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<story><title>&quot;Pwned Passwords&quot; V2 With Half a Billion Passwords</title><url>https://www.troyhunt.com/ive-just-launched-pwned-passwords-version-2/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>groovecoder</author><text>do &lt;i&gt;not&lt;/i&gt; skip the section on &amp;quot;Cloudflare, Privacy and k-Anonymity&amp;quot; ... it is a great summary of an elegant privacy solution.&lt;p&gt;And check out Cloudflare&amp;#x27;s detail post too:&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;blog.cloudflare.com&amp;#x2F;validating-leaked-passwords-with-k-anonymity&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;blog.cloudflare.com&amp;#x2F;validating-leaked-passwords-with...&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>skykooler</author><text>Why does 0000 have the largest number of hashes? Does SHA-1 not distribute hash values evenly?</text></comment>

<story><title>&quot;Pwned Passwords&quot; V2 With Half a Billion Passwords</title><url>https://www.troyhunt.com/ive-just-launched-pwned-passwords-version-2/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>groovecoder</author><text>do &lt;i&gt;not&lt;/i&gt; skip the section on &amp;quot;Cloudflare, Privacy and k-Anonymity&amp;quot; ... it is a great summary of an elegant privacy solution.&lt;p&gt;And check out Cloudflare&amp;#x27;s detail post too:&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;blog.cloudflare.com&amp;#x2F;validating-leaked-passwords-with-k-anonymity&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;blog.cloudflare.com&amp;#x2F;validating-leaked-passwords-with...&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jkaptur</author><text>I&amp;#x27;m a bit confused - why not distribute a serialized Bloom filter representing these passwords? That would seem to enable a compact representation (low Azure bill) and client-side querying (maximally preserving privacy).</text></comment>

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<story><title>Reasons to not use your own domain for email</title><url>https://www.bautista.dev/reasons-to-not-use-your-own-domain-for-email</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>sschueller</author><text>I strongly disagree.&lt;p&gt;- Google has on multiple occasions terminated accounts for no reason with no recourse. You loose access you can&amp;#x27;t do anything. If you have your own domain you can at least set it up somewhere else. How many website would you need to update with your new email and how would you get thay extra factor mail?&lt;p&gt;- If I die I don&amp;#x27;t care if someone else reads my mail, I&amp;#x27;m dead. Also you can add a dead man&amp;#x27;s switch and you should provide your family with access to your passwords etc. in case something does happen.&lt;p&gt;- if you are worried about expiration, didn&amp;#x27;t one registrar just offer 100 year registration? Also the process is usually (for. com at least): domain expires, registrar removes DNS until you pay, usually 30 days, then the domain goes to retention where you can pay the +250 fee to get it back which I believe is another 60 days or something that you have to pay and get it back. I have had customers that I would remind over and over only to have them fall into retention and then complain about the fee but they got their domain back.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>tjpnz</author><text>As evidenced here the impact of account terminations can have a profound impact on a persons life. Email providers like Google should be treated as utilities and regulated as such, they should be legally obligated to communicate with their users, ideally working towards a resolution. Until then you really should be treating said accounts in the same way you would a hotel rental phone.</text></comment>

<story><title>Reasons to not use your own domain for email</title><url>https://www.bautista.dev/reasons-to-not-use-your-own-domain-for-email</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>sschueller</author><text>I strongly disagree.&lt;p&gt;- Google has on multiple occasions terminated accounts for no reason with no recourse. You loose access you can&amp;#x27;t do anything. If you have your own domain you can at least set it up somewhere else. How many website would you need to update with your new email and how would you get thay extra factor mail?&lt;p&gt;- If I die I don&amp;#x27;t care if someone else reads my mail, I&amp;#x27;m dead. Also you can add a dead man&amp;#x27;s switch and you should provide your family with access to your passwords etc. in case something does happen.&lt;p&gt;- if you are worried about expiration, didn&amp;#x27;t one registrar just offer 100 year registration? Also the process is usually (for. com at least): domain expires, registrar removes DNS until you pay, usually 30 days, then the domain goes to retention where you can pay the +250 fee to get it back which I believe is another 60 days or something that you have to pay and get it back. I have had customers that I would remind over and over only to have them fall into retention and then complain about the fee but they got their domain back.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>sshine</author><text>The day I worried &amp;quot;What if Google just shuts down my email account with no recourse?&amp;quot; is the day I started migrating my authentication to my own domain email address. Choosing a registrar with proper security in place, this is probably the safest while you are alive.</text></comment>

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<story><title>EFF taking on software patent reform</title><url>http://defendinnovation.org</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>iwwr</author><text>EFF&apos;s position is too moderate. 5 year monopoly on software ideas? If not even the EFF is willing to take an unequivocal stance against software patents, the trolls and the system will keep their legitimacy.&lt;p&gt;We should not be afraid to take (seemingly) radical positions. Fear of offending the status quo is what keeps it in place. Not too long ago the idea of patenting a theorem or a gene was dubious; the moderates may only slow the tide, not push it back.</text></comment>

<story><title>EFF taking on software patent reform</title><url>http://defendinnovation.org</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>PeterisP</author><text>Wrong. EFF, this is not what we the members are asking - software patents should be abolished, not changed to &quot;acceptable&quot; terms. It&apos;s just a boil-the-frog strategy. There are no conditions that would make software patents a good thing ethically and economically.</text></comment>

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<story><title>Show HN: I invented a caffeinated toothpaste</title><url>https://www.powertoothpaste.com/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>DiabloD3</author><text>Your website does not contain a list of ingredients, nor do you show photos of your box with government required disclosures on it.&lt;p&gt;You admit that your toothpaste does not have fluoride, but does it contain SLS, propylene glycol, DEA, glycerin, hydrated silica, or artificial sweeteners? If so, please discontinue your product or change your formula. None of those ingredients are safe for use in toothpaste and help cause tooth damage and decay.</text></item><item><author>nappy</author><text>I invented the world’s first caffeinated toothpaste - get a rush while you brush! I’m a serial entrepreneur, YCW16. Though it is a simple idea, I went through at least 60 formula iterations before I got the flavor chemistry right. This toothpaste seriously works. I actually had to &lt;i&gt;lower&lt;/i&gt; the caffeine content from the original version.&lt;p&gt;Our toothpaste gives you a quick caffeine boost that works as soon as you start brushing, even faster than coffee. (I still drink coffee, just later in the morning)&lt;p&gt;I made version 1 with a hammer in my kitchen. I smashed a caffeine pill into dust in my cast iron pan, mixed it with toothpaste from my bathroom, and I had the first-ever caffeinated toothpaste. It worked. It was a little buggy. Since that point we have raised over $40k on Indiegogo and we’ve shipped over 2,000 tubes of toothpaste so far, all made in the made in the USA. I would love to answer any questions you might have or share any knowledge I’ve gained about plastic&amp;#x2F;tube packaging, cosmetics regulations, logistics, fulfillment, domestic manufacturing, and shipping physical products in general. I’m not an expert, but I’ve learned a lot. If you want to try Power Toothpaste, I live in the Bay Area, and I’d be happy to meet up and give you a squeeze of my toothpaste.&lt;p&gt;Cheers, Ian</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Bartweiss</author><text>With the comments about &amp;quot;fighting plaque like leading brands&amp;quot;, I&amp;#x27;m actually curious whether this is legal. I believe the active ingredients disclosure box is mandatory, although possibly it&amp;#x27;s on the face of the box we can&amp;#x27;t see.&lt;p&gt;I see that the toothpaste is legal (white-labelled from an approved factory), so this is just a labelling question.</text></comment>

<story><title>Show HN: I invented a caffeinated toothpaste</title><url>https://www.powertoothpaste.com/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>DiabloD3</author><text>Your website does not contain a list of ingredients, nor do you show photos of your box with government required disclosures on it.&lt;p&gt;You admit that your toothpaste does not have fluoride, but does it contain SLS, propylene glycol, DEA, glycerin, hydrated silica, or artificial sweeteners? If so, please discontinue your product or change your formula. None of those ingredients are safe for use in toothpaste and help cause tooth damage and decay.</text></item><item><author>nappy</author><text>I invented the world’s first caffeinated toothpaste - get a rush while you brush! I’m a serial entrepreneur, YCW16. Though it is a simple idea, I went through at least 60 formula iterations before I got the flavor chemistry right. This toothpaste seriously works. I actually had to &lt;i&gt;lower&lt;/i&gt; the caffeine content from the original version.&lt;p&gt;Our toothpaste gives you a quick caffeine boost that works as soon as you start brushing, even faster than coffee. (I still drink coffee, just later in the morning)&lt;p&gt;I made version 1 with a hammer in my kitchen. I smashed a caffeine pill into dust in my cast iron pan, mixed it with toothpaste from my bathroom, and I had the first-ever caffeinated toothpaste. It worked. It was a little buggy. Since that point we have raised over $40k on Indiegogo and we’ve shipped over 2,000 tubes of toothpaste so far, all made in the made in the USA. I would love to answer any questions you might have or share any knowledge I’ve gained about plastic&amp;#x2F;tube packaging, cosmetics regulations, logistics, fulfillment, domestic manufacturing, and shipping physical products in general. I’m not an expert, but I’ve learned a lot. If you want to try Power Toothpaste, I live in the Bay Area, and I’d be happy to meet up and give you a squeeze of my toothpaste.&lt;p&gt;Cheers, Ian</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>nappy</author><text>Point well taken! The label and full listing of ingredients will be going up there. Sorry for this omission and thank you for this comment!</text></comment>

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<story><title>Show HN: Computer Music with Python</title><url>https://github.com/luvsound/pippi</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>sramsay</author><text>This is very, very cool.&lt;p&gt;My problem with most music programming environments (in my humble, but very informed opinion) is that . . . they don&amp;#x27;t sound very good. That is, the oscillators, filters, envelopes, etc. don&amp;#x27;t sound anywhere near as good as what you can buy from UAD, SoftTube, PSP, U-he, etc.&lt;p&gt;The OP may be a DSP genius for all I know, and maybe it sounds incredible. I haven&amp;#x27;t tried it yet.&lt;p&gt;But it seems (just glancing over it) that there&amp;#x27;s an emphasis on manipulating existing audio files. This is actually huge. It&amp;#x27;s true that you can do that things like ChuCK and csound and whatever, but they never felt focused on that to me. The biggest player in this &amp;quot;let&amp;#x27;s mess with audio files&amp;quot; space was the Composer&amp;#x27;s Desktop Project. That thing was amazing, but it seems slightly moribund, and I haven&amp;#x27;t been able to get it to compile for years.&lt;p&gt;Anyway: I can&amp;#x27;t wait to dig in!</text></comment>

<story><title>Show HN: Computer Music with Python</title><url>https://github.com/luvsound/pippi</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>karlp</author><text>This is amazing, it looks really useful to easily code new sounds, but it seems not in real time?&lt;p&gt;I would change the name though, with pypy, pypi and pip it seems it will lead to confusion.</text></comment>

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<story><title>Under-35s in the UK face becoming permanent renters, warns thinktank</title><url>http://www.theguardian.com/society/2016/feb/13/under-35s-in-the-uk-face-becoming-permanent-renters-warns-thinktank</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>spangry</author><text>Same problem in Australia. Just to define some terms for non-Australian folk:&lt;p&gt;- Negative gearing: A deduction received on net rental income losses (e.g. I&amp;#x27;m a landlord who pays $100 in loan interest, receives $60 in rent, so I claim a tax deduction of $40)&lt;p&gt;- Capital gains: I buy a house worth $100,000. A few years later I sell it for $260,000. I&amp;#x27;ve made a capital gain of $160,000.&lt;p&gt;The under 30s age group receive:&lt;p&gt;- 1% of total negative gearing tax benefits, whereas the 50+ age group receive 55% (&lt;a href=&quot;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.macrobusiness.com.au&amp;#x2F;wp-content&amp;#x2F;uploads&amp;#x2F;2016&amp;#x2F;02&amp;#x2F;ScreenHunter_11535-Feb.-16-08.09.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.macrobusiness.com.au&amp;#x2F;wp-content&amp;#x2F;uploads&amp;#x2F;2016&amp;#x2F;02&amp;#x2F;S...&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;p&gt;- 2% of capital gains tax benefits, whereas the 50+ age group receives 76% (&lt;a href=&quot;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.macrobusiness.com.au&amp;#x2F;wp-content&amp;#x2F;uploads&amp;#x2F;2016&amp;#x2F;02&amp;#x2F;ScreenHunter_11536-Feb.-16-08.10.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.macrobusiness.com.au&amp;#x2F;wp-content&amp;#x2F;uploads&amp;#x2F;2016&amp;#x2F;02&amp;#x2F;S...&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s inter-generational theft perpetrated by the baby-boomers, aided and abetted by tax policy. These tax breaks also cause of financial system instability and capital mis-allocation. The tax breaks are regressive: the top 30% highest income households receive 62.2% of total negative gearing tax breaks (&lt;a href=&quot;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.macrobusiness.com.au&amp;#x2F;wp-content&amp;#x2F;uploads&amp;#x2F;2015&amp;#x2F;04&amp;#x2F;ScreenHunter_7244-Apr.-28-13.45.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.macrobusiness.com.au&amp;#x2F;wp-content&amp;#x2F;uploads&amp;#x2F;2015&amp;#x2F;04&amp;#x2F;S...&lt;/a&gt;).&lt;p&gt;Personally, I think the main issue is that the distortionary effect of untaxed land rents are greatly amplified by capital gains tax exemptions. That, and housing market supply inelasticities due to restrictive zoning laws, property transaction taxes (i.e. stamp duty), drip fed land releases by local governments etc.&lt;p&gt;Eat the young!</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>poof131</author><text>Agree 100%.&lt;p&gt;It’s frowned upon to talk about this as a generational thing, but it very much is. Debt is the instrument to have now and pay later, and the debt burden is rampant everywhere. Modern economics has essentially disregarded the role of debt in the economy.[1] All our government institutions seem hell bent on maintaining asset prices at any cost.[2] There’s no sensible plan to even remotely reign in government debt. The world’s stuck at zero percent interest rates, handing out money to the politically connected, and growth is still anemic. Even at low rates people can hardly afford to buy anything since asset prices are so inflated.&lt;p&gt;I would like to believe we can deal with this in a reasonable fashion, but am skeptical. As can already be seen by the U.S. elections and elsewhere, populism is rearing it’s head on both the left and the right. It feels like a storm is on the horizon and I only hope it doesn’t devolve into war.&lt;p&gt;[1] &lt;a href=&quot;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;blogs.lse.ac.uk&amp;#x2F;politicsandpolicy&amp;#x2F;ignoring-the-role-of-private-debt-in-an-economy-is-like-driving-without-accounting-for-your-blind-spot&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;blogs.lse.ac.uk&amp;#x2F;politicsandpolicy&amp;#x2F;ignoring-the-role-o...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;[2] &lt;a href=&quot;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;blogs.lse.ac.uk&amp;#x2F;politicsandpolicy&amp;#x2F;ignoring-the-role-of-private-debt-in-an-economy-is-like-driving-without-accounting-for-your-blind-spot&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;blogs.lse.ac.uk&amp;#x2F;politicsandpolicy&amp;#x2F;ignoring-the-role-o...&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>

<story><title>Under-35s in the UK face becoming permanent renters, warns thinktank</title><url>http://www.theguardian.com/society/2016/feb/13/under-35s-in-the-uk-face-becoming-permanent-renters-warns-thinktank</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>spangry</author><text>Same problem in Australia. Just to define some terms for non-Australian folk:&lt;p&gt;- Negative gearing: A deduction received on net rental income losses (e.g. I&amp;#x27;m a landlord who pays $100 in loan interest, receives $60 in rent, so I claim a tax deduction of $40)&lt;p&gt;- Capital gains: I buy a house worth $100,000. A few years later I sell it for $260,000. I&amp;#x27;ve made a capital gain of $160,000.&lt;p&gt;The under 30s age group receive:&lt;p&gt;- 1% of total negative gearing tax benefits, whereas the 50+ age group receive 55% (&lt;a href=&quot;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.macrobusiness.com.au&amp;#x2F;wp-content&amp;#x2F;uploads&amp;#x2F;2016&amp;#x2F;02&amp;#x2F;ScreenHunter_11535-Feb.-16-08.09.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.macrobusiness.com.au&amp;#x2F;wp-content&amp;#x2F;uploads&amp;#x2F;2016&amp;#x2F;02&amp;#x2F;S...&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;p&gt;- 2% of capital gains tax benefits, whereas the 50+ age group receives 76% (&lt;a href=&quot;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.macrobusiness.com.au&amp;#x2F;wp-content&amp;#x2F;uploads&amp;#x2F;2016&amp;#x2F;02&amp;#x2F;ScreenHunter_11536-Feb.-16-08.10.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.macrobusiness.com.au&amp;#x2F;wp-content&amp;#x2F;uploads&amp;#x2F;2016&amp;#x2F;02&amp;#x2F;S...&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s inter-generational theft perpetrated by the baby-boomers, aided and abetted by tax policy. These tax breaks also cause of financial system instability and capital mis-allocation. The tax breaks are regressive: the top 30% highest income households receive 62.2% of total negative gearing tax breaks (&lt;a href=&quot;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.macrobusiness.com.au&amp;#x2F;wp-content&amp;#x2F;uploads&amp;#x2F;2015&amp;#x2F;04&amp;#x2F;ScreenHunter_7244-Apr.-28-13.45.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.macrobusiness.com.au&amp;#x2F;wp-content&amp;#x2F;uploads&amp;#x2F;2015&amp;#x2F;04&amp;#x2F;S...&lt;/a&gt;).&lt;p&gt;Personally, I think the main issue is that the distortionary effect of untaxed land rents are greatly amplified by capital gains tax exemptions. That, and housing market supply inelasticities due to restrictive zoning laws, property transaction taxes (i.e. stamp duty), drip fed land releases by local governments etc.&lt;p&gt;Eat the young!</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>PebblesHD</author><text>The whole situation in Australia is infuriating at the moment. I feel like I&amp;#x27;m in a reasonable position for a young professional but I have zero chance of getting any sort of housing security with the way things are now. Between bills and rent at the moment it would take me years to save the amount needed for a deposit, and even then I&amp;#x27;d only be able to borrow enough money for a house more than an hour and a half&amp;#x27;s commute from work each way, which totally defeats the point. I&amp;#x27;ve been willing to forgo a short travel time for a reasonable place to live for years, and it&amp;#x27;s really starting to get to me. Sadly, remote work is also out of the picture thanks to the sad state of my &amp;#x27;ADSL2&amp;#x27; that tops out at 2mbit&amp;#x2F;s... It&amp;#x27;s just not a great place to be right now</text></comment>

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<story><title>An alternative cause for the Great Stagnation: the cargo cult company</title><url>https://www.shyamsankar.com/p/technology-is-the-problem</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>hedora</author><text>There have been systematic studies of this. UI productivity for people that have had time to learn the software peaked in the mid 1980’s.&lt;p&gt;So, the industry traded being able to walk up and use a thing in the first 30 seconds for having it be painfully bad after the first 30 minutes.&lt;p&gt;People like to say, “oh, but power users are rare”. That’s only true if you count users that bounce after 29 minutes the same as users that use the software more than once.</text></item><item><author>candiddevmike</author><text>The Costco screenshot is really interesting. The terminal apps of old were truly works of art and _incredibly_ fast. A non-technical worker wouldn&amp;#x27;t take long to understand the system and the keys&amp;#x2F;shortcuts to do something quickly. I remember having to sit with a few folks when we were looking at modernizing an app, watching them with a few key strokes process a record or something and thinking &amp;quot;we&amp;#x27;ll never match this speed&amp;quot;.&lt;p&gt;Web or even desktop apps these days really pale in comparison.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Analemma_</author><text>You&amp;#x27;re zeroing in on the actual answer to &amp;quot;why did we replace these awesome high-speed text interfaces with slow GUIs?&amp;quot; Businesses aren&amp;#x27;t stupid or irrational: they switched because they moved to an employment model based on a disposable labor force, where workers wouldn&amp;#x27;t be expected to stick around long enough for training to be worth it, so it was more important to make an interface that was good enough for the endless revolving door of untrained users.</text></comment>

<story><title>An alternative cause for the Great Stagnation: the cargo cult company</title><url>https://www.shyamsankar.com/p/technology-is-the-problem</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>hedora</author><text>There have been systematic studies of this. UI productivity for people that have had time to learn the software peaked in the mid 1980’s.&lt;p&gt;So, the industry traded being able to walk up and use a thing in the first 30 seconds for having it be painfully bad after the first 30 minutes.&lt;p&gt;People like to say, “oh, but power users are rare”. That’s only true if you count users that bounce after 29 minutes the same as users that use the software more than once.</text></item><item><author>candiddevmike</author><text>The Costco screenshot is really interesting. The terminal apps of old were truly works of art and _incredibly_ fast. A non-technical worker wouldn&amp;#x27;t take long to understand the system and the keys&amp;#x2F;shortcuts to do something quickly. I remember having to sit with a few folks when we were looking at modernizing an app, watching them with a few key strokes process a record or something and thinking &amp;quot;we&amp;#x27;ll never match this speed&amp;quot;.&lt;p&gt;Web or even desktop apps these days really pale in comparison.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>JumpCrisscross</author><text>&amp;gt; &lt;i&gt;People like to say, “oh, but power users are rare”&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;Huh, didn’t consider that power users being rare meant the software makes becoming a power user difficult.</text></comment>

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<story><title>Keeping Time with Amazon Time Sync Service</title><url>https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/keeping-time-with-amazon-time-sync-service/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>NelsonMinar</author><text>Details worth highlighting.. They recommend chrony over ntpd, which makes particular sense given that chrony is designed to work well on virtual machine. They are doing leap second smearing like Google does internally. They don&amp;#x27;t say anything about what sort of accuracy you can expect but if the clock source is truly local it could be very good.&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s kinda neat they&amp;#x27;re using a link local address.</text></comment>

<story><title>Keeping Time with Amazon Time Sync Service</title><url>https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/keeping-time-with-amazon-time-sync-service/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>CaliforniaKarl</author><text>Argh! I wish the NTP servers were usable from outside of AWS.&lt;p&gt;Outside of North America and Europe, there aren&amp;#x27;t as many public NTP servers as there should be. For example, according to &lt;a href=&quot;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.pool.ntp.org&amp;#x2F;zone&amp;#x2F;south-america&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.pool.ntp.org&amp;#x2F;zone&amp;#x2F;south-america&lt;/a&gt;, South America has less than 50 NTP servers.&lt;p&gt;It would be awesome if the large, widely-distributed providers (not just AWS with CloudFront, but also Akami, Cloudflare, etc.) provided public, Stratum-1 NTP servers at their POPs.</text></comment>

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<story><title>Paw is joining Rapid API, Paw for the Web, Windows, and Linux is available</title><url>https://blog.paw.cloud/paw-joins-forces-with-rapidapi/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Nextgrid</author><text>The only reason I use Paw instead of the countless alternatives is &lt;i&gt;because&lt;/i&gt; it’s not web-based. Sad to see this new development, though thankfully I can still hold onto the last native version.&lt;p&gt;Edit: was looking at the article on my phone and missed the part where they claim they&amp;#x27;ll maintain the native version. However I still have concerns they would eventually discontinue it given that Rapid API&amp;#x27;s main business model is around API marketplaces, gateways and billing and the revenue from selling tooling is likely to be a drop in the bucket in comparison.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>folkrav</author><text>&amp;gt; While we&amp;#x27;ll keep building the native macOS application as a first-class citizen, we&amp;#x27;re introducing today Paw for the Web, Paw for Windows and Paw for Linux!&lt;p&gt;Straight from their announcement.</text></comment>

<story><title>Paw is joining Rapid API, Paw for the Web, Windows, and Linux is available</title><url>https://blog.paw.cloud/paw-joins-forces-with-rapidapi/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Nextgrid</author><text>The only reason I use Paw instead of the countless alternatives is &lt;i&gt;because&lt;/i&gt; it’s not web-based. Sad to see this new development, though thankfully I can still hold onto the last native version.&lt;p&gt;Edit: was looking at the article on my phone and missed the part where they claim they&amp;#x27;ll maintain the native version. However I still have concerns they would eventually discontinue it given that Rapid API&amp;#x27;s main business model is around API marketplaces, gateways and billing and the revenue from selling tooling is likely to be a drop in the bucket in comparison.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>donatj</author><text>I would argue the UI is a vast improvement over Postman.</text></comment>

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<story><title>Eden</title><url>https://github.com/facebookexperimental/eden</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>deanCommie</author><text>So if you are at Facebook&amp;#x27;s or Google&amp;#x27;s scale, and also run a monorepo, this will be great for you.&lt;p&gt;Which is to say, this is a product for one company - Facebook.</text></item><item><author>gregwebs</author><text>A Mercurial compatible SCM (not sure if it is a fork) built for their workflow (monorepo) and scale (enormous, git is not usable at their scale, at least for a monorepo). Uses Python and Rust. Designed for efficient centralization rather than decentralization.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>kvathupo</author><text>To their credit, I don&amp;#x27;t think its use-case is limited to monorepos. I&amp;#x27;ve personally had a multiple GB `.git` file due to storing many data files in a repo. In retrospect, data __shouldn&amp;#x27;t__ be version-controlled, but it&amp;#x27;s sometimes the simplest solution, e.g. having a unit-test suite intake a bunch of CSV data. Eden&amp;#x27;s &amp;quot;a file is checked out only if opened&amp;quot; and &amp;quot;scan only modified directories&amp;quot; would&amp;#x27;ve allowed me to avoid decoupling data from code.</text></comment>

<story><title>Eden</title><url>https://github.com/facebookexperimental/eden</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>deanCommie</author><text>So if you are at Facebook&amp;#x27;s or Google&amp;#x27;s scale, and also run a monorepo, this will be great for you.&lt;p&gt;Which is to say, this is a product for one company - Facebook.</text></item><item><author>gregwebs</author><text>A Mercurial compatible SCM (not sure if it is a fork) built for their workflow (monorepo) and scale (enormous, git is not usable at their scale, at least for a monorepo). Uses Python and Rust. Designed for efficient centralization rather than decentralization.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>criddell</author><text>Why wouldn&amp;#x27;t it be great for other companies that run a monorepo? Would it be nuts to go from some other monorepo (like Subversion) to this?</text></comment>

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<story><title>400-year-old Greenland shark ‘longest-living vertebrate’ (2016)</title><url>https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-37047168</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>2OEH8eoCRo0</author><text>&amp;gt; The team looked at 28 sharks, most of which had died after being caught in fishing nets as by-catch.&lt;p&gt;Nice job- the shark had done just fine for ~400 years.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>aloer</author><text>Related: there’s a new documentary on Netflix called Seaspiracy&lt;p&gt;It has some staggering numbers regarding the amount of by-catch caught every day</text></comment>

<story><title>400-year-old Greenland shark ‘longest-living vertebrate’ (2016)</title><url>https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-37047168</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>2OEH8eoCRo0</author><text>&amp;gt; The team looked at 28 sharks, most of which had died after being caught in fishing nets as by-catch.&lt;p&gt;Nice job- the shark had done just fine for ~400 years.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ironmagma</author><text>The relative scale of the effects of the fishing industry as a whole vs. the few scientific studies that are done is staggeringly high.</text></comment>

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<story><title>The Effect of Sleep on Happiness</title><url>https://www.trackinghappiness.com/effect-sleep-happiness/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>1996</author><text>I sleep 10 to 11h per night. I may trim that to 6h one day but no more than once per month and if there is an absolute emergency - but then I know my productivity will be killed for at least 2 days.&lt;p&gt;OTOH, my inspiration will be higher: I will have more creative ideas on how to combine stuff, but I will be too tired to do any of that. I will just take notes.&lt;p&gt;With adequate sleep, I do not feel happier or sadder than anyone else. I feel more productive however. Sunday I had never done any python because I preferred perl, but for some specific task there was no option but a python library (well, it was also possible in another language I don&amp;#x27;t like either)&lt;p&gt;So on Monday, I learned python, then asynchronous execution with asyncio, then parallelizing with joblib. Tuesday, I coded.&lt;p&gt;Today I have a python3 daemon with error handling and other niceties ready to be deployed to test. It seems robust enough to require minimal oversight by systemd.&lt;p&gt;In any case, it will be deployed on all POPs and in production on Friday - even if I must have a bad night. But that means I will not do much next day. But that means I will have other creative ideas!</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>sbinthree</author><text>I had a nice solid 9h each night until having a child. I find I am actually more creative (uninhibited) when I get less sleep. My brain is firing too hard on perfectionism when I get a good sleep, where I can be a lot more creative and free flowing when I am sleep deprived. I don&amp;#x27;t implement or debug well in that state though, so my cycle tends to involve writing the code and debugging on better sleep nights and having my ideas and catching up on admin if I have a bad sleep.</text></comment>

<story><title>The Effect of Sleep on Happiness</title><url>https://www.trackinghappiness.com/effect-sleep-happiness/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>1996</author><text>I sleep 10 to 11h per night. I may trim that to 6h one day but no more than once per month and if there is an absolute emergency - but then I know my productivity will be killed for at least 2 days.&lt;p&gt;OTOH, my inspiration will be higher: I will have more creative ideas on how to combine stuff, but I will be too tired to do any of that. I will just take notes.&lt;p&gt;With adequate sleep, I do not feel happier or sadder than anyone else. I feel more productive however. Sunday I had never done any python because I preferred perl, but for some specific task there was no option but a python library (well, it was also possible in another language I don&amp;#x27;t like either)&lt;p&gt;So on Monday, I learned python, then asynchronous execution with asyncio, then parallelizing with joblib. Tuesday, I coded.&lt;p&gt;Today I have a python3 daemon with error handling and other niceties ready to be deployed to test. It seems robust enough to require minimal oversight by systemd.&lt;p&gt;In any case, it will be deployed on all POPs and in production on Friday - even if I must have a bad night. But that means I will not do much next day. But that means I will have other creative ideas!</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>megaman22</author><text>I&amp;#x27;m jealous. 4-6 hours of sleep is a good night for me, punctuated at least once or twice a week with days I never actually get to sleep; I just sort of lay there in bed from midnight until the sun comes up again, maybe drifting to a weird loopy half-conscious state for brief periods. The only things that can bring my sleep schedule in line with &amp;quot;normal&amp;quot; amounts is if I do hard physical labor for 8-12 hours during the day, have sex, or drink about two beers and read for a half hour before bed. Basically this has persisted my entire life - growing up I&amp;#x27;d read half a dozen books a week at night when I was supposed to be in bed and couldn&amp;#x27;t fall asleep.&lt;p&gt;On those nights when sleep just isn&amp;#x27;t going to come, I&amp;#x27;ve given up on trying; I&amp;#x27;ll just go find something to do. All-night programming is a pretty good fit, although I&amp;#x27;ve also spent entire nights painting and putting down flooring, or tinkering in my shop.</text></comment>

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<story><title>Lying Microsoft Advertising</title><url>http://www.curi.us/1571-lying-microsoft-advertising</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>anxx</author><text>It&apos;s only in the US that I have seen advertisements for a product include direct bashing of a competitor&apos;s product. I am not talking about a list of features where you show in which way yours is superior; that is still acceptable (although also deceiving much of the time). I am talking about ads like the Nimoy-Quinto Audi commercial where Nimoy had stupid problems fitting stuff into the Mercedes.&lt;p&gt;This is such a jarring way to advertise, it&apos;s like watching a bully beat a defenseless kid - does anybody feel more sympathy towards the product this way?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>smacktoward</author><text>The conventional wisdom is that you should punch up, not down. In other words, if you&apos;re behind the market leader, it&apos;s OK to throw a punch at it in your ads, because your product isn&apos;t as widely known or understood as theirs is. But if you &lt;i&gt;are&lt;/i&gt; the market leader, you don&apos;t throw punches at competitors, because you&apos;re already winning and doing so just reminds the viewer/reader/whatever that other alternatives exist.&lt;p&gt;This mitigates the &quot;defenseless kid&quot; syndrome a bit, because if you only punch up you&apos;re by definition only taking on products that are stronger in the marketplace than yours is.&lt;p&gt;You can see this in action by comparing Apple&apos;s ads. They had no problem running the &quot;I&apos;m a Mac&quot; ads when their product (the Mac) was far behind the market leader (Windows PCs). But iPad ads don&apos;t do product comparisons, because the iPad owns the tablet market so there&apos;s no upside to reminding people that &quot;tablet&quot; does not necessarily equal &quot;iPad.&quot;</text></comment>

<story><title>Lying Microsoft Advertising</title><url>http://www.curi.us/1571-lying-microsoft-advertising</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>anxx</author><text>It&apos;s only in the US that I have seen advertisements for a product include direct bashing of a competitor&apos;s product. I am not talking about a list of features where you show in which way yours is superior; that is still acceptable (although also deceiving much of the time). I am talking about ads like the Nimoy-Quinto Audi commercial where Nimoy had stupid problems fitting stuff into the Mercedes.&lt;p&gt;This is such a jarring way to advertise, it&apos;s like watching a bully beat a defenseless kid - does anybody feel more sympathy towards the product this way?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Someone</author><text>In the EU, such advertisements are illegal. &lt;a href=&quot;http://europa.eu/legislation_summaries/consumers/consumer_information/l32010_en.htm&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://europa.eu/legislation_summaries/consumers/consumer_in...&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;p&gt;&lt;i&gt;&quot;Comparative advertising&lt;p&gt;Comparative advertising explicitly or by implication makes reference to a competitor or competing goods or services.&lt;p&gt;This type of advertising is only permitted when it is not misleading. It can be a legitimate means of informing consumers of what is in their interests. Therefore, in particular, the comparisons should:&lt;p&gt;- relate to goods or services which meet the same needs or are intended for the same purpose;&lt;p&gt;- relate to products with the same designation of origin;&lt;p&gt;- deal objectively with the material, relevant, verifiable and representative features of those goods or services, which may include price;&lt;p&gt;- avoid creating confusion between traders, and should not discredit, imitate or take advantage of the trade mark or trade names of a competitor.&quot;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;That is one reason why you will not see such advertising in the EU. Another may be cultural; in some EU countries, all comparative advertising was illegal before this EU directive (yes, you could not even show your product as being inferior in every way)&lt;p&gt;Finally, some would see this as the offenseless kid attempting to beat the captain of the boxing team.</text></comment>

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<story><title>ProtonMail is dropping support for Internet Explorer 11</title><url>https://protonmail.com/blog/internet-explorer-support/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>m_st</author><text>Nice for them!&lt;p&gt;We launched a web application for construction companies in Switzerland a few months ago. And quickly learned the hard way that we have to improve the IE compatibility. The last 90 days IE11 was used for 36% of all traffic.&lt;p&gt;Too bad the new Edge isn&amp;#x27;t called IE12 and automatically deployed as a replacement through Windows Update :-)</text></comment>

<story><title>ProtonMail is dropping support for Internet Explorer 11</title><url>https://protonmail.com/blog/internet-explorer-support/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>jumbopapa</author><text>I&amp;#x27;d be pretty shocked if any ProtonMail users used IE.</text></comment>

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<story><title>React JS Best Practices</title><url>http://blog.siftscience.com/blog/2015/react-applications-that-scale</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>girvo</author><text>&lt;i&gt;&amp;gt; Flux is also quite verbose, which makes it inconvenient for data state, state that is persisted to the server.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;We felt the same way, until we moved away from Facebook&amp;#x27;s Flux implementation and adopted Flummox[0]. It&amp;#x27;s singleton-free, so we gained isomorphism for our application with only a tiny bit of extra work, and it hides away the dispatcher (unless you need it, which we haven&amp;#x27;t despite having over a dozen stores, tonnes of actions and a large number of components).&lt;p&gt;With Flummox making it so easy, we put all state into a store. This allows us to save application UI state to localStorage, bootstrapping the app into the same position the user was previous, with again no extra effort on our behalf. It&amp;#x27;s well worth checking out!&lt;p&gt;[0] &lt;a href=&quot;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;acdlite.github.io&amp;#x2F;flummox&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;acdlite.github.io&amp;#x2F;flummox&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>

<story><title>React JS Best Practices</title><url>http://blog.siftscience.com/blog/2015/react-applications-that-scale</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>supercoder</author><text>Having just started using React for a new project, I absolutely love it.&lt;p&gt;This new project uses a Rails backend, with React allowing the web to act the same way as any other client (iOS app, Android app etc), and it&amp;#x27;s so productive to work in.&lt;p&gt;Pretty much decided I won&amp;#x27;t be writing a web app any other way for any future work.&lt;p&gt;These best practices look pretty good, though my advice to any beginners would be to not get too bogged down in worrying whether you&amp;#x27;re doing things 100% right as React can be pretty forgiving in refactoring later on.</text></comment>

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<story><title>Seattle has stopped charging people for personal drug possession</title><url>https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/public-safety/no-charges-for-personal-drug-possession-seattles-bold-gamble-to-bring-peace-after-the-war-on-drugs/2019/06/11/69a7bb46-7285-11e9-9f06-5fc2ee80027a_story.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>throwawaysea</author><text>Seattle is a city that has made a lot of bad decisions. It is suffering from rampant drug abuse, property crime, and gross mismanagement under the current city council, which seems obsessed with following an ideologically-motivated progressive agenda instead of common-sense good governance.&lt;p&gt;The policy of not enforcing laws, not prosecuting (either certain crimes or certain cohorts of offenders) has caused the city&amp;#x27;s problems. There are two sets of laws - one is for law-abiding tax-paying residents who are just trying to live their lives without disruption, and the other is for everyone else, who somehow are seen as victims through a twisted social-justice lens, instead of malicious actors. The law-abiding tax-paying residents should not have to give up their public spaces, safety, property, or contribute more taxes in order to accommodate the huge rise of permanently-homeless service-refusing people that want nomadic or drug-centric lifestyles.&lt;p&gt;Those people do not contribute to society and are making society worse for those who do want to contribute. And yes, there has to be a consequence for that, in order to deter such behavior and lifestyles and not attract an influx of them into the city. This article does not make real the frustration experienced by most residents of Seattle, as it has deteriorated towards SF 2.0 in these last 4 years.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>voxl</author><text>The only thing I&amp;#x27;ve learned from this thread is that there is a vocal group of regressive, probably rich (software developers), complaining about homeless people not being jailed.</text></comment>

<story><title>Seattle has stopped charging people for personal drug possession</title><url>https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/public-safety/no-charges-for-personal-drug-possession-seattles-bold-gamble-to-bring-peace-after-the-war-on-drugs/2019/06/11/69a7bb46-7285-11e9-9f06-5fc2ee80027a_story.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>throwawaysea</author><text>Seattle is a city that has made a lot of bad decisions. It is suffering from rampant drug abuse, property crime, and gross mismanagement under the current city council, which seems obsessed with following an ideologically-motivated progressive agenda instead of common-sense good governance.&lt;p&gt;The policy of not enforcing laws, not prosecuting (either certain crimes or certain cohorts of offenders) has caused the city&amp;#x27;s problems. There are two sets of laws - one is for law-abiding tax-paying residents who are just trying to live their lives without disruption, and the other is for everyone else, who somehow are seen as victims through a twisted social-justice lens, instead of malicious actors. The law-abiding tax-paying residents should not have to give up their public spaces, safety, property, or contribute more taxes in order to accommodate the huge rise of permanently-homeless service-refusing people that want nomadic or drug-centric lifestyles.&lt;p&gt;Those people do not contribute to society and are making society worse for those who do want to contribute. And yes, there has to be a consequence for that, in order to deter such behavior and lifestyles and not attract an influx of them into the city. This article does not make real the frustration experienced by most residents of Seattle, as it has deteriorated towards SF 2.0 in these last 4 years.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>imperialdrive</author><text>In response to the &amp;#x27;dead&amp;#x27; reply, you make some points that stick. I&amp;#x27;m curious what kind of solution could exist to address the issue(s) you describe. Hoping to hear more thoughts.</text></comment>

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<story><title>Alfred V2 Sneak Peek: Workflows</title><url>http://blog.alfredapp.com/2012/12/14/v2-sneak-peek-workflows/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>danneu</author><text>I&apos;ll share a tip for Alfred that makes me faster on the computer:&lt;p&gt;Think of all those times you google something just to click the first link. &quot;twitter gem github&quot;, &quot;ebay tickle me elmo&quot;, whatever.&lt;p&gt;Reassign Alfred&apos;s I&apos;m Feeling Lucky (Google) hotkey to &quot;L&quot;.&lt;p&gt;Now you can Opn+Space (whatever brings Alfred up), &quot;l twitter gem github&quot; or &quot;l ebay tickle me elmo&quot; and it brings you directly to the webpage.&lt;p&gt;It&apos;s also nice because it lets you type where you want to go instead of wasting brain cpu cycles remembering the URL. &quot;l hacker news&quot;. &quot;l rails guides&quot;. Or even &quot;l ebay&quot;. &quot;l github&quot;.&lt;p&gt;And you don&apos;t even need to have your browser open. Just do it from any other app. It&apos;s huge.</text></comment>

<story><title>Alfred V2 Sneak Peek: Workflows</title><url>http://blog.alfredapp.com/2012/12/14/v2-sneak-peek-workflows/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>empire29</author><text>As a long time Alfred user, the workflow feature looks really astounding. Custom google searches were a huge boon to my productivity when developing (i can search APIs in a flash now).&lt;p&gt;If im reading this correctly, with intelligent workflows I can populate my Alfred results list with carefully curated search results.&lt;p&gt;This looks like the push I need to pony up and support andrew like i shouldve been doing all along.</text></comment>

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<story><title>We&apos;re Underestimating the Risk of Human Extinction</title><url>http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2012/03/were-underestimating-the-risk-of-human-extinction/253821/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mseebach</author><text>&lt;i&gt;There are so many people that could come into existence in the future if humanity survives this critical period of time---we might live for billions of years, our descendants might colonize billions of solar systems, and there could be billions and billions times more people than exist currently. Therefore, even a very small reduction in the probability of realizing this enormous good will tend to outweigh even immense benefits like eliminating poverty or curing malaria, which would be tremendous under ordinary standards.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;It&apos;s really an interesting moral discussion - it&apos;s like an extension of the &quot;sacrifice one person to save five&quot; classical dilemma, but I really can&apos;t agree with his flippant assertion that our moral obligation to the unborn future billions eclipses that to our obligation to help our contemporaries. And he&apos;s not even talking about preserving the planet for the future generations, he&apos;s merely concerned with them being born in the first place.&lt;p&gt;Also, his argument has the same short-coming as the &quot;sacrifice&quot; dilemma: We cannot know for sure that a certain action will have a certain outcome - or that any action taken was actually the cause of the outcome.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>lincolnq</author><text>&quot;unborn future billions&quot; sounds so... abstract.&lt;p&gt;Think of Petrov: &lt;a href=&quot;http://lesswrong.com/lw/8f0/existential_risk/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://lesswrong.com/lw/8f0/existential_risk/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;We effectively credit him with saving the world. If it weren&apos;t for him, most of us might not be around. I consider him a hero. From a moral perspective I would rather be him than Bill Gates, who has greatly reduced suffering and disease in the modern world. Just because of the impact on the future.</text></comment>

<story><title>We&apos;re Underestimating the Risk of Human Extinction</title><url>http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2012/03/were-underestimating-the-risk-of-human-extinction/253821/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mseebach</author><text>&lt;i&gt;There are so many people that could come into existence in the future if humanity survives this critical period of time---we might live for billions of years, our descendants might colonize billions of solar systems, and there could be billions and billions times more people than exist currently. Therefore, even a very small reduction in the probability of realizing this enormous good will tend to outweigh even immense benefits like eliminating poverty or curing malaria, which would be tremendous under ordinary standards.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;It&apos;s really an interesting moral discussion - it&apos;s like an extension of the &quot;sacrifice one person to save five&quot; classical dilemma, but I really can&apos;t agree with his flippant assertion that our moral obligation to the unborn future billions eclipses that to our obligation to help our contemporaries. And he&apos;s not even talking about preserving the planet for the future generations, he&apos;s merely concerned with them being born in the first place.&lt;p&gt;Also, his argument has the same short-coming as the &quot;sacrifice&quot; dilemma: We cannot know for sure that a certain action will have a certain outcome - or that any action taken was actually the cause of the outcome.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>angersock</author><text>That&apos;s the problem of reasoning on timescales of civilizations, yeah? You can&apos;t really pay attention to transient effects and still make meaningful policies.&lt;p&gt;For example, consider how many people died mining coal in the past couple of centuries, or how many natives died when colonizing forces spread them diseases or outright committed genocide.&lt;p&gt;Sure, it&apos;s awful, but would the world really be a better place if America were limited to some traders on the East coast? Or if England had never really gotten the Industrial Revolution thing figured out?&lt;p&gt;We can&apos;t really reason in human terms when talking about the species writ large.</text></comment>

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<story><title>DuckDuckGo moves beyond search to also protect you while browsing</title><url>https://spreadprivacy.com/privacy-simplified/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>floren</author><text>My biggest search wish is an option to eliminate any results from online shopping sites. Hell, I want a &amp;quot;give me the old web&amp;quot; toggle that eliminates shopping sites, social media, and any corporate websites so I can just find the hand-written HTML from the weirdos who&amp;#x27;ll tell me how to change the clutch on a 1969 MG Midget.</text></item><item><author>prepend</author><text>Google started this really annoying habit of including results that don’t have the words you are searching. You can get around this by including the word in quotes but it’s frustrating to spend a few minutes looking items returned by Google to not find what you’re looking for to realize they showed it to you even though it didn’t have your search terms.&lt;p&gt;I bet this is great for current events like “when is Star Wars 1 playing” when the person probably meant Star Wars 8. But sucks when researching items or searching for a paper or particular product.&lt;p&gt;I started using Duck Duck Go and it works great. The privacy is an added bonus.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>eevilspock</author><text>All search interfaces should support &amp;quot;Don&amp;#x27;t show me this again&amp;quot;. All of them.&lt;p&gt;Imagine having a roommate who doesn&amp;#x27;t remember you want to avoid sugar and are allergic to nuts, yet keeps making PBJ sandwiches when it&amp;#x27;s his turn to make dinner. That and you&amp;#x27;re getting effin PBJ for dinner.&lt;p&gt;Web search: Don&amp;#x27;t show me anything from this domain again.&lt;p&gt;Google: You are so keen to remember things about me that I don&amp;#x27;t want you to remember. But you don&amp;#x27;t bother to remember what I reject? Of course, because I am the product, not the customer. This feature might run afoul of your relationship with advertisers, yeah?&lt;p&gt;Yelp search: You&amp;#x27;ve suggested this place before, I spent the time to read the details and reviews and rejected it, but you keep showing it to me on future searches, and because as a human I can&amp;#x27;t remember all the stuff you&amp;#x27;ve showed me before, I waste time considering it all over again. You even show me places I rated 1 star. STOP!&lt;p&gt;Maybe DuckDuckGo could add this feature? Please? Pretty Please?</text></comment>

<story><title>DuckDuckGo moves beyond search to also protect you while browsing</title><url>https://spreadprivacy.com/privacy-simplified/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>floren</author><text>My biggest search wish is an option to eliminate any results from online shopping sites. Hell, I want a &amp;quot;give me the old web&amp;quot; toggle that eliminates shopping sites, social media, and any corporate websites so I can just find the hand-written HTML from the weirdos who&amp;#x27;ll tell me how to change the clutch on a 1969 MG Midget.</text></item><item><author>prepend</author><text>Google started this really annoying habit of including results that don’t have the words you are searching. You can get around this by including the word in quotes but it’s frustrating to spend a few minutes looking items returned by Google to not find what you’re looking for to realize they showed it to you even though it didn’t have your search terms.&lt;p&gt;I bet this is great for current events like “when is Star Wars 1 playing” when the person probably meant Star Wars 8. But sucks when researching items or searching for a paper or particular product.&lt;p&gt;I started using Duck Duck Go and it works great. The privacy is an added bonus.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>hashmal</author><text>This is my frustration as well. Today&amp;#x27;s web (as seen through search engines) is just content marketing.&lt;p&gt;And to reach such a page, you have to go through ads on the results page, then a newsletter popup (sometimes two, these days), then ads all around the content (which is still marketing, remember).&lt;p&gt;This is nuts.</text></comment>

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<story><title>A Python Guide for the Ages</title><url>https://gto76.github.io/python-cheatsheet/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>adenozine</author><text>I&amp;#x27;m surprised to see mutable default values not mentioned. It&amp;#x27;s bitten me more than once to discover that:&lt;p&gt;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt; def f(xs = []): xs.append(5) return xs print(f()) print(f()) &lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt; will print:&lt;p&gt;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt; [5] [5,5] &lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt; and I love python despite this horrendous decision, but it should be mentioned more often in beginner resources.&lt;p&gt;edit: thanks for the downvote? I&amp;#x27;ve answered on the order of dozens of questions about this very mechanic on SO, via IRC, and more... it&amp;#x27;s a well-known confusing factor</text></comment>

<story><title>A Python Guide for the Ages</title><url>https://gto76.github.io/python-cheatsheet/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>ruph123</author><text>The best cheatsheet which I have ever seen (besides maybe cheats.rs) is this Python cheatsheet by Laurent Pointal, absolutely outstanding in many ways:&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;perso.limsi.fr&amp;#x2F;pointal&amp;#x2F;_media&amp;#x2F;python:cours:mementopython3-english.pdf&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;perso.limsi.fr&amp;#x2F;pointal&amp;#x2F;_media&amp;#x2F;python:cours:mementopy...&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>

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<story><title>The Wrong Abstraction (2016)</title><url>https://www.sandimetz.com/blog/2016/1/20/the-wrong-abstraction</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>captainmuon</author><text>So much this. I&amp;#x27;ve encountered many codebases (in science and in tech) where the coder did not even use basic abstractions. In one case there was a lot of&lt;p&gt;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt; plot(&amp;#x27;graph1&amp;#x27;) plot(&amp;#x27;graph2&amp;#x27;) .... plot(&amp;#x27;graph100&amp;#x27;) &lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt; because somebody didn&amp;#x27;t know how to create strings at runtime in C++. Another codebase did complex vector calculations in components, I was able to reduce a 500 lines function to 50 lines (including comments, and with bugs fixed).&lt;p&gt;I can sympathize with this a bit, I started programming with BASIC - you could not return structs, you could not use indirect variables (no pointers&amp;#x2F;references)... but at least you had the FOR loop :-P&lt;p&gt;People get often called out for over abstracting (rightly so), but I&amp;#x27;ve rarely seen somebody critisized for copypasta or for overly stupid code. Probably because we&amp;#x27;re too accidentially afraid to imply somebody can&amp;#x27;t code.</text></item><item><author>Pxtl</author><text>Every Line Of Business codebase I&amp;#x27;ve worked on has been the worst &amp;quot;there I fixed it&amp;quot; copypasta spaghetti, and has never made it to the point where &amp;quot;maybe we shouldn&amp;#x27;t add a parameter to this existing, cleanly abstracted method to handle this new similar-but-distinct use-case&amp;quot; was anywhere near my radar for abstraction.&lt;p&gt;I would &lt;i&gt;love&lt;/i&gt; to have developers where my problem was &amp;quot;maybe you piggybacked on existing code &lt;i&gt;too much&lt;/i&gt;, in this case you should&amp;#x27;ve split out your own function&amp;quot;.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>toastal</author><text>This comes up very often and is probably a big part of the distaste many people have for jQuery. You see so much copypasta $(selector) that queries the entire DOM over and over again instead of storing the intial query in a selector, querying children based on a ParentNode, etc.. This duplication is wasteful at best, and can hurt performance at worst.&lt;p&gt;But as others noted, this is usually the sign that the creator is either green, or puts little focus in furthering their programming because they normally do other things--not malice or carelessness.</text></comment>

<story><title>The Wrong Abstraction (2016)</title><url>https://www.sandimetz.com/blog/2016/1/20/the-wrong-abstraction</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>captainmuon</author><text>So much this. I&amp;#x27;ve encountered many codebases (in science and in tech) where the coder did not even use basic abstractions. In one case there was a lot of&lt;p&gt;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt; plot(&amp;#x27;graph1&amp;#x27;) plot(&amp;#x27;graph2&amp;#x27;) .... plot(&amp;#x27;graph100&amp;#x27;) &lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt; because somebody didn&amp;#x27;t know how to create strings at runtime in C++. Another codebase did complex vector calculations in components, I was able to reduce a 500 lines function to 50 lines (including comments, and with bugs fixed).&lt;p&gt;I can sympathize with this a bit, I started programming with BASIC - you could not return structs, you could not use indirect variables (no pointers&amp;#x2F;references)... but at least you had the FOR loop :-P&lt;p&gt;People get often called out for over abstracting (rightly so), but I&amp;#x27;ve rarely seen somebody critisized for copypasta or for overly stupid code. Probably because we&amp;#x27;re too accidentially afraid to imply somebody can&amp;#x27;t code.</text></item><item><author>Pxtl</author><text>Every Line Of Business codebase I&amp;#x27;ve worked on has been the worst &amp;quot;there I fixed it&amp;quot; copypasta spaghetti, and has never made it to the point where &amp;quot;maybe we shouldn&amp;#x27;t add a parameter to this existing, cleanly abstracted method to handle this new similar-but-distinct use-case&amp;quot; was anywhere near my radar for abstraction.&lt;p&gt;I would &lt;i&gt;love&lt;/i&gt; to have developers where my problem was &amp;quot;maybe you piggybacked on existing code &lt;i&gt;too much&lt;/i&gt;, in this case you should&amp;#x27;ve split out your own function&amp;quot;.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>platz</author><text>&amp;gt; I&amp;#x27;ve rarely seen somebody critisized for copypasta or for overly stupid code.&lt;p&gt;Do you think that is in the realm of what the article is concerned with?</text></comment>

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<story><title>The Vietnamese military has an actual troll army and Facebook is its weapon</title><url>https://restofworld.org/2023/force-47-vietnam-military-group-facebook/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>falcolas</author><text>Or, to put it another way, average commenters are fighting against coordinated groups of state actors just to have genuine discussions. And it would shock me if Vietnam was a leader in this space.&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s like how ads pit big bags of mostly water against billions of dollars worth of psychological manipulation. Us mere mortals have no chance.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mrtksn</author><text>It&amp;#x27;s quite wide spread. There were reports about Israel doing it, Russia doing it and now Vietnam. I&amp;#x27;m sure it&amp;#x27;s done by many many more.&lt;p&gt;In Turkey Erdoğan&amp;#x27;s presidential communications office has budget of 100 million dollars and 30 story building. He has also 11 million registered members and the word on the street is that they are granting jobs based on social media trolling performance and pay for tweets. When Musk announced the Twitter Blue subscription, Erdogan said he will ask him for discount and regional pricing.&lt;p&gt;You think you can catch trolls by IP or geolocation? Nope, those people work from home or wherever they are. You think you can catch them by requiring government ID or payment? Nope, they have the budget and they are real people.&lt;p&gt;The content created by these people is nor organic but it&amp;#x27;s not a bot generated crap too. They do utilise bots to manipulate trending topics but the wast majority is real people following orders.&lt;p&gt;Maybe large scale monitoring over trends can be helpful to identify inorganic campaigns nut the lines are very blurry. After all, arguably, marching behind a leader with agenda is an organic behaviour.&lt;p&gt;Humans are simply not equipped with defense mechanisms for the era of mass communications. Tiny issues can be easily amplified to push an agenda. If you look at the social media you would think that half of the youngsters are trans, the other are fascists or something.&lt;p&gt;It gets unhealthier and unhealthier as the in person relationships are breaking down, people start living in imaginary worlds where the life is about culture wars.&lt;p&gt;Techies like to imagine that they are going to &amp;quot;defeat the government with tech&amp;quot; but they are wrong, the governments can have the tech because they have the money and the power to design the landscape. For example, here is the Turkish interior minister boosting to a Youtuber about this special app which has total overview of the social media and takes a photo of him to run face recognition in seconds: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;twitter.com&amp;#x2F;Darkwebhaber&amp;#x2F;status&amp;#x2F;1655561171900964865&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;twitter.com&amp;#x2F;Darkwebhaber&amp;#x2F;status&amp;#x2F;1655561171900964865&lt;/a&gt;?</text></comment>

<story><title>The Vietnamese military has an actual troll army and Facebook is its weapon</title><url>https://restofworld.org/2023/force-47-vietnam-military-group-facebook/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>falcolas</author><text>Or, to put it another way, average commenters are fighting against coordinated groups of state actors just to have genuine discussions. And it would shock me if Vietnam was a leader in this space.&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s like how ads pit big bags of mostly water against billions of dollars worth of psychological manipulation. Us mere mortals have no chance.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>gondaloof</author><text>&amp;gt; it would shock me if Vietnam was a leader in this space&lt;p&gt;Don&amp;#x27;t be too shocked. Vietnam is little China in the region. People are still ok with it because Vietnam has been seeing tremendous growth in the last couple of decades… sounds familiar? Lots of tech companies are also setting up shop there… it&amp;#x27;s a 100% dejavu. I just hope it won&amp;#x27;t suffer the same fate in 20 years.</text></comment>

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<story><title>The Most Common Error in Media Coverage of the Google Memo</title><url>https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2017/08/the-most-common-error-in-coverage-of-the-google-memo/536181/?single_page=true</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Chardok</author><text>Regardless on your opinions of the memo, this article nails it right on the head; Gizmodo and other major news outlets handled this &lt;i&gt;very&lt;/i&gt; irresponsibly, posting their version that had no citations, and leading the reader, even at the very beginning, into forming the opinion that this was simply a guy being &amp;quot;anti-diversity&amp;quot;.&lt;p&gt;Whatever your thoughts on the subject are, it needs to be pointed out that this type of journalism is absolutely &lt;i&gt;not&lt;/i&gt; neutral (even though they will swear up and down that they are) and should be, at the very least, condemned for doing so. This is and will be an increasingly difficult problem, especially when people just read a headline and a summary.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>spookyuser</author><text>So true, I thought the last paragraph of the article was particularly apt.&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt;When journalistic institutions widely publicize material of this sort, only to abdicate the vital work of rigorously addressing its substance, they make its least plausible claims more likely to be normalized. They leave the project of assessing its merits and flaws to Twitter, Facebook, Reddit, and other venues where the loudest voices tend to prevail, instead of offering their own careful reporting and expert analysis.&lt;p&gt;I buy this point so much because after reading about the controversy on the crazy 1000 comment thread here on HN and the other threads on reddit, there was no top level comment that made the same well reasoned claims this very article did, which IMO is so far the best I have read about the whole debacle. This is what journalists doing their job looks like.</text></comment>

<story><title>The Most Common Error in Media Coverage of the Google Memo</title><url>https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2017/08/the-most-common-error-in-coverage-of-the-google-memo/536181/?single_page=true</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Chardok</author><text>Regardless on your opinions of the memo, this article nails it right on the head; Gizmodo and other major news outlets handled this &lt;i&gt;very&lt;/i&gt; irresponsibly, posting their version that had no citations, and leading the reader, even at the very beginning, into forming the opinion that this was simply a guy being &amp;quot;anti-diversity&amp;quot;.&lt;p&gt;Whatever your thoughts on the subject are, it needs to be pointed out that this type of journalism is absolutely &lt;i&gt;not&lt;/i&gt; neutral (even though they will swear up and down that they are) and should be, at the very least, condemned for doing so. This is and will be an increasingly difficult problem, especially when people just read a headline and a summary.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>moxious</author><text>I found this entire row to be just depressing. Earlier today there&amp;#x27;s a medium post about a guy who won&amp;#x27;t read the memo -- absolutely refuses -- because he doesn&amp;#x27;t want this &amp;quot;anti-diversity&amp;quot; message polluting him.&lt;p&gt;This, when one of the memo&amp;#x27;s explicit points was about excessive dogma around the issue, and inability to have an open and honest conversation about it. The opposition isn&amp;#x27;t all shrill politically correct authoritarians, but some of them really do come off that way.</text></comment>

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<story><title>I Quit: What really goes on at Apple</title><url>http://roadlesstravelled.me/2015/04/06/why-steve-jobs-motivated-me-to-quit-apple/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>nostrademons</author><text>One of my friends used to work at Apple. After one particular grueling stint of 14+ hour days, management decided to give them a thank-you. In the form of vouchers. For frozen dinners. Meanwhile, all of his friends worked for Google, we got gourmet food every meal of the week as a standard perk, and we were usually home by 8 or 9 PM rather than midnight. It&amp;#x27;s sorta like &amp;quot;Your &amp;#x27;thank you&amp;#x27; is really more like a giant &amp;#x27;fuck you&amp;#x27;&amp;quot;.&lt;p&gt;He works for Google now.&lt;p&gt;My cousin also works for Apple, and after complaining about crunch time and how he had to check the bug queue when I was visiting him on a Saturday, I asked him &amp;quot;So, how long has crunch time lasted?&amp;quot; He replied, &amp;quot;Oh, about 18 months. Makes it really hard to date when I don&amp;#x27;t get any weekends.&amp;quot; (He&amp;#x27;s in his 40s now, still no girlfriend.)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>throwaway6497</author><text>With this negative image among developers in the Valley, how is Apple able to attract top quality engineers? They probably are not. Anecdotally, I still haven&amp;#x27;t met one single engineer who would love to work for Apple though they love using Apple products.&lt;p&gt;Apple is not even on the list of all top graduating kids who wants a job in top valley firms (Google, FB, Dropbox, Twitter, AirBnB, Uber, Pinterest, LinkedIn, Quora, other promising startups). Any software engineer who is in the valley for a while (and heard the inside horror stories of working for Apple) wouldn&amp;#x27;t want to work there. There is no way in hell, senior engineers from the new age tech companies (listed above) will go to Apple. Apple will have a hard-time poaching them. Based on this, I have to conclude that most good engineers@Apple are candidates who have a tenure of more than 15 years and are aging. All, relatively new Apple employees are either left-overs in the talent-pool who couldn&amp;#x27;t make the cut to the above top firms&amp;#x2F;startups or really B-grade senior engineers. What is Apple&amp;#x27;s strategy of thriving in a knowledge economy, when the only asset you need are &amp;quot;great people&amp;quot; to succeed in the long term. They probably have great hardware engineers. It is a travesty that though they are the richest company in the world, they still couldn&amp;#x27;t build a compelling cloud services suite which is better and cheaper than what Dropbox, Google, Box, Microsoft can provide. This comment, will probably ruffle a few feathers. [updated for typos&amp;#x2F;grammar]</text></comment>

<story><title>I Quit: What really goes on at Apple</title><url>http://roadlesstravelled.me/2015/04/06/why-steve-jobs-motivated-me-to-quit-apple/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>nostrademons</author><text>One of my friends used to work at Apple. After one particular grueling stint of 14+ hour days, management decided to give them a thank-you. In the form of vouchers. For frozen dinners. Meanwhile, all of his friends worked for Google, we got gourmet food every meal of the week as a standard perk, and we were usually home by 8 or 9 PM rather than midnight. It&amp;#x27;s sorta like &amp;quot;Your &amp;#x27;thank you&amp;#x27; is really more like a giant &amp;#x27;fuck you&amp;#x27;&amp;quot;.&lt;p&gt;He works for Google now.&lt;p&gt;My cousin also works for Apple, and after complaining about crunch time and how he had to check the bug queue when I was visiting him on a Saturday, I asked him &amp;quot;So, how long has crunch time lasted?&amp;quot; He replied, &amp;quot;Oh, about 18 months. Makes it really hard to date when I don&amp;#x27;t get any weekends.&amp;quot; (He&amp;#x27;s in his 40s now, still no girlfriend.)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>phkahler</author><text>Crunch time is fine when its uncommon and unforseen. Otherwise it is a manag3ment failure. Perhaps its deliberate failure to respect peoples personal life, but that&amp;#x27;s still a failure. I&amp;#x27;ve worked plenty of places where crunch time is uncommon or nonexistent. It doesn&amp;#x27;t have to be that way.</text></comment>

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<story><title>I am an investor in The Style Club. Or, at least, I thought I was</title><url>https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/mark-cuban-shark-tank-got-royally-screwed-howard-marks</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>brilliantcode</author><text>I don&amp;#x27;t get the comments bashing the author. This is downright deception and he got screwed. Period.&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s morally wrong and I just don&amp;#x27;t understand how people can defend this in the comments over at Linkedin. Why the fuck is the free market being used as a blanket argument against morals and ethics?&lt;p&gt;There&amp;#x27;s even vaguely veiled threats against the author in the Linkedin comments. I&amp;#x27;m fucking appalled and I don&amp;#x27;t understand why someone would&lt;p&gt;A) kill your own reputation&lt;p&gt;B) put women in startups&amp;#x2F;tech in a bad light&lt;p&gt;C) use the same branding for the switcheroo that helps the author&amp;#x27;s case&lt;p&gt;D) not realize there&amp;#x27;s post-show background check (that results in 50% of deals announced not going through according to comments)&lt;p&gt;If she had just been honest and not greedy (why would you be so desperate to own 100% of nothing?) she could&amp;#x27;ve avoided destroying her own goals.&lt;p&gt;I don&amp;#x27;t know how anyone can possibly trust her, unless, it was someone who shared the same &lt;i&gt;tony-montana-esque&lt;/i&gt; attitude towards wealth &amp;amp; status, bravado, chutzpah at the cost of others and your own soul, for more money in your pocket.&lt;p&gt;But even Tony did not break his &amp;quot;word &amp;amp; balls&amp;quot; when starting his narcotic empire, in which Alajendro Sosa invested in Tony, risked capital in his business and he got paid. Imagine how angry Sosa would&amp;#x27;ve gotten if never saw his returns. It proved to be lethal for Tony in the end.</text></comment>

<story><title>I am an investor in The Style Club. Or, at least, I thought I was</title><url>https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/mark-cuban-shark-tank-got-royally-screwed-howard-marks</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>gavman</author><text>From everything I&amp;#x27;ve read, the handshake deal on the show is meaningless. After the show the investors do real due diligence, and not every deal works out.&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;First of all, the handshake deal that happens on the show isn&amp;#x27;t anything binding. Filming for each season is split over the start of the summer and the start of the fall. After each round, the Sharks and their teams do due diligence on each of the companies to ensure that everything within the company is how it was represented in the pitch room.&lt;p&gt;There are times when the numbers check out, but the entrepreneurs decide they no longer want to make a deal, such as when the founders of evREwares decided they weren&amp;#x27;t actually willing to sell 100% of their struggling company to Cuban for $200,000 as they agreed to in season six.&lt;p&gt;Ultimately, said Cuban&amp;#x27;s fellow Shark Daymond John, about 80% of season seven&amp;#x27;s deals made on camera closed, which is up from about 60% to 70% of past seasons.&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.businessinsider.com&amp;#x2F;what-happens-after-closing-shark-tank-deal-2015-10&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.businessinsider.com&amp;#x2F;what-happens-after-closing-sh...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;Edit: formatting</text></comment>

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<story><title>Learning About Statistical Learning</title><url>http://measuringmeasures.blogspot.com/2010/01/learning-about-statistical-learning.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>hamilton</author><text>Thanks to liebke for posting this, and Bradford for writing it.&lt;p&gt;I have two points.&lt;p&gt;First, your point about programming is incredibly important. I&apos;ve worked with people who had amazing insights about statistical problems, but went cross-eyed upon being asked about SVN and Git. This makes a CS homework assignment unpleasant, and a real world research project impossible.&lt;p&gt;Second, this really begs another post. It should be called &quot;Learning how to read a textbook on your own.&quot; Successful self-learners don&apos;t just __read__ a textbook. They toil with it, try proving things on paper themselves, work through exercises, attempt to apply it to some real-world situation, and hunt down someone who&apos;s smarter than they are to explain something that seems unclear.&lt;p&gt;Not all textbooks - certainly not every one on your list - can be read with a great application in mind. A reader must interrogate mercilessly the book on analysis or the rigorous probability book mentioned in the post.&lt;p&gt;This seems intuitive to someone who can successfully learn on their own, but most people are not taught to do that. The difficulties of relicating a portion of the classroom learning experience is a major barrier to entry. This is why online intro lectures for programming, math, and certain CS topics like algorithms can steer a learner in the right direction. Stanford Engineering Everywhere and of course MIT&apos;s OCW, links to which have been posted on HN at least once a month, are great starts.</text></comment>

<story><title>Learning About Statistical Learning</title><url>http://measuringmeasures.blogspot.com/2010/01/learning-about-statistical-learning.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>tel</author><text>I like his language toolbelt for this kind of work.&lt;p&gt;&lt;i&gt;At a minimum, I would recommend learning python (numpy/scipy), R, and at least one nice functional language (probably Haskell, Clojure, or OCaml).&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;This is effectively what I use as well. Python as a general purpose data munging library that&apos;s good for all of your dirty work whenever you need it. R for graphing, graphing, graphing, running statistical tests other people already wrote and foolproofed, database munging, and then more graphing. Haskell for prototyping and reasoning with types and then that occasional algorithm that screams for functional implementation or the not so occasional one that requires more speed than Python can provide.&lt;p&gt;I also write a few things in C/C++, though I try to avoid it. It&apos;s mostly there for standing on the backs of other people and that occasional need to blaze.</text></comment>

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<story><title>Ask HN: How to continue to be gracious about the good fortune of rich friends?</title><text>I have no money. I do have rich friends who are getting richer and richer every year.&lt;p&gt;I try to be gracious and happy for their good fortune.&lt;p&gt;However it makes me depressed and angry and envious.&lt;p&gt;One friend told me a few days ago his house went up in value $1,000,000 in one year, at which point he sold it.&lt;p&gt;I visited my cousin who is a fabulous person and has a gorgeous house freshly renovated and extended and a new pool put it.&lt;p&gt;All around me my peers are becoming very wealthy.&lt;p&gt;And I’m at the bottom with nothing.&lt;p&gt;I try to be happy for them and gracious and to listen and enthuse whilst they tell me of their good fortune or show me around their stunning houses. And afterwards I feel smashed with depression as I go back to my shit rental house that I’m ashamed of.&lt;p&gt;Good people, great friends, and seeing them brings me down.&lt;p&gt;Rich people aren’t aware that their tales of success make people like me feel bad. They shouldn’t have to be aware of that or hold themselves back. As a good friend I should feel happy for them, and I pretend to, but inside it makes me feel terrible.&lt;p&gt;If you’re commenting on this thread and offering advice, I encourage you add the context of whether you are one of those who have money or not.</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>deanmoriarty</author><text>I do not agree at all. Governments should try to make life fair for people. In my opinion, once a person reaches something like $10M net worth (I took a number purely based on the current 1% of wealth in the US, but I’m not married to it), taxes should go to 100% and the government should use the proceeds to provide free services to the population, like education, healthcare, affordable housing and infrastructure.&lt;p&gt;I am saying this very naively without reflecting on the effects it would have on the economy, the inflationary forces and the overall corporate productivity. So I realize my view is mostly a romantic utopia, but nobody should be allowed to hoard billions, especially by inheritance.</text></item><item><author>germandiago</author><text>&amp;gt; Government has the ability to reform inheritance and taxation. However, theres no political will&lt;p&gt;IMHO it is not right to try to make people that earn more than us the target to be sacked. I think it is a bad thing. It is not a matter of you have less or you have more . It is a matter of respecting people who make money legally or inherit it by the will of their own relatives or whatever. I do not think anyone should be entitled to put hands into that for any single reason whatsoever unless that money has been stolen or made in illicit ways. That is the only valid reason IMHO.</text></item><item><author>ntSean</author><text>You’re exactly right- but it isn’t a timeless problem. Government has the ability to reform inheritance and taxation.&lt;p&gt;However, theres no political will, because those with money, can lobby better than those without.&lt;p&gt;Ironically America rejected the monarchy, and yet has replaced it with an oligarchy.</text></item><item><author>rl3</author><text>&amp;gt;&lt;i&gt;That billionaire was jealous of the main money dude who had family money inherited from the crusades.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;Illuminati confirmed.&lt;p&gt;On a serious note, being born into wealth is a travesty of sorts. People who are tend to experience a reality that is far removed from that of the average person, and as such can&amp;#x27;t identify nor relate. They are robbed of a certain type of life. Yet, enormous wealth confers power that can be exercised over common people—despite such an upbringing rendering one ill-suited to exercise said power. It&amp;#x27;s a timeless problem, I suppose.</text></item><item><author>randycupertino</author><text>I worked in wealth management and LIVED the hedonistic treadmill firsthand.&lt;p&gt;Everyone was jealous of the next level up. I was making 300k and my high school hometown friends were like &amp;quot;holy cow, you&amp;#x27;re so lucky this is amazing, you have your own apartment&amp;quot; meanwhile I was annoyed I couldn&amp;#x27;t keep up financially with my trust fund boyfriend who had $3 million a year to piss away with random trips to Bermuda. My CFO was jealous of the Principal who could take netjets and didn&amp;#x27;t have to fly first class everywhere. The NetJets guy was jealous of the billionaire principal who had his own jet. That billionaire was jealous of the main money dude who had family money inherited from the crusades. They all fought with their wives over private school tuition and horses. Everyone drank, did tons of drugs, had dramatic affairs and fought like cats and dogs with their families.&lt;p&gt;I left finance and went into healthcare and realized I&amp;#x27;m pretty damn happy living a simple life. I kept a $1500 belt I bought from Henry Bendels that&amp;#x27;s incredibly ugly as a reminder of dumb decisions and having too much money to piss away on stupid crap!&lt;p&gt;Read Blood Diamonds: Tracing the Deadly Path of the World&amp;#x27;s Most Precious Stones Book by Greg Campbell. Reading that made me realize how our planet has finite resources and I just I wanted to cleave the my own consumption habits so stopped needless shopping for &amp;quot;fun&amp;quot; and started being a stubborn bastard about driving my 12 year old Hyundai into the ground. It&amp;#x27;s not much but it&amp;#x27;s my own private rebellion against the gaping maw of endless consumerism.&lt;p&gt;Worship your family, friends, love ones, health, music, doing things that make you feel alive, shared experiences and nature over shiny toys and stuff that just sits around collecting dust and looking pretty.&lt;p&gt;At the end of the day, we&amp;#x27;re all the same food for worms anyways no matter our net worth. Enjoy your friendships, realize they probably have their own internal struggles and problems they&amp;#x27;re dealing with and try to be there for them in whatever way you can!</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>strken</author><text>The problem with this is that wealth often means ownership of capital, capital often means ownership of a private company, and so you have a peculiar situation where the government takes gradual ownership of your business once it starts to do well.&lt;p&gt;There&amp;#x27;s probably a way to work around this by making it non-voting stock or something, but it&amp;#x27;s still an inherent dampener on growth, because there&amp;#x27;s no incentive to grow, and on RnD, because there&amp;#x27;s no concentration of capital. A silicon fab is worth billions; does your system imply that the only way to build one is to either arrange a consortium of 10,000 people or government funding? HN exists because of PayPal; should the PayPal money have been spent entirely on free services? How are you going to stop the black market[0]? What are the alternate routes to power in your society, and are they better than acquiring money?&lt;p&gt;You can envisage worlds where this &lt;i&gt;does&lt;/i&gt; function, but there&amp;#x27;s a lot of work to put in regarding the specifics, and doing the work makes you realise their might be a lot of downsides.&lt;p&gt;[0] Around 80% of North Koreans&amp;#x27; income was once acquired through the black market: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;web.archive.org&amp;#x2F;web&amp;#x2F;20110924095232&amp;#x2F;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.atimes.com&amp;#x2F;atimes&amp;#x2F;Korea&amp;#x2F;MI23Dg02.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;web.archive.org&amp;#x2F;web&amp;#x2F;20110924095232&amp;#x2F;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.atimes...&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>

<story><title>Ask HN: How to continue to be gracious about the good fortune of rich friends?</title><text>I have no money. I do have rich friends who are getting richer and richer every year.&lt;p&gt;I try to be gracious and happy for their good fortune.&lt;p&gt;However it makes me depressed and angry and envious.&lt;p&gt;One friend told me a few days ago his house went up in value $1,000,000 in one year, at which point he sold it.&lt;p&gt;I visited my cousin who is a fabulous person and has a gorgeous house freshly renovated and extended and a new pool put it.&lt;p&gt;All around me my peers are becoming very wealthy.&lt;p&gt;And I’m at the bottom with nothing.&lt;p&gt;I try to be happy for them and gracious and to listen and enthuse whilst they tell me of their good fortune or show me around their stunning houses. And afterwards I feel smashed with depression as I go back to my shit rental house that I’m ashamed of.&lt;p&gt;Good people, great friends, and seeing them brings me down.&lt;p&gt;Rich people aren’t aware that their tales of success make people like me feel bad. They shouldn’t have to be aware of that or hold themselves back. As a good friend I should feel happy for them, and I pretend to, but inside it makes me feel terrible.&lt;p&gt;If you’re commenting on this thread and offering advice, I encourage you add the context of whether you are one of those who have money or not.</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>deanmoriarty</author><text>I do not agree at all. Governments should try to make life fair for people. In my opinion, once a person reaches something like $10M net worth (I took a number purely based on the current 1% of wealth in the US, but I’m not married to it), taxes should go to 100% and the government should use the proceeds to provide free services to the population, like education, healthcare, affordable housing and infrastructure.&lt;p&gt;I am saying this very naively without reflecting on the effects it would have on the economy, the inflationary forces and the overall corporate productivity. So I realize my view is mostly a romantic utopia, but nobody should be allowed to hoard billions, especially by inheritance.</text></item><item><author>germandiago</author><text>&amp;gt; Government has the ability to reform inheritance and taxation. However, theres no political will&lt;p&gt;IMHO it is not right to try to make people that earn more than us the target to be sacked. I think it is a bad thing. It is not a matter of you have less or you have more . It is a matter of respecting people who make money legally or inherit it by the will of their own relatives or whatever. I do not think anyone should be entitled to put hands into that for any single reason whatsoever unless that money has been stolen or made in illicit ways. That is the only valid reason IMHO.</text></item><item><author>ntSean</author><text>You’re exactly right- but it isn’t a timeless problem. Government has the ability to reform inheritance and taxation.&lt;p&gt;However, theres no political will, because those with money, can lobby better than those without.&lt;p&gt;Ironically America rejected the monarchy, and yet has replaced it with an oligarchy.</text></item><item><author>rl3</author><text>&amp;gt;&lt;i&gt;That billionaire was jealous of the main money dude who had family money inherited from the crusades.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;Illuminati confirmed.&lt;p&gt;On a serious note, being born into wealth is a travesty of sorts. People who are tend to experience a reality that is far removed from that of the average person, and as such can&amp;#x27;t identify nor relate. They are robbed of a certain type of life. Yet, enormous wealth confers power that can be exercised over common people—despite such an upbringing rendering one ill-suited to exercise said power. It&amp;#x27;s a timeless problem, I suppose.</text></item><item><author>randycupertino</author><text>I worked in wealth management and LIVED the hedonistic treadmill firsthand.&lt;p&gt;Everyone was jealous of the next level up. I was making 300k and my high school hometown friends were like &amp;quot;holy cow, you&amp;#x27;re so lucky this is amazing, you have your own apartment&amp;quot; meanwhile I was annoyed I couldn&amp;#x27;t keep up financially with my trust fund boyfriend who had $3 million a year to piss away with random trips to Bermuda. My CFO was jealous of the Principal who could take netjets and didn&amp;#x27;t have to fly first class everywhere. The NetJets guy was jealous of the billionaire principal who had his own jet. That billionaire was jealous of the main money dude who had family money inherited from the crusades. They all fought with their wives over private school tuition and horses. Everyone drank, did tons of drugs, had dramatic affairs and fought like cats and dogs with their families.&lt;p&gt;I left finance and went into healthcare and realized I&amp;#x27;m pretty damn happy living a simple life. I kept a $1500 belt I bought from Henry Bendels that&amp;#x27;s incredibly ugly as a reminder of dumb decisions and having too much money to piss away on stupid crap!&lt;p&gt;Read Blood Diamonds: Tracing the Deadly Path of the World&amp;#x27;s Most Precious Stones Book by Greg Campbell. Reading that made me realize how our planet has finite resources and I just I wanted to cleave the my own consumption habits so stopped needless shopping for &amp;quot;fun&amp;quot; and started being a stubborn bastard about driving my 12 year old Hyundai into the ground. It&amp;#x27;s not much but it&amp;#x27;s my own private rebellion against the gaping maw of endless consumerism.&lt;p&gt;Worship your family, friends, love ones, health, music, doing things that make you feel alive, shared experiences and nature over shiny toys and stuff that just sits around collecting dust and looking pretty.&lt;p&gt;At the end of the day, we&amp;#x27;re all the same food for worms anyways no matter our net worth. Enjoy your friendships, realize they probably have their own internal struggles and problems they&amp;#x27;re dealing with and try to be there for them in whatever way you can!</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>chrismcb</author><text>It isn&amp;#x27;t even a romantic utopia, it is more like a living hell. Rich people create businesses and jobs, that is usually how they are wealthy. If the marginal tax rate guess up to 100% sorry 10 million, there is very little incentive for people to earn more than 10 million. And either they will stop trying to earn, out they will move. On top of that, these people don&amp;#x27;t earn as much as you think they do. In addition, these people don&amp;#x27;t burn money, they spend it. Which allows others to earn money.</text></comment>

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<story><title>Gnome 3.12 Released</title><url>http://www.gnome.org/news/2014/03/gnome-3-12-released/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>gtirloni</author><text>Just the fact that people need a ton of shell extensions to make it barely usable is a problem in itself. The fact that they break (and some are let to rotten) after every major release is just to beat a dead body.&lt;p&gt;Just a few weeks ago I tried Gnome 3 again (again!) and it still sucks as a productivity environment. I have better things to do. But as a geek, I&amp;#x27;ll be checking Gnome 3 again maybe in a year or more. No holding my breath for any surprises.</text></item><item><author>dmix</author><text>Looks great. I&amp;#x27;ve been extremely happy with Gnome UI after switching from OSX. It&amp;#x27;s fun being able to play with a desktop that is constantly improving on a rolling-release platforms like Arch Linux, where new updates stream in constantly. Instead of having to wait a year or more for big waterfall releases like OSX (Mavericks was also pretty disappointing).&lt;p&gt;My only complaint is how every gnome upgrade the majority of gnome shell extensions break and the dev community is really slow to update them.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Mikeb85</author><text>Gnome is very usable for many of us. I&amp;#x27;m tired of seeing the same &amp;#x27;it sucks as a productivity environment&amp;#x27; comments.&lt;p&gt;If it&amp;#x27;s not your preference, you can say that, but Gnome Shell is perfectly fine when it comes to productivity. Quick app switching, searching, app launching, etc... How do these things hurt productivity?&lt;p&gt;I personally dislike KDE, but that&amp;#x27;s just my taste. Some people love XMonad or XFCE, and some people even like Unity.&lt;p&gt;Dunno, I&amp;#x27;m a developer and my workflow involves several different tools, Gnome Shell certainly doesn&amp;#x27;t hurt &amp;#x27;productivity&amp;#x27;.</text></comment>

<story><title>Gnome 3.12 Released</title><url>http://www.gnome.org/news/2014/03/gnome-3-12-released/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>gtirloni</author><text>Just the fact that people need a ton of shell extensions to make it barely usable is a problem in itself. The fact that they break (and some are let to rotten) after every major release is just to beat a dead body.&lt;p&gt;Just a few weeks ago I tried Gnome 3 again (again!) and it still sucks as a productivity environment. I have better things to do. But as a geek, I&amp;#x27;ll be checking Gnome 3 again maybe in a year or more. No holding my breath for any surprises.</text></item><item><author>dmix</author><text>Looks great. I&amp;#x27;ve been extremely happy with Gnome UI after switching from OSX. It&amp;#x27;s fun being able to play with a desktop that is constantly improving on a rolling-release platforms like Arch Linux, where new updates stream in constantly. Instead of having to wait a year or more for big waterfall releases like OSX (Mavericks was also pretty disappointing).&lt;p&gt;My only complaint is how every gnome upgrade the majority of gnome shell extensions break and the dev community is really slow to update them.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>rufugee</author><text>Barely usable? I&amp;#x27;d hardly call it that. I find it very usable. I don&amp;#x27;t quite like the alt+tab default functionality, but barely usable is really a stretch. I find it a very productive environment with no extensions whatsoever.&lt;p&gt;That said, I do use a few extensions, and I&amp;#x27;m exploring writing ones as well. The fact that extensions are written in javascript is really nice (or awful, depending on how you feel about javascript). The built in debugger&amp;#x2F;console looking glass (type ALT+F2, then lg, the press enter) is very helpful, and window identification&amp;#x2F;selection is very simple. Being able to extend the environment in a relatively easy way with a scripting language is a big win in my book&lt;p&gt;ymmv, but I find it to be a nice environment. I&amp;#x27;m not 100% satisfied, but I&amp;#x27;m far more satisfied with it than, say, OSX or Windows, and slightly more satisfied with it than Unity or KDE.</text></comment>

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<story><title>Moving forward on improving HTTP&apos;s security</title><url>http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/ietf-http-wg/2013OctDec/0625.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>sigzero</author><text>I am sure it happens but you should not be exposing your printer to the Internet. That is just asking for trouble. You would not need HTTPS on an internal network.</text></item><item><author>sophacles</author><text>Right - embedded devices, one off toy apps, a lot of internal organization pages, and a lot of hobbiest projects make up a huge part of the &amp;quot;web space&amp;quot;. These will all suffer for more reasons than cost of certs - it adds a new hurdle and a barrier for entry.&lt;p&gt;Think about printers for a moment: now all the printers providing http interfaces need to include a way to install an organizational cert on them (at least for a lot of organizations). That means that there needs to be an out of band step in setup (and maintenance) to add the cert, or a way to do so from an http interface. The later just screams &amp;quot;giant security risk&amp;quot; for a dozen reasons.</text></item><item><author>danielweber</author><text>What about embedded devices.&lt;p&gt;Not everything on the web is sitting on a well-known server.</text></item><item><author>kijin</author><text>I recently bought a PositiveSSL certificate for less than $3 per year at gogetssl.com. That&amp;#x27;s less than one third of what I paid for the domain to use it on. If you can afford a domain, you can afford to put a SSL certificate on it.&lt;p&gt;Low-cost SSL brands like PositiveSSL and RapidSSL are so cheap nowadays, some registrars hand them out for free if you buy a domain. And they&amp;#x27;re compatible with every version of IE on Windows XP, unlike those free certs from StartSSL.</text></item><item><author>kristofferR</author><text>This is a dumb idea unless CAs becomes automatic and free or are completely replaced by something better.&lt;p&gt;The reason why HTTPS isn&amp;#x27;t used more is because it&amp;#x27;s a major hassle and it&amp;#x27;s quite expensive (can easily double the yearly cost for smaller sites).&lt;p&gt;If using HTTP 2.0 requires buying SSL certificates, the smaller sites currently not using SSL will just be stuck on HTTP 1.1 forever.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>munificent</author><text>&amp;gt; You would not need HTTPS on an internal network.&lt;p&gt;Oh, really?&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/nsa-infiltrates-links-to-yahoo-google-data-centers-worldwide-snowden-documents-say/2013/10/30/e51d661e-4166-11e3-8b74-d89d714ca4dd_story.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.washingtonpost.com&amp;#x2F;world&amp;#x2F;national-security&amp;#x2F;nsa-in...&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>

<story><title>Moving forward on improving HTTP&apos;s security</title><url>http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/ietf-http-wg/2013OctDec/0625.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>sigzero</author><text>I am sure it happens but you should not be exposing your printer to the Internet. That is just asking for trouble. You would not need HTTPS on an internal network.</text></item><item><author>sophacles</author><text>Right - embedded devices, one off toy apps, a lot of internal organization pages, and a lot of hobbiest projects make up a huge part of the &amp;quot;web space&amp;quot;. These will all suffer for more reasons than cost of certs - it adds a new hurdle and a barrier for entry.&lt;p&gt;Think about printers for a moment: now all the printers providing http interfaces need to include a way to install an organizational cert on them (at least for a lot of organizations). That means that there needs to be an out of band step in setup (and maintenance) to add the cert, or a way to do so from an http interface. The later just screams &amp;quot;giant security risk&amp;quot; for a dozen reasons.</text></item><item><author>danielweber</author><text>What about embedded devices.&lt;p&gt;Not everything on the web is sitting on a well-known server.</text></item><item><author>kijin</author><text>I recently bought a PositiveSSL certificate for less than $3 per year at gogetssl.com. That&amp;#x27;s less than one third of what I paid for the domain to use it on. If you can afford a domain, you can afford to put a SSL certificate on it.&lt;p&gt;Low-cost SSL brands like PositiveSSL and RapidSSL are so cheap nowadays, some registrars hand them out for free if you buy a domain. And they&amp;#x27;re compatible with every version of IE on Windows XP, unlike those free certs from StartSSL.</text></item><item><author>kristofferR</author><text>This is a dumb idea unless CAs becomes automatic and free or are completely replaced by something better.&lt;p&gt;The reason why HTTPS isn&amp;#x27;t used more is because it&amp;#x27;s a major hassle and it&amp;#x27;s quite expensive (can easily double the yearly cost for smaller sites).&lt;p&gt;If using HTTP 2.0 requires buying SSL certificates, the smaller sites currently not using SSL will just be stuck on HTTP 1.1 forever.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>avens19</author><text>So you require a cert for personal projects. That doesn&amp;#x27;t mean a cert that chains to a public trust. You could easily cut your own cert and trust it on whatever device you wish to access the site on</text></comment>

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<story><title>Ubuntu 15.04 Launches with Support for OpenStack Kilo, New LXD Hypervisor</title><url>http://techcrunch.com/2015/04/21/ubuntu-15-04-launches-with-support-for-openstack-kilo-new-lxd-hypervisor-and-snappy-core/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>milhous</author><text>I&amp;#x27;m curious if there&amp;#x27;s any effort underway to refine Ubuntu&amp;#x27;s desktop UI. It&amp;#x27;s a great distro for my needs, but am always underwhelmed by the UI and how large all the buttons and elements are, plus it&amp;#x27;s use of earth tone color schemes. I feel it could do a much better job using a screen&amp;#x27;s real estate.&lt;p&gt;Doesn&amp;#x27;t even have to like Windows or OS X. Perhaps something like Material Design would be a good starting point.&lt;p&gt;Dare I say that a refined, well-polished UI for Linux would provide a great face and mainstream credibility to adopting Open Source computing.</text></comment>

<story><title>Ubuntu 15.04 Launches with Support for OpenStack Kilo, New LXD Hypervisor</title><url>http://techcrunch.com/2015/04/21/ubuntu-15-04-launches-with-support-for-openstack-kilo-new-lxd-hypervisor-and-snappy-core/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>leaveyou</author><text>Will there ever be a desktop version of Ubuntu with snappy ? Snappy seems to have some very interesting advantages..</text></comment>

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<story><title>America will soon see a wave of bank mergers?</title><url>https://www.economist.com/leaders/2023/04/20/why-america-will-soon-see-a-wave-of-bank-mergers</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>wesapien</author><text>You guys should be flipping cars when bank execs didn&amp;#x27;t get jail time for the financial crisis</text></item><item><author>cyclecount</author><text>All of the rules put in place after 2008 are being ignored; the number of banks in the US pre-2008 financial crisis was about 31k. Now there are close to 3000. After this wave of mergers, there might be around 1000!&lt;p&gt;And a few will be so large that they can make insane bets, betting on risky and novel new investment vehicles that will (maybe initially) pay off handsomely before ultimately failing dramatically. This will make &amp;quot;too big to fail&amp;quot; look quaint by comparison and the banks will end up owning everything.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mtlmtlmtlmtl</author><text>Well America has plenty of outrage, but they&amp;#x27;re utterly divided and most that outrage just goes into poopooing the other side, instead of something productive like real demonstrations and protests with a real purpose. Instead we get outrage protests mainly designed for extremist groups to waste their time fighting eachother and playing at civil war.</text></comment>

<story><title>America will soon see a wave of bank mergers?</title><url>https://www.economist.com/leaders/2023/04/20/why-america-will-soon-see-a-wave-of-bank-mergers</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>wesapien</author><text>You guys should be flipping cars when bank execs didn&amp;#x27;t get jail time for the financial crisis</text></item><item><author>cyclecount</author><text>All of the rules put in place after 2008 are being ignored; the number of banks in the US pre-2008 financial crisis was about 31k. Now there are close to 3000. After this wave of mergers, there might be around 1000!&lt;p&gt;And a few will be so large that they can make insane bets, betting on risky and novel new investment vehicles that will (maybe initially) pay off handsomely before ultimately failing dramatically. This will make &amp;quot;too big to fail&amp;quot; look quaint by comparison and the banks will end up owning everything.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>prasadjoglekar</author><text>That was what Occupy Wall St and Tea Party movements were. Remember that? Before each of them got infested with social-issue parasites of each pole, both were populist reactions to financial injustices.</text></comment>

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<story><title>Timeline of the far future</title><url>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_the_far_future</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mikeash</author><text>It will be easier to boost the Earth’s spin back to a 86,400-second day than to fix all the code.</text></item><item><author>21</author><text>&amp;gt; &lt;i&gt;The length of the day used for astronomical timekeeping reaches about 86,401 SI seconds. Under the present-day timekeeping system, either a leap second would need to be added to the clock every single day, or else by then, in order to compensate, the length of the day would have had to have been officially lengthened by one SI second.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;Can you just imagine the amount of legacy code with DAY_SECONDS=86400 out there 50k years from now?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>improv32</author><text>It&amp;#x27;s been suggested that perhaps one way to find evidence of extrasolar life, would be to find exoplanets whose years are integer multiples of their rotational periods, i.e. they&amp;#x27;ve done what you describe just to eliminate leap years and make their calendars easier.</text></comment>

<story><title>Timeline of the far future</title><url>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_the_far_future</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mikeash</author><text>It will be easier to boost the Earth’s spin back to a 86,400-second day than to fix all the code.</text></item><item><author>21</author><text>&amp;gt; &lt;i&gt;The length of the day used for astronomical timekeeping reaches about 86,401 SI seconds. Under the present-day timekeeping system, either a leap second would need to be added to the clock every single day, or else by then, in order to compensate, the length of the day would have had to have been officially lengthened by one SI second.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;Can you just imagine the amount of legacy code with DAY_SECONDS=86400 out there 50k years from now?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>tibbon</author><text>Someone should write a short story about this.</text></comment>

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<story><title>Kubernetes is a red flag signalling premature optimisation</title><url>https://www.jeremybrown.tech/8-kubernetes-is-a-red-flag-signalling-premature-optimisation/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>movedx</author><text>I agree entirely.&lt;p&gt;I like to call what the author is referring to as, &amp;quot;What-If Engineering&amp;quot;. It&amp;#x27;s the science of thinking you&amp;#x27;ll be Google next week, so you build for that level of scale today. It involves picking extremely complicated, expensive (both in compute and skilled labour) technologies to deploy a Rails app that has two features. And it all boils down to, &amp;quot;But what if...&amp;quot; pre-optimising.&lt;p&gt;It happens at all levels.&lt;p&gt;At the individual unit level: &amp;quot;I&amp;#x27;ll make these four lines of code a function in case I need to call it more than once later on - you know, what if that&amp;#x27;s needed?&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;It also happens at the database level: &amp;quot;What if we need to change the schema later on? Do we really want to be restricted to a hard schema in MySQL? Let&amp;#x27;s use MongoDB&amp;quot;.&lt;p&gt;What&amp;#x27;s even worse, is Helm and the likes make it possible to spin up these kinds of solutions in a heart beat. And, as witnessed and evidenced by several comments below, developers think that&amp;#x27;s that... all done. It&amp;#x27;s a perfect solution. It won&amp;#x27;t fail because K8s will manage it. Oh boy.&lt;p&gt;Start with a monolith on two VMs and a load balancer. Chips and networks are cheaper than labour, and right now, anyone with K8s experience is demanding $150k + 10% Superannuation here in Australia... minimum!&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;martinfowler.com&amp;#x2F;bliki&amp;#x2F;MonolithFirst.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;martinfowler.com&amp;#x2F;bliki&amp;#x2F;MonolithFirst.html&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>danielvaughn</author><text>I&amp;#x27;ve told this story before on HN, but a recent client of mine was on Kubernetes. He had hired an engineer like 5 years ago to build out his backend, and the guy set up about &lt;i&gt;60&lt;/i&gt; different services to run a 2-3 page note taking web app. Absolute madness.&lt;p&gt;I couldn&amp;#x27;t help but rewrite the entire thing, and now it&amp;#x27;s a single 8K SLOC server in App Engine, down from about 70K SLOC.</text></comment>

<story><title>Kubernetes is a red flag signalling premature optimisation</title><url>https://www.jeremybrown.tech/8-kubernetes-is-a-red-flag-signalling-premature-optimisation/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>movedx</author><text>I agree entirely.&lt;p&gt;I like to call what the author is referring to as, &amp;quot;What-If Engineering&amp;quot;. It&amp;#x27;s the science of thinking you&amp;#x27;ll be Google next week, so you build for that level of scale today. It involves picking extremely complicated, expensive (both in compute and skilled labour) technologies to deploy a Rails app that has two features. And it all boils down to, &amp;quot;But what if...&amp;quot; pre-optimising.&lt;p&gt;It happens at all levels.&lt;p&gt;At the individual unit level: &amp;quot;I&amp;#x27;ll make these four lines of code a function in case I need to call it more than once later on - you know, what if that&amp;#x27;s needed?&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;It also happens at the database level: &amp;quot;What if we need to change the schema later on? Do we really want to be restricted to a hard schema in MySQL? Let&amp;#x27;s use MongoDB&amp;quot;.&lt;p&gt;What&amp;#x27;s even worse, is Helm and the likes make it possible to spin up these kinds of solutions in a heart beat. And, as witnessed and evidenced by several comments below, developers think that&amp;#x27;s that... all done. It&amp;#x27;s a perfect solution. It won&amp;#x27;t fail because K8s will manage it. Oh boy.&lt;p&gt;Start with a monolith on two VMs and a load balancer. Chips and networks are cheaper than labour, and right now, anyone with K8s experience is demanding $150k + 10% Superannuation here in Australia... minimum!&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;martinfowler.com&amp;#x2F;bliki&amp;#x2F;MonolithFirst.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;martinfowler.com&amp;#x2F;bliki&amp;#x2F;MonolithFirst.html&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>osigurdson</author><text>&amp;gt;&amp;gt; Helm and the likes make it possible to spin up these kinds of solutions in a heart beat&lt;p&gt;Genuine question, why is this bad? Is it because k8s can spin it up but becomes unreliable later? I think the industry wants something like k8s - define a deployment in a file and have that work across cloud providers and even on premise. Why can&amp;#x27;t we have that? It&amp;#x27;s just machines on a network after all. Maybe k8s itself is just buggy and unreliable but I&amp;#x27;m hopeful that something like it becomes ubiquitous eventually.</text></comment>

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<story><title>BundesMessenger, a secure messenger for Germany’s public administration</title><url>https://element.io/blog/bundesmessenger-is-a-milestone-in-germanys-ground-breaking-vision/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>foepys</author><text>Germany was quite advanced when it came to technology but then the drive to make more of it somehow stopped.&lt;p&gt;It has always been incredibly sad to me that the German ID card (Personalausweis) has an RFID chip inside with trust zones, certificates, authorization features, and much more and just never had been used. Like at all except for getting cigarettes at vending machines.&lt;p&gt;12 years after the first RFID Personalausweis had been issued it is only possible to register your car in &lt;i&gt;some&lt;/i&gt; cities. Maybe there are other minor uses but it&amp;#x27;s negligible.&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s a very cool technology with a certificate authority and cryptographically secured claims for various things (proving you are over 18 without revealing your DOB, only giving out the name and address, authenticating as a German citizen, pseudonymity with separate identities for each service you use etc.). All functionality is also available for use over the internet.&lt;p&gt;The German Wikipedia has a good overview: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;de.m.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Personalausweis_(Deutschland)#Der_elektronische_Personalausweis_(nPA)&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;de.m.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Personalausweis_(Deutschland...&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>woah</author><text>Makes a lot of sense with German culture IMO. There&amp;#x27;s a culture of doing your job very well, but not much of a culture of thinking outside of the box or shaking things up.&lt;p&gt;Some Herr Doktor probably followed all the best practices to implement &amp;quot;trust zones, certificates, authorization features, and much more&amp;quot; in the ID, doing their job really well. But actually changing the processes to use those features is not anyone&amp;#x27;s job, and might actually eliminate a lot of jobs, so it never happened.</text></comment>

<story><title>BundesMessenger, a secure messenger for Germany’s public administration</title><url>https://element.io/blog/bundesmessenger-is-a-milestone-in-germanys-ground-breaking-vision/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>foepys</author><text>Germany was quite advanced when it came to technology but then the drive to make more of it somehow stopped.&lt;p&gt;It has always been incredibly sad to me that the German ID card (Personalausweis) has an RFID chip inside with trust zones, certificates, authorization features, and much more and just never had been used. Like at all except for getting cigarettes at vending machines.&lt;p&gt;12 years after the first RFID Personalausweis had been issued it is only possible to register your car in &lt;i&gt;some&lt;/i&gt; cities. Maybe there are other minor uses but it&amp;#x27;s negligible.&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s a very cool technology with a certificate authority and cryptographically secured claims for various things (proving you are over 18 without revealing your DOB, only giving out the name and address, authenticating as a German citizen, pseudonymity with separate identities for each service you use etc.). All functionality is also available for use over the internet.&lt;p&gt;The German Wikipedia has a good overview: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;de.m.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Personalausweis_(Deutschland)#Der_elektronische_Personalausweis_(nPA)&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;de.m.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Personalausweis_(Deutschland...&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>moooo99</author><text>Its hilarious. I recently moved and wanted to update the registration info for my car. My city boasts about having an &amp;quot;online self service for anything you&amp;#x27;d usually need&amp;quot; (sad enough that this alone is a rare achievement), so naive me decided to give it a try. I successfully registered and wanted to update the info on my car, but got stopped by a disclaimer saying &amp;quot;if you want to do this online with your eID, you need to attach a picture of your ID to the form&amp;quot;?!. I burst out laughing, wondering what the point of this eID even is. And I still haven&amp;#x27;t updated my info</text></comment>

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<story><title>Reddit bans subreddit detailing how to move to competitor Kbin</title><url>https://old.reddit.com/r/KbinMigration</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>danpalmer</author><text>&amp;gt; already upgraded the server as high as possible (16€ to 67€ per month)&lt;p&gt;No judgement on you or the dev using &amp;quot;as high as possible&amp;quot; here, I realise it could be a simplification in this instance.&lt;p&gt;However, I have seen a fairly strong pattern of fediverse servers being run by people with relatively few skills in system administration&amp;#x2F;web apps&amp;#x2F;operations&amp;#x2F;etc. It seems like there are a lot more people who are engaging with it on the same level as people renting multiplayer game servers, or installing Wordpress on a consumer-focused VPS provider.&lt;p&gt;And I think this is kinda great. I want the fediverse to be accessible at that level or even below! It does lead to issues like this though.&lt;p&gt;67 euros per month is a small server, and a single server is not the best way to run a service that other people are using. It&amp;#x27;s different when it&amp;#x27;s your personal site, but a social network?&lt;p&gt;I think the fediverse needs to figure out whether it wants to focus on making smaller servers easier or bigger servers easier. It&amp;#x27;s fine if most people are on million-user servers with teams running them, and it&amp;#x27;s fine if most people are on family servers that can go down without much negative impact, but this middle ground where people are on ~10k sized servers that individuals without the necessary skills are struggling to keep running on a volunteer basis seems to be a bad middle-ground.</text></item><item><author>Semaphor</author><text>I’m registered on the main instance (&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;kbin.social&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;kbin.social&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt;).&lt;p&gt;They are heavily overloaded, the dev already upgraded the server as high as possible (16€ to 67€ per month), but that only helped at the beginning, now that some are saying to join kbin instead of lemmy (because of lemmy devs apparently being tankies), the server is essentially close to dying. This is also an issue with some lemmy instances, earlier today I was unable to reach feddit.de.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>fho</author><text>Honest question ... How far can you push &amp;quot;one server&amp;quot;? Given that HN runs on one server (plus one mirror) and this apparently serves a not that small community well ... Given &amp;quot;1 million connections&amp;quot; are possible on one server ... Given that green threads are a thing these days ... Given that SQLite is so much faster than networked databases ... Given that a monolith is faster than Microservices ... Given that it&amp;#x27;s possible to use a compiled language instead of trying to speed up interpreted languages ...&lt;p&gt;What&amp;#x27;s the limit here? HN is a great example of what&amp;#x27;s possible, but can a single beefy server scale to handle the traffic of a Reddit?</text></comment>

<story><title>Reddit bans subreddit detailing how to move to competitor Kbin</title><url>https://old.reddit.com/r/KbinMigration</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>danpalmer</author><text>&amp;gt; already upgraded the server as high as possible (16€ to 67€ per month)&lt;p&gt;No judgement on you or the dev using &amp;quot;as high as possible&amp;quot; here, I realise it could be a simplification in this instance.&lt;p&gt;However, I have seen a fairly strong pattern of fediverse servers being run by people with relatively few skills in system administration&amp;#x2F;web apps&amp;#x2F;operations&amp;#x2F;etc. It seems like there are a lot more people who are engaging with it on the same level as people renting multiplayer game servers, or installing Wordpress on a consumer-focused VPS provider.&lt;p&gt;And I think this is kinda great. I want the fediverse to be accessible at that level or even below! It does lead to issues like this though.&lt;p&gt;67 euros per month is a small server, and a single server is not the best way to run a service that other people are using. It&amp;#x27;s different when it&amp;#x27;s your personal site, but a social network?&lt;p&gt;I think the fediverse needs to figure out whether it wants to focus on making smaller servers easier or bigger servers easier. It&amp;#x27;s fine if most people are on million-user servers with teams running them, and it&amp;#x27;s fine if most people are on family servers that can go down without much negative impact, but this middle ground where people are on ~10k sized servers that individuals without the necessary skills are struggling to keep running on a volunteer basis seems to be a bad middle-ground.</text></item><item><author>Semaphor</author><text>I’m registered on the main instance (&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;kbin.social&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;kbin.social&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt;).&lt;p&gt;They are heavily overloaded, the dev already upgraded the server as high as possible (16€ to 67€ per month), but that only helped at the beginning, now that some are saying to join kbin instead of lemmy (because of lemmy devs apparently being tankies), the server is essentially close to dying. This is also an issue with some lemmy instances, earlier today I was unable to reach feddit.de.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Semaphor</author><text>You have to remember, that until 1-2 weeks that 16€ server was more than enough. This was a tiny community and most people (including me) had not heard about kbin, many not even about lemmy.&lt;p&gt;My eventual plan is to host my own 1-user instance and rely purely on federation.</text></comment>

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<story><title>Reddit App – Suspicious high number of recent 5 star, one word reviews</title><url>https://old.reddit.com/r/Save3rdPartyApps/comments/14at885/the_reddit_app_has_a_suspiciously_high_number_of/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>indymike</author><text>How long until the adults at Conde Nast step in and stop the madness? This whole thing is:&lt;p&gt;1. Doing long term damage to search position for Reddit content. Results, short and long term reduction in SEO generated traffic, fewer ad clicks, lower revenue, and a loss in valuation. Also, paying to get traffic will cut into margin, further reducing valuation.&lt;p&gt;2. Causing users to delete their accounts, lowering active user counts, and cutting Reddit&amp;#x27;s valuation.&lt;p&gt;3. Forcing people doing work for free to stop, meaning that Reddit will have to spend money to either hire or recruit and train more free moderators, resulting in increased operating costs, thus reducing profit margins, resulting in a lower valuation.&lt;p&gt;4. If it is true that management at Reddit is undeleting deleted users and accounts, they may be creating a situation where they claim they have more users than they do. Because this is the result of management&amp;#x27;s actions, it could be viewed negatively by regulators and law enforcement.&lt;p&gt;What is going on needs to be stopped. It&amp;#x27;s insane.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>spiffytech</author><text>There are two possibilities that I can see:&lt;p&gt;1) Spez is right, this is a tempest in a teapot that hasn&amp;#x27;t (yet) had a big impact on traffic, and won&amp;#x27;t once they seize control of the rebelling subreddits. A vocal minority cares of the public about the impact on the community, but stakeholders realize the business will be fine.&lt;p&gt;2) Spez is wrong, and is comfortable misrepresenting the situation to the public at minimum. Maybe he misrepresents it to internal stakeholders too. The situation will appear under control right up until the moment the wheels fly off.&lt;p&gt;Could be a little of column A, a little of column B.</text></comment>

<story><title>Reddit App – Suspicious high number of recent 5 star, one word reviews</title><url>https://old.reddit.com/r/Save3rdPartyApps/comments/14at885/the_reddit_app_has_a_suspiciously_high_number_of/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>indymike</author><text>How long until the adults at Conde Nast step in and stop the madness? This whole thing is:&lt;p&gt;1. Doing long term damage to search position for Reddit content. Results, short and long term reduction in SEO generated traffic, fewer ad clicks, lower revenue, and a loss in valuation. Also, paying to get traffic will cut into margin, further reducing valuation.&lt;p&gt;2. Causing users to delete their accounts, lowering active user counts, and cutting Reddit&amp;#x27;s valuation.&lt;p&gt;3. Forcing people doing work for free to stop, meaning that Reddit will have to spend money to either hire or recruit and train more free moderators, resulting in increased operating costs, thus reducing profit margins, resulting in a lower valuation.&lt;p&gt;4. If it is true that management at Reddit is undeleting deleted users and accounts, they may be creating a situation where they claim they have more users than they do. Because this is the result of management&amp;#x27;s actions, it could be viewed negatively by regulators and law enforcement.&lt;p&gt;What is going on needs to be stopped. It&amp;#x27;s insane.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>gkoberger</author><text>I don&amp;#x27;t know how much sway Conde Nast has. Reddit spun out in 2011, and since then has raised about $1.25bn (!!) dollars.&lt;p&gt;So I doubt Conde Nast has much say, if any, at this point.... and while I dislike everything spez is doing, I imagine he has the full backing of investors looking to IPO soon.</text></comment>

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<story><title>CLI tool that finds secrets accidentally committed to a Git repo (2017)</title><url>https://github.com/UKHomeOffice/repo-security-scanner</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>jsd1982</author><text>I read that as &amp;quot;CLI tool ... accidentally committed to a Git repo,&amp;quot; as in the CLI tool itself committed to a Git repo by accident, and that the CLI tool finds secrets.&lt;p&gt;Title as of my reading was &amp;quot;CLI tool that finds secrets accidentally committed to a Git repo (2017)&amp;quot;.</text></comment>

<story><title>CLI tool that finds secrets accidentally committed to a Git repo (2017)</title><url>https://github.com/UKHomeOffice/repo-security-scanner</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>amelius</author><text>I&amp;#x27;d like to have some way to prevent certain code from being committed in the first place.&lt;p&gt;E.g. when I have a line saying&lt;p&gt;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt; printf(&amp;quot;debug: now at: %d\n&amp;quot;, i); &amp;#x2F;* DONTCOMMIT *&amp;#x2F; &lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt; then when I type &amp;quot;git commit ...&amp;quot;, a script will be invoked that will recognize the &amp;quot;DONTCOMMIT&amp;quot; string, and it will abort the commit.</text></comment>

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<story><title>Computer program that could bypass patents to produce synthetic drugs</title><url>https://www.europeanpharmaceuticalreview.com/news/83106/intellectual-property-patent/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jordigh</author><text>&amp;gt; In the global industry, some of the best kept secrets are those necessary to make life-saving medication and other pharmaceutical products.&lt;p&gt;What? Patents are not secret. Patents are the opposite of secret. The very word &amp;quot;patent&amp;quot; means &amp;quot;open&amp;quot;. Are drug patents some kind of trick to do the opposite of what a patent is supposed to do?&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; However, when the researchers designated some atoms and bond as untouchable, the program proposed plans that avoided the patented ones.&lt;p&gt;Can someone explain just exactly how do drug patents work? Can this legally work? I understand that normally patents cover processes or working inventions. I didn&amp;#x27;t think that the precise chemical bonds were required to be produced in the final output of a patent.&lt;p&gt;Also, since apparently the researchers have read the patents in question and designed their software to produce drugs that avoid those patents, have they willfully infringed? Since they were aware of the patent and the process by which the drug worked, so using this knowledge they produced similar drugs that do the same thing?&lt;p&gt;I assume that the researchers know drug patent law well enough and are confident that their method avoids patents, so there&amp;#x27;s obviously a lot I don&amp;#x27;t understand.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>adamzk</author><text>I&amp;#x27;m a patent holder for a pharmaceutically relevant class of compounds. There are two types of patents typically seen in pharma. One is procedural (how the drug is synthesized, isolated, formulated or administered) and another is composition of matter (the atoms in the molecule, their relative coordinates and the lengths and types of bonds that connect them). This program takes a target compound and does two things. 1) produces a library of similar compounds by structural diversification (making substitutions of atoms or small groups of atoms in the target compound with other atoms or groups which are known to behave similarly) with restrictions based on what has been patented under composition of matter. 2) It then takes each molecule and looks for ways it can be synthesized. It does this by breaking apart the molecule piece by piece until it obtains commercially available building blocks. These piecewise separations correspond to synthetic a steps in the other direction, which the program screens for literature precedence. It does this for every possible combination of piecewise separations until it finds a set of viable pathways from available compounds to the target. This is called retro synthesis. It then filters the potential synthetic routes for those that are covered by procedural patents until it has a list of non patented, commercially viable synthesis plans.&lt;p&gt;As you can imagine there are thousands of ways a moderately complex molecule could be deconstructed and the bank of known reactions is more than any one person can really grasp. That and the myriad patent literature and how cryptic and dense it can be make the problem particularly suited for algorithmic treatment. This is only being done now because cataloging all the research and patent literature (which goes back to the late 1800s) and digitally formatting in a way that allows it to be computationally analyzed and processed requires manual translation of each report by a human being. Not many people have the expertise required for this and those that do usually prefer less menial work. So it has taken this long to amass a digital library of sufficient size to give one confidence that the answers it provides are comprehensive and that further searching would be pointless.</text></comment>

<story><title>Computer program that could bypass patents to produce synthetic drugs</title><url>https://www.europeanpharmaceuticalreview.com/news/83106/intellectual-property-patent/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jordigh</author><text>&amp;gt; In the global industry, some of the best kept secrets are those necessary to make life-saving medication and other pharmaceutical products.&lt;p&gt;What? Patents are not secret. Patents are the opposite of secret. The very word &amp;quot;patent&amp;quot; means &amp;quot;open&amp;quot;. Are drug patents some kind of trick to do the opposite of what a patent is supposed to do?&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; However, when the researchers designated some atoms and bond as untouchable, the program proposed plans that avoided the patented ones.&lt;p&gt;Can someone explain just exactly how do drug patents work? Can this legally work? I understand that normally patents cover processes or working inventions. I didn&amp;#x27;t think that the precise chemical bonds were required to be produced in the final output of a patent.&lt;p&gt;Also, since apparently the researchers have read the patents in question and designed their software to produce drugs that avoid those patents, have they willfully infringed? Since they were aware of the patent and the process by which the drug worked, so using this knowledge they produced similar drugs that do the same thing?&lt;p&gt;I assume that the researchers know drug patent law well enough and are confident that their method avoids patents, so there&amp;#x27;s obviously a lot I don&amp;#x27;t understand.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>sigstoat</author><text>&amp;gt; I understand that normally patents cover processes...&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; since apparently the researchers have read the patents in question and designed their software to produce drugs that avoid those patents, have they willfully infringed?&lt;p&gt;the patents cover process, not the resultant molecule. the program finds a different process to make the same thing.</text></comment>

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<story><title>Can you trust 37signals with your password? </title><url>http://www.jgc.org/blog/2009/05/can-you-trust-37signals-with-your.html</url><text></text></story><parent_chain><item><author>tptacek</author><text>&quot;Embarassing security flaw&quot;? Come on. We audit several major web applications every week --- things that are far more sensitive than 37s, like banking, trading, and pension --- and we see sites store plaintext passwords all the time. I&apos;ve never seen any vendor&apos;s security report write someone up for this. If it did get written up, it&apos;d be &quot;Severity: Low&quot;, along with &quot;enabling weak SSL ciphers&quot; and &quot;exposed server version information&quot;.&lt;p&gt;I&apos;m not trying to be an apologist here, but &quot;someone is wrong on the Internet&quot; if they are saying that storing passwords badly is a major vulnerability.</text></item><item><author>ryanwaggoner</author><text>What&apos;s worse is that they&apos;ve known that it&apos;s an embarrassing security flaw for years, but they apparently thought other things were more important. Not really very comforting.</text></item><item><author>mpk</author><text>Oh boy, that&apos;s an embarrassing newbie mistake to make.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>thorax</author><text>I didn&apos;t expect to see a downplaying comment from you after your strong stances in this thread and your article:&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=576021&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=576021&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;Is it a big deal to properly store the passwords or isn&apos;t it?&lt;p&gt;&amp;#62; &lt;i&gt;stop working on your social shopping cart calendar application right now: I can’t trust you with my Reddit karma score, let alone my credit card number.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;and that&apos;s what you said for developers using fast 1-way hashes. So it&apos;s embarrassing to use md5+salt, but not embarrassing to use plaintext?&lt;p&gt;The method we use for storing passwords is either vital or it&apos;s not-- I&apos;m currently lost as to how you could respond like the above and have such strong feelings about the matter in other discussions.</text></comment>

<story><title>Can you trust 37signals with your password? </title><url>http://www.jgc.org/blog/2009/05/can-you-trust-37signals-with-your.html</url><text></text></story><parent_chain><item><author>tptacek</author><text>&quot;Embarassing security flaw&quot;? Come on. We audit several major web applications every week --- things that are far more sensitive than 37s, like banking, trading, and pension --- and we see sites store plaintext passwords all the time. I&apos;ve never seen any vendor&apos;s security report write someone up for this. If it did get written up, it&apos;d be &quot;Severity: Low&quot;, along with &quot;enabling weak SSL ciphers&quot; and &quot;exposed server version information&quot;.&lt;p&gt;I&apos;m not trying to be an apologist here, but &quot;someone is wrong on the Internet&quot; if they are saying that storing passwords badly is a major vulnerability.</text></item><item><author>ryanwaggoner</author><text>What&apos;s worse is that they&apos;ve known that it&apos;s an embarrassing security flaw for years, but they apparently thought other things were more important. Not really very comforting.</text></item><item><author>mpk</author><text>Oh boy, that&apos;s an embarrassing newbie mistake to make.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>cperciva</author><text>The fact that this is a common mistake doesn&apos;t make it any less serious. I don&apos;t do security audits, but if I did I would certainly point out this sort of mistake -- because even if it doesn&apos;t affect &lt;i&gt;this site&apos;s&lt;/i&gt; security very much, it certainly has an impact on &lt;i&gt;their customers&apos;&lt;/i&gt; security thanks to the reuse of passwords.</text></comment>

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<story><title>VPAID ads destroy performance and are still served by major ad networks</title><url>https://plus.google.com/+ArtemRussakovskii/posts/7jMWV7oCQpn</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>thirdsun</author><text>Thanks for your insight.&lt;p&gt;Maybe I&amp;#x27;m naive but how are these ads of any value to the advertiser? - nobody wants them, everybody ignores them. How can ads that surely almost exclusively receive accidental clicks be so worthwhile for publishers like you?</text></item><item><author>cantlin</author><text>At the Guardian we needed our own video player, because we couldn&amp;#x27;t rely on a third party platform not to take down something that we published. Editorial independence was important.&lt;p&gt;We implemented our player on top of video.js, and most of the developers who were there at the time still have nightmares about it.&lt;p&gt;We finally got the thing working, looking good, embeddable, reasonably cross-browser. We shipped it. A few days later, we get a curious email from some ad provider. &amp;quot;It looks like your VPAID ads have stopped running!&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;Oops. We&amp;#x27;d naively believed we could live without Flash (I take full responsibility for this stupidity). The sales folks pointed to a big gap between our old projected revenue and our new projected revenue. So we went and did the work[0], hating every minute of it.&lt;p&gt;The underinvestment in ad-tech by publishers and the cancerous ecosystem of vendors that have grown up around it is one of biggest collective mistakes made by an industry.&lt;p&gt;I am optimistic that this problem can be solved, and we are actively looking at this at my current employer. We sell direct, usually without a ton of intermediaries. Talk to me if you want to know more.&lt;p&gt;Incidentally, if you want to know if a publisher is going to survive the next five years, a decent proxy is the number of intermediaries involved in their ad supply chain.&lt;p&gt;[0] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;github.com&amp;#x2F;guardian&amp;#x2F;video-js-vpaid&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;github.com&amp;#x2F;guardian&amp;#x2F;video-js-vpaid&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dave_sullivan</author><text>Advertising is a weird business.&lt;p&gt;There&amp;#x27;s different types of media: print, television, digital (banner ads). Print is dead (has been the increasingly accurate argument for 10 years now), television is expensive and untrackable, and digital is here to save the ad industry because that&amp;#x27;s where all your customers are and it&amp;#x27;s very trackable.&lt;p&gt;The value to the advertiser is either direct-action (&amp;quot;click here and buuuuuy!&amp;quot;) or branding (&amp;quot;we exist, see!&amp;quot;) Companies like Verizon, Proctor and Gamble, Johnson and Johnson, unilever, etc. spend billions on branding.&lt;p&gt;How does that money get allocated? Well, you&amp;#x27;ve got a brand manager for, say, Acme Inc. Their job is &amp;quot;Get more people to buy&amp;quot; and they split their resources between creative--often working with big agencies (think Madmen, see AdAge)--and media buying. There&amp;#x27;s often pressure to spend less on creative and more on ad buys. And when ad buys don&amp;#x27;t perform, they say &amp;quot;We should have spent more on creative&amp;quot;.&lt;p&gt;Media buying is basically buying banner ads (or tv or whatever). They&amp;#x27;re typically sold at a CPM (Cost Per thousand iMpressions), less often Cost Per Click.&lt;p&gt;So to answer your question: major brands have billions for branding and it&amp;#x27;s a bunch of people&amp;#x27;s jobs to spend that money and convince the people they work for that it&amp;#x27;s money well spent. And if it&amp;#x27;s not money well spent, they&amp;#x27;ll find someone who will tell them it is.</text></comment>

<story><title>VPAID ads destroy performance and are still served by major ad networks</title><url>https://plus.google.com/+ArtemRussakovskii/posts/7jMWV7oCQpn</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>thirdsun</author><text>Thanks for your insight.&lt;p&gt;Maybe I&amp;#x27;m naive but how are these ads of any value to the advertiser? - nobody wants them, everybody ignores them. How can ads that surely almost exclusively receive accidental clicks be so worthwhile for publishers like you?</text></item><item><author>cantlin</author><text>At the Guardian we needed our own video player, because we couldn&amp;#x27;t rely on a third party platform not to take down something that we published. Editorial independence was important.&lt;p&gt;We implemented our player on top of video.js, and most of the developers who were there at the time still have nightmares about it.&lt;p&gt;We finally got the thing working, looking good, embeddable, reasonably cross-browser. We shipped it. A few days later, we get a curious email from some ad provider. &amp;quot;It looks like your VPAID ads have stopped running!&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;Oops. We&amp;#x27;d naively believed we could live without Flash (I take full responsibility for this stupidity). The sales folks pointed to a big gap between our old projected revenue and our new projected revenue. So we went and did the work[0], hating every minute of it.&lt;p&gt;The underinvestment in ad-tech by publishers and the cancerous ecosystem of vendors that have grown up around it is one of biggest collective mistakes made by an industry.&lt;p&gt;I am optimistic that this problem can be solved, and we are actively looking at this at my current employer. We sell direct, usually without a ton of intermediaries. Talk to me if you want to know more.&lt;p&gt;Incidentally, if you want to know if a publisher is going to survive the next five years, a decent proxy is the number of intermediaries involved in their ad supply chain.&lt;p&gt;[0] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;github.com&amp;#x2F;guardian&amp;#x2F;video-js-vpaid&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;github.com&amp;#x2F;guardian&amp;#x2F;video-js-vpaid&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>untog</author><text>&amp;gt; nobody wants them, everybody ignores them&lt;p&gt;While the former is true, the latter is not. And clicks aren&amp;#x27;t the only measure, especially where video is concerned. There&amp;#x27;s a lot of voodoo in advertising, but advertisers do look at their statistics, and see an uptick in sales&amp;#x2F;brand awareness&amp;#x2F;etc when they run video ads like that.</text></comment>

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<story><title>Teen: I Am Not the Boston Marathon Bomber</title><url>http://news.yahoo.com/teen-am-not-boston-marathon-bomber-175755674--abc-news-topstories.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>clicks</author><text>So, to be clear, the teen Salah Barhoun was the guy in the blue tracksuit who some 4chan&apos;ers thought was the bomber. Also called out here: &lt;a href=&quot;https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5562975&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5562975&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;Here&apos;s the NYPost cover where he was featured: &lt;a href=&quot;http://s3.amazonaws.com/dk-production/images/28618/large/o-NEW-YORK-POST-570.jpg?1366309915&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://s3.amazonaws.com/dk-production/images/28618/large/o-N...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;And this is why vigilante justice sucks. I&apos;m just glad that some nutcase in real life didn&apos;t go off on him and he went to the police himself to clear his name before anything bad happened to him.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>brownbat</author><text>&amp;#62; And this is why vigilante justice sucks.&lt;p&gt;a) I can&apos;t speak for 4chan, but the Reddit thread has been full of counterarguments, doubts, discussions of likely innocence as well as guilt. Some of the most upvoted threads are all about Devil&apos;s Advocacy and finding evidence of innocence: &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.reddit.com/r/findbostonbombers/comments/1cjc30/devils_advocacy_thread/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.reddit.com/r/findbostonbombers/comments/1cjc30/de...&lt;/a&gt; With that, similar threads, the rules imposed, it&apos;s following exactly the textbook approach to avoid groupthink.&lt;p&gt;b) Meanwhile, we have the case studies of Richard Jewell, Steven Hatfill, the Central Park Five, among others. Those were not cases of &quot;vigilante justice.&quot; Those happened because no one bothered to check the math of the authorities.&lt;p&gt;The internet can be an unruly mob, sure, but it&apos;s simply inaccurate to claim the internet can ONLY be an unruly mob. Or why are any of us even here?</text></comment>

<story><title>Teen: I Am Not the Boston Marathon Bomber</title><url>http://news.yahoo.com/teen-am-not-boston-marathon-bomber-175755674--abc-news-topstories.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>clicks</author><text>So, to be clear, the teen Salah Barhoun was the guy in the blue tracksuit who some 4chan&apos;ers thought was the bomber. Also called out here: &lt;a href=&quot;https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5562975&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5562975&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;Here&apos;s the NYPost cover where he was featured: &lt;a href=&quot;http://s3.amazonaws.com/dk-production/images/28618/large/o-NEW-YORK-POST-570.jpg?1366309915&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://s3.amazonaws.com/dk-production/images/28618/large/o-N...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;And this is why vigilante justice sucks. I&apos;m just glad that some nutcase in real life didn&apos;t go off on him and he went to the police himself to clear his name before anything bad happened to him.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>denzil_correa</author><text>This guy was drawn out by the folks at Reddit - r/findbostonbombers. They are only drawing a list of suspects based on visual evidence from the photographs at the event. They are also passing along these tips to the FBI etc. Just in case, these men (called as the Backpack Bros) were cleared by the subreddit way before this name had come out. You can view their analysis here - &lt;a href=&quot;https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/lv?key=0AgtCl8YvqiBodEl0bkFkR1ZhR3gtZFU5RnRlbzZPS0E&amp;#38;f=true&amp;#38;noheader=false&amp;#38;gid=8&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/lv?key=0AgtCl8YvqiBodEl0...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;In addition, the subreddit have clearly outlined their motivation here in this post - &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.reddit.com/r/findbostonbombers/comments/1ck5hl/media_outlets_please_stop_making_the_images_of/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.reddit.com/r/findbostonbombers/comments/1ck5hl/me...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;In this case, it is more a case of lazy and irresponsible journalism than kangaroo justice.</text></comment>

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<story><title>As the SpaceX steamroller surges, European rocket industry vows to resist</title><url>https://arstechnica.com/science/2018/07/as-the-spacex-steamroller-surges-european-rocket-industry-vows-to-resist/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>bosdev</author><text>&amp;gt; Truthfully, if Europe ever did develop a reusable rocket, one that could fly all the missions in a year, this would be unhelpful politically. What would the engine and booster factories sprinkled across Europe do if they built one rocket and then had 11 months off? The member states value the jobs too much.&lt;p&gt;It feels incredibly short-term to me. How many jobs will be created by opening up spaceflight at 1&amp;#x2F;100 the cost? How many new types of satellites, technology, human transport will be created?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>grecy</author><text>This mentality is what&amp;#x27;s holding back the establishment in &lt;i&gt;any&lt;/i&gt; field from doing anything radical. The status quo is worth trillions and trillions of dollars, and a lot of people will fight very, very hard to keep it that way, even when it&amp;#x27;s horribly inefficient, outdated and just plain stupid.&lt;p&gt;Electric cars? Nope, we&amp;#x27;ve invested too much in ICE R&amp;amp;D and need to pay it back over another 100 years.&lt;p&gt;Solar? Nope, we promised the private coal plants decades of profits.&lt;p&gt;Public Healthcare (In the USA)? Nope, waaaaaay too many billions being made on insurance.&lt;p&gt;etc. etc.&lt;p&gt;Which is why we need to ignore what the establishment things and just do our own thing whenever possible, or at least support anyone trying to go clean slate.</text></comment>

<story><title>As the SpaceX steamroller surges, European rocket industry vows to resist</title><url>https://arstechnica.com/science/2018/07/as-the-spacex-steamroller-surges-european-rocket-industry-vows-to-resist/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>bosdev</author><text>&amp;gt; Truthfully, if Europe ever did develop a reusable rocket, one that could fly all the missions in a year, this would be unhelpful politically. What would the engine and booster factories sprinkled across Europe do if they built one rocket and then had 11 months off? The member states value the jobs too much.&lt;p&gt;It feels incredibly short-term to me. How many jobs will be created by opening up spaceflight at 1&amp;#x2F;100 the cost? How many new types of satellites, technology, human transport will be created?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Tuna-Fish</author><text>This is not just about having makework jobs. In order for the engines to be both cheap an reliable, there needs to be continuous line production. An engine put together by workers who build rocket engines for their living is better than one built by people who make rocket engines 1 month of a year, and for the line to work properly there are limits on how slowly things can be built. This means that if your engine demand goes too low, the quality suffers or price skyrockets.&lt;p&gt;The financial basis of SpaceX reusability is conditioned on having access to a lot of launches, and increasing the market even further by making launches cheaper. If SpaceX ended up only doing 12 launches a year each year from now on, they would lose money from reusability instead of saving it, because they would have pay ~as much to maintain the Merlin line as they do today, and that is probably most of the cost of making rockets. In order for them to make bank, they need to be able to maintain the line, and grow launches to consume all of it. (Hence, StarLink.)&lt;p&gt;Alternatively, they can produce all the first stages they ever intend to make, a good enough stockpile of Merlins for the second stages, and then shut down the line and get paid for launches without the expense of making rockets. This is what I suspect they&amp;#x27;ll do, except that at that point they will not shut down the line but will change it to make Raptors instead. Both for Raptor engined upper stages on Falcon 9:s, and eventually BFR.&lt;p&gt;In any case, Arianespace probably doesn&amp;#x27;t believe they can raise the launch count enough for reusability to be useful.</text></comment>

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<story><title>Placing #1 in Advent of Code with GPT-3</title><url>https://github.com/max-sixty/aoc-gpt</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>YurgenJurgensen</author><text>We&amp;#x27;ve seen how these promising new technologies work. They start off looking amazing when they&amp;#x27;re running entirely on VC and grant money and don&amp;#x27;t care about profitability as long as they&amp;#x27;re generating buzz and getting users. This phase always ends, and then there&amp;#x27;s a scramble to become profitable. What does this mean for GPT?&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;GPT-5, write me a poem.&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;Roses are red, violets are blue, sugar is sweet, and this output is sponsored by Raid Shadow Legends&amp;quot;</text></item><item><author>anon7725</author><text>This weekend feels immense. I have been prompting it to write and modify code, translating it back and forth to different languages. Sometimes it messes up, but it&amp;#x27;s astonishing how often it doesn&amp;#x27;t.&lt;p&gt;This is the advent of something really earth-shattering.&lt;p&gt;And I say that as a skeptic of most of these deep learning things.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dwild</author><text>Except they already sell API access for their AI and it seems like the right price, $0.0200 per 1k token for the best one, and my prompt right now are between 3k and 15k tokens. Doing a prompt is cheap enough for what it give, and there&amp;#x27;s no way it cost them more than that running it considering how quick it does it. They could easily do 2x that cost if it were too expensive to run for them, if not more. You can rent a server with 8x Nvidia A100 on lambdalabs for 8.80$&amp;#x2F;hr, let say my smallest prompt took 15 seconds (it didn&amp;#x27;t) and required that whole server (clearly not) it would cost them 3.7 cents to run my prompt, while costing me 6.2 cents, and lambdalabs would also make a profit on it.&lt;p&gt;Training the models weren&amp;#x27;t that expensive either, and that&amp;#x27;s a one time deal.</text></comment>

<story><title>Placing #1 in Advent of Code with GPT-3</title><url>https://github.com/max-sixty/aoc-gpt</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>YurgenJurgensen</author><text>We&amp;#x27;ve seen how these promising new technologies work. They start off looking amazing when they&amp;#x27;re running entirely on VC and grant money and don&amp;#x27;t care about profitability as long as they&amp;#x27;re generating buzz and getting users. This phase always ends, and then there&amp;#x27;s a scramble to become profitable. What does this mean for GPT?&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;GPT-5, write me a poem.&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;Roses are red, violets are blue, sugar is sweet, and this output is sponsored by Raid Shadow Legends&amp;quot;</text></item><item><author>anon7725</author><text>This weekend feels immense. I have been prompting it to write and modify code, translating it back and forth to different languages. Sometimes it messes up, but it&amp;#x27;s astonishing how often it doesn&amp;#x27;t.&lt;p&gt;This is the advent of something really earth-shattering.&lt;p&gt;And I say that as a skeptic of most of these deep learning things.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>tobr</author><text>Wow, never thought about this. That’s an obvious and terrifying monetization model. Pay to always have GPT speak well of your company. Pay to appear more frequently in certain contexts.</text></comment>

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<story><title>Working more than 55 hours a week kills 750k people a year worldwide</title><url>https://english.elpais.com/health/2023-11-28/working-more-than-55-hours-a-week-kills-750000-people-a-year-worldwide.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>chollida1</author><text>I think this is more about manual labour but I&amp;#x27;ll take the opposite side when it comes to white collar work that working more hours can be better early on in your career.&lt;p&gt;When I was just out of school and in my early 20s I worked as much as I could, I probably did close to 12 hours days in my 20s.&lt;p&gt;I think I probably averaged an all nighter a month for a few years and worked at least one day on weekends and I loved every minute of it.&lt;p&gt;I said yes to almost all the work I could get. My bosses loved me and I got raises&amp;#x2F;promotions faster than anyone else. I was able to compress 10 years of experience into about half that time. It really set me up for my career later on in life and I learned so much in that time.&lt;p&gt;I did the learn a language a year thing and that helped me get a job as a compiler writer.&lt;p&gt;And I was able to leverage that into becoming a quant as I put in the hours to relearn all the math I&amp;#x27;d forgotten from school.&lt;p&gt;And I was able to leverage that to get into a pretty darn successful hedge fund where I said no to them a few times before they convinced me to join.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;m now in my 40s with a family and I work far less but I still think it was the right move at the time. It really set me up for a life of success and I was able to see the effects of outworking everyone else pay off.&lt;p&gt;I didn&amp;#x27;t seem to miss out on a social life and I had no burn out or resentment to speak of from those days.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>giantg2</author><text>You had no burnout or resentment because you had an enjoyable working environment with what sound like just rewards and you were able to learn valuable things. That&amp;#x27;s pretty rare in my experience.&lt;p&gt;My anecdotal evidence is the opposite. I worked extra hours and volunteered for a long time. I took responsibility for things nobody else wanted. My raises and bonuses were trivial. I had one promotion early on from entry level to midlevel. Then I was filling the role of a senior dev and a tech lead for a year each with good reviews and respect of other devs in the department (and some outside it). No promotion, still minor raises and bonuses.</text></comment>

<story><title>Working more than 55 hours a week kills 750k people a year worldwide</title><url>https://english.elpais.com/health/2023-11-28/working-more-than-55-hours-a-week-kills-750000-people-a-year-worldwide.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>chollida1</author><text>I think this is more about manual labour but I&amp;#x27;ll take the opposite side when it comes to white collar work that working more hours can be better early on in your career.&lt;p&gt;When I was just out of school and in my early 20s I worked as much as I could, I probably did close to 12 hours days in my 20s.&lt;p&gt;I think I probably averaged an all nighter a month for a few years and worked at least one day on weekends and I loved every minute of it.&lt;p&gt;I said yes to almost all the work I could get. My bosses loved me and I got raises&amp;#x2F;promotions faster than anyone else. I was able to compress 10 years of experience into about half that time. It really set me up for my career later on in life and I learned so much in that time.&lt;p&gt;I did the learn a language a year thing and that helped me get a job as a compiler writer.&lt;p&gt;And I was able to leverage that into becoming a quant as I put in the hours to relearn all the math I&amp;#x27;d forgotten from school.&lt;p&gt;And I was able to leverage that to get into a pretty darn successful hedge fund where I said no to them a few times before they convinced me to join.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;m now in my 40s with a family and I work far less but I still think it was the right move at the time. It really set me up for a life of success and I was able to see the effects of outworking everyone else pay off.&lt;p&gt;I didn&amp;#x27;t seem to miss out on a social life and I had no burn out or resentment to speak of from those days.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>lordnacho</author><text>I worked pretty hard in my 20s as well, but always in a comfy way. I never pulled all nighters, I luckily worked in markets where there wasn&amp;#x27;t much need for that. I could make myself work late evenings, but never past when I wanted to sleep. If I was tired the next evening, I&amp;#x27;d turn in early. I would say the thing that made it work was not having kids, and having autonomy over when to work and when to take it easy. I can honestly say I learned more in those years than ever before or since.&lt;p&gt;My housemate worked in investment banking, much longer hours than me, with a fair bit of pressure to be awake when you want to be sleeping. The kind of job where you don&amp;#x27;t do much during the day, the MD comes in at 6pm, and tells you to make 100 slides by the next day, which he then doesn&amp;#x27;t use for a couple of days despite the juniors having stayed up all night. Grinding, and all the people who did it got visibly heavier.</text></comment>

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<story><title>Supreme Court rules federal courts cannot invalidate partisan gerrymandering [pdf]</title><url>https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/18pdf/18-422_9ol1.pdf</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>blakesterz</author><text>That&amp;#x27;s Roberts writing?&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;It is not even clear what fairness looks like in this context.&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;Except it IS clear what unfairness looks like, and it&amp;#x27;s this.&lt;p&gt;“How much is too much?”&lt;p&gt;This, what they are doing right hear right now, this is too much. I have to assume it&amp;#x27;s obvious to the majority here and they know what they&amp;#x27;re doing.&lt;p&gt;Kagan&amp;#x27;s dissent is great and finishes with this which REALLY resonates with me:&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;Of all times to abandon the Court’s duty to declare the law, this was not the one. The practices challenged in these cases imperil our system of government. Part of the Court’s role in that system is to defend its foundations. None is more important than free and fair elections. With respect but deep sadness, I dissent. &amp;quot;</text></item><item><author>bsamuels</author><text>This is actually a fascinating read, despite the disappointing decision.&lt;p&gt;This section really resonates:&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; It is not even clear what fairness looks like in this context. It may mean achieving a greater number of competitive districts by undoing packing and cracking so that supporters of the disadvantaged party have a better shot at electing their preferred candidates. But it could mean engaging in cracking and packing to ensure each party its “appropriate” share of “safe” seats. Or perhaps it should be measured by adherence to “traditional” districting criteria. Deciding among those different visions of fairness poses basic questions that are political, not legal. There are no legal standards discernible in the Constitution for making such judgments. And it is only after determining how to define fairness that one can even begin to answer the determinative question: “How much is too much?”</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>rossdavidh</author><text>I think the decisions&amp;#x27; example is pretty telling. Does every voter have a right to a competitive election in their district, so that their vote matters at least potentially? Or does every voter have a right to their political party getting representation at least approximately equal to their share of the electorate? Those two both sound good, and they point in opposite directions.&lt;p&gt;So, it&amp;#x27;s not a question of what the law says, it&amp;#x27;s a question of _values_, of what the law _should_ say. You could argue either side of that, but saying that the Constitution or precedents give a clear guideline for a judge to use in deciding it, is not tenable.&lt;p&gt;Let&amp;#x27;s say the courts decided to intervene here. What standard should they give? &amp;quot;If it seems really unfair, strike it down?&amp;quot; What looks really unfair to a Democratic-appointed judge is going to be different than what looks really unfair to a Republican-appointed judge.</text></comment>

<story><title>Supreme Court rules federal courts cannot invalidate partisan gerrymandering [pdf]</title><url>https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/18pdf/18-422_9ol1.pdf</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>blakesterz</author><text>That&amp;#x27;s Roberts writing?&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;It is not even clear what fairness looks like in this context.&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;Except it IS clear what unfairness looks like, and it&amp;#x27;s this.&lt;p&gt;“How much is too much?”&lt;p&gt;This, what they are doing right hear right now, this is too much. I have to assume it&amp;#x27;s obvious to the majority here and they know what they&amp;#x27;re doing.&lt;p&gt;Kagan&amp;#x27;s dissent is great and finishes with this which REALLY resonates with me:&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;Of all times to abandon the Court’s duty to declare the law, this was not the one. The practices challenged in these cases imperil our system of government. Part of the Court’s role in that system is to defend its foundations. None is more important than free and fair elections. With respect but deep sadness, I dissent. &amp;quot;</text></item><item><author>bsamuels</author><text>This is actually a fascinating read, despite the disappointing decision.&lt;p&gt;This section really resonates:&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; It is not even clear what fairness looks like in this context. It may mean achieving a greater number of competitive districts by undoing packing and cracking so that supporters of the disadvantaged party have a better shot at electing their preferred candidates. But it could mean engaging in cracking and packing to ensure each party its “appropriate” share of “safe” seats. Or perhaps it should be measured by adherence to “traditional” districting criteria. Deciding among those different visions of fairness poses basic questions that are political, not legal. There are no legal standards discernible in the Constitution for making such judgments. And it is only after determining how to define fairness that one can even begin to answer the determinative question: “How much is too much?”</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>JumpCrisscross</author><text>&amp;gt; &lt;i&gt;this is too much&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;There&amp;#x27;s a reasonable back and forth between the majority and minority on this question. The majority rejects unilaterally expanding the set of criteria the courts can use to overturn political maps. There&amp;#x27;s a good separation-of-powers argument for that conservatism.&lt;p&gt;(The court would prefer another branch decide what is and isn&amp;#x27;t too partisan, in the way Congress defined what is illegal racial gerrymandering.)</text></comment>

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<story><title>FBI Paid More Than $1M to Hack San Bernardino iPhone</title><url>http://www.wsj.com/articles/comey-fbi-paid-more-than-1-million-to-hack-san-bernardino-iphone-1461266641</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>isleyaardvark</author><text>&amp;gt; was not “scalable.”&lt;p&gt;This is the same James Comey that said they just were just asking Apple for access to just that one phone.</text></item><item><author>oneloop</author><text>Same article on the FT:&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.ft.com&amp;#x2F;cms&amp;#x2F;s&amp;#x2F;0&amp;#x2F;af23e3ea-07f1-11e6-b6d3-746f8e9cdd33.html#axzz46UpvC84n&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.ft.com&amp;#x2F;cms&amp;#x2F;s&amp;#x2F;0&amp;#x2F;af23e3ea-07f1-11e6-b6d3-746f8e9cdd...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;James Comey, director of the FBI, said on Thursday that the cost was “worth it”, but added that an accommodation needed to be made with Apple and other technology companies in the future, as paying outside technologists to find ways to access highly-encrypted messages on phones used by terrorist suspects was not “scalable.”</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>intrasight</author><text>Indeed. Americans need to wake up to the fact that these spooks simply cannot be trusted. The very concept of trust is alien to their culture. Would be nice of we could count on congress to provide adequate oversight.</text></comment>

<story><title>FBI Paid More Than $1M to Hack San Bernardino iPhone</title><url>http://www.wsj.com/articles/comey-fbi-paid-more-than-1-million-to-hack-san-bernardino-iphone-1461266641</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>isleyaardvark</author><text>&amp;gt; was not “scalable.”&lt;p&gt;This is the same James Comey that said they just were just asking Apple for access to just that one phone.</text></item><item><author>oneloop</author><text>Same article on the FT:&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.ft.com&amp;#x2F;cms&amp;#x2F;s&amp;#x2F;0&amp;#x2F;af23e3ea-07f1-11e6-b6d3-746f8e9cdd33.html#axzz46UpvC84n&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.ft.com&amp;#x2F;cms&amp;#x2F;s&amp;#x2F;0&amp;#x2F;af23e3ea-07f1-11e6-b6d3-746f8e9cdd...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;James Comey, director of the FBI, said on Thursday that the cost was “worth it”, but added that an accommodation needed to be made with Apple and other technology companies in the future, as paying outside technologists to find ways to access highly-encrypted messages on phones used by terrorist suspects was not “scalable.”</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>TallGuyShort</author><text>Just think of how many lives were saved by the data they got off that phone. Oh wait...</text></comment>

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<story><title>Iranian law prohibits merge of PR from Israeli?</title><url>https://github.com/armancodes/laravel-download-link/pull/9#issuecomment-683417436</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Alir3z4</author><text>I never knew about such law. For those who have Pikachu eyes now, or whoever gave thumbs down on the maintainer comment, I dare you to do a single tiny transaction with Iran or an Iranian citizen which would be in violation of unilateral sanctions imposed by US on Iran and Iranian national globally and you&amp;#x27;d see how you&amp;#x27;ll get a taste of freedom and liberty and some prison time to sweeten the deal by US.&lt;p&gt;If there&amp;#x27;s #metoo movement for this, put me and other +85 million Iranians in it.&lt;p&gt;Ref: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;alireza.gonevis.com&amp;#x2F;how-i-didnt-get-my-first-paying-customer&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;alireza.gonevis.com&amp;#x2F;how-i-didnt-get-my-first-paying-...&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>macspoofing</author><text>&amp;gt;or whoever gave thumbs down on the maintainer comment&lt;p&gt;To be fair, who knows what the &amp;#x27;thumbs down&amp;#x27; emoji is meant to represent in context and probably varies from each person who flagged it as such. It could mean &amp;#x27;boo maintainer&amp;#x27;, or it could be &amp;#x27;boo to the law and circumstance&amp;#x27;. It&amp;#x27;s just an emoji.&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt;I dare you to do a single tiny transaction with Iran or an Iranian citizen which would be in violation of unilateral sanctions&lt;p&gt;Yeah. That&amp;#x27;s the reality. Like you imply, it&amp;#x27;s not the maintainer&amp;#x27;s fault. He&amp;#x27;s just trying to do the best he can in a situation that he doesn&amp;#x27;t control. Just as an American would if they found themselves in a situation that could intentionally be interpreted as breaking sanctions.&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt;you&amp;#x27;d see how you&amp;#x27;ll get a taste of freedom and liberty and some prison time to sweeten the deal by US.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;m not sure what that has to do with anything, though you are overstating it. There is plenty of blame to go around, but let&amp;#x27;s not absolve Iran of their responsibility in getting getting themselves to a place of direct conflict with the United States. After all, there are a lot of non-democratic&amp;#x2F;authoritarian nations that do not, in fact, have these kinds of sanctions placed on them. Since the Iranian revolution, the Iranian government has been following a path of direct confrontation with the United States and this is the end-result - their economy and people (like yourself) have been hurt through their policies, while United States is fine.</text></comment>

<story><title>Iranian law prohibits merge of PR from Israeli?</title><url>https://github.com/armancodes/laravel-download-link/pull/9#issuecomment-683417436</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Alir3z4</author><text>I never knew about such law. For those who have Pikachu eyes now, or whoever gave thumbs down on the maintainer comment, I dare you to do a single tiny transaction with Iran or an Iranian citizen which would be in violation of unilateral sanctions imposed by US on Iran and Iranian national globally and you&amp;#x27;d see how you&amp;#x27;ll get a taste of freedom and liberty and some prison time to sweeten the deal by US.&lt;p&gt;If there&amp;#x27;s #metoo movement for this, put me and other +85 million Iranians in it.&lt;p&gt;Ref: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;alireza.gonevis.com&amp;#x2F;how-i-didnt-get-my-first-paying-customer&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;alireza.gonevis.com&amp;#x2F;how-i-didnt-get-my-first-paying-...&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>hinkley</author><text>First time I worked with crypto, it was still a munition. Things were so bad, you weren’t even supposed to ship code that was set up to handle crypto with the crypto removed. Which is why some APIs are still convoluted today.&lt;p&gt;Last time I worked with crypto, the sanctions had been aligned with overall trade sanctions, so after wasting hours talking about it, turns out my code could go everywhere our products could be legally sold so it wasn’t an issue? You could have led with that.</text></comment>

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<story><title>I am Sam Altman, President of Y Combinator – AMA</title><text>The application deadline for our winter 2016 batch is next Tuesday, and people frequently have a lot of questions about applying. Also happy to talk about anything else!&lt;p&gt;EDIT 11:15 AM PDT: I have to go. This was fun!</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>sama</author><text>1. Never say never, but no current plans (and honestly, it might make more sense to do something outside the US next). The hardest part would be convincing some of our partners to move out there, or finding new ones we could train out here first.&lt;p&gt;2. Not ready to talk about specific areas, but I promise they are interesting ones :)&lt;p&gt;It will be super super easy for our researchers to collaborate with outsider researchers because of our IP stance!</text></item><item><author>mindcrime</author><text>1. Would &amp;#x2F; will you ever consider opening an East Coast branch? I understand all the &amp;quot;stuff&amp;quot; about why SV is great for startups, but there will always be people who can&amp;#x27;t &amp;#x2F;won&amp;#x27;t get up and travel completely to the other side of the country for an extended period of time. And while the EC might not be &lt;i&gt;the&lt;/i&gt; startup hotbed that SV area is, it&amp;#x27;s quite clear that there is a LOT of startup activity and some great startups being formed out here. Wouldn&amp;#x27;t you want to tap into some of that?&lt;p&gt;2. In regards to YC Research, can you tell us anything more about the (general) topic area(s) you will be interested in? And maybe expand a little bit more on what kind of mechanisms might be put in place to facilitate working with outside researchers (hopefully including independent researchers and &amp;#x2F; or other startups).</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>listic</author><text>Once you go outside of the US, it makes sense to go to the country with easiest immigration policy, so that you can work with all the smart people who can&amp;#x27;t get to the US.</text></comment>

<story><title>I am Sam Altman, President of Y Combinator – AMA</title><text>The application deadline for our winter 2016 batch is next Tuesday, and people frequently have a lot of questions about applying. Also happy to talk about anything else!&lt;p&gt;EDIT 11:15 AM PDT: I have to go. This was fun!</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>sama</author><text>1. Never say never, but no current plans (and honestly, it might make more sense to do something outside the US next). The hardest part would be convincing some of our partners to move out there, or finding new ones we could train out here first.&lt;p&gt;2. Not ready to talk about specific areas, but I promise they are interesting ones :)&lt;p&gt;It will be super super easy for our researchers to collaborate with outsider researchers because of our IP stance!</text></item><item><author>mindcrime</author><text>1. Would &amp;#x2F; will you ever consider opening an East Coast branch? I understand all the &amp;quot;stuff&amp;quot; about why SV is great for startups, but there will always be people who can&amp;#x27;t &amp;#x2F;won&amp;#x27;t get up and travel completely to the other side of the country for an extended period of time. And while the EC might not be &lt;i&gt;the&lt;/i&gt; startup hotbed that SV area is, it&amp;#x27;s quite clear that there is a LOT of startup activity and some great startups being formed out here. Wouldn&amp;#x27;t you want to tap into some of that?&lt;p&gt;2. In regards to YC Research, can you tell us anything more about the (general) topic area(s) you will be interested in? And maybe expand a little bit more on what kind of mechanisms might be put in place to facilitate working with outside researchers (hopefully including independent researchers and &amp;#x2F; or other startups).</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>karlosferra</author><text>I agree with 1. Especially in countries that don&amp;#x27;t have anything like this available.&lt;p&gt;I can speak from Cuba, since I am originally from there. Cuba has been closed for 50 years to America, but that is changing now. There are really smart people, that just don&amp;#x27;t have the necessary access to capital or good advice.&lt;p&gt;Creating a branch of YC there would have a tremendous impact for local economy and people in addition of being a great business venture in a market that has been closed for half a century and is finally open. It&amp;#x27;s also worth mentioning that given the current economic situation, funding a startup in Cuba would only take a small fraction of what it takes to fund it in the US, with a lot of potential ROI since almost every industry can be disrupted significantly.</text></comment>

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<story><title>Mailhero – a more permanent temporary email</title><url>https://mailhero.io/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>guptaneil</author><text>Sounds awesome, would love to try it. Spent 5 minutes trying to sign up, but every variation of usernames that I tried were taken. This normally wouldn&amp;#x27;t be an issue to complain about, except that in order to test whether a username is available or not, I have to enter the username, password, and captcha every time.&lt;p&gt;Please please please tell me whether or not a username is taken as a type it before I go further.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>trickster_</author><text>Yes, my bad! I did not expect my site to get hacker news&amp;#x27;ed while I was sleeping and I hadn&amp;#x27;t scaled up the web server for that... You can try again now. :)&lt;p&gt;The really good news is that all mails are always buffered on another server, so even if the whole thing was to go down, all mails will reach its destination in a timely manner.</text></comment>

<story><title>Mailhero – a more permanent temporary email</title><url>https://mailhero.io/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>guptaneil</author><text>Sounds awesome, would love to try it. Spent 5 minutes trying to sign up, but every variation of usernames that I tried were taken. This normally wouldn&amp;#x27;t be an issue to complain about, except that in order to test whether a username is available or not, I have to enter the username, password, and captcha every time.&lt;p&gt;Please please please tell me whether or not a username is taken as a type it before I go further.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>matart</author><text>I also had every username I tried come up as taken. Even ones I found on main stream sites.</text></comment>

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<story><title>Python moves to GitHub</title><url>https://mail.python.org/pipermail/core-workflow/2016-January/000345.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>StevePerkins</author><text>What does &amp;quot;punished socially&amp;quot; even mean?&lt;p&gt;Unable to attract as many contributors? The cold reality is that most open source projects aren&amp;#x27;t really TRYING to attract contributors. Small-time hobbyists often don&amp;#x27;t want to play with others in their personal project sandboxes, and big-time projects with high profile usually put up high barriers to contribution.&lt;p&gt;Unable to attract as many end-users, or as much public mindshare? Now this makes more sense. Many of the high-profile moves to GitHub are really about P.R., and signaling friendless to the developer community (e.g. Microsoft&amp;#x27;s recent image re-branding efforts). Not having a GitHub presence DOES make you less visible and more isolated from developers today.&lt;p&gt;Either way, I would argue that GitHub is really just a sort of Facebook or Twitter-like presence for software organizations. A way to draw attention, publicity, or mindshare from the public... but often merely a hosting mirror, and not even the primary toolset through which the software is actually developed.&lt;p&gt;This being the case, who cares if GitHub is dominant? Or SourceForge ten years ago, or whatever the next popular thing might be ten years from now? In most cases, it&amp;#x27;s effectively about as consequential as having to shift your focus from MySpace to Facebook when the audience moves.</text></item><item><author>cm3</author><text>The problem is with people&amp;#x27;s mindset that everything has to be on github. Large projects that dare to use self-hosted more fitting infrastructure like Phabricator tend to be punished socially.</text></item><item><author>tw04</author><text>I&amp;#x27;m not sure why it&amp;#x27;s a problem though. If they decide to go down that path, it&amp;#x27;s not that hard to move off. They don&amp;#x27;t have the lock-in that would scare me like having terabytes of data in an oracle database.</text></item><item><author>eugenekolo2</author><text>GitHub&amp;#x27;s reign over public open source programming is a bit terrifying. But, it&amp;#x27;s been mostly benevolent so far, but I do find it troubling to trust a private company to keep dev&amp;#x27;s in mind, and not profit.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>27182818284</author><text>&amp;gt;What does &amp;quot;punished socially&amp;quot; even mean?&lt;p&gt;This is an interesting expression by the grandparent. I&amp;#x27;ve never heard this term before, but I&amp;#x27;ve definitely felt like I&amp;#x27;ve been &amp;quot;punished socially&amp;quot; in some way on the Internet by not having Facebook. The most common example are the large number of apps that I can&amp;#x27;t use because they require a Facebook account to get started. (I had an FB account in the early days when it was still edu only, but ended it a few years back)</text></comment>

<story><title>Python moves to GitHub</title><url>https://mail.python.org/pipermail/core-workflow/2016-January/000345.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>StevePerkins</author><text>What does &amp;quot;punished socially&amp;quot; even mean?&lt;p&gt;Unable to attract as many contributors? The cold reality is that most open source projects aren&amp;#x27;t really TRYING to attract contributors. Small-time hobbyists often don&amp;#x27;t want to play with others in their personal project sandboxes, and big-time projects with high profile usually put up high barriers to contribution.&lt;p&gt;Unable to attract as many end-users, or as much public mindshare? Now this makes more sense. Many of the high-profile moves to GitHub are really about P.R., and signaling friendless to the developer community (e.g. Microsoft&amp;#x27;s recent image re-branding efforts). Not having a GitHub presence DOES make you less visible and more isolated from developers today.&lt;p&gt;Either way, I would argue that GitHub is really just a sort of Facebook or Twitter-like presence for software organizations. A way to draw attention, publicity, or mindshare from the public... but often merely a hosting mirror, and not even the primary toolset through which the software is actually developed.&lt;p&gt;This being the case, who cares if GitHub is dominant? Or SourceForge ten years ago, or whatever the next popular thing might be ten years from now? In most cases, it&amp;#x27;s effectively about as consequential as having to shift your focus from MySpace to Facebook when the audience moves.</text></item><item><author>cm3</author><text>The problem is with people&amp;#x27;s mindset that everything has to be on github. Large projects that dare to use self-hosted more fitting infrastructure like Phabricator tend to be punished socially.</text></item><item><author>tw04</author><text>I&amp;#x27;m not sure why it&amp;#x27;s a problem though. If they decide to go down that path, it&amp;#x27;s not that hard to move off. They don&amp;#x27;t have the lock-in that would scare me like having terabytes of data in an oracle database.</text></item><item><author>eugenekolo2</author><text>GitHub&amp;#x27;s reign over public open source programming is a bit terrifying. But, it&amp;#x27;s been mostly benevolent so far, but I do find it troubling to trust a private company to keep dev&amp;#x27;s in mind, and not profit.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>cm3</author><text>Projects that use github merely as a mirror always run into the issue that of all features pull requests are the only one that you cannot disable, and they have to deal with closing pull requests, pointing to the real contribution process. So far github has always rejected the possibility to disable pull requests.&lt;p&gt;The problem with Sourceforge is that we now have a thousand unmaintained projects only available there as an archive and are risking to lose them if we&amp;#x27;re not careful. It seems easier to build a github-to-new_thing service as long as github cooperates (web api throttling).&lt;p&gt;If git is to be the dominant tool, it should support a wiki, tickets, code review and more complete distribution. Kinda like Fossil++. I hope git-appraisal or at least the idea gets more popular.</text></comment>

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<story><title>My small revenge on Apple</title><url>https://javierantonsblog.blogspot.com/2021/08/my-small-revenge-on-apple.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>karlkloss</author><text>I&amp;#x27;m the opposite. I NEVER use a third party login, my it be Apple, Google, Facebook or whatnot. If your website&amp;#x2F;app doesn&amp;#x27;t offer their own independent login, I don&amp;#x27;t even think once whether I really need it.</text></item><item><author>spinningarrow</author><text>Seems a bit petty to me. As a developer I empathize with the possible lack of documentation (I don’t know, I never tried to integrate Sign In with Apple) but as a user I actually am super happy with it. Nowadays any iOS app that doesn’t support logging in with Apple makes me think twice about whether I really need the app.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>fmajid</author><text>Agreed. I find the mere sight of the Facebook or Google logo off-putting and resent the implication that it is a higher-priority login mechanism than email, a sort of act of fealty of the app&amp;#x2F;web developer to the big platform middlemen.&lt;p&gt;I run my own mail server so it&amp;#x27;s easy for me to implement vendor-specific email addresses that cannot be correlated with other vendors&amp;#x27;, but more and more companies are offering that as a service nowadays, DuckDuckGo most recently:&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.spreadprivacy.com&amp;#x2F;introducing-email-protection-beta&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.spreadprivacy.com&amp;#x2F;introducing-email-protection-b...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;I do use GitHub federated login, but only for apps like vulnerability scanners that do need OAuth access to my repos.</text></comment>

<story><title>My small revenge on Apple</title><url>https://javierantonsblog.blogspot.com/2021/08/my-small-revenge-on-apple.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>karlkloss</author><text>I&amp;#x27;m the opposite. I NEVER use a third party login, my it be Apple, Google, Facebook or whatnot. If your website&amp;#x2F;app doesn&amp;#x27;t offer their own independent login, I don&amp;#x27;t even think once whether I really need it.</text></item><item><author>spinningarrow</author><text>Seems a bit petty to me. As a developer I empathize with the possible lack of documentation (I don’t know, I never tried to integrate Sign In with Apple) but as a user I actually am super happy with it. Nowadays any iOS app that doesn’t support logging in with Apple makes me think twice about whether I really need the app.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mattxxx</author><text>I think preferring to use the website&amp;#x2F;app&amp;#x27;s own login makes initial sense, but distributing your personal information around opens you up to more opportunities to get tracked&amp;#x2F;pwned&amp;#x2F;leaked&amp;#x2F;whatever.&lt;p&gt;I used to prioritize the domain&amp;#x27;s own login, but now I&amp;#x27;m starting to mix in some logins with Apple... I just prefer to have _less_ people have my personally identifiable information.</text></comment>

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<story><title>AI beats human sleuth at finding problematic images in research papers</title><url>https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-02920-y</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>hella_heely</author><text>How is the software only 2-3x faster than human review, which lasted months? Little in this article is very clear</text></comment>

<story><title>AI beats human sleuth at finding problematic images in research papers</title><url>https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-02920-y</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>sideshowb</author><text>The article seems to discuss manipulation (a valid concern) but the research focuses on duplication. I&amp;#x27;m not entirely clear what the link between the two is?</text></comment>

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<story><title>Open-Sourcing Vespa, Yahoo’s Data Processing and Serving Engine</title><url>https://www.oath.com/press/open-sourcing-vespa-yahoo-s-big-data-processing-and-serving-eng/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>madmax108</author><text>Yahoo time and again releases open source software which is super super helpful to the community at large. But it always makes me wonder why an org with such an amazing engg culture (multiple anecdotes from friends who were at Yahoo, plus the amazing experiences at Yahoo OpenHack each year as a testament to this) could be run into the ground.&lt;p&gt;Really goes to show that engg != business and unless you have a firm business model and growth, an amazing engg team can only get you so far.&lt;p&gt;I know I&amp;#x27;m just stating the obvious, but just putting it out there!&lt;p&gt;Vespa looks super interesting (more so since I&amp;#x27;m in a company that provides ecommerce search APIs as a product) and I&amp;#x27;m sure I&amp;#x27;ll play with it more. Thanks Yahoo! :)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>gyehuda</author><text>The Register did a good job describing the dichotomy between the product business and the tech side of the business here, related to a previous open source project Yahoo published (disclaimer, I run the open source process at Yahoo) &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.theregister.co.uk&amp;#x2F;2017&amp;#x2F;03&amp;#x2F;23&amp;#x2F;yahoo_tensorflow_on_spark&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.theregister.co.uk&amp;#x2F;2017&amp;#x2F;03&amp;#x2F;23&amp;#x2F;yahoo_tensorflow_on...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;Over the decades Yahoo! has contributed substantially to the greater good, publishing its own code as open source.&lt;p&gt;Arguably Yahoo!’s greatest legacy once it is a division of Verizon will be big data, after one of its engineers – Doug Cutting – wrote an open-source implementation of Google’s MapReduce that became Hadoop. What followed was an entire ecosystem of startups and projects crunching data at scale – Cloudera, Hortonworks, MapR to name three in a market some calculate will be worth $50bn by 2020.&amp;quot;</text></comment>

<story><title>Open-Sourcing Vespa, Yahoo’s Data Processing and Serving Engine</title><url>https://www.oath.com/press/open-sourcing-vespa-yahoo-s-big-data-processing-and-serving-eng/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>madmax108</author><text>Yahoo time and again releases open source software which is super super helpful to the community at large. But it always makes me wonder why an org with such an amazing engg culture (multiple anecdotes from friends who were at Yahoo, plus the amazing experiences at Yahoo OpenHack each year as a testament to this) could be run into the ground.&lt;p&gt;Really goes to show that engg != business and unless you have a firm business model and growth, an amazing engg team can only get you so far.&lt;p&gt;I know I&amp;#x27;m just stating the obvious, but just putting it out there!&lt;p&gt;Vespa looks super interesting (more so since I&amp;#x27;m in a company that provides ecommerce search APIs as a product) and I&amp;#x27;m sure I&amp;#x27;ll play with it more. Thanks Yahoo! :)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>hypertexthero</author><text>Yes.&lt;p&gt;Steve Jobs responding to a question about OpenDoc in 1997:&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; You’ve got to start with the customer experience and work backwards to the technology.&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;mikecanex.wordpress.com&amp;#x2F;2011&amp;#x2F;06&amp;#x2F;08&amp;#x2F;wwdc-1997-video-steve-jobs-handles-a-public-insult&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;mikecanex.wordpress.com&amp;#x2F;2011&amp;#x2F;06&amp;#x2F;08&amp;#x2F;wwdc-1997-video-s...&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>

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<story><title>Wine 3.3 has Vulkan support</title><url>http://www.wine-reviews.net/2018/03/the-winehq-wine-development-release-33.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>stevemk14ebr</author><text>It seems like Vulkan is being pushed really hard lately. Is it possible it might become THE cross-platform graphics interface and we start seeing truly platform agnostic games?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Impossible</author><text>Graphics API is not the only, or even primary bottleneck for portability. You see this in every hackernews thread about Vulkan, but most developers are using portable engines where the graphics api (among many other things) is entirely abstracted and they still don&amp;#x27;t do day one ports because porting to a new platform is rarely free, even when all technical challenges are solved.</text></comment>

<story><title>Wine 3.3 has Vulkan support</title><url>http://www.wine-reviews.net/2018/03/the-winehq-wine-development-release-33.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>stevemk14ebr</author><text>It seems like Vulkan is being pushed really hard lately. Is it possible it might become THE cross-platform graphics interface and we start seeing truly platform agnostic games?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>euos</author><text>No. Companies that matter are MS (they are still pushing DirectX), Apple (Metal or bust), Sony and Nintendo (each console has its API). Without full platform owner support Vulcan will be a second class citizen with all kinds of performance and compatibility issues.</text></comment>

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<story><title>Google under investigation for ‘Thanksgiving Four’ firings, discouraging unions</title><url>https://www.cnbc.com/2019/12/09/google-under-investigation-from-nlrb.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>murph-almighty</author><text>I&amp;#x27;ve thought about this a bit. I don&amp;#x27;t think we&amp;#x27;d get much public sympathy from a working conditions standpoint- generally if you&amp;#x27;re working for the right place you can arguably make more money than most of your non-engineer peers (look at a percentile breakdown of your annual income if you don&amp;#x27;t believe me).&lt;p&gt;I think the way a union like this could succeed is by fighting Big Brother-esque projects and refusing to work on initiatives such as Project Butterfly. Sell it as &amp;quot;we refuse to work on technology that will objectively make you (the layman&amp;#x27;s) life worse&amp;quot;. Once we hit a critical mass we&amp;#x27;d have a much bigger say over what projects do and don&amp;#x27;t get built, and anyone who scabs is arguably on the wrong side of the moral coin or &amp;quot;enabling Big Brother&amp;#x2F;technocratic billionaires&amp;quot;.&lt;p&gt;This isn&amp;#x27;t to say that tech workers should be the ultimate moral arbiter, but having a non-financially driven check would at least help.</text></item><item><author>mrobot</author><text>We need a tech worker&amp;#x27;s union. And technology around communication and setting up strikes etc.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>_-o-_</author><text>I don&amp;#x27;t think that I&amp;#x27;ll ever have any sympathy for workers telling business what projects they are willing to work on. If you don&amp;#x27;t like the kind of work you&amp;#x27;re supposed to be doing - seek employment at different place.</text></comment>

<story><title>Google under investigation for ‘Thanksgiving Four’ firings, discouraging unions</title><url>https://www.cnbc.com/2019/12/09/google-under-investigation-from-nlrb.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>murph-almighty</author><text>I&amp;#x27;ve thought about this a bit. I don&amp;#x27;t think we&amp;#x27;d get much public sympathy from a working conditions standpoint- generally if you&amp;#x27;re working for the right place you can arguably make more money than most of your non-engineer peers (look at a percentile breakdown of your annual income if you don&amp;#x27;t believe me).&lt;p&gt;I think the way a union like this could succeed is by fighting Big Brother-esque projects and refusing to work on initiatives such as Project Butterfly. Sell it as &amp;quot;we refuse to work on technology that will objectively make you (the layman&amp;#x27;s) life worse&amp;quot;. Once we hit a critical mass we&amp;#x27;d have a much bigger say over what projects do and don&amp;#x27;t get built, and anyone who scabs is arguably on the wrong side of the moral coin or &amp;quot;enabling Big Brother&amp;#x2F;technocratic billionaires&amp;quot;.&lt;p&gt;This isn&amp;#x27;t to say that tech workers should be the ultimate moral arbiter, but having a non-financially driven check would at least help.</text></item><item><author>mrobot</author><text>We need a tech worker&amp;#x27;s union. And technology around communication and setting up strikes etc.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mindfulgeek</author><text>This. Developers are a very powerful party, but completely unorganized. Everything relies on software and not everyone can build it. We make things that make the world better, but we also make things that make the world a lot worse. If we could group together and have some kind of “do no harm” oath and protections around that, the world would be a better place.</text></comment>

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<story><title>Porn Zoom bomb forces cancellation of Fed&apos;s Waller event</title><url>https://www.reuters.com/world/us/feds-waller-virtual-event-canceled-after-zoom-hijack-2023-03-02/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>defrost</author><text>&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;archive.is&amp;#x2F;1NxvL&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;archive.is&amp;#x2F;1NxvL&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>

<story><title>Porn Zoom bomb forces cancellation of Fed&apos;s Waller event</title><url>https://www.reuters.com/world/us/feds-waller-virtual-event-canceled-after-zoom-hijack-2023-03-02/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>ericpauley</author><text>Let&amp;#x27;s be real about the scope here, clearly this is not indicative of the downfall of modern banking infrastructure (or the government itself, as it seems some commentors would have you believe).&lt;p&gt;This was a small event featuring one board member. As the article points out the zoom session itself was run by the hosting institution, some consortium of small banks (I hear those are &lt;i&gt;really known&lt;/i&gt; for their technical chops &amp;#x2F;s). Run enough of these and something bad is bound to happen.&lt;p&gt;Sure, maybe the Fed should improve its policies on meeting hosting rules and make sure people are informed on best practice, but the fact that a Fed-affiliate intern messed up their Zoom settings is hardly damning.</text></comment>

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<story><title>Hellofresh employees&apos; open salary initiative</title><url>https://hfsalary.org/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>spenczar5</author><text>As mentioned in another comment thread: we don’t need to speculate about the effects because millions of employees already share salaries with no anonymity in thousands of groups. That is, employees of the US or state governments.&lt;p&gt;That ends up including public universities - at least here in Washington, you can look up the salary of any employee of the University of Washington: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;fiscal.wa.gov&amp;#x2F;Salaries.aspx&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;fiscal.wa.gov&amp;#x2F;Salaries.aspx&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;Go ahead and find me, Spencer Nelson, or any other Software Engineer of any level you want.&lt;p&gt;What are the consequences of this? Is there vicious infighting, and sniping over raises? Uh, no. There is just simple compensation, and way less negotiation. When some job class needs a salary adjustment because the job market has changed, everyone benefits. It’s pretty great.</text></item><item><author>searchableguy</author><text>I think it&amp;#x27;s better to share salaries anonymously with the level and company information.&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s human nature to compare and I feel it would be counterproductive to know what individuals I&amp;#x27;m close to make compared to having idea of the median, top, etc bands for the level I&amp;#x27;m at.&lt;p&gt;I say this seeing younger folks quibble over a difference of few hundred dollars in compensation and worry they are getting underpaid compared to their peers.&lt;p&gt;Note: Above is an example of highly paid individuals starting out so a few hundred dollar difference wouldn&amp;#x27;t matter.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>pc86</author><text>The root cause is an open argument but I think one of the causes is that you get a demonstrably lower quality of employee because the pay can&amp;#x27;t be negotiated, &lt;i&gt;and&lt;/i&gt; it&amp;#x27;s pegged so far below market it&amp;#x27;s insulting. The salary you mentioned is half that of the median developer salary in the US. If you can get into FAANG as a new grad you&amp;#x27;re looking at 1.5-2x the median. I&amp;#x27;m not super familiar with UW&amp;#x27;s scaling system but I have to go to what appears to be the top level (ES10?) to get anything approaching a reasonable salary, and it&amp;#x27;s still less than entry level FAANG.&lt;p&gt;I used to contract for state government. They used contractors for all the &amp;quot;real development&amp;quot; because the developers on state payroll making $40k&amp;#x2F;yr were wholly unqualified to write any code. So they paid a contracting firm $80&amp;#x2F;hr to get someone making $100k&amp;#x2F;yr to come in and do it while the state employees managed the project and supervised the contractors.&lt;p&gt;If the government could just negotiate individual salaries for developers, they could pay them twice as much, fire the contractors, and get the work done for roughly the same quality, and cheaper.</text></comment>

<story><title>Hellofresh employees&apos; open salary initiative</title><url>https://hfsalary.org/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>spenczar5</author><text>As mentioned in another comment thread: we don’t need to speculate about the effects because millions of employees already share salaries with no anonymity in thousands of groups. That is, employees of the US or state governments.&lt;p&gt;That ends up including public universities - at least here in Washington, you can look up the salary of any employee of the University of Washington: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;fiscal.wa.gov&amp;#x2F;Salaries.aspx&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;fiscal.wa.gov&amp;#x2F;Salaries.aspx&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;Go ahead and find me, Spencer Nelson, or any other Software Engineer of any level you want.&lt;p&gt;What are the consequences of this? Is there vicious infighting, and sniping over raises? Uh, no. There is just simple compensation, and way less negotiation. When some job class needs a salary adjustment because the job market has changed, everyone benefits. It’s pretty great.</text></item><item><author>searchableguy</author><text>I think it&amp;#x27;s better to share salaries anonymously with the level and company information.&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s human nature to compare and I feel it would be counterproductive to know what individuals I&amp;#x27;m close to make compared to having idea of the median, top, etc bands for the level I&amp;#x27;m at.&lt;p&gt;I say this seeing younger folks quibble over a difference of few hundred dollars in compensation and worry they are getting underpaid compared to their peers.&lt;p&gt;Note: Above is an example of highly paid individuals starting out so a few hundred dollar difference wouldn&amp;#x27;t matter.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>KallDrexx</author><text>This may just be your personal feelings though. I know quite a few people who work for public schools and government entities throughout Florida who really really are uncomfortable with their salaries being public knowledge, and at least one has felt it has been used against them.</text></comment>

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<story><title>I thought I made a hard game and then speedrunners destroyed it</title><url>https://imgur.com/t/speedrunning/OUtDA5J</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>noobermin</author><text>One of the things I bemoan is that game developers have embraced speedrun-type players in that it has influenced their game design which is evident in the most recent games: almost every game that is sold as a &amp;quot;hardcore&amp;quot; game involves essentially the ability to memorize and perform, skills which are okay but I don&amp;#x27;t particularly really enjoy. I painfully miss twitch games like quake that instead of pushing you to memorize and perform accurately, you instead had to react and improvise quickly and think on your feet.[0] It&amp;#x27;s a different set of skills that seems to have fallen out of favor as of late.&lt;p&gt;[0] To be clear, I&amp;#x27;m talking about multiplayer as it&amp;#x27;s unpredictable.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dkarl</author><text>I think it&amp;#x27;s always been like that in any game with predesigned layouts and enemy placement. I was still a kid (in the 1980s) when I figured out I was playing a fundamentally different game from the kids who &lt;i&gt;really&lt;/i&gt; loved video games. I was thinking, &amp;quot;I need to get faster at making decisions and timing my actions so I can respond to what&amp;#x27;s on the next screen,&amp;quot; and they were thinking, &amp;quot;Okay, the next screen has two goblins closing from the upper right corner and one goblin closing from the middle and a fireball from top to bottom after four seconds, and the exit door starts closed and opens or closes every three seconds, so I&amp;#x27;ll kill the closest goblin while I wait for the fireball and then hit the exit the third time it opens....&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;I remember feeling guilty when I remembered what was on the next screen, because it felt like cheating. It kind of broke my heart when I realized that was the best way to get good and it was pointlessly stubborn for me to resist a technique that games were designed to cater to.</text></comment>

<story><title>I thought I made a hard game and then speedrunners destroyed it</title><url>https://imgur.com/t/speedrunning/OUtDA5J</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>noobermin</author><text>One of the things I bemoan is that game developers have embraced speedrun-type players in that it has influenced their game design which is evident in the most recent games: almost every game that is sold as a &amp;quot;hardcore&amp;quot; game involves essentially the ability to memorize and perform, skills which are okay but I don&amp;#x27;t particularly really enjoy. I painfully miss twitch games like quake that instead of pushing you to memorize and perform accurately, you instead had to react and improvise quickly and think on your feet.[0] It&amp;#x27;s a different set of skills that seems to have fallen out of favor as of late.&lt;p&gt;[0] To be clear, I&amp;#x27;m talking about multiplayer as it&amp;#x27;s unpredictable.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mmanfrin</author><text>&amp;gt; I painfully miss twitch games like quake that instead of pushing you to memorize and perform accurately, you instead had to react and improvise quickly and think on your feet.[0] It&amp;#x27;s a different set of skills that seems to have fallen out of favor as of late.&lt;p&gt;What? Two of the top four~ most played games on earth right now are battle royales.</text></comment>

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<story><title>Bad but interesting mathematical notation idea</title><url>https://blog.plover.com/math/se/notation.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>qsi</author><text>Without clever innovations in notation, a lot of math (and physics) would be utterly intractable. For instance, without Einstein&amp;#x27;s notation hack [1], using and manipulating tensors is extremely painful. Arguably, General Relativity would not have been possible without the clarity of the Einstein notation.&lt;p&gt;Also long-established notation like integrals and differentials were once new and innovative, and paved the way for new discoveries.&lt;p&gt;[1] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Einstein_notation&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Einstein_notation&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;(edit: capitalize GR, grammar)</text></comment>

<story><title>Bad but interesting mathematical notation idea</title><url>https://blog.plover.com/math/se/notation.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>dmart</author><text>An aside, but it’s so nice that interesting discussions like the one linked in the article are allowed to bloom on smaller Stack Exchange sites like Mathematics.&lt;p&gt;I can’t imagine a similar sort of rumination surviving on Stack Overflow or Server Fault, but the discussions in that thread are really interesting to read.</text></comment>

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<story><title>Learn why a message ended up in your spam folder</title><url>http://gmailblog.blogspot.com/2012/03/learn-why-message-ended-up-in-your-spam.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>sudonim</author><text>We&apos;ve been setting up email infrastructure using sendgrid on a dedicated IP. The domain it&apos;s emailing to is a new domain as well. We&apos;ve got that domain set up with google apps and use it to send email to people without issue.&lt;p&gt;We did a mailing to a few select people on our new mail server. For the 20 or so people using gmail that received the mailing, those who had never received an email from colin @ newdomain had the email go to spam. Those who had received a message from colin @ newdomain had the email (from a different user) in their inbox. Anecdotally, it seems gmail highly values a previous email from that domain, but only for that one recipient.&lt;p&gt;Email is tricky. We&apos;re sorting through the issues of sending from a new IP and new domain. We&apos;re learning that email sending is like a credit score. No score is as bad as a crappy one.</text></comment>

<story><title>Learn why a message ended up in your spam folder</title><url>http://gmailblog.blogspot.com/2012/03/learn-why-message-ended-up-in-your-spam.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>victork2</author><text>Oh my god, what an horrendous design, it made my poor old PC cringe in despair with all the javascript to load!&lt;p&gt;I went to my SPAM folder, all excited, hoping to find some cool math/programming stuff, but it was just a plain boring message: &lt;i&gt;Its content is generally found in Spam messages&lt;/i&gt;. Ah... that&apos;s a downer...</text></comment>

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<story><title>Comedian Tom Smothers has died</title><url>https://apnews.com/article/tom-smothers-dies-smothers-brothers-3e1727faf1b6469da7b2cfc7b2874c56</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>AlbertCory</author><text>You are both right, in that they &lt;i&gt;were&lt;/i&gt; counterculture. However:&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; comedians are supposed to be subversive&lt;p&gt;No, that&amp;#x27;s just your preference. Jay Leno and Norm MacDonald are not subversive at all; just funny. &lt;i&gt;Most&lt;/i&gt; of the Smothers&amp;#x27; comedy was family-friendly, but they did push a few buttons sometimes.&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; I hope you talk in a more informed way about time you know&lt;p&gt;Totally unwarranted.</text></item><item><author>drewcoo</author><text>[flagged]</text></item><item><author>skyechurch</author><text>Here&amp;#x27;s a good synopsis of the Smothers Brothers and their importance for that generation of comedians: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.hollywoodreporter.com&amp;#x2F;tv&amp;#x2F;tv-news&amp;#x2F;smothers-brothers-comedy-hour-oral-history-1060153&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.hollywoodreporter.com&amp;#x2F;tv&amp;#x2F;tv-news&amp;#x2F;smothers-brothe...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;Comedy, in general, ages very badly, but the Smothers Brothers are still very funny. They were politically &amp;quot;controversial&amp;quot;, but they were the furthest thing from shock comics, and I think that&amp;#x27;s what makes their comedy translate 50+ years later. Nothing is as dated as last season&amp;#x27;s transgressiveness, but their routines were sharp but welcoming, you could watch them with your grandparents and your children and everyone would have a laugh. They were well before my time, but I remember seeing them brought out on Letterman, etc, expecting a dire nostalgia act, and they just kill. A great act for any decade.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>serf</author><text>MacDonald as &amp;#x27;not subversive&amp;#x27; is a crackup.&lt;p&gt;A famous schtick of his on his podcast later on was to get other comedians to accidentally joke about the 9&amp;#x2F;11 events, and then he&amp;#x27;d frame them as monsters for making light of the situation. He got fired from SNL for railing on OJ Simpson and his executive buddies at NBC, he got &amp;#x27;removed&amp;#x27; from Silverman&amp;#x27;s JASH &amp;#x27;collective&amp;#x27; for making jokes about &amp;#x27;Arabs&amp;#x27;, and he subverted the Friar&amp;#x27;s Club roast by refusing to be rude and only saying 1940s formal-appropriate Vaudeville-act stuff.&lt;p&gt;The SNL stuff was &lt;i&gt;big&lt;/i&gt; news in entertainment at the time. He got interviewed by all the big late-night shows about it and the unfair process, was on Stern, etc etc. The whole nation sort of rallied behind him and agreed that SNL&amp;#x2F;Lorne Michaels acted unfairly at a time when the entire nation was also seemingly against Simpson.&lt;p&gt;His outward clean-cut demeanor and presence is exactly what made him so subversive.</text></comment>

<story><title>Comedian Tom Smothers has died</title><url>https://apnews.com/article/tom-smothers-dies-smothers-brothers-3e1727faf1b6469da7b2cfc7b2874c56</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>AlbertCory</author><text>You are both right, in that they &lt;i&gt;were&lt;/i&gt; counterculture. However:&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; comedians are supposed to be subversive&lt;p&gt;No, that&amp;#x27;s just your preference. Jay Leno and Norm MacDonald are not subversive at all; just funny. &lt;i&gt;Most&lt;/i&gt; of the Smothers&amp;#x27; comedy was family-friendly, but they did push a few buttons sometimes.&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; I hope you talk in a more informed way about time you know&lt;p&gt;Totally unwarranted.</text></item><item><author>drewcoo</author><text>[flagged]</text></item><item><author>skyechurch</author><text>Here&amp;#x27;s a good synopsis of the Smothers Brothers and their importance for that generation of comedians: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.hollywoodreporter.com&amp;#x2F;tv&amp;#x2F;tv-news&amp;#x2F;smothers-brothers-comedy-hour-oral-history-1060153&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.hollywoodreporter.com&amp;#x2F;tv&amp;#x2F;tv-news&amp;#x2F;smothers-brothe...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;Comedy, in general, ages very badly, but the Smothers Brothers are still very funny. They were politically &amp;quot;controversial&amp;quot;, but they were the furthest thing from shock comics, and I think that&amp;#x27;s what makes their comedy translate 50+ years later. Nothing is as dated as last season&amp;#x27;s transgressiveness, but their routines were sharp but welcoming, you could watch them with your grandparents and your children and everyone would have a laugh. They were well before my time, but I remember seeing them brought out on Letterman, etc, expecting a dire nostalgia act, and they just kill. A great act for any decade.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>nyczomg</author><text>Norm MacDonald not subversive at all? Really?&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;ultimateclassicrock.com&amp;#x2F;norm-macdonald-last-weekend-update&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;ultimateclassicrock.com&amp;#x2F;norm-macdonald-last-weekend-...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.youtube.com&amp;#x2F;watch?v=t_lXBLqAOW8&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.youtube.com&amp;#x2F;watch?v=t_lXBLqAOW8&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.youtube.com&amp;#x2F;watch?v=SOsfrppKd1k&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.youtube.com&amp;#x2F;watch?v=SOsfrppKd1k&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>

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<story><title>IDA cybersecurity software provider Hex-Rays acquired</title><url>https://smartfinvc.com/news/smartfin-acquires-leading-cybersecurity-software-provider-hex-rays-together-with-sfpim-and-sriw/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>rjzzleep</author><text>For me I got the Company I was contracting for to buy me an IDA license and as I was trying to take over from there Hexrays never responded to any requests.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;m guessing that I&amp;#x27;m on the same pirate blacklist that a lot of people landed. I guess I should have expensed it instead of having the Company buy it. I was the only person doing RE work, it was a single user person license and I was also the only linux user out of that 300 people org.&lt;p&gt;I think there are a lot of people that would like to pay for IDA but can&amp;#x27;t get it.&lt;p&gt;On the other hand I really don&amp;#x27;t like the Ghidra user experience.&lt;p&gt;Is there something similar to FLIRT in r2 or ghidra?</text></item><item><author>pseudo0</author><text>Hopefully this works out for Hex-Rays, allowing them to invest more into developing IDA and expanding their low-cost product offerings. The general sentiment I have seen among people doing SRE is that IDA is rapidly losing market share to Ghidra. While it excels in some areas, the licenses are pricy even for tech employers, and entirely out of reach for students or colleges. It&amp;#x27;s hard to convince an employer to fork out cash for IDA licenses when new employees are asking to use Ghidra, because that&amp;#x27;s what they use at home and at school.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>grzaks</author><text>&amp;gt; I think there are a lot of people that would like to pay for IDA but can&amp;#x27;t get it.&lt;p&gt;Many years ago we wanted to buy IDA Pro license and were quickly declined because we had whois privacy protection enabled on our domain.</text></comment>

<story><title>IDA cybersecurity software provider Hex-Rays acquired</title><url>https://smartfinvc.com/news/smartfin-acquires-leading-cybersecurity-software-provider-hex-rays-together-with-sfpim-and-sriw/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>rjzzleep</author><text>For me I got the Company I was contracting for to buy me an IDA license and as I was trying to take over from there Hexrays never responded to any requests.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;m guessing that I&amp;#x27;m on the same pirate blacklist that a lot of people landed. I guess I should have expensed it instead of having the Company buy it. I was the only person doing RE work, it was a single user person license and I was also the only linux user out of that 300 people org.&lt;p&gt;I think there are a lot of people that would like to pay for IDA but can&amp;#x27;t get it.&lt;p&gt;On the other hand I really don&amp;#x27;t like the Ghidra user experience.&lt;p&gt;Is there something similar to FLIRT in r2 or ghidra?</text></item><item><author>pseudo0</author><text>Hopefully this works out for Hex-Rays, allowing them to invest more into developing IDA and expanding their low-cost product offerings. The general sentiment I have seen among people doing SRE is that IDA is rapidly losing market share to Ghidra. While it excels in some areas, the licenses are pricy even for tech employers, and entirely out of reach for students or colleges. It&amp;#x27;s hard to convince an employer to fork out cash for IDA licenses when new employees are asking to use Ghidra, because that&amp;#x27;s what they use at home and at school.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>deroad</author><text>Rizin (and Cutter) does fully support FLIRT. You can create and load them, we also provide sigdb which is a collection of FLIRT files created by us (and yes, they are 100% compatible with IDA if you ever want to use them). - &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;github.com&amp;#x2F;rizinorg&amp;#x2F;cutter&amp;#x2F;releases&amp;#x2F;tag&amp;#x2F;v2.1.0&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;github.com&amp;#x2F;rizinorg&amp;#x2F;cutter&amp;#x2F;releases&amp;#x2F;tag&amp;#x2F;v2.1.0&lt;/a&gt; - &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;github.com&amp;#x2F;rizinorg&amp;#x2F;rizin&amp;#x2F;releases&amp;#x2F;tag&amp;#x2F;v0.4.0&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;github.com&amp;#x2F;rizinorg&amp;#x2F;rizin&amp;#x2F;releases&amp;#x2F;tag&amp;#x2F;v0.4.0&lt;/a&gt; - &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;github.com&amp;#x2F;rizinorg&amp;#x2F;sigdb&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;github.com&amp;#x2F;rizinorg&amp;#x2F;sigdb&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;beware that these are not the latest versions.</text></comment>

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<story><title>Matter, set to fix smart home standards in 2023, stumbled in the real market</title><url>https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/12/matter-was-more-of-a-nice-smart-home-concept-than-useful-reality-in-2023/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dopidopHN</author><text>Also: what is the point?&lt;p&gt;Convenience ? One minute of me debugging a http request to fix my light is evaluated dearly.&lt;p&gt;If that happen once it will offset years of voice light off&amp;#x2F;on and other lazy ass of poor design workaround.</text></item><item><author>LanzVonL</author><text>I just don&amp;#x27;t trust smart home stuff, it all seems like a big data collection nightmare at best, at worst you could have criminals and government nannies both spying on you 24&amp;#x2F;7. I still use incandescent lights though too.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>kayodelycaon</author><text>This. I tried IKEA’s stuff and it drove me bonkers. We’ve had light switches for over 100 years. Why would I want to replace a perfectly good light switch with flaky buttons and smart bulbs that need to be repaired every month?&lt;p&gt;But I still wanted to use Home Assistant to control lights. The solution? Smart light _switches_ and wall plugs.&lt;p&gt;I went with Lutron Caseta wall switches and plug-in dimmers. (Expensive at $60&amp;#x2F;switch.) Lutron has been doing commercial automation for a very long time and it shows.&lt;p&gt;1. They work without any automation. Most dimmable LEDs will work.&lt;p&gt;2. The remotes connect directly to the switches and don’t need a hub.&lt;p&gt;3. The pro hub model connects to home assistant. You can use unpaired remotes as switches. (Using the correct blueprints.)&lt;p&gt;I’ve had this set up for over a year and I’ve yet to replace a battery on the many dozens of remotes I have. And I’ve never had a problem with the switch not working.&lt;p&gt;I get to do all the tinkering I want without breaking my house. :)&lt;p&gt;Note: I do have some Phillips Hue bulbs for color but those are in lamps separate from overhead lighting.</text></comment>

<story><title>Matter, set to fix smart home standards in 2023, stumbled in the real market</title><url>https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/12/matter-was-more-of-a-nice-smart-home-concept-than-useful-reality-in-2023/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dopidopHN</author><text>Also: what is the point?&lt;p&gt;Convenience ? One minute of me debugging a http request to fix my light is evaluated dearly.&lt;p&gt;If that happen once it will offset years of voice light off&amp;#x2F;on and other lazy ass of poor design workaround.</text></item><item><author>LanzVonL</author><text>I just don&amp;#x27;t trust smart home stuff, it all seems like a big data collection nightmare at best, at worst you could have criminals and government nannies both spying on you 24&amp;#x2F;7. I still use incandescent lights though too.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>LanzVonL</author><text>If I want a light to be on, I turn it on. I don&amp;#x27;t go much for mood lighting, I have lamps and overhead lights and depending on the level of illumination I want or need at the time, one, some, or all might be powered up. But I&amp;#x27;ve never thought of getting up from my ass groove on the couch and going over and operating a switch is a huge deal. And I&amp;#x27;m pretty lazy.</text></comment>

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<story><title>How the Presidential Transition Works in the Social Media Age</title><url>https://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2016/10/31/digital-transition-how-presidential-transition-works-social-media-age</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>cryptoz</author><text>&amp;gt; The account will retain its more than 11 million followers, but start with no tweets on the timeline. @POTUS44, a newly created handle maintained by NARA, will contain all of President Obama’s tweets and will be accessible to the public on Twitter as an archive of President Obama’s use of the account.&lt;p&gt;Wait, how are they planning on doing this? Will this copy retain the timestamps and other metadata of the original tweets? I don&amp;#x27;t understand how this will work.&lt;p&gt;Edit: The more I think about this the more confusing it sounds. Will the tweets be deleted? Will all the links break? This seems like a very messy way of handling the transition, unless I&amp;#x27;m misunderstanding how it will work.</text></comment>

<story><title>How the Presidential Transition Works in the Social Media Age</title><url>https://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2016/10/31/digital-transition-how-presidential-transition-works-social-media-age</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>dopeboy</author><text>I used to work at the White House in the Presidential Personnel Office where I worked on an internal staffing tool to help fill political appointed positions across government. As we poured hours and contracting dollars into, we wondered aloud many times whether our work would go on into the next administration. The tool and the workflow behind it is pretty standard so there shouldn&amp;#x27;t be any reason why not. The general consensus was that if the next administration is a Democratic one, our work had a chance of staying alive.&lt;p&gt;One thing not mentioned in the article - everything archived by NARA ends up going to Obama&amp;#x27;s official library. I&amp;#x27;m curious if and how they&amp;#x27;re going to make that accessible to the public.</text></comment>

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<story><title>A shared file system for lambda functions</title><url>https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/new-a-shared-file-system-for-your-lambda-functions/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>VWWHFSfQ</author><text>I&amp;#x27;m curious what people actually use Lambda for?&lt;p&gt;I tried Lambda for a use-case that I had in 2018:&lt;p&gt;We published Polls and Predictions to people watching the 2018 World Cup. We set the vote callback URL to a function on AWS Lambda.&lt;p&gt;It failed spectacularly during our load-testing because the ramp-up period was far too slow. We needed to go from 0 to 100,000 incoming requests&amp;#x2F;second in about 20 seconds.&lt;p&gt;We had to switch to an Nginx&amp;#x2F;Lua&amp;#x2F;Redis endpoint because Lambda was just completely unusable. It would have cost us $27,000&amp;#x2F;month to pre-provision 10,000 concurrent executions...&lt;p&gt;What is it that people actually use Lambda for?</text></comment>

<story><title>A shared file system for lambda functions</title><url>https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/new-a-shared-file-system-for-your-lambda-functions/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>scandox</author><text>Serverless is a bit like Stone Soup [1]. This I guess is the point at which the Tramp says: &amp;quot;Now if you just add a few onions it really helps the flavour...&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;[1] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.m.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Stone_Soup&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.m.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Stone_Soup&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>

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<story><title>Binance founder Changpeng Zhao agrees to step down, plead guilty</title><url>https://www.wsj.com/finance/currencies/binance-ceo-changpeng-zhao-step-down-plead-guilty-01f72a40</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tw1984</author><text>After all these recent shit regarding crypto currencies in the US, you don&amp;#x27;t need a full brain to figure out that there is a huge hole in the system.&lt;p&gt;It is also amazing to see that CZ managed to walk away free of any jail time, kept most of his assets gathered by his con job.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>naraga</author><text>FWIW, CZ is (and was viewed as) a good actor in the industry. He did a lot of good not only for crypto adoption but for access to better fiat currencies for people in countries with hyper-inflating collapsing system. comparing him to SBF (like many do) is absolutely not fair. he fcked up on AML front for sure and he is going to be punished rightfully but he did just so much good for people that he will stay remembered is positive persona. hero for many.</text></comment>

<story><title>Binance founder Changpeng Zhao agrees to step down, plead guilty</title><url>https://www.wsj.com/finance/currencies/binance-ceo-changpeng-zhao-step-down-plead-guilty-01f72a40</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tw1984</author><text>After all these recent shit regarding crypto currencies in the US, you don&amp;#x27;t need a full brain to figure out that there is a huge hole in the system.&lt;p&gt;It is also amazing to see that CZ managed to walk away free of any jail time, kept most of his assets gathered by his con job.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>lifty</author><text>Why would you say it’s a con job? The settlement is for not enforcing money loundering restrictions, not conning or scamming people. Binance seems to be reputable and hasn’t done any shady things with customer funds, as far as I know.</text></comment>

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<story><title>On paying for software</title><url>https://seths.blog/2018/06/on-paying-for-software/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>wazoox</author><text>I use Linux and most free software projects allow donations. I even donated to projects I don&amp;#x27;t actually use, like FreeBSD. I donated money to many free software projects, Ardour, Mozilla, LibreOffice, OpenBSD, etc. This is clearly a false dichotomy.</text></item><item><author>afarrell</author><text>One of the reasons that I switched from Linx to OSX was so that I could pay for more of my software. Why? Because then I more of the software I used could be maintained by someone who had the time to dig into bugs and UI problems and to fix them. But in Linux, couldn&amp;#x27;t I just edit the source myself? Realistically, no. It takes a tremendous amount of effort to source-dive in a totally new project in a language I never use, especially without someone willing to give me a walkthrough of the architecture and fundamental models of the program. It is waaaay more efficient for these to be fixed by an engineer working not in their spare time, but as their full-time job.&lt;p&gt;A developer targeting OSX knows they have an audience of people willing to pay him money so he can spend his whole day doing usability tests and his evening watching a little league game.&lt;p&gt;I do miss strace though.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>TimJYoung</author><text>Relying on the good will of others &lt;i&gt;does not work&lt;/i&gt;, period. The fact that it works sometimes is not something that one can use as the reason to quit their job and start an &amp;quot;endeavor&amp;quot; (you can&amp;#x27;t really call it a business).&lt;p&gt;Can we please dispense with this notion and start realizing one simple fact: people will typically only pay for something if you &lt;i&gt;make&lt;/i&gt; them pay.</text></comment>

<story><title>On paying for software</title><url>https://seths.blog/2018/06/on-paying-for-software/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>wazoox</author><text>I use Linux and most free software projects allow donations. I even donated to projects I don&amp;#x27;t actually use, like FreeBSD. I donated money to many free software projects, Ardour, Mozilla, LibreOffice, OpenBSD, etc. This is clearly a false dichotomy.</text></item><item><author>afarrell</author><text>One of the reasons that I switched from Linx to OSX was so that I could pay for more of my software. Why? Because then I more of the software I used could be maintained by someone who had the time to dig into bugs and UI problems and to fix them. But in Linux, couldn&amp;#x27;t I just edit the source myself? Realistically, no. It takes a tremendous amount of effort to source-dive in a totally new project in a language I never use, especially without someone willing to give me a walkthrough of the architecture and fundamental models of the program. It is waaaay more efficient for these to be fixed by an engineer working not in their spare time, but as their full-time job.&lt;p&gt;A developer targeting OSX knows they have an audience of people willing to pay him money so he can spend his whole day doing usability tests and his evening watching a little league game.&lt;p&gt;I do miss strace though.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ropeadopepope</author><text>The problem with open source is, for some reason, the developers feel no sense of obligation to the end users or the people who donate to them. MacOS devs do and will go out of their way to make sure their software is not just usable, but a sheer pleasure to use in every way possible. Yes, there are exceptions (I&amp;#x27;m looking at you, Apple, with your Xcode and your Finder) but for the most part that&amp;#x27;s just the way things are in the MacOS app ecosystem.&lt;p&gt;Open source, on the other hand, is like trying to shave with a razor blade with no handle. It&amp;#x27;s a hard sell to get people to donate to projects that they know are going to cut them at some point.</text></comment>

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<story><title>Public health interventions and epidemic intensity during the 1918 flu pandemic</title><url>https://www.pnas.org/content/104/18/7582</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>nostromo</author><text>The headline is editorialized in a way that is misleading.&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; Early implementation of certain interventions, including closure of schools, churches, and theaters, was associated with lower peak death rates, but no single intervention showed an association with improved aggregate outcomes for the 1918 phase of the pandemic.&lt;p&gt;In other words, a similar amount of people died regardless of these interventions, but the cases were spread out over a longer time period. They also note that the virus spreads as soon as interventions are relaxed, suggesting many cities just delayed the infection.&lt;p&gt;Edit: thanks for the comments below - my comment was just to point out that these interventions didn&amp;#x27;t cut the death rate in half, as a quick reading of the submitted headline might suggest.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>sliken</author><text>Well keep in mind for COV19 that your survival rate will be much higher if there&amp;#x27;s enough beds&amp;#x2F;people to treat you. Looks like with an overburdened medical system the lethality for those going to the hospital is somewhere under 5%. For hospitals not overburdened it&amp;#x27;s under 1%.</text></comment>

<story><title>Public health interventions and epidemic intensity during the 1918 flu pandemic</title><url>https://www.pnas.org/content/104/18/7582</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>nostromo</author><text>The headline is editorialized in a way that is misleading.&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; Early implementation of certain interventions, including closure of schools, churches, and theaters, was associated with lower peak death rates, but no single intervention showed an association with improved aggregate outcomes for the 1918 phase of the pandemic.&lt;p&gt;In other words, a similar amount of people died regardless of these interventions, but the cases were spread out over a longer time period. They also note that the virus spreads as soon as interventions are relaxed, suggesting many cities just delayed the infection.&lt;p&gt;Edit: thanks for the comments below - my comment was just to point out that these interventions didn&amp;#x27;t cut the death rate in half, as a quick reading of the submitted headline might suggest.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>macintux</author><text>Well, sorta:&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; Cities in which multiple interventions were implemented at an early phase of the epidemic also showed a trend toward lower cumulative excess mortality, but the difference was smaller (≈20%) and less statistically significant than that for peak death rates.</text></comment>

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<story><title>The Political History of Pad Thai</title><url>https://www.scmp.com/lifestyle/food-drink/article/3007657/history-pad-thai-how-stir-fried-noodle-dish-was-invented-thai</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mc32</author><text>What’s interesting is that Thai food in some east Asian countries is considered fancy and the price reflects that while in North America most of them (but not all) are the affordable kind —that is on par with other non-fancy food joints.</text></item><item><author>zxexz</author><text>Thailand has successfully put a lot of effort in exporting cuisine.&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s no wonder that Pad Thai and other Thai cuisine is ubiquitous in many countries, with the Thai government putting so much effort into &amp;#x27;gastrodiplomacy&amp;#x27; [0][1]. I&amp;#x27;m certainly not complaining!&lt;p&gt;[0] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;web.archive.org&amp;#x2F;web&amp;#x2F;20130926085448&amp;#x2F;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;thailand.prd.go.th&amp;#x2F;view_news.php?id=5585&amp;amp;a=2&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;web.archive.org&amp;#x2F;web&amp;#x2F;20130926085448&amp;#x2F;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;thailand.p...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;[1] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.vice.com&amp;#x2F;en_us&amp;#x2F;article&amp;#x2F;paxadz&amp;#x2F;the-surprising-reason-that-there-are-so-many-thai-restaurants-in-america&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.vice.com&amp;#x2F;en_us&amp;#x2F;article&amp;#x2F;paxadz&amp;#x2F;the-surprising-rea...&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Thorentis</author><text>Interesting observation!&lt;p&gt;In Australia it is similar. Roughly speaking, the following cuisines have these types of price ranges:&lt;p&gt;Indian: $-$$ Chinese: $-$$$ Thai: $$ Japanese: $$-$$$ Italian: $-$$$$ French: $$$-$$$$ Local: $$-$$$$&lt;p&gt;It seems that Asian is fairly set on low-mid, while European can go higher and still do well. Same with Japense and Chinese. Italian has been so integrated into the local cuisine that you have very cheap to very fancy. French is rare so more expensive. Japense also rare, though sushi train type places are becoming more popular (though still on the pricer side).</text></comment>

<story><title>The Political History of Pad Thai</title><url>https://www.scmp.com/lifestyle/food-drink/article/3007657/history-pad-thai-how-stir-fried-noodle-dish-was-invented-thai</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mc32</author><text>What’s interesting is that Thai food in some east Asian countries is considered fancy and the price reflects that while in North America most of them (but not all) are the affordable kind —that is on par with other non-fancy food joints.</text></item><item><author>zxexz</author><text>Thailand has successfully put a lot of effort in exporting cuisine.&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s no wonder that Pad Thai and other Thai cuisine is ubiquitous in many countries, with the Thai government putting so much effort into &amp;#x27;gastrodiplomacy&amp;#x27; [0][1]. I&amp;#x27;m certainly not complaining!&lt;p&gt;[0] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;web.archive.org&amp;#x2F;web&amp;#x2F;20130926085448&amp;#x2F;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;thailand.prd.go.th&amp;#x2F;view_news.php?id=5585&amp;amp;a=2&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;web.archive.org&amp;#x2F;web&amp;#x2F;20130926085448&amp;#x2F;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;thailand.p...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;[1] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.vice.com&amp;#x2F;en_us&amp;#x2F;article&amp;#x2F;paxadz&amp;#x2F;the-surprising-reason-that-there-are-so-many-thai-restaurants-in-america&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.vice.com&amp;#x2F;en_us&amp;#x2F;article&amp;#x2F;paxadz&amp;#x2F;the-surprising-rea...&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>n4r9</author><text>In the UK a Thai restaurant is typically at least semi-fancy, but you&amp;#x27;ll often be able to find a pad thai or thai red&amp;#x2F;green curry as an inexpensive option on a pub or cheap restaurant menu.&lt;p&gt;I went to Thailand a couple of a years ago and visited a restaurant in Bangkok that was supposed to have the best pad thai in the country. It was decent, but I&amp;#x27;ve had better in the UK. The best thing about the restaurant was that every table had a pot of peanut dust that you could add as liberally as you liked to your meal.</text></comment>

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<story><title>Powa: The startup that fell to earth</title><url>http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-35860814</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Twirrim</author><text>That article reveals a story that&amp;#x27;s one &lt;i&gt;facepalm&lt;/i&gt; after another. An example of the worst &amp;quot;rockstar founder&amp;quot; attitude backed by apparently clueless investors.&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; Powa occupied two floors of the prestigious Heron Tower at the heart of the city of London, and had equally lavish accommodation in Hong Kong, New York and across Europe.&lt;p&gt;Before having established proper cash flow?! When all their &amp;quot;sales&amp;quot; were just &amp;quot;letters of intent&amp;quot;. How were investors even remotely convinced it was a good deal?&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; One of the more printable comments is this: &amp;quot;You don&amp;#x27;t employ intelligent, highly experienced people to treat them like something unpleasant under your shoe by telling them to forget everything they know, as your way isn&amp;#x27;t working&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;I wonder what the staff turnover was like? The only time I worked for a CEO who treated his employees with that little respect, they had a 90%&amp;#x2F;2 years turnover. No one was prepared to stick around and support someone who would send motivational emails saying &amp;quot;Ask not what your company can do for you, ask what you can do for the company&amp;quot; as the CEO was screwing up sales deals. I always wondered if he&amp;#x27;d ever figure it out. Even burned my bridge there trying to help him understand what was going on during the exit interview.&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; According to several former employees, at one Christmas bash in Mayfair, strippers were hired to perform, to the discomfort of many present.&lt;p&gt;Grew up idolising the worst aspects of Yuppie culture?&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; &amp;quot;While the company was going under, he&amp;#x27;s fooling around in a photography studio pretending to be Ziggy Stardust. The guy is a narcissistic idiot.&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;Certainly sounds like it...</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>klenwell</author><text>Fooling around in photography studio pretending to be Ziggy Stardust? I had to RTFA just to see this. Was not disappointed.&lt;p&gt;The caption is delivered with perfect English understatement:&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; One member of staff described Mr Wagner as an &amp;quot;idiot&amp;quot;</text></comment>

<story><title>Powa: The startup that fell to earth</title><url>http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-35860814</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Twirrim</author><text>That article reveals a story that&amp;#x27;s one &lt;i&gt;facepalm&lt;/i&gt; after another. An example of the worst &amp;quot;rockstar founder&amp;quot; attitude backed by apparently clueless investors.&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; Powa occupied two floors of the prestigious Heron Tower at the heart of the city of London, and had equally lavish accommodation in Hong Kong, New York and across Europe.&lt;p&gt;Before having established proper cash flow?! When all their &amp;quot;sales&amp;quot; were just &amp;quot;letters of intent&amp;quot;. How were investors even remotely convinced it was a good deal?&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; One of the more printable comments is this: &amp;quot;You don&amp;#x27;t employ intelligent, highly experienced people to treat them like something unpleasant under your shoe by telling them to forget everything they know, as your way isn&amp;#x27;t working&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;I wonder what the staff turnover was like? The only time I worked for a CEO who treated his employees with that little respect, they had a 90%&amp;#x2F;2 years turnover. No one was prepared to stick around and support someone who would send motivational emails saying &amp;quot;Ask not what your company can do for you, ask what you can do for the company&amp;quot; as the CEO was screwing up sales deals. I always wondered if he&amp;#x27;d ever figure it out. Even burned my bridge there trying to help him understand what was going on during the exit interview.&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; According to several former employees, at one Christmas bash in Mayfair, strippers were hired to perform, to the discomfort of many present.&lt;p&gt;Grew up idolising the worst aspects of Yuppie culture?&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; &amp;quot;While the company was going under, he&amp;#x27;s fooling around in a photography studio pretending to be Ziggy Stardust. The guy is a narcissistic idiot.&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;Certainly sounds like it...</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>rm_-rf_slash</author><text>Just curious, how did things end up at the company you worked at?&lt;p&gt;I had a similar experience with a startup out of college. On reflection, I should have noticed that among all the photos on the &amp;quot;mentioned in the news&amp;quot; billboard, the only familiar faces were the founders...</text></comment>

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<story><title>Surviving Depression</title><url>https://vishnu.tech/posts/surviving-depression/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>notokay</author><text>&amp;gt;unless you&amp;#x27;re violent or suicidal.&lt;p&gt;Yes, and if you are suicidal, police will throw you in a jail. Or worse - in a psychiatric hospital. And you are gonna be fired from work and will be even more miserable than before.&lt;p&gt;There is no help for men with depression. Even if you ask for it, you have to keep lying and downplaying your symptoms, so no one would think you are really depressed.</text></item><item><author>tetha</author><text>Also, they are trained and educated to recognize if this doesn&amp;#x27;t work. Speaking from experience there.&lt;p&gt;They&amp;#x27;ll try to gain trust, which is necessary. Actual licensed therapists have two things going in there. You can go and meet them in private. And they are legally forbidden from telling on you to anyone, unless you&amp;#x27;re violent or suicidal. They will throw years and years of studies away if they give away you secrets.&lt;p&gt;Beyond that, you&amp;#x27;ll be asked what you&amp;#x27;re struggling with. This can take a session or three. That&amp;#x27;s normal because it takes time to gain trust and open up. Though they&amp;#x27;ll gather data during these sessions, too. After all, you don&amp;#x27;t end up sitting in a therapists office because you&amp;#x27;re doing great.&lt;p&gt;And they do know a number of different behaviors that end up being problematic beyond a certain scale. But it can be refreshing to talk to someone just knowning your bug.&lt;p&gt;I knew I was writing too much by paragraph 2. But I&amp;#x27;m submitting this anyway.</text></item><item><author>cjhveal</author><text>It took me a long time after taking that leap of faith into therapy to learn that the most valuable part of psychotherapy is not information or advice but it is the therapist-client relationship itself. You need to internalize their advice and techniques (as OP managed to do on their own), and therapy is about creating a facilitative environment to alter that conception of self.&lt;p&gt;In therapy, you are unconditionally accepted with positive regard, which facilitates viewing yourself more clearly without the need to lean on self-defeating coping mechanisms, like self-pity or shifting blame. As social creatures we instinctively perform a lot of mirroring of others&amp;#x27; mental state, so simply by being accepted we are able to try on what it is like to accept ourselves. It&amp;#x27;s leveraging an additional set of tools baked into us at a deep level to build self awareness and a more positive, realistic self model.&lt;p&gt;If you&amp;#x27;re struggling, I&amp;#x27;d like to echo others and strongly recommend you reach out to a psychiatrist and psychologist if they are within reach for you. Take OP as an example that it is possible to change, but please explore all the resources available to you so that you can explore what works for you.&lt;p&gt;That being said, thank you to Vishnu for sharing some of your struggles and how you&amp;#x27;ve managed to find ways to improve. It really helps to be talking publicly about these issues.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>arkades</author><text>We don&amp;#x27;t throw anyone in jail for being suicidal. We don&amp;#x27;t throw people into psych hospitals unless they&amp;#x27;re at imminent risk of successfully committing suicide - we don&amp;#x27;t do admits just for suicidal ideation. One of the first things you learn, even as a med student, is how to distinguish between &amp;quot;this person needs help&amp;quot; and &amp;quot;hide the sharp objects.&amp;quot; That said, some patients &lt;i&gt;are&lt;/i&gt; in the &amp;quot;hide the sharp objects&amp;quot; zone - and they get hospitalized to make sure they don&amp;#x27;t die.&lt;p&gt;You are creating an exaggerated worst-case scenario that, luckily, means you don&amp;#x27;t have to change or risk vulnerability or anything. Unluckily, your safe space sounds like a pit of shit. Depression will do that to you.&lt;p&gt;Please reach out to a professional &amp;amp; get help. You&amp;#x27;ll be shocked how much better you can feel in just a few months.</text></comment>

<story><title>Surviving Depression</title><url>https://vishnu.tech/posts/surviving-depression/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>notokay</author><text>&amp;gt;unless you&amp;#x27;re violent or suicidal.&lt;p&gt;Yes, and if you are suicidal, police will throw you in a jail. Or worse - in a psychiatric hospital. And you are gonna be fired from work and will be even more miserable than before.&lt;p&gt;There is no help for men with depression. Even if you ask for it, you have to keep lying and downplaying your symptoms, so no one would think you are really depressed.</text></item><item><author>tetha</author><text>Also, they are trained and educated to recognize if this doesn&amp;#x27;t work. Speaking from experience there.&lt;p&gt;They&amp;#x27;ll try to gain trust, which is necessary. Actual licensed therapists have two things going in there. You can go and meet them in private. And they are legally forbidden from telling on you to anyone, unless you&amp;#x27;re violent or suicidal. They will throw years and years of studies away if they give away you secrets.&lt;p&gt;Beyond that, you&amp;#x27;ll be asked what you&amp;#x27;re struggling with. This can take a session or three. That&amp;#x27;s normal because it takes time to gain trust and open up. Though they&amp;#x27;ll gather data during these sessions, too. After all, you don&amp;#x27;t end up sitting in a therapists office because you&amp;#x27;re doing great.&lt;p&gt;And they do know a number of different behaviors that end up being problematic beyond a certain scale. But it can be refreshing to talk to someone just knowning your bug.&lt;p&gt;I knew I was writing too much by paragraph 2. But I&amp;#x27;m submitting this anyway.</text></item><item><author>cjhveal</author><text>It took me a long time after taking that leap of faith into therapy to learn that the most valuable part of psychotherapy is not information or advice but it is the therapist-client relationship itself. You need to internalize their advice and techniques (as OP managed to do on their own), and therapy is about creating a facilitative environment to alter that conception of self.&lt;p&gt;In therapy, you are unconditionally accepted with positive regard, which facilitates viewing yourself more clearly without the need to lean on self-defeating coping mechanisms, like self-pity or shifting blame. As social creatures we instinctively perform a lot of mirroring of others&amp;#x27; mental state, so simply by being accepted we are able to try on what it is like to accept ourselves. It&amp;#x27;s leveraging an additional set of tools baked into us at a deep level to build self awareness and a more positive, realistic self model.&lt;p&gt;If you&amp;#x27;re struggling, I&amp;#x27;d like to echo others and strongly recommend you reach out to a psychiatrist and psychologist if they are within reach for you. Take OP as an example that it is possible to change, but please explore all the resources available to you so that you can explore what works for you.&lt;p&gt;That being said, thank you to Vishnu for sharing some of your struggles and how you&amp;#x27;ve managed to find ways to improve. It really helps to be talking publicly about these issues.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>bloodorange</author><text>Mate, if your message may have something to do with your username, I do hope things get better for you and I hope you find the resources you need for things to get better.</text></comment>

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<story><title>SpotifyKeyDumper – Dump song decryption keys from the Windows Spotify client</title><url>https://gitlab.com/fuck-capitalism/spotifykeydumper</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>canofbars</author><text>These days there is RED which comes close to what WCD was but the user base is a fraction of the size and will never reach WCD because torrents are far less popular.</text></item><item><author>matheusmoreira</author><text>&amp;gt; People can get the music they want at a price they&amp;#x27;re willing to accept.&lt;p&gt;People can get what is &lt;i&gt;popular&lt;/i&gt;. There&amp;#x27;s just so many albums and soundtracks that just can&amp;#x27;t be found on Spotify. Legal streaming is nothing compared to the private music torrent tracker scene... Before it was shut down, one particular site was often called the library of Alexandria for music and even had actual artists release their music there.</text></item><item><author>madrox</author><text>At one of the earliest E3s, the keynote was from the CTO of AOL. I wish I remembered the year or his name or could find some video of the talk, but this was at the height of Napster where it seemed like no one was paying for music. This guy compared music piracy to the prohibition. He said people didn&amp;#x27;t want to break the law. People just wanted to drink. I haven&amp;#x27;t looked at piracy the same way since.&lt;p&gt;Fast forward to seeing this, and I realize this doesn&amp;#x27;t have the same draw as it would have 20 years ago. People can get the music they want at a price they&amp;#x27;re willing to accept.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>iamacyborg</author><text>Soulseek is also still a thing, or was last time I checked.</text></comment>

<story><title>SpotifyKeyDumper – Dump song decryption keys from the Windows Spotify client</title><url>https://gitlab.com/fuck-capitalism/spotifykeydumper</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>canofbars</author><text>These days there is RED which comes close to what WCD was but the user base is a fraction of the size and will never reach WCD because torrents are far less popular.</text></item><item><author>matheusmoreira</author><text>&amp;gt; People can get the music they want at a price they&amp;#x27;re willing to accept.&lt;p&gt;People can get what is &lt;i&gt;popular&lt;/i&gt;. There&amp;#x27;s just so many albums and soundtracks that just can&amp;#x27;t be found on Spotify. Legal streaming is nothing compared to the private music torrent tracker scene... Before it was shut down, one particular site was often called the library of Alexandria for music and even had actual artists release their music there.</text></item><item><author>madrox</author><text>At one of the earliest E3s, the keynote was from the CTO of AOL. I wish I remembered the year or his name or could find some video of the talk, but this was at the height of Napster where it seemed like no one was paying for music. This guy compared music piracy to the prohibition. He said people didn&amp;#x27;t want to break the law. People just wanted to drink. I haven&amp;#x27;t looked at piracy the same way since.&lt;p&gt;Fast forward to seeing this, and I realize this doesn&amp;#x27;t have the same draw as it would have 20 years ago. People can get the music they want at a price they&amp;#x27;re willing to accept.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>stinos</author><text>Can you enlighten people who have no idea what these acronyms mean?</text></comment>

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<story><title>American Trailer Parks: The owners are getting rich</title><url>http://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2015/may/03/owning-trailer-parks-mobile-home-university-investment</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>methodover</author><text>I&amp;#x27;m so torn on this.&lt;p&gt;So, if I understand this correctly, this is how to get rich off renting to poor people: (1) Buy out a property where a bunch of poor people live, (2) Jack the rent up, (3) Justify it with superficial renovations.&lt;p&gt;It works because (1) the cost of moving is so high, and (2) all the other property owners are doing the same thing -- In fact, that&amp;#x27;s probably why they&amp;#x27;re doing this &amp;quot;university&amp;quot; to begin with.&lt;p&gt;On the one hand, this looks totally immoral. Poor people are forced to move out, or become even more impoverished, as a result of what you&amp;#x27;re doing. And it seems like the renovations are really just superficial -- they&amp;#x27;re designed to make people think &amp;quot;Oh, well they&amp;#x27;re doing renovations, so the property is worth more.&amp;quot; Rather than a genuine, good-faith attempt at improving the properties in a way that the poor tenants can afford.&lt;p&gt;But on the other hand, this is capitalism. Oftentimes in capitalism, things look really, really bad. But from a macro point of view, things work out better in the long run. Could there be some kind of better long-term effect that I just can&amp;#x27;t see?&lt;p&gt;And yet, criticisms aside, I don&amp;#x27;t know if any municipality in the country has figured out a good solution from the regulation side of things. In fact, I&amp;#x27;m skeptical if regulation can solve this problem. It feels like greedy slumlords are just going to be greedy slumlords no matter what rules we put into place. Maybe the real solution is to just, like, persuade greedy slumlords to think of tenants as real, living, breathing human beings instead of cattle.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>panarky</author><text>&amp;gt; &lt;i&gt;Oftentimes in capitalism, things look really, really bad. But from a macro point of view, things work out better in the long run.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;There is no evidence that things deterministically &amp;quot;work out better in the long run&amp;quot; in an unregulated capitalist system. This is just an unexamined belief that prevents us from taking action against injustice in the short run.&lt;p&gt;Note that things are also working out pretty well under market socialism (the Nordic model), and under state capitalism (Singapore, China).&lt;p&gt;This unfounded belief that it always works out for the best &amp;quot;in the long run&amp;quot; is very similar to the belief that life on Earth may be full of pain, injustice and misery, but &amp;quot;in the long run&amp;quot; it will all be great in heaven.&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s a powerful way to keep people from taking action to improve their circumstances right now.&lt;p&gt;&lt;i&gt;The long run is a misleading guide to current affairs. In the long run we are all dead. Economists set themselves too easy, too useless a task if in tempestuous seasons they can only tell us that when the storm is past the ocean is flat again.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikiquote.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;John_Maynard_Keynes&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikiquote.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;John_Maynard_Keynes&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>

<story><title>American Trailer Parks: The owners are getting rich</title><url>http://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2015/may/03/owning-trailer-parks-mobile-home-university-investment</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>methodover</author><text>I&amp;#x27;m so torn on this.&lt;p&gt;So, if I understand this correctly, this is how to get rich off renting to poor people: (1) Buy out a property where a bunch of poor people live, (2) Jack the rent up, (3) Justify it with superficial renovations.&lt;p&gt;It works because (1) the cost of moving is so high, and (2) all the other property owners are doing the same thing -- In fact, that&amp;#x27;s probably why they&amp;#x27;re doing this &amp;quot;university&amp;quot; to begin with.&lt;p&gt;On the one hand, this looks totally immoral. Poor people are forced to move out, or become even more impoverished, as a result of what you&amp;#x27;re doing. And it seems like the renovations are really just superficial -- they&amp;#x27;re designed to make people think &amp;quot;Oh, well they&amp;#x27;re doing renovations, so the property is worth more.&amp;quot; Rather than a genuine, good-faith attempt at improving the properties in a way that the poor tenants can afford.&lt;p&gt;But on the other hand, this is capitalism. Oftentimes in capitalism, things look really, really bad. But from a macro point of view, things work out better in the long run. Could there be some kind of better long-term effect that I just can&amp;#x27;t see?&lt;p&gt;And yet, criticisms aside, I don&amp;#x27;t know if any municipality in the country has figured out a good solution from the regulation side of things. In fact, I&amp;#x27;m skeptical if regulation can solve this problem. It feels like greedy slumlords are just going to be greedy slumlords no matter what rules we put into place. Maybe the real solution is to just, like, persuade greedy slumlords to think of tenants as real, living, breathing human beings instead of cattle.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>EliRivers</author><text>&lt;i&gt;But on the other hand, this is capitalism.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;Is it? Capitalism is the private ownership of the means of production. Is somewhere to live a &amp;quot;means of production&amp;quot;? Sure, it&amp;#x27;s necessary to live, but it&amp;#x27;s not &amp;quot;producing&amp;quot; anything. There&amp;#x27;s no partnership involved. Capitalism is about someone owning the &amp;quot;machine&amp;quot; [1] of production, and someone else being employed to operate that machine, and the owner and operator splitting the profit. In theory, the two of them working together in this way produces more than either would on their own, so everyone benefits.&lt;p&gt;I see the sort of thing in this article referred to as &amp;quot;rentier capitalism&amp;quot;, although it&amp;#x27;s generally meant to be derogatory; a way of marking it out from the beneficial form of capitalism.&lt;p&gt;&lt;i&gt;Oftentimes in capitalism, things look really, really bad. But from a macro point of view, things work out better in the long run.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;I think you&amp;#x27;re confusing capitalism with exploitation and rent seeking. They&amp;#x27;re not the same thing. Not at all.&lt;p&gt;As an aside, I&amp;#x27;m sure this use of the word &amp;quot;capitalism&amp;quot; is something Chomsky used to talk about. Now that it&amp;#x27;s very broadly accepted that capitalism is ethically good and correct and there is effectively no discussion about capitalism, people can gradually move bad behaviour into the definition of capitalism and society will protect that bad behaviour, even against its own interests.&lt;p&gt;If we do want to redefine &amp;quot;capitalism&amp;quot;, that&amp;#x27;s fine, of course, but at that point we have to re-examine its status as &amp;quot;ethically good&amp;quot; or &amp;quot;correct&amp;quot;, and judge it in light of this rent-seeking exploitation that produces no value or wealth. In my verdict, under this new definition, &amp;quot;capitalism&amp;quot; comes up bad.&lt;p&gt;[1] Which of course could be an actual machine, but could be just any form of capital that is necessary to produce the output goods.</text></comment>

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<story><title>The Disappearing Mass Housing of the Soviet Union</title><url>https://www.citylab.com/housing/2017/03/the-disappearing-mass-housing-of-the-soviet-union/518868/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>timthelion</author><text>I think that there is a lot of &amp;quot;the grass is always greener&amp;quot; type of feeling in Eastern Europe. The panel houses are not fundamentally bad places to live, but there is this default feeling, that it is somehow worse than the west. A lot of people in Prague have this feeling that the entire US looks like the New York that they know from the sitcoms.&lt;p&gt;Those panel houses which have been renovated and their elevators replaced are really nice. All of the buildings are painted different collors and the whole place looks prety idilic. Only real problem for the residents, is that it is hard to rase kids when you have one and a half bedrooms...&lt;p&gt;Now, Czech culture has become generational. For almost the majorty of my friends, the older generation lives in a panel house. Those are the grandmas and grandpas of my peers. The parents of my peers have bought a newer appartment somewhere else. And they have left the appartment in the panel house to their batchelor children, who like having cheep&amp;#x2F;free housing to live in till they get married.&lt;p&gt;However, there are also some massive developments at the edge of the city, where there are 20-30 panel houses, all huge, and no good public transport. The green areas have been replaced with parking lots and anyone who comes close wants to kill themselves.&lt;p&gt;It is shocking to me, how two buildings built from the same plans, 30 minutes appart, can give such a different impression. One seems like a dream and the other seems like dystopia.</text></comment>

<story><title>The Disappearing Mass Housing of the Soviet Union</title><url>https://www.citylab.com/housing/2017/03/the-disappearing-mass-housing-of-the-soviet-union/518868/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>kbart</author><text>Having grown up in one of these myself in ex-Soviet country, I hate them with passion. The quality of utilities is awful: sewage pipes get clogged all the time and whole buildings smell like piss more often than not, thermal insulation was practically non-existent and tried to be compensated by extensive heating that had poor circulation and no way to be adjusted flat-by-flat basis, so if you live in bottom floors you would have to open windows in the middle of winter, and if you live in the upper floors, you have to sleep with your clothes on and few layers of blankets. Sound isolation was also so poor, you didn&amp;#x27;t even need to turn on TV or radio, because you could hear neighbor&amp;#x27;s clearly. The whole blocks of the same, bleak, monotonous houses are also very depressive place to live in. Currently most of the remaining &lt;i&gt;Khrushchyovkas&lt;/i&gt; are getting renovated (something like this: &lt;a href=&quot;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.manostatyba.info&amp;#x2F;wp-content&amp;#x2F;uploads&amp;#x2F;2016&amp;#x2F;08&amp;#x2F;mazeikiai1-e1391010294723.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.manostatyba.info&amp;#x2F;wp-content&amp;#x2F;uploads&amp;#x2F;2016&amp;#x2F;08&amp;#x2F;mazei...&lt;/a&gt;), but I shudder even to the idea living in any of them again.</text></comment>

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<story><title>Octotree – Proprietary Firefox extension contains AGPL-licensed code</title><url>https://github.com/christianbundy/octotree/issues/1</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>julianlam</author><text>It seems like the problem here stems from the project owner taking the source code as-is and essentially re-licensing it as proprietary, which is a big no-no.&lt;p&gt;For context, when NodeBB faced this possibility, we simply contacted every single contributor and asked nicely if they&amp;#x27;d assign over their ownership of their contribution to us (note the use of the word &amp;quot;assign&amp;quot;, not &amp;quot;license&amp;quot;, a license is revocable, an assignment is not).&lt;p&gt;Future contributions by new parties required signing of the same Contributor Assignment Agreement.&lt;p&gt;Here&amp;#x27;s the CAA if you&amp;#x27;re interested in reading legalese: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;cla-assistant.io&amp;#x2F;NodeBB&amp;#x2F;NodeBB&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;cla-assistant.io&amp;#x2F;NodeBB&amp;#x2F;NodeBB&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;All in all it took us under a week to secure the assignments, and any who did not sign we simply rewrote their lines of code, or we would have, but everybody signed.&lt;p&gt;The bar of effort to clear is so low to avoid this kind of controversy!&lt;p&gt;Reason we went this route: we wanted the flexibility to deliver a proprietary version of NodeBB for those clients that needed it. We get asked often whether there&amp;#x27;s a difference between the proprietary version and the open source version, but there isn&amp;#x27;t, it&amp;#x27;s just for legal reasons.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>simias</author><text>&amp;gt; All in all it took us under a week to secure the assignments, and any who did not sign we simply rewrote their lines of code, or we would have, but everybody signed.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;ve always heard about this possibility but I wonder how one would rewrite code, should the need arise. Wouldn&amp;#x27;t it be hard to do without effectively making a derivative work?&lt;p&gt;Suppose that you remove the code, reimplement it but end up with something that&amp;#x27;s extremely similar to the original (which is very likely since after all you&amp;#x27;re doing the same thing). Couldn&amp;#x27;t the original author argue that it&amp;#x27;s still their code? How do you prove that you did the work and just happened with the same code because that&amp;#x27;s just the most straightforward way to do it?&lt;p&gt;It seems like the only way to avoid the problem altogether would be to have some sort of clean room design:&lt;p&gt;- Dev A reads the code to be removed, writes a spec for the functionality.&lt;p&gt;- Dev A removes the code.&lt;p&gt;- Dev B takes the truncated code and the spec and implements the feature.&lt;p&gt;But that seems very painful to do cleanly, in particular one could argue that B should be a third party who is not intimately familiar with the codebase, otherwise it could be argued that they knew the previous code.</text></comment>

<story><title>Octotree – Proprietary Firefox extension contains AGPL-licensed code</title><url>https://github.com/christianbundy/octotree/issues/1</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>julianlam</author><text>It seems like the problem here stems from the project owner taking the source code as-is and essentially re-licensing it as proprietary, which is a big no-no.&lt;p&gt;For context, when NodeBB faced this possibility, we simply contacted every single contributor and asked nicely if they&amp;#x27;d assign over their ownership of their contribution to us (note the use of the word &amp;quot;assign&amp;quot;, not &amp;quot;license&amp;quot;, a license is revocable, an assignment is not).&lt;p&gt;Future contributions by new parties required signing of the same Contributor Assignment Agreement.&lt;p&gt;Here&amp;#x27;s the CAA if you&amp;#x27;re interested in reading legalese: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;cla-assistant.io&amp;#x2F;NodeBB&amp;#x2F;NodeBB&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;cla-assistant.io&amp;#x2F;NodeBB&amp;#x2F;NodeBB&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;All in all it took us under a week to secure the assignments, and any who did not sign we simply rewrote their lines of code, or we would have, but everybody signed.&lt;p&gt;The bar of effort to clear is so low to avoid this kind of controversy!&lt;p&gt;Reason we went this route: we wanted the flexibility to deliver a proprietary version of NodeBB for those clients that needed it. We get asked often whether there&amp;#x27;s a difference between the proprietary version and the open source version, but there isn&amp;#x27;t, it&amp;#x27;s just for legal reasons.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ckastner</author><text>&amp;gt; &lt;i&gt;It seems like the problem here stems from the project owner taking the source code as-is and essentially re-licensing it as proprietary, which is a big no-no.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; &lt;i&gt;For context, when NodeBB faced this possibility, we simply contacted every single contributor and asked nicely if they&amp;#x27;d assign over their ownership of their contribution to us (note the use of the word &amp;quot;assign&amp;quot;, not &amp;quot;license&amp;quot;, a license is revocable, an assignment is not).&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;This is certainly the correct way to do hit. However, in this specific case, it appears that as of the current code, not many external contributions remain.&lt;p&gt;The author of the original issue in the meantime forked the repo and continued to document the issue there [1] as it was being constantly closed, but as is evident from his own `git blame` analysis, most of the contributions are from staff, and the external contributions are basically negligible.&lt;p&gt;There&amp;#x27;s one author with 30 LOC, one with 10 LOC, and the remaining 12 contributors average less then 4 LOC each.&lt;p&gt;[1] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;github.com&amp;#x2F;christianbundy&amp;#x2F;octotree&amp;#x2F;issues&amp;#x2F;1#issuecomment-719981875&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;github.com&amp;#x2F;christianbundy&amp;#x2F;octotree&amp;#x2F;issues&amp;#x2F;1#issuecom...&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>

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<story><title>Declarative Shadow DOM</title><url>https://webkit.org/blog/13851/declarative-shadow-dom/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>MuffinFlavored</author><text>When would somebody want to use Shadow DOM instead of just the regular DOM? Is shadow DOM the next incarnation of the previous fad before it (virtual DOM)?</text></item><item><author>jacobr</author><text>Almost all examples of Shadow DOM uses Custom Elements, but that’s not required. I think this conflation harms adoption of Shadow DOM.&lt;p&gt;As an example of what you can use the Shadow DOM for - it works fine as the node to render a React app&amp;#x2F;component in. So if you need a couple of React components on a page to not affect each others style, you can do React.createRoot(myShadowRoot) and they’re fully encapsulated.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>acdha</author><text>The “Virtual DOM” isn’t a real thing from the browser’s perspective: it’s just a coding style for generating updates to the real DOM, and the browser doesn’t care about anything until that point just as it didn’t care about jQuery’s internals. The promise was that a vDOM would be faster by avoiding unnecessary updates but that never panned out and the web moved away from IE6 so the React team removed that from their marketing materials to focus on developer ease of use.&lt;p&gt;In contrast, the Shadow DOM is a real browser concept and that affects everything the browser does. Until that arrived, embedding was challenging because anything you added could affect the rest of the document in some way. Now we have a way to put something into an arbitrary location and guarantee that it won’t leak out, and that frees browser developers to make some performance optimizations.&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;developer.mozilla.org&amp;#x2F;en-US&amp;#x2F;docs&amp;#x2F;Web&amp;#x2F;Web_Components&amp;#x2F;Using_shadow_DOM&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;developer.mozilla.org&amp;#x2F;en-US&amp;#x2F;docs&amp;#x2F;Web&amp;#x2F;Web_Components&amp;#x2F;...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;As a practical example, think about social media embedding where people need to write code which is safe to put on millions of pages. Obviously that was possible but it was tedious, and browser developers identified numerous performance hotspots around it over the years. This allows that to be simpler and safer, which is always a great combination.</text></comment>

<story><title>Declarative Shadow DOM</title><url>https://webkit.org/blog/13851/declarative-shadow-dom/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>MuffinFlavored</author><text>When would somebody want to use Shadow DOM instead of just the regular DOM? Is shadow DOM the next incarnation of the previous fad before it (virtual DOM)?</text></item><item><author>jacobr</author><text>Almost all examples of Shadow DOM uses Custom Elements, but that’s not required. I think this conflation harms adoption of Shadow DOM.&lt;p&gt;As an example of what you can use the Shadow DOM for - it works fine as the node to render a React app&amp;#x2F;component in. So if you need a couple of React components on a page to not affect each others style, you can do React.createRoot(myShadowRoot) and they’re fully encapsulated.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>tomxor</author><text>The utility of the shadow DOM is in controlled isolation for both CSS and JS, because nether can arbitrarily reach into a shadow DOM&amp;#x27;s tree via the parent DOM. Although they can be made to intentionally affect it through the root element in a useful but controlled way.&lt;p&gt;A virtual DOM is just an abstraction in JS; whereas the shadow DOM is a feature of the browser engine. They are not really comparable, a shadow DOM _is_ the DOM. The confusion may come from the fact that it can be used in custom elements where MVCs might be involved again.</text></comment>

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<story><title>How I spend less time on YouTube</title><url>https://pawelurbanek.com/youtube-addiction-selfcontrol</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>loloquwowndueo</author><text>The best way I’ve found to spend less time on YouTube is realizing that the vast majority of content is pure garbage and just stay the hell away from it. These days I only visit it when I need something specific (a tutorial on how to do a particular thing, a video the kid wants to watch, etc). And of course uBlock origin is enabled to spare me from the “unskippable ads that are longer than the video itself” experience.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>scrollaway</author><text>YouTube has some of the best, highest quality free content available on the internet today.&lt;p&gt;Stay away from the crap, remove it from your recommendations, subscribe to some good channels. It’s that simple.&lt;p&gt;Don’t if that’s not your thing but you’re missing out. If you change your mind here are a few exceptional channels to get you started, they should cater well to a HN style audience:&lt;p&gt;Technology Connections (misc tech)&lt;p&gt;Wendover Productions (Logistics)&lt;p&gt;DefunctLand (Documentaries on old defunct stuff)&lt;p&gt;Not Just Bikes (Cycling, public transport, urban design, walkability)&lt;p&gt;Practical Engineering (civil engineering)&lt;p&gt;3Blue1Brown (Math)</text></comment>

<story><title>How I spend less time on YouTube</title><url>https://pawelurbanek.com/youtube-addiction-selfcontrol</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>loloquwowndueo</author><text>The best way I’ve found to spend less time on YouTube is realizing that the vast majority of content is pure garbage and just stay the hell away from it. These days I only visit it when I need something specific (a tutorial on how to do a particular thing, a video the kid wants to watch, etc). And of course uBlock origin is enabled to spare me from the “unskippable ads that are longer than the video itself” experience.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>sabjut</author><text>While I agree that &amp;quot;the vast majority of content is pure garbage&amp;quot;, I have to make an argument that a non-negligible portion of the site delivers high-quality educational videos with excellent research. The curiosity-seeking part of my brain is subject to being very easy to get hooked on this.</text></comment>

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<story><title>NZ’s biggest data breach shows retention is the sleeping giant of data security</title><url>https://www.privacy.org.nz/publications/statements-media-releases/new-zealands-biggest-data-breach-shows-retention-is-the-sleeping-giant-of-data-security/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>xp84</author><text>Interesting to see how this plays out in a different jurisdiction to mine. Here in the US, it seems like as long as penalties remain very light, PII retention and security is not taken very seriously.&lt;p&gt;Equifax&amp;#x27;s breach in 2017 was essentially every valuable piece of PII they had, on more than half the households in America, and they settled for $300 million in a civil suit. Their net income (after all expenses) every year is in the $500-700 million range.&lt;p&gt;They should have been fined directly, an amount intentionally set to force complete liquidation, shareholders should have been completely wiped out, and all proceeds from the liquidation after court costs should have been distributed to every victim of the breach.&lt;p&gt;If that was the case, 100% of US companies would now treat PII with the respect it deserves. As it stands, nah, it&amp;#x27;s nbd here.</text></comment>

<story><title>NZ’s biggest data breach shows retention is the sleeping giant of data security</title><url>https://www.privacy.org.nz/publications/statements-media-releases/new-zealands-biggest-data-breach-shows-retention-is-the-sleeping-giant-of-data-security/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>jacquesm</author><text>Companies were told for years that their data is an asset. Instead they should treat it like a toxic substance and a liability, to get rid of it as soon as they can. But it will be a long time before this view will become more prevalent.</text></comment>

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<story><title>Unredacted Antitrust Complaint Shows Google’s Ad Biz Even Scummier Than Imagined</title><url>https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2022/01/unredacted-antitrust-complaint-shows-googles-ad-business-even-scummier-than-many-imagined.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jiripospisil</author><text>When reading things like this (and assuming it&amp;#x27;s true), I always wonder how it works in practice. I mean somebody has to actually implement the trickery in the codebase, right? Does that mean that one day there was a ticket that could be summarized as &amp;quot;Implement scam&amp;quot;? Or was there an attempt to hide the true purpose of the requested changes? Were the programmers not bothered by it? Were they in on it too? Are the implemented changes kept in Google&amp;#x27;s monorepo for everybody to see? Is it hidden somewhere else? Is it hot patched?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>macilacilove</author><text>Here is what to say engineers:&lt;p&gt;(1) BidManipulation is only used in some testing&amp;#x2F;market simulation environment.&lt;p&gt;(2) only used in cases where some pricing bug&amp;#x2F;weird legal issue happened that needs some tweaking to be corrected.&lt;p&gt;(3) only used in some weird markets where it is legal.&lt;p&gt;(4) implement many weird obscure features for &amp;quot;next generation ad experience marketplace stuff&amp;quot; and push them to production leaving it to higher ups to configure which combination of them are being used at which market.&lt;p&gt;(5) empower engineers to come up with additional &amp;quot;whacky ideas&amp;quot; and keep a culture where it is assumed that almost all of them are not passing legal review but they could be enabled at any time.&lt;p&gt;Not a recommendation.</text></comment>

<story><title>Unredacted Antitrust Complaint Shows Google’s Ad Biz Even Scummier Than Imagined</title><url>https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2022/01/unredacted-antitrust-complaint-shows-googles-ad-business-even-scummier-than-many-imagined.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jiripospisil</author><text>When reading things like this (and assuming it&amp;#x27;s true), I always wonder how it works in practice. I mean somebody has to actually implement the trickery in the codebase, right? Does that mean that one day there was a ticket that could be summarized as &amp;quot;Implement scam&amp;quot;? Or was there an attempt to hide the true purpose of the requested changes? Were the programmers not bothered by it? Were they in on it too? Are the implemented changes kept in Google&amp;#x27;s monorepo for everybody to see? Is it hidden somewhere else? Is it hot patched?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>IX-103</author><text>I don&amp;#x27;t even understand the point of the &amp;quot;feature&amp;quot; as described in the article. Dropping bids (possibly including the second highest bidder), sure, that happens all the time when the creative is deemed inappropriate for the website. Changing the way charging is done and doing all the necessary accounting to create a &amp;quot;slush fund&amp;quot; to use to boost other bids? That doesn&amp;#x27;t really even make sense. Keep in mind that Google is already choosing the optimal bid prices based on the page &amp;amp; individual so why would they charge their slush fund when just charge the advertiser&amp;#x27;s account.&lt;p&gt;It sounds a lot like someone is upset that Google values ads on their site lower than ads on other sites and is upset that Google consistently bids less on their site than for other sites for the same ad (again no shock there as Superbowl advertising costs more than daytime television).</text></comment>

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<story><title>The coming tsunami of fakery</title><url>https://grandy.substack.com/p/the-new-normal-the-coming-tsunami</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>marginalia_nu</author><text>The Dead Internet is a mirage caused by the unreasonable effectiveness of digital marketing. You simply aren&amp;#x27;t able to find the living internet behind all the nonsense. That doesn&amp;#x27;t mean it doesn&amp;#x27;t exist. You just need to get off social media and google to find it.&lt;p&gt;Refresh this page as many times as you want, and I&amp;#x27;ll show you the living Internet: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;search.marginalia.nu&amp;#x2F;explore&amp;#x2F;random&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;search.marginalia.nu&amp;#x2F;explore&amp;#x2F;random&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>TheRealDunkirk</author><text>Au contraire. Yes, the beauty of the late 90&amp;#x27;s-early 00&amp;#x27;s internet was Alta Vista, and then Google, which allowed you to find the parts of the living internet that were interesting to you. Now, search engine results will almost never serve you up a single-user&amp;#x27;s web site. They will dutifully shovel you to one of the dozen walled gardens that has become &amp;quot;the internet.&amp;quot; The search engines themselves have become the gatekeepers of this dead, corporate internet, and there&amp;#x27;s no breaking out of it.</text></comment>

<story><title>The coming tsunami of fakery</title><url>https://grandy.substack.com/p/the-new-normal-the-coming-tsunami</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>marginalia_nu</author><text>The Dead Internet is a mirage caused by the unreasonable effectiveness of digital marketing. You simply aren&amp;#x27;t able to find the living internet behind all the nonsense. That doesn&amp;#x27;t mean it doesn&amp;#x27;t exist. You just need to get off social media and google to find it.&lt;p&gt;Refresh this page as many times as you want, and I&amp;#x27;ll show you the living Internet: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;search.marginalia.nu&amp;#x2F;explore&amp;#x2F;random&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;search.marginalia.nu&amp;#x2F;explore&amp;#x2F;random&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>wmeredith</author><text>I had the same reaction to the main thesis of this article. This is like people taking roadtrip across the United States who are only willing to go 1&amp;#x2F;4 mile off the federal highway. They then decry the state of cuisine because the only restaurants left in America are the same 5 fast food joints.&lt;p&gt;Getting outside one&amp;#x27;s comfort zone and putting in the time to find something good&amp;#x2F;interesting&amp;#x2F;new is highly underrated. But it is work. And many a corporate empire has been built by making a mediocre or sufficient experience the most convenient thing.</text></comment>

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<story><title>Apple wins antitrust court battle with Epic Games, appeals court rules</title><url>https://techcrunch.com/2023/04/24/apple-wins-antitrust-court-battle-with-epic-games-appeals-court-rules/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>nu11ptr</author><text>&amp;gt; The App Store continues to promote competition, drive innovation, and expand opportunity, and we’re proud of its profound contributions to both users and developers around the world.&lt;p&gt;How can the app store promote competition when it is a monopoly on iOS? (I suppose they could be talking between different apps, but that isn&amp;#x27;t what this case was about)&lt;p&gt;UPDATE: The comments seem to imply I am giving my opinion on this case. I am not. I am commenting on the PR-speak given here. The app store does not, IMO, &amp;quot;promote&amp;quot; competition...it may arguably not hinder it, but given what the case is about, it is, I think, more competitive if others could use different methods of selling apps on iOS. That doesn&amp;#x27;t mean it is better, right, more fair, or anything else... just more &amp;quot;competitive&amp;quot; IMO. In short, I&amp;#x27;m commenting on the wording in their press release only.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>GeekyBear</author><text>&amp;gt; How can the app store promote competition when it is a monopoly on iOS?&lt;p&gt;The court did not decide that the relevant market was iOS only, as Epic wanted.&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; A threshold issue in any antitrust case is defining the “relevant market.” Here, Epic argued that the relevant market is Apple’s iOS system. Apple argued that the relevant market is the market for all digital video games, where it is one of many players. The court disagreed with both sides, and it instead defined the relevant market as “digital mobile gaming transactions.” Under this formulation, the court found that Apple has a 52–57% market share in the “digital mobile gaming transactions” market. But this was not enough for the court to conclude Apple has monopoly power.&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.klgates.com&amp;#x2F;Court-Issues-Mixed-Ruling-in-Epic-v-Apple-Antitrust-Trial-10-6-2021&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.klgates.com&amp;#x2F;Court-Issues-Mixed-Ruling-in-Epic-v-...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;This article is about Epic losing their appeal of the lower court&amp;#x27;s rulings.</text></comment>

<story><title>Apple wins antitrust court battle with Epic Games, appeals court rules</title><url>https://techcrunch.com/2023/04/24/apple-wins-antitrust-court-battle-with-epic-games-appeals-court-rules/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>nu11ptr</author><text>&amp;gt; The App Store continues to promote competition, drive innovation, and expand opportunity, and we’re proud of its profound contributions to both users and developers around the world.&lt;p&gt;How can the app store promote competition when it is a monopoly on iOS? (I suppose they could be talking between different apps, but that isn&amp;#x27;t what this case was about)&lt;p&gt;UPDATE: The comments seem to imply I am giving my opinion on this case. I am not. I am commenting on the PR-speak given here. The app store does not, IMO, &amp;quot;promote&amp;quot; competition...it may arguably not hinder it, but given what the case is about, it is, I think, more competitive if others could use different methods of selling apps on iOS. That doesn&amp;#x27;t mean it is better, right, more fair, or anything else... just more &amp;quot;competitive&amp;quot; IMO. In short, I&amp;#x27;m commenting on the wording in their press release only.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>gnicholas</author><text>&amp;gt; &lt;i&gt;monopoly on iOS&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;What you&amp;#x27;re doing is assuming &amp;quot;the relevant market&amp;quot; is very narrow. In antitrust law, they say the case is won or lost on how broadly the relevant market is defined. Does Amazon compete against every brick and mortar store, or just other online merchants? The subsequent legal analysis looks very different depending on the answer to that question.</text></comment>

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<story><title>The business of tear gas</title><url>https://www.axios.com/companies-produce-tear-gas-protests-58051fa3-8ac2-4fa7-817f-8cda0af1a14d.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>montecarl</author><text>In my city we have seen several peaceful protesters (some quite some distance away from police) be nearly killed by less lethal ammunition. Being hit in the head or neck by a rubber bullet will drop a person to the ground unconscious instantly. This means they can even hit their head again against pavement. Nobody has died yet, but they are clearly extremely dangerous.&lt;p&gt;We have also seen the use of tear gas. I don&amp;#x27;t want the police to hurt anyone, but I haven&amp;#x27;t seen any long term damage from its use.&lt;p&gt;If police are going to use force, from what I have seen, tear gas is less dangerous. It is still awful. I&amp;#x27;d rather it not be used, but I just wanted to share what I&amp;#x27;ve seen.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ashtonkem</author><text>Police appear to be misusing rubber bullets, possibly on purpose.&lt;p&gt;Rubber bullets are supposed to be fired at shin height, to achieve the appropriate mix of pain and risk reduction. They’re not zero risk because of ricochets, but flat, low trajectories help. It should go without saying that they should only be used when necessary, but if they must be used there is a way it should be done.&lt;p&gt;The number of people being struck in the chest and head by rubber bullets implies that the cops are aiming for the head, a gross abuse of force if true.</text></comment>

<story><title>The business of tear gas</title><url>https://www.axios.com/companies-produce-tear-gas-protests-58051fa3-8ac2-4fa7-817f-8cda0af1a14d.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>montecarl</author><text>In my city we have seen several peaceful protesters (some quite some distance away from police) be nearly killed by less lethal ammunition. Being hit in the head or neck by a rubber bullet will drop a person to the ground unconscious instantly. This means they can even hit their head again against pavement. Nobody has died yet, but they are clearly extremely dangerous.&lt;p&gt;We have also seen the use of tear gas. I don&amp;#x27;t want the police to hurt anyone, but I haven&amp;#x27;t seen any long term damage from its use.&lt;p&gt;If police are going to use force, from what I have seen, tear gas is less dangerous. It is still awful. I&amp;#x27;d rather it not be used, but I just wanted to share what I&amp;#x27;ve seen.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>arethuza</author><text>17 people were killed in Northern Ireland during the Troubles by &amp;quot;rubber bullets&amp;quot; so they are quite capable of killing people:&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;cain.ulster.ac.uk&amp;#x2F;issues&amp;#x2F;violence&amp;#x2F;rubberplasticbullet.htm&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;cain.ulster.ac.uk&amp;#x2F;issues&amp;#x2F;violence&amp;#x2F;rubberplasticbulle...&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>

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<story><title>New Toyotas will upload data to AWS to help create custom insurance premiums</title><url>https://www.theregister.com/2020/08/18/aws_toyota_alliance/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>calmworm</author><text>This removes &amp;quot;New Toyotas&amp;quot; from my list of potential next vehicles, though it&amp;#x27;s likely just a matter of time before all new vehicles have a direct link with insurance companies.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>forgot_account</author><text>I&amp;#x27;m starting to wonder if there will be a growing market for car shops to do what I&amp;#x27;ve done to my Supra:&lt;p&gt;Pull out the entire wire harness and replace it with an aftermarket Power Distribution Module system, ECU, and CAN-BUS controller. Remove all this monitoring and connectivity crap, but keep the best parts of a modern Japanese car: the bulletproof mechanical components. It&amp;#x27;s expensive and time-consuming, but also saves some weight.</text></comment>

<story><title>New Toyotas will upload data to AWS to help create custom insurance premiums</title><url>https://www.theregister.com/2020/08/18/aws_toyota_alliance/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>calmworm</author><text>This removes &amp;quot;New Toyotas&amp;quot; from my list of potential next vehicles, though it&amp;#x27;s likely just a matter of time before all new vehicles have a direct link with insurance companies.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>novok</author><text>Even toyotas sold today have cellular modems that track your location, it&amp;#x27;s called &amp;quot;toyota safety connect&amp;quot;. There is no obvious way to turn it off either.</text></comment>

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<story><title>Irish teen invents magnetic liquid trap to remove microplastics in water (2019)</title><url>https://preparednessmama.com/irish-teen-invents-magnetic-liquid-trap-able-to-remove-up-to-90-of-microplastics-from-water/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>wazoox</author><text>The Ocean Cleanup project started somewhat like this. They made prototypes and extensive testing, and concluded honestly that cleaning the ocean isn&amp;#x27;t doable, so they turned to cleaning up the source of most oceanic plastic: rivers. Their river cleaning boat is completely different from their initial idea, but it works well.&lt;p&gt;Ideas are cheap; execution is hard...</text></comment>

<story><title>Irish teen invents magnetic liquid trap to remove microplastics in water (2019)</title><url>https://preparednessmama.com/irish-teen-invents-magnetic-liquid-trap-able-to-remove-up-to-90-of-microplastics-from-water/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>kwhitefoot</author><text>Sounds plausible but of course there are lots of details to be worked out including how to recover the magnetite and how much it costs&lt;p&gt;But it&amp;#x27;s from September 2019. Does anyone know if anything has happened with the idea in the last 18 months.</text></comment>

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<story><title>&apos;I should not have written &apos;A Clockwork Orange&apos;&apos;</title><url>https://english.elpais.com/culture/2024-01-29/i-should-not-have-written-a-clockwork-orange-how-anthony-burgess-came-to-disown-his-own-novel.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>blindriver</author><text>Kubrick’s version was a failure because he missed the most important part and the last few pages of the book.&lt;p&gt;In the book at the very end Alex decides out of his own free will to stop being violent. Which is the entire point of the book: free will vs being forced to do something. It’s so powerful, I don’t think any book affected as much as that did at the time.&lt;p&gt;Kubrick focused on the violence and the rapes and by leaving out the most important part, it was more soft core porn than anything else and an abject failure in my opinion.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Hasu</author><text>&amp;gt; Kubrick’s version was a failure because he missed the most important part and the last few pages of the book.&lt;p&gt;The American version of the book doesn&amp;#x27;t have the final chapter, and was the basis for Kubrick&amp;#x27;s film. He was aware of the final chapter but never considered using it, as he didn&amp;#x27;t agree with Burgess and thought it didn&amp;#x27;t make sense (this was also the opinion of the American editor who had the final chapter removed).&lt;p&gt;The movie does include the Ludovico technique and all the themes about free will and goodness vs the choice of goodness, it just leaves out the very unrealistic ending where Alex reforms.&lt;p&gt;I think the film is a masterpiece and the book&amp;#x27;s original ending is unrealistic nonsense. I hardly think it&amp;#x27;s the &amp;quot;most important part&amp;quot;.</text></comment>

<story><title>&apos;I should not have written &apos;A Clockwork Orange&apos;&apos;</title><url>https://english.elpais.com/culture/2024-01-29/i-should-not-have-written-a-clockwork-orange-how-anthony-burgess-came-to-disown-his-own-novel.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>blindriver</author><text>Kubrick’s version was a failure because he missed the most important part and the last few pages of the book.&lt;p&gt;In the book at the very end Alex decides out of his own free will to stop being violent. Which is the entire point of the book: free will vs being forced to do something. It’s so powerful, I don’t think any book affected as much as that did at the time.&lt;p&gt;Kubrick focused on the violence and the rapes and by leaving out the most important part, it was more soft core porn than anything else and an abject failure in my opinion.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>AlexandrB</author><text>This take reminds me of how Stephen King considers Kubrick&amp;#x27;s &lt;i&gt;The Shining&lt;/i&gt; a terrible film[1]. I had the misfortune of accidentally renting the Stephen King approved &lt;i&gt;The Shining&lt;/i&gt; miniseries[2], and I have to say - it&amp;#x27;s worse in every way: slow, plodding, and forgettable. I can&amp;#x27;t comment how either compares to the book - I&amp;#x27;ve never read it - but the Kubrick version is the superior film.&lt;p&gt;This is all a long way of saying that faithfulness to the source material is overrated in film. Some written works just don&amp;#x27;t work well when closely adapted to the screen. A few notable movies even manage to twist the original to express a completely different idea or theme (e.g. &lt;i&gt;Starship Troopers&lt;/i&gt;). The original author is not some ultimate authority regarding the meaning of a work.&lt;p&gt;[1] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;faroutmagazine.co.uk&amp;#x2F;why-stephen-king-hated-stanley-kubrick-the-shining&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;faroutmagazine.co.uk&amp;#x2F;why-stephen-king-hated-stanley-...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;[2] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;The_Shining_(miniseries)&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;The_Shining_(miniseries)&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>

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<story><title>Sin and Cos: The Programmer&apos;s Pals</title><url>http://www.helixsoft.nl/articles/circle/sincos.htm</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>pcwalton</author><text>&amp;gt; For some reason I can&amp;#x27;t quite put my finger on, some experienced game programmers are reluctant to use atan2() and prefer the dot product.&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s because atan2, along with all the other inverse trigonometric functions, is incredibly slow. On a GPU, sin and cos may be a couple of cycles, but asin&amp;#x2F;acos&amp;#x2F;atan&amp;#x2F;atan2 may be upwards of 30 or 40.&lt;p&gt;Often times, angles are best avoided when possible for this reason. Normalized vectors end up faster and simpler in many cases.&lt;p&gt;Relevant anecdote: I recently wrote some code to compute normals in 2D and thought I would be clever by encoding the normal as an angle to save space. It turned out that the atan2 call at the end was so slow that it outweighed the cost of everything else I was doing several times over. Lesson learned…</text></comment>

<story><title>Sin and Cos: The Programmer&apos;s Pals</title><url>http://www.helixsoft.nl/articles/circle/sincos.htm</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>0xfaded</author><text>I&amp;#x27;m half way through writing a blog post on how transcendental functions are computed in glibc, and more importantly how to extend the methods to compute things like&lt;p&gt;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt; sin(x) &amp;#x2F; x (1 - cos(x)) &amp;#x2F; x^2 &lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt; directly without incurring the numerical problems arising from the division.&lt;p&gt;One thing to understand is that the stdlib math functions are accurate to machine precision, i.e. the closest representable value to the actual answer.&lt;p&gt;For 32-bit floats, this is achievable using a 5 or 6 order polynomial approximation. However, there was one surprise I was previously unaware of.&lt;p&gt;Obtaining the correct precision becomes difficult when the result is close to zero, since any absolute error is divided by the magnitude of the result. Silly example, if&lt;p&gt;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt; sin(0.000001) ~= 0.1 &lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt; Then the absolute error is small (~0.1), but the result is still off by four orders of magnitude.&lt;p&gt;Sometimes this is not a problem. When x is small, sin(x) can be computed by simply returning x. This rule is valid until x^3&amp;#x2F;6 &amp;gt; precision ~= 1e-38, or x = 4e-16. So exact precision is obtainable by simply returning x if x &amp;lt; 1e-16.&lt;p&gt;But now consider:&lt;p&gt;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt; x = pi&amp;#x2F;2; cos(x) = 0 &lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt; The logical way to compute this is as&lt;p&gt;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt; -sin(x - pi&amp;#x2F;2) &lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt; But this creates another problem, since x - pi&amp;#x2F;2 ~= 0, a catastrophic cancellation occurs. Now recall that glibc is required to be accurate to machine precision, which goes down to 1e-38. But x is order 1 and only represents 7 digits, down to 1e-6. So glibc is forced to scour lookup tables to recover the missing digits of pi.&lt;p&gt;This makes computing cos(x &amp;gt; pi&amp;#x2F;4) about twice as expensive than cos(x &amp;lt; pi&amp;#x2F;4), but there is a certain irony since it is very unlikely x is known down to 7+ digits, so those CPU cycles are wasted. How many times have you seen x = sqrt(a&lt;i&gt;a + b&lt;/i&gt;b + c*c); ?&lt;p&gt;On my 4 year old laptop:&lt;p&gt;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt; time .&amp;#x2F;a.out 0.5 4.12s time .&amp;#x2F;a.out 1.5 7.31s &lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt; On my raspberry pi:&lt;p&gt;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt; time .&amp;#x2F;a.out 0.5 1m15.829s time .&amp;#x2F;a.out 1.5 1m47.522s&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;</text></comment>

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<story><title>How a four-day workweek works, from the companies pulling it off</title><url>https://www.wsj.com/lifestyle/careers/how-a-4-day-workweek-actually-works-from-the-companies-pulling-it-off-1a5c0e2a</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jedberg</author><text>This article is so dramatic. &amp;quot;Look at how hard it was for these companies to go to four days a week.&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s not hard. You just declare Friday a weekend. Then you do everything like before.&lt;p&gt;Did you have meetings on weekends? No? Good, move the Friday ones to another day because they&amp;#x27;re on the weekend now. Who is going to answer customer support emails on Friday? The same people who answered on Saturday and Sunday, and maybe you&amp;#x27;ll pay them extra work on the weekend. What if we can&amp;#x27;t get everything done? You probably weren&amp;#x27;t getting everything done before, and you either worked on Saturday or just said screw it. Do the same thing.&lt;p&gt;The only slightly reasonable issue brought up was the lawyers who wanted to work four days but kept having to go to court on Friday. Yes, if you work with external entities, you either have to be willing to say no to working on Friday or if you can&amp;#x27;t, you have to wait for them to also move to four days. But very few people are actually in a position where they can&amp;#x27;t say no to the client (the lawyer being one of the few exceptions).&lt;p&gt;The WSJ wants to make it sound like a massive undertaking because they are pro-business and anti-worker. Don&amp;#x27;t buy the hype.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ncallaway</author><text>&amp;gt; But very few people are actually in a position where they can&amp;#x27;t say no to the client (the lawyer being one of the few exceptions).&lt;p&gt;Yea, I agree with this. As the lawyer, when the court asks you your preferred dates for scheduling something, don&amp;#x27;t give them a Friday.&lt;p&gt;If the Court asks you to schedule something on a Friday, you could politely request it moved to another day. If the Court says: &amp;quot;too bad, this Court works Fridays, and I&amp;#x27;m going to schedule something for Friday&amp;quot;, then you show up on Friday. Exactly the same way that you would if the Court said: &amp;quot;I&amp;#x27;m going to schedule something for a Saturday&amp;quot;.</text></comment>

<story><title>How a four-day workweek works, from the companies pulling it off</title><url>https://www.wsj.com/lifestyle/careers/how-a-4-day-workweek-actually-works-from-the-companies-pulling-it-off-1a5c0e2a</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jedberg</author><text>This article is so dramatic. &amp;quot;Look at how hard it was for these companies to go to four days a week.&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s not hard. You just declare Friday a weekend. Then you do everything like before.&lt;p&gt;Did you have meetings on weekends? No? Good, move the Friday ones to another day because they&amp;#x27;re on the weekend now. Who is going to answer customer support emails on Friday? The same people who answered on Saturday and Sunday, and maybe you&amp;#x27;ll pay them extra work on the weekend. What if we can&amp;#x27;t get everything done? You probably weren&amp;#x27;t getting everything done before, and you either worked on Saturday or just said screw it. Do the same thing.&lt;p&gt;The only slightly reasonable issue brought up was the lawyers who wanted to work four days but kept having to go to court on Friday. Yes, if you work with external entities, you either have to be willing to say no to working on Friday or if you can&amp;#x27;t, you have to wait for them to also move to four days. But very few people are actually in a position where they can&amp;#x27;t say no to the client (the lawyer being one of the few exceptions).&lt;p&gt;The WSJ wants to make it sound like a massive undertaking because they are pro-business and anti-worker. Don&amp;#x27;t buy the hype.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>manicennui</author><text>I was surprised to see this in the WSJ at all. Obviously they did it so they could sow doubt. This entire article is likely PR for ActivTrak though:&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;Many four-day-week employers don’t appear to be operating more efficiently, though, according to data from ActivTrak, a maker of workforce analytics software. Gabriela Mauch, vice president of ActivTrak’s productivity lab, suspects that is because management hasn’t revamped the way teams work.&amp;quot;</text></comment>

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<story><title>Germany pauses AstraZeneca vaccinations as a &apos;precaution&apos;</title><url>https://www.reuters.com/article/health-coronavirus-germany-astrazeneca/update-1-germany-to-halt-astrazeneca-vaccinations-health-ministry-idUSL8N2LD4T9</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>giantandroids</author><text>You do have to wonder if some of this is politically driven. Germany are losing hundreds of life&amp;#x27;s a day, while in the meantime the UK has administrated 23 million doses (not sure the ratio of those that were AstraZeneca) and not recorded a single fatality or adverse reaction and are seeing infection rates &amp;#x2F; deaths drop. I can understand caution under normal circumstances, but nothing is normal right now.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>drcode</author><text>A problem with bureaucracies is that they often care deeply if people die from an action they are responsible for, but are fine if there are massive deaths due to inaction.</text></comment>

<story><title>Germany pauses AstraZeneca vaccinations as a &apos;precaution&apos;</title><url>https://www.reuters.com/article/health-coronavirus-germany-astrazeneca/update-1-germany-to-halt-astrazeneca-vaccinations-health-ministry-idUSL8N2LD4T9</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>giantandroids</author><text>You do have to wonder if some of this is politically driven. Germany are losing hundreds of life&amp;#x27;s a day, while in the meantime the UK has administrated 23 million doses (not sure the ratio of those that were AstraZeneca) and not recorded a single fatality or adverse reaction and are seeing infection rates &amp;#x2F; deaths drop. I can understand caution under normal circumstances, but nothing is normal right now.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Nursie</author><text>I&amp;#x27;m not sure at this point. When it was one suspicious death, countries suspending the vaccine definitely seemed like an overreaction, and unfortunately this particular vaccine has been something of a political football and subject of a lot of noise.&lt;p&gt;But as more blood-clot deaths emerge... you gotta think caution is wise.&lt;p&gt;OTOH yes, we in the UK have administered a &lt;i&gt;lot&lt;/i&gt; of this stuff, and you&amp;#x27;d think someone would have noticed a serious side effect like this. So far reports from the UK seem to show no greater incidence of blood clot problems than would be expected without the vaccine.&lt;p&gt;Difficult to call, but I hope it&amp;#x27;s all being investigated thoroughly.</text></comment>

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<story><title>Gene patents probably dead worldwide following Australian court decision</title><url>http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2015/10/gene-patents-probably-dead-worldwide-following-australian-court-decision/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ekianjo</author><text>If we could kill patents altogether that would be a much nicer step. Patents are an invention from another Era and make absolutely no sense nowadays, and we see them constantly abused to make our lives worse in the end.</text></item><item><author>mirimir</author><text>Now, if we can just agree that natural products and traditional cures can&amp;#x27;t be patented. India has been fighting hard for that.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mirimir</author><text>I tend to agree with Cyph0n that patents can promote innovation. But &amp;quot;prior art&amp;quot; ought to be defined sanely. If something has been well known in India for thousands of years, how can some multinational patent it? How can some chemical that occurs in nature be patented? And then there&amp;#x27;s the whole universe of stuff that&amp;#x27;s different by one atom over there, and so deemed patentable.</text></comment>

<story><title>Gene patents probably dead worldwide following Australian court decision</title><url>http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2015/10/gene-patents-probably-dead-worldwide-following-australian-court-decision/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ekianjo</author><text>If we could kill patents altogether that would be a much nicer step. Patents are an invention from another Era and make absolutely no sense nowadays, and we see them constantly abused to make our lives worse in the end.</text></item><item><author>mirimir</author><text>Now, if we can just agree that natural products and traditional cures can&amp;#x27;t be patented. India has been fighting hard for that.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>JulianMorrison</author><text>I don&amp;#x27;t think they made any sense from the get go, not even in the steam age.&lt;p&gt;In general, the first implementation of a good idea was a bad one, of limited use, not a well refined concept. And then the patent-holder sat on the patent until it expired, and then - finally - the whatever-it-was became a vital and widely used commodity as creativity started to be applied.&lt;p&gt;So all it did was slow the pace of change.</text></comment>

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<story><title>Her Facebook life looked perfect. How social media masks mental illness (2015)</title><url>https://www.cbc.ca/news/trending/her-facebook-life-looked-perfect-madison-holleran-suicide-highlights-how-social-media-masks-mental-illness-1.3071302</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>RandallBrown</author><text>It also lets you stay connected to people in ways that were impossible before.&lt;p&gt;Chance meetings can become longtime friendships. Great memories that would have faded away no longer have to.&lt;p&gt;For me, social media has mostly improved my life.</text></item><item><author>strikelaserclaw</author><text>Social media is a slow acting poison. It&amp;#x27;s extensive damaging effects will only be felt in 10-20 years. For the most part, it amplifies all the negative traits of humanity, twitter encourages ad hominem style debates and substanceless statements from all strata of soceity. Instagram&amp;#x2F;FB takes the need for human validation and the need to keep pretenses among our peers to a global scale. The next generation will be much more comfortable behind a screen where they can maintain an illusory persona than in real life. This is not taking into accounts the addictive nature of social media in general and how they employ research scientists to work on making their products more addictive.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>avgDev</author><text>To be honest, it is really hard to know if social media did in fact improved your life.&lt;p&gt;One could argue that opiates improve their life, in the short term at least. Therefore, in my opinion parent comment claimed that we will not know the effect of FB for another 10-20 years, and I agree. There is a lot more to us, than what we feel right now, our minds are very complicated. What if in 20 years you starting feeling depressed for no obvious reasons?&lt;p&gt;FB and social media will definitely have a major impact on the human mind. I am not sure if I find value in being friends with people from high school as my mindset has shifted so much I cannot stand people that used to be my friends. Seeing their children and vacation pictures adds no value to my life, it serves as a distraction and makes me want to &amp;quot;keep up with the Joneses&amp;quot;</text></comment>

<story><title>Her Facebook life looked perfect. How social media masks mental illness (2015)</title><url>https://www.cbc.ca/news/trending/her-facebook-life-looked-perfect-madison-holleran-suicide-highlights-how-social-media-masks-mental-illness-1.3071302</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>RandallBrown</author><text>It also lets you stay connected to people in ways that were impossible before.&lt;p&gt;Chance meetings can become longtime friendships. Great memories that would have faded away no longer have to.&lt;p&gt;For me, social media has mostly improved my life.</text></item><item><author>strikelaserclaw</author><text>Social media is a slow acting poison. It&amp;#x27;s extensive damaging effects will only be felt in 10-20 years. For the most part, it amplifies all the negative traits of humanity, twitter encourages ad hominem style debates and substanceless statements from all strata of soceity. Instagram&amp;#x2F;FB takes the need for human validation and the need to keep pretenses among our peers to a global scale. The next generation will be much more comfortable behind a screen where they can maintain an illusory persona than in real life. This is not taking into accounts the addictive nature of social media in general and how they employ research scientists to work on making their products more addictive.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>basilgohar</author><text>My argument would combine both of these sentiments, both parents and GPs, and say that social media has an amplifying effect.&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;ll amplify good intentioned and sincere efforts (reconnecting, sharing good news, etc.) as well as toxic ones (hatred, lies, and so on) just as all forms of media have done in the past as well.&lt;p&gt;The same happened with the printing press as well as the emergence of the Internet itself.</text></comment>

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<story><title>Google Docs will “warn you away from inappropriate words”</title><url>https://twitter.com/pmarca/status/1516463416885399554</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>2bitencryption</author><text>I think there&amp;#x27;s a valid concern with this; a concern which is not necessarily distilled down to &amp;quot;big brother&amp;quot; or &amp;quot;corporate overlords&amp;quot;.&lt;p&gt;Google is so large that any stance they take, no matter how minuscule, has immense influence.&lt;p&gt;Case in point, from this article: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.nytimes.com&amp;#x2F;2018&amp;#x2F;08&amp;#x2F;02&amp;#x2F;technology&amp;#x2F;google-maps-neighborhood-names.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.nytimes.com&amp;#x2F;2018&amp;#x2F;08&amp;#x2F;02&amp;#x2F;technology&amp;#x2F;google-maps-ne...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; For decades, the district south of downtown and alongside San Francisco Bay here was known as either Rincon Hill, South Beach or South of Market. This spring, it was suddenly rebranded on Google Maps to a name few had heard: the East Cut.&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; The peculiar moniker immediately spread digitally, from hotel sites to dating apps to Uber, which all use Google’s map data. The name soon spilled over into the physical world, too. Real-estate listings beckoned prospective tenants to the East Cut. And news organizations referred to the vicinity by that term.&lt;p&gt;My point is, it might seem like a small, inconspicuous change. But at Google-scale, this actually has an impact on the real world, and personally I don&amp;#x27;t feel confident with Google deciding what words are the correct words.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>throwaway13337</author><text>There is indeed something deep going on here.&lt;p&gt;When our communication tools nudge us in a direction, they change who we are.&lt;p&gt;This is a profound change when scaled to the society as a whole and when the way we communicate is dominated by the tools we use. Our tools are an extension of ourselves.&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s for this reason that it&amp;#x27;s a very scary direction we are going with all tools - smart phones, home automation, email software, brain-computer interface, etc - that are extensions of ourselves but agents of companies acting not on behalf of the end user but on the behalf of their own interests.&lt;p&gt;Tools that are an extension of ourselves need to be the agent only of ourselves. We, as individuals, require that to keep our own personhood.&lt;p&gt;It sound dramatic to say, but our essence of being is what&amp;#x27;s at stake here.</text></comment>

<story><title>Google Docs will “warn you away from inappropriate words”</title><url>https://twitter.com/pmarca/status/1516463416885399554</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>2bitencryption</author><text>I think there&amp;#x27;s a valid concern with this; a concern which is not necessarily distilled down to &amp;quot;big brother&amp;quot; or &amp;quot;corporate overlords&amp;quot;.&lt;p&gt;Google is so large that any stance they take, no matter how minuscule, has immense influence.&lt;p&gt;Case in point, from this article: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.nytimes.com&amp;#x2F;2018&amp;#x2F;08&amp;#x2F;02&amp;#x2F;technology&amp;#x2F;google-maps-neighborhood-names.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.nytimes.com&amp;#x2F;2018&amp;#x2F;08&amp;#x2F;02&amp;#x2F;technology&amp;#x2F;google-maps-ne...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; For decades, the district south of downtown and alongside San Francisco Bay here was known as either Rincon Hill, South Beach or South of Market. This spring, it was suddenly rebranded on Google Maps to a name few had heard: the East Cut.&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; The peculiar moniker immediately spread digitally, from hotel sites to dating apps to Uber, which all use Google’s map data. The name soon spilled over into the physical world, too. Real-estate listings beckoned prospective tenants to the East Cut. And news organizations referred to the vicinity by that term.&lt;p&gt;My point is, it might seem like a small, inconspicuous change. But at Google-scale, this actually has an impact on the real world, and personally I don&amp;#x27;t feel confident with Google deciding what words are the correct words.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mdoms</author><text>This is why I&amp;#x27;m concerned about the word &amp;quot;inclusive&amp;quot; in the original tweet. I don&amp;#x27;t want to see the Americanisation (or worse, San Franciscoisation) of all Western cultures.&lt;p&gt;I worked at an Australian tech company that expanded its offices into USA tech hubs. Very quickly our American staff started complaining about non-inclusive phrases commonly used at the company - phrases like &amp;quot;guys&amp;quot; instead of &amp;quot;folks&amp;quot;. In Australia &amp;quot;guys&amp;quot; is a gender-neutral term when used collectively. It&amp;#x27;s very commonly used and not considered non-inclusive by any Australian I know. But of course they forced the change and the word &amp;quot;guys&amp;quot; was effectively retired from conversation there.&lt;p&gt;Is it more inclusive to force an Australian company of largely Australian employees to adopt an American culture because of a few easily offended Americans on staff? Or is that less inclusive? It seems like forcing people to drop their own cultural affectations and assuming that your American ones are the de facto correct ones is (in a small way) rather imperialist.&lt;p&gt;Yes this is a minor example on the scheme of things. But I think it&amp;#x27;s illustrative.</text></comment>

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<story><title>KDE runs on the Apple M2 with full GPU acceleration</title><url>https://vt.social/@lina/109405566112910885</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>umanwizard</author><text>Asahi is getting closer and closer to &amp;quot;daily driver&amp;quot; usability at an amazing pace.&lt;p&gt;Anyone have an idea how soon we should expect GPU support to be in mainline?</text></comment>

<story><title>KDE runs on the Apple M2 with full GPU acceleration</title><url>https://vt.social/@lina/109405566112910885</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>vletal</author><text>Sad that iPads do have open bootloaders. Id be happy using my M1 iPad Pro from time to time.</text></comment>

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<story><title>Intel Core I7-11700K Review: Blasting Off with Rocket Lake</title><url>https://www.anandtech.com/show/16535/intel-core-i7-11700k-review-blasting-off-with-rocket-lake</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>samfisher83</author><text>You have to give whomever came up with 14nm process. Despite being super old it&amp;#x27;s still somewhat competitive. It&amp;#x27;s crazy Intel can&amp;#x27;t fix their process. They make more cash than amd, nvida etc. They make more cash than tsmc.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Tade0</author><text>Intel&amp;#x27;s 14nm process is, in terms of dimensions, closer to TSMC&amp;#x27;s 10nm, and their 10nm is only slightly larger than TSMC&amp;#x27;s 7nm:&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;fuse.wikichip.org&amp;#x2F;wp-content&amp;#x2F;uploads&amp;#x2F;2018&amp;#x2F;02&amp;#x2F;iedm-2017-intel-10-xtor-comparison.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;fuse.wikichip.org&amp;#x2F;wp-content&amp;#x2F;uploads&amp;#x2F;2018&amp;#x2F;02&amp;#x2F;iedm-20...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;That being said they really need to step up their game or else they&amp;#x27;ll be bleeding market share for years to come.</text></comment>

<story><title>Intel Core I7-11700K Review: Blasting Off with Rocket Lake</title><url>https://www.anandtech.com/show/16535/intel-core-i7-11700k-review-blasting-off-with-rocket-lake</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>samfisher83</author><text>You have to give whomever came up with 14nm process. Despite being super old it&amp;#x27;s still somewhat competitive. It&amp;#x27;s crazy Intel can&amp;#x27;t fix their process. They make more cash than amd, nvida etc. They make more cash than tsmc.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>vvanders</author><text>The power consumption graphs are really something. Can&amp;#x27;t believe it almost cracks 300w under avx512 workloads.</text></comment>

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<story><title>Using Artificial Intelligence to Augment Human Intelligence</title><url>https://distill.pub/2017/aia/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>fsloth</author><text>Please take the following as a form of intellectual sparring, and spoken loud hypotheses about art theory.&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;I processed pictures using the Artistic Style Transfer algorithm and then painted them.&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;Isn&amp;#x27;t that just effectively painting by numbers? Autotune for visual arts... and it&amp;#x27;s not interesting once one learns to percieve the effect.&lt;p&gt;The problem is that one takes a less interesting input domain, and runs it through a filter that makes it more aesthetically interesting. Once one learns to percieve the common transfer function my brain filters it back into the less interesting input domain. Music and visual arts as well.&lt;p&gt;When digital images became common there was a huge influx of people who ran their images through photoshop filters and called their output &amp;quot;art&amp;quot;.&lt;p&gt;What one likes, one likes, I have no qualm about that.&lt;p&gt;For me personally, though, that is just tastless, unimaginative and boring. Maybe it&amp;#x27;s because once people use well known domain transfer tools, my brain learns to discern those domain transfers and robs the output of it&amp;#x27;s pleasant features induced by the domain transfer.&lt;p&gt;To provide actual value, the process should make the content somehow more &amp;quot;alive&amp;quot; or &amp;quot;interesting&amp;quot; than just by applying a &amp;quot;trivial&amp;quot; domain transfer, like a well known neural network domain transfer or photoshop filter.&lt;p&gt;Maybe a person should invent ones own domain transfer system, thus not make it commoditized?&lt;p&gt;Many ancient master held their work strictly in secret before it was ready. Maybe, they realized that if the process was known people would recognize it simply as consequent application of various domain transfer functions and the magic would be lost.</text></item><item><author>rememberlenny</author><text>My work is very relevant here.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;m a graffiti artist and a programmer. I started using machine learning techniques to augment street art with various nature landscapes (drone images, rolling hills, etc).&lt;p&gt;By using simple techniques, such as Style Transfer, I have been able to create some interesting images that are aesthetically pleasing, but unusual. I took the digital results and painted the contents on large canvases.&lt;p&gt;I recently invested in some GPUs and a new deep learning rig. Im planning on exploring what unique results I can make around graffiti LETTERS, which are interesting in themselves.&lt;p&gt;Take a look!&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;becominghuman.ai&amp;#x2F;digital-processes-inspiring-analog-paintings-a358eb7801a0&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;becominghuman.ai&amp;#x2F;digital-processes-inspiring-analog-...&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Toast_25</author><text>I get the feeling you didn&amp;#x27;t read the article rememberinglenny posted about his techniques, or maybe you haven&amp;#x27;t painted or drawn before.&lt;p&gt;While he does transfer styles from one domain to another digitally, it doesn&amp;#x27;t end there. He uses the generated images as a basis for physical paintings. For this to be possible a degree of skill is necessary. For example, try drawing yourself using a mirror and your output will be greatly different despite having a perfect model in front of you.&lt;p&gt;I don&amp;#x27;t agree with your last paragraph. That&amp;#x27;s like saying that because C is a very well documented language, programs made with it are trivial. What we do with the tools we have and the experience gained by practice is what makes something &amp;quot;magical&amp;quot;, as well as the message it conveys. This last element, the transmission of the message, is highly dependent on the individual who experiences art. Which means that no piece of art is for everybody.&lt;p&gt;Finally, I agree with what brudgers said: &amp;gt; Saying &amp;quot;I could have made that&amp;quot; is false in the context of art. If a person could have they would have. If they didn&amp;#x27;t, they can&amp;#x27;t. The proof is in the work.</text></comment>

<story><title>Using Artificial Intelligence to Augment Human Intelligence</title><url>https://distill.pub/2017/aia/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>fsloth</author><text>Please take the following as a form of intellectual sparring, and spoken loud hypotheses about art theory.&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;I processed pictures using the Artistic Style Transfer algorithm and then painted them.&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;Isn&amp;#x27;t that just effectively painting by numbers? Autotune for visual arts... and it&amp;#x27;s not interesting once one learns to percieve the effect.&lt;p&gt;The problem is that one takes a less interesting input domain, and runs it through a filter that makes it more aesthetically interesting. Once one learns to percieve the common transfer function my brain filters it back into the less interesting input domain. Music and visual arts as well.&lt;p&gt;When digital images became common there was a huge influx of people who ran their images through photoshop filters and called their output &amp;quot;art&amp;quot;.&lt;p&gt;What one likes, one likes, I have no qualm about that.&lt;p&gt;For me personally, though, that is just tastless, unimaginative and boring. Maybe it&amp;#x27;s because once people use well known domain transfer tools, my brain learns to discern those domain transfers and robs the output of it&amp;#x27;s pleasant features induced by the domain transfer.&lt;p&gt;To provide actual value, the process should make the content somehow more &amp;quot;alive&amp;quot; or &amp;quot;interesting&amp;quot; than just by applying a &amp;quot;trivial&amp;quot; domain transfer, like a well known neural network domain transfer or photoshop filter.&lt;p&gt;Maybe a person should invent ones own domain transfer system, thus not make it commoditized?&lt;p&gt;Many ancient master held their work strictly in secret before it was ready. Maybe, they realized that if the process was known people would recognize it simply as consequent application of various domain transfer functions and the magic would be lost.</text></item><item><author>rememberlenny</author><text>My work is very relevant here.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;m a graffiti artist and a programmer. I started using machine learning techniques to augment street art with various nature landscapes (drone images, rolling hills, etc).&lt;p&gt;By using simple techniques, such as Style Transfer, I have been able to create some interesting images that are aesthetically pleasing, but unusual. I took the digital results and painted the contents on large canvases.&lt;p&gt;I recently invested in some GPUs and a new deep learning rig. Im planning on exploring what unique results I can make around graffiti LETTERS, which are interesting in themselves.&lt;p&gt;Take a look!&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;becominghuman.ai&amp;#x2F;digital-processes-inspiring-analog-paintings-a358eb7801a0&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;becominghuman.ai&amp;#x2F;digital-processes-inspiring-analog-...&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>kowdermeister</author><text>Your last paragraph is right. His only mistake was to publish his creative method. If you just stumbled upon his art in a gallery you would have no idea how those paintings came to be.</text></comment>

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<story><title>Open Source Illustrations Kit</title><url>https://illlustrations.co</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>jankovicsandras</author><text>Seems nice, and it&amp;#x27;s great that it&amp;#x27;s open source.&lt;p&gt;Minor comment: the first COVID examples show two thermometers with 90° , which I guess is Fahrenheit. &amp;gt; 95% of the world population uses Celsius, so this seems a bit USA (and Liberia, etc.) specific (unless you try to boil water). :)&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Celsius#&amp;#x2F;media&amp;#x2F;File:Countries_that_use_Fahrenheit.svg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Celsius#&amp;#x2F;media&amp;#x2F;File:Countries_...&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>

<story><title>Open Source Illustrations Kit</title><url>https://illlustrations.co</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>abetusk</author><text>Nice to see this is actually open source (libre&amp;#x2F;free) under an MIT license [0]. I like these icons a lot, very well done.&lt;p&gt;[0] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;illlustrations.co&amp;#x2F;license&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;illlustrations.co&amp;#x2F;license&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>

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<story><title>World Cup data in JSON</title><url>http://worldcup.sfg.io/</url><text></text></story><parent_chain><item><author>alexcroox</author><text>Ugh I struggled to find something like this before I manually built the DB for &lt;a href=&quot;http://wcfixtures.co.uk&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;wcfixtures.co.uk&lt;/a&gt; Dammit!</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>sturob</author><text>Likewise for &lt;a href=&quot;http://sturob.com/wc14/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;sturob.com&amp;#x2F;wc14&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;We should aim to do better at collaborating on this sort of thing - before the tournament starts.</text></comment>

<story><title>World Cup data in JSON</title><url>http://worldcup.sfg.io/</url><text></text></story><parent_chain><item><author>alexcroox</author><text>Ugh I struggled to find something like this before I manually built the DB for &lt;a href=&quot;http://wcfixtures.co.uk&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;wcfixtures.co.uk&lt;/a&gt; Dammit!</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>llamataboot</author><text>I love your site design!</text></comment>

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<story><title>Journal of Functional Programming moving to open access</title><url>https://www.cambridge.org/core/blog/2021/11/11/journal-of-functional-programming-moving-to-open-access/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>adminprof</author><text>This comes up every time there&amp;#x27;s an article about academic publishing. Yes peer reviewers do the reviewing, but it&amp;#x27;s the long-term infrastructure and coordination that the journal provides.&lt;p&gt;AirBnB&amp;#x27;s content is generated by users, but AirBnB itself requires software development, legal, customer support, HR, program managers, quality control, etc. Same with publishers.&lt;p&gt;Note that this journal now has a publishing fee for authors to cover these costs, rather than a fee for the reader as before. The 2022 fee for each author is $1,705 according to the FAQ. So moving to open access it not about removing the costs (which many people on Hacker News seems to always assume), but changing who pays for it.</text></item><item><author>tux3</author><text>Isn&amp;#x27;t peer review performed by authors, not by journals?</text></item><item><author>threatofrain</author><text>The infrastructure to replace is not the publication part but the peer review and institutional credibility.</text></item><item><author>xupybd</author><text>I don&amp;#x27;t understand what value traditional publishers of scientific journals offer?&lt;p&gt;With the current web it&amp;#x27;s so easy to setup the required infrastructure. No way can the cost of articles be justified.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ggrrhh_ta</author><text>The coordination and most of the infrastructure (except for archival) is actually also performed by us peer reviewers... We set up the conference&amp;#x27;s websites, we find the committees, the reviewers, we distribute the work, we do the reviews, we organize the meetings, we create the instructions for formatting, editing, publishing, etc.&lt;p&gt;We require that some institution is there milking us and the institutions so that we can collect stamps to get to the next level, making everybody waste resources and then finding ourselves not being to access our own publications for free! sometimes requiring (for formal applications) extra paper copies at a high cost!</text></comment>

<story><title>Journal of Functional Programming moving to open access</title><url>https://www.cambridge.org/core/blog/2021/11/11/journal-of-functional-programming-moving-to-open-access/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>adminprof</author><text>This comes up every time there&amp;#x27;s an article about academic publishing. Yes peer reviewers do the reviewing, but it&amp;#x27;s the long-term infrastructure and coordination that the journal provides.&lt;p&gt;AirBnB&amp;#x27;s content is generated by users, but AirBnB itself requires software development, legal, customer support, HR, program managers, quality control, etc. Same with publishers.&lt;p&gt;Note that this journal now has a publishing fee for authors to cover these costs, rather than a fee for the reader as before. The 2022 fee for each author is $1,705 according to the FAQ. So moving to open access it not about removing the costs (which many people on Hacker News seems to always assume), but changing who pays for it.</text></item><item><author>tux3</author><text>Isn&amp;#x27;t peer review performed by authors, not by journals?</text></item><item><author>threatofrain</author><text>The infrastructure to replace is not the publication part but the peer review and institutional credibility.</text></item><item><author>xupybd</author><text>I don&amp;#x27;t understand what value traditional publishers of scientific journals offer?&lt;p&gt;With the current web it&amp;#x27;s so easy to setup the required infrastructure. No way can the cost of articles be justified.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>discardable_dan</author><text>A few things:&lt;p&gt;- AirBnB serves a significantly-larger infrastructure than a website hosting up PDFs. Github with Jekyll can do it.&lt;p&gt;- Software development is really at a minimum for journals. Hosting can be a static blog, and review infrastructure could literally be replaced with e-mailing PDFs &amp;#x2F; text files back and forth, and often devolves to that anyway.&lt;p&gt;- The editor of the JFP uses their university and external grant budgets to cover most, if not all, of their operating time and expenses.&lt;p&gt;- Legal is likely the largest cost (ensuring the journal has sole publication rights, and contracts to that effect), but open access can also simplify this.&lt;p&gt;- Without customers (e.g., open access), there is no need for customer support. HR and program management is a very small minimum, as well.&lt;p&gt;- Nobody involved in the actual journal work (editing, reviewing, etc.) is paid.&lt;p&gt;The cost of $1075 is, frankly, kind of absurd. What does it cost to host a PDF online forever? Volume 31 of the JFP published ~25 research articles, which would be ~$25k. When Github has the infrastructure to entirely eat the hosting cost, what justifies this much money?</text></comment>

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<story><title>SQL: One of the most valuable skills</title><url>http://www.craigkerstiens.com/2019/02/12/sql-most-valuable-skill/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>slap_shot</author><text>SQL is one the most amazing concepts I&amp;#x27;ve ever experienced. It&amp;#x27;s nearly 5 decades old and there is no sign of a replacement. We&amp;#x27;ve created countless other technologies to store and process data, and we always seem to try to re-create SQL in those technologies (e.g. Hive, Presto, KSQL, etc).&lt;p&gt;I run a early stage company that builds analytics infrastructure for companies. We are betting very heavily on SQL, and Craigs post rings true now more than ever.&lt;p&gt;Increasingly, more SQL is written in companies by analysts and data scientists than typical software engineers.&lt;p&gt;The advent of the MMP data warehouse (redshift, bigquery, snowflake, etc) has given companies with even the most limited budget the ability to warehouse and query an enormous amount of data just using SQL. SQL is more powerful and valuable today than it ever has been.&lt;p&gt;When you look into a typical organization, most software engineers aren&amp;#x27;t very good at SQL. Why should they be? Most complex queries are analytics queries. ORMs can handle a majority of the basic functions application code needs to handle.&lt;p&gt;Perhaps going against Craig&amp;#x27;s point is the simple fact that we&amp;#x27;ve abstracted SQL away from a lot of engineers across the backend and certainly frontend and mobile. You can be a great developer and not know a lot about SQL.&lt;p&gt;On the other end of the spectrum are the influx of &amp;quot;data engineers&amp;quot; with basic to intermediate knowledge of HDFS, streaming data or various other NoSQL technologies. They often know less about raw SQL than even junior engineers because SQL is below their high-power big data tools.&lt;p&gt;But if you really understand SQL, and it seems few people truly today, you command an immense amount of power. Probably more than ever.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>nostrademons</author><text>&amp;quot;we always seem to try to re-create SQL in those languages (e.g. Hive, Presto, KSQL, etc).&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;This is largely because of the number of non-programmers who know SQL. Add an SQL layer on top of your non-SQL database and you instantly open up a wide variety of reporting &amp;amp; analytics functionality to PMs, data scientists, business analysts, finance people, librarians (seriously! I have a couple librarian-as-in-dead-trees friends who know SQL), scientists, etc.&lt;p&gt;In some ways this is too bad because SQL sucks as a language for many reasons (very clumsily compositional; verbose; duplicates math expressions &amp;amp; string manipulation of the host language, poorly; poor support for trees &amp;amp; graphs; easy to write insecure code; doesn&amp;#x27;t express the full relational algebra), but if it didn&amp;#x27;t suck in those ways it probably wouldn&amp;#x27;t have proven learnable by all those other professions that make it so popular.</text></comment>

<story><title>SQL: One of the most valuable skills</title><url>http://www.craigkerstiens.com/2019/02/12/sql-most-valuable-skill/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>slap_shot</author><text>SQL is one the most amazing concepts I&amp;#x27;ve ever experienced. It&amp;#x27;s nearly 5 decades old and there is no sign of a replacement. We&amp;#x27;ve created countless other technologies to store and process data, and we always seem to try to re-create SQL in those technologies (e.g. Hive, Presto, KSQL, etc).&lt;p&gt;I run a early stage company that builds analytics infrastructure for companies. We are betting very heavily on SQL, and Craigs post rings true now more than ever.&lt;p&gt;Increasingly, more SQL is written in companies by analysts and data scientists than typical software engineers.&lt;p&gt;The advent of the MMP data warehouse (redshift, bigquery, snowflake, etc) has given companies with even the most limited budget the ability to warehouse and query an enormous amount of data just using SQL. SQL is more powerful and valuable today than it ever has been.&lt;p&gt;When you look into a typical organization, most software engineers aren&amp;#x27;t very good at SQL. Why should they be? Most complex queries are analytics queries. ORMs can handle a majority of the basic functions application code needs to handle.&lt;p&gt;Perhaps going against Craig&amp;#x27;s point is the simple fact that we&amp;#x27;ve abstracted SQL away from a lot of engineers across the backend and certainly frontend and mobile. You can be a great developer and not know a lot about SQL.&lt;p&gt;On the other end of the spectrum are the influx of &amp;quot;data engineers&amp;quot; with basic to intermediate knowledge of HDFS, streaming data or various other NoSQL technologies. They often know less about raw SQL than even junior engineers because SQL is below their high-power big data tools.&lt;p&gt;But if you really understand SQL, and it seems few people truly today, you command an immense amount of power. Probably more than ever.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>rjbwork</author><text>(please excuse my typing. i have one hand to use ATM) yup. we bet super hard on sql too. Its fantastic if you know what you&amp;#x27;re doing. We ca import arbitrary data and expose it as normal tables to our customers for analysis&amp;#x2F;transform&amp;#x2F;export along with having a silod access controlled place for them to see just their data. sql is a great technology, and is extremely flexible.&lt;p&gt;I love it. If you&amp;#x27;re looking to learn it and fundamentals, check out Jennifer Widom&amp;#x27;s course from Harvard. I can safely credit her w&amp;#x2F; my career.</text></comment>

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<story><title>Google is shutting down Stadia</title><url>https://www.theverge.com/2022/9/29/23378713/google-stadia-shutting-down-game-streaming-january-2023</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Rebelgecko</author><text>Ironically, I bet if that Stadia would&amp;#x27;ve done much better if it had launched with the promise of &amp;quot;if we do shut it down, we&amp;#x27;ll refund all your purchases&amp;quot;</text></item><item><author>jedberg</author><text>Google&amp;#x27;s reputation for not supporting things long term is finally starting to affect them in noticeable ways.&lt;p&gt;Developers didn&amp;#x27;t onboard because they were afraid it would get shut down. It got shut down because no one onboarded.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>tshaddox</author><text>Funny story. Two years ago they gave away &amp;quot;Stadia Premiere Edition&amp;quot; kits for free, which was a Chromecast Ultra and a Stadia controller which I believe retailed for USD 100. I wasn&amp;#x27;t particularly interested, but I figured it would be worth a try.&lt;p&gt;But when I got the hardware I tried signing up and realized that apparently I had signed up for the Stadia free trial 6 months earlier. I vaguely remember trying for literally a few minutes on my laptop. This means that the $100 of promotional hardware they sent me is completely useless for its intended purpose.&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s genuinely sad that some manager or team went to all the trouble of getting the budget for this hardware promotion, but couldn&amp;#x27;t or didn&amp;#x27;t reset the free trial for the Google accounts of the recipients. But it might be a clear sign of the general level of competence with which the entire Stadia project was executed.&lt;p&gt;On the bright side, the Chromecast is still quite useful, although I&amp;#x27;m not personally using it and haven&amp;#x27;t found someone to give mine to. Last I checked there wasn&amp;#x27;t any way to use the Stadia controller for anything, but I wouldn&amp;#x27;t be surprised if people could figure out how to &amp;quot;jailbreak&amp;quot; it and make it useful.</text></comment>

<story><title>Google is shutting down Stadia</title><url>https://www.theverge.com/2022/9/29/23378713/google-stadia-shutting-down-game-streaming-january-2023</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Rebelgecko</author><text>Ironically, I bet if that Stadia would&amp;#x27;ve done much better if it had launched with the promise of &amp;quot;if we do shut it down, we&amp;#x27;ll refund all your purchases&amp;quot;</text></item><item><author>jedberg</author><text>Google&amp;#x27;s reputation for not supporting things long term is finally starting to affect them in noticeable ways.&lt;p&gt;Developers didn&amp;#x27;t onboard because they were afraid it would get shut down. It got shut down because no one onboarded.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>pavon</author><text>Or at least use a business model that didn&amp;#x27;t require your customers to put complete trust in the fact that you wouldn&amp;#x27;t shutdown, when you have a reputation for killing projects.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;m not a hardcore gamer and have a pretty weak desktop by gaming standards. If this was setup like an all-you-can-eat subscription, or an al-carte rental, I would have jumped on it in a heartbeat, and if it went away, oh well, I got what I paid for.&lt;p&gt;But the fact that that you had to &amp;quot;purchase&amp;quot; individual games made it a complete non-starter for me. If I purchase something, I want to actually own it, forever, not have temporary access to it at the whim of the publisher&amp;#x2F;service. I don&amp;#x27;t trust any online service to stay active indefinitely, and Google doubly so.</text></comment>

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<story><title>Gitlab and Google Cloud Partner to Expand AI-Assisted Capabilities</title><url>https://www.googlecloudpresscorner.com/2023-05-02-GitLab-and-Google-Cloud-Partner-to-Expand-AI-Assisted-Capabilities-with-Customizable-Gen-AI-Foundation-Models</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>O5vYtytb</author><text>I think my productivity would 2x or 3x if gitlab would work on fixing issues with core features such as task planning. There&amp;#x27;s a lot of minimum viable features that never got improved, especially for those of us on the premium tier.&lt;p&gt;AI sound cool but at this point I&amp;#x27;m just expecting another half baked feature that checks boxes for executives to justify purchasing it.</text></comment>

<story><title>Gitlab and Google Cloud Partner to Expand AI-Assisted Capabilities</title><url>https://www.googlecloudpresscorner.com/2023-05-02-GitLab-and-Google-Cloud-Partner-to-Expand-AI-Assisted-Capabilities-with-Customizable-Gen-AI-Foundation-Models</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>msoad</author><text>&amp;gt; GitLab plans to improve its customers&amp;#x27; DevSecOps workflow efficiency by 10x, by applying AI-assisted workflows&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;m also planning to improve my fitness by 10x from tomorrow. Using AI obviously! But today let me eat this pizza</text></comment>