;#x2F;orthereaboot&amp;#x2F;status&amp;#x2F;1046754488353271808?s=19&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;twitter.com&amp;#x2F;orthereaboot&amp;#x2F;status&amp;#x2F;1046754488353271808?...&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>

<story><title>Tesla Faces Criminal Probe Over Whether It Misstated Production Figures</title><url>https://www.wsj.com/articles/tesla-faces-deepening-criminal-probe-over-whether-it-misstated-production-figures-1540576636</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>hn_throwaway_99</author><text>I think the title of the article slightly overstates what is being reported. &amp;quot;Misstated Production Figures&amp;quot; makes it sound as if Tesla lied about what it &lt;i&gt;had&lt;/i&gt; produced, as opposed to just giving unrealistically rosy projections.&lt;p&gt;I can definitely see how Musk&amp;#x27;s &amp;quot;funding secured&amp;quot; tweet crossed the line into potentially criminal behavior, but honestly, I have a hard time seeing how overly optimistic projections can be criminal if there is even an iota of a possibility that they could be met, no matter how unlikely.</text></comment>

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<story><title>A few facts about POSIX</title><url>https://vorakl.com/articles/posix/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>BoingBoomTschak</author><text>&amp;gt;such as MacOS, that are fully compliant with the POSIX standard&lt;p&gt;Until you have to gets your hands dirty and find small and bigger faults everywhere. For example, &amp;#x2F;bin&amp;#x2F;sh defaults to their ancient (last GPL2 release) bash that doesn&amp;#x27;t work properly in these two parameter expansion cases:&lt;p&gt;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt; $ cat test.sh var= echo &amp;quot;${var+{\}}&amp;quot; cat &amp;lt;&amp;lt;EOF ${var+\&amp;quot;z\&amp;quot;} EOF $ &amp;#x2F;bin&amp;#x2F;sh test.sh {\} \&amp;quot;z\&amp;quot; $ &amp;#x2F;bin&amp;#x2F;dash test.sh {} &amp;quot;z&amp;quot; &lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt; Second one bit me quite badly when doing heredocs to generate JSON.</text></item><item><author>Karellen</author><text>&amp;gt; However, there are a number of operating systems, such as MacOS, that are fully compliant with the POSIX standard and can therefore be called Unix operating systems, not just Unix-like.&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s a bit more nuanced than this. Being fully compliant with the POSIX standard isn&amp;#x27;t quite enough; you have to pass an official conformance test suite &lt;i&gt;and be certified by the Open Group&lt;/i&gt; to have passed it, in order to call yourself &amp;quot;Unix&amp;quot;, rather than just being Unix-like.&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Single_UNIX_Specification&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Single_UNIX_Specification&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;So there could be (and likely are) implementations out there which are fully compliant with the standard, but have not chosen to get certified, and are therefore technically still &amp;quot;not Unix&amp;quot;.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>eadmund</author><text>It really says something about how much Apple cares about restricting its users’ freedom versus implementing functionality for those users that in 17 years they haven’t been bothered to either write their own &amp;#x2F;bin&amp;#x2F;sh, fix the ca. 2007 bash they do ship or just ship a newer, GPLv3 bash.&lt;p&gt;And it really says something about how important it is to license one’s software under GPLv3 or similar!</text></comment>

<story><title>A few facts about POSIX</title><url>https://vorakl.com/articles/posix/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>BoingBoomTschak</author><text>&amp;gt;such as MacOS, that are fully compliant with the POSIX standard&lt;p&gt;Until you have to gets your hands dirty and find small and bigger faults everywhere. For example, &amp;#x2F;bin&amp;#x2F;sh defaults to their ancient (last GPL2 release) bash that doesn&amp;#x27;t work properly in these two parameter expansion cases:&lt;p&gt;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt; $ cat test.sh var= echo &amp;quot;${var+{\}}&amp;quot; cat &amp;lt;&amp;lt;EOF ${var+\&amp;quot;z\&amp;quot;} EOF $ &amp;#x2F;bin&amp;#x2F;sh test.sh {\} \&amp;quot;z\&amp;quot; $ &amp;#x2F;bin&amp;#x2F;dash test.sh {} &amp;quot;z&amp;quot; &lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt; Second one bit me quite badly when doing heredocs to generate JSON.</text></item><item><author>Karellen</author><text>&amp;gt; However, there are a number of operating systems, such as MacOS, that are fully compliant with the POSIX standard and can therefore be called Unix operating systems, not just Unix-like.&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s a bit more nuanced than this. Being fully compliant with the POSIX standard isn&amp;#x27;t quite enough; you have to pass an official conformance test suite &lt;i&gt;and be certified by the Open Group&lt;/i&gt; to have passed it, in order to call yourself &amp;quot;Unix&amp;quot;, rather than just being Unix-like.&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Single_UNIX_Specification&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Single_UNIX_Specification&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;So there could be (and likely are) implementations out there which are fully compliant with the standard, but have not chosen to get certified, and are therefore technically still &amp;quot;not Unix&amp;quot;.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>foldr</author><text>Apple added &amp;#x2F;bin&amp;#x2F;dash in Catalina, and the intention is probably to eventually to use dash as the implementation of sh: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;scriptingosx.com&amp;#x2F;2020&amp;#x2F;06&amp;#x2F;about-bash-zsh-sh-and-dash-in-macos-catalina-and-beyond&amp;#x2F;#:~:text=Apple%20also%20added%20dash%20(but,the%20interpreter%20for%20sh%20scripts&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;scriptingosx.com&amp;#x2F;2020&amp;#x2F;06&amp;#x2F;about-bash-zsh-sh-and-dash-...&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;p&gt;As for why they haven&amp;#x27;t done it yet, I&amp;#x27;d guess it&amp;#x27;s just to preserve backward compatibility with old scripts that rely on quirks of bash&amp;#x27;s sh compatibility mode.</text></comment>

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<story><title>Nuns got squeezed out of the communion wafer business</title><url>https://thehustle.co/how-nuns-got-squeezed-out-of-the-communion-wafer-business/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>walrus01</author><text>Serious question, but isn&amp;#x27;t anything that is a &amp;quot;married priest&amp;quot; not actual catholicism, as it would be recognized and approved by church HQ in Rome?&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;m confused because it does seem somehow officially okay.&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Personal_Ordinariate_of_the_Chair_of_Saint_Peter?wprov=sfla1&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Personal_Ordinariate_of_the_Ch...&lt;/a&gt;</text></item><item><author>User23</author><text>With full respect for your freedom of conscience, should you ever wish to discern whether to become Catholic the Ordinariate of the Chair of Saint Peter[1] makes retaining many if not the majority of your Anglo-Catholic traditions possible. They permit married priests and use a liturgy that is strongly influenced by the Book of Common Prayer while being in full communion with Rome.&lt;p&gt;In fact, the chaplain for Catholic Answers is an Anglican priest who converted[2]. I find the segments where he’s on quite interesting. Many people are surprised to learn that there are Catholic priests who are married with children!&lt;p&gt;[1] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;ordinariate.net&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;ordinariate.net&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;[2] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.catholic.com&amp;#x2F;profile&amp;#x2F;fr-samuel-keyes&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.catholic.com&amp;#x2F;profile&amp;#x2F;fr-samuel-keyes&lt;/a&gt;</text></item><item><author>cbfrench</author><text>For me, what’s it’s primarily “about,” of course, is the making present in an unbloodied manner the eternal and propitious Sacrifice of Christ, “proclaim[ing] the Lord’s death until he comes” (1 Cor 11:26). And in the Eucharist we receive the Body, Blood, Soul, and Divinity of Christ truly present under the species of bread and wine. I would imagine that our Eucharistic theologies are generally not dissimilar.&lt;p&gt;But what I meant by that particular comment was that there was a fitting consonance between using bread whose proceeds went toward helping those in need and the works of love and mercy to which the Eucharistic Lord calls us.&lt;p&gt;Edit: And I certainly didn’t read any dunking into your question! Anglican Eucharistic theology is sort of all over the place. The vast majority of Anglicans adhere to some understanding of the Real Presence (and the Anglican theological tradition has generally tended to exclude memorialist understandings of the Eucharist, fwiw). I tend to have a very “Anglo-Catholic” sacramental theology.</text></item><item><author>aeneasmackenzie</author><text>&amp;gt; I&amp;#x27;m an anglican priest&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; reinforce what the Eucharist is about in the first place&lt;p&gt;What would that be? I mean to you. I am Catholic and I am entirely aware of what it is about to us. I am not trying to dunk on you or start an argument.</text></item><item><author>cbfrench</author><text>I’m an Anglican priest, and I can attest to this! We used to buy the Eucharistic hosts produced by the Institute for the Deaf at Sint-Michielsgestel in Holland (via our local church supplier). They were lovely. The priest’s hosts had a variety of designs (e.g., the Crucifix, the IHS monogram, even the Pelican). Their texture was nice: not too thick, not too gummy (less likely to stick to the roof of your mouth!). Plus, the proceeds from the sales of the hosts went to supporting the work of the Institute.&lt;p&gt;Alas, sometime in the past year-and-a-half, the Institute stopped producing hosts, so we now have to use Cavanagh. They’re fine, as far as it goes, but a little too chewy for my taste, and the only design available is a cross.&lt;p&gt;But it was always nice knowing that the bread we were using at the Eucharist was helping to support a worthy cause. It seemed to reinforce what the Eucharist is about in the first place.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>aeneasmackenzie</author><text>Clerical Celibacy is a disciple rather than a dogma. It is especially prominent in the Latin rite. There are other rites in the Roman Catholic Church and some of them have married priests. When priests convert to Catholicism they are usually allowed to remain priests if they wish. They often have to be actually ordained. If they were married and ordained both stick. Neither is reversible. If they are married and &amp;quot;ordained&amp;quot; they can still be ordained.</text></comment>

<story><title>Nuns got squeezed out of the communion wafer business</title><url>https://thehustle.co/how-nuns-got-squeezed-out-of-the-communion-wafer-business/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>walrus01</author><text>Serious question, but isn&amp;#x27;t anything that is a &amp;quot;married priest&amp;quot; not actual catholicism, as it would be recognized and approved by church HQ in Rome?&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;m confused because it does seem somehow officially okay.&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Personal_Ordinariate_of_the_Chair_of_Saint_Peter?wprov=sfla1&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Personal_Ordinariate_of_the_Ch...&lt;/a&gt;</text></item><item><author>User23</author><text>With full respect for your freedom of conscience, should you ever wish to discern whether to become Catholic the Ordinariate of the Chair of Saint Peter[1] makes retaining many if not the majority of your Anglo-Catholic traditions possible. They permit married priests and use a liturgy that is strongly influenced by the Book of Common Prayer while being in full communion with Rome.&lt;p&gt;In fact, the chaplain for Catholic Answers is an Anglican priest who converted[2]. I find the segments where he’s on quite interesting. Many people are surprised to learn that there are Catholic priests who are married with children!&lt;p&gt;[1] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;ordinariate.net&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;ordinariate.net&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;[2] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.catholic.com&amp;#x2F;profile&amp;#x2F;fr-samuel-keyes&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.catholic.com&amp;#x2F;profile&amp;#x2F;fr-samuel-keyes&lt;/a&gt;</text></item><item><author>cbfrench</author><text>For me, what’s it’s primarily “about,” of course, is the making present in an unbloodied manner the eternal and propitious Sacrifice of Christ, “proclaim[ing] the Lord’s death until he comes” (1 Cor 11:26). And in the Eucharist we receive the Body, Blood, Soul, and Divinity of Christ truly present under the species of bread and wine. I would imagine that our Eucharistic theologies are generally not dissimilar.&lt;p&gt;But what I meant by that particular comment was that there was a fitting consonance between using bread whose proceeds went toward helping those in need and the works of love and mercy to which the Eucharistic Lord calls us.&lt;p&gt;Edit: And I certainly didn’t read any dunking into your question! Anglican Eucharistic theology is sort of all over the place. The vast majority of Anglicans adhere to some understanding of the Real Presence (and the Anglican theological tradition has generally tended to exclude memorialist understandings of the Eucharist, fwiw). I tend to have a very “Anglo-Catholic” sacramental theology.</text></item><item><author>aeneasmackenzie</author><text>&amp;gt; I&amp;#x27;m an anglican priest&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; reinforce what the Eucharist is about in the first place&lt;p&gt;What would that be? I mean to you. I am Catholic and I am entirely aware of what it is about to us. I am not trying to dunk on you or start an argument.</text></item><item><author>cbfrench</author><text>I’m an Anglican priest, and I can attest to this! We used to buy the Eucharistic hosts produced by the Institute for the Deaf at Sint-Michielsgestel in Holland (via our local church supplier). They were lovely. The priest’s hosts had a variety of designs (e.g., the Crucifix, the IHS monogram, even the Pelican). Their texture was nice: not too thick, not too gummy (less likely to stick to the roof of your mouth!). Plus, the proceeds from the sales of the hosts went to supporting the work of the Institute.&lt;p&gt;Alas, sometime in the past year-and-a-half, the Institute stopped producing hosts, so we now have to use Cavanagh. They’re fine, as far as it goes, but a little too chewy for my taste, and the only design available is a cross.&lt;p&gt;But it was always nice knowing that the bread we were using at the Eucharist was helping to support a worthy cause. It seemed to reinforce what the Eucharist is about in the first place.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>bombcar</author><text>Married priest are rare in the Roman Catholic Church but that is only one of the 27 Catholic Churches. There are various Eastern Catholic Churches under the Pope with their own particular laws (and many have married priests).</text></comment>

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<story><title>Lavabit SSL Cert Revoked</title><url>https://lavabit.com/?8-oct-2013</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>thangalin</author><text>I have mocked-up a system for policy creation. The project is open; please contribute your thoughts. People say &amp;quot;it has flaws&amp;quot; but never explain the flaws, nor how to address them.&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://bitbucket.org/djarvis/world-politics/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;bitbucket.org&amp;#x2F;djarvis&amp;#x2F;world-politics&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;Would greatly appreciate constructive criticism. The system serves to educate everyone (openly and transparently) on implications of existing and upcoming policies.&lt;p&gt;If the idea intrigues you, check out what other people are doing along the same lines:&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://bitbucket.org/djarvis/world-politics/wiki/Related%20Links&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;bitbucket.org&amp;#x2F;djarvis&amp;#x2F;world-politics&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Related%20...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;Rather than getting to the point where citizens have to &amp;quot;mobilize against&amp;quot; the current government, we should be seeking to self-govern in such a way that mobilization is not necessary.</text></item><item><author>l33tbro</author><text>I&amp;#x27;m so sick of being sickened. I hate that this is becoming the norm and we can&amp;#x27;t do anything about it. I hate to spit cliches, but is this where my tax dollars go?&lt;p&gt;For me, govt and internet should almost be like church and state. Where is the data around foiled terrorist plots? I just can&amp;#x27;t stomach the obtuse logic that we need to pay our taxes to employ these virtual minders. This is not what the internet is about. It just seems so incredibly difficult to mobilise and take action against this shit ...&lt;p&gt;Btw, Ladar ... you&amp;#x27;ve been incredible in all of this (tips Stetson)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>gregw134</author><text>I love the idea, but I don&amp;#x27;t think people should be allowed to have unlimited up or down votes. That would encourage whimsical opinions, and would make the site reflect the opinions of the most active and opinionated users instead of the average person. I think there needs to be a way to limit the voice of each user so each person has the same amount of influence.&lt;p&gt;One idea I like is to give each user 100 points to distribute among topics. Once the user has assigned a certain number of points for or against a position, they could then distribute those points amongst the comments that best represent their position. So if a user votes 20 points for gun control, gun control would get 20 points, and the user would have to choose which comments best support their position--5 points to this comment, 7 points for this comment, etc.&lt;p&gt;I think this would solve two problems: it would encourage thoughtful opinions to rise to the top, and it would give voice to the minority of voters that care passionately about a topic that the majority disagrees with or doesn&amp;#x27;t care about.</text></comment>

<story><title>Lavabit SSL Cert Revoked</title><url>https://lavabit.com/?8-oct-2013</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>thangalin</author><text>I have mocked-up a system for policy creation. The project is open; please contribute your thoughts. People say &amp;quot;it has flaws&amp;quot; but never explain the flaws, nor how to address them.&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://bitbucket.org/djarvis/world-politics/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;bitbucket.org&amp;#x2F;djarvis&amp;#x2F;world-politics&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;Would greatly appreciate constructive criticism. The system serves to educate everyone (openly and transparently) on implications of existing and upcoming policies.&lt;p&gt;If the idea intrigues you, check out what other people are doing along the same lines:&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://bitbucket.org/djarvis/world-politics/wiki/Related%20Links&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;bitbucket.org&amp;#x2F;djarvis&amp;#x2F;world-politics&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Related%20...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;Rather than getting to the point where citizens have to &amp;quot;mobilize against&amp;quot; the current government, we should be seeking to self-govern in such a way that mobilization is not necessary.</text></item><item><author>l33tbro</author><text>I&amp;#x27;m so sick of being sickened. I hate that this is becoming the norm and we can&amp;#x27;t do anything about it. I hate to spit cliches, but is this where my tax dollars go?&lt;p&gt;For me, govt and internet should almost be like church and state. Where is the data around foiled terrorist plots? I just can&amp;#x27;t stomach the obtuse logic that we need to pay our taxes to employ these virtual minders. This is not what the internet is about. It just seems so incredibly difficult to mobilise and take action against this shit ...&lt;p&gt;Btw, Ladar ... you&amp;#x27;ve been incredible in all of this (tips Stetson)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Debugreality</author><text>I created a kind of micro discussion&amp;#x2F;decision making system that didn&amp;#x27;t generate much interest from people I talked to and perhaps shares a flaw with this concept.&lt;p&gt;Basically if you look at what people use text for online it usually isn&amp;#x27;t anything serious, even these discussions don&amp;#x27;t have all that much gravity and HN is probably the most serious site I&amp;#x27;ve seen.&lt;p&gt;Text also has less emotion and involvement attached and I think a lot of people won&amp;#x27;t connect with a text based system like this or won&amp;#x27;t feel comfortable contributing.&lt;p&gt;An idea for a way to feed peoples passions would be some kind of automatically generated video conference setup to split people into random think tank groups based on availability for each policy they indicate they want to be part of. Then perhaps one person, presumable someone that indicates they feel comfortable writing could contribute on behalf of their group to the text based policy page.</text></comment>

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<story><title>Show HN: BBC “In Our Time”, categorised by Dewey Decimal, heavy lifting by GPT</title><url>https://genmon.github.io/braggoscope/</url><text>I&amp;#x27;m a big fan of the BBC podcast In Our Time -- and (like most people) I&amp;#x27;ve been playing with the OpenAI APIs.&lt;p&gt;In Our Time has almost 1,000 episodes on everything from Cleopatra to the evolution of teeth to plasma physics, all still available, so it&amp;#x27;s my starting point to learn about most topics. But it&amp;#x27;s not well organised.&lt;p&gt;So here are the episodes sorted by library code. It&amp;#x27;s fun to explore.&lt;p&gt;Web scraping is usually pretty tedious, but I found that I could send the minimised HTML to GPT-3 and get (almost) perfect JSON back: the prompt includes the Typescript definition.&lt;p&gt;At the same time I asked for a Dewey classification... and it worked. So I replaced a few days of fiddly work with 3 cents per inference and an overnight data run.&lt;p&gt;My takeaway is that I&amp;#x27;ll be using LLMs as function call way more in the future. This isn&amp;#x27;t &amp;quot;generative&amp;quot; AI, more &amp;quot;programmatic&amp;quot; AI perhaps?&lt;p&gt;So I&amp;#x27;m interested in what temperature=0 LLM usage looks like (you want it to be pretty deterministic), at scale, and what a language that treats that as a first-class concept might look like.</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>genmon</author><text>Some unlinked features...&lt;p&gt;If you put the Dewey division in the URL, the directory auto-opens. e.g. here are episodes about prehistoric life (my current jumping-off point)&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;genmon.github.io&amp;#x2F;braggoscope&amp;#x2F;directory#560&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;genmon.github.io&amp;#x2F;braggoscope&amp;#x2F;directory#560&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;There&amp;#x27;s a visual map of episodes. After principal component analysis of the episode embedding vectors, these are the most significant two components as the x,y&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;genmon.github.io&amp;#x2F;braggoscope&amp;#x2F;map.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;genmon.github.io&amp;#x2F;braggoscope&amp;#x2F;map.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;(it&amp;#x27;s not super useful tbh -- e.g. the Manhattan Project and the Cambrian Explosion have the same x,y... presumably because they are both about explosions?)&lt;p&gt;Many episodes have a reading list, and these are all linked to Google Books (so you can purchase&amp;#x2F;check out from a library), e.g. this episode page&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;genmon.github.io&amp;#x2F;braggoscope&amp;#x2F;2022&amp;#x2F;10&amp;#x2F;20&amp;#x2F;the-fishtetrapod-transition.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;genmon.github.io&amp;#x2F;braggoscope&amp;#x2F;2022&amp;#x2F;10&amp;#x2F;20&amp;#x2F;the-fishtetr...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;There are ~4,600 books, and I have ~88% coverage on getting a Google Books page from the original data. Any ideas about what to do with this big list of academic-recommended books v welcome!</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>flir</author><text>This is great. I&amp;#x27;ll certainly be thinking of &amp;quot;classification&amp;quot; uses for ChatGPT in the future.&lt;p&gt;Thinking out loud: Add the experts, not just the reading lists. They&amp;#x27;re a jumping-off point into academic-paper-space. What have they published? In what journals? Who have they collaborated with?</text></comment>

<story><title>Show HN: BBC “In Our Time”, categorised by Dewey Decimal, heavy lifting by GPT</title><url>https://genmon.github.io/braggoscope/</url><text>I&amp;#x27;m a big fan of the BBC podcast In Our Time -- and (like most people) I&amp;#x27;ve been playing with the OpenAI APIs.&lt;p&gt;In Our Time has almost 1,000 episodes on everything from Cleopatra to the evolution of teeth to plasma physics, all still available, so it&amp;#x27;s my starting point to learn about most topics. But it&amp;#x27;s not well organised.&lt;p&gt;So here are the episodes sorted by library code. It&amp;#x27;s fun to explore.&lt;p&gt;Web scraping is usually pretty tedious, but I found that I could send the minimised HTML to GPT-3 and get (almost) perfect JSON back: the prompt includes the Typescript definition.&lt;p&gt;At the same time I asked for a Dewey classification... and it worked. So I replaced a few days of fiddly work with 3 cents per inference and an overnight data run.&lt;p&gt;My takeaway is that I&amp;#x27;ll be using LLMs as function call way more in the future. This isn&amp;#x27;t &amp;quot;generative&amp;quot; AI, more &amp;quot;programmatic&amp;quot; AI perhaps?&lt;p&gt;So I&amp;#x27;m interested in what temperature=0 LLM usage looks like (you want it to be pretty deterministic), at scale, and what a language that treats that as a first-class concept might look like.</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>genmon</author><text>Some unlinked features...&lt;p&gt;If you put the Dewey division in the URL, the directory auto-opens. e.g. here are episodes about prehistoric life (my current jumping-off point)&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;genmon.github.io&amp;#x2F;braggoscope&amp;#x2F;directory#560&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;genmon.github.io&amp;#x2F;braggoscope&amp;#x2F;directory#560&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;There&amp;#x27;s a visual map of episodes. After principal component analysis of the episode embedding vectors, these are the most significant two components as the x,y&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;genmon.github.io&amp;#x2F;braggoscope&amp;#x2F;map.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;genmon.github.io&amp;#x2F;braggoscope&amp;#x2F;map.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;(it&amp;#x27;s not super useful tbh -- e.g. the Manhattan Project and the Cambrian Explosion have the same x,y... presumably because they are both about explosions?)&lt;p&gt;Many episodes have a reading list, and these are all linked to Google Books (so you can purchase&amp;#x2F;check out from a library), e.g. this episode page&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;genmon.github.io&amp;#x2F;braggoscope&amp;#x2F;2022&amp;#x2F;10&amp;#x2F;20&amp;#x2F;the-fishtetrapod-transition.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;genmon.github.io&amp;#x2F;braggoscope&amp;#x2F;2022&amp;#x2F;10&amp;#x2F;20&amp;#x2F;the-fishtetr...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;There are ~4,600 books, and I have ~88% coverage on getting a Google Books page from the original data. Any ideas about what to do with this big list of academic-recommended books v welcome!</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>CrypticShift</author><text>Excellent! I&amp;#x27;d love to see a script that sends a list of &amp;quot;descriptions&amp;quot; (1-100 words) to ChatGPT and directly gives you back a ready-made (embedding vectors closeness) map in a (textual) graph&amp;#x2F;chart format (like your above map or your plot &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;interconnected.org&amp;#x2F;more&amp;#x2F;2023&amp;#x2F;02&amp;#x2F;in_our_time-PCA-plot.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;interconnected.org&amp;#x2F;more&amp;#x2F;2023&amp;#x2F;02&amp;#x2F;in_our_time-PCA-plot...&lt;/a&gt;)</text></comment>

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<story><title>Hopepunk, optimism, purity, and futures of hard work</title><url>https://beforewegoblog.com/purity-and-futures-of-hard-work-by-ada-palmer/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>hprotagonist</author><text>&amp;gt;In Hopepunk, people—often ordinary people, including minor characters—take a stand, resist, work together, follow through and help each other, and in the end, while some characters make bad choices, enough make good choices to leave a positive sense of the capacity of humans to choose good.&lt;p&gt;&lt;i&gt;The consolation of fairy stories, the joy of the happy ending, or more correctly of the good catastrophe, the sudden joyous &amp;quot;turn&amp;quot; (for there is no true end to any fairy tale); this joy, which is one of the things which fairy stories can produce supremely well, is not essentially &amp;quot;escapist,&amp;quot; nor &amp;quot;fugitive.&amp;quot; In its fairy tale--or otherworld--setting, it is a sudden and miraculous grace, never to be counted on to recur. It does not deny the existence of dyscatastrophe, of sorrow and failure. The possibility of these is necessary to the joy of deliverance; it denies (in the face of such evidence, if you will) universal final defeat and in so far is evangelism, giving a fleeting glimpse of joy; joy beyond the walls of the world, poignant as grief.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;Tolkien, &amp;quot;On Fairy-Stories&amp;quot;, 1939&lt;p&gt;&lt;i&gt;“It&amp;#x27;s like in the great stories, Mr. Frodo. The ones that really mattered. Full of darkness and danger they were. And sometimes you didn&amp;#x27;t want to know the end. Because how could the end be happy? How could the world go back to the way it was when so much bad had happened? But in the end, it’s only a passing thing, this shadow. Even darkness must pass. A new day will come. And when the sun shines it will shine out the clearer. Those were the stories that stayed with you. That meant something, even if you were too small to understand why. But I think, Mr. Frodo, I do understand. I know now. Folk in those stories had lots of chances of turning back, only they didn’t. They kept going, because they were holding on to something. That there is some good in this world, and it&amp;#x27;s worth fighting for.”&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;The Two Towers</text></comment>

<story><title>Hopepunk, optimism, purity, and futures of hard work</title><url>https://beforewegoblog.com/purity-and-futures-of-hard-work-by-ada-palmer/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>nynx</author><text>Really beautiful post. We need hopepunk stories more now than ever before.&lt;p&gt;While I didn&amp;#x27;t think Walkaway was a particularly well-written book, the setting was fascinating and pretty unique as far as I could see: it told the story of civilizations transitioning from essentially our world to post-scarcity. We need more stories that talk about that transition.</text></comment>

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<story><title>Their secret for workplace Zen: Landlines and ethernet cords</title><url>https://www.wsj.com/articles/secret-for-workplace-zen-landlines-and-ethernet-cords-remote-work-11648220628</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>legitster</author><text>I bought a giant spool of Cat-6 cable and now I run around like Johnny Ethernet-seed upgrading my friends&amp;#x27; internet.&lt;p&gt;For most homes, you know exactly where your datahogs are going to be - computer desk, smart tv, consoles, etc. People are addicted to the convenience of running everything through the air, but an hour in a crawlspace and you&amp;#x27;ve got something faster and more reliable.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Nextgrid</author><text>Same here. Demonizing Wi-Fi (like some comments here) is not the answer; instead, understand its limitations and use the best tool for the job. Anything that can be wired (anything stationary basically) should be, so that you save the (limited) radio spectrum for the stuff that can&amp;#x27;t be wired such as mobile devices.</text></comment>

<story><title>Their secret for workplace Zen: Landlines and ethernet cords</title><url>https://www.wsj.com/articles/secret-for-workplace-zen-landlines-and-ethernet-cords-remote-work-11648220628</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>legitster</author><text>I bought a giant spool of Cat-6 cable and now I run around like Johnny Ethernet-seed upgrading my friends&amp;#x27; internet.&lt;p&gt;For most homes, you know exactly where your datahogs are going to be - computer desk, smart tv, consoles, etc. People are addicted to the convenience of running everything through the air, but an hour in a crawlspace and you&amp;#x27;ve got something faster and more reliable.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>sixstringtheory</author><text>Same here. I bought 1000’ of cable, a bag of 50 RJ45 connectors and a crimper for about the same price as the 2 50’ cables I was originally looking at.&lt;p&gt;Value of the knowledge on how to make the cables and have exact lengths: priceless.</text></comment>

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<story><title>Snapchat Founders’ Grip Tightened After a Spat with an Early Investor</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/23/technology/snap-founders-evan-spiegel-bobby-murphy.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>vmarsy</author><text>The 2015 interview at a start-up awards show linked [1] in the article is pretty interesting. Evan gives a few startup ideas who failed before he succeeded with Snapchat, how he initially marketed Snapchat with flyers in a local mall , and that the amount &amp;quot;his father was tired of paying&amp;quot; in Snapchat’s bills was around $5K a month.&lt;p&gt;[1] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.youtube.com&amp;#x2F;watch?v=R-UAjGVPFIE&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.youtube.com&amp;#x2F;watch?v=R-UAjGVPFIE&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>

<story><title>Snapchat Founders’ Grip Tightened After a Spat with an Early Investor</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/23/technology/snap-founders-evan-spiegel-bobby-murphy.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>abalone</author><text>What &lt;i&gt;exactly&lt;/i&gt; would constitute founder-friendly seed &amp;#x2F; series A terms in the area of future investor participation rights? Are we literally saying &lt;i&gt;any&lt;/i&gt; right of first refusal is onerous, or is it just the multiple that gave Lightspeed up to 50% of the next round (which sounds like a 2-2.5X multiple)?&lt;p&gt;Sam Altman has a right of first refusal provision in his &amp;quot;founder-friendly term sheet&amp;quot;. At least I think he does.. he doesn&amp;#x27;t call it a ROFR, preferring the plainer language of &amp;quot;investor participation rights&amp;quot;. But it&amp;#x27;s there and even the multiple is left as an open variable.[1]&lt;p&gt;So are @sama&amp;#x27;s terms actually spat-worthy?&lt;p&gt;[1] &lt;a href=&quot;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;blog.samaltman.com&amp;#x2F;a-founder-friendly-term-sheet&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;blog.samaltman.com&amp;#x2F;a-founder-friendly-term-sheet&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>