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<story><title>PEP 594 – Removing dead batteries from Python&apos;s standard library</title><url>https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0594/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>korethr</author><text>Hmm, should perhaps this be worthy of a major version number bump? Yes, it&amp;#x27;s not as large or as breaking of a change as the 2.7-&amp;gt;3.0 transition, but by removing modules from the standard library, backwards compatibility &lt;i&gt;is&lt;/i&gt; being broken. Now, perhaps most people don&amp;#x27;t use those features anymore, but for those people who do use and rely on these modules, a major version number change would be a welcome signal that their code will no longer work with the new version.&lt;p&gt;But, after the initial pain of the 2.7-&amp;gt;3.0 transition, I doubt we&amp;#x27;ll ever see another major version number jump, even if a logical use of version numbers would merit it.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>sago</author><text>Python minor versions allow things to be removed and thus &amp;#x27;break backwards compatibility&amp;#x27;. There is a process for warning of upcoming deprecation then removing it after that. For modules this is documented in PEP 4 (from 2000). Similar deprecation schedules are used by other important ecosystems such as Django.&lt;p&gt;We&amp;#x27;d be on way more than Python 3 if the major version was bumped for each one.</text></comment>

<story><title>PEP 594 – Removing dead batteries from Python&apos;s standard library</title><url>https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0594/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>korethr</author><text>Hmm, should perhaps this be worthy of a major version number bump? Yes, it&amp;#x27;s not as large or as breaking of a change as the 2.7-&amp;gt;3.0 transition, but by removing modules from the standard library, backwards compatibility &lt;i&gt;is&lt;/i&gt; being broken. Now, perhaps most people don&amp;#x27;t use those features anymore, but for those people who do use and rely on these modules, a major version number change would be a welcome signal that their code will no longer work with the new version.&lt;p&gt;But, after the initial pain of the 2.7-&amp;gt;3.0 transition, I doubt we&amp;#x27;ll ever see another major version number jump, even if a logical use of version numbers would merit it.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>enedil</author><text>It&amp;#x27;s also quite possible, that the people who use these features use Python 2 anyway.</text></comment>

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<story><title>New Mac Mini</title><url>https://www.apple.com/mac-mini/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>frognumber</author><text>Is the RAM and SSD upgradeable? The baseline model is 8GB &amp;#x2F; 256GB, and very reasonably priced at $600.&lt;p&gt;Upgrading to 24GB is a whopping $400, and to 1TB is another $400. The $700 baseline seems reasonable. $1500 for a minimum usable machine seems more than a little excessive.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>adolph</author><text>Apple&amp;#x27;s pricing is pretty interesting. On the low side they annoy with a hobbled option (256G storage); on the high side they price things to ask &amp;quot;do you _really_ want 2T ssd in this thing?&amp;quot; In the middle is the product they&amp;#x27;d like to sell the most.&lt;p&gt;An $800 box with a power cord. Spend the same and get a therma-throttled cpu with iOS and display (iPad); a little more and get a monitor (MBA). Spend double and get a larger monitor with a keyboard and mouse (iMac).&lt;p&gt;Maybe the primary question is if the user is cloud first (minimal storage) or classic filesystem packrat (better buy big).</text></comment>

<story><title>New Mac Mini</title><url>https://www.apple.com/mac-mini/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>frognumber</author><text>Is the RAM and SSD upgradeable? The baseline model is 8GB &amp;#x2F; 256GB, and very reasonably priced at $600.&lt;p&gt;Upgrading to 24GB is a whopping $400, and to 1TB is another $400. The $700 baseline seems reasonable. $1500 for a minimum usable machine seems more than a little excessive.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>coder543</author><text>As I mentioned here[0], it is worth considering using an external, upgradeable SSD instead of paying Apple&amp;#x27;s exorbitant prices for more internal storage on a Mac mini. For a laptop, you would definitely want to upgrade the internal storage.&lt;p&gt;[0]: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&amp;#x2F;item?id=34413582&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&amp;#x2F;item?id=34413582&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>

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<story><title>Being Poor by John Scalzi</title><url>http://whatever.scalzi.com/2005/09/03/being-poor/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>inboulder</author><text>$300 is 15 lawns mowed, or 2k cans collected, or probably one post on your facebook page asking for donations.</text></item><item><author>wallflower</author><text>From the comments:&lt;p&gt;&amp;#62; Being poor is discovering that that letter from Duke University, naming you as one of three advanced students in your class invited to test out of HS early into their scholarship program, is just so much firestarter because the $300 it costs to take the test may as well be $3 million.&lt;p&gt;Despair is finally realizing, at nearly 36 and with a barely-afforded AA in English from a community college, just where you could have been by now had you had $300, and what that missed opportunity has truly cost you.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>muhfuhkuh</author><text>&quot;or probably one post on your facebook page asking for donations&quot;&lt;p&gt;I seriously doubt facebook was around back when this person was in school.&lt;p&gt;And, how do you mow 15 lawns with no transport, and the people around you are too poor to even have a lawn, let alone have people mow their lawns for them? Hell, where could he even get the lawnmower in the first place?&lt;p&gt;And, 2000 cans collected is a noble (and green!) act, but there are states where they&apos;ll give a big fat nothing for recycling; in fact, the home state of Duke University (NC, USA) doesn&apos;t offer money for aluminum like up North, unless you&apos;re willing to collect a pound of it and sell it for 20 cents. I guess he could move to another state to get better recycling prices, but then there&apos;s moving costs.&lt;p&gt;Sometimes being poor sucks, and there&apos;s NOTHING you can do. Not saying his case was completely hopeless, but it&apos;s easy to find solutions when there are zero consequences.</text></comment>

<story><title>Being Poor by John Scalzi</title><url>http://whatever.scalzi.com/2005/09/03/being-poor/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>inboulder</author><text>$300 is 15 lawns mowed, or 2k cans collected, or probably one post on your facebook page asking for donations.</text></item><item><author>wallflower</author><text>From the comments:&lt;p&gt;&amp;#62; Being poor is discovering that that letter from Duke University, naming you as one of three advanced students in your class invited to test out of HS early into their scholarship program, is just so much firestarter because the $300 it costs to take the test may as well be $3 million.&lt;p&gt;Despair is finally realizing, at nearly 36 and with a barely-afforded AA in English from a community college, just where you could have been by now had you had $300, and what that missed opportunity has truly cost you.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>patrickyeon</author><text>$300 is a whole lot of suppers you (and your siblings, parents, and whatever other dependents) won&apos;t need to skip.</text></comment>

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<story><title>Japan to fund firms to shift production out of China</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-04-08/japan-to-fund-firms-to-shift-production-out-of-china</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tren-hard</author><text>So Japanese companies move operations to China because it&amp;#x27;s cheaper, leaving Japanese jobs behinds. Those businesses profit from cheap labor, emissions, and materials. Now Japan is subsidizing their return to Japan with $2.2 billion.&lt;p&gt;I really hope the US doesn&amp;#x27;t adopt this (narrator: they will). It&amp;#x27;s a slap in the face to tax payers.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>tanilama</author><text>Moving back to Japan is particularly not appealing anyway, Japan is having a severe labor shortage due to rabidly aging population.&lt;p&gt;And 2.2B is surely not enough to persuade firms anyway on national scale, might work on targeted industry however.</text></comment>

<story><title>Japan to fund firms to shift production out of China</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-04-08/japan-to-fund-firms-to-shift-production-out-of-china</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tren-hard</author><text>So Japanese companies move operations to China because it&amp;#x27;s cheaper, leaving Japanese jobs behinds. Those businesses profit from cheap labor, emissions, and materials. Now Japan is subsidizing their return to Japan with $2.2 billion.&lt;p&gt;I really hope the US doesn&amp;#x27;t adopt this (narrator: they will). It&amp;#x27;s a slap in the face to tax payers.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ShinTakuya</author><text>While I agree in part that it&amp;#x27;s not fair, I would argue against the idea that jobs were lost in Japan. Maybe temporarily lost, but in the end economically you end up finding another way to contribute value and be paid. Moreover the companies can&amp;#x27;t be blamed for taking the most profitable route. It&amp;#x27;s up to the governments to regulate.</text></comment>

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<story><title>Court approves 3M multi-billion dollar settlement over PFAS in drinking water</title><url>https://www.cbsnews.com/minnesota/news/3m-pfas-drinking-water-settlement/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jmakov</author><text>If anybody just gets a speeding ticket and includes that in the price of their product, how can the system self correct?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>xyst</author><text>Executives serving actual jail time. Prohibited from joining the boards of public&amp;#x2F;private companies. Personal liability.</text></comment>

<story><title>Court approves 3M multi-billion dollar settlement over PFAS in drinking water</title><url>https://www.cbsnews.com/minnesota/news/3m-pfas-drinking-water-settlement/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jmakov</author><text>If anybody just gets a speeding ticket and includes that in the price of their product, how can the system self correct?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>lettergram</author><text>The fine was the 1&amp;#x2F;3 of yearly revenue, in 2023 their revenue was $32.68B, net income was -$7B (that’s a negative seven billion).&lt;p&gt;Im not sure of the payment timeline or if they have insurance, but it seems likely this will wipe out a few years of profitability and may force the sale of business units.&lt;p&gt;That said, I do think personal culpability is probably a better incentive and more ethically reasonable depending on the circumstances. Though that’d have to be criminal neglect, using laws we probably already have. In other words, this is a civil penalty, not the same as a criminal case with higher burdens of proof and motives need to be established.</text></comment>

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<story><title>China state CCTV avoids crowd close ups at the World Cup</title><url>https://twitter.com/billbirtles/status/1596935475725406208</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>DriftRegion</author><text>Yeah. When people in mainland China saw all the unmasked foreigners at The World Cup it spawned a lot of ideation. I&amp;#x27;ll summarize the ideas I&amp;#x27;ve seen floating around the Chinese internet:&lt;p&gt;- It&amp;#x27;s a money-making scam by the COVID test manufacturers&lt;p&gt;- It&amp;#x27;s a money-making scam by the temporary quarantine center manufacturers&lt;p&gt;- It&amp;#x27;s a failure of bureaucracy ”层层加码”&lt;p&gt;- It&amp;#x27;s a ploy to increase the depth of state surveillance&lt;p&gt;- It&amp;#x27;s a ploy to lock people at home and increase the birth rate&lt;p&gt;- It&amp;#x27;s a ploy to keep the poor poor to ensure that they keep working hard&lt;p&gt;- It&amp;#x27;s to mitigate war with the United States. Apparently the Geneva convention has a clause against going to war with a nation stricken by a pandemic.</text></comment>

<story><title>China state CCTV avoids crowd close ups at the World Cup</title><url>https://twitter.com/billbirtles/status/1596935475725406208</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>hanoz</author><text>What is going on with China&amp;#x27;s continuing zero-covid policy? Either it&amp;#x27;s the most expensive face saving exercise the world has ever seen, or they know something about it that we don&amp;#x27;t.</text></comment>

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<story><title>After Snowden, the NSA Faces Recruitment Challenge</title><url>http://www.npr.org/2015/03/31/395829446/after-snowden-the-nsa-faces-recruitment-challenge</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>schoen</author><text>I think people often underestimate it, but one of the biggest influences you can have -- I mean you, the HN reader! -- may be &lt;i&gt;cultural&lt;/i&gt;.&lt;p&gt;People who work on building surveillance, people who have done it, people who may do it in the future, are your classmates in your CS program, your colleagues in your startup, your neighbors, your fellow conference attendees, &lt;i&gt;you&lt;/i&gt;.&lt;p&gt;Folks who work at NSA (and all the other places that don&amp;#x27;t get so much press) read xkcd religiously, they go to DEF CON, they have Linux and math t-shirts, they read HN, they are reading this thread right now, and all the other threads.&lt;p&gt;If people like you in the cultures that you&amp;#x27;re part of decide that surveillance is cool and exciting, that&amp;#x27;s more talent to take the billions of dollars and vast intellectual challenges of figuring out how to eliminate the vestiges of privacy. If they decide it&amp;#x27;s uncool and sketchy, that&amp;#x27;s more talent that goes elsewhere and does something else.&lt;p&gt;There are many overlapping subcultures in technology and they don&amp;#x27;t all understand or talk to each other that much, and plenty of technology employers are recruiting out of many different subcultures, so you can&amp;#x27;t assume that the culture you create in your circles will &lt;i&gt;control&lt;/i&gt; the path of technology. But the cultural attitudes of people in the tech world can have a powerful effect on what people decide is worth working on.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>discardorama</author><text>&amp;gt; &lt;i&gt;I think people often underestimate it, but one of the biggest influences you can have -- I mean you, the HN reader! -- may be cultural.&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; People who work on building surveillance, people who have done it, people who may do it in the future, are your classmates in your CS program, your colleagues in your startup, your neighbors, your fellow conference attendees, you.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;Exactly. I wish more people here would realise this. The powers-that-be &lt;i&gt;do&lt;/i&gt; realize this, and are concerned about it. I remember when the &amp;quot;Fifth Estate&amp;quot; movie came out (which was critical of Assange), everyone in our company (a large tech company that I won&amp;#x27;t name) was given free tickets (and the afternoon off) to go see it. First time ever we were given such free tickets; I wonder why?</text></comment>

<story><title>After Snowden, the NSA Faces Recruitment Challenge</title><url>http://www.npr.org/2015/03/31/395829446/after-snowden-the-nsa-faces-recruitment-challenge</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>schoen</author><text>I think people often underestimate it, but one of the biggest influences you can have -- I mean you, the HN reader! -- may be &lt;i&gt;cultural&lt;/i&gt;.&lt;p&gt;People who work on building surveillance, people who have done it, people who may do it in the future, are your classmates in your CS program, your colleagues in your startup, your neighbors, your fellow conference attendees, &lt;i&gt;you&lt;/i&gt;.&lt;p&gt;Folks who work at NSA (and all the other places that don&amp;#x27;t get so much press) read xkcd religiously, they go to DEF CON, they have Linux and math t-shirts, they read HN, they are reading this thread right now, and all the other threads.&lt;p&gt;If people like you in the cultures that you&amp;#x27;re part of decide that surveillance is cool and exciting, that&amp;#x27;s more talent to take the billions of dollars and vast intellectual challenges of figuring out how to eliminate the vestiges of privacy. If they decide it&amp;#x27;s uncool and sketchy, that&amp;#x27;s more talent that goes elsewhere and does something else.&lt;p&gt;There are many overlapping subcultures in technology and they don&amp;#x27;t all understand or talk to each other that much, and plenty of technology employers are recruiting out of many different subcultures, so you can&amp;#x27;t assume that the culture you create in your circles will &lt;i&gt;control&lt;/i&gt; the path of technology. But the cultural attitudes of people in the tech world can have a powerful effect on what people decide is worth working on.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Taek</author><text>I have a few friends who either work for the NSA or have worked for the NSA, and there&amp;#x27;s a stigma that follows them around. They get shamed for it (under the guise of humor), and people are clearly uneasy talking about things like drug use around said friends.&lt;p&gt;At least in my community, there&amp;#x27;s a strong negative pressure and stigma associated with working for certain parts of the government. And I guarantee that this impacts the NSA&amp;#x27;s ability to recruit from our talented pool of developers.</text></comment>

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<story><title>54% of Portugal’s electricity is now generated by renewable energy</title><url>https://www.theportugalnews.com/news/2023-09-30/54-of-portugals-electricity-is-now-generated-by-renewable-energy/81840</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>meiraleal</author><text>Ironically, still very far from Brazil&amp;#x27;s 84%. Meanwhile the UE thinks it can lecture South America countries about how to preserve nature.</text></item><item><author>Al-Khwarizmi</author><text>&amp;quot;renewable energy sources accounting for 54% of its energy consumption in 2019. This is higher than the EU average of 18%&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;higher&amp;quot;: quite an understatement.&lt;p&gt;Go, Portugal!</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>klysm</author><text>Renewable energy generation and aggressive deforestation and ecological destruction are orthogonal</text></comment>

<story><title>54% of Portugal’s electricity is now generated by renewable energy</title><url>https://www.theportugalnews.com/news/2023-09-30/54-of-portugals-electricity-is-now-generated-by-renewable-energy/81840</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>meiraleal</author><text>Ironically, still very far from Brazil&amp;#x27;s 84%. Meanwhile the UE thinks it can lecture South America countries about how to preserve nature.</text></item><item><author>Al-Khwarizmi</author><text>&amp;quot;renewable energy sources accounting for 54% of its energy consumption in 2019. This is higher than the EU average of 18%&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;higher&amp;quot;: quite an understatement.&lt;p&gt;Go, Portugal!</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>onethought</author><text>I mean having great renewables while clearfelling the rainforest is probably still net negative.</text></comment>

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<story><title>Meet The Team</title><url>http://www.6wunderkinder.com/about/</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>juliamae</author><text>I guess I&apos;m the outlier, but I think this page is trying too hard. It turns me off because it seems fake, sugary sweet, attempting to be cute for the sake of being cute. The bios barely say anything of value about the people; they&apos;re idealized descriptions of what the perfect person for each job would be. I do think it&apos;s nice visually, but the length of the page annoys me.</text></comment>

<story><title>Meet The Team</title><url>http://www.6wunderkinder.com/about/</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>jjcm</author><text>Very engaging. A good design with decent writing made me enjoy reading the entire thing (and made me want to). I&apos;ll definitely save this page in my list of examples of great web page designs.</text></comment>

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<story><title>Why Greet Apple&apos;s Swift 2.0 With Open Arms?</title><url>http://ebb.org/bkuhn/blog/2015/06/15/apple-is-not-our-friend.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>nickysielicki</author><text>&lt;i&gt;&lt;/i&gt;EDIT: I&amp;#x27;m wrong see below&lt;i&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; &amp;quot;I&amp;#x27;m a bit unclear what you seem to think is lost under these circumstances versus copylefted software. Let&amp;#x27;s say Apple released Swift under the GPL. They would still be free to do all of the things you describe.&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;Absolutely not. GPL means anything you put out must be published. If LLVM and Swift are GPL&amp;#x27;d they can&amp;#x27;t develop additions to them, ship them on their Macbooks, and not publish the changes to the rest of the internet.&lt;p&gt;This is what&amp;#x27;s happening right now with LLVM.</text></item><item><author>matthewmacleod</author><text>&lt;i&gt;Imagine Swift becomes a wild success … Will you brush it off again as an understandable move by Apple?&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;m a bit unclear what you seem to think is lost under these circumstances versus copylefted software. Let&amp;#x27;s say Apple released Swift under the GPL. They would still be free to do all of the things you describe.&lt;p&gt;&lt;i&gt;So as a developer right now, given that you have a plethora of open tools and an open ecosystem, why would you choose to use a language where a company has the opportunity to manipulate you in the future?&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;This is, as above, no different from the copyleft case.&lt;p&gt;&lt;i&gt;So as a developer right now, given that you have a plethora of open tools and an open ecosystem, why would you choose to use a language where a company has the opportunity to manipulate you in the future?&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s extraordinary difficult to argue that Apple would be in a position to manipulate me as a developer if I started using Swift. For one thing, once the code is open-source – that&amp;#x27;s it. I can continue developing software using that language. If Apple decide not to release new features, and instead keep them proprietary, then the community is free to fork development.&lt;p&gt;More importantly, if it&amp;#x27;s important to members of the free software community, they are &lt;i&gt;entirely able to develop capital-F-free software on top of Apple&amp;#x27;s release!&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;m really thankful for copyleft licensing and the amazing tools it&amp;#x27;s given us. But it&amp;#x27;s a vary complex issue, and I just don&amp;#x27;t agree that release under a license with &lt;i&gt;fewer restrictions&lt;/i&gt; is necessarily a bad thing!</text></item><item><author>nickysielicki</author><text>Imagine Swift becomes a wild success; everyone&amp;#x27;s writing everything in Swift. What will your reaction be when Apple again makes a &amp;quot;legitimate business decision&amp;quot; and leverages the success to the benefit of their company and implicitly disadvantages other platforms? Maybe they double up on Swift support on Mac and start shipping additional features first for LLVM&amp;#x2F;Clang on OSX. Will you brush it off again as an understandable move by Apple?&lt;p&gt;I think you would. I certainly wouldn&amp;#x27;t be happy with Apple for doing it, but I would definitely say it&amp;#x27;s understandable. Like you&amp;#x27;re saying, they&amp;#x27;re a business, they make business decisions.&lt;p&gt;The point I&amp;#x27;m trying to make there is any problems that arise from this fall squarely on the developers choosing to embrace this new language. I&amp;#x27;m not writing this comment to convince Apple to act differently. The original post didn&amp;#x27;t make those arguments to Apple. This is all directed at developers, trying to change THEIR actions and feelings.&lt;p&gt;So as a developer right now, given that you have a plethora of open tools and an open ecosystem, why would you choose to use a language where a company has the opportunity to manipulate you in the future? Why write libraries and provide support and do this work for free for Apple? Writing libraries for the benefit of the community provides some security in that no one except the community stands to benefit from it. You can go to sleep happy knowing that you&amp;#x27;re helping out your fellow devs.&lt;p&gt;Writing for the benefit of a community that is paired with executive power means that it can all be swept from under you. Your library is still helping your fellow dev, but it helps the fellow dev with OSX 10.12 more. Now you&amp;#x27;ve contributed to Apple&amp;#x27;s bottom line. Was that your intention?&lt;p&gt;I completely disagree with other commenters in this thread that we have some obligation to be thankful for companies for putting out things with strings attached. I&amp;#x27;m not a spoiled brat for not liking everything. These companies would be absolutely nothing without their developers. It&amp;#x27;s time the community sticks together and realizes the power they have. It&amp;#x27;s not unthankful to demand more. It&amp;#x27;s dangerous to get swept up in the excitement of new languages and to assume good graces. Look no further than what Apple has done to Webkit, LLVM, CUPS and more. First class on OSX, give back only what&amp;#x27;s not newest. Swift will certainly be the same way.</text></item><item><author>matthewmacleod</author><text>It&amp;#x27;s frustrating to see this somewhat blinkered view.&lt;p&gt;Yeah, Apple definitely doesn&amp;#x27;t like copyleft. That&amp;#x27;s okay; lots of people don&amp;#x27;t (especially larger companies – how many large companies actively release GPLd software?). It&amp;#x27;s a legitimate business decision, and there are some good arguments that support it (which you may or may not agree with).&lt;p&gt;The idea that organisations &amp;#x27;owe&amp;#x27; the community copyleft software is therefore a bit foreign to me.&lt;p&gt;Furthermore:&lt;p&gt;&lt;i&gt;We&amp;#x27;ll likely see pieces of Swift 2.0 thrown over the wall. But the best stuff will be kept proprietary.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;That&amp;#x27;s a bit of a weird assumption. Apple&amp;#x27;s statement was the the Swift code and standard library would be open-sourced. What is the &amp;#x27;best stuff&amp;#x27; that we&amp;#x27;re not going to get?&lt;p&gt;&lt;i&gt;Apple&amp;#x27;s not-yet-executed move to liberate some of the Swift 2.0 code seems a tactical stunt to win over developers who currently prefer the relatively more open nature of the Android&amp;#x2F;Linux platform … the copyleft license of Linux itself provides the opportunity to keep the core operating system of Android liberated.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;That&amp;#x27;s a bit flaccid. Google and the Android platform has equally went out of the way to isolate the platform from the effects of the GPL. In fact, I&amp;#x27;m pretty sure one of the reasons Bionic (the Android libc) exists is specifically to limit the impact of GPL code on the platform. Android&amp;#x27;s use of Linux is basically a historical accident, and painting it as some kind of concerted effort towards software freedom isn&amp;#x27;t a compelling point.&lt;p&gt;TL;DR - you need to relax. Apple releasing open-source code is a good thing. We can now all benefit from using this code. Maybe you&amp;#x27;d prefer if it were copylefted, but it&amp;#x27;s not – it&amp;#x27;s still good, and painting it as an evil move against software freedom seems like a bit of a mental stretch.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>matthewmacleod</author><text>&lt;i&gt;If LLVM and Swift are GPL&amp;#x27;d they can&amp;#x27;t develop additions to them, ship them on their Macbooks, and not publish the changes to the rest of the internet.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;This is true if you redistribute the GPL code of others.&lt;p&gt;However, as the copyright holders, Apple are free to release their code under whatever license they wish, or to refrain from releasing it. They can ship it on MacBooks, and are under no obligation to release the source code.&lt;p&gt;You could argue that they couldn&amp;#x27;t accept GPLd submissions anyway, but since they&amp;#x27;d require copyright assignment in any case it&amp;#x27;s a moot point.</text></comment>

<story><title>Why Greet Apple&apos;s Swift 2.0 With Open Arms?</title><url>http://ebb.org/bkuhn/blog/2015/06/15/apple-is-not-our-friend.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>nickysielicki</author><text>&lt;i&gt;&lt;/i&gt;EDIT: I&amp;#x27;m wrong see below&lt;i&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; &amp;quot;I&amp;#x27;m a bit unclear what you seem to think is lost under these circumstances versus copylefted software. Let&amp;#x27;s say Apple released Swift under the GPL. They would still be free to do all of the things you describe.&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;Absolutely not. GPL means anything you put out must be published. If LLVM and Swift are GPL&amp;#x27;d they can&amp;#x27;t develop additions to them, ship them on their Macbooks, and not publish the changes to the rest of the internet.&lt;p&gt;This is what&amp;#x27;s happening right now with LLVM.</text></item><item><author>matthewmacleod</author><text>&lt;i&gt;Imagine Swift becomes a wild success … Will you brush it off again as an understandable move by Apple?&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;m a bit unclear what you seem to think is lost under these circumstances versus copylefted software. Let&amp;#x27;s say Apple released Swift under the GPL. They would still be free to do all of the things you describe.&lt;p&gt;&lt;i&gt;So as a developer right now, given that you have a plethora of open tools and an open ecosystem, why would you choose to use a language where a company has the opportunity to manipulate you in the future?&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;This is, as above, no different from the copyleft case.&lt;p&gt;&lt;i&gt;So as a developer right now, given that you have a plethora of open tools and an open ecosystem, why would you choose to use a language where a company has the opportunity to manipulate you in the future?&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s extraordinary difficult to argue that Apple would be in a position to manipulate me as a developer if I started using Swift. For one thing, once the code is open-source – that&amp;#x27;s it. I can continue developing software using that language. If Apple decide not to release new features, and instead keep them proprietary, then the community is free to fork development.&lt;p&gt;More importantly, if it&amp;#x27;s important to members of the free software community, they are &lt;i&gt;entirely able to develop capital-F-free software on top of Apple&amp;#x27;s release!&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;m really thankful for copyleft licensing and the amazing tools it&amp;#x27;s given us. But it&amp;#x27;s a vary complex issue, and I just don&amp;#x27;t agree that release under a license with &lt;i&gt;fewer restrictions&lt;/i&gt; is necessarily a bad thing!</text></item><item><author>nickysielicki</author><text>Imagine Swift becomes a wild success; everyone&amp;#x27;s writing everything in Swift. What will your reaction be when Apple again makes a &amp;quot;legitimate business decision&amp;quot; and leverages the success to the benefit of their company and implicitly disadvantages other platforms? Maybe they double up on Swift support on Mac and start shipping additional features first for LLVM&amp;#x2F;Clang on OSX. Will you brush it off again as an understandable move by Apple?&lt;p&gt;I think you would. I certainly wouldn&amp;#x27;t be happy with Apple for doing it, but I would definitely say it&amp;#x27;s understandable. Like you&amp;#x27;re saying, they&amp;#x27;re a business, they make business decisions.&lt;p&gt;The point I&amp;#x27;m trying to make there is any problems that arise from this fall squarely on the developers choosing to embrace this new language. I&amp;#x27;m not writing this comment to convince Apple to act differently. The original post didn&amp;#x27;t make those arguments to Apple. This is all directed at developers, trying to change THEIR actions and feelings.&lt;p&gt;So as a developer right now, given that you have a plethora of open tools and an open ecosystem, why would you choose to use a language where a company has the opportunity to manipulate you in the future? Why write libraries and provide support and do this work for free for Apple? Writing libraries for the benefit of the community provides some security in that no one except the community stands to benefit from it. You can go to sleep happy knowing that you&amp;#x27;re helping out your fellow devs.&lt;p&gt;Writing for the benefit of a community that is paired with executive power means that it can all be swept from under you. Your library is still helping your fellow dev, but it helps the fellow dev with OSX 10.12 more. Now you&amp;#x27;ve contributed to Apple&amp;#x27;s bottom line. Was that your intention?&lt;p&gt;I completely disagree with other commenters in this thread that we have some obligation to be thankful for companies for putting out things with strings attached. I&amp;#x27;m not a spoiled brat for not liking everything. These companies would be absolutely nothing without their developers. It&amp;#x27;s time the community sticks together and realizes the power they have. It&amp;#x27;s not unthankful to demand more. It&amp;#x27;s dangerous to get swept up in the excitement of new languages and to assume good graces. Look no further than what Apple has done to Webkit, LLVM, CUPS and more. First class on OSX, give back only what&amp;#x27;s not newest. Swift will certainly be the same way.</text></item><item><author>matthewmacleod</author><text>It&amp;#x27;s frustrating to see this somewhat blinkered view.&lt;p&gt;Yeah, Apple definitely doesn&amp;#x27;t like copyleft. That&amp;#x27;s okay; lots of people don&amp;#x27;t (especially larger companies – how many large companies actively release GPLd software?). It&amp;#x27;s a legitimate business decision, and there are some good arguments that support it (which you may or may not agree with).&lt;p&gt;The idea that organisations &amp;#x27;owe&amp;#x27; the community copyleft software is therefore a bit foreign to me.&lt;p&gt;Furthermore:&lt;p&gt;&lt;i&gt;We&amp;#x27;ll likely see pieces of Swift 2.0 thrown over the wall. But the best stuff will be kept proprietary.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;That&amp;#x27;s a bit of a weird assumption. Apple&amp;#x27;s statement was the the Swift code and standard library would be open-sourced. What is the &amp;#x27;best stuff&amp;#x27; that we&amp;#x27;re not going to get?&lt;p&gt;&lt;i&gt;Apple&amp;#x27;s not-yet-executed move to liberate some of the Swift 2.0 code seems a tactical stunt to win over developers who currently prefer the relatively more open nature of the Android&amp;#x2F;Linux platform … the copyleft license of Linux itself provides the opportunity to keep the core operating system of Android liberated.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;That&amp;#x27;s a bit flaccid. Google and the Android platform has equally went out of the way to isolate the platform from the effects of the GPL. In fact, I&amp;#x27;m pretty sure one of the reasons Bionic (the Android libc) exists is specifically to limit the impact of GPL code on the platform. Android&amp;#x27;s use of Linux is basically a historical accident, and painting it as some kind of concerted effort towards software freedom isn&amp;#x27;t a compelling point.&lt;p&gt;TL;DR - you need to relax. Apple releasing open-source code is a good thing. We can now all benefit from using this code. Maybe you&amp;#x27;d prefer if it were copylefted, but it&amp;#x27;s not – it&amp;#x27;s still good, and painting it as an evil move against software freedom seems like a bit of a mental stretch.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>GFK_of_xmaspast</author><text>LLVM is not GPL&amp;#x27;d because the FSF didn&amp;#x27;t want it.</text></comment>

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<story><title>How I created two images with the same MD5 hash</title><url>http://natmchugh.blogspot.com/2014/10/how-i-created-two-images-with-same-md5.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>est</author><text>tl;dr collision by appending data at the end of .jpeg file.&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; The chosen prefix collision attack works by repeatedly adding &amp;#x27;near collision&amp;#x27; blocks which gradually work to eliminate the differences in the internal MD5 state until they are the same&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; This type of collision is has been termed a chosen prefix collision. In this case the image data is the prefix or to be more exact the internal state of the MD5 algorithm after processing the image is. You can&amp;#x27;t see the added binary data at the end of jpeg images as it is preceded with an End Of Image JPEG marker.</text></comment>

<story><title>How I created two images with the same MD5 hash</title><url>http://natmchugh.blogspot.com/2014/10/how-i-created-two-images-with-same-md5.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>hrjet</author><text>Do I understand this right: if the length of the original file is specified along with the hash, then such attacks are not trivial?</text></comment>

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<story><title>The pool of talented C++ developers is running dry</title><url>https://www.efinancialcareers.com/news/2022/11/why-is-there-a-drought-in-the-talent-pool-for-c-developers</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>intelVISA</author><text>As a C++ enjoyer I would 100% have learned Rust if it was around when I started... just for Cargo alone.&lt;p&gt;Problem is now I&amp;#x27;ve already done my time in the Makefile trenches there&amp;#x27;s little incentive in me re-learning another systems lang and having to compete with lots of smarter people, with more Rust exp, for jobs whilst giving up all my arcane knowledge of CMake and friends.&lt;p&gt;Rust being popular atm is great for C++ if I&amp;#x27;m honest as it siphons away a new gen of systems programmers over to another lang allowing me to sell my dark services for more coins.</text></item><item><author>rychco</author><text>I’ll offer a perspective unrelated to pay: It’s a pain to start learning C++, and even after you do, older devs will roast the hell out of your code because your book&amp;#x2F;tutorials of choice forgot to mention a crucial (in their opinion) feature that you absolutely should&amp;#x2F;shouldn’t use! Not to mention you’ve only programmed on Mac&amp;#x2F;Linux so far &amp;amp; windows is totally different, has a different compiler, different ways to install libraries, different C++ standard features supported, etc.&lt;p&gt;I like C++, and tooling has come a long way, but it’s so much easier to download rust&amp;#x2F;Python&amp;#x2F;node and you’re basically set on every platform &amp;amp; immediately ready to go. NOW consider pay, and even someone enthusiastic about programming C++ will reconsider.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ahepp</author><text>&amp;gt; it siphons away a new gen of systems programmers over to another lang allowing me to sell my dark services for more coins&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;ve always been curious about whether it really works this way. First order, one would consider supply and demand leading to increased wages. But whenever I&amp;#x27;ve looked into the reports of &amp;quot;COBOL programmers are getting paid a fortune because there are so few of them alive!&amp;quot;, the reality has been that wages are ... unimpressive.&lt;p&gt;My hypothesis is that as the talent pool shifts elsewhere, the market dries up. For instance, new projects aren&amp;#x27;t started in COBOL any more (well, at least anywhere I&amp;#x27;ve seen...). You&amp;#x27;re left doing maintenance on ancient systems, where the calculus is always &amp;quot;this needs to be cheaper than a new solution&amp;quot;. Maybe it&amp;#x27;s the &amp;quot;liquidity&amp;quot; of the job market for a given language?</text></comment>

<story><title>The pool of talented C++ developers is running dry</title><url>https://www.efinancialcareers.com/news/2022/11/why-is-there-a-drought-in-the-talent-pool-for-c-developers</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>intelVISA</author><text>As a C++ enjoyer I would 100% have learned Rust if it was around when I started... just for Cargo alone.&lt;p&gt;Problem is now I&amp;#x27;ve already done my time in the Makefile trenches there&amp;#x27;s little incentive in me re-learning another systems lang and having to compete with lots of smarter people, with more Rust exp, for jobs whilst giving up all my arcane knowledge of CMake and friends.&lt;p&gt;Rust being popular atm is great for C++ if I&amp;#x27;m honest as it siphons away a new gen of systems programmers over to another lang allowing me to sell my dark services for more coins.</text></item><item><author>rychco</author><text>I’ll offer a perspective unrelated to pay: It’s a pain to start learning C++, and even after you do, older devs will roast the hell out of your code because your book&amp;#x2F;tutorials of choice forgot to mention a crucial (in their opinion) feature that you absolutely should&amp;#x2F;shouldn’t use! Not to mention you’ve only programmed on Mac&amp;#x2F;Linux so far &amp;amp; windows is totally different, has a different compiler, different ways to install libraries, different C++ standard features supported, etc.&lt;p&gt;I like C++, and tooling has come a long way, but it’s so much easier to download rust&amp;#x2F;Python&amp;#x2F;node and you’re basically set on every platform &amp;amp; immediately ready to go. NOW consider pay, and even someone enthusiastic about programming C++ will reconsider.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>larsrc</author><text>I did my time in the Makefile trenches, too. I&amp;#x27;m happy that I&amp;#x27;ve learned other languages. There will always be smarter people than you, but you will bring your particular knowledge and do new things. Keep on learning!</text></comment>

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<story><title>I miss Microsoft Encarta (2019)</title><url>https://www.hanselman.com/blog/i-miss-microsoft-encarta/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Aardwolf</author><text>Hmm, to me the term &amp;quot;multimedia PC&amp;quot; already sounded outdated from the start, similar to the &amp;quot;a CD ROM can contain a whole library shelf worth of data&amp;quot; hype.&lt;p&gt;I just thought like, this 386 PC could make sound and graphics and games. This Pentium can do it too, granted with more colors and a CD ROM drive and a fancy &amp;quot;where do you want to go today&amp;quot; movie, but does that warrant all this hype of being called &amp;quot;multimedia&amp;quot;?&lt;p&gt;Oh well, that was the 90s, things moved so fast then so of course things would sound outdated and cheesy very fast.</text></item><item><author>kar1181</author><text>That whole period of the PC industry where &amp;#x27;multimedia&amp;#x27; became mainstream was pretty magical. I know the Amiga was well ahead of the PC ecosystem for a long time in capability but it never hit schools (at least where I grew up in South Australia) like PCs did. So with the emergence of VGA and Super VGA, widespread availability (and relative affordability) of 486 DX class PCs, Soundblasters and Optical Drives, the PC overran the other home computers.&lt;p&gt;Games and applications were evolving at break-neck speed and the pace of change really made you feel anything was possible. Encarta was really a product of that time.&lt;p&gt;If you were doing primary &amp;#x2F; secondary school during the 90s, you&amp;#x27;d have had to do projects where paper encyclopaedias were your primary resource. For me in a rural school it wasn&amp;#x27;t until the mid 90s we had 486PCs with CDROM drives and going from Britannica to the searchable rich media database that was Encarta was a massive force multiplier. It was a remarkable demonstration of how positive an effect technology could have on the learning experience.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dehrmann</author><text>&amp;gt; &amp;quot;a CD ROM can contain a whole library shelf worth of data&amp;quot; hype&lt;p&gt;CD-ROMs were pretty incredible for their time. Remember that when they became mainstream around 1994, hard drives were only 200 MB and floppies were 1.44 MB, so they really were game changing.</text></comment>

<story><title>I miss Microsoft Encarta (2019)</title><url>https://www.hanselman.com/blog/i-miss-microsoft-encarta/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Aardwolf</author><text>Hmm, to me the term &amp;quot;multimedia PC&amp;quot; already sounded outdated from the start, similar to the &amp;quot;a CD ROM can contain a whole library shelf worth of data&amp;quot; hype.&lt;p&gt;I just thought like, this 386 PC could make sound and graphics and games. This Pentium can do it too, granted with more colors and a CD ROM drive and a fancy &amp;quot;where do you want to go today&amp;quot; movie, but does that warrant all this hype of being called &amp;quot;multimedia&amp;quot;?&lt;p&gt;Oh well, that was the 90s, things moved so fast then so of course things would sound outdated and cheesy very fast.</text></item><item><author>kar1181</author><text>That whole period of the PC industry where &amp;#x27;multimedia&amp;#x27; became mainstream was pretty magical. I know the Amiga was well ahead of the PC ecosystem for a long time in capability but it never hit schools (at least where I grew up in South Australia) like PCs did. So with the emergence of VGA and Super VGA, widespread availability (and relative affordability) of 486 DX class PCs, Soundblasters and Optical Drives, the PC overran the other home computers.&lt;p&gt;Games and applications were evolving at break-neck speed and the pace of change really made you feel anything was possible. Encarta was really a product of that time.&lt;p&gt;If you were doing primary &amp;#x2F; secondary school during the 90s, you&amp;#x27;d have had to do projects where paper encyclopaedias were your primary resource. For me in a rural school it wasn&amp;#x27;t until the mid 90s we had 486PCs with CDROM drives and going from Britannica to the searchable rich media database that was Encarta was a massive force multiplier. It was a remarkable demonstration of how positive an effect technology could have on the learning experience.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>daniellarusso</author><text>&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.m.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Multimedia_PC&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.m.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Multimedia_PC&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;There was an actual group with recommended ‘standards’.</text></comment>

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<story><title>Yahoo tops Google in US traffic</title><url>http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-57599600-93/wait-what-yahoo-tops-google-in-us-traffic/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>thisisnotatest</author><text>Google engineer here.&lt;p&gt;We run experiments that show ranking improvements before launching changes to how we interpret query words. I would guess that for every time you notice Google &amp;quot;ignoring the word you asked for,&amp;quot; there were several times where we got you the right result even though it didn&amp;#x27;t have the exact words you asked for, and you didn&amp;#x27;t even notice. We&amp;#x27;re not perfect but we&amp;#x27;re always working on improvements.&lt;p&gt;We also added &amp;quot;Verbatim Mode&amp;quot; to save you the trouble of putting &amp;quot;each&amp;quot; &amp;quot;query&amp;quot; &amp;quot;term&amp;quot; in &amp;quot;quotes&amp;quot; when you want to exactly match all your query words.</text></item><item><author>pasbesoin</author><text>I &amp;quot;Google&amp;quot; less and less for search results, as they become increasingly crap. They are mostly best for &amp;quot;big name&amp;quot; items; also, the prominence of StackOverflow means that some computer technology queries still work pretty well.&lt;p&gt;These days, I&amp;#x27;m fortunate when I know specifically enough what I want that I can jump straight into Wikipedia and hopefully find an adequate page.&lt;p&gt;Whatever you are and aren&amp;#x27;t doing about it, Google, whenever I search for something detailed that&amp;#x27;s not in StackOverflow, your results are increasingly crap, once again. Pages and pages full of very spammy results.&lt;p&gt;Some time ago -- perhaps a few years ago or a bit more -- I became accustomed to fairly quickly paging several pages into the search results, where the heaviest, highly ranked spam would start to filter out and I could start to recognize more legitimate sources of information. These days... the spam results just go on and one. If there&amp;#x27;s quality somewhere in the search results, it&amp;#x27;s beyond the limit of my patience to continue paging forward and scanning.&lt;p&gt;Not that I&amp;#x27;m using Yahoo, in preference. That part... all I can think of is measuring by byte counts, and buttloads of banner ads. Probably not the right explanation, but...&lt;p&gt;--&lt;p&gt;P.S. Your (Google, again) elimination of the + operator in your search queries was, again anecdotally, another factor in the declining performance of your searches for me. Being able to tell the query engine that I &lt;i&gt;definitely&lt;/i&gt; don&amp;#x27;t want to see results that don&amp;#x27;t include term x frequently proved quite useful. Now... the damned thing shows me &amp;quot;whatever it feels like&amp;quot;, whether I quote terms, beg,.... any other suggestions?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jimrandomh</author><text>No. Your metrics are deceiving you, because your test suite under-weights or fails to include sophisticated searchers and programmers, and fails to include highly-specific queries with only a few results. For technical people, Google search has gotten so much worse it&amp;#x27;s hard to ignore.&lt;p&gt;Google fails for more than half of programming-related queries, because it splits up multi-word identifiers, and spelling-corrects valid technical terms to unrelated English words. It fails when searching for uncommon error messages in quotes.&lt;p&gt;This might be tolerable if turning on Verbatim mode was easy, but to do it (without a browser plugin) you have to first do a failed search, then click three times, the second of which is hard to aim because the target is animated by the first click.&lt;p&gt;Google Search fails whenever I&amp;#x27;m doing a search where I suspect there are few or no results and want to confirm that. Then there are the queries with one or two matches on StackOverflow or a mailing list that fails to answer the question. You can&amp;#x27;t just move on, because there are pages and pages of scraper sites cluttering up the results with the exact same message. Improving the ranking doesn&amp;#x27;t help, because the problem isn&amp;#x27;t the rankings, it&amp;#x27;s that you don&amp;#x27;t know when you&amp;#x27;re done.&lt;p&gt;Then there&amp;#x27;s personalization, and in particular the inter-query persistence. You do this because some people make two queries, and include keywords that accurately indicate what they want in the first query, then omit them from the second query. In my own usage, however, if I do a second query it&amp;#x27;s often because the first query had something in it that I &lt;i&gt;didn&amp;#x27;t&lt;/i&gt; want, which spoiled the results. Since I always include the keywords that were actually helpful, I get none of the upside. And if my second search then gives bad results, personalization means I can&amp;#x27;t trust that the reason is part of the query I made.&lt;p&gt;Basically, you&amp;#x27;ve improved your metrics at the expense of everything on those metrics&amp;#x27; blind spots. There are a lot of people whining, most of them unable to articulate what&amp;#x27;s wrong, but &lt;i&gt;they are right&lt;/i&gt;. Now please, go enter these complaints into your bug tracker and fix it.</text></comment>

<story><title>Yahoo tops Google in US traffic</title><url>http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-57599600-93/wait-what-yahoo-tops-google-in-us-traffic/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>thisisnotatest</author><text>Google engineer here.&lt;p&gt;We run experiments that show ranking improvements before launching changes to how we interpret query words. I would guess that for every time you notice Google &amp;quot;ignoring the word you asked for,&amp;quot; there were several times where we got you the right result even though it didn&amp;#x27;t have the exact words you asked for, and you didn&amp;#x27;t even notice. We&amp;#x27;re not perfect but we&amp;#x27;re always working on improvements.&lt;p&gt;We also added &amp;quot;Verbatim Mode&amp;quot; to save you the trouble of putting &amp;quot;each&amp;quot; &amp;quot;query&amp;quot; &amp;quot;term&amp;quot; in &amp;quot;quotes&amp;quot; when you want to exactly match all your query words.</text></item><item><author>pasbesoin</author><text>I &amp;quot;Google&amp;quot; less and less for search results, as they become increasingly crap. They are mostly best for &amp;quot;big name&amp;quot; items; also, the prominence of StackOverflow means that some computer technology queries still work pretty well.&lt;p&gt;These days, I&amp;#x27;m fortunate when I know specifically enough what I want that I can jump straight into Wikipedia and hopefully find an adequate page.&lt;p&gt;Whatever you are and aren&amp;#x27;t doing about it, Google, whenever I search for something detailed that&amp;#x27;s not in StackOverflow, your results are increasingly crap, once again. Pages and pages full of very spammy results.&lt;p&gt;Some time ago -- perhaps a few years ago or a bit more -- I became accustomed to fairly quickly paging several pages into the search results, where the heaviest, highly ranked spam would start to filter out and I could start to recognize more legitimate sources of information. These days... the spam results just go on and one. If there&amp;#x27;s quality somewhere in the search results, it&amp;#x27;s beyond the limit of my patience to continue paging forward and scanning.&lt;p&gt;Not that I&amp;#x27;m using Yahoo, in preference. That part... all I can think of is measuring by byte counts, and buttloads of banner ads. Probably not the right explanation, but...&lt;p&gt;--&lt;p&gt;P.S. Your (Google, again) elimination of the + operator in your search queries was, again anecdotally, another factor in the declining performance of your searches for me. Being able to tell the query engine that I &lt;i&gt;definitely&lt;/i&gt; don&amp;#x27;t want to see results that don&amp;#x27;t include term x frequently proved quite useful. Now... the damned thing shows me &amp;quot;whatever it feels like&amp;quot;, whether I quote terms, beg,.... any other suggestions?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>batgaijin</author><text>Do you guys dogfood your programming search questions or do you have an internal thing for that? Because honestly when I google technical stuff and get corrected despite using &amp;quot;&amp;quot; (since now &amp;#x27;+&amp;#x27; is deprecated) it makes me super rage. The only thing that escapes it is the super.crazy.java.conventions that are obvious.</text></comment>

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<story><title>Fasting Improves Physiological and Molecular Markers of Aging (2019)</title><url>https://www.cell.com/action/showPdf?pii=S1550-4131%2819%2930429-2</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>onlyrealcuzzo</author><text>Wait. Why is it possible fasting has upsides, but it is not possible it has downsides?</text></item><item><author>theNJR</author><text>I really urge people to do a multi-day fast a few times a year. I wrote a little guide about it that I shared previously [1].&lt;p&gt;You can wonder about these longterm positive effects, but it&amp;#x27;s sort of a Pascals wager. You lose absolutely nothing and it could have significant upside. Worst case, it makes you confront your relationship to food and offers a great mental challenge.&lt;p&gt;One cool thing that you learn is that there is a maximum hungry you get. It doesn&amp;#x27;t ever go past that point (and you&amp;#x27;ve felt it before without fasting). Even better, it ebbs and flows. You won&amp;#x27;t be in a state of &amp;quot;OMG I am starving!!&amp;quot; all day long. It hits at normal eating times, and then retreats to the background.&lt;p&gt;Anyway, just try it.&lt;p&gt;[1]&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.nicholasjrobinson.com&amp;#x2F;blog&amp;#x2F;general&amp;#x2F;five-day-fasting-guide-freedom-from-food-people-and-technology&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.nicholasjrobinson.com&amp;#x2F;blog&amp;#x2F;general&amp;#x2F;five-day-fast...&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>arcticbull</author><text>You could ask the same question about eating 3-4 meals per day.&lt;p&gt;This is a relatively new phenomenon for humans - starting in the 1700s. Feast&amp;#x2F;famine is how we used to live. The Romans ate one meal a day and frowned upon breakfast, for instance - their default was what we would now consider OMAD fasting. [1]&lt;p&gt;[1] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.bbc.com&amp;#x2F;news&amp;#x2F;magazine-20243692&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.bbc.com&amp;#x2F;news&amp;#x2F;magazine-20243692&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>

<story><title>Fasting Improves Physiological and Molecular Markers of Aging (2019)</title><url>https://www.cell.com/action/showPdf?pii=S1550-4131%2819%2930429-2</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>onlyrealcuzzo</author><text>Wait. Why is it possible fasting has upsides, but it is not possible it has downsides?</text></item><item><author>theNJR</author><text>I really urge people to do a multi-day fast a few times a year. I wrote a little guide about it that I shared previously [1].&lt;p&gt;You can wonder about these longterm positive effects, but it&amp;#x27;s sort of a Pascals wager. You lose absolutely nothing and it could have significant upside. Worst case, it makes you confront your relationship to food and offers a great mental challenge.&lt;p&gt;One cool thing that you learn is that there is a maximum hungry you get. It doesn&amp;#x27;t ever go past that point (and you&amp;#x27;ve felt it before without fasting). Even better, it ebbs and flows. You won&amp;#x27;t be in a state of &amp;quot;OMG I am starving!!&amp;quot; all day long. It hits at normal eating times, and then retreats to the background.&lt;p&gt;Anyway, just try it.&lt;p&gt;[1]&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.nicholasjrobinson.com&amp;#x2F;blog&amp;#x2F;general&amp;#x2F;five-day-fasting-guide-freedom-from-food-people-and-technology&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.nicholasjrobinson.com&amp;#x2F;blog&amp;#x2F;general&amp;#x2F;five-day-fast...&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>solarmist</author><text>Of course, it has downsides—the length of the fast matters a LOT. Too long, and it’s starvation which has considerable downsides as I’m sure you’re already aware.&lt;p&gt;The biggest takeaway that I’ve gotten recently is that our bodies are literally designed to take fasting into account. Specifically, our vascular system is terrible at doing cleanup and nutrient delivery at the same time. So it needs ample time to do both.</text></comment>

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<story><title>Six hundred and forty pages in fifteen months</title><url>https://journal.stuffwithstuff.com/2021/07/29/640-pages-in-15-months/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>aazaa</author><text>&amp;gt; Remember back on Mr. Roger’s Neighborhood when he would take you to a factory and show you how pencils or umbrellas are made? I love that stuff, so I thought maybe you might like to see what I spent the past year on. You can read this as a peek behind the curtain, or maybe a long apology for why it took so long.&lt;p&gt;This is a great way to lead into the article. The author pulls off something that turns out to be extremely hard to get right: Interweave humor and slightly off-topic material into a technical post. Most of the time it falls flat, but not here. Looking forward to reading further.</text></comment>

<story><title>Six hundred and forty pages in fifteen months</title><url>https://journal.stuffwithstuff.com/2021/07/29/640-pages-in-15-months/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>rednab</author><text>For any Dutch folks wanting to purchase the book, it&amp;#x27;s also available on amazon.nl ¹), and appears to be cheaper there than the .com or .co.uk options, thanks to free shipping!&lt;p&gt;¹) &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.amazon.nl&amp;#x2F;Crafting-Interpreters-Robert-Nystrom&amp;#x2F;dp&amp;#x2F;0990582930&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.amazon.nl&amp;#x2F;Crafting-Interpreters-Robert-Nystrom&amp;#x2F;d...&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>

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<story><title>Chelsea Manning files to run for U.S. Senate in Maryland</title><url>https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/md-politics/chelsea-manning-files-to-run-for-us-senate-in-maryland/2018/01/13/6439f0d0-f88c-11e7-beb6-c8d48830c54d_story.html?utm_term=.13458559e889</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>twblalock</author><text>She&amp;#x27;s running in a primary challenge against an established Democrat who has been active in Maryland politics since the 1960s and has never lost an election.&lt;p&gt;On top of that, polling suggests that a majority of Americans, including just under 50% of Democrats, opposed clemency for Manning.&lt;p&gt;This is not going to end well. If she&amp;#x27;s serious about a career as an elected official, this is not the right way to go about it. I suspect she does not expect to win and this is really an attempt to gain national recognition as an activist.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>zitterbewegung</author><text>I think that she is running and knows that she will lose but use the opportunity to push ideas that her opponent will adopt. Sort of like a sacrifice fly but in politics. The Green party I think has done this in the past.</text></comment>

<story><title>Chelsea Manning files to run for U.S. Senate in Maryland</title><url>https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/md-politics/chelsea-manning-files-to-run-for-us-senate-in-maryland/2018/01/13/6439f0d0-f88c-11e7-beb6-c8d48830c54d_story.html?utm_term=.13458559e889</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>twblalock</author><text>She&amp;#x27;s running in a primary challenge against an established Democrat who has been active in Maryland politics since the 1960s and has never lost an election.&lt;p&gt;On top of that, polling suggests that a majority of Americans, including just under 50% of Democrats, opposed clemency for Manning.&lt;p&gt;This is not going to end well. If she&amp;#x27;s serious about a career as an elected official, this is not the right way to go about it. I suspect she does not expect to win and this is really an attempt to gain national recognition as an activist.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mcknz</author><text>Probably not, but one should never discount the power of name recognition, combined with symbolism, acting in lieu of traditional qualifications (see &amp;quot;Donald Trump&amp;quot;).</text></comment>

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<story><title>The Animal Is Tired</title><url>http://www.robinhobb.com/blog/posts/38429</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>rubicon33</author><text>70? My animal is only 33 and is very tired. Writing this as it lays in bed, 3 in the afternoon, because even a standard chair sounds more exhausting to it.&lt;p&gt;It seems to have no motivation or energy to do much besides lay here.&lt;p&gt;If I force it, it will get stuff done but at a huge cost. It will yearn the entire time to just lay back down.&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s interest in things seems to be fading quickly. What desire it used to have to work hard and succeed, has slipped away. It seems these days it has only enough energy to lay in bed and scroll through the internet. Not sure what is wrong with my animal, but this is no way for it to live.&lt;p&gt;I was hard on the animal in its early 20s, but no harder than the average animal. The past 7 years or so have actually been pretty calm, good food, semi regular exercise, stable job, etc.&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s scary to imagine how the animal would feel at 70 if this is how it feels at 33. Maybe the pandemic was a straw to its back, and the isolation has worn it down more than anything else possibly could.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Swizec</author><text>&amp;gt; My animal is only 33 and is very tired&lt;p&gt;In life satisfaction surveys, your 30’s are the most miserable stressful part of life. Highest amount of responsibilities, lowest amount of consistent reward, and it keeps getting worse until your 40’s&lt;p&gt;Apparently it gets better again in your late 40’s and early 50’s. By 60 you’re as happy as you were at 20.&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.inc.com&amp;#x2F;jeff-haden&amp;#x2F;scientists-just-discovered-mid-life-crisis-peaks-at-age-47-heres-how-to-minimize-effect-of-happiness-curve.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.inc.com&amp;#x2F;jeff-haden&amp;#x2F;scientists-just-discovered-mi...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;(am 33 and also just ... tired)</text></comment>

<story><title>The Animal Is Tired</title><url>http://www.robinhobb.com/blog/posts/38429</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>rubicon33</author><text>70? My animal is only 33 and is very tired. Writing this as it lays in bed, 3 in the afternoon, because even a standard chair sounds more exhausting to it.&lt;p&gt;It seems to have no motivation or energy to do much besides lay here.&lt;p&gt;If I force it, it will get stuff done but at a huge cost. It will yearn the entire time to just lay back down.&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s interest in things seems to be fading quickly. What desire it used to have to work hard and succeed, has slipped away. It seems these days it has only enough energy to lay in bed and scroll through the internet. Not sure what is wrong with my animal, but this is no way for it to live.&lt;p&gt;I was hard on the animal in its early 20s, but no harder than the average animal. The past 7 years or so have actually been pretty calm, good food, semi regular exercise, stable job, etc.&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s scary to imagine how the animal would feel at 70 if this is how it feels at 33. Maybe the pandemic was a straw to its back, and the isolation has worn it down more than anything else possibly could.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>DougN7</author><text>This actually sounds quite a bit like depression. Some inexpensive meds can make a huge difference. I know from experience.</text></comment>

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<story><title>Visa, Mastercard mull increasing fees for processing transactions: WSJ</title><url>https://www.reuters.com/article/us-paymentprocessors-fees/visa-mastercard-mull-increasing-fees-for-processing-transactions-wsj-idUSKCN1Q41ME</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tome</author><text>Is it a cosmic coincidence that these two large competitors are going to increase fees at exactly the same time?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dontbenebby</author><text>Your comment reminds me of a recent article I read (on HN iirc but can&amp;#x27;t find the comment thread):&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.technologyreview.com&amp;#x2F;the-download&amp;#x2F;612947&amp;#x2F;pricing-algorithms-can-learn-to-collude-with-each-other-to-raise-prices&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.technologyreview.com&amp;#x2F;the-download&amp;#x2F;612947&amp;#x2F;pricing...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt;&lt;i&gt;Researchers at the University of Bologna in Italy created two simple reinforcement-learning-based pricing algorithms and set them loose in a controlled environment. They discovered that the two completely autonomous algorithms learned to respond to one another’s behavior and quickly pulled the price of goods above where it would have been had either operated alone.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt;&lt;i&gt;“What is most worrying is that the algorithms leave no trace of concerted action,” the researchers wrote. “They learn to collude purely by trial and error, with no prior knowledge of the environment in which they operate, without communicating with one another, and without being specifically designed or instructed to collude.” This risks driving up the price of goods and ultimately harming consumers.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;I don&amp;#x27;t think it&amp;#x27;s out of the realm of possibility that two companies could arrive at such a move without &lt;i&gt;conscious&lt;/i&gt; collusion. I also don&amp;#x27;t think it should be treated differently.&lt;p&gt;Long term, I think Visa an MC could shoot themselves in the foot. Merchants are now allowed to charge fees for using CCs IIRC in at least some areas.&lt;p&gt;You could easily end up with a situation like Europe where people mostly use debit cards for in person purchases since the processing fees are lower.&lt;p&gt;Consumers lose the protection of a buffer from their bank account, issuers lose out on revenue. Not a good outcome IMHO.</text></comment>

<story><title>Visa, Mastercard mull increasing fees for processing transactions: WSJ</title><url>https://www.reuters.com/article/us-paymentprocessors-fees/visa-mastercard-mull-increasing-fees-for-processing-transactions-wsj-idUSKCN1Q41ME</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tome</author><text>Is it a cosmic coincidence that these two large competitors are going to increase fees at exactly the same time?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jasode</author><text>Several forces would contribute to both VISA and MC changing fees at the same time.&lt;p&gt;- the typical open and transparent &amp;quot;price signaling&amp;quot; where competitors can &amp;quot;see&amp;quot; others&amp;#x27; price changes. Similar to one airline immediately changing (matching) a ticket price in response to another airline lowering or raising its price. Same mechanism as Amazon bots constantly web scraping Best Buy and Walmart and Best Buy in turn scrapes Amazon. Everybody is constantly monitoring everybody&amp;#x27;s prices.&lt;p&gt;- Visa and MC have overlap of owners[1][2]. 4 out of the top 5 owners are the same for both: Vanguard, Blackrock, FMR, State Street&lt;p&gt;- Visa and MC have overlap of member banks that also have minority ownership&lt;p&gt;Yes, you were being sarcastic about the coincidence but it seems like the natural economic equilibrium is for both to have near identical network fees.&lt;p&gt;[1] Visa top 5 institutional stockholders: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.nasdaq.com&amp;#x2F;symbol&amp;#x2F;v&amp;#x2F;ownership-summary&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.nasdaq.com&amp;#x2F;symbol&amp;#x2F;v&amp;#x2F;ownership-summary&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;[2] MC top 5 institutional stockholders: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.nasdaq.com&amp;#x2F;symbol&amp;#x2F;ma&amp;#x2F;ownership-summary&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.nasdaq.com&amp;#x2F;symbol&amp;#x2F;ma&amp;#x2F;ownership-summary&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>

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<story><title>Humpback whales around the globe are mysteriously rescuing animals from orcas</title><url>http://www.mnn.com/earth-matters/animals/stories/humpback-whales-around-globe-are-mysteriously-rescuing-animals-orcas</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>japhyr</author><text>Humpbacks are amazing animals. I live in southeast Alaska, and humpbacks pass through here every spring and fall. They spend their winters in Hawaii where they mate, and they come back here to feed in the spring and summer.&lt;p&gt;When they first arrive in the spring you can see their vertebrae as they arch their back for a dive. After eating all summer, you can see how much they&amp;#x27;ve filled out by the time they pass through on their way south in the fall. When they arch for a dive they&amp;#x27;ve fattened up enough that you can&amp;#x27;t see individual vertebrae anymore.&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s an amazing experience to paddle a kayak out into a calm bay and sit for an hour surrounded by a dozen humpbacks, or to sit in a calm stretch of ocean with whales surfacing as far as you can see in every direction. They&amp;#x27;ll come within ten feet of a kayak, and you know they&amp;#x27;ll never bother you. They just seem curious about what&amp;#x27;s out in the water with them.&lt;p&gt;They engage in bubble-net feeding. A group of humpbacks circle underwater beneath a school of herring. They let out bubbles and build a wall of bubbles around the herring. The whales then swim up inside the bubbles and break the surface with their mouths open, feasting on the trapped herring. It&amp;#x27;s wild to see a ring of bubbles appear near you on the surface, and then see half a dozen whales rise up out of the water with their mouths open.&lt;p&gt;My favorite part of being close to whales is listening to them breathe. You can hear the size of their lungs from the sound of their breaths.&lt;p&gt;If you&amp;#x27;ve never been close to whales, try to get on a whale watching tour. They&amp;#x27;re just incredible to see in person.</text></comment>

<story><title>Humpback whales around the globe are mysteriously rescuing animals from orcas</title><url>http://www.mnn.com/earth-matters/animals/stories/humpback-whales-around-globe-are-mysteriously-rescuing-animals-orcas</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>mrob</author><text>There&amp;#x27;s an interesting video of a humpback whale being freed from a net:&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.youtube.com&amp;#x2F;watch?v=tcXU7G6zhjU&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.youtube.com&amp;#x2F;watch?v=tcXU7G6zhjU&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;We don&amp;#x27;t know for sure if it really is showing appreciation at the end, but humpback whales are social animals so IMO it&amp;#x27;s plausible. It certainly makes a big effort at breaching despite being trapped for a long time and despite there being no other whales nearby. Why would it do that if it&amp;#x27;s not trying to communicate with the humans?</text></comment>

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<story><title>The China tea trade was a paradox of global capitalism</title><url>https://aeon.co/essays/the-china-tea-trade-was-a-paradox-of-global-capitalism</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Melting_Harps</author><text>&amp;gt; “What if machines of war are really the greatest investment of capital”&lt;p&gt;Then it would negate modern History, specifically in regards to the collapse of the Soviet Union, wherein a country with 100s of ICBs with nuclear warheads, warehouses churning out AK47s and ammunition surplus that still are being exported to this day (Viktor Anatolyevich Bout), tanks and war ships in such quantities that they&amp;#x27;d trade Pepsi for them [1]! And still end up destitute, with a plutocracy and a massively disenfranchised population both at home as well as much of the former satellite nations.&lt;p&gt;Capital investment is best spent on a sound currency, strong local manufacturing base and a strong legal system to protect both from corruption as well as the Human rights of its populations; unfortunately no nation Western or Eastern seems intent on doing that... like ever in History. Thus proving that Humanity is not capable of not giving into the intoxication of ending mutually beneficial collaboration with others for extended periods of Time in exchange &amp;#x27;for more of their share.&amp;#x27; It may occur for short windows, but so long as a Human entity remains in charge of those aspects of Civilization it will always succumb to the same avarice and corruption regardless of whatever the rhetoric is espoused of National Brotherhood or Patriotic duty. Hence the argument for currencies and economic models outside the control of centralized systems like Governments.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;m sure many of you are seeing visions of Westworld or Psycho pass type dystopias but I&amp;#x27;m convinced there is a middle ground between the two we just haven&amp;#x27;t been able to arrive to due to constant conflicts, and endless wars that drain the World of Human capital and technological resources best used for this end.&lt;p&gt;But I also find it funny how some of Elon Musk&amp;#x27;s, an openly declared Utopian Anarchist, biggest proponents haven&amp;#x27;t realized the fact that all of his and Kimbal&amp;#x27;s businesses are aimed to help establish a colony on Mars where he has gone on record to say one of the biggest reasons to do so it try and re-do all of this non-sense on Earth with a blank slate canvas approach, and this is the extreme one has to go to do it.&lt;p&gt;People keep accepting that War with China is inevitable, as it were some unavoidable deterministic outcome, but I disagree and have hope that Humanity can come to reason and refuse to participate. War is never in anyone&amp;#x27;s best interest, I really wish that we&amp;#x27;d have learned that by now.&lt;p&gt;1: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.businessinsider.com&amp;#x2F;how-pepsi-briefly-became-the-6th-largest-military-in-the-world-2018-7?op=1&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.businessinsider.com&amp;#x2F;how-pepsi-briefly-became-the...&lt;/a&gt;</text></item><item><author>alextheparrot</author><text>Just to riff off this a bit more, it got me thinking along the thought “What if machines of war are really the greatest investment of capital”. I think there is at least the seed of something to explore there, though the tools of war have traditionally been expensive irrespective of system (A uniform in the 1800s was orders of magnitude more expensive than today’s variety, for example).</text></item><item><author>Synaesthesia</author><text>The biggest advantage was their military success IMO, capturing India, the Middle East, areas all over the world ... taking on China. The violence was completely necessary because as the article said, because without force &amp;quot;The British could offer little in return that Chinese merchants wanted to buy.&amp;quot;</text></item><item><author>alextheparrot</author><text>A lot of the British global trade advantage came from transport and logistics advantages — growing opium in India, moving that to China, tea being transported back to Europe. Alongside this, a strong navy to ensure the safety of shipping routes. The quantity and value of resources they extracted during that time really are staggering.&lt;p&gt;A similar logistic marvel was the transport of ice from North America and Europe — this wasn’t a business where industrial scale was the primary complexity, but a challenge of supply-chain construction in an age without local refrigeration and cooling.&lt;p&gt;The article’s joining of “capitalism” and “industrialisation” is, in my opinion, a narrowing of reality that naively ignores all the other contexts in which capitalism has been quite successful. Large ships are capital intensive, mercantilism in general has been a long-term, capital intensive business far longer than industry has been.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>brmgb</author><text>&amp;gt; tanks and war ships in such quantities that they&amp;#x27;d trade Pepsi for them [1]!&lt;p&gt;As an aside, the Soviet Union didn&amp;#x27;t actually trade tanks and war ships for Pepsi. Well, I mean, technically they did but not in the way people might assume when they read the sentence trading Pepsi for war ships.&lt;p&gt;Pepsi became nominally the owner of a derelict fleet headed to the scrap yard in 1989 as a way to bypass the Soviet Union lack of dollars. The Swedish scrap yard then directly paid Pepsi.</text></comment>

<story><title>The China tea trade was a paradox of global capitalism</title><url>https://aeon.co/essays/the-china-tea-trade-was-a-paradox-of-global-capitalism</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Melting_Harps</author><text>&amp;gt; “What if machines of war are really the greatest investment of capital”&lt;p&gt;Then it would negate modern History, specifically in regards to the collapse of the Soviet Union, wherein a country with 100s of ICBs with nuclear warheads, warehouses churning out AK47s and ammunition surplus that still are being exported to this day (Viktor Anatolyevich Bout), tanks and war ships in such quantities that they&amp;#x27;d trade Pepsi for them [1]! And still end up destitute, with a plutocracy and a massively disenfranchised population both at home as well as much of the former satellite nations.&lt;p&gt;Capital investment is best spent on a sound currency, strong local manufacturing base and a strong legal system to protect both from corruption as well as the Human rights of its populations; unfortunately no nation Western or Eastern seems intent on doing that... like ever in History. Thus proving that Humanity is not capable of not giving into the intoxication of ending mutually beneficial collaboration with others for extended periods of Time in exchange &amp;#x27;for more of their share.&amp;#x27; It may occur for short windows, but so long as a Human entity remains in charge of those aspects of Civilization it will always succumb to the same avarice and corruption regardless of whatever the rhetoric is espoused of National Brotherhood or Patriotic duty. Hence the argument for currencies and economic models outside the control of centralized systems like Governments.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;m sure many of you are seeing visions of Westworld or Psycho pass type dystopias but I&amp;#x27;m convinced there is a middle ground between the two we just haven&amp;#x27;t been able to arrive to due to constant conflicts, and endless wars that drain the World of Human capital and technological resources best used for this end.&lt;p&gt;But I also find it funny how some of Elon Musk&amp;#x27;s, an openly declared Utopian Anarchist, biggest proponents haven&amp;#x27;t realized the fact that all of his and Kimbal&amp;#x27;s businesses are aimed to help establish a colony on Mars where he has gone on record to say one of the biggest reasons to do so it try and re-do all of this non-sense on Earth with a blank slate canvas approach, and this is the extreme one has to go to do it.&lt;p&gt;People keep accepting that War with China is inevitable, as it were some unavoidable deterministic outcome, but I disagree and have hope that Humanity can come to reason and refuse to participate. War is never in anyone&amp;#x27;s best interest, I really wish that we&amp;#x27;d have learned that by now.&lt;p&gt;1: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.businessinsider.com&amp;#x2F;how-pepsi-briefly-became-the-6th-largest-military-in-the-world-2018-7?op=1&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.businessinsider.com&amp;#x2F;how-pepsi-briefly-became-the...&lt;/a&gt;</text></item><item><author>alextheparrot</author><text>Just to riff off this a bit more, it got me thinking along the thought “What if machines of war are really the greatest investment of capital”. I think there is at least the seed of something to explore there, though the tools of war have traditionally been expensive irrespective of system (A uniform in the 1800s was orders of magnitude more expensive than today’s variety, for example).</text></item><item><author>Synaesthesia</author><text>The biggest advantage was their military success IMO, capturing India, the Middle East, areas all over the world ... taking on China. The violence was completely necessary because as the article said, because without force &amp;quot;The British could offer little in return that Chinese merchants wanted to buy.&amp;quot;</text></item><item><author>alextheparrot</author><text>A lot of the British global trade advantage came from transport and logistics advantages — growing opium in India, moving that to China, tea being transported back to Europe. Alongside this, a strong navy to ensure the safety of shipping routes. The quantity and value of resources they extracted during that time really are staggering.&lt;p&gt;A similar logistic marvel was the transport of ice from North America and Europe — this wasn’t a business where industrial scale was the primary complexity, but a challenge of supply-chain construction in an age without local refrigeration and cooling.&lt;p&gt;The article’s joining of “capitalism” and “industrialisation” is, in my opinion, a narrowing of reality that naively ignores all the other contexts in which capitalism has been quite successful. Large ships are capital intensive, mercantilism in general has been a long-term, capital intensive business far longer than industry has been.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dumbfoundded</author><text>A nuke seems like a profitable investment for anyone without.</text></comment>

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<story><title>The Accelerating Adoption of Julia</title><url>https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/834571/e8d7adc0d9b669bc/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>jrevels</author><text>I think one of Julia&amp;#x27;s greatest indicators of long-term success is the variety of commercial users&amp;#x2F;companies from a diverse pool of technical domains&amp;#x2F;industries that are all excited, willing, and capable of contributing back to the ecosystem.&lt;p&gt;We had a BoF at this year&amp;#x27;s JuliaCon revolving around this topic [1] and are now planning the first Annual Industry Julia Users Contributhon as a result.&lt;p&gt;I especially think that well-configured Julia + K8s setups have the capacity to really tighten exploratory data science &amp;lt;-&amp;gt; operational data engineering feedback loops in industrial settings in a way that is much more ergonomic, generically useful, and portable&amp;#x2F;extensible than using pre-baked frameworks to achieve something similar. Julia-centric tooling for coarse-grained workflow orchestration, experiment tracking, data provenance, etc. would be nice, though I also think existing generic tools in this vein (e.g. Argo) could probably compose well too :)&lt;p&gt;A few different companies have nice in-house implementations of these kinds of setups, and Julia Computing is building a nice looking commercial product suite in this vein that I look forward to exploring more in the future (especially JuliaHub and JuliaRun).&lt;p&gt;[1] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;julialang.org&amp;#x2F;blog&amp;#x2F;2020&amp;#x2F;09&amp;#x2F;juliacon-2020-open-source-bof-follow-up&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;julialang.org&amp;#x2F;blog&amp;#x2F;2020&amp;#x2F;09&amp;#x2F;juliacon-2020-open-source...&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>

<story><title>The Accelerating Adoption of Julia</title><url>https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/834571/e8d7adc0d9b669bc/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>outlace</author><text>Julia as a whole still lags behind Python or Matlab (unsurprising given the age difference) but there are some packages in Julia that just steal the show compared to Python et al, such as the SciML packages and the probabilistic programming packages. I switched to Julia for Turing.jl when I was previously using Pyro. Much happier with Julia.</text></comment>

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<story><title>Mathematics for Physics (2009) [pdf]</title><url>http://www.goldbart.gatech.edu/PostScript/MS_PG_book/bookmaster.pdf</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>_v7gu</author><text>On the other side of the spectrum, I would recommend Spivak&amp;#x27;s Physics for Mathematicians [1] strongly. I don&amp;#x27;t think anything else could come close for a mathematician who wants to learn physics.&lt;p&gt;[] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.amazon.com&amp;#x2F;Physics-Mathematicians-Mechanics-Michael-Spivak&amp;#x2F;dp&amp;#x2F;0914098322&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.amazon.com&amp;#x2F;Physics-Mathematicians-Mechanics-Mich...&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>MaysonL</author><text>And if the price is a bit much for you, check out &lt;a href=&quot;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;alpha.math.uga.edu&amp;#x2F;~shifrin&amp;#x2F;Spivak_physics.pdf&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;alpha.math.uga.edu&amp;#x2F;~shifrin&amp;#x2F;Spivak_physics.pdf&lt;/a&gt; &lt;i&gt;Elementary Mechanics from a Mathematician&amp;#x27;s Viewpoint&lt;/i&gt; which is based on eight lectures Spivak gave in 2004, and which he says &amp;quot;As explained in Lecture 1, these lectures cover material that I had just finished writing, and which I hope will constitute the ˇrst part of a book on Mechanics for Mathematicians.&amp;quot;</text></comment>

<story><title>Mathematics for Physics (2009) [pdf]</title><url>http://www.goldbart.gatech.edu/PostScript/MS_PG_book/bookmaster.pdf</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>_v7gu</author><text>On the other side of the spectrum, I would recommend Spivak&amp;#x27;s Physics for Mathematicians [1] strongly. I don&amp;#x27;t think anything else could come close for a mathematician who wants to learn physics.&lt;p&gt;[] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.amazon.com&amp;#x2F;Physics-Mathematicians-Mechanics-Michael-Spivak&amp;#x2F;dp&amp;#x2F;0914098322&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.amazon.com&amp;#x2F;Physics-Mathematicians-Mechanics-Mich...&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>imranq</author><text>As someone with a mathematical background, I was wondering what were some motivations for wanting to &amp;quot;learn physics&amp;quot;? Not being argumentative, just genuinely curious on what drives people to self study textbooks on physics after college&amp;#x2F;grad school.</text></comment>

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<story><title>Mozilla Wants Young People to Consider ‘Ethical Issues’ Before Taking Tech Jobs</title><url>https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/wxenxx/mozilla-wants-young-people-to-consider-ethical-issues-before-taking-jobs-in-tech</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>_bxg1</author><text>I took one of those courses; it wasn&amp;#x27;t intellectually stimulating and it felt like a condescending, corporate-mandated seminar. Even the professor was just going through the motions. But it doesn&amp;#x27;t have to be that way, that&amp;#x27;s just how it tends to play out.&lt;p&gt;What we need are not &amp;quot;ethics in tech&amp;quot; courses, but for people &lt;i&gt;in&lt;/i&gt; tech to get more exposure to general &lt;i&gt;humanities&lt;/i&gt; education. Require everyone getting a degree at your university - computer science majors included - to read and discuss classic literature, history, and philosophy. Exercise the parts of their brain that deal with questions whose answers can&amp;#x27;t be reduced to code. Ethics cannot be covered by a pamphlet of tech-specific rules; to act ethically, a person needs perspective on human nature and on what it means to be a member of society.</text></item><item><author>herbstein</author><text>I&amp;#x27;m just starting my 6th (and last) semester of my bachelor degree. During the semester we are exploring the ethics and morality of the modern computing evolution. The exploration includes the difference between publishers and editors, going back to basics of the &amp;quot;what and why&amp;quot; of privacy, and how companies exploit our (lack of) privacy to gain further growth.&lt;p&gt;Unfortunately it&amp;#x27;s a course a lot of my classmates have expressed disdain for. To them it sounds more like a &amp;quot;gender-studies course&amp;quot; (their words) than a course for &amp;quot;super serious no-bullshit smart people&amp;quot; (my interpretation). I&amp;#x27;m hoping the readings will have them reconsider and realize how important considering the ethical implications of their programs.&lt;p&gt;As an example: a friend and a classmate works for $bigcorp. He had an idea for an employee engagement system. The idea was that every employee had a digital avatar that follows them around on the premises. So (as an example) when they go to the coffee machine their avatar high-fives the avatar of another person who&amp;#x27;s also getting coffee. This, as you can imagine, requires tracking the movement of employees to a fairly high degree. The project got two months into development before the &amp;quot;right&amp;quot; person heard about it, raised a fuzz, and got the project cancelled.&lt;p&gt;Neither my friend nor my other classmates see the problem with the precise tracking of the every move of every employee - that scares me a lot.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Balgair</author><text>If anyone here is looking for a good overview of &amp;#x27;the liberal arts&amp;#x27;, I cannot more highly suggest &lt;i&gt;The Harvard Classics&lt;/i&gt;, specifically the 15-minute a day reading guide : &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.myharvardclassics.com&amp;#x2F;categories&amp;#x2F;20120612_1&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.myharvardclassics.com&amp;#x2F;categories&amp;#x2F;20120612_1&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;For example: Jan 23rd&amp;#x27;s reading is on Pascal and the art of persuasion:&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;Pascal, the keen-minded philosopher and mathematician, fathomed the human traits of man&amp;#x27;s nature with the same accurate measurements which made him famous in the realm of geometry. Read his searching analysis of man&amp;#x27;s conceit.&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;Though the year&amp;#x27;s effort is not necessarily an ethics course, per se, the sum is a &lt;i&gt;fantastic&lt;/i&gt; grounding in ethics (among many others). When I did the full year, I could not help but look up the authors and works in more detail on wikipedia and google. Delving in further, even for just another 15 minutes a day, really helped me &amp;#x27;suck out marrow&amp;#x27; from the works. Especially since the guide was compiled at the end of the gilded age and before the wars and post-modern life, comparing it&amp;#x27;s view to today&amp;#x27;s is unavoidable and fascinating.&lt;p&gt;Part of &amp;#x27;ethics&amp;#x27; is mulling things over a lot, and &lt;i&gt;The Harvard Classics&lt;/i&gt; is one of the best jumping off points for that out there.&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s free, excellently curated, time tested, and quick.</text></comment>

<story><title>Mozilla Wants Young People to Consider ‘Ethical Issues’ Before Taking Tech Jobs</title><url>https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/wxenxx/mozilla-wants-young-people-to-consider-ethical-issues-before-taking-jobs-in-tech</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>_bxg1</author><text>I took one of those courses; it wasn&amp;#x27;t intellectually stimulating and it felt like a condescending, corporate-mandated seminar. Even the professor was just going through the motions. But it doesn&amp;#x27;t have to be that way, that&amp;#x27;s just how it tends to play out.&lt;p&gt;What we need are not &amp;quot;ethics in tech&amp;quot; courses, but for people &lt;i&gt;in&lt;/i&gt; tech to get more exposure to general &lt;i&gt;humanities&lt;/i&gt; education. Require everyone getting a degree at your university - computer science majors included - to read and discuss classic literature, history, and philosophy. Exercise the parts of their brain that deal with questions whose answers can&amp;#x27;t be reduced to code. Ethics cannot be covered by a pamphlet of tech-specific rules; to act ethically, a person needs perspective on human nature and on what it means to be a member of society.</text></item><item><author>herbstein</author><text>I&amp;#x27;m just starting my 6th (and last) semester of my bachelor degree. During the semester we are exploring the ethics and morality of the modern computing evolution. The exploration includes the difference between publishers and editors, going back to basics of the &amp;quot;what and why&amp;quot; of privacy, and how companies exploit our (lack of) privacy to gain further growth.&lt;p&gt;Unfortunately it&amp;#x27;s a course a lot of my classmates have expressed disdain for. To them it sounds more like a &amp;quot;gender-studies course&amp;quot; (their words) than a course for &amp;quot;super serious no-bullshit smart people&amp;quot; (my interpretation). I&amp;#x27;m hoping the readings will have them reconsider and realize how important considering the ethical implications of their programs.&lt;p&gt;As an example: a friend and a classmate works for $bigcorp. He had an idea for an employee engagement system. The idea was that every employee had a digital avatar that follows them around on the premises. So (as an example) when they go to the coffee machine their avatar high-fives the avatar of another person who&amp;#x27;s also getting coffee. This, as you can imagine, requires tracking the movement of employees to a fairly high degree. The project got two months into development before the &amp;quot;right&amp;quot; person heard about it, raised a fuzz, and got the project cancelled.&lt;p&gt;Neither my friend nor my other classmates see the problem with the precise tracking of the every move of every employee - that scares me a lot.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>nitwit005</author><text>I went to a university that required quite a bit of liberal arts education with the CS degree. I can&amp;#x27;t think of anything with a substantial relation to engineering ethics covered in those courses.&lt;p&gt;I don&amp;#x27;t mean that to be demeaning, but just the reality of what gets covered. I did take Intro to Philosophy (Can&amp;#x27;t say I learned anything new in it), but most courses were things like French Caribbean Literature, Art History, Civics, etc.</text></comment>

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<story><title>What Working at Stripe Has Been Like</title><url>https://www.kalzumeus.com/2019/3/18/two-years-at-stripe/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>cyberferret</author><text>If Stripe&amp;#x27;s HR department is reading this thread, I think they can pinpoint one crucial interview question that will determine culture fit in their organisation for future hiring - and that is &amp;quot;do you like talking about your accomplishments with the rest of your team?&amp;quot;.&lt;p&gt;Seems to be a very polarising thing to be asked to do, judging by the replies on this particular comment.&lt;p&gt;EDIT: Curious about the downvotes? This is a real thing. I am sure they don&amp;#x27;t want to hire people that would hate to write shipped emails and publish them to the list if they actively hated writing them. It is simply not good culture fit, and I am sure they would want to identify that early on in the recruitment process.</text></item><item><author>spudlyo</author><text>I left Stripe a little over 6 months ago to join an exciting startup with a number of my friends. What I miss most about working there is the culture of shipping. There are a number of &amp;#x27;shipped&amp;#x27; email lists at Stripe where people can tout their accomplishments large and small. These lists are widely read and commented on, and folks put in a fair amount of effort making their &amp;quot;shipped&amp;quot; emails informative and entertaining.&lt;p&gt;That feeling you get when you finish a challenging project, write a great shipped email, and get a bunch of feedback from folks throughout the company is pretty amazing. Once I was invited to convert one of my shipped emails into a presentation for a company all-hands meeting. I had a less than a week to get it done, which was pretty hectic, but in the end it turned out great and it was perhaps my favorite memory of my time at Stripe.&lt;p&gt;I enjoy my current job, and those little dopamine hits I get from checking things off my list as well as the bigger ones from finishing projects, but now only my boss and some teammates notice when I finish something. One thing I learned about myself, is that I really do care about what other people think about my work.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>rattray</author><text>That&amp;#x27;s certainly a reasonable concern given the information above. For what it&amp;#x27;s worth, though, I work at Stripe and I&amp;#x27;ve never felt pressured to write a shipped email; I don&amp;#x27;t think others are either.&lt;p&gt;In fact, I think the only shipped emails I&amp;#x27;ve written have been on behalf of colleagues since I was so excited about something they&amp;#x27;d built&amp;#x2F;fixed (with their permission). Many (most?) Stripes aren&amp;#x27;t the type to brag about their work. But it is nice to share, and to let others know that X product is better now.</text></comment>

<story><title>What Working at Stripe Has Been Like</title><url>https://www.kalzumeus.com/2019/3/18/two-years-at-stripe/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>cyberferret</author><text>If Stripe&amp;#x27;s HR department is reading this thread, I think they can pinpoint one crucial interview question that will determine culture fit in their organisation for future hiring - and that is &amp;quot;do you like talking about your accomplishments with the rest of your team?&amp;quot;.&lt;p&gt;Seems to be a very polarising thing to be asked to do, judging by the replies on this particular comment.&lt;p&gt;EDIT: Curious about the downvotes? This is a real thing. I am sure they don&amp;#x27;t want to hire people that would hate to write shipped emails and publish them to the list if they actively hated writing them. It is simply not good culture fit, and I am sure they would want to identify that early on in the recruitment process.</text></item><item><author>spudlyo</author><text>I left Stripe a little over 6 months ago to join an exciting startup with a number of my friends. What I miss most about working there is the culture of shipping. There are a number of &amp;#x27;shipped&amp;#x27; email lists at Stripe where people can tout their accomplishments large and small. These lists are widely read and commented on, and folks put in a fair amount of effort making their &amp;quot;shipped&amp;quot; emails informative and entertaining.&lt;p&gt;That feeling you get when you finish a challenging project, write a great shipped email, and get a bunch of feedback from folks throughout the company is pretty amazing. Once I was invited to convert one of my shipped emails into a presentation for a company all-hands meeting. I had a less than a week to get it done, which was pretty hectic, but in the end it turned out great and it was perhaps my favorite memory of my time at Stripe.&lt;p&gt;I enjoy my current job, and those little dopamine hits I get from checking things off my list as well as the bigger ones from finishing projects, but now only my boss and some teammates notice when I finish something. One thing I learned about myself, is that I really do care about what other people think about my work.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>andrewingram</author><text>Possibly that such a recruitment filter would exclude a lot of people with depression or anxiety-related mental illness.&lt;p&gt;To clarify, I &lt;i&gt;hate&lt;/i&gt; talking about my accomplishments, it makes me feel deeply anxious and uncomfortable, and will say as much if asked. But I’ll also do it if that’s what’s required of me.</text></comment>

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<story><title>Hubble finds evidence of persistent water vapor in one hemisphere of Europa</title><url>https://phys.org/news/2021-10-hubble-evidence-persistent-vapor-hemisphere.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>bpodgursky</author><text>I didn&amp;#x27;t realize Hubble was even being pointed at objects within the solar system.</text></comment>

<story><title>Hubble finds evidence of persistent water vapor in one hemisphere of Europa</title><url>https://phys.org/news/2021-10-hubble-evidence-persistent-vapor-hemisphere.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>troyvit</author><text>How hard would it be to fly a probe through that vapor like we do through the tails of comets to collect some samples of that vapor?</text></comment>

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<story><title>Garnet – A new remote cache-store from Microsoft Research</title><url>https://github.com/microsoft/garnet</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>whimsicalism</author><text>surprised to see a garbage collected language project (C# for Garnet) beat redis&amp;#x2F;dragonfly</text></item><item><author>west0n</author><text>From the benchmark performance charts(&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;microsoft.github.io&amp;#x2F;garnet&amp;#x2F;docs&amp;#x2F;benchmarking&amp;#x2F;results-resp-bench&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;microsoft.github.io&amp;#x2F;garnet&amp;#x2F;docs&amp;#x2F;benchmarking&amp;#x2F;results...&lt;/a&gt;), the throughput of the GET command exceeds that of Dragonfly by more than tenfold. While 50% latency is slightly higher than Dragonfly, the 99th percentile is slightly lower than Dragonfly. Both the throughput and latency of Garnet and Dragonfly are far better than Redis, indicating that Redis may require a significant performance optimization.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>pjmlp</author><text>Not all garbage collected languages are made equal, some of them, like C# and .NET, do provide all the performace knobs that are needed for C++ like coding.&lt;p&gt;People only have to learn how to use them, instead of placing all garbage collected languages into the same basket.&lt;p&gt;In this specific case, MSIL and .NET were designed to support C++ as well, and languages like C# and F# do have ways to access those features, and even if some feature isn&amp;#x27;t exposed at the language grammar level, you can emit the same MSIL that C++&amp;#x2F;CLI would generate.</text></comment>

<story><title>Garnet – A new remote cache-store from Microsoft Research</title><url>https://github.com/microsoft/garnet</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>whimsicalism</author><text>surprised to see a garbage collected language project (C# for Garnet) beat redis&amp;#x2F;dragonfly</text></item><item><author>west0n</author><text>From the benchmark performance charts(&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;microsoft.github.io&amp;#x2F;garnet&amp;#x2F;docs&amp;#x2F;benchmarking&amp;#x2F;results-resp-bench&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;microsoft.github.io&amp;#x2F;garnet&amp;#x2F;docs&amp;#x2F;benchmarking&amp;#x2F;results...&lt;/a&gt;), the throughput of the GET command exceeds that of Dragonfly by more than tenfold. While 50% latency is slightly higher than Dragonfly, the 99th percentile is slightly lower than Dragonfly. Both the throughput and latency of Garnet and Dragonfly are far better than Redis, indicating that Redis may require a significant performance optimization.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>orthoxerox</author><text>There&amp;#x27;s a series of blog posts by Oren Eini that shows that C# can be sufficiently fast even when you don&amp;#x27;t really optimize anything. Beating Redis in every benchmark is a whole another level, of course.&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;ayende.com&amp;#x2F;blog&amp;#x2F;197412-B&amp;#x2F;high-performance-net-building-a-redis-clone-naively&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;ayende.com&amp;#x2F;blog&amp;#x2F;197412-B&amp;#x2F;high-performance-net-buildi...&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>

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<story><title>Belarus to create a regulatory environment for circulation of cryptocurrencies</title><url>https://media.dev.by/decree_media_kit_en.pdf</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>lowry</author><text>Just FYI, Belarusians often refer to Donald Trump as the american Lukashenka. They share quite a few traits.</text></item><item><author>myth_drannon</author><text>Just FYI Belarus is not a democracy and the laws change at the whim of the rulers. Read the journal of this blogger who got arrested there &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.bbc.com&amp;#x2F;news&amp;#x2F;amp&amp;#x2F;blogs-trending-38804499&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.bbc.com&amp;#x2F;news&amp;#x2F;amp&amp;#x2F;blogs-trending-38804499&lt;/a&gt;, the people(the foreign nationals) who were in jail with him...</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>kingofhdds</author><text>&amp;lt;&amp;lt;ust FYI, Belarusians often refer to Donald Trump as the american Lukashenka.&amp;gt;&amp;gt;&lt;p&gt;Not true. I&amp;#x27;m Belarusian, and it&amp;#x27;s the first time I&amp;#x27;m seeing this. I cannot say for every compatriot, of course, but &amp;quot;Belarusians often refer&amp;quot; implies something well-known, and it&amp;#x27;s not the case here. Truth be told, thoughts of majority of Belarusians do not revolve around US policy.</text></comment>

<story><title>Belarus to create a regulatory environment for circulation of cryptocurrencies</title><url>https://media.dev.by/decree_media_kit_en.pdf</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>lowry</author><text>Just FYI, Belarusians often refer to Donald Trump as the american Lukashenka. They share quite a few traits.</text></item><item><author>myth_drannon</author><text>Just FYI Belarus is not a democracy and the laws change at the whim of the rulers. Read the journal of this blogger who got arrested there &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.bbc.com&amp;#x2F;news&amp;#x2F;amp&amp;#x2F;blogs-trending-38804499&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.bbc.com&amp;#x2F;news&amp;#x2F;amp&amp;#x2F;blogs-trending-38804499&lt;/a&gt;, the people(the foreign nationals) who were in jail with him...</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>zerr</author><text>At least Americans can vote against Trump on the next elections.</text></comment>

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<story><title>Airbus Handed A380 Lifeline With $16B Emirates Order</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-01-18/emirates-orders-20-a380s-worth-9-billion-in-vital-program-boost</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>nolok</author><text>Great news for both, Airbus needed that to save the program, finally have a chance to reach profitability, and solve the chicken and egg problem of no-one is buying it because it looks like it will be stopped, it will be stopped because no one buys it.&lt;p&gt;Emirates, having half the frames out, keeps the program going which means they don&amp;#x27;t get trapped in maintenance hell.&lt;p&gt;Funny to look back at the messages a few days ago here on HN saying it will &amp;quot;obviously not happen&amp;quot;.</text></comment>

<story><title>Airbus Handed A380 Lifeline With $16B Emirates Order</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-01-18/emirates-orders-20-a380s-worth-9-billion-in-vital-program-boost</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>_ph_</author><text>Great news. That should keep the A380 alive long enough to clearly see how the airplane market is developing. Currently, its all about 2-engined airplanes, but I cannot believe, that there is no need for the large airplanes like 747 and the A380. The amount of air travel is still growing year over year and once the production is shut down, it would means a certain class of airplanes is just unavailable.</text></comment>

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<story><title>Mozilla HTTP Observatory</title><url>https://observatory.mozilla.org/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>marginalia_nu</author><text>I have really mixed feelings about deprecating HTTP for HTTPS. There are a lot of websites that are never going to migrate, websites with quality content. There&amp;#x27;s also a lot of clients that are never going to support HTTPS. There&amp;#x27;s nothing wrong with them otherwise, the hardware is still good, but they can&amp;#x27;t be used anymore and it&amp;#x27;s not the owners choice to decide, but a few big tech companies pushing this change.&lt;p&gt;Even if we do care about these nefarious men in the middle, the elephant in the room is that a large part of the encrypted traffic these days go through major CDNs, and for them to actually pages and and route requests and be anything more than a glorified NAT, they need to inspect what&amp;#x27;s being sent, and keep track of who is sending it. Even if they totally pinky swear they aren&amp;#x27;t doing anything nefarious with their position of being able to inspect and analyze a huge portion of the Internet&amp;#x27;s traffic, and even if we believe them, that can change.&lt;p&gt;Remember SourceForge? Remember when they were the heroes of open source, the go-to host for source code and binaries? Remember when they were bought up and subsequently were caught with their fingers in the cookie jar bundling malware in said open source packages?&lt;p&gt;All I&amp;#x27;m saying is that there sure is a lot of eggs in that basket. Is a lot easier to lean on one or two CDN operators than it is to lean on every ISP in the country.</text></comment>

<story><title>Mozilla HTTP Observatory</title><url>https://observatory.mozilla.org/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>weinzierl</author><text>It is an excellent tool. For a bit more background I found [1] (from 2016) quite insightful.&lt;p&gt;In addition here are a few notes that I collected using it, no criticism - just (hopefully) constructive feedback:&lt;p&gt;- The &lt;i&gt;SSH&lt;/i&gt; (H not L) Observatory part seems to be broken for a long time (months at least). Not exactly sure what it was supposed to do anyway and how useful it would have been.&lt;p&gt;- I find the nomenclature for the &lt;i&gt;Compatibility Level&lt;/i&gt; a bit unfortunate. As far as I understand, the highly secure and practically useful configurations recommended by Mozilla and elsewhere, all end up classified as &lt;i&gt;Intermediate&lt;/i&gt;. The more desirable sounding &lt;i&gt;Modern&lt;/i&gt; seems to be unachievable for any real world site. I&amp;#x27;d love to see counterexamples if I&amp;#x27;m wrong.&lt;p&gt;- It seems not to be very actively maintained since its main (and original?) author April King left Mozilla. About a half a year ago I filed an issue where the Observatory scan hung forever for certain sites [2], but apparently no one ever looked at it. (Maybe it is not an issue with the Observatory, but I think I wrote a decent report and hoped for &lt;i&gt;some&lt;/i&gt; feedback).&lt;p&gt;[1] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;pokeinthe.io&amp;#x2F;2016&amp;#x2F;08&amp;#x2F;25&amp;#x2F;observatory-by-mozilla-a-new-tool&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;pokeinthe.io&amp;#x2F;2016&amp;#x2F;08&amp;#x2F;25&amp;#x2F;observatory-by-mozilla-a-new...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;[2] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;github.com&amp;#x2F;mozilla&amp;#x2F;http-observatory-website&amp;#x2F;issues&amp;#x2F;244&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;github.com&amp;#x2F;mozilla&amp;#x2F;http-observatory-website&amp;#x2F;issues&amp;#x2F;2...&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>

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<story><title>Chrome OS KVM - A component written in Rust</title><url>https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromiumos/platform/crosvm/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>zaxcellent</author><text>There is a somewhat expanded README that has yet to be reviewed and checked in here: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;chromium.googlesource.com&amp;#x2F;chromiumos&amp;#x2F;platform&amp;#x2F;crosvm&amp;#x2F;+&amp;#x2F;837b59f2d97b005ef84ac36efa97530c1bbf2a79&amp;#x2F;README.md&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;chromium.googlesource.com&amp;#x2F;chromiumos&amp;#x2F;platform&amp;#x2F;crosvm...&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>

<story><title>Chrome OS KVM - A component written in Rust</title><url>https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromiumos/platform/crosvm/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>jhoechtl</author><text>Isn&amp;#x27;t stuff like that exactly counteracting Rusts raison d&amp;#x27;etre?&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; &amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F; This is safe; nothing else will use or hold onto the raw sock fd.&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; Ok(unsafe { net::UdpSocket::from_raw_fd(sock) })&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;chromium.googlesource.com&amp;#x2F;chromiumos&amp;#x2F;platform&amp;#x2F;crosvm&amp;#x2F;+&amp;#x2F;6f366b54604e4012b43822d5dc2afe7d1616287d&amp;#x2F;net_util&amp;#x2F;src&amp;#x2F;lib.rs#55&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;chromium.googlesource.com&amp;#x2F;chromiumos&amp;#x2F;platform&amp;#x2F;crosvm...&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>

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<story><title>Techies Who Are Homeschooling Their Kids</title><url>http://www.wired.com/2015/02/silicon-valley-home-schooling/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>delluminatus</author><text>Homeschooling is interesting, because it has the potential to be a lot better for children than public school, but it can also be a lot worse. It is a topic close to my heart because I was partly homeschooled, and I have seen firsthand some of the sad deficiencies that can dog homeschooled kids:&lt;p&gt;1. Lazy teaching – parents being unwilling to devote 4-6 hours each day to education. Homeschooling is a commitment that should be treated with the same gravitas as a full-time working position, but many parents have trouble maintaining this mentality over many years of education. This leads to kids that, although they might be bright, just haven&amp;#x27;t been taught much, which makes them seem dull.&lt;p&gt;2. Inherited ignorance – if the parents don’t know or care much about history, unbiased politics, mathematics, literature, etc. then the kids won’t either. Obviously, the parent can make a commitment to learn the field at least to a high school level so they can educate their kids, but often this commitment falls through. Because of that, homeschooled kids can lack a multidimensional perspective of the world.&lt;p&gt;3. Neuroticism – some parents have a tendency to like to make decisions for their children. This can be very dangerous for homeschooled kids, because they don’t learn how to think for themselves or make mistakes.&lt;p&gt;4. Social gracelessness – a lot of homeschooled kids have very little interaction with their peers. School can provide social acclimatization that parents often don’t know how to give their kids. Especially if the kid is naturally shy, since parents rarely want to put their kids in a social situation where they are uncomfortable. Unfortunately, this can just exacerbate the issue, to the extent that the kids have nervous breakdowns when they finally do have to engage their peers (yes, I&amp;#x27;ve seen this happen).&lt;p&gt;This is just the tip of the iceberg. I don&amp;#x27;t want to say that it&amp;#x27;s impossible for one person (usually, it&amp;#x27;s just one parent that is home during the day) to provide a well-rounded education to their kids, just that it&amp;#x27;s hard -- very, very hard. You need to help your kids make friends, and you need to let them be independent. You need to be a committed and capable educator, and you need to give them a dynamic education with diverse experience, not just doing workbooks in the house. Some people are good at this -- they are natural teachers. Other people find it much, much harder.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>zaphar</author><text>I was homeschooled from 2nd grade up all the way through high school.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;ve seen kids destroyed by home schooling and I&amp;#x27;ve seen kids saved by home schooling. You are absolutely correct that the potential is there but not always realized.&lt;p&gt;Homeschooling shines when the parents play to it&amp;#x27;s strengths.&lt;p&gt;* Individually tailored education at the elementary level provides a &lt;i&gt;huge&lt;/i&gt; boost to many kids.&lt;p&gt;* An environment that stresses and promotes self directed learning at the high school level also does wonders for a teenagers future. Done right home schooling encourages, rather than discourages, thinking for themselves through debate and conversation with adults.&lt;p&gt;* Lack of social grace while it exists for some kids is far from the norm. So far from the norm that I consider it a myth. It gets trotted out in almost every discussion I encounter around home schooling. And yet for the overwhelming majority of Home Schooled kids it couldn&amp;#x27;t be farther from the truth. In fact I think that in many ways Social Skills can be one of the biggest advantages a Home Schooled child can have.&lt;p&gt;Most kids learn to socialize from their friends. Those friends have no more idea than they do though. When they get their first job and&amp;#x2F;or attend college they have to learn all over again how to interact with adults.&lt;p&gt;A home schooled child tends to learn to socialize from other adults. The number 1 thing most people noticed about me and other Home Schooled people I&amp;#x27;ve known was how well we could hold a conversation with an adult.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;ve seen kids end up far too sheltered and harmed as a result but this is much less of a danger than most people think in my experience.&lt;p&gt;The #1 thing to keep consider though if you are thinking about homeschooling is the time commitment. You &lt;i&gt;will&lt;/i&gt; probably need one parent to commit to it full time because it&amp;#x27;s a &lt;i&gt;lot&lt;/i&gt; of work.</text></comment>

<story><title>Techies Who Are Homeschooling Their Kids</title><url>http://www.wired.com/2015/02/silicon-valley-home-schooling/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>delluminatus</author><text>Homeschooling is interesting, because it has the potential to be a lot better for children than public school, but it can also be a lot worse. It is a topic close to my heart because I was partly homeschooled, and I have seen firsthand some of the sad deficiencies that can dog homeschooled kids:&lt;p&gt;1. Lazy teaching – parents being unwilling to devote 4-6 hours each day to education. Homeschooling is a commitment that should be treated with the same gravitas as a full-time working position, but many parents have trouble maintaining this mentality over many years of education. This leads to kids that, although they might be bright, just haven&amp;#x27;t been taught much, which makes them seem dull.&lt;p&gt;2. Inherited ignorance – if the parents don’t know or care much about history, unbiased politics, mathematics, literature, etc. then the kids won’t either. Obviously, the parent can make a commitment to learn the field at least to a high school level so they can educate their kids, but often this commitment falls through. Because of that, homeschooled kids can lack a multidimensional perspective of the world.&lt;p&gt;3. Neuroticism – some parents have a tendency to like to make decisions for their children. This can be very dangerous for homeschooled kids, because they don’t learn how to think for themselves or make mistakes.&lt;p&gt;4. Social gracelessness – a lot of homeschooled kids have very little interaction with their peers. School can provide social acclimatization that parents often don’t know how to give their kids. Especially if the kid is naturally shy, since parents rarely want to put their kids in a social situation where they are uncomfortable. Unfortunately, this can just exacerbate the issue, to the extent that the kids have nervous breakdowns when they finally do have to engage their peers (yes, I&amp;#x27;ve seen this happen).&lt;p&gt;This is just the tip of the iceberg. I don&amp;#x27;t want to say that it&amp;#x27;s impossible for one person (usually, it&amp;#x27;s just one parent that is home during the day) to provide a well-rounded education to their kids, just that it&amp;#x27;s hard -- very, very hard. You need to help your kids make friends, and you need to let them be independent. You need to be a committed and capable educator, and you need to give them a dynamic education with diverse experience, not just doing workbooks in the house. Some people are good at this -- they are natural teachers. Other people find it much, much harder.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>iak8god</author><text>&amp;gt; 2. Inherited ignorance – if the parents don’t know or care much about history, unbiased politics, mathematics, literature, etc. then the kids won’t either&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s even worse when parents care very much about giving their children wrong information about topics. Many people I know were homeschooled by conservative Christians who specifically wanted their children to believe things that are not actually true: that the Earth is 6,000 years old, that condoms are not effective at preventing pregnancy and tranmissions of STIs, that America&amp;#x27;s founding fathers intended the place to be a Christian theocracy, that the Bible gives a complete and accurate account of ancient history, and so on.</text></comment>

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<story><title>Unix Text Processing (1987)</title><url>http://oreilly.com/openbook/utp/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>ralph</author><text>I sought permission from Tim O&apos;Reilly, he co-wrote this back when he was an author, to re-enter the text of the book as troff source, the original being lost. He kindly gave it and volunteers from the [email protected] mailing list split the chapters amongst themselves; it was quite fun. &lt;a href=&quot;http://home.windstream.net/kollar/utp/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://home.windstream.net/kollar/utp/&lt;/a&gt; is the result.</text></comment>

<story><title>Unix Text Processing (1987)</title><url>http://oreilly.com/openbook/utp/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>clicks</author><text>I see resources about Unix text processing utilities, about Bash, about readline shortcuts, etc. etc. submitted very often to HN.&lt;p&gt;Exactly how useful are they? Would you say they&apos;re among the most important skills a programmer could have? Or do we just have a disproportionately large amount of sysadmins for HN readers? Isn&apos;t some general-purpose language like Python or Ruby almost always much better, much faster than these solutions? Isn&apos;t it worth it to rather invest your time learning Python well -- instead of getting familiar to the segregated and messy environment of modern Unix-land? Certainly, the learning curve is much steep for Unix utilities than, say, Python.</text></comment>

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<story><title>Samsung&apos;s AI photo feature adds creepy teeth to baby photos</title><url>https://boingboing.net/2023/03/28/samsungs-ai-photo-feature-adds-creepy-teeth-to-baby-photos.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>wildrhythms</author><text>Looking at the relevant tweet:&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;twitter.com&amp;#x2F;earcity&amp;#x2F;status&amp;#x2F;1638582541706829824&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;twitter.com&amp;#x2F;earcity&amp;#x2F;status&amp;#x2F;1638582541706829824&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s not just adding teeth it&amp;#x27;s actually changing the facial features which seems completely insane to me. Is it just me? Like this is a terrible application of this technology.</text></comment>

<story><title>Samsung&apos;s AI photo feature adds creepy teeth to baby photos</title><url>https://boingboing.net/2023/03/28/samsungs-ai-photo-feature-adds-creepy-teeth-to-baby-photos.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>screamingninja</author><text>Strange clickbait link with an embedded YouTube video. Here is an easier to follow article:&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.theverge.com&amp;#x2F;2023&amp;#x2F;3&amp;#x2F;22&amp;#x2F;23652488&amp;#x2F;samsung-gallery-remaster-feature-teeth-baby-photos-moon&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.theverge.com&amp;#x2F;2023&amp;#x2F;3&amp;#x2F;22&amp;#x2F;23652488&amp;#x2F;samsung-gallery-...&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>

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<story><title>We’re Apple. We don’t wear suits. We don’t even own suits.</title><url>http://daringfireball.net/linked/2010/07/19/vogelstein-apple-att</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>jrockway</author><text>I don&apos;t normally like Apple, but I like their attitude here. Why should they wear certain clothes to a meeting with AT&amp;#38;T? Who cares what AT&amp;#38;T thinks of Apple!? If AT&amp;#38;T passes on Apple, Verizon or Sprint or T-Mobile would pick them up in a heartbeat. The only reason AT&amp;#38;T is still in business is because of Apple. Fuck wearing a suit!&lt;p&gt;I&apos;m shocked to hear that AT&amp;#38;T is not showering Apple&apos;s execs with expensive champagne and corporate jets every chance they get!</text></comment>

<story><title>We’re Apple. We don’t wear suits. We don’t even own suits.</title><url>http://daringfireball.net/linked/2010/07/19/vogelstein-apple-att</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>chwahoo</author><text>It does seem that concessions were made. For example, the Facetime app is currently wifi-only. Also, I believe movie rental is wifi-only. Those are understandable restrictions for now, but this article rings a bit hollow in light of them -- It would seem that AT&amp;#38;T won a few of those battles.</text></comment>

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<story><title>Senate votes to let people who’ve used marijuana work at intelligence agencies</title><url>https://www.marijuanamoment.net/senate-votes-to-let-people-whove-used-marijuana-work-at-intelligence-agencies-like-cia-and-nsa-as-part-of-defense-bill/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jeffreyrogers</author><text>You could already get a clearance with past marijuana use (and other drugs) but I guess this would just make it so someone couldn&amp;#x27;t be denied a clearance solely for that reason.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>VeninVidiaVicii</author><text>I got denied an internship at the CIA for my past drug use, which was entirely trying marijuana after it became legal in my home state. I don’t see how someone can possibly be expected to have the personality to gather (human) intel, but somehow not ever have smoked weed.</text></comment>

<story><title>Senate votes to let people who’ve used marijuana work at intelligence agencies</title><url>https://www.marijuanamoment.net/senate-votes-to-let-people-whove-used-marijuana-work-at-intelligence-agencies-like-cia-and-nsa-as-part-of-defense-bill/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jeffreyrogers</author><text>You could already get a clearance with past marijuana use (and other drugs) but I guess this would just make it so someone couldn&amp;#x27;t be denied a clearance solely for that reason.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jedberg</author><text>A (very talented) friend of mine was supposed to work at the White House during the Obama admin. He got as far as signing documents and moving from California to Washington DC.&lt;p&gt;That was when they told him that his offer was rescinded for past use of marijuana. They said there were no exceptions to the rule, but it was the only reason he was denied.</text></comment>

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<story><title>I ruin developers’ lives with my code reviews and I&apos;m sorry</title><url>https://habr.com/en/post/440736/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>bogota</author><text>I have worked with people like the author. They suck. They destroy entire teams and often times the feedback is 99% pedantic personal preferences because why would they do something useful like setup the linter and propose the silly things they always nit pick.&lt;p&gt;These people don’t last long and I have gotten pretty good at screening out this personality in interviews after having it cause huge issues at two different places I worked.</text></item><item><author>majormajor</author><text>&amp;gt; If a guy brings me his code, and it has mistakes, it brings insane pleasure from how smart I feel [...] And if you tell me that you haven’t had this feeling ever, then you’re lying. Tell me about higher goals, training rookies and all that — I know you’re simply too full of themselves. And if you try to tell me that you learned to defeat that feeling (however it manifests in you), then I must be a pink unicorn.&lt;p&gt;I really can&amp;#x27;t relate at all. I feel the opposite. I often feel angry (I realize this is not a GOOD response either!) and always feel sad. I don&amp;#x27;t want to have to do more work. I don&amp;#x27;t want a reminder that my previous feedback didn&amp;#x27;t click with them.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;m constantly looking for ways to do less tedious work, through automation and such, and code review for bad code is the worst sort of tedious work. I want to learn things, but code reviewing bad code doesn&amp;#x27;t teach me anything - I want to work with people who can teach me things when &lt;i&gt;they&lt;/i&gt; review &lt;i&gt;my&lt;/i&gt; code just as often as the reverse.&lt;p&gt;My takeaway from that has been to try to intercept people &lt;i&gt;earlier&lt;/i&gt; in the planning and designing and start-of-coding process. If a bunch of bad code gets to code review, someone failed at explaining what this thing needed to do and how it should be done beforehand. The article claims this is always just itself a confrontational form of argument, but... it doesn&amp;#x27;t have to be. Stop being an asshole, and find non-assholes to work with.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dec0dedab0de</author><text>I am always careful to prioritize my comments during code review so I don&amp;#x27;t come off like that too often.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;ll say things like, &amp;quot;I would have done that like this because of this reason, but as long as it works&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;or &amp;quot;This needs to change right now because it&amp;#x27;s a security hole&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;or &amp;quot;We should find a more efficient way to do this, because as the data fills up, the users will start to notice it&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;I am definitely harder on new people, and people who ask me for help when they should have been able to figure it out on their own.</text></comment>

<story><title>I ruin developers’ lives with my code reviews and I&apos;m sorry</title><url>https://habr.com/en/post/440736/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>bogota</author><text>I have worked with people like the author. They suck. They destroy entire teams and often times the feedback is 99% pedantic personal preferences because why would they do something useful like setup the linter and propose the silly things they always nit pick.&lt;p&gt;These people don’t last long and I have gotten pretty good at screening out this personality in interviews after having it cause huge issues at two different places I worked.</text></item><item><author>majormajor</author><text>&amp;gt; If a guy brings me his code, and it has mistakes, it brings insane pleasure from how smart I feel [...] And if you tell me that you haven’t had this feeling ever, then you’re lying. Tell me about higher goals, training rookies and all that — I know you’re simply too full of themselves. And if you try to tell me that you learned to defeat that feeling (however it manifests in you), then I must be a pink unicorn.&lt;p&gt;I really can&amp;#x27;t relate at all. I feel the opposite. I often feel angry (I realize this is not a GOOD response either!) and always feel sad. I don&amp;#x27;t want to have to do more work. I don&amp;#x27;t want a reminder that my previous feedback didn&amp;#x27;t click with them.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;m constantly looking for ways to do less tedious work, through automation and such, and code review for bad code is the worst sort of tedious work. I want to learn things, but code reviewing bad code doesn&amp;#x27;t teach me anything - I want to work with people who can teach me things when &lt;i&gt;they&lt;/i&gt; review &lt;i&gt;my&lt;/i&gt; code just as often as the reverse.&lt;p&gt;My takeaway from that has been to try to intercept people &lt;i&gt;earlier&lt;/i&gt; in the planning and designing and start-of-coding process. If a bunch of bad code gets to code review, someone failed at explaining what this thing needed to do and how it should be done beforehand. The article claims this is always just itself a confrontational form of argument, but... it doesn&amp;#x27;t have to be. Stop being an asshole, and find non-assholes to work with.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>_gqoa</author><text>I&amp;#x27;m curious to know if you or anyone else reading this has run into the opposite problem. Or maybe I&amp;#x27;m just &amp;quot;that guy&amp;quot; although I am reasonably certain that I am not.&lt;p&gt;As a rule, so far throughout my 5 year career as a full stack web developer, my coworkers have neither understood or cared about what clean code entails.&lt;p&gt;I don&amp;#x27;t berate, I don&amp;#x27;t criticize, I&amp;#x27;ve taken to mentioning it once and then doing my utmost to never mention it again in an attempt to avoid labeling myself as the odd one out.&lt;p&gt;Granted, I&amp;#x27;ve turned down a handful of much higher paying (and presumably higher quality teams) for various reasons. At first, it was because I was a bootcamper and high paying jobs are difficult to pick up out of the gate without the appropriate piece of paper. Since then, I&amp;#x27;ve worked for various organizations on a consulting basis, and most recently landed at an early stage YC startup. Pay isn&amp;#x27;t great, but I have aspirations to start my own startup, so I&amp;#x27;m cool with the pay cut for now in return for the opportunity to learn the ropes, business wise. Founder knows what he&amp;#x27;s doing at least.&lt;p&gt;But the devs, man. They just don&amp;#x27;t care. 500-1500 line React function components are the norm. No standardized way for retrieving data from the back-end. I dread assignments that require me to modify or otherwise integrate with previously written code, because the best way I can come up with to figure out what the fuck is going on is to rewrite it sanely. I&amp;#x27;m being a little hyperbolic, I do my best to avoid rewriting wherever possible, but I&amp;#x27;m not mis-characterizing things by much.&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s honestly depressing, especially considering I&amp;#x27;ve had multiple other teams offer &lt;i&gt;triple&lt;/i&gt; what I&amp;#x27;m making right now, but neither of them were pre-seed startup SAAS companies which this one is, so here I stay for the time being.&lt;p&gt;Invariably, I garner a reputation as &amp;quot;that guy&amp;quot; on any team I work on, although granted this is only the second multi-dev team I&amp;#x27;ve ever worked on. Still though, it feels terrible to get a bad reputation for writing good code. Founder likes my work ethic and output though, so I guess I&amp;#x27;ve got that going for me.&lt;p&gt;Apologies if this turned into a bit of a rant, it just started pouring out, ha!</text></comment>

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<story><title>‘Virtual Pharmacology’ Advance Tackles Universe of Unknown Drugs</title><url>https://www.ucsf.edu/news/2019/02/413236/virtual-pharmacology-advance-tackles-universe-unknown-drugs</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>daddylonglegs</author><text>When I see a paper like this one of my first thoughts is &amp;quot;What will Derek Lowe say about this?&amp;quot; He is a chemist in the drug industry and excellent writer. On his blog he regularly tears apart overhyped claims for how software searches for targets and automated synthesis of chemicals are going to find perfect cures for everything at the press of a button. His take on this paper is actually positive, though with some important caveats:&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;blogs.sciencemag.org&amp;#x2F;pipeline&amp;#x2F;archives&amp;#x2F;2019&amp;#x2F;02&amp;#x2F;11&amp;#x2F;virtual-screening-as-big-as-it-currently-gets&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;blogs.sciencemag.org&amp;#x2F;pipeline&amp;#x2F;archives&amp;#x2F;2019&amp;#x2F;02&amp;#x2F;11&amp;#x2F;vir...&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>

<story><title>‘Virtual Pharmacology’ Advance Tackles Universe of Unknown Drugs</title><url>https://www.ucsf.edu/news/2019/02/413236/virtual-pharmacology-advance-tackles-universe-unknown-drugs</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>roomey</author><text>&amp;quot;The four structures of AmpC determined with the new docking hits are available from the PDB with accession numbers 6DPZ, 6DPY, 6DPX and 6DPT.&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;Are we in a situation now where, if I have a bad anti-botic resistant infection I can just order these molecules on the off chance that they will help me?&lt;p&gt;Can I order a toxin?&lt;p&gt;Or are these molecules just impractical to use outside of a lab setting</text></comment>

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<story><title>Compilation of claims/reports of LK-99 replication efforts</title><url>https://forums.spacebattles.com/threads/claims-of-room-temperature-and-ambient-pressure-superconductor.1106083/page-13</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>A_D_E_P_T</author><text>LK-99 is a quasi two-dimensional material, and one which seems particularly challenging to synthesize in a bulk polycrystalline three-dimensional mass. Even the original researchers stated that they&amp;#x27;d &amp;quot;get it right&amp;quot; only a fraction of the time, and that their famous floating cracked-disc is still impure.&lt;p&gt;I think that there&amp;#x27;s no reason to assume that negative results right now are conclusive, whereas positive results are strongly indicative.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>samwillis</author><text>&amp;gt; seems particularly challenging to synthesize&lt;p&gt;My reading of the situation was that they have been making this stuff for quite a while (years!), but haven&amp;#x27;t had the funding or manufacturing expertise to start scaling up and properly improving the process. They are a &lt;i&gt;tiny&lt;/i&gt; research lab. The suggestion seems to be that one newer (now former) member of the lab just thought F-this we need to publish, get it out there and start moving forward.&lt;p&gt;If it is real, the level of investment in finding ways to make this stuff is going to explode. It may be hard to make, but that won&amp;#x27;t stop us from finding a way to make it on a large scale if it truly is revolutionary.&lt;p&gt;Further to that, from other groups studying it we will potentially find better and easer to make alternatives.</text></comment>

<story><title>Compilation of claims/reports of LK-99 replication efforts</title><url>https://forums.spacebattles.com/threads/claims-of-room-temperature-and-ambient-pressure-superconductor.1106083/page-13</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>A_D_E_P_T</author><text>LK-99 is a quasi two-dimensional material, and one which seems particularly challenging to synthesize in a bulk polycrystalline three-dimensional mass. Even the original researchers stated that they&amp;#x27;d &amp;quot;get it right&amp;quot; only a fraction of the time, and that their famous floating cracked-disc is still impure.&lt;p&gt;I think that there&amp;#x27;s no reason to assume that negative results right now are conclusive, whereas positive results are strongly indicative.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ThePhysicist</author><text>It&amp;#x27;s a hexagonal lead-apatite crystal, how is that &amp;quot;quasi two-dimensional&amp;quot;?</text></comment>

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<story><title>Opensource contributor Bassel Khartabil detained in Syria. Needs help</title><text>Bassel Bassel Khartabil - an open source software contributor to projects such as Creative Commons &amp;#38; Mozilla has been unjustly detained for nearly four months without trial or any legal charges being brought against him.&lt;p&gt;Read more &amp;#38; sign the support letter: http://freebassel.org/&lt;p&gt;ps: Help get this on the frontpage of HackerNews</text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>calbear81</author><text>I don&apos;t know Bassel but the fact that he&apos;s been detained secretly in Syria suggests that the government thinks he&apos;s involved somehow with he uprising/democracy movement.&lt;p&gt;I don&apos;t think signature campaigns will do any good since not even pressure from the US and Turkey has slowed down the bloodshed so do we really think they will care about a bunch of virtual signatures collected online?&lt;p&gt;There&apos;s a few more viable options that should be considered:&lt;p&gt;1) Leverage someone who has influence with the Syrian government to take up the cause. Given Bassel has been an open source contributor, maybe look at which tech companies are still contracted by the Syrian government and try to get them to lend a voice of support. Make sure to play up the positive PR that releasing Bassel will have on improving Syria&apos;s image.&lt;p&gt;2) Stop collecting signatures and start collecting money to work the back channels. Let&apos;s be honest here, corruption is rife (high corruption index on Transparency International study) and the situation pretty chaotic, if you really want to free Bassel, consider a pragmatic approach.</text></comment>

<story><title>Opensource contributor Bassel Khartabil detained in Syria. Needs help</title><text>Bassel Bassel Khartabil - an open source software contributor to projects such as Creative Commons &amp;#38; Mozilla has been unjustly detained for nearly four months without trial or any legal charges being brought against him.&lt;p&gt;Read more &amp;#38; sign the support letter: http://freebassel.org/&lt;p&gt;ps: Help get this on the frontpage of HackerNews</text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>sandGorgon</author><text>Just a suggestion - why do you not work with Avaaz.org A lot of people (like me) would be a little worried at sharing name and email addresses to an unknown site(no offence).&lt;p&gt;In fact, it would have been better if you had linked to &lt;a href=&quot;https://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/33119&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/33119&lt;/a&gt; which vouches for &lt;a href=&quot;http://freebassel.org/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://freebassel.org/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;i&gt;Creative Commons supports efforts to obtain the release of Bassel Safadi, a valuable contributor to and leader in the technology community. Bassel’s expertise and focus across all aspects of his work has been in support of the development of publicly available, free, open source computer software code and technology. He pursues this not only through his valuable volunteer efforts in support of Creative Commons, but in all of his work in the technology field. Through his efforts, the quality and availability of freely available and open technology is improved and technology is advanced.&lt;/i&gt;</text></comment>

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<story><title>Bonzi Buddy</title><url>https://bonzi.link/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>shireboy</author><text>Geeze, that&amp;#x27;s a blast from the past. You know it&amp;#x27;s funny- I used to periodically go looking for things to customize my desktop experience. This, those little dogs and cats, Rainmeter, Amiga workbench hacks, etc. etc. Nowadays- I supposed finally burned by enough malware and having become curmudgeonly- I want the most minimal &amp;quot;plain vanilla&amp;quot; setup I can get and pride myself in hardly ever installing _anything_.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mrfusion</author><text>I miss that sense of wonder from the early computing days.</text></comment>

<story><title>Bonzi Buddy</title><url>https://bonzi.link/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>shireboy</author><text>Geeze, that&amp;#x27;s a blast from the past. You know it&amp;#x27;s funny- I used to periodically go looking for things to customize my desktop experience. This, those little dogs and cats, Rainmeter, Amiga workbench hacks, etc. etc. Nowadays- I supposed finally burned by enough malware and having become curmudgeonly- I want the most minimal &amp;quot;plain vanilla&amp;quot; setup I can get and pride myself in hardly ever installing _anything_.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>sethhochberg</author><text>I have very fond memories of Rainmeter (and WindowBlinds, etc) - but much like you, these days I can&amp;#x27;t be bothered. It was a fun era 15ish years ago.</text></comment>

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<story><title>WikiLeaks offers $20,000 for information on former DNC staffer&apos;s murder</title><url>http://www.businessinsider.com/wikileaks-20000-seth-rich-dnc-2016-8</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dvcc</author><text>WikiLeaks is becoming a political mess with Assange leading the charge.&lt;p&gt;The philosophy that all information should be public is just absurd. There is a reason that the whistle-blowers prior passed their information to reporters, it allowed for certain pieces of information to be redacted.&lt;p&gt;Sending out the name of every woman voter in Turkey does not benefit anyone. Leaking the private conversation of a man and his daughter does not benefit anyone.&lt;p&gt;Assange&amp;#x27;s crazed obsession of having WikiLeaks in the news doesn&amp;#x27;t help either, it only leads to further politicization and larger claims. The whole site has just turned into a show more than anything.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>SmellTheGlove</author><text>It&amp;#x27;s simpler than that. In the past, information was passed to trusted reporters because the media was trusted. A lot of what Wikileaks is reporting now is that the media is coordinating with the same people that these leaks are about in the first place. In other words, the media isn&amp;#x27;t trustworthy. So it&amp;#x27;s a choice, put it out whole, or take a real risk that it&amp;#x27;ll never see the light of day. You could argue that Wikileaks could be doing its own editing to redact sensitive irrelevant information, but then they&amp;#x27;re curating the content and are open to criticism regarding whether they&amp;#x27;re editing with a bias.&lt;p&gt;I get it, I don&amp;#x27;t like that innocent people&amp;#x27;s information is out there. However, it&amp;#x27;s a hard choice that Wikileaks is making there in how to put the information out there. It&amp;#x27;s not as simple as running it through reporters, because you don&amp;#x27;t know if you can trust them.&lt;p&gt;I don&amp;#x27;t think it&amp;#x27;s a political mess, though. You only really hear that when the information casts the &amp;quot;liberals&amp;quot; in a bad light. It&amp;#x27;s a lot easier to rip Wikileaks when it&amp;#x27;s a matter of national security, but in this case, it&amp;#x27;s fairly evident we had a biased primary and the media was complicit in that.</text></comment>

<story><title>WikiLeaks offers $20,000 for information on former DNC staffer&apos;s murder</title><url>http://www.businessinsider.com/wikileaks-20000-seth-rich-dnc-2016-8</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dvcc</author><text>WikiLeaks is becoming a political mess with Assange leading the charge.&lt;p&gt;The philosophy that all information should be public is just absurd. There is a reason that the whistle-blowers prior passed their information to reporters, it allowed for certain pieces of information to be redacted.&lt;p&gt;Sending out the name of every woman voter in Turkey does not benefit anyone. Leaking the private conversation of a man and his daughter does not benefit anyone.&lt;p&gt;Assange&amp;#x27;s crazed obsession of having WikiLeaks in the news doesn&amp;#x27;t help either, it only leads to further politicization and larger claims. The whole site has just turned into a show more than anything.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>patrickaljord</author><text>I find it weird that all these critiques from liberals come just when Wikileaks released info that the DNC primaries were rigged. Before that, it was pretty much all praise. Now, it turns out one of their informant may have been the victim of political assassination and you focus on the fact that they released a conversation of a dad and his daughter, which is of course a blunder but still, compared to the other potential news... Not that I want to see Trump win of course, but I don&amp;#x27;t want to give a free pass to the other side either.&lt;p&gt;edit: grammar</text></comment>

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<story><title>Show HN: Awk-JVM – A toy JVM in Awk</title><url>https://github.com/rethab/awk-jvm</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>rethab</author><text>Author here.&lt;p&gt;As I wrote in the README, this uses GAWK instead of plain AWK. Conveniences of GAWK over AWK in a nutshell: - functions - several additional functions (eg. bit shifting)&lt;p&gt;But even GAWK lacks some things that are very common in other languages: - no variable scope: imagine a calling another function in a for loop and the other function again running a for loop. if both loops use &amp;#x27;i&amp;#x27; as the counter, good luck. the workaround for this is to declare the local variables as parameters that are not passed (and separate them with four spaces) - cannot return array from a function. the workaround is to use pass-by-reference (not sure if the precise definition is applicable here) - arrays cannot be assigned to another variable. workaround is to loop over array and assign it value by value.&lt;p&gt;If anybody knows better workarounds, please let me know :)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>wahern</author><text>It might be useful to provide an example using POSIX od(1) instead of hexdump(1). hexdump is actually a BSD utility. The Debian Linux version is ported from FreeBSD, while the Red Hat version is a pale imitation provided as a wrapper, IIRC, around the od implementation.[1] `od -An -tu1 -v` should suffice.&lt;p&gt;[1] I wrote a single-file hexdump implementation so know far too much about it: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;25thandclement.com&amp;#x2F;~william&amp;#x2F;projects&amp;#x2F;hexdump.c.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;25thandclement.com&amp;#x2F;~william&amp;#x2F;projects&amp;#x2F;hexdump.c.html&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>

<story><title>Show HN: Awk-JVM – A toy JVM in Awk</title><url>https://github.com/rethab/awk-jvm</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>rethab</author><text>Author here.&lt;p&gt;As I wrote in the README, this uses GAWK instead of plain AWK. Conveniences of GAWK over AWK in a nutshell: - functions - several additional functions (eg. bit shifting)&lt;p&gt;But even GAWK lacks some things that are very common in other languages: - no variable scope: imagine a calling another function in a for loop and the other function again running a for loop. if both loops use &amp;#x27;i&amp;#x27; as the counter, good luck. the workaround for this is to declare the local variables as parameters that are not passed (and separate them with four spaces) - cannot return array from a function. the workaround is to use pass-by-reference (not sure if the precise definition is applicable here) - arrays cannot be assigned to another variable. workaround is to loop over array and assign it value by value.&lt;p&gt;If anybody knows better workarounds, please let me know :)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mzs</author><text>Nice project! It&amp;#x27;s only very old awks that don&amp;#x27;t support functions (like BSD awk does and nawk does on SunOS but &amp;#x2F;usr&amp;#x2F;bin&amp;#x2F;awk doesn&amp;#x27;t) and the GNU docs have an implementation of strtonum: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.gnu.org&amp;#x2F;software&amp;#x2F;gawk&amp;#x2F;manual&amp;#x2F;html_node&amp;#x2F;Strtonum-Function.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.gnu.org&amp;#x2F;software&amp;#x2F;gawk&amp;#x2F;manual&amp;#x2F;html_node&amp;#x2F;Strtonum-...&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>

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<story><title>Evernote to be acquired by Bending Spoons</title><url>https://evernote.com/blog/evernote-next-move-joining-bending-spoons/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>bayindirh</author><text>Actually, their experience is pretty pleasant and the product works very well after they have rebuilt their apps.&lt;p&gt;They don’t need to be jealous. Their relative utilitarian take on the matter is what makes them so unique and powerful in the market.&lt;p&gt;Yes, I love markdown, and Evernote just provides a slightly more powerful, WYSIWYG version of it. I neither want “everything and the kitchen sink” vision of Notion, and desktop centric view of Obsidian.&lt;p&gt;Ulysses and Bear are Apple first systems, and while I use Apple mobile devices, my ecosystem is much more varied, and Evernote accommodates all, with feature parity.&lt;p&gt;They are good and understated. Hope that I won’t need to move out after that acquisition.</text></item><item><author>awill</author><text>They must be incredibly jealous of all the successful note taking apps (Notion, Ulysses, Bear, Craft). Evernote were first, and blew it. No other way to describe it.&lt;p&gt;I dumped Evernote when they restricted their free accounts to 2 devices. Ironically I&amp;#x27;m now paying for Ulysses, money I might have give to Evernote had they not been so awful to early adopters.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>rurp</author><text>&amp;gt; Their relative utilitarian take on the matter is what makes them so unique and powerful in the market.&lt;p&gt;Man this was not my experience at all. Granted I dropped Evernote quite a while ago, but for years they kept adding a kitchen sink of features that I didn&amp;#x27;t care about, while regressing at the basics like syncing and merging text notes across multiple devices.&lt;p&gt;They were maybe first company I experienced that blew up a really solid app I liked after raising a truck load of VC money and trying to take over the world.</text></comment>

<story><title>Evernote to be acquired by Bending Spoons</title><url>https://evernote.com/blog/evernote-next-move-joining-bending-spoons/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>bayindirh</author><text>Actually, their experience is pretty pleasant and the product works very well after they have rebuilt their apps.&lt;p&gt;They don’t need to be jealous. Their relative utilitarian take on the matter is what makes them so unique and powerful in the market.&lt;p&gt;Yes, I love markdown, and Evernote just provides a slightly more powerful, WYSIWYG version of it. I neither want “everything and the kitchen sink” vision of Notion, and desktop centric view of Obsidian.&lt;p&gt;Ulysses and Bear are Apple first systems, and while I use Apple mobile devices, my ecosystem is much more varied, and Evernote accommodates all, with feature parity.&lt;p&gt;They are good and understated. Hope that I won’t need to move out after that acquisition.</text></item><item><author>awill</author><text>They must be incredibly jealous of all the successful note taking apps (Notion, Ulysses, Bear, Craft). Evernote were first, and blew it. No other way to describe it.&lt;p&gt;I dumped Evernote when they restricted their free accounts to 2 devices. Ironically I&amp;#x27;m now paying for Ulysses, money I might have give to Evernote had they not been so awful to early adopters.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>throwaway675309</author><text>A &amp;quot;Relative utilitarian take&amp;quot; is not how it would describe a product that tried to incorporate an entire chat app into it.&lt;p&gt;They had a relatively good product around v5X series and I left because they just started to fragment and add more and more non-notetaking related things at the expense of the entire product stability and core functionality.</text></comment>

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<story><title>A linguist on Arrival&apos;s alien language (2016)</title><url>http://www.slate.com/blogs/browbeat/2016/11/22/a_linguist_on_arrival_s_alien_language.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>dudeonthenet</author><text>It&amp;#x27;s also worth making the distinction between the movie and the impressive short story that the movie is based on, which the article completely fails to mention: Ted Chiang - Story of Your Life [1]&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;ve read Chiang&amp;#x27;s book about two years before the movie aired and it really is top-notch speculative fiction that I highly recommend to any Sci-Fi lover.&lt;p&gt;Even though Denis Villeneuve, Eric Heisserer and Ted Chiang himself did a wonderful job with the screenplay, while managing to convey the main ideas and emotion of the book, there are quite a few details about the process of translating Heptapod A and B that didn&amp;#x27;t make it into the movie, details which would have painted a more complete picture of the situation for the interviewed professor of linguistics that was interviewed in this article.&lt;p&gt;[1] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.goodreads.com&amp;#x2F;book&amp;#x2F;show&amp;#x2F;18626849-stories-of-your-life-and-others&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.goodreads.com&amp;#x2F;book&amp;#x2F;show&amp;#x2F;18626849-stories-of-your...&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>

<story><title>A linguist on Arrival&apos;s alien language (2016)</title><url>http://www.slate.com/blogs/browbeat/2016/11/22/a_linguist_on_arrival_s_alien_language.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>skizm</author><text>What bothered me the most is that the way they start the &amp;quot;conversation&amp;quot; with the aliens is by using names and human concepts (walking, eating, etc.). I&amp;#x27;m not a trained linguist or anything, but it seems to me they should start with concepts that are universal: mainly numbers. Maybe as a CS guy I&amp;#x27;m biased (since my language is symbols and numbers), but literally every conceivable language has to contain numbers of some kind (at the &lt;i&gt;very least&lt;/i&gt; the concept of singular vs plural).&lt;p&gt;So start with &amp;quot;one&amp;quot; and &amp;quot;two&amp;quot; or maybe even the concept of nothing vs something. Work your way to vocab words related to space and time (again, I would think these universal concepts considering the aliens traveled with the goal of getting to earth), then get into specific human concepts like me vs you vs third person.&lt;p&gt;They essentially worked through language in the same way you would work through language with a &lt;i&gt;human&lt;/i&gt; baby, which I think would get you no where when talking to an alien race (who are &amp;quot;adults&amp;quot; at this point you would assume, and have their own fully developed world views).&lt;p&gt;Just my 2 cents though.</text></comment>

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<story><title>You cannot have a digital copy of the DC Code</title><url>http://macwright.org/2013/02/20/you-cannot-have-the-code.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>rthomas6</author><text>&amp;#62;Any person who goes about their day in a normal fashion breaks multiple laws every day.&lt;p&gt;I&apos;ve heard this assertion so many times, and after thinking about it, I don&apos;t think it&apos;s actually true. I agree with the sentiment of your comment, but I don&apos;t think I&apos;m actually breaking multiple laws every day. Feel free to prove me wrong.&lt;p&gt;Edit: Could anyone at least provide me with an example of some laws that many people, and perhaps I, break every day unknowingly? That would be a start.</text></item><item><author>throwaway420</author><text>This is certainly a problem, but I see a larger, more troubling problem here associated with access to the legal code.&lt;p&gt;Yes, what laws exist should be made available in as many formats as possible, including some easily accessible electronic format. I doubt that anybody here would disagree with that.&lt;p&gt;But the real issue here is that there are so many laws and regulations that it becomes impossible for any one human being to know all of them. Any person who goes about their day in a normal fashion breaks multiple laws every day.&lt;p&gt;When the state starts policing moral and ethical behavior rather than merely defending people against aggression, you come up with page after page of laws and it becomes impossible to know what is correct. This culture of &quot;every problem needs a law to solve it&quot; is in my opinion the priority here, not merely making thousands of pages of useless laws somehow more accessible. You&apos;re never going to read them anyway.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>potatolicious</author><text>Jaywalking, I do this every day. Even stepping off the curb before the walk light turns.&lt;p&gt;Not stopping completely at a stop sign.&lt;p&gt;Sharing a cat photo you found online. Doubly so if you rehosted it (imgur, Instagram, etc). Sharing stuff on the internet, even without shades of piracy, is fraught with copyright problems.&lt;p&gt;Speeding. I&apos;d be very surprised if you drove at or below the speed limit all the time, every day.&lt;p&gt;&lt;i&gt;Not&lt;/i&gt; speeding - there are minimum speed statutes in some jurisdictions.&lt;p&gt;Not in the US, but in other jurisdictions like Japan and France, taking a random picture on the street where someone is identifiable.&lt;p&gt;The list goes on, and on, and on...</text></comment>

<story><title>You cannot have a digital copy of the DC Code</title><url>http://macwright.org/2013/02/20/you-cannot-have-the-code.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>rthomas6</author><text>&amp;#62;Any person who goes about their day in a normal fashion breaks multiple laws every day.&lt;p&gt;I&apos;ve heard this assertion so many times, and after thinking about it, I don&apos;t think it&apos;s actually true. I agree with the sentiment of your comment, but I don&apos;t think I&apos;m actually breaking multiple laws every day. Feel free to prove me wrong.&lt;p&gt;Edit: Could anyone at least provide me with an example of some laws that many people, and perhaps I, break every day unknowingly? That would be a start.</text></item><item><author>throwaway420</author><text>This is certainly a problem, but I see a larger, more troubling problem here associated with access to the legal code.&lt;p&gt;Yes, what laws exist should be made available in as many formats as possible, including some easily accessible electronic format. I doubt that anybody here would disagree with that.&lt;p&gt;But the real issue here is that there are so many laws and regulations that it becomes impossible for any one human being to know all of them. Any person who goes about their day in a normal fashion breaks multiple laws every day.&lt;p&gt;When the state starts policing moral and ethical behavior rather than merely defending people against aggression, you come up with page after page of laws and it becomes impossible to know what is correct. This culture of &quot;every problem needs a law to solve it&quot; is in my opinion the priority here, not merely making thousands of pages of useless laws somehow more accessible. You&apos;re never going to read them anyway.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>scarecrowbob</author><text>Well, I dunno where you live. I&apos;m in TX and I see this happen a lot:&lt;p&gt;According to Texas Criminal and Traffic Law section 101.31, possession of more than one quart of liquor or more than 24 12-ounce beers in a dry area is evidence of intent to sell alcohol.&lt;p&gt;I&apos;ve lived in two dry cities in TX, BTW.</text></comment>

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<story><title>Multiple Vulnerabilities in Pocket</title><url>https://www.gnu.gl/blog/Posts/multiple-vulnerabilities-in-pocket/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mike-cardwell</author><text>&lt;a href=&quot;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;help.getpocket.com&amp;#x2F;customer&amp;#x2F;portal&amp;#x2F;articles&amp;#x2F;1225832-pocket-security-overview&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;help.getpocket.com&amp;#x2F;customer&amp;#x2F;portal&amp;#x2F;articles&amp;#x2F;1225832-p...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;Pocket does not provide monetary compensation for any identified or possible vulnerability.&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;Cheapskates. This could have cost them money if somebody abusive had discovered it first. He deserves a monetary award.&lt;p&gt;[edit] Should we be concerned about the massive number of people listed on that page who have found security problems with Pocket? I counted 153 separate people...</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>alimbada</author><text>It&amp;#x27;s a freemium service that doesn&amp;#x27;t depend on ad revenue. Maybe they&amp;#x27;re not made of money as Facebook and Google are and that&amp;#x27;s the reason for not compensating.</text></comment>

<story><title>Multiple Vulnerabilities in Pocket</title><url>https://www.gnu.gl/blog/Posts/multiple-vulnerabilities-in-pocket/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mike-cardwell</author><text>&lt;a href=&quot;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;help.getpocket.com&amp;#x2F;customer&amp;#x2F;portal&amp;#x2F;articles&amp;#x2F;1225832-pocket-security-overview&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;help.getpocket.com&amp;#x2F;customer&amp;#x2F;portal&amp;#x2F;articles&amp;#x2F;1225832-p...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;Pocket does not provide monetary compensation for any identified or possible vulnerability.&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;Cheapskates. This could have cost them money if somebody abusive had discovered it first. He deserves a monetary award.&lt;p&gt;[edit] Should we be concerned about the massive number of people listed on that page who have found security problems with Pocket? I counted 153 separate people...</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mst</author><text>I think that number being high, if anything, demonstrates that they don&amp;#x27;t currently need to provide monetary compensation.</text></comment>

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<story><title>Email copy from great companies</title><url>http://www.goodemailcopy.com/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>thinkingkong</author><text>These are great examples but other than the authors personal preferences its not clear what makes these examples effective.&lt;p&gt;It would be good to understand the underlying philosophy and style of communication for each example, so you can piece together what would work best for your project and brand. Not all of them are the same.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mterwill</author><text>MailChimp&amp;#x27;s voice &amp;amp; tone guide at voiceandtone.com does a nice job of explaining the &amp;#x27;why&amp;#x27;.</text></comment>

<story><title>Email copy from great companies</title><url>http://www.goodemailcopy.com/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>thinkingkong</author><text>These are great examples but other than the authors personal preferences its not clear what makes these examples effective.&lt;p&gt;It would be good to understand the underlying philosophy and style of communication for each example, so you can piece together what would work best for your project and brand. Not all of them are the same.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>AznHisoka</author><text>There needs to be a way to filter out the most successful ones. Such as filtering or sorting by open rate or click through rate. Otherwise you&amp;#x27;re assuming they&amp;#x27;re successful just because it&amp;#x27;s a popular brand which is not always true.</text></comment>

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<story><title>Paul Dirac&apos;s handwritten notes for his PhD, the first ever on quantum mechanics</title><url>http://academia.edu/323246/PhD_Thesis_of_Paul_Dirac</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>keithflower</author><text>&lt;i&gt;&amp;quot;...Dirac was absorbed in writing his Ph.D. thesis, a compact presentation of his vision of quantum mechanics. Confident though he was of his understanding of the theory, he knew as he wrote his thesis that it was not the whole story, for he had recently heard than an alternative version of quantum theory had appeared, one that completely different from Heisenberg&amp;#x27;s. The author of the new version was the Austrian theoretician Erwin Schrodinger, working in Zürich. He was 38 years old, a generation older then than Heisenberg and Dirac, with a formidable reputation in Europe as a brilliant polymath.&lt;p&gt;Dirac ignored Schrodinger&amp;#x27;s theory in his PhD thesis &amp;quot;Quantum Mechanics&amp;quot;, the first to be submitted anywhere on the subject. The thesis was a great success with his examiners who took the unusual step on 19 June of sending him a short hand written letter congratulating him on the &amp;quot;exceptional distinction&amp;quot; of his work.&lt;p&gt;....Dirac disliked celebrations and formality, so he was almost certainly not looking forward to the ceremony. He could have taken the degree without attending it but decided to be there in person for the sake of his proud parents, especially this father, who had given him the money that enabled him to begin his Cambridge studies.&lt;p&gt;...Wearing evening dress with a white bow tie, a small black cap and black silk down with a scarlet-lined hood, he knelt on a velvet cushion, placed his hands together and held them out to be grasped by the Vice Chancellor, who delivered a prayer-like oration. Dirac arose, a doctor.&lt;p&gt;Like his father, he had no need of holidays – the long vacations were not for relaxing but for hard work. The university was about to hibernate for the summer and would be virtually devoid of social distractions for the few scholars remaining. It was the perfect environment for Dirac to concentrate even more intensively on his work. Heisenberg and Schrodinger had knifed a sack of gemstones, and the race was on to pick out the diamonds.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;-- Graham Farmelo, The Strangest Man</text></comment>

<story><title>Paul Dirac&apos;s handwritten notes for his PhD, the first ever on quantum mechanics</title><url>http://academia.edu/323246/PhD_Thesis_of_Paul_Dirac</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>nrmn</author><text>Here is a link to the pdf to save anyone from the signup process. Which was painfully long and annoying.&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/155545/dirac_1926_dissertation.pdf&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;dl.dropboxusercontent.com&amp;#x2F;u&amp;#x2F;155545&amp;#x2F;dirac_1926_disser...&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>

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<story><title>Plastc will cease operations and will not fulfill any pre-orders</title><url>https://plastc.com/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>vkou</author><text>&amp;quot;In 2011 after buying a pair of sneakers, then a fruit smoothie and noticing a Google Wallet icon on the cash register, Marquis asked the cashier how many people actually paid with their phones. The cashier responded that so far 2-3 people per month were using it...&lt;p&gt;Immediately the lightbulb went on in Ryan’s mind that there was a significant shift happening in the market from a physical credit card to digital payments. His mind went wild as he dreamed about what the future of digital payments could look like and within a short time after he launched Plastc.&amp;quot; [1]&lt;p&gt;So, after shopping at a store that sells fruit smoothies and sneakers (?), and being told that nobody cares enough about a universal credit card to use the free Google Wallet one, he concluded that the future is a universal credit card that people will pay hundreds of dollars for?&lt;p&gt;Only in Silicon Valley...&lt;p&gt;[1] &lt;a href=&quot;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.huffingtonpost.com&amp;#x2F;bryan-elliott&amp;#x2F;plastc-one-card-to-rule-t_b_9435586.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.huffingtonpost.com&amp;#x2F;bryan-elliott&amp;#x2F;plastc-one-card-...&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>xiaodown</author><text>It wasn&amp;#x27;t going to be so much that, as a card that you could put multiple credit cards on, but that still functioned entirely like a credit card - meaning it could be swiped in vending machines, by waitresses, and everywhere that accepts cards, without the need for an apple pay or google pay or whatever NFC payment hardware.&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s for people that keep multiple cards in their wallet.</text></comment>

<story><title>Plastc will cease operations and will not fulfill any pre-orders</title><url>https://plastc.com/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>vkou</author><text>&amp;quot;In 2011 after buying a pair of sneakers, then a fruit smoothie and noticing a Google Wallet icon on the cash register, Marquis asked the cashier how many people actually paid with their phones. The cashier responded that so far 2-3 people per month were using it...&lt;p&gt;Immediately the lightbulb went on in Ryan’s mind that there was a significant shift happening in the market from a physical credit card to digital payments. His mind went wild as he dreamed about what the future of digital payments could look like and within a short time after he launched Plastc.&amp;quot; [1]&lt;p&gt;So, after shopping at a store that sells fruit smoothies and sneakers (?), and being told that nobody cares enough about a universal credit card to use the free Google Wallet one, he concluded that the future is a universal credit card that people will pay hundreds of dollars for?&lt;p&gt;Only in Silicon Valley...&lt;p&gt;[1] &lt;a href=&quot;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.huffingtonpost.com&amp;#x2F;bryan-elliott&amp;#x2F;plastc-one-card-to-rule-t_b_9435586.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.huffingtonpost.com&amp;#x2F;bryan-elliott&amp;#x2F;plastc-one-card-...&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>bazzargh</author><text>Fruit smoothies and sneakers? In Palo Alto, everyone told me the best coffee was at Zombie Runner, which is a running store...? So I guess that could happen.&lt;p&gt;I was just passing through for a couple of days so never had the chance to try it for myself, ymmv&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.zombierunner.com&amp;#x2F;about&amp;#x2F;palo_alto_store&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.zombierunner.com&amp;#x2F;about&amp;#x2F;palo_alto_store&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>

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<story><title>Building a RISC-V PC</title><url>https://abopen.com/news/building-a-risc-v-pc/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>avisaven</author><text>If you want to play with RISC-V hardware right now, I highly recommend taking a look at the Sipeed MAIX [1]. It has a bunch of neat features along with a dedicated RISC-V processor, for a considerably lower price (~$35 if my memory is correct). I&amp;#x27;ve received a M1w, which is working quite well. The campaign has ended but it seems you can get the hardware on external retailers, however I cannot vouch for these [2]. They also have a Telegram chat where the developers of the product talk quite a bit, and if you ever have any questions they&amp;#x27;re quite responsive and helpful.&lt;p&gt;[1] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.indiegogo.com&amp;#x2F;projects&amp;#x2F;sipeed-maix-the-world-first-risc-v-64-ai-module&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.indiegogo.com&amp;#x2F;projects&amp;#x2F;sipeed-maix-the-world-fir...&lt;/a&gt; [2] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.seeedstudio.com&amp;#x2F;Sipeed-MAIX-I-module-WiFi-version-1st-RISC-V-64-AI-Module-K210-insid-p-3206.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.seeedstudio.com&amp;#x2F;Sipeed-MAIX-I-module-WiFi-versio...&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>

<story><title>Building a RISC-V PC</title><url>https://abopen.com/news/building-a-risc-v-pc/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>shadeslayer</author><text>I saw one of these at FOSDEM recently and it could already run a full Linux graphics stack all the way to KDE Plasma. So cool :D</text></comment>

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<story><title>Meta in Myanmar, Part III. The Inside View</title><url>https://erinkissane.com/meta-in-myanmar-part-iii-the-inside-view</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>theptip</author><text>&amp;gt; the most generous number from the disclosed memos has Meta removing 5% of hate speech on Facebook. That would mean that for every 2,000 hateful posts or comments, Meta removes about 100–95 automatically and 5 via user reports.&lt;p&gt;Its really hard to contextualize these numbers. What are the comparable rates for other media?&lt;p&gt;What % of hate speech on Mastodon is taken down? Twitter? YouTube? Discord? Comparing with old-school mob formation technology, what about leaflets handed out? Political rallies?&lt;p&gt;Meta is an obvious target because they have such a high % of total online speech, and by virtue of this make a potentially impactful single intervention point to make things better. And these articles do make it seem they have room at the margin to improve. But imagine a word with multiple social networks per country - do we think they would be better or worse at policing this stuff (and crucially, the places where it matters are the developing less-regulated countries, often with governments that are at least disinterested in preventing the ethnic conflicts, if not actively promoting them)? I can see hand-wavey arguments in both directions but what I really want is data analyzing the question.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>intended</author><text>The term is Prevalence. I have been looking for years, and have essentially shifted careers to find it. I didnt even have a name for it until recently. There is also no way to get the data you are looking for. As someone described it - this is akin to asking how much crime happens every day.&lt;p&gt;You could get an approximation - For resourced languages though.&lt;p&gt;Meta launched Hindi classifiers in 2021 and Bengali in 2022, covering 0.6bn and 0.24bn people, respectively. I know how poor the lexicons I have seen in the wild are, and how hard it is to stay ahead of terminology.&lt;p&gt;Meta is probably doing more to stay ahead than others. However the ARPU for a user in the US vs India is stark.&lt;p&gt;Platforms aren’t going to release the necessary data for even a rough approximation. Reddit was a potential data source to learn from, but now we have the API rules, so that is also closed off. Lucky us.&lt;p&gt;Not to mention how supremely unprepared society is to actually understand or discuss the data without making it worse.&lt;p&gt;Meta has more resources and frankly they regained my trust years ago. However, business is business. Twitter and Reddit have shown that in this current cycle, there are are no consequences for neglecting Trust and Safety, as shown by other companies. T&amp;amp;S teams have been reduced globally. T&amp;amp;S teams are being targeted and vilified.&lt;p&gt;Next year, there are ~50 elections happening, including the USA and India. The network suits certain narratives - the more insular, fear driven ones. Trust and Safety teams are themselves being exposed.&lt;p&gt;Its already looking like a perfect storm.</text></comment>

<story><title>Meta in Myanmar, Part III. The Inside View</title><url>https://erinkissane.com/meta-in-myanmar-part-iii-the-inside-view</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>theptip</author><text>&amp;gt; the most generous number from the disclosed memos has Meta removing 5% of hate speech on Facebook. That would mean that for every 2,000 hateful posts or comments, Meta removes about 100–95 automatically and 5 via user reports.&lt;p&gt;Its really hard to contextualize these numbers. What are the comparable rates for other media?&lt;p&gt;What % of hate speech on Mastodon is taken down? Twitter? YouTube? Discord? Comparing with old-school mob formation technology, what about leaflets handed out? Political rallies?&lt;p&gt;Meta is an obvious target because they have such a high % of total online speech, and by virtue of this make a potentially impactful single intervention point to make things better. And these articles do make it seem they have room at the margin to improve. But imagine a word with multiple social networks per country - do we think they would be better or worse at policing this stuff (and crucially, the places where it matters are the developing less-regulated countries, often with governments that are at least disinterested in preventing the ethnic conflicts, if not actively promoting them)? I can see hand-wavey arguments in both directions but what I really want is data analyzing the question.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>arczyx</author><text>Rather than the 5% number (which may be the best they can do with current start of art), what feels more damning to me is that they found a method that can reduce misinformation (by way more than 5%), and then decided to &lt;i&gt;rollback&lt;/i&gt; it.&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; And this method works. In Myanmar, “reshare depth demotion” reduced “viral inflammatory prevalence” by 25% and cut “photo misinformation” almost in half.&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; In a reasonable world, I think Meta would have decided to broaden use of this method and work on refining it to make it even more effective. What they did, though, was decide to roll it back within Myanmar as soon as the upcoming elections were over.</text></comment>

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<story><title>VR Resources</title><url>http://facebook.design/vr</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>hrayr</author><text>How practical is it to get into programming for VR for cost sensitive developers? I feel like this space will not blow up until the tools and resources become fairly accessible for the common developer.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>kakarot</author><text>I also recommend the Vive as the most viable.&lt;p&gt;If you prefer sit-down VR and don&amp;#x27;t see the potential in room-scale VR, then I would recommend the Fove.&lt;p&gt;It has eye-tracking which allows for focusing rendering resources around your gaze as well as some cool interaction and less stress on your neck.&lt;p&gt;John Carmack was sniped by Oculus while back to figure out things like inside-out roomscale, specifically with the Gear VR, so you might be keen to keep up with those developments.&lt;p&gt;Gear VR is fairly affordable if you have a compatible phone and will hopefully stay that way once they implement Carmack&amp;#x27;s reverse tracking.</text></comment>

<story><title>VR Resources</title><url>http://facebook.design/vr</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>hrayr</author><text>How practical is it to get into programming for VR for cost sensitive developers? I feel like this space will not blow up until the tools and resources become fairly accessible for the common developer.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>eropple</author><text>About $800 for either major platform, plus a PC that can push the pixels for it (probably another grand or so). The Vive comes with touch controllers and room-scale stuff, which is why its list price is about $799; the Rift is $599 but the touch controllers and the second camera necessary for hand tracking are a $200 bundle. I would not recommend a Rift; right now room-scale (diagonal placement) is experimental for the Rift whereas it&amp;#x27;s standard for the Vive, and coupled with Oculus&amp;#x27;s founder being something of a dirtbag I&amp;#x27;d recommend a Vive on both technical and not-feeling-icky grounds.</text></comment>

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<story><title>Covid-19 contact tracing study finds children key to spread</title><url>https://www.princeton.edu/news/2020/09/30/largest-covid-19-contact-tracing-study-date-finds-children-key-spread-evidence</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>argonaut</author><text>Unfortunately, it&amp;#x27;s difficult to conclude that children are the &amp;quot;key&amp;quot; to superspreading, because the study suffers from the same limitation as the South Korean study the media used to make the same claim.&lt;p&gt;Which is that it&amp;#x27;s impossible to determine the direction of transmission. Just because someone (a child or young adult) developed symptoms first doesn&amp;#x27;t mean they actually got infected first, they might have actually gotten infected at the same time as their supposed contact. When the South Korean study removed cases of shared exposure, the new study found those children did not in fact transmit very much. &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;twitter.com&amp;#x2F;apsmunro&amp;#x2F;status&amp;#x2F;1311616493445165058&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;twitter.com&amp;#x2F;apsmunro&amp;#x2F;status&amp;#x2F;1311616493445165058&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;This Twitter discussion does not make me think they did anything differently than the South Korean study that was later corrected: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;twitter.com&amp;#x2F;apsmunro&amp;#x2F;status&amp;#x2F;1312301601156194304&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;twitter.com&amp;#x2F;apsmunro&amp;#x2F;status&amp;#x2F;1312301601156194304&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>

<story><title>Covid-19 contact tracing study finds children key to spread</title><url>https://www.princeton.edu/news/2020/09/30/largest-covid-19-contact-tracing-study-date-finds-children-key-spread-evidence</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>azalemeth</author><text>NB:&lt;p&gt;(a) The original title of this article is &amp;#x27;Largest COVID-19 contact tracing study to date finds children key to spread, evidence of superspreaders&amp;#x27; -- I edited it to fit within the HN character limit&lt;p&gt;(b) The actual article is published in Science: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;science.sciencemag.org&amp;#x2F;content&amp;#x2F;early&amp;#x2F;2020&amp;#x2F;09&amp;#x2F;29&amp;#x2F;science.abd7672&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;science.sciencemag.org&amp;#x2F;content&amp;#x2F;early&amp;#x2F;2020&amp;#x2F;09&amp;#x2F;29&amp;#x2F;scie...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;(c) This is a large study on 500k people in India. The researchers found that 71% of infected individuals did not infect any of their contacts, while a mere 8% of infected individuals accounted for 60% of new infections -- providing evidence for so-called &amp;#x27;superspreaders&amp;#x27;. Regarding children, the researchers found that &amp;#x27;These patterns of enhanced transmission risk in similar-age pairs were strongest among children ages 0-14 years and among adults ages ≥65 years&amp;#x27;, and that they &amp;#x27;identif[ied] high prevalence of infection among children who were contacts of cases around their own age&amp;#x27; -- something that was also true in adults.&lt;p&gt;The overall case-to-fatality ratio was between 0.05% at ages 5-17 years to 16.6% at ages ≥85 years.</text></comment>

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<story><title>What Happens When You ACH a Dead Person?</title><url>https://www.moderntreasury.com/journal/what-happens-when-you-ach-a-dead-person</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>itcrowd</author><text>This reminds me of a question I&amp;#x27;ve had for the longest time (+): why is it that in the US wiring money between accounts is so expensive or difficult? Whole ecosystems of companies have sprung up (PayPal and Stripe come to mind, and apps such as TransferWise) to reduce the friction when the banks could easily set up a way cheaper system that would actually be better (privacy etc.) for the consumer. The EU seems to be much better at this .. ?&lt;p&gt;(+) Partial answer found here, but not satisfying &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;money.stackexchange.com&amp;#x2F;questions&amp;#x2F;27474&amp;#x2F;why-are-wire-transfers-and-other-financial-services-in-canada-so-much-more-expen&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;money.stackexchange.com&amp;#x2F;questions&amp;#x2F;27474&amp;#x2F;why-are-wire...&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>

<story><title>What Happens When You ACH a Dead Person?</title><url>https://www.moderntreasury.com/journal/what-happens-when-you-ach-a-dead-person</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>teilo</author><text>Ah, NACHA, oh how I hate thee.&lt;p&gt;If only NACHA files &lt;i&gt;were&lt;/i&gt; JSON as shown in the example in the article.&lt;p&gt;I wrote a NACHA processor in MS Access many years ago for a client in the insurance industry. That thing is &lt;i&gt;still&lt;/i&gt; being used. God, I wish it would die. Although, I&amp;#x27;m not sure which is worse: Parsing and generating the NACHA record format, or trying to parse and generate JSON in VBA.&lt;p&gt;Why MS Access? Their entire claims processing system (which I did not write) ran on it. I only &lt;i&gt;just&lt;/i&gt; got that damn thing migrated to an MSSQL backend. The pain.</text></comment>

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<story><title>Kettle Logic</title><url>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kettle_logic</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>a_shovel</author><text>It seems that this is a sort of &amp;quot;dual&amp;quot; to what&amp;#x27;s called &amp;quot;Argument in the alternative&amp;quot; [1], which I&amp;#x27;ve seen confused for kettle logic more often than I&amp;#x27;ve seen kettle logic used itself.&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s a subtle distinction. Argument in the alternative considers multiple different possibilities as hypotheticals in order to rule them all out, but isn&amp;#x27;t that kind of what kettle logic does as well? Can a kettle logic argument be easily rephrased into an argument in the alternative?&lt;p&gt;I feel like there&amp;#x27;s a difference between them that&amp;#x27;s more than just whether the argument is true&amp;#x2F;valid or not, but I can&amp;#x27;t quite put it into words.&lt;p&gt;[1] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Argument_in_the_alternative&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Argument_in_the_alternative&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Jtsummers</author><text>The &amp;quot;even if&amp;quot; bit from your link is helpful to consider.&lt;p&gt;Kettle logic:&lt;p&gt;1. I wasn&amp;#x27;t there.&lt;p&gt;2. I was there but had no motive.&lt;p&gt;3. I was there, had motive, but had no means.&lt;p&gt;Argument in the alternative:&lt;p&gt;1. I wasn&amp;#x27;t there.&lt;p&gt;2. Even if I was there, I had no motive.&lt;p&gt;3. Even if I was there and had motive, I had no means.&lt;p&gt;The first makes three conflicting statements. The second makes 3 consecutive arguments: I have an alibi, but if you don&amp;#x27;t believe my alibi, I still had no motive, and if you don&amp;#x27;t believe my alibi and that I lacked motive, I had no means.</text></comment>

<story><title>Kettle Logic</title><url>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kettle_logic</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>a_shovel</author><text>It seems that this is a sort of &amp;quot;dual&amp;quot; to what&amp;#x27;s called &amp;quot;Argument in the alternative&amp;quot; [1], which I&amp;#x27;ve seen confused for kettle logic more often than I&amp;#x27;ve seen kettle logic used itself.&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s a subtle distinction. Argument in the alternative considers multiple different possibilities as hypotheticals in order to rule them all out, but isn&amp;#x27;t that kind of what kettle logic does as well? Can a kettle logic argument be easily rephrased into an argument in the alternative?&lt;p&gt;I feel like there&amp;#x27;s a difference between them that&amp;#x27;s more than just whether the argument is true&amp;#x2F;valid or not, but I can&amp;#x27;t quite put it into words.&lt;p&gt;[1] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Argument_in_the_alternative&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Argument_in_the_alternative&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>nwatson</author><text>I think the difference is that in Kettle Logic the presenter knows the truth, and the truth doesn&amp;#x27;t match any of the inconsistent affirmatives ... or else it mostly matches one of them but the presenter believes it&amp;#x27;s easier for the audience to swallow one of the other, false, alternatives.</text></comment>

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<story><title>Stack Exchange&apos;s monitoring system is now open source</title><url>https://github.com/opserver/Opserver</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>stevepotter</author><text>The anti .net kneejerk reactions on HN really disturbs me. You spend all day on stackoverflow then blindly bash their tech stack. Developing, deploying, and hosting .net apps is just fine. Many brilliant people choose .net and are plenty happy with it. Maybe rather than jumping to conclusions, you could give it a shot.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>lmm</author><text>Stack Overflow (which I avoid as much as I can fwiw) is not a strong argument for the .net stack given the people behind it have moved to a different stack for their next project (&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2013/03/why-ruby.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.codinghorror.com&amp;#x2F;blog&amp;#x2F;2013&amp;#x2F;03&amp;#x2F;why-ruby.html&lt;/a&gt;). That&amp;#x27;s not an isolated incident.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;ve several friends working in that stack. While many defend it as the correct decision at the time (and I don&amp;#x27;t disagree with that), all would rather be using something else now.</text></comment>

<story><title>Stack Exchange&apos;s monitoring system is now open source</title><url>https://github.com/opserver/Opserver</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>stevepotter</author><text>The anti .net kneejerk reactions on HN really disturbs me. You spend all day on stackoverflow then blindly bash their tech stack. Developing, deploying, and hosting .net apps is just fine. Many brilliant people choose .net and are plenty happy with it. Maybe rather than jumping to conclusions, you could give it a shot.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>rurounijones</author><text>What anti .net kneejerk? At time of this comment there are 28 comments, only 2 of which are anti .net &amp;#x2F; Microsoft (with no replies) and they are already well on their way to being downvoted into oblivion.</text></comment>

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<story><title>Windows needs a change in priorities</title><url>https://den.dev/blog/windows-priority-shuffle/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>segphault</author><text>Like every Windows user, I have had a lot of frustrating experiences with the abusive behavior and dark patterns that have taken over the platform. Like when they started having Skype silently run in the background logged in with the user&amp;#x27;s Microsoft account without any notice or human intervention, and removed the setting to disable it from launching at startup so that it couldn&amp;#x27;t be prevented. I had to completely uninstall it, which didn&amp;#x27;t really help, because they still kept bringing it back after every update. I assume that they&amp;#x27;re going to do this with Teams now.&lt;p&gt;For every egregious user-hostile behavior, you can search and find a ton of forum threads where people discuss at length how to reverse or mitigate them. The fact that Microsoft is aware of this and continues to prioritize this kind of abusive growth hacking over user trust, knowing fully how that impacts the company&amp;#x27;s reputation among enthusiasts, is perhaps more damning than the actual practices.&lt;p&gt;Nobody at Microsoft who has decision-making authority actually cares. Contempt for the users is so deep in the DNA that this will never get better. It&amp;#x27;s disappointing, because it ultimately undermines all of the great effort that people elsewhere in the company have put into features like WSL that might otherwise make the platform attractive to modern developers.&lt;p&gt;It creates a really adversarial posture between the user and the platform. When they introduce new features, I&amp;#x27;m reluctant to even try them because I don&amp;#x27;t trust their intentions. It&amp;#x27;s like being in an abusive relationship.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>spaniard89277</author><text>From my POV it has come to a time where the tradeoffs you make switching to Linux (xubuntu in my case) are worth it.&lt;p&gt;A few days ago I had to do some helpdesk for a friend with windows 10. We suspected that one of his three drives failed, and windows just refused to start up, so I wanted to jump into recovery&amp;#x2F;safe mode and take a look.&lt;p&gt;But for doing so you need to go through a ridiculous lenght rebooting the PC multiple times and go through a bunch of sub menus. I tried but it didn&amp;#x27;t work, so we unplugged the hd we suspected it was failing and used my linux laptop with an external hd case to diagnose it.&lt;p&gt;I have a w10 corporate version in a pc, and it works kid of fine. I had to install windows 10 home to a laptop recebtly and everything feels like an abuse.&lt;p&gt;If I have to fight with a system more than I fight with linux, with it&amp;#x27;s drivers issues and the problems that I can&amp;#x27;t fix without googling as I&amp;#x27;m not intimate with the SO, what&amp;#x27;s the point?&lt;p&gt;Its just too much effort.</text></comment>

<story><title>Windows needs a change in priorities</title><url>https://den.dev/blog/windows-priority-shuffle/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>segphault</author><text>Like every Windows user, I have had a lot of frustrating experiences with the abusive behavior and dark patterns that have taken over the platform. Like when they started having Skype silently run in the background logged in with the user&amp;#x27;s Microsoft account without any notice or human intervention, and removed the setting to disable it from launching at startup so that it couldn&amp;#x27;t be prevented. I had to completely uninstall it, which didn&amp;#x27;t really help, because they still kept bringing it back after every update. I assume that they&amp;#x27;re going to do this with Teams now.&lt;p&gt;For every egregious user-hostile behavior, you can search and find a ton of forum threads where people discuss at length how to reverse or mitigate them. The fact that Microsoft is aware of this and continues to prioritize this kind of abusive growth hacking over user trust, knowing fully how that impacts the company&amp;#x27;s reputation among enthusiasts, is perhaps more damning than the actual practices.&lt;p&gt;Nobody at Microsoft who has decision-making authority actually cares. Contempt for the users is so deep in the DNA that this will never get better. It&amp;#x27;s disappointing, because it ultimately undermines all of the great effort that people elsewhere in the company have put into features like WSL that might otherwise make the platform attractive to modern developers.&lt;p&gt;It creates a really adversarial posture between the user and the platform. When they introduce new features, I&amp;#x27;m reluctant to even try them because I don&amp;#x27;t trust their intentions. It&amp;#x27;s like being in an abusive relationship.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Silhouette</author><text>&lt;i&gt;Nobody at Microsoft who has decision-making authority actually cares.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;Acknowledging this is the first step. The second is figuring out what would make them care or how to remove them so someone who does care can take over. That&amp;#x27;s a much harder thing to do.&lt;p&gt;Realistically Microsoft is in a similar position to the likes of Google and Facebook. They have such an entrenched monopoly, bought through years of ignored warnings and developing monoculture, that they can continue to be successful in a financial sense in spite of their actions rather than because of them.&lt;p&gt;Until there is a credible challenger for the desktop OS market, a market that is itself evolving as other types of device now appeal to users who might have primarily used a desktop&amp;#x2F;laptop a few years ago, it is difficult to see how that changes. And the market is probably shrinking for desktop users who aren&amp;#x27;t in large organisations running &amp;quot;enterprise&amp;quot; software, with casual home users often preferring mobile devices and games consoles to a full PC now (though perhaps less so in light of recent world events and wanting to do more from home). So where is the serious competitor going to come from? I can think of a few at least slightly plausible scenarios but whether most of them would lead to anything less user-hostile than modern Windows is a different question.</text></comment>

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<story><title>OpenAI completes deal that values company at $157B</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/02/technology/openai-valuation-150-billion.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>cs702</author><text>Given the high risk, investors likely want a shot of earning at least a 10x return. $157 billion x 10 = $1.57 trillion, greater than META&amp;#x27;s current market capitalization. Greater returns would require even more aggressive assumptions. For example, a 30x return would require OpenAI to become the world&amp;#x27;s most valuable company by a large margin.&lt;p&gt;All I can say to the investors, with the best of hopes, is:&lt;p&gt;&lt;i&gt;Good luck! You&amp;#x27;ll need it!&lt;/i&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jsheard</author><text>It&amp;#x27;s fine, Sam&amp;#x27;s bulletproof plan is to build AGI (how hard could it be) and then ask the AGI how they can make a return on their investments.&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.threads.net&amp;#x2F;@nixcraft&amp;#x2F;post&amp;#x2F;C5vj0naNlEq&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.threads.net&amp;#x2F;@nixcraft&amp;#x2F;post&amp;#x2F;C5vj0naNlEq&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;If they haven&amp;#x27;t built AGI yet that just means you should give them more billions so they can build the AGI. You wouldn&amp;#x27;t want your earlier investments to go to waste, right?</text></comment>

<story><title>OpenAI completes deal that values company at $157B</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/02/technology/openai-valuation-150-billion.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>cs702</author><text>Given the high risk, investors likely want a shot of earning at least a 10x return. $157 billion x 10 = $1.57 trillion, greater than META&amp;#x27;s current market capitalization. Greater returns would require even more aggressive assumptions. For example, a 30x return would require OpenAI to become the world&amp;#x27;s most valuable company by a large margin.&lt;p&gt;All I can say to the investors, with the best of hopes, is:&lt;p&gt;&lt;i&gt;Good luck! You&amp;#x27;ll need it!&lt;/i&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Workaccount2</author><text>&amp;gt;You&amp;#x27;ll need it!&lt;p&gt;If they can IPO, they will easily hit a $1.5T valuation. All Altman would have to do is follow what Elon did with Tesla. Lots of massive promises marinated in trending hype that tickles the hearts of dumb money. No need to deliver, just keep promising. He is already doing it.</text></comment>

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<story><title>Nootropics Survey Results And Analysis</title><url>http://slatestarcodex.com/2014/02/16/nootropics-survey-results-and-analysis/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Xcelerate</author><text>What I find interesting is the fact that modafinil and caffeine ranked almost the same. I&amp;#x27;ve always thought it would be interesting to try modafinil because of the widely claimed cognitive benefits and how it has less drawbacks than caffeine, but if it ranks essentially the same as caffeine, there&amp;#x27;s really no point to trying it that I can see. Caffeine doesn&amp;#x27;t really do &lt;i&gt;that&lt;/i&gt; much to be honest. It seems as though none of these really have any profound effects on mental capability.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>robbiep</author><text>The difference between caffeine and modafinil come down to two things for me - - length of effect (caffeine seems to pick me up for had ran hour to an hour with a 30 min lead time - vs 12 hours with modafinil with a 45-1hr lead time) - side effects (if I am really tired and have to get a big day out, I might end up havering somewhere between 6-12 &amp;#x27;doses&amp;#x27; of coffee. Cf. 200 mg modafinil- by 3&amp;#x2F;4 through the day on the caffeine track I am jittery, have a noticeable essential tremor, my eyes are gritty - all this vs nothing on modafinil- nothing for me at least)&lt;p&gt;Few notes: Modafinil was a massive productivity booster while I was at uni. I would occasionally do a 36 hour period of solid study or work or whatever to cover a whole bunch of content and take up to 600mg modafinil durin this period, sometimes followed by a normal 8 hr sleep, then repeat. It was wonderful; I covered huge sections of my curriculum efficiently. The only side effect I have ever really felt from modafinil is a slight bit of &amp;#x27;coke mouth&amp;#x27; when taking a high dose, and a minor bit of jaw clenching a la MDMA at the high doses as well.&lt;p&gt;Now I use only when work is very busy and I have been stupid with my sleep, 100mg mane for a couple of the days of the week seems to work very well although I am not an &amp;#x27;every day&amp;#x27; doser and always prefer to be around 36 hours from my last dose if I am going to drink or take any other substances (I find I don&amp;#x27;t get the sensation of drunk if still on modafinil)&lt;p&gt;Edit: to more directly respond to your post, as opposed to ramble, you note that caffeine doesn&amp;#x27;t do that much to your mental capacity. Modafinil doesn&amp;#x27;t really either. The studies that have looked at mental capacity, creativity etc whilst under modafinil cf. amphetamines cf. placebo have all shown decreasing returns for people of normal or high baseline cognitive function. Modafinil is &lt;i&gt;not&lt;/i&gt; going to make you smarter. But if you take it in the right environment, it can make you a lot more productive</text></comment>

<story><title>Nootropics Survey Results And Analysis</title><url>http://slatestarcodex.com/2014/02/16/nootropics-survey-results-and-analysis/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Xcelerate</author><text>What I find interesting is the fact that modafinil and caffeine ranked almost the same. I&amp;#x27;ve always thought it would be interesting to try modafinil because of the widely claimed cognitive benefits and how it has less drawbacks than caffeine, but if it ranks essentially the same as caffeine, there&amp;#x27;s really no point to trying it that I can see. Caffeine doesn&amp;#x27;t really do &lt;i&gt;that&lt;/i&gt; much to be honest. It seems as though none of these really have any profound effects on mental capability.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>wwweston</author><text>I&amp;#x27;m a little skeptical about that. I wonder about having two considerations (benefits&amp;#x2F;drawbacks) apparently boiled down to one number.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;d hazard a guess that the level of enhancement both bring are about the same for many people... but that the drawbacks of caffeine are more or less something that everybody&amp;#x27;s used to.&lt;p&gt;For me, using adrafinil to get by on less sleep was &lt;i&gt;considerably&lt;/i&gt; more desirable than using caffeine.&lt;p&gt;Then again, the drawbacks of caffeine are strong enough for me that I generally don&amp;#x27;t use it, so I might be an outlier.</text></comment>

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<story><title>DMT, the NeXT and the Soul of the Human/Machine</title><url>http://stone.com/dmt/DMT-NeXT_1.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>api</author><text>I can&amp;#x27;t wait for the social media IPO coke binge hangover to wear off and the Valley to rediscover its roots as a hotbed of real innovation, real intellectual daring, and the courage to dream big and then do it.&lt;p&gt;Bigger and better things than, you know, Facebook games and click through ads.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jes5199</author><text>I think it&amp;#x27;s entirely possible that the next period of real innovation will be happening somewhere else - and it&amp;#x27;s possible it&amp;#x27;s already started somewhere, and that all of us in the Bay Area can&amp;#x27;t see it over the noise we&amp;#x27;re generating</text></comment>

<story><title>DMT, the NeXT and the Soul of the Human/Machine</title><url>http://stone.com/dmt/DMT-NeXT_1.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>api</author><text>I can&amp;#x27;t wait for the social media IPO coke binge hangover to wear off and the Valley to rediscover its roots as a hotbed of real innovation, real intellectual daring, and the courage to dream big and then do it.&lt;p&gt;Bigger and better things than, you know, Facebook games and click through ads.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>lukifer</author><text>&amp;quot;The best minds of my generation are thinking about how to make people click ads. That sucks.&amp;quot; - Jeff Hammerbacher</text></comment>

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<story><title>“Tomato” versus “#FF6347” – the tragicomic history of CSS color names</title><url>http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2015/10/tomato-versus-ff6347-the-tragicomic-history-of-css-color-names</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>0x4a42</author><text>Should be entitled &amp;quot;The tragic history of CSS episode n&amp;quot; where n is any number between 0 and infinity.&lt;p&gt;CSS is a complete utter crap that failed to solve the problems for which it exists. Today CSS is a broken tool that still can&amp;#x27;t easily be used to design even the most basic layout without requiring a ton of hacks.&lt;p&gt;Among a fews:&lt;p&gt;- A broken box model that the W3C picked over the one from MS. For finally adding the MS&amp;#x27;s model years later leaving us with 2 boxe models and a broken compatibility.&lt;p&gt;- Centering things? You have to use hacks even for this simple purpose.&lt;p&gt;- Building grids? Let&amp;#x27;s have fun and pick the one you prefer : html tables, display table, floats, flexbox, css grids...&lt;p&gt;- About Tables: 15 years ago everybody switche to tabless layouts for the purpose of separating markup from presentation. A few years later we got access to the table display mode in CSS because, well, not a single one from the other solution worked well to build layout. Qo we got offered the option to emulate html tables in CSS.&lt;p&gt;- They added CSS animations. What animations have to do with styling and layout? Oh it&amp;#x27;s to compensate the bad performances we got when animating things with JS.&lt;p&gt;Etc, etc, etc. CSS is just a complete mess.</text></comment>

<story><title>“Tomato” versus “#FF6347” – the tragicomic history of CSS color names</title><url>http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2015/10/tomato-versus-ff6347-the-tragicomic-history-of-css-color-names</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>Lawtonfogle</author><text>&amp;gt;Perhaps the most vehement denunciation comes from a 2002 e-mail written by programmer Steven Pemberton: “The X11 colour names are an abomination that should have been stifled at birth, and adding them to CSS is a blemish on the otherwise excellent design of CSS.&lt;p&gt;Now I don&amp;#x27;t have much experience with CSS. Only have been using it for ~5 years, and never any of the real complex magic. But if I were to make a list of design problems I have with CSS, color names wouldn&amp;#x27;t even make it on the list.</text></comment>

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<story><title>Is Bandcamp the Holy Grail of Online Record Stores?</title><url>http://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/20/arts/music/bandcamp-shopping-for-music.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>Daiz</author><text>I love Bandcamp for the simple reason that they&amp;#x27;re one of the few very few music stores that digital distribution right according to my standards - for music, this means lossless &amp;amp; DRM-free by default, ie. the same thing physical CDs offer (and Bandcamp makes things even more convenient by allowing you to download in several formats, both lossy and lossless, according to your preferences). While DRM isn&amp;#x27;t usually an issue with digital music purchases today, way too many stores still offer lossy by default, with lossless requiring either paying extra or - even worse - simply not being available at all.&lt;p&gt;It really is sad how often legal digital products are inferior in quality to their physical versions, even though with digital you could pretty much always offer more than what the physical formats allow.&lt;p&gt;Also, another common scourge of digital distribution that Bandcamp &lt;i&gt;doesn&amp;#x27;t&lt;/i&gt; suffer from: region locking. They don&amp;#x27;t support it and don&amp;#x27;t intend to do so either: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;bandcamp.com&amp;#x2F;help&amp;#x2F;selling#region&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;bandcamp.com&amp;#x2F;help&amp;#x2F;selling#region&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>

<story><title>Is Bandcamp the Holy Grail of Online Record Stores?</title><url>http://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/20/arts/music/bandcamp-shopping-for-music.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>Mizza</author><text>I really like that Bandcamp supports &amp;quot;pay what you want&amp;quot; as an option, I find I&amp;#x27;m always more likely to buy music when that&amp;#x27;s a possibility.&lt;p&gt;That being said, I also wrote a BandCamp scraper, &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;github.com&amp;#x2F;Miserlou&amp;#x2F;SoundScrape&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;github.com&amp;#x2F;Miserlou&amp;#x2F;SoundScrape&lt;/a&gt; , so maybe I have weird priorities. Either way, I love BC way, way more than SoundCloud.&lt;p&gt;In the long run, at the scale that BC-type artists operate, I think that the merch game is actually bigger than the paying-for-music game. They&amp;#x27;ve made a few moves in that space, but I get the impression that BigCartel is actually the sleeping giant. I think whoever can combine BigCartel, BandCamp and a _manufacturing_ component into a single experience will be the winner.</text></comment>

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<story><title>Email startup Superhuman lays off 22% of staff</title><url>https://www.businessinsider.com/superhuman-email-startup-lays-off-22-percent-staff-2022-6</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>colesantiago</author><text>I remember when this startup came out, all the VCs, angel investors and tech founders were singing songs of praises (and raises) about how this was going to disrupt email and gating the product an &amp;#x27;exclusive&amp;#x27; access to a waitlist.&lt;p&gt;I find it sus when VCs have to keep overhyping their portfolio companies, especially when they don&amp;#x27;t even make money.&lt;p&gt;Anyway, I checked it out and found that this really isn&amp;#x27;t novel at all (a meeting to use an email client? really?). Just classic marketing and hype to get you to use the product.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>localhost3000</author><text>It took literally _5 years_ for me to get through the waitlist. I signed up in 2016 and got an automated email “from” the founder in May 2021 excitedly inviting me to fill out a questionnaire in order to gain access… Asking me to do work after waiting 5 years seemed crazy so I ignored it and got another automated email “from” the founder nudging me to take the questionnaire a few weeks later. Strangest set of interactions I’ve ever had with a product. I have no idea whether their product is good or bad and I stopped caring many years ago.</text></comment>

<story><title>Email startup Superhuman lays off 22% of staff</title><url>https://www.businessinsider.com/superhuman-email-startup-lays-off-22-percent-staff-2022-6</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>colesantiago</author><text>I remember when this startup came out, all the VCs, angel investors and tech founders were singing songs of praises (and raises) about how this was going to disrupt email and gating the product an &amp;#x27;exclusive&amp;#x27; access to a waitlist.&lt;p&gt;I find it sus when VCs have to keep overhyping their portfolio companies, especially when they don&amp;#x27;t even make money.&lt;p&gt;Anyway, I checked it out and found that this really isn&amp;#x27;t novel at all (a meeting to use an email client? really?). Just classic marketing and hype to get you to use the product.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>hardwaregeek</author><text>It&amp;#x27;s classic productivity app bias. You start using a new app and because of the newness placebo, you get a boost in performance. You post about how amazing and cool it is, tell all your friends, then you get that crash back to baseline. At best, it just becomes a regular part of your routine. More commonly you dump it for the next cool productivity tool.</text></comment>

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<story><title>Scandals suggest standards have slipped in corporate America</title><url>https://www.economist.com/business/2019/04/06/scandals-suggest-standards-have-slipped-in-corporate-america</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>sn41</author><text>Nonsense. Trying to get away with whatever you can, has always existed as a principle. Nowadays, it is easy to forget Dow Chemicals, Philip Morris etc. which were nothing short of nefarious in their pursuit of profits. Bhopal still takes the cake in industrial disasters, not Chernobyl [1].&lt;p&gt;[1] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Bhopal_disaster&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Bhopal_disaster&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>

<story><title>Scandals suggest standards have slipped in corporate America</title><url>https://www.economist.com/business/2019/04/06/scandals-suggest-standards-have-slipped-in-corporate-america</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>roenxi</author><text>We live in an era where it is very, very challenging to cover up scandals. Previously, we lived in an era where it was very easy to cover up a scandal &lt;i&gt;and&lt;/i&gt; what was counted as a scandal was a much higher bar.&lt;p&gt;It is unlikely standards have slipped. Standards are likely rising.</text></comment>

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<story><title>Zynga Lays Off 15% of Its Workforce</title><url>http://techcrunch.com/2014/01/30/zynga-layoffs-2/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ChuckMcM</author><text>Its not that weird. They had 200M in revenue last quarter[1] with about 2000 employees. That is about $100K&amp;#x2F;employee, since employees probably cost more than that at the median, its not really a sustainable strategy. Swap out employees who are making more $&amp;#x2F;employee to boost the average and maybe you have a going concern.&lt;p&gt;[1] &lt;a href=&quot;http://investor.zynga.com/releasedetail.cfm?ReleaseID=800274&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;investor.zynga.com&amp;#x2F;releasedetail.cfm?ReleaseID=800274&lt;/a&gt;</text></item><item><author>h2s</author><text>Eagerly looking forward to the explanation for this weird juxtaposition.&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://i.imgur.com/huUv09m.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;i.imgur.com&amp;#x2F;huUv09m.png&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ChuckMcM</author><text>Interesting, so its $100K in revenue per employee per quarter, that is annualized out to $400K&amp;#x2F;employee&amp;#x2F;quarter.&lt;p&gt;Note that it isn&amp;#x27;t that people are being &lt;i&gt;paid&lt;/i&gt; $100K per quarter, it is that &lt;i&gt;the business&lt;/i&gt; generates $100K in revenue per quarter per employee. When you manage a business one generally has a model, generally that model starts with revenue - cost of goods or &amp;quot;gross margin&amp;quot;, in an info business like this I tend to model the Operational expense of &amp;quot;operations&amp;quot; (the folks who run the server, the cost of IP transit service, co-location fees, etc) as the &amp;quot;cost of goods&amp;quot; (basically the amount of money you&amp;#x27;re spending to make the product available for the customer).&lt;p&gt;So you start with that Gross Margin and your business model is the formulae you use to &amp;quot;spend&amp;quot; it. In old school tech companies you&amp;#x27;ll spend x% of your gross margin on &amp;quot;R&amp;amp;D&amp;quot;, y% on sales, z% on customer acquisition etc. And at the end of the trough is your &amp;quot;net profit&amp;quot; which some folks report as free cash flow. So lets say Zynga spends 10% of their gross margin on R&amp;amp;D, then the money available for R&amp;amp;D would be $100K * GM * R&amp;amp;D margin. To work an example lets say Zynga&amp;#x27;s margins are 80%, 100K * .8 * .1 is $8k&amp;#x2F;quarter available for our R&amp;amp;D employee during the quarter. That is not even $3k&amp;#x2F;month or $36K&amp;#x2F;year &lt;i&gt;loaded&lt;/i&gt; cost (meaning their salary, benefits and office space).&lt;p&gt;That is why it is a useful sanity check to see what the revenue per employee is. That helps you understand how healthy (or unhealthy) the business is. In comparison Apple has 80,000 employees and a quarterly revenue of 57B for a revenue per employee of 720K (about 7x Zynga).&lt;p&gt;I know boring stuff but sometimes it helps when trying to figure out if you&amp;#x27;re making progress or not.</text></comment>

<story><title>Zynga Lays Off 15% of Its Workforce</title><url>http://techcrunch.com/2014/01/30/zynga-layoffs-2/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ChuckMcM</author><text>Its not that weird. They had 200M in revenue last quarter[1] with about 2000 employees. That is about $100K&amp;#x2F;employee, since employees probably cost more than that at the median, its not really a sustainable strategy. Swap out employees who are making more $&amp;#x2F;employee to boost the average and maybe you have a going concern.&lt;p&gt;[1] &lt;a href=&quot;http://investor.zynga.com/releasedetail.cfm?ReleaseID=800274&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;investor.zynga.com&amp;#x2F;releasedetail.cfm?ReleaseID=800274&lt;/a&gt;</text></item><item><author>h2s</author><text>Eagerly looking forward to the explanation for this weird juxtaposition.&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://i.imgur.com/huUv09m.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;i.imgur.com&amp;#x2F;huUv09m.png&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>meritt</author><text>That&amp;#x27;s $100k revenue per employee in Q3 but employee expense is much lower than that[1]. Probably a median annual salary+bonuses of $100k + 15% in taxes &amp;amp; benefits, we&amp;#x27;re still looking at maybe $30k&amp;#x2F;employee&amp;#x2F;quarter.&lt;p&gt;[1] &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.glassdoor.com/Salary/Zynga-Salaries-E243552.htm&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.glassdoor.com&amp;#x2F;Salary&amp;#x2F;Zynga-Salaries-E243552.htm&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>

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<story><title>Facebook agreed to censor posts after Vietnam slowed traffic – sources</title><url>https://www.reuters.com/article/us-vietnam-facebook-exclusive/exclusive-facebook-agreed-to-censor-posts-after-vietnam-slowed-traffic-sources-idUSKCN2232JX</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>NhanH</author><text>Just tangentially related to the topic at hand, but I have a question to ask HN. The main trans-Pacific cable connection between Vietnam and the US tends to be damaged several times a year (3&amp;lt;n&amp;lt;10 is my guess), which severely slow downs any connection to the outside of Vietnam during the time it is under maintenance. This always happens suspiciously during major political holiday (Independence day and the likes), so Vietnamese has just assumed that is a blatant censorship attempt. The wiki page has an outage section you can read: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Asia-America_Gateway&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Asia-America_Gateway&lt;/a&gt; , it doesn&amp;#x27;t list anything beyond 2018, but the situation is the same.&lt;p&gt;So my question is, how likely it is that the cable system are just really shitty? Or is the assumption of bald-faced censorship correct?</text></comment>

<story><title>Facebook agreed to censor posts after Vietnam slowed traffic – sources</title><url>https://www.reuters.com/article/us-vietnam-facebook-exclusive/exclusive-facebook-agreed-to-censor-posts-after-vietnam-slowed-traffic-sources-idUSKCN2232JX</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>piokoch</author><text>Kind of surprising. I can somehow understand that FB bends under pressure from Chinese government - huge population of a &amp;quot;superpower&amp;quot; country. But Vietnam? It looks as if FB was forced to squeeze every cent of their revenue.&lt;p&gt;FB might have just opened Pandora&amp;#x27;s box with all kind of restriction requests coming from all over the World.</text></comment>

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<story><title>How did this PayPal spoof email pass SPF, DKIM and DMARC</title><url>https://security.stackexchange.com/questions/257417/how-did-this-paypal-spoof-email-pass-spf-dkim-and-dmarc</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>elondaits</author><text>For many weeks now, PayPal has been sending me emails that say they have a U$S 5 reward for me. I have to click a button and the prize is limited to the first 40k people. I assume it’s probably legit. Now… people should NOT click on this kind of email!! Are they so dense? Their security department should have a heart to heart with their marketing department.</text></comment>

<story><title>How did this PayPal spoof email pass SPF, DKIM and DMARC</title><url>https://security.stackexchange.com/questions/257417/how-did-this-paypal-spoof-email-pass-spf-dkim-and-dmarc</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>dgreensp</author><text>It’s actually a real email PayPal sends.</text></comment>

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<story><title>Post-SSRI sexual dysfunction</title><url>https://rxisk.org/post-ssri-sexual-dysfunction-pssd/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>lost-found</author><text>You ever look into ketamine for treating depression?&lt;p&gt;Self medicated this past weekend and had some major breakthroughs with my long time depression&amp;#x2F;suicidal intrusive thoughts. Nice thing is you don’t have to stay on it unlike other antidepressants—I would never do a medication that you have to constantly take.</text></item><item><author>ljm</author><text>This was one of the factors that made me think twice about going back on anti-depressants, until I made peace with the fact that my ability to orgasm wasn&amp;#x27;t going to pull me out of the hole I was in. It&amp;#x27;s a shitty choice but the desire to not be suicidal forces your hand.&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s literally like flipping a switch. One day, the plumbing works. The next day, it doesn&amp;#x27;t. Many times I&amp;#x27;d just give up, out of boredom.&lt;p&gt;The side-effects are clearly stated but to use myself as an example, I vastly underestimated just how strong they would be.&lt;p&gt;That said, if you&amp;#x27;re dealing with the big black dog as it were, don&amp;#x27;t use it as a reason to avoid anti-depressants if you really need them. Keep your doctor up to date about the side-effects so they can adjust your prescription. And don&amp;#x27;t be shy just because you&amp;#x27;re talking about your private parts.&lt;p&gt;And make sure you have a therapist too.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ljm</author><text>I appreciate the concern but, honestly, it&amp;#x27;s exhausting to keep fielding &amp;#x27;have you tried...&amp;#x27;, &amp;#x27;have you looked into...&amp;#x27;, &amp;#x27;have you explored...&amp;#x27; questions.&lt;p&gt;I get that it comes from a good place, but I&amp;#x27;m sharing my experience, not asking for advice.&lt;p&gt;The best help you and others can offer is to just listen, instead of offering another solution.&lt;p&gt;There are two replies to me in the &amp;#x27;have you tried&amp;#x27; vein. I&amp;#x27;m not aiming it at you specifically, just trying to stop a pattern.</text></comment>

<story><title>Post-SSRI sexual dysfunction</title><url>https://rxisk.org/post-ssri-sexual-dysfunction-pssd/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>lost-found</author><text>You ever look into ketamine for treating depression?&lt;p&gt;Self medicated this past weekend and had some major breakthroughs with my long time depression&amp;#x2F;suicidal intrusive thoughts. Nice thing is you don’t have to stay on it unlike other antidepressants—I would never do a medication that you have to constantly take.</text></item><item><author>ljm</author><text>This was one of the factors that made me think twice about going back on anti-depressants, until I made peace with the fact that my ability to orgasm wasn&amp;#x27;t going to pull me out of the hole I was in. It&amp;#x27;s a shitty choice but the desire to not be suicidal forces your hand.&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s literally like flipping a switch. One day, the plumbing works. The next day, it doesn&amp;#x27;t. Many times I&amp;#x27;d just give up, out of boredom.&lt;p&gt;The side-effects are clearly stated but to use myself as an example, I vastly underestimated just how strong they would be.&lt;p&gt;That said, if you&amp;#x27;re dealing with the big black dog as it were, don&amp;#x27;t use it as a reason to avoid anti-depressants if you really need them. Keep your doctor up to date about the side-effects so they can adjust your prescription. And don&amp;#x27;t be shy just because you&amp;#x27;re talking about your private parts.&lt;p&gt;And make sure you have a therapist too.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>cwkoss</author><text>Ketamine can be pretty rough on the bladder and kidneys. Please read up on the risks. It is definitely dangerous to take recreational doses several times per week - it seems that low&amp;#x2F;moderate doses every week or two avoids most of the problems while still providing therapeutic effects, but definitely keep an eye on the health of those systems, ideally with letting your doctor know so they can help.&lt;p&gt;Many of users on &amp;#x2F;r&amp;#x2F;researchchemicals using either ket or novel analogs at recreational doses regularly for both fun and depression relief end up with bladder issues after over-consuming for a period - so while it&amp;#x27;s a promising depression treatment, I&amp;#x27;d recommend caution around dosage and frequency and titrating to find your minimum effective dose.</text></comment>

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<story><title>HTTP Status 418 I&apos;m a teapot</title><url>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_HTTP_status_codes</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>epi0Bauqu</author><text>I saw that a few weeks ago (actually went looking for something good to use) and have been returning it to botnets ever since.&lt;p&gt;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt; print &quot;Status: 418 I&apos;m a teapot &lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt; &quot;;</text></comment>

<story><title>HTTP Status 418 I&apos;m a teapot</title><url>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_HTTP_status_codes</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>allwein</author><text>Does anyone have any idea where in the HTTP headers we would store whether the teapot was Short and/or Stout?</text></comment>

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<story><title>India ruling party&apos;s IT cell used AI to show smile on arrested protesters&apos; faces</title><url>https://www.altnews.in/wrestlers-detained-in-delhi-ai-image-of-smiling-vinesh-sangeeta-phogat-viral/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>capableweb</author><text>&amp;gt; Verified account @wokeflix_ tweeted the same image in a meme&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; Verified account @randomsena tweeted the same image&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; Another verified account, @RealAtulsay, tweeted the same image&lt;p&gt;Isn&amp;#x27;t &amp;quot;Verified&amp;quot; on Twitter just a subscription now, meaning it&amp;#x27;s just that these people have given Twitter money? Why it matters (in a journalistic sense) who has paid Twitter or not? And why are only some of the verified accounts mentioned as verified accounts, while others are verified but not mentioned as verified?&lt;p&gt;Such a weird article overall.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>throwaway384629</author><text>Also, twitter shows the comments from &amp;quot;verified&amp;quot; handles on the top of other comments. Government sponsored trolls have unlimited flow of money to buy verified status and dominate the general public accounts.&lt;p&gt;This is how BJP government uses public money to run troll campaigns on social media against opposition leaders. [1]&lt;p&gt;Possibly hundreds or thousands of persons or &amp;quot;journalists&amp;quot; are getting funds from government to abuse the opposition leaders.&lt;p&gt;[1] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.ndtv.com&amp;#x2F;india-news&amp;#x2F;exclusive-silver-touch-behind-bjps-online-dominance-1766114&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.ndtv.com&amp;#x2F;india-news&amp;#x2F;exclusive-silver-touch-behin...&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>

<story><title>India ruling party&apos;s IT cell used AI to show smile on arrested protesters&apos; faces</title><url>https://www.altnews.in/wrestlers-detained-in-delhi-ai-image-of-smiling-vinesh-sangeeta-phogat-viral/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>capableweb</author><text>&amp;gt; Verified account @wokeflix_ tweeted the same image in a meme&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; Verified account @randomsena tweeted the same image&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; Another verified account, @RealAtulsay, tweeted the same image&lt;p&gt;Isn&amp;#x27;t &amp;quot;Verified&amp;quot; on Twitter just a subscription now, meaning it&amp;#x27;s just that these people have given Twitter money? Why it matters (in a journalistic sense) who has paid Twitter or not? And why are only some of the verified accounts mentioned as verified accounts, while others are verified but not mentioned as verified?&lt;p&gt;Such a weird article overall.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>matsemann</author><text>I think that&amp;#x27;s their point. It&amp;#x27;s a way of subtly pointing out that verification on Twitter is now useless, and shouldn&amp;#x27;t be trusted any more than claims from any other user. Even less, I guess, since it&amp;#x27;s not a equal distribution of people paying for verification, they all skew pretty hard to one side.</text></comment>

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<story><title>Platinum Photography</title><url>https://whyisthisinteresting.substack.com/p/the-platinum-photography-edition</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>balou23</author><text>I did not really understand this point.&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt;The first reason is linked to one of the drawbacks of platinum photography. Although the resulting images are far superior, platinum does not react as quickly to light as silver. This means that you can only make an image using the contact printing technique&lt;p&gt;Wouldn&amp;#x27;t that just mean you have to wait longer?</text></item><item><author>vGPU</author><text>&amp;gt;You can’t take a small negative and project it onto the paper, as you do with an enlarger for silver gelatin prints.&lt;p&gt;Pretty much sums up the point. Using 8x10 or whatever size negatives when film rolls were coming about is a non-starter for the general public.&lt;p&gt;The cost seems very high as the other commenter has mentioned also. From a quick search purchasing a kit will give you a printing cost of ~$15&amp;#x2F;photo. This immediately relegates it to the realm of hobbyists with money. Canvas prints of that size may be a bit cheaper for someone seeking something that’s a bit more special than a regular photo.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>seszett</author><text>&amp;gt; Wouldn&amp;#x27;t that just mean you have to wait longer?&lt;p&gt;You would have to wait &lt;i&gt;much&lt;/i&gt; longer with a standard enlarger, probably several &lt;i&gt;days&lt;/i&gt; and that&amp;#x27;s without taking into account reciprocity failure. In practice, it just wouldn&amp;#x27;t work.&lt;p&gt;I haven&amp;#x27;t tried platinotype myself since platinium and paladium are so expensive, but I do print a lot of cyanotype which has a similarly low sensitivity and I built a UV enlarger for that, which works quite well with exposure times on the order of a few minutes for enlarging 35mm onto A5 paper.&lt;p&gt;It requires a 40W 365nm UV LED source though, cooling for the negative in order not to burn it, and a few other tricks to get it to work well.</text></comment>

<story><title>Platinum Photography</title><url>https://whyisthisinteresting.substack.com/p/the-platinum-photography-edition</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>balou23</author><text>I did not really understand this point.&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt;The first reason is linked to one of the drawbacks of platinum photography. Although the resulting images are far superior, platinum does not react as quickly to light as silver. This means that you can only make an image using the contact printing technique&lt;p&gt;Wouldn&amp;#x27;t that just mean you have to wait longer?</text></item><item><author>vGPU</author><text>&amp;gt;You can’t take a small negative and project it onto the paper, as you do with an enlarger for silver gelatin prints.&lt;p&gt;Pretty much sums up the point. Using 8x10 or whatever size negatives when film rolls were coming about is a non-starter for the general public.&lt;p&gt;The cost seems very high as the other commenter has mentioned also. From a quick search purchasing a kit will give you a printing cost of ~$15&amp;#x2F;photo. This immediately relegates it to the realm of hobbyists with money. Canvas prints of that size may be a bit cheaper for someone seeking something that’s a bit more special than a regular photo.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dietrichepp</author><text>&amp;gt; Wouldn&amp;#x27;t that just mean you have to wait longer?&lt;p&gt;In theory, yes. The actual values may help. I’ve heard exposure times cited around eight minutes. That’s for contact printing using the sun as a source. I don’t know off-hand how much light an enlarger will deposit on paper, but it is a few orders of magnitude less than the sun. For the sake of estimating, let’s say 3 orders of magnitude.&lt;p&gt;This gives an exposure time of 5 days. Note that you’d want to make a test strip or two—someone who knows what they’re doing might want two test strips to dial in the exposure settings, at which point it takes you 15 days to make the first print (but then only 5 days for each additional print from the same negative).</text></comment>

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<story><title>Defamed by ChatGPT</title><url>https://jonathanturley.org/2023/04/06/defamed-by-chatgpt-my-own-bizarre-experience-with-artificiality-of-artificial-intelligence/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dahwolf</author><text>As tech gets more powerful, so do the false positive outcomes.&lt;p&gt;You can randomly lose your Google or Facebook account for no reason. Or have your app pulled from an app store. And now, you can randomly be smeared. Or your car may crash.&lt;p&gt;Whoops. Guess that&amp;#x27;s just how AI works.&lt;p&gt;Stop defending it. The AI companies should be sued and we should have digital rights. Why is everyone in such a hurry to accept and embrace an imperfect AI anyway? It isn&amp;#x27;t going to improve your life, it&amp;#x27;s going to add even more productivity pressure to your life and then replace you. If not destroy much of human culture.&lt;p&gt;Give AI a hard time and buy time. Don&amp;#x27;t make it so easy for them by letting them dodge any and all responsibility.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>makeitdouble</author><text>I think these two bits perfectly sum the issue&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; Why is everyone in such a hurry to accept and embrace an imperfect AI anyway?&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; The AI companies should be sued&lt;p&gt;Your option to stopping the AI companies goes through litigation in courts, which means you also need to prove harm, which can only be proven once done at scale with obvious and measurable impacts. Basically when it&amp;#x27;s widely accepted, and also too late.&lt;p&gt;Other approaches would be through preemptive regulation, which also means limiting what companies can do by law. That needs trust in government and regulators, and active participation of a majority of the actors in legislation and framework building, and making sure everyone&amp;#x27;s voice has a chance to be heard.</text></comment>

<story><title>Defamed by ChatGPT</title><url>https://jonathanturley.org/2023/04/06/defamed-by-chatgpt-my-own-bizarre-experience-with-artificiality-of-artificial-intelligence/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dahwolf</author><text>As tech gets more powerful, so do the false positive outcomes.&lt;p&gt;You can randomly lose your Google or Facebook account for no reason. Or have your app pulled from an app store. And now, you can randomly be smeared. Or your car may crash.&lt;p&gt;Whoops. Guess that&amp;#x27;s just how AI works.&lt;p&gt;Stop defending it. The AI companies should be sued and we should have digital rights. Why is everyone in such a hurry to accept and embrace an imperfect AI anyway? It isn&amp;#x27;t going to improve your life, it&amp;#x27;s going to add even more productivity pressure to your life and then replace you. If not destroy much of human culture.&lt;p&gt;Give AI a hard time and buy time. Don&amp;#x27;t make it so easy for them by letting them dodge any and all responsibility.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Barrin92</author><text>&amp;gt;Why is everyone in such a hurry to accept and embrace an imperfect AI anyway?&lt;p&gt;because this has been the dominant culture in the digital technology space and every argument against it is usually facing some sort of &amp;quot;so you want to stop innovation, huh?!&amp;quot; response.&lt;p&gt;You&amp;#x27;re obviously right. Powerful tools require equally powerful means to control them and to make sure they&amp;#x27;re aligned with our values. Imagine you had a machine on a factory floor with the behaviour of one of these models, or an airplane. It&amp;#x27;s the same with &amp;#x27;self-driving&amp;#x27; cars. Making pedestrians and other drivers unwilling beta testers is absolutely wild to me.</text></comment>

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<story><title>Pro-Tesla electric car bill advances in NJ Assembly</title><url>http://www.nj.com/politics/index.ssf/2014/06/pro-tesla_bill_advances_in_nj_assembly.html</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>dave1619</author><text>The bill hasn&amp;#x27;t passed yet. It was approved by the Assembly Consumer Affairs Committee but still needs to be voted on by the legislature. According to &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.engadget.com/2014/06/06/tesla-resume-sales-new-jersey/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.engadget.com&amp;#x2F;2014&amp;#x2F;06&amp;#x2F;06&amp;#x2F;tesla-resume-sales-new-je...&lt;/a&gt; :&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;The bill will need to pass a few more of New Jersey&amp;#x27;s legislative processes to become law, but things are looking up for Tesla.&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;Poor reporting job by TechCrunch (&lt;a href=&quot;http://techcrunch.com/2014/06/06/tesla-wins-back-the-right-to-sell-direct-to-consumers-in-new-jersey/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;techcrunch.com&amp;#x2F;2014&amp;#x2F;06&amp;#x2F;06&amp;#x2F;tesla-wins-back-the-right-t...&lt;/a&gt;). They made it seem like the bill was voted into law.</text></comment>

<story><title>Pro-Tesla electric car bill advances in NJ Assembly</title><url>http://www.nj.com/politics/index.ssf/2014/06/pro-tesla_bill_advances_in_nj_assembly.html</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>afternooner</author><text>Question for those who understand this, why can the government force a middle man to exist in the first place? It seem to a layman to violate several other rights.</text></comment>

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<story><title>Why you don&apos;t steal from a hacker.</title><url>http://infosec20.blogspot.com/2011/08/why-you-dont-steal-from-hacker.html</url><text>My flat was raided and ransacked during the London riots, but thanks to tracking software I fed intel to the London Metro police until he was apprehended and my laptop returned.</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>giberson</author><text>Glad the person got their Mac back, but why does this story and ones like it always end at the recovery of the property? Could we get an update on the &lt;i&gt;punishment&lt;/i&gt; of the criminal? I&apos;d like to know what kind of repercussions the criminals suffer--do they get prosecuted? I&apos;m just curious if these software tracking systems have been used in court as evidence to convict any of these criminals.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ChuckMcM</author><text>I was wondering that too. I was thinking that perhaps this guy had gone and screwed around with his social network given the facebook screen cap at the end. Of course if someone steals your laptop, and using software you&apos;ve installed you keylog all their secrets and you use their credit card to buy themselves a hundred pizzas each from 10 stores around town, that would be a bit much perhaps.&lt;p&gt;I know from experience (not me of course, but that of some kids who stole some stuff from a neighbor) that juveniles who are caught and convicted of petty theft basically get a slap on the wrist, a stern warning about what will happen if they do it again, and sent home.</text></comment>

<story><title>Why you don&apos;t steal from a hacker.</title><url>http://infosec20.blogspot.com/2011/08/why-you-dont-steal-from-hacker.html</url><text>My flat was raided and ransacked during the London riots, but thanks to tracking software I fed intel to the London Metro police until he was apprehended and my laptop returned.</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>giberson</author><text>Glad the person got their Mac back, but why does this story and ones like it always end at the recovery of the property? Could we get an update on the &lt;i&gt;punishment&lt;/i&gt; of the criminal? I&apos;d like to know what kind of repercussions the criminals suffer--do they get prosecuted? I&apos;m just curious if these software tracking systems have been used in court as evidence to convict any of these criminals.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Apocryphon</author><text>I&apos;m not sure if it&apos;s that easy for the victim to find that information. My family was robbed several years ago and while the police eventually reported that they caught the perps, that was all of the detail they left. Similarly, my girlfriend had credit cards stolen once and neither the police nor the credit card company gave any information except that they had found the people who stole the card. Perhaps this discretion is to prevent people from attempting vigilante followup actions?</text></comment>

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<story><title>How Swahili became Africa&apos;s most spoken language</title><url>https://theconversation.com/the-story-of-how-swahili-became-africas-most-spoken-language-177259</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>georgeg</author><text>Am Kenyan - Born and raised and I lived at the Kenyan Coast. Kiswahili is very widely spoken and loved here. I studied Kiswahili as a language and i very much admire the rich vocabulary and idioms. It is both a national and an official language in Kenya and most of Eastern Africa.&lt;p&gt;Majority of Kenyans and East-africans are multi-lingual and they will speak on average 3 languages (English, Kiswahili, the mother-tongue and most likely an additional local language.) if they are Bantu, they will also understand 3 or more other languages and same if they are Nilotic or Cushitic.&lt;p&gt;If your are foreigner, visiting for tourism - you will very much unlikely understand Kenyans! and if you are a foreigner of they type &amp;quot; i lived in Kenya for 10 years&amp;quot; most likely in a posh residence in Nairobi or Mombasa -- Kenyans are likely to have spoken to you in English throughout! Do not mistake that for the idea that Kenyans only speak in English - remember i said majority are multilingual and given that we have over 42 different languages - the language that mostly unites us is Swahili - it is also deemed less elitist.&lt;p&gt;The language is spoken across the entire East africa - (Tanzania, Kenya, Uganda, Mozambique (Swahili name - Msumbiji), Burundi, Rwanda and Eastern DRC Congo.)&lt;p&gt;The article is an excerpt from a more detailed book and I agree with most it - but the author could have done a better job at investigating the origin of the language and early spread. It has borrowed heavily from Bantu, Arabic (countless words) and Portuguese (e.g. Pesa - money in Swahili, Meza - a table in Swahili).</text></comment>

<story><title>How Swahili became Africa&apos;s most spoken language</title><url>https://theconversation.com/the-story-of-how-swahili-became-africas-most-spoken-language-177259</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>AdamN</author><text>I&amp;#x27;m not sure how true this article is, hopefully some others in Africa can speak to their personal experiences.&lt;p&gt;For me, when I lived in Kenya English was the lingua franca for official&amp;#x2F;business activity. Some older professional Kenyans I knew learned Swahili only after learning English (and their mother language, Luo for instance). On the street, Swahili was standard.&lt;p&gt;The Tanzanians I met however, considered Nairobi Swahili not even &amp;#x27;real&amp;#x27; Swahili and more of a mish-mash for disparate speakers who might otherwise choose their mother tongue when possible.&lt;p&gt;And then there&amp;#x27;s Sheng - a creole that is an even further evolution from Swahili and various other languages.</text></comment>

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<story><title>ASML reports fire at its Berlin factory</title><url>https://www.reuters.com/technology/asml-reports-fire-its-berlin-factory-2022-01-03/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>collegeburner</author><text>This definitely doesn&amp;#x27;t match how I heard some software is done there: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&amp;#x2F;item?id=18463181&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&amp;#x2F;item?id=18463181&lt;/a&gt;</text></item><item><author>CookiesNCream23</author><text>I work in the industry and have worked in a fab. Here is some insight.&lt;p&gt;We are taught that fabs are not treated as factories but as hazardous chemical storage plants. On top of that, we work with high pressure and high power systems.&lt;p&gt;Fires have accounted for the most damage to fabs over the years; however, this situation is different.&lt;p&gt;The site is not a fab, it is a ASML manufacturing plant. This plant does not produce chips. It produces parts for the ASML machines. It makes the tables the wafer moves on and the frame the mask moves on.&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.youtube.com&amp;#x2F;watch?v=jH6Urfqt_d4&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.youtube.com&amp;#x2F;watch?v=jH6Urfqt_d4&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikichip.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;mask&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikichip.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;mask&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;Downstream effects of this fire will reduce the uptime of the machines and the delivery of promised machines to our customers.&lt;p&gt;To plug ASML. Speaking as a new grad. If you are in hardware, physics, nanoscience, simulations. ASML is the best company to work at if you want to learn. I get exposure to maybe the most complex engineering system is the world. The scale, complexity, details, and just hardcore technology is mind-blowing. I am plugging ASML because it is not widely know and I would love if fellow engineers had the opportunity to work here. I absolutely love the work I do.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>skrebbel</author><text>FWIW (i wrote that comment, also btw woa I&amp;#x27;m super flattered to be quoted like that!): note that it&amp;#x27;s based on my, by now, pretty dated inside knowledge (~6y). They might&amp;#x27;ve improved since (though judging by the sibling comments, maybe not).</text></comment>

<story><title>ASML reports fire at its Berlin factory</title><url>https://www.reuters.com/technology/asml-reports-fire-its-berlin-factory-2022-01-03/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>collegeburner</author><text>This definitely doesn&amp;#x27;t match how I heard some software is done there: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&amp;#x2F;item?id=18463181&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&amp;#x2F;item?id=18463181&lt;/a&gt;</text></item><item><author>CookiesNCream23</author><text>I work in the industry and have worked in a fab. Here is some insight.&lt;p&gt;We are taught that fabs are not treated as factories but as hazardous chemical storage plants. On top of that, we work with high pressure and high power systems.&lt;p&gt;Fires have accounted for the most damage to fabs over the years; however, this situation is different.&lt;p&gt;The site is not a fab, it is a ASML manufacturing plant. This plant does not produce chips. It produces parts for the ASML machines. It makes the tables the wafer moves on and the frame the mask moves on.&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.youtube.com&amp;#x2F;watch?v=jH6Urfqt_d4&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.youtube.com&amp;#x2F;watch?v=jH6Urfqt_d4&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikichip.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;mask&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikichip.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;mask&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;Downstream effects of this fire will reduce the uptime of the machines and the delivery of promised machines to our customers.&lt;p&gt;To plug ASML. Speaking as a new grad. If you are in hardware, physics, nanoscience, simulations. ASML is the best company to work at if you want to learn. I get exposure to maybe the most complex engineering system is the world. The scale, complexity, details, and just hardcore technology is mind-blowing. I am plugging ASML because it is not widely know and I would love if fellow engineers had the opportunity to work here. I absolutely love the work I do.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>CookiesNCream23</author><text>Definitely two types of software here. Everything about that post is spot on.&lt;p&gt;Internal software is messy. Testing is also messy. Lots of things need to be automated. End of the day, it’s a bunch of hardware people.&lt;p&gt;The exciting stuff are the physics simulations. Modeling how lens aberrations affect the light that passes through and how to correct for that.</text></comment>

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<story><title>Diffusion Is Spectral Autoregression</title><url>https://sander.ai/2024/09/02/spectral-autoregression.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>HarHarVeryFunny</author><text>The high and low frequency components of speech are produced and perceived in different ways.&lt;p&gt;The lower frequencies (roughly below 4KHz) are created by the vocal chords opening and closing at the fundamental frequency, and harmonics of this fundamental frequency (e.g. 100Hz + 2&amp;#x2F;3&amp;#x2F;400Hz etc harmonics), with this frequency spectrum then being modulated by the resonances of the vocal tract which change during pronunciation. What we perceive as speech is primarily the &lt;i&gt;changes&lt;/i&gt; to these resonances (aka formants) due to articulation&amp;#x2F;pronunciation.&lt;p&gt;The higher frequencies present in speech mostly comes from &amp;quot;white noise&amp;quot; created by the turbulence of forcing air out through closed teeth&amp;#x2F;etc (e.g. &amp;quot;S&amp;quot; sound), and our perception of these &amp;quot;fricative&amp;quot; speech sounds is based on onset&amp;#x2F;offset of energy in these higher 4-8KHz frequencies. Frequencies above 8KHz are not very perceptually relevant, and may be filtered out (e.g. not present in analog telephone speech).</text></comment>

<story><title>Diffusion Is Spectral Autoregression</title><url>https://sander.ai/2024/09/02/spectral-autoregression.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>thho23i4234343</author><text>I don&amp;#x27;t mean to mean but: what is surprising about any of this ?&lt;p&gt;Joseph Fourier&amp;#x27;s solution to the heat-equation (linear diffusion) was in fact the origin of the FT. The high-freq coefficients decay (as -t^2 IIRC) in there; the reverse is also known to be &amp;quot;unstable&amp;quot; (numerically, and is singular from the equillibrium).&lt;p&gt;More over, the reformulation doesn&amp;#x27;t immediately reveal some computational speedup, or a better alternative formulation (which is usually a measure of how valuable it is epistemically).&lt;p&gt;(Edit: note that Heat-equation is more akin to the Fokker-Planck eqn, not actual Diffusion as an SDE as is used in Diffusion models).</text></comment>

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<story><title>Facebook incorrectly reports personal blog to DigitalOcean for phishing</title><url>https://social.lol/@robb/111704215593992932</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>leiferik</author><text>It feels really crummy to be accused and convicted of an &amp;quot;offense&amp;quot; by an algorithm, especially without any recourse.&lt;p&gt;I once had my account with a major cloud provider terminated for &amp;quot;violating our terms of service&amp;quot;. After contacting support, they then claimed that someone had gained access to my credentials.&lt;p&gt;What evidence did they have? None. I just updated a VM&amp;#x27;s metadata too frequently (about once a minute). This tripped an ML model, which caused them to automatically terminate my account and send an automated email saying that I had been a bad boy.&lt;p&gt;This took down a key part of my business for about 5 hours (while I navigated my way through layers of customer support and ultimately temporarily moved this functionality to another cloud provider). Customers were not happy.&lt;p&gt;It took about 2 weeks and multiple support tickets for the full story to come out. I got them to refund a few months of charges (amounted to several hundred dollars at the time) and restore my account. There was never any recognition that they made a mistake.&lt;p&gt;I get that companies need to resort to automated means to handle fraud or abuse. But they should also own up to it, add some humility in their automated outreach to customers (&amp;quot;our automated system has detected possible X&amp;quot; instead of &amp;quot;you are guilty&amp;quot;), provide clear escalation paths to talk to a human, and provide a way to &amp;quot;shield&amp;quot; your account (identity verification, upfront deposit of $X, etc) that forces them to contact you &lt;i&gt;before&lt;/i&gt; any enforcement action.&lt;p&gt;In my case, I upgraded to a paid support plan ($100+ per month) in the hopes that their system will be a little less trigger happy with my account in the future. I don&amp;#x27;t use support at all, it&amp;#x27;s purely a lame form of insurance that may or may not actually protect against anything.</text></comment>

<story><title>Facebook incorrectly reports personal blog to DigitalOcean for phishing</title><url>https://social.lol/@robb/111704215593992932</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>NathanFlurry</author><text>I&amp;#x27;ve experienced many similar incidents – I&amp;#x27;ve been running multiplayer game servers on these &amp;quot;discount&amp;quot; server providers for a while now. They receive umpteen requests per day about spamming, hosting pirating&amp;#x2F;other illegal content, botnets, etc with only an associated IP address.&lt;p&gt;Vultr has a nasty habit of forwarding these directly to the &lt;i&gt;current&lt;/i&gt; holder of the IP address with a dire warning that your account will be shut down within 24h if no action is taken, regardless of the timestamp of the complaint. Abusers just create &amp;amp; destroy servers frequently frequently to acquire fresh IP addresses to host malicious content on. It became a morning routine of copy+pasta responses to these emails to keep the servers online.</text></comment>

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<story><title>Botpress: an open-source bot creation tool written in JavaScript</title><url>https://github.com/botpress/botpress</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>tuyguntn</author><text>How does this differ from so many frameworks? If you still use platform dependent APIs and do not hide abstraction over them. I would not call it wordpress for bots, because Chatfuel is more close to being a wordpress for bots (with closed source)&lt;p&gt;`bp.slack.sendText` vs `bp.messenger.sendTemplate`</text></comment>

<story><title>Botpress: an open-source bot creation tool written in JavaScript</title><url>https://github.com/botpress/botpress</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>wale</author><text>Planning on building a messenger bot for fitness. Botpress &amp;#x2F;Botkit. oh seems there&amp;#x27;s already some module&amp;#x2F;integration for Botkit in botpress-botkit</text></comment>

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<story><title>Mumbling Isn’t a Sign of Laziness, It’s a Clever Data-Compression Trick</title><url>http://nautil.us/blog/mumbling-isnt-a-sign-of-lazinessits-a-clever-data_compression-trick</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>chasing</author><text>Bullshit. You&amp;#x27;re mumbling when I can&amp;#x27;t understand you. Calling it &amp;quot;data compression&amp;quot; is polishing an indecipherable turd.&lt;p&gt;Of course people make their language more efficient when using common words and phrases. &amp;quot;D&amp;#x27;ja do it?&amp;quot; &amp;quot;Yeah.&amp;quot; &amp;quot;K.&amp;quot; &amp;quot;No prob.&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;But that&amp;#x27;s not mumbling.&lt;p&gt;I think of mumbling as generally being an expressed disinterest in being understood. Sometimes because the speaker doesn&amp;#x27;t understand what they&amp;#x27;re being asked to speak about, sometimes because they&amp;#x27;re shy and insecure about their words. Sometimes mumbling is a way to express derision or disinterest in the information or the person someone&amp;#x27;s speaking to. Lots of reasons.&lt;p&gt;Not clever. Kind of the opposite of clever. It&amp;#x27;s a time-waster compared to just flat-out saying &amp;quot;I don&amp;#x27;t know&amp;quot; or &amp;quot;I&amp;#x27;m not sure&amp;quot; or &amp;quot;I don&amp;#x27;t care&amp;quot; or whatever.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>MBlume</author><text>You appear to have no disagreement with the author of the post apart from the definition of the word &amp;quot;mumbling&amp;quot;</text></comment>

<story><title>Mumbling Isn’t a Sign of Laziness, It’s a Clever Data-Compression Trick</title><url>http://nautil.us/blog/mumbling-isnt-a-sign-of-lazinessits-a-clever-data_compression-trick</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>chasing</author><text>Bullshit. You&amp;#x27;re mumbling when I can&amp;#x27;t understand you. Calling it &amp;quot;data compression&amp;quot; is polishing an indecipherable turd.&lt;p&gt;Of course people make their language more efficient when using common words and phrases. &amp;quot;D&amp;#x27;ja do it?&amp;quot; &amp;quot;Yeah.&amp;quot; &amp;quot;K.&amp;quot; &amp;quot;No prob.&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;But that&amp;#x27;s not mumbling.&lt;p&gt;I think of mumbling as generally being an expressed disinterest in being understood. Sometimes because the speaker doesn&amp;#x27;t understand what they&amp;#x27;re being asked to speak about, sometimes because they&amp;#x27;re shy and insecure about their words. Sometimes mumbling is a way to express derision or disinterest in the information or the person someone&amp;#x27;s speaking to. Lots of reasons.&lt;p&gt;Not clever. Kind of the opposite of clever. It&amp;#x27;s a time-waster compared to just flat-out saying &amp;quot;I don&amp;#x27;t know&amp;quot; or &amp;quot;I&amp;#x27;m not sure&amp;quot; or &amp;quot;I don&amp;#x27;t care&amp;quot; or whatever.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dbbolton</author><text>Sorry to break it to you, but psychosocial behaviors aren&amp;#x27;t always governed by rationality.&lt;p&gt;Edit: also, &amp;quot;to speak incoherently&amp;quot; and &amp;quot;to fail to articulate&amp;quot; are both acceptable definitions of the word &amp;quot;mumble&amp;quot;:&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/mumble&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wiktionary.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;mumble&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>

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<story><title>Touch Typing on a Gamepad</title><url>https://darkshadow.io/2020/07/07/touch-typing-on-a-gamepad.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>nyx_</author><text>A little over a decade ago now, back when the Sony PSP was current, there was a neat little homebrew IM client called AFKIM. It used bitlbee to connect to various IM services (AIM, GTalk, MSN, etc.) and worked pretty well for something running on a PSP.&lt;p&gt;The keyboard, though, was great:&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;localhost.geek.nz&amp;#x2F;afkim&amp;#x2F;docs&amp;#x2F;usingafkim.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;localhost.geek.nz&amp;#x2F;afkim&amp;#x2F;docs&amp;#x2F;usingafkim.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s a 3x3 matrix. You use the analog stick to pick a square, then hit one of the face buttons to enter a character. Left and right shoulder buttons shifted the keyboard to uppercase, numbers, specials, etc.&lt;p&gt;IIRC it was a Lua module that any PSP homebrewer could drop into their application for a pretty decent OSK.</text></comment>

<story><title>Touch Typing on a Gamepad</title><url>https://darkshadow.io/2020/07/07/touch-typing-on-a-gamepad.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>wccrawford</author><text>I think all the &amp;quot;optimization&amp;quot; was a mistake. Instead of optimizing for the most-used keys, I think it&amp;#x27;s better to optimize to make it easy to remember.&lt;p&gt;Phone typing was easy to learn because the letters were both predictable (alphabetical) and because you could look at the letters when you forgot, especially while learning.&lt;p&gt;Since looking at the keys isn&amp;#x27;t possible here, I think it&amp;#x27;s even more important that being able to predict the locations of letters is possible and easy.</text></comment>

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<story><title>List of freely available programming books</title><url>http://stackoverflow.com/q/194812/89806</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>sudont</author><text>For Mac stuff, since Apple’s Obj-C guide doesn’t deal with Cocoa, what most people work with:&lt;p&gt;Cocoa Fundamentals Guide: &lt;a href=&quot;http://developer.apple.com/library/mac/documentation/Cocoa/Conceptual/CocoaFundamentals/CocoaFundamentals.pdf&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://developer.apple.com/library/mac/documentation/Cocoa/C...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;Become an Xcoder: &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.cocoalab.com/BecomeAnXcoder.pdf&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.cocoalab.com/BecomeAnXcoder.pdf&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;Stanford’s iPhone dev class (iTunes video class): &lt;a href=&quot;http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?id=395631522&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcas...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;Cocoa Dev Central (Tutorials that predated Scott Stevenson’s book): &lt;a href=&quot;http://cocoadevcentral.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://cocoadevcentral.com/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;Cocoa Dev: Wiki Site on Cocoa classes, protocols and other junk: &lt;a href=&quot;http://cocoadev.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://cocoadev.com/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;And, don’t forget everything else apple makes freely available: &lt;a href=&quot;http://developer.apple.com/library/mac/navigation/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://developer.apple.com/library/mac/navigation/&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>

<story><title>List of freely available programming books</title><url>http://stackoverflow.com/q/194812/89806</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>alexwestholm</author><text>They seem to have omitted Erlang. Awesome, freely available book on the subject:&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://learnyousomeerlang.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://learnyousomeerlang.com/&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>

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<story><title>One in five Covid-19 patients develop mental illness within 90 days – study</title><url>https://www.reuters.com/article/health-coronavirus-mental-illness-int-idUSKBN27P35N</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>grawprog</author><text>The article provides no link to the actual study.&lt;p&gt;The article mentions this&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt;In the three months following testing positive for COVID-19, 1 in 5 survivors were recorded as having a first time diagnosis of anxiety, depression or insomnia. This was about twice as likely as for other groups of patients in the same period, the researchers said.&lt;p&gt;Without any link to the study, this is meaningless information. This article is implying the virus directly caused those symptoms.&lt;p&gt;There&amp;#x27;s no mention of the effects a possible quarantine may have on one&amp;#x27;s mental health. Typically, if one is diagnosed with covid, you&amp;#x27;re put into isolation and quarantine for a minimum of 14 days. After returning from this, your life is affected. Your work, your friends, your family.&lt;p&gt;Is it really any wonder someone might experience anxiety, depression or insomnia after contracting covid and dealing with thr effects of the virus, both the direct physical ones and everything that surrounds contracting covid.&lt;p&gt;Why is this assumed to be something the virus is directly causing as a symptom rather than looking into anything else?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>barmstrong</author><text>Here is the study &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.thelancet.com&amp;#x2F;journals&amp;#x2F;lanpsy&amp;#x2F;article&amp;#x2F;PIIS2215-0366(20)30462-4&amp;#x2F;fulltext&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.thelancet.com&amp;#x2F;journals&amp;#x2F;lanpsy&amp;#x2F;article&amp;#x2F;PIIS2215-0...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;The study has this line which caught my attention:&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; The incidence of any psychiatric diagnosis in the 14 to 90 days after COVID-19 diagnosis was 18·1% (95% CI 17·6–18·6), including 5·8% (5·2–6·4) that were a first diagnosis.&lt;p&gt;So only 5.8% of people got a first diagnosis, and the remainder of the 18% were people who had been previously diagnosed with one of these conditions.&lt;p&gt;This seems to contradict what is written in the linked article:&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; In the three months following testing positive for COVID-19, 1 in 5 survivors were recorded as having a first time diagnosis of anxiety, depression or insomnia.&lt;p&gt;So it seems like the linked article has a bit of hyperbole in it.</text></comment>

<story><title>One in five Covid-19 patients develop mental illness within 90 days – study</title><url>https://www.reuters.com/article/health-coronavirus-mental-illness-int-idUSKBN27P35N</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>grawprog</author><text>The article provides no link to the actual study.&lt;p&gt;The article mentions this&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt;In the three months following testing positive for COVID-19, 1 in 5 survivors were recorded as having a first time diagnosis of anxiety, depression or insomnia. This was about twice as likely as for other groups of patients in the same period, the researchers said.&lt;p&gt;Without any link to the study, this is meaningless information. This article is implying the virus directly caused those symptoms.&lt;p&gt;There&amp;#x27;s no mention of the effects a possible quarantine may have on one&amp;#x27;s mental health. Typically, if one is diagnosed with covid, you&amp;#x27;re put into isolation and quarantine for a minimum of 14 days. After returning from this, your life is affected. Your work, your friends, your family.&lt;p&gt;Is it really any wonder someone might experience anxiety, depression or insomnia after contracting covid and dealing with thr effects of the virus, both the direct physical ones and everything that surrounds contracting covid.&lt;p&gt;Why is this assumed to be something the virus is directly causing as a symptom rather than looking into anything else?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>p_j_w</author><text>&amp;gt;The article provides no link to the actual study.&lt;p&gt;They say that the study is in the Lancet Psychiatry. If you highlight &amp;quot;Lancet Psychiatry,&amp;quot; right click, and search Google, this study is on the front of the site. Put in some effort FFS.&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt;Without any link to the study, this is meaningless information. This article is implying the virus directly caused those symptoms. [...] There&amp;#x27;s no mention of the effects a possible quarantine may have on one&amp;#x27;s mental health.&lt;p&gt;They consulted a medical expert on the matter. If you&amp;#x27;d have read a bit more of the article you would have come across this quote from an actual psychiatrist:&lt;p&gt;“This is likely due to a combination of the psychological stressors associated with this particular pandemic and the physical effects of the illness.”&lt;p&gt;Oh, so the article actually does mention the effects that the quarantine might have on mental health. Did you just not read it? You could also have read the study, which does indeed suggest that the virus itself could be causing these problems:&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;Rates of insomnia diagnosis were also markedly elevated, in agreement with predictions that circadian disturbances will follow COVID-19 infection.&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;You also conveniently left out that rates of diagnosis for dementia are elevated in Covid-19 patients, which is very unlikely to be caused by acute stress.&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt;Why is this assumed to be something the virus is directly causing as a symptom rather than looking into anything else?&lt;p&gt;Again, it&amp;#x27;s NOT just assumed that this is the case, and in the case of dementia, there&amp;#x27;s no evidence that the quarantine is even possibly a factor.&lt;p&gt;Comments like this are gonna quickly turn this place into just another &amp;#x2F;r&amp;#x2F;science, where people of no particular qualification chime in and try to make themselves feel smart by contradicting a peer reviewed study without taking the actual effort needed to properly question a peer reviewed study, especially one in as prestigious a journal as the Lancet.</text></comment>

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<story><title>Income-sharing agreements let students trade future earnings for investment</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-04-09/college-grads-sell-stakes-in-themselves-to-wall-street</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>simonsarris</author><text>Absolutely not, at least not without making college &lt;i&gt;much&lt;/i&gt; more difficult. Otherwise it is just subsidizing adult daycare.&lt;p&gt;Many people do not belong in college and learn next to nothing, but go because they&amp;#x27;re shoo&amp;#x27;ed along into it and the universities are in on the joke, and in on the money-making, and undergoing a drastic reduction of standards as a result.&lt;p&gt;Some data on just how bad higher ed is getting, from 2017: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;medium.com&amp;#x2F;@simon.sarris&amp;#x2F;higher-education-erodes-a7c9983692e0&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;medium.com&amp;#x2F;@simon.sarris&amp;#x2F;higher-education-erodes-a7c...&lt;/a&gt;</text></item><item><author>velcrovan</author><text>Make the college free and provide students with a living stipend. Return higher education subsidies (and tax brackets) to their 1950s levels. Join the rest of the developed world.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>rchaud</author><text>Many people also do not belong in an Engineering program, and that&amp;#x27;s why the 101 classes are designed to weed people out. That system already exists in higher education. At my (liberal arts) school, we have a two-strike policy. Strike 1 is when you have a sub 2.0 GPA in a semester; that gets you an academic suspension for 1 semester. You can rejoin only if you retake similar courses elsewhere and meet a minimum grade requirement.&lt;p&gt;If you are allowed to re-enroll, you have 1 strike left. Another sub-2.0 GPA and you&amp;#x27;re gone.&lt;p&gt;If the US brought such a generation-transforming policy like this to the table, the easiest part of it would be to set that minimum standard across all participating schools. Most likely already have something close to this in place now.</text></comment>

<story><title>Income-sharing agreements let students trade future earnings for investment</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-04-09/college-grads-sell-stakes-in-themselves-to-wall-street</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>simonsarris</author><text>Absolutely not, at least not without making college &lt;i&gt;much&lt;/i&gt; more difficult. Otherwise it is just subsidizing adult daycare.&lt;p&gt;Many people do not belong in college and learn next to nothing, but go because they&amp;#x27;re shoo&amp;#x27;ed along into it and the universities are in on the joke, and in on the money-making, and undergoing a drastic reduction of standards as a result.&lt;p&gt;Some data on just how bad higher ed is getting, from 2017: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;medium.com&amp;#x2F;@simon.sarris&amp;#x2F;higher-education-erodes-a7c9983692e0&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;medium.com&amp;#x2F;@simon.sarris&amp;#x2F;higher-education-erodes-a7c...&lt;/a&gt;</text></item><item><author>velcrovan</author><text>Make the college free and provide students with a living stipend. Return higher education subsidies (and tax brackets) to their 1950s levels. Join the rest of the developed world.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>RosanaAnaDana</author><text>1: Make college much more difficult. 2: Allow people to enter it and fail. People need to be made aware that just because they passed their undergraduate work, they really aren&amp;#x27;t as smart as they think they are.</text></comment>

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<story><title>Closed form arc length parametrization is impossible for quadratic Bézier curves</title><url>https://ninjakoa.la/curly_curves/posts/quadratic_bezier_arc_length_parametrization/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>LiamPowell</author><text>&amp;gt; It is well known in the computer graphics community that the arc length of cubic Bézier curves has no closed form and has to be computed numerically. Sadly, I’ve not yet seen a proof sketch for that, though.&lt;p&gt;On a somewhat related note: There are of course exceptions to this, such as Pythagorean-Hodograph curves, which do have closed form solutions and would be suitable for a huge number of use-cases. Sadly there&amp;#x27;s not too many mathematicians working in computer graphics so we just end up with numerical solutions to everything.</text></comment>

<story><title>Closed form arc length parametrization is impossible for quadratic Bézier curves</title><url>https://ninjakoa.la/curly_curves/posts/quadratic_bezier_arc_length_parametrization/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>magnio</author><text>&amp;gt; It is well known in the computer graphics community that the arc length of cubic Bézier curves has no closed form and has to be computed numerically. Sadly, I’ve not yet seen a proof sketch for that, though.&lt;p&gt;A cubic Bezier curve B(t) is a cubic polynomial of t in [0, 1], parameterized by the four control points. Since it is continuously differentiable, its length is the integral from 0 to 1 of the square root of (1 + (B&amp;#x27;)^2), a quartic. Such an integral is well known to be reducible to the elliptic integrals, which have no closed form.</text></comment>

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<story><title>A Pirate&apos;s Take on Strategy vs. Tactics</title><url>https://diogomonica.com/2018/10/07/a-pirates-take-on-strategy-vs-tactics/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>lordnacho</author><text>This explanation doesn&amp;#x27;t separate the terms &amp;quot;tactic&amp;quot; and &amp;quot;strategy&amp;quot;. In fact it mixes them together, he even says a tactic is basically a substrategy.&lt;p&gt;If you&amp;#x27;re using recursion, that should be clear. Just call everything a strategy, or everything a tactic.&lt;p&gt;Fact is this distinction between these terms has never been real in any sense. People vaguely use strategy to mean &amp;quot;big picture&amp;quot; and tactic to mean &amp;quot;particular action&amp;quot;, but if you decompose it you&amp;#x27;ll see more little strategies inside.&lt;p&gt;This is true in many game-like situations.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>logfromblammo</author><text>Tactics is that portion of decision-making applied to repetitive patterns and recurring situations. Strategy is that portion of decision-making applied to situations that are unique or unlikely to reoccur. &lt;i&gt;Procedures&lt;/i&gt; are tactical. &lt;i&gt;Decisions&lt;/i&gt; are strategic.&lt;p&gt;In a chess match, the opening book is tactics, the mid-game following the combinatorial explosion of potential moves is strategy, and then the end-game is back to tactics, after the board has been reduced to fewer pieces.&lt;p&gt;In the real world, breaching and clearing a modern urban building is tactics. Part of the squad covers as the remainder moves. Corners are checked before moving around them. Doors are checked before opening. There is still a strategic element, in that any given building will have a unique floor plan, but with sufficiently developed tactics, the strategy portion becomes somewhat unimportant.&lt;p&gt;Capturing and occupying a specific city is strategic. The tactic of breaching and clearing buildings will be used many times in that strategy, and so too will the tactic of erecting concrete T-wall barriers and creating checkpoints, but the choices of where to start, and in what order to proceed, are all strategic.&lt;p&gt;It is difficult to separate the terms, because every real-life situation will have some portion that can be matched to a general pattern, and some portion that represents the variance from that pattern.</text></comment>

<story><title>A Pirate&apos;s Take on Strategy vs. Tactics</title><url>https://diogomonica.com/2018/10/07/a-pirates-take-on-strategy-vs-tactics/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>lordnacho</author><text>This explanation doesn&amp;#x27;t separate the terms &amp;quot;tactic&amp;quot; and &amp;quot;strategy&amp;quot;. In fact it mixes them together, he even says a tactic is basically a substrategy.&lt;p&gt;If you&amp;#x27;re using recursion, that should be clear. Just call everything a strategy, or everything a tactic.&lt;p&gt;Fact is this distinction between these terms has never been real in any sense. People vaguely use strategy to mean &amp;quot;big picture&amp;quot; and tactic to mean &amp;quot;particular action&amp;quot;, but if you decompose it you&amp;#x27;ll see more little strategies inside.&lt;p&gt;This is true in many game-like situations.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Kinrany</author><text>The following definitions make sense to me: it&amp;#x27;s a tactical game if the outcome merely determines how many resources the player will have in the next round, and it&amp;#x27;s a strategic game if failure means there won&amp;#x27;t be a next round.&lt;p&gt;More generally, the problem with defining &amp;quot;tactic&amp;quot; and &amp;quot;strategy&amp;quot; smells like a case of false assumptions: they&amp;#x27;re orthogonal, not opposite.</text></comment>

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<story><title>IBM Q system in development with working 50 qubit processor</title><url>http://www-03.ibm.com/press/us/en/pressrelease/53374.wss</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>darawk</author><text>The article appears to be saying that they are offering an &lt;i&gt;actual&lt;/i&gt; quantum computer as a service, but as I recall, their previous offering was a &lt;i&gt;simulation&lt;/i&gt; of a quantum computing environment. Yet, this same article refers to that thing as if it were a real QC. This makes me skeptical that the thing being offered here is a real quantum computer...Anyone here have any insight into whether this is legitimate?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>vtomole</author><text>Their previous offerings have been 2 physical quantum computers that can be accessed over the cloud. One with 5 qubits, and another with 16 qubits[0]. These computers have had thousands of users who have run millions of quantum algorithms [1].&lt;p&gt;[0]: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www-03.ibm.com&amp;#x2F;press&amp;#x2F;us&amp;#x2F;en&amp;#x2F;pressrelease&amp;#x2F;52403.wss&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www-03.ibm.com&amp;#x2F;press&amp;#x2F;us&amp;#x2F;en&amp;#x2F;pressrelease&amp;#x2F;52403.wss&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;[1]:&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.engadget.com&amp;#x2F;2017&amp;#x2F;11&amp;#x2F;10&amp;#x2F;ibm-50-qubit-quantum-computer&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.engadget.com&amp;#x2F;2017&amp;#x2F;11&amp;#x2F;10&amp;#x2F;ibm-50-qubit-quantum-com...&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>

<story><title>IBM Q system in development with working 50 qubit processor</title><url>http://www-03.ibm.com/press/us/en/pressrelease/53374.wss</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>darawk</author><text>The article appears to be saying that they are offering an &lt;i&gt;actual&lt;/i&gt; quantum computer as a service, but as I recall, their previous offering was a &lt;i&gt;simulation&lt;/i&gt; of a quantum computing environment. Yet, this same article refers to that thing as if it were a real QC. This makes me skeptical that the thing being offered here is a real quantum computer...Anyone here have any insight into whether this is legitimate?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jameshclark</author><text>The last news from IBM on HN about their quantum offering was that they had optimised the memory required for simulating quantum computers. 50-qubits seemed to the the upper limit before, but they managed to simulate a 56-qubit circuit. It was a good read: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;arxiv.org&amp;#x2F;abs&amp;#x2F;1710.05867&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;arxiv.org&amp;#x2F;abs&amp;#x2F;1710.05867&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;They&amp;#x27;ve had real hardware for a while, though, and they have 5-qubit and 16-qubit machines that anyone can try via IBM Q experience.&lt;p&gt;So this is 100% legit as far as I&amp;#x27;m concerned.</text></comment>

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<story><title>Skydio: $1k Skydio 2 drone launch takes aim at DJI</title><url>https://www.skydio.com/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>HALtheWise</author><text>I&amp;#x27;m an autonomy engineer at Skydio, and while there are limits to what I can reveal publicly, I&amp;#x27;m happy to answer any questions people have.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>m463</author><text>Can you just go fly your drone, or do you have to register your drone and so forth?&lt;p&gt;I returned the DJI because you had to make an account and register your drone before you could fly with the controller. Additionally after I returned it, a friend showed me the appalling snooping they do on their customers and flights.</text></comment>

<story><title>Skydio: $1k Skydio 2 drone launch takes aim at DJI</title><url>https://www.skydio.com/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>HALtheWise</author><text>I&amp;#x27;m an autonomy engineer at Skydio, and while there are limits to what I can reveal publicly, I&amp;#x27;m happy to answer any questions people have.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>bbayer</author><text>Do you have any plans to be more developer friendly? Do you plan to give some sort of API to make custom development? It can bring lots of opportunities to devs if it provides some sort of hackability.</text></comment>

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<story><title>Introducing a new kind of Wi-Fi system</title><url>https://blog.google/products/google-wifi/introducing-new-kind-wi-fi-system/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>calinet6</author><text>Serious question: whose WiFi is not working, to the degree that they think, &amp;quot;I really need to get a modern router to make this Internet thing actually work.&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;m seeing about a dozen fancy modern wifi routers all trying to solve a problem I&amp;#x27;m not sure exists.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>xahrepap</author><text>I had nothing but problems with typical consumer hardware. Having to restart routers all the time. Dead spots. When family would visit (both my wife and I have large families) they would connect at least 2 devices each to my wifi (tablet, phone, laptop, etc). My wireless would just tank. They would always ask me why my internet was so terrible.&lt;p&gt;Last year I bought an Edge router and a higher end Netgear hotspot. Works wonders separating things out and letting me easily add separate &amp;quot;Guest&amp;quot; wireless networks on different channels or whatever using my older devices.&lt;p&gt;If I were to have done that change now I would&amp;#x27;ve definitely used a device like Google&amp;#x27;s. But to do something like that would&amp;#x27;ve been outside my budget. I wish I could easily add new hotspots that just seamlessly worked so that I could eliminate the dead spots on the edges of my house and in my yard over time.&lt;p&gt;Maybe there&amp;#x27;s something I don&amp;#x27;t know already and I don&amp;#x27;t need Google&amp;#x27;s new Wifi System. But it definitely seems to fix my usecase.</text></comment>

<story><title>Introducing a new kind of Wi-Fi system</title><url>https://blog.google/products/google-wifi/introducing-new-kind-wi-fi-system/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>calinet6</author><text>Serious question: whose WiFi is not working, to the degree that they think, &amp;quot;I really need to get a modern router to make this Internet thing actually work.&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;m seeing about a dozen fancy modern wifi routers all trying to solve a problem I&amp;#x27;m not sure exists.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Morgawr</author><text>Disclaimer: I am employed by Google but I do not work nor have any affiliation with this product, this is just my opinion and not that of my employer.&lt;p&gt;All the experience I&amp;#x27;ve always had with wifi in the last ~10 years has been abysmal. I play games and make a lot of use of internet (downloading, working through ssh sessions, etc) and the slight hiccup and packet loss is very evident in my system and frustrates me a lot. When I am playing games and there&amp;#x27;s a slight interference, I notice immediately. When I am chatting on irc through ssh and my keystrokes don&amp;#x27;t go through due to spotty wifi, I notice immediately. Sometimes it&amp;#x27;s unbearable. I think this idea is really great. I had to finetune my wifi so many times in all the apartments I&amp;#x27;ve lived at. Using channel analysers to pick the correct one every once in a while (due to recurring congestion&amp;#x2F;interferences), living in a very crowded area I often have ~30 access points broadcasting and cluttering and it&amp;#x27;s really obvious in the performance of my network.&lt;p&gt;In the last apartment I was staying at (moved out a few days ago), every time my flatmate at the opposite side of the house would open the living room door to walk to the bathroom, my signal would experience a latency spike of 100-200ms (average would be 10-20). We had a pretty poor router, to be honest, and I was at the other side of the apartment, but it was simply ridiculous. At times it would just refuse to work and I couldn&amp;#x27;t browse the internet for a few minutes simply because of too much congestion.&lt;p&gt;I think this idea with multiple smart access points is simply genius and while I plan to use wired connection for my next apartment, I&amp;#x27;m definitely looking forward to a better implementation of the currently abysmal wifi that we have in general.</text></comment>

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<story><title>Apple is America&apos;s semiconductor problem</title><url>https://www.semiconductor-digest.com/apple-is-americas-semiconductor-problem/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ankit219</author><text>A weird article.&lt;p&gt;Apple was not the first or the only company to look to East Asia for cheap manufacturing, elctronic equipments, chips, or cheap labor. The trend was started and accelerated by motor companies and hardware just followed suit.&lt;p&gt;Then, some other points are just...there. Apple is America&amp;#x27;s semiconductor problem because Apple is so big it purchases things in bulk and gets discounts - like every other big company in every industry.&lt;p&gt;TSMC sold 100% of the capacity to Apple for 3nm chips because no one else had the designs ready, Apple needed them in bulk, and the yield wasn&amp;#x27;t that high. It is problematic, but you need to mention these things when making a claim.&lt;p&gt;The problem is two fold - other companies are not really innovating and experimenting at semis with a scale at which Apple is. This is a market failure more than an Apple failure. Others were reliant on Qualcomm, broadcomm, samsung, and Intel, with slower pace of innovation. Then there is Asian countries with cheap economies of scale.&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s one thing to assume the most nefarious intent from the start and then look at everything from that lens. It mostly leads to paranoia, not insight.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>trhway</author><text>&amp;gt; Apple is America&amp;#x27;s semiconductor problem&lt;p&gt;It isn&amp;#x27;t Apple who is the problem here, it is Intel who refused to manufacture ARM chips for Apple. So Apple didn&amp;#x27;t have much choice as there aren&amp;#x27;t much fabs around to choose from. Now Intel, sore looser, is competing for CHIPS money against TSMC&amp;#x2F;Apple (and Intel will definitely get and waste a lot of those CHIPS money thus making the problem even worse). The article, which looks like a hit-piece, is written by a think-tank funded by Omidyar who is pushing for CHIPS and seems to be connected with Intel a bit here and a bit there. Did somebody say &amp;quot;submarine&amp;quot;?</text></comment>

<story><title>Apple is America&apos;s semiconductor problem</title><url>https://www.semiconductor-digest.com/apple-is-americas-semiconductor-problem/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ankit219</author><text>A weird article.&lt;p&gt;Apple was not the first or the only company to look to East Asia for cheap manufacturing, elctronic equipments, chips, or cheap labor. The trend was started and accelerated by motor companies and hardware just followed suit.&lt;p&gt;Then, some other points are just...there. Apple is America&amp;#x27;s semiconductor problem because Apple is so big it purchases things in bulk and gets discounts - like every other big company in every industry.&lt;p&gt;TSMC sold 100% of the capacity to Apple for 3nm chips because no one else had the designs ready, Apple needed them in bulk, and the yield wasn&amp;#x27;t that high. It is problematic, but you need to mention these things when making a claim.&lt;p&gt;The problem is two fold - other companies are not really innovating and experimenting at semis with a scale at which Apple is. This is a market failure more than an Apple failure. Others were reliant on Qualcomm, broadcomm, samsung, and Intel, with slower pace of innovation. Then there is Asian countries with cheap economies of scale.&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s one thing to assume the most nefarious intent from the start and then look at everything from that lens. It mostly leads to paranoia, not insight.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>baxtr</author><text>&lt;i&gt;&amp;gt;It&amp;#x27;s one thing to assume the most nefarious intent from the start and then look at everything from that lens. It mostly leads to paranoia, not insight.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;That’s a marketing tactic that even works on HN I’m afraid. Create an enemy and then tell a story about that nemesis.&lt;p&gt;Our human storytelling brains need to hear tales of good and evil.&lt;p&gt;If you want to get an article like that ranking that’s one way to do it. Unfortunately.</text></comment>

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<story><title>Apple is struggling to build Mac Pro based on its own silicon</title><url>https://www.tomshardware.com/news/apple-struggles-to-build-mac-pro-based-on-own-cpus</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>perfecthjrjth</author><text>The talent behind M1 left Apple years ago, because they weren&amp;#x27;t giving enough stocks, bonuses. So, Apple is left with fixers. I don&amp;#x27;t expect Apple to bring another revolution in chips.</text></item><item><author>xrayarx</author><text>So the article quotes another article from bloomerg (by Mark Gurman), which can be found here&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;archive.ph&amp;#x2F;pxQam&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;archive.ph&amp;#x2F;pxQam&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;The gist:&lt;p&gt;The new high-end Mac Pro with Apple silicon is behind schedule, and you can blame changes to the company’s chip and manufacturing plans.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>justinator</author><text>Those are some bold predictions based on no evidence and Apple&amp;#x27;s track record of doing just what you say will now be impossible.</text></comment>

<story><title>Apple is struggling to build Mac Pro based on its own silicon</title><url>https://www.tomshardware.com/news/apple-struggles-to-build-mac-pro-based-on-own-cpus</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>perfecthjrjth</author><text>The talent behind M1 left Apple years ago, because they weren&amp;#x27;t giving enough stocks, bonuses. So, Apple is left with fixers. I don&amp;#x27;t expect Apple to bring another revolution in chips.</text></item><item><author>xrayarx</author><text>So the article quotes another article from bloomerg (by Mark Gurman), which can be found here&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;archive.ph&amp;#x2F;pxQam&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;archive.ph&amp;#x2F;pxQam&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;The gist:&lt;p&gt;The new high-end Mac Pro with Apple silicon is behind schedule, and you can blame changes to the company’s chip and manufacturing plans.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>satvikpendem</author><text>I know someone who worked on the original M1, he&amp;#x27;s now at Google. He said they just booted macOS on the iPad&amp;#x27;s processor and it seemed to mostly work aside from some bugs, so they refactored that into a more complete solution for macOS-specific things that were broken.</text></comment>

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<story><title>Detroit man steals 800 gallons using Bluetooth to hack gas pumps at station</title><url>https://www.fox2detroit.com/news/detroit-man-steals-800-gallons-using-bluetooth-to-hack-gas-pumps-at-station</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>kotaKat</author><text>Is it actually Bluetooth, or did they get their hands on keys or remotes for the dispenser?&lt;p&gt;The dispensers have constant real-time communication to the forecourt controller and the attendant inside. What are they showing when this &amp;quot;hack&amp;quot; happens? Are the attackers taking the RS485 line down (which would show the pump offline immediately inside) and forcing the pump to manually dispense?&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;d kill to see some more actual information than this. I am not aware of a single pump on the market with Bluetooth right now but I do remember some IR-based remotes for some old Wayne pumps.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>obituary_latte</author><text>In the article one of the attendants says &amp;quot;I hit stop on Pump 3 and nothing happens&amp;quot; so they are at least seeing the pump is on and running. Whatever is happening must be either locking the attendant out or is leaving the attendants machine in a bad state with the pump running switch &amp;quot;on&amp;quot; so to speak. I wonder if it&amp;#x27;s actually NFC. It&amp;#x27;d be interesting to see what a Flipper Zero would come up with.</text></comment>

<story><title>Detroit man steals 800 gallons using Bluetooth to hack gas pumps at station</title><url>https://www.fox2detroit.com/news/detroit-man-steals-800-gallons-using-bluetooth-to-hack-gas-pumps-at-station</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>kotaKat</author><text>Is it actually Bluetooth, or did they get their hands on keys or remotes for the dispenser?&lt;p&gt;The dispensers have constant real-time communication to the forecourt controller and the attendant inside. What are they showing when this &amp;quot;hack&amp;quot; happens? Are the attackers taking the RS485 line down (which would show the pump offline immediately inside) and forcing the pump to manually dispense?&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;d kill to see some more actual information than this. I am not aware of a single pump on the market with Bluetooth right now but I do remember some IR-based remotes for some old Wayne pumps.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mmd45</author><text>maybe its an nfc hack. pretty scary how wide open it is&amp;#x2F;was: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.youtube.com&amp;#x2F;watch?v=eV76vObO2IM&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.youtube.com&amp;#x2F;watch?v=eV76vObO2IM&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>

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<story><title>Rapamycin: The unlucky history of an anti-aging drug</title><url>https://bigthink.com/health/unlucky-history-rapamycin-anti-aging/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>safety1st</author><text>So in the science of fitness, there&amp;#x27;s a lot of woo, but there are a few really clear wins. One such example in weight lifting is supplementing creatine. It&amp;#x27;s well researched, fairly inexpensive, the performance improvements are significant and well documented, and it&amp;#x27;s very safe with side effects being mild and rare. Once you&amp;#x27;re actually doing the exercise and nutrition part more or less right, it&amp;#x27;s hard to argue against supplementing creatine. It&amp;#x27;s used by the vast majority of professional bodybuilders and most experienced weight lifters.&lt;p&gt;Is there anything similar in the science of anti-aging? Where (A) The body of research is large, well established, and mostly uncontroversial; (B) The benefits and safety profile are good; (C) The majority of people who are serious about this stuff use it&amp;#x2F;take it&amp;#x2F;do it.</text></item><item><author>tysam_and</author><text>Anti-aging is a hard problem, Rapamycin is most certainly not the most powerful anti-aging drug from my best understanding, it just targets 1 of 7 or 8 critical areas that are implicated in the aging formula.&lt;p&gt;If you want to start down the rabbithole (SENS talks can be trusted and are good, well-backed by science, etc etc. Have been derailed by some drama recently, but still, they&amp;#x27;ve really done a lot) then you can start by going to the rejuvenation roadmap: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.lifespan.io&amp;#x2F;road-maps&amp;#x2F;the-rejuvenation-roadmap&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.lifespan.io&amp;#x2F;road-maps&amp;#x2F;the-rejuvenation-roadmap&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;A little further (Aubrey de Grey, from SENS originally): &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.ted.com&amp;#x2F;talks&amp;#x2F;aubrey_de_grey_a_roadmap_to_end_aging?language=tt&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.ted.com&amp;#x2F;talks&amp;#x2F;aubrey_de_grey_a_roadmap_to_end_ag...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;If you want to lose 4-5+ hours (minimum -- think TVTropes level of rabbithole addiction here), then here is your next free joyride. It&amp;#x27;s a fun one, I&amp;#x27;ve been pretty interested in it as it&amp;#x27;s continued to have developed. Have fun reading the saga: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.reddit.com&amp;#x2F;r&amp;#x2F;sleephackers&amp;#x2F;comments&amp;#x2F;ohfetn&amp;#x2F;turnbuckle_longecity_mitochondrial_fissionfusion&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.reddit.com&amp;#x2F;r&amp;#x2F;sleephackers&amp;#x2F;comments&amp;#x2F;ohfetn&amp;#x2F;turnbu...&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>irthomasthomas</author><text>Metformin.&lt;p&gt;Research in humans suggests that metformin can impact mortality. A meta-analysis published in 2017 that included 53 different studies concluded that metformin reduces all-cause mortality and diseases of aging, independent of its effect on diabetes.&lt;p&gt;Also, combinations of Metformin, rapamycin and resveratrol, and NMNs.&lt;p&gt;Davis Sinclaire is probably the leading expert on those, now. He is professor of genetics at Harvard.&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;youtube.com&amp;#x2F;watch?v=bRWT7hVgwuM&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;youtube.com&amp;#x2F;watch?v=bRWT7hVgwuM&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>

<story><title>Rapamycin: The unlucky history of an anti-aging drug</title><url>https://bigthink.com/health/unlucky-history-rapamycin-anti-aging/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>safety1st</author><text>So in the science of fitness, there&amp;#x27;s a lot of woo, but there are a few really clear wins. One such example in weight lifting is supplementing creatine. It&amp;#x27;s well researched, fairly inexpensive, the performance improvements are significant and well documented, and it&amp;#x27;s very safe with side effects being mild and rare. Once you&amp;#x27;re actually doing the exercise and nutrition part more or less right, it&amp;#x27;s hard to argue against supplementing creatine. It&amp;#x27;s used by the vast majority of professional bodybuilders and most experienced weight lifters.&lt;p&gt;Is there anything similar in the science of anti-aging? Where (A) The body of research is large, well established, and mostly uncontroversial; (B) The benefits and safety profile are good; (C) The majority of people who are serious about this stuff use it&amp;#x2F;take it&amp;#x2F;do it.</text></item><item><author>tysam_and</author><text>Anti-aging is a hard problem, Rapamycin is most certainly not the most powerful anti-aging drug from my best understanding, it just targets 1 of 7 or 8 critical areas that are implicated in the aging formula.&lt;p&gt;If you want to start down the rabbithole (SENS talks can be trusted and are good, well-backed by science, etc etc. Have been derailed by some drama recently, but still, they&amp;#x27;ve really done a lot) then you can start by going to the rejuvenation roadmap: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.lifespan.io&amp;#x2F;road-maps&amp;#x2F;the-rejuvenation-roadmap&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.lifespan.io&amp;#x2F;road-maps&amp;#x2F;the-rejuvenation-roadmap&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;A little further (Aubrey de Grey, from SENS originally): &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.ted.com&amp;#x2F;talks&amp;#x2F;aubrey_de_grey_a_roadmap_to_end_aging?language=tt&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.ted.com&amp;#x2F;talks&amp;#x2F;aubrey_de_grey_a_roadmap_to_end_ag...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;If you want to lose 4-5+ hours (minimum -- think TVTropes level of rabbithole addiction here), then here is your next free joyride. It&amp;#x27;s a fun one, I&amp;#x27;ve been pretty interested in it as it&amp;#x27;s continued to have developed. Have fun reading the saga: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.reddit.com&amp;#x2F;r&amp;#x2F;sleephackers&amp;#x2F;comments&amp;#x2F;ohfetn&amp;#x2F;turnbuckle_longecity_mitochondrial_fissionfusion&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.reddit.com&amp;#x2F;r&amp;#x2F;sleephackers&amp;#x2F;comments&amp;#x2F;ohfetn&amp;#x2F;turnbu...&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>xiphias2</author><text>By far the most important thing in anti aging that checks all boxes is excercise and getting nutrition right (no excess fat).&lt;p&gt;Most of the interesting stuff happens when you focus on just A part: Yamanaka factors are both super powerful, established as reversing the probably most important hallmark of aging and super dangerous (causes cancer) at the same time.&lt;p&gt;What&amp;#x27;s promising is the pace of research: in 20 years there&amp;#x27;s a good chance to have real safe anti-aging available, but we still need to survive until then.</text></comment>

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<story><title>From TypeScript to ReScript</title><url>https://www.greyblake.com/blog/from-typescript-to-rescript/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dsnr</author><text>&amp;gt; TypeScript&amp;#x27;s type system is over-complex since it tries to be a superset of JS.&lt;p&gt;This is exactly why it got so popular, and TypeScript support in the JS ecosystem is so good. It&amp;#x27;s easy to just strip the TS metadata and you&amp;#x27;re left with working JS. This is why projects like esbuild managed to ship TS support so quickly (without type-checking). Good luck doing that with a new language.&lt;p&gt;I for one am &amp;quot;all in&amp;quot; on TypeScript, with all its shortcomings it&amp;#x27;s just the best of both worlds, and so easy to get on board.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ragnese</author><text>TypeScript&amp;#x27;s biggest flaw, IMO, is that it can&amp;#x27;t (or chooses not to- I don&amp;#x27;t understand anything about JS-adjacent build systems and how they work) understand the difference between &amp;quot;code I write&amp;quot; and &amp;quot;code someone else wrote&amp;quot;.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;m not going to beat the dead horse of how unsound TypeScript&amp;#x27;s type system is. We all know that most of that is intentional because it would just be too inconvenient to work with existing JavaScript code (Aside: think about what this implies about existing JavaScript code. This makes alarm bells go off in my head).&lt;p&gt;However, why should I have to deal with an unsound type system in &lt;i&gt;my&lt;/i&gt; new, fresh, TypeScript-only code?&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;m not saying it&amp;#x27;s simple or criticizing anybody&amp;#x27;s work, but it would VASTLY increase my opinion of TypeScript if I could enable some kind of &amp;#x27;truly-strict-new-code&amp;#x27; flag that would error on unsound code in the current project and maybe just warn when I &lt;i&gt;call&lt;/i&gt; unsound code from a dependency.&lt;p&gt;Because, honestly, I&amp;#x27;m truly disappointed that the one language that finally has a chance to unseat JavaScript has such a poor type system that it can&amp;#x27;t even do basic sub-type variance correctly no matter how many flags you set. Out of all of the statically typed languages I&amp;#x27;ve used, TypeScript has helped me the least when it comes to type errors.</text></comment>

<story><title>From TypeScript to ReScript</title><url>https://www.greyblake.com/blog/from-typescript-to-rescript/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dsnr</author><text>&amp;gt; TypeScript&amp;#x27;s type system is over-complex since it tries to be a superset of JS.&lt;p&gt;This is exactly why it got so popular, and TypeScript support in the JS ecosystem is so good. It&amp;#x27;s easy to just strip the TS metadata and you&amp;#x27;re left with working JS. This is why projects like esbuild managed to ship TS support so quickly (without type-checking). Good luck doing that with a new language.&lt;p&gt;I for one am &amp;quot;all in&amp;quot; on TypeScript, with all its shortcomings it&amp;#x27;s just the best of both worlds, and so easy to get on board.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>capableweb</author><text>&amp;gt; It&amp;#x27;s easy to just strip the TS metadata and you&amp;#x27;re left with working JS.&lt;p&gt;Compared to what? JSDoc made it even easier, you didn&amp;#x27;t even need to strip anything, as the &amp;quot;types&amp;quot; were just comments. This comes with its own problems, who want to program with comments? But it didn&amp;#x27;t require any changes to use for us who want nothing to do with TS.</text></comment>

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<story><title>Michael Abrash on Quake: &quot;Finish the product and you’ll be a hero.&quot;</title><url>http://www.bluesnews.com/abrash/chap70.shtml</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>imurray</author><text>I liked the discussion of transmitting game state for network play. Quick summary: Doom sent differences of state, which &lt;i&gt;had&lt;/i&gt; to be received and therefore acknowledged. Quake sent the whole game state each time, but compressed, so it wouldn&apos;t matter if a transmission was lost.&lt;p&gt;Neither approach seems optimal from an information theory point of view. The Doom approach needs feedback, but communicating at the optimal rate of noisy channel doesn&apos;t need feedback. The Quake approach sends the game state redundantly, but across time simply repeats information, and repetition codes aren&apos;t optimal.&lt;p&gt;It could turn out that in this application the Quake approach &lt;i&gt;is&lt;/i&gt; best, because for latency reasons it might not be possible to send long enough blocks for Shannon&apos;s theory to apply. The Quake approach is also nice and simple. However, here&apos;s the approach I have in mind: send the stream of deltas protected by a code that can cope with some of them being erased, such as a Digital Fountain Code [1]. Each message would contain deltas stored slightly redundantly and XORed with previous deltas. If we have all previous deltas then we are set, otherwise we&apos;ll have to wait for another packet or two before we can infer the deltas, but we don&apos;t need to bother telling the receiver that we lost a packet.&lt;p&gt;[1] &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fountain_code&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fountain_code&lt;/a&gt; — but a much better resource is chapter 50 of &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.inference.phy.cam.ac.uk/mackay/itila/book.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.inference.phy.cam.ac.uk/mackay/itila/book.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;EDIT: In response to replies by VMG and JoachimSchipper: I didn&apos;t mean to suggest they should have done anything differently. It worked well enough, and they got it out the door; agreed! I just think it&apos;s an interesting puzzle to think about.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>shadowmatter</author><text>Note that fountain codes are very, very patent-protected by Luby et al. Five years ago I came across literature on rateless codes, which are digital fountain codes that allow practically infinite encoding, or a practically infinite stream of data from which the original could be reconstructed. One really promising type of rateless code was online codes, which required O(1) time to generate a single block and O(n) time to decode a message of length n, which was much better than the LT rateless codes that came before it. (The paper can be found at &lt;a href=&quot;http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.12.8894&amp;#38;rep=rep1&amp;#38;type=pdf&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.12....&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;p&gt;I wrote up a Java implementation in my free time, and it worked well and was quite fast. I pinged the authors of the paper, asking if I could open-source it, because I came across a web site with their names on it that seemed like they were going to commercialize the idea. They replied that they had abandoned the idea of online codes because, even though their approach was faster than all other coding schemes, it still violated patents held by Luby and his company Digital Fountain, which has since been acquired by Qualcomm. That was a bummer, because I thought the online codes paper was very elegant, and the implementation was quite simple.</text></comment>

<story><title>Michael Abrash on Quake: &quot;Finish the product and you’ll be a hero.&quot;</title><url>http://www.bluesnews.com/abrash/chap70.shtml</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>imurray</author><text>I liked the discussion of transmitting game state for network play. Quick summary: Doom sent differences of state, which &lt;i&gt;had&lt;/i&gt; to be received and therefore acknowledged. Quake sent the whole game state each time, but compressed, so it wouldn&apos;t matter if a transmission was lost.&lt;p&gt;Neither approach seems optimal from an information theory point of view. The Doom approach needs feedback, but communicating at the optimal rate of noisy channel doesn&apos;t need feedback. The Quake approach sends the game state redundantly, but across time simply repeats information, and repetition codes aren&apos;t optimal.&lt;p&gt;It could turn out that in this application the Quake approach &lt;i&gt;is&lt;/i&gt; best, because for latency reasons it might not be possible to send long enough blocks for Shannon&apos;s theory to apply. The Quake approach is also nice and simple. However, here&apos;s the approach I have in mind: send the stream of deltas protected by a code that can cope with some of them being erased, such as a Digital Fountain Code [1]. Each message would contain deltas stored slightly redundantly and XORed with previous deltas. If we have all previous deltas then we are set, otherwise we&apos;ll have to wait for another packet or two before we can infer the deltas, but we don&apos;t need to bother telling the receiver that we lost a packet.&lt;p&gt;[1] &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fountain_code&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fountain_code&lt;/a&gt; — but a much better resource is chapter 50 of &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.inference.phy.cam.ac.uk/mackay/itila/book.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.inference.phy.cam.ac.uk/mackay/itila/book.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;EDIT: In response to replies by VMG and JoachimSchipper: I didn&apos;t mean to suggest they should have done anything differently. It worked well enough, and they got it out the door; agreed! I just think it&apos;s an interesting puzzle to think about.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>VMG</author><text>You probably can get lost in choosing and implementing the optimal algorithm in every aspect of the game. Sometimes you just have to go with the sub-optimal to get it out of the door.</text></comment>

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<story><title>You’re better off using Exceptions</title><url>https://eiriktsarpalis.wordpress.com/2017/02/19/youre-better-off-using-exceptions/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>abraxas</author><text>I don&amp;#x27;t know Rust at all but what you&amp;#x27;re talking about sounds equivalent to (much maligned) Java&amp;#x27;s checked exceptions system?&lt;p&gt;I never understood the hatred checked exceptions received especially from the younger crowd. I still write Java at work and I still use checked exceptions whenever they indicate an error condition that must not be ignored by the client code. Many new to the project developers hate me for it initially because they can&amp;#x27;t just &amp;quot;roll out a feature&amp;quot; without being forced to take care of the corner cases but over time they love the discipline that&amp;#x27;s imposed on them by checked exceptions.</text></item><item><author>pat2man</author><text>When I moved to Rust the constant error wrapping or converting annoyed me. But after using it for a couple of years it turned out to be a huge blessing. Quite often I need to know exactly which error messages will be thrown so that I can do things like internationalization. While exceptions are quite convenient for prototyping for production I’m now firmly in the typed errors camp.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>oconnor663</author><text>I haven&amp;#x27;t written very much Java, but here are some differences between Java checked exceptions and Rust errors as I understand them:&lt;p&gt;In Java, a function may throw a long list of checked exceptions, and these lists tend to grow to inconvenient sizes in larger programs. For example, if foo() calls bar() and baz(), which each throw 3 different exception types, then now foo() might throw 6 different exception types. In contrast in Rust, each function can only return 1 error type. If a function needs to represent several different types of internal errors, then the crate that it&amp;#x27;s in needs to define an error enum type with a variant for each of those. (Either that, or the function can use a generic wrapper error that can contain anything. This is less common in library code but pretty common in application code.) This shifts a lot of work from library callers to library authors, which is a good thing.&lt;p&gt;Someone with more Java experience will need to correct me here: I think it&amp;#x27;s fairly common to bulldoze all that complexity by declaring a function that just &amp;quot;throws Exception&amp;quot;. That saves you from writing out N different types (and more importantly, from changing every transitive caller when a low level library introduces a new exception type). But it kind of defeats the purpose of checked exceptions, by throwing away all the info they provide. It&amp;#x27;s a shame that you have this &amp;quot;all or nothing&amp;quot; choice when it comes to exceptions and how much complexity you want to deal with. In contrast in Rust, wrapper errors can define automatic &amp;quot;From&amp;quot; conversions from the lower level error types they wrap, and the standard `?` operator automatically applies those conversions. That means that in many cases, a low level library adding a new error variant might not require any changes in its callers at all. The new information is there for callers who want to look for it, but existing abstractions around the error type generally just keep working.</text></comment>

<story><title>You’re better off using Exceptions</title><url>https://eiriktsarpalis.wordpress.com/2017/02/19/youre-better-off-using-exceptions/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>abraxas</author><text>I don&amp;#x27;t know Rust at all but what you&amp;#x27;re talking about sounds equivalent to (much maligned) Java&amp;#x27;s checked exceptions system?&lt;p&gt;I never understood the hatred checked exceptions received especially from the younger crowd. I still write Java at work and I still use checked exceptions whenever they indicate an error condition that must not be ignored by the client code. Many new to the project developers hate me for it initially because they can&amp;#x27;t just &amp;quot;roll out a feature&amp;quot; without being forced to take care of the corner cases but over time they love the discipline that&amp;#x27;s imposed on them by checked exceptions.</text></item><item><author>pat2man</author><text>When I moved to Rust the constant error wrapping or converting annoyed me. But after using it for a couple of years it turned out to be a huge blessing. Quite often I need to know exactly which error messages will be thrown so that I can do things like internationalization. While exceptions are quite convenient for prototyping for production I’m now firmly in the typed errors camp.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>hocuspocus</author><text>&amp;gt; I don&amp;#x27;t know Rust but it sounds like equivalent to much maligned Java&amp;#x27;s checked exceptions?&lt;p&gt;Ergonomics are important. Chaining calls to functions that return a monadic Result&amp;#x2F;Either type is easier and neater.</text></comment>

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<story><title>LLVM for Grad Students (2015)</title><url>http://www.cs.cornell.edu/~asampson/blog/llvm.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>gravypod</author><text>I wish there were programs to help open source developers, who are already working on compilers, to get their work published and get credit for their effort.&lt;p&gt;Why should a person who pays a university to give them a project to do get a degree and recognition and someone who just likes compilers be left with some thumbs up on a mail list?</text></comment>

<story><title>LLVM for Grad Students (2015)</title><url>http://www.cs.cornell.edu/~asampson/blog/llvm.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>ChrisRackauckas</author><text>Great stuff! I&amp;#x27;ve gotten pretty familiar with the way LLVM looks since Julia&amp;#x27;s `@code_llvm` in front of any function spits out the IR, which is something that can be useful to learn what&amp;#x27;s going on and debug performance. I agree that it&amp;#x27;s readily human readible. I hope to see a direct interface for adding passes to Julia in the near future.</text></comment>

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<story><title>Model Rocket Nails Vertical Landing After Three-Year Effort</title><url>https://hackaday.com/2024/07/10/model-rocket-nails-vertical-landing-after-three-year-effort/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>thebigman433</author><text>Super cool project for a high schooler, ridiculous amount of skills shown. Highly recommend Joe Barnard&amp;#x27;s (BPS.space on Youtube) videos on this topic if you&amp;#x27;re interested. He was the first one to really do this project successfully, and had a pretty much identical design to what is in this article. His videos are super informative on the topic, and he has a plethora of other rocketry videos now, including custom motors and significantly larger scale rockets.</text></comment>

<story><title>Model Rocket Nails Vertical Landing After Three-Year Effort</title><url>https://hackaday.com/2024/07/10/model-rocket-nails-vertical-landing-after-three-year-effort/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>fullspectrumdev</author><text>I’m curious why there’s no mention in the article of Joe Barnard’s efforts at bps.space which are “prior art” in this problem domain (landing a model rocket using TVC).</text></comment>

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<story><title>Video codec in 100 lines of Rust</title><url>https://blog.tempus-ex.com/hello-video-codec/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Lerc</author><text>Naive Image and video codecs are quite fun to make, I have done a bunch of them over the years and it&amp;#x27;s quite easy to get within cooee of established formats. And even surpass them under certain conditions. I made a lossy image format that achieves 20-25 PSNR at around 200:1 compression, which is better than most lossy formats because that&amp;#x27;s in a quality&amp;#x2F;data-size that most image formats consider out of scope.&lt;p&gt;QOI &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;qoiformat.org&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;qoiformat.org&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt; is a good example of a practically useful simple format.&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s still quite a leap to get to the best new codecs, suddenly you are in a world of head hurty math.&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s also worth noting that it is easy to beat the old formats all-round with off-the-shelf parts, both JPEG and PNG can be bested by changing the outer level of compression for something that was invented after the formats were made. For instance using LZMA or zstd as the final stage. Quite often that&amp;#x27;s enough to put them on a par with more radically different newer formats.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>bob1029</author><text>&amp;gt; It&amp;#x27;s also worth noting that it is easy to beat the old formats all-round with off-the-shelf parts, both JPEG and PNG can be bested by changing the outer level of compression for something that was invented after the formats were made.&lt;p&gt;The heart of JPEG is in The DCT and its energy compaction properties.&lt;p&gt;One crazy thing about the DCT is that it doesn&amp;#x27;t just let you make trade-offs for high&amp;#x2F;low frequency features. It also lets you make tradeoffs for &lt;i&gt;horizontal&lt;/i&gt; and &lt;i&gt;vertical&lt;/i&gt; features. If you customize your quantization matrix to your specific application, you can potentially achieve compression ratios far exceeding anything available today - even if you leave in the crusty old RLE+Huffman coding.&lt;p&gt;If you want to get up to your elbows in this sort of thing, there is an entire book on it by Rao &amp;amp; Yip that is about as comprehensive as it gets - &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.abebooks.com&amp;#x2F;products&amp;#x2F;isbn&amp;#x2F;9780125802031&amp;#x2F;31198865463&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.abebooks.com&amp;#x2F;products&amp;#x2F;isbn&amp;#x2F;9780125802031&amp;#x2F;3119886...&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>

<story><title>Video codec in 100 lines of Rust</title><url>https://blog.tempus-ex.com/hello-video-codec/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Lerc</author><text>Naive Image and video codecs are quite fun to make, I have done a bunch of them over the years and it&amp;#x27;s quite easy to get within cooee of established formats. And even surpass them under certain conditions. I made a lossy image format that achieves 20-25 PSNR at around 200:1 compression, which is better than most lossy formats because that&amp;#x27;s in a quality&amp;#x2F;data-size that most image formats consider out of scope.&lt;p&gt;QOI &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;qoiformat.org&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;qoiformat.org&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt; is a good example of a practically useful simple format.&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s still quite a leap to get to the best new codecs, suddenly you are in a world of head hurty math.&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s also worth noting that it is easy to beat the old formats all-round with off-the-shelf parts, both JPEG and PNG can be bested by changing the outer level of compression for something that was invented after the formats were made. For instance using LZMA or zstd as the final stage. Quite often that&amp;#x27;s enough to put them on a par with more radically different newer formats.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>userbinator</author><text>&lt;i&gt;For instance using LZMA or zstd as the final stage. Quite often that&amp;#x27;s enough to put them on a par with more radically different newer formats.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;If you do that with a video codec, you lose the ability to seek within the stream, which makes it useless for streaming video. For images, the amount of memory required to decompress may become excessive.&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s similar to why zip (deflate) is still widely used, but is far from optimal in compression efficiency; everything that does better (in some cases much better) is going to be slower, bigger, or both. See &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;PAQ&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;PAQ&lt;/a&gt; for an example of &lt;i&gt;extreme&lt;/i&gt; lossless compression.</text></comment>