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<story><title>Pompeo tells Congress Hong Kong is no longer autonomous from China</title><url>https://www.axios.com/pompeo-hong-kong-autonomous-china-aa719c5e-b6e7-4ce5-a56f-c3c276513927.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>fleeing_hk</author><text>So I&amp;#x27;ve finally convinced my wife that it&amp;#x27;s time to leave.&lt;p&gt;As a 40 year old software eng manager, where should I go? My top choice at the moment is London as my wife has British citizenship and several of my wife&amp;#x27;s friends are in Europe; I also have access to the E-3 visa so the US is also an option.</text></comment>

<story><title>Pompeo tells Congress Hong Kong is no longer autonomous from China</title><url>https://www.axios.com/pompeo-hong-kong-autonomous-china-aa719c5e-b6e7-4ce5-a56f-c3c276513927.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>Analemma_</author><text>I wonder if this will cause any political discomfort in the UK. Everyone knows that the UK is failing to enforce the terms of the Joint Declaration because they have no leverage, but they sort of quietly pretend this isn&amp;#x27;t happening, which will be untenable after this declaration.</text></comment>

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<story><title>Finland&apos;s ChatGPT equivalent begins to think in Estonian as well</title><url>https://news.err.ee/1609120697/finland-s-chatgpt-equivalent-begins-to-think-in-estonian-as-well</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>rjzzleep</author><text>I actually think you&amp;#x27;re wrong. I just had a discussion about this with a friend who was infinitely excited about it and felt I was being extremely dismissive when I said writing agent guidelines is very much akin to micromanaging an extremely cheap outsourcing company.&lt;p&gt;MOST people actually think ChatGPT is actual, sentient thinking. We&amp;#x27;re kind of the minority in this story.</text></item><item><author>thih9</author><text>I guess most people don&amp;#x27;t understand &amp;quot;chatgpt thinking&amp;quot; as actual, sentient thinking. It&amp;#x27;s just easier to call it this way.&lt;p&gt;Similarly, when a computer (a glorified abacus) is taking extra long when processing large amount of data, I&amp;#x27;d say it&amp;#x27;s &amp;quot;thinking hard&amp;quot;. When an iPhone (a glorified small computer) detects a WiFi signal, I&amp;#x27;d say that it &amp;quot;sees WiFi&amp;quot;.&lt;p&gt;Also note that we&amp;#x27;ve been doing anthropomorphism ever since a crow dropped some cheese[1], and earlier than that too.&lt;p&gt;[1]: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;The_Fox_and_the_Crow_(Aesop)&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;The_Fox_and_the_Crow_(Aesop)&lt;/a&gt;</text></item><item><author>anileated</author><text>Describing a glorified autocomplete as “thinking” is wrong on many levels; it devalues human consciousness, it attributes to a software tool qualities that it does not possess, and has implications for the entire AI industry.&lt;p&gt;If we are to believe an LLM is &lt;i&gt;at least&lt;/i&gt; sentient and intelligent on par with an octopus, much less a human, then we have a moral imperative to fight for LLMs to be recognized as protected sentient thinking beings with awareness and agency and admit that AI industry is built on systematic abuse of those beings.&lt;p&gt;Of course, no one does it, because it would be ridiculous. It’s time to admit that people who insist that LLMs “think” are simply trying to make ML seem mysterious and magical in an ill thought through (because see above) attempt to attract more VC money.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>devjab</author><text>I’m not sure about that part about most people. We obviously come from different anecdotal stories, but in my business, which is non-tech enterprise, nobody views GPT as “thinking”. People generally see it as a “better Google”.&lt;p&gt;Our main issue is with people thinking it’s answers are actual factual. And while it’ll obviously get things right most of the time, we’re really struggling with how much our employees trust it. That and the data privacy, but that’s a different story that will eventually get solved once AzureGPT for Enterprise kicks off.&lt;p&gt;Another “interesting” issue is how GPT will sometimes “comment” texts if you don’t prompt it correctly. We had someone who asked GPT to correct the grammar in some contract, and it did. It also added some comments on how part of what was written was “impressive”. Which would have been extremely hilarious if it had been an internal thing, but our lovely employee didn’t proof read the proof read and actually sent the contract draft out to a customer. Luckily a good humoured customer who took it with a laugh, but hell, that’s going to be a nightmare going forward.</text></comment>

<story><title>Finland&apos;s ChatGPT equivalent begins to think in Estonian as well</title><url>https://news.err.ee/1609120697/finland-s-chatgpt-equivalent-begins-to-think-in-estonian-as-well</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>rjzzleep</author><text>I actually think you&amp;#x27;re wrong. I just had a discussion about this with a friend who was infinitely excited about it and felt I was being extremely dismissive when I said writing agent guidelines is very much akin to micromanaging an extremely cheap outsourcing company.&lt;p&gt;MOST people actually think ChatGPT is actual, sentient thinking. We&amp;#x27;re kind of the minority in this story.</text></item><item><author>thih9</author><text>I guess most people don&amp;#x27;t understand &amp;quot;chatgpt thinking&amp;quot; as actual, sentient thinking. It&amp;#x27;s just easier to call it this way.&lt;p&gt;Similarly, when a computer (a glorified abacus) is taking extra long when processing large amount of data, I&amp;#x27;d say it&amp;#x27;s &amp;quot;thinking hard&amp;quot;. When an iPhone (a glorified small computer) detects a WiFi signal, I&amp;#x27;d say that it &amp;quot;sees WiFi&amp;quot;.&lt;p&gt;Also note that we&amp;#x27;ve been doing anthropomorphism ever since a crow dropped some cheese[1], and earlier than that too.&lt;p&gt;[1]: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;The_Fox_and_the_Crow_(Aesop)&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;The_Fox_and_the_Crow_(Aesop)&lt;/a&gt;</text></item><item><author>anileated</author><text>Describing a glorified autocomplete as “thinking” is wrong on many levels; it devalues human consciousness, it attributes to a software tool qualities that it does not possess, and has implications for the entire AI industry.&lt;p&gt;If we are to believe an LLM is &lt;i&gt;at least&lt;/i&gt; sentient and intelligent on par with an octopus, much less a human, then we have a moral imperative to fight for LLMs to be recognized as protected sentient thinking beings with awareness and agency and admit that AI industry is built on systematic abuse of those beings.&lt;p&gt;Of course, no one does it, because it would be ridiculous. It’s time to admit that people who insist that LLMs “think” are simply trying to make ML seem mysterious and magical in an ill thought through (because see above) attempt to attract more VC money.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>cathalc</author><text>Anecdotally, I am yet to meet a single person, in or out of my professional life, who thinks ChatGPT is in any way sentient.</text></comment>

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<story><title>Word usage guidance and alternative terms</title><url>https://developers.google.com/style/word-list</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tsujp</author><text>&amp;quot;The term man (from Proto-Germanic *mann- &amp;quot;person&amp;quot;) and words derived from it can designate any or even all of the human race regardless of their sex or age.&amp;quot; [1]&lt;p&gt;As with most things Google does this will set some kind of precedent that a non-trivial subset may follow on with. Where does this stop though? Human -&amp;gt; Huperson? What do we rename the `kill` command to? How will that affect scripts that use it? The result of that is to then have a shim to `kill` anyway so the net result is a tonne of stuff breaks and `kill` is still present?&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;m all for improving our use of language but a lot of these kinds of changes are virtue signals that don&amp;#x27;t enact any meaningful change at all [2][3]. There are lots of words taken out of context purposefully for instance, &amp;quot;my process is hung&amp;quot; has nothing to do with hanging of human beings.&lt;p&gt;[1] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Man_(word)&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Man_(word)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;[2] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;mooseyanon.medium.com&amp;#x2F;github-f-ck-your-name-change-de599033bbbe&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;mooseyanon.medium.com&amp;#x2F;github-f-ck-your-name-change-d...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;[3] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&amp;#x2F;item?id=26487854&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&amp;#x2F;item?id=26487854&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>hutzlibu</author><text>I very much agree, that this is not really helping nor worth the effort in most cases. Like whats offensive with about a hanging process?&lt;p&gt;I can understand trying to remove some stigmatisations, like blacklist for bad and whitelist for good, even though they are hard as they are very commonly used. But maybe that is part of the problem, that our western culture has the colour encoding of white == good and black == bad.&lt;p&gt;Even in an ideal world, where people don&amp;#x27;t notice the skin color anymore, I can see how a person with a black skin might feel hurt about that encoding in general, so maybe it is good moving step by step away from that, despite that it causes inconvenience.</text></comment>

<story><title>Word usage guidance and alternative terms</title><url>https://developers.google.com/style/word-list</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tsujp</author><text>&amp;quot;The term man (from Proto-Germanic *mann- &amp;quot;person&amp;quot;) and words derived from it can designate any or even all of the human race regardless of their sex or age.&amp;quot; [1]&lt;p&gt;As with most things Google does this will set some kind of precedent that a non-trivial subset may follow on with. Where does this stop though? Human -&amp;gt; Huperson? What do we rename the `kill` command to? How will that affect scripts that use it? The result of that is to then have a shim to `kill` anyway so the net result is a tonne of stuff breaks and `kill` is still present?&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;m all for improving our use of language but a lot of these kinds of changes are virtue signals that don&amp;#x27;t enact any meaningful change at all [2][3]. There are lots of words taken out of context purposefully for instance, &amp;quot;my process is hung&amp;quot; has nothing to do with hanging of human beings.&lt;p&gt;[1] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Man_(word)&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Man_(word)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;[2] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;mooseyanon.medium.com&amp;#x2F;github-f-ck-your-name-change-de599033bbbe&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;mooseyanon.medium.com&amp;#x2F;github-f-ck-your-name-change-d...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;[3] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&amp;#x2F;item?id=26487854&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&amp;#x2F;item?id=26487854&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>beeforpork</author><text>&amp;gt; Human -&amp;gt; Huperson&lt;p&gt;Haha, that&amp;#x27;s good one, I love it! :-)&lt;p&gt;(Although &amp;#x27;human&amp;#x27; comes from Latin and has nothing to do with Germanic &amp;#x27;man&amp;#x27;, but these details are never part of such a discussion, so let&amp;#x27;s ignore them.)&lt;p&gt;When do people realise that &amp;#x27;homo sapiens&amp;#x27; is sexist (and maybe offensive to LGBT* people!!)? It must be renamed to &amp;#x27;persona sapiens&amp;#x27;!</text></comment>

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<story><title>Being a Female Developer</title><url>http://www.andela.com/blog/being-a-female-developer/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>mamoswined</author><text>Honestly having been a &amp;quot;female developer&amp;quot; for 10+ years my main thought on the subject of being that is it&amp;#x27;s just a job. And it&amp;#x27;s a job that&amp;#x27;s really not for everyone. I&amp;#x27;ve tried to sell a lot of people I&amp;#x27;ve worked with in other fields on it, both men and women, and there are a lot of things that keep people away from it. And most of them are not related to gender.&lt;p&gt;I also have learned to have a healthy suspicion of companies that seem too obsessed with the &amp;quot;women in tech&amp;quot; thing. I usually find they seem to just be doing it because out of causes you could pick in tech, it has little downside for the company and even serves as a recruiting tool.</text></comment>

<story><title>Being a Female Developer</title><url>http://www.andela.com/blog/being-a-female-developer/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>wmsiler</author><text>Unlike most of the other commenters, I&amp;#x27;m not a huge fan of this article. From the article, it seems the author hasn&amp;#x27;t really experienced much, if any, gender discrimination at work. That&amp;#x27;s great; it really is refreshing to hear stories of women in tech who are judged purely on their merits, as they should be.&lt;p&gt;However, her two takeaways from her experience are, &amp;quot;your skills will speak louder than your gender,&amp;quot; and, &amp;quot;to become a female developer, you only have to do what any other smart dev would do...[i.e. work hard].&amp;quot; I think the problem is precisely that many women have found these statements to be false. Many women that are smart devs have gone into the tech sector with good skills, but found that they are still judged unfairly by their gender. The fact that this women hasn&amp;#x27;t experienced that doesn&amp;#x27;t mean the problem doesn&amp;#x27;t exist for others.&lt;p&gt;Also, the claim that if you work hard and have good skills, then your gender won&amp;#x27;t matter has the (probably unintended) implication that if you do find others discriminating against your based on your gender, then you must not have the skills or the work ethic.&lt;p&gt;I really don&amp;#x27;t know to what extent gender discrimination exists in the tech sector, but I think we should be careful to avoid over generalizing from individual experiences and we should be especially careful not to suggest that discrimination only happens to the developers whose skills aren&amp;#x27;t good enough to overcome other people&amp;#x27;s stereotypes.</text></comment>

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<story><title>We are now Solar Powered</title><url>https://www.andrewjvpowell.com/articles/we-are-solar-powered</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>PaulDavisThe1st</author><text>Not directly related to solar-powered-servers, but rather power-involved-in-computing ... I have a solar powered van (not the engine, alas), and it has been amazing to understand how a day of my kind of computing (edit&amp;#x2F;compile&amp;#x2F;debug cycle with C++) uses more power than the 12VDC refridgerator in the van. The computer is a small custom built direct-to-12VDC miniITX with an i5 processor.&lt;p&gt;The refridgerator literally has directly observable physical effects on the world - chilled wine! - and yet it uses less power than a device doing symbolic operations all day.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>nostrademons</author><text>I&amp;#x27;ve got a PowerWall and the Tesla app (which shows up-to-the-second readouts of your home&amp;#x27;s production &amp;amp; consumption), and it was shocking how little energy refrigerators and freezers use. Apparently it&amp;#x27;s because they&amp;#x27;re extremely well insulated; the compressor only needs to go on to adjust to &lt;i&gt;changes&lt;/i&gt; in temperature, and if you don&amp;#x27;t open the door the temperature won&amp;#x27;t change much.&lt;p&gt;There were a bunch of other surprises as well. The baseline load of my house is only about 200W (which seemed shockingly low to me, since I was raised in the era of 100W light bulbs), and it includes every laptop, tablet, phone, and battery charger that&amp;#x27;s plugged in; refrigerator and chest freezer; TVs and home entertainment on standby; nightlights and other small lamps we leave on; clocks &amp;amp; alarms; and everything else that&amp;#x27;s running continuously. Our gas heating system, however, uses 500W when on; apparently the blower is electric, and twice as much of a current draw as the rest of the baseline load. During the winter this is our biggest electricity expense, despite being &amp;quot;gas&amp;quot;. Dishwashers and washing machines are basically rounding error. Household appliances like vacuum cleaners are also surprisingly low-current. Anything with a heating element is a huge draw though (1-2kW), and that includes clothes dryers, electric thermos, Instapot, microwave, oven, and toaster oven. I can tell when my wife is preparing lunch by looking at the Tesla app.&lt;p&gt;If there&amp;#x27;s one thing you can do to save energy, it&amp;#x27;s probably to dry your clothes on a rack outside rather than the clothes dryer. We&amp;#x27;ve got young kids so we do a lot of laundry, but in summertime probably 2&amp;#x2F;3 of our total energy usage goes to the clothes dryer, and in winter it&amp;#x27;s split between that and the gas heating.</text></comment>

<story><title>We are now Solar Powered</title><url>https://www.andrewjvpowell.com/articles/we-are-solar-powered</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>PaulDavisThe1st</author><text>Not directly related to solar-powered-servers, but rather power-involved-in-computing ... I have a solar powered van (not the engine, alas), and it has been amazing to understand how a day of my kind of computing (edit&amp;#x2F;compile&amp;#x2F;debug cycle with C++) uses more power than the 12VDC refridgerator in the van. The computer is a small custom built direct-to-12VDC miniITX with an i5 processor.&lt;p&gt;The refridgerator literally has directly observable physical effects on the world - chilled wine! - and yet it uses less power than a device doing symbolic operations all day.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>forty</author><text>Your computer heats air, which is a observable physical effect, though an unintended one ;)</text></comment>

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<story><title>University of Utah pays $457k to ransomware gang</title><url>https://www.zdnet.com/article/university-of-utah-pays-457000-to-ransomware-gang/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>paulpauper</author><text>This shows how bug bounties are pitifully small and inadequate. Stop thinking that a $10k reward will prevent hackers. Either pay-up for sec experts or be prepared to pay-up through extortion or having your site exploited, and it will cost way more than 10k.</text></comment>

<story><title>University of Utah pays $457k to ransomware gang</title><url>https://www.zdnet.com/article/university-of-utah-pays-457000-to-ransomware-gang/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>frakt0x90</author><text>I have to say I think ransomware is one of the most interesting &amp;quot;business&amp;quot; practices. The trustworthiness of the criminals is huge because if they have a track record of providing the decryption key, you may as well pay.&lt;p&gt;In a logical extreme you could start adding features like &amp;quot;Give us the info of people you know and for every one we successfully extract a ransom from we&amp;#x27;ll give you 10% off your ransom.&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s interesting to think about at least.</text></comment>

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<story><title>Things I Won’t Work With: Peroxide Peroxides (2014)</title><url>http://blogs.sciencemag.org/pipeline/archives/2014/10/10/things_i_wont_work_with_peroxide_peroxides</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>xlayn</author><text>There are things that we shouln&amp;#x27;t work with, but we do because we don&amp;#x27;t know the associated risk, some examples:&lt;p&gt;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt; -maintenance of your DOT4 brakes? do not touch the DOT4 brake fuild, it&amp;#x27;s absorbed though your skin and it will kill your kidneys when they try to filter it. -Old house in america? check you don&amp;#x27;t have any pipe soldered with lead, hot water will eventually make it evaporate -lead in electrical solder wire -mercury, a powerful neuro-toxin &lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt; Edit:&lt;p&gt;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt; -again, old house, check to change the paint, yep, lead in the pain again. -close to an airport? beside noise, lead in the airplanes fuel -Teflon... again Dupont and 3M -Aluminum on cookware... toxic &lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt; lead was one of the technical debts introduced by a guy (1)... the same guy who introduce it to the fuel making a generation at least 10 iq point less smart.... and created the CFCs in aerosol... Dupont, GM and others did a lot of money on that.... as always.&lt;p&gt;(1) &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Thomas_Midgley,_Jr&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Thomas_Midgley,_Jr&lt;/a&gt;.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>sbierwagen</author><text>1) DOT4 doesn&amp;#x27;t exactly jump through the skin-- it&amp;#x27;s no dimethylmercury, or even DMSO. Its MSDS recommends against &amp;quot;prolonged&amp;quot; skin contact. It&amp;#x27;s not much worse than any other common hydrocarbon solvent, like gasoline. &lt;a href=&quot;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.brake-eng.com&amp;#x2F;global&amp;#x2F;downloads&amp;#x2F;dot4fl%20dot%204%20material%20safety%20data%20sheet.pdf&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.brake-eng.com&amp;#x2F;global&amp;#x2F;downloads&amp;#x2F;dot4fl%20dot%204%2...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;2.) Hot water certainly doesn&amp;#x27;t &amp;quot;evaporate&amp;quot; lead-- lead&amp;#x27;s boiling point is 1700C. Hot water can &lt;i&gt;leach&lt;/i&gt; lead from solder joints, if your water isn&amp;#x27;t treated properly: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.epa.gov&amp;#x2F;ground-water-and-drinking-water&amp;#x2F;basic-information-about-lead-drinking-water&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.epa.gov&amp;#x2F;ground-water-and-drinking-water&amp;#x2F;basic-in...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;3.) Yeah, lead solder isn&amp;#x27;t great to spend a lot of time with, which is why RoHS was introduced in 2003: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Restriction_of_Hazardous_Substances_Directive&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Restriction_of_Hazardous_Subst...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;4.) Where are you going to find bulk metallic mercury in any house built in the last three decades?&lt;p&gt;5.) Lead paint was also phased out years ago.&lt;p&gt;6.) Leaded avgas &lt;i&gt;does&lt;/i&gt; still exist, and &lt;i&gt;is&lt;/i&gt; bad. Don&amp;#x27;t buy property near airports that fly small planes.&lt;p&gt;7.) Teflon is about as chemically inert as a flororcarbon can possibly be. You might be thinking of Perfluorooctanoic acid, which is involved in Teflon production, and is pretty nasty: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Perfluorooctanoic_acid&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Perfluorooctanoic_acid&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;8.) Aluminum cookware isn&amp;#x27;t toxic, are you nuts?</text></comment>

<story><title>Things I Won’t Work With: Peroxide Peroxides (2014)</title><url>http://blogs.sciencemag.org/pipeline/archives/2014/10/10/things_i_wont_work_with_peroxide_peroxides</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>xlayn</author><text>There are things that we shouln&amp;#x27;t work with, but we do because we don&amp;#x27;t know the associated risk, some examples:&lt;p&gt;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt; -maintenance of your DOT4 brakes? do not touch the DOT4 brake fuild, it&amp;#x27;s absorbed though your skin and it will kill your kidneys when they try to filter it. -Old house in america? check you don&amp;#x27;t have any pipe soldered with lead, hot water will eventually make it evaporate -lead in electrical solder wire -mercury, a powerful neuro-toxin &lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt; Edit:&lt;p&gt;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt; -again, old house, check to change the paint, yep, lead in the pain again. -close to an airport? beside noise, lead in the airplanes fuel -Teflon... again Dupont and 3M -Aluminum on cookware... toxic &lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt; lead was one of the technical debts introduced by a guy (1)... the same guy who introduce it to the fuel making a generation at least 10 iq point less smart.... and created the CFCs in aerosol... Dupont, GM and others did a lot of money on that.... as always.&lt;p&gt;(1) &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Thomas_Midgley,_Jr&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Thomas_Midgley,_Jr&lt;/a&gt;.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>kirrent</author><text>What&amp;#x27;s wrong with lead in solder? I wash my hands after soldering every time and I can&amp;#x27;t imagine how I&amp;#x27;m really exposed otherwise. Professionals who solder long periods every day are far more likely to have adverse health outcomes from inadequately vented flux fumes.</text></comment>

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<story><title>DuckDuckGo “down-rank sites associated with Russian disinformation”</title><url>https://twitter.com/yegg/status/1501716484761997318</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Imnimo</author><text>Suppose I go off and make a search engine, with my own algorithm for ranking search results. At first it works great. And then five years later, I find that, by a quirk in my algorithm, I find that a new site has risen to the top of all my results. This new site was created as a prank, and it contains authoritative-sounding but incorrect answers to common questions. The results returned are still &lt;i&gt;relevant&lt;/i&gt; to my users, but they are now factually incorrect.&lt;p&gt;Should I simply accept that this site is the correct top result for my users&amp;#x27; queries, since it has been ranked by my unbiased algorithm? Or should I decide to put my finger on the scale, and redesign my algorithm (possibly by simply reweighting results from this particular site) to change the rankings?&lt;p&gt;Does the answer change if the site is not a prank site, but is propoganda? Or an earnest-but-incorrect flat earther?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>lynndotpy</author><text>I think the role of a search engine is to index the page, and to help users find what they&amp;#x27;re looking for. It&amp;#x27;s a difficult task that requires somehow quantifying relevance of answers for a given text string.&lt;p&gt;Whatever quantification is used is an implicit kind of &amp;#x27;censorship&amp;#x27;, and the &amp;#x27;relevance&amp;#x27; of results for a given string is inherently a value-judgement. That&amp;#x27;s where the value of a search engine comes from. We choose search engines based off how good its value judgements are.&lt;p&gt;So, I wish DDG released more details here, because this announcement otherwise just sounds like standard practice. Abusing &amp;quot;quirks in the algorithm&amp;quot; is just called SEO, and it&amp;#x27;s been a cat-and-mouse battle between search-engines and abuse. Without details, it&amp;#x27;s harder to interpret this move generously.</text></comment>

<story><title>DuckDuckGo “down-rank sites associated with Russian disinformation”</title><url>https://twitter.com/yegg/status/1501716484761997318</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Imnimo</author><text>Suppose I go off and make a search engine, with my own algorithm for ranking search results. At first it works great. And then five years later, I find that, by a quirk in my algorithm, I find that a new site has risen to the top of all my results. This new site was created as a prank, and it contains authoritative-sounding but incorrect answers to common questions. The results returned are still &lt;i&gt;relevant&lt;/i&gt; to my users, but they are now factually incorrect.&lt;p&gt;Should I simply accept that this site is the correct top result for my users&amp;#x27; queries, since it has been ranked by my unbiased algorithm? Or should I decide to put my finger on the scale, and redesign my algorithm (possibly by simply reweighting results from this particular site) to change the rankings?&lt;p&gt;Does the answer change if the site is not a prank site, but is propoganda? Or an earnest-but-incorrect flat earther?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>kkjjkgjjgg</author><text>I&amp;#x27;d say a good search engine should try to deliver the results the user is looking for. Simple as that. It probably can never be perfect, as the search engine can only guess what the user is looking for. But it can try to do its best.&lt;p&gt;There is no rule that it should rank sites by page rank or number of keywords or whatever.&lt;p&gt;If I don&amp;#x27;t want to see &amp;quot;Russian Disinformation&amp;quot;, I probably won&amp;#x27;t search for it to begin with. On the other hand, maybe I want to see what all the fuss is about - then why should the search engine stand in my way?</text></comment>

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<story><title>Apple Botches China and Japan Maps in iOS 6</title><url>http://www.techinasia.com/apple-ios-6-maps-china-japan/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>w1ntermute</author><text>This is especially galling for the Japanese. Not only are they valuable customers due to their frequent cell phone purchases and rabid desire for brand-name products (including Apple, of course), but a quarter of the Japanese population (and the main target market) lives in Tokyo, where people are almost entirely dependent on public transit to get around. With iOS 6, there are no built in directions!&lt;p&gt;Of course, Apple apologists will jump to say that you can just get a 3rd party app, but that simply doesn&apos;t cut it. Google Maps provided a door-to-door solution for directions, which makes a big difference when you don&apos;t know what the closest train station to an address is. Moreover, the ability to see the total door-to-door time and compare it to the cost of the trip made it easy to select the optimal route (based on a combination of price and time).&lt;p&gt;And here are some of the amusing mistakes in the database[0]:&lt;p&gt;* &quot;McDonalds&quot; and &quot;Pachinko Gundam&quot; train stations&lt;p&gt;* A station not attached to any railway lines&lt;p&gt;* No Osaka station (this is a really big station)&lt;p&gt;* Place names in Chinese and Korean&lt;p&gt;* Haneda Airport (busiest airport in Japan) is mislabeled as 「大王製紙」 ― &quot;Great King Paper Manufacturer&quot; (this one has gotten a lot of laughs)&lt;p&gt;* Narita Airport (2nd busiest airport) completely missing&lt;p&gt;For those who can read Japanese, there&apos;s a good 2chan thread archive[1] of Japanese netizens taking the piss out of Apple Maps.&lt;p&gt;0: &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.japanmobiletech.com/2012/09/ios-6-maps-fail-in-japan.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.japanmobiletech.com/2012/09/ios-6-maps-fail-in-ja...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;1: &lt;a href=&quot;http://gahalog.2chblog.jp/archives/52132765.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://gahalog.2chblog.jp/archives/52132765.html&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>

<story><title>Apple Botches China and Japan Maps in iOS 6</title><url>http://www.techinasia.com/apple-ios-6-maps-china-japan/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>olalonde</author><text>To be fair, Google Maps in China isn&apos;t great either. See &quot;Map View&quot; vs &quot;Satellite View&quot; here: &lt;a href=&quot;https://maps.google.com/?ll=22.637323,114.030954&amp;#38;spn=0.001513,0.00284&amp;#38;t=m&amp;#38;z=19&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https://maps.google.com/?ll=22.637323,114.030954&amp;#38;spn=0.0...&lt;/a&gt;. It&apos;s off by a few hundred meters (the corresponding satellite view for the previous map view is actually here: &lt;a href=&quot;https://maps.google.com/?ll=22.640363,114.025936&amp;#38;spn=0.003025,0.005681&amp;#38;t=h&amp;#38;z=18&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https://maps.google.com/?ll=22.640363,114.025936&amp;#38;spn=0.0...&lt;/a&gt;). I assume Google is aware of this issue since they don&apos;t overlay map data over their satellite view like they do almost everywhere else around the world. The fact that they can&apos;t drive their Street View cars in China doesn&apos;t help either.</text></comment>

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<story><title>Node9: Inferno kernel with LuaJIT instead of the Dis virtual machine</title><url>https://github.com/jvburnes/node9/blob/master/doc/node9-hackers-guide.txt</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>jvburnes</author><text>Hi...&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;m the author of Node9, so it&amp;#x27;s pretty cool that this has gone semi-viral. It&amp;#x27;s taken quite a bit of heavy lifting to blend Inferno and LuaJIT together. There&amp;#x27;s still a lot of work to be done, but it compiles on OSX and works. Please be patient as I hack the premake files to build properly on Linux&amp;#x2F;BSDs. Eventually porting will just work using libuv, but until then I&amp;#x27;m hacking away.&lt;p&gt;For those wondering about Dis vs LuaJIT, Dis ultimately presented some issues when it came to multithreading and I wasn&amp;#x27;t about to JIT compile Lua to Dis when I had LuaJIT. :) Jim Burnes</text></comment>

<story><title>Node9: Inferno kernel with LuaJIT instead of the Dis virtual machine</title><url>https://github.com/jvburnes/node9/blob/master/doc/node9-hackers-guide.txt</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>linschn</author><text>This is seriously cool !&lt;p&gt;9P servers can be mounted (thanks to plan9port) as a (virtual) filesystem. Therefore, any utility, in any language, can interact with the cloud simply by writing and reading files, without even knowing is the system it interacts with is the actual hard drive, a computer on the other side of the planet, or a composite cloud system.&lt;p&gt;Seeing the power of Plan9&amp;#x2F;Inferno ported to Lua opens up some interesting perspectives.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;m eager to play with this, congrats !</text></comment>

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<story><title>Go at Digital Ocean</title><url>https://speakerdeck.com/farslan/go-at-digitalocean</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>arianvanp</author><text>The go vendoring stuff and GOPATH sounds like a complete nightmare to me. Also the fact that imports are full git URLS sounds totally crazy. Is `dep` fixing all that stuff? Last time I checked out go a few years ago, I didn&amp;#x27;t continue because I found the story of actually installing dependencies and keeping track of versions very confusing. You couldn&amp;#x27;t even `go get` a specific git tag or something.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;m happy that there seems to be some movement. But now we have godep, govendor, glide, dep. and every project uses one or the other. Are they all compatible? Or is it a minefield?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>imsofuture</author><text>Go vendoring gets &lt;i&gt;such&lt;/i&gt; a bad rap undeservedly. In practice it&amp;#x27;s the simplest and most straightforward dependency system (since 1.4&amp;#x2F;5 added vendoring) I&amp;#x27;ve used.&lt;p&gt;Step 1: Check out code that you want to use. That&amp;#x27;s actually the only step and you can do it by hand, or with one of a multitude of tools. All the tools differ slightly, and any metadata or manifests or things like that they do aren&amp;#x27;t compatible, but the code they put in your repository is, enabling anyone to clone a repository, and instantly build the exact version of all your dependencies.&lt;p&gt;Imports also &lt;i&gt;aren&amp;#x27;t&lt;/i&gt; full git URLs, they &lt;i&gt;can be&lt;/i&gt; as a convenience that tells you where to get a package. You can&amp;#x27;t `go get` a specific tag, but that&amp;#x27;s fine, because `go get` isn&amp;#x27;t a package or dependency manager, it&amp;#x27;s just a convenience to grab code to your system, not to freeze a version as a dependency into your project.&lt;p&gt;Frankly, the amount of people that put their nose in the air at go is just fine with me, just makes it more of a &amp;#x27;secret productivity tool&amp;#x27; I guess.&lt;p&gt;Edit: not to say it wouldn&amp;#x27;t have been nice if `dep` had been the one blessed path at version 1. Still, I have extremely little to complain about with the language and tooling since 1.4&amp;#x2F;1.5.</text></comment>

<story><title>Go at Digital Ocean</title><url>https://speakerdeck.com/farslan/go-at-digitalocean</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>arianvanp</author><text>The go vendoring stuff and GOPATH sounds like a complete nightmare to me. Also the fact that imports are full git URLS sounds totally crazy. Is `dep` fixing all that stuff? Last time I checked out go a few years ago, I didn&amp;#x27;t continue because I found the story of actually installing dependencies and keeping track of versions very confusing. You couldn&amp;#x27;t even `go get` a specific git tag or something.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;m happy that there seems to be some movement. But now we have godep, govendor, glide, dep. and every project uses one or the other. Are they all compatible? Or is it a minefield?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>weberc2</author><text>GOPATH isn&amp;#x27;t a real problem; it&amp;#x27;s just a search directory like PATH or PYTHONPATH or CLASSPATH or NODEPATH, and it has a default value that makes it painless. Vendoring can be truly painful, but `dep` aims to fix that. Imports are &lt;i&gt;not&lt;/i&gt; git URLs or indeed any kind of URLs; they&amp;#x27;re just directory paths into your GOPATH which the `go get` program can use if the directory path resembles the URL of a git (or hg&amp;#x2F;bzr&amp;#x2F;svn) repo. Don&amp;#x27;t think of `go get` as a package manager; think of it as a convenience utility to play around with a package before locking down the version via vendoring. Go&amp;#x27;s package management has a lot to improve on, but many of the common complaints are misinformed.&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; I&amp;#x27;m happy that there seems to be some movement. But now we have godep, govendor, glide, dep. and every project uses one or the other. Are they all compatible? Or is it a minefield?&lt;p&gt;They&amp;#x27;re not all compatible, but it&amp;#x27;s not really a problem because (last I checked) the prevailing philosophy was &amp;quot;libraries should not vendor--only binaries&amp;quot; which is to say &amp;quot;libraries shouldn&amp;#x27;t specify versions for their dependencies; the downstream binary projects should figure out what versions of each library should be used to build the binary&amp;quot;. This means &lt;i&gt;dependency tool compatibility&lt;/i&gt; isn&amp;#x27;t a problem because the dependency tooling punts on the dependency-resolution problem altogether, which seems like an even bigger problem.&lt;p&gt;Remember that this is only painful if you&amp;#x27;re trying for deterministic builds, and in the absolute worst case, you forego Go&amp;#x27;s build tooling and use something like Nix. This is absolutely not a reason to change language.</text></comment>

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<story><title>So long, and thanks for all the bytes</title><url>https://chethaase.medium.com/so-long-and-thanks-for-all-the-bytes-02a4ef972f65</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>yawz</author><text>Because of the downturn, I wonder how many people have given up on their careers at Tech? How many more will respond to the call of a different professional life that pays less, but that will be more fulfilling? Even as recent as yesterday I heard a past-colleague tell me &amp;quot;maybe Tech isn&amp;#x27;t for me, after all. I&amp;#x27;ll try my hand at this other thing.&amp;quot;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>nrjames</author><text>I&amp;#x27;m not sure it&amp;#x27;s the downturn, necessarily. I used to be enthralled with tech, full of energy to explore new tools, programming languages, etc. I think I slowly awoke to the fact that it&amp;#x27;s not the tech but the people that make it interesting and rewarding. For me (and I&amp;#x27;m not trying to project on anybody else), interactions and activities with people who were doing things that are not tech seemed deeper and more genuine -- almost as if it was easier for me to get to know them and enjoy their company in a non-tech context. As a result, my hobbies and interests have pivoted to activities that don&amp;#x27;t involve computers much at all. My career remains in tech and I try to put my best efforts into the work that I do, but it&amp;#x27;s becoming more difficult as I continue to realize that life, for me, is better when most of it is spent away from screens.</text></comment>

<story><title>So long, and thanks for all the bytes</title><url>https://chethaase.medium.com/so-long-and-thanks-for-all-the-bytes-02a4ef972f65</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>yawz</author><text>Because of the downturn, I wonder how many people have given up on their careers at Tech? How many more will respond to the call of a different professional life that pays less, but that will be more fulfilling? Even as recent as yesterday I heard a past-colleague tell me &amp;quot;maybe Tech isn&amp;#x27;t for me, after all. I&amp;#x27;ll try my hand at this other thing.&amp;quot;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>CM30</author><text>I suspect there will be quite a few people in this situation, but it won&amp;#x27;t be the majority of people simply for financial reasons. If your idea of a fulfilling career isn&amp;#x27;t tech, law, finance, medicine or business&amp;#x2F;management, it may simply be impossible to do it full time and have a decent quality of life in many places.&lt;p&gt;For instance, writing jobs pay terribly overall, with the quantity of them going down a lot due to the decline of traditional media and the advent of AI. Unless you&amp;#x27;ve got a FAANG income nest egg or a trust fund to rely on, I wouldn&amp;#x27;t recommend anyone get into this kind of work as their main career, regardless of how fulfilling it might be.&lt;p&gt;Ultimately I suspect many people will be forced to try and stick out this recession&amp;#x2F;downturn just because tech is their best bet of a decent living.</text></comment>

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<story><title>Steven Spielberg: ‘No film should be revised’ based on modern sensitivity</title><url>https://www.theguardian.com/film/2023/apr/26/steven-spielberg-et-guns-movie-edit</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>macNchz</author><text>Sometimes these edits can be pretty subtle as well: a while ago my wife and I started watching the original early-90s Beverly Hills 90210 on one of the streaming platforms. It’s a kind of absurd and fun pop-cultural time capsule of a show. After a few episodes, though, I started to realize there was something not quite right.&lt;p&gt;It turns out that much of the music featured in the original airing of the show wasn’t licensed in a way it could be used long term, and over the years it has been replaced with terrible stock songs or jarringly anachronistic choices that sound totally out of place.&lt;p&gt;Entire scenes and episodes have been cut from the seasons distributed on streaming platforms, because they featured live concerts that couldn’t be edited. The original had performances by the Flaming Lips, among many others, that simply can’t be watched now, except if by chance someone copied an old VHS to YouTube.&lt;p&gt;Music was a big part of the original show–in addition to the live shows it featured all sorts of great pop songs from the time, which was part of why it was such a hit with teenagers when it aired. It’s such a bummer they stripped it all out!&lt;p&gt;There are some places online with copies of early DVD releases that have more music, but still not all of it. The original is locked away in a vault somewhere and almost certainly won’t ever be enjoyed in a complete state.</text></item><item><author>safety1st</author><text>The fact that even guys as influential as Spielberg and Tarantino are worried about having their past work censored is the most convincing reason I&amp;#x27;ve seen to own your own data.&lt;p&gt;For movies it&amp;#x27;s as easy as obtaining DRM-free copies of the movies you care about, saving them to an SSD, and installing a copy of Plex.&lt;p&gt;Do that with the movies, music and books you love. They are a part of our cultural history. It&amp;#x27;s almost a guarantee that any copy you don&amp;#x27;t own and control will at some point in the future be revised. I want the real history not what the powers that be tell me it was.&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s virtually &lt;i&gt;guaranteed&lt;/i&gt; that Amazon, Netflix et. al. will not store this stuff for you with integrity, it is built into the nature of the system.</text></item><item><author>monero-xmr</author><text>I grew up in a small city and one thing they had was some rich dude who donated a library, and filled the reading room with beautiful statues and paintings which were in the classical style, commissioned completely by himself. This was early 1800s.&lt;p&gt;Then in the later 1800s the townsfolk decided the paintings and statues were scandalous because they had nudes, so they painted over the breasts and genitals, and covered over the statues with togas &amp;#x2F; cloths.&lt;p&gt;Luckily in modern times it was easy to remove the cloths, but unfortunately the paintings are ruined. The cover-job was done poorly and the paintings have an off-color paint on it that looks wrong. There have been talks to fix it but I don’t think anything has been done.&lt;p&gt;My point is that, the desire to censor prior art that disagrees with fad-interpretations of what is taboo and scandalous, will certainly be looked at in a few decades as a very weird and Victorian era. Definitely should not re-cut movies to be “safe” or whatever.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ryathal</author><text>So many shows are unavailable or different because of ridiculous licensing rules around music. Scrubs has several different versions of music, The Drew Carey Show is basically impossible to find because of music. If Congress wanted to ever do something pro-consumer, passing a law that ends all this nonsense around licensing and require all licensing to be delivery method agnostic. whether a show is premiering, a rerun, syndicated, streamed, or on DVD it should be the same show.</text></comment>

<story><title>Steven Spielberg: ‘No film should be revised’ based on modern sensitivity</title><url>https://www.theguardian.com/film/2023/apr/26/steven-spielberg-et-guns-movie-edit</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>macNchz</author><text>Sometimes these edits can be pretty subtle as well: a while ago my wife and I started watching the original early-90s Beverly Hills 90210 on one of the streaming platforms. It’s a kind of absurd and fun pop-cultural time capsule of a show. After a few episodes, though, I started to realize there was something not quite right.&lt;p&gt;It turns out that much of the music featured in the original airing of the show wasn’t licensed in a way it could be used long term, and over the years it has been replaced with terrible stock songs or jarringly anachronistic choices that sound totally out of place.&lt;p&gt;Entire scenes and episodes have been cut from the seasons distributed on streaming platforms, because they featured live concerts that couldn’t be edited. The original had performances by the Flaming Lips, among many others, that simply can’t be watched now, except if by chance someone copied an old VHS to YouTube.&lt;p&gt;Music was a big part of the original show–in addition to the live shows it featured all sorts of great pop songs from the time, which was part of why it was such a hit with teenagers when it aired. It’s such a bummer they stripped it all out!&lt;p&gt;There are some places online with copies of early DVD releases that have more music, but still not all of it. The original is locked away in a vault somewhere and almost certainly won’t ever be enjoyed in a complete state.</text></item><item><author>safety1st</author><text>The fact that even guys as influential as Spielberg and Tarantino are worried about having their past work censored is the most convincing reason I&amp;#x27;ve seen to own your own data.&lt;p&gt;For movies it&amp;#x27;s as easy as obtaining DRM-free copies of the movies you care about, saving them to an SSD, and installing a copy of Plex.&lt;p&gt;Do that with the movies, music and books you love. They are a part of our cultural history. It&amp;#x27;s almost a guarantee that any copy you don&amp;#x27;t own and control will at some point in the future be revised. I want the real history not what the powers that be tell me it was.&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s virtually &lt;i&gt;guaranteed&lt;/i&gt; that Amazon, Netflix et. al. will not store this stuff for you with integrity, it is built into the nature of the system.</text></item><item><author>monero-xmr</author><text>I grew up in a small city and one thing they had was some rich dude who donated a library, and filled the reading room with beautiful statues and paintings which were in the classical style, commissioned completely by himself. This was early 1800s.&lt;p&gt;Then in the later 1800s the townsfolk decided the paintings and statues were scandalous because they had nudes, so they painted over the breasts and genitals, and covered over the statues with togas &amp;#x2F; cloths.&lt;p&gt;Luckily in modern times it was easy to remove the cloths, but unfortunately the paintings are ruined. The cover-job was done poorly and the paintings have an off-color paint on it that looks wrong. There have been talks to fix it but I don’t think anything has been done.&lt;p&gt;My point is that, the desire to censor prior art that disagrees with fad-interpretations of what is taboo and scandalous, will certainly be looked at in a few decades as a very weird and Victorian era. Definitely should not re-cut movies to be “safe” or whatever.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>xdennis</author><text>Same for &amp;quot;Married... with Children&amp;quot;. They replaced the iconic &amp;quot;Love and Marriage&amp;quot; theme song with elevator music.</text></comment>

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<story><title>Hiring the first head of marketing at a startup</title><url>https://helenmin.com/blog/first-head-of-marketing</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>jjohansson</author><text>I was the first Head of Marketing for a high growth tech company (we raised USD $71 million last year). I&amp;#x27;ve been here almost 3 years, growing leads by 11x and revenue by millions with a tiny team and budget.&lt;p&gt;My advice to those hiring HoM for a B2B startup:&lt;p&gt;1. Hire a performance marketer (i.e. leads, revenue focused), not a brand marketer. Your sales team needs leads to grow, not &amp;quot;brand awareness&amp;quot;. Once you&amp;#x27;ve got a nice flow of leads, that&amp;#x27;s when the softer side of marketing becomes important.&lt;p&gt;2. If they are focused on how big of a budget they&amp;#x27;ll get, that&amp;#x27;s a major red flag. The first channels should not be paid. Budget needs to be small to start -- once you prove ROI&amp;#x2F;traction, it&amp;#x27;s now a conversation about scaling quickly, and not about blindly throwing money away.&lt;p&gt;3. A quick look at their resume or LinkedIn should tell you everything you need to know... is it full of numbers&amp;#x2F;data, or is it a list of tasks &amp;amp; buzzword bingo?&lt;p&gt;4. Hire someone who can do everything themselves. Make sure they won&amp;#x27;t need to rely on agencies.&lt;p&gt;Edit: Regarding the article&amp;#x27;s recommendation about hiring ICs to perform smaller tasks. I personally would find this unappealing because it means I can&amp;#x27;t build my own initial team, and I&amp;#x27;ll need to investigate what those ICs have done so far -- have they made poor decisions I&amp;#x27;ll need to undo?</text></comment>

<story><title>Hiring the first head of marketing at a startup</title><url>https://helenmin.com/blog/first-head-of-marketing</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>cm2012</author><text>If you&amp;#x27;re also interested in knowing which marketing channels to test first for your start-up, I charted most major channels by public spend data and level of customer intent here: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.rightpercent.com&amp;#x2F;b2b-guides&amp;#x2F;which-marketing-channels-are-best-to-grow-your-business-2020-update&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.rightpercent.com&amp;#x2F;b2b-guides&amp;#x2F;which-marketing-chan...&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;p&gt;A bunch of other founders have told me they find this chart really useful.</text></comment>

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<story><title>DecorMyEyes Merchant Vitaly Borker Arrested After NYT Piece On Google Rankings</title><url>http://searchengineland.com/decormyeyes-merchant-vitaly-borker-arrested-after-nyt-piece-on-google-57921</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>j_baker</author><text>This is great and all, but this guy flagrantly broke the law many times and no one did anything. Do I need to have the New York Times publish an article if someone does something like this to me?</text></comment>

<story><title>DecorMyEyes Merchant Vitaly Borker Arrested After NYT Piece On Google Rankings</title><url>http://searchengineland.com/decormyeyes-merchant-vitaly-borker-arrested-after-nyt-piece-on-google-57921</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>dabent</author><text>For those that don&apos;t recall, the NYT article was mentioned here:&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1945112&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1945112&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;and here:&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1946085&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1946085&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;I had a feeling it was going to come to this, and soon. He had the opposite strategy as Zappos and had the opposite &quot;exit.&quot;</text></comment>

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<story><title>American Psychological Association Bolstered C.I.A. Torture Program</title><url>http://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/01/us/report-says-american-psychological-association-collaborated-on-torture-justification.html?hp&amp;action=click&amp;pgtype=Homepage&amp;module=first-column-region&amp;region=top-news&amp;WT.nav=top-news&amp;_r=0</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Someone1234</author><text>People who were legally in the US, were literally picked up off of American streets, blindfolded, put into secret CIA aircraft, flown to Egypt, Jordan, Morocco, and Uzbekistan, and then tortured [0].&lt;p&gt;Yet not a single person has gone to jail over this. The CIA hasn&amp;#x27;t been reformed structurally, and no additional oversights have been added. In fact the only difference between then and now is we have a different administration in the White House who are just choosing not to continue it...&lt;p&gt;Does this not disturb anyone? Isn&amp;#x27;t this exactly the type of stuff people used to joke about the USSR&amp;#x2F;KGB doing? Since when did the US constitution only apply to citizens and not residence?&lt;p&gt;[0] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Extraordinary_rendition#21st_century&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Extraordinary_rendition#21st_c...&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Lawtonfogle</author><text>&amp;gt;who are just choosing not to continue it&lt;p&gt;Or so they claim. How many times in history has some group promised to stop some wrong doing only to continue, perhaps in a modified way?</text></comment>

<story><title>American Psychological Association Bolstered C.I.A. Torture Program</title><url>http://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/01/us/report-says-american-psychological-association-collaborated-on-torture-justification.html?hp&amp;action=click&amp;pgtype=Homepage&amp;module=first-column-region&amp;region=top-news&amp;WT.nav=top-news&amp;_r=0</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Someone1234</author><text>People who were legally in the US, were literally picked up off of American streets, blindfolded, put into secret CIA aircraft, flown to Egypt, Jordan, Morocco, and Uzbekistan, and then tortured [0].&lt;p&gt;Yet not a single person has gone to jail over this. The CIA hasn&amp;#x27;t been reformed structurally, and no additional oversights have been added. In fact the only difference between then and now is we have a different administration in the White House who are just choosing not to continue it...&lt;p&gt;Does this not disturb anyone? Isn&amp;#x27;t this exactly the type of stuff people used to joke about the USSR&amp;#x2F;KGB doing? Since when did the US constitution only apply to citizens and not residence?&lt;p&gt;[0] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Extraordinary_rendition#21st_century&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Extraordinary_rendition#21st_c...&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>hyperliner</author><text>This is relevant:&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;Are Foreign Nationals Entitled to the Same Constitutional Rights As Citizens?&amp;quot; &lt;a href=&quot;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;scholarship.law.georgetown.edu&amp;#x2F;cgi&amp;#x2F;viewcontent.cgi?article=1302&amp;amp;context=facpub&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;scholarship.law.georgetown.edu&amp;#x2F;cgi&amp;#x2F;viewcontent.cgi?ar...&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>

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<story><title>AutoHotkey v2 Official Release Announcement</title><url>https://www.autohotkey.com/boards/viewtopic.php?t=112989</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mastazi</author><text>I love Autohotkey because, in addition to its productivity benefits, it&amp;#x27;s a defensive tool against dark patterns imposed by user-hostile companies.&lt;p&gt;For example, I&amp;#x27;ve been using it for years to enter my Runescape password [1] due to Jagex being clueless about security [2]&lt;p&gt;[1] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;reddit.com&amp;#x2F;r&amp;#x2F;runescape&amp;#x2F;comments&amp;#x2F;gxapao&amp;#x2F;how_to_paste_to_the_password_box&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;reddit.com&amp;#x2F;r&amp;#x2F;runescape&amp;#x2F;comments&amp;#x2F;gxapao&amp;#x2F;how_to_paste_...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;[2] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.troyhunt.com&amp;#x2F;the-cobra-effect-that-is-disabling&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.troyhunt.com&amp;#x2F;the-cobra-effect-that-is-disabling&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>cheeze</author><text>My favorite use case for it is a hotkey to autofill my username and password for Zwift. Zwift is a cycling app that I&amp;#x27;m only interacting with while I&amp;#x27;m sitting on my bicycle (on a trainer indoor)&lt;p&gt;I have 0 patience for entering a password... I&amp;#x27;m sitting there in spandex with a fan blowing in my face and I&amp;#x27;m holding a wireless keyboard. Anything more than Ctrl+Alt+1 is too mcuh work</text></comment>

<story><title>AutoHotkey v2 Official Release Announcement</title><url>https://www.autohotkey.com/boards/viewtopic.php?t=112989</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mastazi</author><text>I love Autohotkey because, in addition to its productivity benefits, it&amp;#x27;s a defensive tool against dark patterns imposed by user-hostile companies.&lt;p&gt;For example, I&amp;#x27;ve been using it for years to enter my Runescape password [1] due to Jagex being clueless about security [2]&lt;p&gt;[1] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;reddit.com&amp;#x2F;r&amp;#x2F;runescape&amp;#x2F;comments&amp;#x2F;gxapao&amp;#x2F;how_to_paste_to_the_password_box&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;reddit.com&amp;#x2F;r&amp;#x2F;runescape&amp;#x2F;comments&amp;#x2F;gxapao&amp;#x2F;how_to_paste_...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;[2] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.troyhunt.com&amp;#x2F;the-cobra-effect-that-is-disabling&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.troyhunt.com&amp;#x2F;the-cobra-effect-that-is-disabling&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>thegeekpirate</author><text>Runelite (&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;runelite.net&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;runelite.net&lt;/a&gt;) enables you to do so, fwiw.</text></comment>

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<story><title>US Court Grants ISPs and Search Engine Blockade of Sci-Hub</title><url>https://torrentfreak.com/us-court-grants-isps-and-search-engine-blockade-of-sci-hub-171106</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Knufen</author><text>As someone who works in academia (Europe) I understand that scientific papers need hosting and server space and such, but does it really help humanity that all advances will be behind very expensive pay walls? I would argue otherwise. The current trend is not sustainable nor favorable for anyone except parasitic publishers.&lt;p&gt;Edit: I understand the website was breaking the law, but this seems like symptom treating</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>seer</author><text>I never understood the argument of “we’ll block this website that host papers because we need revenue to host those papers”. I mean, if you want papers to be hosted just leave people to host them... There might be other arguments and I don’t really find most of them valid as well, but the one about hosting costs just sounds ... absurd</text></comment>

<story><title>US Court Grants ISPs and Search Engine Blockade of Sci-Hub</title><url>https://torrentfreak.com/us-court-grants-isps-and-search-engine-blockade-of-sci-hub-171106</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Knufen</author><text>As someone who works in academia (Europe) I understand that scientific papers need hosting and server space and such, but does it really help humanity that all advances will be behind very expensive pay walls? I would argue otherwise. The current trend is not sustainable nor favorable for anyone except parasitic publishers.&lt;p&gt;Edit: I understand the website was breaking the law, but this seems like symptom treating</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ickwabe</author><text>Scientists need to try more &amp;quot;radical sharing&amp;quot;[1] as the member journalists of the ICIJ[2] did in order to report on the Panama and Paradise Papers.&lt;p&gt;Setting aside ego,etc. I would think result in faster real-world discoveries and applicitions for the good of all.&lt;p&gt;[1]&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.icij.org&amp;#x2F;blog&amp;#x2F;2016&amp;#x2F;12&amp;#x2F;radical-sharing-breaking-paradigms-achieve-change&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.icij.org&amp;#x2F;blog&amp;#x2F;2016&amp;#x2F;12&amp;#x2F;radical-sharing-breaking-p...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;[2]International Consortium of Investigative Journalists</text></comment>

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<story><title>We replaced rental brokers with software and filled 200 vacant apartments</title><url>https://caretaker.com/blog/we-replaced-rental-brokers-with-software-and-filled-200-vacant-apartments</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>boringg</author><text>Caretaker: The redfin of brokers. Take all the value for themselves freeze out the brokers (who provide a service but are universally disdained). Ride that wave of positive news for a couples years. Eventually everyone will hate the fraction of the market Caretaker has as they raise prices to make investors happy and people realize there are problems.&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s like the same idea of Uber and Lyft. Less human involvement = better world &amp;#x2F;S.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>908B64B197</author><text>&amp;gt; It&amp;#x27;s like the same idea of Uber and Lyft. Less human involvement = better world &amp;#x2F;S.&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s interesting how everyone conveniently forgot about the medallion system Uber and Lyft disrupted.&lt;p&gt;Pre-Uber, either the driver rented the car to a middleman who rented the medallion from a rich owner, or said owner was selling and financing (most banks won&amp;#x27;t touch these medallions!) a medallion at a ridiculous interest rate to a driver that planned to use it as his retirement savings (an extremely volatile asset and not very liquid).&lt;p&gt;The more I spoke to cab drivers the more it seemed their industry was a pyramid scheme aimed at helping established rent-seeker take advantage of often poor new immigrants. Uber brought a breeze of fresh air: Someone could simply buy a car, calculate the depreciation and it&amp;#x27;s value on the market (since unlike medallions cars are relatively liquid assets!) do rideshare and calculate their profits or loss. They can get out of the game at anytime, and they know exactly how much they are going to get for the car they have should they sell it.&lt;p&gt;And I&amp;#x27;m not even touching the usual pain points and often discriminatory practices of medallion drivers (refusing card payments, refusing rides to non-white passengers and to non-white neighborhoods...).</text></comment>

<story><title>We replaced rental brokers with software and filled 200 vacant apartments</title><url>https://caretaker.com/blog/we-replaced-rental-brokers-with-software-and-filled-200-vacant-apartments</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>boringg</author><text>Caretaker: The redfin of brokers. Take all the value for themselves freeze out the brokers (who provide a service but are universally disdained). Ride that wave of positive news for a couples years. Eventually everyone will hate the fraction of the market Caretaker has as they raise prices to make investors happy and people realize there are problems.&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s like the same idea of Uber and Lyft. Less human involvement = better world &amp;#x2F;S.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>sudopluto</author><text>as a student in boston where brokers take 1 month rent for doing exactly *nothing*, i welcome the idea of automating away these leaches.&lt;p&gt;edit: fb marketplace might get the brokers first, most of my friends found their places via landlords posting there</text></comment>

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<story><title>Moving fast with the core Vim motions</title><url>https://www.barbarianmeetscoding.com/boost-your-coding-fu-with-vscode-and-vim/moving-blazingly-fast-with-the-core-vim-motions/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>galkk</author><text>I kind of settled on vim as console editor in Linux but it will never replace good ide for me, and modern ides are getting&amp;#x2F;having vim mode for navigation, making then even more compelling.&lt;p&gt;* Do you want autodetect indent and tab rule in file? Install plugin.&lt;p&gt;* Do you want to automatically insert matching closing parenthesis - rebind keys (half baked solution) or plugin.&lt;p&gt;* Vertical scrollbar? Plugin&lt;p&gt;* Autocomplete code using lsp? Dance with plugins or copy paste literal screens of configs for nvim&lt;p&gt;* Want nice looking theme? Plugin! (Gruvbox in my case)&lt;p&gt;* Install and manage plugins? 3rd party Plugin for that too, with init code that will clone it itself from GitHub&lt;p&gt;* Wrap long lines by whole words if possible? No default setting, I guess I need to search for plugin for that too.&lt;p&gt;List goes on and on, and it is just I’m looking at my vimrc and recalling why I added or another thing. And there are many things which I decided to just to not care about, because it requires too much time to get it work&lt;p&gt;Parent mentioned refactorings, but trust me, no matter what typing&amp;#x2F;navigating speed is, the standard refactorings in modern ides (that I bet cover most of typical refactoring work) will work faster and more correctly than manually doing the same. Even basic things like projectwise method rename or extracting something to parameter.&lt;p&gt;Almost every quality of life improvement that is standard in modern ides require tinkering with vim.</text></item><item><author>auto</author><text>We&amp;#x27;ve got younger guys on my team that hem and haw about the fact that we only have vim on our hardware implementation (SAMA5 busy box), and straight up don&amp;#x27;t understand why I basically can&amp;#x27;t use VSCode without the extension, and this article hits on so many good points. Vim is extremely expressive, and everyone ends up using it in slightly different ways. For me, my movement tends to center around:&lt;p&gt;- &amp;#x27;e&amp;#x27; and &amp;#x27;k&amp;#x27; rapidly, or &amp;#x27;h&amp;#x27; and &amp;#x27;b&amp;#x27; rapidly to move left and right, or using &amp;#x27;f&amp;#x27;&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x27;F&amp;#x27; and a target character, with &amp;#x27;0&amp;#x27; and &amp;#x27;$&amp;#x27; as needed&lt;p&gt;- For vertical movement, I tend to use ctrl+&amp;#x27;d&amp;#x27;&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x27;u&amp;#x27; to move the document up and down in chunks, then specific line numbers, as well as marks (usually at most 2-3, with &amp;#x27;a&amp;#x27;, &amp;#x27;b&amp;#x27;, and &amp;#x27;c&amp;#x27;) to hold on to specific areas, or I just end up remembering line numbers and jumping to them.&lt;p&gt;- Lots of yanking and deleting to specific targets, be it hori or vert&lt;p&gt;There&amp;#x27;s plenty more beyond that, but that really is the &amp;quot;crux&amp;quot; of my vim usage, and from what I&amp;#x27;ve seen watching over the shoulders of many programmers over the years, it makes me &lt;i&gt;way&lt;/i&gt; faster than most. Programming isn&amp;#x27;t about typing speed, but my work is often in doing large refactors in enormous codebases. I need to be able to move around as close to the speed of thought as possible, and I have never found a tool that comes anywhere close to providing that ability as vim.&lt;p&gt;Also, any chance I get to plug the greatest StackExchange answer ever, I will: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;stackoverflow.com&amp;#x2F;questions&amp;#x2F;1218390&amp;#x2F;what-is-your-most-productive-shortcut-with-vim&amp;#x2F;1220118#1220118&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;stackoverflow.com&amp;#x2F;questions&amp;#x2F;1218390&amp;#x2F;what-is-your-mos...&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>drbaba</author><text>Not to detract from your general point - I definitely see the value in using an IDE with a Vim plugin, and often do so myself.&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; Vertical scrollbar? Plugin&lt;p&gt;If you want scrollbars, the right solution is IMO to use a GUI Vim. I often use MacVim which is great, GVim is the obvious alternative on Linux&amp;#x2F;Windows, and NeoVim has lots of options (including, arguably, VSCode-NeoVim which is also great).&lt;p&gt;With MacVim, I can pop around randomly in a terminal and open Vim instances that run in the terminal as usual - and if I start editing something for long, I can type :gui to pop up an actual MacVim GUI window. I believe the same works in GVim.&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; * Autocomplete code using lsp? Dance with plugins or copy paste literal screens of configs for nvim&lt;p&gt;I was annoyed by this as well. I then discovered that ALE (the venerable pre-LSP plugin for async linting) now has full LSP support, and it all “just works”. Doesn’t require NeoVim either. Just install the ALE plugin and put LSP servers in $PATH. ALE will find and use them. (By default, it uses standard Vim bindings like C-x C-o for completion, but you can change it.)&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; * Want nice looking theme? Plugin! (Gruvbox in my case)&lt;p&gt;Vim 9.x (not NeoVim) has added a built-in Gruvbox theme named “retrobox” (both light and dark variants based on your background setting). If you don’t have it yet, you can get it as a plugin from here until your Vim updates: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;github.com&amp;#x2F;vim&amp;#x2F;colorschemes&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;github.com&amp;#x2F;vim&amp;#x2F;colorschemes&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; * Wrap long lines by whole words if possible? No default setting, I guess I need to search for plugin for that too.&lt;p&gt;There are built-in settings for this, but yeah it requires some initial fiddling to get it nice. (After that initial fiddling, I’ve been annoyed by how word wrap works in any other editor.)</text></comment>

<story><title>Moving fast with the core Vim motions</title><url>https://www.barbarianmeetscoding.com/boost-your-coding-fu-with-vscode-and-vim/moving-blazingly-fast-with-the-core-vim-motions/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>galkk</author><text>I kind of settled on vim as console editor in Linux but it will never replace good ide for me, and modern ides are getting&amp;#x2F;having vim mode for navigation, making then even more compelling.&lt;p&gt;* Do you want autodetect indent and tab rule in file? Install plugin.&lt;p&gt;* Do you want to automatically insert matching closing parenthesis - rebind keys (half baked solution) or plugin.&lt;p&gt;* Vertical scrollbar? Plugin&lt;p&gt;* Autocomplete code using lsp? Dance with plugins or copy paste literal screens of configs for nvim&lt;p&gt;* Want nice looking theme? Plugin! (Gruvbox in my case)&lt;p&gt;* Install and manage plugins? 3rd party Plugin for that too, with init code that will clone it itself from GitHub&lt;p&gt;* Wrap long lines by whole words if possible? No default setting, I guess I need to search for plugin for that too.&lt;p&gt;List goes on and on, and it is just I’m looking at my vimrc and recalling why I added or another thing. And there are many things which I decided to just to not care about, because it requires too much time to get it work&lt;p&gt;Parent mentioned refactorings, but trust me, no matter what typing&amp;#x2F;navigating speed is, the standard refactorings in modern ides (that I bet cover most of typical refactoring work) will work faster and more correctly than manually doing the same. Even basic things like projectwise method rename or extracting something to parameter.&lt;p&gt;Almost every quality of life improvement that is standard in modern ides require tinkering with vim.</text></item><item><author>auto</author><text>We&amp;#x27;ve got younger guys on my team that hem and haw about the fact that we only have vim on our hardware implementation (SAMA5 busy box), and straight up don&amp;#x27;t understand why I basically can&amp;#x27;t use VSCode without the extension, and this article hits on so many good points. Vim is extremely expressive, and everyone ends up using it in slightly different ways. For me, my movement tends to center around:&lt;p&gt;- &amp;#x27;e&amp;#x27; and &amp;#x27;k&amp;#x27; rapidly, or &amp;#x27;h&amp;#x27; and &amp;#x27;b&amp;#x27; rapidly to move left and right, or using &amp;#x27;f&amp;#x27;&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x27;F&amp;#x27; and a target character, with &amp;#x27;0&amp;#x27; and &amp;#x27;$&amp;#x27; as needed&lt;p&gt;- For vertical movement, I tend to use ctrl+&amp;#x27;d&amp;#x27;&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x27;u&amp;#x27; to move the document up and down in chunks, then specific line numbers, as well as marks (usually at most 2-3, with &amp;#x27;a&amp;#x27;, &amp;#x27;b&amp;#x27;, and &amp;#x27;c&amp;#x27;) to hold on to specific areas, or I just end up remembering line numbers and jumping to them.&lt;p&gt;- Lots of yanking and deleting to specific targets, be it hori or vert&lt;p&gt;There&amp;#x27;s plenty more beyond that, but that really is the &amp;quot;crux&amp;quot; of my vim usage, and from what I&amp;#x27;ve seen watching over the shoulders of many programmers over the years, it makes me &lt;i&gt;way&lt;/i&gt; faster than most. Programming isn&amp;#x27;t about typing speed, but my work is often in doing large refactors in enormous codebases. I need to be able to move around as close to the speed of thought as possible, and I have never found a tool that comes anywhere close to providing that ability as vim.&lt;p&gt;Also, any chance I get to plug the greatest StackExchange answer ever, I will: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;stackoverflow.com&amp;#x2F;questions&amp;#x2F;1218390&amp;#x2F;what-is-your-most-productive-shortcut-with-vim&amp;#x2F;1220118#1220118&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;stackoverflow.com&amp;#x2F;questions&amp;#x2F;1218390&amp;#x2F;what-is-your-mos...&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>wruza</author><text>That’s mostly true, but then one day you want to use an external filter, or a custom set of snippets that doesn’t suck at editing them, or make the next line align correctly after “(“ and there’s no plugin for that in your ide. And, more importantly, it’s a pita to create and publish one. It’s not better or worse, some people like off the shelf availability, some like local fine tuning. Would be nice to have a full union, but ides &lt;i&gt;suck&lt;/i&gt; at local customization that wasn’t trivial or planned in advance.&lt;p&gt;Added: I hate both worlds now. Where’s an editor that is full of modern features and at the same time easily programmable?</text></comment>

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<story><title>Reply of the Zaporozhian Cossacks</title><url>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reply_of_the_Zaporozhian_Cossacks</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>zaporozhets</author><text>*Ukrainian&lt;p&gt;Edit: misread context- kneejerk Ukrainian &amp;gt; Russian correction. Although I’d still want it clear that this is Ukrainian history more than Russian.</text></item><item><author>tptacek</author><text>AskHistorians seems to believe pretty strongly that this letter never happened, which may be obvious to people familiar with the story, but I&amp;#x27;m hearing it for the first time in the context of this HN post. :)&lt;p&gt;A good thread on the history of, uh, stern Russian responses to threats:&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.reddit.com&amp;#x2F;r&amp;#x2F;AskHistorians&amp;#x2F;comments&amp;#x2F;e1qciu&amp;#x2F;in_reply_of_the_zaporozhian_cossacks_how_is&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.reddit.com&amp;#x2F;r&amp;#x2F;AskHistorians&amp;#x2F;comments&amp;#x2F;e1qciu&amp;#x2F;in_re...&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>leosarev</author><text>I don&amp;#x27;t think that&amp;#x27;s &amp;quot;X history more than Y history&amp;quot; a correct way to argue about history :-)&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s definitely a fair to name that Ukrainian history from your perspective. It&amp;#x27;s a also fair to name that Russian history.&lt;p&gt;A lot of people could argue that is specifically Cossack history, because Cossacks could be viewed as separate ethnicity with their own history.&lt;p&gt;Somebody will say that&amp;#x27;s Russian word is correct, because &amp;quot;Russian&amp;quot; is umbrella term for both velikorossy (Great Russians) and malorossy (Ukrainians) :-)&lt;p&gt;But it&amp;#x27;s definitely fair from modern Russian perspective and from modern Ukrainian perspective to claim this history as their own.</text></comment>

<story><title>Reply of the Zaporozhian Cossacks</title><url>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reply_of_the_Zaporozhian_Cossacks</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>zaporozhets</author><text>*Ukrainian&lt;p&gt;Edit: misread context- kneejerk Ukrainian &amp;gt; Russian correction. Although I’d still want it clear that this is Ukrainian history more than Russian.</text></item><item><author>tptacek</author><text>AskHistorians seems to believe pretty strongly that this letter never happened, which may be obvious to people familiar with the story, but I&amp;#x27;m hearing it for the first time in the context of this HN post. :)&lt;p&gt;A good thread on the history of, uh, stern Russian responses to threats:&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.reddit.com&amp;#x2F;r&amp;#x2F;AskHistorians&amp;#x2F;comments&amp;#x2F;e1qciu&amp;#x2F;in_reply_of_the_zaporozhian_cossacks_how_is&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.reddit.com&amp;#x2F;r&amp;#x2F;AskHistorians&amp;#x2F;comments&amp;#x2F;e1qciu&amp;#x2F;in_re...&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>kozak</author><text>Looks like we have perfect nicknames for commenting under this post.</text></comment>

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<story><title>TurboTax’s fight against free tax filing</title><url>https://slate.com/technology/2022/04/turbotax-free-file-online-ftc.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>makecheck</author><text>The upsells on TurboTax are getting a lot more shameless in recent years. I saw the exact same one pop up at least 2-3 times.&lt;p&gt;The one that really aggravated me though was the one at the &lt;i&gt;end&lt;/i&gt;: &lt;i&gt;after&lt;/i&gt; you FILE your taxes, they present this damned progress-bar looking thing as if you are somehow “not done” yet, as if this totally optional product sale is a required step!! No, no, no, that is just misleading garbage, and it is so annoying to have to constantly hunt around the page for the magic text to get around these things. I mean, I couldn’t even reach the page that lets me download my forms as PDF until I skipped this upsell.&lt;p&gt;What’s more, the product itself is getting more expensive but worse. On desktop, the whole thing is just a blown-up mobile UI (are that many people doing taxes on their phones!?) with all kinds of things unnecessarily hidden. On page after page, there is more than enough space to show everything but instead it’s giant white space everywhere; they HIDE things behind disclosure arrows, and with no logic whatsoever; e.g. on one page it shows the 2020 numbers by default but hides all the 2021 numbers behind arrows!?&lt;p&gt;Guess what isn’t an insultingly-small, truncated experience on desktop? The ads, the upsells. THOSE are full-page, taking full advantage of screen space and even scrolling off the edges.&lt;p&gt;Really shows their priorities.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>otikik</author><text>I agree that all those are bad, but the main problem I have with it is that it should be a state-provided (or federal government-provided, I don&amp;#x27;t care) service. If a country wants taxes the minimum it should do is tell its citizens how much each of them owns. Relying on a private company to provide that &amp;quot;for free&amp;quot; (as long as you jump through the hoops) is ... shameful.</text></comment>

<story><title>TurboTax’s fight against free tax filing</title><url>https://slate.com/technology/2022/04/turbotax-free-file-online-ftc.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>makecheck</author><text>The upsells on TurboTax are getting a lot more shameless in recent years. I saw the exact same one pop up at least 2-3 times.&lt;p&gt;The one that really aggravated me though was the one at the &lt;i&gt;end&lt;/i&gt;: &lt;i&gt;after&lt;/i&gt; you FILE your taxes, they present this damned progress-bar looking thing as if you are somehow “not done” yet, as if this totally optional product sale is a required step!! No, no, no, that is just misleading garbage, and it is so annoying to have to constantly hunt around the page for the magic text to get around these things. I mean, I couldn’t even reach the page that lets me download my forms as PDF until I skipped this upsell.&lt;p&gt;What’s more, the product itself is getting more expensive but worse. On desktop, the whole thing is just a blown-up mobile UI (are that many people doing taxes on their phones!?) with all kinds of things unnecessarily hidden. On page after page, there is more than enough space to show everything but instead it’s giant white space everywhere; they HIDE things behind disclosure arrows, and with no logic whatsoever; e.g. on one page it shows the 2020 numbers by default but hides all the 2021 numbers behind arrows!?&lt;p&gt;Guess what isn’t an insultingly-small, truncated experience on desktop? The ads, the upsells. THOSE are full-page, taking full advantage of screen space and even scrolling off the edges.&lt;p&gt;Really shows their priorities.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ozzythecat</author><text>You hit the nail on the head. Actually, we used TurboTax, got annoyed with the constant upsells, and the $80 fee (it was advertised as free), and then my husband redid our taxes using another website (freetaxusa). It was actually free.</text></comment>

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<story><title>FTX&apos;s collapse strands scientists</title><url>https://www.science.org/content/article/crypto-company-s-collapse-strands-scientists</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>skycatcher</author><text>The comments saying the lesson here is that recipients of donations like non-profits and foundations should be vetting their donors better seem unreasonable to me.&lt;p&gt;If FTX investors, customers, and watchers of the crypto space did not catch what FTX and SBF were doing until the shit hit the fan, what kind of due diligence can we reasonably expect of these recipients that would’ve alerted them to something being wrong here?&lt;p&gt;And consider that the number of donors for most institutions would be much larger than the number of companies FTX investors would’ve had to keep an eye on.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>trompetenaccoun</author><text>&amp;quot;Watchers of the cryptospace&amp;quot; had been critical of FTX since its inception out of seemingly nowhere. SBF is not a crypto guy despite being presented as such in the mainstream. He&amp;#x27;s a trader and even in trading he&amp;#x27;s only been in cryptocurrencies five years or so, prior to that is was trading more traditional assets like ETFs.&lt;p&gt;I agree with you regarding regular people having no clue and no way to vet donors but keep in mind most folks on HN are part of this. The public knows what they get from news pieces they read, written by journalists who also don&amp;#x27;t have a clue. SBF was treated as the king of crypto by the mainstream for whatever reason. Talked to a lot of politicians too and spoke out in favor of regulation. Probably tried to sacrifice what he didn&amp;#x27;t care about anyway (actually decentralized chains) in order to present himself has a crypto person regulators can work with, all while committing fraud. Gary Gensler is supposed to have had private meetings with him several times. Curious how the agency who&amp;#x27;s supposed to regulate these exchanges never actually does and is even completely oblivious to multi billion dollar theft until the whole thing implodes. Meanwhile parties accept huge donations from Bankman-Fried and the SEC goes after smaller crypto projects that aren&amp;#x27;t even certain to be their jurisdiction.</text></comment>

<story><title>FTX&apos;s collapse strands scientists</title><url>https://www.science.org/content/article/crypto-company-s-collapse-strands-scientists</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>skycatcher</author><text>The comments saying the lesson here is that recipients of donations like non-profits and foundations should be vetting their donors better seem unreasonable to me.&lt;p&gt;If FTX investors, customers, and watchers of the crypto space did not catch what FTX and SBF were doing until the shit hit the fan, what kind of due diligence can we reasonably expect of these recipients that would’ve alerted them to something being wrong here?&lt;p&gt;And consider that the number of donors for most institutions would be much larger than the number of companies FTX investors would’ve had to keep an eye on.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>zone411</author><text>Very unreasonable. Large firms like Sequoia, Blackrock, Softbank invested and sports teams like Miami Heat or Mercedes F1 actually advertised them.</text></comment>

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<story><title>How can I tell if a plant given to me is patented?</title><url>http://gardening.stackexchange.com/questions/3808/how-can-i-tell-if-a-plant-given-to-me-is-patented</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tptacek</author><text>For what it&apos;s worth:&lt;p&gt;When people think about plant patents, they&apos;re usually thinking of the Monsanto suits. I don&apos;t know that there aren&apos;t crazy patent trolls out there suing gardeners, but as far as Monsanto is concerned, I don&apos;t think gardeners have much to worry about.&lt;p&gt;If you read the Monsanto suits that have been published, the behavior Monsanto pursues is planting unlicensed Roundup-Ready seeds and then spraying them with glyphosphate-based (&quot;Roundup&quot;) herbicides. You can spray Roundup without a patent license. You can probably plant RR crops without a license. But if you do both (commercially, at least), Monsanto sues.&lt;p&gt;The point of RR seeds is that they resist Roundup, which is a broad-spectrum herbicide that will kill non-RR crops. In the commercial suits, it becomes tricky to argue that you planted RR crops unwittingly when you are later shown to have sprayed them with an herbicide that would have certainly ruined your harvest but for inbred RR resistance.&lt;p&gt;The patent they have on the whole RR system may be totally invalid; I&apos;m hoping to have the presence of mind not to end up litigating that point. I&apos;m just saying, the likelihood of accidentally become a lawsuit target appears like it might be overblown in some ways.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>nkurz</author><text>&lt;i&gt;When people think about plant patents, they&apos;re usually thinking of the Monsanto suits.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;Most people might, but those posting patent questions to a gardening forum are a special breed. The patent question comes up often for those interested in propagating fruit trees. Groups that exchange varieties of plants and desire to obey the law often have complicated self-policing policies. For example, here are guidelines for a local chapter of the California Rare Fruit Growers association: &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.crfg-redwood.org/patented-fruits-list-2013.pdf&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.crfg-redwood.org/patented-fruits-list-2013.pdf&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;i&gt;I&apos;m just saying, the likelihood of accidentally become a lawsuit target appears like it might be overblown in some ways.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;Perhaps, but for many the question of risk is distinct from the question of legality. The questioner wasn&apos;t asking whether he was likely to be caught, but how to determine ahead of time if one is behaving legally. It&apos;s not clear if this is even possible. Does intent matter? One of the major breeders of new fruit varieties in the US asserts that it does not:&lt;p&gt;&quot;Asexual propagation of patented plants (including any of its parts such as leaves, buds, cuttings, seed, fruit or pollen) is strictly prohibited without the written authorization of the patent holder or the patent holder’s agent. Possession of improperly propagated trees of patented varieties (such as the receipt of trees, budwood or graftwood from unauthorized sources) constitutes infringement, even if an illegal propagation was inadvertent.&quot;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.dwnbeta.com/plant-patents-and-trademarks&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.dwnbeta.com/plant-patents-and-trademarks&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>

<story><title>How can I tell if a plant given to me is patented?</title><url>http://gardening.stackexchange.com/questions/3808/how-can-i-tell-if-a-plant-given-to-me-is-patented</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tptacek</author><text>For what it&apos;s worth:&lt;p&gt;When people think about plant patents, they&apos;re usually thinking of the Monsanto suits. I don&apos;t know that there aren&apos;t crazy patent trolls out there suing gardeners, but as far as Monsanto is concerned, I don&apos;t think gardeners have much to worry about.&lt;p&gt;If you read the Monsanto suits that have been published, the behavior Monsanto pursues is planting unlicensed Roundup-Ready seeds and then spraying them with glyphosphate-based (&quot;Roundup&quot;) herbicides. You can spray Roundup without a patent license. You can probably plant RR crops without a license. But if you do both (commercially, at least), Monsanto sues.&lt;p&gt;The point of RR seeds is that they resist Roundup, which is a broad-spectrum herbicide that will kill non-RR crops. In the commercial suits, it becomes tricky to argue that you planted RR crops unwittingly when you are later shown to have sprayed them with an herbicide that would have certainly ruined your harvest but for inbred RR resistance.&lt;p&gt;The patent they have on the whole RR system may be totally invalid; I&apos;m hoping to have the presence of mind not to end up litigating that point. I&apos;m just saying, the likelihood of accidentally become a lawsuit target appears like it might be overblown in some ways.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>bediger4000</author><text>I agree that people &lt;i&gt;usually&lt;/i&gt; think of Monsanto suits in conjunction with plant patents, but the point that the article raises is valid. How can one tell? If you can tell, don&apos;t we &lt;i&gt;all&lt;/i&gt; owe money to the heirs of whoever invented corn, and whoever invented wheat? After all, copying is theft...</text></comment>

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<story><title>Relocating from San Francisco to Seattle: cost comparison</title><url>http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=relocating+from+san+francisco+to+seattle+with+a+salary+of+$120000</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>dylanz</author><text>Weather.&lt;p&gt;I&apos;m a Californian who grew up in a &quot;sunny&quot; California city, and I&apos;ve been living in Seattle for the last year. I&apos;ve also spent a lot of time in San Francisco in my lifetime.&lt;p&gt;I, miss, the, sun. Every time I go back to California and visit family/friends, I start to realize how depressed I am up in the Pacific North West. I&apos;ve had more that one person recommend that I take Vitamin D supplements, which is supposed to make me feel better.&lt;p&gt;The moral of my own personal story is... I&apos;m moving back to California. I need sun. I&apos;ll pay a premium for the mental health of myself and my children.&lt;p&gt;How many days of sun are there in San Francisco compared to Seattle? If you had to live in a place with awesome tech scenes but with no sun, you might as well choose Seattle... it&apos;s cheaper.</text></comment>

<story><title>Relocating from San Francisco to Seattle: cost comparison</title><url>http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=relocating+from+san+francisco+to+seattle+with+a+salary+of+$120000</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>portlandFan12</author><text>I&apos;d like to put in a good word for Portland (no sales tax, great food):&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://m.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=relocating+from+san+francisco+to+portland+with+a+salary+of+$120000&amp;#38;x=0&amp;#38;y=0&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://m.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=relocating+from+san+franc...&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>

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<story><title>How the Textsecure Protocol Works</title><url>http://www.alexkyte.me/2016/10/how-textsecure-protocol-signal-whatsapp.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>sdrapkin</author><text>An important part of the Signal Protocol is Triple-DH. I did not find a good illustration of how it works, so I made one: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;twitter.com&amp;#x2F;sdrapkin&amp;#x2F;status&amp;#x2F;738419956371628033&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;twitter.com&amp;#x2F;sdrapkin&amp;#x2F;status&amp;#x2F;738419956371628033&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>

<story><title>How the Textsecure Protocol Works</title><url>http://www.alexkyte.me/2016/10/how-textsecure-protocol-signal-whatsapp.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>jlgaddis</author><text>Is there any information available (or has there been any analysis done) on the quality of any random number generators in use on mobile phones, especially Android and iOS?</text></comment>

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<story><title>MS Paint is here to stay</title><url>https://blogs.windows.com/windowsexperience/2017/07/24/ms-paint-stay/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>OkGoDoIt</author><text>Additionally you can&amp;#x27;t download apps off the windows store unless you sign up for &amp;#x2F;into a Microsoft account, which is a much bigger pain than simply downloading the first app you find searching on Google. Also my corporate windows 10 laptop has the entire window store and modern app infrastructure disabled, meaning I would not be able to access MS Paint.</text></item><item><author>opdahl</author><text>What is, and has been great about MS Paint is that no matter what Windows machine I have been on, I know that I have had it available. No matter if it&amp;#x27;s my old grandma&amp;#x27;s computer, if I have needed to quickly do something simple with an image, MS Paint has always been there for me. Now that will no longer be the case. If I have to download and install it on the computer before I use it, then what is the point? It will be faster to just google &amp;quot;MS paint online free&amp;quot; and click the first link.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>taspeotis</author><text>I have downloaded free apps from the Windows Store without an account twice in the past month.&lt;p&gt;These are both &amp;quot;desktop bridge&amp;quot; applications and not UWP apps so perhaps that is the difference. They were both free.&lt;p&gt;I was preparing to sign in after clicking &amp;quot;Get&amp;quot; but ... it just worked.</text></comment>

<story><title>MS Paint is here to stay</title><url>https://blogs.windows.com/windowsexperience/2017/07/24/ms-paint-stay/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>OkGoDoIt</author><text>Additionally you can&amp;#x27;t download apps off the windows store unless you sign up for &amp;#x2F;into a Microsoft account, which is a much bigger pain than simply downloading the first app you find searching on Google. Also my corporate windows 10 laptop has the entire window store and modern app infrastructure disabled, meaning I would not be able to access MS Paint.</text></item><item><author>opdahl</author><text>What is, and has been great about MS Paint is that no matter what Windows machine I have been on, I know that I have had it available. No matter if it&amp;#x27;s my old grandma&amp;#x27;s computer, if I have needed to quickly do something simple with an image, MS Paint has always been there for me. Now that will no longer be the case. If I have to download and install it on the computer before I use it, then what is the point? It will be faster to just google &amp;quot;MS paint online free&amp;quot; and click the first link.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>skrebbel</author><text>&amp;gt; &lt;i&gt;Also my corporate windows 10 laptop has the entire window store and modern app infrastructure disabled&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;Wow that&amp;#x27;s... What?&lt;p&gt;For all its warts, the Windows Store is a secure app delivery platform. Doesn&amp;#x27;t disabling it merely encourage downloading zipped executables from sleazy unencrypted websites?</text></comment>

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<story><title>Show HN: Detect upsampling in images</title><url>https://github.com/0x09/resdet</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>stevetjoa</author><text>For anyone interested in this area, the IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security (TIFS) [1] is full of papers on the so-called area of &lt;i&gt;image forensics&lt;/i&gt; -- the identification of processing that has been performed upon an image, including resampling, rotation, JPEG compression, block processing, and more.&lt;p&gt;Consequently, another hot research area is &lt;i&gt;image anti-forensics&lt;/i&gt; -- the obfuscation of such operations to avoid detection. (Shameless self-promotion: one example paper on anti-forensics of JPEG compression can be found here [2].)&lt;p&gt;[1] &lt;a href=&quot;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.signalprocessingsociety.org&amp;#x2F;publications&amp;#x2F;periodicals&amp;#x2F;forensics&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.signalprocessingsociety.org&amp;#x2F;publications&amp;#x2F;periodic...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;[2] &lt;a href=&quot;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.mirlab.org&amp;#x2F;conference_papers&amp;#x2F;International_Conference&amp;#x2F;ICASSP%202010&amp;#x2F;pdfs&amp;#x2F;0001694.pdf&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.mirlab.org&amp;#x2F;conference_papers&amp;#x2F;International_Confer...&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>

<story><title>Show HN: Detect upsampling in images</title><url>https://github.com/0x09/resdet</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>mozumder</author><text>You can detect downsampling by looking at chroma frequencies. Bayer pattern color filters on cameras mean that color resolution is never going to be as high as pixel resolution (assuming 1:1 mapping of pixels to sensor pixels) and if you see chroma frequencies that are higher than 2x pixel densities, then you have some downsampling going on.</text></comment>

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<story><title>Riemann, a distributed systems monitor (built in Clojure)</title><url>http://aphyr.github.com/riemann/</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>snowwindwaves</author><text>i&apos;ve been using mango &lt;a href=&quot;http://mango.serotoninsoftware.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://mango.serotoninsoftware.com&lt;/a&gt; since 2006 to monitor control systems, mostly for small hydro power plants but also communications networks, smart homes, solar arrays, etc. Unfortunately development on the freely available source has stopped so I no longer get a better product every year.&lt;p&gt;Bigger projects i&apos;ve used either citect or wonderware, both of which get the job done but show their age and are at times painful to use, although not as horrible as many of the other legacy control system HMI software out there.&lt;p&gt;Mostly data is collected by polling modbus slaves, although OPC would be another important protocol to support.&lt;p&gt;It seems like wonderare or citect is ready to be replaced by a distributed system that uses the web browser as the display client. systems monitoring software such as nagios, openNMS, cacti overlaps with the control system HMI software arena as both&lt;p&gt;1. display real time data, preferably with some context (eg gauges to indicate how close to maximum or minimum limit, alarm or shutdown thresholds the variable is) and sometimes overlayed on a diagram to assist in visualizing or understanding the process&lt;p&gt;2. &quot;trend&quot; (log and plot) historical data for analysis and reporting purposes. Better yet would be interactive plotting (zoom etc).&lt;p&gt;I&apos;ve been wondering about graphite (which riemann can use) as part of the solution, and people seem to be producing great plots with d3.js. As an aside I&apos;ve used kst and veusz for desktop interactive plotting with success.&lt;p&gt;In summary: if riemann supported the modbus protocol it could be useful for control systems.</text></comment>

<story><title>Riemann, a distributed systems monitor (built in Clojure)</title><url>http://aphyr.github.com/riemann/</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>aphyr</author><text>Thanks for your interest everyone. I&apos;ll try to answer any questions here. Going through some rough health stuff at the moment so I won&apos;t be on IRC, but I do read the backlog and will respond when I get a chance. Cheers! :)</text></comment>

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<story><title>Mothers who regret having children are speaking out</title><url>http://www.macleans.ca/regretful-mothers/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dominotw</author><text>I live an puerto rican neighboorhood in chicago. People live here in combined family structure with many generations living in the same building. I&amp;#x27;ve become acquaintances with many of them and i&amp;#x27;ve noticed that parenthood is much less of a burden for them since they have extended family to support them. Not just a matter of practical convenience but the immense moral and pshyclogical support you get from living next to your parents, cousins is immeasurable. I always see kids playing outside and everyone keeps an eye on them, you are not dealing with your kids 24x7 nonstop.&lt;p&gt;I am convinced that if you are going to reproduce this is the way to do it. Even though I make significantly more money than them I am jealous of their lifestyle :D . These parents take vacations without their kids, which I know many of valley friends think is impossible.</text></item><item><author>throwaway2016a</author><text>If given the choice I would choose to have my daughter again I would. But even so I can definitely empathize with many of the people in this article.&lt;p&gt;My wife and i have always been very open communicators. After having a kid when people would ask us if we are enjoying parenthood we&amp;#x27;ve always answered honest.&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;It&amp;#x27;s the most work we have ever done in our life&amp;quot; (and I build startups!)... &amp;quot;We got no sleep last night, she woke up at 2 AM and wouldn&amp;#x27;t go back to bed.&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;And it is amazing to me the backlash we got. People who plan to have children were telling us &amp;quot;all I ever here is the bad stuff!&amp;quot; and essentially saying we should lie and say everything is perfect.&lt;p&gt;The fact is, having a child is the biggest life commitment you will ever make and if you and your significant other are not prepared, you&amp;#x27;re in for a bad time.&lt;p&gt;But at the same time I think this whole &amp;quot;you&amp;#x27;re not allowed to say anything bad about parenthood&amp;quot; is unhealthy.&lt;p&gt;This article talks about people who are willing to speak their truth about parenthood and I think overall that is a good thing.&lt;p&gt;Edit: If more people talked honestly about he burden of parenthood we&amp;#x27;d maybe have less unwanted kids. We as a species are well past the point where we have to have 10 kids just to ensure the bloodline continues. Be honest with people about how difficult being a parent is. Some people like my wife and I will choose to do it anyway knowing exactly what we are getting into and other&amp;#x27;s won&amp;#x27;t. And that&amp;#x27;s OK.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>brightball</author><text>This is honestly one of the biggest factors that we did not fully appreciate.&lt;p&gt;Moving away from home and having kids away from your family is a much bigger task than having kids in your hometown where all of your family lives. I get that it&amp;#x27;s normal mode of operation for a lot of people to move all over the country for jobs, but IMO that is where the biggest struggle comes from.&lt;p&gt;You take for granted being able to call a grandparent to pick the kids up from school if you&amp;#x27;re working late, to come over for a bit when you need to do something during an evening, to drop the kids off if you need to run an errand or even keep them overnight if you have to go out of town for work. That&amp;#x27;s before even figuring in extra-curricular activities and trying to get each child where they need to be.&lt;p&gt;My in-laws moved closer to us last year and it has been life changing for my wife and I who both work.</text></comment>

<story><title>Mothers who regret having children are speaking out</title><url>http://www.macleans.ca/regretful-mothers/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dominotw</author><text>I live an puerto rican neighboorhood in chicago. People live here in combined family structure with many generations living in the same building. I&amp;#x27;ve become acquaintances with many of them and i&amp;#x27;ve noticed that parenthood is much less of a burden for them since they have extended family to support them. Not just a matter of practical convenience but the immense moral and pshyclogical support you get from living next to your parents, cousins is immeasurable. I always see kids playing outside and everyone keeps an eye on them, you are not dealing with your kids 24x7 nonstop.&lt;p&gt;I am convinced that if you are going to reproduce this is the way to do it. Even though I make significantly more money than them I am jealous of their lifestyle :D . These parents take vacations without their kids, which I know many of valley friends think is impossible.</text></item><item><author>throwaway2016a</author><text>If given the choice I would choose to have my daughter again I would. But even so I can definitely empathize with many of the people in this article.&lt;p&gt;My wife and i have always been very open communicators. After having a kid when people would ask us if we are enjoying parenthood we&amp;#x27;ve always answered honest.&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;It&amp;#x27;s the most work we have ever done in our life&amp;quot; (and I build startups!)... &amp;quot;We got no sleep last night, she woke up at 2 AM and wouldn&amp;#x27;t go back to bed.&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;And it is amazing to me the backlash we got. People who plan to have children were telling us &amp;quot;all I ever here is the bad stuff!&amp;quot; and essentially saying we should lie and say everything is perfect.&lt;p&gt;The fact is, having a child is the biggest life commitment you will ever make and if you and your significant other are not prepared, you&amp;#x27;re in for a bad time.&lt;p&gt;But at the same time I think this whole &amp;quot;you&amp;#x27;re not allowed to say anything bad about parenthood&amp;quot; is unhealthy.&lt;p&gt;This article talks about people who are willing to speak their truth about parenthood and I think overall that is a good thing.&lt;p&gt;Edit: If more people talked honestly about he burden of parenthood we&amp;#x27;d maybe have less unwanted kids. We as a species are well past the point where we have to have 10 kids just to ensure the bloodline continues. Be honest with people about how difficult being a parent is. Some people like my wife and I will choose to do it anyway knowing exactly what we are getting into and other&amp;#x27;s won&amp;#x27;t. And that&amp;#x27;s OK.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>eumenides1</author><text>I have extended family helping me. I&amp;#x27;m beyond grateful for it. I&amp;#x27;d die without them. But there is a something you don&amp;#x27;t see. There is a lot of inter-family politics going on. For some people, it&amp;#x27;s no big deal. For others, it is a real drag. Personally, I&amp;#x27;m a no big deal person, but i empathize with people who don&amp;#x27;t like it. To some Americans, it&amp;#x27;s like a never ending thanksgiving dinner.&lt;p&gt;The prime example would be how you raise your kids. Alone, you the most influence, in a family, you have a little less. For some that is OK, for others it&amp;#x27;s red flags.&lt;p&gt;Just wanted to open your eyes to what you may not be seeing.</text></comment>

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<story><title>Visible signs left after Google Fiber abandons Louisville</title><url>https://gizmodo.com/when-google-fiber-abandons-your-city-as-a-failed-experi-1833244198</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ilovecaching</author><text>Let’s not forget that the real issue here is that American ISPs are a complete monopoly by Comcast and AT&amp;amp;T, companies made of pure greed. Small end sub ISPs have to claw for every strand of dark fiber. Google really shouldn’t be the answer though. We need to demand that politicians address the issue in the upcoming election before they start looking at the Silicon Valley giants.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>colechristensen</author><text>The best ISP in the country is in Minneapolis. $70&amp;#x2F;mo for symmetric 1 Gbps&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;fiber.usinternet.com&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;fiber.usinternet.com&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;They lay their own fiber terminating at your home and have been steadily covering the metro area.</text></comment>

<story><title>Visible signs left after Google Fiber abandons Louisville</title><url>https://gizmodo.com/when-google-fiber-abandons-your-city-as-a-failed-experi-1833244198</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ilovecaching</author><text>Let’s not forget that the real issue here is that American ISPs are a complete monopoly by Comcast and AT&amp;amp;T, companies made of pure greed. Small end sub ISPs have to claw for every strand of dark fiber. Google really shouldn’t be the answer though. We need to demand that politicians address the issue in the upcoming election before they start looking at the Silicon Valley giants.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>vonmoltke</author><text>&amp;gt; Let’s not forget that the real issue here is that American ISPs are a complete monopoly by Comcast and AT&amp;amp;T&lt;p&gt;It doesn&amp;#x27;t change much, but you left out Verizon and Spectrum.</text></comment>

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<story><title>Two Indian engineers at Garmin in Kansas shot, one killed</title><url>http://www.kansascity.com/news/local/crime/article134508139.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>geodel</author><text>It is indeed a terrible loss. But what I don&amp;#x27;t understand is:&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; His bereaved wife and his family are trying to raise money to send his body back to India for his funeral&lt;p&gt;Is it a common thing to raise money as in community support etc or despite being engineers and all people just do not save money for their emergency needs.&lt;p&gt;Edit: Sorry about this question. Now I think it is rather tactless question, asked on this unfortunate occasion.</text></item><item><author>linuxkerneldev</author><text>&amp;quot;Srinivas Kuchibhotla, died of his injuries in a Kansas City hospital. He is said to have left behind a wife who is five months pregnant. ... His bereaved wife and his family are trying to raise money to send his body back to India for his funeral. &amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;m terribly ashamed of the state of our shining city upon on a hill.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>lukeschlather</author><text>Even assuming his wife was also working, it&amp;#x27;s a good bet she has plenty of bills to pay, and dipping into savings for funeral expenses when you just lost half your household income is not something I would ever suggest anyone do.</text></comment>

<story><title>Two Indian engineers at Garmin in Kansas shot, one killed</title><url>http://www.kansascity.com/news/local/crime/article134508139.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>geodel</author><text>It is indeed a terrible loss. But what I don&amp;#x27;t understand is:&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; His bereaved wife and his family are trying to raise money to send his body back to India for his funeral&lt;p&gt;Is it a common thing to raise money as in community support etc or despite being engineers and all people just do not save money for their emergency needs.&lt;p&gt;Edit: Sorry about this question. Now I think it is rather tactless question, asked on this unfortunate occasion.</text></item><item><author>linuxkerneldev</author><text>&amp;quot;Srinivas Kuchibhotla, died of his injuries in a Kansas City hospital. He is said to have left behind a wife who is five months pregnant. ... His bereaved wife and his family are trying to raise money to send his body back to India for his funeral. &amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;m terribly ashamed of the state of our shining city upon on a hill.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>erik998</author><text>The costs of a funeral, transportation, and legal work can be excessive. Additionally, no one plans to be shot at a young age. I am sure they would rather spend their savings on their children&amp;#x2F;healthcare&amp;#x2F;rent now that there is no one providing for their household. Just because he was an engineer does not mean he was paid 10x everyone else.</text></comment>

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<story><title>Boeing cuts flight training pilots, will outsource jobs overseas</title><url>https://www.thestand.org/2020/09/boeing-cuts-flight-training-pilots-will-outsource-jobs-overseas/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>ivraatiems</author><text>This may not be completely accurate. According to [1], these pilots were part of a redundant program not related to the 737 MAX.&lt;p&gt;Doesn&amp;#x27;t make this a great move, I still question it, but the original article didn&amp;#x27;t include any response from Boeing, and they are claiming something quite different.&lt;p&gt;[1] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.ainonline.com&amp;#x2F;aviation-news&amp;#x2F;air-transport&amp;#x2F;2020-09-22&amp;#x2F;boeing-engineers-union-clash-over-pilot-layoffs&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.ainonline.com&amp;#x2F;aviation-news&amp;#x2F;air-transport&amp;#x2F;2020-0...&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>

<story><title>Boeing cuts flight training pilots, will outsource jobs overseas</title><url>https://www.thestand.org/2020/09/boeing-cuts-flight-training-pilots-will-outsource-jobs-overseas/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>FartyMcFarter</author><text>Is the 737 MAX actually needed by anyone?&lt;p&gt;With travel restrictions, people afraid of catching covid, economy crashing, and plenty of good competitor planes with better reputation, why would airlines need (or want) to buy these planes?</text></comment>

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<story><title>“Return to Monkey Island” is out today</title><url>https://returntomonkeyisland.com/?abc</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mancerayder</author><text>I can&amp;#x27;t wait to get home to play it.&lt;p&gt;Secret of Monkey Island 2 was my first PC game on a 486SX and VGA monitor. The sound came out of the PC speakers... One day I got an Adlib card and was blown away. Go ahead and download the remake on steam and notice something that kind of doesn&amp;#x27;t exist in any game (that I know): when you enter the scene on Scabb Island, the relaxed reggae beat changes ever so subtly depending on the bridge, the carpenter shop, the mapmaker, the bar, etc.&lt;p&gt;For example, you enter the mapmaker and the Wally music comes on, which is the same reggae bagdrop to a clarinet or oboe, the music is a little deeper in the carpenter shop, there&amp;#x27;s an evil background tone when Largo LaGrande shows up and a more subtle one in the hotel, etc.&lt;p&gt;With gorgeous hand painted digitized art.&lt;p&gt;They don&amp;#x27;t make games like that anymore. Can&amp;#x27;t wait to see if they actually did.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>lelandfe</author><text>&amp;gt; the relaxed reggae beat changes ever so subtly depending on the bridge, the carpenter shop, the mapmaker, the bar, etc&lt;p&gt;That is cool! They don&amp;#x27;t receive a ton of attention, but other games do get into some fun stuff with music too. One such game is NieR: Automata. They built a pretty remarkable tone filter that seamlessly turns the playing music into an 8-bit equivalent via digital processing when the player starts hacking: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.platinumgames.com&amp;#x2F;official-blog&amp;#x2F;article&amp;#x2F;9581&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.platinumgames.com&amp;#x2F;official-blog&amp;#x2F;article&amp;#x2F;9581&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;A more common thing you&amp;#x27;ll see are games that have dynamic battle music, which will add or remove elements from the soundtrack as the player encounters combat, encounters a boss, or leaves combat.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;m not aware of other games that have nice little leitmotifs for so many scenes, though. That&amp;#x27;s great.</text></comment>

<story><title>“Return to Monkey Island” is out today</title><url>https://returntomonkeyisland.com/?abc</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mancerayder</author><text>I can&amp;#x27;t wait to get home to play it.&lt;p&gt;Secret of Monkey Island 2 was my first PC game on a 486SX and VGA monitor. The sound came out of the PC speakers... One day I got an Adlib card and was blown away. Go ahead and download the remake on steam and notice something that kind of doesn&amp;#x27;t exist in any game (that I know): when you enter the scene on Scabb Island, the relaxed reggae beat changes ever so subtly depending on the bridge, the carpenter shop, the mapmaker, the bar, etc.&lt;p&gt;For example, you enter the mapmaker and the Wally music comes on, which is the same reggae bagdrop to a clarinet or oboe, the music is a little deeper in the carpenter shop, there&amp;#x27;s an evil background tone when Largo LaGrande shows up and a more subtle one in the hotel, etc.&lt;p&gt;With gorgeous hand painted digitized art.&lt;p&gt;They don&amp;#x27;t make games like that anymore. Can&amp;#x27;t wait to see if they actually did.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Braini</author><text>Yes, iMUSE (Interactive Music Streaming Engine) as they called it was genius, not sure whether something like this does still exist these days.</text></comment>

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<story><title>Intel outsources Core i3 to TSMC&apos;s 5nm process</title><url>https://www.eenewseurope.com/news/intel-TSMC-5nm</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jcstryker</author><text>Feels like we are quickly centralizing consumer chip fabrication into a single company. I guess the barrier for entry is so high and TSMC is just so far ahead.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>kllrnohj</author><text>TSMC only just pulled out in front. Rewind the clock a mere 5 years and Intel was in front, with Samsung and GlobalFoundries basically tied for 2nd, and TSMC in dead last (they had the weakest 16nm&amp;#x2F;12nm of that generation - the only one who couldn&amp;#x27;t hit 30MTr&amp;#x2F;mm2 of the bunch)&lt;p&gt;GloFlo then backed out entirely of the race and Intel slammed into a wall.&lt;p&gt;Since then Samsung and TSMC were on &amp;quot;equal&amp;quot; ground at &amp;quot;10nm&amp;quot; (both ~52MTr&amp;#x2F;mm2, both released 2017) and again at &amp;quot;7nm&amp;quot; (both ~96MTr&amp;#x2F;mm2). It&amp;#x27;s not until 5nm that TSMC was actually clearly in-front of everyone else, with their 5nm being 173MTr&amp;#x2F;mm2 while Samsung&amp;#x27;s is only 127MTr&amp;#x2F;mm2.&lt;p&gt;In terms of &amp;quot;TSMC is just so far ahead.&amp;quot; Samsung&amp;#x27;s 3nm is supposed to use GAAFET while TSMC&amp;#x27;s 3nm will still be FinFET. So.. potentially Samsung re-claims the &amp;quot;crown&amp;quot; so to speak at 3nm. And Samsung does contract out their fabs - see Nvidia&amp;#x27;s RTX 3000 series. There&amp;#x27;s also no particular reason to believe that Intel is down for the count for good. They are a huge company with a huge amount of capital, they can fund a rough generation or two.</text></comment>

<story><title>Intel outsources Core i3 to TSMC&apos;s 5nm process</title><url>https://www.eenewseurope.com/news/intel-TSMC-5nm</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jcstryker</author><text>Feels like we are quickly centralizing consumer chip fabrication into a single company. I guess the barrier for entry is so high and TSMC is just so far ahead.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>bob1029</author><text>99% of the barrier is feature size. Producing the feature size starts with photolithography.&lt;p&gt;If you want to talk about centralizing concerns, look into the number of companies who can produce an EUV light source capable of supplying a photo tool with powerful &amp;amp; precise output 24&amp;#x2F;7&amp;#x2F;365.</text></comment>

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<story><title>Fat-fueled brain: unnatural or advantageous?</title><url>http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/mind-guest-blog/the-fat-fueled-brain-unnatural-or-advantageous/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jules</author><text>What is the logic behind putting butter in your coffee? If your goal is to lose weight, wouldn&amp;#x27;t not eating that butter still be better than eating it?</text></item><item><author>lopatin</author><text>I also lost a bunch of weight on keto after several failed attempts at simply cutting calories. 235 lbs to about 185 and it all happened pretty rapidly (about half a year) considering I barely exercised. Lots of salads, chicken breasts, eggs &amp;amp; bacon, lettuce wraps, and quest bars. Regular coffee though, never was a fan of throwing butter in there. I mean I did do light cardio on and off, but I think it was mostly the diet that did it for me. Tried to stay under 20 daily grams of carbs.</text></item><item><author>rotwoof</author><text>I&amp;#x27;ve been doing Keto since Feb 25 2016. My primary goal when switching over was weight loss, which turned out to be easy. I&amp;#x27;m 25, male and was experiencing growing health complications related to obesity. I&amp;#x27;ve lost well over 60 lbs since making the switch despite the fact that I maintain a primarily sedentary lifestyle though I now work out weekly as well as take bi-daily walks.&lt;p&gt;There are downsides though. It&amp;#x27;s not cheap, it&amp;#x27;s restrictive and it requires you to build a fairly sizeable knowledge base in order to successfully maintain the diet and your own health. For instance your body consumes more water in order to burn fat stores which leads to the body burning through electrolytes more rapidly. It is very common to supplement electrolytes every day. It is common to drink broth while on Keto in order to cover the daily salt intake requirements of Keto, ~5000-7000mg every day on top of normal dietary salt intake. Failure to cover the daily electrolyte requirement will lead to muscle cramps and more severe symptoms brought on by electrolyte deficiency in the body. Prior to supplementing magnesium I experienced leg cramps and quickly realized what was going on.&lt;p&gt;However there are significant health benefits. Weight loss, improved mental clarity and better energy levels throughout the day, as well as less need for frequent meals are positive effects that a lot of people experience on Keto. It is also a useful tool for reversing lifestyle diseases such as diabetes type 2 and pre-diabetes.&lt;p&gt;When it comes to the stuff you &amp;quot;have to give up&amp;quot; while on Keto it&amp;#x27;s mostly a case of strict moderation rather than completely cutting things out. The things you do try to cut out though like bread, sugar, potatoes, pasta, corn-syrup etc have good alternatives available in most grocery stores. You can bake bread out of almond flour, make pasta out of almond flour (or have someone make it for you), replace potatoes with sweet potatoes and so on.&lt;p&gt;If you&amp;#x27;re thinking that keto sounds like it&amp;#x27;s too much hassle please leave me a reply and I&amp;#x27;ll gladly talk about whatever you&amp;#x27;re unsure about.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>PKop</author><text>You&amp;#x27;re stuck in the mindset that fat makes you &amp;quot;fat&amp;quot;. This is the whole point of ketosis, and a rethinking of wrong dietary guidelines that have persisted for decades.&lt;p&gt;The butter in the coffee supplies fat for fuel &amp;#x2F; energy, suppresses appetite, and does not contribute to weight gain or more specifically an increase in adipose fat tissue.&lt;p&gt;Simply cutting all calories is futile. Your body needs energy to sustain itself. The point of keto diet is replacing carbs with a significant increase in fat (~70% give or take) as a percentage of calories consumed.&lt;p&gt;But it is crucial to &lt;i&gt;actually consume a lot of fat&lt;/i&gt;, not just try to cut overall calories.</text></comment>

<story><title>Fat-fueled brain: unnatural or advantageous?</title><url>http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/mind-guest-blog/the-fat-fueled-brain-unnatural-or-advantageous/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jules</author><text>What is the logic behind putting butter in your coffee? If your goal is to lose weight, wouldn&amp;#x27;t not eating that butter still be better than eating it?</text></item><item><author>lopatin</author><text>I also lost a bunch of weight on keto after several failed attempts at simply cutting calories. 235 lbs to about 185 and it all happened pretty rapidly (about half a year) considering I barely exercised. Lots of salads, chicken breasts, eggs &amp;amp; bacon, lettuce wraps, and quest bars. Regular coffee though, never was a fan of throwing butter in there. I mean I did do light cardio on and off, but I think it was mostly the diet that did it for me. Tried to stay under 20 daily grams of carbs.</text></item><item><author>rotwoof</author><text>I&amp;#x27;ve been doing Keto since Feb 25 2016. My primary goal when switching over was weight loss, which turned out to be easy. I&amp;#x27;m 25, male and was experiencing growing health complications related to obesity. I&amp;#x27;ve lost well over 60 lbs since making the switch despite the fact that I maintain a primarily sedentary lifestyle though I now work out weekly as well as take bi-daily walks.&lt;p&gt;There are downsides though. It&amp;#x27;s not cheap, it&amp;#x27;s restrictive and it requires you to build a fairly sizeable knowledge base in order to successfully maintain the diet and your own health. For instance your body consumes more water in order to burn fat stores which leads to the body burning through electrolytes more rapidly. It is very common to supplement electrolytes every day. It is common to drink broth while on Keto in order to cover the daily salt intake requirements of Keto, ~5000-7000mg every day on top of normal dietary salt intake. Failure to cover the daily electrolyte requirement will lead to muscle cramps and more severe symptoms brought on by electrolyte deficiency in the body. Prior to supplementing magnesium I experienced leg cramps and quickly realized what was going on.&lt;p&gt;However there are significant health benefits. Weight loss, improved mental clarity and better energy levels throughout the day, as well as less need for frequent meals are positive effects that a lot of people experience on Keto. It is also a useful tool for reversing lifestyle diseases such as diabetes type 2 and pre-diabetes.&lt;p&gt;When it comes to the stuff you &amp;quot;have to give up&amp;quot; while on Keto it&amp;#x27;s mostly a case of strict moderation rather than completely cutting things out. The things you do try to cut out though like bread, sugar, potatoes, pasta, corn-syrup etc have good alternatives available in most grocery stores. You can bake bread out of almond flour, make pasta out of almond flour (or have someone make it for you), replace potatoes with sweet potatoes and so on.&lt;p&gt;If you&amp;#x27;re thinking that keto sounds like it&amp;#x27;s too much hassle please leave me a reply and I&amp;#x27;ll gladly talk about whatever you&amp;#x27;re unsure about.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>snuxoll</author><text>Fat takes a long time to digest in your stomach, as such you feel satiated for a much longer period of time. Butter can be used somewhat to sweeten coffee, and unlike using sugar won&amp;#x27;t invoke an insulin response and a subsequent crash.</text></comment>

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<story><title>Quantum gas goes below absolute zero</title><url>http://www.nature.com/news/quantum-gas-goes-below-absolute-zero-1.12146</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>Xcelerate</author><text>I don&apos;t really like the misleading headline, although it seems as though the actual paper does it as well (&lt;a href=&quot;http://arxiv.org/abs/1211.0545&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://arxiv.org/abs/1211.0545&lt;/a&gt;). Temperature is conventionally defined as the average kinetic energy of a collection of particles.&lt;p&gt;However, in statistical mechanics, you derive thermodynamic relations from the principles of quantum mechanics. It turns out there is a term β which for most purposes seems to match up with 1/kT, where k is the Boltzmann constant and T is classical temperature. According to this article, there are some occasions where &quot;conventional&quot; T and quantum mechanical T do not match up.&lt;p&gt;The most famous relationship in statistical mechanics is:&lt;p&gt;S = k ln Ω&lt;p&gt;S is entropy. Ω is the partition function for the microcanonical ensemble, and it corresponds to the number of quantum states available to a system. (In English: Ω is the number of different configurations that a system of particles can possible have.)&lt;p&gt;Another relation that can be derived is:&lt;p&gt;1/kT = ∂ln(Ω)/ ∂E&lt;p&gt;Substituting the first equation into the second, we get&lt;p&gt;1/T = ∂S/∂E&lt;p&gt;So what would a negative temperature imply? That increasing energy leads to decreasing entropy. My guess is that these researchers have created some system that does exactly that.</text></comment>

<story><title>Quantum gas goes below absolute zero</title><url>http://www.nature.com/news/quantum-gas-goes-below-absolute-zero-1.12146</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>jpdoctor</author><text>The usual explanation of such things: T is not so important as 1/T. So negative abs temp is achieved by going through +infinity temp and coming back via -infinity temp.&lt;p&gt;Note that this is only allowed in systems which have states that are bounded in energy. The usual example is a laser: When in inversion, its absolute temperature (of the electron population) is negative.</text></comment>

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<story><title>The Rust Programming Language</title><url>http://dl.dropbox.com/u/4186469/rust-all-hands-w2011/assets/fallback/index.html</url><text></text></story><parent_chain><item><author>mkup</author><text>I&apos;m writing this comment in hope that Rust language designers read this thread.&lt;p&gt;It&apos;s very important to language designers at this time to avoid stop-the-world GC approach in Rust at any cost.&lt;p&gt;Google Go is beautiful programming language, but its key limitation is stop-the-world approach to GC which makes it very difficult to implement highload web servers, DB engines and other software with strict max-time-to-response requirements. Recent research [1][2] suggests that &quot;normal&quot; Go program spends more time collecting garbage than performing actual calculations.&lt;p&gt;[1] &lt;a href=&quot;https://days2011.scala-lang.org/sites/days2011/files/ws3-1-Hundt.pdf&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https://days2011.scala-lang.org/sites/days2011/files/ws3-1-H...&lt;/a&gt; [2] &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/07/01/go_v_cpluplus_redux/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/07/01/go_v_cpluplus_redux/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;Go programming language has gone too far to separate owning and non-owning pointers at syntactic level, to disallow changeable global variables, to enforce rules like &quot;each mutable object is accessible from &lt;i&gt;only one&lt;/i&gt; thread&quot;, and introduce other means to avoid GC.&lt;p&gt;But Rust is new and young, already has 2 types of pointers, and it could avoid GC by RAII and reference counting. Objects linked in cycles with owning pointers would cause memory leaks, and I think this behaviour may be left as is, kinda &quot;it&apos;s not a bug, it&apos;s a feature&quot;. Weak pointers could point to intermediary descriptor which holds owning-refcount and nonowning-refcount. Weak ptr behaves like a NULL if owning-refcount is zero and target object is already destroyed. This is to guarantee safe memory model.&lt;p&gt;In short please take all means to avoid main Go defect &quot;Garbage collection takes more CPU time than actual computations&quot;. Please avoid stop-the-world GC approach which makes the language almost useless for real applications.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>supersillyus</author><text>I&apos;m not sure that your premise is solid. Your citations point to a single program that was somewhat naively written, not well optimized, and designed as a computational benchmark spending much of it&apos;s time in GC. That&apos;s doesn&apos;t necessarily imply that &quot;GC takes more CPU time than actual computations in normal Go programs&quot;. That&apos;s not to say that Go&apos;s GC isn&apos;t slow, but as citation #2 shows, one can limit heap allocation if performance requires it.&lt;p&gt;So, the fact that you&apos;re saying &quot;Don&apos;t do what Go does, it makes Go almost useless for real world applications&quot; seems odd to be because:&lt;p&gt;1. Not all applications care deeply about stop-the-world gc pauses.&lt;p&gt;2. Not all of those that do will have a problem with them, as GC can be avoided by value semantics and escape analysis.&lt;p&gt;3. Go will not necessarily always have a Stop-The-World GC, though it does now. I don&apos;t think it&apos;s required by the spec.&lt;p&gt;4. People are using Go in real world applications, implying that it isn&apos;t almost useless. Even servers.&lt;p&gt;5. The Rust folks clearly have thought hard about efficient and scalable memory management, and the slideshow indicates that, so I&apos;m not sure why you&apos;re worried for them.</text></comment>

<story><title>The Rust Programming Language</title><url>http://dl.dropbox.com/u/4186469/rust-all-hands-w2011/assets/fallback/index.html</url><text></text></story><parent_chain><item><author>mkup</author><text>I&apos;m writing this comment in hope that Rust language designers read this thread.&lt;p&gt;It&apos;s very important to language designers at this time to avoid stop-the-world GC approach in Rust at any cost.&lt;p&gt;Google Go is beautiful programming language, but its key limitation is stop-the-world approach to GC which makes it very difficult to implement highload web servers, DB engines and other software with strict max-time-to-response requirements. Recent research [1][2] suggests that &quot;normal&quot; Go program spends more time collecting garbage than performing actual calculations.&lt;p&gt;[1] &lt;a href=&quot;https://days2011.scala-lang.org/sites/days2011/files/ws3-1-Hundt.pdf&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https://days2011.scala-lang.org/sites/days2011/files/ws3-1-H...&lt;/a&gt; [2] &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/07/01/go_v_cpluplus_redux/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/07/01/go_v_cpluplus_redux/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;Go programming language has gone too far to separate owning and non-owning pointers at syntactic level, to disallow changeable global variables, to enforce rules like &quot;each mutable object is accessible from &lt;i&gt;only one&lt;/i&gt; thread&quot;, and introduce other means to avoid GC.&lt;p&gt;But Rust is new and young, already has 2 types of pointers, and it could avoid GC by RAII and reference counting. Objects linked in cycles with owning pointers would cause memory leaks, and I think this behaviour may be left as is, kinda &quot;it&apos;s not a bug, it&apos;s a feature&quot;. Weak pointers could point to intermediary descriptor which holds owning-refcount and nonowning-refcount. Weak ptr behaves like a NULL if owning-refcount is zero and target object is already destroyed. This is to guarantee safe memory model.&lt;p&gt;In short please take all means to avoid main Go defect &quot;Garbage collection takes more CPU time than actual computations&quot;. Please avoid stop-the-world GC approach which makes the language almost useless for real applications.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>pcwalton</author><text>Garbage collection in Rust is thread-local. We never need concurrent GC; this invariant is enforced by the type system.&lt;p&gt;Leaking cycles is not really an option, sorry. At the very least we&apos;re going to have a cycle collector. It&apos;s too easy to make cycles, especially when you have closures (all you need is to close over an object that contains a pointer to the closure itself; this is very common for e.g. event handlers).&lt;p&gt;Besides, a lot of the problems you state can be addressed with generational or incremental garbage collection.</text></comment>

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<story><title>Show HN: Gentle is a social app where you give and get kindness</title><url>https://gentle.app/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>andrewthebold</author><text>Hey HN! Gentle is an app where you write requests about your worries and get (gentle) replies back from strangers. It’s cute, anonymous, and moderated.&lt;p&gt;I was inspired by:&lt;p&gt;* My disappointment in how most social media today incentivizes outrage over empathy.&lt;p&gt;* The growing trend of feel-good experiences like Kind Words, Animal Crossing, Slowly, and more.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;m interested in getting more people testing it out. Eager to take feedback and&amp;#x2F;or talk about it. :)&lt;p&gt;Direct testflight link: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;testflight.apple.com&amp;#x2F;join&amp;#x2F;tXMfOfOl&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;testflight.apple.com&amp;#x2F;join&amp;#x2F;tXMfOfOl&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>tobr</author><text>I would like to have a small way to react to a message I receive. Not reply to it, but maybe an emoji reaction or some other “thank you” to the sender.</text></comment>

<story><title>Show HN: Gentle is a social app where you give and get kindness</title><url>https://gentle.app/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>andrewthebold</author><text>Hey HN! Gentle is an app where you write requests about your worries and get (gentle) replies back from strangers. It’s cute, anonymous, and moderated.&lt;p&gt;I was inspired by:&lt;p&gt;* My disappointment in how most social media today incentivizes outrage over empathy.&lt;p&gt;* The growing trend of feel-good experiences like Kind Words, Animal Crossing, Slowly, and more.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;m interested in getting more people testing it out. Eager to take feedback and&amp;#x2F;or talk about it. :)&lt;p&gt;Direct testflight link: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;testflight.apple.com&amp;#x2F;join&amp;#x2F;tXMfOfOl&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;testflight.apple.com&amp;#x2F;join&amp;#x2F;tXMfOfOl&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>xiaolingxiao</author><text>Hey I love your landing page! Did you design it or used a template? And how is moderation done? I assume they&amp;#x27;re very private so no person is moderating them... so a machine is doing it? Are you using some sort of off the shelf stuff?</text></comment>

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<story><title>US Attorney Chided Swartz On Day of Suicide</title><url>http://yro.slashdot.org/story/13/01/13/139218/us-attorney-chided-swartz-on-day-of-suicide</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>watty</author><text>There&apos;s nothing ridiculous about claiming Aaron caused his situation and killed himself. There is a prosecutor, defendant and a judge. Prosecutors typically exaggerate their case, defendants typically downplay their side, and the judge is responsible for determining the outcome.&lt;p&gt;Wasn&apos;t she just doing her job? She was brought a high profile case. It involved a notorious internet prodigy who stashed a laptop and wrote a program to download 4M+ articles that otherwise would have cost a ton of money. A quick search revealed prices around $30. $30 * 4M = 120M. What am I missing?</text></item><item><author>duairc</author><text>Totally ridiculous, victim-blaming comment.&lt;p&gt;“If you add up everyone&apos;s responsibility for something, it doesn&apos;t equal 100% — it equals a billion percent if it has to, because any number of entities can be fully responsible for the same thing.” — Ran Prieur, The Mathematics of Responsibility (&lt;a href=&quot;http://ranprieur.com/essays/mathres.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://ranprieur.com/essays/mathres.html&lt;/a&gt;)</text></item><item><author>flipper28</author><text>I think it&apos;s kind of ridiculous that everyone is pointing fingers at &quot;everyone else&quot; other than the man responsible for the suicide, Aaron Swartz himself.&lt;p&gt;Sure, he was in a tough situation, and I&apos;ll admit I don&apos;t know the entire backstory of what led up to this man&apos;s suicide(although there is no shortage of information on the HN front page as of late), but there is nobody that can be held responsible for his suicide other than himself.&lt;p&gt;It is self-evident that this man was well-respected in the online community.&lt;p&gt;He killed himself. Nobody else is responsible for that extraordinary action. We can only speculate on his exact reasoning for doing it, but I would suspect a man in that state of mind may not be acting completely rationally and just wanted to escape but sadly could not find a way out other than ending his own life.&lt;p&gt;Let&apos;s celebrate his life and accomplishments and stop trying to find people to blame.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>AnthonyMouse</author><text>&amp;#62;Wasn&apos;t she just doing her job?&lt;p&gt;Absolutely not. There is a reason that prosecutors have prosecutorial discretion and this case is it. The prosecutor&apos;s job is &lt;i&gt;not&lt;/i&gt; to zealously convict anyone they encounter with everything they can convict them with, it is to represent the interests of the people. There is no fathomable way that sending Aaron Swartz to prison for 35 years could possibly do that.&lt;p&gt;But let&apos;s not put all of the blame on the prosecutors. The prosecutors &lt;i&gt;did wrong&lt;/i&gt; here, but we allowed it to happen by giving them the &lt;i&gt;authority&lt;/i&gt; to do wrong. We are, as we speak, allowing laws to remain on the books that make &quot;crimes&quot; that should be a minor misdemeanor at worst (and not illegal at all at best) into felonies punishable by a sentence of imprisonment longer than the sentences received by many unrepentant criminals who have committed &lt;i&gt;premeditated murder&lt;/i&gt;.&lt;p&gt;These outrageously disproportionate laws are what allowed these prosecutors to abuse their discretion. Get rid of the laws, or cut the penalties by a factor of a thousand, and you get rid of the problem. That should be the goal here. Making an example of these prosecutors is not a bad first step, but actually prohibiting what they did by removing their ability to levy outrageous charges at minor offenders has to be the long-term solution.</text></comment>

<story><title>US Attorney Chided Swartz On Day of Suicide</title><url>http://yro.slashdot.org/story/13/01/13/139218/us-attorney-chided-swartz-on-day-of-suicide</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>watty</author><text>There&apos;s nothing ridiculous about claiming Aaron caused his situation and killed himself. There is a prosecutor, defendant and a judge. Prosecutors typically exaggerate their case, defendants typically downplay their side, and the judge is responsible for determining the outcome.&lt;p&gt;Wasn&apos;t she just doing her job? She was brought a high profile case. It involved a notorious internet prodigy who stashed a laptop and wrote a program to download 4M+ articles that otherwise would have cost a ton of money. A quick search revealed prices around $30. $30 * 4M = 120M. What am I missing?</text></item><item><author>duairc</author><text>Totally ridiculous, victim-blaming comment.&lt;p&gt;“If you add up everyone&apos;s responsibility for something, it doesn&apos;t equal 100% — it equals a billion percent if it has to, because any number of entities can be fully responsible for the same thing.” — Ran Prieur, The Mathematics of Responsibility (&lt;a href=&quot;http://ranprieur.com/essays/mathres.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://ranprieur.com/essays/mathres.html&lt;/a&gt;)</text></item><item><author>flipper28</author><text>I think it&apos;s kind of ridiculous that everyone is pointing fingers at &quot;everyone else&quot; other than the man responsible for the suicide, Aaron Swartz himself.&lt;p&gt;Sure, he was in a tough situation, and I&apos;ll admit I don&apos;t know the entire backstory of what led up to this man&apos;s suicide(although there is no shortage of information on the HN front page as of late), but there is nobody that can be held responsible for his suicide other than himself.&lt;p&gt;It is self-evident that this man was well-respected in the online community.&lt;p&gt;He killed himself. Nobody else is responsible for that extraordinary action. We can only speculate on his exact reasoning for doing it, but I would suspect a man in that state of mind may not be acting completely rationally and just wanted to escape but sadly could not find a way out other than ending his own life.&lt;p&gt;Let&apos;s celebrate his life and accomplishments and stop trying to find people to blame.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mindslight</author><text>Critical thinking skills. Instead, you&apos;re repeating a tired emotional appeal to top-down prescribed &quot;morals&quot;.&lt;p&gt;Here is a program to download &quot;4M+&quot; articles:&lt;p&gt;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt; i=1;while true;do wget http://foo/$i;i=1$i;done &lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt; I&apos;ll license my Unary Downloader Pro to you for $120MM. Oh wait, you just copied it into your brain and then reverse engineered it even!? You just did $120MM+ worth of damages!</text></comment>

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<story><title>Programming Fonts</title><url>https://www.programmingfonts.org/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>rychco</author><text>I strongly dislike the trend towards ligatures by default in newer fonts. Maybe it’s because I learned without them, but I find that the readability of code is &lt;i&gt;far&lt;/i&gt; worse with ligatures.&lt;p&gt;My personal favorite fonts at the moment are Jetbrains Mono &amp;amp; MonoLisa (both with ligatures disabled of course)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>kibwen</author><text>I don&amp;#x27;t use ligatures only because the font is the wrong level of the stack for doing cute things like this. I could totally get behind e.g. combining `-&amp;gt;` into a Unicode arrow, but if I&amp;#x27;m writing the string `&amp;quot;-&amp;gt;&amp;quot;` then I want that to be displayed verbatim. That requires parsing (or at least lexing) the code, which fonts can&amp;#x27;t do (and if they could, I&amp;#x27;d be horrified). IMO, it should be the responsibility of editors and IDEs to do this sort of visual substitution.</text></comment>

<story><title>Programming Fonts</title><url>https://www.programmingfonts.org/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>rychco</author><text>I strongly dislike the trend towards ligatures by default in newer fonts. Maybe it’s because I learned without them, but I find that the readability of code is &lt;i&gt;far&lt;/i&gt; worse with ligatures.&lt;p&gt;My personal favorite fonts at the moment are Jetbrains Mono &amp;amp; MonoLisa (both with ligatures disabled of course)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>toastal</author><text>You&amp;#x27;re not alone. Some typographers agree: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;practicaltypography.com&amp;#x2F;ligatures-in-programming-fonts-hell-no.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;practicaltypography.com&amp;#x2F;ligatures-in-programming-fon...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;With a userstyle you can turn off ligatures in your browser for code blocks. The trend isn&amp;#x27;t just editors, but some developers want to push it on their audience in their blog too. &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;developer.mozilla.org&amp;#x2F;en-US&amp;#x2F;docs&amp;#x2F;Web&amp;#x2F;CSS&amp;#x2F;font-variant-ligatures&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;developer.mozilla.org&amp;#x2F;en-US&amp;#x2F;docs&amp;#x2F;Web&amp;#x2F;CSS&amp;#x2F;font-varian...&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>

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<story><title>The Erlang Shell</title><url>https://medium.com/p/ab8d8bec3972</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>phamilton</author><text>I&amp;#x27;m another recent Erlang convert (though I&amp;#x27;m still trying to get used to the paradigm and ecosystem). There are a few concepts that haven&amp;#x27;t quite clicked for me.&lt;p&gt;I come from a Rails background. While Erlang&amp;#x27;s hot code reloading and the ability to attach to running nodes is cool, I am not quite able to connect the dots on how this is useful. In Rails, a process is short-lived by design (the lifecycle of a request). Attaching to a process is useless, but the Rails console essentially gives you an isolated process to inspect production code and data. I don&amp;#x27;t see how extending that to an existing process would be useful.&lt;p&gt;So, challenging my assumptions, perhaps short-lived processes aren&amp;#x27;t the best approach for a web service. Perhaps that&amp;#x27;s the paradigm in Rails because Ruby lacks the tooling to make a long-lived process easy to maintain. If a long-lived process is as easy to maintain as short-lived processes, then suddenly new architectures open up. How are these architectures different? What are the benefits? What are some examples?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>davidw</author><text>&amp;gt; In Rails, a process is short-lived by design (the lifecycle of a request)&lt;p&gt;Yes and no. Rails processes are so huge that they are loaded up and kept around between requests. Erlang processes (which are not unix processes!) are much smaller and lighter. One Erlang program can handle tons of concurrent, always open requests, whereas Rails just isn&amp;#x27;t cut out for that.&lt;p&gt;As to what Erlang is good for, I think its sweet spot with web stuff is where you need a lot of always open connections, such as with web sockets.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;m a fan of Erlang, but for most SaaS kinds of startuppy things, am not sure it&amp;#x27;s a good fit: you get so many more tools packaged up and easy to use for you with Rails that unless you know Rails does not work for you, I would almost always choose Rails.</text></comment>

<story><title>The Erlang Shell</title><url>https://medium.com/p/ab8d8bec3972</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>phamilton</author><text>I&amp;#x27;m another recent Erlang convert (though I&amp;#x27;m still trying to get used to the paradigm and ecosystem). There are a few concepts that haven&amp;#x27;t quite clicked for me.&lt;p&gt;I come from a Rails background. While Erlang&amp;#x27;s hot code reloading and the ability to attach to running nodes is cool, I am not quite able to connect the dots on how this is useful. In Rails, a process is short-lived by design (the lifecycle of a request). Attaching to a process is useless, but the Rails console essentially gives you an isolated process to inspect production code and data. I don&amp;#x27;t see how extending that to an existing process would be useful.&lt;p&gt;So, challenging my assumptions, perhaps short-lived processes aren&amp;#x27;t the best approach for a web service. Perhaps that&amp;#x27;s the paradigm in Rails because Ruby lacks the tooling to make a long-lived process easy to maintain. If a long-lived process is as easy to maintain as short-lived processes, then suddenly new architectures open up. How are these architectures different? What are the benefits? What are some examples?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>e_proxus</author><text>If you want to develop web pages, don&amp;#x27;t do Erlang. If you want to do web services, do Erlang. I&amp;#x27;ve used both Ruby (Rails) and Python (trying to do concurrency with tornado, greenlets, gevent) and they just fell flat. You can do it, but it is incredibly messy and unstable (because there&amp;#x27;s so much work involved).&lt;p&gt;In Erlang, you would typically answer a web request in a new actor every time. Just as in Rails, running for example N number of threads serving one request each. Of course, in Erlang that number of actors can vary, which means your system will be more responsive and you&amp;#x27;ll have lower average latency. However, what differs mostly, is that in Erlang all those actors live inside one VM and you can have central actors managing things, collecting statistics, keeping global state, talking to databases &amp;#x2F; other services. This, I think, is the core strength of Erlang compared conventional single threaded &amp;#x2F; GIL systems.&lt;p&gt;A more concrete example would be to dynamically show the current request rate on a web page. You can just create an actor that gets a message from any other actor once they handle a request, and keeps track of how many such messages per second arrive. Then when rendering that web page, you just ask that actor for it&amp;#x27;s current value. Simple, beautiful, dynamic. No need for a database or any other central storage.</text></comment>

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<story><title>Intel posts largest loss in its history as sales plunge</title><url>https://www.tomshardware.com/news/intel-posts-q1-fy-2023-results</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>bane</author><text>Intel and Google share surprisingly similar problems: an almost pathological inability to grow lines of business with new products because they kill them off too early. In Intel&amp;#x27;s case, it&amp;#x27;s even worse, they kill them off right before the market would have made them successful. They should own the &amp;quot;things with semiconductors&amp;quot; market, but instead financially engineered their way to focus only on higher profit core chip business which was good for the short term but has proved to be a festering cancer over the long.&lt;p&gt;Because of this approach they divested out of the memory business -- which has kept them out of the growing solid state business, screwed around with Optane, lost their modem business, have lost the GPU business at least once (who knows if they&amp;#x27;ll keep doing the ARC GPUs so maybe it&amp;#x27;ll increment up again), ARM chips, and numerous other bits and pieces over the years. Now they&amp;#x27;re losing their core business too and have nothing else to really grow and focus on.&lt;p&gt;Each of these is a multi-billion dollar market with core providers who dominate the market: Samsung, Broadcom, Nvidia, etc.&lt;p&gt;Now they&amp;#x27;re going to start selling off the bones of their business to compete with TSMC, a company with actual focus.&lt;p&gt;Once that goes away, what? Intel will contract TSMC to make their chips? I can see a financially focused MBA-type executive team seeing that as a way to eliminate expensive Fab R&amp;amp;D, construction and OEM liabilities -- put it on somebody else to deal with that!</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>darth_avocado</author><text>&amp;gt; but instead financially engineered their way to focus only on higher profit&lt;p&gt;You explained the core of the problem that usually gets little blame. Successful companies get infiltrated by Wall Street MBA types who make decisions for the short term to manipulate the stock price because their own compensation structures help encourage that behavior. Companies, especially like Intel should be built for being resilient over decades instead of maximizing profits by the quarter.</text></comment>

<story><title>Intel posts largest loss in its history as sales plunge</title><url>https://www.tomshardware.com/news/intel-posts-q1-fy-2023-results</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>bane</author><text>Intel and Google share surprisingly similar problems: an almost pathological inability to grow lines of business with new products because they kill them off too early. In Intel&amp;#x27;s case, it&amp;#x27;s even worse, they kill them off right before the market would have made them successful. They should own the &amp;quot;things with semiconductors&amp;quot; market, but instead financially engineered their way to focus only on higher profit core chip business which was good for the short term but has proved to be a festering cancer over the long.&lt;p&gt;Because of this approach they divested out of the memory business -- which has kept them out of the growing solid state business, screwed around with Optane, lost their modem business, have lost the GPU business at least once (who knows if they&amp;#x27;ll keep doing the ARC GPUs so maybe it&amp;#x27;ll increment up again), ARM chips, and numerous other bits and pieces over the years. Now they&amp;#x27;re losing their core business too and have nothing else to really grow and focus on.&lt;p&gt;Each of these is a multi-billion dollar market with core providers who dominate the market: Samsung, Broadcom, Nvidia, etc.&lt;p&gt;Now they&amp;#x27;re going to start selling off the bones of their business to compete with TSMC, a company with actual focus.&lt;p&gt;Once that goes away, what? Intel will contract TSMC to make their chips? I can see a financially focused MBA-type executive team seeing that as a way to eliminate expensive Fab R&amp;amp;D, construction and OEM liabilities -- put it on somebody else to deal with that!</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>causi</author><text>Personally I think Intel lost the plot around the time they killed Atom. Atom launched as a garbage product, then they spent a decade refining it into an incredible combination of price, performance, and power consumption. Then they killed it and replaced it with processors that offered barely 10% better performance per watt at five times the MSRP and they wonder why the Intel tablet market is dead. It&amp;#x27;s dead because they strangled it in the crib by pretending Pentium Gold Y-series was an adequate successor to Cherry Trail.</text></comment>

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<story><title>Machine Learning</title><url>https://xkcd.com/1838/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jey</author><text>&amp;quot;Just stir the pile until [the answers] start looking right&amp;quot; is actually a pretty decent description of gradient descent.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>james_a_craig</author><text>It&amp;#x27;s clearly simulated annealing. You stir less as you get tired. :)</text></comment>

<story><title>Machine Learning</title><url>https://xkcd.com/1838/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jey</author><text>&amp;quot;Just stir the pile until [the answers] start looking right&amp;quot; is actually a pretty decent description of gradient descent.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dmitriy_ko</author><text>With gradient descent you are walking in the direction of negative gradient. Stirring the pile implies that you are walking randomly from point to point.</text></comment>

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<story><title>Base65536 – Unicode&apos;s answer to Base64</title><url>https://www.npmjs.com/package/base65536</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>colanderman</author><text>This only makes sense if your metric is number of code points. You don&amp;#x27;t actually get better density with this.&lt;p&gt;Base64, encoded as either ASCII or UTF-8, stores 6 bits per byte; making it 75% efficient.&lt;p&gt;Base65536 encoded as UTF-8 (by far the most common) will split its characters about evenly between 3-byte and 4-byte encodings (it uses code points up to 165376 roughly evenly distributed [1]). That is 16 bits per 3.5 bytes, or 57% efficient. Much worse.&lt;p&gt;UTF-16 (what Javascript uses) is slightly better; you get a distribution about even between 2 and 4 bytes. That is 16 bits per 3 bytes, or 67% efficient. Better, but not as good as Base64 in ASCII or UTF-8. (However, it &lt;i&gt;is&lt;/i&gt; better than Base64 in UTF-16, which is only 37.5% efficient.)&lt;p&gt;Stick with Base64 unless you&amp;#x27;re strictly counting code points (like tweets do).&lt;p&gt;[1] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;github.com&amp;#x2F;ferno&amp;#x2F;base65536&amp;#x2F;blob&amp;#x2F;master&amp;#x2F;get-block-start.json&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;github.com&amp;#x2F;ferno&amp;#x2F;base65536&amp;#x2F;blob&amp;#x2F;master&amp;#x2F;get-block-sta...&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>

<story><title>Base65536 – Unicode&apos;s answer to Base64</title><url>https://www.npmjs.com/package/base65536</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>spiznnx</author><text>I was going to complain about lack of benchmarking, but then I saw the &amp;quot;Why&amp;quot; section - I wonder what else could be shared using a single tweet.</text></comment>

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<story><title>How Tolkien created Middle-earth</title><url>https://www.theguardian.com/books/2018/may/31/drawn-into-tolkiens-world-exhibition</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>cocacola1</author><text>Entirely tangential, but the best album I&amp;#x27;ve heard is Music Inspired by The Lord of the Rings by Bo Hansson. Instrumental progressive rock that, at least for me, entirely evokes a fantasy-like feeling and might even be, dare I say, superior to Howard Shores&amp;#x27; score for the films.&lt;p&gt;Now that I think about it, Tolkien and works related to him seem to have set the bars for a few things - worldbuilding, fantasy literature, epic films, etc.; not to mention more than a few things that have been directly inspired by his works.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>8bitsrule</author><text>Didn&amp;#x27;t know of that! Sounds like it might be similar to 1979 album &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;The_Pentateuch_of_the_Cosmogony&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;The_Pentateuch_of_the_Cosmogon...&lt;/a&gt;. Two records of music by Dave Greenslade (w&amp;#x2F;Phil Collins) included a hardback book lavishly-illustrated by Patrick Woodroffe.&lt;p&gt;That production may have been encouraged by Jeff Wayne&amp;#x27;s 1978 &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Jeff_Wayne%27s_Musical_Version_of_The_War_of_the_Worlds&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Jeff_Wayne%27s_Musical_Version...&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>

<story><title>How Tolkien created Middle-earth</title><url>https://www.theguardian.com/books/2018/may/31/drawn-into-tolkiens-world-exhibition</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>cocacola1</author><text>Entirely tangential, but the best album I&amp;#x27;ve heard is Music Inspired by The Lord of the Rings by Bo Hansson. Instrumental progressive rock that, at least for me, entirely evokes a fantasy-like feeling and might even be, dare I say, superior to Howard Shores&amp;#x27; score for the films.&lt;p&gt;Now that I think about it, Tolkien and works related to him seem to have set the bars for a few things - worldbuilding, fantasy literature, epic films, etc.; not to mention more than a few things that have been directly inspired by his works.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ghostbrainalpha</author><text>Sounds a lot like The Grateful Dead trying to LOTR.&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.youtube.com&amp;#x2F;watch?v=rs0AmruS8Ro&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.youtube.com&amp;#x2F;watch?v=rs0AmruS8Ro&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>

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<story><title>Yahoo scanned customer emails for US intelligence</title><url>http://news.trust.org/item/20161004170601-99f8c</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>DubiousPusher</author><text>I think the attitude here that most tech companies are rolling over and just complying without a single ethical consideration is misplaced.&lt;p&gt;The government has been doing an excellent job of basically extorting these companies into compliance. They threaten the full weight of the US government&amp;#x27;s wraith and then tie every order up with classifications and gag orders.&lt;p&gt;You aren&amp;#x27;t legally allowed to talk to other companies in the same position. Most your legal team probably doesn&amp;#x27;t get to know what&amp;#x27;s going on. You can&amp;#x27;t take your case to the public without being held in contempt.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;m not giving these companies a complete pass for being complicit in the erosion of individual&amp;#x27;s civil liberties but treating this as if the decision is easy is vastly unfair.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>tw04</author><text>Well, they&amp;#x27;ve already &amp;quot;made an example&amp;quot; of the only company to truly stand in their way. Look at Qwest - you talk to the average citizen and their takeaway was that justice was served | A corrupt CEO ran the company into the ground and went to prison. Hurrah!&lt;p&gt;Don&amp;#x27;t pay attention to the fact he denied installing what he considered unconstitutional wire taps for the NSA resulting in the government pulling almost a billion dollars worth of contracts from the company. That example alone proved that the government can tell any narrative they want; they own the media, they&amp;#x27;ll own private companies too.</text></comment>

<story><title>Yahoo scanned customer emails for US intelligence</title><url>http://news.trust.org/item/20161004170601-99f8c</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>DubiousPusher</author><text>I think the attitude here that most tech companies are rolling over and just complying without a single ethical consideration is misplaced.&lt;p&gt;The government has been doing an excellent job of basically extorting these companies into compliance. They threaten the full weight of the US government&amp;#x27;s wraith and then tie every order up with classifications and gag orders.&lt;p&gt;You aren&amp;#x27;t legally allowed to talk to other companies in the same position. Most your legal team probably doesn&amp;#x27;t get to know what&amp;#x27;s going on. You can&amp;#x27;t take your case to the public without being held in contempt.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;m not giving these companies a complete pass for being complicit in the erosion of individual&amp;#x27;s civil liberties but treating this as if the decision is easy is vastly unfair.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>rdl</author><text>I wonder what the actual personal consequences are for someone going public that there is an NSL requested. I seriously doubt they&amp;#x27;d destroy a major public company with lots of employees&amp;#x2F;voters&amp;#x2F;users; fines, maybe, and going after execs, but the Government loses most of its power to threaten things once the act is done and everything is public.&lt;p&gt;I think you win in the court of public opinion if it&amp;#x27;s a broad program like this (and IMO clearly unconstitutional). If it&amp;#x27;s an NSL about, say, an order to specifically target UBL, you probably hang in public opinion. If it&amp;#x27;s an NSL about, say, finding Snowden, you might be ok. This is an interesting check and balance vs. government overreach.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;d be a lot more comfortable with someone going public in a live press conference in DC (maybe releasing a key to a file which is pre-distributed), than someone running off to Russia or doing it anonymously, though.</text></comment>

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<story><title>Is Perl 6 Being Renamed?</title><url>http://blogs.perl.org/users/ovid/2019/08/is-perl-6-being-renamed.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mkozlows</author><text>To my mind, the blockers for Perl 6 adoption in order of importance have been:&lt;p&gt;1. The name, saddling it with the legacy of Perl. (I say this as someone who really liked working with Perl back in the waning years of the old millennium, and believes that Perl was visionary in pointing the way to the state of modern programming... but also that it had some limitations that have only become more glaring over the years.)&lt;p&gt;2. The coyness around whether it&amp;#x27;s &amp;quot;done&amp;quot; or not. Right now today, as someone who has paid attention to Perl 6 and even written some toy code with it, I do not understand its release status at all. That&amp;#x27;s absurd.&lt;p&gt;3. The insistence on branding sub-components of it and exposing that branding. Yes, it has a VM. Yes, it has a compiler. But why do people talk about ParrotVM and Rakudo as if they&amp;#x27;re different things? Java has a compiler and a VM, they&amp;#x27;re called &amp;quot;javac&amp;quot; and &amp;quot;jvm.&amp;quot; This wifty &amp;quot;no, Perl 6 is the standard, the software you&amp;#x27;re running is Rakudo and Parrot&amp;quot; distinction is totally irrelevant to anyone actually wanting to write code, and weirdly confusing.&lt;p&gt;4. In a distant, distant last place: any actual functional stuff about the language.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>simcop2387</author><text>&amp;gt; 3. The insistence on branding sub-components of it and exposing that branding. Yes, it has a VM. Yes, it has a compiler. But why do people talk about ParrotVM and Rakudo as if they&amp;#x27;re different things? Java has a compiler and a VM, they&amp;#x27;re called &amp;quot;javac&amp;quot; and &amp;quot;jvm.&amp;quot; This wifty &amp;quot;no, Perl 6 is the standard, the software you&amp;#x27;re running is Rakudo and Parrot&amp;quot; distinction is totally irrelevant to anyone actually wanting to write code, and weirdly confusing.&lt;p&gt;Pedantically, and this also helps serve your point, Parrot isn&amp;#x27;t used by any modern Perl 6 implementation, it&amp;#x27;s effectively dead (if not totally). MoarVM is the less ambitious (not trying to support every dynamic language like Parrot was) and more mature VM that is in use now.&lt;p&gt;And the requisite, ParrotVM is just pining for the fjords joke goes here. It has ceased to be, gone to meet it&amp;#x27;s maker, it is an Ex-Parrot.&lt;p&gt;EDIT: For reference, Parrot VM really was named because of that sketch. It started as an April Fools joke and kinda stuck. &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;web.archive.org&amp;#x2F;web&amp;#x2F;20100718195724&amp;#x2F;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.perl.com&amp;#x2F;pub&amp;#x2F;a&amp;#x2F;2001&amp;#x2F;04&amp;#x2F;01&amp;#x2F;parrot.htm&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;web.archive.org&amp;#x2F;web&amp;#x2F;20100718195724&amp;#x2F;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.perl.c...&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>

<story><title>Is Perl 6 Being Renamed?</title><url>http://blogs.perl.org/users/ovid/2019/08/is-perl-6-being-renamed.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mkozlows</author><text>To my mind, the blockers for Perl 6 adoption in order of importance have been:&lt;p&gt;1. The name, saddling it with the legacy of Perl. (I say this as someone who really liked working with Perl back in the waning years of the old millennium, and believes that Perl was visionary in pointing the way to the state of modern programming... but also that it had some limitations that have only become more glaring over the years.)&lt;p&gt;2. The coyness around whether it&amp;#x27;s &amp;quot;done&amp;quot; or not. Right now today, as someone who has paid attention to Perl 6 and even written some toy code with it, I do not understand its release status at all. That&amp;#x27;s absurd.&lt;p&gt;3. The insistence on branding sub-components of it and exposing that branding. Yes, it has a VM. Yes, it has a compiler. But why do people talk about ParrotVM and Rakudo as if they&amp;#x27;re different things? Java has a compiler and a VM, they&amp;#x27;re called &amp;quot;javac&amp;quot; and &amp;quot;jvm.&amp;quot; This wifty &amp;quot;no, Perl 6 is the standard, the software you&amp;#x27;re running is Rakudo and Parrot&amp;quot; distinction is totally irrelevant to anyone actually wanting to write code, and weirdly confusing.&lt;p&gt;4. In a distant, distant last place: any actual functional stuff about the language.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>kbenson</author><text>&amp;gt; The insistence on branding sub-components of it and exposing that branding. Yes, it has a VM. Yes, it has a compiler. But why do people talk about ParrotVM and Rakudo as if they&amp;#x27;re different things? Java has a compiler and a VM, they&amp;#x27;re called &amp;quot;javac&amp;quot; and &amp;quot;jvm.&amp;quot; This wifty &amp;quot;no, Perl 6 is the standard, the software you&amp;#x27;re running is Rakudo and Parrot&amp;quot; distinction is totally irrelevant to anyone actually wanting to write code, and weirdly confusing.&lt;p&gt;The reason the implementation is named (Rakudo), is because there&amp;#x27;s a spec, and originally there were a few people making implementations. There was good effort from individuals on C and C# versions that were more monolithic, and Rakudo was where most the community work went since it was designed in a way to be more cross platform (it&amp;#x27;s mostly implemented in the minimal NQP languages, which is &amp;quot;not-quite perl&amp;quot;. It&amp;#x27;s a much easier thing to port to a VM, and then you get like 90% of the language features already designed and working).&lt;p&gt;The reason the VM is noted is because it changed a couple of times. Bringing the VM name into it lets people know that if it&amp;#x27;s different, maybe it will have fixed their main performance complaints. To my knowledge, they haven&amp;#x27;t used parrot in a decade or so, and there&amp;#x27;s actually some bad blood between the VM and Perl 6&amp;#x2F;Rakudo (which had different teams, another reason to brand with both.&lt;p&gt;So, Perl 6 is the standard. There have been multiple implementations to varying degrees of completeness, including but not limited to Rakudo, Pugs, and Niecza. Those implementations have generally targeted one or more VM targets, including Parrot, MoarVM, Java, .Net and custom VMs.&lt;p&gt;It may or may not have hurt adoption seeing this terminology, but it was there for a reason, because it denoted very large important aspects of what was going on behind the scenes, and in some cases doing otherwise could have worked against some relationships that were going on between projects.</text></comment>

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<story><title>I made an iPhone game with PhoneGap and won&apos;t do it again</title><url>https://bokstuff.com/i-made-an-iphone-game-with-phonegap-and-ill-never-do-it-again/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dheera</author><text>I&amp;#x27;ve tried PhoneGap and Cordova wih Polymer and my biggest gripe is that even the most &lt;i&gt;basic&lt;/i&gt; of mobile UI gestures have no good analogue. For example to emulate swiping between tabs on a ViewPager, you have to implement hundreds of dirty lines of code in JavaScript to catch touch events and decide how they should behave, and hope you emulate the native experience. None of the tabbed interfaces of any of these frameworks have it built-in.&lt;p&gt;Then you inevitably have to deal with Safari&amp;#x27;s stupid rubber-band scrolling, which causes the &lt;i&gt;titlebar&lt;/i&gt; of your app to scroll if dragged. Then when you disable that scrolling you&amp;#x27;re forced to implement your own scrollbar from scratch and emulate the Safari rubber band on the parts you actually want to scroll.&lt;p&gt;Pull-to-refresh? Good luck implementing it in a way that feels like a native app.&lt;p&gt;Building all that in JavaScript is possible, and with the help of CSS3 and WebGL it&amp;#x27;s often possible to get FPS on par with native apps, but emulating a native-feel UI in JavaScript is &lt;i&gt;more&lt;/i&gt; work than just developing twice for Android and iOS. And you usually end up with so much JavaScript bloat and DOM hell that it takes forever to load on 3G or slower connections.&lt;p&gt;Seriously, can someone just give us &amp;lt;GridViewPager&amp;gt;..&amp;lt;&amp;#x2F;GridViewPager&amp;gt;, &amp;lt;ViewPager&amp;gt;..&amp;lt;&amp;#x2F;ViewPager&amp;gt;, &amp;lt;ListView&amp;gt;..&amp;lt;&amp;#x2F;ListView&amp;gt; or something like that, with everything included, including touch gestures, and make it &amp;quot;feel&amp;quot; exactly like iOS or Android depending on the OS it is loaded on, matching the respective fonts, elasticity coefficients, gesture thresholds, and everything else, no questions asked?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>throwmenow_0140</author><text>I&amp;#x27;m currently using NativeScript and react-native for app development and I have to comment because items like &amp;lt;ListView&amp;gt; [1] and Grid-Layouts [2] can be done using both technologies which use native rendering and achieve 60 FPS. They both have listeners for common UI gestures. If you&amp;#x27;re building a normal app (no video game) with some forms, list views and maybe some diagrams, just use those. They give you a native experience and you don&amp;#x27;t have to build it for each platform - we&amp;#x27;re currently not in the state of &amp;quot;write once, run everywhere&amp;quot;, but we&amp;#x27;re close. It&amp;#x27;s really easy to get started, please read about those if you&amp;#x27;re not satisfied with the current level of Cordova and Web apps.&lt;p&gt;I used Framework7 for a PWA (Progressive Web App) and it has a very lean learning curve if you already know web stuff and it was very easy to integrate e.g. Chartjs, so if you don&amp;#x27;t like react or NativeScript&amp;#x27;s XML you can also use HTML and plain Javascript, although the iOS 10 change is a bit troubling. I don&amp;#x27;t have any problems like a scrolling titlebar with it. Try and see if it fits your use case.&lt;p&gt;[1]: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;facebook.github.io&amp;#x2F;react-native&amp;#x2F;docs&amp;#x2F;listview.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;facebook.github.io&amp;#x2F;react-native&amp;#x2F;docs&amp;#x2F;listview.html&lt;/a&gt; [2]: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;docs.nativescript.org&amp;#x2F;cookbook&amp;#x2F;ui&amp;#x2F;layouts&amp;#x2F;grid-layout&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;docs.nativescript.org&amp;#x2F;cookbook&amp;#x2F;ui&amp;#x2F;layouts&amp;#x2F;grid-layou...&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>

<story><title>I made an iPhone game with PhoneGap and won&apos;t do it again</title><url>https://bokstuff.com/i-made-an-iphone-game-with-phonegap-and-ill-never-do-it-again/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dheera</author><text>I&amp;#x27;ve tried PhoneGap and Cordova wih Polymer and my biggest gripe is that even the most &lt;i&gt;basic&lt;/i&gt; of mobile UI gestures have no good analogue. For example to emulate swiping between tabs on a ViewPager, you have to implement hundreds of dirty lines of code in JavaScript to catch touch events and decide how they should behave, and hope you emulate the native experience. None of the tabbed interfaces of any of these frameworks have it built-in.&lt;p&gt;Then you inevitably have to deal with Safari&amp;#x27;s stupid rubber-band scrolling, which causes the &lt;i&gt;titlebar&lt;/i&gt; of your app to scroll if dragged. Then when you disable that scrolling you&amp;#x27;re forced to implement your own scrollbar from scratch and emulate the Safari rubber band on the parts you actually want to scroll.&lt;p&gt;Pull-to-refresh? Good luck implementing it in a way that feels like a native app.&lt;p&gt;Building all that in JavaScript is possible, and with the help of CSS3 and WebGL it&amp;#x27;s often possible to get FPS on par with native apps, but emulating a native-feel UI in JavaScript is &lt;i&gt;more&lt;/i&gt; work than just developing twice for Android and iOS. And you usually end up with so much JavaScript bloat and DOM hell that it takes forever to load on 3G or slower connections.&lt;p&gt;Seriously, can someone just give us &amp;lt;GridViewPager&amp;gt;..&amp;lt;&amp;#x2F;GridViewPager&amp;gt;, &amp;lt;ViewPager&amp;gt;..&amp;lt;&amp;#x2F;ViewPager&amp;gt;, &amp;lt;ListView&amp;gt;..&amp;lt;&amp;#x2F;ListView&amp;gt; or something like that, with everything included, including touch gestures, and make it &amp;quot;feel&amp;quot; exactly like iOS or Android depending on the OS it is loaded on, matching the respective fonts, elasticity coefficients, gesture thresholds, and everything else, no questions asked?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>youdounderstand</author><text>You&amp;#x27;re never going to get smooth scrolling if you need to hit the UI thread for every touch event. The platform UI frameworks use background threads for scrolling, directly in the OS compositor.</text></comment>

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<story><title>All Atari Games</title><url>https://voxodyssey.com/atari-2600</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>CaioAlonso</author><text>In case you want to play any of them I made a thing a few years ago for that &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;cloudflare-ipfs.com&amp;#x2F;ipfs&amp;#x2F;QmacAqRVhJX9eS7YJX1vY3ifFKF9CduDqPEgaCUSa4x5xb&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;cloudflare-ipfs.com&amp;#x2F;ipfs&amp;#x2F;QmacAqRVhJX9eS7YJX1vY3ifFKF...&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>

<story><title>All Atari Games</title><url>https://voxodyssey.com/atari-2600</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>jamesandthewolf</author><text>Ahh I just discovered this website, anyway I am the owner of the website and yes its only up to M so far but I have a list of almost all the games to add the place to see all the systems so far is &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;voxodyssey.com&amp;#x2F;game-consoles&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;voxodyssey.com&amp;#x2F;game-consoles&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;Its a work in progress I do this alone one person and have got the website to 688 next update will be around 710 or so games this is not spam either I really appriciate feedback and looking to get more exposure to the website but trying not to over push it</text></comment>

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<story><title>How Paypal and Reddit faked their way to traction</title><url>https://medium.com/design-startups/9411fb583205</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>lifeisstillgood</author><text>A few years back the major tv companies in the UK underwent a scandal involving faking tv phone-in competitions - runners on the show called in pretending to be viewers, calls went unregistered. Almost none was intended to gain pecuniary advantage but it was fraud. I think people went to jail.&lt;p&gt;I fail to see why the same scandal should not be seen here&lt;p&gt;Edit: Reddit is deception, hard to see fraud. Dating sites with fake profiles are likely to be fraud if its a pay site(AFF sounds outrageous). The odd ball is PayPal - if the eBay supplier got less money from the sale than if they had dealt with a normal user with a credit card the I guess there could be a case for fraud. Be interested in a real lawyers view</text></comment>

<story><title>How Paypal and Reddit faked their way to traction</title><url>https://medium.com/design-startups/9411fb583205</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>liquidcool</author><text>Missed a couple big ones from companies they mentioned. Yelp paid professional reviewers to seed cities they wanted to establish themselves in. To my knowledge they were honest reviews, but people were still put off by it.&lt;p&gt;And the Airbnb spam debacle was left out as well. (&lt;a href=&quot;http://davegooden.com/2011/05/how-airbnb-became-a-billion-dollar-company/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;davegooden.com&amp;#x2F;2011&amp;#x2F;05&amp;#x2F;how-airbnb-became-a-billion-do...&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;p&gt;For the record, I use both services frequently, but those are notable omissions.&lt;p&gt;Really curious how much PayPal dumped into buying eBay items. Doesn&amp;#x27;t seem like something you could do for long, so I imagine it had to be highly targeted.</text></comment>

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<story><title>Yann LeCun quits Twitter amid acrimonious exchanges on AI bias</title><url>https://syncedreview.com/2020/06/30/yann-lecun-quits-twitter-amid-acrimonious-exchanges-on-ai-bias/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>emtel</author><text>Can anyone provide a simple explanation or example that illustrates why Yann was wrong? I’m highly predisposed to take his side in this, but I wonder if I could be missing something.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Kapura</author><text>This is fundamentally a forest&amp;#x2F;trees type of situation. LeCun sees the issue with this one model, says, &amp;quot;If this had been trained on a different sample it wouldn&amp;#x27;t have this issue,&amp;quot; and stops his train of reasoning there. The problem he is seeing is the mis-trained model, and nothing more.&lt;p&gt;But the problem is larger than this single model, because this issue (or similar ones) are pervasive in the fields in which AI are being employed. If a neural net is helping a court hand down sentences, it is going to be trained on historical sentencing data, and will in turn reflect the biases present in that data. If you are still only seeing the one tree, you say &amp;quot;well we must correct for the historical bias,&amp;quot; and absolve yourself of thinking of the larger problem. That forest problem is that we will always be feeding these algorithms biased inputs, unless we do the work to understand social biases and attempt to rectify them.</text></comment>

<story><title>Yann LeCun quits Twitter amid acrimonious exchanges on AI bias</title><url>https://syncedreview.com/2020/06/30/yann-lecun-quits-twitter-amid-acrimonious-exchanges-on-ai-bias/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>emtel</author><text>Can anyone provide a simple explanation or example that illustrates why Yann was wrong? I’m highly predisposed to take his side in this, but I wonder if I could be missing something.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>andrewflnr</author><text>I think Yann and his critics are focusing on different questions. IIUC Yann is looking at the narrow engineering perspective of how to build an fair ML system. Gebru et al seem to be talking about a much more abstract, societal trend-oriented, &amp;quot;let&amp;#x27;s think about if we should not just if we can&amp;quot; type of question, though it&amp;#x27;s still pretty fuzzy to me. Anyway, the epistemological standards of those questions are basically incompatible (incommensurable?), so discussion is impossible unless they agree on which one they&amp;#x27;re trying to answer. I&amp;#x27;m starting to notice this kind of thing a lot.</text></comment>

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<story><title>Why are cars killing more pedestrians?</title><url>https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2019/oct/03/collision-course-pedestrian-deaths-rising-driverless-cars</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>caconym_</author><text>&amp;gt; From other statistics I&amp;#x27;ve seen, the massive increase in SUV&amp;#x27;s is mentioned as the single largest factor.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;ve been saying for years that driving a large SUV or truck without a legitimate need for its capabilities is an antisocial act, for precisely this reason and also the fact that, all other things being equal, a vehicle (and its occupants) colliding with another vehicle will fare worse the larger that other vehicle is. Whether my own assumptions were right or wrong, I&amp;#x27;m glad we&amp;#x27;re finally starting to talk about this. For a long time, it seemed to be a huge blind spot in existing analyses of injurious&amp;#x2F;fatal road accidents.&lt;p&gt;It makes me absolutely livid when I walk past a shiny new lifted pickup with an empty bed and my head is just about level with the front of the hood. How have we grown to accept these things driving around on public roads with no higher bar to entry than that required to drive a Geo Metro?</text></item><item><author>crazygringo</author><text>According to the article, your theory is simple yet wrong:&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; Here is what the frustrated safety experts will tell you: Americans are &lt;i&gt;driving more than ever&lt;/i&gt;, more than residents of any other country. More of them than ever are living in cities and out in urban sprawl; a growing number of pedestrian fatalities occur on the &lt;i&gt;fringes of cities&lt;/i&gt;, where high-volume, high-speed roads exist in close proximity to the places where people live, work, and shop. &lt;i&gt;Speed limits have increased&lt;/i&gt; across the country over the past 20 years, despite robust evidence that even slight increases in speed dramatically increase the likelihood of killing pedestrians (car passengers, too – but the increase is not as steep, thanks to improvements in the design of car frames, airbags and seatbelts). American road engineers tend to assume people will speed, and so &lt;i&gt;design roads to accommodate speeding&lt;/i&gt;; this, in turn, facilitates more speeding, which soon enough makes higher speed limits feel reasonable. And more Americans than ever are zipping around in &lt;i&gt;SUVs and pickup trucks&lt;/i&gt;, which, thanks to their height, weight and shape are &lt;i&gt;between two and three times more likely to kill people they hit&lt;/i&gt;. [emphasis added]&lt;p&gt;From other statistics I&amp;#x27;ve seen, the massive increase in SUV&amp;#x27;s is mentioned as the single largest factor.&lt;p&gt;Indeed, the article directly refutes your theory:&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; Ask a room full of safety experts about smartphones and you will get a mix of resignation, bemusement and contempt. “I tend not to buy the smartphone distraction stuff,” says Garrick, echoing nearly identical comments from just about everyone I talked to. “To me, it reads as shoving aside actually dealing with the relevant issues.” What particularly bothers him, he says, is &lt;i&gt;how poorly thought out the distraction discourse tends to be. In the UK, Belgium, Germany, Spain, France, Austria and Iceland, for example, pedestrian deaths occur at a per capita rate roughly half of America’s, or lower. Are we really to believe that the citizens of these countries are 50% less susceptible than Americans to distraction, by their phones or anything else?&lt;/i&gt; ... “All this talk about pedestrian distraction, driver distraction? It’s such a distraction,” says Ben Welle of the World Resource Institute for Sustainable Cities. “It puts all the responsibility on individuals, and none on the environment they operate in.” [emphasis added]</text></item><item><author>gerbilly</author><text>Texting while driving, that&amp;#x27;s why.&lt;p&gt;From here I sit on the porch, I can see that about 2&amp;#x2F;3 of drivers text while driving.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;m convinced that no amount of campaigning, punishment, or scare tactics will suffice to stop it.&lt;p&gt;It is just how driving is done nowadays, and everyone feels they can do it safely (but they can&amp;#x27;t).&lt;p&gt;There&amp;#x27;s no going back so if you&amp;#x27;re on a bike, or a pedestrian, watch out!&lt;p&gt;Driving is sacred in our societies. Whenever a driver kills a pedestrian or a cyclist in my town, there aren&amp;#x27;t even any charges laid 99% of the time.&lt;p&gt;Personally I think smartphones have been a net loss to society, for this and many other reasons.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>JoBrad</author><text>I think we need another license class for vehicles larger than your average 4-door sedan (or saloon, in the UK). An F-150, Highlander, or Suburban drive and handle appreciably different than the Civic or Accord-sized vehicle that most drivers-ed classes use. And it shows when you see how people park or drive these larger vehicles in crowded areas. We’ve essentially discounted the increase in vehicle size to whether you can get financing for it, with no regard to your ability to drive it.</text></comment>

<story><title>Why are cars killing more pedestrians?</title><url>https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2019/oct/03/collision-course-pedestrian-deaths-rising-driverless-cars</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>caconym_</author><text>&amp;gt; From other statistics I&amp;#x27;ve seen, the massive increase in SUV&amp;#x27;s is mentioned as the single largest factor.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;ve been saying for years that driving a large SUV or truck without a legitimate need for its capabilities is an antisocial act, for precisely this reason and also the fact that, all other things being equal, a vehicle (and its occupants) colliding with another vehicle will fare worse the larger that other vehicle is. Whether my own assumptions were right or wrong, I&amp;#x27;m glad we&amp;#x27;re finally starting to talk about this. For a long time, it seemed to be a huge blind spot in existing analyses of injurious&amp;#x2F;fatal road accidents.&lt;p&gt;It makes me absolutely livid when I walk past a shiny new lifted pickup with an empty bed and my head is just about level with the front of the hood. How have we grown to accept these things driving around on public roads with no higher bar to entry than that required to drive a Geo Metro?</text></item><item><author>crazygringo</author><text>According to the article, your theory is simple yet wrong:&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; Here is what the frustrated safety experts will tell you: Americans are &lt;i&gt;driving more than ever&lt;/i&gt;, more than residents of any other country. More of them than ever are living in cities and out in urban sprawl; a growing number of pedestrian fatalities occur on the &lt;i&gt;fringes of cities&lt;/i&gt;, where high-volume, high-speed roads exist in close proximity to the places where people live, work, and shop. &lt;i&gt;Speed limits have increased&lt;/i&gt; across the country over the past 20 years, despite robust evidence that even slight increases in speed dramatically increase the likelihood of killing pedestrians (car passengers, too – but the increase is not as steep, thanks to improvements in the design of car frames, airbags and seatbelts). American road engineers tend to assume people will speed, and so &lt;i&gt;design roads to accommodate speeding&lt;/i&gt;; this, in turn, facilitates more speeding, which soon enough makes higher speed limits feel reasonable. And more Americans than ever are zipping around in &lt;i&gt;SUVs and pickup trucks&lt;/i&gt;, which, thanks to their height, weight and shape are &lt;i&gt;between two and three times more likely to kill people they hit&lt;/i&gt;. [emphasis added]&lt;p&gt;From other statistics I&amp;#x27;ve seen, the massive increase in SUV&amp;#x27;s is mentioned as the single largest factor.&lt;p&gt;Indeed, the article directly refutes your theory:&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; Ask a room full of safety experts about smartphones and you will get a mix of resignation, bemusement and contempt. “I tend not to buy the smartphone distraction stuff,” says Garrick, echoing nearly identical comments from just about everyone I talked to. “To me, it reads as shoving aside actually dealing with the relevant issues.” What particularly bothers him, he says, is &lt;i&gt;how poorly thought out the distraction discourse tends to be. In the UK, Belgium, Germany, Spain, France, Austria and Iceland, for example, pedestrian deaths occur at a per capita rate roughly half of America’s, or lower. Are we really to believe that the citizens of these countries are 50% less susceptible than Americans to distraction, by their phones or anything else?&lt;/i&gt; ... “All this talk about pedestrian distraction, driver distraction? It’s such a distraction,” says Ben Welle of the World Resource Institute for Sustainable Cities. “It puts all the responsibility on individuals, and none on the environment they operate in.” [emphasis added]</text></item><item><author>gerbilly</author><text>Texting while driving, that&amp;#x27;s why.&lt;p&gt;From here I sit on the porch, I can see that about 2&amp;#x2F;3 of drivers text while driving.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;m convinced that no amount of campaigning, punishment, or scare tactics will suffice to stop it.&lt;p&gt;It is just how driving is done nowadays, and everyone feels they can do it safely (but they can&amp;#x27;t).&lt;p&gt;There&amp;#x27;s no going back so if you&amp;#x27;re on a bike, or a pedestrian, watch out!&lt;p&gt;Driving is sacred in our societies. Whenever a driver kills a pedestrian or a cyclist in my town, there aren&amp;#x27;t even any charges laid 99% of the time.&lt;p&gt;Personally I think smartphones have been a net loss to society, for this and many other reasons.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>black6</author><text>I see this all the time where I live, and it drives me insane. Truck culture is a waste of resources. What causes someone to pay $$$$ to decrease the efficiency of their vehicle? And don’t even get me started on soft rubber mud tires that only see pavement...&lt;p&gt;Obligatory MMM article:&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.mrmoneymustache.com&amp;#x2F;2015&amp;#x2F;04&amp;#x2F;28&amp;#x2F;what-does-your-work-truck-say-about-you&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.mrmoneymustache.com&amp;#x2F;2015&amp;#x2F;04&amp;#x2F;28&amp;#x2F;what-does-your-wor...&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>

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<story><title>How Spotify&apos;s podcast bet went wrong</title><url>https://www.semafor.com/article/02/12/2023/how-spotifys-podcast-bet-went-wrong</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>cccybernetic</author><text>Meh, you can call it value extraction if you want, but ultimately they&amp;#x27;re paying these people. Didn&amp;#x27;t Rogan get like 100MM? Didn&amp;#x27;t they fund a bunch of studios and new podcast creators? From the article:&lt;p&gt;&lt;i&gt;Its drastic cuts have triggered a podcast winter, as the small studios it helped support consolidate and lavish narrative productions wane&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;Also, I&amp;#x27;ve tried 4 different podcast players and found Spotify&amp;#x27;s player to best of the bunch. Controls work like you would expect, it&amp;#x27;s very snappy, search and sorting are also polished. I&amp;#x27;ve pretty much stopped listening to Podcasts on Apple&amp;#x27;s native app because Spotify&amp;#x27;s superior experience.&lt;p&gt;I do get what you&amp;#x27;re saying about RSS feeds though, but it&amp;#x27;s not quite as black and white as you make it.&lt;p&gt;Edit - updated wording:&lt;p&gt;+ &amp;quot;found Spotify&amp;#x27;s player to best of the bunch&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;- &amp;quot;they&amp;#x27;re all terrible except for Spotify&amp;#x27;s&amp;quot;</text></item><item><author>masklinn</author><text>&amp;gt; Anyone else see the irony there? Without middlemen? Spotify was trying to cement itself as the middleman in as much podcasting as possible, right? Or maybe it&amp;#x27;s not irony, it&amp;#x27;s exactly that, Spotify saw a space without middleman and thus an opportunity to lock itself in as the middleman.&lt;p&gt;Yep, it&amp;#x27;s not irony, but is instead a common corporate play: if you see a space with a lot of value to extract, you move in and start extracting.</text></item><item><author>jrochkind1</author><text>&amp;gt; By 2021, Spotify had paid to sign some of the biggest names in podcasting, and it was ready to start squeezing its competitors… Now, Spotify chief content officer Dawn Ostroff — a TV veteran most famous for bringing Gossip Girl to the CW — was ready to stop many of these creators and companies from sharing podcasts on Apple and Amazon, and keep the content exclusively on Spotify.&lt;p&gt;I have noticed Spotify trying to funnel a decentralized podcasting ecosystem based on RSS into their own walled garden, with some pretty big plays -- it would be really encouraging if they fail at this! I sure hope so. And that nobody else can pull it off either.&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; The company saw podcasting as a rapidly growing space without middlemen.&lt;p&gt;Anyone else see the irony there? &lt;i&gt;Without&lt;/i&gt; middlemen? Spotify was trying to cement itself as the middleman in as much podcasting as possible, right? Or maybe it&amp;#x27;s not irony, it&amp;#x27;s exactly that, Spotify saw a space without middleman and thus an opportunity to lock itself in as the middleman.&lt;p&gt;Of course it&amp;#x27;s not over yet, and Spotify remains in the game, along with others trying to capture podcasting in walled gardens.&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; The company said in 2021 that it overtook Apple as the biggest platform in podcasts, and the company is similarly neck-and-neck with SiriusXM as the biggest podcast network, making the company both one of the biggest producers of podcasts and the place where most people listen to them</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Adraghast</author><text>&amp;gt; Also, I&amp;#x27;ve tried 4 different podcast players and they&amp;#x27;re all terrible except for Spotify&amp;#x27;s.&lt;p&gt;You’re the first person I’ve heard with anything positive to say about their podcast UI, so I’m really curious what those four are.</text></comment>

<story><title>How Spotify&apos;s podcast bet went wrong</title><url>https://www.semafor.com/article/02/12/2023/how-spotifys-podcast-bet-went-wrong</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>cccybernetic</author><text>Meh, you can call it value extraction if you want, but ultimately they&amp;#x27;re paying these people. Didn&amp;#x27;t Rogan get like 100MM? Didn&amp;#x27;t they fund a bunch of studios and new podcast creators? From the article:&lt;p&gt;&lt;i&gt;Its drastic cuts have triggered a podcast winter, as the small studios it helped support consolidate and lavish narrative productions wane&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;Also, I&amp;#x27;ve tried 4 different podcast players and found Spotify&amp;#x27;s player to best of the bunch. Controls work like you would expect, it&amp;#x27;s very snappy, search and sorting are also polished. I&amp;#x27;ve pretty much stopped listening to Podcasts on Apple&amp;#x27;s native app because Spotify&amp;#x27;s superior experience.&lt;p&gt;I do get what you&amp;#x27;re saying about RSS feeds though, but it&amp;#x27;s not quite as black and white as you make it.&lt;p&gt;Edit - updated wording:&lt;p&gt;+ &amp;quot;found Spotify&amp;#x27;s player to best of the bunch&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;- &amp;quot;they&amp;#x27;re all terrible except for Spotify&amp;#x27;s&amp;quot;</text></item><item><author>masklinn</author><text>&amp;gt; Anyone else see the irony there? Without middlemen? Spotify was trying to cement itself as the middleman in as much podcasting as possible, right? Or maybe it&amp;#x27;s not irony, it&amp;#x27;s exactly that, Spotify saw a space without middleman and thus an opportunity to lock itself in as the middleman.&lt;p&gt;Yep, it&amp;#x27;s not irony, but is instead a common corporate play: if you see a space with a lot of value to extract, you move in and start extracting.</text></item><item><author>jrochkind1</author><text>&amp;gt; By 2021, Spotify had paid to sign some of the biggest names in podcasting, and it was ready to start squeezing its competitors… Now, Spotify chief content officer Dawn Ostroff — a TV veteran most famous for bringing Gossip Girl to the CW — was ready to stop many of these creators and companies from sharing podcasts on Apple and Amazon, and keep the content exclusively on Spotify.&lt;p&gt;I have noticed Spotify trying to funnel a decentralized podcasting ecosystem based on RSS into their own walled garden, with some pretty big plays -- it would be really encouraging if they fail at this! I sure hope so. And that nobody else can pull it off either.&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; The company saw podcasting as a rapidly growing space without middlemen.&lt;p&gt;Anyone else see the irony there? &lt;i&gt;Without&lt;/i&gt; middlemen? Spotify was trying to cement itself as the middleman in as much podcasting as possible, right? Or maybe it&amp;#x27;s not irony, it&amp;#x27;s exactly that, Spotify saw a space without middleman and thus an opportunity to lock itself in as the middleman.&lt;p&gt;Of course it&amp;#x27;s not over yet, and Spotify remains in the game, along with others trying to capture podcasting in walled gardens.&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; The company said in 2021 that it overtook Apple as the biggest platform in podcasts, and the company is similarly neck-and-neck with SiriusXM as the biggest podcast network, making the company both one of the biggest producers of podcasts and the place where most people listen to them</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>budu3</author><text>The Google Podcasts app works for me. It has a minimalist feel to it.</text></comment>

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<story><title>How to Write English Prose</title><url>https://thelampmagazine.com/2023/01/09/how-to-write-english-prose/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>red_admiral</author><text>Instead of asking, is this true or not, it is often better to ask &amp;quot;What is this true of?&amp;quot; Hyaline seas are a great thing in literature, and a terrible idea in a public service leaflet about what to do if you hear the tsunami warning sirens.&lt;p&gt;I have read lots of student projects and dissertations where, although the student could explain themselves perfectly fine in spoken English, once they were in front of a keyboard and TeXworks they fell into a style of writing that was as tortured as the syntax for fancy LaTeX tables. Orwell&amp;#x27;s advice would have been very good advice for these students!&lt;p&gt;As to writing specifically for small children: J.R.R. Tolkien&amp;#x27;s childrens&amp;#x27; story Roverandom contains a character called Psamathos Psammethicus, and Tolkien made quite clear in other writing of his that he doesn&amp;#x27;t think much of &amp;quot;writing down&amp;quot; even to children. A. A. Milne similarly has a scene in which Owl says &amp;quot;The atmospheric conditions have been very unfavourable lately.&amp;quot; &amp;quot;The what?&amp;quot;, Pooh asks. &amp;quot;It has been raining.&amp;quot;, Owl explains. That&amp;#x27;s all at once an example of making fun of pretentious writing, giving an example of the kind of writer who should read some Orwell, and something that even very young children can handle just fine (along with words like Heffalump).</text></comment>

<story><title>How to Write English Prose</title><url>https://thelampmagazine.com/2023/01/09/how-to-write-english-prose/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>bmj</author><text>Ah, David Bentley Hart.&lt;p&gt;&lt;i&gt;To propose a list of rules for writers is probably a very presumptuous thing to do. The only authority it can possibly have is one’s own example, and so offering it to the world is something of a gamble. One has to assume that one’s own writing is impressive enough to most readers to provide one with the necessary credentials for the task. If one is wrong on this score, issuing those rules will invite only ridicule. I mean, for goodness’ sake, Steven Pinker (of all people) published a book on style. How can anyone take that seriously?&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;Few writers do such a fine of job of puffing themselves up while at the same time cutting others down.&lt;p&gt;But, he is a gifted thinker and, at times, pleasant writer. For example: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.firstthings.com&amp;#x2F;article&amp;#x2F;2010&amp;#x2F;08&amp;#x2F;a-perfect-game&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.firstthings.com&amp;#x2F;article&amp;#x2F;2010&amp;#x2F;08&amp;#x2F;a-perfect-game&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>

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<story><title>Google Glass - If I Had Glass</title><url>http://www.google.com/glass/start/how-to-get-one/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ry0ohki</author><text>Just to clarify you are not winning anything free here (still an amazing opportunity though):&lt;p&gt;&quot;Explorers will each need to pre-order a Glass Explorer Edition for $1500 plus tax and attend a special pick-up experience, in person&quot;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>pvarangot</author><text>They need people with cash, otherwise their users won&apos;t be able to afford all the horses, planes and balloons necessary to enjoy the full Google Glass experience.</text></comment>

<story><title>Google Glass - If I Had Glass</title><url>http://www.google.com/glass/start/how-to-get-one/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ry0ohki</author><text>Just to clarify you are not winning anything free here (still an amazing opportunity though):&lt;p&gt;&quot;Explorers will each need to pre-order a Glass Explorer Edition for $1500 plus tax and attend a special pick-up experience, in person&quot;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>rquantz</author><text>Apparently they&apos;re seeking explorers financed by king Ferdinand and Queen Isabella.</text></comment>

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<story><title>Moved ~/.local/share/steam. Ran steam. It deleted everything owned by user</title><url>https://github.com/ValveSoftware/steam-for-linux/issues/3671</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Chris_Newton</author><text>This seems like yet another good example of why robust application-level access control would be a helpful thing to build into modern operating systems, in addition to the typical user-based controls. This may have been both a rookie mistake and a regrettable failure of code review processes, but in any case it simply shouldn’t be possible for an application running on a modern system to wipe out all user data without warning in such a sweeping way.&lt;p&gt;I have often made this argument in the context of sandboxing communications software like browsers and e-mail clients, where it is relatively unusual to need access to local files except for their own data. In that context, restricting access to other parts of the filesystem unless explicitly approved would be a useful defence against security vulnerabilities being exploited by data from remote sources. It’s hard to encrypt someone’s data and hold it for ransom or to upload sensitive documents if your malware-infected process gets killed the moment it starts poking around where it has no business being.&lt;p&gt;More generally, I see no reason that we shouldn’t limit applications’ access to any system by default, following the basic security principle of least privilege. We have useful access control lists based on concepts of ownership by users and groups and reserving different parts of the filesystem for different people. Why can’t we also have something analogous where different files or other system resources are only accessible to applications that have been approved for that access?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>andrewfong</author><text>Isn&amp;#x27;t this the basic idea behind the sandbox in OS X?&lt;p&gt;I think OS X (and mobile app development in general) shows both that this is great in theory and a net improvement over not having it, but that there are some common pitfalls to address.&lt;p&gt;First, there are a handful of apps where this model doesn&amp;#x27;t work so well -- e.g. text editors, FTP clients, etc. So you&amp;#x27;re inconveniencing quite a few legit apps which need broader access.&lt;p&gt;Second, as a corollary of the first, that means you&amp;#x27;re going to have a lot of apps that legitimately need to ask users to approve broader access. And as the number of apps asking for approval goes up, the more likely users are to simply ignore the warning and approve all. This is especially problematic since we can assume the average user is a good judge of which apps need which access.&lt;p&gt;Edit: One way of reducing user acceptance fatigue might to introduce greater granularity into the requested permissions and then tier the permissions requested -- e.g. commonly asked vs. uncommon. E.g. an app may legitimately need permission to write to any file in your home directory, but it&amp;#x27;s highly unlikely they&amp;#x27;ll need permission to write to more than X number of files per second. Or at least they shouldn&amp;#x27;t be able to do so without the OS throwing up lots of warnings outside of the app.</text></comment>

<story><title>Moved ~/.local/share/steam. Ran steam. It deleted everything owned by user</title><url>https://github.com/ValveSoftware/steam-for-linux/issues/3671</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Chris_Newton</author><text>This seems like yet another good example of why robust application-level access control would be a helpful thing to build into modern operating systems, in addition to the typical user-based controls. This may have been both a rookie mistake and a regrettable failure of code review processes, but in any case it simply shouldn’t be possible for an application running on a modern system to wipe out all user data without warning in such a sweeping way.&lt;p&gt;I have often made this argument in the context of sandboxing communications software like browsers and e-mail clients, where it is relatively unusual to need access to local files except for their own data. In that context, restricting access to other parts of the filesystem unless explicitly approved would be a useful defence against security vulnerabilities being exploited by data from remote sources. It’s hard to encrypt someone’s data and hold it for ransom or to upload sensitive documents if your malware-infected process gets killed the moment it starts poking around where it has no business being.&lt;p&gt;More generally, I see no reason that we shouldn’t limit applications’ access to any system by default, following the basic security principle of least privilege. We have useful access control lists based on concepts of ownership by users and groups and reserving different parts of the filesystem for different people. Why can’t we also have something analogous where different files or other system resources are only accessible to applications that have been approved for that access?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>falcolas</author><text>Like AppArmor, or SELinux, or any of the other applications which have their hooks in the LSM? They do a fantastic job of this, if you can figure out how to use them.&lt;p&gt;The truth is that they are too hard for even your average Sysadmin to configure &amp;amp; manage, let alone your average desktop user.&lt;p&gt;setenforce=1 (yeah, right).</text></comment>

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<story><title>Memories of Steve</title><url>http://donmelton.com/2014/04/10/memories-of-steve/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>13hours</author><text>I sort of find it a little sad that very talented people have this god like image of someone like Steve. Without them he would have been nothing, but still he gets all the glory and fear, and they get little respect.</text></item><item><author>general_failure</author><text>It looks like some people like Steve are charismatic enough to get the complete devotion of very talented people. It&amp;#x27;s a great personality trait to have and pretty much guarantees success. We all know geniuses in our everyday life like Wozniak, Bob, cook. But how many of us can get these guys be terrified of us, make them change their lives for our visin and make them give us their complete attention... That&amp;#x27;s the beauty of Steve. Despite flaws in his character, people seem to be feel previliged working for him.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jwr</author><text>You are generalizing, incorrectly. Many people (including myself) are quite aware of Steve&amp;#x27;s flaws, and yet appreciate the fact that in the end he Got Things Done and achieved impressive things.&lt;p&gt;Admiring or having respect for someone does not necessarily imply you&amp;#x27;re having a &amp;quot;god-like image&amp;quot; of the person, or that you&amp;#x27;re unconditionally accepting everything the person has done.</text></comment>

<story><title>Memories of Steve</title><url>http://donmelton.com/2014/04/10/memories-of-steve/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>13hours</author><text>I sort of find it a little sad that very talented people have this god like image of someone like Steve. Without them he would have been nothing, but still he gets all the glory and fear, and they get little respect.</text></item><item><author>general_failure</author><text>It looks like some people like Steve are charismatic enough to get the complete devotion of very talented people. It&amp;#x27;s a great personality trait to have and pretty much guarantees success. We all know geniuses in our everyday life like Wozniak, Bob, cook. But how many of us can get these guys be terrified of us, make them change their lives for our visin and make them give us their complete attention... That&amp;#x27;s the beauty of Steve. Despite flaws in his character, people seem to be feel previliged working for him.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>vacri</author><text>The part of the cult of personality I find most fascinating is the attributions of Apple&amp;#x27;s successes to Jobs personally, but Apple&amp;#x27;s failures were attributed to the relevant teams, who &amp;#x27;let Jobs down&amp;#x27;.</text></comment>

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<story><title>Who Is Publishing NSA and CIA Secrets, and Why?</title><url>https://www.lawfareblog.com/who-publishing-nsa-and-cia-secrets-and-why</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>cpr</author><text>Why would Russia (or other anti-US entities) need to create such a climate?&lt;p&gt;Isn&amp;#x27;t it prima facie clear that the three-letter agencies are essentially rogue governments (the &amp;quot;deep state&amp;quot;), a law unto themselves, and thus completely antithetical to the whole idea of a democratic republic?&lt;p&gt;So internal people at those agencies, if they have half a brain and a conscience, and are patriotic in the original sense of loving one&amp;#x27;s patria (fatherland), though hating the bad aspects of one&amp;#x27;s government, should already be willing to spill the so-called secrets by which these agencies operate their illegal and immoral agendas.</text></item><item><author>defen</author><text>&amp;gt; I think it&amp;#x27;s not out of the question it&amp;#x27;s multiple motives, too. It&amp;#x27;s not impossible someone chose to grab some stuff due to moral objections, and is feeding the information through some channels that themselves have their own motivations.&lt;p&gt;That would be my guess as well - an application of so-called &amp;quot;Fourth-generation warfare&amp;quot;. In the same way that ISIS seeks to encourage self-radicalization, since it is virtually untraceable, Russia (or really, anyone opposed to US interests) would aim to create a climate where NSA&amp;#x2F;CIA employees &amp;quot;self-radicalize&amp;quot; in the sense that they become convinced that those organizations are engaging in illegal or immoral activities.&lt;p&gt;So, create organizations like Wikileaks, people like Ed Snowden, plant news stories, etc. At a high level the idea is that you create a broad-spectrum propaganda campaign that is designed to encourage insiders to leak secrets for the benefit of their own conscience. If you reach the right people you can gain access to tons of secrets in a way that is 100% deniable. No payments, no meetings or communications with Russian agents that can be tracked, etc.</text></item><item><author>jerf</author><text>I think it&amp;#x27;s not out of the question it&amp;#x27;s multiple motives, too. It&amp;#x27;s not impossible someone chose to grab some stuff due to moral objections, and is feeding the information through some channels that themselves have their own motivations. I&amp;#x27;ve seen accusations that Snowden had that happen to him with his documents, for instance, by which I don&amp;#x27;t mean that I do or do not believe that, just that it&amp;#x27;s not inconceivable. You don&amp;#x27;t necessarily need a single atomic motive for this to be happening.&lt;p&gt;If so, that raises other interesting questions, such as: &amp;quot;What is the largest, most powerful possible intelligence agency that would not be virtually 100% guaranteed to leak so hard that non-trivial stuff would even get into the open air?&amp;quot; We spend a lot of time on HN worrying about how powerful a police state could become with modern technology, but it&amp;#x27;s possible that that very power could itself be a quantitative change and that an entity powerful enough to be that strong of a police state might also virtually inevitably tear itself apart with internal struggles. I mean, that would still suck for those not in the middle (though it sucks for them too; one of the reasons I really hate police states is that really &lt;i&gt;nobody&lt;/i&gt; is happy, not even the people with power), but it may imply that it is intrinsically less stable of an arrangement than many of us fear.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;m just musing here for other people to bounce their ideas off of, not particularly proposing a concrete idea here. But is it just me, or in the last 10 years have we not been seeing a slowly ramping rate of outright-public leaks like this? What if it&amp;#x27;s not a fluke, but a fundamental attribute of the current technology landscape and psychological makeup of humans at scale?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>defen</author><text>Right, the point I&amp;#x27;m making is how do you &amp;quot;know&amp;quot; that is true vs propaganda? In reality it&amp;#x27;s probably a mix of the two. It&amp;#x27;s important to recognize that although there is a binary distinction between &amp;quot;employees who have leaked&amp;quot; and &amp;quot;employees who have not&amp;quot;, there is a much fuzzier distribution of the trait &amp;quot;propensity to leak&amp;quot; across all CIA&amp;#x2F;NSA employees. Some people leak for personal gain (bribe&amp;#x2F;gambling debt&amp;#x2F;etc); some people leak for ideological reasons (convinced of the inevitable triumph of Communism&amp;#x2F;hatred of USA); some people leak because of their conscience (whistleblowers) The goal of an anti-US entity would be to nudge someone who is on the border &amp;#x2F; considering leaking into actually going through with it.</text></comment>

<story><title>Who Is Publishing NSA and CIA Secrets, and Why?</title><url>https://www.lawfareblog.com/who-publishing-nsa-and-cia-secrets-and-why</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>cpr</author><text>Why would Russia (or other anti-US entities) need to create such a climate?&lt;p&gt;Isn&amp;#x27;t it prima facie clear that the three-letter agencies are essentially rogue governments (the &amp;quot;deep state&amp;quot;), a law unto themselves, and thus completely antithetical to the whole idea of a democratic republic?&lt;p&gt;So internal people at those agencies, if they have half a brain and a conscience, and are patriotic in the original sense of loving one&amp;#x27;s patria (fatherland), though hating the bad aspects of one&amp;#x27;s government, should already be willing to spill the so-called secrets by which these agencies operate their illegal and immoral agendas.</text></item><item><author>defen</author><text>&amp;gt; I think it&amp;#x27;s not out of the question it&amp;#x27;s multiple motives, too. It&amp;#x27;s not impossible someone chose to grab some stuff due to moral objections, and is feeding the information through some channels that themselves have their own motivations.&lt;p&gt;That would be my guess as well - an application of so-called &amp;quot;Fourth-generation warfare&amp;quot;. In the same way that ISIS seeks to encourage self-radicalization, since it is virtually untraceable, Russia (or really, anyone opposed to US interests) would aim to create a climate where NSA&amp;#x2F;CIA employees &amp;quot;self-radicalize&amp;quot; in the sense that they become convinced that those organizations are engaging in illegal or immoral activities.&lt;p&gt;So, create organizations like Wikileaks, people like Ed Snowden, plant news stories, etc. At a high level the idea is that you create a broad-spectrum propaganda campaign that is designed to encourage insiders to leak secrets for the benefit of their own conscience. If you reach the right people you can gain access to tons of secrets in a way that is 100% deniable. No payments, no meetings or communications with Russian agents that can be tracked, etc.</text></item><item><author>jerf</author><text>I think it&amp;#x27;s not out of the question it&amp;#x27;s multiple motives, too. It&amp;#x27;s not impossible someone chose to grab some stuff due to moral objections, and is feeding the information through some channels that themselves have their own motivations. I&amp;#x27;ve seen accusations that Snowden had that happen to him with his documents, for instance, by which I don&amp;#x27;t mean that I do or do not believe that, just that it&amp;#x27;s not inconceivable. You don&amp;#x27;t necessarily need a single atomic motive for this to be happening.&lt;p&gt;If so, that raises other interesting questions, such as: &amp;quot;What is the largest, most powerful possible intelligence agency that would not be virtually 100% guaranteed to leak so hard that non-trivial stuff would even get into the open air?&amp;quot; We spend a lot of time on HN worrying about how powerful a police state could become with modern technology, but it&amp;#x27;s possible that that very power could itself be a quantitative change and that an entity powerful enough to be that strong of a police state might also virtually inevitably tear itself apart with internal struggles. I mean, that would still suck for those not in the middle (though it sucks for them too; one of the reasons I really hate police states is that really &lt;i&gt;nobody&lt;/i&gt; is happy, not even the people with power), but it may imply that it is intrinsically less stable of an arrangement than many of us fear.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;m just musing here for other people to bounce their ideas off of, not particularly proposing a concrete idea here. But is it just me, or in the last 10 years have we not been seeing a slowly ramping rate of outright-public leaks like this? What if it&amp;#x27;s not a fluke, but a fundamental attribute of the current technology landscape and psychological makeup of humans at scale?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>linkregister</author><text>Is it prima facie clear though?&lt;p&gt;Of the controversial activities the spy agencies have taken post-WW2, weren&amp;#x27;t virtually all of them under some White House or Congressional auspice?&lt;p&gt;The actions and capabilities revealed in the Snowden leaks were overtly defended by both the President and (most) members of Congressional intelligence committees.&lt;p&gt;If there&amp;#x27;s a deep state in the Intelligence Community, then the Commander-in-Chief, appointed Executive Branch officials (e.g. Director of National Intelligence and Defense Secretary), and Senators &amp;amp; Representatives on Intel committees are part of it. In which case, public elections are part of the deep state?</text></comment>

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<story><title>Show HN: Markdown HN profiles at {user}.at.hn</title><url>https://at.hn</url><text>Very opportunistic toy project as I saw the domain was up for grabs: &amp;#x27;at.hn&amp;#x27; is a little site where people can have their own subdomains for whatever their HN username is (opt-in only by adding a slug to your bio). It doesn&amp;#x27;t really do much. Just shows your HN bio rendered as markdown plus meta stuff. I&amp;#x27;m thinking of adding an aggregated user listing on the homepage so people can explore profiles. There&amp;#x27;s a bunch of interesting people on HN but discoverability is a bit longwinded. I&amp;#x27;m wondering what other features people want. Otherwise shall likely leave it as-is. I remember hnbadges was a thing for a while, but can&amp;#x27;t remember what happened to it. Did people like that? Anyway, at.hn&amp;#x27;s on github if people want to contribute. - &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;github.com&amp;#x2F;padolsey&amp;#x2F;at.hn&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;github.com&amp;#x2F;padolsey&amp;#x2F;at.hn&lt;/a&gt;</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>neilv</author><text>Just be a little careful, or the OnlyFans people might hear there&amp;#x27;s a new &amp;quot;social&amp;quot; where they can promote.&lt;p&gt;(For example: LLM-assisted forum presence, combined with profiles with oh, hey there, I have an OF, lol, combined with tech industry disposable incomes... I&amp;#x27;d guess would pick up a couple new whales worth the effort. Now that Reddit presumably has been picked clean.)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>lja</author><text>Any OF models would be met with HN users over-explaining their own economics to them and how it&amp;#x27;s a terrible business that&amp;#x27;ll never work. These models will also learn they don&amp;#x27;t even have a moat to differentiate themselves from other offerings and should keep their development jobs. :)</text></comment>

<story><title>Show HN: Markdown HN profiles at {user}.at.hn</title><url>https://at.hn</url><text>Very opportunistic toy project as I saw the domain was up for grabs: &amp;#x27;at.hn&amp;#x27; is a little site where people can have their own subdomains for whatever their HN username is (opt-in only by adding a slug to your bio). It doesn&amp;#x27;t really do much. Just shows your HN bio rendered as markdown plus meta stuff. I&amp;#x27;m thinking of adding an aggregated user listing on the homepage so people can explore profiles. There&amp;#x27;s a bunch of interesting people on HN but discoverability is a bit longwinded. I&amp;#x27;m wondering what other features people want. Otherwise shall likely leave it as-is. I remember hnbadges was a thing for a while, but can&amp;#x27;t remember what happened to it. Did people like that? Anyway, at.hn&amp;#x27;s on github if people want to contribute. - &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;github.com&amp;#x2F;padolsey&amp;#x2F;at.hn&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;github.com&amp;#x2F;padolsey&amp;#x2F;at.hn&lt;/a&gt;</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>neilv</author><text>Just be a little careful, or the OnlyFans people might hear there&amp;#x27;s a new &amp;quot;social&amp;quot; where they can promote.&lt;p&gt;(For example: LLM-assisted forum presence, combined with profiles with oh, hey there, I have an OF, lol, combined with tech industry disposable incomes... I&amp;#x27;d guess would pick up a couple new whales worth the effort. Now that Reddit presumably has been picked clean.)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>deadbabe</author><text>Around here I think you’d have better luck selling tiny cute looking computers with tiny screens and open source hardware.</text></comment>

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<story><title>Staying with the US Digital Service</title><url>https://www.mattcutts.com/blog/join-the-us-digital-service/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Matt_Cutts</author><text>Let me know if folks have any questions, but I left Google on Dec. 31, 2016.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>walrus01</author><text>What are your thoughts on the theft of the entire contents of everyone&amp;#x27;s SF-86 from the OPM? I&amp;#x27;ve had a security clearance in the past and all of my personal info was part of the data breach[1]. Incidents like this are one of the reasons why I would not work for the federal government again, except as contractor at much higher than standard federal scale pay rate. It&amp;#x27;s just not worth it in the personal hassle to go through the intrusive background check&amp;#x2F;clearance process.&lt;p&gt;1: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.google.com&amp;#x2F;search?q=SF-86+breach+opm&amp;amp;ie=utf-8&amp;amp;oe=utf-8&amp;amp;client=firefox-b&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.google.com&amp;#x2F;search?q=SF-86+breach+opm&amp;amp;ie=utf-8&amp;amp;oe...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;Second question: What level of clearance do your direct reports require? Secret? TS?</text></comment>

<story><title>Staying with the US Digital Service</title><url>https://www.mattcutts.com/blog/join-the-us-digital-service/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Matt_Cutts</author><text>Let me know if folks have any questions, but I left Google on Dec. 31, 2016.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>toomuchtodo</author><text>No questions, just a compliment. After going through the USDS interview process and declining an offer, I have nothing but appreciation for those who serve there knowing what&amp;#x27;s involved to be selected, onboarded, and what the day to day looks like.&lt;p&gt;Best of luck as your journey there continues.</text></comment>

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<story><title>5/3nm Wars Begin</title><url>https://semiengineering.com/5-3nm-wars-begin/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>bogomipz</author><text>The article states:&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt;&amp;quot;Originally, the node name was tied to the transistor gate length dimensions.&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;then further down:&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt;&amp;quot;CPP, a key transistor metric, measures the distance between a source and drain contact.&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;I have mistakenly thought that node designations were based on distance between source and drain. Could someone say why gate length dimensions are the more significant measurement? The distance between source and drain somehow feels more intuitive to me. But maybe because this is easier to visualize?</text></comment>

<story><title>5/3nm Wars Begin</title><url>https://semiengineering.com/5-3nm-wars-begin/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>RandomTisk</author><text>Is this just further marketing malpractice or will there actually be 5 or 3nm features?</text></comment>

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<story><title>Apple Readies MacBook Pro, MacBook Air Revamps</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-05-18/apple-readies-macbook-pro-macbook-air-revamps-with-faster-chips</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>D13Fd</author><text>I&amp;#x27;ve had MacBooks since 2005, and I&amp;#x27;m an amateur photographer. I really don&amp;#x27;t miss the ports or MagSafe at all. I actually like the USB charging better, as it allows you to connect the cord to either side, and it doesn&amp;#x27;t get accidentally knocked out if I use it on my lap. I&amp;#x27;ve found that the cord being on other side is nearly as good as magsafe anyway, as it will be better positioned to pull out if it gets yanked.&lt;p&gt;Yes, I did use the SD card reader from time to time, but most serious cameras use other cards (my older camera uses compact flash, and the newer one uses XQD). It makes no sense for Apple to integrate readers for those, and my XQD&amp;#x2F;CF readers also read SD cards, so the card reader is useless.&lt;p&gt;All of my mobile peripherals at this point are USB-C, so I don&amp;#x27;t care about USB-A ports either. And when I&amp;#x27;m at home, I use a dock, which has all of the ports I need.&lt;p&gt;Honestly I&amp;#x27;d much rather that they keep the laptops thin instead of adding ports I&amp;#x27;m not going to use.</text></item><item><author>EForEndeavour</author><text>&amp;gt; Apple plans to launch the redesigned MacBook Pros in 14-inch and 16-inch screen sizes. They’ll have a redesigned chassis, &lt;i&gt;magnetic MagSafe charger and more ports for connecting external drives and devices. Apple is also bringing back the HDMI port and SD card slot, which it nixed in previous versions, sparking criticism from photographers and the like.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;Even if they continue to force the anti-feature that is the Touch Bar onto users, I&amp;#x27;d immediately buy an M1 MBP with MagSafe and actual ports.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>BugsJustFindMe</author><text>&amp;gt; &lt;i&gt;and it doesn&amp;#x27;t get accidentally knocked out if I use it on my lap&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;Man, my 2017 MacBook Pro&amp;#x27;s USB-C charging cable (the official one, not third party, and in pristine condition) &lt;i&gt;constantly&lt;/i&gt; disconnects itself to the point where I&amp;#x27;m basically traumatized from the annoyance of it now. It only provides power if it&amp;#x27;s &lt;i&gt;ALL&lt;/i&gt; the way in, and the damned thing just pushes itself out half a millimeter and cuts power repeatedly.&lt;p&gt;I really want to like the generic nature of USB-C charging, but proper magsafe with a strong magnet is just miles better (third party magnet adapters for USB-C both break the spec and also tend to have very weak magnets which can cause damage from sparking at the port).</text></comment>

<story><title>Apple Readies MacBook Pro, MacBook Air Revamps</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-05-18/apple-readies-macbook-pro-macbook-air-revamps-with-faster-chips</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>D13Fd</author><text>I&amp;#x27;ve had MacBooks since 2005, and I&amp;#x27;m an amateur photographer. I really don&amp;#x27;t miss the ports or MagSafe at all. I actually like the USB charging better, as it allows you to connect the cord to either side, and it doesn&amp;#x27;t get accidentally knocked out if I use it on my lap. I&amp;#x27;ve found that the cord being on other side is nearly as good as magsafe anyway, as it will be better positioned to pull out if it gets yanked.&lt;p&gt;Yes, I did use the SD card reader from time to time, but most serious cameras use other cards (my older camera uses compact flash, and the newer one uses XQD). It makes no sense for Apple to integrate readers for those, and my XQD&amp;#x2F;CF readers also read SD cards, so the card reader is useless.&lt;p&gt;All of my mobile peripherals at this point are USB-C, so I don&amp;#x27;t care about USB-A ports either. And when I&amp;#x27;m at home, I use a dock, which has all of the ports I need.&lt;p&gt;Honestly I&amp;#x27;d much rather that they keep the laptops thin instead of adding ports I&amp;#x27;m not going to use.</text></item><item><author>EForEndeavour</author><text>&amp;gt; Apple plans to launch the redesigned MacBook Pros in 14-inch and 16-inch screen sizes. They’ll have a redesigned chassis, &lt;i&gt;magnetic MagSafe charger and more ports for connecting external drives and devices. Apple is also bringing back the HDMI port and SD card slot, which it nixed in previous versions, sparking criticism from photographers and the like.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;Even if they continue to force the anti-feature that is the Touch Bar onto users, I&amp;#x27;d immediately buy an M1 MBP with MagSafe and actual ports.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>moshmosh</author><text>USB-C would have been a great replacement... for DisplayPort&amp;#x2F;Thunderbolt ports.&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s finally, years later, getting merely &lt;i&gt;not infuriating&lt;/i&gt; to be stuck with only USB-C ports.&lt;p&gt;Single port for display + charging &lt;i&gt;is&lt;/i&gt; very nice, when it works.&lt;p&gt;That iPhones and most iPads still don&amp;#x27;t use it is annoying. Having two kinds of charging cable around, &lt;i&gt;years&lt;/i&gt; after Apple went all-in on USB-C for laptops, sucks.&lt;p&gt;[EDIT] two kinds of charging cable &lt;i&gt;and still&lt;/i&gt; needing to buy &amp;amp; carry two kinds of adapters&amp;#x2F;dongles for everything. Ugh.</text></comment>

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<story><title>YouTube to Remove Thousands of Videos Pushing Extreme Views</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/05/business/youtube-remove-extremist-videos.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dageshi</author><text>Is a privately owned museum a &amp;quot;public square&amp;quot;? Or a sports stadium owned by a private company? Or a Cinema? Or a threatre? No, neither is youtube.&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s a place the public visit not a piece of public infrastructure. Repeating &amp;quot;public square&amp;quot; over and over again does not make it so.</text></item><item><author>ravenstine</author><text>I&amp;#x27;m starting to think that comment sections on news sites are a really bad idea. At first I thought NPR and the like were cowards for removing theirs.&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s bad enough that NYT can be pretty biased on its own, but the comment sections are always full of low-tier thinking that just push whatever narrative is currently in the Overton window.&lt;p&gt;What I find distressing is how people remark that a telecom and advertising giant acting as a de facto government over the public square isn&amp;#x27;t a violation of free speech principles because they&amp;#x27;re a &amp;quot;private business&amp;quot;, as if that&amp;#x27;s an original thought that&amp;#x27;s profound. Funny how people say &amp;quot;it&amp;#x27;s a private business&amp;quot; when it suits their own political interests.&lt;p&gt;We wouldn&amp;#x27;t blindly allow company-owned cities or states to pass laws, especially vague or undefined ones, that potentially violate our rights, so why do we allow &amp;quot;states&amp;quot; in &lt;i&gt;cyberspace&lt;/i&gt; to be run in such a way?&lt;p&gt;Ban people promoting violence? Sure, why not. I&amp;#x27;m as against hate and violence as the next person. But not only is censoring &amp;quot;hate speech&amp;quot; becoming a slippery slope at the company level, it&amp;#x27;s bad for the public in general because it sets a greater precedent for what the big corporations that run our everyday lives can tell us what we can or cannot do, and with &lt;i&gt;no forgiveness&lt;/i&gt;. I don&amp;#x27;t find it hard to imagine a world where individuals can be &lt;i&gt;instantly&lt;/i&gt; and &lt;i&gt;permanently&lt;/i&gt; banned from doing everyday things, just like they are on YouTube, because they said or did something off the platform.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>bzbarsky</author><text>On the other hand, a privately owned shopping mall is legally a &amp;quot;public square&amp;quot; in a number of states in the US, with the justification that it is explicitly a place for people to gather and interact, just like the main street of a town in the 19th century.&lt;p&gt;Which of these cases is Youtube more like? It&amp;#x27;s already hard to tell, and it&amp;#x27;s continuing to change. I expect the legal status of online forums to evolve over the next several decades, just like the legal status of brick-and-mortar spaces has evolved over time.</text></comment>

<story><title>YouTube to Remove Thousands of Videos Pushing Extreme Views</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/05/business/youtube-remove-extremist-videos.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dageshi</author><text>Is a privately owned museum a &amp;quot;public square&amp;quot;? Or a sports stadium owned by a private company? Or a Cinema? Or a threatre? No, neither is youtube.&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s a place the public visit not a piece of public infrastructure. Repeating &amp;quot;public square&amp;quot; over and over again does not make it so.</text></item><item><author>ravenstine</author><text>I&amp;#x27;m starting to think that comment sections on news sites are a really bad idea. At first I thought NPR and the like were cowards for removing theirs.&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s bad enough that NYT can be pretty biased on its own, but the comment sections are always full of low-tier thinking that just push whatever narrative is currently in the Overton window.&lt;p&gt;What I find distressing is how people remark that a telecom and advertising giant acting as a de facto government over the public square isn&amp;#x27;t a violation of free speech principles because they&amp;#x27;re a &amp;quot;private business&amp;quot;, as if that&amp;#x27;s an original thought that&amp;#x27;s profound. Funny how people say &amp;quot;it&amp;#x27;s a private business&amp;quot; when it suits their own political interests.&lt;p&gt;We wouldn&amp;#x27;t blindly allow company-owned cities or states to pass laws, especially vague or undefined ones, that potentially violate our rights, so why do we allow &amp;quot;states&amp;quot; in &lt;i&gt;cyberspace&lt;/i&gt; to be run in such a way?&lt;p&gt;Ban people promoting violence? Sure, why not. I&amp;#x27;m as against hate and violence as the next person. But not only is censoring &amp;quot;hate speech&amp;quot; becoming a slippery slope at the company level, it&amp;#x27;s bad for the public in general because it sets a greater precedent for what the big corporations that run our everyday lives can tell us what we can or cannot do, and with &lt;i&gt;no forgiveness&lt;/i&gt;. I don&amp;#x27;t find it hard to imagine a world where individuals can be &lt;i&gt;instantly&lt;/i&gt; and &lt;i&gt;permanently&lt;/i&gt; banned from doing everyday things, just like they are on YouTube, because they said or did something off the platform.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>core-questions</author><text>Youtube runs on the back of publicly-funded infrastructure and, as a natural monopoly in the space, it has a position of privilege that needs to be regulated.&lt;p&gt;We need an Internet Bill of Rights to ensure free speech on any platform of this scale. Yes, that means speech you don&amp;#x27;t like; may I suggest not watching it?</text></comment>

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<story><title>The unreasonable effectiveness of simple HTML</title><url>https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2021/01/the-unreasonable-effectiveness-of-simple-html/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ratww</author><text>As someone involved in hiring, this is what Bootcamps and Universities are teaching, and what companies are looking for: backend spits JSON, frontend consumes it using React.&lt;p&gt;Rendering HTML on the server is not really &amp;quot;the default&amp;quot; anymore as it was 10 year ago: it&amp;#x27;s more of an optimization for when your React site is slow, and it&amp;#x27;s a black box to most people. Even static websites are &amp;quot;strange tech&amp;quot; to new graduates outside the HN bubble.&lt;p&gt;Also, developers hate mixing tech. You mentioned an &amp;quot;interactive map&amp;quot; in your example. This can be made with React or something like that, right? The issue is that a lot of developers will want to use React for everything else on the page, because they think it&amp;#x27;s &amp;quot;icky&amp;quot; to use other kinds of tech in other parts of the website. They sorta have a point (the &amp;quot;microfrontends&amp;quot; discussion was a thing a couple years ago), but on the other hand they&amp;#x27;re not considering the tradeoffs.&lt;p&gt;Also, the frontend is officially the centre of the application on medium sized companies (50+ devs). It&amp;#x27;s &lt;i&gt;way&lt;/i&gt; easier to add new code to the frontend and spin another microservice than to coordinate between multiple teams of backend engineers.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;m not saying this is good or bad, btw. It&amp;#x27;s just how it is.&lt;p&gt;EDIT: One thing that really bothers me that people fresh in the industry don&amp;#x27;t really believe that websites were faster 10 or 20 years ago, so I don&amp;#x27;t really see any light at the end of the tunnel. Sure we can do new things on the web, but what was already possible before has been made slower by our collective refusal to &amp;quot;use the right tool for the job&amp;quot;. Even the frontend tooling today is very heavy and slow, and I&amp;#x27;m in a 2020 MBP. I don&amp;#x27;t think we progressed much. React is an amazing idea (and the implementation is great), but the community has become too dogmatic.</text></item><item><author>apabepa</author><text>I am not a front-end developer but looking at it from a distance I really don&amp;#x27;t get modern web design. Sure some sites might need fancy javascript single page features, like if your webpage is an interactive map or realtime game, but most sites are just text and some pictures. Whats with all the javascript? Your site looks just like the next one anyway! It feels like an &amp;quot;Emperor&amp;#x27;s New Clothes&amp;quot; situation or maybe more likely I just don&amp;#x27;t understand the allure as an clueless user.. I am almost tempted to make a webpage to see what the big fuss is about!</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>michaelpb</author><text>A few years ago when teaching at a previous coding bootcamp that started with FE JavaScript, I remember my surprise when well-performing students got through 3 months or so of it and were confused and very impressed when I showed them how an &amp;lt;a&amp;gt; tag worked, since they had only been aware of (jQuery) JavaScript powered pages. When you are stuck just doing JS powered SPAs, an &amp;lt;a&amp;gt; tag seems like advanced technology!&lt;p&gt;I ended up at a new school creating a new curriculum. This approach is where we &amp;quot;recapitulate the evolution of the web&amp;quot;, so we start with SSGs &amp;amp; server-side programming (Python&amp;#x2F;Django), then only at the end cover SPAs and React.JS -- since, as you mentioned, that&amp;#x27;s still the main skillset that companies are new devs for.</text></comment>

<story><title>The unreasonable effectiveness of simple HTML</title><url>https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2021/01/the-unreasonable-effectiveness-of-simple-html/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ratww</author><text>As someone involved in hiring, this is what Bootcamps and Universities are teaching, and what companies are looking for: backend spits JSON, frontend consumes it using React.&lt;p&gt;Rendering HTML on the server is not really &amp;quot;the default&amp;quot; anymore as it was 10 year ago: it&amp;#x27;s more of an optimization for when your React site is slow, and it&amp;#x27;s a black box to most people. Even static websites are &amp;quot;strange tech&amp;quot; to new graduates outside the HN bubble.&lt;p&gt;Also, developers hate mixing tech. You mentioned an &amp;quot;interactive map&amp;quot; in your example. This can be made with React or something like that, right? The issue is that a lot of developers will want to use React for everything else on the page, because they think it&amp;#x27;s &amp;quot;icky&amp;quot; to use other kinds of tech in other parts of the website. They sorta have a point (the &amp;quot;microfrontends&amp;quot; discussion was a thing a couple years ago), but on the other hand they&amp;#x27;re not considering the tradeoffs.&lt;p&gt;Also, the frontend is officially the centre of the application on medium sized companies (50+ devs). It&amp;#x27;s &lt;i&gt;way&lt;/i&gt; easier to add new code to the frontend and spin another microservice than to coordinate between multiple teams of backend engineers.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;m not saying this is good or bad, btw. It&amp;#x27;s just how it is.&lt;p&gt;EDIT: One thing that really bothers me that people fresh in the industry don&amp;#x27;t really believe that websites were faster 10 or 20 years ago, so I don&amp;#x27;t really see any light at the end of the tunnel. Sure we can do new things on the web, but what was already possible before has been made slower by our collective refusal to &amp;quot;use the right tool for the job&amp;quot;. Even the frontend tooling today is very heavy and slow, and I&amp;#x27;m in a 2020 MBP. I don&amp;#x27;t think we progressed much. React is an amazing idea (and the implementation is great), but the community has become too dogmatic.</text></item><item><author>apabepa</author><text>I am not a front-end developer but looking at it from a distance I really don&amp;#x27;t get modern web design. Sure some sites might need fancy javascript single page features, like if your webpage is an interactive map or realtime game, but most sites are just text and some pictures. Whats with all the javascript? Your site looks just like the next one anyway! It feels like an &amp;quot;Emperor&amp;#x27;s New Clothes&amp;quot; situation or maybe more likely I just don&amp;#x27;t understand the allure as an clueless user.. I am almost tempted to make a webpage to see what the big fuss is about!</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>SulfurHexaFluri</author><text>&amp;gt;The issue is that a lot of developers will want to use React for everything else on the page, because they think it&amp;#x27;s &amp;quot;icky&amp;quot; to use other kinds of tech in other parts of the website.&lt;p&gt;It is though. I work on an app thats 80% react and 20% rails SSR and when working on anything, seeing that an area that needs change is written with SSR makes the job 10x harder as you have to come up with alternative methods to get it working or just rewrite it in react. When everything is react everything is quite easy and you can pass around data and update things without a refresh easily.</text></comment>

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<story><title>Python moved to GitHub</title><url>https://github.com/python/cpython</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>timdorr</author><text>&amp;gt; Show file sizes&lt;p&gt;Those are at the top of the display of file contents. However, they aren&amp;#x27;t in the tree view, as you&amp;#x27;ve stated. Unfortunately, this is hard because I don&amp;#x27;t believe Git stores this info in their index of files, which is what is used to generate the tree view. It might be infeasible to gather that data for the tree view.&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; Show real dates instead of the vaguely rounded off &amp;quot;how long ago&amp;quot;.&lt;p&gt;If you hover over any relative date, the real date is shown. It&amp;#x27;s on the title attribute for any relative date.&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; Use a readable font on mobile.&lt;p&gt;The have Consolas and &amp;quot;Liberation Mono&amp;quot; on the font stack, but those probably aren&amp;#x27;t on your phone. They are limited in font selection because they have switched to native fonts. This avoids the download of some giant font file that contains all the possible glyphs (which is needed on a site like GitHub&amp;#x27;s). Unfortunately, the monospace options on mobile are pretty limited: &lt;a href=&quot;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;iosfonts.com&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;iosfonts.com&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; Show a directory tree on the left.&lt;p&gt;Best tip I can offer is to type `t` to search by file name. Works great and has partial matching support, which makes it really quick to navigate to certain key files.</text></item><item><author>Stratoscope</author><text>&amp;gt; Web source tree browsing that&amp;#x27;s front and center, that&amp;#x27;s relatively decent, with OK search.&lt;p&gt;The source browsing feels barely adequate to me. There are so many simple things they could do to make it better.&lt;p&gt;• Show file sizes. When I&amp;#x27;m exploring a repo I&amp;#x27;m unfamiliar with, one thing that&amp;#x27;s helpful for me is to get a sense of what the code is like. To do this, I want to look at some of the larger files; that&amp;#x27;s where I&amp;#x27;ll probably find the more interesting code. As it is I just click around on random files hoping to find something interesting.&lt;p&gt;• Show real dates instead of the vaguely rounded off &amp;quot;how long ago&amp;quot;. If it says &amp;quot;a month ago&amp;quot;, well, what is it, two weeks or six? And why not show the time? A couple of times I&amp;#x27;ve been looking for a code change and I didn&amp;#x27;t remember what day it was but I did remember it was right before lunch, maybe around 11:30 or so. It feels like their priority is a &amp;quot;clean and simple&amp;quot; display as opposed to a &lt;i&gt;useful and informative&lt;/i&gt; display.&lt;p&gt;• Fix the display for code that indents with tabs. It still defaults to 8 columns, which hardly anyone (with a few notable exceptions) likes. And you, the user, can&amp;#x27;t override this. They did recently start honoring the indent_size setting if you have a .editorconfig file, but that really misses the point. Many of us who use tabs don&amp;#x27;t &lt;i&gt;want&lt;/i&gt; to specify an indent_size. That&amp;#x27;s one of the virtues of tabs: people who read the code can use whatever indentation they prefer. The indent size for tabs should be a user preference setting. As it is, I started adding indent_size=4 to my .editorconfig files just to get a decent looking display on GitHub.&lt;p&gt;• Use a readable font on mobile. Courier, really? And not such low contrast! Everything is hard to read on mobile, and they even disabled pinch-zoom so I can&amp;#x27;t make the text a little bigger.&lt;p&gt;• Show a directory tree on the left. If I&amp;#x27;m exploring a repo, I&amp;#x27;d like to get the big picture of the directory layout, and also have an easy way to click around to look at the various directories. As it is, I have to do a lot of back and forth. Google Code had this from the beginning.&lt;p&gt;Edit: Thank you everyone for the helpful replies! I learned some great tips from you all.</text></item><item><author>payne92</author><text>Part of Github&amp;#x27;s secret sauce: Web source tree browsing that&amp;#x27;s front and center, that&amp;#x27;s relatively decent, with OK search. (versus making the log&amp;#x2F;history the central part of the Web UI as other tools seem to do)&lt;p&gt;There are SO many times I need a short peek at something, and am glad don&amp;#x27;t have to clone&amp;#x2F;download, etc.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>benhoyt</author><text>It&amp;#x27;s pretty cheap to get the file size with decompressing the whole blob. You can decompress just the first hundred of so bytes of the .git blob object, which starts with &amp;quot;blob {size}\x00&amp;quot;. For example, using Python:&lt;p&gt;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt; &amp;gt;&amp;gt;&amp;gt; import zlib &amp;gt;&amp;gt;&amp;gt; f = open(&amp;#x27;.git&amp;#x2F;objects&amp;#x2F;00&amp;#x2F;331d4c2e12984f70df4a3dd3bc7296825faab0&amp;#x27;, &amp;#x27;rb&amp;#x27;) &amp;gt;&amp;gt;&amp;gt; zlib.decompressobj().decompress(f.read(100)) b&amp;#x27;blob 11708\x00...&amp;#x27; &lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt; So that particular file is 11708 bytes. It still requires an open and read operation. But they could cache that on a per-file or per-tree basis, so it&amp;#x27;s very doable.</text></comment>

<story><title>Python moved to GitHub</title><url>https://github.com/python/cpython</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>timdorr</author><text>&amp;gt; Show file sizes&lt;p&gt;Those are at the top of the display of file contents. However, they aren&amp;#x27;t in the tree view, as you&amp;#x27;ve stated. Unfortunately, this is hard because I don&amp;#x27;t believe Git stores this info in their index of files, which is what is used to generate the tree view. It might be infeasible to gather that data for the tree view.&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; Show real dates instead of the vaguely rounded off &amp;quot;how long ago&amp;quot;.&lt;p&gt;If you hover over any relative date, the real date is shown. It&amp;#x27;s on the title attribute for any relative date.&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; Use a readable font on mobile.&lt;p&gt;The have Consolas and &amp;quot;Liberation Mono&amp;quot; on the font stack, but those probably aren&amp;#x27;t on your phone. They are limited in font selection because they have switched to native fonts. This avoids the download of some giant font file that contains all the possible glyphs (which is needed on a site like GitHub&amp;#x27;s). Unfortunately, the monospace options on mobile are pretty limited: &lt;a href=&quot;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;iosfonts.com&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;iosfonts.com&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; Show a directory tree on the left.&lt;p&gt;Best tip I can offer is to type `t` to search by file name. Works great and has partial matching support, which makes it really quick to navigate to certain key files.</text></item><item><author>Stratoscope</author><text>&amp;gt; Web source tree browsing that&amp;#x27;s front and center, that&amp;#x27;s relatively decent, with OK search.&lt;p&gt;The source browsing feels barely adequate to me. There are so many simple things they could do to make it better.&lt;p&gt;• Show file sizes. When I&amp;#x27;m exploring a repo I&amp;#x27;m unfamiliar with, one thing that&amp;#x27;s helpful for me is to get a sense of what the code is like. To do this, I want to look at some of the larger files; that&amp;#x27;s where I&amp;#x27;ll probably find the more interesting code. As it is I just click around on random files hoping to find something interesting.&lt;p&gt;• Show real dates instead of the vaguely rounded off &amp;quot;how long ago&amp;quot;. If it says &amp;quot;a month ago&amp;quot;, well, what is it, two weeks or six? And why not show the time? A couple of times I&amp;#x27;ve been looking for a code change and I didn&amp;#x27;t remember what day it was but I did remember it was right before lunch, maybe around 11:30 or so. It feels like their priority is a &amp;quot;clean and simple&amp;quot; display as opposed to a &lt;i&gt;useful and informative&lt;/i&gt; display.&lt;p&gt;• Fix the display for code that indents with tabs. It still defaults to 8 columns, which hardly anyone (with a few notable exceptions) likes. And you, the user, can&amp;#x27;t override this. They did recently start honoring the indent_size setting if you have a .editorconfig file, but that really misses the point. Many of us who use tabs don&amp;#x27;t &lt;i&gt;want&lt;/i&gt; to specify an indent_size. That&amp;#x27;s one of the virtues of tabs: people who read the code can use whatever indentation they prefer. The indent size for tabs should be a user preference setting. As it is, I started adding indent_size=4 to my .editorconfig files just to get a decent looking display on GitHub.&lt;p&gt;• Use a readable font on mobile. Courier, really? And not such low contrast! Everything is hard to read on mobile, and they even disabled pinch-zoom so I can&amp;#x27;t make the text a little bigger.&lt;p&gt;• Show a directory tree on the left. If I&amp;#x27;m exploring a repo, I&amp;#x27;d like to get the big picture of the directory layout, and also have an easy way to click around to look at the various directories. As it is, I have to do a lot of back and forth. Google Code had this from the beginning.&lt;p&gt;Edit: Thank you everyone for the helpful replies! I learned some great tips from you all.</text></item><item><author>payne92</author><text>Part of Github&amp;#x27;s secret sauce: Web source tree browsing that&amp;#x27;s front and center, that&amp;#x27;s relatively decent, with OK search. (versus making the log&amp;#x2F;history the central part of the Web UI as other tools seem to do)&lt;p&gt;There are SO many times I need a short peek at something, and am glad don&amp;#x27;t have to clone&amp;#x2F;download, etc.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>tlb</author><text>Size = 0 is a common case, useful to highlight, and (I think) should have a common hash value. __init__.py files are a great place to look if they&amp;#x27;re not empty, but most are.</text></comment>

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<story><title>Show HN: Solving Rush Hour, the 6x6 Sliding Block Puzzle</title><url>https://www.michaelfogleman.com/rush/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>tromp</author><text>Many years ago I investigated [1] the problem of Rush Hour with minimal size cars. I called it Unit Rush Hour, as the cars are just 1x1, but restricted to either horizontal or vertical movement. Interestingly, the puzzles can also be viewed as a kind of maze with restricted movement. My web page has the hardest 4x4 and 5x5 instances in playable form. I found the hardest 6x6 puzzle to require a whopping 732 steps [2].&lt;p&gt;[1] &lt;a href=&quot;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;tromp.github.io&amp;#x2F;orimaze.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;tromp.github.io&amp;#x2F;orimaze.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;[2] &lt;a href=&quot;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;tromp.github.io&amp;#x2F;rh.ps&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;tromp.github.io&amp;#x2F;rh.ps&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>

<story><title>Show HN: Solving Rush Hour, the 6x6 Sliding Block Puzzle</title><url>https://www.michaelfogleman.com/rush/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>losvedir</author><text>Very cool!&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;m interested in the &amp;quot;hardest&amp;quot; 6x6 puzzle. You show the one that takes the most moves to complete, but I don&amp;#x27;t think that&amp;#x27;s necessarily very difficult, if they&amp;#x27;re all pretty straightforward. Rather, I think the hardest puzzle is one where you have a lot of options to choose from. IOW, a very broad tree, rather than a very deep one. Are you able to quantify the hardest puzzle along those lines somehow?</text></comment>

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<story><title>Apple iCloud</title><url>http://www.apple.com/icloud/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jokermatt999</author><text>Honestly, this is attractive enough for me to consider reinstalling iTunes. I&apos;ve ranted a number of times on the numerous issues I&apos;ve had with it, but this service is amazing, especially as someone who doesn&apos;t buy their music from iTunes.&lt;p&gt;Why&apos;s that? Because for $25, all those older CD rips and music which was certainly acquired legally can now be obtained easily in 256 Apple lossless (edit: not lossless, duh). I don&apos;t know if I&apos;d keep using the service, but that alone is, to put it bluntly, fucking awesome. I wonder if there will be some sort of limit on this to prevent abuse.&lt;p&gt;Edit: Any of the downvoters care to explain why I was downvoted for this post? Tone, mentioning piracy/abuse, hating iTunes? I&apos;m genuinely curious here.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dmix</author><text>&amp;#62; Honestly, this is attractive enough for me to consider reinstalling iTunes.&lt;p&gt;Windows user?&lt;p&gt;I haven&apos;t found a worthy alternative on OSX.</text></comment>

<story><title>Apple iCloud</title><url>http://www.apple.com/icloud/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jokermatt999</author><text>Honestly, this is attractive enough for me to consider reinstalling iTunes. I&apos;ve ranted a number of times on the numerous issues I&apos;ve had with it, but this service is amazing, especially as someone who doesn&apos;t buy their music from iTunes.&lt;p&gt;Why&apos;s that? Because for $25, all those older CD rips and music which was certainly acquired legally can now be obtained easily in 256 Apple lossless (edit: not lossless, duh). I don&apos;t know if I&apos;d keep using the service, but that alone is, to put it bluntly, fucking awesome. I wonder if there will be some sort of limit on this to prevent abuse.&lt;p&gt;Edit: Any of the downvoters care to explain why I was downvoted for this post? Tone, mentioning piracy/abuse, hating iTunes? I&apos;m genuinely curious here.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>wtallis</author><text>AAC, even at 256kbps, is not lossless. (Nor is it Apple-specific in any way.)</text></comment>

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<story><title>Google Flights will now tell you when fares will increase</title><url>https://techcrunch.com/2016/10/17/google-flights-will-now-tell-you-when-fares-will-increase-help-you-find-cheaper-tickets/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dmbaggett</author><text>Fares and rules come from ATPCO (&lt;a href=&quot;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;atpco.net&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;atpco.net&lt;/a&gt;). Flights come from OAG (&lt;a href=&quot;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.oag.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.oag.com&lt;/a&gt;). Seat availability requires data directly from the carrier, usually via a live query to the carrier&amp;#x27;s reservation system.&lt;p&gt;The GDS companies get this data from these sources and then in turn provide (crappy) APIs for customers to use to query it.&lt;p&gt;In general, if you&amp;#x27;re doing bookings you can get small amounts of the data (a query at a time) from a GDS. Otherwise you&amp;#x27;re looking at millions of dollars per year. And then you need to write code to parse it and price tickets using it (approximately 1M LoC if you&amp;#x27;re terse about it -- more like 30M if you&amp;#x27;re a GDS).&lt;p&gt;(I know all this because I co-founded ITA Software, whose software now powers Google Flights.)</text></item><item><author>karakal</author><text>I&amp;#x27;m curious, how does one gain access to flight schedules&amp;#x2F;fares? Is this something that anyone can get their hands on and create a service (complexity aside), or do you need some sort of license that costs thousands of dollars?&lt;p&gt;Does each airline have their own way of exporting this data? Is there a single entity that aggregates from all of them? How does the actual data look like? (Is it a dump every X hours, or something more modern like a stream you can subscribe to?).</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>morgante</author><text>This is what I love about HN. Someone asks a good technical question and literally one of the most qualified people in the world answers it.</text></comment>

<story><title>Google Flights will now tell you when fares will increase</title><url>https://techcrunch.com/2016/10/17/google-flights-will-now-tell-you-when-fares-will-increase-help-you-find-cheaper-tickets/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dmbaggett</author><text>Fares and rules come from ATPCO (&lt;a href=&quot;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;atpco.net&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;atpco.net&lt;/a&gt;). Flights come from OAG (&lt;a href=&quot;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.oag.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.oag.com&lt;/a&gt;). Seat availability requires data directly from the carrier, usually via a live query to the carrier&amp;#x27;s reservation system.&lt;p&gt;The GDS companies get this data from these sources and then in turn provide (crappy) APIs for customers to use to query it.&lt;p&gt;In general, if you&amp;#x27;re doing bookings you can get small amounts of the data (a query at a time) from a GDS. Otherwise you&amp;#x27;re looking at millions of dollars per year. And then you need to write code to parse it and price tickets using it (approximately 1M LoC if you&amp;#x27;re terse about it -- more like 30M if you&amp;#x27;re a GDS).&lt;p&gt;(I know all this because I co-founded ITA Software, whose software now powers Google Flights.)</text></item><item><author>karakal</author><text>I&amp;#x27;m curious, how does one gain access to flight schedules&amp;#x2F;fares? Is this something that anyone can get their hands on and create a service (complexity aside), or do you need some sort of license that costs thousands of dollars?&lt;p&gt;Does each airline have their own way of exporting this data? Is there a single entity that aggregates from all of them? How does the actual data look like? (Is it a dump every X hours, or something more modern like a stream you can subscribe to?).</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dudurocha</author><text>Thanks for Crash Bandicoot.&lt;p&gt;How did you go from games to developing airlines reservation and fares software?</text></comment>

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<story><title>Canada&apos;s Housing Bubble Will Burst</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2017-06-21/canada-s-housing-bubble-will-burst</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>alacombe</author><text>&amp;gt; It needs to separate out Vancouver and the rest. Vancouver is its own bubble of self-perpetuating nonsense propagated by Chinese money.&lt;p&gt;Not just Chinese money, see my comment below.&lt;p&gt;To summarize: 1) best climate for Canada, 2) bounded north, west, and south, 3) land already developed, 4) high immigration</text></item><item><author>cletus</author><text>So I have two issues with this post.&lt;p&gt;1. It needs to separate out Vancouver and the rest. Vancouver is its own bubble of self-perpetuating nonsense propagated by Chinese money.&lt;p&gt;2. The article states shares are better because companies can plow money back into the business, which completely misses the point because price rises aren&amp;#x27;t pure speculation. There is a HUGE labour cost in housing such that housing prices track inflation (particularly wage inflation).&lt;p&gt;And that&amp;#x27;s the real value in property investment in periods like the 1970s that saw really high inflation.&lt;p&gt;What&amp;#x27;s more land represents a largely non-renewable resource. Take Manhattan as a fairly extreme example. They&amp;#x27;re not making more land to put things on. Other cities like Chicago, LA and especially Atlanta can basically spread forever. But even in those cities, inner city land is irreplaceable and finite.&lt;p&gt;Now I&amp;#x27;m not saying Canada isn&amp;#x27;t in a bubble or that bubble won&amp;#x27;t burst. But the author takes a naive stock-centric view of things.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>huhtenberg</author><text>Actually it _is_ mostly due to Chinese money and the fact that Vancouver is the closest Canadian metropolis to Hong Kong, which jump-started the Vancouver bubble in 1999.</text></comment>

<story><title>Canada&apos;s Housing Bubble Will Burst</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2017-06-21/canada-s-housing-bubble-will-burst</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>alacombe</author><text>&amp;gt; It needs to separate out Vancouver and the rest. Vancouver is its own bubble of self-perpetuating nonsense propagated by Chinese money.&lt;p&gt;Not just Chinese money, see my comment below.&lt;p&gt;To summarize: 1) best climate for Canada, 2) bounded north, west, and south, 3) land already developed, 4) high immigration</text></item><item><author>cletus</author><text>So I have two issues with this post.&lt;p&gt;1. It needs to separate out Vancouver and the rest. Vancouver is its own bubble of self-perpetuating nonsense propagated by Chinese money.&lt;p&gt;2. The article states shares are better because companies can plow money back into the business, which completely misses the point because price rises aren&amp;#x27;t pure speculation. There is a HUGE labour cost in housing such that housing prices track inflation (particularly wage inflation).&lt;p&gt;And that&amp;#x27;s the real value in property investment in periods like the 1970s that saw really high inflation.&lt;p&gt;What&amp;#x27;s more land represents a largely non-renewable resource. Take Manhattan as a fairly extreme example. They&amp;#x27;re not making more land to put things on. Other cities like Chicago, LA and especially Atlanta can basically spread forever. But even in those cities, inner city land is irreplaceable and finite.&lt;p&gt;Now I&amp;#x27;m not saying Canada isn&amp;#x27;t in a bubble or that bubble won&amp;#x27;t burst. But the author takes a naive stock-centric view of things.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>davidw</author><text>&amp;gt; best climate for Canada&lt;p&gt;The Okanagan valley seems like it might merit that title as well, being fairly dry and sunny (sagebrush and wine growing!)&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Okanagan&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Okanagan&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;Looks nice! &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;goo.gl&amp;#x2F;maps&amp;#x2F;nWS4Stwc1WT2&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;goo.gl&amp;#x2F;maps&amp;#x2F;nWS4Stwc1WT2&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>

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<story><title>Show HN: Lite – A small, fast text editor</title><url>https://github.com/rxi/lite</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>joan_kode</author><text>Looking at the screenshot in full size [1], it looks really cool but the text is visibly blurry (look at the = signs for example). Text rendering is hard, and especially for a text editor it&amp;#x27;s a good idea to just use the current platform&amp;#x27;s text rendering instead of rolling your own. Of course SDL &amp;quot;rolls its own&amp;quot; because it focuses on being exactly the same on every platform.&lt;p&gt;SDL seems to offer font hinting which would somewhat solve the immediate problem, but I&amp;#x27;m not sure it&amp;#x27;s being used properly here. With that said, text rendering is optimized for the current device&amp;#x27;s DPI, so maybe I&amp;#x27;m just reading too much into a screenshot taken at a different DPI.&lt;p&gt;[1] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;user-images.githubusercontent.com&amp;#x2F;3920290&amp;#x2F;81471642-6c165880-91ea-11ea-8cd1-fae7ae8f0bc4.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;user-images.githubusercontent.com&amp;#x2F;3920290&amp;#x2F;81471642-6...&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>compressedgas</author><text>SDL has hinting because it uses freetype. But this program doesn&amp;#x27;t use that. It uses stb_truetype which does not support hinting.</text></comment>

<story><title>Show HN: Lite – A small, fast text editor</title><url>https://github.com/rxi/lite</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>joan_kode</author><text>Looking at the screenshot in full size [1], it looks really cool but the text is visibly blurry (look at the = signs for example). Text rendering is hard, and especially for a text editor it&amp;#x27;s a good idea to just use the current platform&amp;#x27;s text rendering instead of rolling your own. Of course SDL &amp;quot;rolls its own&amp;quot; because it focuses on being exactly the same on every platform.&lt;p&gt;SDL seems to offer font hinting which would somewhat solve the immediate problem, but I&amp;#x27;m not sure it&amp;#x27;s being used properly here. With that said, text rendering is optimized for the current device&amp;#x27;s DPI, so maybe I&amp;#x27;m just reading too much into a screenshot taken at a different DPI.&lt;p&gt;[1] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;user-images.githubusercontent.com&amp;#x2F;3920290&amp;#x2F;81471642-6c165880-91ea-11ea-8cd1-fae7ae8f0bc4.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;user-images.githubusercontent.com&amp;#x2F;3920290&amp;#x2F;81471642-6...&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>seddin</author><text>I have just downloaded it too and witnessed this issue, the text looks weird, like a little bit blurry, it would be perfect if it looked like on Sublime Text 3 or on this image &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;i.ibb.co&amp;#x2F;qYCpx3x&amp;#x2F;1588859182372.gif&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;i.ibb.co&amp;#x2F;qYCpx3x&amp;#x2F;1588859182372.gif&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>

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<story><title>macOS Catalina 10.15.5</title><url>https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT210642#macos10155</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>diimdeep</author><text>&amp;gt; The battery health management feature in macOS 10.15.5 is designed to improve your battery&amp;#x27;s lifespan by reducing the rate at which it chemically ages. The feature does this by monitoring your battery&amp;#x27;s temperature history and its charging patterns.&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; Based on the measurements that it collects, battery health management may reduce your battery&amp;#x27;s maximum charge when in this mode. This happens as needed to ensure that your battery charges to a level that&amp;#x27;s optimized for your usage—reducing wear on the battery, and slowing its chemical aging.&lt;p&gt;Sound great. I hope this means no more swollen batteries. &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.ifixit.com&amp;#x2F;Wiki&amp;#x2F;What_to_do_with_a_swollen_battery&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.ifixit.com&amp;#x2F;Wiki&amp;#x2F;What_to_do_with_a_swollen_batter...&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;lepageblog.wordpress.com&amp;#x2F;2011&amp;#x2F;11&amp;#x2F;24&amp;#x2F;how-to-fix-a-swollen-macbook-battery&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;lepageblog.wordpress.com&amp;#x2F;2011&amp;#x2F;11&amp;#x2F;24&amp;#x2F;how-to-fix-a-swo...&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>sroussey</author><text>I just had a MBP fixed (it was quick!) due to it swollen up one day. It would not lie down flat on a table and the trackpad was useless. Obviously could not close the screen either. How common is this?</text></comment>

<story><title>macOS Catalina 10.15.5</title><url>https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT210642#macos10155</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>diimdeep</author><text>&amp;gt; The battery health management feature in macOS 10.15.5 is designed to improve your battery&amp;#x27;s lifespan by reducing the rate at which it chemically ages. The feature does this by monitoring your battery&amp;#x27;s temperature history and its charging patterns.&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; Based on the measurements that it collects, battery health management may reduce your battery&amp;#x27;s maximum charge when in this mode. This happens as needed to ensure that your battery charges to a level that&amp;#x27;s optimized for your usage—reducing wear on the battery, and slowing its chemical aging.&lt;p&gt;Sound great. I hope this means no more swollen batteries. &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.ifixit.com&amp;#x2F;Wiki&amp;#x2F;What_to_do_with_a_swollen_battery&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.ifixit.com&amp;#x2F;Wiki&amp;#x2F;What_to_do_with_a_swollen_batter...&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;lepageblog.wordpress.com&amp;#x2F;2011&amp;#x2F;11&amp;#x2F;24&amp;#x2F;how-to-fix-a-swollen-macbook-battery&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;lepageblog.wordpress.com&amp;#x2F;2011&amp;#x2F;11&amp;#x2F;24&amp;#x2F;how-to-fix-a-swo...&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>irjustin</author><text>Deep discharge &amp;amp; Heat are common accelerators of swelling. Avoiding going to &amp;lt;10% battery and running aggressive heat dissipation will always help prolong the life.&lt;p&gt;My favorite is Macs Fan Control[0] for removing heat. 40&amp;#x27; the fan is spinning mid range speed and by 50&amp;#x27; it&amp;#x27;s full 6500 rpm.&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s the least I can do =&amp;#x2F;&lt;p&gt;[0]&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;crystalidea.com&amp;#x2F;macs-fan-control&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;crystalidea.com&amp;#x2F;macs-fan-control&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>

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<story><title>The “Granny Knot”</title><url>https://www.fieggen.com/shoelace/grannyknot.htm</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>flatline</author><text>That would not work for me. I need to keep one finger on the slip knot at all times or it becomes loose, resulting in a very unsatisfying knot. This has been by far the biggest hurdle to teaching my kids to tie a decent knot in their shoelaces: they can move through the motions just fine but it&amp;#x27;s always loose. I actually start with my left index finger on the slip knot then transition to my right index finger halfway through - much more complicated than it at first seems.</text></item><item><author>qwnp</author><text>The &amp;quot;Ian Knot&amp;quot;[0] (which, I just discovered, was invented by the author of that site) is quite possibly the coolest and fastest way to tie your shoes.&lt;p&gt;[0] - &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.fieggen.com&amp;#x2F;shoelace&amp;#x2F;ianknot.htm&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.fieggen.com&amp;#x2F;shoelace&amp;#x2F;ianknot.htm&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>pmahoney</author><text>Not sure if this would help, and I&amp;#x27;m not exactly sure I&amp;#x27;m understanding you correctly, but when I tie hockey stakes, instead of a single &amp;quot;left-over-right starting knot&amp;quot; (using terminology from the post), I wrap around two or even three times. This provides enough friction for that first knot to stay put while I tie the loops of the standard shoelace knot (not the Ian knot, with which I&amp;#x27;m unfamiliar).</text></comment>

<story><title>The “Granny Knot”</title><url>https://www.fieggen.com/shoelace/grannyknot.htm</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>flatline</author><text>That would not work for me. I need to keep one finger on the slip knot at all times or it becomes loose, resulting in a very unsatisfying knot. This has been by far the biggest hurdle to teaching my kids to tie a decent knot in their shoelaces: they can move through the motions just fine but it&amp;#x27;s always loose. I actually start with my left index finger on the slip knot then transition to my right index finger halfway through - much more complicated than it at first seems.</text></item><item><author>qwnp</author><text>The &amp;quot;Ian Knot&amp;quot;[0] (which, I just discovered, was invented by the author of that site) is quite possibly the coolest and fastest way to tie your shoes.&lt;p&gt;[0] - &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.fieggen.com&amp;#x2F;shoelace&amp;#x2F;ianknot.htm&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.fieggen.com&amp;#x2F;shoelace&amp;#x2F;ianknot.htm&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Kozmik1</author><text>Try the Surgeon&amp;#x27;s Knot instead: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.fieggen.com&amp;#x2F;shoelace&amp;#x2F;surgeonknot.htm&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.fieggen.com&amp;#x2F;shoelace&amp;#x2F;surgeonknot.htm&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>

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<story><title>Private Government: How Employers Rule Our Lives and Why We Don&apos;t Talk about It</title><url>https://ndpr.nd.edu/news/private-government-how-employers-rule-our-lives-and-why-we-dont-talk-about-it/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Animats</author><text>That&amp;#x27;s a paper on classic union issues written with no reference to labor history.&lt;p&gt;There have been companies which really acted like governments to their employees. Ford.[1] Pullman.[2] The US labor movement arose partly as a counter to that. And, for a long time, from about 1930 to 1980, companies backed off on that out of fear of unions and government.&lt;p&gt;That fear has been lost, and companies are more assertive in employee control. Abuse of non-compete agreements to make low-level workers indentured servants would never have been accepted prior to 1990 or so.&lt;p&gt;US labor history has been erased from public dialogue in the US almost as thoroughly as Tienanmen Square has been erased from public dialogue in China.&lt;p&gt;[1] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.autonews.com&amp;#x2F;article&amp;#x2F;20030602&amp;#x2F;SUB&amp;#x2F;306020843&amp;#x2F;the-rise-and-fall-of-harry-bennett&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.autonews.com&amp;#x2F;article&amp;#x2F;20030602&amp;#x2F;SUB&amp;#x2F;306020843&amp;#x2F;the-...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;[2] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Pullman_Strike&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Pullman_Strike&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>marmaduke</author><text>&amp;gt; US labor history has been erased from public dialogue&lt;p&gt;Or inverted? When I hear people talk of unions in the US, it&amp;#x27;s about how shitty theyve made everything.</text></comment>

<story><title>Private Government: How Employers Rule Our Lives and Why We Don&apos;t Talk about It</title><url>https://ndpr.nd.edu/news/private-government-how-employers-rule-our-lives-and-why-we-dont-talk-about-it/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Animats</author><text>That&amp;#x27;s a paper on classic union issues written with no reference to labor history.&lt;p&gt;There have been companies which really acted like governments to their employees. Ford.[1] Pullman.[2] The US labor movement arose partly as a counter to that. And, for a long time, from about 1930 to 1980, companies backed off on that out of fear of unions and government.&lt;p&gt;That fear has been lost, and companies are more assertive in employee control. Abuse of non-compete agreements to make low-level workers indentured servants would never have been accepted prior to 1990 or so.&lt;p&gt;US labor history has been erased from public dialogue in the US almost as thoroughly as Tienanmen Square has been erased from public dialogue in China.&lt;p&gt;[1] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.autonews.com&amp;#x2F;article&amp;#x2F;20030602&amp;#x2F;SUB&amp;#x2F;306020843&amp;#x2F;the-rise-and-fall-of-harry-bennett&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.autonews.com&amp;#x2F;article&amp;#x2F;20030602&amp;#x2F;SUB&amp;#x2F;306020843&amp;#x2F;the-...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;[2] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Pullman_Strike&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Pullman_Strike&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>debatem1</author><text>The book does have some discussion of labor, but essentially alleges that the US labor movement is dead and new ways of thinking about the problem will be needed to wrestle with the problems of labor in the modern environment. I tend to agree, although the effort to recast employers as governments feels like a pretty transparent play to engage small-government advocates with the problems labor wants to talk about.</text></comment>

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<story><title>SEC issues more than $17M award to a whistleblower</title><url>https://www.sec.gov/news/press-release/2022-125</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>chollida1</author><text>&amp;gt; The SEC has awarded approximately $1.3 billion to 278 individuals since issuing its first award in 2012.&lt;p&gt;That&amp;#x27;s either alot of corruption that&amp;#x27;s been caught due to whistleblower rewards or an indication of the amount of corruption in the US if you are more cynical.&lt;p&gt;Whsitleblower&amp;#x27;s are eligible for 10 to 30% of the money collected from fines, so the SEC is also making alot of money from this as well.&lt;p&gt;Here&amp;#x27;s the list they maintain if you want to look:&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.sec.gov&amp;#x2F;whistleblower&amp;#x2F;pressreleases&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.sec.gov&amp;#x2F;whistleblower&amp;#x2F;pressreleases&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>gumby</author><text>&amp;gt; That&amp;#x27;s either alot of corruption that&amp;#x27;s been caught due to whistleblower rewards or an indication of the amount of corruption in the US if you are more cynical.&lt;p&gt;Given a stock market of around $100T (and the SEC covers more than stocks) it would argue for a rather small amount of corruption, were it the only signal.&lt;p&gt;In fact I believe the corruption at this level is quite small. Really, why bother when you can do it wholesale (e.g. telecoms simply capturing the regulators)?&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; Whsitleblower&amp;#x27;s are eligible for 10 to 30% of the money collected from fines, so the SEC is also making alot of money from this as well.&lt;p&gt;These fines go to the treasury; it&amp;#x27;s not like they fund operations from it.&lt;p&gt;BTW civil forfeiture, if you even believe in it at all, should go to the state or federal general funds. The current system is simply legalized theft.</text></comment>

<story><title>SEC issues more than $17M award to a whistleblower</title><url>https://www.sec.gov/news/press-release/2022-125</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>chollida1</author><text>&amp;gt; The SEC has awarded approximately $1.3 billion to 278 individuals since issuing its first award in 2012.&lt;p&gt;That&amp;#x27;s either alot of corruption that&amp;#x27;s been caught due to whistleblower rewards or an indication of the amount of corruption in the US if you are more cynical.&lt;p&gt;Whsitleblower&amp;#x27;s are eligible for 10 to 30% of the money collected from fines, so the SEC is also making alot of money from this as well.&lt;p&gt;Here&amp;#x27;s the list they maintain if you want to look:&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.sec.gov&amp;#x2F;whistleblower&amp;#x2F;pressreleases&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.sec.gov&amp;#x2F;whistleblower&amp;#x2F;pressreleases&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>2OEH8eoCRo0</author><text>The US is huge. 278 whistleblowers from 2012 to present is not bad at all.</text></comment>

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<story><title>Google is giving $1B to publishers to help convince governments not to take more</title><url>https://www.niemanlab.org/2020/10/google-is-giving-1-billion-to-news-publishers-to-help-convince-governments-not-to-take-a-whole-lot-more-than-that/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>MaKey</author><text>Without Google those sites would lose the majority of their visitors, so what is the point you&amp;#x27;re trying to get across?</text></item><item><author>ricardo81</author><text>I won&amp;#x27;t pretend to be an expert on big business and the answers to the problems of users expecting free, but I will say that initially Google had a good symbiotic relationship with publishers and that it no longer exists.&lt;p&gt;News publishers, webmasters suffering lower CTR due to G properties in SERPs, ads placing organic results below the fold, rich snippets taking content from pages to prevent a click through to the site. That kind of thing. It is&amp;#x2F;was all a bit insidious and now time is being called on it, they seem to be relenting, a bit, at least on face value.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>senko</author><text>&amp;gt; Without Google those sites would lose the majority of their visitors&lt;p&gt;That&amp;#x27;s not neccessarily true. Without &lt;i&gt;a search engine&lt;/i&gt;, those sites would lose the majority of their visitors. But absent Google, another search engine would do the job.&lt;p&gt;A search engine is a vital component in today&amp;#x27;s web. &amp;quot;Google search&amp;quot; is not, and its market power dominance doesn&amp;#x27;t give it a moral blank check.</text></comment>

<story><title>Google is giving $1B to publishers to help convince governments not to take more</title><url>https://www.niemanlab.org/2020/10/google-is-giving-1-billion-to-news-publishers-to-help-convince-governments-not-to-take-a-whole-lot-more-than-that/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>MaKey</author><text>Without Google those sites would lose the majority of their visitors, so what is the point you&amp;#x27;re trying to get across?</text></item><item><author>ricardo81</author><text>I won&amp;#x27;t pretend to be an expert on big business and the answers to the problems of users expecting free, but I will say that initially Google had a good symbiotic relationship with publishers and that it no longer exists.&lt;p&gt;News publishers, webmasters suffering lower CTR due to G properties in SERPs, ads placing organic results below the fold, rich snippets taking content from pages to prevent a click through to the site. That kind of thing. It is&amp;#x2F;was all a bit insidious and now time is being called on it, they seem to be relenting, a bit, at least on face value.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ricardo81</author><text>Google has a search monopoly in many countries. Are you implying that if Google did not exist, no one would visit websites any more, or read the news? They were originally a search engine to find other things on the web, not so much a portal.</text></comment>

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<story><title>Don’t Rush Quantum-Proof Encryption, Warns NSA Research Director</title><url>https://www.nextgov.com/emerging-tech/2019/11/dont-rush-quantum-proof-encryption-warns-nsa-research-director/161217/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Perseids</author><text>The whole premise of the article is broken:&lt;p&gt;1. Every respectable cryptographic protocol designer would hedge their bets by combining a post-quantum cryptography (PQC) algorithm with a classical one, preferable elliptic curve cryptography (ECC), such that you first have to break ECC in order to attack the post-quantum cryptography. ECC is great in that it is both fast, secure, its signatures, ciphertexts and keys are small. Every post-quantum algorithm fails in at least one of the categories, but as ECC excels everywhere, the overhead is basically bound by a factor of two.&lt;p&gt;2. Our focus can&amp;#x27;t be on choosing one PQC algorithm now (and keep it forever), as it is a very young field comparably (as the article agrees). Instead, we need to built up &lt;i&gt;algorithm agility&lt;/i&gt; in our protocols and software, as we are probably going to change PQC algorithms at least once, when the cryptographic community has gained experience in PQC design&amp;#x2F;cryptanalysis and we switch to the second wave PQC algorithms. In practice that means: Never assume keys, ciphertext, signatures are small. Investigate whether it is possible for keys to have &lt;i&gt;state&lt;/i&gt; (see Lamport signature). And the only way to show these properties about protocols and software &lt;i&gt;is to try out some PQC algorithms now&lt;/i&gt;. (Why the urgency? Because software and protocol turnaround time is bonkers in commercial applications. Heck, parts of the payment industry still use single DES in 2019...)&lt;p&gt;Given that the NSA knows both of this, the question is whether the author was clueless or the NSA spokesperson is malicious.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>bdamm</author><text>My employer produces low-power devices with hardware cryptography built into them. Without the crypto hardware, almost all crypto (including ECC) is too slow for practical use. It&amp;#x27;s all well and good to have &amp;quot;crypto agility&amp;quot; but that ends when it comes to depending on silicon. So if we&amp;#x27;re making our 20 year plan for, say, the next generation hardware platform that we&amp;#x27;re going to invest many millions of dollars and thousands of engineer hours to build, then which PQC algorithms will we select to be built into our platform? It&amp;#x27;s very unclear at this point.&lt;p&gt;Certainly we can be flexible in key and cert sizes, but also I happen to live in a world where a 1200 byte MTU actually matters a great deal, so it&amp;#x27;s easier to just push the requirement for dealing with enormous certificates down the road for the day when we actually have enormous certificates. Future-proofing isn&amp;#x27;t an issue yet because legacy devices will &lt;i&gt;never&lt;/i&gt; be able to do PQC.&lt;p&gt;The premise is not broken at all, for us.</text></comment>

<story><title>Don’t Rush Quantum-Proof Encryption, Warns NSA Research Director</title><url>https://www.nextgov.com/emerging-tech/2019/11/dont-rush-quantum-proof-encryption-warns-nsa-research-director/161217/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Perseids</author><text>The whole premise of the article is broken:&lt;p&gt;1. Every respectable cryptographic protocol designer would hedge their bets by combining a post-quantum cryptography (PQC) algorithm with a classical one, preferable elliptic curve cryptography (ECC), such that you first have to break ECC in order to attack the post-quantum cryptography. ECC is great in that it is both fast, secure, its signatures, ciphertexts and keys are small. Every post-quantum algorithm fails in at least one of the categories, but as ECC excels everywhere, the overhead is basically bound by a factor of two.&lt;p&gt;2. Our focus can&amp;#x27;t be on choosing one PQC algorithm now (and keep it forever), as it is a very young field comparably (as the article agrees). Instead, we need to built up &lt;i&gt;algorithm agility&lt;/i&gt; in our protocols and software, as we are probably going to change PQC algorithms at least once, when the cryptographic community has gained experience in PQC design&amp;#x2F;cryptanalysis and we switch to the second wave PQC algorithms. In practice that means: Never assume keys, ciphertext, signatures are small. Investigate whether it is possible for keys to have &lt;i&gt;state&lt;/i&gt; (see Lamport signature). And the only way to show these properties about protocols and software &lt;i&gt;is to try out some PQC algorithms now&lt;/i&gt;. (Why the urgency? Because software and protocol turnaround time is bonkers in commercial applications. Heck, parts of the payment industry still use single DES in 2019...)&lt;p&gt;Given that the NSA knows both of this, the question is whether the author was clueless or the NSA spokesperson is malicious.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>tialaramex</author><text>1. Yes, &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.imperialviolet.org&amp;#x2F;2019&amp;#x2F;10&amp;#x2F;30&amp;#x2F;pqsivssl.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.imperialviolet.org&amp;#x2F;2019&amp;#x2F;10&amp;#x2F;30&amp;#x2F;pqsivssl.html&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;blog.cloudflare.com&amp;#x2F;the-tls-post-quantum-experiment&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;blog.cloudflare.com&amp;#x2F;the-tls-post-quantum-experiment&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt; describe actual experiments Google ran using randomly selected Chrome canary users against Cloudflare and indeed their test algorithms CECPQ2 and CECPQ2b are both hybrids built using ECC plus a post-quantum algorithm.&lt;p&gt;2. However at this present time there is a strong constituency (e.g. see morelisp&amp;#x27;s comment in this sub-thread) which is happy to blame cryptographic agility for problems it arguably had little or no part in, so you can expect them to fight this while of course not committing to any particular post-quantum crypto because they also hate being wrong and invariably if you pick one now you&amp;#x27;ll be wrong.</text></comment>

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<story><title>The Downside of Full Pay Transparency</title><url>https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-downside-of-full-pay-transparency-1502676360</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>kevinmhickey</author><text>I have worked for a company with full pay transparency and for several with full opacity. I prefer opacity.&lt;p&gt;At the transparent company, I was hired in as one of the highest paid employees at a time that the company was struggling. Everyone ranked higher than me had taken a voluntary pay cut, to the point that some of them were paid less than me.&lt;p&gt;I felt guilty for taking more money than them, but conflicted as the problems were not of my making. I felt some resentment at pay peers that were underperforming. I was able to observe the performance of other employees and knew which ones were being treated fairly and not.&lt;p&gt;It was information that did nothing to benefit me, my peers or those below us in the organization. It led to more bad feelings than good and I am grateful that I do not have that information at my current employer.&lt;p&gt;I prefer sites like Glassdoor where you can get a general idea of what your coworkers might make, without the fine resolution of a name to dollar amount mapping.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>astura</author><text>&amp;gt;It was information that did nothing to benefit me, my peers or those below us in the organization.&lt;p&gt;You are mistaken, open salaries benefited you. They let you actually see the huge organizational problems in the company that would have otherwise been hidden. You had more information in which to make your career decisions on.&lt;p&gt;The bad feelings were not &lt;i&gt;caused&lt;/i&gt; by the open salaries, they were caused by the problems you listed.</text></comment>

<story><title>The Downside of Full Pay Transparency</title><url>https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-downside-of-full-pay-transparency-1502676360</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>kevinmhickey</author><text>I have worked for a company with full pay transparency and for several with full opacity. I prefer opacity.&lt;p&gt;At the transparent company, I was hired in as one of the highest paid employees at a time that the company was struggling. Everyone ranked higher than me had taken a voluntary pay cut, to the point that some of them were paid less than me.&lt;p&gt;I felt guilty for taking more money than them, but conflicted as the problems were not of my making. I felt some resentment at pay peers that were underperforming. I was able to observe the performance of other employees and knew which ones were being treated fairly and not.&lt;p&gt;It was information that did nothing to benefit me, my peers or those below us in the organization. It led to more bad feelings than good and I am grateful that I do not have that information at my current employer.&lt;p&gt;I prefer sites like Glassdoor where you can get a general idea of what your coworkers might make, without the fine resolution of a name to dollar amount mapping.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>majormajor</author><text>A lot of people are paranoid about the malicious case: &amp;quot;the company is trying to screw you over.&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;I don&amp;#x27;t think it&amp;#x27;s that hard to identify malicious employers even &lt;i&gt;without&lt;/i&gt; knowing everyone&amp;#x27;s salaries.&lt;p&gt;The non-malicious case then boils down, to me, to: who do I think is less biased in evaluating my value vs my peer&amp;#x27;s value? Me, my peer, or a third party that is neither of us? The answer to that is pretty obvious, and so what am I going to gain except being overly focused on me against my peers vs me against my past self?&lt;p&gt;I would be very interested to know how many people who want full transparency are managers who&amp;#x27;ve had to deal with things like &amp;quot;there&amp;#x27;s a mismatch in these people&amp;#x27;s salary because they came in at different levels but are now performing equally, but if I give a massive raise (say, 30%+) this year am I setting them up to be disappointed when the size of that isn&amp;#x27;t duplicated in the future vs spreading that across 4 every-6-month slower-paced bumps?&amp;quot; Or with employees who are radically wrong about how valuable they are compared to a peer, because they&amp;#x27;re focused purely on code and not noticing how their peer laid a bunch of ground work in negotiating with product and other stakeholders to eliminate some requirements that would&amp;#x27;ve made the project take several months longer?&lt;p&gt;You can be transparent about the &lt;i&gt;why&lt;/i&gt;: &amp;quot;we&amp;#x27;re going to be doing some market adjustments to your pay, but here&amp;#x27;s how many people we&amp;#x27;ve seen get disgruntled and leave in the past if we do it too fast,&amp;quot; and &amp;quot;the next step for you is looking beyond the tasks in front of you to see the bigger picture of these projects, and building a relationship with people from the rest of the business,&amp;quot; without the gut punch that &amp;quot;here&amp;#x27;s how much less money you&amp;#x27;re making&amp;quot; is.</text></comment>

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<story><title>How Three Germans Are Cloning the Web</title><url>http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2012-02-29/the-germany-website-copy-machine#p1</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>jedc</author><text>Yes, they&apos;re copycats.&lt;p&gt;But those of us who live in Europe sometimes get absolutely &lt;i&gt;infuriated&lt;/i&gt; by US-based startups who go for years ignoring potential non-US customers. I&apos;m sure Fab.com would have eventually rolled out to Europe, but in the meantime I&apos;m happy that someone else built a product that solves the same problem.&lt;p&gt;Sometimes this is a real regulatory problem, like anything to do with banking/payments/etc. But oftentimes it&apos;s just because businesses don&apos;t seem to like taking on the extra work/complexity of thinking internationally.&lt;p&gt;So while I don&apos;t like their pure copycat methods (down to page layouts), I think they&apos;re serving a valuable purpose in the marketplace.</text></comment>

<story><title>How Three Germans Are Cloning the Web</title><url>http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2012-02-29/the-germany-website-copy-machine#p1</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>untog</author><text>I think there is a lot to learn from companies that operate in multiple languages- I used to work for one myself (until they, too, got a little copy-happy). Internationalisation is a huge market, and almost all US startups ignore it entirely. We had our original sites running in French, German, Spanish, Portugese, Hungarian, Russian... you name it. We weren&apos;t number one in any country- we were usually number 2 or 3. But none of our competitors operated outside their home country, so we managed to be very successful by occupying a lesser spot in multiple countries. Don&apos;t get me wrong, there is a large overhead in doing this- but there&apos;s plenty of opportunity, too.</text></comment>

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<story><title>DNS servers that offer privacy and filtering</title><url>https://danielmiessler.com/blog/dns-servers-you-should-have-memorized/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>krylon</author><text>I know this is not for everyone, but I strongly prefer to run my own recursive resolver at home. Performance is great, plus I get regular DNS for the machines on my home network. Also, it was a fun little project. :)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>kingo55</author><text>More people should do this.&lt;p&gt;I recently switched my home network DNS forwarder from Bind to DNS Crypt Proxy (&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;github.com&amp;#x2F;jedisct1&amp;#x2F;dnscrypt-proxy&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;github.com&amp;#x2F;jedisct1&amp;#x2F;dnscrypt-proxy&lt;/a&gt;). You can get ad&amp;#x2F;content filtering lists along with some little privacy enhancements like DNS Crypt and DNS over HTTPS support for encrypted DNS queries to supported services, like CloudFlare.</text></comment>

<story><title>DNS servers that offer privacy and filtering</title><url>https://danielmiessler.com/blog/dns-servers-you-should-have-memorized/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>krylon</author><text>I know this is not for everyone, but I strongly prefer to run my own recursive resolver at home. Performance is great, plus I get regular DNS for the machines on my home network. Also, it was a fun little project. :)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>sascha_sl</author><text>I really like the flexibility of CoreDNS for that. I use Cloudflare with dnscrypt as my resolver and still get to use intranet things at work because I can just forward the zones I need there elsewhere.</text></comment>

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<story><title>BBC Sport&apos;s Tokyo Olympics studio [video]</title><url>https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/av/olympics/58113457</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>Laremere</author><text>If you think this stuff is neat, there&amp;#x27;s a neat improvement on this using what are essentially video walls. Replacing the greenscreen removes the problems with green or white, and gives presentors&amp;#x2F;actors better idea of their space.&lt;p&gt;Tom Scott did a quiz series showing off the technology, linked to timestamps where he explains things:&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;youtu.be&amp;#x2F;zV14G-Sxu7M?t=781&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;youtu.be&amp;#x2F;zV14G-Sxu7M?t=781&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;youtu.be&amp;#x2F;Odq0ggVVRyM?t=545&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;youtu.be&amp;#x2F;Odq0ggVVRyM?t=545&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;youtu.be&amp;#x2F;RDsRFpVp0kk?t=597&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;youtu.be&amp;#x2F;RDsRFpVp0kk?t=597&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;youtu.be&amp;#x2F;xIDr5n9UIR4?t=479&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;youtu.be&amp;#x2F;xIDr5n9UIR4?t=479&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;See also roughly the same technique being used in the Mandalorian TV show: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.youtube.com&amp;#x2F;watch?v=gUnxzVOs3rk&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.youtube.com&amp;#x2F;watch?v=gUnxzVOs3rk&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>

<story><title>BBC Sport&apos;s Tokyo Olympics studio [video]</title><url>https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/av/olympics/58113457</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>OJFord</author><text>Amusing aside: I came across this linked in a woodworking subreddit - users were talking about the &amp;#x27;nice joinery&amp;#x27; behind the presenter in a freeze frame of some Olympics footage; then someone pointed out it&amp;#x27;s CGI!</text></comment>

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<story><title>Companies excluding Coloradans from remote jobs to avoid sharing salary ranges</title><url>https://www.reddit.com/r/Denver/comments/nh7s8f/but_not_in_colorado/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>xyzelement</author><text>&amp;gt; A competitive market would enable me to sort by salary and benefits and apply for the best job.&lt;p&gt;I am always surprised to see comments that make it sound like jobs (or, employees) are fungible commodities that can be bought and sold purely on price.&lt;p&gt;One simple example - two jobs may have the same title (Senior Developer, or whatever) but have totally different expectations of communication skills, leadership skills, ability to handle pressure, etc and would pay very differently. So you (and everyone else) would be tempted to apply for the top-paying job but potentially not be qualified.&lt;p&gt;Or the situation where a company is very flexible on who they hire and thus would pay a lot more or a lot less depending on what the individual brings to the table.&lt;p&gt;In a way, I think there&amp;#x27;s a bit of &amp;quot;you don&amp;#x27;t know what you don&amp;#x27;t know&amp;quot; principle at play here. If someone has limited perspective on how career development, seniority, and hiring work, they may really believe that the big problem is &amp;quot;I can&amp;#x27;t sort my opportunities by salary.&amp;quot; Someone with more experience and understanding may recognize how non-fungible people and roles can be in a way that a simple &amp;quot;sort by price&amp;quot; cannot capture.&lt;p&gt;To use your real-estate analogy, would you ever buy a house that came up first in a price-sort? No, you&amp;#x27;d both want to really understand the nuances of the house (location, condition, etc.) and how it compares to your needs and your ability to pay. IE, you&amp;#x27;d often take &amp;quot;not the best price&amp;quot; because either there&amp;#x27;s something wrong with the property or it&amp;#x27;s just not suitable to your needs.&amp;quot; Hiring is much the same.</text></item><item><author>ClumsyPilot</author><text>A competitive market would enable me to sort by salary and benefits and apply for the best job.&lt;p&gt;However companies don&amp;#x27;t want to compete on salary, and potentialy drive them up - they want maximum leverage. They get more leverage if process is obscure, so that you only agree salary late in the process and for the applicant, pulling out is risky.&lt;p&gt;The market is not really free - its being manipulated by one side.&lt;p&gt;Similarly with healthcare you don&amp;#x27;t know how much you will be charged upfront, so there is no competition on price.&lt;p&gt;With housing (in UK) there is no competition on quality because the seller doesn&amp;#x27;t have to disclose any problems with the house. If it falls of a cliff the minute you sign on the dotted line, it&amp;#x27;s your problem.&lt;p&gt;You have to pay for the surveyor to find out any issues the house might have, and that means you can only view a few houses before you&amp;#x27;ve paid the house price in survey fees.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>piaste</author><text>&amp;gt; I am always surprised to see comments that make it sound like jobs (or, employees) are fungible commodities that can be bought and sold purely on price.&lt;p&gt;I highly doubt that the parent comment meant that he would literally apply to the job with the biggest number with no other consideration.&lt;p&gt;I read it as the far more modest claim that, if even _seeing_ the number requires a significant investment of time and effort on your side, the efficiency of the market is highly restricted. Especially since, once you do see the number, you usually need to take it or leave it within a short time frame; you can&amp;#x27;t &amp;quot;open up&amp;quot; a lot of job offers and then pick the best.&lt;p&gt;To use the real-estate analogy again, how would the housing market be affected if buyers had to put down a deposit to even _see_ the listed price? And if the sellers had the ability to get a complete profile of the buyer before revealing their price? It seems pretty clear to me that the average house price would significantly increase, despite the supply and demand both staying the same.</text></comment>

<story><title>Companies excluding Coloradans from remote jobs to avoid sharing salary ranges</title><url>https://www.reddit.com/r/Denver/comments/nh7s8f/but_not_in_colorado/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>xyzelement</author><text>&amp;gt; A competitive market would enable me to sort by salary and benefits and apply for the best job.&lt;p&gt;I am always surprised to see comments that make it sound like jobs (or, employees) are fungible commodities that can be bought and sold purely on price.&lt;p&gt;One simple example - two jobs may have the same title (Senior Developer, or whatever) but have totally different expectations of communication skills, leadership skills, ability to handle pressure, etc and would pay very differently. So you (and everyone else) would be tempted to apply for the top-paying job but potentially not be qualified.&lt;p&gt;Or the situation where a company is very flexible on who they hire and thus would pay a lot more or a lot less depending on what the individual brings to the table.&lt;p&gt;In a way, I think there&amp;#x27;s a bit of &amp;quot;you don&amp;#x27;t know what you don&amp;#x27;t know&amp;quot; principle at play here. If someone has limited perspective on how career development, seniority, and hiring work, they may really believe that the big problem is &amp;quot;I can&amp;#x27;t sort my opportunities by salary.&amp;quot; Someone with more experience and understanding may recognize how non-fungible people and roles can be in a way that a simple &amp;quot;sort by price&amp;quot; cannot capture.&lt;p&gt;To use your real-estate analogy, would you ever buy a house that came up first in a price-sort? No, you&amp;#x27;d both want to really understand the nuances of the house (location, condition, etc.) and how it compares to your needs and your ability to pay. IE, you&amp;#x27;d often take &amp;quot;not the best price&amp;quot; because either there&amp;#x27;s something wrong with the property or it&amp;#x27;s just not suitable to your needs.&amp;quot; Hiring is much the same.</text></item><item><author>ClumsyPilot</author><text>A competitive market would enable me to sort by salary and benefits and apply for the best job.&lt;p&gt;However companies don&amp;#x27;t want to compete on salary, and potentialy drive them up - they want maximum leverage. They get more leverage if process is obscure, so that you only agree salary late in the process and for the applicant, pulling out is risky.&lt;p&gt;The market is not really free - its being manipulated by one side.&lt;p&gt;Similarly with healthcare you don&amp;#x27;t know how much you will be charged upfront, so there is no competition on price.&lt;p&gt;With housing (in UK) there is no competition on quality because the seller doesn&amp;#x27;t have to disclose any problems with the house. If it falls of a cliff the minute you sign on the dotted line, it&amp;#x27;s your problem.&lt;p&gt;You have to pay for the surveyor to find out any issues the house might have, and that means you can only view a few houses before you&amp;#x27;ve paid the house price in survey fees.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>analog31</author><text>Interestingly, I use price-sort extensively when doing online shopping. I don&amp;#x27;t often buy the thing that comes up first, but I certainly use it to help figure out the tradeoff between price and quality, and to filter out items that I have no reason to consider. Also, price-sort eliminates one of the psychological burdens of shopping, which is the manipulative presentation of products by the vendor.&lt;p&gt;Price-sort is a very crude version of an even more powerful tool, which is: &amp;quot;Show me everything about every product, without trying to manipulate me, and let me organize the data by criteria that I choose, not that you choose.&amp;quot; This is why Excel pivot tables are so popular in business.&lt;p&gt;Anything that makes the job search function less psychological has to be beneficial. Nothing prevents me from taking a pay cut for a particular job that I absolutely love, in a favored location, etc.&lt;p&gt;Oddly enough, product marketing and hiring share a common feature, which is that both fields have endless amounts of verbiage about how psychological manipulation is actually beneficial to the person being manipulated. If so, it should be an opt-in feature, perhaps even one that people are willing to pay for.</text></comment>

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<story><title>Vegan takeaway orders quadruple over past two years</title><url>https://www.bighospitality.co.uk/Article/2019/08/28/Vegan-takeaway-orders-quadruple-over-past-two-years</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>strict9</author><text>After 15 years of not eating meat, the past 1-2 years have been a golden era of vegetarian options in the grocery store, restaurants, and fast food.&lt;p&gt;Based on anecdotes and my social circles, the number of people completely avoiding meat hasn&amp;#x27;t changed. But omnivores adopting a semi-veg lifestyle has increased.&lt;p&gt;If I had to pick one thing, I&amp;#x27;d say environmental concerns are the main reason my omnivore friends and colleagues are eating less meat.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Iv</author><text>For me that&amp;#x27;s a mix of ethical and environmental concerns.&lt;p&gt;I agree that there is a point in the belief that it is unethical to kill animals. That&amp;#x27;s not the most unethical thing that is happening in the world, there are a lot of things to argue about, but in general, I agree that in an ideal world, we should not do that.&lt;p&gt;The environmental concerns, I only buy half-heartedly. I don&amp;#x27;t really believe that land-owners will transform their pastures or soy cultures into rain forest instead of another profitable exploitation, I&amp;#x27;d rather have states force responsible production and norms.&lt;p&gt;It is just not practical for me to go full-veg, where I live I would need to cook one hour a day for it, and I am a lousy cook, I have neither the inclination or the motivation for it.&lt;p&gt;But I reduced my consumption more and more. It was surprising to see how my taste changed. I used to be a huge meat eater and now I find eating even a small steak a bit nauseating. I almost eat no beef anymore, little pork but mostly chicken and fish, and even these I eat little.</text></comment>

<story><title>Vegan takeaway orders quadruple over past two years</title><url>https://www.bighospitality.co.uk/Article/2019/08/28/Vegan-takeaway-orders-quadruple-over-past-two-years</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>strict9</author><text>After 15 years of not eating meat, the past 1-2 years have been a golden era of vegetarian options in the grocery store, restaurants, and fast food.&lt;p&gt;Based on anecdotes and my social circles, the number of people completely avoiding meat hasn&amp;#x27;t changed. But omnivores adopting a semi-veg lifestyle has increased.&lt;p&gt;If I had to pick one thing, I&amp;#x27;d say environmental concerns are the main reason my omnivore friends and colleagues are eating less meat.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>schnevets</author><text>To me, it&amp;#x27;s less about new products and more about people&amp;#x27;s tastes. People are eating very different things now because of new popularity in some cuisines (Indian, Thai, and Mexican come to mind) and the popularity of &amp;quot;superfoods&amp;quot; (Avocado, Acai berry... ever notice there are never any animal-based superfoods?).</text></comment>

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<story><title>GoodJob – a Postgres-based ActiveJob back end for Ruby on Rails</title><url>https://island94.org/2020/07/introducing-goodjob-1-0</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>rubber_duck</author><text>What&amp;#x27;s great about Rails ? Serious question from someone who landed into a mature Rails app and is now decidedly running away from that ecosystem after a year working in it.&lt;p&gt;Rails looks like an early take on MVC that was setup around fast project creation and encourages unmaintainable code - concerns are straight out retarded (a design pattern that encourages breaking encapsulation and makes dependencies impossible to trace) and fat models encourage coupling things that don&amp;#x27;t need to be coupled.&lt;p&gt;Then there&amp;#x27;s Ruby which in my opinion goes against Zen of Python which I&amp;#x27;m a fan of - aliases all over the place for same thing, pointless name shortening and stuff to sacrifice readability, rails breaking conventions of standard library...&lt;p&gt;In the context of when it got popular I understand why it got the hype - replacing the PHP SQL in views garbage and Java 6 verbosity with XML configure everything, and the horrible ASP monstrosity.&lt;p&gt;These days I&amp;#x27;d take Python as a more popular language, that I would say is better designed and has far better Windows support.&lt;p&gt;NPM&amp;#x2F;TypeScript and structural static typing is getting really good as well but is not as mature - but code sharing between client and server is a real thing.&lt;p&gt;Go emerged since the time of Rails hype.&lt;p&gt;.NET and JVM languages and frameworks got a lot better and scale far better with big code bases.&lt;p&gt;I don&amp;#x27;t really see where Rails is great compared to alternatives, it feels like legacy at this point. I&amp;#x27;m not saying you can&amp;#x27;t write good maintainable apps in Rails either - I&amp;#x27;m just saying other frameworks and languages will make it easier IMO.</text></item><item><author>WrtCdEvrydy</author><text>Rails was always great, JS just paid a lot more...&lt;p&gt;It felt great to get back into it having people pay to migrate their Rails apps to React and Node.</text></item><item><author>mhoad</author><text>I feel like Rails is really starting to see some new life that has felt a bit absent from it for a while now. It almost seems like there is a new generation of people extremely burned out from the constant churn of the “JS-all-the-things” movement that just took over most of web development for the past several years.&lt;p&gt;There is a lot of exciting stuff landing in Rails and it’s surrounding ecosystems at the moment and I think it’s still probably the best choice for many new SAAS &amp;#x2F; web app based companies and startups.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dwheeler</author><text>&amp;gt; What&amp;#x27;s great about Rails ? Serious question from someone who landed into a mature Rails app and is now decidedly running away from that ecosystem after a year working in it.&lt;p&gt;Rails provides a mature system to quickly &amp;quot;get the job done&amp;quot; in a way that can be easily maintained and generally &amp;quot;just works&amp;quot;. It&amp;#x27;s especially good if you want to have a &lt;i&gt;small&lt;/i&gt; team manage an application. More details below.&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; Rails looks like an early take on MVC that was setup around fast project creation and encourages unmaintainable code - concerns are straight out retarded (a design pattern that encourages breaking encapsulation and makes dependencies impossible to trace) and fat models encourage coupling things that don&amp;#x27;t need to be coupled.&lt;p&gt;That hasn&amp;#x27;t been my experience. Used well, Rails code tends to be relatively easy to follow. It&amp;#x27;s true that concerns can be easily overused. But that&amp;#x27;s true of many power tools; I use concerns sparingly, and then they work just fine.&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; Then there&amp;#x27;s Ruby which in my opinion goes against Zen of Python which I&amp;#x27;m a fan of - aliases all over the place for same thing, pointless name shortening and stuff to sacrifice readability, rails breaking conventions of standard library...&lt;p&gt;This is an odd argument. I know both Ruby and Python. No, Ruby doesn&amp;#x27;t follow Python conventions. That&amp;#x27;s because Ruby is not Python. The shortening can in some places increase readability; YMMV.&lt;p&gt;Rails does extend the standard library in a few ways, but if you&amp;#x27;re using Rails, that&amp;#x27;s already baked in &amp;amp; you never see it otherwise. So again, that seems irrelevant. If you&amp;#x27;re using Rails... then you&amp;#x27;re using Rails.&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; These days I&amp;#x27;d take Python as a more popular language, that I would say is better designed and has far better Windows support.&lt;p&gt;Python &amp;amp; Ruby are similar in many ways, it&amp;#x27;s hard to argue one is objectively far &amp;quot;better&amp;quot;.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;ve heard from others that Rails runs great on Windows 10, just use Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL). I don&amp;#x27;t know how well Rails runs on native Windows. I know at one time that was important for many people. But for many people today, &amp;quot;run on native Windows&amp;quot; is irrelevant. The web application that I maintain that uses Rails runs on a Linux system, and while it would probably work on any Unix-like system, there&amp;#x27;s no interest in getting it to run on native Windows. Why do that? There&amp;#x27;s absolutely no justification for ever running that application on Windows, it would just cost more &amp;amp; crash more. If I want to run it on Windows for debugging, VirtualBox is great. Windows is disappearing completely from many server-side environments. Even Microsoft&amp;#x27;s own Azure runs Linux more than Windows: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.zdnet.com&amp;#x2F;article&amp;#x2F;microsoft-developer-reveals-linux-is-now-more-used-on-azure-than-windows-server&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.zdnet.com&amp;#x2F;article&amp;#x2F;microsoft-developer-reveals-li...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; NPM&amp;#x2F;TypeScript and structural static typing is getting really good as well but is not as mature - but code sharing between client and server is a real thing.&lt;p&gt;In many situations the sharing is so minimal as to be not worth it. I&amp;#x27;ve only found a &lt;i&gt;single&lt;/i&gt; function that would make sense on both client &amp;amp; server, and it was trivially implemented twice. That&amp;#x27;s not, by itself, a reason to force both sides to be the same language.&lt;p&gt;In many applications, &amp;quot;not as mature&amp;quot; means &amp;quot;don&amp;#x27;t use it&amp;quot;. I don&amp;#x27;t have time to waste debugging someone else&amp;#x27;s framework, especially when I&amp;#x27;m implementing a relatively straightforward CRUD application. I&amp;#x27;ll gladly use an immature system if it provides a vital capability unavailable elsewhere, but for simple CRUD applications that&amp;#x27;s absurd. I loathe fad-based engineering.&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; I don&amp;#x27;t really see where Rails is great compared to alternatives, it feels like legacy at this point. I&amp;#x27;m not saying you can&amp;#x27;t write good maintainable apps in Rails either - I&amp;#x27;m just saying other frameworks and languages will make it easier IMO.&lt;p&gt;I think the main advantages of Rails are that it is:&lt;p&gt;- &lt;i&gt;mature&lt;/i&gt; - a lot of work has been spent to make sure the &amp;quot;special cases&amp;quot; work, and a large amount of functionality is there for immediate use. Like anything it has bugs &amp;amp; missing functions, but in general, if it&amp;#x27;s a common need it&amp;#x27;s easily available, easily works, and rarely has bugs.&lt;p&gt;- &lt;i&gt;integrated&lt;/i&gt; - while Rails is implemented as a set of libraries, they&amp;#x27;re conceived as a whole, so there&amp;#x27;s no effort to &amp;quot;make the parts work together&amp;quot; - they already work together.&lt;p&gt;- simplifies &amp;amp; speeds development by making a lot of convention decisions for you, via &amp;quot;convention over configuration&amp;quot;. For example, database tables use snake_case with plural names; model class names use CamelCase and are singular. Yes, Rails automatically does the singular&amp;#x2F;plural conversion! The conventions eliminates arguing &amp;amp; deciding conventions, doing the work to configure it, and makes the code more regular, but it&amp;#x27;s more painful if you hate their conventions &amp;amp; want to override them all.&lt;p&gt;Of course, there are many worthy alternatives. Rails isn&amp;#x27;t the be-all (what is?). But Rails is still a fine choice for many applications today; GitHub and GitLab are both Rails applications. E.g.: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;about.gitlab.com&amp;#x2F;blog&amp;#x2F;2018&amp;#x2F;10&amp;#x2F;29&amp;#x2F;why-we-use-rails-to-build-gitlab&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;about.gitlab.com&amp;#x2F;blog&amp;#x2F;2018&amp;#x2F;10&amp;#x2F;29&amp;#x2F;why-we-use-rails-to...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;The biggest problem with Rails is that Ruby, like Python, is an extremely slow language. In most applications this is irrelevant; the correct way to speed things up is to cache things, and then it really isn&amp;#x27;t a problem. Rails comes with a very easy-to-use caching system. So folks, like GitLab, have found that they can identify just the hotspot &amp;amp; reimplement just that &lt;i&gt;small&lt;/i&gt; part. The same happens with Python, by the way; if you want fast Python, you either call &amp;quot;Python&amp;quot; code that&amp;#x27;s actually written in C, or rewrite your hotspot Python code into C. There&amp;#x27;s no such thing as a free lunch.&lt;p&gt;In particular, Rails has a large set of conventions. If you&amp;#x27;re willing to accept those conventions, a lot is done automatically for you. If you will continuously fight the conventions, then it&amp;#x27;s going to be a pain to work with.</text></comment>

<story><title>GoodJob – a Postgres-based ActiveJob back end for Ruby on Rails</title><url>https://island94.org/2020/07/introducing-goodjob-1-0</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>rubber_duck</author><text>What&amp;#x27;s great about Rails ? Serious question from someone who landed into a mature Rails app and is now decidedly running away from that ecosystem after a year working in it.&lt;p&gt;Rails looks like an early take on MVC that was setup around fast project creation and encourages unmaintainable code - concerns are straight out retarded (a design pattern that encourages breaking encapsulation and makes dependencies impossible to trace) and fat models encourage coupling things that don&amp;#x27;t need to be coupled.&lt;p&gt;Then there&amp;#x27;s Ruby which in my opinion goes against Zen of Python which I&amp;#x27;m a fan of - aliases all over the place for same thing, pointless name shortening and stuff to sacrifice readability, rails breaking conventions of standard library...&lt;p&gt;In the context of when it got popular I understand why it got the hype - replacing the PHP SQL in views garbage and Java 6 verbosity with XML configure everything, and the horrible ASP monstrosity.&lt;p&gt;These days I&amp;#x27;d take Python as a more popular language, that I would say is better designed and has far better Windows support.&lt;p&gt;NPM&amp;#x2F;TypeScript and structural static typing is getting really good as well but is not as mature - but code sharing between client and server is a real thing.&lt;p&gt;Go emerged since the time of Rails hype.&lt;p&gt;.NET and JVM languages and frameworks got a lot better and scale far better with big code bases.&lt;p&gt;I don&amp;#x27;t really see where Rails is great compared to alternatives, it feels like legacy at this point. I&amp;#x27;m not saying you can&amp;#x27;t write good maintainable apps in Rails either - I&amp;#x27;m just saying other frameworks and languages will make it easier IMO.</text></item><item><author>WrtCdEvrydy</author><text>Rails was always great, JS just paid a lot more...&lt;p&gt;It felt great to get back into it having people pay to migrate their Rails apps to React and Node.</text></item><item><author>mhoad</author><text>I feel like Rails is really starting to see some new life that has felt a bit absent from it for a while now. It almost seems like there is a new generation of people extremely burned out from the constant churn of the “JS-all-the-things” movement that just took over most of web development for the past several years.&lt;p&gt;There is a lot of exciting stuff landing in Rails and it’s surrounding ecosystems at the moment and I think it’s still probably the best choice for many new SAAS &amp;#x2F; web app based companies and startups.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>tomc1985</author><text>&amp;gt; Zen of Python&lt;p&gt;You lost me there. If you&amp;#x27;re coming from a Pythonic point of view you are doing Ruby wrong. It will never compare on that standard because it&amp;#x27;s not Python and it doesn&amp;#x27;t need to. Python&amp;#x27;s pillars are opinions, just like Ruby&amp;#x27;s.&lt;p&gt;Ruby&amp;#x27;s got it quirks but I consider Python to be the wrong one. Ruby&amp;#x27;s my zen (and luckily it pays good). Python syntax is wordy and awkward to me, and &amp;quot;Pythonic&amp;quot; might be great for newbies but I find its principles slow me down.&lt;p&gt;To each their own.</text></comment>

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<story><title>How Old School C Programmers Process Arguments</title><url>http://www.usrsb.in/How-Old-School-C-Programmers-Process-Arguments.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>yongjik</author><text>So it will admit any combination of -n and -x. In particular, these things won&amp;#x27;t raise an error:&lt;p&gt;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt; find - hello find - - hello find -xnxn hello find -x -n -x hello find -xxx -nnn -xn hello &lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt; Yes, the code has an impressive logic density, but there&amp;#x27;s a reason why modern programmers moved away from such style.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>userbinator</author><text>&lt;i&gt;In particular, these things won&amp;#x27;t raise an error&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;They don&amp;#x27;t necessarily need to be. Repeating the same option can either have no effect (|), invert the option (^), or increase something (as in -vvvvv.) IMHO it&amp;#x27;s a good thing when there are no error cases --- it basically means the entire input space has a defined effect.</text></comment>

<story><title>How Old School C Programmers Process Arguments</title><url>http://www.usrsb.in/How-Old-School-C-Programmers-Process-Arguments.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>yongjik</author><text>So it will admit any combination of -n and -x. In particular, these things won&amp;#x27;t raise an error:&lt;p&gt;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt; find - hello find - - hello find -xnxn hello find -x -n -x hello find -xxx -nnn -xn hello &lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt; Yes, the code has an impressive logic density, but there&amp;#x27;s a reason why modern programmers moved away from such style.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jstimpfle</author><text>It wouldn&amp;#x27;t be difficult to disallow these cases, but is that a problem after all? My opinion is that the requirements should be shaped (also) by what logic is required on the implementation side.&lt;p&gt;And in any case, there&amp;#x27;s no justification to change the style and make an incomprehensible thicket of vague &amp;quot;abstractions&amp;quot;. There&amp;#x27;s at most one to write slightly more logic.</text></comment>

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<story><title>Unraveling rm: what happens when you run it?</title><url>https://blog.safia.rocks/post/173241985600/unraveling-rm-what-happens-when-you-run-it</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>andrewla</author><text>What I found most interesting from working on some FUSE filesystems (and from the git pseudo-filesystem) is that removing a file via unlink is not a file operation at all, but an operation on the parent directory. The only way that the filesystem knows how to find a file (an inode) is by finding it in a directory listing (which is itself a filesystem object).&lt;p&gt;The name itself is the giveaway -- &amp;quot;unlink&amp;quot; because you&amp;#x27;re removing a hard link to a file.&lt;p&gt;Similarly, access permissions are also properties of the embedding in the directory, rather than the bits of the file itself.&lt;p&gt;This is a place where POSIX and Win32 diverge significantly -- in Win32, permissions and access happen at the file level, which is why Windows is testy about letting you delete a file that is in use, while POSIX doesn&amp;#x27;t care -- the process accessing the file, once the file is open, maintains a link to the inode, and all the file data is intact, just not findable in the directory where it was initially located.&lt;p&gt;A neat trick here is that you can effectively still access the file (even restore it) if a process has the file open, through the &amp;#x2F;proc filesystem.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>AceJohnny2</author><text>&amp;gt; &lt;i&gt;A neat trick here is that you can effectively still access the file (even restore it) if a process has the file open, through the &amp;#x2F;proc filesystem.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;A technique used in the most extreme unix system recovery story I&amp;#x27;ve ever read, by Al Viro:&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;yarchive.net&amp;#x2F;comp&amp;#x2F;linux&amp;#x2F;extreme_system_recovery.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;yarchive.net&amp;#x2F;comp&amp;#x2F;linux&amp;#x2F;extreme_system_recovery.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;Wherein:&lt;p&gt;* system libraries are recovered from init still having them mapped&amp;#x2F;opened, as you describe&lt;p&gt;* basic system utilities like &amp;#x27;ln&amp;#x27; are recreated from their syscalls and writing the assembly&lt;p&gt;* ELF binaries are recreated by crafting their headers manually</text></comment>

<story><title>Unraveling rm: what happens when you run it?</title><url>https://blog.safia.rocks/post/173241985600/unraveling-rm-what-happens-when-you-run-it</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>andrewla</author><text>What I found most interesting from working on some FUSE filesystems (and from the git pseudo-filesystem) is that removing a file via unlink is not a file operation at all, but an operation on the parent directory. The only way that the filesystem knows how to find a file (an inode) is by finding it in a directory listing (which is itself a filesystem object).&lt;p&gt;The name itself is the giveaway -- &amp;quot;unlink&amp;quot; because you&amp;#x27;re removing a hard link to a file.&lt;p&gt;Similarly, access permissions are also properties of the embedding in the directory, rather than the bits of the file itself.&lt;p&gt;This is a place where POSIX and Win32 diverge significantly -- in Win32, permissions and access happen at the file level, which is why Windows is testy about letting you delete a file that is in use, while POSIX doesn&amp;#x27;t care -- the process accessing the file, once the file is open, maintains a link to the inode, and all the file data is intact, just not findable in the directory where it was initially located.&lt;p&gt;A neat trick here is that you can effectively still access the file (even restore it) if a process has the file open, through the &amp;#x2F;proc filesystem.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jwilk</author><text>&amp;gt; access permissions are also properties of the embedding in the directory, rather than the bits of the file itself.&lt;p&gt;No, in POSIX they are properties of the file. You can use fchmod() and fchown() to change mode and ownership via an fd.&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; A neat trick here is that you can effectively still access the file (even restore it) if a process has the file open, through the &amp;#x2F;proc filesystem.&lt;p&gt;Yes, you can access them; but I don&amp;#x27;t believe you can link them. (But I&amp;#x27;d love to proven wrong. A few years ago I actually needed to un-unlink a non-regular file that was still open.)</text></comment>

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<story><title>Building Containers Without Docker</title><url>https://blog.alexellis.io/building-containers-without-docker/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>darksaints</author><text>You&amp;#x27;ve got a statically compiled, fully contained executable. Why would you need to wrap that in the overhead of a container?</text></item><item><author>ImJasonH</author><text>Shameless plug: if you just need to build a container that runs a Go program, you can&amp;#x27;t do it much simpler than with &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;github.com&amp;#x2F;google&amp;#x2F;ko&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;github.com&amp;#x2F;google&amp;#x2F;ko&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;`ko publish` does a `go build` and stuffs it in a base image, it even supports multi-arch images with `--platform=all`.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>justincormack</author><text>Go binaries are not entirely self contained. Even when fully statically linked (and there are several options to still use libc features) they use the certificates from the filesystem and a fee other files. So if you want full control you should ship these too.</text></comment>

<story><title>Building Containers Without Docker</title><url>https://blog.alexellis.io/building-containers-without-docker/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>darksaints</author><text>You&amp;#x27;ve got a statically compiled, fully contained executable. Why would you need to wrap that in the overhead of a container?</text></item><item><author>ImJasonH</author><text>Shameless plug: if you just need to build a container that runs a Go program, you can&amp;#x27;t do it much simpler than with &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;github.com&amp;#x2F;google&amp;#x2F;ko&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;github.com&amp;#x2F;google&amp;#x2F;ko&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;`ko publish` does a `go build` and stuffs it in a base image, it even supports multi-arch images with `--platform=all`.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>weitzj</author><text>Because you want to run it on docker or Kubernetes.&lt;p&gt;For example if you were to have a desktop program as a single binary but you could tweak its installation process. You would need some kind of configuration interface on what parameters to tweak like MSI.&lt;p&gt;So Docker or even Kubernetes yaml files are the “installation files”, which otherwise your static Go binary would lack or would be provided as either a README.md or your own custom configuration format, which you have to document.&lt;p&gt;Sure enough the single Go binary is nice and I use this often for some cli tools, but if you integrate your tooling with other people and have to communicate, it makes it easier to agree on a common language (not programming language), but “configuration&amp;#x2F;deployment “ language, so that when you talk about: “this is a port”, everybody in the team can look up what “a port” is.</text></comment>

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<story><title>A better merge workflow with Jujutsu</title><url>https://ofcr.se/jujutsu-merge-workflow</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>dang</author><text>Related:&lt;p&gt;&lt;i&gt;GG, a GUI for Jujutsu&lt;/i&gt; - &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&amp;#x2F;item?id=39713896&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&amp;#x2F;item?id=39713896&lt;/a&gt; - March 2024 (2 comments)&lt;p&gt;&lt;i&gt;jj init – getting serious about replacing Git with Jujutsu&lt;/i&gt; - &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&amp;#x2F;item?id=39232456&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&amp;#x2F;item?id=39232456&lt;/a&gt; - Feb 2024 (110 comments)&lt;p&gt;&lt;i&gt;Jujutsu: A Git-compatible DVCS that is both simple and powerful&lt;/i&gt; - &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&amp;#x2F;item?id=36952796&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&amp;#x2F;item?id=36952796&lt;/a&gt; - Aug 2023 (261 comments)&lt;p&gt;&lt;i&gt;Jujutsu: A Git-compatible DVCS that is both simple and powerful&lt;/i&gt; - &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&amp;#x2F;item?id=36371138&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&amp;#x2F;item?id=36371138&lt;/a&gt; - June 2023 (1 comment)&lt;p&gt;&lt;i&gt;Jujutsu – A Git-compatible DVCS that is both simple and powerful&lt;/i&gt; - &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&amp;#x2F;item?id=30398662&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&amp;#x2F;item?id=30398662&lt;/a&gt; - Feb 2022 (228 comments)</text></comment>

<story><title>A better merge workflow with Jujutsu</title><url>https://ofcr.se/jujutsu-merge-workflow</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>aranw</author><text>I really like the idea of Jujutsu and was really keen to try it out but when I looked at it several months back I found it really hard to get going with it and ended up just ditching it. This article looks to be a explanation to some of the concepts of `jj` and how to use it in a little more depth than some of the other tutorials I have seen out there. Definitely keen to give it another try at some point</text></comment>

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<story><title>Swift Algorithms</title><url>https://swift.org/blog/swift-algorithms/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>pmiller2</author><text>Sounds to me like a job for a DSL that compiles down to Golang for the final output. That way, the repeated code only exists in the Golang output and not in the code that humans actually write.</text></item><item><author>coldtea</author><text>One issue with Go&amp;#x27;s lack of generics is exactly that it can&amp;#x27;t have such a package (and have it be type safe, fast, and work across all relevant types), except with repeated code.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>setr</author><text>the solution is... to not use Golang!&lt;p&gt;more specifically, fairly basic operations on a list of data does not seem like it should call for the complexity of a DSL. IMO unless you need to do this quite a bit on random datatypes, copy &amp;amp; paste would probably be the better alternative. Unless you&amp;#x27;re referring to a DSL that looks exactly like Golang but with generics &amp;amp; monomorphism.... in which case ok I guess</text></comment>

<story><title>Swift Algorithms</title><url>https://swift.org/blog/swift-algorithms/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>pmiller2</author><text>Sounds to me like a job for a DSL that compiles down to Golang for the final output. That way, the repeated code only exists in the Golang output and not in the code that humans actually write.</text></item><item><author>coldtea</author><text>One issue with Go&amp;#x27;s lack of generics is exactly that it can&amp;#x27;t have such a package (and have it be type safe, fast, and work across all relevant types), except with repeated code.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>bee_rider</author><text>Googling about this (I assumed the actual &amp;#x27;solution&amp;#x27; would be a to use C-style awful macro kludges) eventually lead me to:&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;blog.golang.org&amp;#x2F;generate&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;blog.golang.org&amp;#x2F;generate&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;Now I&amp;#x27;m wondering if you joke was not actually a joke.</text></comment>

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<story><title>OpenBSD 6.3 released</title><url>https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-announce&amp;m=152267725618055</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dptd</author><text>I apologize for being an ignorant for so many years but... who is the OpenBSD target audience? In which areas it is the most popular OS? I worked with Windows, GNU&amp;#x2F;Linux and macOS (OSX) but never tried OpenBSD.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>0xcde4c3db</author><text>In my estimation, mostly a mix of:&lt;p&gt;- Those running network infrastructure (router, firewall, VPN gateway, mail server, etc.)&lt;p&gt;- Those who want a &lt;i&gt;simple&lt;/i&gt; Unix desktop with no gimmicks and low hassle&lt;p&gt;- Hardcore Unix geeks who don&amp;#x27;t like the other flavors for $REASONS&lt;p&gt;In a more general or vague sense, OpenBSD is often appealing to people who care more about cohesiveness and correctness than about the sheer magnitude of performance and features. If you&amp;#x27;ve ever thought that you might prefer to have an indefinitely supported version of Windows 7 because Windows 10 seems to be crawling with gratuitous changes, bugs, and dubious &amp;quot;features&amp;quot;, the appeal is a bit like the Unix equivalent of that.</text></comment>

<story><title>OpenBSD 6.3 released</title><url>https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-announce&amp;m=152267725618055</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dptd</author><text>I apologize for being an ignorant for so many years but... who is the OpenBSD target audience? In which areas it is the most popular OS? I worked with Windows, GNU&amp;#x2F;Linux and macOS (OSX) but never tried OpenBSD.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>alecco</author><text>BSD people, usually networking. And people who like security (though OpenBSD has detractors). It was used a lot as firewall for critical infrastructure a few years ago, perhaps still is.&lt;p&gt;Also, installation was quite fast if you knew what you were doing.</text></comment>

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<story><title>Sustained, high-fidelity quantum teleportation</title><url>https://news.fnal.gov/2020/12/fermilab-and-partners-achieve-sustained-high-fidelity-quantum-teleportation/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>junon</author><text>This makes zero sense. If the information must be conveyed classically anyway, what&amp;#x27;s the point?</text></item><item><author>pontus</author><text>You entangle two systems but in order to actually complete the teleportation you need to measure one system and then convey the outcome of that measurement to the other party. This information is needed by the second party in order for them to be able to correctly collapse the state of their system into one that is identical to the original system being teleported. The information that the first party must convey to the receiving party must be sent in a classical way (e.g. a phone call).</text></item><item><author>sabellito</author><text>I&amp;#x27;m confused, as I&amp;#x27;m an enthusiast but definitely no physicist.&lt;p&gt;The article states that quantum information is being teleported via entanglement. However, it was my understanding that one cannot transfer information in such a way as the &amp;quot;information&amp;quot; is only revealed when interacting with the particle.&lt;p&gt;Could someone perhaps clarify what&amp;#x27;s going on?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>pontus</author><text>Great question! This gets to the heart of why quantum teleportation has any value at all.&lt;p&gt;So, before QM there was already a sense in which you could teleport an object: simply measure its state perfectly and send that information to another location and have them reconstruct that state particle by particle. In principle the new system would be indistinguishable from the original system and you could claim that you&amp;#x27;ve teleported it. Now, with the discovery of quantum mechanics, this process no longer works because there is no way to measure the complete state of a quantum system. For example, you could measure the position of each particle to arbitrary accuracy or you can measure the speed of every particle to arbitrary position, but you can&amp;#x27;t do both (Heisenberg&amp;#x27;s uncertainty principle). So, it would seem like one could not construct a perfect replica of a quantum system in a new location by measuring its state in the original position.&lt;p&gt;The cleverness of quantum teleportation is that you use entanglement to sort of short circuit this limitation. You let entanglement do the heavy lifting to sort of &amp;quot;copy&amp;quot; the state from one location to another and then perform a measurement in the original location to uncover just enough information so that the person in the second location can manipulate its system to reconstruct the original state.&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s sort of like reconstructing the state without actually knowing what that state is.&lt;p&gt;Now, an interesting side effect of the quantum version is that the first measurement of the original system is necessarily destructive. As such, it&amp;#x27;s not like you&amp;#x27;ll end up with two copies of the same thing (which is what would happen in the classical version) so there&amp;#x27;s no discussion necessary around the distinction between teleportation and cloning. Classically you&amp;#x27;d be cloning the system but quantum mechanically you&amp;#x27;d really truly be teleporting it (in fact, there&amp;#x27;s a result in quantum mechanics called &amp;quot;the no cloning theorem&amp;quot; that proves that cloning in QM is impossible).</text></comment>

<story><title>Sustained, high-fidelity quantum teleportation</title><url>https://news.fnal.gov/2020/12/fermilab-and-partners-achieve-sustained-high-fidelity-quantum-teleportation/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>junon</author><text>This makes zero sense. If the information must be conveyed classically anyway, what&amp;#x27;s the point?</text></item><item><author>pontus</author><text>You entangle two systems but in order to actually complete the teleportation you need to measure one system and then convey the outcome of that measurement to the other party. This information is needed by the second party in order for them to be able to correctly collapse the state of their system into one that is identical to the original system being teleported. The information that the first party must convey to the receiving party must be sent in a classical way (e.g. a phone call).</text></item><item><author>sabellito</author><text>I&amp;#x27;m confused, as I&amp;#x27;m an enthusiast but definitely no physicist.&lt;p&gt;The article states that quantum information is being teleported via entanglement. However, it was my understanding that one cannot transfer information in such a way as the &amp;quot;information&amp;quot; is only revealed when interacting with the particle.&lt;p&gt;Could someone perhaps clarify what&amp;#x27;s going on?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>abdullahkhalids</author><text>Physical qubits are much more sensitive to transmission noise than physical bits. If you want to transmit qubits, teleportation allows you to do it with higher fidelity than by physical transmission.&lt;p&gt;Why do you want to transmit qubits? For various emerging quantum information technologies, each with different potential economic impact.</text></comment>

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<story><title>Uber loses court appeal against drivers&apos; rights</title><url>http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-41940018</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>cabaalis</author><text>I have a US perspective so I&amp;#x27;m interested in why this ruling was made. If the driver doesn&amp;#x27;t want to drive on a given day, there&amp;#x27;s no one he has to call. There&amp;#x27;s no approval of the time off. He just won&amp;#x27;t get paid because he isn&amp;#x27;t doing work.&lt;p&gt;In the US, one central tenant of being an employee vs a contractor is that your employer has power over your schedule, working location, and your work methods, which I see none of in Uber (which I did drive for back in 2016.) Uber drivers are allowed to drive for other groups and have other jobs.&lt;p&gt;So what basis was this decision made, if not &amp;quot;they are complaining and the right thing to do is something, plus Uber=bad?&amp;quot;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>doctor_fact</author><text>On what basis?&lt;p&gt;“92. ... The drivers provide the skilled labour through which the organisation delivers its services and earns its profits. We base our assessment ... in particular on the following considerations. (1) The contradiction in the Rider Terms between the fact that ULL purports to be the drivers’ agent and its assertion of “sole and absolute discretion” to accept or decline bookings. (2) The fact that Uber interviews and recruits drivers. (3) The fact that Uber controls the key information (in particular the passenger’s surname, contact details and intended destination) and excludes the driver from it. (4) The fact that Uber requires drivers to accept trips and&amp;#x2F;or not to cancel trips, and enforces the requirement by logging off drivers who breach those requirements. (5) The fact that Uber sets the (default) route and the driver departs from it at his peril. (6) The fact that UBV fixes the fare and the driver cannot agree a higher sum with the passenger. (The​ ​supposed​ ​freedom​ ​t​​o​ ​agree​ ​a​ ​lower​ ​fare​ ​is​ ​obviously​ ​nugatory.) (7) The fact that Uber imposes numerous conditions on drivers (such as the limited choice of acceptable vehicles), instructs drivers as to how to do their work and, in numerous ways, controls them in the performance of their duties. (8) The fact that Uber subjects drivers through the rating system to what amounts to a performance management&amp;#x2F;disciplinary procedure. (9) The fact that Uber determines issues about rebates, sometimes without even involving the driver whose remuneration is liable to be affected. (10) The guaranteed earnings scheme (albeit now discontinued). (11) The fact that Uber accepts the risk of loss which, if the drivers were genuinely in business on their own account, would fall upon them. (12) The fact that Uber handles complaints by passengers, including complaints about the driver. (13) The fact that Uber reserves the power to amend the drivers’ terms unilaterally.”</text></comment>

<story><title>Uber loses court appeal against drivers&apos; rights</title><url>http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-41940018</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>cabaalis</author><text>I have a US perspective so I&amp;#x27;m interested in why this ruling was made. If the driver doesn&amp;#x27;t want to drive on a given day, there&amp;#x27;s no one he has to call. There&amp;#x27;s no approval of the time off. He just won&amp;#x27;t get paid because he isn&amp;#x27;t doing work.&lt;p&gt;In the US, one central tenant of being an employee vs a contractor is that your employer has power over your schedule, working location, and your work methods, which I see none of in Uber (which I did drive for back in 2016.) Uber drivers are allowed to drive for other groups and have other jobs.&lt;p&gt;So what basis was this decision made, if not &amp;quot;they are complaining and the right thing to do is something, plus Uber=bad?&amp;quot;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Cthulhu_</author><text>The other side of the coin is that of exploitation - no Uber rides, no income. Sick? No income. Accident while driving for Uber? Your problem, you pay for everything.&lt;p&gt;If they&amp;#x27;re employees, they get a lot of rights and protections that maybe aren&amp;#x27;t common at all in the US. Companies like Uber (and e.g. construction companies, marketing agencies, etc) will push people to become self-employed so that the employer has no obligations or responsibilities whatsoever to the employee. This will allow them to out-compete the companies (like Black Cab in London) heavily, at the cost of the workers.</text></comment>

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<story><title>Tracing child abusers: Where was this picture taken? [video]</title><url>https://www.bbc.com/news/av/stories-47660347/tracing-child-abusers-where-was-this-picture-taken</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>bane</author><text>I was able to see a presentation about this topic one time by ICE. It tragic in two senses:&lt;p&gt;1) The crimes themselves are absolutely intolerable to society.&lt;p&gt;2) The lack of serious resourcing the seriousness of this crime should warrant.&lt;p&gt;Part of the presentation was specifically on identifying the location a sequence of photos was taken in the hopes that it would narrow down the search radius for the offender. The team that did the work were members of the ICE HERO program -- one of the coolest veteran-to-civilian programs I&amp;#x27;ve ever seen [1][2]. The folks literally spent weeks &amp;quot;driving&amp;quot; around likely areas in Google maps trying to identify the location. Because the photo was taken from an angle that the car wouldn&amp;#x27;t have seen, they weren&amp;#x27;t able to use any automation at all and it literally took a human&amp;#x27;s intuitive understanding of 3-D spaces to eventually figure it out.&lt;p&gt;However, what was really tough was that the HERO program only exists because it offers an internship that costs very little to DHS -- they simply can&amp;#x27;t afford a large group of full-time staff.&lt;p&gt;I urge anybody who can to petition to better fund anti-child abuse programs.&lt;p&gt;1 - &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.ice.gov&amp;#x2F;hero&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.ice.gov&amp;#x2F;hero&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;2 - &lt;a href=&quot;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.herocorps.net&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.herocorps.net&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>

<story><title>Tracing child abusers: Where was this picture taken? [video]</title><url>https://www.bbc.com/news/av/stories-47660347/tracing-child-abusers-where-was-this-picture-taken</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>Snoozus</author><text>Here the direct link to the picture database &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.europol.europa.eu&amp;#x2F;stopchildabuse&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.europol.europa.eu&amp;#x2F;stopchildabuse&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>

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<story><title>Biographer: Jobs refused early and potentially life-saving surgery</title><url>http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2011/10/20/60minutes/main20123269.shtml</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>tremendo</author><text>I really dislike all these after-the-fact rationalizations and second-guessing, and wish we could simply let the man rest in peace.&lt;p&gt;That said, for those interested, an actually well reasoned and knowledgeable piece on the subject comes from Science Based Medicine: &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.sciencebasedmedicine.org/index.php/the-death-of-steve-jobs/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.sciencebasedmedicine.org/index.php/the-death-of-s...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;Some quotes:&lt;p&gt;&lt;i&gt;&quot;Did Jobs significantly decrease his chance of surviving his cancer by waiting nine months to undergo surgery? It seems like a no-brainer, but it turns out that that’s actually a very tough question to answer.&lt;p&gt;... So, is it possible, even likely, that Jobs compromised his chances of survival? Yes. Is it definite that he did? No, it’s not... In fact, based on statistics alone, it’s unlikely that a mere nine months took Jobs “from the high end to the low end of the survival rate,”&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;Now, let&apos;s hope this thread dies instead.</text></comment>

<story><title>Biographer: Jobs refused early and potentially life-saving surgery</title><url>http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2011/10/20/60minutes/main20123269.shtml</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>MichaelApproved</author><text>I found this interesting too: &lt;i&gt;&quot;he saw Apple staffers turn into &quot;bizarro people&quot; by the riches the Apple stock offering created. Isaacson says Jobs vowed never to let his wealth change him.&quot;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;I wonder what he&apos;ll consider to be &lt;i&gt;bizarro&lt;/i&gt;.</text></comment>

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<story><title>Teach kids to farm, not code.</title><url>http://kimburgess.info/thoughts/teach-kids-to-farm-not-code</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>gambiting</author><text>I don&apos;t understand. We&apos;ve spent thousands of years, using 99.9% of able-bodied people for farming, hunting or some other food-gathering activities. Only selected few could afford to NOT work in farming. Even America, just 200 years ago had 90% of its population working as farmers.&lt;p&gt;Why such a desperate trend to make everyone grow their own food again? Sure, the food industry is not always honest,not always as good as your own home-grown food, but still - it allowed us to do something else with our lives, and pushed our societies an order of magnitude ahead.&lt;p&gt;As much as people should APPRECIATE farming, I don&apos;t think that everyone should do it. We produce enough food as it is. We should teach kids how to code however, not because we need more programmers(which we do,but I digress) - but because it&apos;s the easiest way to introduce kids to logical, technical-like thinking. That way we can have more mathematicians, physicists, astronomers, engineers - people who we can afford to keep alive(almost literally) because they do not need to grown their own food anymore! They can sit at their desks for the whole day, thinking how to make the world better, instead of looking at how the crops grow.&lt;p&gt;I would say - why not give kids both? Is it too much to ask? Show them how vegetables are grown, how animals are cared for and how are they slaughtered, but at the same time, yes, please teach them how to code.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>aethertap</author><text>I run a small farm, and I&apos;ve been a professional programmer for about 12 years. I agree with what you say - kids should definitely have the opportunity to learn both. Of my two pursuits above, farming is much newer to me and I&apos;ve found an amazing amount of skill transfer from the world of programming to the world of farming. Granted, my sheep don&apos;t understand when I yell at them in haskell, but the approaches to problem solving, whole-system thinking, and consideration of edge cases I think are enormously beneficial in almost any profession.&lt;p&gt;I do think that today&apos;s kids would benefit not only from knowing a thing or two about how to raise some food (&lt;i&gt;very&lt;/i&gt; different from actual &quot;farming&quot;) and also from having much more contact with the natural world.&lt;p&gt;I also think that many kids would benefit from learning the &quot;art&quot; side of programming - the stuff that&apos;s fun and interesting, like solving puzzles, appreciation of the hard-to-define idea of elegance, reverse engineering, etc. Nothing else I&apos;ve learned to do has had quite the impact on my ability to consider many angles in a situation and reason a way to get from one state to another, and at least for me it&apos;s been a fun process to learn it all.&lt;p&gt;My real complaint when anybody says &quot;Everybody should have to learn X,&quot; is that I think it should be &quot;Everybody should have &lt;i&gt;a chance&lt;/i&gt; to learn X.&quot; Coding was the best path for me to learn to think about complex, abstract things and apply that thinking to the real world (including farming). For others, it may not be so.</text></comment>

<story><title>Teach kids to farm, not code.</title><url>http://kimburgess.info/thoughts/teach-kids-to-farm-not-code</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>gambiting</author><text>I don&apos;t understand. We&apos;ve spent thousands of years, using 99.9% of able-bodied people for farming, hunting or some other food-gathering activities. Only selected few could afford to NOT work in farming. Even America, just 200 years ago had 90% of its population working as farmers.&lt;p&gt;Why such a desperate trend to make everyone grow their own food again? Sure, the food industry is not always honest,not always as good as your own home-grown food, but still - it allowed us to do something else with our lives, and pushed our societies an order of magnitude ahead.&lt;p&gt;As much as people should APPRECIATE farming, I don&apos;t think that everyone should do it. We produce enough food as it is. We should teach kids how to code however, not because we need more programmers(which we do,but I digress) - but because it&apos;s the easiest way to introduce kids to logical, technical-like thinking. That way we can have more mathematicians, physicists, astronomers, engineers - people who we can afford to keep alive(almost literally) because they do not need to grown their own food anymore! They can sit at their desks for the whole day, thinking how to make the world better, instead of looking at how the crops grow.&lt;p&gt;I would say - why not give kids both? Is it too much to ask? Show them how vegetables are grown, how animals are cared for and how are they slaughtered, but at the same time, yes, please teach them how to code.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Turing_Machine</author><text>&quot;Why such a desperate trend to make everyone grow their own food again? &quot;&lt;p&gt;Because most of them have no idea just how grim the life of a subsistence peasant farmer really is, and how that differs from the lucky few who get to sell boutique &quot;organic&quot; produce to rich people.</text></comment>

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<story><title>Lunar Lake&apos;s iGPU: Debut of Intel&apos;s Xe2 Architecture</title><url>https://chipsandcheese.com/p/lunar-lakes-igpu-debut-of-intels</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>transpute</author><text>&lt;i&gt;&amp;gt; Xe2, Intel is looking to use the same graphics architecture across their product stack.. integrated GPUs as a springboard into the discrete GPU market.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;Linux support for Xe2 and power management will take time to mature, &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.phoronix.com&amp;#x2F;forums&amp;#x2F;forum&amp;#x2F;linux-graphics-x-org-drivers&amp;#x2F;intel-linux&amp;#x2F;1494926-intel-xe2-lunar-lake-graphics-performance-disappoints-on-linux&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.phoronix.com&amp;#x2F;forums&amp;#x2F;forum&amp;#x2F;linux-graphics-x-org-d...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;Xe SR-IOV improves VM graphics performance. Intel dropped Xe1 SR-IOV graphics virtualization in the upstream i915 driver, but the OSS community has continued improvement in an LTS fork, making steady progress, &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;github.com&amp;#x2F;strongtz&amp;#x2F;i915-sriov-dkms&amp;#x2F;commits&amp;#x2F;master&amp;#x2F;&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;github.com&amp;#x2F;strongtz&amp;#x2F;i915-sriov-dkms&amp;#x2F;commits&amp;#x2F;master&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt; &amp;amp; &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;github.com&amp;#x2F;Upinel&amp;#x2F;PVE-Intel-vGPU?tab=readme-ov-file&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;github.com&amp;#x2F;Upinel&amp;#x2F;PVE-Intel-vGPU?tab=readme-ov-file&lt;/a&gt;.</text></comment>

<story><title>Lunar Lake&apos;s iGPU: Debut of Intel&apos;s Xe2 Architecture</title><url>https://chipsandcheese.com/p/lunar-lakes-igpu-debut-of-intels</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>SG-</author><text>i wish they covered things like x264&amp;#x2F;x265&amp;#x2F;av1&amp;#x2F;etc encoding&amp;#x2F;decoding performance and other benefits that aren&amp;#x27;t just gaming.</text></comment>

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<story><title>The Stupid Shit No One Needs and Terrible Ideas Hackathon 2.0</title><url>https://stupidhackathon.github.io/?2.0</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>nailer</author><text>A couple of years ago I made a Chrome Extension that removes everyone&amp;#x27;s eyes: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;vimeo.com&amp;#x2F;90351144&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;vimeo.com&amp;#x2F;90351144&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;🇬🇧 people: let&amp;#x27;s do a Stupid Hackathon in London. I can probably get the joinef.com offices but the FB folks have candy.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>kedean</author><text>Hah. Similarly, I made a Firefox extension back in the day that replaced people&amp;#x27;s faces in photos with this face: &lt;a href=&quot;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;vignette1.wikia.nocookie.net&amp;#x2F;borderlands&amp;#x2F;images&amp;#x2F;5&amp;#x2F;59&amp;#x2F;Shoop-Da-Whoop.png&amp;#x2F;revision&amp;#x2F;latest?cb=20100426201515&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;vignette1.wikia.nocookie.net&amp;#x2F;borderlands&amp;#x2F;images&amp;#x2F;5&amp;#x2F;59&amp;#x2F;...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;My implementation was pretty hackathon-worthy, too, if I say so myself. The shoop face would be scaled and placed only while on Facebook, using FB&amp;#x27;s own facial recognition metadata on each page.</text></comment>

<story><title>The Stupid Shit No One Needs and Terrible Ideas Hackathon 2.0</title><url>https://stupidhackathon.github.io/?2.0</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>nailer</author><text>A couple of years ago I made a Chrome Extension that removes everyone&amp;#x27;s eyes: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;vimeo.com&amp;#x2F;90351144&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;vimeo.com&amp;#x2F;90351144&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;🇬🇧 people: let&amp;#x27;s do a Stupid Hackathon in London. I can probably get the joinef.com offices but the FB folks have candy.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>_c0mh</author><text>Alright that was actually funny and maybe useful to help detract from serious news. Now if it only had a googly eyes option.</text></comment>

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<story><title>37signals Launches Haystack for Web Designers and Clients To Find Each Other</title><url>http://37signals.com/svn/posts/1976-launch-haystack-a-better-way-for-web-designers-to-find-clients-and-for-clients-to-find-web-designers</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>dhh</author><text>We originally wanted to do this for web developers, but we didn&apos;t find it to be very useful without the visual component.&lt;p&gt;With web design, you can very quickly scroll through a lot of portfolios and find a style you like. That wouldn&apos;t work at all with web developers and backend code.&lt;p&gt;We&apos;re going to be launching the index page shortly and it&apos;ll become even clearer why this form only works for visual works.</text></comment>

<story><title>37signals Launches Haystack for Web Designers and Clients To Find Each Other</title><url>http://37signals.com/svn/posts/1976-launch-haystack-a-better-way-for-web-designers-to-find-clients-and-for-clients-to-find-web-designers</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>sachinag</author><text>One piece of feedback: we&apos;ve found that buyers don&apos;t think in ranges; they think in terms of budgets. If my budget is $10,000, I don&apos;t just want to see the $3K-$10K range; I&apos;d want to see all the designers under $10K, so that I&apos;d see the under $3K and the $3K-$10K group all at once.&lt;p&gt;EDIT: Second piece of feedback: you should add a &quot;see other designers like this&quot; on the page. For example, for &lt;a href=&quot;http://haystack.com/company/161-right-sizer&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://haystack.com/company/161-right-sizer&lt;/a&gt;, there should be a link to see all other Chicago designers under $3K. (I got to this page by clicking on its card on the front page of the site.)</text></comment>

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<story><title>Are popular toxicity models simply profanity detectors?</title><url>https://www.surgehq.ai/blog/are-popular-toxicity-models-simply-profanity-detectors</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>echen</author><text>One of the problems with real world machine learning is that engineers often treat models as pure black boxes to be optimized, ignoring the datasets behind them. I&amp;#x27;ve often worked with ML engineers who can&amp;#x27;t give you any examples of false positives they want their models to fix!&lt;p&gt;Perhaps this is okay when your datasets are high-quality and representative of the real world, but they&amp;#x27;re usually not. For example, many toxicity and hate speech datasets mistakenly flag texts like &amp;quot;this is fucking awesome!&amp;quot; as toxic, even though they&amp;#x27;re actually quite positive -- because NLP datasets are often labeled by non-fluent speakers who pattern match on profanity.&lt;p&gt;(So is 99% accuracy or 99% precision actually a good thing? Not if your test sets are inaccurate as well!)&lt;p&gt;Many of the new, massive scale language models use the Perspective API to measure their safety. But we&amp;#x27;ve noticed a number of Perspective API mistakes on texts containing positive profanity, so this post was an attempt to explain the problem and quantify it.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>DoItToMe81</author><text>Even if totally &amp;#x27;accurate&amp;#x27; to the dataset, there&amp;#x27;s the issue that a lot of &amp;#x27;toxicity&amp;#x27; and offence is completely culturally based. Take &amp;#x27;cunt&amp;#x27; for example. Used in casual, informal conversation here, but deemed incredibly offensive by some Americans. Or, more broadly, &amp;#x27;thumbs up&amp;#x27; could mean &amp;quot;Good job&amp;quot; or &amp;quot;Stick it up your arse&amp;quot;.</text></comment>

<story><title>Are popular toxicity models simply profanity detectors?</title><url>https://www.surgehq.ai/blog/are-popular-toxicity-models-simply-profanity-detectors</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>echen</author><text>One of the problems with real world machine learning is that engineers often treat models as pure black boxes to be optimized, ignoring the datasets behind them. I&amp;#x27;ve often worked with ML engineers who can&amp;#x27;t give you any examples of false positives they want their models to fix!&lt;p&gt;Perhaps this is okay when your datasets are high-quality and representative of the real world, but they&amp;#x27;re usually not. For example, many toxicity and hate speech datasets mistakenly flag texts like &amp;quot;this is fucking awesome!&amp;quot; as toxic, even though they&amp;#x27;re actually quite positive -- because NLP datasets are often labeled by non-fluent speakers who pattern match on profanity.&lt;p&gt;(So is 99% accuracy or 99% precision actually a good thing? Not if your test sets are inaccurate as well!)&lt;p&gt;Many of the new, massive scale language models use the Perspective API to measure their safety. But we&amp;#x27;ve noticed a number of Perspective API mistakes on texts containing positive profanity, so this post was an attempt to explain the problem and quantify it.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>tracker1</author><text>The false negative example you have us exactly the argument I&amp;#x27;ve used to fight against language filters and sensors in smaller sites.&lt;p&gt;In the end you can be profane and very positive. You can also have strike language while being incredibly vile and negative.</text></comment>

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<story><title>US schools lay off hundreds of thousands</title><url>https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-usa-teachers-insig/u-s-schools-lay-off-hundreds-of-thousands-setting-up-lasting-harm-to-kids-idUSKBN23B39R</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tyree731</author><text>&amp;gt; Educational investments shouldn’t be dictated by transient economic conditions.&lt;p&gt;Could someone not make the same argument about the national defense?&lt;p&gt;Education is funded largely by local taxes, and local tax revenues are being gutted, so there isn&amp;#x27;t much that can be done here without nationalizing public education.</text></item><item><author>viburnum</author><text>You know who’s not laying off anyone? The military. Local funding of schools is ridiculous. Education benefits the whole nation. Educational investments shouldn’t be dictated by transient economic conditions.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>malwarebytess</author><text>&amp;gt;Could someone not make the same argument about the national defense?&lt;p&gt;The US&amp;#x27;s definition of National Defense is actually playing world police for corporate profit. With that in mind it shows that they are superficially similar only.</text></comment>

<story><title>US schools lay off hundreds of thousands</title><url>https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-usa-teachers-insig/u-s-schools-lay-off-hundreds-of-thousands-setting-up-lasting-harm-to-kids-idUSKBN23B39R</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tyree731</author><text>&amp;gt; Educational investments shouldn’t be dictated by transient economic conditions.&lt;p&gt;Could someone not make the same argument about the national defense?&lt;p&gt;Education is funded largely by local taxes, and local tax revenues are being gutted, so there isn&amp;#x27;t much that can be done here without nationalizing public education.</text></item><item><author>viburnum</author><text>You know who’s not laying off anyone? The military. Local funding of schools is ridiculous. Education benefits the whole nation. Educational investments shouldn’t be dictated by transient economic conditions.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mhh__</author><text>&amp;gt; Could someone not make the same argument about the national defense?&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; national defense&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;List_of_countries_by_military_expenditures#Total_military_spending&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;List_of_countries_by_military_...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;m not as against military spending as some people, but almost 800 billion dollars is too much</text></comment>