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<story><title>How I Make A Living Using GameMaker</title><url>http://gamemakerblog.com/2013/08/27/how-i-make-a-living-using-gamemaker-part-i/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>mratzloff</author><text>So if I can sum up: the author made some games with Game Maker, made a small profit, then started primarily making libraries for Game Maker. Now he buys GameMakerBlog.com and posts an article about how much money you can make with Game Maker and you should really use it.</text></comment>

<story><title>How I Make A Living Using GameMaker</title><url>http://gamemakerblog.com/2013/08/27/how-i-make-a-living-using-gamemaker-part-i/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>speeder</author><text>I suggest people make a living with OTHER tools than GameMaker.&lt;p&gt;GameMaker although was a good tool, has a horrible company handling it, they put some terrible DRM there (there are lots of horror stories on internet if you look around), their support suck, and they are outright hostile to people dare to try to contract them directly to complain about something.&lt;p&gt;Also I learned this the hard way (I was warned, but decided to try, and got burned very hard...)</text></comment>

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<story><title>MIDI 2.0 driver support coming with Linux 6.5</title><url>https://www.phoronix.com/news/MIDI-2.0-Support-Linux-6.5</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>JellyBeanThief</author><text>What ever happened to &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Open_Sound_Control&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Open_Sound_Control&lt;/a&gt;?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>elihu</author><text>The idea of MIDI is that you can grab any midi controller and any synthesizer manufactured in the last forty years, plug them together, and they just work. (As long as we can keep up the pretense that we&amp;#x27;re synthesizing something that behaves like a piano, and we aren&amp;#x27;t trying to use USB which introduces its own set of problems.)&lt;p&gt;The idea of OSC is that you can send any kind of message at all from any device to any other device and the semantics of those messages are left as an exercise to the reader. There&amp;#x27;s no guarantee of interoperability. It&amp;#x27;s just assumed that if you&amp;#x27;re using OSC you know what you&amp;#x27;re doing and it&amp;#x27;s up to you to make sure both devices are speaking the same dialect.&lt;p&gt;Sometimes people tunnel what is effectively MIDI over OSC, but I think that&amp;#x27;s the closest thing to a common standard, beyond the basic low-level data layout that OSC messages are expected to conform to.&lt;p&gt;I think some people use OSC for various things, but it tends to be for custom bespoke installations that were designed to do something specific.</text></comment>

<story><title>MIDI 2.0 driver support coming with Linux 6.5</title><url>https://www.phoronix.com/news/MIDI-2.0-Support-Linux-6.5</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>JellyBeanThief</author><text>What ever happened to &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Open_Sound_Control&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Open_Sound_Control&lt;/a&gt;?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>wrl</author><text>OSC is basically a serialisation format with a few niceties bolted on for batching and scheduling messages. The &lt;i&gt;massive&lt;/i&gt; unsolved problem is discovery – discovery both of endpoints (servers, devices) and messages that can be sent to said endpoints. There have been efforts to solve this over the years, but are largely vendor-specific.&lt;p&gt;MIDI has OS-level support for discovering endpoints&amp;#x2F;devices, and there&amp;#x27;s enough standardisation of supported controllers that things largely &amp;quot;just work&amp;quot;.</text></comment>

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<story><title>How Do You Make or Maintain Friends? Put in the Time</title><url>https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/brain-waves/201803/how-do-you-make-or-maintain-friends-put-in-the-time</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>creep</author><text>For some reason I&amp;#x27;ve always looked at friendship relationships as primarily creative. I don&amp;#x27;t like to be with people unless there is chemistry for a good conversation that changes our perspectives or adds dimension, or if we are working on something. I don&amp;#x27;t like &amp;quot;hanging out&amp;quot; because that usually involves a lot of cleverness with humor (and my humor isn&amp;#x27;t clever-- what I find funny is usually when someone has made some ironic error in their thinking or behavior, and there aren&amp;#x27;t a lot of ways to communicate this socially without knowing how to set up a good story-- which I don&amp;#x27;t know how to do).&lt;p&gt;Consequently, there are a handful of people I consider &amp;quot;good friends&amp;quot; but I don&amp;#x27;t see these people very often because our relationship is implicitly understood-- I&amp;#x27;m here if you want advice, you&amp;#x27;re there if I want advice, and they know I&amp;#x27;ll flake if I get invited to something that seems to require anything more relaxed.&lt;p&gt;I don&amp;#x27;t know why this is the case, but I can say that the friends I do have, despite barely seeing them in person, I cherish very much. The kind of people who are okay with that bond are usually beyond interesting, and I enjoy being around as they tell me about the exciting things they feel and think and experience. They all have such a way with putting their experiences and all the nuances into words that I can connect with. I don&amp;#x27;t think you can ever fully understand someone, but I understand my friends in the exact places that they understand me. Maybe that is what all friendships do, but I&amp;#x27;m not sure. Just thought I&amp;#x27;d share.</text></comment>

<story><title>How Do You Make or Maintain Friends? Put in the Time</title><url>https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/brain-waves/201803/how-do-you-make-or-maintain-friends-put-in-the-time</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>uhnuhnuhn</author><text>After reading the actual underlying study the article headline seems bogus.&lt;p&gt;The study simply found an association between the amount&amp;#x2F;quality of time spent with a person and closeness of the friendship. There&amp;#x27;s nothing in the study design that allows us to distinguish whether spending time together creates friendships or if spending time together is only an indicator of a friendship. Could simply mean that feeling close to someone leads people to spend more time together.</text></comment>

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<story><title>I want an iPhone Mini-sized Android phone</title><url>https://smallandroidphone.com/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>reaperducer</author><text>&lt;i&gt;I don&amp;#x27;t understand when did the ability to choose a product fitting your preferences become a bad thing on HackerNews&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;Because so many on HN have been indoctrinated into the &amp;quot;scale at all costs&amp;quot; mentality.&lt;p&gt;It demonstrates the difference between HN and the real world.&lt;p&gt;On HN, if you can&amp;#x27;t serve a billion people, your product is niche. In the real world, billions of people earn a very nice living making niche products.&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s why so many people on HN don&amp;#x27;t understand Panic, or its PlayDate. They don&amp;#x27;t understand artisan anything. They&amp;#x27;ve forgotten the whole hipster movement, which still exists in pockets of the world. They can&amp;#x27;t grok that there are companies that have been in business for hundreds of years making products one at a time — by hand.&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;X doesn&amp;#x27;t scale&amp;quot; is HN for &amp;quot;I know nothing about how the world works.&amp;quot;</text></item><item><author>izacus</author><text>These &amp;quot;slow iPhone 13 mini&amp;quot; sales are more than all Google Pixel phones sold in a year. Think about that.&lt;p&gt;I don&amp;#x27;t understand when did the ability to choose a product fitting your preferences become a bad thing on HackerNews and modern American perception. Why is being able to buy niche products somehow not a worthy thing to be desired?</text></item><item><author>perardi</author><text>&lt;i&gt;“matching size and design of iPhone 13 Mini”&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;So, by all accounts, the iPhone mini has been an extremely slow seller.&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.macrumors.com&amp;#x2F;2022&amp;#x2F;04&amp;#x2F;21&amp;#x2F;iphone-13-mini-unpopular-march-quarter&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.macrumors.com&amp;#x2F;2022&amp;#x2F;04&amp;#x2F;21&amp;#x2F;iphone-13-mini-unpopula...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;Why would that form factor succeed in the Android space?&lt;p&gt;---&lt;p&gt;I see these meme on tech sites all the time: “oh phones are too big I just want something simple”. That is a valid sentiment that I think is shared by basically no average consumer. For a &lt;i&gt;lot&lt;/i&gt; of people, phones are their primary computing devices, so a big screen is nice there. Bigger phones allow for more battery capacity. Aging populations like them because you can use screen zoom features to really blow up that text size without making the effective viewport too small.&lt;p&gt;And…people just like big stuff. I know that’s simplistic and a little condescending, but then look at SUV and truck sales.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>tablespoon</author><text>&amp;gt;&amp;gt; I don&amp;#x27;t understand when did the ability to choose a product fitting your preferences become a bad thing on HackerNews&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; Because so many on HN have been indoctrinated into the &amp;quot;scale at all costs&amp;quot; mentality.&lt;p&gt;HN also has many fanboys that slavishly celebrate the decisions of certain prestigious companies as the best possible ones, because that prestigious company made it. Other decisions can be assumed to be inferior because, if they had merit, the company would have picked that instead.&lt;p&gt;IMHO, a lot of technology has plateaued, to the point where the hip new thing is objectively a regression that just looks different.</text></comment>

<story><title>I want an iPhone Mini-sized Android phone</title><url>https://smallandroidphone.com/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>reaperducer</author><text>&lt;i&gt;I don&amp;#x27;t understand when did the ability to choose a product fitting your preferences become a bad thing on HackerNews&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;Because so many on HN have been indoctrinated into the &amp;quot;scale at all costs&amp;quot; mentality.&lt;p&gt;It demonstrates the difference between HN and the real world.&lt;p&gt;On HN, if you can&amp;#x27;t serve a billion people, your product is niche. In the real world, billions of people earn a very nice living making niche products.&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s why so many people on HN don&amp;#x27;t understand Panic, or its PlayDate. They don&amp;#x27;t understand artisan anything. They&amp;#x27;ve forgotten the whole hipster movement, which still exists in pockets of the world. They can&amp;#x27;t grok that there are companies that have been in business for hundreds of years making products one at a time — by hand.&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;X doesn&amp;#x27;t scale&amp;quot; is HN for &amp;quot;I know nothing about how the world works.&amp;quot;</text></item><item><author>izacus</author><text>These &amp;quot;slow iPhone 13 mini&amp;quot; sales are more than all Google Pixel phones sold in a year. Think about that.&lt;p&gt;I don&amp;#x27;t understand when did the ability to choose a product fitting your preferences become a bad thing on HackerNews and modern American perception. Why is being able to buy niche products somehow not a worthy thing to be desired?</text></item><item><author>perardi</author><text>&lt;i&gt;“matching size and design of iPhone 13 Mini”&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;So, by all accounts, the iPhone mini has been an extremely slow seller.&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.macrumors.com&amp;#x2F;2022&amp;#x2F;04&amp;#x2F;21&amp;#x2F;iphone-13-mini-unpopular-march-quarter&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.macrumors.com&amp;#x2F;2022&amp;#x2F;04&amp;#x2F;21&amp;#x2F;iphone-13-mini-unpopula...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;Why would that form factor succeed in the Android space?&lt;p&gt;---&lt;p&gt;I see these meme on tech sites all the time: “oh phones are too big I just want something simple”. That is a valid sentiment that I think is shared by basically no average consumer. For a &lt;i&gt;lot&lt;/i&gt; of people, phones are their primary computing devices, so a big screen is nice there. Bigger phones allow for more battery capacity. Aging populations like them because you can use screen zoom features to really blow up that text size without making the effective viewport too small.&lt;p&gt;And…people just like big stuff. I know that’s simplistic and a little condescending, but then look at SUV and truck sales.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>disharko</author><text>Also consider he&amp;#x27;s specifically appealing to makers of premium phones - you can bet Google and Samsung care a lot about scale. And to the parent&amp;#x27;s point about the iPhone 13 mini&amp;#x27;s sales still being more than all Pixels: ok, so then consider the already much smaller Pixel market share and how many people are left at the % of iPhone sales that the mini made up.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;d love for this to happen, signed the petition, and will hope for the best, but I think even if there would be a decent market for this the big players don&amp;#x27;t care to make that bet.</text></comment>

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<story><title>History of Spring Framework and Spring Boot</title><url>https://www.quickprogrammingtips.com/spring-boot/history-of-spring-framework-and-spring-boot.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>pritambarhate</author><text>The price one pays for the flexibility Spring offers is in terms of performance. Spring uses a lot of reflection. It makes it very slow. The startup time of Spring applications tends to be around 20-30 secs. If you add Hibernate to the mix the situation becomes even worse.&lt;p&gt;Yes, Spring offers a lot of flexibility in terms of IoC and testability. I generally avoid Spring for B2C apps. (For B2C apps, I tend to favor Jersey + MyBatis) But for B2B apps and in-house enterprise apps, Spring is a very good candidate.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jacques_chester</author><text>&amp;gt; &lt;i&gt;Spring uses a lot of reflection. It makes it very slow. The startup time of Spring applications tends to be around 20-30 secs. If you add Hibernate to the mix the situation becomes even worse.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;The load time of Spring apps is dominated by the number of classes loaded from disk, which is a function of the libraries pulled in. This is because the JVM loads classes out of JARs more or less linearly.&lt;p&gt;Think about it for a second: which is faster, in-memory operations (reflection) or I&amp;#x2F;O (loading classes from disk)?&lt;p&gt;Dave Syer has done more actual empirical investigation[0] of Spring&amp;#x27;s launchtime behaviour than anyone. If you can produce better evidence of &lt;i&gt;actual&lt;/i&gt; behaviour, I&amp;#x27;ll be very surprised.&lt;p&gt;[0] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;github.com&amp;#x2F;dsyer&amp;#x2F;spring-boot-startup-bench&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;github.com&amp;#x2F;dsyer&amp;#x2F;spring-boot-startup-bench&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;Disclosure: I work for Pivotal, we sponsor Spring development. I do not work on Spring.</text></comment>

<story><title>History of Spring Framework and Spring Boot</title><url>https://www.quickprogrammingtips.com/spring-boot/history-of-spring-framework-and-spring-boot.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>pritambarhate</author><text>The price one pays for the flexibility Spring offers is in terms of performance. Spring uses a lot of reflection. It makes it very slow. The startup time of Spring applications tends to be around 20-30 secs. If you add Hibernate to the mix the situation becomes even worse.&lt;p&gt;Yes, Spring offers a lot of flexibility in terms of IoC and testability. I generally avoid Spring for B2C apps. (For B2C apps, I tend to favor Jersey + MyBatis) But for B2B apps and in-house enterprise apps, Spring is a very good candidate.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>nikanj</author><text>During development, you can throw money(=hardware) at the problem and get pretty decent results. In production, the startup time should not matter much, as warming of caches etc will take longer than tens of secs anyway.&lt;p&gt;I guess the biggest issue is restarting services in production, but that is mostly alleviated by not having singular copies of crucial services.</text></comment>

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<story><title>Rising rural BMI is the main driver of the global obesity epidemic in adults</title><url>https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-019-1171-x</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tosser0001</author><text>For whatever reason, I was struck watching the special on PBS, &amp;quot;Woodstock: 50 Years Later&amp;quot;.&lt;p&gt;Everybody was thin. It was sort of amazing when you stopped and really noticed it, then contrasted it to what you see on a day to day basis out on the streets. There just weren&amp;#x27;t any overweight people to be seen, at least nowhere near approaching the magnitude you see walking around today.&lt;p&gt;There&amp;#x27;s got to be some cultural component to all this too. I&amp;#x27;m not sure the built environment is really all that much different than from what it was when I was a kid in the suburbs. It&amp;#x27;s as if people just collectively stopped using their bodies and started consuming more calories.</text></item><item><author>shadowtree</author><text>As the article states, once automation hits a rural area, people there spend less energy than in cities.&lt;p&gt;Very much observable in the US, where rural and suburban population never WALKS. You need to supply artificial sources of movement (aka sports) to make up for the delta.&lt;p&gt;In cities, you walk more by default - your baseline energy expenditure is higher. Take the stairs to the subway, walk to work, get out for lunch ... all of that counts.&lt;p&gt;Driving around in your F150 and have everything as a drive through? You&amp;#x27;re the slob from the movie &amp;quot;Up&amp;quot;.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>idoubtit</author><text>The demographics is worse than what is seen in the streets, because of the correlation between overweight and outdoor activities. The CDC facts are that 39% of the American adults are obese and 75% are overweight (including obesity). So overweight is the norm, and thin people are the exception. As the tendency is stable, I wonder if a &amp;quot;hidden minority&amp;quot; lobby will emerge in a few years, claiming that TV speakers and movie actors are too thin to represent the average citizen.</text></comment>

<story><title>Rising rural BMI is the main driver of the global obesity epidemic in adults</title><url>https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-019-1171-x</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tosser0001</author><text>For whatever reason, I was struck watching the special on PBS, &amp;quot;Woodstock: 50 Years Later&amp;quot;.&lt;p&gt;Everybody was thin. It was sort of amazing when you stopped and really noticed it, then contrasted it to what you see on a day to day basis out on the streets. There just weren&amp;#x27;t any overweight people to be seen, at least nowhere near approaching the magnitude you see walking around today.&lt;p&gt;There&amp;#x27;s got to be some cultural component to all this too. I&amp;#x27;m not sure the built environment is really all that much different than from what it was when I was a kid in the suburbs. It&amp;#x27;s as if people just collectively stopped using their bodies and started consuming more calories.</text></item><item><author>shadowtree</author><text>As the article states, once automation hits a rural area, people there spend less energy than in cities.&lt;p&gt;Very much observable in the US, where rural and suburban population never WALKS. You need to supply artificial sources of movement (aka sports) to make up for the delta.&lt;p&gt;In cities, you walk more by default - your baseline energy expenditure is higher. Take the stairs to the subway, walk to work, get out for lunch ... all of that counts.&lt;p&gt;Driving around in your F150 and have everything as a drive through? You&amp;#x27;re the slob from the movie &amp;quot;Up&amp;quot;.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>okmokmz</author><text>I wonder if the industrialization of food and agriculture and the increase in processed foods is part of the reason</text></comment>

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<story><title>Microsoft ports Windows 10, Linux to homegrown “E2” CPU design</title><url>https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/06/18/microsoft_e2_edge_windows_10/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tinus_hn</author><text>The obvious answer is to completely to the instructions the cpu uses internally. That would mean recompiling for every cpu revision though.</text></item><item><author>PeCaN</author><text>I like that this architecture tackles a large problem in existing architectures, which Mike Pall put rather nicely:&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; All modern and advanced compilers convert source code through various stages and representation into an internal data-flow representation, usually a variant of SSA. The compiler backend converts that back to an imperative representation, i.e. machine code. That entails many complicated transforms e.g. register allocation, instruction selection, instruction scheduling and so on. Lots of heuristics are used to tame their NP-complete nature. That implies missing some optimization opportunities, of course.&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; OTOH a modern CPU uses super-scalar and out-of-order execution. So the first thing it has to do, is to perform data-flow analysis on the machine code to turn that back into an (implicit) data-flow representation! Otherwise the CPU cannot analyze the dependencies between instructions.&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; Sounds wasteful? Oh, yes, it is. Mainly due to the impedance loss between the various stages, representations and abstractions.&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.freelists.org&amp;#x2F;post&amp;#x2F;luajit&amp;#x2F;Ramblings-on-languages-and-architectures-was-Re-any-benefit-to-throwing-off-lua51-constraints&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.freelists.org&amp;#x2F;post&amp;#x2F;luajit&amp;#x2F;Ramblings-on-languages...&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>zik</author><text>That approach has (sort of) been tried before for superscalar architectures. VLIW architectures were the Next Big Thing in the early 1990s. The general idea is that the machine code explicitly told the CPU what to do with each of its execution units. It seems like a good idea. Intel released their i860 processor and waited for the cash to roll in.&lt;p&gt;The trouble was that because the machine code is pretty specific to the internal structure of the CPU every time they released a new major revision of the CPU the existing executables all had to be recompiled. All of their customers needed to get an entirely new OS, new third party software, they had to recompile all their own code, everything. This proved too much of a burden for many and popularity of the architecture suffered.&lt;p&gt;The other problem of these kinds of architectures is that they&amp;#x27;re quite inefficient at encoding code with lacks inherent parallelism. The instructions are long and most of them have to be NOPs if most of the execution units are idle - which is a lot of the time. This code bloat in turn wastes memory bandwidth and instruction cache space, making them overall not as efficient at using precious cache space as architectures with more compact instructions.</text></comment>

<story><title>Microsoft ports Windows 10, Linux to homegrown “E2” CPU design</title><url>https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/06/18/microsoft_e2_edge_windows_10/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tinus_hn</author><text>The obvious answer is to completely to the instructions the cpu uses internally. That would mean recompiling for every cpu revision though.</text></item><item><author>PeCaN</author><text>I like that this architecture tackles a large problem in existing architectures, which Mike Pall put rather nicely:&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; All modern and advanced compilers convert source code through various stages and representation into an internal data-flow representation, usually a variant of SSA. The compiler backend converts that back to an imperative representation, i.e. machine code. That entails many complicated transforms e.g. register allocation, instruction selection, instruction scheduling and so on. Lots of heuristics are used to tame their NP-complete nature. That implies missing some optimization opportunities, of course.&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; OTOH a modern CPU uses super-scalar and out-of-order execution. So the first thing it has to do, is to perform data-flow analysis on the machine code to turn that back into an (implicit) data-flow representation! Otherwise the CPU cannot analyze the dependencies between instructions.&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; Sounds wasteful? Oh, yes, it is. Mainly due to the impedance loss between the various stages, representations and abstractions.&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.freelists.org&amp;#x2F;post&amp;#x2F;luajit&amp;#x2F;Ramblings-on-languages-and-architectures-was-Re-any-benefit-to-throwing-off-lua51-constraints&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.freelists.org&amp;#x2F;post&amp;#x2F;luajit&amp;#x2F;Ramblings-on-languages...&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>zokier</author><text>Yeah, it was &amp;quot;obvious&amp;quot; to Intel too when they made Itanium. And the rest is history.&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; the &amp;quot;Itanium&amp;quot; approach that was supposed to be so terrific—until it turned out that the wished-for compilers were basically impossible to write&lt;p&gt;- Donald Knuth, source: &lt;a href=&quot;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.informit.com&amp;#x2F;articles&amp;#x2F;article.aspx?p=1193856&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.informit.com&amp;#x2F;articles&amp;#x2F;article.aspx?p=1193856&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>

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<story><title>My Little Sister Taught Me How to “Snapchat Like the Teens”</title><url>http://www.buzzfeed.com/benrosen/how-to-snapchat-like-the-teens</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>bri3d</author><text>VSCO is definitely a phenomenon amongst teenagers, regardless of the product placement possibilities in the article. I&amp;#x27;d actually have rather seen an article on that, because I find it fascinating that a service &lt;i&gt;without&lt;/i&gt; any of the Skinner-box gratification buttons (&amp;quot;like&amp;quot; &amp;quot;retweet&amp;quot; &amp;quot;share&amp;quot; &amp;quot;comment&amp;quot;) has taken off in such a big way.</text></item><item><author>tajen</author><text>There&amp;#x27;s product placement. He namedrops &amp;quot;Treller&amp;quot; and &amp;quot;VSCO&amp;quot;. The article isn&amp;#x27;t &amp;quot;How to upgrade your style&amp;quot;, it &amp;quot;How to become a Snapchat user.&amp;quot; Even his conclusion is &amp;quot;I&amp;#x27;ll try more&amp;quot;, just like you tell yur teacher when you&amp;#x27;ve failed and you know you&amp;#x27;ll fail again. I don&amp;#x27;t doubt the person is authentic, but I wonder how much he has worked with BuzzFeed to tune the article.&lt;p&gt;Still, 1. Snapchat&amp;#x27;s design is &lt;i&gt;remarkable&lt;/i&gt; for its hidden features that you discover by social-networking, and 2. it&amp;#x27;s a much more interesting, funny, interactive press release &lt;i&gt;presenting the features of a product&lt;/i&gt; than any other start-up I&amp;#x27;ve seen. Next product video I make, I&amp;#x27;ll make it this way.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>fuzzywalrus</author><text>VSCO has a rather large following among the prosumer crowd, most of the Apple &amp;quot;Shot on the iPhone 6&amp;quot; ads mention VSCO and a photographer friend of mine uses it on his iPad with his 5D on the go. While I haven&amp;#x27;t used it myself, its certainly been name checked quite a bit and its success is largely due to it being a more empowered Instagram on the photography side.</text></comment>

<story><title>My Little Sister Taught Me How to “Snapchat Like the Teens”</title><url>http://www.buzzfeed.com/benrosen/how-to-snapchat-like-the-teens</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>bri3d</author><text>VSCO is definitely a phenomenon amongst teenagers, regardless of the product placement possibilities in the article. I&amp;#x27;d actually have rather seen an article on that, because I find it fascinating that a service &lt;i&gt;without&lt;/i&gt; any of the Skinner-box gratification buttons (&amp;quot;like&amp;quot; &amp;quot;retweet&amp;quot; &amp;quot;share&amp;quot; &amp;quot;comment&amp;quot;) has taken off in such a big way.</text></item><item><author>tajen</author><text>There&amp;#x27;s product placement. He namedrops &amp;quot;Treller&amp;quot; and &amp;quot;VSCO&amp;quot;. The article isn&amp;#x27;t &amp;quot;How to upgrade your style&amp;quot;, it &amp;quot;How to become a Snapchat user.&amp;quot; Even his conclusion is &amp;quot;I&amp;#x27;ll try more&amp;quot;, just like you tell yur teacher when you&amp;#x27;ve failed and you know you&amp;#x27;ll fail again. I don&amp;#x27;t doubt the person is authentic, but I wonder how much he has worked with BuzzFeed to tune the article.&lt;p&gt;Still, 1. Snapchat&amp;#x27;s design is &lt;i&gt;remarkable&lt;/i&gt; for its hidden features that you discover by social-networking, and 2. it&amp;#x27;s a much more interesting, funny, interactive press release &lt;i&gt;presenting the features of a product&lt;/i&gt; than any other start-up I&amp;#x27;ve seen. Next product video I make, I&amp;#x27;ll make it this way.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>kazagistar</author><text>Scores and Chains, as mentioned in the article, sound pretty skinner-boxy. Plus, every time someone sends you a response to a message is a skinner box reward, in a sense.</text></comment>

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<story><title>Crafting Interpreters</title><url>https://craftinginterpreters.com/the-lox-language.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>aidos</author><text>If you’re wondering if you should invest your time in this exceptional book, you could read this first in order to fully appreciate how exceptional it is.&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;journal.stuffwithstuff.com&amp;#x2F;2020&amp;#x2F;04&amp;#x2F;05&amp;#x2F;crafting-crafting-interpreters&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;journal.stuffwithstuff.com&amp;#x2F;2020&amp;#x2F;04&amp;#x2F;05&amp;#x2F;crafting-craft...&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>

<story><title>Crafting Interpreters</title><url>https://craftinginterpreters.com/the-lox-language.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>thundergolfer</author><text>I&amp;#x27;m working through this right now and it&amp;#x27;s awesome. I&amp;#x27;ve completed the Java interpreter and I&amp;#x27;m halfway through the C bytecode stack-based interpreter[1]. I&amp;#x27;d estimate I&amp;#x27;ve spent around 30-40 hours with the book.&lt;p&gt;Throughout I&amp;#x27;ve used both the website and the dead-tree version of the book. The website is great with 2 monitors, but you might be too tempted to copy-paste the code.&lt;p&gt;The one thing the book doesn&amp;#x27;t mandate is the use of the Lox test suite, but I think it should be incorporated into the book. It&amp;#x27;s easier to hack on your implementation when there&amp;#x27;s a test suite to validate that everything still works as it should at Chapter X.&lt;p&gt;1. &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;github.com&amp;#x2F;thundergolfer&amp;#x2F;uni&amp;#x2F;tree&amp;#x2F;main&amp;#x2F;books&amp;#x2F;crafting_interpreters&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;github.com&amp;#x2F;thundergolfer&amp;#x2F;uni&amp;#x2F;tree&amp;#x2F;main&amp;#x2F;books&amp;#x2F;craftin...&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>

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<story><title>MariaDB 10.1 can do 1M queries per second</title><url>https://blog.mariadb.org/10-1-mio-qps/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>swasheck</author><text>could you explain why the tokudb engine is an advantage?</text></item><item><author>bratao</author><text>MariaDB recently released the version 10.1 as GA. &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;blog.mariadb.org&amp;#x2F;mariadb-10-1-is-stable-ga&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;blog.mariadb.org&amp;#x2F;mariadb-10-1-is-stable-ga&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;We been using it for a large dataset, and has been fantastic. Compared to MySQL 5.7 and PostgreSQL, it have the advantage of supporting the TokuDB engine out of box. My data uncompressed is 3TB, with it , we can fit in 300GB with all indexes. Read Free Replication with TokuDB (&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;github.com&amp;#x2F;percona&amp;#x2F;tokudb-engine&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Read-Free-Replication-with-TokuDB&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;github.com&amp;#x2F;percona&amp;#x2F;tokudb-engine&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Read-Free-Repl...&lt;/a&gt;) also enable us to have a very cheap VPS as slave.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>bratao</author><text>TokuDB is a very modern engine that uses a data-structure called &amp;quot;Fractal Trees&amp;quot;. Imagine something like a B-Tree with buffers in the non-leaf nodes. It also heavily compress the row data.&lt;p&gt;The main point of TokuDB is not writing everything to the disk thanks to the buffers, and with the very efficient compression, more data fits in the memory and saves the space for big-data applications. ( please someone correct me if I´m wrong)&lt;p&gt;In our tests TokuDB was vital for our startup. With it, we can use cheap dedicated servers and our performance is amazing. We tried PostgreSQL, MongoDB 3.0 and MySQL 5.7 and they can´t fit our data in a 2TB disk or were slow in our tests.</text></comment>

<story><title>MariaDB 10.1 can do 1M queries per second</title><url>https://blog.mariadb.org/10-1-mio-qps/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>swasheck</author><text>could you explain why the tokudb engine is an advantage?</text></item><item><author>bratao</author><text>MariaDB recently released the version 10.1 as GA. &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;blog.mariadb.org&amp;#x2F;mariadb-10-1-is-stable-ga&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;blog.mariadb.org&amp;#x2F;mariadb-10-1-is-stable-ga&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;We been using it for a large dataset, and has been fantastic. Compared to MySQL 5.7 and PostgreSQL, it have the advantage of supporting the TokuDB engine out of box. My data uncompressed is 3TB, with it , we can fit in 300GB with all indexes. Read Free Replication with TokuDB (&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;github.com&amp;#x2F;percona&amp;#x2F;tokudb-engine&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Read-Free-Replication-with-TokuDB&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;github.com&amp;#x2F;percona&amp;#x2F;tokudb-engine&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Read-Free-Repl...&lt;/a&gt;) also enable us to have a very cheap VPS as slave.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>acomjean</author><text>Tokutek and some staff where common vititors to the boston mysql meetup. If I remember they were using &amp;quot;fractal trees&amp;quot; instead of b-trees. Trading cpu cycles for disk io. It was interesting tech.&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;highscalability.com&amp;#x2F;blog&amp;#x2F;2014&amp;#x2F;8&amp;#x2F;6&amp;#x2F;tokutek-white-paper-a-comparison-of-log-structured-merge-lsm.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;highscalability.com&amp;#x2F;blog&amp;#x2F;2014&amp;#x2F;8&amp;#x2F;6&amp;#x2F;tokutek-white-paper...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;Quote:&amp;quot;The idea behind FT(fractal Trees) indexes is to maintain a B tree in which each internal node of the tree contains a buffer. When a data record is inserted into the tree, instead of traversing the entire tree the way a B tree would, we simply insert the Eventually the root buffer will fill up with new data records. At that point the FT index copies the inserted records down a level of the tree. Eventually the newly inserted records will reach the leaves, at which point they are simply stored in a leaf node as a B tree would store them. The data records descending through the buffers of the tree can be thought of as messages that say “insert this record”. FT indexes can use other kinds of messages, such as messages that delete a record, or messages that update a record.&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;some other links:&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;web.archive.org&amp;#x2F;web&amp;#x2F;20150414215556&amp;#x2F;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.tokutek.com&amp;#x2F;2010&amp;#x2F;06&amp;#x2F;making-replace-into-fast-by-avoiding-disk-seeks&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;web.archive.org&amp;#x2F;web&amp;#x2F;20150414215556&amp;#x2F;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.tokutek...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;assets.en.oreilly.com&amp;#x2F;1&amp;#x2F;event&amp;#x2F;36&amp;#x2F;How%20TokuDB%20Fractal%20Tree%20Databases%20Work%20Presentation.pdf&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;assets.en.oreilly.com&amp;#x2F;1&amp;#x2F;event&amp;#x2F;36&amp;#x2F;How%20TokuDB%20Fract...&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>

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<story><title>Create multi-platform desktop apps with HTML5, CSS3 and JavaScript</title><url>http://www.tidesdk.org</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>fairwinds</author><text>Titanium was transitioned to TideSDK in early 2012. At this point the code lacked support for any modern operating system other than Windows 7. Ubuntu and OSX support for any current versions of these OS&apos;s did not yet exist.&lt;p&gt;The challenges involved in moving forward with the code base from the previous maintainer were documented in this post:&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.tidesdk.org/blog/2012/11/16/1-dot-3-1-beta-release-announcement/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.tidesdk.org/blog/2012/11/16/1-dot-3-1-beta-releas...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;The work has been steady and ongoing. The software itself is complex and substantial progress has been made. More that 1 million line changes of code were made to end of Dec, 2012.&lt;p&gt;This kind of investment and involvement in this project has been huge for us. It is certainly deeper than the rebranding and documentation effort that we also undertook as part of the project.&lt;p&gt;TideSDK became an affiliate project of Software in the Public Interest (SPI) in October, 2012. As part of this non-profit organization, we stand together with other significant and substantial open source projects (including Postgres, Drupal, Debian, Jenkins, ArchLinux) that are under the non-profit administration of the SPI.&lt;p&gt;Tens of thousands of developers now discovering TideSDK as a result of our efforts. This number is steadily increasing. Ongoing upgrades and fundamental code changes in the sources are leading to an amazing solution.&lt;p&gt;Commercial developments involving TideSDK are also underway for many. Obviously, despite the surge in mobile use, desktop development is comparatively smaller. That said, there remains an important need to address for the desktop that TideSDK is filling.&lt;p&gt;We&apos;ve put plenty of effort into establishing community around TideSDK as well and to make resources available to developers:&lt;p&gt;Documentation: &lt;a href=&quot;http://tidesdk.multipart.net/docs/user-dev/generated&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://tidesdk.multipart.net/docs/user-dev/generated&lt;/a&gt; Source Code: &lt;a href=&quot;https://github.com/TideSDK/TideSDK&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https://github.com/TideSDK/TideSDK&lt;/a&gt; Tutorials: Get started easily &lt;a href=&quot;http://tidesdk.multipart.net/docs/user-dev/generated/#!/guide&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://tidesdk.multipart.net/docs/user-dev/generated/#!/guid...&lt;/a&gt; Q &amp;#38; A on Stack Overflow: Get help &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/tidesdk&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/tidesdk&lt;/a&gt; Report a Bug: Help us improve &lt;a href=&quot;https://github.com/TideSDK/TideSDK/issues&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https://github.com/TideSDK/TideSDK/issues&lt;/a&gt;. IRC: Chat with us on #tidesdk on freenode.net Twitter: Follow TideSDK @tidesdk. Blog: Read our blog at &lt;a href=&quot;http://tidesdk.org/blog&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://tidesdk.org/blog&lt;/a&gt;. Knowledge Base: Read the wiki &lt;a href=&quot;https://github.com/TideSDK/TideSDK/wiki&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https://github.com/TideSDK/TideSDK/wiki&lt;/a&gt; Google Groups: Join our mailing list &lt;a href=&quot;https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/tidesdk&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/tidesdk&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;p&gt;In addition, more great things are coming this year as the result of our involvement with TideSDK. The core talent behind TideSDK formed &lt;a href=&quot;http://coastalforge.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://coastalforge.com&lt;/a&gt; to bring services and support. We&apos;ve also got an amazing new solution to reveal shortly that has been spawned from our work. More on these efforts quite soon.&lt;p&gt;David Pratt TideSDK Project Lead</text></comment>

<story><title>Create multi-platform desktop apps with HTML5, CSS3 and JavaScript</title><url>http://www.tidesdk.org</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>jakozaur</author><text>Great project!&lt;p&gt;The only minor thing that disturbes me are a few well-known logos (Atlassian, GitHub) beyond &quot;Thank you&quot;. I know it is a grey area of ethics, but perhaps we should encourage to put real partners (clients, etc.). If you quickly scroll you may see it as more impressive, but in long run listing that kinds of acts seems unprofessional (e.g. listing Microsoft as major partner, when you just license their software).</text></comment>

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<story><title>King County rolls out Miranda rights tailored for young people</title><url>http://kuow.org/post/king-county-rolls-out-miranda-rights-tailored-young-people</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>downandout</author><text>If they are concerned enough about unnecessarily ruining lives to change the Miranda warning, why not focus more on exercising the most powerful tool we have in our criminal justice system: prosecutorial discretion? After all, the cops reading the Miranda warning can only bring people to jail; it’s the prosecutors that keep them there.&lt;p&gt;Prosecutors have the ability to not file cases at all. They also have the ability to offer diversion programs, wherein accused criminals can voluntarily agree to community-based sanctions&amp;#x2F;supervision in exchange for their cases not being filed. These do exist in some jurisdictions today, but tend to be offered to a very small percentage of defendants.&lt;p&gt;In short: if they really cared about ruining lives, they’d stop trying so hard to ruin lives (in all but the most serious cases). Changing the Miranda warning may be a very small step forward, but getting prosecutors on board is the only way to make a real difference.</text></comment>

<story><title>King County rolls out Miranda rights tailored for young people</title><url>http://kuow.org/post/king-county-rolls-out-miranda-rights-tailored-young-people</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>Chaebixi</author><text>&amp;gt; If you do want to talk to me, I can tell the juvenile court judge or adult court judge and Probation Officer what you tell me.&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s missing the explicit warning that &amp;quot;what you say can and will be used against you in the court of law.&amp;quot; I think they should add a clause to the end stating &amp;quot;and they can use this information against you to get you in trouble.&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;This video is always relevant when the subject of talking to police comes up: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.youtube.com&amp;#x2F;watch?v=d-7o9xYp7eE&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.youtube.com&amp;#x2F;watch?v=d-7o9xYp7eE&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>

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<story><title>Hundreds of exposed Amazon cloud backups found leaking sensitive data</title><url>https://techcrunch.com/2019/08/09/aws-ebs-cloud-backups-leak</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>joncrane</author><text>I&amp;#x27;ve been working almost exclusively in the AWS space for about 10 years now. Clients anywhere from tiny little three-person consultancies to Fortune 100. Commercial, govcloud, dozens of clients.&lt;p&gt;Never once have I ever found a use case for making public EBS snapshots.&lt;p&gt;Who on Earth is thinking that it is a good idea to take an EBS snapshot and make it public?&lt;p&gt;Note, several of those engagements did involve multiple accounts, and the need to share &amp;#x2F; copy AMIs and&amp;#x2F;or snapshots between accounts. But never making them public.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dboreham</author><text>Laziness in attempting to share data with someone in another org?&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;Nope, can&amp;#x27;t access it&amp;quot; ...&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;Nope, still can&amp;#x27;t access it&amp;quot;...&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;My manager is harassing me to get access now&amp;quot;...&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;Look, just make it public then change it back after I get it copied&amp;quot;...</text></comment>

<story><title>Hundreds of exposed Amazon cloud backups found leaking sensitive data</title><url>https://techcrunch.com/2019/08/09/aws-ebs-cloud-backups-leak</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>joncrane</author><text>I&amp;#x27;ve been working almost exclusively in the AWS space for about 10 years now. Clients anywhere from tiny little three-person consultancies to Fortune 100. Commercial, govcloud, dozens of clients.&lt;p&gt;Never once have I ever found a use case for making public EBS snapshots.&lt;p&gt;Who on Earth is thinking that it is a good idea to take an EBS snapshot and make it public?&lt;p&gt;Note, several of those engagements did involve multiple accounts, and the need to share &amp;#x2F; copy AMIs and&amp;#x2F;or snapshots between accounts. But never making them public.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>d2mw</author><text>&amp;gt; Who on Earth is thinking that it is a good idea to take an EBS snapshot and make it public?&lt;p&gt;Non-marketplace AMIs are built on public EBS snapshots, but that&amp;#x27;s something they should still fix. Marketplace AMIs already handle private snapshots</text></comment>

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<story><title>One Year in San Francisco as a Software Engineer</title><url>https://evertpot.com/a-look-back-at-sf/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>abalone</author><text>See the Prop C campaign (e.g. Marc Benioff) for more insight in this issue. SF tech didn’t invent homelessness but it has clearly exacerbated it, simply by generating a lot of demand for housing.&lt;p&gt;In a nutshell, the tech industry generally tries to point the finger at lack of supply and blame NIMBYS for obstructing housing construction. But this can be seen as a defensive strategy: it’s pretty clear that a sudden, massive surge of high income earners into a constrained area in the top of a peninsula with weak tenant protections will push a lot of poorer people out of their housing.&lt;p&gt;It’s not only the fault of the city not to build housing fast enough. We’ve even seen “strange” effects in other boomtowns (Seattle) where building doesn’t solve the problem.[1]&lt;p&gt;It’s not that strange if you &lt;i&gt;truly&lt;/i&gt; understand economics 101. It contains the concept of price inelasticity, which one might see under boomtown conditions (insatiable demand for a necessity, essentially). But to even engage in a real economics discussion kind of misses the point. Mostly the tech industry wants to deflect blame for the problem.&lt;p&gt;[1] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;knock-la.com&amp;#x2F;seattle-a-cautionary-tale-for-supply-side-housing-advocates-5b4ca5ed6d02&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;knock-la.com&amp;#x2F;seattle-a-cautionary-tale-for-supply-si...&lt;/a&gt;</text></item><item><author>komali2</author><text>&amp;gt;But when you go home after work, also be prepared to see the dystopia that your industry has created as a by-product.&lt;p&gt;Has this actually been concluded? That it is the &amp;quot;tech industry&amp;#x27;s fault?&amp;quot; Because I feel like I could fence off any claims as such by asking, &amp;quot;well, why didn&amp;#x27;t the government do anything about it?&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;Based on my experience in multiple major metropolitan areas, the &amp;quot;tech industry&amp;quot; here in SF seems to be the most engaged in &amp;quot;doing something about it&amp;quot; than anywhere else. Is it because the problem is bigger? Maybe they&amp;#x27;re just better at marketing than the companies in other cities? Fair questions. Maybe.&lt;p&gt;I remember reading in the local papers when I lived in Mountain View that Google was going to assign some # of a new housing project they wanted to be low income housing - at my understanding, to be a total loss to them. They were going to build bridges, footpaths, and parks to &amp;quot;offset&amp;quot; the burden of the increased number of residents in Mountain View. I have seen similar from other companies.&lt;p&gt;In Houston, BP nuked the gulf of mexico and then fought &lt;i&gt;everyone&lt;/i&gt; over how &amp;quot;responsible&amp;quot; they are for it. Chevron donated some fossils to the Museum of Natural Science. I dunno, I just feel like people are being unduly critical of the tech industry in SF, as if some homeless people poop on the streets because rich engineers ride buses paid for by google. Why isn&amp;#x27;t there better public transit, so the buses aren&amp;#x27;t necessary? Why block the proliferation of scooters and bicycles, so people are far more motivated to take Lyft or Uber? Why aren&amp;#x27;t there more public, 24&amp;#x2F;7 restrooms? And why isn&amp;#x27;t the Oil industry taking more flack for turning Houston into a 75x75 mile square of choking freeways? Because poop is grosser? Grosser than runaway climate change? Poop happens in Houston, too.&lt;p&gt;I just feel like SF is a big giant target, the go-to punching bag, because Big Tech, and yet meanwhile Big Oil, Big Pharma, Big Finance, Big Ag gets away with dramatically worse in cost and human suffering.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>twblalock</author><text>It&amp;#x27;s not morally wrong to move to a city and purchase housing at a market rate. Nor is it the moral duty of any individual to provide or preserve affordable housing for his or her neighbors. That&amp;#x27;s the government&amp;#x27;s job.&lt;p&gt;The government (and the voters) of San Francisco has reacted very badly to the influx of new people, which is happening in the context of decades of poor zoning and housing policy.&lt;p&gt;I also don&amp;#x27;t buy the argument in the article you linked, because there are many other cities in the world that have successfully solved increased demand by building more housing. For example, the Tokyo metropolitan area has a population nearly the size of California&amp;#x27;s in a fairly small area but rent is cheaper than in San Francisco and it&amp;#x27;s more affordable for working-class people.</text></comment>

<story><title>One Year in San Francisco as a Software Engineer</title><url>https://evertpot.com/a-look-back-at-sf/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>abalone</author><text>See the Prop C campaign (e.g. Marc Benioff) for more insight in this issue. SF tech didn’t invent homelessness but it has clearly exacerbated it, simply by generating a lot of demand for housing.&lt;p&gt;In a nutshell, the tech industry generally tries to point the finger at lack of supply and blame NIMBYS for obstructing housing construction. But this can be seen as a defensive strategy: it’s pretty clear that a sudden, massive surge of high income earners into a constrained area in the top of a peninsula with weak tenant protections will push a lot of poorer people out of their housing.&lt;p&gt;It’s not only the fault of the city not to build housing fast enough. We’ve even seen “strange” effects in other boomtowns (Seattle) where building doesn’t solve the problem.[1]&lt;p&gt;It’s not that strange if you &lt;i&gt;truly&lt;/i&gt; understand economics 101. It contains the concept of price inelasticity, which one might see under boomtown conditions (insatiable demand for a necessity, essentially). But to even engage in a real economics discussion kind of misses the point. Mostly the tech industry wants to deflect blame for the problem.&lt;p&gt;[1] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;knock-la.com&amp;#x2F;seattle-a-cautionary-tale-for-supply-side-housing-advocates-5b4ca5ed6d02&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;knock-la.com&amp;#x2F;seattle-a-cautionary-tale-for-supply-si...&lt;/a&gt;</text></item><item><author>komali2</author><text>&amp;gt;But when you go home after work, also be prepared to see the dystopia that your industry has created as a by-product.&lt;p&gt;Has this actually been concluded? That it is the &amp;quot;tech industry&amp;#x27;s fault?&amp;quot; Because I feel like I could fence off any claims as such by asking, &amp;quot;well, why didn&amp;#x27;t the government do anything about it?&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;Based on my experience in multiple major metropolitan areas, the &amp;quot;tech industry&amp;quot; here in SF seems to be the most engaged in &amp;quot;doing something about it&amp;quot; than anywhere else. Is it because the problem is bigger? Maybe they&amp;#x27;re just better at marketing than the companies in other cities? Fair questions. Maybe.&lt;p&gt;I remember reading in the local papers when I lived in Mountain View that Google was going to assign some # of a new housing project they wanted to be low income housing - at my understanding, to be a total loss to them. They were going to build bridges, footpaths, and parks to &amp;quot;offset&amp;quot; the burden of the increased number of residents in Mountain View. I have seen similar from other companies.&lt;p&gt;In Houston, BP nuked the gulf of mexico and then fought &lt;i&gt;everyone&lt;/i&gt; over how &amp;quot;responsible&amp;quot; they are for it. Chevron donated some fossils to the Museum of Natural Science. I dunno, I just feel like people are being unduly critical of the tech industry in SF, as if some homeless people poop on the streets because rich engineers ride buses paid for by google. Why isn&amp;#x27;t there better public transit, so the buses aren&amp;#x27;t necessary? Why block the proliferation of scooters and bicycles, so people are far more motivated to take Lyft or Uber? Why aren&amp;#x27;t there more public, 24&amp;#x2F;7 restrooms? And why isn&amp;#x27;t the Oil industry taking more flack for turning Houston into a 75x75 mile square of choking freeways? Because poop is grosser? Grosser than runaway climate change? Poop happens in Houston, too.&lt;p&gt;I just feel like SF is a big giant target, the go-to punching bag, because Big Tech, and yet meanwhile Big Oil, Big Pharma, Big Finance, Big Ag gets away with dramatically worse in cost and human suffering.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>pm90</author><text>&amp;gt; simply by generating a lot of demand for housing.&lt;p&gt;Oh for fucks sake. You realize this is what happens when a city becomes successful right?&lt;p&gt;If you want to blame someone, its the NIMBYs: scuttling housing projects that would have eased the bubble and helped house a lot more people for reasonable prices, while benefiting from the economic successes of the companies and people moving in.</text></comment>

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<story><title>How Valve made Team Fortress 2 free-to-play</title><url>http://gamasutra.com/view/news/164922/GDC_2012_How_Valve_made_Team_Fortress_2_freetoplay.php</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>oacgnol</author><text>TF2 was a masterstroke for Valve in PR. I paid $40 for TF2 and I felt like the value that it gave over the past 5 years has more than exceeded what I paid for it. It has generated a huge amount of goodwill towards Valve and Steam that will help anchor them in the PC gaming industry for years to come. It will be interesting to see where they&apos;re taking Steam and the PC platform in the near future, especially given all the talk about a possible console.</text></comment>

<story><title>How Valve made Team Fortress 2 free-to-play</title><url>http://gamasutra.com/view/news/164922/GDC_2012_How_Valve_made_Team_Fortress_2_freetoplay.php</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>sawyer</author><text>One of the most interesting things about the TF2 story is that they opened up custom item creation to the community, and allowed players to actually profit from designing and uploading objects to the store. I remember reading a quote from Gabe Newell mentioning that some of the top player sellers were making over $30,000 / month from their creations.&lt;p&gt;edit: If in game, player driven markets are the sort of thing that interests you: keep an eye out for Diablo 3&apos;s real money auction house.&lt;p&gt;Also: hats.</text></comment>

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<story><title>Experimental blog that is only available to read through a feed reader</title><url>https://theunderground.blog/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>bunderbunder</author><text>I recently stumbled across a neocities site where the author specifically called this factor out as a reason why she uses a 90s-style personal site instead of posting things to social media or Medium or whatever. She observed that she&amp;#x27;s grown tired of the modern Web&amp;#x27;s obsession with accumulating Whuffie (my choice of words, not hers), and thinks it&amp;#x27;s probably an emotional net negative. With a personal site, she feels freer to treat her Web presence as a personal project that she does purely for her own personal satisfaction. And, because of that, she gets more joy out of it. She specifically called out that she doesn&amp;#x27;t have any traffic counters because she feels she&amp;#x27;s better off not worrying about that.&lt;p&gt;For my part, I also enjoyed browsing her site more than I do modern blogs. It was a refreshing reminder of what the Internet was like back when spending hours browsing it was called &amp;quot;surfing&amp;quot;, and the term &amp;quot;doomscrolling&amp;quot; hadn&amp;#x27;t been invented yet. I&amp;#x27;m seriously considering creating my own Neocities site (or similar). If I do, I won&amp;#x27;t be worrying about engagement metrics, either.</text></item><item><author>kwhitefoot</author><text>Surely the biggest problem that most bloggers have is that no one reads what they write. Doesn&amp;#x27;t this make it worse?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>giantrobot</author><text>I much prefer the &amp;quot;homepage&amp;quot; model over the &amp;quot;blog&amp;quot; model. A blog and the ecosystem around blogs has an implicit need for constant content. Blogs are typically displayed by feed readers sorted by time. If you don&amp;#x27;t post for some period of time your content will fall out of view. If blogging isn&amp;#x27;t your main interest it&amp;#x27;s fucking tiring.&lt;p&gt;A homepage can feel &lt;i&gt;finished&lt;/i&gt;. You build some pages around your interests and can stop. You don&amp;#x27;t need to be a &amp;quot;blogger&amp;quot;, you can just share your interests. A homepage doesn&amp;#x27;t even need tending. It can just be a self contained thing. You &lt;i&gt;can&lt;/i&gt; constantly update it but you don&amp;#x27;t need to.&lt;p&gt;Unfortunately Google punishes any content that wasn&amp;#x27;t published recently. In order to just be &lt;i&gt;found&lt;/i&gt; by most people you have to jump on the content generation treadmill. It&amp;#x27;s commendable when services like NeoCities bubble up existing content to new viewers. Same with Marginalia which does a good job finding content based on your search terms and not the fact it carries their ad network and claims to have been updated in the last nanosecond.</text></comment>

<story><title>Experimental blog that is only available to read through a feed reader</title><url>https://theunderground.blog/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>bunderbunder</author><text>I recently stumbled across a neocities site where the author specifically called this factor out as a reason why she uses a 90s-style personal site instead of posting things to social media or Medium or whatever. She observed that she&amp;#x27;s grown tired of the modern Web&amp;#x27;s obsession with accumulating Whuffie (my choice of words, not hers), and thinks it&amp;#x27;s probably an emotional net negative. With a personal site, she feels freer to treat her Web presence as a personal project that she does purely for her own personal satisfaction. And, because of that, she gets more joy out of it. She specifically called out that she doesn&amp;#x27;t have any traffic counters because she feels she&amp;#x27;s better off not worrying about that.&lt;p&gt;For my part, I also enjoyed browsing her site more than I do modern blogs. It was a refreshing reminder of what the Internet was like back when spending hours browsing it was called &amp;quot;surfing&amp;quot;, and the term &amp;quot;doomscrolling&amp;quot; hadn&amp;#x27;t been invented yet. I&amp;#x27;m seriously considering creating my own Neocities site (or similar). If I do, I won&amp;#x27;t be worrying about engagement metrics, either.</text></item><item><author>kwhitefoot</author><text>Surely the biggest problem that most bloggers have is that no one reads what they write. Doesn&amp;#x27;t this make it worse?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>khrbrt</author><text>&amp;quot;Whuffie&amp;quot; is a reference to the Cory Doctorow novel &lt;i&gt;Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom&lt;/i&gt;. It&amp;#x27;s set a post-scarcity society, Whuffie acts as a sort of currency and is earned from clout and social status. The protagonist goes from being wealthy in Whuffie to destitute and needs to earn his way back up.&lt;p&gt;I read it a long time ago as a weird story. Might be time for a reread.&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Down_and_Out_in_the_Magic_Kingdom&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Down_and_Out_in_the_Magic_King...&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>

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<story><title>The fastest math typesetting library for the web</title><url>https://katex.org/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>giraj</author><text>The speed of KaTeX is great, but the lack of support for diagrams (a la tikz-cd) is what makes KaTeX unsuitable for general adoption by mathematicians (e.g., mathoverflow.net and all online mathematical wikis I know use MathJax). KaTeX has some rudimentary support for diagrams though the {CD} environment, but something more fully fledged akin to tizk-cd or xymatrix is needed. There&amp;#x27;s been some discussion on their github (&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;github.com&amp;#x2F;KaTeX&amp;#x2F;KaTeX&amp;#x2F;issues&amp;#x2F;219&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;github.com&amp;#x2F;KaTeX&amp;#x2F;KaTeX&amp;#x2F;issues&amp;#x2F;219&lt;/a&gt;), but I wouldn&amp;#x27;t hold my breath.</text></comment>

<story><title>The fastest math typesetting library for the web</title><url>https://katex.org/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>mk12</author><text>You can compare MathJax, KaTeX, and your browser&amp;#x27;s MathML support with this website I made: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;mk12.github.io&amp;#x2F;web-math-demo&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;mk12.github.io&amp;#x2F;web-math-demo&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>

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<story><title>LuaX: A Lua Dialect with JSX</title><url>https://bvisness.me/luax/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>codingdave</author><text>The project itself seems fine, and clearly works for the author.&lt;p&gt;But I&amp;#x27;m never quite sure why people insist that you cannot do web dev the old school ways of HTML files with a little PHP or other scripting. All of that still works just fine. So when people say they wrote an entirely new system because they miss being able to stay simple like in ye olde days... I&amp;#x27;m not sure I understand the connection.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>hgs3</author><text>You are correct. The minimum needed to generate dynamic HTML is a string builder, not a fancy framework.&lt;p&gt;Frameworks exist for Software at Scale (TM). Big Corp has a revolving door of developers and they need cookie cutter tools that isolate the damage a &amp;quot;bad&amp;quot; developer can cause. If you&amp;#x27;re a solo developer or a small company, then this digital bureaucracy is unnecessary.</text></comment>

<story><title>LuaX: A Lua Dialect with JSX</title><url>https://bvisness.me/luax/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>codingdave</author><text>The project itself seems fine, and clearly works for the author.&lt;p&gt;But I&amp;#x27;m never quite sure why people insist that you cannot do web dev the old school ways of HTML files with a little PHP or other scripting. All of that still works just fine. So when people say they wrote an entirely new system because they miss being able to stay simple like in ye olde days... I&amp;#x27;m not sure I understand the connection.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>partyguy</author><text>Exactly.&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; When I started out, you could just copy HTML files up to your server and you had a website. It was magical! And PHP made it even better; you could just throw in a little snippet of server-side code and you had a dynamic page.&lt;p&gt;Well, you can still very much do this. Sure, it&amp;#x27;s not bleeding edge, but large chunks of the web (even newer sites) still do it this way and rely on PHP or sinilar server side languages.</text></comment>

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<story><title>Zynga&apos;s Profits Down by 95%</title><url>http://www.gamepro.com/article/news/223371/zyngas-profits-down-by-95/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>teej</author><text>Disclaimer: I was previously a Zynga employee and I am presently a holder of Zynga stock. I have no knowledge of Zynga&apos;s current internal state - the following is entirely speculation.&lt;p&gt;=================================&lt;p&gt;There are many forces at work here that need to be brought to light.&lt;p&gt;* Macro Trend #1 - Facebook&apos;s web traffic is in decline[1]. These users are shifting to mobile as their primary consumption channel for Facebook. No facebook app developer has presence on the mobile app.&lt;p&gt;* Macro Trend #2 - Zynga&apos;s game launches are smaller than ever. For many reasons, it&apos;s getting harder to launch a 5M+ DAU game.&lt;p&gt;Zynga is responding to these trends in several ways.&lt;p&gt;* Leverage their warchest[2] to make acquisitions. This lets them launch a higher volume of games and help them get a foothold in mobile. Zynga has made a LOT of acquisitions this year[3].&lt;p&gt;* Further monetize their existing base. They&apos;ve been pushing partner deals really hard recently, doing deals with Lady Gaga[4], Amex[5], and Capital One[6]&lt;p&gt;Zynga&apos;s games are more high quality than ever. Gone are the days of &quot;fuck innovation&quot;, two of Zynga&apos;s most recent releases are the best they&apos;ve ever built. The issue is that the market for FB games is in decline - the next big wave is mobile. If Zynga can become a player by launching a hit or acquiring a large chunk of the space, they&apos;ll be doing better than ever. But so far, Zynga&apos;s mobile releases have flopped.&lt;p&gt;TL;DR - Zynga&apos;s profits are a sign that they have doubled down on acquisitions to counter-balance a market shift from web to mobile. Their future prospects lie in their ability to generate hits on the iPhone.&lt;p&gt;=====&lt;p&gt;[1] - &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.insidefacebook.com/2011/06/12/facebook-sees-big-traffic-drops-in-us-and-canada-as-it-nears-700-million-users-worldwide/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.insidefacebook.com/2011/06/12/facebook-sees-big-t...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;[2] - &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.insidemobileapps.com/2011/08/11/zynga-credit-1-billion-acquisitions/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.insidemobileapps.com/2011/08/11/zynga-credit-1-bi...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;[3] - &lt;a href=&quot;http://mashable.com/2011/05/18/zynga-dna-games/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://mashable.com/2011/05/18/zynga-dna-games/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;[4] - &lt;a href=&quot;http://mashable.com/2011/05/10/zynga-gaga-gagaville/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://mashable.com/2011/05/10/zynga-gaga-gagaville/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;[5] - &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.zynga.com/about/article.php?a=20101130&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.zynga.com/about/article.php?a=20101130&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;[6] - &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.games.com/2011/09/19/farmville-cityville-pioneer-trail-capital-one/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://blog.games.com/2011/09/19/farmville-cityville-pioneer...&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>maverhick</author><text>&amp;#62;TL;DR - Zynga&apos;s profits are a sign that they have doubled down on acquisitions to counter-balance a market shift from web to mobile.&lt;p&gt;That is not the right summary. Aquisitions are not expenses. They are spent from the &apos;capital/capital reserves&apos;. So the act of acquiring doesn&apos;t hurt the company&apos;s profitability directly. However if all the acquired companies are making losses, those losses will now become zynga&apos;s losses. So right now the cost of running zynga is huge and that is not too good a thing as compared to its revenues</text></comment>

<story><title>Zynga&apos;s Profits Down by 95%</title><url>http://www.gamepro.com/article/news/223371/zyngas-profits-down-by-95/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>teej</author><text>Disclaimer: I was previously a Zynga employee and I am presently a holder of Zynga stock. I have no knowledge of Zynga&apos;s current internal state - the following is entirely speculation.&lt;p&gt;=================================&lt;p&gt;There are many forces at work here that need to be brought to light.&lt;p&gt;* Macro Trend #1 - Facebook&apos;s web traffic is in decline[1]. These users are shifting to mobile as their primary consumption channel for Facebook. No facebook app developer has presence on the mobile app.&lt;p&gt;* Macro Trend #2 - Zynga&apos;s game launches are smaller than ever. For many reasons, it&apos;s getting harder to launch a 5M+ DAU game.&lt;p&gt;Zynga is responding to these trends in several ways.&lt;p&gt;* Leverage their warchest[2] to make acquisitions. This lets them launch a higher volume of games and help them get a foothold in mobile. Zynga has made a LOT of acquisitions this year[3].&lt;p&gt;* Further monetize their existing base. They&apos;ve been pushing partner deals really hard recently, doing deals with Lady Gaga[4], Amex[5], and Capital One[6]&lt;p&gt;Zynga&apos;s games are more high quality than ever. Gone are the days of &quot;fuck innovation&quot;, two of Zynga&apos;s most recent releases are the best they&apos;ve ever built. The issue is that the market for FB games is in decline - the next big wave is mobile. If Zynga can become a player by launching a hit or acquiring a large chunk of the space, they&apos;ll be doing better than ever. But so far, Zynga&apos;s mobile releases have flopped.&lt;p&gt;TL;DR - Zynga&apos;s profits are a sign that they have doubled down on acquisitions to counter-balance a market shift from web to mobile. Their future prospects lie in their ability to generate hits on the iPhone.&lt;p&gt;=====&lt;p&gt;[1] - &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.insidefacebook.com/2011/06/12/facebook-sees-big-traffic-drops-in-us-and-canada-as-it-nears-700-million-users-worldwide/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.insidefacebook.com/2011/06/12/facebook-sees-big-t...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;[2] - &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.insidemobileapps.com/2011/08/11/zynga-credit-1-billion-acquisitions/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.insidemobileapps.com/2011/08/11/zynga-credit-1-bi...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;[3] - &lt;a href=&quot;http://mashable.com/2011/05/18/zynga-dna-games/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://mashable.com/2011/05/18/zynga-dna-games/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;[4] - &lt;a href=&quot;http://mashable.com/2011/05/10/zynga-gaga-gagaville/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://mashable.com/2011/05/10/zynga-gaga-gagaville/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;[5] - &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.zynga.com/about/article.php?a=20101130&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.zynga.com/about/article.php?a=20101130&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;[6] - &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.games.com/2011/09/19/farmville-cityville-pioneer-trail-capital-one/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://blog.games.com/2011/09/19/farmville-cityville-pioneer...&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>michaelochurch</author><text>You forgot to mention that Zynga is one of the major reasons &lt;i&gt;why&lt;/i&gt; Facebook is starting to decline in the U.S. People &lt;i&gt;hate&lt;/i&gt; Farmville and Mafia Wars and the associated spam.&lt;p&gt;That said, Words With Friends is an excellent implementation of Scrabble and it&apos;s actually social, not alienating like that Farmville garbage. It&apos;s quite well-polished. I respect the attention to detail.</text></comment>

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<story><title>Russia considers &apos;unplugging&apos; from internet</title><url>https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-47198426</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tivert</author><text>&amp;gt; The test is also expected to involve ISPs demonstrating that they can direct data to government-controlled routing points. These will filter traffic so that data sent between Russians reaches its destination, but any destined for foreign computers is discarded.&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; Eventually the Russian government wants all domestic traffic to pass through these routing points. This is believed to be part of an effort to set up a mass censorship system akin to that seen in China, which tries to scrub out prohibited traffic.&lt;p&gt;The internet is fragmenting.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>_wmd</author><text>If you look at the Internet as a kind of cultural propagation weapon (I find it hard not to adopt this perspective given dominance of US content online, and as someone who with seemingly increasing regularity fails to spell in British as opposed to American English), then this outcome is easily seen as only a matter of time, and depending on how severe you interpret the &amp;#x27;threat&amp;#x27;, kind of long overdue.</text></comment>

<story><title>Russia considers &apos;unplugging&apos; from internet</title><url>https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-47198426</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tivert</author><text>&amp;gt; The test is also expected to involve ISPs demonstrating that they can direct data to government-controlled routing points. These will filter traffic so that data sent between Russians reaches its destination, but any destined for foreign computers is discarded.&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; Eventually the Russian government wants all domestic traffic to pass through these routing points. This is believed to be part of an effort to set up a mass censorship system akin to that seen in China, which tries to scrub out prohibited traffic.&lt;p&gt;The internet is fragmenting.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mikeash</author><text>In retrospect, the old idea that the internet would be above national borders was hilariously naive. It may be a global network, but there’s nothing that says each country can’t exert a lot of control over their little piece of it.</text></comment>

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<story><title>A $330,000 home for $16? Texas adverse possession law</title><url>http://www.wfaa.com/news/local/Texas-Law-Lets-Stranger-Move-Into-330000-Home-125528248.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>_delirium</author><text>At least as it currently stands, this case seems to mostly have to do with difficulties of eviction, especially when the house is in a weird ownership status. He hasn&apos;t been living on the land nearly long enough to actually have any real rights through adverse possession (roughly, &quot;squatter&apos;s rights&quot;), and could be evicted by the owner at any time. He just seems to think, possibly correctly, that eviction is unlikely for a variety of reasons, and so hopes to stay long enough that adverse possession &lt;i&gt;will&lt;/i&gt; become relevant, if he de-facto lives in the house long enough without being evicted.&lt;p&gt;The main thing that keeps him &quot;legal&quot; in a certain sense is that, due to particularities of Texas law, once he&apos;s filed that document, it&apos;s a civil dispute over ownership, not a criminal case, so police won&apos;t evict him for trespassing unless a court resolves the civil dispute first, and orders eviction. He&apos;s betting that nobody is going to get around to pursuing that case, even though they would probably win if they did (since he does not in fact own the property, either &lt;i&gt;de jure&lt;/i&gt; or through sufficiently long de-facto possession).</text></comment>

<story><title>A $330,000 home for $16? Texas adverse possession law</title><url>http://www.wfaa.com/news/local/Texas-Law-Lets-Stranger-Move-Into-330000-Home-125528248.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>TamDenholm</author><text>&quot;If he wants the house, buy the house like everyone else had to,&quot; Lowrie said. &quot;Get the money, buy the house.&quot;&lt;p&gt;My personal opinion is good on the guy, if hes smart enough to find a way to legally obtain a house like this then more power to him. Mrs Lowrie is just pissed she didnt get the same opportunity.</text></comment>

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<story><title>Eating sardines regularly helps prevent type 2 diabetes</title><url>https://www.uoc.edu/portal/en/news/actualitat/2021/115-health-nutrition-diabetes-sardines.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>schwartzworld</author><text>Sardines are a household favorite for us. My kids love them.&lt;p&gt;The secret is, don&amp;#x27;t buy cheap ones. Look for brisling or any other small fish packed in olive oil. $3-5&amp;#x2F;can is a good sweet spot, although you can pay $9 for a can of imported Portuguese sardines no problem.&lt;p&gt;Speaking of Portugal, they do grilled fresh sardines. My 3 year old insisted on eating them daily when we were in Lisbon</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>culturestate</author><text>&lt;i&gt;&amp;gt; Speaking of Portugal, they do grilled fresh sardines&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;One of my Portuguese guilty pleasures, along with (ethically questionable, I know) octopus salad. Highly recommend trying this if you can get your hands on some fresh sardines.&lt;p&gt;&lt;i&gt;Edit:&lt;/i&gt; grilled sardines are also a Japanese thing, so you might have luck finding them at an Asian market if your fishmonger doesn&amp;#x27;t have them.</text></comment>

<story><title>Eating sardines regularly helps prevent type 2 diabetes</title><url>https://www.uoc.edu/portal/en/news/actualitat/2021/115-health-nutrition-diabetes-sardines.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>schwartzworld</author><text>Sardines are a household favorite for us. My kids love them.&lt;p&gt;The secret is, don&amp;#x27;t buy cheap ones. Look for brisling or any other small fish packed in olive oil. $3-5&amp;#x2F;can is a good sweet spot, although you can pay $9 for a can of imported Portuguese sardines no problem.&lt;p&gt;Speaking of Portugal, they do grilled fresh sardines. My 3 year old insisted on eating them daily when we were in Lisbon</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>eb0la</author><text>In Spain is very easy to get them in to beach or in restaurants nearby.&lt;p&gt;You can also made them in the oven wrapped in aluminium paper if you don&amp;#x27;t have a proper grill.</text></comment>

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<story><title>Blue Zones, where people reach age 100 at 10 times greater rates</title><url>https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6125071/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>codeflow2202</author><text>When speaking about Sardinia they keep saying that their diet was mostly vegetarian:&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;The classic Sardinian diet is plant based, consisting of whole-grain bread, beans, garden vegetables, and fruits. Meat is largely reserved for Sundays and special occasions. Sardinians drink wine moderately.&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;Truth is that the Shepherds (the centenaries are mostly found in this group) were actually eating more animal protein and fat compared to the rest of the population.&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;snipboard.io&amp;#x2F;gbi9JY.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;snipboard.io&amp;#x2F;gbi9JY.jpg&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;They can keep lying to most people just because you can&amp;#x27;t understand Italian but whenever people from those towns are interviewed they always repeat that they were not vegetarians. Here a quick translation from this yt video:&lt;p&gt;Graziano who got to 102 got asked if he got to 102yo because he had always followed a mediterranean diet. He asked what&amp;#x27;s that? It means that you always ate vegetables. Vegetables are bad for you, I ate the grass of 100 sheeps because I ate the sheeps. And indeed he only ate meat, meaning that this whole alimentation thing should be checked again.&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;youtu.be&amp;#x2F;LQTocSMm7tw?t=647&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;youtu.be&amp;#x2F;LQTocSMm7tw?t=647&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>franciscop</author><text>Wait, when people (mainly Americans) say &amp;quot;Mediterranean diet&amp;quot; do they think it&amp;#x27;s mainly a vegetarian one? That would be so wrong in so many levels, I am from a coastal really Mediterranean city and we def eat meat and fish (both traditionally and currently).&lt;p&gt;The main differences I&amp;#x27;d say from growing up with local food compared now with other international food is the extra use of olive oil (vs other oils or butter), that normally in our food it&amp;#x27;s easier to tell where the ingredients came from vs some other more processed diets, extra bread&amp;#x2F;wheat use, and that even when we eat meat, it&amp;#x27;s not a &amp;quot;meat fest&amp;quot; like American bbq, it&amp;#x27;s normally accompanied with other food. And of course the use of local ingredients, which is particular to our diet but I&amp;#x27;d guess most &amp;quot;regional diets&amp;quot; have this in common (with their particular ingredients).</text></comment>

<story><title>Blue Zones, where people reach age 100 at 10 times greater rates</title><url>https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6125071/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>codeflow2202</author><text>When speaking about Sardinia they keep saying that their diet was mostly vegetarian:&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;The classic Sardinian diet is plant based, consisting of whole-grain bread, beans, garden vegetables, and fruits. Meat is largely reserved for Sundays and special occasions. Sardinians drink wine moderately.&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;Truth is that the Shepherds (the centenaries are mostly found in this group) were actually eating more animal protein and fat compared to the rest of the population.&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;snipboard.io&amp;#x2F;gbi9JY.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;snipboard.io&amp;#x2F;gbi9JY.jpg&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;They can keep lying to most people just because you can&amp;#x27;t understand Italian but whenever people from those towns are interviewed they always repeat that they were not vegetarians. Here a quick translation from this yt video:&lt;p&gt;Graziano who got to 102 got asked if he got to 102yo because he had always followed a mediterranean diet. He asked what&amp;#x27;s that? It means that you always ate vegetables. Vegetables are bad for you, I ate the grass of 100 sheeps because I ate the sheeps. And indeed he only ate meat, meaning that this whole alimentation thing should be checked again.&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;youtu.be&amp;#x2F;LQTocSMm7tw?t=647&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;youtu.be&amp;#x2F;LQTocSMm7tw?t=647&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dpq</author><text>I can&amp;#x27;t quickly find the paper but I recall having read something along the following lines: there were several areas in Greece where people consumed meat and cheese heavily but the life expectancy was decent. A subsequent investigation showed that the villagers had a very common SNP (mutation) which reduced the efficiency of LDLR (essentially making their bodies ingest less of the &amp;quot;bad&amp;quot; cholesterol into the bloodstream). And the theory went that since these populations had the same diet for centuries, everybody who was not very adapted to it sort of died out &amp;#x2F; was outcompeted in a Darwinian way by folks who had this genetic adaptation. So yes, a Sardinian villager may live to 102 eating solely mutton; it doesn&amp;#x27;t mean that the outcome would be as good if you took a random sample of Californians (for instance) and had them use the same diet.</text></comment>

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<story><title>Almost 80% of Private Day Traders Lose Money</title><url>http://www.curiousgnu.com/day-trading</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>nicholas73</author><text>This blog post did not answer it&amp;#x27;s own question because it&amp;#x27;s conditions were not day trading (over 3 trades in 12 months). That condition selects for people choosing individual stocks hoping for a moonshot, for which people tend to choose riskier stocks rather than stocks actually likely to make them money. So no wonder 80% lost money. On the other hand, notice that the 20% who do make money have a large power distribution curve.&lt;p&gt;A better way would have been to compare performance versus frequency of trading (I don&amp;#x27;t expect this to prove one way or another though). The fact is, there are many strategies one could take, and it&amp;#x27;s how well you execute them that counts.&lt;p&gt;Personally, I don&amp;#x27;t find daytrading riskier than holding stocks. By far my biggest losses come from holding the wrong stocks for a long period. It just seems riskier because you have to confront yourself with the possibility of loss each day, rather than hold &amp;quot;long term&amp;quot; and deny that you are wrong.&lt;p&gt;I now take the Doyle Brunson approach. The poker champion loved to pick up small pots and felt it was critical to do by aggressively playing small hands. That way, these little wins pay for the risk of playing bigger hands over time. I&amp;#x27;ve had the same experience - my daytrading tends to be small money but it stems from work done for holding long term stocks. So why not put it to use?&lt;p&gt;But, to actually make good money daytrading is still really difficult. Commissions alone can make you have to be 55&amp;#x2F;45 correct, but there is also the steamroller affect where people tend to hold on to losses and double down further. So it&amp;#x27;s also about mastering yourself in addition to your market. Otherwise, there is not reason why you can&amp;#x27;t be better: you are putting in more work than others to make good decisions, and that&amp;#x27;s how you profit. Trouble is, when are you still outgunned informationally?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mrchicity</author><text>I think the individual retail trader is almost always outgunned informationally when it comes to intraday trades. Most short-term price action is driven by order flow and cross-asset correlations, which machines are very good at trading. They are often net trading cost earners due to rebates and capturing bid-offer spreads. That means their win rate doesn&amp;#x27;t need to be as high, so they can pull the trigger on a trade before you can, just by having lower fees and superior execution. In addition to that, they&amp;#x27;re faster, more scalable, have more access to liquidity, and are more disciplined than humans could ever be. For the ones who trade off statistical correlations, they have the best data and armies of PhDs working on signals.&lt;p&gt;There are some event-driven fast trades still done by humans, like after news or responding to economic releases, but hedge funds have highly-educated people modeling the effects of an interest rate change or earnings release as their full-time job. This area is also becoming dominated by bots doing sentiment analysis.&lt;p&gt;I think the retail trader could have an edge in a few ways. One would be an illegal edge like inside information or market manipulation. Another would be finding illiquid stocks that proprietary traders and hedge funds won&amp;#x27;t bother with and trading using similar techniques. You could also look for extreme situations that model-based traders can&amp;#x27;t understand well due to lack of data, like a merger target breaking away. Those trades would be very risky though.&lt;p&gt;FWIW I&amp;#x27;m a professional trader and never day trade my own account or pick individual stocks. My company allows it, but I don&amp;#x27;t believe I have any edge in doing so. I just buy and hold a portfolio of ETFs.</text></comment>

<story><title>Almost 80% of Private Day Traders Lose Money</title><url>http://www.curiousgnu.com/day-trading</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>nicholas73</author><text>This blog post did not answer it&amp;#x27;s own question because it&amp;#x27;s conditions were not day trading (over 3 trades in 12 months). That condition selects for people choosing individual stocks hoping for a moonshot, for which people tend to choose riskier stocks rather than stocks actually likely to make them money. So no wonder 80% lost money. On the other hand, notice that the 20% who do make money have a large power distribution curve.&lt;p&gt;A better way would have been to compare performance versus frequency of trading (I don&amp;#x27;t expect this to prove one way or another though). The fact is, there are many strategies one could take, and it&amp;#x27;s how well you execute them that counts.&lt;p&gt;Personally, I don&amp;#x27;t find daytrading riskier than holding stocks. By far my biggest losses come from holding the wrong stocks for a long period. It just seems riskier because you have to confront yourself with the possibility of loss each day, rather than hold &amp;quot;long term&amp;quot; and deny that you are wrong.&lt;p&gt;I now take the Doyle Brunson approach. The poker champion loved to pick up small pots and felt it was critical to do by aggressively playing small hands. That way, these little wins pay for the risk of playing bigger hands over time. I&amp;#x27;ve had the same experience - my daytrading tends to be small money but it stems from work done for holding long term stocks. So why not put it to use?&lt;p&gt;But, to actually make good money daytrading is still really difficult. Commissions alone can make you have to be 55&amp;#x2F;45 correct, but there is also the steamroller affect where people tend to hold on to losses and double down further. So it&amp;#x27;s also about mastering yourself in addition to your market. Otherwise, there is not reason why you can&amp;#x27;t be better: you are putting in more work than others to make good decisions, and that&amp;#x27;s how you profit. Trouble is, when are you still outgunned informationally?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jfoster</author><text>If you ask me, daytrading seems riskier because you&amp;#x27;re essentially trading within noise. A company could rise or fall a few (and more rarely, a lot of) percentage points within a day. Is it fluctuating based on anything other than the feedback loop and noise? Usually not, I think.&lt;p&gt;It seems far more unpredictable and lacking in reasoning than something like &amp;quot;Amazon&amp;#x27;s strategy for the next couple of years involves X, Y, and Z, so I think they will be successful&amp;#x2F;fail.&amp;quot;</text></comment>

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<story><title>We have an employee whose last name is Null. He kills our employee lookup (2012)</title><url>http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4456438/how-can-i-pass-the-string-null-through-wsdl-soap-from-as3-to-coldfusion-web?rq=1</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>R_Edward</author><text>Growing up, my parents called me by my middle name, as I share a first name with my dad. (I&amp;#x27;d rather be an Edward than a Ralph anyway.) When giving my name to someone, I tell them I&amp;#x27;m Edward &amp;lt;Lastname&amp;gt;, as telling them I&amp;#x27;m R. Edward &amp;lt;Lastname&amp;gt; just sounds pretentious. But if I&amp;#x27;m beginning a relationship with a doctor&amp;#x27;s office or lawyer, or filling in a tax form, it&amp;#x27;s Ralph E. Lastname, because that&amp;#x27;s what&amp;#x27;s on my birth certificate and SSA record. It is quite annoying when the phone rings, and I don&amp;#x27;t recognize the calling number, so I answer with a guarded, &amp;quot;This is Ed...&amp;quot; and hear the caller ask, &amp;quot;May I speak to Ralph?&amp;quot; and have to explain to them that I really am Ralph, even though I said I was Ed. But I have to say, my problems are &lt;i&gt;nothing&lt;/i&gt; compared to yours!&lt;p&gt;CSB: My mom signed me up for a book club when I was 6 or 7. For the Firstname field, she wrote, &amp;quot;R Edward&amp;quot; for reasons known only to her. For the next three years, every couple months, I&amp;#x27;d get a package addressed to Redward &amp;lt;Lastname&amp;gt;. I could just imagine the shipping clerk in that company reading my shipping label and saying to himself, &amp;quot;Redward... what a goofy name.&amp;quot;</text></item><item><author>mjn</author><text>One thing that&amp;#x27;s annoying to me is that governments and employers increasingly believe many of these things, partly because they want to cross-reference names and match canonical forms.&lt;p&gt;My given names in English are Mark Jason, and that&amp;#x27;s on my birth certificate. In Greek, they&amp;#x27;re Μάρκος Ιάσονας, which are the equivalents, and that&amp;#x27;s on my municipal birth records there (registered as a foreign birth at the time of baptism). There seems to be a move towards wanting to use &amp;quot;accurate&amp;quot; transliterations, though, rather than the more traditional method of translating names to equivalents (Mark&amp;lt;-&amp;gt;Markos, George&amp;lt;-&amp;gt;Georgios, Paul&amp;lt;-&amp;gt;Pavlos, etc.). Sometimes people desire that: maybe someone named Михаил in Russian really doesn&amp;#x27;t want to be turned into Michael, but wants to go by Mikhail. That&amp;#x27;s fine, if they prefer. But in my case, I consider each of these translated forms to be my name in the respective languages, and do not consider the transliterated forms to be my name.&lt;p&gt;But in trying to sort out some paperwork, it appears that what I am &lt;i&gt;supposed&lt;/i&gt; to do is one of these two things: 1) change my name in English from &lt;i&gt;Mark Jason&lt;/i&gt; to &lt;i&gt;Markos Iasonas&lt;/i&gt;, the transliteration of my Greek name; or 2) change my name in Greek from Μάρκος Ιάσονας to Μαρκ Τζέισον, the transliteration of my English name. But I don&amp;#x27;t want to do either of those things. #2 in particular is ridiculous, because it doesn&amp;#x27;t decline properly, and is trying to approximate a &amp;#x27;j&amp;#x27; sound with &amp;#x27;tz&amp;#x27;.</text></item><item><author>glimcat</author><text>As long as we&amp;#x27;re playing the &amp;quot;Falsehoods Programmers Believe About Names&amp;quot; game again, here&amp;#x27;s the relevant patio11 article:&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.kalzumeus.com/2010/06/17/falsehoods-programmers-believe-about-names/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.kalzumeus.com&amp;#x2F;2010&amp;#x2F;06&amp;#x2F;17&amp;#x2F;falsehoods-programmers-b...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;If you try to validate names, or if you don&amp;#x27;t safely escape names along with your other user-input strings, you&amp;#x27;re gonna have a bad time.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>kimlastname</author><text>My name is Kim &amp;lt;Lastname&amp;gt; and I&amp;#x27;m a male. Try convincing Americans (and other English speaking countries) about that...&lt;p&gt;One example: Many years ago I subscribed to TIME and filled out a form where I checked &amp;quot;Mr.&amp;quot; Apparently the person who typed in my name decided to &amp;quot;correct&amp;quot; this error and I became a &amp;quot;Mrs.&amp;quot;... and I wasn&amp;#x27;t even married :-)&lt;p&gt;The company I work at has offices in different cities, so most of the communication are done by email and instant messaging. I see a clear difference between the messages from people who know my gender, and those who probably think I&amp;#x27;m female. Even attempts at flirting...</text></comment>

<story><title>We have an employee whose last name is Null. He kills our employee lookup (2012)</title><url>http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4456438/how-can-i-pass-the-string-null-through-wsdl-soap-from-as3-to-coldfusion-web?rq=1</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>R_Edward</author><text>Growing up, my parents called me by my middle name, as I share a first name with my dad. (I&amp;#x27;d rather be an Edward than a Ralph anyway.) When giving my name to someone, I tell them I&amp;#x27;m Edward &amp;lt;Lastname&amp;gt;, as telling them I&amp;#x27;m R. Edward &amp;lt;Lastname&amp;gt; just sounds pretentious. But if I&amp;#x27;m beginning a relationship with a doctor&amp;#x27;s office or lawyer, or filling in a tax form, it&amp;#x27;s Ralph E. Lastname, because that&amp;#x27;s what&amp;#x27;s on my birth certificate and SSA record. It is quite annoying when the phone rings, and I don&amp;#x27;t recognize the calling number, so I answer with a guarded, &amp;quot;This is Ed...&amp;quot; and hear the caller ask, &amp;quot;May I speak to Ralph?&amp;quot; and have to explain to them that I really am Ralph, even though I said I was Ed. But I have to say, my problems are &lt;i&gt;nothing&lt;/i&gt; compared to yours!&lt;p&gt;CSB: My mom signed me up for a book club when I was 6 or 7. For the Firstname field, she wrote, &amp;quot;R Edward&amp;quot; for reasons known only to her. For the next three years, every couple months, I&amp;#x27;d get a package addressed to Redward &amp;lt;Lastname&amp;gt;. I could just imagine the shipping clerk in that company reading my shipping label and saying to himself, &amp;quot;Redward... what a goofy name.&amp;quot;</text></item><item><author>mjn</author><text>One thing that&amp;#x27;s annoying to me is that governments and employers increasingly believe many of these things, partly because they want to cross-reference names and match canonical forms.&lt;p&gt;My given names in English are Mark Jason, and that&amp;#x27;s on my birth certificate. In Greek, they&amp;#x27;re Μάρκος Ιάσονας, which are the equivalents, and that&amp;#x27;s on my municipal birth records there (registered as a foreign birth at the time of baptism). There seems to be a move towards wanting to use &amp;quot;accurate&amp;quot; transliterations, though, rather than the more traditional method of translating names to equivalents (Mark&amp;lt;-&amp;gt;Markos, George&amp;lt;-&amp;gt;Georgios, Paul&amp;lt;-&amp;gt;Pavlos, etc.). Sometimes people desire that: maybe someone named Михаил in Russian really doesn&amp;#x27;t want to be turned into Michael, but wants to go by Mikhail. That&amp;#x27;s fine, if they prefer. But in my case, I consider each of these translated forms to be my name in the respective languages, and do not consider the transliterated forms to be my name.&lt;p&gt;But in trying to sort out some paperwork, it appears that what I am &lt;i&gt;supposed&lt;/i&gt; to do is one of these two things: 1) change my name in English from &lt;i&gt;Mark Jason&lt;/i&gt; to &lt;i&gt;Markos Iasonas&lt;/i&gt;, the transliteration of my Greek name; or 2) change my name in Greek from Μάρκος Ιάσονας to Μαρκ Τζέισον, the transliteration of my English name. But I don&amp;#x27;t want to do either of those things. #2 in particular is ridiculous, because it doesn&amp;#x27;t decline properly, and is trying to approximate a &amp;#x27;j&amp;#x27; sound with &amp;#x27;tz&amp;#x27;.</text></item><item><author>glimcat</author><text>As long as we&amp;#x27;re playing the &amp;quot;Falsehoods Programmers Believe About Names&amp;quot; game again, here&amp;#x27;s the relevant patio11 article:&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.kalzumeus.com/2010/06/17/falsehoods-programmers-believe-about-names/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.kalzumeus.com&amp;#x2F;2010&amp;#x2F;06&amp;#x2F;17&amp;#x2F;falsehoods-programmers-b...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;If you try to validate names, or if you don&amp;#x27;t safely escape names along with your other user-input strings, you&amp;#x27;re gonna have a bad time.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jacalata</author><text>Try just answering the phone with &amp;quot;hello?&amp;quot; for unknown numbers.</text></comment>

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<story><title>Welcome to the Old Internet Again</title><url>http://theoldnet.com/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>haroldegibbons</author><text>The internet pre-&amp;#x27;attention economy&amp;#x27; was so much more wholesome and pure. It used to be exciting to surf the web; now it feels like dumpster diving. Now it&amp;#x27;s something I try my best to avoid.&lt;p&gt;What happened?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>stiray</author><text>I would say a bunch of average people came to the internet. Before that it was mostly reserved by geeks which valued information more than &amp;quot;form&amp;quot;&amp;#x2F;ux&amp;#x2F;beauty(irelevant pictures included)&amp;#x2F;...&lt;p&gt;Now we have just another pop culture. Sad.&lt;p&gt;But I still use IRC. It is interesting that most of (to me) relevant developers (system level development, ...) are still hanging there.&lt;p&gt;IRC is all textual and it was never filled with all the garbage you can see on web, but they did invent alternatives where all the pop culture went (discord O.o) while I can enjoy my peace on IRC.&lt;p&gt;I am really mourning about usenet. It was dying but still kicking, then google destroyed it with google groups.</text></comment>

<story><title>Welcome to the Old Internet Again</title><url>http://theoldnet.com/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>haroldegibbons</author><text>The internet pre-&amp;#x27;attention economy&amp;#x27; was so much more wholesome and pure. It used to be exciting to surf the web; now it feels like dumpster diving. Now it&amp;#x27;s something I try my best to avoid.&lt;p&gt;What happened?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>thunderbird120</author><text>You answered your own question. Attention is essentially the currency of the internet and it&amp;#x27;s a finite resource. People got better at competing for your attention. Things are now optimized for &amp;quot;engagement&amp;quot; rather than enjoyment.</text></comment>

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<story><title>Future of TypeScript on ESLint</title><url>https://eslint.org/blog/2019/01/future-typescript-eslint</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>celestialjeu</author><text>Have you used flow at all in the past? If so what would you say the major differences are&amp;#x2F;how difficult was any process to convert over? I&amp;#x27;m a huge fan of having the types defined just from a documentation perspective nevermind bug catching and debugging and all that. I feel relatively agnostic about the particular thing we use to do it so I&amp;#x27;m curious as to what the differences are.&lt;p&gt;But yeah it really has improved my day to day immensely and I really feel the difference when I&amp;#x27;m working in legacy portions of our apps that pre-date the flow adoption.</text></item><item><author>_robbywashere</author><text>It&amp;#x27;s very nice to see all of this consolidation going on in the Typescript ecosystem. For example Babel 7 shipping with direct Typescript support back in August, &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;blogs.msdn.microsoft.com&amp;#x2F;typescript&amp;#x2F;2018&amp;#x2F;08&amp;#x2F;27&amp;#x2F;typescript-and-babel-7&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;blogs.msdn.microsoft.com&amp;#x2F;typescript&amp;#x2F;2018&amp;#x2F;08&amp;#x2F;27&amp;#x2F;types...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;I am a Typescript convert myself and would suggest any daily JS developer give it an honest try.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jameslk</author><text>I have used both TypeScript (for multiple projects) and Flow (at Facebook). TypeScript is much more feature-rich and looser in strictness. In practice, this looseness has been preferable, as I&amp;#x27;ve seen many of my colleagues fighting Flow&amp;#x27;s type system vs TypeScript (prior to FB). In theory, perhaps Flow&amp;#x27;s type system prevents more bugs, but I&amp;#x27;ve sometimes seen it circumvented with hacks just to get past its strictness. TypeScript&amp;#x27;s ability to infer types seems much smarter than Flow&amp;#x27;s as well.&lt;p&gt;Besides that, TypeScript has much wider adoption and community support. Most issues I have with TypeScript I can find others who have had similar issues on the web, where as I can&amp;#x27;t say the same about Flow.</text></comment>

<story><title>Future of TypeScript on ESLint</title><url>https://eslint.org/blog/2019/01/future-typescript-eslint</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>celestialjeu</author><text>Have you used flow at all in the past? If so what would you say the major differences are&amp;#x2F;how difficult was any process to convert over? I&amp;#x27;m a huge fan of having the types defined just from a documentation perspective nevermind bug catching and debugging and all that. I feel relatively agnostic about the particular thing we use to do it so I&amp;#x27;m curious as to what the differences are.&lt;p&gt;But yeah it really has improved my day to day immensely and I really feel the difference when I&amp;#x27;m working in legacy portions of our apps that pre-date the flow adoption.</text></item><item><author>_robbywashere</author><text>It&amp;#x27;s very nice to see all of this consolidation going on in the Typescript ecosystem. For example Babel 7 shipping with direct Typescript support back in August, &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;blogs.msdn.microsoft.com&amp;#x2F;typescript&amp;#x2F;2018&amp;#x2F;08&amp;#x2F;27&amp;#x2F;typescript-and-babel-7&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;blogs.msdn.microsoft.com&amp;#x2F;typescript&amp;#x2F;2018&amp;#x2F;08&amp;#x2F;27&amp;#x2F;types...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;I am a Typescript convert myself and would suggest any daily JS developer give it an honest try.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>_robbywashere</author><text>I have never used Flow beyond a basic hello world. The syntax is very similar. Some of the nomenclatures vary. All and all they will both accomplish 99% of the same thing - statically typing a dynamic language. Which gives you much more code confidence, `foobar is undefined` is very less likely. self-documenting code. (see: vs-code intellisense) And code maintenance scale abilities currently not possible with such a loose language like javascript.&lt;p&gt;So I would say if you&amp;#x27;re interested pick one and dive in.&lt;p&gt;Right now typescript has a lot of community momentum: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;github.com&amp;#x2F;DefinitelyTyped&amp;#x2F;DefinitelyTyped&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;github.com&amp;#x2F;DefinitelyTyped&amp;#x2F;DefinitelyTyped&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;And an extremely fast, open sourced, plugin enabled editor, vs-code ftw! I am a convert after being a longtime diehard vim user. (vs-code has the best vim binding emulation I have ever used in a free open sourced editor)&lt;p&gt;Facebook is deprecating their flow atom editor plugin; nuclide - &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;twitter.com&amp;#x2F;fbopensource&amp;#x2F;status&amp;#x2F;1072928679695548416?lang=en&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;twitter.com&amp;#x2F;fbopensource&amp;#x2F;status&amp;#x2F;1072928679695548416?...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;This is all why I would choose typescript over flow if it were up to me. maybe a flow user can chime in.</text></comment>

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<story><title>Why did the F-14 Tomcat retire decades before its peers? (2021)</title><url>https://www.sandboxx.us/blog/why-did-the-f-14-tomcat-retire-decades-before-its-peers/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>CH1jZci6jV</author><text>I served in the last F-14 squadron, VF-31. When President Bush landed on our carrier (Mission Accomplished!) they had the inferior F-18s in the background for the political shots. We were told that was because the US taxpayers would be pissed if they knew how ripped off they got for the F-18, which was replacing the F-14 in all of the squadrons.&lt;p&gt;This might be just F-14 bravado, of course, but I do also remember that like the second week of &amp;quot;shock and awe&amp;quot; (the initial Iraq campaign bombing) they stopped all F-14 flights for the same reasons. F-14s were trouncing the sorties of the F-18s, even though we were one squadron vs four or five of their squadrons, because we were the only jets capable of actually reaching Bagdad from the carrier and we were able to convert our bombs to &amp;quot;smart bombs&amp;quot; much faster (F-14s break a lot more so our techs were more skilled).</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>darksaints</author><text>By the time of the second gulf war, the F-14D cost 20% more per unit than the F-18E, and some 80-100% more to maintain. I&amp;#x27;m not sure how you&amp;#x27;re concluding that the taxpayers were ripped off by that.&lt;p&gt;Also, didn&amp;#x27;t we have airbases in Saudi Arabia and Kuwait? Why were we relying on carrier aircraft for bombing Bagdad when we could have been using F-15s and F-16s?</text></comment>

<story><title>Why did the F-14 Tomcat retire decades before its peers? (2021)</title><url>https://www.sandboxx.us/blog/why-did-the-f-14-tomcat-retire-decades-before-its-peers/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>CH1jZci6jV</author><text>I served in the last F-14 squadron, VF-31. When President Bush landed on our carrier (Mission Accomplished!) they had the inferior F-18s in the background for the political shots. We were told that was because the US taxpayers would be pissed if they knew how ripped off they got for the F-18, which was replacing the F-14 in all of the squadrons.&lt;p&gt;This might be just F-14 bravado, of course, but I do also remember that like the second week of &amp;quot;shock and awe&amp;quot; (the initial Iraq campaign bombing) they stopped all F-14 flights for the same reasons. F-14s were trouncing the sorties of the F-18s, even though we were one squadron vs four or five of their squadrons, because we were the only jets capable of actually reaching Bagdad from the carrier and we were able to convert our bombs to &amp;quot;smart bombs&amp;quot; much faster (F-14s break a lot more so our techs were more skilled).</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Mikeb85</author><text>&amp;gt; F-14s break a lot more&lt;p&gt;Pretty sure this is the answer lol...</text></comment>

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<story><title>Ask HN: What was your most humbling learning moment?</title><text>I&amp;#x27;ve worked on large products for large and small companies and written tens of thousands of lines of code across my career, solving complex, abstract, challenging technical problems in a variety of languages on a variety of platforms, sometimes under difficult conditions. I have often been a resource for my friends and co-workers when they have programming or technical questions.&lt;p&gt;I only recently learned how to correctly raise and lower window blinds--I had been doing it wrong my entire life. It was maybe the dumbest I have ever felt, and was a humbling reminder of how much I don&amp;#x27;t know about how much I don&amp;#x27;t know.&lt;p&gt;Have you had similar experiences?</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>projectileboy</author><text>As a good friend of mine often says: We work in a field of people who envision themselves as artists, when all that is wanted are painters.</text></item><item><author>hu3</author><text>Learning that some folks can produce so much value with crappy code.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;ve seen entire teams burn so much money by overcomplicating projects. Bikesheding about how to implement DDD, Hexagonal Architecture, design patterns, complex queues that would maybe one day be required if the company scaled 1000x, unnecessary eventual consistency that required so much machinery and man hours to keep data integrity under control. Some of these projects were so late in their deadlines that had to be cancelled.&lt;p&gt;And then I&amp;#x27;ve seen one man projects copy pasting spaghetti code around like there&amp;#x27;s no tomorrow that had a working system within 1&amp;#x2F;10th of the budget.&lt;p&gt;Now I admire those who can just produce value without worrying too much about what&amp;#x27;s under the hood. Very important mindset for most startups. And a very humbling realization.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>icelancer</author><text>No one wants to be a &amp;quot;programmer.&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;They&amp;#x27;d rather be called &amp;quot;engineers.&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;With none of the licensure, mandatory education, and so forth. But the world needs programmers and technicians for most of the work we have to do. I do comparably little &amp;quot;engineering&amp;quot; and the little I have done that qualifies for such a statement I recall. Majority of the work is programming and technician work. Nothing wrong with that.</text></comment>

<story><title>Ask HN: What was your most humbling learning moment?</title><text>I&amp;#x27;ve worked on large products for large and small companies and written tens of thousands of lines of code across my career, solving complex, abstract, challenging technical problems in a variety of languages on a variety of platforms, sometimes under difficult conditions. I have often been a resource for my friends and co-workers when they have programming or technical questions.&lt;p&gt;I only recently learned how to correctly raise and lower window blinds--I had been doing it wrong my entire life. It was maybe the dumbest I have ever felt, and was a humbling reminder of how much I don&amp;#x27;t know about how much I don&amp;#x27;t know.&lt;p&gt;Have you had similar experiences?</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>projectileboy</author><text>As a good friend of mine often says: We work in a field of people who envision themselves as artists, when all that is wanted are painters.</text></item><item><author>hu3</author><text>Learning that some folks can produce so much value with crappy code.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;ve seen entire teams burn so much money by overcomplicating projects. Bikesheding about how to implement DDD, Hexagonal Architecture, design patterns, complex queues that would maybe one day be required if the company scaled 1000x, unnecessary eventual consistency that required so much machinery and man hours to keep data integrity under control. Some of these projects were so late in their deadlines that had to be cancelled.&lt;p&gt;And then I&amp;#x27;ve seen one man projects copy pasting spaghetti code around like there&amp;#x27;s no tomorrow that had a working system within 1&amp;#x2F;10th of the budget.&lt;p&gt;Now I admire those who can just produce value without worrying too much about what&amp;#x27;s under the hood. Very important mindset for most startups. And a very humbling realization.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>gradschoolfail</author><text>Some of the best are in fact also painters.&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;paulgraham.com&amp;#x2F;hackpaint.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;paulgraham.com&amp;#x2F;hackpaint.html&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>

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<story><title>The time has come to replace file systems</title><url>https://didgets.substack.com/p/where-did-i-put-that-file</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>bborud</author><text>What this boils down to is that he thinks a flat namespace (tags) offers advantages over hierarchical namespaces (tree). They really don&amp;#x27;t. Once your tag space grows you will start to struggle with naming, and path-like structures (nested namespaces) start to creep back in. And you are right where you started: paths.&lt;p&gt;The treatment of immutability is too superficial to make any sense of so I don&amp;#x27;t know what the author is imagining. Ted Nelson has evolved some ideas on this for decades that might be worth knowing about. Some of which have kind of come to pass (if you squint and look at how non-destructive editing tools for video and audio work, for instance). However, very little of Ted&amp;#x27;s thinking has ever been burdened by usable implementation.&lt;p&gt;The concept of having multiple references to the same file already exists. So what he proposes can be realized with existing file systems just by introducing a different naming scheme and making extensive use of sym-&amp;#x2F;hard-linking.&lt;p&gt;Yes, a lot of file systems will have terrible lookup and traversal performance, but that problem exists in an orthogonal universe and can be solved. Is, indeed solved, in some fileystems if the marketing blurb doesn&amp;#x27;t lie.&lt;p&gt;If you think about how you would realize this using existing filesystems, by organizing them differently, the concept isn&amp;#x27;t as sexy anymore. Because it doesn&amp;#x27;t really involve a lot of new stuff and you start to see the inconvenience of having to cope with both novelty and problems you didn&amp;#x27;t have before.&lt;p&gt;The problems someone like me wants solved in filsystems are entirely different, and aren&amp;#x27;t so much about filesystems as it is about how you make the functionality useful to applications.&lt;p&gt;For instance, there are filesystems that offer snapshot semantics. Including COW-snapshots. This would be useful whenever applications need to do be able to roll back changes, switch between states, do backups while being live etc. Yet I know of no language which has snapshot as part of the standard OS interface. So people generally don&amp;#x27;t write application that take full advantage of what the underlying system offers.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>horsawlarway</author><text>Path based file systems take advantage of natural semantics we use for navigation. There is a wonderful overlap between how you navigate the real world, and how you navigate a hierarchical file system.&lt;p&gt;I have &lt;i&gt;never&lt;/i&gt; (never ever ever) seen a tag based system actually work once you have large amounts of files and tags - Tags are manual, often duplicated with slight name changes or variations, hard to discover, and literally worse than a folder hierarchy for discoverability in almost every way.&lt;p&gt;Tags can be nice to have - but only if I also have a path. Otherwise they are utterly inferior.</text></comment>

<story><title>The time has come to replace file systems</title><url>https://didgets.substack.com/p/where-did-i-put-that-file</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>bborud</author><text>What this boils down to is that he thinks a flat namespace (tags) offers advantages over hierarchical namespaces (tree). They really don&amp;#x27;t. Once your tag space grows you will start to struggle with naming, and path-like structures (nested namespaces) start to creep back in. And you are right where you started: paths.&lt;p&gt;The treatment of immutability is too superficial to make any sense of so I don&amp;#x27;t know what the author is imagining. Ted Nelson has evolved some ideas on this for decades that might be worth knowing about. Some of which have kind of come to pass (if you squint and look at how non-destructive editing tools for video and audio work, for instance). However, very little of Ted&amp;#x27;s thinking has ever been burdened by usable implementation.&lt;p&gt;The concept of having multiple references to the same file already exists. So what he proposes can be realized with existing file systems just by introducing a different naming scheme and making extensive use of sym-&amp;#x2F;hard-linking.&lt;p&gt;Yes, a lot of file systems will have terrible lookup and traversal performance, but that problem exists in an orthogonal universe and can be solved. Is, indeed solved, in some fileystems if the marketing blurb doesn&amp;#x27;t lie.&lt;p&gt;If you think about how you would realize this using existing filesystems, by organizing them differently, the concept isn&amp;#x27;t as sexy anymore. Because it doesn&amp;#x27;t really involve a lot of new stuff and you start to see the inconvenience of having to cope with both novelty and problems you didn&amp;#x27;t have before.&lt;p&gt;The problems someone like me wants solved in filsystems are entirely different, and aren&amp;#x27;t so much about filesystems as it is about how you make the functionality useful to applications.&lt;p&gt;For instance, there are filesystems that offer snapshot semantics. Including COW-snapshots. This would be useful whenever applications need to do be able to roll back changes, switch between states, do backups while being live etc. Yet I know of no language which has snapshot as part of the standard OS interface. So people generally don&amp;#x27;t write application that take full advantage of what the underlying system offers.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>TheOtherHobbes</author><text>I&amp;#x27;m not sure any of this really addresses the question - which is &lt;i&gt;how do people really use files.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;IME I have a number of live projects which can contain various numbers of source files, images, web links, PDFs and other documents, text files, and so on.&lt;p&gt;Then there are a number of files I access regularly which may not be associated with a project (like favourite music).&lt;p&gt;Then there&amp;#x27;s a mountain of data which is just there in case I ever need it. It includes backups of old projects, documents, music and art I keep because I think it&amp;#x27;s interesting but haven&amp;#x27;t read yet, web links that are filed and then (sadly...) forgotten, and so on.&lt;p&gt;I don&amp;#x27;t know how typical this is, and it doesn&amp;#x27;t matter. Because neither a tag based nor a tree based system address the real issue - which is designing a custom file workflow that collects related references of all kinds, doesn&amp;#x27;t confuse working data with long-term storage, allows off-site backups, allows collaboration, supports versioning on demand, and also makes it easy to find things.&lt;p&gt;I suppose all of that means some kind of process API which does a lot more than file.open() and file.close().&lt;p&gt;It could be built on tags, it could be built on trees, it could be built on some combination. Or on something else entirely.&lt;p&gt;The implementation matters a lot less than a set of available features which streamline common tasks in some fairly standardised and effective way.</text></comment>

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<story><title> A new kind of fractal?</title><url>http://www.gibney.de/does_anybody_know_this_fractal</url><text>I stumbled across this and wonder what it is.</text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>madhadron</author><text>It&apos;s not a fractal, but it is something familiar.&lt;p&gt;Multiply two complex numbers z and c is equivalent to taking z and applying a rotation and dilation to it, the rotation through arg(c) and the dilation through |c|. Division is the inverse of both, so z/c is z rotated by -arg(c) and dilated by 1/|c|.&lt;p&gt;What you&apos;re looking at, then, is taking the operation defined by c (rotate by -arg(c) and dilate by 1/|c|) and asking, if you take the Gaussian integers as the vertexes of a directed graph, what fraction of the vertexes are the source of an edge.&lt;p&gt;Consider the 1 dimensional analogy using real numbers. Given some real number c, take all the integers as the vertexes of a graph, and if z/c (for some integer z) is also an integer, I put a directed edge from z to z/c. When are these connected? Well, if c is irrational, never. If c is rational, then there will be an infinite number of connections, but how infinite? When c is 2, there will be twice as many edges on average in any subset of the source vertexes as when c is 4. If we can write c as p/q, then the smaller p is, the more edges we&apos;ll get, and the brighter the pixel in your image.&lt;p&gt;The 1 dimensional analogy will have a spike at 1/2, smaller spikes at 1/3 and 2/3, yet smaller spikes at 1/4 and 3/4, smaller ones yet at 1/5, 2/5, 3/5, and 4/5, etc. The spikes will all be distinct (because between any two rationals there is an irrational), but will be infinitely close (because the rationals are dense in the reals). As you keep zooming in, you will get more and more edges like this.&lt;p&gt;What you&apos;re seeing is a variation on the classical structure of the rationals dense within the reals.&lt;p&gt;Now, a fractal is a set with a fractional Hausdorff dimension. We have to extract a set from your function of c in order to talk about fractal dimension. We could take the support of the function (everywhere it&apos;s not zero). In the one dimensional case, that&apos;s the rationals. We could take level sets farther up (the set of c such that f(c) = k, for a constant k). Those are subsets of the rationals. However, the rationals, while dense in the reals, are of measure zero in the reals, and have Hausdorff dimension zero, and so do all the level sets. So it&apos;s not a fractal.&lt;p&gt;Doesn&apos;t make it any less pretty though.</text></comment>

<story><title> A new kind of fractal?</title><url>http://www.gibney.de/does_anybody_know_this_fractal</url><text>I stumbled across this and wonder what it is.</text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>binarymax</author><text>Very cool. I stumbled upon something in the late 90s that is fractal in nature but doesnt use complex numbers - it just plots points directly on a grid with no need for iteration. &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uwjhRYZ_eSI&amp;#38;feature=plcp&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uwjhRYZ_eSI&amp;#38;feature=plcp&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>

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<story><title>Regulators should treat stablecoins like banks</title><url>https://www.economist.com/leaders/2021/08/07/why-regulators-should-treat-stablecoins-like-banks</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mdorazio</author><text>Devil&amp;#x27;s advocate: 2008 was bad because of regulatory failures (specifically deregulation). Lack of transparency was only part of the problem. So if you want to avoid 2008 in cryptocurrency, the answer would be more regulation, not less.</text></item><item><author>Zamicol</author><text>Firstly, Tether is rat poison. Unfortunately, newcomers to the space identify &amp;quot;stable coins&amp;quot; = &amp;quot;tether&amp;quot; or wrongly assume that other stablecoins share similar mechanisms. There are many alternatives that operate radically differently in the nascent space.&lt;p&gt;DAI is immensely exciting. Stablecoins like DAI are interesting experiments that could powerfully create new online economies.&lt;p&gt;Blockchains like Ethereum are currently far more transparent than the state-sponsor US monetary system. I hope to live in a society where economic experiments can be executed, new lessons learned, and transparency maintained. If stablecoins are persecuted, the need for cryptographic zero-knowledge proofs will allow these systems to continue with far less transparency.&lt;p&gt;As a different matter, how can society say &amp;quot;2008 bad&amp;quot;, which resulted in little economic progress, and then threaten problem solvers from making new solutions? Innovation is a hedge against regulator lethargy.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mbesto</author><text>&amp;gt; So if you want to avoid 2008 in cryptocurrency, the answer would be more regulation, not less.&lt;p&gt;To expand on this point. Deregulation with a federal reserve fallback is especially dangerous because it&amp;#x27;s essentially fake deregulation. When you know that you&amp;#x27;re too big to fail and the government is going to bail you then your risk to allocate capital effectively becomes zero.</text></comment>

<story><title>Regulators should treat stablecoins like banks</title><url>https://www.economist.com/leaders/2021/08/07/why-regulators-should-treat-stablecoins-like-banks</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mdorazio</author><text>Devil&amp;#x27;s advocate: 2008 was bad because of regulatory failures (specifically deregulation). Lack of transparency was only part of the problem. So if you want to avoid 2008 in cryptocurrency, the answer would be more regulation, not less.</text></item><item><author>Zamicol</author><text>Firstly, Tether is rat poison. Unfortunately, newcomers to the space identify &amp;quot;stable coins&amp;quot; = &amp;quot;tether&amp;quot; or wrongly assume that other stablecoins share similar mechanisms. There are many alternatives that operate radically differently in the nascent space.&lt;p&gt;DAI is immensely exciting. Stablecoins like DAI are interesting experiments that could powerfully create new online economies.&lt;p&gt;Blockchains like Ethereum are currently far more transparent than the state-sponsor US monetary system. I hope to live in a society where economic experiments can be executed, new lessons learned, and transparency maintained. If stablecoins are persecuted, the need for cryptographic zero-knowledge proofs will allow these systems to continue with far less transparency.&lt;p&gt;As a different matter, how can society say &amp;quot;2008 bad&amp;quot;, which resulted in little economic progress, and then threaten problem solvers from making new solutions? Innovation is a hedge against regulator lethargy.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>grenoire</author><text>Right, OP, CDOs were also &lt;i&gt;very&lt;/i&gt; innovative when they first got rolled out!</text></comment>

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<story><title>Lulu – Mac open-source firewall that aims to block unknown outgoing connections</title><url>https://objective-see.com/products/lulu.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>shusson</author><text>Be aware there are a few concerning open issues like it blocking all network requests when disabled: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;github.com&amp;#x2F;objective-see&amp;#x2F;LuLu&amp;#x2F;issues&amp;#x2F;264&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;github.com&amp;#x2F;objective-see&amp;#x2F;LuLu&amp;#x2F;issues&amp;#x2F;264&lt;/a&gt; or not being able to login after installing (due to security patch needing to be installed) &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;github.com&amp;#x2F;objective-see&amp;#x2F;LuLu&amp;#x2F;issues&amp;#x2F;284&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;github.com&amp;#x2F;objective-see&amp;#x2F;LuLu&amp;#x2F;issues&amp;#x2F;284&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>

<story><title>Lulu – Mac open-source firewall that aims to block unknown outgoing connections</title><url>https://objective-see.com/products/lulu.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>wgx</author><text>Interesting to see this on the front page of HN - I&amp;#x27;ve been using it happily for years, no complaints. It&amp;#x27;s illuminating to see just how &amp;quot;chatty&amp;quot; certain apps are (or wish to be!).</text></comment>

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<story><title>Name: Illegitimate</title><url>http://caterina.net/archive/001011.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>sriramk</author><text>FB&apos;s email policy is equally braindead. My email address used to be [email protected] - they disallow names like &apos;mail&apos;, &apos;admin&apos;, etc. So I had to come up with a new alias just for FB.&lt;p&gt;But I keep getting hit by this in odd ways. Like with the FB+Heroku integration - I couldn&apos;t get FB to accept that my Heroku login was valid because it was failing the &apos;Is this a suspicious alias&apos; test.&lt;p&gt;If someone from FB is watching, you would save me a great deal of annoyance if you help me get around this.</text></comment>

<story><title>Name: Illegitimate</title><url>http://caterina.net/archive/001011.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>postfuturist</author><text>Every fraud prevention scheme is going to have false positives, so there&apos;s no excuse for not providing the user with an appeal process.</text></comment>

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<story><title>How I make 15K a month at AdSense</title><url>http://www.blackhatworld.com/blackhat-seo/adsense/42980-how-i-make-15k-month-adsense.html#</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>modoc</author><text>The key &quot;trick&quot; that he&apos;s using is to have unique, relevant, helpful content. That&apos;s the whole secret, imho, to good SEO ranking (obviously using the right tags, keywords, etc... helps).&lt;p&gt;He&apos;s just doing it backwards from what you and I would do, i.e. he&apos;s finding ad money, and building a site based on that, versus building a site, and then working on building traffic (ad based or not, you want traffic).</text></comment>

<story><title>How I make 15K a month at AdSense</title><url>http://www.blackhatworld.com/blackhat-seo/adsense/42980-how-i-make-15k-month-adsense.html#</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>russell</author><text>I was intrigued by the $8 for a 500 word article. Some commenters were complaining that it was too expensive, but when I compare that with my consulting rate for my writing, it&apos;s a real bargain. I wouldn&apos;t farm out a technical article, but it makes sense for consumer oriented ones. I would spend more than that on coffee while I wrote.&lt;p&gt;EDIT: does anyone know what the going rate for a well written 500 word consumer article from a US/CA/UK based writer would be? Back in the days when I was using PR firms, it was quite expensive.</text></comment>

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<story><title>Observable Universe contains 10x more galaxies than previously thought (2016)</title><url>https://www.spacetelescope.org/news/heic1620/?lang</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Razengan</author><text>And some people &lt;i&gt;still&lt;/i&gt; aren’t sure if there is other life beyond Earth. :)&lt;p&gt;That&amp;#x27;s entire &lt;i&gt;galaxies.&lt;/i&gt; Not just stars, and that&amp;#x27;s just the &lt;i&gt;observable&lt;/i&gt; universe.&lt;p&gt;We are still being surprised by the lifeforms we observe here on Earth, and the environments and conditions they can thrive in (including the outer hulls of our spacecraft), and we still have yet to discover and catalog all the life on our planet. Life may even come in the form of &amp;quot;artificial&amp;quot; constructs that build, learn, teach and reproduce on their own, created by &amp;quot;natural&amp;quot; life somewhere then set free into the cosmos.&lt;p&gt;How, when given the evidence of practically infinite planets out there (considering that almost every star may have at least one planet, and there are even rogue planets [0] that don&amp;#x27;t orbit any star, and that asteroids and comets or even dense nebulas could also harbor life), can we even consider the possibility that this is the only planet with life?&lt;p&gt;This game is Big, folks: &lt;i&gt;Even if 90% of all planets had life there would still be billions if not trillions of them without any life&lt;/i&gt;, and the incomprehensibly vast distances (including voids, like the one our own galaxy is near or inside of [1]) between them may mean millions of years before life from one planet encounters life from another (which is good I suppose; every species would have some room to expand into at their own pace.)&lt;p&gt;And of course, not all intelligent civilizations will be &amp;quot;successful.&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;We will either die out on our home planet or expand.&lt;p&gt;We may not encounter other life for hundreds or even thousands of year after we develop interstellar travel, or the life that we encounter may turn out to be mundane and eventually unexciting (I mean, imagine being an spacefaring species discovering us; planetlocked and still collectively figuring many basic things out.)&lt;p&gt;[0] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Rogue_planet&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Rogue_planet&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;[1] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Milky_Way#Environment&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Milky_Way#Environment&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>V-2</author><text>&amp;gt; &lt;i&gt;How, when given the evidence of practically infinite planets out there [...] can we even consider the possibility that this is the only planet with life?&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;Human minds aren&amp;#x27;t good with very large numbers. What seems &amp;quot;practically infinite&amp;quot; to us - isn&amp;#x27;t, really.&lt;p&gt;The number of all planets in the universe is said to be in the ballpark of 10^24.&lt;p&gt;Meaning (obviously) if you keep on dividing it by 10, in just 24 steps you get down to 1.&lt;p&gt;Meaning if there are 24 factors crucial for life to evolve, and each has a 10% chance of occurring - it&amp;#x27;s actually quite likely only one planet would win on this lottery. (At a given point in time, that is - that&amp;#x27;s another aspect of course).&lt;p&gt;Or 12 factors, but each with a 1% chance. And suddenly it doesn&amp;#x27;t seem like a number big enough to warrant certainty claims...&lt;p&gt;Basically it is the &amp;quot;wheat and chessboard&amp;quot; problem in reverse.&lt;p&gt;You start with a huge pile of planets, but once you start splitting the pile, it shrinks very very fast.&lt;p&gt;Personally I&amp;#x27;m not &lt;i&gt;sure&lt;/i&gt; either way, and I think being sure (either way) is just naive.&lt;p&gt;I &lt;i&gt;believe&lt;/i&gt; there is microbial life out there, and I accept a slim chance we may actually discover it - say, over the course of the next few centuries - but I&amp;#x27;m sceptical about the existence of intelligent life, and even if it did exist, I see the chances of any contact to ever occur as zero.</text></comment>

<story><title>Observable Universe contains 10x more galaxies than previously thought (2016)</title><url>https://www.spacetelescope.org/news/heic1620/?lang</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Razengan</author><text>And some people &lt;i&gt;still&lt;/i&gt; aren’t sure if there is other life beyond Earth. :)&lt;p&gt;That&amp;#x27;s entire &lt;i&gt;galaxies.&lt;/i&gt; Not just stars, and that&amp;#x27;s just the &lt;i&gt;observable&lt;/i&gt; universe.&lt;p&gt;We are still being surprised by the lifeforms we observe here on Earth, and the environments and conditions they can thrive in (including the outer hulls of our spacecraft), and we still have yet to discover and catalog all the life on our planet. Life may even come in the form of &amp;quot;artificial&amp;quot; constructs that build, learn, teach and reproduce on their own, created by &amp;quot;natural&amp;quot; life somewhere then set free into the cosmos.&lt;p&gt;How, when given the evidence of practically infinite planets out there (considering that almost every star may have at least one planet, and there are even rogue planets [0] that don&amp;#x27;t orbit any star, and that asteroids and comets or even dense nebulas could also harbor life), can we even consider the possibility that this is the only planet with life?&lt;p&gt;This game is Big, folks: &lt;i&gt;Even if 90% of all planets had life there would still be billions if not trillions of them without any life&lt;/i&gt;, and the incomprehensibly vast distances (including voids, like the one our own galaxy is near or inside of [1]) between them may mean millions of years before life from one planet encounters life from another (which is good I suppose; every species would have some room to expand into at their own pace.)&lt;p&gt;And of course, not all intelligent civilizations will be &amp;quot;successful.&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;We will either die out on our home planet or expand.&lt;p&gt;We may not encounter other life for hundreds or even thousands of year after we develop interstellar travel, or the life that we encounter may turn out to be mundane and eventually unexciting (I mean, imagine being an spacefaring species discovering us; planetlocked and still collectively figuring many basic things out.)&lt;p&gt;[0] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Rogue_planet&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Rogue_planet&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;[1] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Milky_Way#Environment&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Milky_Way#Environment&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>piquadrat</author><text>@ASmallFiction had a beautiful, succinct take on this recently:&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;Are we alone in the universe?&amp;quot; she asked.&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;Yes,&amp;quot; said the Oracle.&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;So there&amp;#x27;s no other life out there?&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;There is. They&amp;#x27;re alone too.&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;twitter.com&amp;#x2F;ASmallFiction&amp;#x2F;status&amp;#x2F;946608733982822401&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;twitter.com&amp;#x2F;ASmallFiction&amp;#x2F;status&amp;#x2F;946608733982822401&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>

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<story><title>CentOS Linux is ending because Red Hat refused to invest in it</title><url>https://www.theregister.com/2021/01/26/killing_centos/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>macksd</author><text>&amp;gt;&amp;gt; &amp;quot;These are people who&amp;quot;, the CentOS team said, &amp;quot;never called, never write, they don&amp;#x27;t interact with us.&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;So the people for whom Red Hat provided no measurable value beyond the intrinsic value of what you downloaded. The copyright for which is largely owned by Not Red Hat, and thus they&amp;#x27;re bound by the GPL.&lt;p&gt;Red Hat adds incremental value to those projects and organizes the distribution - they deserve to get paid for that, of course. But they were paid - they are the stick by which all other open source companies measure their commercial success. If you advertise being open source as a good thing, the ability to fork is a feature, not a bug. So the Rocky Linuxes of the world are inevitable and a good thing.&lt;p&gt;Acquiring the CentOS project and then killing it is destroying a lot of community good will and I have no sympathy...</text></comment>

<story><title>CentOS Linux is ending because Red Hat refused to invest in it</title><url>https://www.theregister.com/2021/01/26/killing_centos/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>cpach</author><text>An alternative distro is being developed here: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;rockylinux.org&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;rockylinux.org&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>

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<story><title>PlayStation 4 runs modified FreeBSD 9.0</title><url>http://www.vgleaks.com/some-details-about-playstation-4-os-development/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>josephg</author><text>As someone who works on BSD-licensed opensource software, this is fantastic news. Regardless of your opinion of Sony as a company, this is exactly why I love licenses like BSD &amp;amp; MIT - you enable engineers everywhere to build better products.</text></comment>

<story><title>PlayStation 4 runs modified FreeBSD 9.0</title><url>http://www.vgleaks.com/some-details-about-playstation-4-os-development/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>sigil</author><text>Hey Sony, you should consider:&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.freebsdfoundation.org/donate/sponsors&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.freebsdfoundation.org&amp;#x2F;donate&amp;#x2F;sponsors&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;I guess they could be the big anonymous donor, although I always assumed that was Apple.</text></comment>

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<story><title>How The New York Times Verified the Iran Missile-Strike Footage</title><url>https://www.cjr.org/q_and_a/new-york-times-iran-ukraine-flight.php</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>pjc50</author><text>Yes. Rather than attempt to suppress it in the West, we&amp;#x27;d see a lot of conflicting reports, allegations of fake news, unrelated smear attempts, questioning of loyalties, and attempts to arrest whistleblowers.&lt;p&gt;The US never did admit liability for shooting down an Iranian jet in similar circumstances: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Iran_Air_Flight_655&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Iran_Air_Flight_655&lt;/a&gt;</text></item><item><author>marvin</author><text>Just an ancillary point: this highlights that free access to group messaging apps makes it much harder than before to suppress facts about what has happened somewhere. Especially if there&amp;#x27;s video. The Iran regime of 1990 would have had a much easier time keeping this mistake under wraps.&lt;p&gt;I think the whole &amp;quot;fake news&amp;quot; and related propaganda strategies we see in the West are what happens when people in power try to adapt to this new reality, by attacking at the weak spots of the new information infrastructure.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dougweltman</author><text>There&amp;#x27;s a gap, between admitting to downing a plane and &amp;quot;admitting liability&amp;quot; for it, in which the US places its downing of Flight 655.&lt;p&gt;But the parallel you would need to draw here is of the former: admitting to downing the plane.</text></comment>

<story><title>How The New York Times Verified the Iran Missile-Strike Footage</title><url>https://www.cjr.org/q_and_a/new-york-times-iran-ukraine-flight.php</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>pjc50</author><text>Yes. Rather than attempt to suppress it in the West, we&amp;#x27;d see a lot of conflicting reports, allegations of fake news, unrelated smear attempts, questioning of loyalties, and attempts to arrest whistleblowers.&lt;p&gt;The US never did admit liability for shooting down an Iranian jet in similar circumstances: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Iran_Air_Flight_655&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Iran_Air_Flight_655&lt;/a&gt;</text></item><item><author>marvin</author><text>Just an ancillary point: this highlights that free access to group messaging apps makes it much harder than before to suppress facts about what has happened somewhere. Especially if there&amp;#x27;s video. The Iran regime of 1990 would have had a much easier time keeping this mistake under wraps.&lt;p&gt;I think the whole &amp;quot;fake news&amp;quot; and related propaganda strategies we see in the West are what happens when people in power try to adapt to this new reality, by attacking at the weak spots of the new information infrastructure.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>loufe</author><text>For flight 655, while they never admitted guilt, they did settle paying the victim&amp;#x27;s families &amp;quot;ex-gratia&amp;quot; a non-negligible sum. While it is not the same as directly admitting you are responible, espcecially to the victims, for most intents and purposes that counts as an admition in my books.</text></comment>

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<story><title>Legal expert says Tether and Binance Coin are likely picks for SEC lawsuit</title><url>https://cryptoslate.com/legal-expert-says-tether-and-binance-coin-bnb-are-likely-picks-for-sec-lawsuit/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>_fat_santa</author><text>Saw a really good YT video[1] on Tether yesterday. Breaks down all the sketchiness. But the problem he mentions in the video is a problem with pretty much all stablecoins, in order to function you must have the proper reserves before generating a token, but inevatably greed kicks in and you start thinking what if you minted coins without the backing. USD pegged stablecoins are basically money printing machines in the hands of whoever runs the project.&lt;p&gt;[1]: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.youtube.com&amp;#x2F;watch?v=-whuXHSL1Pg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.youtube.com&amp;#x2F;watch?v=-whuXHSL1Pg&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>

<story><title>Legal expert says Tether and Binance Coin are likely picks for SEC lawsuit</title><url>https://cryptoslate.com/legal-expert-says-tether-and-binance-coin-bnb-are-likely-picks-for-sec-lawsuit/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>paulgb</author><text>A YouTuber called Coffeezilla had an entertaining video yesterday that I think is one of the most comprehensive (and entertaining) takes on this. It&amp;#x27;s pretty damning when you look at all the evidence together.&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.youtube.com&amp;#x2F;watch?v=-whuXHSL1Pg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.youtube.com&amp;#x2F;watch?v=-whuXHSL1Pg&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;Even in the off-chance that people with a track record of lying about being backed have suddenly gone legitimate, it&amp;#x27;s a pretty big indictment of the system that it could grow to the size it did &lt;i&gt;while looking incredibly like a scam&lt;/i&gt;.</text></comment>

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<story><title>Why standard Indonesian is not spoken throughout Indonesia</title><url>http://www.bbc.com/travel/story/20180703-why-no-one-speaks-indonesias-language</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>curtis</author><text>The article&amp;#x27;s premise is that it seems like nobody in Indonesia speaks Bahasa Indonesia well, because it&amp;#x27;s always a second language. I can&amp;#x27;t find a good reference right now, but I think that&amp;#x27;s wrong. I&amp;#x27;m under the impression that in Jakarta and the surrounding areas (probably tens of millions of people) Bahasa Indonesia really is spoken as a first language. I think this area has historically been Malay-speaking anyway, and modern Indonesian is very closely related to Malay, so this wouldn&amp;#x27;t be a big stretch.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>perlancar3</author><text>I&amp;#x27;m Indonesian. Lots of people have Bahasa Indonesia as their first language, especially in the cities. Unless you go to the remote areas, you practically won&amp;#x27;t find people who can&amp;#x27;t speak Indonesian.&lt;p&gt;In fact, it&amp;#x27;s the use of regional languages like Sundanese which is diminishing. I could really feel the skill and the vocabulary range of even the native Sundanese are worse than 10-20 years ago. Lots of mixing with Indonesian vocabulary without knowing the Sundanese words.</text></comment>

<story><title>Why standard Indonesian is not spoken throughout Indonesia</title><url>http://www.bbc.com/travel/story/20180703-why-no-one-speaks-indonesias-language</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>curtis</author><text>The article&amp;#x27;s premise is that it seems like nobody in Indonesia speaks Bahasa Indonesia well, because it&amp;#x27;s always a second language. I can&amp;#x27;t find a good reference right now, but I think that&amp;#x27;s wrong. I&amp;#x27;m under the impression that in Jakarta and the surrounding areas (probably tens of millions of people) Bahasa Indonesia really is spoken as a first language. I think this area has historically been Malay-speaking anyway, and modern Indonesian is very closely related to Malay, so this wouldn&amp;#x27;t be a big stretch.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>zafiro17</author><text>In Jakarta the people speak Bahasa and Javanese equally. People who have come in from other areas of the country speak their own language plus Bahasa; the Javanese who were born there make Javanese the most common language.&lt;p&gt;Malay and Bahasa are 90% the same language. Bahasa is considered a traders&amp;#x27; language, much like Swahili - a lingua franca that allowed commerce to happen for centuries.&lt;p&gt;Source: studied bahasa for two years and used to live on Java - amazing, complex place.</text></comment>

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<story><title>Hetzner Introduces ARM64 Cloud Servers</title><url>https://www.hetzner.com/press-release/arm64-cloud/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>zackmorris</author><text>I implemented a Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) on AWS with Elastic Container Service (ECS) using Terraform so that I could run Docker, and it ended up being about 2 orders of magnitude more expensive than Hetzner after all of the services were configured. For example, something as simple as AWS NAT Gateway costs $30 per month, and it can be challenging to get everything right if you don&amp;#x27;t use one. I haven&amp;#x27;t tried Heroku, but expect similar prices and nearly as high of a configuration burden.&lt;p&gt;So what&amp;#x27;s the point of all that? Seriously, one server with 16 cores and the memory bandwidth and storage speed of SSD drives should be able to serve many thousands of simultaneous requests and millions of users per month. I can&amp;#x27;t help but feel that the cloud infrastructure and microservice movement of the 2010s was.. a scam.&lt;p&gt;I just need a place to run Docker, similar to what we had with Linode for running a shell 20 years ago. And don&amp;#x27;t tell me how to set it all up. Just give me a turnkey Terraform (or Ansible-inspired declarative configuration management tool) setup that has stuff like load balancing and some degree of more advanced features like denial of service protection out of the box. What we used to think of as managed hosting, but open source, and with sane defaults for running standard suites like Laravel, Rails, etc.&lt;p&gt;I have to assume that I&amp;#x27;m just terribly out of it and something like this already exists. Otherwise I can&amp;#x27;t understand why someone doesn&amp;#x27;t just offer this and provide a way for us to pay them the millions of dollars we lose to spinning our wheels on cloud infrastructure with 1% utilization.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>simplotek</author><text>&amp;gt; So what&amp;#x27;s the point of all that? Seriously, one server with 16 cores and the memory bandwidth and storage speed of SSD drives should be able to serve many thousands of simultaneous requests and millions of users per month. I can&amp;#x27;t help but feel that the cloud infrastructure and microservice movement of the 2010s was.. a scam.&lt;p&gt;You&amp;#x27;re just missing the whole point of why you need n&amp;gt;1 instances. You&amp;#x27;re focusing on what might be the least compelling reason for the majority of applications, which is scalability.&lt;p&gt;Reliability and fault tolerance is a major selling point, and you can&amp;#x27;t simply expect to have adequate performance in more than one region if you&amp;#x27;re providing your services out of a single box in a single data center. The laws of physics ensure your quality of service will suck.&lt;p&gt;Operations also compell you to have multiple instances, ranging from blue&amp;#x2F;green deployments to one-box deployment strategies. And are you going to allow your business to be down for significant amounts of time whenever you need to update your OS? How would you explain all that downtime to your boss&amp;#x2F;shareholders? Are the tens of dollars you save on infrastructure a good tradeoff?&lt;p&gt;Also, security is also a concern. You&amp;#x27;re better off isolating your backend from frontend services, and software-defined networks aren&amp;#x27;t a silver bullet.&lt;p&gt;And in the end, are the tradeoffs of not designing your web services the right way really worth it?</text></comment>

<story><title>Hetzner Introduces ARM64 Cloud Servers</title><url>https://www.hetzner.com/press-release/arm64-cloud/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>zackmorris</author><text>I implemented a Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) on AWS with Elastic Container Service (ECS) using Terraform so that I could run Docker, and it ended up being about 2 orders of magnitude more expensive than Hetzner after all of the services were configured. For example, something as simple as AWS NAT Gateway costs $30 per month, and it can be challenging to get everything right if you don&amp;#x27;t use one. I haven&amp;#x27;t tried Heroku, but expect similar prices and nearly as high of a configuration burden.&lt;p&gt;So what&amp;#x27;s the point of all that? Seriously, one server with 16 cores and the memory bandwidth and storage speed of SSD drives should be able to serve many thousands of simultaneous requests and millions of users per month. I can&amp;#x27;t help but feel that the cloud infrastructure and microservice movement of the 2010s was.. a scam.&lt;p&gt;I just need a place to run Docker, similar to what we had with Linode for running a shell 20 years ago. And don&amp;#x27;t tell me how to set it all up. Just give me a turnkey Terraform (or Ansible-inspired declarative configuration management tool) setup that has stuff like load balancing and some degree of more advanced features like denial of service protection out of the box. What we used to think of as managed hosting, but open source, and with sane defaults for running standard suites like Laravel, Rails, etc.&lt;p&gt;I have to assume that I&amp;#x27;m just terribly out of it and something like this already exists. Otherwise I can&amp;#x27;t understand why someone doesn&amp;#x27;t just offer this and provide a way for us to pay them the millions of dollars we lose to spinning our wheels on cloud infrastructure with 1% utilization.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>nine_k</author><text>Cloud is about elasticity. At ${work} we spin up a ton of EC2 instances in anticipation of huge traffic spikes that happen predictably several times a day, in different regions, and spin them down afterwards.&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s also about simplicity. Many services come pre-configured on.AWS, with clustering, failover, backups, etc already present.&lt;p&gt;When you are small, you can sysadmin your server fine, and you don&amp;#x27;t yet need the cloud.&lt;p&gt;When you are colossal, you want everything custom, and the cloud would cost you a huge amount, so you go for your own servers (and possibly datacenters).&lt;p&gt;But for the midrange, the expense of hiring several more SREs to handle dedicated servers is usually higher than the entire AWS bill, and the cloud looks very reasonable.</text></comment>

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<story><title>Supreme Court allows blind people to sue retailers if websites aren&apos;t accessible</title><url>https://www.latimes.com/politics/story/2019-10-07/blind-person-dominos-ada-supreme-court-disabled</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mrep</author><text>Ironically (I cannot seem to word this in my mind without sounding like an ass so please don&amp;#x27;t take offense), your comment is about 10 lines long on my 15 inch laptop making it somewhat difficult to read for us vision readers. A double new line every few sentences which causes a paragraph on hacker news makes it much easier.</text></item><item><author>mltony</author><text>Blind programmer here. Just a glimpse of my life. Blind people have to live in an environment where X% of web sites and programs are not accessible, where X varies somewhere from 20% (for web sites) to 50% (for desktop applications). That&amp;#x27;s just my approximation of the state of accessibility these days. Now imagine that you live in the world where you don&amp;#x27;t know which printer or wi-fi router to buy, since maybe half of them you won&amp;#x27;t be able to use. Imagine that you cannot order from some online stores. You cannot fly certain airlines. And apparently you cannot order some pizza online. Worst of all you don&amp;#x27;t magically know whether a web site is accessible or not. You just go to web site and try it, spend some time to learn the layout - it typically takes blind peple longer to familiarize with new web sites, spend thirty minutes to fill out the details of your order and then when you try to click the submit button, you figure out that it wouldn&amp;#x27;t click for some reason. Being a developer you open HTML code just to realize that this is some weird kind of button that can only be clicked with the mouse, but not a screenreader. But hey, your screenreader can route the mouse cursor to this button and simulate a click. So you try a real mouse click and it still doesn&amp;#x27;t work for some reason, and I have no idea why. Finally, you give up. I hope I managed to convey a typical sense of frustration with a web-site that is not that accessible. I do get arguments of other people that it might be hard for small businesses to make their web sites accessible. and I don&amp;#x27;t know where to draw a line, but I need to say that Domino&amp;#x27;s is a large enough company and even though I hate counting other companies&amp;#x27; money, I must say they&amp;#x27;re big enough to be able to afford to make their web-site accessible.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mltony</author><text>I appreciate this feedback, I&amp;#x27;ll keep it in mind for my future comments.&lt;p&gt;And by the way, it is very common that people can&amp;#x27;t find words to give me feedback - happens pretty often. So I encourage people to give me feedback - no need to feel like ass :)</text></comment>

<story><title>Supreme Court allows blind people to sue retailers if websites aren&apos;t accessible</title><url>https://www.latimes.com/politics/story/2019-10-07/blind-person-dominos-ada-supreme-court-disabled</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mrep</author><text>Ironically (I cannot seem to word this in my mind without sounding like an ass so please don&amp;#x27;t take offense), your comment is about 10 lines long on my 15 inch laptop making it somewhat difficult to read for us vision readers. A double new line every few sentences which causes a paragraph on hacker news makes it much easier.</text></item><item><author>mltony</author><text>Blind programmer here. Just a glimpse of my life. Blind people have to live in an environment where X% of web sites and programs are not accessible, where X varies somewhere from 20% (for web sites) to 50% (for desktop applications). That&amp;#x27;s just my approximation of the state of accessibility these days. Now imagine that you live in the world where you don&amp;#x27;t know which printer or wi-fi router to buy, since maybe half of them you won&amp;#x27;t be able to use. Imagine that you cannot order from some online stores. You cannot fly certain airlines. And apparently you cannot order some pizza online. Worst of all you don&amp;#x27;t magically know whether a web site is accessible or not. You just go to web site and try it, spend some time to learn the layout - it typically takes blind peple longer to familiarize with new web sites, spend thirty minutes to fill out the details of your order and then when you try to click the submit button, you figure out that it wouldn&amp;#x27;t click for some reason. Being a developer you open HTML code just to realize that this is some weird kind of button that can only be clicked with the mouse, but not a screenreader. But hey, your screenreader can route the mouse cursor to this button and simulate a click. So you try a real mouse click and it still doesn&amp;#x27;t work for some reason, and I have no idea why. Finally, you give up. I hope I managed to convey a typical sense of frustration with a web-site that is not that accessible. I do get arguments of other people that it might be hard for small businesses to make their web sites accessible. and I don&amp;#x27;t know where to draw a line, but I need to say that Domino&amp;#x27;s is a large enough company and even though I hate counting other companies&amp;#x27; money, I must say they&amp;#x27;re big enough to be able to afford to make their web-site accessible.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>TheSpiceIsLife</author><text>Mildly amusing. I definitely find this a little annoying too.&lt;p&gt;If you make the browser window narrower the eye has a lot less trouble moving from the end of one line back to the start of the next.&lt;p&gt;I like wide screens because they make it better for having two apps side by side, rather than one app full width .</text></comment>

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<story><title>Learning COBOL: A Journey for the Modern Programmer</title><url>https://monadical.com/posts/cobol.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>slowmotiony</author><text>Does anyone know of any good resources for learning basics of JCL, datasets, jobs, the z&amp;#x2F;OS Host and so on? I find that when I look at the screens of my mainframe colleagues, the COBOL code is actually the only thing I can wrap my head around, as opposed to all the weird mainframe tools built around it.</text></comment>

<story><title>Learning COBOL: A Journey for the Modern Programmer</title><url>https://monadical.com/posts/cobol.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>the_af</author><text>I suppose it&amp;#x27;s again that time of the year when there&amp;#x27;s a flood of articles trying to convince people that COBOL is worth learning, that it&amp;#x27;s been updated or that it pays really well, and that there are lots of hidden opportunities for you to make big money working with COBOL!&lt;p&gt;Those of us who actually worked with COBOL aren&amp;#x27;t fooled though. It bears repeating: COBOL is a horrible language and it&amp;#x27;s often used in legacy banking systems. Learn it at your own peril, especially when there are way more interesting languages and jobs out there.</text></comment>

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<story><title>Homes in 97% of U.S. cities are overvalued, Moody&apos;s says</title><url>https://www.cbsnews.com/news/home-prices-mortgage-rates-moodys-mark-zandi/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>conductr</author><text>The concept of the cash buyer is a bit of a farse as well. What usually takes place is a cash offer. They just need to proof of funds to do this. But then, they get financing to close. Nobody in their right mind is putting that sum of cash in real estate when they could borrow at 2% or whatever it was before the recent run up. The mortgage interest even has favorable tax treatment so it’s effectively much less. Oh and the actual cash can also grow tax deferred. I really don’t understand why you’d actually put a large sum into a house when interest rates were as low as they were.</text></item><item><author>brewdad</author><text>We&amp;#x27;ll find out over the next 6-12 months. At some point, a lot of home buyers started shopping by payment without regard to total price. With interest rates near their lowest in anyone&amp;#x27;s lifetimes that was workable.&lt;p&gt;With interest rates rising, as buyers who haven&amp;#x27;t locked in lower rates begin looking at the current payments on offer, they will have to look at lower priced homes or drop out of the market. If this boom has been driven primarily by buyers flush with cash, foreign or domestic, then prices should remain high. Payments are largely irrelevant to cash buyers. Any buyer using debt will be forced into lowering their ceiling of properties they can afford. Home prices should then fall.</text></item><item><author>melissalobos</author><text>Isn&amp;#x27;t this one of those &amp;quot;If everyone is crazy, you&amp;#x27;re crazy&amp;quot; situations? If every house is overvalued by some metric, then maybe the metric is wrong. People&amp;#x27;s perceptions of value are a large part of the actual value(meaning what someone would really pay) for things like housing that should depreciate over time.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>tempnow987</author><text>Not true at all. If you are self employed getting underwritten can be a nightmare.&lt;p&gt;We had savings galore but they wouldn&amp;#x27;t count it for a variety of reasons (withdrawn from biz account in last 90 days, biz account showed slight decrease because of covid), then calcs with old place and new together are hard.&lt;p&gt;Sometimes if you just leverage equity in old place you will be moving from + hard money + savings, you can do a cash offer, then sell off old place (we had a preemptive offer 4 days in well over asking - bay area).&lt;p&gt;Now you only have to be underwritten for one property (before selling old property they included both in calculations which made it hard). We got a 3% rate, then used that to settle up everything back to the way it was.&lt;p&gt;California also have firms like Reali (&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;reali.com&amp;#x2F;how-to-guide-cash-offer&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;reali.com&amp;#x2F;how-to-guide-cash-offer&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt;) that do a cash offer on new place, then you sell old place and buy from them.&lt;p&gt;This might be unique to the insanity of the CA market in last 2 years. I think it is cooling down thankfully?</text></comment>

<story><title>Homes in 97% of U.S. cities are overvalued, Moody&apos;s says</title><url>https://www.cbsnews.com/news/home-prices-mortgage-rates-moodys-mark-zandi/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>conductr</author><text>The concept of the cash buyer is a bit of a farse as well. What usually takes place is a cash offer. They just need to proof of funds to do this. But then, they get financing to close. Nobody in their right mind is putting that sum of cash in real estate when they could borrow at 2% or whatever it was before the recent run up. The mortgage interest even has favorable tax treatment so it’s effectively much less. Oh and the actual cash can also grow tax deferred. I really don’t understand why you’d actually put a large sum into a house when interest rates were as low as they were.</text></item><item><author>brewdad</author><text>We&amp;#x27;ll find out over the next 6-12 months. At some point, a lot of home buyers started shopping by payment without regard to total price. With interest rates near their lowest in anyone&amp;#x27;s lifetimes that was workable.&lt;p&gt;With interest rates rising, as buyers who haven&amp;#x27;t locked in lower rates begin looking at the current payments on offer, they will have to look at lower priced homes or drop out of the market. If this boom has been driven primarily by buyers flush with cash, foreign or domestic, then prices should remain high. Payments are largely irrelevant to cash buyers. Any buyer using debt will be forced into lowering their ceiling of properties they can afford. Home prices should then fall.</text></item><item><author>melissalobos</author><text>Isn&amp;#x27;t this one of those &amp;quot;If everyone is crazy, you&amp;#x27;re crazy&amp;quot; situations? If every house is overvalued by some metric, then maybe the metric is wrong. People&amp;#x27;s perceptions of value are a large part of the actual value(meaning what someone would really pay) for things like housing that should depreciate over time.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>digitaltrees</author><text>Actually there a lot on business owners that can’t get mortgages because they don’t don’t have stable income reported on a w2. It can often be easier to buy cash and refinance than try to get a purchase mortgage</text></comment>

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<story><title>Facebook: Free as in Bullshit</title><url>https://daringfireball.net/2020/12/facebook_free_as_in_bullshit</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>wpietri</author><text>I think it&amp;#x27;s pretty simple: the potential revenue loss to Facebook is much larger than the expected costs of cleaning up a PR mess.&lt;p&gt;And I&amp;#x27;m sure they&amp;#x27;re right. It&amp;#x27;s important to remember that Facebook can precisely measure the impact of news articles like this. And even without messing with the newsfeed algorithms, they have way more influence over consumer perception of Facebook than a few news articles do. For example, they could introduce some new &amp;quot;privacy&amp;quot; feature and talk it up in in-app notifications. Or they have you review your privacy settings, something most people will glance at and move on, thinking they are in control. And they can do things like this whenever consumer confidence flags.&lt;p&gt;If Facebook loses a few more users of the sort that are tech-savvy and informed enough that this pushes them over the edge, that&amp;#x27;s fine. In fact, it might be even better, as the remaining population is more easily wrangled.</text></item><item><author>samizdis</author><text>I fail to understand Facebook&amp;#x27;s strategy&amp;#x2F;reasoning for running this campaign against Apple. It is generating a newsworthy backlash which serves only to draw attention to FB&amp;#x27;s practice of tracking users across domains&amp;#x2F;apps, when many of said users were unaware of this, and might not be comfortable with it.&lt;p&gt;I would be really interested to hear arguments opposing my assumptions. There must be something that I am overlooking - Facebook isn&amp;#x27;t a stupid company, not by a long chalk. What is the strategy&amp;#x2F;reasoning behind this campaign?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jldugger</author><text>&amp;gt; And I&amp;#x27;m sure they&amp;#x27;re right. It&amp;#x27;s important to remember that Facebook can precisely measure the impact of news articles like this. And even without messing with the newsfeed algorithms, they have way more influence over consumer perception of Facebook than a few news articles do.&lt;p&gt;Are we 100 percent confident that FB is doing this because the math works out and not because the pressure from the board is to &amp;#x27;do something about this&amp;#x27;? We&amp;#x27;re all aware, presumably, of cases where the corporate hierarchy demands action when the data suggests acting at all is harmful. It seems silly to assume FB is the one company immune to those pressures.</text></comment>

<story><title>Facebook: Free as in Bullshit</title><url>https://daringfireball.net/2020/12/facebook_free_as_in_bullshit</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>wpietri</author><text>I think it&amp;#x27;s pretty simple: the potential revenue loss to Facebook is much larger than the expected costs of cleaning up a PR mess.&lt;p&gt;And I&amp;#x27;m sure they&amp;#x27;re right. It&amp;#x27;s important to remember that Facebook can precisely measure the impact of news articles like this. And even without messing with the newsfeed algorithms, they have way more influence over consumer perception of Facebook than a few news articles do. For example, they could introduce some new &amp;quot;privacy&amp;quot; feature and talk it up in in-app notifications. Or they have you review your privacy settings, something most people will glance at and move on, thinking they are in control. And they can do things like this whenever consumer confidence flags.&lt;p&gt;If Facebook loses a few more users of the sort that are tech-savvy and informed enough that this pushes them over the edge, that&amp;#x27;s fine. In fact, it might be even better, as the remaining population is more easily wrangled.</text></item><item><author>samizdis</author><text>I fail to understand Facebook&amp;#x27;s strategy&amp;#x2F;reasoning for running this campaign against Apple. It is generating a newsworthy backlash which serves only to draw attention to FB&amp;#x27;s practice of tracking users across domains&amp;#x2F;apps, when many of said users were unaware of this, and might not be comfortable with it.&lt;p&gt;I would be really interested to hear arguments opposing my assumptions. There must be something that I am overlooking - Facebook isn&amp;#x27;t a stupid company, not by a long chalk. What is the strategy&amp;#x2F;reasoning behind this campaign?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>sillysaurusx</author><text>&lt;i&gt;And I&amp;#x27;m sure they&amp;#x27;re right. It&amp;#x27;s important to remember that Facebook can precisely measure the impact of news articles like this.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s tempting to think of Facebook as omniscient, but I&amp;#x27;m not sure how precisely it can be measured. Economically, yes, maybe. But morally?&lt;p&gt;Remember, the Timnit controversy ended up with letters from congress to Google&amp;#x27;s CEO. In bigcos, not everyone forecasts everything.</text></comment>

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<story><title>Mark Zuckerberg addresses PRISM</title><url>https://www.facebook.com/zuck/posts/10100828955847631</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>WestCoastJustin</author><text>I would like to believe these reports from Google [1] and Facebook [2], but someone is not telling the truth.&lt;p&gt;There is evidence that directly contradicts their stories (i.e. &lt;i&gt;The Guardian has verified the authenticity of the document, a 41-slide PowerPoint presentation – classified as top secret with no distribution to foreign allies – which was apparently used to train intelligence operatives on the capabilities of the program. The document claims &amp;quot;collection directly from the servers&amp;quot; of major US service providers&lt;/i&gt;. [3]).&lt;p&gt;Who are we to believe?&lt;p&gt;[1] &lt;a href=&quot;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;googleblog.blogspot.ca&amp;#x2F;2013&amp;#x2F;06&amp;#x2F;what.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;googleblog.blogspot.ca&amp;#x2F;2013&amp;#x2F;06&amp;#x2F;what.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;[2] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.facebook.com&amp;#x2F;zuck&amp;#x2F;posts&amp;#x2F;10100828955847631&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.facebook.com&amp;#x2F;zuck&amp;#x2F;posts&amp;#x2F;10100828955847631&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;[3] &lt;a href=&quot;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.guardian.co.uk&amp;#x2F;world&amp;#x2F;2013&amp;#x2F;jun&amp;#x2F;06&amp;#x2F;us-tech-giants-nsa-data&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.guardian.co.uk&amp;#x2F;world&amp;#x2F;2013&amp;#x2F;jun&amp;#x2F;06&amp;#x2F;us-tech-giants-n...&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>btilly</author><text>There is no contradiction if you accept the suggestion from &lt;a href=&quot;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;financialcryptography.com&amp;#x2F;mt&amp;#x2F;archives&amp;#x2F;001431.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;financialcryptography.com&amp;#x2F;mt&amp;#x2F;archives&amp;#x2F;001431.html&lt;/a&gt; that the NSA got access to this information by planting moles at target companies who then created back doors for the NSA to use.&lt;p&gt;This would be reasonably easy for the NSA to do, relatively hard for companies to catch, and perfectly explains all published facts.</text></comment>

<story><title>Mark Zuckerberg addresses PRISM</title><url>https://www.facebook.com/zuck/posts/10100828955847631</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>WestCoastJustin</author><text>I would like to believe these reports from Google [1] and Facebook [2], but someone is not telling the truth.&lt;p&gt;There is evidence that directly contradicts their stories (i.e. &lt;i&gt;The Guardian has verified the authenticity of the document, a 41-slide PowerPoint presentation – classified as top secret with no distribution to foreign allies – which was apparently used to train intelligence operatives on the capabilities of the program. The document claims &amp;quot;collection directly from the servers&amp;quot; of major US service providers&lt;/i&gt;. [3]).&lt;p&gt;Who are we to believe?&lt;p&gt;[1] &lt;a href=&quot;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;googleblog.blogspot.ca&amp;#x2F;2013&amp;#x2F;06&amp;#x2F;what.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;googleblog.blogspot.ca&amp;#x2F;2013&amp;#x2F;06&amp;#x2F;what.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;[2] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.facebook.com&amp;#x2F;zuck&amp;#x2F;posts&amp;#x2F;10100828955847631&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.facebook.com&amp;#x2F;zuck&amp;#x2F;posts&amp;#x2F;10100828955847631&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;[3] &lt;a href=&quot;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.guardian.co.uk&amp;#x2F;world&amp;#x2F;2013&amp;#x2F;jun&amp;#x2F;06&amp;#x2F;us-tech-giants-nsa-data&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.guardian.co.uk&amp;#x2F;world&amp;#x2F;2013&amp;#x2F;jun&amp;#x2F;06&amp;#x2F;us-tech-giants-n...&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>nolok</author><text>To quote myself in another message,&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; I&amp;#x27;ve never taken a single lesson in legal or PR and even I can see the big huge holes. They insist on direct access, they insist on servers rather than data and they insist on governments.</text></comment>

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<story><title>Nvidia announces financial results for first quarter fiscal 2025</title><url>https://nvidianews.nvidia.com/news/nvidia-announces-financial-results-for-first-quarter-fiscal-2025</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>allenrb</author><text>We all understand that this cannot and will not continue, right? One of two things happens:&lt;p&gt;1. The AI boom goes bust. Nvidia sales and&amp;#x2F;or margins crater. The stock craters with it.&lt;p&gt;2. The AI boom is the real deal. Companies aren’t stupid and won’t keep paying Nvidia these prices forever. Pretty soon hardware and software architectures are standardized enough that anyone who can get onboard with TSMC, Samsung, or Intel can churn out hardware optimized for the right few functions and sell for a faction of the price. Nvidia can still be an innovator but they won’t be able to sell “bread and butter” products at these prices. Sales and&amp;#x2F;or margins crater, as does the stock.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>MyFedora</author><text>NVIDIA got lucky that modern computer architecture happens to favor GPUs for AI workloads. They won&amp;#x27;t be able to milk it for long, but they for sure have the money to pivot. Question is whether they will put that money to good use or not.</text></comment>

<story><title>Nvidia announces financial results for first quarter fiscal 2025</title><url>https://nvidianews.nvidia.com/news/nvidia-announces-financial-results-for-first-quarter-fiscal-2025</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>allenrb</author><text>We all understand that this cannot and will not continue, right? One of two things happens:&lt;p&gt;1. The AI boom goes bust. Nvidia sales and&amp;#x2F;or margins crater. The stock craters with it.&lt;p&gt;2. The AI boom is the real deal. Companies aren’t stupid and won’t keep paying Nvidia these prices forever. Pretty soon hardware and software architectures are standardized enough that anyone who can get onboard with TSMC, Samsung, or Intel can churn out hardware optimized for the right few functions and sell for a faction of the price. Nvidia can still be an innovator but they won’t be able to sell “bread and butter” products at these prices. Sales and&amp;#x2F;or margins crater, as does the stock.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>stocknoob</author><text>You know, you can make money with predictions if you have the conviction.</text></comment>

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<story><title>The Economy</title><url>http://www.core-econ.org/the-economy/book/text/0-3-contents.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>robotresearcher</author><text>&amp;gt; We ask students: ‘What is the most pressing problem that economists should address?’&lt;p&gt;What should we ask Computer Science students?&lt;p&gt;I can try it on a couple of hundred tomorrow and get back to you. I don&amp;#x27;t know what they will say.</text></item><item><author>michaelt</author><text>I guess the parts you skimmed didn&amp;#x27;t include the introduction, eh?&lt;p&gt;It says:&lt;p&gt;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt; We want to change the way economics is taught [...] Students in economics all over the world were asking, just as I had asked a few years previously: ‘Why has the subject of economics become detached from our experience of real life?’ [...] we have tried an experiment in classrooms around the world. We ask students: ‘What is the most pressing problem that economists should address?’ &lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt; ...and the that experiment said inequality. At least according to students at three universities and professional economists at two central banks.&lt;p&gt;If you want to write a book that starts with motivations before delving into the nuts and bolts, and you ask customers what they think is most important and they all say the same thing, it seems reasonable enough to put that first.</text></item><item><author>niuzeta</author><text>I find it very dubious that the &amp;quot;Income Inequality&amp;quot; sits at the very first section, and &amp;quot;Supply-and-demand&amp;quot; at the eighth. I&amp;#x27;m no established economist, but my understanding is you start at the foundational idea then move on to the its ramifications and symptoms.&lt;p&gt;Why does the income inequality deserve the first seat? It definitely is one of the greatest(if not the greatest) issues of our generation, but must it precede foundations?&lt;p&gt;Skimming through the &amp;quot;Income Inequality&amp;quot; section did not make it better - first exercise asks &amp;quot;What do you &lt;i&gt;think&lt;/i&gt; the figure would&amp;#x27;ve looked like in 14th century - I imagine it&amp;#x27;s to highlight how it&amp;#x27;s &amp;quot;unfair&amp;quot; now compared to the previous history? It talks about the 90&amp;#x2F;10 ratio and the word &amp;quot;richest&amp;quot; appears 21 times in the first page alone. &amp;quot;richest 10%&amp;quot; being 11 of them.&lt;p&gt;I understand the study of economics is more about interpretation of the data and interpolation of trends based on (often seemingly ideological) school of thought, but this first look betrays a specific narrative.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>skybrian</author><text>You could just go with: &amp;quot;what is the most pressing problem that computer scientists should address?&amp;quot; It seems like it might result in some interesting data.</text></comment>

<story><title>The Economy</title><url>http://www.core-econ.org/the-economy/book/text/0-3-contents.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>robotresearcher</author><text>&amp;gt; We ask students: ‘What is the most pressing problem that economists should address?’&lt;p&gt;What should we ask Computer Science students?&lt;p&gt;I can try it on a couple of hundred tomorrow and get back to you. I don&amp;#x27;t know what they will say.</text></item><item><author>michaelt</author><text>I guess the parts you skimmed didn&amp;#x27;t include the introduction, eh?&lt;p&gt;It says:&lt;p&gt;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt; We want to change the way economics is taught [...] Students in economics all over the world were asking, just as I had asked a few years previously: ‘Why has the subject of economics become detached from our experience of real life?’ [...] we have tried an experiment in classrooms around the world. We ask students: ‘What is the most pressing problem that economists should address?’ &lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt; ...and the that experiment said inequality. At least according to students at three universities and professional economists at two central banks.&lt;p&gt;If you want to write a book that starts with motivations before delving into the nuts and bolts, and you ask customers what they think is most important and they all say the same thing, it seems reasonable enough to put that first.</text></item><item><author>niuzeta</author><text>I find it very dubious that the &amp;quot;Income Inequality&amp;quot; sits at the very first section, and &amp;quot;Supply-and-demand&amp;quot; at the eighth. I&amp;#x27;m no established economist, but my understanding is you start at the foundational idea then move on to the its ramifications and symptoms.&lt;p&gt;Why does the income inequality deserve the first seat? It definitely is one of the greatest(if not the greatest) issues of our generation, but must it precede foundations?&lt;p&gt;Skimming through the &amp;quot;Income Inequality&amp;quot; section did not make it better - first exercise asks &amp;quot;What do you &lt;i&gt;think&lt;/i&gt; the figure would&amp;#x27;ve looked like in 14th century - I imagine it&amp;#x27;s to highlight how it&amp;#x27;s &amp;quot;unfair&amp;quot; now compared to the previous history? It talks about the 90&amp;#x2F;10 ratio and the word &amp;quot;richest&amp;quot; appears 21 times in the first page alone. &amp;quot;richest 10%&amp;quot; being 11 of them.&lt;p&gt;I understand the study of economics is more about interpretation of the data and interpolation of trends based on (often seemingly ideological) school of thought, but this first look betrays a specific narrative.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>rdrey</author><text>I&amp;#x27;d like to see the answer for both Economics and Computer Science. Should be interesting.</text></comment>

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<story><title>Show HN: Mimicking the Bloomberg menu widget without JavaScript</title><url>https://dosyago-coder-0.github.io/mimic-bloomberg-menu-no-js</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dosy</author><text>Context: I like the Bloomberg site and their drop-down menu is cool. Purely as a challenge, I set out to mimick the styles and behaviour of that menu without using JavaScript and trying to keep the HTML&amp;#x2F;CSS as minimal as possible. Their menu widget does not work if you switch of JS (but this was not a motivation for me to make this).&lt;p&gt;Tested on IE 11, Edge 12, latest Chrome stable and Firefox dev on Windows 10.&lt;p&gt;Source: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;github.com&amp;#x2F;dosyago-coder-0&amp;#x2F;mimic-bloomberg-menu-no-js&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;github.com&amp;#x2F;dosyago-coder-0&amp;#x2F;mimic-bloomberg-menu-no-j...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;Maybe this post should be a Medium post titled &amp;quot;How I mimicked the Bloomberg menu widget without JavaScript.&amp;quot; I might write one if many people want that.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>analogmemory</author><text>Great job mimicking the menu with just pure CSS! You even got the fade&amp;#x2F;slide down effect mostly there.&lt;p&gt;From a UX perspective there&amp;#x27;s a reason they used Javascript. For example, if you hover over &amp;quot;Politics&amp;quot; and want to click on &amp;quot;2018 Women Candidates&amp;quot; naturally you move your mouse at an angle. Which causes you to lose the menu when it mouses over &amp;quot;Technology&amp;quot;. This is solved by tracking the mouse movement and holding the current menu open if the movement is at a specific angle&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;d like to read your write up if you do it :)</text></comment>

<story><title>Show HN: Mimicking the Bloomberg menu widget without JavaScript</title><url>https://dosyago-coder-0.github.io/mimic-bloomberg-menu-no-js</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dosy</author><text>Context: I like the Bloomberg site and their drop-down menu is cool. Purely as a challenge, I set out to mimick the styles and behaviour of that menu without using JavaScript and trying to keep the HTML&amp;#x2F;CSS as minimal as possible. Their menu widget does not work if you switch of JS (but this was not a motivation for me to make this).&lt;p&gt;Tested on IE 11, Edge 12, latest Chrome stable and Firefox dev on Windows 10.&lt;p&gt;Source: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;github.com&amp;#x2F;dosyago-coder-0&amp;#x2F;mimic-bloomberg-menu-no-js&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;github.com&amp;#x2F;dosyago-coder-0&amp;#x2F;mimic-bloomberg-menu-no-j...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;Maybe this post should be a Medium post titled &amp;quot;How I mimicked the Bloomberg menu widget without JavaScript.&amp;quot; I might write one if many people want that.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Grumbledour</author><text>Any specific reason why you haven&amp;#x27;t used the old &amp;quot;Son of Suckerfish&amp;quot; approach? [0] It would have solved the &amp;quot;stay open on hover&amp;quot; problem and made for much cleaner, more semantically meaningful and accessible html IMHO.&lt;p&gt;Still, really glad to see people trying and succeeding in doing simple web stuff without the need for unnecessary javascript. Good job!&lt;p&gt;[0] &lt;a href=&quot;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.htmldog.com&amp;#x2F;articles&amp;#x2F;suckerfish&amp;#x2F;dropdowns&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.htmldog.com&amp;#x2F;articles&amp;#x2F;suckerfish&amp;#x2F;dropdowns&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>

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<story><title>Apple launches coding camps for kids in its retail stores</title><url>https://techcrunch.com/2016/06/21/apple-launches-coding-camps-for-kids-in-its-retail-stores/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>plg</author><text>I took my kid to one of these last year. It was fairly useless. They drag around little action-icons into a list to make an animated character move around and do stuff. My 11-year-old was bored stiff.&lt;p&gt;Edit: PS the Apple Store employee who ran this thing (he was a very nice guy) admitted he had zero coding experience himself</text></comment>

<story><title>Apple launches coding camps for kids in its retail stores</title><url>https://techcrunch.com/2016/06/21/apple-launches-coding-camps-for-kids-in-its-retail-stores/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>coleca</author><text>A few years back my daughter went to movie camp at the Apple Store. It was really well done and they taught the kids all about making movies, how to edit, and at the end they had a big screening of all the movies the kids in the class made for all the parents. She even got a nice apple t shirt and usb keychain.&lt;p&gt;Glad to see they are now expanding it to coding.</text></comment>

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<story><title>Python as an Alternative to Lisp or Java, Peter Norvig revisited</title><url>http://dr-josiah.blogspot.com/2010/12/python-as-alternative-to-lisp-or-java.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Stormbringer</author><text>I wonder if another, equally valid, way of looking at the lines of code vs time is that if two programmers using different languages both complete the task in roughly the same amount of time, but one uses only half the total lines of code... that implies _not_ that that programmer is better, but that each of their lines of code took roughly twice as long to produce.&lt;p&gt;One of the things I used to do when working in large teams was wander around and look to see if anyone was having trouble debugging. Sometimes you&apos;d find someone who&apos;d been stuck on a bug for several days. So what I&apos;d do was I&apos;d sit down with them, and start putting in all the &apos;fluff&apos; like indenting their code, splitting lines with multiple variable declarations each onto their own line etc. Essentially putting in all the &apos;long cuts&apos; that they&apos;d taken &apos;short cuts&apos; around in order to &apos;speed up&apos; the programming.&lt;p&gt;Often either they or I would see the problem immediately.&lt;p&gt;These days of course there are tools that do the auto-formatting, but I still try to optimise for readability, simplicity and elegance in my code.&lt;p&gt;Back to the lines of code as a metric issue (tm) in that scenario where it takes 2x as long to write a line in language X, and that line does twice as much, it is probably at least twice as complex as the &apos;more verbose&apos; language... and I think this implies that it will be harder to debug and maintain later on. So arbitrarily complex languages are optimal for some internet &apos;toss off&apos; (one off, toss away) competition, but not necessarily optimal for long term efforts.&lt;p&gt;Some of these languages that allow you to redefine the language itself on the fly allow you to do &apos;cool stuff&apos; (tm) but tend to attract people who think they are much cleverer than they actually are. I think it is a regional variation, but all the Ruby fans in my city scare me. The thought of what would happen if I&apos;d spent days or weeks on a bug only to find out it was caused by someone else &apos;tweaking&apos; one of the core classes and not bothering to tell anyone else... &lt;i&gt;twitch&lt;/i&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>kbd</author><text>I question your assumption that if something is done in 1/2 the lines of code then each line of code is twice as complex. You&apos;re equivocating on &quot;complex&quot;. Each line may be &quot;more complex&quot; in the sense &quot;does more&quot;, but not necessarily more complex as in &quot;harder to understand&quot; (and therefore more prone to bugs).&lt;p&gt;Code in a more productive (i.e. higher level) language is concise because it &lt;i&gt;&lt;/i&gt;hides&lt;i&gt;&lt;/i&gt; extra complexity you don&apos;t need to think about at the time, and is therefore &lt;i&gt;&lt;/i&gt;simpler&lt;i&gt;&lt;/i&gt;, not more complex (in the second sense).</text></comment>

<story><title>Python as an Alternative to Lisp or Java, Peter Norvig revisited</title><url>http://dr-josiah.blogspot.com/2010/12/python-as-alternative-to-lisp-or-java.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Stormbringer</author><text>I wonder if another, equally valid, way of looking at the lines of code vs time is that if two programmers using different languages both complete the task in roughly the same amount of time, but one uses only half the total lines of code... that implies _not_ that that programmer is better, but that each of their lines of code took roughly twice as long to produce.&lt;p&gt;One of the things I used to do when working in large teams was wander around and look to see if anyone was having trouble debugging. Sometimes you&apos;d find someone who&apos;d been stuck on a bug for several days. So what I&apos;d do was I&apos;d sit down with them, and start putting in all the &apos;fluff&apos; like indenting their code, splitting lines with multiple variable declarations each onto their own line etc. Essentially putting in all the &apos;long cuts&apos; that they&apos;d taken &apos;short cuts&apos; around in order to &apos;speed up&apos; the programming.&lt;p&gt;Often either they or I would see the problem immediately.&lt;p&gt;These days of course there are tools that do the auto-formatting, but I still try to optimise for readability, simplicity and elegance in my code.&lt;p&gt;Back to the lines of code as a metric issue (tm) in that scenario where it takes 2x as long to write a line in language X, and that line does twice as much, it is probably at least twice as complex as the &apos;more verbose&apos; language... and I think this implies that it will be harder to debug and maintain later on. So arbitrarily complex languages are optimal for some internet &apos;toss off&apos; (one off, toss away) competition, but not necessarily optimal for long term efforts.&lt;p&gt;Some of these languages that allow you to redefine the language itself on the fly allow you to do &apos;cool stuff&apos; (tm) but tend to attract people who think they are much cleverer than they actually are. I think it is a regional variation, but all the Ruby fans in my city scare me. The thought of what would happen if I&apos;d spent days or weeks on a bug only to find out it was caused by someone else &apos;tweaking&apos; one of the core classes and not bothering to tell anyone else... &lt;i&gt;twitch&lt;/i&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>srean</author><text>I am a scheme neophyte. In my personal experience it has been a very &lt;i&gt;thought compressible&lt;/i&gt; language.&lt;p&gt;By that, what I mean is this: if you give more thought to a program one tends to be able to say more and more but with less and less, and without making the code incomprehensible or complex.&lt;p&gt;Interestingly, when I show my code to a scheme veteran, he would often re-write it to make it even shorter and clearer. So I have a long way to go.&lt;p&gt;So line for line , yes it takes me more time to churn out scheme, but if I give the same amount of time to c++/java it doesnt compress as much. But, and here is the cool part, if it does, I can often trace it back to scheme way of thinking. This has happened a lot when programming with C++/STL.</text></comment>

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<story><title>More powerful Go execution traces</title><url>https://go.dev/blog/execution-traces-2024</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>the_gipsy</author><text>What about error stack traces? I find it crazy that you&amp;#x27;re supposed to grep error strings and pray they&amp;#x27;re all different.</text></comment>

<story><title>More powerful Go execution traces</title><url>https://go.dev/blog/execution-traces-2024</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>pjmlp</author><text>The Flight Recoding pun did not go unnoticed.&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;docs.oracle.com&amp;#x2F;javacomponents&amp;#x2F;jmc-5-4&amp;#x2F;jfr-runtime-guide&amp;#x2F;about.htm&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;docs.oracle.com&amp;#x2F;javacomponents&amp;#x2F;jmc-5-4&amp;#x2F;jfr-runtime-g...&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>

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<story><title>Facebook, Twitter block the NY Post from posting</title><url>https://www.nationalreview.com/news/twitter-cites-hacked-materials-policy-to-justify-censorship-of-ny-post-hunter-biden-article/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>throwawa3495</author><text>it&amp;#x27;s honestly irrelevant about the credibility of the emails and other data at this point, its the blanket censorship of this article that&amp;#x27;s now the real story.</text></item><item><author>rmrfstar</author><text>Robert Graham [1] pointed out that if the emails are authentic, they can be trivially verified via DKIM.&lt;p&gt;That the email metadata was not released implies the emails are either inauthentic, or that the post did not contact someone with basic competence in computer forensics.&lt;p&gt;Either possibility seriously undercuts the article&amp;#x27;s credibility.&lt;p&gt;[1] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;twitter.com&amp;#x2F;ErrataRob&amp;#x2F;status&amp;#x2F;1316407424648179717&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;twitter.com&amp;#x2F;ErrataRob&amp;#x2F;status&amp;#x2F;1316407424648179717&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Hamuko</author><text>Is it? Because the factuality of the story seems like a pretty big deal here. If it&amp;#x27;s completely bogus, how is it different from any of those Russian trollfarm posts that the US government was worried about?</text></comment>

<story><title>Facebook, Twitter block the NY Post from posting</title><url>https://www.nationalreview.com/news/twitter-cites-hacked-materials-policy-to-justify-censorship-of-ny-post-hunter-biden-article/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>throwawa3495</author><text>it&amp;#x27;s honestly irrelevant about the credibility of the emails and other data at this point, its the blanket censorship of this article that&amp;#x27;s now the real story.</text></item><item><author>rmrfstar</author><text>Robert Graham [1] pointed out that if the emails are authentic, they can be trivially verified via DKIM.&lt;p&gt;That the email metadata was not released implies the emails are either inauthentic, or that the post did not contact someone with basic competence in computer forensics.&lt;p&gt;Either possibility seriously undercuts the article&amp;#x27;s credibility.&lt;p&gt;[1] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;twitter.com&amp;#x2F;ErrataRob&amp;#x2F;status&amp;#x2F;1316407424648179717&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;twitter.com&amp;#x2F;ErrataRob&amp;#x2F;status&amp;#x2F;1316407424648179717&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>rmrfstar</author><text>Both are relevant, and both are concerning.</text></comment>

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<story><title>Amazon tells employees to return to office five days a week</title><url>https://www.cnbc.com/2024/09/16/amazon-jassy-tells-employees-to-return-to-office-five-days-a-week.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>NoMoreNicksLeft</author><text>&amp;gt; There are massive (many trillion) commercial real estate interests at play here that t&lt;p&gt;That theory is bullshit though. Yes, there are companies that stand to lose if office buildings clear out. But they&amp;#x27;re not the same companies that make the RTO decisions. The companies making those decisions could actually gain if they ditched the office buildings... facility cost is some absurdly large line item on the ledger for most businesses.&lt;p&gt;Without a clear connection between the two, I have to chalk this up to irrationality. Companies are still run by humans, and humans are irrational more often than rational. Especially with something like this, where there&amp;#x27;s no clear precedent to steer by.</text></item><item><author>highcountess</author><text>I suggest you dispel of this notion that the players in this game have any sense of rationality or logic about this topic. There are massive (many trillion) commercial real estate interests at play here that totally trump all productivity, health, and even the holiest of holy climate change benefits. I don’t think people quite understand the real order of priorities and issues related to remote working. The big corporations are under both pulling and pushing pressures from the government and interests that control it to “put butts in seats” in big commercial real estate. They don’t care about anything else and they are throwing around money and fear to whip everyone into shape.&lt;p&gt;Yes, there will be some pressure pushing back and dread by corporations stuck between the ol’ rock of competition and the government-favor hard place, but it is unlikely to win out at the corporate level unless some real independent competition rises that is putting on massive pressure by not having commercial real estate capital expenditures.&lt;p&gt;A small office in a city can easily cost $1M per year, sure there are tax benefits, but they’re not benefits if you are competing with someone that does not have those expenses at all or far fewer, even after paying for team meetups that also fund a family vacation.</text></item><item><author>esafak</author><text>&amp;gt; Because of the badging policy in place, I end up scheduling non productive days at the office&lt;p&gt;An added benefit of this is that it makes working from home look more productive, if they&amp;#x27;re keeping score :)</text></item><item><author>ldenoue</author><text>Same here: I work on speech for a big company and working from the office is terrible. I had to squat the restroom 3 times yesterday so I could work (talk to my phone!)&lt;p&gt;At home I am so much more productive and zero commute.&lt;p&gt;Because of the badging policy in place, I end up scheduling non productive days at the office (doing email, reading other docs, meetings which are always with remote folks anyway but at least they see a genuine meeting room or phone booth behind my pretty face, so I guess that counts? ;)</text></item><item><author>ryukoposting</author><text>As a firmware engineer, my job demands more &amp;quot;in-office-y&amp;quot; stuff than most other engineers on HN. I have specialized equipment. Hardware. I need to interface with manufacturing. So on.&lt;p&gt;Guess what? I&amp;#x27;m going on 1 year fully remote, and I&amp;#x27;m doing great! Turns out, all that fancy equipment can be brought home with you. We deal with a contract manufacturer, and emailing them from home is no harder than emailing them from the office. Instead of being stuck in a concrete jungle, I can go test the product out in a more realistic environment in the park across from my home. It&amp;#x27;s made me happier, healthier AND more productive. Eliminating 2 hours a day of driving and train rides left me with more energy I can expend on my work! Who&amp;#x27;da thunk it?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Lutger</author><text>Totally. A lot of corps are ruled by management and sales people. Those often really enjoy talking and connecting, and it is a form of control for them. Of lot of these people think they can&amp;#x27;t do their job well if the quiet people (IT, devs) disappear into their homes. And they often genuinely think the workforce needs to have meetings and show up to be accountable. They don&amp;#x27;t really think about what IT people actually need, or they do sometimes but it won&amp;#x27;t be a decisive factor in the end.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;ve worked in places where sales people were seated next to programmers, and the sales people were shouting through their phones continuously. The programmers complained endlessly about all the noise - without effect. First lockdown we had showed an increase of at least 300% productivity - hard and reliable numbers because all output was tracked voluntarily by the team (management never asked for this). Number of builds, commits, releases...everything was way up. It was quite shocking.&lt;p&gt;As soon as lockdowns were lifted managers began talking about being in the office fulltime, because it was so good to talk to each other and align your work. I remember working in a team that did 1 day a week at the office, that day we couldn&amp;#x27;t get anything done because everybody was just chit chatting all the time. Even if you wanted to - it was just impossible to focus.&lt;p&gt;Our security officer (CISO) remarked how the lockdown enabled him to think seriously about a security issue for the first time in almost two years. Isn&amp;#x27;t that tragic?&lt;p&gt;Companies are as rational as consumer behavior. You can&amp;#x27;t make this stuff up. Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.</text></comment>

<story><title>Amazon tells employees to return to office five days a week</title><url>https://www.cnbc.com/2024/09/16/amazon-jassy-tells-employees-to-return-to-office-five-days-a-week.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>NoMoreNicksLeft</author><text>&amp;gt; There are massive (many trillion) commercial real estate interests at play here that t&lt;p&gt;That theory is bullshit though. Yes, there are companies that stand to lose if office buildings clear out. But they&amp;#x27;re not the same companies that make the RTO decisions. The companies making those decisions could actually gain if they ditched the office buildings... facility cost is some absurdly large line item on the ledger for most businesses.&lt;p&gt;Without a clear connection between the two, I have to chalk this up to irrationality. Companies are still run by humans, and humans are irrational more often than rational. Especially with something like this, where there&amp;#x27;s no clear precedent to steer by.</text></item><item><author>highcountess</author><text>I suggest you dispel of this notion that the players in this game have any sense of rationality or logic about this topic. There are massive (many trillion) commercial real estate interests at play here that totally trump all productivity, health, and even the holiest of holy climate change benefits. I don’t think people quite understand the real order of priorities and issues related to remote working. The big corporations are under both pulling and pushing pressures from the government and interests that control it to “put butts in seats” in big commercial real estate. They don’t care about anything else and they are throwing around money and fear to whip everyone into shape.&lt;p&gt;Yes, there will be some pressure pushing back and dread by corporations stuck between the ol’ rock of competition and the government-favor hard place, but it is unlikely to win out at the corporate level unless some real independent competition rises that is putting on massive pressure by not having commercial real estate capital expenditures.&lt;p&gt;A small office in a city can easily cost $1M per year, sure there are tax benefits, but they’re not benefits if you are competing with someone that does not have those expenses at all or far fewer, even after paying for team meetups that also fund a family vacation.</text></item><item><author>esafak</author><text>&amp;gt; Because of the badging policy in place, I end up scheduling non productive days at the office&lt;p&gt;An added benefit of this is that it makes working from home look more productive, if they&amp;#x27;re keeping score :)</text></item><item><author>ldenoue</author><text>Same here: I work on speech for a big company and working from the office is terrible. I had to squat the restroom 3 times yesterday so I could work (talk to my phone!)&lt;p&gt;At home I am so much more productive and zero commute.&lt;p&gt;Because of the badging policy in place, I end up scheduling non productive days at the office (doing email, reading other docs, meetings which are always with remote folks anyway but at least they see a genuine meeting room or phone booth behind my pretty face, so I guess that counts? ;)</text></item><item><author>ryukoposting</author><text>As a firmware engineer, my job demands more &amp;quot;in-office-y&amp;quot; stuff than most other engineers on HN. I have specialized equipment. Hardware. I need to interface with manufacturing. So on.&lt;p&gt;Guess what? I&amp;#x27;m going on 1 year fully remote, and I&amp;#x27;m doing great! Turns out, all that fancy equipment can be brought home with you. We deal with a contract manufacturer, and emailing them from home is no harder than emailing them from the office. Instead of being stuck in a concrete jungle, I can go test the product out in a more realistic environment in the park across from my home. It&amp;#x27;s made me happier, healthier AND more productive. Eliminating 2 hours a day of driving and train rides left me with more energy I can expend on my work! Who&amp;#x27;da thunk it?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>blackeyeblitzar</author><text>Companies like Amazon literally own billions in office space. Making that space valuable again with RTO policies, especially if you create an RTO trend, a way of enabling them to sell at their previous values.</text></comment>

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<story><title>The Fed Will Buy Bond ETFs Now</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2020-05-12/the-fed-will-buy-bond-etfs-now</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>yingw787</author><text>I kinda don&amp;#x27;t think after all this people want to move towards currency consolidation. Isn&amp;#x27;t the E.U. the only union and non-country to have a singular currency? And isn&amp;#x27;t that singular monetary policy something that causes a great deal of friction between member states (e.g. Greece and Germany back in &amp;#x27;08)? I think if you took another vote among E.U. members to ratify the Maastricht treaty today, you might get a different result.&lt;p&gt;What us technologists might aspire to is pretty different from the ground truth.</text></item><item><author>espadrine</author><text>In the EU at least, monetary policy is a property of the currency (which crosses borders), while fiscal policy is a property of the government (associated with a single administrative country).&lt;p&gt;If the world evolves further into currency consolidation (which seems to be the direction aspired to by many technologists hoping for Internet money), this distinction will grow in relevance.</text></item><item><author>User23</author><text>There never really was. It was always a charade. The only real “benefit” of the current system is that seigniorage profits are accrued by primary dealers rather than Treasury.</text></item><item><author>yingw787</author><text>One can dream, but you can imagine if the Fed really wanted to implement UBI, it could probably do something like:&lt;p&gt;- Give everyone in the U.S. a guaranteed loan for $2,001, 0% interest, payable at the end of the month&lt;p&gt;- Before you &amp;quot;default&amp;quot;, enter in a &amp;quot;negotiation&amp;quot; where the Fed can buy back the security from you for $1, writing off &amp;quot;the losses&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;- Do it all again the next month&lt;p&gt;Tada! Monetary policy as fiscal policy! If you don&amp;#x27;t want to write it off immediately, guarantee 0% interest and have the timeline for the loan be 200 years, then write off the debt as nonpayable after death.&lt;p&gt;But seriously, I&amp;#x27;m not sure if there&amp;#x27;s a clear line between monetary policy and fiscal policy anymore.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>skissane</author><text>&amp;gt; Isn&amp;#x27;t the E.U. the only union and non-country to have a singular currency?&lt;p&gt;No, it isn&amp;#x27;t. In Africa, there is the West African CFA Franc issued by the West African Economic and Monetary Union, and the Central African CFA Franc issued by the Economic and Monetary Community of Central Africa – both are legacies of French colonialism, in which newly independent states decided to keep the common currency they had under the French colonial empire.&lt;p&gt;In the Caribbean, there is the East Caribbean Dollar, issued by the Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States. It is used by independent states that were former British colonies, and also by two British overseas territories. Like the CFA Francs, it is a case of newly independent states choosing to retain the common currency they had under British rule.&lt;p&gt;The idea of a common currency isn&amp;#x27;t that new. France, Belgium, Italy, Switzerland and Greece had a common currency between 1865 and 1927 (the Latin Monetary Union). Similarly, Sweden, Denmark and Norway had a common currency between 1873 and 1905 (the Scandinavian Monetary Union.)</text></comment>

<story><title>The Fed Will Buy Bond ETFs Now</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2020-05-12/the-fed-will-buy-bond-etfs-now</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>yingw787</author><text>I kinda don&amp;#x27;t think after all this people want to move towards currency consolidation. Isn&amp;#x27;t the E.U. the only union and non-country to have a singular currency? And isn&amp;#x27;t that singular monetary policy something that causes a great deal of friction between member states (e.g. Greece and Germany back in &amp;#x27;08)? I think if you took another vote among E.U. members to ratify the Maastricht treaty today, you might get a different result.&lt;p&gt;What us technologists might aspire to is pretty different from the ground truth.</text></item><item><author>espadrine</author><text>In the EU at least, monetary policy is a property of the currency (which crosses borders), while fiscal policy is a property of the government (associated with a single administrative country).&lt;p&gt;If the world evolves further into currency consolidation (which seems to be the direction aspired to by many technologists hoping for Internet money), this distinction will grow in relevance.</text></item><item><author>User23</author><text>There never really was. It was always a charade. The only real “benefit” of the current system is that seigniorage profits are accrued by primary dealers rather than Treasury.</text></item><item><author>yingw787</author><text>One can dream, but you can imagine if the Fed really wanted to implement UBI, it could probably do something like:&lt;p&gt;- Give everyone in the U.S. a guaranteed loan for $2,001, 0% interest, payable at the end of the month&lt;p&gt;- Before you &amp;quot;default&amp;quot;, enter in a &amp;quot;negotiation&amp;quot; where the Fed can buy back the security from you for $1, writing off &amp;quot;the losses&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;- Do it all again the next month&lt;p&gt;Tada! Monetary policy as fiscal policy! If you don&amp;#x27;t want to write it off immediately, guarantee 0% interest and have the timeline for the loan be 200 years, then write off the debt as nonpayable after death.&lt;p&gt;But seriously, I&amp;#x27;m not sure if there&amp;#x27;s a clear line between monetary policy and fiscal policy anymore.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>vasco</author><text>This friction as you call it, is happening again during the current crisis, again between southern european countries and mostly Netherlands and Germany, specifically on the topic of coronabonds which has been widely debated and made lots of headlines. The way the euro works the main direct benefits go to the largest exporting economies, with the weaker ones pretty much losing out. Then the idea is that this is offset by the stronger economies helping the weaker ones in the form of EU grants but there&amp;#x27;s always a big push back as these direct funds are seen as handouts while the benefits of the common currency are dismissed. This pressure is seen clearly in demands for harsher and harsher austerity. It doesn&amp;#x27;t help that some officials from northern economies keep showing how they really feel about the situation, going as far as providing quotes like southern countries &amp;quot;spending all their money on women and wine&amp;quot; and the whole PIIGs designation. It&amp;#x27;s a tough thing to try and rationalise for someone who largely believes in the EU project but who is originally from one of these southern countries and has felt the direct effects of the whole post-2008 period.</text></comment>

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<story><title>QDirStat – Treemap Visualization of Directory Statistics</title><url>https://github.com/shundhammer/qdirstat</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>vilya</author><text>Gosh there are a lot of these programs, aren&amp;#x27;t there?&lt;p&gt;For some reason I find it really hard to read these tree map visualisations. I know the theory and all that, but for me they just aren&amp;#x27;t an intuitive way of displaying that kind of information. For me a radial graph (i.e. pie chart like) is much easier to grok - I don&amp;#x27;t even have to think about it, I just get it. Seems like there must be plenty of people who don&amp;#x27;t think the same way though, given how many different tree map disk viewers there are out there!&lt;p&gt;For what it&amp;#x27;s worth I use Diskitude (&lt;a href=&quot;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;madebyevan.com&amp;#x2F;diskitude&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;madebyevan.com&amp;#x2F;diskitude&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt;) on Windows and Daisy Disk (&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;daisydiskapp.com&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;daisydiskapp.com&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt;) on Mac. Both are great!</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>chubot</author><text>I&amp;#x27;ve used treemaps for many years, to reduce disk space, and have been somewhat enamored of them.&lt;p&gt;Then earlier this year, I happened to use flame graphs for visualizing profiling data.&lt;p&gt;This is when I realized I hadn&amp;#x27;t quite understood flame graphs. It became obvious that you can use flame graphs for visualizing the SPACE used by a tree hierarchy as well as TIME.&lt;p&gt;I googled and Brendan Gregg already wrote about this!&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.brendangregg.com&amp;#x2F;blog&amp;#x2F;2017-02-05&amp;#x2F;file-system-flame-graph.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.brendangregg.com&amp;#x2F;blog&amp;#x2F;2017-02-05&amp;#x2F;file-system-flam...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.brendangregg.com&amp;#x2F;blog&amp;#x2F;2017-02-06&amp;#x2F;flamegraphs-vs-treemaps-vs-sunburst.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.brendangregg.com&amp;#x2F;blog&amp;#x2F;2017-02-06&amp;#x2F;flamegraphs-vs-t...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;So from now on, I believe I will use flame graphs instead of treemaps to visualize this space.&lt;p&gt;-----&lt;p&gt;Details: A common point of confusion for flame graphs is that the Y axis is &amp;quot;time elapsed&amp;quot;. (Chrome dev tools has a &amp;quot;flame chart&amp;quot; where the Y axis is time elapsed, but it&amp;#x27;s not a flame graph.)&lt;p&gt;The Y axis is &amp;quot;cumulative time used&amp;quot;, and the X axis is the call stack. Combining call stacks sampled at different times gives you a TREE, because a given function calls multiple functions.&lt;p&gt;So if that&amp;#x27;s clear, it should be clear why flame graphs can be used instead of treemaps. They are the same visualization! And flame graphs have the benefit that they use a one spatial dimension to represent quantity, rather than two. TreeMaps have the same problem as pie charts -- human perception isn&amp;#x27;t good at measuring areas.&lt;p&gt;Also, with treemaps, you have error due to the inability to represent a internal directory of zero size (you need some space for the label). Flame Graphs don&amp;#x27;t have this problem because directories are stacked on the Y axis.</text></comment>

<story><title>QDirStat – Treemap Visualization of Directory Statistics</title><url>https://github.com/shundhammer/qdirstat</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>vilya</author><text>Gosh there are a lot of these programs, aren&amp;#x27;t there?&lt;p&gt;For some reason I find it really hard to read these tree map visualisations. I know the theory and all that, but for me they just aren&amp;#x27;t an intuitive way of displaying that kind of information. For me a radial graph (i.e. pie chart like) is much easier to grok - I don&amp;#x27;t even have to think about it, I just get it. Seems like there must be plenty of people who don&amp;#x27;t think the same way though, given how many different tree map disk viewers there are out there!&lt;p&gt;For what it&amp;#x27;s worth I use Diskitude (&lt;a href=&quot;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;madebyevan.com&amp;#x2F;diskitude&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;madebyevan.com&amp;#x2F;diskitude&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt;) on Windows and Daisy Disk (&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;daisydiskapp.com&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;daisydiskapp.com&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt;) on Mac. Both are great!</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jdonaldson</author><text>There&amp;#x27;s a few reasons why rectangular shapes are superior... They fill the available space better than circles, and you can generally compare areas in rectangular shapes better than areas with curves. But, generally you&amp;#x27;re using these tools to spot outliers, in which case either approach works just fine.</text></comment>

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<story><title>How to Protect Yourself from NSA Attacks on 1024-bit DH</title><url>https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2015/10/how-to-protect-yourself-from-nsa-attacks-1024-bit-DH</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>PlzSnow</author><text>&lt;i&gt;&amp;quot;FWIU of the situation, we have reason to suspect the government has &amp;#x27;cracked&amp;#x27; the default large primes that are commonly used by a bunch of different software packages, including web servers.&amp;quot;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;This is just nonsense. Am I the only sane one here? Can no-one else see that the response is hysterical? There&amp;#x27;s no evidence whatsover that any of this has happened. It&amp;#x27;s conspiracy conjecture.&lt;p&gt;Look, I know the cultural narrative on HN is that the NSA is the all-seeing-eye, but can&amp;#x27;t we have a sensible discussion about this? Because it&amp;#x27;s embarrassing for me to be active on a website that reverts to the mean conspiracy theory of the world.</text></item><item><author>kordless</author><text>FWIU of the situation, we have reason to suspect the government has &amp;#x27;cracked&amp;#x27; the default large primes that are commonly used by a bunch of different software packages, including web servers. Assuming they have, the challenge is then defined as determining which applications and sites tend to use these standardized or hard-coded primes.&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; Breaking a second 1024-bit prime would allow passive eavesdropping on connections to nearly 20% of the top million HTTPS websites.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;ll point out that agwa&amp;#x27;s comment is relevant here in mitigation. Without any control over what primes are used on the server side, the only resolution would be to detect the server is using such a prime and then avoid communicating with that server until they&amp;#x27;ve patched their systems. Perhaps someone who knows more about this could comment on how we could go about notifying websites they are using venerable primes?&lt;p&gt;Maybe a Chrome plugin attached to an IPFS client could be one method to warn on access of sites using default primes.</text></item><item><author>diafygi</author><text>Does anyone have links to bugs for the affected programs to make 2048 the minimum by default? It seems like we shouldn&amp;#x27;t have to continue to manually configure secure settings.&lt;p&gt;OpenVPN? SSH? Nginx? Apache?&lt;p&gt;Where are the bugs to make these not use insecure dhparams by default?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dang</author><text>&amp;gt; &lt;i&gt;nonsense ... the only sane one here ... hysterical ... conspiracy conjecture ... the cultural narrative ... all-seeing eye ... sensible ... conspiracy&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;Nearly this entire comment is name-calling in the sense of the HN guidelines when they say: &lt;i&gt;When disagreeing, please reply to the argument instead of calling names. E.g. &amp;quot;That is idiotic; 1 + 1 is 2, not 3&amp;quot; can be shortened to &amp;quot;1 + 1 is 2, not 3.&amp;quot;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;When posting to HN, please edit that out and stick to the substance.&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&amp;#x2F;newsguidelines.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&amp;#x2F;newsguidelines.html&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>

<story><title>How to Protect Yourself from NSA Attacks on 1024-bit DH</title><url>https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2015/10/how-to-protect-yourself-from-nsa-attacks-1024-bit-DH</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>PlzSnow</author><text>&lt;i&gt;&amp;quot;FWIU of the situation, we have reason to suspect the government has &amp;#x27;cracked&amp;#x27; the default large primes that are commonly used by a bunch of different software packages, including web servers.&amp;quot;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;This is just nonsense. Am I the only sane one here? Can no-one else see that the response is hysterical? There&amp;#x27;s no evidence whatsover that any of this has happened. It&amp;#x27;s conspiracy conjecture.&lt;p&gt;Look, I know the cultural narrative on HN is that the NSA is the all-seeing-eye, but can&amp;#x27;t we have a sensible discussion about this? Because it&amp;#x27;s embarrassing for me to be active on a website that reverts to the mean conspiracy theory of the world.</text></item><item><author>kordless</author><text>FWIU of the situation, we have reason to suspect the government has &amp;#x27;cracked&amp;#x27; the default large primes that are commonly used by a bunch of different software packages, including web servers. Assuming they have, the challenge is then defined as determining which applications and sites tend to use these standardized or hard-coded primes.&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; Breaking a second 1024-bit prime would allow passive eavesdropping on connections to nearly 20% of the top million HTTPS websites.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;ll point out that agwa&amp;#x27;s comment is relevant here in mitigation. Without any control over what primes are used on the server side, the only resolution would be to detect the server is using such a prime and then avoid communicating with that server until they&amp;#x27;ve patched their systems. Perhaps someone who knows more about this could comment on how we could go about notifying websites they are using venerable primes?&lt;p&gt;Maybe a Chrome plugin attached to an IPFS client could be one method to warn on access of sites using default primes.</text></item><item><author>diafygi</author><text>Does anyone have links to bugs for the affected programs to make 2048 the minimum by default? It seems like we shouldn&amp;#x27;t have to continue to manually configure secure settings.&lt;p&gt;OpenVPN? SSH? Nginx? Apache?&lt;p&gt;Where are the bugs to make these not use insecure dhparams by default?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>URSpider94</author><text>Ok, how&amp;#x27;s this for sensible? The holy trinity of criminal law is means, motive and opportunity. Let&amp;#x27;s review:&lt;p&gt;Does the NSA have the means for such an attack? The article argues convincingly that they do.&lt;p&gt;Does the NSA have the motive for such an attack? Yes, if their mission is to gain access to as much of the signals traffic in the world as possible -- and I think that&amp;#x27;s been pretty well shown to be true.&lt;p&gt;Does the NSA have the opportunity for such an attack? Certainly, the Snowden papers have shown that the NSA has access to a wide variety of communications channels.&lt;p&gt;So, I think it&amp;#x27;s a perfectly sane argument to say that if the NSA haven&amp;#x27;t performed this attack already, they will certainly do so at some point in time against some target. And, if they are not, state intelligence organizations under other flags, such as China, will -- and China has shown a clear interest in attacking not just military but also commercial targets within the USA.</text></comment>

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<story><title>Earth Primer</title><url>http://www.earthprimer.com/</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>pserwylo</author><text>This is very cool indead. Reminds me of my time as an undergrad at uni, where one of our projects revolved around making a game&amp;#x2F;sim like this. Everybody else was trying to make 3D adventure games, but we were interested in &amp;quot;good quality&amp;quot; (I put that in quotes because I just went back to look at the code and shuddered) 2D games, that were more polished.&lt;p&gt;Our game was called &amp;quot;Land of Life&amp;quot; [0] (or Geco, according to the source code, not sure why). It was a basic, fixed size, isometric tile game. To start with, you are presented with a desert. The only thing you can do is add mountains, and then hit play and watch clouds form and move over the mountains. If you constructed your mountains well, you&amp;#x27;d get nice oasis&amp;#x27; with rivers flowing out of the mountains, and greenery around it. If, you probably wouldn&amp;#x27;t get any rivers, but would get some small shrubs.&lt;p&gt;From memory, the only heuristics about adding mountains were: You can only make a mountain bigger if there are a certain number of mountains of a certain size adjacent to it. It was a bit like game-of-life in that way, hence the name &amp;quot;land of life&amp;quot;. This worked surprisingly well for constructing mountain ranges.&lt;p&gt;One main difference from our approach and the one linked to here is that theirs looks absolutely amazing and educational, whereas ours used heuristics that we dreamed up via trial and error.&lt;p&gt;[0] Screenshot (missing assets for river tiles, because I couldn&amp;#x27;t find the final source code) - &lt;a href=&quot;https://raw.githubusercontent.com/pserwylo/land-of-life/master/screenshot.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;raw.githubusercontent.com&amp;#x2F;pserwylo&amp;#x2F;land-of-life&amp;#x2F;mast...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;EDIT:&lt;p&gt;Here is a screencast [1]. I still think it is nice how the first river which heads off to the top right (rendered in black due to no river assets) gets surrounded by trees because it is a source of water in the desert. This is not based on any geological&amp;#x2F;ecological&amp;#x2F;climate knowledge on our part, but was still fun to tinker with.&lt;p&gt;[1] &lt;a href=&quot;https://raw.githubusercontent.com/pserwylo/land-of-life/master/screencast.webm&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;raw.githubusercontent.com&amp;#x2F;pserwylo&amp;#x2F;land-of-life&amp;#x2F;mast...&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>

<story><title>Earth Primer</title><url>http://www.earthprimer.com/</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>chrisfarms</author><text>This looks pretty great.&lt;p&gt;Getting closer to a world where The Young Lady&amp;#x27;s Primer is possible :)</text></comment>

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<story><title>Everything you ever wanted to know about hexagonal grids</title><url>http://www.redblobgames.com/grids/hexagons/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>acidburnNSA</author><text>That&amp;#x27;s neat. I spend my work days simulating advanced nuclear reactors that have hexagonal fuel assemblies. In my codes I&amp;#x27;ve used a lot of this info. This is an excellent resource that I&amp;#x27;ll be referring people who come from the more traditional square lattice world.</text></comment>

<story><title>Everything you ever wanted to know about hexagonal grids</title><url>http://www.redblobgames.com/grids/hexagons/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>jordigh</author><text>Tangentially related, I have heard of modelling forest fires with cellular automata.&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forest-fire_model&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Forest-fire_model&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;The grid is usually rectangular, and I&amp;#x27;ve always found this a bit odd: hexagons represent 2-d sphere packing, so they always seemed more natural to me. I once asked researchers in the field about this, around 2006, and they responded that rectangular grids serve just as well. I just found this paper from 2007 where apparently hexagonal grids fare better:&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0307904X06000916&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.sciencedirect.com&amp;#x2F;science&amp;#x2F;article&amp;#x2F;pii&amp;#x2F;S0307904X06...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;This makes me wonder, for realistic models that are meant to model a notion of neighbour cells, why aren&amp;#x27;t we always using hexagonal grids in 2d or higher-dimensional analogues? With rectangular grids, you&amp;#x27;re always faced with the choice of defining whether touching on edges and corners count as neighbours or not, which seems like an unnatural choice. Why, then, does this not seem to matter in the end?</text></comment>

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<story><title>Intermittent fasting more effective than calorie restriction</title><url>https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/37889487/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jitl</author><text>“More effective” in what capacity? Adherence.&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; The mean (SD) reduction in energy intake was -313 (509) kcal&amp;#x2F;d for TRE, -197 (426) kcal&amp;#x2F;d for CR, and -16 (439) kcal&amp;#x2F;d for controls&lt;p&gt;So — the time restricted eating group reduced calories more than the group that counted calories; but the resulting weight loss has the same cause: reduced calorie intake compared to before.&lt;p&gt;If there’s a take away here, it’s possibly that adherence to a calorie deficit using a time restricted eating plan is easier than adherence to the same calorie deficit by explicitly tracking calories.&lt;p&gt;If you can adhere to a calorie deficit through other means, you won’t lose weight faster by adding intermittent fasting while maintaining the same calorie intake.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>gspencley</author><text>I&amp;#x27;ve done both. I can attest that intermittent fasting, at least for me, is WAY more sustainable ... and actually makes maintaining a calorie deficit easier too.&lt;p&gt;Hunger is a weird thing. People tend to assume that if you don&amp;#x27;t eat you&amp;#x27;ll just get hungrier and hungrier. The reality is that hunger comes in waves. If you can ride out a wave of hunger for 30 - 45 minutes it goes away. And the longer you don&amp;#x27;t eat, the less hungrier you get. I &lt;i&gt;think&lt;/i&gt; this is because those waves of hunger tend to correspond to your eating habits. So if you&amp;#x27;re accustomed to eating lunch, you feel hungry around lunch time etc.&lt;p&gt;After a period of adaptation, when this just becomes the new normal, you can find that when it comes time to eat you just don&amp;#x27;t want to eat all that much either. It&amp;#x27;s weird, but cool, and seems to work well for a lot of people.&lt;p&gt;Then there is metabolic adaptation, which is thought to be the biggest contributor to people re-gaining any weight that they&amp;#x27;ve lost. What happens is that after dropping around 10% of your body mass, your body kicks in a survival mechanism whereby it lowers your resting metabolic rate to adapt and try to slow the weight loss. This means that two people who weigh the exact same, one of which just dropped a bunch of weight to get there, will require different caloric intakes just to maintain their weight. The person who just cut weight will need 300 - 400 fewer calories per day than the person who didn&amp;#x27;t.&lt;p&gt;If you cut weight just by caloric restriction alone, this is DISASTROUS, because you are hungry and weak and miserable ... and you need to eat even less just to keep the weight off.&lt;p&gt;Which is why crash diets don&amp;#x27;t work. You start by making sacrifices, which is uncomfortable, and then when metabolic adaptation kicks in you stop seeing results unless you make even more sacrifices. People can&amp;#x27;t stick with it so they stop dieting and very quickly and easily regain the weight.&lt;p&gt;Intermittent fasting not only helps with hunger control, but there is research that suggests that it can also increase resting metabolic rate, which can help to counteract metabolic adaptation.&lt;p&gt;But even if it didn&amp;#x27;t boost RMR, the fact that it helps with hunger control and maintaining a calorie deficit alone would make it more sustainable for more people than just trying to eat less in general.</text></comment>

<story><title>Intermittent fasting more effective than calorie restriction</title><url>https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/37889487/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jitl</author><text>“More effective” in what capacity? Adherence.&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; The mean (SD) reduction in energy intake was -313 (509) kcal&amp;#x2F;d for TRE, -197 (426) kcal&amp;#x2F;d for CR, and -16 (439) kcal&amp;#x2F;d for controls&lt;p&gt;So — the time restricted eating group reduced calories more than the group that counted calories; but the resulting weight loss has the same cause: reduced calorie intake compared to before.&lt;p&gt;If there’s a take away here, it’s possibly that adherence to a calorie deficit using a time restricted eating plan is easier than adherence to the same calorie deficit by explicitly tracking calories.&lt;p&gt;If you can adhere to a calorie deficit through other means, you won’t lose weight faster by adding intermittent fasting while maintaining the same calorie intake.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>bgroat</author><text>I think for a lot of people (me included), the primary advantage is in ease of measurement.&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s &lt;i&gt;hard&lt;/i&gt; to count calories accurately.&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s very easy to look at the clock and determine if it&amp;#x27;s between 1300-1900 hours</text></comment>

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<story><title>Ultima (2012)</title><url>https://www.filfre.net/2012/02/ultima-part-1/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>dekhn</author><text>As a kid I was thrilled to meet Lord British at the Apple Fest in Boston (1985, I think?). I told him all about how I loved his game and he said that since I liked it so much why didn&amp;#x27;t I present at his kiosk?&lt;p&gt;Later I realized that I was telling him I loved his game which was unreleased and already being copied illegally.&lt;p&gt;I was pretty obsessed with learning enough Apple IIe assembly to reproduce the tile graphics of ultima but never got close. These days... there&amp;#x27;s a community dedicated to reverse engineering the source code for Ultima and fixing bugs: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;xu4.sourceforge.net&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;xu4.sourceforge.net&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt; and even a team that made a modern Apple IIe Ultima-like (&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.6502workshop.com&amp;#x2F;p&amp;#x2F;nox-archaist.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.6502workshop.com&amp;#x2F;p&amp;#x2F;nox-archaist.html&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;p&gt;Another thing I realized, playing Nox archaist, is that much of the modern game mechanics already existed at that time: it was key to pay tons of attention to arming your fighters and using the right spells by your cleric and magician. I never knew I was supposed to optimize my builds when I was a kid, so my teams always ended up wimpy and dying. I learned how to hex-edit my player&amp;#x27;s disk sectors to give them 99 HP, which made the end game much easier.</text></comment>

<story><title>Ultima (2012)</title><url>https://www.filfre.net/2012/02/ultima-part-1/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>CamperBob2</author><text>&amp;gt;&lt;i&gt;I do wonder that no one thought of it in even the relatively brief history of videogames prior to Ultima; it does seem a fairly obvious approach, after all. On the other hand, I can’t point to a specific example that would give me grounds to really challenge the claim. ... Ultima‘s tile-graphics engine was not so much the work of Garriott as of a friend of his who was the only other person to have a significant role in the game’s design and implementation: Ken W. Arnold (not the Ken Arnold who created Rogue).&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;ll comment briefly on this as someone who spent a couple of years trying to build an Ultima-esque tile graphics game on the Apple II. Ken had a clever insight that eluded me completely: &amp;quot;Don&amp;#x27;t try to draw the tiles one at a time, dummy.&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;Ken&amp;#x27;s code was fast enough to be useful in an interactive fullscreen game because it drew an entire row of 280 pixels at once, then went back over the same row of map data, reusing the indexes for the next 14 lines in that row of tiles. There was less indirection and practically no overhead compared to drawing individual 2-byte-by-14-row block shapes.&lt;p&gt;Conversely, anyone trying to draw one tile at a time would have ended up with a low update rate, or would have been forced to draw the map in a small window. Either way, a worse gameplay experience would have resulted, especially if you were (as I was) comparing your work to Ultima.</text></comment>

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<story><title>James Webb telescope&apos;s coldest instrument reaches operating temperature</title><url>https://phys.org/news/2022-04-james-webb-telescope-coldest-instrument.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>baggy_trough</author><text>Better source: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;blogs.nasa.gov&amp;#x2F;webb&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;blogs.nasa.gov&amp;#x2F;webb&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>

<story><title>James Webb telescope&apos;s coldest instrument reaches operating temperature</title><url>https://phys.org/news/2022-04-james-webb-telescope-coldest-instrument.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>jylam</author><text>I was so convinced, after all the delays, the cost overruns and the general bureaucracy surrounding the whole project, that it would fail miserably.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;m so happy it seems to go flawlessly since its (perfect) launch.</text></comment>

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<story><title>Bay Area city blocks 5G deployments over cancer concerns</title><url>https://techcrunch.com/2018/09/10/bay-area-city-blocks-5g-deployments-over-cancer-concerns/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Asparagirl</author><text>I live in a part of unincorporated Marin county (Tamalpais Valley) that has a Mill Valley postal address, and the discussion about this issue on our local NextDoor was BANANAS. You could satirize this situation any way you like and it wouldn’t come close to how terrible and anti-science the comments were.&lt;p&gt;Meanwhile, I don’t even have cellphone service of any kind at my own house, not even 3G&amp;#x2F;4G, thanks to a combination of hills and NIMBYism about more towers. My family has to rely on a combination of a microcell and WiFi calling. It’s infuriating.&lt;p&gt;Actual discussion:&lt;p&gt;Guy: Come to this meeting or else they might put a 5G cell on a telephone pole right outside your house!&lt;p&gt;Me: OMG that would be amazing, yes please!</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>robterrell</author><text>I live downtown. Let&amp;#x27;s coordinate on getting this nonsense overturned. There&amp;#x27;s enough geeks in the community to get this done!</text></comment>

<story><title>Bay Area city blocks 5G deployments over cancer concerns</title><url>https://techcrunch.com/2018/09/10/bay-area-city-blocks-5g-deployments-over-cancer-concerns/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Asparagirl</author><text>I live in a part of unincorporated Marin county (Tamalpais Valley) that has a Mill Valley postal address, and the discussion about this issue on our local NextDoor was BANANAS. You could satirize this situation any way you like and it wouldn’t come close to how terrible and anti-science the comments were.&lt;p&gt;Meanwhile, I don’t even have cellphone service of any kind at my own house, not even 3G&amp;#x2F;4G, thanks to a combination of hills and NIMBYism about more towers. My family has to rely on a combination of a microcell and WiFi calling. It’s infuriating.&lt;p&gt;Actual discussion:&lt;p&gt;Guy: Come to this meeting or else they might put a 5G cell on a telephone pole right outside your house!&lt;p&gt;Me: OMG that would be amazing, yes please!</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>photos_victim</author><text>If it makes you feel better, the discussion of 5G on Nextdoor in Oakland was and remains bonkers. It’s not Marin, it’s people of a certain age. There just happens to be more of them in Marin.</text></comment>

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<story><title>Please do not attempt to simplify this code</title><url>https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/blob/ec2e767e59395376fa191d7c56a74f53936b7653/pkg/controller/volume/persistentvolume/pv_controller.go</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>afarrell</author><text>&amp;gt; probably a hell of a lot easier to maintain and manage than splitting the logic up among tens or hundreds of files&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;m only halfway through John Ousterhout&amp;#x27;s book Philosophy of Software Design but I think it agrees with you on this -- that smallness-of-file or smallness-of-function is not a target to shoot for because it prevents the things you build from being deep. That you should strive to build modules which have deep functionality and small interfaces and should contain their complexity within them so the users don&amp;#x27;t have to know that complexity.</text></item><item><author>Klathmon</author><text>I love this! It&amp;#x27;s the &amp;quot;jazz music&amp;quot; of software development. Something which breaks all the &amp;quot;rules&amp;quot; but does so purposefully and explicitly so that it can become better than the &amp;quot;rules&amp;quot; allow.&lt;p&gt;A naive look at this and my head is screaming that this file is way too big, has way too many branches and nested if statements, has a lot of &amp;quot;pointless comments&amp;quot; that just describe what the line or few lines around it is doing, and has a lot of &amp;quot;logic&amp;quot; in the comments which could quickly become outdated or wrong compared to the actual code.&lt;p&gt;Yet at the same time, it&amp;#x27;s probably a hell of a lot easier to maintain and manage than splitting the logic up among tens or hundreds of files, it contains a lot of the inherently complex work it&amp;#x27;s doing to this file, and it is so well and heavily commented that it should be pretty easy to ensure that any changes also keep the comments up to date (after all, any change without changing the resulting comments should show up like a sore thumb, and will most likely prompt the reviewer to look into it at the very least).</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>TeMPOraL</author><text>I just finished his book yesterday; he has a lot to say about size and comments. For size, your summary is spot-on. I&amp;#x27;d only add that he notes overeager splitting of methods and classes makes code involved in a particular abstraction to be no longer in one place, leading developers to constantly jump around files, which makes it more difficult to understand the code and increases the chances of making bugs.&lt;p&gt;As for comments, this file is essentially Ousterhout taken to the extreme. Still, I think he would have like it, given how critical this file is. In the book, he encourages writing more comments than the current trends would suggest, pointing out that you can&amp;#x27;t fully express abstractions in code, so all the things the code doesn&amp;#x27;t contain - the high-level concepts, the rationale, the caveats - should be documented in comments in appropriate places.&lt;p&gt;Overall, I&amp;#x27;m extremely impressed by the book, and its focus on reducing and mitigating complexity.</text></comment>

<story><title>Please do not attempt to simplify this code</title><url>https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/blob/ec2e767e59395376fa191d7c56a74f53936b7653/pkg/controller/volume/persistentvolume/pv_controller.go</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>afarrell</author><text>&amp;gt; probably a hell of a lot easier to maintain and manage than splitting the logic up among tens or hundreds of files&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;m only halfway through John Ousterhout&amp;#x27;s book Philosophy of Software Design but I think it agrees with you on this -- that smallness-of-file or smallness-of-function is not a target to shoot for because it prevents the things you build from being deep. That you should strive to build modules which have deep functionality and small interfaces and should contain their complexity within them so the users don&amp;#x27;t have to know that complexity.</text></item><item><author>Klathmon</author><text>I love this! It&amp;#x27;s the &amp;quot;jazz music&amp;quot; of software development. Something which breaks all the &amp;quot;rules&amp;quot; but does so purposefully and explicitly so that it can become better than the &amp;quot;rules&amp;quot; allow.&lt;p&gt;A naive look at this and my head is screaming that this file is way too big, has way too many branches and nested if statements, has a lot of &amp;quot;pointless comments&amp;quot; that just describe what the line or few lines around it is doing, and has a lot of &amp;quot;logic&amp;quot; in the comments which could quickly become outdated or wrong compared to the actual code.&lt;p&gt;Yet at the same time, it&amp;#x27;s probably a hell of a lot easier to maintain and manage than splitting the logic up among tens or hundreds of files, it contains a lot of the inherently complex work it&amp;#x27;s doing to this file, and it is so well and heavily commented that it should be pretty easy to ensure that any changes also keep the comments up to date (after all, any change without changing the resulting comments should show up like a sore thumb, and will most likely prompt the reviewer to look into it at the very least).</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Klathmon</author><text>Now i&amp;#x27;m squarely in frontend web-app development right now which definitely changes things (mainly the complexity is centered around enabling fast changes&amp;#x2F;additions to the codebase, and not the actual business logic for the most part), but while &amp;quot;deep functionality and small interfaces&amp;quot; sounds good on paper, &lt;i&gt;most of the time&lt;/i&gt; giant files with a few functions exported aren&amp;#x27;t a good way to manage that.&lt;p&gt;Sure, it solves the problem when viewed from the outside. &amp;quot;users&amp;quot; of the software (users being other devs in this case) get a nice small interface and docs that explain how to use it, but internally it&amp;#x27;s much harder to work with. Having everything in one file like this without breaking it into &amp;quot;sub modules&amp;quot; for various parts of the module means that you need to almost have a complete understanding of the module before working on it.&lt;p&gt;In this case, I have a feeling that is a pro not a con. Because this file is so core to the system, and has so much complexity, that breaking it up into smaller parts could cause a dev to feel like they understand it only to find out they don&amp;#x27;t after it&amp;#x27;s released. And it means that any devs that truly do understand it top-to-bottom would just waste a lot of time switching around files if it were split up.&lt;p&gt;Putting it all in the same file here nudges you to really make sure you understand it top to bottom before making any big changes. It&amp;#x27;s intimidating and scary for a reason, because at its core it is a complex piece of code, and dressing it up in &amp;quot;simple code&amp;#x27;s clothing&amp;quot; won&amp;#x27;t help.</text></comment>

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<story><title>Delaney Introduces Bill to End Gerrymandering, Reform Elections</title><url>https://delaney.house.gov/news/press-releases/delaney-introduces-bill-to-end-gerrymandering-reform-elections</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>thephyber</author><text>While it doesn&amp;#x27;t sound like a bad proposal and could probably get a strong majority of votes in some alternate dimension, the party in power will never allow this to make it to the floor of the House for a vote.[1]&lt;p&gt;The more cynical I become, the more I think the party in power doesn&amp;#x27;t actually want to solve any problems, they only want to focus on wedge issues to ensure they can use {rage, fear, some other emotion} to keep their party constituents engaged enough to vote but not enough to hold their feet to the fire on getting things done. Incumbents in Congress still have 95%+ re-election rates and in 2010 when those rates dipped, Congress was remarkably less productive than usual.&lt;p&gt;[1] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Hastert_Rule&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Hastert_Rule&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>

<story><title>Delaney Introduces Bill to End Gerrymandering, Reform Elections</title><url>https://delaney.house.gov/news/press-releases/delaney-introduces-bill-to-end-gerrymandering-reform-elections</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>kerkeslager</author><text>I&amp;#x27;m not sure how this would end gerrymandering. Setting up a committee to handle districting doesn&amp;#x27;t solve anything.&lt;p&gt;If I remember correctly, didn&amp;#x27;t someone finally come up with an algorithm which evenly divides populations such that average distance from the average location of the district residents is minimized? A law which mandated use of that or a similar algorithm for district boundaries would actually help. Just moving the problem into committee obfuscates the problem.</text></comment>

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<story><title>Macbook charger teardown: Complexity inside Apple&apos;s power adapter (2015)</title><url>http://www.righto.com/2015/11/macbook-charger-teardown-surprising.html?m=1</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>GuiA</author><text>My pattern is that I buy a MacBook, use it for a few years, resell it and get a new one.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;m at my 5th or 6th MacBook in over 10 years, and I&amp;#x27;ve always sold the laptops back with their original charger.&lt;p&gt;I have a 2011 MacBook Air that I take everywhere with me - the battery is at over a few thousand cycles (and lasts about 40 minutes) last time I checked. The charger for this one is dirty and chipped, but not frayed.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;ve seen frayed cables, so I know it&amp;#x27;s a real problem, but given my experience I can&amp;#x27;t help but wonder... what are people doing with their chargers?</text></item><item><author>rectang</author><text>An amazing amount of thought went into the design of these power bricks. Now... What does that say about their choice of fray-prone insulation?&lt;p&gt;Obviously they are aware of those of us who have to buy new power bricks regularly because the insulation has shredded. (I have to buy a new one about once a year.) In some proportion, we are either 1. a profit opportunity or 2. collateral damage of an engineering decision to favor that thin insulation for flexibility or whatever.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;d love to know their analysis!</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>cocoflunchy</author><text>The problem is Apple put &amp;#x27;wings&amp;#x27; on their charger so people wrap the cable extra-tight around them like this &lt;a href=&quot;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;imgur.com&amp;#x2F;a&amp;#x2F;VZHoD&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;imgur.com&amp;#x2F;a&amp;#x2F;VZHoD&lt;/a&gt; when they should really be using the only safe method for rolling cables: Over&amp;#x2F;Under coiling (I just learned this name!) &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Over&amp;#x2F;under_cable_coiling&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Over&amp;#x2F;under_cable_coiling&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>

<story><title>Macbook charger teardown: Complexity inside Apple&apos;s power adapter (2015)</title><url>http://www.righto.com/2015/11/macbook-charger-teardown-surprising.html?m=1</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>GuiA</author><text>My pattern is that I buy a MacBook, use it for a few years, resell it and get a new one.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;m at my 5th or 6th MacBook in over 10 years, and I&amp;#x27;ve always sold the laptops back with their original charger.&lt;p&gt;I have a 2011 MacBook Air that I take everywhere with me - the battery is at over a few thousand cycles (and lasts about 40 minutes) last time I checked. The charger for this one is dirty and chipped, but not frayed.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;ve seen frayed cables, so I know it&amp;#x27;s a real problem, but given my experience I can&amp;#x27;t help but wonder... what are people doing with their chargers?</text></item><item><author>rectang</author><text>An amazing amount of thought went into the design of these power bricks. Now... What does that say about their choice of fray-prone insulation?&lt;p&gt;Obviously they are aware of those of us who have to buy new power bricks regularly because the insulation has shredded. (I have to buy a new one about once a year.) In some proportion, we are either 1. a profit opportunity or 2. collateral damage of an engineering decision to favor that thin insulation for flexibility or whatever.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;d love to know their analysis!</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ksk</author><text>Frayed cables are the result of normal use coupled with bad design. Other manufacturers have been making robust cables for decades. (e.g. &lt;a href=&quot;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;imgur.com&amp;#x2F;a&amp;#x2F;kQt77&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;imgur.com&amp;#x2F;a&amp;#x2F;kQt77&lt;/a&gt;)</text></comment>

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<story><title>How To GitHub: A Complete Guide to Forking, Branching, Squashing and Pulls</title><url>http://gun.io/blog/how-to-github-fork-branch-and-pull-request/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>DrCatbox</author><text>I tried using git for several weeks now and still cant manage to do the simplest things, like maintain a work repo and a sync repo and then pull/merge between them before pushing upstream from sync. It feels like I have to know the internals of git workings just to perform a simple action, and I need to know all the side-effects of its actions, and how to fix those as well. With mercurial all the commands I need to know are hg log, diff, incoming, outgoing, pull, update push and merge. With git I need to know at least two or three flags for each command where each flag is really special to that command and using/not using it changes everything. With mercurial I just know -p -r and -l for limits thats it.&lt;p&gt;I hate git with a passion now. Its like forcing everything through its world view, for the tinies action it barks are you with insane messages.&lt;p&gt;Version control systems are supposed to model commits or sets of changes on a repo, not model and show you their own internal representation of what it thinks about my code.&lt;p&gt;Also Ive noticed most git tutorials really simple things (like this is how you do cvs but now with git), while &quot;the rest&quot; is left to some black ninja voodo magic expert dudes who &quot;get&quot; it.&lt;p&gt;And this is just another tutorial to work in a very specific environment using git.&lt;p&gt;Im so glad we use mercurial at work right now.</text></comment>

<story><title>How To GitHub: A Complete Guide to Forking, Branching, Squashing and Pulls</title><url>http://gun.io/blog/how-to-github-fork-branch-and-pull-request/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>hardik988</author><text>Thanks for this. I&apos;m still learning git and didn&apos;t know about the squash feature.. Now that I think about it, even if I spend 5 minutes on HN, I manage to learn something new! Cheers.</text></comment>

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<story><title>Rust-Analyzer Architecture</title><url>https://github.com/rust-analyzer/rust-analyzer/blob/master/docs/dev/architecture.md</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>User23</author><text>How is the Emacs support for this LSP implementation? Does it actually work comparably well to VS Code, or is it going to be like trying to use Emacs as a Java IDE back in the day: fighting your tooling constantly and getting little help from it.</text></item><item><author>ibraheemdev</author><text>It is also worth noting that rust-analyzer is the successor to RLS. If anyone is still using the RLS (most editor plugins can be configured to use either), they should switch to rust-analyzer. It is much &lt;i&gt;much&lt;/i&gt; better in almost every possible way, and soon to be made the &amp;quot;official&amp;quot; rust LSP [0].&lt;p&gt;0: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;github.com&amp;#x2F;rust-analyzer&amp;#x2F;rust-analyzer&amp;#x2F;issues&amp;#x2F;4224&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;github.com&amp;#x2F;rust-analyzer&amp;#x2F;rust-analyzer&amp;#x2F;issues&amp;#x2F;4224&lt;/a&gt;</text></item><item><author>nindalf</author><text>For those who don&amp;#x27;t know, rust-analyzer is an implementation of the Language Server Protocol for the Rust programming language, written in Rust. It assists you while you program, for example finding usages of a piece of code or going to the definition of a function. Basically a Rust IDE that you can plug into any text editor (in theory).</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>zxv</author><text>The emacs support is great. I use emacs &amp;#x27;racer&amp;#x27; and &amp;#x27;lsp&amp;#x27; packages full time for development.&lt;p&gt;There are two popular emacs packages for rust-analyzer: lsp[0] and eglot[1]. lsp (language server protocol) package is the default for racer. Eglot has far more features and is correspondingly resource hungry.&lt;p&gt;Detailed type information has a super helpful impact on my ability to review Rust code in general. I find reviewing rust code much more productive when I can see what owns a variable, how long it lives, and how it&amp;#x27;s being used (immutable vs mutable). So yea, lsp or eglot. Super helpful.&lt;p&gt;[0] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;emacs-lsp.github.io&amp;#x2F;lsp-mode&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;emacs-lsp.github.io&amp;#x2F;lsp-mode&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt; [1] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;github.com&amp;#x2F;joaotavora&amp;#x2F;eglot&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;github.com&amp;#x2F;joaotavora&amp;#x2F;eglot&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>

<story><title>Rust-Analyzer Architecture</title><url>https://github.com/rust-analyzer/rust-analyzer/blob/master/docs/dev/architecture.md</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>User23</author><text>How is the Emacs support for this LSP implementation? Does it actually work comparably well to VS Code, or is it going to be like trying to use Emacs as a Java IDE back in the day: fighting your tooling constantly and getting little help from it.</text></item><item><author>ibraheemdev</author><text>It is also worth noting that rust-analyzer is the successor to RLS. If anyone is still using the RLS (most editor plugins can be configured to use either), they should switch to rust-analyzer. It is much &lt;i&gt;much&lt;/i&gt; better in almost every possible way, and soon to be made the &amp;quot;official&amp;quot; rust LSP [0].&lt;p&gt;0: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;github.com&amp;#x2F;rust-analyzer&amp;#x2F;rust-analyzer&amp;#x2F;issues&amp;#x2F;4224&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;github.com&amp;#x2F;rust-analyzer&amp;#x2F;rust-analyzer&amp;#x2F;issues&amp;#x2F;4224&lt;/a&gt;</text></item><item><author>nindalf</author><text>For those who don&amp;#x27;t know, rust-analyzer is an implementation of the Language Server Protocol for the Rust programming language, written in Rust. It assists you while you program, for example finding usages of a piece of code or going to the definition of a function. Basically a Rust IDE that you can plug into any text editor (in theory).</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>saghm</author><text>I use rust-analyzer with Emacs every day for work. There was a small amount of initial setup time (one or two bugs that had to be fixed with line or two in the init file), and since then, I haven&amp;#x27;t had to do anything; it&amp;#x27;s just worked fine.</text></comment>

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<story><title>RIP Cert.org</title><url>https://www.riskbasedsecurity.com/2018/02/rip-cert-org-you-will-be-missed/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>tptacek</author><text>CERT has always had a reputation that far outstripped its impact or contributions, and has in general been a force working against public disclosure. Serious vulnerability researchers have never relied on them, and my definition of &amp;quot;never&amp;quot; goes back into the mid-1990s --- when CERT and FIRST were really an activist effort to co-opt vulnerability research for the interests of large vendors.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;m sure good people work there now, and they&amp;#x27;ll be fine. If all of CERT&amp;#x27;s public web presence goes away, I won&amp;#x27;t miss them.</text></comment>

<story><title>RIP Cert.org</title><url>https://www.riskbasedsecurity.com/2018/02/rip-cert-org-you-will-be-missed/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>mysterypie</author><text>Purely speculation, but could this be a way for Carnegie Mellon University to grab back the prestige that CERT gets even though it&amp;#x27;s CMU that operates CERT? I&amp;#x27;ve been aware of CERT for 20 years but never realized that it was a CMU project. On the other hand, Stanford University gets prestige from lots of things that use their name, even things like the Stanford Research Institute that are no longer part of it. So maybe CMU will continue doing everything that CERT did but with CMU&amp;#x27;s name at the helm.</text></comment>

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<story><title>XZ Backdoor: Times, damned times, and scams</title><url>https://rheaeve.substack.com/p/xz-backdoor-times-damned-times-and</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mik1998</author><text>I don&amp;#x27;t think he was from Eastern Europe, but if you want to look at UTC+0200&amp;#x2F;+0300, in Europe this only includes Finland, Baltics, Ukraine, Romania, Moldavia, and Greece. But notably if you look a bit down it also includes a good chunk of the Middle East, including Israel.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>lrasinen</author><text>Noticed a 4-week empty block in August. This lines up with European holiday schedules. Less common in Finland though, we prefer July.</text></comment>

<story><title>XZ Backdoor: Times, damned times, and scams</title><url>https://rheaeve.substack.com/p/xz-backdoor-times-damned-times-and</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mik1998</author><text>I don&amp;#x27;t think he was from Eastern Europe, but if you want to look at UTC+0200&amp;#x2F;+0300, in Europe this only includes Finland, Baltics, Ukraine, Romania, Moldavia, and Greece. But notably if you look a bit down it also includes a good chunk of the Middle East, including Israel.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>bradleyjg</author><text>What about the daylight savings time and holidays points? How do they line up for Israel?</text></comment>

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<story><title>We&apos;re afraid language models aren&apos;t modeling ambiguity</title><url>https://arxiv.org/abs/2304.14399</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tinsmith</author><text>I mean, humans do that. We are remarkably contradictory when expressing ourselves, generally speaking, often without realizing it because we&amp;#x27;ll change our thinking in the moment to fit the current narrative or circumstance. LLMs just put that on blast.</text></item><item><author>andrewmcwatters</author><text>Not only is it possible that LLMs fail to differentiate ambiguity, but OpenAI’s flavor of GPTs fail other language understanding mechanisms as well and it’s jarring.&lt;p&gt;You can get it to mistake « afraid » between fear and sorry-to-say scenarios but you can even more easily get it to say that it doesn’t have personal opinions and yet express them anyway.&lt;p&gt;So which is it? It’s clear transformers can’t understand either case. They’re not architecturally designed to. The emergent behavior of appearing to do so is only driven by how much data you throw at them.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>quickthrower2</author><text>The reason humans do this and LLMs is very different. Humans do it as a social skill &amp;#x2F; tribe fitting behaviour. Agreeableness. (watch out for that!)</text></comment>

<story><title>We&apos;re afraid language models aren&apos;t modeling ambiguity</title><url>https://arxiv.org/abs/2304.14399</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tinsmith</author><text>I mean, humans do that. We are remarkably contradictory when expressing ourselves, generally speaking, often without realizing it because we&amp;#x27;ll change our thinking in the moment to fit the current narrative or circumstance. LLMs just put that on blast.</text></item><item><author>andrewmcwatters</author><text>Not only is it possible that LLMs fail to differentiate ambiguity, but OpenAI’s flavor of GPTs fail other language understanding mechanisms as well and it’s jarring.&lt;p&gt;You can get it to mistake « afraid » between fear and sorry-to-say scenarios but you can even more easily get it to say that it doesn’t have personal opinions and yet express them anyway.&lt;p&gt;So which is it? It’s clear transformers can’t understand either case. They’re not architecturally designed to. The emergent behavior of appearing to do so is only driven by how much data you throw at them.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>civilized</author><text>Humans can be consistent if we try. LLMs can&amp;#x27;t, even when prompted to be consistent, because they don&amp;#x27;t really understand what it means to be consistent.</text></comment>

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<story><title>San Francisco voters approve taxes on highly paid CEOs, big businesses</title><url>https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2020-11-05/san-francisco-voters-approve-taxes-on-ceos-big-businesses</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>umeshunni</author><text>More likely, this will just result in businesses continuing to leave San Francisco.&lt;p&gt;The pandemic has given most companies a good reason to do so already and my bet is on most of them not returning to their overpriced San Francisco headquarters when this is eventually over.</text></item><item><author>throwaway0a5e</author><text>Sounds like business will be booming for temp agencies as well as janitorial and facilities maintenance contractors.&lt;p&gt;Whatever the net positive here is wholly negated by the number of stable long term jobs that are going to go away and be replaced by whoever the body shop chooses to send that day. Working for these middle men really sucks compared to working for whoever the service is being provided for (and I say that from experience).</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>kmtrowbr</author><text>I have lived in San Francisco since 2005. Over the time I&amp;#x27;ve lived here, we&amp;#x27;ve had the opposite problem: lots of highly paid tech firms moving into SF. This has changed the nature of San Francisco in a way that many dislike, including me. I was initially attracted to San Francisco because, it was chill, it was beautiful, and it had a lot of eccentric, really interesting people. Many of our good friends had to leave over the years as SF has becoming more unlivable because rents have gone up so much, and also it&amp;#x27;s just not as fun, it&amp;#x27;s crowded and stressed.&lt;p&gt;I am aware that I am a part of the problem: my wife and I are white, yuppie, dink tech workers. :)&lt;p&gt;These issues are complex.&lt;p&gt;I voted yes on Proposition L: the tax is quite small and I think the tech firms are unlikely to leave, meanwhile SF can get more taxes from them (many of them were historically given tax breaks, like Twitter, to move into the mid-market area). If they do leave, I don&amp;#x27;t see that as a bad thing.&lt;p&gt;Meanwhile socioeconomic disparity is an oozing sore in San Francisco, we have billionaires rubbing elbows with homeless people every day. Nationally, we&amp;#x27;ve had round after round of tax cuts for the wealthiest, if SF wants to tax excessive income disparity, I say, fair enough.</text></comment>

<story><title>San Francisco voters approve taxes on highly paid CEOs, big businesses</title><url>https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2020-11-05/san-francisco-voters-approve-taxes-on-ceos-big-businesses</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>umeshunni</author><text>More likely, this will just result in businesses continuing to leave San Francisco.&lt;p&gt;The pandemic has given most companies a good reason to do so already and my bet is on most of them not returning to their overpriced San Francisco headquarters when this is eventually over.</text></item><item><author>throwaway0a5e</author><text>Sounds like business will be booming for temp agencies as well as janitorial and facilities maintenance contractors.&lt;p&gt;Whatever the net positive here is wholly negated by the number of stable long term jobs that are going to go away and be replaced by whoever the body shop chooses to send that day. Working for these middle men really sucks compared to working for whoever the service is being provided for (and I say that from experience).</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>LinuxBender</author><text>A law firm I use has been in SF for over 20 years. They just moved to a rough part of Oakland. The move was challenging for them and I know they would not have done it if they didn&amp;#x27;t have to.</text></comment>

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<story><title>Show HN: Professional sound effects for UI projects</title><url>https://soundkit.io/</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>GuiA</author><text>I just bought this. I was very excited about it - it seemed like the sounds would be varied and of good quality; and for $18 it would be a complete steal.&lt;p&gt;Sadly for UI work the selection and quality are just not there.&lt;p&gt;First of all, a lot of sounds (especially those in the MUSICAL TONES &amp;#x2F; RHYTHMIC &amp;#x2F; SPACEY folders) are more than a second long and use more than one note&amp;#x2F;sound. This is extremely distracting and out of place for UI - the sounds have too much &amp;quot;story&amp;quot; to them already. In UIs, the sound should subtly accompany the action, give it some weight, and that&amp;#x27;s it. It should definitely not become the user&amp;#x27;s center of attention or even be noticeable at all. That&amp;#x27;s a really hard thing to do, that even the big players fuck up - a lot of alert sounds on major operating systems are terrible, if not down right terrifying (one of my favorites ~good~ examples, as a contrast is Tweetbot 2).&lt;p&gt;There is also the problem that a lot of sounds have audible static&amp;#x2F;background noise. A very noticeable one is Air Pop.wav in INPUTS. On my K240s it&amp;#x27;s borderline painful.&lt;p&gt;The names of the folders are quite disappointing. SPACEY? LOOPS? RHYTHMIC? A solid set of UI sounds would have folders like APERTURE SOUNDS (with sounds from dozens of existing cameras + synthesized ones), CLICKS (with sounds from a variety buttons, some clicky, some soft, some very short, some a bit longer , some plastic-y, some metal-ly, etc.), SLIDERS (same as buttons but with sliders), and so on. Those are the sounds that UI designers need.&lt;p&gt;The best ones are in INPUTS - some amount are usable, some could be usable with some editing (e.g. the slider sounds that&amp;#x27;d need to be split into 3-4 distinct sounds for each file and then mapped to a slider), but some remain completely useless for UI work (e.g. Twangy.wav, which would make any interface feel like Microsoft Bob, or Reverse Woodpecker.wav which would make the user feel like their computer is glitching).&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;m disappointed because I feel like what I&amp;#x27;ve bought has nothing to do with what I, as a UI designer, was led to believe I&amp;#x27;d get :(</text></comment>

<story><title>Show HN: Professional sound effects for UI projects</title><url>https://soundkit.io/</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>salimmadjd</author><text>I&amp;#x27;ve been using freesounds. They have a large selection of free sound effects: &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.freesound.org&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.freesound.org&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>

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<story><title>MH370 Was ‘Manipulated’ Off Course to Its End, Report Says</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-07-30/mh370-investigation-unable-to-determine-cause-of-disappearance</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>vesrah</author><text>Link to actual report: &lt;a href=&quot;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;mh370.mot.gov.my&amp;#x2F;MH370SafetyInvestigationReport.pdf&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;mh370.mot.gov.my&amp;#x2F;MH370SafetyInvestigationReport.pdf&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>

<story><title>MH370 Was ‘Manipulated’ Off Course to Its End, Report Says</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-07-30/mh370-investigation-unable-to-determine-cause-of-disappearance</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>comboy</author><text>I wonder when are we going to have some low resolution (good enough to spot a car) realtime recording of the full globe. I know it&amp;#x27;s tons of data but with some machine learning it should be possible to skip most of oceans forests and deserts (unless some unusual object appears in that area).</text></comment>

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<story><title>AT&amp;T Fiber in the SF Bay Area is flipping bits</title><url>https://twitter.com/catfish_man/status/1335373029245775872</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>AaronFriel</author><text>Trying to explain this issue to AT&amp;amp;T support is like trying to convince a doctor you&amp;#x27;re the only person on earth with a particular disease.&lt;p&gt;Even explaining the issue is hard. It&amp;#x27;s not an outage, my internet isn&amp;#x27;t &lt;i&gt;out&lt;/i&gt;, it&amp;#x27;s intermittently &lt;i&gt;wrong&lt;/i&gt;. The phone support agents aren&amp;#x27;t prepared for this, and I can&amp;#x27;t find any way to escalate or speak to a network engineer.&lt;p&gt;I feel like if I spoke to the right engineer, there&amp;#x27;d be a ticket on this and they&amp;#x27;d roll at truck to their facilities or the IPX within an hour. It&amp;#x27;s a major network issue to flip bits, it&amp;#x27;s costing them bandwidth with retransmits and could be breaking SLAs with their business customers.&lt;p&gt;On the phone the most they could do was roll a truck to me.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>gamegoblin</author><text>When I first moved to Seattle there was a great local ISP called CondoInternet that mainly specialized in high-density downtown buildings.&lt;p&gt;I was once having some packet loss issues and called their support line. I assume the company was really small at the time, because the guy who answered the phone was clearly a network engineer who knew the system inside and out. I read him a couple of traceroutes over the phone and we resolved the issue within minutes.&lt;p&gt;I have never experienced such perfect tech support before or after that with any other ISP.</text></comment>

<story><title>AT&amp;T Fiber in the SF Bay Area is flipping bits</title><url>https://twitter.com/catfish_man/status/1335373029245775872</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>AaronFriel</author><text>Trying to explain this issue to AT&amp;amp;T support is like trying to convince a doctor you&amp;#x27;re the only person on earth with a particular disease.&lt;p&gt;Even explaining the issue is hard. It&amp;#x27;s not an outage, my internet isn&amp;#x27;t &lt;i&gt;out&lt;/i&gt;, it&amp;#x27;s intermittently &lt;i&gt;wrong&lt;/i&gt;. The phone support agents aren&amp;#x27;t prepared for this, and I can&amp;#x27;t find any way to escalate or speak to a network engineer.&lt;p&gt;I feel like if I spoke to the right engineer, there&amp;#x27;d be a ticket on this and they&amp;#x27;d roll at truck to their facilities or the IPX within an hour. It&amp;#x27;s a major network issue to flip bits, it&amp;#x27;s costing them bandwidth with retransmits and could be breaking SLAs with their business customers.&lt;p&gt;On the phone the most they could do was roll a truck to me.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>warent</author><text>The obnoxious thing to me is the hubris that must be behind this. Either they considered it and decided they would never encounter a system error like this and refused to implement an escalation route, or they never even considered it.&lt;p&gt;Or perhaps even worse than that, maybe they considered it, decided it was possible, but just don&amp;#x27;t care because of their insane borderline monopoly.&lt;p&gt;I don&amp;#x27;t understand how internet companies provide such consistently awful service.&lt;p&gt;Slightly off topic story, I&amp;#x27;ve recently changed to another provider called Starry, and they force you to have a second router in front of your own router which they claim &amp;quot;decodes&amp;quot; their stream between the modem. I don&amp;#x27;t know the real reason but I&amp;#x27;m pretty sure that&amp;#x27;s not it. If you plug their modem directly into a non-Starry router, the router just doesn&amp;#x27;t detect a connection.&lt;p&gt;One day, I tried to torrent something, and my internet would immediately get throttled to 0mbps. After investigating I found out that their router had a custom OS which hid a firewall and various security settings. Amusingly you could still access those settings if you just manually entered the page names into the address bar. Now all their stupid settings are disabled and I just feel badly for all the folks who use their service and don&amp;#x27;t have the savvy I do to actually get what they&amp;#x27;re paying for.</text></comment>

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<story><title>Using Landlock to Sandbox GNU Make</title><url>https://justine.lol/make/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jart</author><text>One of the nice things about Bazel that the article didn&amp;#x27;t get a chance to go into is it uses SHA hashes of files, rather than file timestamps, to determine when an artifact has changed and therefore needs to be updated. It&amp;#x27;s slightly more costly to compute hashes, but it&amp;#x27;s necessary if you want to have something like a global cache of build artifacts, since synchronizing time across machines is hard.&lt;p&gt;What I&amp;#x27;d recommend for anyone really, is to just do what Google did. For the first six years of Google&amp;#x27;s lifecycle, they got along just fine with GNU Make. Then they switched to the huge scalable thing once they actually reached that inflection point. I&amp;#x27;m obviously not there since I&amp;#x27;m just a scrappy open source coder. So for me I&amp;#x27;m quite happy to be working with GNU Make and I can foresee myself getting many additional years of use out of it.</text></item><item><author>gray_-_wolf</author><text>This is definitely interesting and cool, however:&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; Landlock Make can build code five times faster than Bazel, while offering the same advantages in terms of safety. In other words, you get all the benefits of a big corporation build system, in a tiny lightweight binary that any indie developer can love.&lt;p&gt;In terms of safety, maybe almost (bazel can check if the source files changed during the build, this (afaict) can not). But bazel also provides a lot more (caching, remote builds, ...). So, while cool, read more on it and evaluate it in depth before deciding to replace bazel with this.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>chubot</author><text>&lt;i&gt;For the first decade and a half of Google&amp;#x27;s company lifecycle, they got along just fine with GNU Make&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;??? Google was started in 1998, and Bazel was created ~2006 as a replacement for Python + GNU Make (&amp;quot;gconfig&amp;quot;). I was on that team, though I only worked on Blaze a tiny bit. The &amp;quot;google3&amp;quot; build migration was sometime around 2003 or 2004.&lt;p&gt;So at most there were 6 years of using Make only, i.e. &amp;quot;google2&amp;quot;.&lt;p&gt;Importantly, pre-Blaze google3 wasn&amp;#x27;t just GNU make -- Python was a huge part of it, which is why the Bazel build language Starlark looks like Python. It used to literally be Python, and now it&amp;#x27;s a Python-like language with parallel evaluation.&lt;p&gt;---&lt;p&gt;If you want to do what &amp;quot;scrappy Google&amp;quot; did these days, then you should use Python + Ninja. Ninja is meant to be generated, just like GNU Make was generated by Python. (A big difference is that GNU make has a big database of built-in rules that basically do nothing but slow down incremental rebuilds.)&lt;p&gt;I described that strategy a bit a few days ago: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&amp;#x2F;item?id=32307188&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&amp;#x2F;item?id=32307188&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;---&lt;p&gt;This work with Landlock looks very cool, and it would make a lot of sense for Ninja to have optional support for it. Some of the caveats are a bit scary but hopefully that can be worked out over time.&lt;p&gt;The way I was thinking of doing it was just to have a .&amp;#x2F;NINJA_config.py --slow-sandbox mode. So you can use any sandbox to warn you about missing dependencies, including something container-based like bubblewrap, symlink farms, or Landlock. I think that would work, though I haven&amp;#x27;t tried it. The shared library issue is tricky, etc.&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s very useful to have the build config &amp;#x2F; generator split for this reason, and many others (e.g. build variants go only in the first stage, not the second).&lt;p&gt;I wrote 3 substantial GNU makefiles from scratch and regretted it largely because it lacks this split -- it has a very tortured way of doing build &amp;quot;metaprogramming&amp;quot;. IIRC one dimension of variants was OK, but 2 got you into the &amp;quot;write a Lisp in Make&amp;quot; territory. Might as well use Python (or Lua, etc.)</text></comment>

<story><title>Using Landlock to Sandbox GNU Make</title><url>https://justine.lol/make/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jart</author><text>One of the nice things about Bazel that the article didn&amp;#x27;t get a chance to go into is it uses SHA hashes of files, rather than file timestamps, to determine when an artifact has changed and therefore needs to be updated. It&amp;#x27;s slightly more costly to compute hashes, but it&amp;#x27;s necessary if you want to have something like a global cache of build artifacts, since synchronizing time across machines is hard.&lt;p&gt;What I&amp;#x27;d recommend for anyone really, is to just do what Google did. For the first six years of Google&amp;#x27;s lifecycle, they got along just fine with GNU Make. Then they switched to the huge scalable thing once they actually reached that inflection point. I&amp;#x27;m obviously not there since I&amp;#x27;m just a scrappy open source coder. So for me I&amp;#x27;m quite happy to be working with GNU Make and I can foresee myself getting many additional years of use out of it.</text></item><item><author>gray_-_wolf</author><text>This is definitely interesting and cool, however:&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; Landlock Make can build code five times faster than Bazel, while offering the same advantages in terms of safety. In other words, you get all the benefits of a big corporation build system, in a tiny lightweight binary that any indie developer can love.&lt;p&gt;In terms of safety, maybe almost (bazel can check if the source files changed during the build, this (afaict) can not). But bazel also provides a lot more (caching, remote builds, ...). So, while cool, read more on it and evaluate it in depth before deciding to replace bazel with this.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>gravypod</author><text>&amp;gt; What I&amp;#x27;d recommend for anyone really, is to just do what Google did. For the first decade and a half of Google&amp;#x27;s company lifecycle, they got along just fine with GNU Make. Then they switched to the huge scalable thing once they actually reached that inflection point.&lt;p&gt;Hopefully as a community we can build things that are scalable and as-simple-as Make. I think please.build is a step in the right direction but still too complicated.</text></comment>

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<story><title>Celebrate the web by using another browser than Google’s Chrome</title><url>https://m.signalvnoise.com/celebrate-the-web-by-using-another-browser-than-googles-chrome-174a45991c42</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>lol768</author><text>I&amp;#x27;ve happily used Firefox for over a decade now (since version 2.0). The web&amp;#x27;s changed a little since then, but I think Firefox has adapted well and has been the source of a lot of innovation. I&amp;#x27;ve tried Chrome and other browsers, but never really thought much of them - but I&amp;#x27;m very glad they exist! Variety is a great thing to have.&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s disheartening to see developers with the attitude that they only care about users using the same browser as them and it&amp;#x27;s been frustrating over the years to see services neglecting non-Chrome browsers (example: Netflix + Linux up until recently). What happened to cross-browser testing, progressive enhancement and other best practices?</text></comment>

<story><title>Celebrate the web by using another browser than Google’s Chrome</title><url>https://m.signalvnoise.com/celebrate-the-web-by-using-another-browser-than-googles-chrome-174a45991c42</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>Semiapies</author><text>This article is ahistorical - it was Firefox that first shook IE&amp;#x27;s dominance. Chrome took over the Firefox niche and finally claimed dominance because it ran so much better, while still meeting web standards.&lt;p&gt;I develop with Chrome not just because it&amp;#x27;s the least pain in the ass and has a good ecosystem of tools, but because it adheres to standards. I can&amp;#x27;t remember the last time I&amp;#x27;ve made a page in Chrome and it didn&amp;#x27;t work in Firefox or even Edge. It&amp;#x27;s only weird, non-standard browsers I have to work around.</text></comment>

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<story><title>SEC Penalizes Yahoo $35M for Massive, Undisclosed Cyber Theft</title><url>https://www.jdsupra.com/legalnews/sec-penalizes-yahoo-35-million-for-20427/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>deft</author><text>Hundreds of millions of users had their data stolen. Putting this fine at less than a dollar per user. Is that really what our private information and security is worth? Who cares if they&amp;#x27;re being fined when it&amp;#x27;s a slap on the wrist. To all those talking about billion dollar fines on Facebook: fat chance.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mattnewton</author><text>I mean, the crime here isn’t against users, it’s against investors right? That’s why the SEC involved. I don’t even know who enforces the meager consumer privacy protections we have these days.</text></comment>

<story><title>SEC Penalizes Yahoo $35M for Massive, Undisclosed Cyber Theft</title><url>https://www.jdsupra.com/legalnews/sec-penalizes-yahoo-35-million-for-20427/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>deft</author><text>Hundreds of millions of users had their data stolen. Putting this fine at less than a dollar per user. Is that really what our private information and security is worth? Who cares if they&amp;#x27;re being fined when it&amp;#x27;s a slap on the wrist. To all those talking about billion dollar fines on Facebook: fat chance.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>azurezyq</author><text>FB&amp;#x27;s case is different. I think the term for FB&amp;#x27;s case is private data abuse rather than leak. Cambridge Analytica took the data through API just like every other app doing at the time, but violated the terms of use. FB is guilty because it designed the wrong way (no excuse) to share the information (still under consent). For example, banks share your personal info around all the time (say promo mails). For Yahoo, that&amp;#x27;s ... poor technology &amp;amp; management.</text></comment>

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<story><title>Why Nvidia Keeps Winning</title><url>https://www.chinatalk.media/p/why-nvidia-keeps-winning-the-rise</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>andrewstuart</author><text>A big reason that Nvidia keeps winning is that AMD doesn’t bother to compete.&lt;p&gt;Competition means giving customers exciting, fast, low cost GPUs.&lt;p&gt;Nvidia, as #1, no longer needs to compete and has stopped winning via low cost, high performance GPUs. This opened a giant opportunity for AMD GPUs to give those things to consumers and start winning against Nvidia.&lt;p&gt;But instead AMD has just followed Nvidia into making slow, uncompetitive GPUs at high prices.&lt;p&gt;So in a real way AMD is keeping Nvidia at #1.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>PedroBatista</author><text>AMD was almost bankrupt ~5 years ago.&lt;p&gt;Is has been the years of investing and specially the software ( CUDA ) that keeps Nvidia as the &amp;quot;king&amp;quot;. Hardware wise AMD it&amp;#x27;s pretty much up there or winning in a few cases.</text></comment>

<story><title>Why Nvidia Keeps Winning</title><url>https://www.chinatalk.media/p/why-nvidia-keeps-winning-the-rise</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>andrewstuart</author><text>A big reason that Nvidia keeps winning is that AMD doesn’t bother to compete.&lt;p&gt;Competition means giving customers exciting, fast, low cost GPUs.&lt;p&gt;Nvidia, as #1, no longer needs to compete and has stopped winning via low cost, high performance GPUs. This opened a giant opportunity for AMD GPUs to give those things to consumers and start winning against Nvidia.&lt;p&gt;But instead AMD has just followed Nvidia into making slow, uncompetitive GPUs at high prices.&lt;p&gt;So in a real way AMD is keeping Nvidia at #1.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mochomocha</author><text>&amp;gt; But instead AMD has just followed Nvidia into making slow, uncompetitive GPUs at high prices.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;m curious: do you use GPUs? It&amp;#x27;s hard to take this claim seriously. Yes NVIDIA GPUs are expensive, but I don&amp;#x27;t think we live in the same matrix when you claim that their GPUs are slow and uncompetitive... Unless you have an alternative in mind, in which case I&amp;#x27;m all ears.</text></comment>

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<story><title>Links are not buttons (2013)</title><url>https://karlgroves.com/2013/05/14/links-are-not-buttons-neither-are-divs-and-spans/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>superkuh</author><text>Everything is a button now that javascript applications have replaced HTML documents. And there are no such things as anchors or links anymore. They are not URLs but instead triggers for more javascript execution. We&amp;#x27;re, unfortunately, well past this minor problem and onto much more serious ones that eclipse it.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>anchpop</author><text>The FUD about SPAs and Javascript on HN is insane. Here&amp;#x27;s my personal site: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;chadnauseam.com&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;chadnauseam.com&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt;. It&amp;#x27;s a SPA. It loads fast. There are such things as anchors and link (inspect element if you like). They have URLs and you can ctrl-click to open in a new tab.&lt;p&gt;(The biggest proble with it is that I&amp;#x27;ve been playing around with some js to animate a fade-in effect on page load, and it seems a little laggy and makes the site not work with javascript disabled. If I can&amp;#x27;t fix those issues I&amp;#x27;ll probably remove that in a few days.)</text></comment>

<story><title>Links are not buttons (2013)</title><url>https://karlgroves.com/2013/05/14/links-are-not-buttons-neither-are-divs-and-spans/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>superkuh</author><text>Everything is a button now that javascript applications have replaced HTML documents. And there are no such things as anchors or links anymore. They are not URLs but instead triggers for more javascript execution. We&amp;#x27;re, unfortunately, well past this minor problem and onto much more serious ones that eclipse it.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>chociej</author><text>TBH I don&amp;#x27;t care too much what someone does with a button or link, but if hold Ctrl and it doesn&amp;#x27;t open in a new tab, I&amp;#x27;m gonna be grumpy.</text></comment>

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<story><title>FTX balance sheet, revealed</title><url>https://www.ft.com/content/0c2a55b6-d34c-4685-8a8d-3c9628f1f185</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>wumpus</author><text>Remember the Wirecard collapse, where there was a fake bank account in the Phillipines that allegedly had $2.1 billion USD in it?&lt;p&gt;This is the crypto equivalent.</text></item><item><author>Shank</author><text>The &amp;quot;before this week&amp;quot; column seems to be attempting to draw sympathy by saying &amp;quot;but everything was fine before, seriously!&amp;quot; when in reality it just proved that, even in the best of worlds, they had an extremely optimistic view of the entire crypto ecosystem, including its liquidity.&lt;p&gt;I can&amp;#x27;t believe they seriously held that much of their total value in their own issued token. That&amp;#x27;s just preposterous. Imagine if JP Morgan Chase&amp;#x27;s entire value was in JP Morgan Chase stock, and they just reported that as their value in cash. It&amp;#x27;s like recursive valuation.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>odiroot</author><text>I wonder if (some of) SEC will play the same role in this story as BaFin played in Wirecard&amp;#x27;s.</text></comment>

<story><title>FTX balance sheet, revealed</title><url>https://www.ft.com/content/0c2a55b6-d34c-4685-8a8d-3c9628f1f185</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>wumpus</author><text>Remember the Wirecard collapse, where there was a fake bank account in the Phillipines that allegedly had $2.1 billion USD in it?&lt;p&gt;This is the crypto equivalent.</text></item><item><author>Shank</author><text>The &amp;quot;before this week&amp;quot; column seems to be attempting to draw sympathy by saying &amp;quot;but everything was fine before, seriously!&amp;quot; when in reality it just proved that, even in the best of worlds, they had an extremely optimistic view of the entire crypto ecosystem, including its liquidity.&lt;p&gt;I can&amp;#x27;t believe they seriously held that much of their total value in their own issued token. That&amp;#x27;s just preposterous. Imagine if JP Morgan Chase&amp;#x27;s entire value was in JP Morgan Chase stock, and they just reported that as their value in cash. It&amp;#x27;s like recursive valuation.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>wyclif</author><text>Yes, it was actually two accounts: BDO Unibank and Bank of the Philippine Islands.</text></comment>

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<story><title>Wasmer 3.0</title><url>https://wasmer.io/posts/announcing-wasmer-3.0</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>lioeters</author><text>Cross-compiling to different targets with `create-exe` command is a very intriguing idea.&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; In Wasmer 3.0 we used the power of Zig for doing cross-compilation from the C glue code into other machines.&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; This made almost trivial to generate a [binary] for macOS from Linux (as an example).&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; So by default, if you are cross-compiling we try to use zig cc instead of cc so we can easily cross compile from one machine to the other with no extra dependencies.&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;wasmer.io&amp;#x2F;posts&amp;#x2F;wasm-as-universal-binary-format-part-1-native-executables&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;wasmer.io&amp;#x2F;posts&amp;#x2F;wasm-as-universal-binary-format-part...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; Using the wasmer compiler we compile all WASI packages published to WAPM to a native executable for all available platforms, so that you don&amp;#x27;t need to ship a complete WASM runtime to run your wasm files.&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;wasmer.io&amp;#x2F;posts&amp;#x2F;wasm-as-universal-binary-format-part-2-wapm&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;wasmer.io&amp;#x2F;posts&amp;#x2F;wasm-as-universal-binary-format-part...&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>

<story><title>Wasmer 3.0</title><url>https://wasmer.io/posts/announcing-wasmer-3.0</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>nycticorax</author><text>Can someone ELI5 what problem this solves? I think of WebAssembly as being a tool for getting code written in &amp;lt;random language&amp;gt; to run in a web client. Can&amp;#x27;t I already run code written in &amp;lt;random language&amp;gt; on a server that I control? Heck, PG went on at some length in one of his early essays about how that was one of the great things about the Web: you could use any language you wanted on the server. Even Common Lisp...</text></comment>

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<story><title>Predicting When P=NP Is Resolved</title><url>https://rjlipton.wordpress.com/2019/12/22/predicting-when-pnp-is-resolved/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>joe_the_user</author><text>My pure amateur, possibly muddled understanding is that P=!NP is rather different from most open conjectures.&lt;p&gt;A) It&amp;#x27;s extremely general or even &amp;quot;foundational&amp;quot; in the sense that it&amp;#x27;s asking whether any algorithm at all exists to solve an extremely general sort of problem in polynomial time.&lt;p&gt;B) All of the standard methods used to solve problems of this sort have at least been pronounced exhausted at this point.&lt;p&gt;C) Very few theorems that inherently limit the speed of a class of problems actually have ever been proven. Very few methods for proving these constraints are known.&lt;p&gt;D) A lot of famous theorems have yielded results through being embedded in a larger, different field where they are just one result of many proved with a new machinery (Fermet most prominently). But given P=!NP is so general it can&amp;#x27;t really embedded in a larger, tractible space - lots of things are equivalent to it but all these things are kind of the same.</text></comment>

<story><title>Predicting When P=NP Is Resolved</title><url>https://rjlipton.wordpress.com/2019/12/22/predicting-when-pnp-is-resolved/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>AwesomeLemon</author><text>Should we even care for a mathematical proof that P=NP? We know that in practice we haven&amp;#x27;t been able to come up with algorithms that solve NP problems in polynomial time. Suppose we&amp;#x27;ll be told that this is possible (i.e. P=NP): will this help up us to invent such algorithms? I don&amp;#x27;t see how, unless the proof will be by construction.</text></comment>

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<story><title>Category Theory for Programmers (2014)</title><url>https://bartoszmilewski.com/2014/10/28/category-theory-for-programmers-the-preface/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>mybrid</author><text>This article reminds me of a couple of things.&lt;p&gt;1. Wasn&amp;#x27;t Feynman the one who was promoting replacing classical mechanics with relativity for freshman physics? How has that turned out?&lt;p&gt;2. Fuzzy logic makes a similar argument. Bart Kowasaki down in San Diego I believed proved mathematically that fuzzy logic equates Calculus and Nyquist equations. I&amp;#x27;m probably not getting that quite right. But, Fuzzy Logic was called the &amp;quot;cocaine of math&amp;quot; and yet the Japanese have done quite well in using fuzzy math in software and manufacturing. The arguments put forth here about why every developer should learn category theory smack of the same arguments that have been made about Fuzzy logic and why fuzzy math should be taught in elementary school. I personally like and use fuzzy logic for programming but wide spread adoption of fuzzy logic never took hold. From what I&amp;#x27;ve read of Category Theory, Fuzzy Logic seems to have a better argument as a programming shift because Fuzzy is a lot less abstract. Just start with a bunch of if statements that approximate the math.</text></comment>

<story><title>Category Theory for Programmers (2014)</title><url>https://bartoszmilewski.com/2014/10/28/category-theory-for-programmers-the-preface/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>socmag</author><text>My manager dropped a bomb on me about 20 years ago as a young engineer and had me be a liaison with some of the people doing research on the Pi calculus.&lt;p&gt;Still somewhat shaken to this day by that very first meeting, it really didn&amp;#x27;t go that well.&lt;p&gt;I really don&amp;#x27;t grok the math behind it and it is very nice to see this pop up, and Bartosz definitely knows his stuff. I&amp;#x27;ll give it another whirl. Hats off to him for trying to make it approachable.&lt;p&gt;Also Brian Beckman and others have often had interesting things to say in these areas.&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;rebcabin.github.io&amp;#x2F;blog&amp;#x2F;2013&amp;#x2F;03&amp;#x2F;17&amp;#x2F;category-theory-reveals-value-of-autoiconicity&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;rebcabin.github.io&amp;#x2F;blog&amp;#x2F;2013&amp;#x2F;03&amp;#x2F;17&amp;#x2F;category-theory-re...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;These days I understand the formal math behind it even less than I used to, which is to say abysmally; however it did teach me some things about how to think about composition that have subconsciously been influential I think over the years.&lt;p&gt;Nice post.</text></comment>

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<story><title>MobX 6</title><url>https://michel.codes/blogs/mobx6</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>triyambakam</author><text>I have mostly found it to be a footgun and inspiration to write spaghetti. While it may have good intentions, it doesn&amp;#x27;t matter if it lets less experienced developers do absurd things that I now have to refactor. I don&amp;#x27;t think it really fits well into the React model, and while it&amp;#x27;s not only used for React, it&amp;#x27;s quite common that way</text></item><item><author>brundolf</author><text>MobX is possibly my favorite open-source project. The elegance with which it makes an entire problem-space just &lt;i&gt;disappear&lt;/i&gt;, with minimal magic or surprises, with maximal performance, with a delightful user-experience, with minimal opinions or assumptions about how you use it. I have nothing but praise; React + MobX is the most productive I&amp;#x27;ve ever been while working on user interfaces.&lt;p&gt;On top of all that, Michael is a very reasonable and patient project leader. His documentation puts advanced concepts in plain terms, and when people file feature-requests he always displays a genuine willingness to consider their use-cases and points of view, to solve their problem if it&amp;#x27;s reasonable for the project to do so, and is never condescending even when questions or suggestions are plainly bad.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>brundolf</author><text>&amp;gt; I have mostly found it to be a footgun and inspiration to write spaghetti. While it may have good intentions, it doesn&amp;#x27;t matter if it lets less experienced developers do absurd things that I now have to refactor.&lt;p&gt;I admit the only team I&amp;#x27;ve used it on consisted of three people, and there are certainly really gnarly things you can do with it if you go out of the way to, so I don&amp;#x27;t know how it scales to larger teams. Though I would argue that it encourages best practices by making those the paths of least resistance. I would also say that - unlike, say, RxJS - its mental model is very simple and straightforward, and should be quite accessible to inexperienced developers. But yes, it doesn&amp;#x27;t do a lot to &lt;i&gt;stop&lt;/i&gt; you from shooting yourself in the foot.&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; I don&amp;#x27;t think it really fits well into the React model&lt;p&gt;I disagree with this part completely. It doesn&amp;#x27;t fit well with the Redux&amp;#x2F;hooks model, but that&amp;#x27;s because it replaces it. In my opinion it lets React focus on what it does best: updating the DOM to match a new virtual DOM, and takes everything else out of React&amp;#x27;s hands, which to me is a huge win. I am not a believer in the &amp;quot;every state change replaces the entire root state structure using a composition of pure functions&amp;quot; model; I think it&amp;#x27;s contrived, clunky, and hard to follow. I believe that state should be minimal, but should be treated as what it is. MobX gives you all the tools you need to enshrine state &lt;i&gt;as state&lt;/i&gt;, without introducing any duplication&amp;#x2F;synchronization complications.</text></comment>

<story><title>MobX 6</title><url>https://michel.codes/blogs/mobx6</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>triyambakam</author><text>I have mostly found it to be a footgun and inspiration to write spaghetti. While it may have good intentions, it doesn&amp;#x27;t matter if it lets less experienced developers do absurd things that I now have to refactor. I don&amp;#x27;t think it really fits well into the React model, and while it&amp;#x27;s not only used for React, it&amp;#x27;s quite common that way</text></item><item><author>brundolf</author><text>MobX is possibly my favorite open-source project. The elegance with which it makes an entire problem-space just &lt;i&gt;disappear&lt;/i&gt;, with minimal magic or surprises, with maximal performance, with a delightful user-experience, with minimal opinions or assumptions about how you use it. I have nothing but praise; React + MobX is the most productive I&amp;#x27;ve ever been while working on user interfaces.&lt;p&gt;On top of all that, Michael is a very reasonable and patient project leader. His documentation puts advanced concepts in plain terms, and when people file feature-requests he always displays a genuine willingness to consider their use-cases and points of view, to solve their problem if it&amp;#x27;s reasonable for the project to do so, and is never condescending even when questions or suggestions are plainly bad.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Lazare</author><text>My experience has been the reverse. I&amp;#x27;ve found MobX code easier to maintain than equivalent Redux code, and although it&amp;#x27;s obviously subjective, I feel it is a good fit for the React model.&lt;p&gt;Just noting that experiences may differ sharply. :)</text></comment>

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<story><title>Using AI to bring children’s drawings to life (2021)</title><url>https://ai.facebook.com/blog/using-ai-to-bring-childrens-drawings-to-life/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>anyfactor</author><text>My brain -&lt;p&gt;Awww... that is such a nice thing. But why would anyone post this to facebook? Wait a minute ai.facebook! That is such facebook thing to do. They just couldn&amp;#x27;t stop with this meta stuff. And now they are targeting kids to harvest data.&lt;p&gt;Let me see what security issues that are being discussed in the comment section. You know what I will put everything I was thinking up to this point as a comment itself.</text></comment>

<story><title>Using AI to bring children’s drawings to life (2021)</title><url>https://ai.facebook.com/blog/using-ai-to-bring-childrens-drawings-to-life/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>amznbyebyebye</author><text>Unfortunately meta has lost so much trust with the world that anything, even well meaning, will be met with such skepticism as to render it unimpactful.&lt;p&gt;Scientists and devs at meta - is this the most meaningful way you can spend your valuable life?</text></comment>

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<story><title>Octox: Unix-like OS in Rust inspired by xv6-riscv</title><url>https://github.com/o8vm/octox</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>bakul</author><text>How does this compare with &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;github.com&amp;#x2F;dancrossnyc&amp;#x2F;rxv64&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;github.com&amp;#x2F;dancrossnyc&amp;#x2F;rxv64&lt;/a&gt; ? From its README.md:&lt;p&gt;rxv64 is a pedagogical operating system written in Rust that targets multiprocessor x86_64 machines. It is a reimplementation of the xv6 operating system from MIT.</text></comment>

<story><title>Octox: Unix-like OS in Rust inspired by xv6-riscv</title><url>https://github.com/o8vm/octox</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>Santosh83</author><text>Why does it seem like 80 to 90% of hobby OS projects that are started are &amp;quot;Unix-like?&amp;quot; Don&amp;#x27;t we already have a huge variety of Unix-like OSes out there? Why not explore new models?</text></comment>

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<story><title>Japan pitches &apos;Society 5.0&apos; to keep its edge in tech and science</title><url>https://asia.nikkei.com/Business/Science/Japan-pitches-Society-5.0-to-keep-its-edge-in-tech-and-science</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>spamizbad</author><text>I sometimes wonder if Japan&amp;#x27;s work culture that demands long hours from workers disincentivizes time-saving &amp;quot;automation&amp;quot;: In the US, where the expectation is closer to 40 hours, you don&amp;#x27;t have the luxury of always assuming employees will be cool putting in 10-12 hour days.</text></item><item><author>chucksta</author><text>The major US company I worked for 6-7 years ago had a global presence, but were all sort of independent. We started to merge into 1 formal company, and started reviewing IT processes.&lt;p&gt;The Japan location still had people walking through the data center with a sheet of paper and a pen, going through and manually checking servers off a list in the data center. It blew everyone&amp;#x27;s mind</text></item><item><author>alephnan</author><text>Bank ATMs in Japan stop working between 6-9PM, and on weekends.&lt;p&gt;My debit card got de-magnetized ( like a flaky hotel room key ) and stopped working at the official bank ATM. It doesn&amp;#x27;t work at most third party ATMs, but I&amp;#x27;ve found the 7-11 ATMs are quite robust and is actually able to transact. Seems like a weird security mechanism if the official bank ATM can&amp;#x27;t authenticate the card, but somehow 7-11 ATMs can bypass this and allow me to withdraw money.&lt;p&gt;The bank&amp;#x27;s website also has a very strange username &amp;#x2F; password rules. They can only contain numbers and letters, case insensitively. Also, you can&amp;#x27;t have more than 2 consecutive numbers or letters. For example, &amp;#x27;foo2bar&amp;#x27; would not be valid, nor would &amp;#x27;fo911baz&amp;#x27;. &amp;#x27;fo23ba23&amp;#x27; works.&lt;p&gt;One of my friends in Japan is a doctor from Belarus, one of the poorest countries in Eastern Europe. She came to Japan thinking it was technologically advanced, and was shocked to find that in some aspects Belarus is more technologically modern.&lt;p&gt;I have a very cynical theory about why technology is seemingly archaic here. I think the state of digital technology is due to structural &amp;#x2F; hierarchical social reasons that these initiatives don&amp;#x27;t really address. Not directly related to the hierarchical constructs, but examples of traditional practices include:&lt;p&gt;- resumes must be hand-written&lt;p&gt;- the stack of paperwork you need to sign for an apartment is about 1 inches thick. If you&amp;#x27;re purchasing a property, you&amp;#x27;ll probably need a couple binders.&lt;p&gt;- you need to create Hanko ( personal seal stamp ) as your official signature for some paperwork</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>toyg</author><text>&lt;i&gt;&amp;gt; Japan&amp;#x27;s work culture that demands long hours from workers disincentivizes time-saving &amp;quot;automation&amp;quot;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;I reckon it&amp;#x27;s more that initiative is not expected, or even discouraged. You will work on what the direct superior tells you, end of story. And the more people the boss can lord on, the bigger his empire looks like; so there is little incentive for middle-managers to pursue efficiency.</text></comment>

<story><title>Japan pitches &apos;Society 5.0&apos; to keep its edge in tech and science</title><url>https://asia.nikkei.com/Business/Science/Japan-pitches-Society-5.0-to-keep-its-edge-in-tech-and-science</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>spamizbad</author><text>I sometimes wonder if Japan&amp;#x27;s work culture that demands long hours from workers disincentivizes time-saving &amp;quot;automation&amp;quot;: In the US, where the expectation is closer to 40 hours, you don&amp;#x27;t have the luxury of always assuming employees will be cool putting in 10-12 hour days.</text></item><item><author>chucksta</author><text>The major US company I worked for 6-7 years ago had a global presence, but were all sort of independent. We started to merge into 1 formal company, and started reviewing IT processes.&lt;p&gt;The Japan location still had people walking through the data center with a sheet of paper and a pen, going through and manually checking servers off a list in the data center. It blew everyone&amp;#x27;s mind</text></item><item><author>alephnan</author><text>Bank ATMs in Japan stop working between 6-9PM, and on weekends.&lt;p&gt;My debit card got de-magnetized ( like a flaky hotel room key ) and stopped working at the official bank ATM. It doesn&amp;#x27;t work at most third party ATMs, but I&amp;#x27;ve found the 7-11 ATMs are quite robust and is actually able to transact. Seems like a weird security mechanism if the official bank ATM can&amp;#x27;t authenticate the card, but somehow 7-11 ATMs can bypass this and allow me to withdraw money.&lt;p&gt;The bank&amp;#x27;s website also has a very strange username &amp;#x2F; password rules. They can only contain numbers and letters, case insensitively. Also, you can&amp;#x27;t have more than 2 consecutive numbers or letters. For example, &amp;#x27;foo2bar&amp;#x27; would not be valid, nor would &amp;#x27;fo911baz&amp;#x27;. &amp;#x27;fo23ba23&amp;#x27; works.&lt;p&gt;One of my friends in Japan is a doctor from Belarus, one of the poorest countries in Eastern Europe. She came to Japan thinking it was technologically advanced, and was shocked to find that in some aspects Belarus is more technologically modern.&lt;p&gt;I have a very cynical theory about why technology is seemingly archaic here. I think the state of digital technology is due to structural &amp;#x2F; hierarchical social reasons that these initiatives don&amp;#x27;t really address. Not directly related to the hierarchical constructs, but examples of traditional practices include:&lt;p&gt;- resumes must be hand-written&lt;p&gt;- the stack of paperwork you need to sign for an apartment is about 1 inches thick. If you&amp;#x27;re purchasing a property, you&amp;#x27;ll probably need a couple binders.&lt;p&gt;- you need to create Hanko ( personal seal stamp ) as your official signature for some paperwork</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>anonAndOn</author><text>The long hours are largely for saving face in front of the team. Nobody leaves before the boss leaves, with full trickle down effect. So if the director is working until 9pm that means his managers are there until 9pm and then the staff is sitting at their desks looking busy-ish until 9pm, regardless of utility. Anybody who leaves early is not &amp;quot;giving their best&amp;quot; to the success of the team.</text></comment>

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<story><title>How I became friends with an octopus</title><url>https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-45967535</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Johnny555</author><text>This excerpt:&lt;p&gt;&lt;i&gt;When the great white sees a human it scans us, its search image is picking up something that&amp;#x27;s not prey. ...They aren&amp;#x27;t animals that are after us, if they were, there would be attacks every day.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;Reminds me of the bear documentary filmmaker who was killed by the bears he was observing:&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Timothy_Treadwell#Death&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Timothy_Treadwell#Death&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>taneq</author><text>That&amp;#x27;s what happens when you mistake &amp;quot;animal which doesn&amp;#x27;t think you&amp;#x27;re food&amp;quot; for &amp;quot;animal of a type which won&amp;#x27;t hurt you.&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;Nature&amp;#x27;s pretty good at opportunism. A well-fed bear might be fairly safe, while that same bear if starving would eat you without a second thought.</text></comment>

<story><title>How I became friends with an octopus</title><url>https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-45967535</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Johnny555</author><text>This excerpt:&lt;p&gt;&lt;i&gt;When the great white sees a human it scans us, its search image is picking up something that&amp;#x27;s not prey. ...They aren&amp;#x27;t animals that are after us, if they were, there would be attacks every day.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;Reminds me of the bear documentary filmmaker who was killed by the bears he was observing:&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Timothy_Treadwell#Death&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Timothy_Treadwell#Death&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>TheSpiceIsLife</author><text>Reminds me of that thing that comedian said. I forget who. He was saying something like:&lt;p&gt;A &lt;i&gt;shark attack&lt;/i&gt; is when a shark with a baseball bat walks in to your living room while your watching a movie and says “shark attack!”.&lt;p&gt;When you get bitten by one while your swimming or surfing, that’s a well deserved ass whipping.</text></comment>

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<story><title>Networking for introverts</title><url>https://www.economist.com/business/2023/09/07/networking-for-introverts-a-how-to-guide</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>SanderNL</author><text>Don&amp;#x27;t want to awaken any sleeping dogs here, but what the author describes reminds me more of social anxiety and&amp;#x2F;or self-esteem issues than introversion.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;m an introvert. I can sit still and not speak to anyone for weeks and be fine. Happier even. Having no-one around recharges me like nothing else. The reverse is true as well which makes me incredibly popular at parties &amp;#x2F;s.&lt;p&gt;When I was young(er), a networking event (or social event of any kind tbh) would have scared me to no end and have me act akward. I&amp;#x27;m older now and through the grace of aging I give substantially less fucks. Suddenly these things are no longer the problem they once were. My introversion hasn&amp;#x27;t changed, in fact I think it got worse.&lt;p&gt;I have somewhat of a test for this. I think about or even just approach a random person and try to strike a conversation as authentically as I&amp;#x27;m able. If even the thought gets me nervous, that&amp;#x27;s anxiety, not introversion. In my experience a bout of introversion-hunger will feel like &amp;quot;I need to space out now&amp;quot;. Like I can&amp;#x27;t even be bothered with anxiety anymore.&lt;p&gt;Getting rid of anxiety has a massive ROI. Getting rid of introversion won&amp;#x27;t work and will probably backfire. At least, that&amp;#x27;s my experience.</text></comment>

<story><title>Networking for introverts</title><url>https://www.economist.com/business/2023/09/07/networking-for-introverts-a-how-to-guide</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>Tycho</author><text>I think extroversion and introversion are just orthogonal skill sets. The solution can simply be “get better at extroversion.”&lt;p&gt;For instance, small talk. You may style yourself as someone too intellectual to be entertained by small talk, and profess to be terrible at making small talk. This is to misunderstand the value proposition of small talk, which is to establish trust and rapport with strangers before you commit to sharing any high value information. To be fair the value of social customs are often not grokked even where they are followed and are effective. But if you need a reason for everything, figure it out.&lt;p&gt;Also, confidence. This is simply a function of how positively you expect others to receive your presence&amp;#x2F;engagement. People who are quiet and taciturn in one setting will often be charismatic and open in another setting where they know the audience. Realistically appraise &lt;i&gt;why&lt;/i&gt; others might react positively to you, and work on being able to deliver that value. The confidence will flow naturally from there.</text></comment>

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<story><title>Let&apos;s Colonize Titan</title><url>https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/guest-blog/lets-colonize-titan/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>banach</author><text>I think that the pursuit of knowledge is a really good way to spend your time, but I do not like when simple solutions to real problems are sidelined in favor of the latest buzzword-oriented technology fetish. In times when the president-elect has announced that he is shutting down NASA&amp;#x27;s climate change research, ostensibly to fund space exploration, I think we need to remind ourselves that any work we chose to pursue has an opportunity cost. I really believe that we can address the main issues facing our society with pretty simple means, but that will not happen if everyone is too busy looking for problems to solve using their favorite tool. In the terminology of Hacker News, I guess what I am arguing is that colonization is bike-shedding for the reforms that I have mentioned in my first comment.</text></item><item><author>pavelrub</author><text>Yes let&amp;#x27;s stop all scientific and technological progress which isn&amp;#x27;t directly related to achieving utopia on earth, until a hypothetical point in the future that will never come.&lt;p&gt;Is everything you do and find important in life directly related to improving our ecosystem and eliminating nuclear stockpiles? Do you think it&amp;#x27;s ok to be interested, for example, in web development, but not in space colonization? Maybe instead of attempting to force artificial goals on human society, you should acknowledge the fact that people care about more things than your notion of &amp;quot;quality&amp;quot;. Denying them those things in the name of some artificial pragmatism is exactly the opposite of pragmatism - it ignores the realities of human society, ignores the actual wishes of people, and replaces them with an artificial ideology.&lt;p&gt;I would much rather live in a world where some people care about clean energy and sustainability, others about colonizing space, others about mathematics, and others about art, etc., than in a world where the majority of those things are shunned because of arguments such as yours. The latter world is a far more miserable one, and a miserable reality isn&amp;#x27;t a solution to anything.</text></item><item><author>banach</author><text>I think that, before colonizing other planets, we should start by realizing that Earth can easily sustain human kind for the foreseeable future, given some pretty modest tweaks to our way of life (compared to &amp;quot;going multi-planetary&amp;quot; that is). If we start valuing quality over novelty, stop eating animal-based foods and re-organize to live closer to where we work, we can stop the consumption and that is taxing our ecosystem and cut energy use to manageable levels. If we re-distribute our wealth, population growth will subside. If we put pressure on our rulers, they will work to eliminate the nuclear stockpiles. There are simple solutions to most of our issues. Once we have solved them, maybe we can start thinking about spreading our species to other places.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>pavelrub</author><text>The problem is that your notion of &amp;quot;real problems&amp;quot; is artificial. If our society prioritizes space colonization above eliminating nuclear stockpiles, and people are willing to accept the risk posed by the existence of those stockpiles, then there is no sense in continuing to refer to it as a &amp;quot;main issue facing our society&amp;quot;. Maybe you consider it to be a main issue, but society doesn&amp;#x27;t. Or maybe society does consider it an important issue, but not so important that everybody should stop working on everything else until it is solved (and as if Earth won&amp;#x27;t have new, seemingly equally important problems, when that happens). At least the people who are excited about space colonization don&amp;#x27;t propose to start dealing with environmental problems only after we&amp;#x27;ve colonized Titan. You can&amp;#x27;t pretend to care about society when you are willing to ignore the actual things people find important.&lt;p&gt;Your fallacy is the same as claiming that we should care more about car accidents than about terrorism, because car accidents kill more people, instead of realizing that the number of dead simply isn&amp;#x27;t the only thing people care about when considering threats of this kind.&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s also unclear to me why you choose to single out space colonization when the vast majority of what most people do on Earth has nothing to do with solving the problems you mention. If anything, working on enabling space colonization is far more beneficial to life on this planet than almost every other subject on HN.</text></comment>

<story><title>Let&apos;s Colonize Titan</title><url>https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/guest-blog/lets-colonize-titan/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>banach</author><text>I think that the pursuit of knowledge is a really good way to spend your time, but I do not like when simple solutions to real problems are sidelined in favor of the latest buzzword-oriented technology fetish. In times when the president-elect has announced that he is shutting down NASA&amp;#x27;s climate change research, ostensibly to fund space exploration, I think we need to remind ourselves that any work we chose to pursue has an opportunity cost. I really believe that we can address the main issues facing our society with pretty simple means, but that will not happen if everyone is too busy looking for problems to solve using their favorite tool. In the terminology of Hacker News, I guess what I am arguing is that colonization is bike-shedding for the reforms that I have mentioned in my first comment.</text></item><item><author>pavelrub</author><text>Yes let&amp;#x27;s stop all scientific and technological progress which isn&amp;#x27;t directly related to achieving utopia on earth, until a hypothetical point in the future that will never come.&lt;p&gt;Is everything you do and find important in life directly related to improving our ecosystem and eliminating nuclear stockpiles? Do you think it&amp;#x27;s ok to be interested, for example, in web development, but not in space colonization? Maybe instead of attempting to force artificial goals on human society, you should acknowledge the fact that people care about more things than your notion of &amp;quot;quality&amp;quot;. Denying them those things in the name of some artificial pragmatism is exactly the opposite of pragmatism - it ignores the realities of human society, ignores the actual wishes of people, and replaces them with an artificial ideology.&lt;p&gt;I would much rather live in a world where some people care about clean energy and sustainability, others about colonizing space, others about mathematics, and others about art, etc., than in a world where the majority of those things are shunned because of arguments such as yours. The latter world is a far more miserable one, and a miserable reality isn&amp;#x27;t a solution to anything.</text></item><item><author>banach</author><text>I think that, before colonizing other planets, we should start by realizing that Earth can easily sustain human kind for the foreseeable future, given some pretty modest tweaks to our way of life (compared to &amp;quot;going multi-planetary&amp;quot; that is). If we start valuing quality over novelty, stop eating animal-based foods and re-organize to live closer to where we work, we can stop the consumption and that is taxing our ecosystem and cut energy use to manageable levels. If we re-distribute our wealth, population growth will subside. If we put pressure on our rulers, they will work to eliminate the nuclear stockpiles. There are simple solutions to most of our issues. Once we have solved them, maybe we can start thinking about spreading our species to other places.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>incongruity</author><text>Those &amp;quot;solutions&amp;quot; are only simple in theory, not in practice. Enacting that change would actually be exponentially harder than getting humans to Titan, IMHO. One requires massive social and economic change. The other requires sending a limited number of people to another part of the solar system. We roughly know how to do the latter but the former is on decidedly a longer timescale if it achievable at all.</text></comment>

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<story><title>Be an Open Source Absolutist</title><url>https://twitter.com/ID_AA_Carmack/status/1711737838889242880</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>kromem</author><text>Nearly every comment is missing his take given the title here.&lt;p&gt;He&amp;#x27;s not saying &lt;i&gt;everything&lt;/i&gt; should be open source.&lt;p&gt;He&amp;#x27;s saying that the right to have an open source version of anything is what we should be absolutists about.&lt;p&gt;So not that every OS, or encryption, or AI model should be open - but that people should fight and stand up for the right to have access to open OSes, encryption, or AI models if produced.&lt;p&gt;Windows can exist, but shouldn&amp;#x27;t be able to prevent Linux from existing basically.&lt;p&gt;That&amp;#x27;s the absolutism. He hasn&amp;#x27;t suddenly turned into Stallman.</text></comment>

<story><title>Be an Open Source Absolutist</title><url>https://twitter.com/ID_AA_Carmack/status/1711737838889242880</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>justinclift</author><text>&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;nitter.net&amp;#x2F;ID_AA_Carmack&amp;#x2F;status&amp;#x2F;1711737838889242880&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;nitter.net&amp;#x2F;ID_AA_Carmack&amp;#x2F;status&amp;#x2F;1711737838889242880&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>

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<story><title>I killed my teenager’s fancy college dreams</title><url>https://slate.com/human-interest/2019/12/college-dreams-say-no-avoid-student-debt.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>everdev</author><text>I went to a 4-year college, but earned almost all of my money from self-taught programming and design skills.&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s hard to justify the ROI on college.&lt;p&gt;At $25k&amp;#x2F;year for a low-tier college, you&amp;#x27;ll spend $100k (if you don&amp;#x27;t need loans). If you take that $100k and put it in the market (avg. 7% annual returns) with 0 contributions for 45 years, you could spend every penny you make and retire at 63 with $2.1M.&lt;p&gt;At more expensive colleges ($50k&amp;#x2F;yr+) the math seems less and less in your favor.</text></item><item><author>simonsarris</author><text>&amp;gt; Statistically, you still earn way more with a degree than without.&lt;p&gt;This is becoming less and less true for lots of cohorts. I suspect it will stop correlating for everyone soon.&lt;p&gt;From a few days ago: &amp;quot;Is College Still Worth It? The New Calculus of Falling Returns&amp;quot; by Center for Household Financial Stability, St Louis Fed&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.stlouisfed.org&amp;#x2F;~&amp;#x2F;media&amp;#x2F;files&amp;#x2F;pdfs&amp;#x2F;hfs&amp;#x2F;is-college-worth-it&amp;#x2F;emmons_kent_ricketts_college_still_worth_it.pdf?la=en&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.stlouisfed.org&amp;#x2F;~&amp;#x2F;media&amp;#x2F;files&amp;#x2F;pdfs&amp;#x2F;hfs&amp;#x2F;is-college...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; The college wealth premium is at a historic low; among other races and ethnicities, it is statistically indistinguishable from zero&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; Our results suggest that college &amp;amp; post-grad education may be failing some recent graduates as a financial investment.&amp;quot;</text></item><item><author>honkycat</author><text>I think this trade school obsession is foolish. Everyone cargo-cults it as &amp;quot;pragmatic&amp;quot; without actually analyzing what the jobs entail and what you can actually expect to make.&lt;p&gt;Statistically, you still earn way more with a degree than without.&lt;p&gt;You EARN that pay in the trades, and being an electrician is dangerous. The work is hard on your body. A lot of electricians end up on disability.&lt;p&gt;I wasn&amp;#x27;t very academic growing up. But then I grew up, and now I am a pretty successful computer programmer making a lot more than that, for way better perks and less dangerous, damaging work.&lt;p&gt;You can make that kind of money as a manager at Walmart and you do not run the risk of getting your arm fried off or falling off a telephone pole.&lt;p&gt;And where does a few years as an electrician leave you if you don&amp;#x27;t end up liking the career? &amp;quot;Sorry son, the internet told me trades were a good idea. Maybe go back to school now that you are an adult with a family?&amp;quot; Part of the reason you go to school as a young person is that you do not have a family to feed or a house to pay off.</text></item><item><author>hajile</author><text>And here we have once again why the government shouldn&amp;#x27;t be subsidizing student loans and shouldn&amp;#x27;t exclude them from bankruptcy. We need to quit incentivizing sub-prime loans. Unlike the housing crash where the houses retained most of their value and could be sold later, you can&amp;#x27;t sell your degree to pay back the money.&lt;p&gt;If you&amp;#x27;re getting a necessary degree, it&amp;#x27;s very uncommon to default on your loan because you&amp;#x27;ll be in demand and getting a decent wage. Banks understand this fact and will do the math to give a loan anyway.&lt;p&gt;Some of my kids seem like they enjoy academics, but others do not. I&amp;#x27;ll be pushing the latter toward trade school. Average IBEW (electrical union) pay is about $20&amp;#x2F;hr for an apprentice and $33 for a journeyman. $40,000 to $66,000 with ZERO DEBT right out the gate is nothing to ignore (and that pay can easily double -- especially in your younger years -- if you&amp;#x27;re willing to travel and put in those extra hours). It sure beats minimum wage at a crappy service job.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>m11a</author><text>What if you don&amp;#x27;t plan to start your life at 63?&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;m not planning for retirement. 63 is a long way off. There&amp;#x27;s a lot of life between now and then, indeed the majority of my life is between now and then.&lt;p&gt;These kinds of &amp;quot;responsible financial actions&amp;quot; are a bit silly imho. Invest in yourself now, and spend your time well now. College pays for itself, if you spent $100k on a decent degree I guarantee you&amp;#x27;ll earn that amount ten times over in any decent career. Aside from that, it&amp;#x27;s an experience, and that&amp;#x27;s worth some money in itself.</text></comment>

<story><title>I killed my teenager’s fancy college dreams</title><url>https://slate.com/human-interest/2019/12/college-dreams-say-no-avoid-student-debt.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>everdev</author><text>I went to a 4-year college, but earned almost all of my money from self-taught programming and design skills.&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s hard to justify the ROI on college.&lt;p&gt;At $25k&amp;#x2F;year for a low-tier college, you&amp;#x27;ll spend $100k (if you don&amp;#x27;t need loans). If you take that $100k and put it in the market (avg. 7% annual returns) with 0 contributions for 45 years, you could spend every penny you make and retire at 63 with $2.1M.&lt;p&gt;At more expensive colleges ($50k&amp;#x2F;yr+) the math seems less and less in your favor.</text></item><item><author>simonsarris</author><text>&amp;gt; Statistically, you still earn way more with a degree than without.&lt;p&gt;This is becoming less and less true for lots of cohorts. I suspect it will stop correlating for everyone soon.&lt;p&gt;From a few days ago: &amp;quot;Is College Still Worth It? The New Calculus of Falling Returns&amp;quot; by Center for Household Financial Stability, St Louis Fed&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.stlouisfed.org&amp;#x2F;~&amp;#x2F;media&amp;#x2F;files&amp;#x2F;pdfs&amp;#x2F;hfs&amp;#x2F;is-college-worth-it&amp;#x2F;emmons_kent_ricketts_college_still_worth_it.pdf?la=en&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.stlouisfed.org&amp;#x2F;~&amp;#x2F;media&amp;#x2F;files&amp;#x2F;pdfs&amp;#x2F;hfs&amp;#x2F;is-college...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; The college wealth premium is at a historic low; among other races and ethnicities, it is statistically indistinguishable from zero&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; Our results suggest that college &amp;amp; post-grad education may be failing some recent graduates as a financial investment.&amp;quot;</text></item><item><author>honkycat</author><text>I think this trade school obsession is foolish. Everyone cargo-cults it as &amp;quot;pragmatic&amp;quot; without actually analyzing what the jobs entail and what you can actually expect to make.&lt;p&gt;Statistically, you still earn way more with a degree than without.&lt;p&gt;You EARN that pay in the trades, and being an electrician is dangerous. The work is hard on your body. A lot of electricians end up on disability.&lt;p&gt;I wasn&amp;#x27;t very academic growing up. But then I grew up, and now I am a pretty successful computer programmer making a lot more than that, for way better perks and less dangerous, damaging work.&lt;p&gt;You can make that kind of money as a manager at Walmart and you do not run the risk of getting your arm fried off or falling off a telephone pole.&lt;p&gt;And where does a few years as an electrician leave you if you don&amp;#x27;t end up liking the career? &amp;quot;Sorry son, the internet told me trades were a good idea. Maybe go back to school now that you are an adult with a family?&amp;quot; Part of the reason you go to school as a young person is that you do not have a family to feed or a house to pay off.</text></item><item><author>hajile</author><text>And here we have once again why the government shouldn&amp;#x27;t be subsidizing student loans and shouldn&amp;#x27;t exclude them from bankruptcy. We need to quit incentivizing sub-prime loans. Unlike the housing crash where the houses retained most of their value and could be sold later, you can&amp;#x27;t sell your degree to pay back the money.&lt;p&gt;If you&amp;#x27;re getting a necessary degree, it&amp;#x27;s very uncommon to default on your loan because you&amp;#x27;ll be in demand and getting a decent wage. Banks understand this fact and will do the math to give a loan anyway.&lt;p&gt;Some of my kids seem like they enjoy academics, but others do not. I&amp;#x27;ll be pushing the latter toward trade school. Average IBEW (electrical union) pay is about $20&amp;#x2F;hr for an apprentice and $33 for a journeyman. $40,000 to $66,000 with ZERO DEBT right out the gate is nothing to ignore (and that pay can easily double -- especially in your younger years -- if you&amp;#x27;re willing to travel and put in those extra hours). It sure beats minimum wage at a crappy service job.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>learc83</author><text>Low tier college should be about $10k a year and that&amp;#x27;s assumimg you don&amp;#x27;t do 2 years a community college.&lt;p&gt;You shouldn&amp;#x27;t live on campus if you&amp;#x27;re price sensitive. And you cant include room and board in your calculations because you&amp;#x27;d need that anyway.&lt;p&gt;7% annual returns are also misleading because it ignores inflation. Edit--I&amp;#x27;ve since learned that 7% average already adjusts for inflation.</text></comment>

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<story><title>U.S. Congress Renews $5M Open Textbook Pilot for Second Year</title><url>https://sparcopen.org/news/2018/open-textbooks-pilot-fy19/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>skh</author><text>I teach mathematics at a community college. The content I cover has a very slow rate of change. There is no valid educational reason for textbooks to cost so much in my area or to change from year to year. I decided some years ago stop using paid materials on my courses.&lt;p&gt;I create most of the content myself. I have my own problem sets with solutions and create almost all of my own lectures. It was a lot of work to get everything to the point of being able to stop using paid materials but the up front work pays dividends in making my job a lot easier now.&lt;p&gt;I don’t know how feasible this is for other areas but in mathematics it is. The problem with open textbooks that I’ve seen is that they tend not to be done well. I’ve found a few open textbooks in math that are very well done. The nice thing is that when you find one that is done well you won’t ever have change books.</text></comment>

<story><title>U.S. Congress Renews $5M Open Textbook Pilot for Second Year</title><url>https://sparcopen.org/news/2018/open-textbooks-pilot-fy19/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>Someone1234</author><text>I&amp;#x27;m glad something is being done. But while the public continues to blame the lightning-rods instead of the actual source of the issue, the problem will continue.&lt;p&gt;What I mean is that book publishers take the blame, and LIKE to take the blame, because that takes heat off the actual bad guys in this story: college professors and their departments.&lt;p&gt;It is they that decide which books are used in what courses, and it is they that are given the public trust to protect student&amp;#x27;s education. Instead they value the kickbacks (in the form of offloaded workload, free materials, free automated testing, etc) over what&amp;#x27;s best for their students.&lt;p&gt;It is an inherent moral failing in US academia where the almighty dollar has yet again wrecked havoc.&lt;p&gt;Open textbooks won&amp;#x27;t succeed for the same reason that cheaper textbooks haven&amp;#x27;t, the gatekeeps, the ones that create the artificial monopoly for particular textbooks: professors&amp;#x2F;departments, will continue to act in a self-interested and immoral way, and the public will continue to blame publishers.</text></comment>

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<story><title>Segwit2x Bugs Explained</title><url>https://bitcointechtalk.com/segwit2x-bugs-explained-8e0c286124bc</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>danra</author><text>It&amp;#x27;s impossible to explain the Segwit2x bugs ignoring the social aspect.&lt;p&gt;The planned fork was supported by only part of the community, which would not have been a problem if it weren&amp;#x27;t for the lack of replay protection, which would have lost many people money had the fork been activated. The rationale for not having replay protection was to take over the Bitcoin network as a whole, with the lack of differentiation from the &amp;#x27;legacy&amp;#x27; Bitcoin network being seen as a feature. In other words, rich people with a lot of mining power were planning on forcing the network into accepting their own rules (with most people in the network, running SPV wallets, doing so unknowingly), and if people lose money in the process, well, that&amp;#x27;s just too bad.&lt;p&gt;And that&amp;#x27;s just what touched me the most personally. There were a lot of other things in the Segwit2x process to be appalled with, such as the anti-developer culture, the infamous NYA closed meeting and general lack of transparency, and more.&lt;p&gt;Because I was disgusted with that bully approach, I did not invest any serious time reviewing the Segwit2x code changes, but instead did spend time studying, reviewing and contributing (my very small bit) to the Bitcoin Core code. I guess that other developers similarly had no drive to contribute to the Segwit2x codebase. I also think it&amp;#x27;s probable some people have found the bug&amp;#x2F;s and did not report them so as not to help bullies get their way.&lt;p&gt;In conclusion, the lack of review and testing, leading to the bugs, is not just a technical issue. Doing serious review and testing of open source code relies on support from the community, which was minimal, because very few competent developers in the space who understood what was going on wanted to help.</text></comment>

<story><title>Segwit2x Bugs Explained</title><url>https://bitcointechtalk.com/segwit2x-bugs-explained-8e0c286124bc</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>delta1</author><text>For a change of this magnitude you would expect some tests that actually verify these assumptions? Or am I missing something in this PR? [1]&lt;p&gt;[1] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;github.com&amp;#x2F;btc1&amp;#x2F;bitcoin&amp;#x2F;pull&amp;#x2F;11&amp;#x2F;files&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;github.com&amp;#x2F;btc1&amp;#x2F;bitcoin&amp;#x2F;pull&amp;#x2F;11&amp;#x2F;files&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>

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<story><title>Show HN: I&apos;m tired of corrupt US politicians, so I created this</title><url>http://www.politicianmarket.com/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>scottdw2</author><text>I don&apos;t think that public funding of elections or free advertising (see the bottom of the page) are the solutions to government corruption. That would just force bribers to be more covert. It&apos;s analogous to the fact that SOPA wouldn&apos;t stop piracy.&lt;p&gt;It seems to me that the real solution is to dramatically limit the size of government, so that there is nothing to be bought, rather then just changing the currency used to make the purchase.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>vectorpush</author><text>&lt;i&gt;dramatically limit the size of government&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;Any specifics? &quot;Limit the size of government&quot; is a trite platitude that &lt;i&gt;anyone&lt;/i&gt; could agree with on some level. Shove 100 random people in a room and you have 200 conflicting ideas about the appropriate role of government.</text></comment>

<story><title>Show HN: I&apos;m tired of corrupt US politicians, so I created this</title><url>http://www.politicianmarket.com/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>scottdw2</author><text>I don&apos;t think that public funding of elections or free advertising (see the bottom of the page) are the solutions to government corruption. That would just force bribers to be more covert. It&apos;s analogous to the fact that SOPA wouldn&apos;t stop piracy.&lt;p&gt;It seems to me that the real solution is to dramatically limit the size of government, so that there is nothing to be bought, rather then just changing the currency used to make the purchase.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>david927</author><text>The wealthiest countries in the world have large governments and don&apos;t have these problems.&lt;p&gt;Still, if we can bank online, we can vote online. I see nothing stopping a proposal where if 25% of the public vote online, the result is accepted over what Congress voted. No advertising allowed. Suddenly, bribing/lobbying Congress would no longer make sense.</text></comment>

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<story><title>Facebook computers compromised by zero-day Java exploit</title><url>http://arstechnica.com/security/2013/02/facebook-computers-compromised-by-zero-day-java-exploit/</url><text></text></story><parent_chain><item><author>jff</author><text>Aaaand that&apos;s why I don&apos;t have the Java plugin installed. Anywhere.&lt;p&gt;I&apos;d like to think that we&apos;re almost to the point of viewing Java in the same light as Bonzi Buddy or Comet Cursor; IT discovers you got Java on your computer again, they just sigh and re-image it, with some stern warnings to please not download such sketchy software.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jlgaddis</author><text>I wish that were the case.&lt;p&gt;Large companies tend to have important enterprise applications that require Java to run and, even worse, in some cases &lt;i&gt;upgrading&lt;/i&gt; the version of Java on the user&apos;s desktop will break the application. You then end up with hundreds or thousands or users with vulnerable versions of Java on the PC that you &lt;i&gt;can&apos;t&lt;/i&gt; upgrade until the software vendor fixes whatever is wrong with their application.&lt;p&gt;I&apos;ve seen it countless times at my previous job (.edu with 1000s of staff and faculty) where we were basically helpless to do anything because absolutely critical applications would break if we upgraded Java on the desktop.&lt;p&gt;Solution: closely monitor traffic to/from user&apos;s PC&apos;s, hope for the best, and re-image when they inevitably got pwned.&lt;p&gt;Before someone chimes in with the obvious &quot;switch to a different application&quot;, it&apos;s not that easy when you have millions invested and training the user base sometimes takes &lt;i&gt;months&lt;/i&gt;.&lt;p&gt;Yeah, I hate Java.</text></comment>

<story><title>Facebook computers compromised by zero-day Java exploit</title><url>http://arstechnica.com/security/2013/02/facebook-computers-compromised-by-zero-day-java-exploit/</url><text></text></story><parent_chain><item><author>jff</author><text>Aaaand that&apos;s why I don&apos;t have the Java plugin installed. Anywhere.&lt;p&gt;I&apos;d like to think that we&apos;re almost to the point of viewing Java in the same light as Bonzi Buddy or Comet Cursor; IT discovers you got Java on your computer again, they just sigh and re-image it, with some stern warnings to please not download such sketchy software.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>onedev</author><text>Bonzi Buddy was my childhood computer hero....&lt;p&gt;Ahh to be 11yrs old again...</text></comment>

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<story><title>Snort – Network Intrusion Detection and Prevention System</title><url>https://www.snort.org/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>yabones</author><text>To any NIDS newbies out there... Please don&amp;#x27;t deploy this in-line. Ever. You should always have your IDS out-of-band. Software like Snort is great for detecting threats, but if you block every &amp;quot;threat&amp;quot; you&amp;#x27;re going to have a bad time. Not to disparage the quality of their rulesets, they are very high quality, but there absolutely will be false positives. I&amp;#x27;ve spent many evenings and weekends troubleshooting IPS problems, 0&amp;#x2F;10 cannot recommend.&lt;p&gt;The best option is to mirror all traffic from switches directly to capture boxes where the detection and logging happens. This should be sent to a central system that has a full picture of the network and traffic patterns. That central system should be the one making the decisions, and it should be very smart. Automatic firewall rules should be close to the source, and shutdown switchports should be close to the client.&lt;p&gt;For safe IPS operation there needs to be several layers of filters, not just a list of &amp;quot;allowed rule IDs&amp;quot;. This is the sort of project that takes at least a year to fully roll out - it&amp;#x27;s not the kind of thing a &amp;quot;security whiz&amp;quot; can set up in an afternoon.&lt;p&gt;At best, it can be a very useful diagnostic, logging, and threat detection tool. At worst, it can cause very difficult to predict and troubleshoot network problems.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>cosmotic</author><text>Can confirm. I just spent many hours trying to diagnose why an API was timing out. Turns out Snort blocked the IP address of the certificate authority which chrome was secretly using to verify the API&amp;#x27;s certificate. My local machine had the verification cached but the docker container I was using did not. No indication of what was going on in the top-level network tools; I had to use the hard-to-find network diagnostics recorder in Chrome to even realize chrome was connecting to the certificate authority.</text></comment>

<story><title>Snort – Network Intrusion Detection and Prevention System</title><url>https://www.snort.org/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>yabones</author><text>To any NIDS newbies out there... Please don&amp;#x27;t deploy this in-line. Ever. You should always have your IDS out-of-band. Software like Snort is great for detecting threats, but if you block every &amp;quot;threat&amp;quot; you&amp;#x27;re going to have a bad time. Not to disparage the quality of their rulesets, they are very high quality, but there absolutely will be false positives. I&amp;#x27;ve spent many evenings and weekends troubleshooting IPS problems, 0&amp;#x2F;10 cannot recommend.&lt;p&gt;The best option is to mirror all traffic from switches directly to capture boxes where the detection and logging happens. This should be sent to a central system that has a full picture of the network and traffic patterns. That central system should be the one making the decisions, and it should be very smart. Automatic firewall rules should be close to the source, and shutdown switchports should be close to the client.&lt;p&gt;For safe IPS operation there needs to be several layers of filters, not just a list of &amp;quot;allowed rule IDs&amp;quot;. This is the sort of project that takes at least a year to fully roll out - it&amp;#x27;s not the kind of thing a &amp;quot;security whiz&amp;quot; can set up in an afternoon.&lt;p&gt;At best, it can be a very useful diagnostic, logging, and threat detection tool. At worst, it can cause very difficult to predict and troubleshoot network problems.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>nubb</author><text>great comment. thing i’d add for folks who want to play with this, follow this setup exactly and turn every rule on but don’t perform any blocking. then review the logs and dial back unnecessary rules. very “fun” exercise in a lab for a student xD</text></comment>

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<story><title>Ask HN: What are good software architecture interview questions?</title></story><parent_chain><item><author>_d8fd</author><text>&amp;gt;&amp;gt; Can you talk about a project you experienced that went very badly&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;d like to offer a spin on this.&lt;p&gt;In my experience, asking a question that demands one to recall specific details about a painful event in an interview, which is typically a stressful situation, may produce poor results.&lt;p&gt;What do you think about giving the candidate an opportunity to get advance notice of that you&amp;#x27;ll be asking that question, in an interview, and ask them to prepare three to five bullet points to discuss? Whether the candidate sends the bullet points back to you before the interview, or just brings them to the interview, is beyond the scope of what I&amp;#x27;m proposing.&lt;p&gt;Let&amp;#x27;s say your trying to assess a 3 things:&lt;p&gt;* Has Architect been through the meat grinder at all? Bullet points with little depth log a warning, as there has been plenty of time to prepare a thoughtful answer.&lt;p&gt;* Does Architect talk about failure in a calm and composed manner? Bullet points give ability to ability to recall challenges before stress of interview sets in.&lt;p&gt;Does Architect trash talk former employer or coworkers? The stress of interview can erode one&amp;#x27;s asshole filter, and cause them to be a bit of the jerk they&amp;#x27;ve worked really hard to not be (speaking a bit for myself here).&lt;p&gt;To wrap this up, I like interview questions that are functional with minimal side effects, meaning the person is given every opportunity to provide the answer you are looking without external pressure or distraction. If you want to see how a person handles stress, give them a situation that is stressful in a way it&amp;#x27;d be on the job, perhaps leading with &amp;quot;apologies in advance for the following situation, which is intentionally stressful...&amp;quot;</text></item><item><author>beat</author><text>Not so much a question as an approach, but...&lt;p&gt;When interviewing senior people, I like to get them going on war stories. &amp;quot;Can you talk about a project you experienced that went very badly?&amp;quot; is a good one. It&amp;#x27;s not necessarily that &lt;i&gt;they&lt;/i&gt; went badly, but we&amp;#x27;ve all been on death marches before (and I absolutely would not hire an architect who&amp;#x27;s never done a death march!).&lt;p&gt;The beauty of this is you can find out how they react to impossible demands and pressures. What they&amp;#x27;re proud of accomplishing in dire circumstances. Possibly what they&amp;#x27;re ashamed or embarrassed about, or mistakes&amp;#x2F;lessons learned (if they&amp;#x27;re that bold). You can learn a &lt;i&gt;ton&lt;/i&gt; about how they talk about their colleagues! Are they full of praise, or contempt? Do they find someone to blame, or talk about how someone else saved their asses? You can also learn a lot about their actual approach to technical decisions - their taste, for lack of a better word.&lt;p&gt;You can ask probing questions here, but the important part is to get them speaking in an unguarded way. Nobody makes it to the architect level in this field without at least kind of loving the job. Find out what they love. Find out what they hate. Find out what they regret. Find out any strong technical biases they have, and why. But most of all, find out how they play with others. Because the architect&amp;#x27;s job isn&amp;#x27;t just to design, but to &lt;i&gt;communicate&lt;/i&gt;. You don&amp;#x27;t just want a technical expert. You want someone that can value and respect the rest of the team, or they&amp;#x27;re just going to cause problems.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mikehollinger</author><text>I actually ask &amp;quot;Tell me about a project that went well for you. What was it, what was your role, and what was the final outcome?&amp;quot; I ask follow-ups, and generally let the interviewee get comfortable, since it&amp;#x27;s a low-pressure question. However, as a follow-up, I usually ask &amp;quot;Tell me about a project that -didn&amp;#x27;t- go so well. Same questions, and what&amp;#x27;d you take away from the experience?&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;People tend to slide into a comfort zone and open up a bit about their successes. They then -tend- to stay open and offer up useful insights into their past behaviors under pressure. I&amp;#x27;ve found that it helps to ask the &amp;quot;success&amp;quot; question first, then ask the &amp;quot;failure&amp;quot; question second, rather than directly asking about someone&amp;#x27;s failures.&lt;p&gt;As an aside, the technique outlined above is something taken from &amp;quot;Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion,&amp;quot; [1] and is a useful read to recognize situations where someone might be using certain techniques to influence the outcome of a situation. :-) Also - note that the general prompt above expects someone to answer in the &amp;quot;STAR&amp;quot; technique. [2]&lt;p&gt;[1] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.amazon.com&amp;#x2F;gp&amp;#x2F;product&amp;#x2F;B002BD2UUC&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.amazon.com&amp;#x2F;gp&amp;#x2F;product&amp;#x2F;B002BD2UUC&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;[2] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;careerservices.wayne.edu&amp;#x2F;behavioralinterviewinfo.pdf&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;careerservices.wayne.edu&amp;#x2F;behavioralinterviewinfo.pdf&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>

<story><title>Ask HN: What are good software architecture interview questions?</title></story><parent_chain><item><author>_d8fd</author><text>&amp;gt;&amp;gt; Can you talk about a project you experienced that went very badly&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;d like to offer a spin on this.&lt;p&gt;In my experience, asking a question that demands one to recall specific details about a painful event in an interview, which is typically a stressful situation, may produce poor results.&lt;p&gt;What do you think about giving the candidate an opportunity to get advance notice of that you&amp;#x27;ll be asking that question, in an interview, and ask them to prepare three to five bullet points to discuss? Whether the candidate sends the bullet points back to you before the interview, or just brings them to the interview, is beyond the scope of what I&amp;#x27;m proposing.&lt;p&gt;Let&amp;#x27;s say your trying to assess a 3 things:&lt;p&gt;* Has Architect been through the meat grinder at all? Bullet points with little depth log a warning, as there has been plenty of time to prepare a thoughtful answer.&lt;p&gt;* Does Architect talk about failure in a calm and composed manner? Bullet points give ability to ability to recall challenges before stress of interview sets in.&lt;p&gt;Does Architect trash talk former employer or coworkers? The stress of interview can erode one&amp;#x27;s asshole filter, and cause them to be a bit of the jerk they&amp;#x27;ve worked really hard to not be (speaking a bit for myself here).&lt;p&gt;To wrap this up, I like interview questions that are functional with minimal side effects, meaning the person is given every opportunity to provide the answer you are looking without external pressure or distraction. If you want to see how a person handles stress, give them a situation that is stressful in a way it&amp;#x27;d be on the job, perhaps leading with &amp;quot;apologies in advance for the following situation, which is intentionally stressful...&amp;quot;</text></item><item><author>beat</author><text>Not so much a question as an approach, but...&lt;p&gt;When interviewing senior people, I like to get them going on war stories. &amp;quot;Can you talk about a project you experienced that went very badly?&amp;quot; is a good one. It&amp;#x27;s not necessarily that &lt;i&gt;they&lt;/i&gt; went badly, but we&amp;#x27;ve all been on death marches before (and I absolutely would not hire an architect who&amp;#x27;s never done a death march!).&lt;p&gt;The beauty of this is you can find out how they react to impossible demands and pressures. What they&amp;#x27;re proud of accomplishing in dire circumstances. Possibly what they&amp;#x27;re ashamed or embarrassed about, or mistakes&amp;#x2F;lessons learned (if they&amp;#x27;re that bold). You can learn a &lt;i&gt;ton&lt;/i&gt; about how they talk about their colleagues! Are they full of praise, or contempt? Do they find someone to blame, or talk about how someone else saved their asses? You can also learn a lot about their actual approach to technical decisions - their taste, for lack of a better word.&lt;p&gt;You can ask probing questions here, but the important part is to get them speaking in an unguarded way. Nobody makes it to the architect level in this field without at least kind of loving the job. Find out what they love. Find out what they hate. Find out what they regret. Find out any strong technical biases they have, and why. But most of all, find out how they play with others. Because the architect&amp;#x27;s job isn&amp;#x27;t just to design, but to &lt;i&gt;communicate&lt;/i&gt;. You don&amp;#x27;t just want a technical expert. You want someone that can value and respect the rest of the team, or they&amp;#x27;re just going to cause problems.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>beat</author><text>I&amp;#x27;m after maximal side effects here. I&amp;#x27;m not trying to figure out what they know. I&amp;#x27;m trying to figure out who they are. That happens when they&amp;#x27;re unguarded.&lt;p&gt;Now, I do my level best to make interviews unstressful. I don&amp;#x27;t think a stressed candidate is going to do their best, or be their best. They&amp;#x27;re going to be second-guessing their answers.&lt;p&gt;That&amp;#x27;s the point of war stories. Every experienced candidate has them. We&amp;#x27;ve all done memorable things in our career, both good and bad. If it sticks with you, the details aren&amp;#x27;t what matter.&lt;p&gt;edit: This goes both ways. I expect the war stories to be an exchange, a patter. They should be learning about me and my co-interviewers as well. And, as someone who gets interviewed, if I feel the interview is completely one-sided and not revealing anything about potential colleagues and the working environment, I&amp;#x27;m going to hesitate.</text></comment>