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<story><title>Why GNU/Linux Viruses Are Fairly Uncommon</title><url>https://www.gnu.org/fun/jokes/evilmalware.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tombert</author><text>That&amp;#x27;s about 95% of it. There are other things that give Linux a bit more of an edge in this space as well.&lt;p&gt;For example, every time I use Windows, it feels like every app is asking to run as administrator. Admittedly, I haven&amp;#x27;t used Windows for about a year, but in Linux, it&amp;#x27;s pretty rare that I ever do admin&amp;#x2F;sudo outside of the command line, and I only ever use it when I know what I&amp;#x27;m doing. Obviously this isn&amp;#x27;t something that could not be fixed in Windows, and maybe it already has been.</text></item><item><author>chc-sc</author><text>I think the real answer is that relatively few people use GNU&amp;#x2F;Linux</text></item><item><author>edoceo</author><text>It&amp;#x27;s a joke, not analysis. Was hoping for the latter.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>tptacek</author><text>So far as I can tell, there are two kinds of (effectively) single-user systems, in which a malware infection is targeting a single person:&lt;p&gt;1. The kind where users are rarely asked to assume admin privileges and all the data a user has to protect is available without administrator access.&lt;p&gt;2. The kind where users are frequently asked to assume admin privileges and some of the data a user has to protect requires administrator access.&lt;p&gt;I don&amp;#x27;t believe Linux has any real edge here. I agree that 95% of the effect is due to Linux&amp;#x27;s paltry desktop user base; I&amp;#x27;d guess than at least 4% is due simply to malware that targets Linux not being called &amp;quot;a virus&amp;quot;.</text></comment>

<story><title>Why GNU/Linux Viruses Are Fairly Uncommon</title><url>https://www.gnu.org/fun/jokes/evilmalware.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tombert</author><text>That&amp;#x27;s about 95% of it. There are other things that give Linux a bit more of an edge in this space as well.&lt;p&gt;For example, every time I use Windows, it feels like every app is asking to run as administrator. Admittedly, I haven&amp;#x27;t used Windows for about a year, but in Linux, it&amp;#x27;s pretty rare that I ever do admin&amp;#x2F;sudo outside of the command line, and I only ever use it when I know what I&amp;#x27;m doing. Obviously this isn&amp;#x27;t something that could not be fixed in Windows, and maybe it already has been.</text></item><item><author>chc-sc</author><text>I think the real answer is that relatively few people use GNU&amp;#x2F;Linux</text></item><item><author>edoceo</author><text>It&amp;#x27;s a joke, not analysis. Was hoping for the latter.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Const-me</author><text>&amp;gt; and maybe it already has been.&lt;p&gt;Not completely, but I think it&amp;#x27;s mostly OK. I only see UAC prompts rarely, usually in one of these 3 cases.&lt;p&gt;1. Some software that I&amp;#x27;ve written has good reasons to require elevation, I sometimes work on low level system software which uses weird WinAPI calls.&lt;p&gt;2. When installing software. The default location of installed programs, C:\Program Files, is read only unless running elevated. Probably done for extra security.&lt;p&gt;3. When using very old software, or bad quality ports from other OSes. UAC was introduced in Vista, some software which was written for WinXP or older versions requires elevation for no good reason.</text></comment>

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<story><title>Gmail and Google Drive Outage</title><url>https://www.google.com/appsstatus#hl=en&amp;v=status</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>jordanthoms</author><text>There was an outage August 19th, 2019 - almost 1 year ago to the day. As I posted at the time: &amp;quot;Google often has a outage or two around this time of the year when all the US schools come back and millions of students log in at the same time.&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;My pet theory wasn&amp;#x27;t too popular but I&amp;#x27;m going to stick with it :)&lt;p&gt;1- &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&amp;#x2F;item?id=20740997&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&amp;#x2F;item?id=20740997&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>

<story><title>Gmail and Google Drive Outage</title><url>https://www.google.com/appsstatus#hl=en&amp;v=status</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>naedish</author><text>I&amp;#x27;m guessing this outage will allow GSuite customers to claim Service Credits under the SLA - does anyone have any experience with doing so? Google&amp;#x27;s documentation is lacking in detail[0].&lt;p&gt;[0] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;gsuite.google.com&amp;#x2F;intl&amp;#x2F;en&amp;#x2F;terms&amp;#x2F;sla.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;gsuite.google.com&amp;#x2F;intl&amp;#x2F;en&amp;#x2F;terms&amp;#x2F;sla.html&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>

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<story><title>More Millennials Are Having Strokes</title><url>https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/more-millennials-are-having-strokes/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>simonsarris</author><text>Various deficiencies are definitely a problem in my friend population, where many of them are vegans.&lt;p&gt;The vegan diet is a diet of deficiencies, and since none of them are particularly careful about what they eat, I worry that it is making them all worse off. Iron and B12 may be the most obvious, but also D3, calcium, zing, animal based nutrients like creatine, and I&amp;#x27;m sure others.&lt;p&gt;Unfortunately, this becomes a touchy subject with them very quickly, and most of them believe &amp;quot;being vegan is healthier,&amp;quot; but are uninterested in engaging with or supporting this claim.</text></item><item><author>weinzierl</author><text>Iron deficiency anemia (IDA) has been associated with strokes in young people. IDA doesn&amp;#x27;t necessarily have pronounced symptoms and a diagnosis with a blood sample is simple and cheap. It is often considered a &amp;quot;female disorder&amp;quot; but it&amp;#x27;s only slightly more common in females than males.&lt;p&gt;tldr: Have your blood checked.&lt;p&gt;[1] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.hindawi.com&amp;#x2F;journals&amp;#x2F;crinm&amp;#x2F;2012&amp;#x2F;487080&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.hindawi.com&amp;#x2F;journals&amp;#x2F;crinm&amp;#x2F;2012&amp;#x2F;487080&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;EDIT: As most follow up comments seem to center around diet as a cause, I wanted to point out that there are several other causes.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dgacmu</author><text>&amp;gt; The vegan diet is a diet of deficiencies, and since none of them are particularly careful about what they eat&lt;p&gt;First off, B12 is important, but most vegan milk-substitute things have 25% or 50% of the US RDA of B12 per serving. Not all - a lot of almond milk isn&amp;#x27;t supplemented with B12 (to which i grumble). They&amp;#x27;re often also iron-supplemented. Here, for example, is the nutrition label for Silk Organic Unsweetened Soy Milk:&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;silk.com&amp;#x2F;sites&amp;#x2F;default&amp;#x2F;files&amp;#x2F;products&amp;#x2F;nutrition&amp;#x2F;SK_2443_nleas_OrganicSoyUnsw.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;silk.com&amp;#x2F;sites&amp;#x2F;default&amp;#x2F;files&amp;#x2F;products&amp;#x2F;nutrition&amp;#x2F;SK_2...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;Note the vitamin D and calcium in there as well. The FDA is generally clever about the requirements they put on things -- the potential for such deficiencies is well-known, and so is addressed at a few places.&lt;p&gt;Creatine isn&amp;#x27;t a necessary nutrient - our kidneys and livers synthesize it.&lt;p&gt;Finally, I, at least get a lot of &amp;quot;zing&amp;quot; in my diet by being creative about what we cook. (Sorry, couldn&amp;#x27;t resist) Zinc, however, you should pay attention to, but eating a diversity of beans and nuts (and tofu) covers it quite well.&lt;p&gt;Seriously, though: It&amp;#x27;s not hard to have the bases covered. If you&amp;#x27;re really concerned and not just concern-trolling, sit down with your friends and a copy of Cron-o-Meter, which is one of the most comprehensive meal nutrition profilers around. It&amp;#x27;s what I used when figuring out the overall layout for our family&amp;#x27;s meals, and it did lead me to a few cheats -- like favoring molasses as a sweetener, throwing flaxseed in place of part of the flour in a bunch of recipes, etc., to make sure we were hitting all the targets. Useful software.</text></comment>

<story><title>More Millennials Are Having Strokes</title><url>https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/more-millennials-are-having-strokes/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>simonsarris</author><text>Various deficiencies are definitely a problem in my friend population, where many of them are vegans.&lt;p&gt;The vegan diet is a diet of deficiencies, and since none of them are particularly careful about what they eat, I worry that it is making them all worse off. Iron and B12 may be the most obvious, but also D3, calcium, zing, animal based nutrients like creatine, and I&amp;#x27;m sure others.&lt;p&gt;Unfortunately, this becomes a touchy subject with them very quickly, and most of them believe &amp;quot;being vegan is healthier,&amp;quot; but are uninterested in engaging with or supporting this claim.</text></item><item><author>weinzierl</author><text>Iron deficiency anemia (IDA) has been associated with strokes in young people. IDA doesn&amp;#x27;t necessarily have pronounced symptoms and a diagnosis with a blood sample is simple and cheap. It is often considered a &amp;quot;female disorder&amp;quot; but it&amp;#x27;s only slightly more common in females than males.&lt;p&gt;tldr: Have your blood checked.&lt;p&gt;[1] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.hindawi.com&amp;#x2F;journals&amp;#x2F;crinm&amp;#x2F;2012&amp;#x2F;487080&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.hindawi.com&amp;#x2F;journals&amp;#x2F;crinm&amp;#x2F;2012&amp;#x2F;487080&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;EDIT: As most follow up comments seem to center around diet as a cause, I wanted to point out that there are several other causes.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>danenania</author><text>I&amp;#x27;m not vegan, but the counterargument I&amp;#x27;ve heard is that an unbalanced omnivore diet can also lead to deficiencies&amp;#x2F;nutrition problems, and that actually the average vegan diet is more balanced overall than the average omnivore diet, so it&amp;#x27;s unfair to single out vegans when eating a healthy and varied diet is a challenge for everyone.&lt;p&gt;In other words, you should probably be just as worried about your non-vegan friends who eat too much meat, not enough leafy greens, not enough vitamins, etc.</text></comment>

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<story><title>Scala 2.13 is now available</title><url>https://www.scala-lang.org/news/2.13.0</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>amzans</author><text>I work at a major online fashion aggregator and my team uses Scala extensively for our search API (with Twitter&amp;#x27;s Finatra) and also in several of our data pipeline systems (Akka, Spark).&lt;p&gt;When I joined a few years ago, I was honestly not most excited about working with Scala, but the more I got into it, the more I realised that Scala got a lot of things just right.&lt;p&gt;In particular, I really miss working with the collections and futures API whenever I switch to another language.&lt;p&gt;And it&amp;#x27;s overall a pretty good package: very predictable behaviour, easy to debug (IntelliJ Idea helps a lot here), fast runtime and high quality libraries available for pretty much anything you might need.</text></comment>

<story><title>Scala 2.13 is now available</title><url>https://www.scala-lang.org/news/2.13.0</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>dgellow</author><text>&amp;gt; We are delighted to announce the availability of Scala 2.13!&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; The 2.13.0 release improves Scala in the following areas:&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; - Collections: Standard library collections have been overhauled for simplicity, performance, and safety. This is the centerpiece of the release.&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; - Standard library: Future is faster and more robust. Elsewhere, useful classes and methods have been added.&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; - Language: Literal types, partial unification, by-name implicits, more.&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; - Compiler: 5-10% faster, deterministic output, improved optimizer.&lt;p&gt;Full release note here: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;github.com&amp;#x2F;scala&amp;#x2F;scala&amp;#x2F;releases&amp;#x2F;tag&amp;#x2F;v2.13.0&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;github.com&amp;#x2F;scala&amp;#x2F;scala&amp;#x2F;releases&amp;#x2F;tag&amp;#x2F;v2.13.0&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>

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<story><title>BBC ignores World Cup opening ceremony in favour of Qatar criticism</title><url>https://www.theguardian.com/football/2022/nov/20/bbc-ignores-world-cup-opening-ceremony-in-favour-of-qatar-criticism</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>hfbff</author><text>Good. This is by far the world cup I&amp;#x27;ve been less excited about, both because it counts as whitewash for the Qatar government and for how corrupt FIFA is.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jmclnx</author><text>Plus the scam Qatar forced upon inBev, originally beer was suppose to be sold in the stadium, which they paid ~75m for, then in the last minute Qatar said &amp;quot;no beer sales in the stadium&amp;quot;.&lt;p&gt;Now I have no issues with restricting alcohol and even banning it, but with that last minute about face after taking money from that company, I think they are at least do a refund plus interest.</text></comment>

<story><title>BBC ignores World Cup opening ceremony in favour of Qatar criticism</title><url>https://www.theguardian.com/football/2022/nov/20/bbc-ignores-world-cup-opening-ceremony-in-favour-of-qatar-criticism</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>hfbff</author><text>Good. This is by far the world cup I&amp;#x27;ve been less excited about, both because it counts as whitewash for the Qatar government and for how corrupt FIFA is.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>tsol</author><text>How is this different from China hosting the winter Olympics or Russia before that? I fail to see how this is anything but arbitrarily treating others worse. The USA literally has an exception to the slavery amendment for prison labor</text></comment>

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<story><title>Are your pants lying to you? An investigation</title><url>http://www.esquire.com/blogs/mens-fashion/pants-size-chart-090710</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>CWuestefeld</author><text>(sorry to duplicate my comment here, but it&apos;s relevant)&lt;p&gt;It&apos;s not just a matter of vanity, it&apos;s a matter of extremely loose tolerances in manufacturing.&lt;p&gt;I&apos;ve found that even within a single store, looking at the same model of Levi&apos;s jeans, I need to try each individual pair. I always wear the same thing: Levi&apos;s 505 34W 30L. But I find that individual specimens with this exact tag can be as much as an inch different in every dimension: waist diameter, inseam length, and even leg diameter at the hem.&lt;p&gt;This being the case, it&apos;s not possible to say that a given item is the right fit, without actually trying it.</text></item><item><author>LogicHoleFlaw</author><text>Wow. I had a long, detailed conversation last night with my roommate/potential co-founder about doing EXACTLY this. The way sizing is handled in the clothing industry is ridiculous for women especially, but for men as well according to this article.&lt;p&gt;The basic technology product is software that, given information about your body shape, can produce a listing of clothing that &lt;i&gt;will&lt;/i&gt; fit you. As far as we can tell this does not yet exist. When the customer can trust that the clothes will fit, then they can shop based on style, fashion, price, or any other number of more interesting criteria rather than worrying about getting the right size or cut.&lt;p&gt;If you pair this technology with a customer-centered online retail environment then I think you can create a lot of value. Zappos has shown that you can make buying articles of clothing online work, with their famous customer support and return policies.&lt;p&gt;The concept of requiring a customer to consult a sizing translation table &lt;i&gt;per label&lt;/i&gt; or even &lt;i&gt;per garment&lt;/i&gt; just to find clothes that fit well flabbergasts me. But we haven&apos;t found any better solutions on offer.&lt;p&gt;This all fits in with Request For Startup 2: New Paths Through Product Space. &lt;a href=&quot;http://ycombinator.com/rfs2.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://ycombinator.com/rfs2.html&lt;/a&gt; Nobody is selling clothing based on what fits the individual shopper. We want to make an online storefront that only offers clothing that will fit &lt;i&gt;you&lt;/i&gt;.&lt;p&gt;There are a lot of negative knock-on effects from the current way clothes shopping is done. People agonize over sizing and equate their waistband with their self-worth. That&apos;s ridiculous. Every person will look best and be most comfortable in clothing that matches their actual shape, regardless of what number is on the label. Especially if that number is a lie!&lt;p&gt;Clothes shopping changed drastically starting in about the mid 1800s through the 1920s with the advent of mass-produced garments. Before that each item was made individually. After that, confusing labels, garments designed to fit the &quot;average&quot; person to minimize the need for alterations, changing demographics, and vanity sizing turned the whole system into an incredible morass. It wasn&apos;t always this way, and it shouldn&apos;t have to be.&lt;p&gt;The article suggests that government regulation of sizing labels is the solution to the problem of ill-fitting clothing. What the author does not mention is that this was tried in the past! That system fell apart and you can read about its failure from the NIST: &lt;a href=&quot;http://museum.nist.gov/exhibits/apparel/index.htm&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://museum.nist.gov/exhibits/apparel/index.htm&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;I posit that smarter technology which can match the clothing to the person is a superior solution.&lt;p&gt;There&apos;s a lot of pain involved in clothes shopping today. We want to fix that.&lt;p&gt;If any hackers here, especially women, have some thoughts to share on this topic I dearly want to hear them, whether in a post here or in a private email. My address is in my profile.&lt;p&gt;We are seriously considering applying to YCombinator with this proposal.</text></item><item><author>Maciek416</author><text>This could present a significant barrier to reliable online shopping for clothes. It&apos;ll be interesting to see in the coming years, as more of these retailers offer online ordering (GAP is finally offering their catalog to us Canadians, for example), whether fitting will be normalized somehow, or whether each retailer will instead stick to a specific size translation table as I&apos;ve seen some places.&lt;p&gt;Either that or someone will have to build a website or tool that aggregates the investigative work for us. I know I&apos;d pay a small premium to eliminate the guesswork.&lt;p&gt;(EDIT: I wish there was a way to OpenID-ify personal body measurements for this purpose so every clothing site I visited could automatically select the best-fitting clothes for me. GAP small/medium t-shirts are wildly different from Threadless&apos; small/medium American Apparel Ts)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>achompas</author><text>It&apos;s not loose tolerances in manufacturing--it&apos;s just shitty quality control.&lt;p&gt;Sorry to be so vulgar, but it&apos;s true. Tons of boutiques and higher-end clothing labels have almost ZERO variance in sizing. Some of them hand-make their clothing, sure, but most don&apos;t.&lt;p&gt;Regardless, though, you&apos;re right--there&apos;s too much variance in sizing for mainstream brands. This problem really hinders any type of &quot;OpenID-for-clothing&quot; startup.</text></comment>

<story><title>Are your pants lying to you? An investigation</title><url>http://www.esquire.com/blogs/mens-fashion/pants-size-chart-090710</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>CWuestefeld</author><text>(sorry to duplicate my comment here, but it&apos;s relevant)&lt;p&gt;It&apos;s not just a matter of vanity, it&apos;s a matter of extremely loose tolerances in manufacturing.&lt;p&gt;I&apos;ve found that even within a single store, looking at the same model of Levi&apos;s jeans, I need to try each individual pair. I always wear the same thing: Levi&apos;s 505 34W 30L. But I find that individual specimens with this exact tag can be as much as an inch different in every dimension: waist diameter, inseam length, and even leg diameter at the hem.&lt;p&gt;This being the case, it&apos;s not possible to say that a given item is the right fit, without actually trying it.</text></item><item><author>LogicHoleFlaw</author><text>Wow. I had a long, detailed conversation last night with my roommate/potential co-founder about doing EXACTLY this. The way sizing is handled in the clothing industry is ridiculous for women especially, but for men as well according to this article.&lt;p&gt;The basic technology product is software that, given information about your body shape, can produce a listing of clothing that &lt;i&gt;will&lt;/i&gt; fit you. As far as we can tell this does not yet exist. When the customer can trust that the clothes will fit, then they can shop based on style, fashion, price, or any other number of more interesting criteria rather than worrying about getting the right size or cut.&lt;p&gt;If you pair this technology with a customer-centered online retail environment then I think you can create a lot of value. Zappos has shown that you can make buying articles of clothing online work, with their famous customer support and return policies.&lt;p&gt;The concept of requiring a customer to consult a sizing translation table &lt;i&gt;per label&lt;/i&gt; or even &lt;i&gt;per garment&lt;/i&gt; just to find clothes that fit well flabbergasts me. But we haven&apos;t found any better solutions on offer.&lt;p&gt;This all fits in with Request For Startup 2: New Paths Through Product Space. &lt;a href=&quot;http://ycombinator.com/rfs2.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://ycombinator.com/rfs2.html&lt;/a&gt; Nobody is selling clothing based on what fits the individual shopper. We want to make an online storefront that only offers clothing that will fit &lt;i&gt;you&lt;/i&gt;.&lt;p&gt;There are a lot of negative knock-on effects from the current way clothes shopping is done. People agonize over sizing and equate their waistband with their self-worth. That&apos;s ridiculous. Every person will look best and be most comfortable in clothing that matches their actual shape, regardless of what number is on the label. Especially if that number is a lie!&lt;p&gt;Clothes shopping changed drastically starting in about the mid 1800s through the 1920s with the advent of mass-produced garments. Before that each item was made individually. After that, confusing labels, garments designed to fit the &quot;average&quot; person to minimize the need for alterations, changing demographics, and vanity sizing turned the whole system into an incredible morass. It wasn&apos;t always this way, and it shouldn&apos;t have to be.&lt;p&gt;The article suggests that government regulation of sizing labels is the solution to the problem of ill-fitting clothing. What the author does not mention is that this was tried in the past! That system fell apart and you can read about its failure from the NIST: &lt;a href=&quot;http://museum.nist.gov/exhibits/apparel/index.htm&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://museum.nist.gov/exhibits/apparel/index.htm&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;I posit that smarter technology which can match the clothing to the person is a superior solution.&lt;p&gt;There&apos;s a lot of pain involved in clothes shopping today. We want to fix that.&lt;p&gt;If any hackers here, especially women, have some thoughts to share on this topic I dearly want to hear them, whether in a post here or in a private email. My address is in my profile.&lt;p&gt;We are seriously considering applying to YCombinator with this proposal.</text></item><item><author>Maciek416</author><text>This could present a significant barrier to reliable online shopping for clothes. It&apos;ll be interesting to see in the coming years, as more of these retailers offer online ordering (GAP is finally offering their catalog to us Canadians, for example), whether fitting will be normalized somehow, or whether each retailer will instead stick to a specific size translation table as I&apos;ve seen some places.&lt;p&gt;Either that or someone will have to build a website or tool that aggregates the investigative work for us. I know I&apos;d pay a small premium to eliminate the guesswork.&lt;p&gt;(EDIT: I wish there was a way to OpenID-ify personal body measurements for this purpose so every clothing site I visited could automatically select the best-fitting clothes for me. GAP small/medium t-shirts are wildly different from Threadless&apos; small/medium American Apparel Ts)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Splines</author><text>But if you have a clothing portal that knows your every dimension, part of the service you can sell is that you measure every single item, ensuring a good fit (regardless of the size tag). Whether you match them up to the customer on shipping or to the database on receiving is up to you.&lt;p&gt;I have no idea if that would be scalable, but it would certainly help with customer retention and goodwill.</text></comment>

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<story><title>Amazon’s New Customer</title><url>https://stratechery.com/2017/amazons-new-customer/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>bipson</author><text>I had to exit at this quote:&lt;p&gt;&lt;i&gt;Apple’s goal was not to build a phone but to build an even more personal computer; their strategy was not to add on functionality to a phone but to reduce the phone to an app; and their tactics were not to duplicate the carriers but to leverage their connection with customers to gain concessions from them.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;I disagree here, this is hindsight and speculative, and the provided link is from 2013. The initial iPhone did not come with a market (the &amp;#x27;iTunes App Store&amp;#x27;) and AFAIK we don&amp;#x27;t know for sure if it had been planned from the beginning to pan out the way it did.&lt;p&gt;I am not trying to play down the success of the iPhone and how it has changed the world. Yes, it was incredibly successful, yes it all panned out nicely. I am just questioning if it was all planned to come out exactly this way from the beginning, or maybe there were some decisions made after initial success and someone came up with even better ideas.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>petra</author><text>Ben Thompson(the author of stratechery) is a smart guy, but his free articles, even though that they seem deep, do lack domain&amp;#x2F;technical knowledge. I&amp;#x27;ve noticed that on the subjects of self-driving-cars, car-sharing and now on logistics&amp;#x2F;delivery&amp;#x2F;e-commerce - notice how abstract and detail free this article is.&lt;p&gt;But actually, that could be a great content authoring strategy: create a really good, smart name for yourself. write articles that the smart people of the internet like to read. give them the wrong answer, they will be forced to correct you. collect replies(including those from you your closed forum) and grab the right answer. publish and charge.&lt;p&gt;Don&amp;#x27;t know if that&amp;#x27;s the strategy. But it could work.</text></comment>

<story><title>Amazon’s New Customer</title><url>https://stratechery.com/2017/amazons-new-customer/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>bipson</author><text>I had to exit at this quote:&lt;p&gt;&lt;i&gt;Apple’s goal was not to build a phone but to build an even more personal computer; their strategy was not to add on functionality to a phone but to reduce the phone to an app; and their tactics were not to duplicate the carriers but to leverage their connection with customers to gain concessions from them.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;I disagree here, this is hindsight and speculative, and the provided link is from 2013. The initial iPhone did not come with a market (the &amp;#x27;iTunes App Store&amp;#x27;) and AFAIK we don&amp;#x27;t know for sure if it had been planned from the beginning to pan out the way it did.&lt;p&gt;I am not trying to play down the success of the iPhone and how it has changed the world. Yes, it was incredibly successful, yes it all panned out nicely. I am just questioning if it was all planned to come out exactly this way from the beginning, or maybe there were some decisions made after initial success and someone came up with even better ideas.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>TallGuyShort</author><text>I distinctly remember the way Steve Jobs presented it: &amp;quot;It&amp;#x27;s a phone, it&amp;#x27;s an iPod, and it&amp;#x27;s an Internet communications device.&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;That just comes off to me as though even he didn&amp;#x27;t realize how ubiquitous phones would become, and how integral to our lives they would become, even replacing computers for so many tasks. It&amp;#x27;s my phone, my iPod, my work outside of office hours, schedules and times my workouts, my alarm clock, my camera, my GPS and mapbook, my library, my notebook, my flashlight, my scanner, my TV, the way I look at cat pictures and the way I look up where to find an AED in an emergency.</text></comment>

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<story><title>Intel to Discontinue Itanium 9700 ‘Kittson’ Processor, the Last of the Itaniums</title><url>https://www.anandtech.com/show/13924/intel-to-discontinue-itanium-9700-kittson-processor-the-last-itaniums</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Klathmon</author><text>&amp;gt;most of these are just past crimes^W^Wlegacy&lt;p&gt;This is completely off topic, but I&amp;#x27;ve seen things like the &amp;quot;^W^W&amp;quot; a few times before, and I don&amp;#x27;t know what it means.&lt;p&gt;Is this a weird encoding mismatch thing? is it from some editor&amp;#x2F;system that people instinctively type? Is it from some other forum which has a strange markup syntax for something?</text></item><item><author>q3k</author><text>Right, but most of these are just past crimes^W^Wlegacy that Intel has to deal with in the name of backwards compatibility.</text></item><item><author>pcwalton</author><text>x86-64 is anything but &amp;quot;boring&amp;quot; and &amp;quot;safe&amp;quot;. :)&lt;p&gt;Real mode, Mod R&amp;#x2F;M and SIB byte encoding weirdness, REX prefixes, 80-bit floats, parity flag, hard-wired registers for shifts&amp;#x2F;multiplies&amp;#x2F;divisions, builtin CRC32 over the wrong polynomial, Pascal calling convention support, binary-coded decimal, high halves of 16-bit registers, MMX overlap with x87 floating point, etc. etc.</text></item><item><author>q3k</author><text>Mixed feelings. On the one hand, Itanium (as a platform) was batshit insane, impossible to write good compilers for and the pinnacle of Intel overengineering. Good riddance.&lt;p&gt;On the other hand, Itanium was ugly, but had its charm and uniqueness. Itanium is what EFI was first developed for. Itanium is where the C++ ABI got started.&lt;p&gt;Itanium being discontinued further reduces mainstream CPUs to the most boring, safe designs possible: IA32&amp;#x2F;amd64. ARM was kinda quirky (conditional execution, barrel shifter), but those were slowly neutered (by introducing Thumb), and then totally thrown out of the window with aarch64. SPARC is dead. PA-RISC is dead. RISC-V is new and promising, but is also the most pragmatic and safe design of an ISA ever. The Mill CPU is interesting, but is underfunded and I don&amp;#x27;t think it will ever be taped out.&lt;p&gt;Similar as with OS research (think: Solaris, Plan9&amp;#x2F;Inferno), researchy and experimental CPU ISAs seem to be a thing of the past now.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>q3k</author><text>Emacs&amp;#x2F;readline bindings for Delete Word. Open up a bash shell, type in `foo bar baz`, then press ctrl-W twice.&lt;p&gt;&amp;#x27;^W&amp;#x27; is what would appear instead if you weren&amp;#x27;t in a readline&amp;#x2F;emacs editor, but instead a dumb line terminal. Thus, leaving &amp;#x27;^W&amp;#x27; behind makes it look like you didn&amp;#x27;t realize what you just corrected is still visible.&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s a joke. I&amp;#x27;ve now explained and ruined it.</text></comment>

<story><title>Intel to Discontinue Itanium 9700 ‘Kittson’ Processor, the Last of the Itaniums</title><url>https://www.anandtech.com/show/13924/intel-to-discontinue-itanium-9700-kittson-processor-the-last-itaniums</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Klathmon</author><text>&amp;gt;most of these are just past crimes^W^Wlegacy&lt;p&gt;This is completely off topic, but I&amp;#x27;ve seen things like the &amp;quot;^W^W&amp;quot; a few times before, and I don&amp;#x27;t know what it means.&lt;p&gt;Is this a weird encoding mismatch thing? is it from some editor&amp;#x2F;system that people instinctively type? Is it from some other forum which has a strange markup syntax for something?</text></item><item><author>q3k</author><text>Right, but most of these are just past crimes^W^Wlegacy that Intel has to deal with in the name of backwards compatibility.</text></item><item><author>pcwalton</author><text>x86-64 is anything but &amp;quot;boring&amp;quot; and &amp;quot;safe&amp;quot;. :)&lt;p&gt;Real mode, Mod R&amp;#x2F;M and SIB byte encoding weirdness, REX prefixes, 80-bit floats, parity flag, hard-wired registers for shifts&amp;#x2F;multiplies&amp;#x2F;divisions, builtin CRC32 over the wrong polynomial, Pascal calling convention support, binary-coded decimal, high halves of 16-bit registers, MMX overlap with x87 floating point, etc. etc.</text></item><item><author>q3k</author><text>Mixed feelings. On the one hand, Itanium (as a platform) was batshit insane, impossible to write good compilers for and the pinnacle of Intel overengineering. Good riddance.&lt;p&gt;On the other hand, Itanium was ugly, but had its charm and uniqueness. Itanium is what EFI was first developed for. Itanium is where the C++ ABI got started.&lt;p&gt;Itanium being discontinued further reduces mainstream CPUs to the most boring, safe designs possible: IA32&amp;#x2F;amd64. ARM was kinda quirky (conditional execution, barrel shifter), but those were slowly neutered (by introducing Thumb), and then totally thrown out of the window with aarch64. SPARC is dead. PA-RISC is dead. RISC-V is new and promising, but is also the most pragmatic and safe design of an ISA ever. The Mill CPU is interesting, but is underfunded and I don&amp;#x27;t think it will ever be taped out.&lt;p&gt;Similar as with OS research (think: Solaris, Plan9&amp;#x2F;Inferno), researchy and experimental CPU ISAs seem to be a thing of the past now.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>otabdeveloper2</author><text>&amp;quot;^W&amp;quot; is this guy: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;End-of-Transmission-Block_character&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;End-of-Transmission-Block_char...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;In Unix line editors it is traditionally used to mean &amp;#x27;erase the previous word&amp;#x27;.&lt;p&gt;See also documentation for ASCII (&lt;a href=&quot;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.robelle.com&amp;#x2F;smugbook&amp;#x2F;ascii.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.robelle.com&amp;#x2F;smugbook&amp;#x2F;ascii.html&lt;/a&gt; for example) for origins of ^C, ^D, ^S, etc.</text></comment>

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<story><title>Ask HN: What open source project, in your opinion, has the highest code quality?</title></story><parent_chain><item><author>akavel</author><text>I hold the source code of Go standard library &amp;amp; base distribution (i.e. compiler, etc.) in very high regard. Especially the standard library is, in my opinion, &lt;i&gt;stunningly&lt;/i&gt; easy to read, explore and understand, while at the same time being well thought through, easy to use (great and astonishingly well documented APIs), of very good performance, and with huge amounts of (also well readable!) tests. The compiler (including the runtime library) is noticeably harder to read and understand (especially because of sparse comments and somewhat idiosyncratic naming conventions; that&amp;#x27;s partly explained by it being constantly in flux). But still &lt;i&gt;doable&lt;/i&gt; for a human being, and I guess probably significantly easier than in most modern compilers. (Though I&amp;#x27;d love to be proven wrong on this account!)&lt;p&gt;At the same time, the apparent simplicity should not be mistaken for lack of effort; on the contrary, I feel every line oozes with purpose, practicality, and to-the-point-ness, like a well sharpened knife, or a great piece of art where it&amp;#x27;s not about that you cannot add more, but that you cannot &lt;i&gt;remove&lt;/i&gt; more.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>013a</author><text>This is one of the great things about many Go libraries; the language is so simple its difficult to overcomplicate a Go project. This makes reading any Go source code, projects, libraries, the stdlib, a joy. The only times I&amp;#x27;ve found Go libraries to be a PITA to read is when they get autogenerated from some other language (protobuf compilations, parts of the compiler that came from C, AWS&amp;#x2F;GoogleCloud&amp;#x2F;Azure libraries, etc), but that&amp;#x27;s to be expected in every language.&lt;p&gt;Kubernetes is another great example of a project that is so unbelievably complex in its function, it should be completely impenetrable to anyone who isn&amp;#x27;t a language expert. But, go check it out; its certainly complex and huge, but actually grokable.</text></comment>

<story><title>Ask HN: What open source project, in your opinion, has the highest code quality?</title></story><parent_chain><item><author>akavel</author><text>I hold the source code of Go standard library &amp;amp; base distribution (i.e. compiler, etc.) in very high regard. Especially the standard library is, in my opinion, &lt;i&gt;stunningly&lt;/i&gt; easy to read, explore and understand, while at the same time being well thought through, easy to use (great and astonishingly well documented APIs), of very good performance, and with huge amounts of (also well readable!) tests. The compiler (including the runtime library) is noticeably harder to read and understand (especially because of sparse comments and somewhat idiosyncratic naming conventions; that&amp;#x27;s partly explained by it being constantly in flux). But still &lt;i&gt;doable&lt;/i&gt; for a human being, and I guess probably significantly easier than in most modern compilers. (Though I&amp;#x27;d love to be proven wrong on this account!)&lt;p&gt;At the same time, the apparent simplicity should not be mistaken for lack of effort; on the contrary, I feel every line oozes with purpose, practicality, and to-the-point-ness, like a well sharpened knife, or a great piece of art where it&amp;#x27;s not about that you cannot add more, but that you cannot &lt;i&gt;remove&lt;/i&gt; more.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>rusk</author><text>&lt;i&gt;&amp;gt; standard library is, in my opinion, stunningly easy to read&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;Reading this brought to mind the JDK. All well structured, neatly formatted and well documented. I’ll often just click thru to the source to get the nitty-gritty on a function, I rarely need to consult the actual docs!</text></comment>

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<story><title>FAQ on Leaving Google</title><url>https://social.clawhammer.net/blog/posts/2024-01-10-GoogleExitLetter/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dilyevsky</author><text>Android was developed entirely at google (and redone midway after iphone came out) despite being originally an acquisition. Youtube basically just sold userbase + content. Chrome. Waymo. AppEngine precedes ec2 and heroku by some time. Most of hashicorp products (and dozen other startups) are basically copies of what google had internally.&lt;p&gt;The theory that google hasn’t birthed any original products just doesnt hold any water</text></item><item><author>sjwhevvvvvsj</author><text>Both Maps and Earth were acquisitions. MOST Google products are.&lt;p&gt;The only two real big success products to come from Google that are still around are Search and Gmail. Maybe you can count Scholar but it’s really just a type of search.&lt;p&gt;Workspace was assembled from various acquisitions, YouTube they bought, Cloud is just a Jack Ma-esque “copy whatever Bezos is doing” initiative.&lt;p&gt;Most home grown Google products have either failed or been killed in the cradle. G+, Stadia, etc etc&lt;p&gt;20% was always a myth.</text></item><item><author>thrtythreeforty</author><text>The author also published [1] an email he wrote at the beginning of his tenure. It is amazing how alien and out of place early Google sounds in today&amp;#x27;s corporate environment. They have completely eroded the perception that Google is this kind of place:&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; Google is the opposite: it&amp;#x27;s like a giant grad-school. Half the programmers have PhD&amp;#x27;s, and everyone treats the place like a giant research playground [...] Every once in a while, a manager skims over the bubbling activity, looking for products to &amp;quot;reap&amp;quot; from the creative harvest. The programmers completely drive the company, it&amp;#x27;s really amazing. I kept waiting for people to walk up to me and ask me if I had declared my major yet. They not only encourage personal experimentation and innovation, they demand it. Every programmer is required to spend 20% of their time working on random personal projects. If you get overloaded by a crisis, then that 20% personal time accrues anyway. Nearly every Google technology you know (maps, earth, gmail) started out as somebody&amp;#x27;s 20% project, I think.&lt;p&gt;Even if this was only half-true back then, there&amp;#x27;s very little you could do to convince me that it&amp;#x27;s true at all now. This culture and the public perception of it has been squandered.&lt;p&gt;[1]: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;social.clawhammer.net&amp;#x2F;blog&amp;#x2F;posts&amp;#x2F;2005-09-25-FirstWeekAtGoogle&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;social.clawhammer.net&amp;#x2F;blog&amp;#x2F;posts&amp;#x2F;2005-09-25-FirstWee...&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>billjings</author><text>This is a really off base characterization of Android within Google.&lt;p&gt;Chet Haase wrote a book on those years, and while it is clear that Google gave them rocket fuel to meet their ambitions, their company culture was wildly different from the rest of Google. Shipping code on Android would not have passed muster for anyone at mainline Google; the process and standards were utterly alien from one another.&lt;p&gt;There is no way Android happens without the acquisition.</text></comment>

<story><title>FAQ on Leaving Google</title><url>https://social.clawhammer.net/blog/posts/2024-01-10-GoogleExitLetter/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dilyevsky</author><text>Android was developed entirely at google (and redone midway after iphone came out) despite being originally an acquisition. Youtube basically just sold userbase + content. Chrome. Waymo. AppEngine precedes ec2 and heroku by some time. Most of hashicorp products (and dozen other startups) are basically copies of what google had internally.&lt;p&gt;The theory that google hasn’t birthed any original products just doesnt hold any water</text></item><item><author>sjwhevvvvvsj</author><text>Both Maps and Earth were acquisitions. MOST Google products are.&lt;p&gt;The only two real big success products to come from Google that are still around are Search and Gmail. Maybe you can count Scholar but it’s really just a type of search.&lt;p&gt;Workspace was assembled from various acquisitions, YouTube they bought, Cloud is just a Jack Ma-esque “copy whatever Bezos is doing” initiative.&lt;p&gt;Most home grown Google products have either failed or been killed in the cradle. G+, Stadia, etc etc&lt;p&gt;20% was always a myth.</text></item><item><author>thrtythreeforty</author><text>The author also published [1] an email he wrote at the beginning of his tenure. It is amazing how alien and out of place early Google sounds in today&amp;#x27;s corporate environment. They have completely eroded the perception that Google is this kind of place:&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; Google is the opposite: it&amp;#x27;s like a giant grad-school. Half the programmers have PhD&amp;#x27;s, and everyone treats the place like a giant research playground [...] Every once in a while, a manager skims over the bubbling activity, looking for products to &amp;quot;reap&amp;quot; from the creative harvest. The programmers completely drive the company, it&amp;#x27;s really amazing. I kept waiting for people to walk up to me and ask me if I had declared my major yet. They not only encourage personal experimentation and innovation, they demand it. Every programmer is required to spend 20% of their time working on random personal projects. If you get overloaded by a crisis, then that 20% personal time accrues anyway. Nearly every Google technology you know (maps, earth, gmail) started out as somebody&amp;#x27;s 20% project, I think.&lt;p&gt;Even if this was only half-true back then, there&amp;#x27;s very little you could do to convince me that it&amp;#x27;s true at all now. This culture and the public perception of it has been squandered.&lt;p&gt;[1]: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;social.clawhammer.net&amp;#x2F;blog&amp;#x2F;posts&amp;#x2F;2005-09-25-FirstWeekAtGoogle&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;social.clawhammer.net&amp;#x2F;blog&amp;#x2F;posts&amp;#x2F;2005-09-25-FirstWee...&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>gretch</author><text>YouTube was founded in 2005, and then sold to Google in 2006.&lt;p&gt;Then it was run under Google from 2006 to 2023.&lt;p&gt;Does anyone remember what 2005 looked like at all?&lt;p&gt;But people really like the narrative that Google couldn’t make a YouTube</text></comment>

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<story><title>Products purchased at Apple Store in India cannot be refunded or exchanged</title><url>https://www.apple.com/in/shop/help/returns_refund</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tumblewit</author><text>So I bought a Macbook Air with M1 that I used for 3 months and noticed the right speaker cracking issue (apparently this is widespread on forums) and instead of going through the headache of repair service I ended up just tossing it online and buy a new one for &amp;lt;7500Rs in losses which I thought was a good deal. The new one has the same problem (yes I tried everything from restore to different audio but its not subtle and this time its left one wow!) so I contacted Apple to setup a return immediately. But nope! They are offering a replacement to me but the customer support is throwing policies in my face. Its insane that apple offers no refund for its own products.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>baybal2</author><text>Aluminium metallurgy strikes back.&lt;p&gt;That&amp;#x27;s why I am very hesitant to use it for mass manufactured goods.&lt;p&gt;ME misses 1 defect showing few months later, and you get n hundred thousand units recall, or worse, the client asking the money back. For a CM it&amp;#x27;s a complete devastation.&lt;p&gt;Machining is also very uneconomical unless you can contract high volume machining specialist, but that&amp;#x27;s impossible for most &amp;lt;1m runs.&lt;p&gt;Only the biggest PC makers like Asus, and Acer can afford custom casting, and press forging at economical scales, but even they don&amp;#x27;t go for aluminium everywhere. ASUS for example went with stamped steel shells for some economy models.</text></comment>

<story><title>Products purchased at Apple Store in India cannot be refunded or exchanged</title><url>https://www.apple.com/in/shop/help/returns_refund</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tumblewit</author><text>So I bought a Macbook Air with M1 that I used for 3 months and noticed the right speaker cracking issue (apparently this is widespread on forums) and instead of going through the headache of repair service I ended up just tossing it online and buy a new one for &amp;lt;7500Rs in losses which I thought was a good deal. The new one has the same problem (yes I tried everything from restore to different audio but its not subtle and this time its left one wow!) so I contacted Apple to setup a return immediately. But nope! They are offering a replacement to me but the customer support is throwing policies in my face. Its insane that apple offers no refund for its own products.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>systemBuilder</author><text>In the USA we have a concept of a warrant of merchantability. This implies that if you buy a product that is defective the manufacturer must take it back within a short period usually 30 days or less. No exceptions.&lt;p&gt;With cars it is slightly different most states have something called a &amp;quot;lemon law.&amp;quot; If there are more than three repair attempts in the first 6 months for the same issue and the problem is still not fixed then the manufacturer must offer a full refund.</text></comment>

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<story><title>Ryzen 7000 amdgpu boot hang</title><url>http://aigarius.com/blog/2022/10/16/ryzen-7000-amdgpu/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>npteljes</author><text>OP&amp;#x27;s issue stems from running Debian, when the supported systems are &amp;quot;RHEL x86 64-Bit&amp;quot; and &amp;quot;Ubuntu x86 64-Bit&amp;quot;.&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.amd.com&amp;#x2F;en&amp;#x2F;products&amp;#x2F;cpu&amp;#x2F;amd-ryzen-7-7700x&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.amd.com&amp;#x2F;en&amp;#x2F;products&amp;#x2F;cpu&amp;#x2F;amd-ryzen-7-7700x&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;Cursory internet search brings up a Linux review page, where on the first page, it&amp;#x27;s explicitly stated that to run the cpu, the user is &amp;quot;needing Linux 5.18 + Mesa 22 &amp;#x2F; linux-firmware.git as of this month to make use of the Radeon iGPU under Linux&amp;quot;, and later that &amp;quot;AMD Zen 4 processors [..] are working out-of-the-box on modern Linux distributions like Ubuntu 22.04 and newer.&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.phoronix.com&amp;#x2F;review&amp;#x2F;amd-ryzen7-7700x&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.phoronix.com&amp;#x2F;review&amp;#x2F;amd-ryzen7-7700x&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;This is a non-issue.</text></comment>

<story><title>Ryzen 7000 amdgpu boot hang</title><url>http://aigarius.com/blog/2022/10/16/ryzen-7000-amdgpu/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>nottorp</author><text>Meh? If you want to run hardware released last week you do check if the software you&amp;#x27;re installing can run on it.&lt;p&gt;Edit: anyone remembers having to prepare a sata driver floppy for windows 2000 (or was it 7?) when sata was new?</text></comment>

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<story><title>WikiLeaks Founder Added To The Interpol Wanted List</title><url>http://techcrunch.com/2010/11/30/wikileaks-julian-assange/</url><text></text></story><parent_chain><item><author>philk</author><text>Perhaps I should be joining the tin-foil hat brigade but these allegations have always seemed conveniently timed.&lt;p&gt;There are few better ways to damage someone&apos;s credibility than alleging rape, even if the allegations don&apos;t hold water.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mpk</author><text>I&apos;ll refrain from commenting on the allegations, but the timing is very suspicious. I mean, really, right after this big leak? And anyway, how many people make the Interpol Red Notice list for rape allegations?&lt;p&gt;As long as we&apos;re on the tin-foil hat path, being dragged to Sweden would place him into custody there. (I know, he&apos;s wanted &apos;for questioning&apos; - that&apos;s what the Red Notice is based on). That would give the USA (which has an extradition treaty with Sweden) plenty of time to build a legal case against him without worrying about him disappearing or pulling more PR stunts.&lt;p&gt;As long as the USA doesn&apos;t charge him with something that is punishable with the death penalty (most EU countries won&apos;t extradite suspects that would face that), it&apos;s into the bureaucratic legal mill for him.</text></comment>

<story><title>WikiLeaks Founder Added To The Interpol Wanted List</title><url>http://techcrunch.com/2010/11/30/wikileaks-julian-assange/</url><text></text></story><parent_chain><item><author>philk</author><text>Perhaps I should be joining the tin-foil hat brigade but these allegations have always seemed conveniently timed.&lt;p&gt;There are few better ways to damage someone&apos;s credibility than alleging rape, even if the allegations don&apos;t hold water.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jbooth</author><text>According to Al Jazeera, the charges were dropped in August. I clicked through to their original source link, though, and it says he&apos;s been &quot;detained in absence&quot;. Have to assume it said something different when the article was originally published on 8/21.&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://english.aljazeera.net/news/europe/2010/08/2010821153010551757.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://english.aljazeera.net/news/europe/2010/08/20108211530...&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>

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<story><title>SQLite Turns 20</title><url>https://www.sqlite.org/src/thisdayinhistory?today=2020-05-29</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>dang</author><text>There was a considerable SQLite thread less than a week ago: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&amp;#x2F;item?id=23281994&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&amp;#x2F;item?id=23281994&lt;/a&gt;.</text></comment>

<story><title>SQLite Turns 20</title><url>https://www.sqlite.org/src/thisdayinhistory?today=2020-05-29</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>deepspace</author><text>I use SQLite frequently, often without thinking about it, but every once in a while I stand back and reflect on what an amazing piece of software it is. An RDBMS without a standalone database engine, delivering rock-solid performance, through exceptional code quality.&lt;p&gt;It scales unexpectedly well with large data sets, and the performance is way beyond what you would expect from a library (as opposed to a &amp;#x27;real&amp;#x27; database).&lt;p&gt;Hats off to the developers for creating and maintaining this amazing software.</text></comment>

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<story><title>Remote work means anyone can take your job</title><url>https://marker.medium.com/remote-workers-just-outsourced-themselves-3f771f9d1529</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>vcanales</author><text>In my totally unscientific assessment of remote job boards, US companies seem to be the only ones requesting US-only applicants, and I have no insight as to why this happens.&lt;p&gt;In my -South American- country the trend is to look outwards if you&amp;#x27;re hiring remotely; European countries seem to fit this description too.</text></item><item><author>davedx</author><text>Seems like this article ignores the gigantic wave of out-sourcing throughout IT that already happened in previous decades and in many cases returned to near-shore &amp;#x2F; onsite work.&lt;p&gt;What you actually see if you look at remote work job boards is many (if not most) companies in say, the USA, want remote people from the USA (or at least the same timezone as the USA). I think this is what will happen in other countries too.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>nthj</author><text>A lot of software companies’ customer contracts specify that only U.S. employees can access customer data, also. Ops, customer support engineering, and many kinds of bug fixes all require that access.</text></comment>

<story><title>Remote work means anyone can take your job</title><url>https://marker.medium.com/remote-workers-just-outsourced-themselves-3f771f9d1529</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>vcanales</author><text>In my totally unscientific assessment of remote job boards, US companies seem to be the only ones requesting US-only applicants, and I have no insight as to why this happens.&lt;p&gt;In my -South American- country the trend is to look outwards if you&amp;#x27;re hiring remotely; European countries seem to fit this description too.</text></item><item><author>davedx</author><text>Seems like this article ignores the gigantic wave of out-sourcing throughout IT that already happened in previous decades and in many cases returned to near-shore &amp;#x2F; onsite work.&lt;p&gt;What you actually see if you look at remote work job boards is many (if not most) companies in say, the USA, want remote people from the USA (or at least the same timezone as the USA). I think this is what will happen in other countries too.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dudul</author><text>European countries are outliers due to EU regulations. Any EU &amp;quot;citizen&amp;quot; can work anywhere in the EU, so pragmatically speaking, why would you only want to hire Spanish people instead of opening the door to French, Italian or German candidates? It comes at literally zero cost to the company.&lt;p&gt;Some industries are heavily regulated in the US and having non-US based employees can become a real headache for US companies. A lot of US companies have background check as part of their hiring process, pretty hard to do for someone not US-based.&lt;p&gt;Also, if you target only the continental US you&amp;#x27;re already talking about companies that may be spread across 4 major timezones. If you start including Europe you&amp;#x27;re now dealing with people that are gonna be more than 6 hours removed from your HQ&amp;#x27;s timezone.</text></comment>

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<story><title>How Palantir Is Taking Over New York City</title><url>http://gizmodo.com/how-palantir-is-taking-over-new-york-city-1786738085</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>spunker540</author><text>The article is implying there&amp;#x27;s more to be worried about than there actually is - they didn&amp;#x27;t mention anything actually &amp;quot;disturbing&amp;quot; but want us all to be concerned about the vague threat of city surveillance nonetheless.&lt;p&gt;What does Palantir do? “integrate[s] disparate data sets and conduct[s] rich, multifaceted analysis across the entire range of data.”&lt;p&gt;How does NYC use it? Tax fraud, fire code violations, fake security guards, fake IDs, fake cigarettes, fake marijuana.&lt;p&gt;So the data already existed in NYC databases and the crimes they&amp;#x27;re enforcing already existed.&lt;p&gt;And yet: &amp;quot;the potential for that kind of outright abuse is less disturbing than the ways in which Palantir’s tech is already being used. The city’s embrace of Palantir, outside of law enforcement, has quietly ushered in an era of civil surveillance so ubiquitous as to be invisible.&amp;quot; -- total hyperbole!&lt;p&gt;If anything the most telling part of this article to me, was the small sums of money being made by Palantir which is frequently lauded as one of the most elite, selective startups for software engineering positions. It seems to operate in small change relative to all the hype.</text></comment>

<story><title>How Palantir Is Taking Over New York City</title><url>http://gizmodo.com/how-palantir-is-taking-over-new-york-city-1786738085</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>maxander</author><text>&amp;gt; Co-founded in 2004 by Peter Thiel and Alex Karp, Palantir...&lt;p&gt;It is a continuous marvel that Peter Thiel, nominally an outspoken and prominent libertarian, is partially responsible for one of the most insidious powers that the U.S. government has over its people.</text></comment>

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<story><title>Google blocked every one of the WSWS’s 45 top search terms</title><url>http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2017/08/04/goog-a04.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>yeahsureokay</author><text>This has been fairly thoroughly debunked:&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;productforums.google.com&amp;#x2F;forum&amp;#x2F;#!topic&amp;#x2F;webmasters&amp;#x2F;0YippLN0KoA;context-place=topicsearchin&amp;#x2F;webmasters&amp;#x2F;category$3Achit-chat%7Csort:relevance%7Cspell:false&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;productforums.google.com&amp;#x2F;forum&amp;#x2F;#!topic&amp;#x2F;webmasters&amp;#x2F;0Y...&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>rgbrenner</author><text>Has it? it looks like someone posted the link, and a bunch of random people with no real information (who dont work at google) said &amp;quot;I dont believe it..&amp;quot;</text></comment>

<story><title>Google blocked every one of the WSWS’s 45 top search terms</title><url>http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2017/08/04/goog-a04.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>yeahsureokay</author><text>This has been fairly thoroughly debunked:&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;productforums.google.com&amp;#x2F;forum&amp;#x2F;#!topic&amp;#x2F;webmasters&amp;#x2F;0YippLN0KoA;context-place=topicsearchin&amp;#x2F;webmasters&amp;#x2F;category$3Achit-chat%7Csort:relevance%7Cspell:false&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;productforums.google.com&amp;#x2F;forum&amp;#x2F;#!topic&amp;#x2F;webmasters&amp;#x2F;0Y...&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ma2rten</author><text>They just pointed out a bunch of SEO problems with the site, that doesn&amp;#x27;t proof or disprove that they have been censored. Especially if their ranking only dropped on specific terms and it dropped suddenly.</text></comment>

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<story><title>How do they make money?</title><url>http://rcs.seerinteractive.com/money/</url><text></text></story><parent_chain><item><author>swang</author><text>Whoever designed this didn&apos;t test to see what happens when you click on third row. You can&apos;t click most of the windows on the third row because the only spot where you can close them (top right corner) is being covered.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>nollidge</author><text>Design pet-peeve: only way to dismiss a modal window is with a tiny, low-contrast X.</text></comment>

<story><title>How do they make money?</title><url>http://rcs.seerinteractive.com/money/</url><text></text></story><parent_chain><item><author>swang</author><text>Whoever designed this didn&apos;t test to see what happens when you click on third row. You can&apos;t click most of the windows on the third row because the only spot where you can close them (top right corner) is being covered.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>vlasta2</author><text>Yes, I too was blocked from further exploring by this bug. Why so much clicking? Wouldn&apos;t it be much better if the box with information simply appeared when mouse hovers over the circle?</text></comment>

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<story><title>Apple has lost the functional high ground</title><url>http://www.marco.org/2015/01/04/apple-lost-functional-high-ground</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>wortendyke</author><text>I was also experiencing something like this. I would open lots of tabs, and at some point the machine would freeze and I would need to do a hard reboot. This got worse after installing Yosemite, where I could rarely go a day without having to reboot my system.&lt;p&gt;I was about to take my laptop in to see if it was a hardware issue when a coworker pointed me to a forum where someone suggested turning off automatic graphics switching. I did that about two weeks ago, and since then I haven&amp;#x27;t had a single occurrence of the issue. You may want to try the same thing to see if it helps.</text></item><item><author>SkyMarshal</author><text>Fwiw I can crash the entire OS by abusing tabs in Chrome. Too many tabs open =&amp;gt; System freeze, hard reboot required. OS X Mavericks on MBPr 15&amp;quot;.&lt;p&gt;That shouldn&amp;#x27;t be possible. Crash the browser yes, not the whole OS.</text></item><item><author>23david</author><text>would be interesting to hear what the distinction is between useless and core features.&lt;p&gt;Maybe I&amp;#x27;m just not hitting core features with OSX 10.10, but the features I&amp;#x27;m using seem fine. And not seeing stability issues with third-party software.</text></item><item><author>throwawayosx</author><text>current apple engineer... the sprint (milestone) development system is still in place... it&amp;#x27;s not the problem though, it&amp;#x27;s the problem is the focus on new useless [imo] features at the expense of core functionality and quality&lt;p&gt;hope marco, geoff and others keep writing these articles so that eventually tim or someone sees one and shakes things up. pressure from the bottom has not worked so far</text></item><item><author>CoolGuySteve</author><text>Former OS X developer here.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;d say the biggest change in the development methodology happened when Bertrand Serlet was replaced with Craig Federighi.&lt;p&gt;With Bertrand, we would move in giant monolithic releases where every group would just dump in whatever they had ready and the whole thing would get released with nightly builds. With SnowLeopard in particular, I remember three dozen releases in a row where Xcode was unusable due to obj-c garbage collection issues. Random stuff you didn&amp;#x27;t expect like CoreGraphics would have showstopper issues and then we&amp;#x27;d report it and it would get fixed by the next week.&lt;p&gt;This resulted in extremely late releases that had a ton of bugs that we piled patches onto as time went on.&lt;p&gt;Craig moved the organization onto a sprint system, where we would develop new features for 2 weeks and then spend a week fixing bugs. After 10 or 12 or 16 of these cycles, we would deem it ready and ship it out.&lt;p&gt;I felt this produced more stable but more conservative software. It seemed like giant rewrites and massive features would be very difficult to introduce and if they did get done, wouldn&amp;#x27;t happen until two thirds or so into the release cycle.&lt;p&gt;On the other hand, Craig has consistently been able to release on time with most of the features promised.&lt;p&gt;I was only there up to the release of Lion (the first Craig release), so I don&amp;#x27;t know how updates and patches worked from then on. Maybe they&amp;#x27;re worse now.&lt;p&gt;But I&amp;#x27;ve been using OS X all this time, and honestly I don&amp;#x27;t think it&amp;#x27;s any worse than before.&lt;p&gt;What has changed is that releases and features happen more often. Tiger and Leopard had a good 2 years to mature and get patches while their delayed successors missed target dates. In the meantime they stagnated with ancient unix tools, safari build, QuickTime frameworks, graphics drivers etc.&lt;p&gt;They felt stable because they were just old, sort of like Debian stable. Meanwhile, the development versions of Leopard and Snow Leopard (the two I spent most of my career at Apple developing) were downright horrible and unreleasable. Each of those releases went gold and had an almost immediate .1 release to fix glaring issues.&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s just that you remember them better because they had a longer history as a stable legacy OS than the modern versions.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>23david</author><text>Interesting! Wonder if it&amp;#x27;s a quality control issue with the code handling the graphics switching. Afaik, Apple engineers write custom video drivers for every supported hardware device. Wonder if Intel is now contributing more to the graphics driver updates and maintenance.</text></comment>

<story><title>Apple has lost the functional high ground</title><url>http://www.marco.org/2015/01/04/apple-lost-functional-high-ground</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>wortendyke</author><text>I was also experiencing something like this. I would open lots of tabs, and at some point the machine would freeze and I would need to do a hard reboot. This got worse after installing Yosemite, where I could rarely go a day without having to reboot my system.&lt;p&gt;I was about to take my laptop in to see if it was a hardware issue when a coworker pointed me to a forum where someone suggested turning off automatic graphics switching. I did that about two weeks ago, and since then I haven&amp;#x27;t had a single occurrence of the issue. You may want to try the same thing to see if it helps.</text></item><item><author>SkyMarshal</author><text>Fwiw I can crash the entire OS by abusing tabs in Chrome. Too many tabs open =&amp;gt; System freeze, hard reboot required. OS X Mavericks on MBPr 15&amp;quot;.&lt;p&gt;That shouldn&amp;#x27;t be possible. Crash the browser yes, not the whole OS.</text></item><item><author>23david</author><text>would be interesting to hear what the distinction is between useless and core features.&lt;p&gt;Maybe I&amp;#x27;m just not hitting core features with OSX 10.10, but the features I&amp;#x27;m using seem fine. And not seeing stability issues with third-party software.</text></item><item><author>throwawayosx</author><text>current apple engineer... the sprint (milestone) development system is still in place... it&amp;#x27;s not the problem though, it&amp;#x27;s the problem is the focus on new useless [imo] features at the expense of core functionality and quality&lt;p&gt;hope marco, geoff and others keep writing these articles so that eventually tim or someone sees one and shakes things up. pressure from the bottom has not worked so far</text></item><item><author>CoolGuySteve</author><text>Former OS X developer here.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;d say the biggest change in the development methodology happened when Bertrand Serlet was replaced with Craig Federighi.&lt;p&gt;With Bertrand, we would move in giant monolithic releases where every group would just dump in whatever they had ready and the whole thing would get released with nightly builds. With SnowLeopard in particular, I remember three dozen releases in a row where Xcode was unusable due to obj-c garbage collection issues. Random stuff you didn&amp;#x27;t expect like CoreGraphics would have showstopper issues and then we&amp;#x27;d report it and it would get fixed by the next week.&lt;p&gt;This resulted in extremely late releases that had a ton of bugs that we piled patches onto as time went on.&lt;p&gt;Craig moved the organization onto a sprint system, where we would develop new features for 2 weeks and then spend a week fixing bugs. After 10 or 12 or 16 of these cycles, we would deem it ready and ship it out.&lt;p&gt;I felt this produced more stable but more conservative software. It seemed like giant rewrites and massive features would be very difficult to introduce and if they did get done, wouldn&amp;#x27;t happen until two thirds or so into the release cycle.&lt;p&gt;On the other hand, Craig has consistently been able to release on time with most of the features promised.&lt;p&gt;I was only there up to the release of Lion (the first Craig release), so I don&amp;#x27;t know how updates and patches worked from then on. Maybe they&amp;#x27;re worse now.&lt;p&gt;But I&amp;#x27;ve been using OS X all this time, and honestly I don&amp;#x27;t think it&amp;#x27;s any worse than before.&lt;p&gt;What has changed is that releases and features happen more often. Tiger and Leopard had a good 2 years to mature and get patches while their delayed successors missed target dates. In the meantime they stagnated with ancient unix tools, safari build, QuickTime frameworks, graphics drivers etc.&lt;p&gt;They felt stable because they were just old, sort of like Debian stable. Meanwhile, the development versions of Leopard and Snow Leopard (the two I spent most of my career at Apple developing) were downright horrible and unreleasable. Each of those releases went gold and had an almost immediate .1 release to fix glaring issues.&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s just that you remember them better because they had a longer history as a stable legacy OS than the modern versions.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>23david</author><text>Interesting! Wonder if it&amp;#x27;s a quality control issue with the code handling the graphics switching. Afaik, Apple engineers write custom video drivers for every supported hardware device. Wonder if Intel is now contributing more to the graphics device efforts.</text></comment>

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<story><title>World food prices hit 10-year peak – FAO</title><url>https://www.reuters.com/business/world-food-prices-hit-10-year-peak-fao-2021-10-07/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mdiesel</author><text>Yes, a multi-party system if far better. But over time, if the rhetoric is &amp;quot;if you aren&amp;#x27;t for us you&amp;#x27;re against us&amp;quot; and &amp;quot;a vote for SmallParty is a vote for Enemy&amp;quot; we trend towards two. We justify it to ourselves by saying that although we don&amp;#x27;t support everything OurSide says, it&amp;#x27;s far preferable to Them.</text></item><item><author>simongray</author><text>When people have 10 different ideological choices, it doesn&amp;#x27;t matter as much. I&amp;#x27;m pretty sure that the Republican party would be represented by e.g. a Traditional Liberal party, a Conservative party, a National Conservative party, and perhaps small fascist party in any traditional European democracy. And that Traditional Liberal party would also contain a whole bunch of Democrats.</text></item><item><author>mdiesel</author><text>Do they have a safeguard against becoming like the US? By which I mean doubling down on core support base rather than seeking to convert opposition, and using populist rhetoric rather than traditional debate.&lt;p&gt;If not then it is only a matter of time. A new charismatic leader who says the right things emerges, and system is pushed to breaking point. The US might be the first, but Trump&amp;#x27;s lasting legacy will be proving to the world that politics can be played this way.</text></item><item><author>dgellow</author><text>I guess you&amp;#x27;re talking about the US? Or do you have another country in mind? Lot of places outside of the US have a working, multi-party, dynamic political systems and are doing meaningful changes.</text></item><item><author>mise_en_place</author><text>I’m actually not terribly worried about food prices being high. Or the general price level being high. What worries me is there is no political way forward.&lt;p&gt;Politics used to be about compromise. Nowadays it is about wasting as much time as possible, while not making any meaningful policy changes. This will come back to bite our elected officials at all levels.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>pjc50</author><text>&amp;gt; &amp;quot;a vote for SmallParty is a vote for Enemy&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;This is only really true in FPTP systems. In any of the transferable vote or alternative vote systems that&amp;#x27;s far less of a problem.</text></comment>

<story><title>World food prices hit 10-year peak – FAO</title><url>https://www.reuters.com/business/world-food-prices-hit-10-year-peak-fao-2021-10-07/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mdiesel</author><text>Yes, a multi-party system if far better. But over time, if the rhetoric is &amp;quot;if you aren&amp;#x27;t for us you&amp;#x27;re against us&amp;quot; and &amp;quot;a vote for SmallParty is a vote for Enemy&amp;quot; we trend towards two. We justify it to ourselves by saying that although we don&amp;#x27;t support everything OurSide says, it&amp;#x27;s far preferable to Them.</text></item><item><author>simongray</author><text>When people have 10 different ideological choices, it doesn&amp;#x27;t matter as much. I&amp;#x27;m pretty sure that the Republican party would be represented by e.g. a Traditional Liberal party, a Conservative party, a National Conservative party, and perhaps small fascist party in any traditional European democracy. And that Traditional Liberal party would also contain a whole bunch of Democrats.</text></item><item><author>mdiesel</author><text>Do they have a safeguard against becoming like the US? By which I mean doubling down on core support base rather than seeking to convert opposition, and using populist rhetoric rather than traditional debate.&lt;p&gt;If not then it is only a matter of time. A new charismatic leader who says the right things emerges, and system is pushed to breaking point. The US might be the first, but Trump&amp;#x27;s lasting legacy will be proving to the world that politics can be played this way.</text></item><item><author>dgellow</author><text>I guess you&amp;#x27;re talking about the US? Or do you have another country in mind? Lot of places outside of the US have a working, multi-party, dynamic political systems and are doing meaningful changes.</text></item><item><author>mise_en_place</author><text>I’m actually not terribly worried about food prices being high. Or the general price level being high. What worries me is there is no political way forward.&lt;p&gt;Politics used to be about compromise. Nowadays it is about wasting as much time as possible, while not making any meaningful policy changes. This will come back to bite our elected officials at all levels.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Vinnl</author><text>I&amp;#x27;m being an armchair politicologist here, but parties that do that tend to get isolated by the other parties, as a result don&amp;#x27;t get to govern, and as a result don&amp;#x27;t grow further. The fact that parties are destined to cooperate also forces them to tone down the &amp;quot;if you aren&amp;#x27;t with us you&amp;#x27;re against us&amp;quot; rhetoric.</text></comment>

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<story><title>How Valve hires, how it fires, and how much it pays </title><url>http://www.gamasutra.com/view/news/187296/How_Valve_hires_how_it_fires_and_how_much_it_pays.php#.USwvx6WSJ8F</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>confluence</author><text>FTA&apos;s comments:&lt;p&gt;&lt;i&gt;&amp;#62; all is good when the money is flowing.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;That really struck me. Everything is all good when the money is flowing. It doesn&apos;t matter whether you work at a bank, a law firm, a defence contractor or a sales agency - no matter what the structure, or how people are organized, everything works when the money is flowing.&lt;p&gt;Now, what I&apos;m really interested in is catastrophic failure.&lt;p&gt;What goes wrong when the money stops flowing? From what I&apos;ve seen historically - the same things go wrong no matter what the place (see GFC effect at various companies back in &apos;08).&lt;p&gt;How is Valve going to deal with the &quot;always losing money&quot; proposition?</text></comment>

<story><title>How Valve hires, how it fires, and how much it pays </title><url>http://www.gamasutra.com/view/news/187296/How_Valve_hires_how_it_fires_and_how_much_it_pays.php#.USwvx6WSJ8F</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>webwielder</author><text>Every time I read about how Valve is composed of only the finest minds in the industry, I wonder how Steam can be a a) slow, kludgy desktop app with inconsistent and at times amateurish UI and visual design, and b) a slow, unreliable, glitchy network service.</text></comment>

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<story><title>Ben Horowitz Explained</title><url>http://fitsnstarts.tumblr.com/post/72678355503/ben-horowitz-explained</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>lhnz</author><text>This is a beautiful post. I don&amp;#x27;t know these people personally but I&amp;#x27;ve deep respect for those that understand inequality, and wish to pay it more than just lip service.&lt;p&gt;They are completely correct. You can&amp;#x27;t just create separate clubs for new cultures entering the system, you have to help them to connect into the dominant networks and that means legitimising their own culture in the dominant one. This is one of the reasons I&amp;#x27;ve found it so disgusting how the tech community reacts around the site RapGenius: there&amp;#x27;s this undercurrent of hatred for baller&amp;#x2F;rap&amp;#x2F;black (so-called &amp;quot;douchebag&amp;quot;) culture which seems to aggravate every single PR problem they have.&lt;p&gt;I remember a couple of weeks ago seeing a few people turn their noses up at poetry.rapgenius.com (and other networks on the same platform) but I can&amp;#x27;t think of a better way to let both cultures cross-pollinate.&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt;&amp;gt; Networks equal access to jobs, funds, and deal flow, and the networks that run silicon valley are Stanford, Harvard, MIT, Google, HP, Ebay, Facebook, Apple, and PayPal.&lt;p&gt;Is anybody else genuinely annoyed that sites such as angel.co use these as legitimising signals of worthiness?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dylandrop</author><text>&amp;gt;&amp;gt; there&amp;#x27;s this undercurrent of hatred for baller&amp;#x2F;rap&amp;#x2F;black (so-called &amp;quot;douchebag&amp;quot;) culture&lt;p&gt;Sorry, but the hatred for RapGenius doesn&amp;#x27;t come from programmers hating black culture. It&amp;#x27;s from the founders being fake, and as you said, douchebags. They&amp;#x27;re three white Yale graduates trying way too hard and ultimately being inauthentic. That&amp;#x27;s what&amp;#x27;s off-putting -- saying things like &amp;quot;baller-sourced&amp;quot; [1] just is an obvious ploy, appropriating words to give themselves fake credentials and personalities as rap aficionados.&lt;p&gt;[1] &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4NAzQPll7Lo&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.youtube.com&amp;#x2F;watch?v=4NAzQPll7Lo&lt;/a&gt; (~1:30)</text></comment>

<story><title>Ben Horowitz Explained</title><url>http://fitsnstarts.tumblr.com/post/72678355503/ben-horowitz-explained</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>lhnz</author><text>This is a beautiful post. I don&amp;#x27;t know these people personally but I&amp;#x27;ve deep respect for those that understand inequality, and wish to pay it more than just lip service.&lt;p&gt;They are completely correct. You can&amp;#x27;t just create separate clubs for new cultures entering the system, you have to help them to connect into the dominant networks and that means legitimising their own culture in the dominant one. This is one of the reasons I&amp;#x27;ve found it so disgusting how the tech community reacts around the site RapGenius: there&amp;#x27;s this undercurrent of hatred for baller&amp;#x2F;rap&amp;#x2F;black (so-called &amp;quot;douchebag&amp;quot;) culture which seems to aggravate every single PR problem they have.&lt;p&gt;I remember a couple of weeks ago seeing a few people turn their noses up at poetry.rapgenius.com (and other networks on the same platform) but I can&amp;#x27;t think of a better way to let both cultures cross-pollinate.&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt;&amp;gt; Networks equal access to jobs, funds, and deal flow, and the networks that run silicon valley are Stanford, Harvard, MIT, Google, HP, Ebay, Facebook, Apple, and PayPal.&lt;p&gt;Is anybody else genuinely annoyed that sites such as angel.co use these as legitimising signals of worthiness?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>joncooper</author><text>I enjoyed the post.&lt;p&gt;My take on the this is that tremendous amount of access politics in the Bay Area seem to revolve around where you went to school and what your pedigree is, and that since those are very highly correlated with the class you were born into, it ends up being emergently classist.&lt;p&gt;Poor people mostly don&amp;#x27;t go to the schools that matriculate the players who participate in the traditional valley power scene. I don&amp;#x27;t buy that this scene is any more racist than the rest of the US, and probably would argue that it is less so. But in terms of class bias, I think considerably greater. And the low incidence of black and latino folks can be attributed significantly to their statistically-lower class distribution.&lt;p&gt;As an anecdotal data point, I haven&amp;#x27;t met a lot of white people from lower-class backgrounds who are players in the Bay Area technology scene. Actually haven&amp;#x27;t met a lot of technology workers that are.&lt;p&gt;This is in contrast to the environment when I worked in finance in NYC and London. I found that scene to be transparently racist and sexist, but there are very many powerful white dudes who started off poor and lower-class.</text></comment>

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<story><title>The Bloomberg Terminal, Explained</title><url>https://www.vox.com/2020-presidential-election/2019/12/11/21005008/michael-bloomberg-terminal-net-worth-2020</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>sbolt</author><text>Off topic but I&amp;#x27;m curious why Walmart employs futures traders?</text></item><item><author>xerox13ster</author><text>I had to reinstall one of these after one of the top trading brass in oil futures at Wal-mart got affected by those fake Microsoft Support scammers and they put the boot lock on his computer.&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s a pain to set up, but it&amp;#x27;s authentication is unbelievable. It has something like triple factor authentication plus biometrics.&lt;p&gt;To get him logged in to test it so I could make sure it spread across his 5 monitors correctly, I had to use his RSA key + password to log in to the website, then use a physical device that reads flashes on the screen to generate another code with another password, before he finally put in another password and scanned his fingerprint on the keyboard.&lt;p&gt;It was mind-boggling, but not unexpected given this dude was moving millions every day.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>SllX</author><text>Probably price insulation.&lt;p&gt;In San Francisco, depending on where you go right now, tomatoes might be $20 a case or they might be $40 a case. Why is any place selling them for $40 a case? I honestly couldn’t tell you other than there was probably a problem somewhere with the tomato crop. But if you’re able to get them for $20 a case right now, it’s because that store was able to get them for a good price, and that means somewhere upstream in the supply chain, a futures contract was exchanged which made that possible by locking in the purchase price in advance for this batch of tomatoes.&lt;p&gt;This is often the case with avocados which might sell for $0.50 a piece in one place or up to $3 a piece in another. Anything can affect the price, up to and including cartels in Mexico demanding protection money from Avocado farmers recently, but pests, weather, soil problems, or whatever might limit the supply and lead to price increases.&lt;p&gt;Walmart, being Walmart which isn’t unlike being Costco or any other major supermarket of sorts where people buy food, would want to limit their exposure to shocks in the market regardless of what’s causing the shocks. So they would need to employ futures traders in order to accomplish this. Even if they lose money on some contracts, they’re probably making money on enough of them to keep their prices low when you go there to buy tomatoes, avocados, lettuce, spinach, meat, poultry, or whatever. Nobody is happy when the price of tomatoes suddenly doubles almost overnight, and especially not the customer.</text></comment>

<story><title>The Bloomberg Terminal, Explained</title><url>https://www.vox.com/2020-presidential-election/2019/12/11/21005008/michael-bloomberg-terminal-net-worth-2020</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>sbolt</author><text>Off topic but I&amp;#x27;m curious why Walmart employs futures traders?</text></item><item><author>xerox13ster</author><text>I had to reinstall one of these after one of the top trading brass in oil futures at Wal-mart got affected by those fake Microsoft Support scammers and they put the boot lock on his computer.&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s a pain to set up, but it&amp;#x27;s authentication is unbelievable. It has something like triple factor authentication plus biometrics.&lt;p&gt;To get him logged in to test it so I could make sure it spread across his 5 monitors correctly, I had to use his RSA key + password to log in to the website, then use a physical device that reads flashes on the screen to generate another code with another password, before he finally put in another password and scanned his fingerprint on the keyboard.&lt;p&gt;It was mind-boggling, but not unexpected given this dude was moving millions every day.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>phdp</author><text>I imagine that, just like airlines use futures to hedge the price risk of jet fuel, they do the same for their vast logistics operation. They can lock in prices so they aren’t suddenly facing a massive bill if gas goes way up.</text></comment>

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<story><title>AstraZeneca unveils successes in treatment of lung cancer</title><url>https://www.ft.com/content/b845e8ab-9cbc-482c-aa22-0b5c020be099</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Xenoamorphous</author><text>I&amp;#x27;ll never understand how in this day and age we still allow people to die suffering this way.&lt;p&gt;How come we are ok with euthanasia for pets but not people?</text></item><item><author>Scubabear68</author><text>Same with my dad in the 80s. His descent was horrible to witness, in my case at the age of 21. I’ll never know the truth, but I think his doctor took pity on him, dad died very shortly after a push of morphine.</text></item><item><author>latchkey</author><text>My mom died from lung cancer. It was going to happen, life long smoker.&lt;p&gt;Dying from LC is a terrible way to go. Your lungs fill with fluid and you slowly drown in your own fluid. The pain meds make you hallucinate terrible thoughts. I wouldn&amp;#x27;t wish it on anyone.&lt;p&gt;For the benefit of humanity, I hope this treatment works.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>nicoburns</author><text>&amp;gt; How come we are ok with euthanasia for pets but not people?&lt;p&gt;I think because:&lt;p&gt;- It mostly wasn&amp;#x27;t an issue we had to deal with until recently because we didn&amp;#x27;t have the medical techniques to preserve people&amp;#x27;s lives so long anyway.&lt;p&gt;- There are some concerns around people being forced into it that require any laws enabling it to be carefully designed.&lt;p&gt;- Religion providing it&amp;#x27;s usual function of inertia around societal customs slowing the change.&lt;p&gt;Pretty much everyone I know under the age of 60 (and many older) support euthanasia for people who have dementia or some other unpleasant condition that affects their quality of life (self-determined, not forced on people), so I&amp;#x27;m quietly confident that it will be happen soon.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;ll be pretty mad if it&amp;#x27;s not available for me if&amp;#x2F;when I get to the point that I want it!</text></comment>

<story><title>AstraZeneca unveils successes in treatment of lung cancer</title><url>https://www.ft.com/content/b845e8ab-9cbc-482c-aa22-0b5c020be099</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Xenoamorphous</author><text>I&amp;#x27;ll never understand how in this day and age we still allow people to die suffering this way.&lt;p&gt;How come we are ok with euthanasia for pets but not people?</text></item><item><author>Scubabear68</author><text>Same with my dad in the 80s. His descent was horrible to witness, in my case at the age of 21. I’ll never know the truth, but I think his doctor took pity on him, dad died very shortly after a push of morphine.</text></item><item><author>latchkey</author><text>My mom died from lung cancer. It was going to happen, life long smoker.&lt;p&gt;Dying from LC is a terrible way to go. Your lungs fill with fluid and you slowly drown in your own fluid. The pain meds make you hallucinate terrible thoughts. I wouldn&amp;#x27;t wish it on anyone.&lt;p&gt;For the benefit of humanity, I hope this treatment works.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>lr4444lr</author><text>Because pets are property. There is no concept of consent. Human consent to die vs. pathological suicidal ideation is a very tricky thing.</text></comment>

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<story><title>PEP 622 – Structural Pattern Matching</title><url>https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0622/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mdrachuk</author><text>So it’s actually a smart switch statement.&lt;p&gt;Seems like it doesn’t create instances when you’re doing&lt;p&gt;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt; Node(children=[Leaf(value=&amp;quot;(&amp;quot;), Node(), Leaf(value=&amp;quot;)&amp;quot;)]) &lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt; instead:&lt;p&gt;1. Node means &amp;quot;is instance of Node&amp;quot;.&lt;p&gt;2. Everything in between () is &amp;quot;has an attribute with value&amp;quot;.&lt;p&gt;3. List means &amp;quot;the attribute should be treated as a tuple of&amp;quot;.. etc..&lt;p&gt;Very confusing, this definitely needs another syntax, because both newcomers and experienced devs will be prone to read it as plain `==`, since that&amp;#x27;s how enums and primitives will be working.&lt;p&gt;This syntax goes against Zen: It’s implicit -- when using match case expressions don&amp;#x27;t mean what they regularly mean. It’s complicated -- basically it’s another language (like regex) which is injected into Python.&lt;p&gt;I’m a big believer in this feature, it just needs some other syntax. Using {} instead of () makes it a lot better. Now no way to confuse it with simple equality.&lt;p&gt;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt; match node: case Node{children=[{Leaf{value=&amp;quot;(&amp;quot;, Node{}, ...}}&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>andolanra</author><text>It&amp;#x27;s worth noting that there&amp;#x27;s a &lt;i&gt;truly massive&lt;/i&gt; amount of precedent in other languages for Python implementing it using the syntax as proposed. Languages that have or are planning to include pattern-matching where the pattern syntax exactly mirrors the expression syntax like this include Rust, Swift, OCaml, Haskell, C++, Ruby, Erlang, and many, many more.&lt;p&gt;I understand the worry that newcomers might struggle, but I don&amp;#x27;t think it&amp;#x27;s going to be the case: newcomers regularly learn the languages listed above without stumbling across that problem. And if Python did choose a syntax like the one you&amp;#x27;re proposing, it&amp;#x27;d also be the odd one out among dozens of mainstream languages including this feature, which I think would be even &lt;i&gt;more&lt;/i&gt; confusing!</text></comment>

<story><title>PEP 622 – Structural Pattern Matching</title><url>https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0622/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mdrachuk</author><text>So it’s actually a smart switch statement.&lt;p&gt;Seems like it doesn’t create instances when you’re doing&lt;p&gt;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt; Node(children=[Leaf(value=&amp;quot;(&amp;quot;), Node(), Leaf(value=&amp;quot;)&amp;quot;)]) &lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt; instead:&lt;p&gt;1. Node means &amp;quot;is instance of Node&amp;quot;.&lt;p&gt;2. Everything in between () is &amp;quot;has an attribute with value&amp;quot;.&lt;p&gt;3. List means &amp;quot;the attribute should be treated as a tuple of&amp;quot;.. etc..&lt;p&gt;Very confusing, this definitely needs another syntax, because both newcomers and experienced devs will be prone to read it as plain `==`, since that&amp;#x27;s how enums and primitives will be working.&lt;p&gt;This syntax goes against Zen: It’s implicit -- when using match case expressions don&amp;#x27;t mean what they regularly mean. It’s complicated -- basically it’s another language (like regex) which is injected into Python.&lt;p&gt;I’m a big believer in this feature, it just needs some other syntax. Using {} instead of () makes it a lot better. Now no way to confuse it with simple equality.&lt;p&gt;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt; match node: case Node{children=[{Leaf{value=&amp;quot;(&amp;quot;, Node{}, ...}}&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>masklinn</author><text>&amp;gt; Very confusing, this definitely needs another syntax&lt;p&gt;The entire point of structural pattern matching is that structuring and destructuring look the same.&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; This syntax goes against Zen: It’s implicit -- when using match case expressions don&amp;#x27;t mean what they regularly mean.&lt;p&gt;There&amp;#x27;s nothing implicit to it. The match&amp;#x2F;case tells you that you&amp;#x27;re in a pattern-matching context.&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; I’m a big believer in this feature, it just needs some other syntax. Using {} instead of () makes it a lot better. Now no way to confuse it with simple equality.&lt;p&gt;Makes it even better by… looking like set literals and losing the clear relationship between construction and deconstruction?</text></comment>

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<story><title>Apple Music Announces Spatial Audio and Lossless Audio</title><url>https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2021/05/apple-music-announces-spatial-audio-and-lossless-audio/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Someone1234</author><text>This is included&amp;#x2F;no additional cost which is fantastic.&lt;p&gt;I do wonder if in the longer term if Apple&amp;#x27;s Spatial Audio with &amp;quot;dynamic head tracking&amp;quot; isn&amp;#x27;t the next 3D TVs&amp;#x2F;3D Content i.e. a gimmick.&lt;p&gt;Taking traditional multi-source audio (Dolby&amp;#x2F;Atmos&amp;#x2F;etc) and jamming it into stereo is old tech, it doesn&amp;#x27;t work particularly well but is cheap to make&amp;#x2F;consume, thus &lt;i&gt;mostly&lt;/i&gt; harmless. The new Spatial Audio is using gyroscopes to measure head movements in order to adjust the audio accordingly, and new audio formats to make it work.&lt;p&gt;This may sound interesting if you haven&amp;#x27;t tried it, but it results in: Either you keep your head stationary and get the non-Spatial Audio sound (i.e. what they optimized for 90%+ of their audience) or whipping your head around to &amp;quot;enjoy&amp;quot; the effect (which is largely a movement accurate degradation).&lt;p&gt;It feels like cart-before-the-horse tech wherein they figured out they can do this thing, and now want to work backwards into what it may be useful for.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>crazygringo</author><text>&amp;gt; &lt;i&gt;Either you keep your head stationary and get the non-Spatial Audio sound (i.e. what they optimized for 90%+ of their audience)&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;I literally have no idea what you&amp;#x27;re talking about.&lt;p&gt;Using Spatial Audio on my AirPods Pro is &lt;i&gt;insanely&lt;/i&gt; better, and still &lt;i&gt;very much&lt;/i&gt; spatial, even &lt;i&gt;without&lt;/i&gt; actively moving my head.&lt;p&gt;First, the sound appears to be coming from outside of my head, rather than between my ears -- no &amp;quot;headphone fatigue&amp;quot;. It&amp;#x27;s vastly more comfortable and realistic.&lt;p&gt;Second, while dialog comes from straight ahead, sound effects like doors opening, cars honking etc. clearly come from angles, and things like wind come from all around, like an actual surround sound experience.&lt;p&gt;Third, because the dialog tracks are separated from other sounds spatially, the dialog is &lt;i&gt;easier to understand&lt;/i&gt; as well. I used to sometimes put on subtitles for certain material to understand fully in normal stereo -- I never have to anymore with spatial audio.&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; &lt;i&gt;Taking traditional multi-source audio (Dolby&amp;#x2F;Atmos&amp;#x2F;etc) and jamming it into stereo is old tech&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;ve used all that old tech too, and for whatever reason Apple&amp;#x27;s spatial audio is leagues better. I&amp;#x27;m not sure if it&amp;#x27;s something about being optimized for known headphone characteristics, or the head tracking, or something clever with the inward-facing microphones, or all of the above, but it&amp;#x27;s &lt;i&gt;nothing&lt;/i&gt; like that old tech.&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; &lt;i&gt;now want to work backwards into what it may be useful for.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s useful for listening, end of story. I&amp;#x27;m honestly mystified why you think it&amp;#x27;s a gimmick. I can&amp;#x27;t even imagine going back to listening to movies and TV without it. (I project from my iPad onto a screen, connect my AirPods Pro, and it&amp;#x27;s basically like being in an actual cinema, but without waking anyone else up at night from booming surround sound.)</text></comment>

<story><title>Apple Music Announces Spatial Audio and Lossless Audio</title><url>https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2021/05/apple-music-announces-spatial-audio-and-lossless-audio/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Someone1234</author><text>This is included&amp;#x2F;no additional cost which is fantastic.&lt;p&gt;I do wonder if in the longer term if Apple&amp;#x27;s Spatial Audio with &amp;quot;dynamic head tracking&amp;quot; isn&amp;#x27;t the next 3D TVs&amp;#x2F;3D Content i.e. a gimmick.&lt;p&gt;Taking traditional multi-source audio (Dolby&amp;#x2F;Atmos&amp;#x2F;etc) and jamming it into stereo is old tech, it doesn&amp;#x27;t work particularly well but is cheap to make&amp;#x2F;consume, thus &lt;i&gt;mostly&lt;/i&gt; harmless. The new Spatial Audio is using gyroscopes to measure head movements in order to adjust the audio accordingly, and new audio formats to make it work.&lt;p&gt;This may sound interesting if you haven&amp;#x27;t tried it, but it results in: Either you keep your head stationary and get the non-Spatial Audio sound (i.e. what they optimized for 90%+ of their audience) or whipping your head around to &amp;quot;enjoy&amp;quot; the effect (which is largely a movement accurate degradation).&lt;p&gt;It feels like cart-before-the-horse tech wherein they figured out they can do this thing, and now want to work backwards into what it may be useful for.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>solarmist</author><text>The cart before the horse doesn’t sound very Apple like. They’re the kind to keep it private and mess with it until they find a use for it and get it working very well.&lt;p&gt;Instead they’d just find a way to make the battery bigger because they know people care a ton about that.&lt;p&gt;Also, everyone keeps talking about consciously moving your head around. Record yourself doing something on your computer for 5 minutes and watch how much your head already, unconsciously moves around. It’s a lot.&lt;p&gt;Yes it’s subtle, but it’s supposed to be. You’re meant to forget about it. It’s trying to more accurately reproduce our natural abilities.</text></comment>

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<story><title>Show HN: TLDR This – Auto summarize any article or webpage in a click</title><url>https://tldr.hackeryogi.com/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>radhakrsna</author><text>Hi everyone&lt;p&gt;I am delighted to share my new project &amp;quot;TLDR This&amp;quot; with you guys.&lt;p&gt;Problem : There&amp;#x27;s so much content out there but too little time to read. So many times, it happens that there&amp;#x27;s a long article that we&amp;#x27;re interested in, but we don&amp;#x27;t really feel like scouring through it to extract relevant information from it.&lt;p&gt;Hence, I created &amp;quot;TLDR This&amp;quot; to help you navigate relevant content quickly and easily, without having to read the whole thing.&lt;p&gt;Steps to get cracking - 1. Copy and paste either the URL or the text of the article you&amp;#x27;d like summarized. 2. Press the &amp;quot;Process Text&amp;quot; button, and you are good to go.&lt;p&gt;TLDR This also comes with a chrome extension, allowing you to summarize any webpage at the click of a button.&lt;p&gt;How to use the chrome extension? Just click the “tl;dr” button in Chrome&amp;#x27;s toolbar on a webpage which you&amp;#x27;d like summarized and within a few seconds, you&amp;#x27;ll get the &amp;lt; 5 sentence summary right there.&lt;p&gt;Please let me know if you have any feedback&amp;#x2F;suggestions.&lt;p&gt;Thanks a lot</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>nudpiedo</author><text>Introduce this article: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;johnnyrodgers.is&amp;#x2F;burnout&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;johnnyrodgers.is&amp;#x2F;burnout&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;Each section subtitle is displayed as a sentence. Could you maybe ML generate a 1 sentence summary for section? I don&amp;#x27;t think there is an ML which could extract the take aways from each section and make a summary correctly, but that was my original expectation when I saw it first time.</text></comment>

<story><title>Show HN: TLDR This – Auto summarize any article or webpage in a click</title><url>https://tldr.hackeryogi.com/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>radhakrsna</author><text>Hi everyone&lt;p&gt;I am delighted to share my new project &amp;quot;TLDR This&amp;quot; with you guys.&lt;p&gt;Problem : There&amp;#x27;s so much content out there but too little time to read. So many times, it happens that there&amp;#x27;s a long article that we&amp;#x27;re interested in, but we don&amp;#x27;t really feel like scouring through it to extract relevant information from it.&lt;p&gt;Hence, I created &amp;quot;TLDR This&amp;quot; to help you navigate relevant content quickly and easily, without having to read the whole thing.&lt;p&gt;Steps to get cracking - 1. Copy and paste either the URL or the text of the article you&amp;#x27;d like summarized. 2. Press the &amp;quot;Process Text&amp;quot; button, and you are good to go.&lt;p&gt;TLDR This also comes with a chrome extension, allowing you to summarize any webpage at the click of a button.&lt;p&gt;How to use the chrome extension? Just click the “tl;dr” button in Chrome&amp;#x27;s toolbar on a webpage which you&amp;#x27;d like summarized and within a few seconds, you&amp;#x27;ll get the &amp;lt; 5 sentence summary right there.&lt;p&gt;Please let me know if you have any feedback&amp;#x2F;suggestions.&lt;p&gt;Thanks a lot</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>josteink</author><text>&amp;gt; TLDR This also comes with a chrome extension&lt;p&gt;Firefox uses the exact same extension format, and except for non-trivial cases, “porting” an extension to Firefox involves literally &lt;i&gt;no&lt;/i&gt; code-changes.&lt;p&gt;Consider publishing your extension for Firefox too. You just need a Mozilla-account to publish it on addons.mozilla.org. That’s pretty much it.</text></comment>

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<story><title>RapidShare is Shutting down</title><url>https://www.rapidshare.com/home</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>toomuchtodo</author><text>I wish the Internet Archive had an embargo feature, where you could push data in and while it wouldn&amp;#x27;t be served, it would be stored until a later date when copyright issues could be worked out.</text></item><item><author>nezza-_-</author><text>When Megaupload (and some other sharehosters) died, quite a lot of interesting things just disappeared from the net.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;m talking about things like small tools that were shared on e.g. xda-developers before Github came, about fan-mods for games etc... The &amp;#x27;big&amp;#x27; ones continued living, but if you now e.g. search for a special kernel&amp;#x2F;ROM for your G1&amp;#x2F;ADP1 you are mostly out of luck.&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s sad that there&amp;#x27;s basically no way for an organisation like archive.org to archive things from sharehosters given the unclear (or quite clearly black&amp;#x2F;gray) law situation and also the missing cooperation with the sharehosters themselves.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>saganus</author><text>This is an interesting idea.&lt;p&gt;It would work kind of like an escrow, right? Where the &amp;quot;release&amp;#x2F;publish clause&amp;quot; could be tied to copyright expiration or other legal events like you say.&lt;p&gt;The problem I see is, how do you filter&amp;#x2F;reject the amount of stuff you would have to store without even being public? AFAIK, the IA has issues storing so much of the already-public data, so storing &amp;quot;dark&amp;quot; (non-public&amp;#x2F;unpublished) stuff would potentially mean lots of cruft and garbage so to speak.&lt;p&gt;However it does sound very interesting. I hope we can some day achieve truly permanent data storage systems were we could just dump all of this and not worry much about it again.&lt;p&gt;Edit: Thinking about it a bit more, how feasible does the following sound:&lt;p&gt;Anyone interested in helping the IA could buy a sort of Drobo&amp;#x2F;NAS that is able to store only IA stuff (ala Freenet). Everything is encrypted of course, and then only way to access the files is when the escrow trigger fires off, the private key is released at the IA archive and then every owner of the IA-box will have access to that particular part of the archive (as well as regular IA users through web).&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s kind of like an HDD preloaded full of torrents, and then the differences or new additions can be streamed to your local IA-box as needed. You could even filter what kind of stuff would you like to help the IA archive. For example, I&amp;#x27;m a big fan of movies so I prioritize that category (up to a certain % so that no one category is forgotten).&lt;p&gt;Does anyone know if anything resembles this? I mean, I could very well leave a low-powered NAS to help the IA serve their content, store it for later use, etc. And I imagine (hope) that a lot of other people would too. It would be a way of donating electricity, space to a worthy cause.</text></comment>

<story><title>RapidShare is Shutting down</title><url>https://www.rapidshare.com/home</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>toomuchtodo</author><text>I wish the Internet Archive had an embargo feature, where you could push data in and while it wouldn&amp;#x27;t be served, it would be stored until a later date when copyright issues could be worked out.</text></item><item><author>nezza-_-</author><text>When Megaupload (and some other sharehosters) died, quite a lot of interesting things just disappeared from the net.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;m talking about things like small tools that were shared on e.g. xda-developers before Github came, about fan-mods for games etc... The &amp;#x27;big&amp;#x27; ones continued living, but if you now e.g. search for a special kernel&amp;#x2F;ROM for your G1&amp;#x2F;ADP1 you are mostly out of luck.&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s sad that there&amp;#x27;s basically no way for an organisation like archive.org to archive things from sharehosters given the unclear (or quite clearly black&amp;#x2F;gray) law situation and also the missing cooperation with the sharehosters themselves.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>phaer</author><text>Isn&amp;#x27;t that already the case? I heard that they already download well-tagged music from private trackers like what.cd which could be published if its copyright expires eventually. There&amp;#x27;s a page on archive.org with &amp;quot;what_cd&amp;quot; in it&amp;#x27;s url and no public items: &lt;a href=&quot;https://archive.org/details/what_cd&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;archive.org&amp;#x2F;details&amp;#x2F;what_cd&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>

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<story><title>Ask HN: How to reskill without losing income?</title><text>I am making a good living with a niche skillset. It&amp;#x27;s a fairly old technology and there&amp;#x27;s less and less work in that area. I&amp;#x27;d like to move to another technology stack - it&amp;#x27;s not too hard for me - different keywords etc and I&amp;#x27;ve actually done some hobby projects already. I think if I applied for a job I&amp;#x27;d get rejected as there is no track record of being able to work with that tech. Best get case I could probably apply for a junior job which would pay well below my current. It will probably take years to get to the same level of pay, assuming that particualr tech stack takes off. Is there any eascape from this? Are there any companies that would be willing to hire a grumpy 30-something and recognise his&amp;#x2F;her experience as something reusable?</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>hkarthik</author><text>I did this back in 2009. Here&amp;#x27;s how to do it.&lt;p&gt;Pick a technology stack that you want to get a job in and build a side project in your spare time. Attend meetups with experts in your local community and learn how to make it awesome. Build relationships with them along the way.&lt;p&gt;Use those relationships to get some part-time contract work in said technology stack with someone local. Document this experience and build up a portfolio.&lt;p&gt;Eventually, use the knowledge you&amp;#x27;ve obtained from your side project and part time contract work to apply for full time jobs. You&amp;#x27;ll then be very marketable, and you will have enough knowledge to do well in interviews.&lt;p&gt;Good luck!</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ryguytilidie</author><text>I do recruiting and I have an awesome story like this. Back in 2010 I worked at a mobile reading company. I was trying to hire iOS developers. I found an awesome github from a dude who was doing backend C# stuff at MSFT, but was building AWESOME iOS apps at night.&lt;p&gt;I emailed him and asked if he wanted to do the thing he was clearly passionate about full time.&lt;p&gt;He aced the interviews, came out and built our app. About a year later one of our founders left to start a new company. The founder recruited this guy. Within 18 months, their company sold for a few hundred million and now instead of writing the C# code he hated, he has now helped build an awesome company, build a whole new skillset and built his leadership skills. Not to mention the fact that his wife and child are basically taken care of for life because of this decision.</text></comment>

<story><title>Ask HN: How to reskill without losing income?</title><text>I am making a good living with a niche skillset. It&amp;#x27;s a fairly old technology and there&amp;#x27;s less and less work in that area. I&amp;#x27;d like to move to another technology stack - it&amp;#x27;s not too hard for me - different keywords etc and I&amp;#x27;ve actually done some hobby projects already. I think if I applied for a job I&amp;#x27;d get rejected as there is no track record of being able to work with that tech. Best get case I could probably apply for a junior job which would pay well below my current. It will probably take years to get to the same level of pay, assuming that particualr tech stack takes off. Is there any eascape from this? Are there any companies that would be willing to hire a grumpy 30-something and recognise his&amp;#x2F;her experience as something reusable?</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>hkarthik</author><text>I did this back in 2009. Here&amp;#x27;s how to do it.&lt;p&gt;Pick a technology stack that you want to get a job in and build a side project in your spare time. Attend meetups with experts in your local community and learn how to make it awesome. Build relationships with them along the way.&lt;p&gt;Use those relationships to get some part-time contract work in said technology stack with someone local. Document this experience and build up a portfolio.&lt;p&gt;Eventually, use the knowledge you&amp;#x27;ve obtained from your side project and part time contract work to apply for full time jobs. You&amp;#x27;ll then be very marketable, and you will have enough knowledge to do well in interviews.&lt;p&gt;Good luck!</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>hliyan</author><text>I did this in 2013. &lt;i&gt;This advice is spot on&lt;/i&gt;. Learn the hell out of the new technology stack, and then build up a portfolio (for example, you can contribute to open source projects, or start your own).&lt;p&gt;If the antiquated tech you have experience in is more complex than the new stack (antiquated tech usually is), it sometimes works as a positive: you have a perspective &amp;#x27;native&amp;#x27; users of the stack don&amp;#x27;t.</text></comment>

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<story><title>Google Fiber agrees to acquire Webpass</title><url>https://webpass.net/blog/google-fiber-agrees-to-acquire-webpass</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>nurblieh</author><text>Huge fan of Webpass. 1 Gbps of IPv4&amp;#x2F;6 with great customer service for $55 a month. It can&amp;#x27;t be beat, if it&amp;#x27;s available to you.&lt;p&gt;I hope this is a win for the Webpass employees, in the short and long term. Thanks for all the bits!</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>bduerst</author><text>We once spent a year in a building that had Webpass. Ever since then we&amp;#x27;ve moved several times, and every time we ask if they have Webpass in the building. Fantastic service.</text></comment>

<story><title>Google Fiber agrees to acquire Webpass</title><url>https://webpass.net/blog/google-fiber-agrees-to-acquire-webpass</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>nurblieh</author><text>Huge fan of Webpass. 1 Gbps of IPv4&amp;#x2F;6 with great customer service for $55 a month. It can&amp;#x27;t be beat, if it&amp;#x27;s available to you.&lt;p&gt;I hope this is a win for the Webpass employees, in the short and long term. Thanks for all the bits!</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>vecinu</author><text>$60&amp;#x2F;month now but I agree with all your points.</text></comment>

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<story><title>How Video Works</title><url>https://howvideo.works</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>AnotherGoodName</author><text>One thing i&amp;#x27;d love to see added here is a blurb about the importance of the location of the video metadata in the file. Specifically that you need to have the metadata at the start of the file rather than the end of the file (which is the default) for low-latency playback on web.&lt;p&gt;Explained: Freshly recorded MPEG (and almost all other container types) typically saves the header at the end of the file. This is the logical place to store header information after recording as you just append to the end of the file you&amp;#x27;ve just written. It&amp;#x27;s the default.&lt;p&gt;Unfortunately having the header at the end of the file is terrible for web playback. A user must download the entire video before playback starts. You absolutely need to re-encode the video with FAST-Start set.&lt;p&gt;The header location is the number one mistake that i&amp;#x27;ve seen a lot of website and developers make. If you find your website videos have a spinner that&amp;#x27;s seconds long before the video playback starts check the encoding. Specifically check that you&amp;#x27;ve set fast start.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;ve seen companies who have a perfectly reasonable static site behind a CDN spend a fortune hosting their videos with a third party to fix the latency issues they were seeing. The expensive third party was ultimately fixing the issue because they re-encoded the videos with fast start set. The reality is their existing solution backed by a CDN would also have worked if they encoded the videos correctly.</text></comment>

<story><title>How Video Works</title><url>https://howvideo.works</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>Sean-Der</author><text>I really love all the work the Mux team is doing! They don&amp;#x27;t just throw APIs over the wall. They are putting in lots of effort to educate&amp;#x2F;empower developers. This is good stuff, and not just propietary knowledge to sell something.&lt;p&gt;Also check out the video-dev Slack[0] and demuxed. Pion WebRTC and WebRTC for the Curious was motivated by conversations I had with other developers in their Slack.&lt;p&gt;[0] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;video-dev.herokuapp.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;video-dev.herokuapp.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;[1] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;demuxed.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;demuxed.com&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>

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<story><title>Open Infrastructure Map</title><url>https://openinframap.org/#2/26/12</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>AceJohnny2</author><text>Nice! I can finally locate LA&amp;#x27;s Scattergood-Olympic underground transmission line that was repaired in 1989 to much engineering prowess [1].&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;openinframap.org&amp;#x2F;#10.58&amp;#x2F;33.9452&amp;#x2F;-118.3529&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;openinframap.org&amp;#x2F;#10.58&amp;#x2F;33.9452&amp;#x2F;-118.3529&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;I love infrastructure engineering. There&amp;#x27;s so much going on that allows us to take things for granted. Even the 2021 Texas power grid failure fared relatively well for how close it skirted absolute disaster.&lt;p&gt;[1] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;practical.engineering&amp;#x2F;blog&amp;#x2F;2021&amp;#x2F;9&amp;#x2F;16&amp;#x2F;repairing-underground-power-cables-is-nearly-impossible&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;practical.engineering&amp;#x2F;blog&amp;#x2F;2021&amp;#x2F;9&amp;#x2F;16&amp;#x2F;repairing-under...&lt;/a&gt; (I should give Grady more money) People here may remember jwz&amp;#x27;s post on the topic in 2002, copying the emails from 1989 (note the following link may display something unsavory with the HN referrer, in which case copy-and-paste it): &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.jwz.org&amp;#x2F;blog&amp;#x2F;2002&amp;#x2F;11&amp;#x2F;engineering-pornography&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.jwz.org&amp;#x2F;blog&amp;#x2F;2002&amp;#x2F;11&amp;#x2F;engineering-pornography&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>

<story><title>Open Infrastructure Map</title><url>https://openinframap.org/#2/26/12</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>karussell</author><text>Impressive data collection from OpenStreetMap (as always :)).&lt;p&gt;It would be great when wind power sources could be highlighted like solar sources and when wind &amp;amp; solar are more visible by default. Even solar power parks appear only on larger zoom scale (in my area).</text></comment>

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<story><title>The High Sierra forest is dying, and you can&apos;t count the loss in dead trees</title><url>http://www.latimes.com/travel/california/la-tr-changing-landscape-20160912-snap-story.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>npsimons</author><text>I too spend a lot of time in the Sierras, though more of the Southern end. I would concur with your conclusions. While I&amp;#x27;m not the most cognizant of foliage, I can say that the watershed has dropped noticeably over the years. People might say &amp;quot;who cares? you only need water for overnight trips.&amp;quot;, but that&amp;#x27;s not only wrong, but missing the big picture. The Sierras have been getting less snow, and LA is literally sucking them dry with the aqueduct, refusing to even consider solutions such as desal plants. Public transportation to reduce AGW is also a no-brainer that no one seems to want. Damage has already been done, but there are actions that could be taken to improve the situation. No one seems to care, though.</text></item><item><author>thaumaturgy</author><text>I live in the foothills of the sierra, and I&amp;#x27;ve been a search and rescue volunteer for a while now, so I&amp;#x27;m in some part of the Tahoe national forest about once a week on average.&lt;p&gt;The damage, when you see it up close, is stunning. You&amp;#x27;ll be driving along a highway and see miles, and miles, and miles of dead trees standing there, waiting to burn.&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s catastrophic, and that&amp;#x27;s not a word I use lightly.&lt;p&gt;The prediction for this year is a mostly dry and cold Winter. If that happens, I expect next Summer to be one of the worst fire seasons in state history. There&amp;#x27;s so much dry material out there now in areas that require tremendous resources to combat.&lt;p&gt;If&amp;#x2F;when superfire season happens, there&amp;#x27;s a good chance it&amp;#x27;ll overwhelm state resources and there&amp;#x27;s going to be a lot of damage that will take decades to recover.&lt;p&gt;I was in Kings Canyon for a state SAR conference not too long ago and the fire scars from a few years ago still look fresh. Most of the stretch of highway 20 through Clear Lake is just black and brown. That&amp;#x27;s gonna be a look that&amp;#x27;s hard to get away from pretty soon, and I doubt we fully grasp the impact of that yet.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dubyah</author><text>&lt;i&gt;refusing to even consider solutions such as desal plants.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;That&amp;#x27;s not really true; improved stormwater capture, potable reuse, and fixing leaking infrastructure are far more economical &amp;amp; environmentally friendly options being planned or undertaken. MWD put out a proposal last year for a billion dollar potable reuse plant and the SWRCB put out a draft report for regulation of direct potable reuse out last month.&lt;p&gt;Desalination plants are really an option of last resort given their cost, environmental impact, and capacity. The Carlsbad desalination plant cost $1 billion, runs their RO membranes at 800 PSI, produces 50 MGD, and is ~ $2,000 per acre-foot of water. Whereas OC&amp;#x27;s GWRS(indirect potable reuse) cost ~$623 million after an initial expansion last year, runs their RO membranes at 150 PSI, produces 100 MGD, and is ~ $476(~$850 before subsidies) per acre-foot.</text></comment>

<story><title>The High Sierra forest is dying, and you can&apos;t count the loss in dead trees</title><url>http://www.latimes.com/travel/california/la-tr-changing-landscape-20160912-snap-story.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>npsimons</author><text>I too spend a lot of time in the Sierras, though more of the Southern end. I would concur with your conclusions. While I&amp;#x27;m not the most cognizant of foliage, I can say that the watershed has dropped noticeably over the years. People might say &amp;quot;who cares? you only need water for overnight trips.&amp;quot;, but that&amp;#x27;s not only wrong, but missing the big picture. The Sierras have been getting less snow, and LA is literally sucking them dry with the aqueduct, refusing to even consider solutions such as desal plants. Public transportation to reduce AGW is also a no-brainer that no one seems to want. Damage has already been done, but there are actions that could be taken to improve the situation. No one seems to care, though.</text></item><item><author>thaumaturgy</author><text>I live in the foothills of the sierra, and I&amp;#x27;ve been a search and rescue volunteer for a while now, so I&amp;#x27;m in some part of the Tahoe national forest about once a week on average.&lt;p&gt;The damage, when you see it up close, is stunning. You&amp;#x27;ll be driving along a highway and see miles, and miles, and miles of dead trees standing there, waiting to burn.&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s catastrophic, and that&amp;#x27;s not a word I use lightly.&lt;p&gt;The prediction for this year is a mostly dry and cold Winter. If that happens, I expect next Summer to be one of the worst fire seasons in state history. There&amp;#x27;s so much dry material out there now in areas that require tremendous resources to combat.&lt;p&gt;If&amp;#x2F;when superfire season happens, there&amp;#x27;s a good chance it&amp;#x27;ll overwhelm state resources and there&amp;#x27;s going to be a lot of damage that will take decades to recover.&lt;p&gt;I was in Kings Canyon for a state SAR conference not too long ago and the fire scars from a few years ago still look fresh. Most of the stretch of highway 20 through Clear Lake is just black and brown. That&amp;#x27;s gonna be a look that&amp;#x27;s hard to get away from pretty soon, and I doubt we fully grasp the impact of that yet.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jefurii</author><text>&amp;gt; LA is literally sucking them dry with the aqueduct&lt;p&gt;Those alfalfa farms where the entire crop is shipped off to China are a huge chunk of the state&amp;#x27;s water usage. The Central Valley could also move from almonds and other water-intensive crops. If it was just vegetables and tree fruit it wouldn&amp;#x27;t be so bad.</text></comment>

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<story><title>Thinking in an array language</title><url>https://github.com/razetime/ngn-k-tutorial/blob/main/c-thinking-in-k.md</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>unnouinceput</author><text>Any performance benchmarks between a simple C implementation of matrix multiplication like explained in the article and K one?&lt;p&gt;Story time: 2 years ago, right before 1st lockdown, I landed a client. A data scientist who had already implemented an algorithm which dealt with matrices, implemented by a previous programmer he hired. Said implementation was in Python, no more than 10 line altogether, which performed well when matrix size where small, like 10x10. But the problem was, his real work need it to have matrices of size 10^6 x 10^6. Not only the Python implementation had to be ran on a beast of server with 4TB of memory, it also took 3 days to finish. And while the algorithm was small in size in Python, its explaining paper was 4 pages in total, which took me 1 week to understand. And then an entire month to implement in C. But in the end, when all was said and done, the run time when used with real data was only 20 minutes and consumed only 8 GB of memory, though it did required at least 16 virtual processors.&lt;p&gt;Hence my question, in the end performance is what it matters, not number of lines.</text></comment>

<story><title>Thinking in an array language</title><url>https://github.com/razetime/ngn-k-tutorial/blob/main/c-thinking-in-k.md</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>carapace</author><text>I was just playing with Nils M Holm&amp;#x27;s Klong this morning: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;t3x.org&amp;#x2F;klong&amp;#x2F;index.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;t3x.org&amp;#x2F;klong&amp;#x2F;index.html&lt;/a&gt; (Klong rather than the others mostly because the C implementation looks like C so I have a ghost of a chance of actually grokking it.)&lt;p&gt;These folks are really onto something, but I think they get sidetracked in the (admittedly very very fun) minutia of the languages and lose sight of the crucial insight in re: mathematical notation, to wit: it&amp;#x27;s a means of human communication.&lt;p&gt;For APL or K to get out of their niches would require, I am convinced, something like a tome of documentation of a ratio of about 1.5 paragraphs per line of code. That would give us mere mortals a fighting chance at grokking these tools.&lt;p&gt;A similar problem plagues the higher-order stuff they&amp;#x27;re pursuing over in Haskell land. I &lt;i&gt;know&lt;/i&gt; e.g. &amp;quot;Functional programming with bananas, lenses, envelopes and barbed wire&amp;quot; and &amp;quot;Compiling to Categories&amp;quot; are really important and useful, but I can&amp;#x27;t actually use them unless some brave Prometheus scales Olympus and returns with the fire.&lt;p&gt;Stuff dribbles out eventually. Type inference and checking have finally made it into the mainstream after how many decades?</text></comment>

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<story><title>Jimmy Wales on Systems and Incentives</title><url>https://medium.com/conversations-with-tyler/jimmy-wales-tyler-cowen-wikipedia-610b6e931d20</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>savanaly</author><text>I was interested by the following part:&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt;COWEN: Now, as you know, Wikipedia is open. It’s free. It doesn’t have ads. It’s a dream of the early tech utopians. Why is it the only surviving dream of that kind that has persisted?&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt;WALES: Well, it’s an interesting thing, and I’m not sure it’s the only, but it’s certainly the most famous and the largest.&lt;p&gt;Can HN think of any other examples? Funny enough I immediately thought of HN itself, although it does have some ads and I&amp;#x27;m not sure it qualifies as big enough for what Cowen had in mind.</text></comment>

<story><title>Jimmy Wales on Systems and Incentives</title><url>https://medium.com/conversations-with-tyler/jimmy-wales-tyler-cowen-wikipedia-610b6e931d20</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>tunesmith</author><text>I think there could be potential with allowing the community to moderate more of facebook&amp;#x2F;twitter. This is just based off of my theory that our perspective of who Others are is completely warped. We already know that the most extreme are the ones more likely to share extreme opinions, and that only some % of lurkers say things publicly, but even with that I think we&amp;#x27;re really ill-equipped to understand just how far it goes. If there&amp;#x27;s a huge silent population of kind reasonable people, people that don&amp;#x27;t spout off but are allowed to have some control of how content is authored and presented, maybe it could make a big difference.</text></comment>

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<story><title>Facebook employee fired over bragging about access to user information</title><url>https://www.reuters.com/article/us-facebook-privacy-firing/facebook-employee-fired-over-bragging-about-access-to-user-information-idUSKBN1I334E</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>beloch</author><text>Firing employees dumb enough to snoop and brag isn&amp;#x27;t enough to restore user confidence. Facebook needs to take concrete steps to prevent employees from snooping, and it needs to be publicly seen doing so.&lt;p&gt;I stopped using Facebook years ago because I felt it was just too invasive. I&amp;#x27;ve felt like a technological Luddite ever since, but boy are Zuckerberg &amp;amp; Co. ever doing their level best to make me look prescient!</text></comment>

<story><title>Facebook employee fired over bragging about access to user information</title><url>https://www.reuters.com/article/us-facebook-privacy-firing/facebook-employee-fired-over-bragging-about-access-to-user-information-idUSKBN1I334E</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>godzillabrennus</author><text>Zuck bragged about having access to the data himself. Hardly anyone batted an eye back then: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.tomsguide.com&amp;#x2F;us&amp;#x2F;Facebook-Mark-Zuckerberg-Social-Networking-privacy-security,news-6794.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.tomsguide.com&amp;#x2F;us&amp;#x2F;Facebook-Mark-Zuckerberg-Social...&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>

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<story><title>Show HN: See the impact on your cloud costs as you code</title><text>Hey folks, my name is Owen and I recently started working at a startup (&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;infracost.io&amp;#x2F;&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;infracost.io&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt;) that shows engineers how much their code changes are going to cost on the cloud before being deployed (in CI&amp;#x2F;CD like GitHub or GitLab). Previously,&lt;p&gt;I was one of the founders of tfsec (it scanned code for security issues). One of the things I learnt was if we catch issues early, i.e. when the engineer was typing their code, we save a bunch of time.&lt;p&gt;I was thinking … okay, why not build cloud costs into the code editor. Show the cloud cost impact of the code as the engineers are writing it.&lt;p&gt;So I spent some weekends and built one right into JetBrains - fully free - keep in mind it is new, might be buggy, so please let me know if you find issues. It is check it out: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;plugins.jetbrains.com&amp;#x2F;plugin&amp;#x2F;24761-infracost&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;plugins.jetbrains.com&amp;#x2F;plugin&amp;#x2F;24761-infracost&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;I recorded a video too, if you just want to see what it does:&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.youtube.com&amp;#x2F;watch?v=kgfkdmUNzEo&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.youtube.com&amp;#x2F;watch?v=kgfkdmUNzEo&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;d love to get your feedback on this. I want to know if it is helpful, what other cool features we can add to it, and how can we make it better?&lt;p&gt;Final note - the extension calls our Cloud Pricing API, which holds 4 million prices from AWS, Azure and GCP, so no secrets, credentials etc are touched at all.&lt;p&gt;If you want to get the same Infracost goodness in your CI&amp;#x2F;CD, check out &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.infracost.io&amp;#x2F;cicd&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.infracost.io&amp;#x2F;cicd&lt;/a&gt;</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>pclmulqdq</author><text>What about money doesn&amp;#x27;t matter to a company? Why should you isolate an engineer from that as though it doesn&amp;#x27;t matter?&lt;p&gt;As an electrical engineer, we scrounged for every cent on devices when they were being released. A TVS diode can be replaced with a capacitor? That&amp;#x27;s a cent. A cheaper processor? Several tens of cents. Over ten million devices plus the legacy of your design into the next generations, that&amp;#x27;s a lot of money. Someone else negotiates the price of the TVS diode and the processor, but that doesn&amp;#x27;t mean you should be isolated from the cost. A thing that does X and is more expensive is worse than a thing that does X cheaply.&lt;p&gt;Software engineers spend fractional cents on requests executed thousands of times per second. That&amp;#x27;s the same scale as the electrical engineering example when you do this.&lt;p&gt;As far as I can tell, most good software engineers are very cost aware. That doesn&amp;#x27;t mean they don&amp;#x27;t do stuff. They just understand the cost of that stuff. This does seem to be a big divide between senior and junior engineers, as well.</text></item><item><author>jbs789</author><text>I have more macro questions about this. Sometimes I find engineers aren’t best placed to evaluate cost at all. What might be perceived as expensive (say relative to a salary) is not expensive at all in the context of the business problem being solved.&lt;p&gt;Think there’s a book called “measure what matters” and the idea is what we measure shapes companies and behaviour. So I’d be very careful about implementing anything like this in my org.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>doix</author><text>The &amp;quot;problem&amp;quot; with software is that the margins are &amp;quot;too high&amp;quot;, so companies _usually_ don&amp;#x27;t care. The general attitude I&amp;#x27;ve encountered is that the engineering salary dominates the cost, so it&amp;#x27;s usually not worth spending time optimizing runtime costs.&lt;p&gt;This is eventually taken to the extreme and you occasionally see posts here titled something like &amp;quot;how we saved millions by doing X&amp;quot;, where the thing they were originally doing was extremely wasteful.&lt;p&gt;For the last decade, we&amp;#x27;ve also been in a &amp;quot;free money&amp;quot; mode. Where companies were happy to spend money as long as it led to growth. Optimizing for cost wasn&amp;#x27;t a priority.&lt;p&gt;That has leaked into electrical engineering as well. There were a few products that shipped full Raspberry pis in an enclosure in the name of velocity. The savings possible there were probably in the dollars, not cents, not to mention the supply chain issues. And yet companies did it in the name of velocity.</text></comment>

<story><title>Show HN: See the impact on your cloud costs as you code</title><text>Hey folks, my name is Owen and I recently started working at a startup (&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;infracost.io&amp;#x2F;&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;infracost.io&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt;) that shows engineers how much their code changes are going to cost on the cloud before being deployed (in CI&amp;#x2F;CD like GitHub or GitLab). Previously,&lt;p&gt;I was one of the founders of tfsec (it scanned code for security issues). One of the things I learnt was if we catch issues early, i.e. when the engineer was typing their code, we save a bunch of time.&lt;p&gt;I was thinking … okay, why not build cloud costs into the code editor. Show the cloud cost impact of the code as the engineers are writing it.&lt;p&gt;So I spent some weekends and built one right into JetBrains - fully free - keep in mind it is new, might be buggy, so please let me know if you find issues. It is check it out: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;plugins.jetbrains.com&amp;#x2F;plugin&amp;#x2F;24761-infracost&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;plugins.jetbrains.com&amp;#x2F;plugin&amp;#x2F;24761-infracost&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;I recorded a video too, if you just want to see what it does:&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.youtube.com&amp;#x2F;watch?v=kgfkdmUNzEo&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.youtube.com&amp;#x2F;watch?v=kgfkdmUNzEo&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;d love to get your feedback on this. I want to know if it is helpful, what other cool features we can add to it, and how can we make it better?&lt;p&gt;Final note - the extension calls our Cloud Pricing API, which holds 4 million prices from AWS, Azure and GCP, so no secrets, credentials etc are touched at all.&lt;p&gt;If you want to get the same Infracost goodness in your CI&amp;#x2F;CD, check out &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.infracost.io&amp;#x2F;cicd&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.infracost.io&amp;#x2F;cicd&lt;/a&gt;</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>pclmulqdq</author><text>What about money doesn&amp;#x27;t matter to a company? Why should you isolate an engineer from that as though it doesn&amp;#x27;t matter?&lt;p&gt;As an electrical engineer, we scrounged for every cent on devices when they were being released. A TVS diode can be replaced with a capacitor? That&amp;#x27;s a cent. A cheaper processor? Several tens of cents. Over ten million devices plus the legacy of your design into the next generations, that&amp;#x27;s a lot of money. Someone else negotiates the price of the TVS diode and the processor, but that doesn&amp;#x27;t mean you should be isolated from the cost. A thing that does X and is more expensive is worse than a thing that does X cheaply.&lt;p&gt;Software engineers spend fractional cents on requests executed thousands of times per second. That&amp;#x27;s the same scale as the electrical engineering example when you do this.&lt;p&gt;As far as I can tell, most good software engineers are very cost aware. That doesn&amp;#x27;t mean they don&amp;#x27;t do stuff. They just understand the cost of that stuff. This does seem to be a big divide between senior and junior engineers, as well.</text></item><item><author>jbs789</author><text>I have more macro questions about this. Sometimes I find engineers aren’t best placed to evaluate cost at all. What might be perceived as expensive (say relative to a salary) is not expensive at all in the context of the business problem being solved.&lt;p&gt;Think there’s a book called “measure what matters” and the idea is what we measure shapes companies and behaviour. So I’d be very careful about implementing anything like this in my org.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>bongodongobob</author><text>&amp;gt; Why should you isolate an engineer from that as though it doesn&amp;#x27;t matter?&lt;p&gt;Because it&amp;#x27;s not their job and therefore they don&amp;#x27;t have the information necessary to know what is or isn&amp;#x27;t expensive.&lt;p&gt;Their job is to come up with the best design using common sense when it comes to cost.&lt;p&gt;Cost of a part isn&amp;#x27;t the only thing that matters either. Ok, we can save 1 cent if we swap this part out. But now we have to purchase lot sizes that are 10x bigger. How does that impact production? How does that affect operational budgets? Etc.&lt;p&gt;The engineers engineer and the bean counters count beans. They meet and find a happy place.&lt;p&gt;Why would you even want that extra workload? The fact that you think it&amp;#x27;s so easy just goes to show why actual accountants do the accounting, managers do the managing, procurement does the procuring, and operations does the operating.&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;I know calculus, accounting is easy!&amp;quot; Sure, if you throw out all of the variables other than unit cost.</text></comment>

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<story><title>Norway is building thorium reactor</title><url>http://www.smartplanet.com/blog/bulletin/norway-ringing-in-thorium-nuclear-new-year-with-westinghouse-at-the-party/6421</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>marvin</author><text>If I am correctly informed (would love to hear from people who are involved in the project), this project is being done in spite of the Norwegian government&apos;s stance on nuclear energy.&lt;p&gt;Thor Energy and its associated researchers have tried to stir up support for thorium reserach for years now, but there has been very little support and large amount of uninformed opposition (&quot;nu-cu-lar is baaaaaad&quot;). A number of physicists, notably Egil Lillestøl at the University of Bergen, have talked to official figures about this for a long time about this without getting any kind of traction.&lt;p&gt;Thorium energy seems to be a very promising candidate for safe, clean and cheap next-generation nuclear power. If these researchers manage to develop something without official support, it would be impressive indeed. That the Norwegian government isn&apos;t willing to support clean energy research is really quite baffling, given that the energy sector is hands-down the largest contributor to the Norwegian economy. And Norway has the world&apos;s second-largest known thorium reserves. For all our supposed good policies, we are still subject to mob rule and completely uninformed detractors.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mtgx</author><text>Wasn&apos;t uranium-based nuclear energy supposed to be very cheap, too, and then it turned out it wasn&apos;t that cheap? I worry the same will happen with thorium.&lt;p&gt;Also how much safer is it? Can it be set-up just a few KM outside a city? Is there any dangerous waste to deposit at all?&lt;p&gt;I do think that if we are to continue research in nuclear energy it should be based on Thorium, rather than uranium, but in the same time, I would much rather have the focus of the energy industry be solar energy right now.&lt;p&gt;I hope countries in the future are powered 70-80% by solar, and 20-30% by other sources like nuclear energy (at least until we figure out how to store solar energy cheaply for night use), than the other way around. And we can only get there fast if we have the industry&apos;s almost complete focus on solar energy, and have them invest billions into researching it and lowering the cost of solar panels.</text></comment>

<story><title>Norway is building thorium reactor</title><url>http://www.smartplanet.com/blog/bulletin/norway-ringing-in-thorium-nuclear-new-year-with-westinghouse-at-the-party/6421</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>marvin</author><text>If I am correctly informed (would love to hear from people who are involved in the project), this project is being done in spite of the Norwegian government&apos;s stance on nuclear energy.&lt;p&gt;Thor Energy and its associated researchers have tried to stir up support for thorium reserach for years now, but there has been very little support and large amount of uninformed opposition (&quot;nu-cu-lar is baaaaaad&quot;). A number of physicists, notably Egil Lillestøl at the University of Bergen, have talked to official figures about this for a long time about this without getting any kind of traction.&lt;p&gt;Thorium energy seems to be a very promising candidate for safe, clean and cheap next-generation nuclear power. If these researchers manage to develop something without official support, it would be impressive indeed. That the Norwegian government isn&apos;t willing to support clean energy research is really quite baffling, given that the energy sector is hands-down the largest contributor to the Norwegian economy. And Norway has the world&apos;s second-largest known thorium reserves. For all our supposed good policies, we are still subject to mob rule and completely uninformed detractors.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>emiliobumachar</author><text>Being cynical, perhaps the fact they&apos;re swimming in oil makes them disintersted as a nation in developing alternative energy.</text></comment>

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<story><title>Japanese have been producing wood for 700 years without cutting down trees</title><url>https://dsfantiquejewelry.com/blogs/interesting-facts/the-ancient-japanese-technique-that-produces-lumber-without-cutting-trees</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ggm</author><text>Coppicing, Hedge laying, Bocage, drystone walling, wattle-and-daub are all domestic comparable ancient crafts of Europe. The point being that probably only drystone walling is valued in a way comparable to the Japanese version of Coppicing, which really has been transformed into an artform. European coppices are cut close to the rootstock and cut down far younger for use as poles, for wood turning, for hedge laying.&lt;p&gt;Timber framed construction in Europe was nailless (wooden tree nails permitted) but the mortice and tenon joinery of Japan is in another league. Maybe European Gothic cathedral roofs come close, little else would.&lt;p&gt;Japan modernised in the modern era, it&amp;#x27;s industrial revolution was comparatively recent and it remained feudal far longer than Europe (Russian serfdom aside)&lt;p&gt;There are probably more continuous family heritage firms in Japan practising some art (brewing, soy sauce, woodwork, coppicing) than anywhere else. Can you name a European family concern doing the same thing continuously since before 1600? I can&amp;#x27;t name any Japanese ones but I wouldn&amp;#x27;t be surprised if there were many. Institutional enterprises like Oxford university press exist since deep time, but in Japan it would be a continuous lineage of printers continuing to use woodblock printing (maybe alongside hot type or photo typesetting)&lt;p&gt;Farming does remain in the family but European farming practices have modernised since forever.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>kriro</author><text>There&amp;#x27;s quite a few in Germany. The most famous one is probably Merck (1668). There&amp;#x27;s a couple of really old banks (Berenberg Bank in Hamburg, 1590) and the industry with the most old companies is probably the glas industry. There&amp;#x27;s a couple of companies from the 15xx and 16xx. If you&amp;#x27;re into hiking, you probably heard about Meindl shoes (1683). There&amp;#x27;s also a lot of breweries, especially small ones in Frankonia. And if you count wineries and restaurants there&amp;#x27;s some really old ones. Staffelter Hof is usually mentioned as the oldest one (862).&lt;p&gt;Pretty sure it&amp;#x27;s the same in most European countries. My guess would be the oldest ones are located in Italy.</text></comment>

<story><title>Japanese have been producing wood for 700 years without cutting down trees</title><url>https://dsfantiquejewelry.com/blogs/interesting-facts/the-ancient-japanese-technique-that-produces-lumber-without-cutting-trees</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ggm</author><text>Coppicing, Hedge laying, Bocage, drystone walling, wattle-and-daub are all domestic comparable ancient crafts of Europe. The point being that probably only drystone walling is valued in a way comparable to the Japanese version of Coppicing, which really has been transformed into an artform. European coppices are cut close to the rootstock and cut down far younger for use as poles, for wood turning, for hedge laying.&lt;p&gt;Timber framed construction in Europe was nailless (wooden tree nails permitted) but the mortice and tenon joinery of Japan is in another league. Maybe European Gothic cathedral roofs come close, little else would.&lt;p&gt;Japan modernised in the modern era, it&amp;#x27;s industrial revolution was comparatively recent and it remained feudal far longer than Europe (Russian serfdom aside)&lt;p&gt;There are probably more continuous family heritage firms in Japan practising some art (brewing, soy sauce, woodwork, coppicing) than anywhere else. Can you name a European family concern doing the same thing continuously since before 1600? I can&amp;#x27;t name any Japanese ones but I wouldn&amp;#x27;t be surprised if there were many. Institutional enterprises like Oxford university press exist since deep time, but in Japan it would be a continuous lineage of printers continuing to use woodblock printing (maybe alongside hot type or photo typesetting)&lt;p&gt;Farming does remain in the family but European farming practices have modernised since forever.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>brigandish</author><text>It’s worth remembering that adoption is much different to how we’d conceive of it in Europe. If a business wasn’t going to be continued by the offspring then a new business owner could be adopted, as an adult. That’s why there seems to be so many Japanese concerns with incredibly long lineage, but like so much else in Japan to a westerner’s eyes, it’s appearance only.&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.bbc.com&amp;#x2F;news&amp;#x2F;magazine-19505088&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.bbc.com&amp;#x2F;news&amp;#x2F;magazine-19505088&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>

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<story><title>The rule says, “No vehicles in the park”</title><url>https://novehiclesinthepark.com/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Macha</author><text>The problem is that I also got 11% just saying yes to everything. It would seem surprising to me to have the same percentage of maximalists as there is for people who are in the majority on every question</text></item><item><author>bhaney</author><text>I think it&amp;#x27;s giving you a percentage of people who answered exactly the same as you on all questions.&lt;p&gt;Edit: Okay I have no idea what it&amp;#x27;s meant to be (other than &amp;quot;11&amp;quot;)</text></item><item><author>Macha</author><text>The number at the end is unclear - it says I agreed with the majority 11%, but then it shows a bunch of charts. Yet the three I said were vehicles (the car, the police vehicle, and the ambulance) are the only 3 above 50% support, so it seems I agreed with the majority 100%. I even opened a second session in another browser and hit yes to everything to see if the numbers in the chart was the amount that agree with me, and no, the numbers didn&amp;#x27;t invert so it seems the chart is measuring yes answers.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>autoexec</author><text>I also got 11% with a mix of yeses and nos. I&amp;#x27;m guessing something broke. Hopefully the data is being logged correctly at least.</text></comment>

<story><title>The rule says, “No vehicles in the park”</title><url>https://novehiclesinthepark.com/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Macha</author><text>The problem is that I also got 11% just saying yes to everything. It would seem surprising to me to have the same percentage of maximalists as there is for people who are in the majority on every question</text></item><item><author>bhaney</author><text>I think it&amp;#x27;s giving you a percentage of people who answered exactly the same as you on all questions.&lt;p&gt;Edit: Okay I have no idea what it&amp;#x27;s meant to be (other than &amp;quot;11&amp;quot;)</text></item><item><author>Macha</author><text>The number at the end is unclear - it says I agreed with the majority 11%, but then it shows a bunch of charts. Yet the three I said were vehicles (the car, the police vehicle, and the ambulance) are the only 3 above 50% support, so it seems I agreed with the majority 100%. I even opened a second session in another browser and hit yes to everything to see if the numbers in the chart was the amount that agree with me, and no, the numbers didn&amp;#x27;t invert so it seems the chart is measuring yes answers.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>bhaney</author><text>I answered &amp;quot;is a vehicle&amp;quot; to 15 out of 27 questions and also got 11%, so this is either a crazy coincidence or the number&amp;#x27;s effectively hard coded.</text></comment>

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<story><title>Show HN: Breach – A modular browser built on Chromium and Node.js</title><url>http://breach.cc</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>shawnz</author><text>What about this doesn&amp;#x27;t also apply to Firefox? It too is open source and modular, and also written in Javascript (though combined with XUL rather than HTML, and using Gecko instead of Webkit).</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>swift</author><text>That was my reaction as well. I was pretty interested to see a browser genuinely written entirely in JavaScript, which would at least be a new thing.&lt;p&gt;Since it seems like the developers are posting in this thread, could you talk a little about the differences between Breach&amp;#x27;s approach and Firefox&amp;#x27;s? I suspect they must exist mostly in the node.js layer - which tasks is that layer responsible for?&lt;p&gt;(Edit: I see you replied to the parent comment while I was writing this one. =)</text></comment>

<story><title>Show HN: Breach – A modular browser built on Chromium and Node.js</title><url>http://breach.cc</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>shawnz</author><text>What about this doesn&amp;#x27;t also apply to Firefox? It too is open source and modular, and also written in Javascript (though combined with XUL rather than HTML, and using Gecko instead of Webkit).</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>spolu</author><text>It does apply indeed! We went one step forward and didn&amp;#x27;t provide any functionality to the browser to make it entirely built out of modules. And we did it on top of Chromium Content Module.&lt;p&gt;The basic motivations are totally the same. I also believe that is&amp;#x27;s probably way simpler to rewrite an entire web browsing experience on top of Breach.</text></comment>

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<story><title>Trump: “Tonight, FLOTUS and I tested positive for Covid-19.”</title><url>https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1311892190680014849</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>rubatuga</author><text>Never seen an article so heavily weighted down on HN before. I think there could be some interesting discussion about predicting what treatment the President will receive.</text></comment>

<story><title>Trump: “Tonight, FLOTUS and I tested positive for Covid-19.”</title><url>https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1311892190680014849</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>jerryluk</author><text>Google Meet or Zoom or Microsoft Team for the next presidential debate? Finally the moderator can mute the candidates!</text></comment>

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<story><title>The upcoming iterator design for Go 1.23</title><url>https://www.gingerbill.org/article/2024/06/17/go-iterator-design/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>adeptima</author><text>Nice write-up! At my personal level, I feel nothing about Iterators or even Generic. I can live with or without it, and kind of dont mind it to be used by library authors.&lt;p&gt;I didnt had a single line of code broken by golang version up updates in 7+ years, scanning through golang source code is always a pleasure. No hidden magic. I dont read documention either - just surfing inside of source code by clicking with CMD key.&lt;p&gt;My main KPI for Golang is the ammount of clicks required to understand internals ... very few compare to other languages.&lt;p&gt;If its stamped by guys like Russ Cox (rsc), I can sleep well too.</text></comment>

<story><title>The upcoming iterator design for Go 1.23</title><url>https://www.gingerbill.org/article/2024/06/17/go-iterator-design/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>fsmv</author><text>Why do people focus so much on that random side comment from Pike during one talk he gave a long time ago? It&amp;#x27;s hardly the language philosophy and it&amp;#x27;s really hard to believe that Pike actually thinks Google programmers are bad or even average given that he has seen the hiring process.</text></comment>

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<story><title>New ELF Linker from the LLVM Project</title><url>http://blog.llvm.org/2015/11/new-elf-linker-from-llvm-project.html?m=1</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>jamesdutc</author><text>Linkers are very much like hyperdrives. They&amp;#x27;re one of those ancient but ubiquitous technologies; no one knows how they work, but no one cares.&lt;p&gt;The basics of dynamic linking is actually pretty simple, but it&amp;#x27;s tricky to find reference materials outside of reading the source code itself. A modern, mature dynamic linker supports a lot of very interesting and very powerful features, from LD_PRELOAD to LD_AUDIT to `dlmopen` (linker namespaces.)&lt;p&gt;I wonder whether this new linker plans to support all of these advanced features.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;ve spent some time with these features to accomplish tasks such as:&lt;p&gt;- embedding Python interpreters within themselves using `dlmopen` (linker namespaces): &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;gist.github.com&amp;#x2F;dutc&amp;#x2F;cf808ec7d8e1c36e01cc&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;gist.github.com&amp;#x2F;dutc&amp;#x2F;cf808ec7d8e1c36e01cc&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;gist.github.com&amp;#x2F;dutc&amp;#x2F;423d0d0ccba771cf910f&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;gist.github.com&amp;#x2F;dutc&amp;#x2F;423d0d0ccba771cf910f&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;gist.github.com&amp;#x2F;dutc&amp;#x2F;eba9b2f7980f400f6287&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;gist.github.com&amp;#x2F;dutc&amp;#x2F;eba9b2f7980f400f6287&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;gist.github.com&amp;#x2F;dutc&amp;#x2F;2866d969d5e9209d501a&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;gist.github.com&amp;#x2F;dutc&amp;#x2F;2866d969d5e9209d501a&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;- writing LD_PRELOAD-like modules in Python: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;gist.github.com&amp;#x2F;dutc&amp;#x2F;6500c804b2f0141c9757&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;gist.github.com&amp;#x2F;dutc&amp;#x2F;6500c804b2f0141c9757&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;I think the LD_AUDIT approach taken by the latter project could also lead to re-implementing a dynamic linker in Python itself via the system&amp;#x27;s linker&amp;#x27;s auditing mechanism. This might be a very interesting educational exercise!</text></comment>

<story><title>New ELF Linker from the LLVM Project</title><url>http://blog.llvm.org/2015/11/new-elf-linker-from-llvm-project.html?m=1</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>evmar</author><text>It&amp;#x27;s curious that linking speed can be improved by so much when gold was itself written for speed only 7 years ago. I wonder, what&amp;#x27;s the trick?</text></comment>

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<story><title>Anthony Bourdain on not having debt</title><url>https://www.wealthsimple.com/en-us/magazine/money-diary-anthony-bourdain-3</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tinco</author><text>&lt;i&gt;every 60 minutes I work, ~30 minutes of that work product is appropriated by government&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;How about every 60 minutes you work, 30 minutes of that is spent establishing the world around you? From the opportunities you had as a young person, and those of your children, to the safety and security of your adult life.&lt;p&gt;Half of your product is yours to spend freely, the rest goes towards the idea that you don&amp;#x27;t even have to think about mashlovs piramid. Well in a perfect euro-socialist utopia maybe, perhaps not in the U.S., but that&amp;#x27;s the general idea of high taxes.</text></item><item><author>rsync</author><text>&amp;quot;Nobody likes paying high taxes, but I don’t mind.&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;I think there&amp;#x27;s an important distinction to be made between two different sorts of &amp;quot;high taxes&amp;quot;.&lt;p&gt;One is a high absolute amount of taxes - you made millions of dollars in a year and therefore your absolute tax payment is relatively quite high.&lt;p&gt;The other is a high &lt;i&gt;percentage&lt;/i&gt; tax rate.&lt;p&gt;I don&amp;#x27;t mind paying a high absolute rate of taxes - I think that is the scenario in which one can think fondly of all the things that government provides - things like:&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;It&amp;#x27;s a repayment for all those years I was poor and the government paid for me to live and go to school.&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;However, there comes a point in percentage tax rates where basic fairness comes into question. I&amp;#x27;m sure it varies from person to person, but I think an effective tax rate north of 40% is getting in the danger zone.&lt;p&gt;As a US citizen who lives in California, in Marin, and owns land, my effective tax rate is 50%, give or take, and I think that&amp;#x27;s a problem. It&amp;#x27;s very difficult to rationalize that every 60 minutes I work, ~30 minutes of that work product is appropriated by government.</text></item><item><author>vinhboy</author><text>&amp;gt; Nobody likes paying high taxes, but I don’t mind.&lt;p&gt;How refreshing.&lt;p&gt;I agree with him.&lt;p&gt;Paying my taxes is a point of pride for me. It&amp;#x27;s a repayment for all those years I was poor and the government paid for me to live and go to school.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>faceyspacey</author><text>Except for here in the states 25% of the taxpayer money is going to military, intelligence and debt from past wars we know to have been bad ideas and knew all along were bad ideas.&lt;p&gt;And let&amp;#x27;s just say another 25% is misspent. In a country this big and bloated, that&amp;#x27;s also likely a low ball figure. But overall, only 50% of taxpayer money is going to anything remotely properly executed and needed.&lt;p&gt;That said, our public schools suck, we invest nothing in research, we don&amp;#x27;t provide healthcare until your old, and our interstate highways were built 70 years ago, and state and local governments handle needed construction now, yet they take the smallest percentage of our taxes. Some states like Nevada don&amp;#x27;t even charge state income tax.&lt;p&gt;In my view I&amp;#x27;d be way happier paying taxes if this was managed right. That means cut military spending by 90% knowing we are never going to need an aircraft carrier again while completely evacuating the Middle East, and the state local government&amp;#x27;s charge more since they will be more effective at putting it to use.&lt;p&gt;Taxes should be no more than 30% total (federal, state + local) like the Apple App Store.&lt;p&gt;Yea, likely not happening any time soon. But that&amp;#x27;s what is correct imho.</text></comment>

<story><title>Anthony Bourdain on not having debt</title><url>https://www.wealthsimple.com/en-us/magazine/money-diary-anthony-bourdain-3</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tinco</author><text>&lt;i&gt;every 60 minutes I work, ~30 minutes of that work product is appropriated by government&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;How about every 60 minutes you work, 30 minutes of that is spent establishing the world around you? From the opportunities you had as a young person, and those of your children, to the safety and security of your adult life.&lt;p&gt;Half of your product is yours to spend freely, the rest goes towards the idea that you don&amp;#x27;t even have to think about mashlovs piramid. Well in a perfect euro-socialist utopia maybe, perhaps not in the U.S., but that&amp;#x27;s the general idea of high taxes.</text></item><item><author>rsync</author><text>&amp;quot;Nobody likes paying high taxes, but I don’t mind.&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;I think there&amp;#x27;s an important distinction to be made between two different sorts of &amp;quot;high taxes&amp;quot;.&lt;p&gt;One is a high absolute amount of taxes - you made millions of dollars in a year and therefore your absolute tax payment is relatively quite high.&lt;p&gt;The other is a high &lt;i&gt;percentage&lt;/i&gt; tax rate.&lt;p&gt;I don&amp;#x27;t mind paying a high absolute rate of taxes - I think that is the scenario in which one can think fondly of all the things that government provides - things like:&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;It&amp;#x27;s a repayment for all those years I was poor and the government paid for me to live and go to school.&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;However, there comes a point in percentage tax rates where basic fairness comes into question. I&amp;#x27;m sure it varies from person to person, but I think an effective tax rate north of 40% is getting in the danger zone.&lt;p&gt;As a US citizen who lives in California, in Marin, and owns land, my effective tax rate is 50%, give or take, and I think that&amp;#x27;s a problem. It&amp;#x27;s very difficult to rationalize that every 60 minutes I work, ~30 minutes of that work product is appropriated by government.</text></item><item><author>vinhboy</author><text>&amp;gt; Nobody likes paying high taxes, but I don’t mind.&lt;p&gt;How refreshing.&lt;p&gt;I agree with him.&lt;p&gt;Paying my taxes is a point of pride for me. It&amp;#x27;s a repayment for all those years I was poor and the government paid for me to live and go to school.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>zymhan</author><text>Especially at an income level where you will be paying 50%, you should be able to save enough for the future&amp;#x2F;rainy day AND live quite comfortably.</text></comment>

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<story><title>Royalties from Writing a Hit Song with Justin Bieber</title><url>https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2017/10/03/hit-song-justin-bieber-royalties/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>look_lookatme</author><text>&amp;gt; How will I be able to support my gift?&lt;p&gt;In the end what we are seeing is that that golden era of creators making a living (and much much more) was an anomaly. Control of new types of distribution created scarcity and new forms of expression and shifting norms jacked up demand. But now distribution is free, instant and global. Demand has flatlined and production has exploded.&lt;p&gt;The hard question a creator needs to ask themselves now is not &amp;quot;how do I get paid for what my art is worth?&amp;quot;, but instead &amp;quot;was my art ever worth much to begin with?&amp;quot;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Applejinx</author><text>If even people reaching a truly stupidly huge number of people don&amp;#x27;t get even close to making a living (I get more than that off a few hundred people on Patreon for the work that I do), in a situation where those operating the streaming services are renting out entire floors of office buildings in Manhattan, your question is disingenuous.&lt;p&gt;Just because some of us are eking out a sort of existence in the new era doesn&amp;#x27;t make it a functional system.&lt;p&gt;I would be perfectly happy to see it become &amp;#x27;this is the Star Trek future, your entire compensation is the satisfaction of a job well done and being personally liked for what you&amp;#x27;ve created&amp;#x27;, if our world operated on some sort of UBI and we didn&amp;#x27;t have to have our performance linked to survival at all.&lt;p&gt;Under those circumstances, things naturally shift down the Maslow hierarchy of needs, and people take for granted that they&amp;#x27;ll live, and get desperate for validation and popularity, that being what they lack. I have NO problem with a world that completely unlinks money from performance, because I&amp;#x27;m not a free-market capitalist type demanding that financial reward behave like a &amp;#x27;meritocracy&amp;#x27;.&lt;p&gt;Self-evidently it doesn&amp;#x27;t anyway, so literally nothing of value is lost.&lt;p&gt;BUT, we have that completely decoupled world and yet demand that people pay for even the most frugal living with money they got somebody to give them, in a world where people simply can&amp;#x27;t and don&amp;#x27;t do that anymore.&lt;p&gt;Silicon Valley clever-boffins: come up with some disruptive alternative really fast. We don&amp;#x27;t have time to mess around, and what these songwriters face is the same fate waiting for all of us, in turn, including you. How about abolishing money and replacing it entirely with &amp;#x27;likes&amp;#x27;?</text></comment>

<story><title>Royalties from Writing a Hit Song with Justin Bieber</title><url>https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2017/10/03/hit-song-justin-bieber-royalties/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>look_lookatme</author><text>&amp;gt; How will I be able to support my gift?&lt;p&gt;In the end what we are seeing is that that golden era of creators making a living (and much much more) was an anomaly. Control of new types of distribution created scarcity and new forms of expression and shifting norms jacked up demand. But now distribution is free, instant and global. Demand has flatlined and production has exploded.&lt;p&gt;The hard question a creator needs to ask themselves now is not &amp;quot;how do I get paid for what my art is worth?&amp;quot;, but instead &amp;quot;was my art ever worth much to begin with?&amp;quot;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Animats</author><text>&lt;i&gt;In the end what we are seeing is that that golden era of creators making a living (and much much more) was an anomaly.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;Historically, musicians and actors were very poorly paid. For a brief period in the 20th century, some of them made a lot of money. That&amp;#x27;s over.&lt;p&gt;There were, at peak, several million Myspace bands. Some of which didn&amp;#x27;t suck. Supply of musicians far exceeds demand.</text></comment>

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<story><title>Interactive IPA Chart</title><url>https://www.ipachart.com/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>shazar</author><text>Aren&amp;#x27;t week&amp;#x2F;weak and piece&amp;#x2F;peace pronounced exactly the same?</text></item><item><author>dvirsky</author><text>I&amp;#x27;m a native Hebrew speaker. We basically have one way to say each vowel. It took practice for me (not with a coach but with some training videos etc) to even hear the different ways English speakers pronounce them, my brain just wasn&amp;#x27;t tuned to hear them, let alone pronounce them.&lt;p&gt;Week, weak and wick will be pronounced and will sound exactly the same to a non trained Hebrew speaker, and to much much more hilarity - sheet&amp;#x2F;shit, peace&amp;#x2F;piece&amp;#x2F;piss.</text></item><item><author>JaakkoP</author><text>I&amp;#x27;m a non-native English speaker, and I&amp;#x27;ve been working with an accent coach to improve my pronunciation. The IPA chart has been instrumental teaching tool, and after about two years it&amp;#x27;s finally starting to sink in.&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s really helpful to understand the theory behind the pronunciation, instead of just repeating words and attempt to make the same sounds as my coach. As in &amp;quot;this is what your tongue should be doing, but you&amp;#x27;re doing this other thing instead.&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;You can even use the chart (and maybe Wikipedia) to identify specific reasons as to why you&amp;#x27;re doing something wrong. For example, there&amp;#x27;s just one way to pronounce &amp;quot;S&amp;quot; in Finnish, whereas there are four ways to do that in English. It&amp;#x27;s just something that never crossed my mind before starting to work with a professional.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ericbarrett</author><text>I&amp;#x27;d pronounce those the same (western US accent), but it can vary. Check out the caught&amp;#x2F;cot merger, for example: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Cot%E2%80%93caught_merger&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Cot%E2%80%93caught_merger&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>

<story><title>Interactive IPA Chart</title><url>https://www.ipachart.com/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>shazar</author><text>Aren&amp;#x27;t week&amp;#x2F;weak and piece&amp;#x2F;peace pronounced exactly the same?</text></item><item><author>dvirsky</author><text>I&amp;#x27;m a native Hebrew speaker. We basically have one way to say each vowel. It took practice for me (not with a coach but with some training videos etc) to even hear the different ways English speakers pronounce them, my brain just wasn&amp;#x27;t tuned to hear them, let alone pronounce them.&lt;p&gt;Week, weak and wick will be pronounced and will sound exactly the same to a non trained Hebrew speaker, and to much much more hilarity - sheet&amp;#x2F;shit, peace&amp;#x2F;piece&amp;#x2F;piss.</text></item><item><author>JaakkoP</author><text>I&amp;#x27;m a non-native English speaker, and I&amp;#x27;ve been working with an accent coach to improve my pronunciation. The IPA chart has been instrumental teaching tool, and after about two years it&amp;#x27;s finally starting to sink in.&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s really helpful to understand the theory behind the pronunciation, instead of just repeating words and attempt to make the same sounds as my coach. As in &amp;quot;this is what your tongue should be doing, but you&amp;#x27;re doing this other thing instead.&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;You can even use the chart (and maybe Wikipedia) to identify specific reasons as to why you&amp;#x27;re doing something wrong. For example, there&amp;#x27;s just one way to pronounce &amp;quot;S&amp;quot; in Finnish, whereas there are four ways to do that in English. It&amp;#x27;s just something that never crossed my mind before starting to work with a professional.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>irrational</author><text>They are for me. Exactly the same pronunciation and emphasis. Maybe there are some dialects of English where they are not pronounced the same.</text></comment>

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<story><title>The decline of baleen whales has led to a decline of krill, researchers find</title><url>https://news.stanford.edu/press-releases/2021/11/03/researchers-findles-eat-expected/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>hirundo</author><text>I wonder if our own species would be improved by the return of predators, say one t-rex or sabertooth per every x population. The population control would reduce our carbon footprint. Spending on chronic medical conditions that make people slower would be reduced. There would be more incentive to exercise, less lassitude and boredom. Increased violent sudden death could be considered a drawback, but look at the big picture.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>telesilla</author><text>Our most reliable and proven form of population control is the education of girls. If we truly care about saving the species this is the most effective route available to us in the next generations along with ending the use of non-renewal energy&lt;p&gt;Impactful funds you can support: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;impactful.ninja&amp;#x2F;best-charities-for-female-education&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;impactful.ninja&amp;#x2F;best-charities-for-female-education&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>

<story><title>The decline of baleen whales has led to a decline of krill, researchers find</title><url>https://news.stanford.edu/press-releases/2021/11/03/researchers-findles-eat-expected/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>hirundo</author><text>I wonder if our own species would be improved by the return of predators, say one t-rex or sabertooth per every x population. The population control would reduce our carbon footprint. Spending on chronic medical conditions that make people slower would be reduced. There would be more incentive to exercise, less lassitude and boredom. Increased violent sudden death could be considered a drawback, but look at the big picture.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mc32</author><text>That’s ridiculous. In parts of India and Africa, people live among tigers and they fend themselves off just fine. In rural America we have bears and we fend them off. Sure cities lack those predators, but cars make up for that.&lt;p&gt;You just want more Covid, but I bet you don’t actually want more covid.</text></comment>

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<story><title>Hyperloop: riding sound’s density peak to exploit the drag equation?</title><url>http://charlesalexander2013.wordpress.com/2013/07/18/hyperloop-riding-sounds-density-peak-to-exploit-the-drag-equation/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>geon</author><text>I wonder i Elon really has a plan, or if he is just kickstarting everyones speculations to come up with an &lt;i&gt;actual&lt;/i&gt; viable design.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>smoyer</author><text>The guy launches rockets and builds electric sports cars ... I tend to think he has a plan. Allowing the speculation to persist might improve that plan but I suspect it was viable on it&amp;#x27;s own (and perhaps the waiting period was simply to allow some small scale testing to occur).</text></comment>

<story><title>Hyperloop: riding sound’s density peak to exploit the drag equation?</title><url>http://charlesalexander2013.wordpress.com/2013/07/18/hyperloop-riding-sounds-density-peak-to-exploit-the-drag-equation/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>geon</author><text>I wonder i Elon really has a plan, or if he is just kickstarting everyones speculations to come up with an &lt;i&gt;actual&lt;/i&gt; viable design.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jlgreco</author><text>To be honest that is what my money was originally on.. that or this just being some sort of self-constructed mythology for himself, sort of like free wirelessly transmitted power was for Tesla perhaps (though more &amp;#x27;intentionally&amp;#x27; and less &amp;#x27;mistakenly&amp;#x2F;delusionally&amp;#x27;).&lt;p&gt;As time goes on he keeps getting more and more specific with his deadline for going public though. First it was &amp;quot;eventually&amp;quot;, then it was &amp;quot;sometime after Tesla is profitable&amp;quot;, then it was &amp;quot;sometime later this year&amp;quot;, now we&amp;#x27;ve actually got a date to look forward to. I now think that he actually is thinking of something.</text></comment>

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<story><title>Heartbleed should bleed X.509 to death</title><url>http://lorddoig.svbtle.com/heartbleed-should-bleed-x509-to-death</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>lorddoig</author><text>So Granny huffs and puffs and calls me, trusts my key through the sexy new UI I talked about and is done with it.&lt;p&gt;I specifically said that PGP may not be the solution, but what we have now is just ridiculous if you really think about it. We have &lt;i&gt;no choice&lt;/i&gt; but to trust 4 companies on precisely nothing but their word. Even if you mistrust their word - and I do - there is &lt;i&gt;no&lt;/i&gt; alternative choice.&lt;p&gt;Security always boils down to trust in the end, and the status quo &lt;i&gt;outsources it&lt;/i&gt;. It is the definition of stupid.</text></item><item><author>hendzen</author><text>Not going to happen. The WoT is a usability nightmare for the 99.9% of nontechnical users that don&amp;#x27;t care about things like &amp;#x27;p2p&amp;#x27; &amp;amp; &amp;#x27;decentralized&amp;#x27;.&lt;p&gt;Do you really think Granny is going to be happy with the tablet she bought that can&amp;#x27;t connect to her online banking account out of the box? Have fun explaining to her that she needs to exchange keys with enough trusted intermediaries to have a valid trust path to her bank. I&amp;#x27;m sure there plenty of key signing parties happening at the &amp;#x27;ol retirement home.&lt;p&gt;Or maybe you can explain to Granny why her money was stolen when a scammer managed to compromise one of her trusted keys and then created a compromised subgraph in the WoT leading to a fake certificate to her bank?&lt;p&gt;The WoT is a usability nightmare. Sure, the PKI isn&amp;#x27;t too great, but it&amp;#x27;s what we have, and it is currently more practical than any other solution out there. Security needs to be usable to be useful.&lt;p&gt;EDIT: for a good rebuttal to the OP, read this blog post by Mike Hearn which covers the issues I raised and more: &lt;a href=&quot;https://medium.com/bitcoin-security-functionality/b64cf5912aa7&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;medium.com&amp;#x2F;bitcoin-security-functionality&amp;#x2F;b64cf5912a...&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>exelius</author><text>What happens when someone far away from you in the WoT is compromised by say, a botnet? Now you get compromised because a source you verified through your WoT loaded a malware-infested piece of software on your mobile device. So it&amp;#x27;s not necessarily any more secure.&lt;p&gt;The status quo outsources trust because that&amp;#x27;s what you do in an economy. We trust the government to secure the value of our money. We trust banks with storing that money, and we trust that the government again will make sure that they do.&lt;p&gt;If you want to see what happens when you DON&amp;#x27;T outsource trust, look at how terrorist networks operate. They only deal with trusted associates who know each other personally, they only communicate through trusted couriers, and they live in fucking caves. It&amp;#x27;s not exactly conducive to a modern economy.&lt;p&gt;You have to outsource some level of trust. Otherwise you waste so much productivity on maintaining and verifying your trust network that you can&amp;#x27;t actually do anything worthwhile with it. I think the real question is &amp;quot;to whom?&amp;quot; and &amp;quot;for what purposes?&amp;quot; If you need something to be really secure, then you should probably do an in-person key exchange. For the majority of things people do you only need &amp;quot;mostly secure&amp;quot; because there are other protection measures in place in case the communication is fraudulent.</text></comment>

<story><title>Heartbleed should bleed X.509 to death</title><url>http://lorddoig.svbtle.com/heartbleed-should-bleed-x509-to-death</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>lorddoig</author><text>So Granny huffs and puffs and calls me, trusts my key through the sexy new UI I talked about and is done with it.&lt;p&gt;I specifically said that PGP may not be the solution, but what we have now is just ridiculous if you really think about it. We have &lt;i&gt;no choice&lt;/i&gt; but to trust 4 companies on precisely nothing but their word. Even if you mistrust their word - and I do - there is &lt;i&gt;no&lt;/i&gt; alternative choice.&lt;p&gt;Security always boils down to trust in the end, and the status quo &lt;i&gt;outsources it&lt;/i&gt;. It is the definition of stupid.</text></item><item><author>hendzen</author><text>Not going to happen. The WoT is a usability nightmare for the 99.9% of nontechnical users that don&amp;#x27;t care about things like &amp;#x27;p2p&amp;#x27; &amp;amp; &amp;#x27;decentralized&amp;#x27;.&lt;p&gt;Do you really think Granny is going to be happy with the tablet she bought that can&amp;#x27;t connect to her online banking account out of the box? Have fun explaining to her that she needs to exchange keys with enough trusted intermediaries to have a valid trust path to her bank. I&amp;#x27;m sure there plenty of key signing parties happening at the &amp;#x27;ol retirement home.&lt;p&gt;Or maybe you can explain to Granny why her money was stolen when a scammer managed to compromise one of her trusted keys and then created a compromised subgraph in the WoT leading to a fake certificate to her bank?&lt;p&gt;The WoT is a usability nightmare. Sure, the PKI isn&amp;#x27;t too great, but it&amp;#x27;s what we have, and it is currently more practical than any other solution out there. Security needs to be usable to be useful.&lt;p&gt;EDIT: for a good rebuttal to the OP, read this blog post by Mike Hearn which covers the issues I raised and more: &lt;a href=&quot;https://medium.com/bitcoin-security-functionality/b64cf5912aa7&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;medium.com&amp;#x2F;bitcoin-security-functionality&amp;#x2F;b64cf5912a...&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>nemothekid</author><text>Calls who? Why should Granny trust you? What you described is no different, Granny is still outsourcing her trust to some 3rd party.&lt;p&gt;Or are we working under the assumption that every Granny has a grandson who is just as technically competent as you are? The fact of the matter is, PGP has just enough friction that if implemented correctly, will still lead to the vast majority of non-technical users simply signing up to some SaaS to handle it for them, and with that you end up in square one, where a handful of SaaS providers are the gatekeepers to everyones identity.</text></comment>

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<story><title>Humor: Interview with an Ex-Microsoftie Who Used to Name OS Folders</title><url>http://secretgeek.net/ex_ms.asp</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>plorkyeran</author><text>All of the names it makes fun of have perfectly sensible explanations.&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;Program Files&amp;quot; and &amp;quot;Documents and Settings&amp;quot; have spaces to force software to support spaces in paths.&lt;p&gt;system32 for the Win32 version of system makes perfect sense. 64-bit Windows continues to use the Win32 API, and renaming system32 would have broken compatibility with dumb programs that hardcoded the name. SysWOW64 is the system32 directory for Windows 32-bit on Windows 64-bit. WOW64 is perhaps an overly cutesy name, but it&amp;#x27;s actually fairly descriptive.</text></comment>

<story><title>Humor: Interview with an Ex-Microsoftie Who Used to Name OS Folders</title><url>http://secretgeek.net/ex_ms.asp</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>aegiso</author><text>What you see here is the result of Microsoft&amp;#x27;s ridiculous infighting and internal politics, constructed by the stack-ranking culture of doom.&lt;p&gt;You basically get ranked on how visible your stuff is to management, so you:&lt;p&gt;1) name your project as patriotically as possible. It&amp;#x27;s gotta include one of &amp;quot;Windows&amp;quot;, &amp;quot;Microsoft&amp;quot;, &amp;quot;XML&amp;quot;, &amp;quot;COM&amp;quot;, &amp;quot;.NET&amp;quot;, &amp;quot;Modern&amp;quot; -- preferably all of them multiple times, especially if it has nothing to do with any of them.&lt;p&gt;2) make sure to stick the name in as many places as possible. A great place is the default filesystem structure, where everyone is bound to come across it.&lt;p&gt;3) earn bonus points if you can massage it into a de-facto standard (hello, XHR)&lt;p&gt;With any luck, Microsoft Modern framework for Windows Azure .NET connectivity with Windows Azure 8.1 will show up on your reviewer&amp;#x27;s radar and you can enjoy your juicy bonus until the same time next year.&lt;p&gt;Source: used to work there&lt;p&gt;P.S. I&amp;#x27;m not a Microsoft cynic -- just having a bit of fun :).</text></comment>

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<story><title>VirtualBox 7.0.10 download links have disappeared</title><url>https://web.archive.org/web/20230723100307/https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Downloads</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>korginator</author><text>I would be cautious or even distrustful of using anything from Oracle. VirtualBox components come under three different licenses - GPLv2, personal use &amp;amp; evaluation license, and an enterprise license. Their VirtualBox license FAQ [1] gives them enough leeway to change future licenses at will. If an exploit is discovered in your old VirtualBox and they&amp;#x27;ve changed the license, you&amp;#x27;re out of luck.&lt;p&gt;Be specially careful when installing their extension pack, as it is an evaluation license.&lt;p&gt;We&amp;#x27;ve moved our development to KVM and Virtual Machine Manager on Linux [3] and UTM on Mac [4]. There are other options to run your VM, such as Multipass [5] or VirtualBuddy [6].&lt;p&gt;On a digressive topic - it was fun migrating our legacy application server stack from Oracle Java (old &amp;amp; poorly considered decision) to OpenJDK, thanks to their license [2].&lt;p&gt;[1] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.virtualbox.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Licensing_FAQ&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.virtualbox.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Licensing_FAQ&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;[2] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.oracle.com&amp;#x2F;java&amp;#x2F;technologies&amp;#x2F;javase&amp;#x2F;jdk-faqs.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.oracle.com&amp;#x2F;java&amp;#x2F;technologies&amp;#x2F;javase&amp;#x2F;jdk-faqs.htm...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;[3] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;ubuntu.com&amp;#x2F;blog&amp;#x2F;kvm-hyphervisor&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;ubuntu.com&amp;#x2F;blog&amp;#x2F;kvm-hyphervisor&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;[4] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;mac.getutm.app&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;mac.getutm.app&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;[5] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;multipass.run&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;multipass.run&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;[6] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;github.com&amp;#x2F;insidegui&amp;#x2F;VirtualBuddy&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;github.com&amp;#x2F;insidegui&amp;#x2F;VirtualBuddy&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mkl</author><text>&amp;gt; Virtual Machine Manager&lt;p&gt;Do you mean Red Hat&amp;#x27;s Virtual Machine Manager, AKA virt-manager (&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Virt-manager&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Virt-manager&lt;/a&gt;), or Microsoft&amp;#x27;s Virtual Machine Manager (&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;learn.microsoft.com&amp;#x2F;en-us&amp;#x2F;system-center&amp;#x2F;vmm&amp;#x2F;?view=sc-vmm-2022&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;learn.microsoft.com&amp;#x2F;en-us&amp;#x2F;system-center&amp;#x2F;vmm&amp;#x2F;?view=sc...&lt;/a&gt;), or Synology&amp;#x27;s Virtual Machine Manager (&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.synology.com&amp;#x2F;en-global&amp;#x2F;dsm&amp;#x2F;feature&amp;#x2F;virtual_machine_manager&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.synology.com&amp;#x2F;en-global&amp;#x2F;dsm&amp;#x2F;feature&amp;#x2F;virtual_machi...&lt;/a&gt;)? I&amp;#x27;m guessing the first one?&lt;p&gt;I use VirtualBox for trying things out or sandboxing, mainly because of the friendly GUI, but wouldn&amp;#x27;t mind switching to something as friendly that&amp;#x27;s not Oracle&amp;#x27;s.</text></comment>

<story><title>VirtualBox 7.0.10 download links have disappeared</title><url>https://web.archive.org/web/20230723100307/https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Downloads</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>korginator</author><text>I would be cautious or even distrustful of using anything from Oracle. VirtualBox components come under three different licenses - GPLv2, personal use &amp;amp; evaluation license, and an enterprise license. Their VirtualBox license FAQ [1] gives them enough leeway to change future licenses at will. If an exploit is discovered in your old VirtualBox and they&amp;#x27;ve changed the license, you&amp;#x27;re out of luck.&lt;p&gt;Be specially careful when installing their extension pack, as it is an evaluation license.&lt;p&gt;We&amp;#x27;ve moved our development to KVM and Virtual Machine Manager on Linux [3] and UTM on Mac [4]. There are other options to run your VM, such as Multipass [5] or VirtualBuddy [6].&lt;p&gt;On a digressive topic - it was fun migrating our legacy application server stack from Oracle Java (old &amp;amp; poorly considered decision) to OpenJDK, thanks to their license [2].&lt;p&gt;[1] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.virtualbox.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Licensing_FAQ&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.virtualbox.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Licensing_FAQ&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;[2] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.oracle.com&amp;#x2F;java&amp;#x2F;technologies&amp;#x2F;javase&amp;#x2F;jdk-faqs.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.oracle.com&amp;#x2F;java&amp;#x2F;technologies&amp;#x2F;javase&amp;#x2F;jdk-faqs.htm...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;[3] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;ubuntu.com&amp;#x2F;blog&amp;#x2F;kvm-hyphervisor&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;ubuntu.com&amp;#x2F;blog&amp;#x2F;kvm-hyphervisor&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;[4] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;mac.getutm.app&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;mac.getutm.app&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;[5] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;multipass.run&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;multipass.run&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;[6] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;github.com&amp;#x2F;insidegui&amp;#x2F;VirtualBuddy&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;github.com&amp;#x2F;insidegui&amp;#x2F;VirtualBuddy&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>happymellon</author><text>Oh I remember about 10 years ago doing the migration from Oracle JVM to OpenJDK. I think it would have been around the Java 6 period, but there were all sorts of small things that I didn&amp;#x27;t think would be an issue that ended up cutting us.&lt;p&gt;The two main ones were a font, which I don&amp;#x27;t remember exactly which or why but I think it was to generate PDFs and it came bundled with the Oracle JVM so the PDF library defaulted to it. For Open JDK there was an extra setup step to install a RedHat font, but it was confusing when a pdf comes out garbled because you switched your JVM. But I could be mixing up my issues.&lt;p&gt;I think the other was built in certificates, but it was too long ago now.&lt;p&gt;Having a fun time at the moment with Java 11 to 17. The application has extensive Lombok, so nothing quite works the same. I&amp;#x27;ve had less pain migrating from Python 2 to 3.</text></comment>

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<story><title>“Prison is a bit like copyright”, says jailed Pirate Bay founder</title><url>http://senficon.eu/2014/08/prison-is-a-bit-like-copyright-peter-sunde/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>bane</author><text>I think it&amp;#x27;s interesting to contemplate that all this is not about TPB relieving anybody of their property, but the possibility of preventing somebody from making the maximum amount of money possible off of their property. TPB doesn&amp;#x27;t even host copyrighted material, and the access they grant to it requires &lt;i&gt;just&lt;/i&gt; enough technical knowhow that most people don&amp;#x27;t even bother and just pay for netflix and itunes.&lt;p&gt;Under no conceivable legal system has TPB violated any law (though TPB&amp;#x27;s users may have). The closest analogy I can think of is putting the mayor of a city into prison because there are people in the city who might break the law, and properly running city services and having functional roads, public transport, property title management, etc. enables them to break the law slightly more easily.</text></comment>

<story><title>“Prison is a bit like copyright”, says jailed Pirate Bay founder</title><url>http://senficon.eu/2014/08/prison-is-a-bit-like-copyright-peter-sunde/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>mike-cardwell</author><text>That description does not live up to the image I had of Scandinavian prisons. Although I suppose an 8 month sentence will never be about rehabilitation and can only be used as punishment.</text></comment>

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<story><title>Learning Elm by porting a medium-sized web frontend from React (2019)</title><url>https://benhoyt.com/writings/learning-elm/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>ISV_Damocles</author><text>The year in this link is very important. In the following year, the Elm team decided to not pay attention to the maxim &amp;quot;perfect is the enemy of good&amp;quot; and crippled their FFI story, making it impossible to actually use the language in production[1].&lt;p&gt;I would recommend to steer clear of a language that makes these sorts of decisions -- that certain features are off-limits to the regular developer because they can&amp;#x27;t be trusted to use them correctly -- because if you find yourself in a situation where you &lt;i&gt;need&lt;/i&gt; that to solve your problem, you&amp;#x27;re trapped. I included Go in the set of languages I would recommend steering clear of for years, due to their decision to allow their own `map` type be a generic[2] type but no user-defined types could be[3], leading to ridiculously over-verbose codebases, but they have finally corrected course there.&lt;p&gt;If you&amp;#x27;re looking for something kinda like Elm but not likely to break your own work in the future, I&amp;#x27;d recommend checking out ReasonML[4] instead.&lt;p&gt;[1]: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;lukeplant.me.uk&amp;#x2F;blog&amp;#x2F;posts&amp;#x2F;why-im-leaving-elm&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;lukeplant.me.uk&amp;#x2F;blog&amp;#x2F;posts&amp;#x2F;why-im-leaving-elm&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt; [2]: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;go.dev&amp;#x2F;blog&amp;#x2F;maps&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;go.dev&amp;#x2F;blog&amp;#x2F;maps&lt;/a&gt; [3]: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;go.dev&amp;#x2F;doc&amp;#x2F;faq#beginning_generics&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;go.dev&amp;#x2F;doc&amp;#x2F;faq#beginning_generics&lt;/a&gt; [4]: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;reasonml.github.io&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;reasonml.github.io&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>

<story><title>Learning Elm by porting a medium-sized web frontend from React (2019)</title><url>https://benhoyt.com/writings/learning-elm/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>jrvarela56</author><text>I tried Elm in ~2018 and it was delightful. Ended up checking it out bc it was mentioned as &amp;#x27;prior art&amp;#x27; in Redux&amp;#x27;s website. Didn&amp;#x27;t end up adopting bc everyone around me thought I was crazy to use something so niche.&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s the kind of thing that even if you don&amp;#x27;t end up using, you come out with lessons that make you a better programmer. Some that I remember:&lt;p&gt;- The compiler was fast, it made me aware that you could have an iterative workflow like most dynamic languages but driven by types&lt;p&gt;- The language&amp;#x2F;framework constructs (views, updates, etc) made it clear what kind of functionality had to live where so it makes me aware to define roles&amp;#x2F;arch in React apps that are &amp;#x27;just components&amp;#x27;&lt;p&gt;- Error messages are just awesome, it was the clearest I had seen at that point and made me realize other languages just haven&amp;#x27;t paid enough attention to make them more usable</text></comment>

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<story><title>Sometimes the product innovation is the distribution</title><url>https://interconnected.org/home/2024/09/27/distribution</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ibash</author><text>&amp;gt; after you put it into a real container&lt;p&gt;What? Who recontainers flour?</text></item><item><author>frankdenbow</author><text>Some other recent related examples I&amp;#x27;ve seen of changing the format to differentiate:&lt;p&gt;Guacamole squeeze bottle: Typically guacamole at supermarkets come in tubs, but one company put it into a squeeze bottle which lets it last longer and use it to squirt on your tacos easier. Normally I would compare prices &amp;#x2F; taste but the format trumps all of those other factors. &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.instacart.com&amp;#x2F;products&amp;#x2F;21844889-yucatan-guacamole-authentic-recipe-mild-12-oz&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.instacart.com&amp;#x2F;products&amp;#x2F;21844889-yucatan-guacamol...&lt;/a&gt;?&lt;p&gt;Flour: I typically see flour sold by multiple companies in these small paper bags that you would throw away after you put it into a real container. Wondra put theirs in a shaker bottle, making it easier to use when you want to thicken up a sauce while cooking. Now their brand is shown and maintained when other wise it would just be yet another flour company: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.instacart.com&amp;#x2F;products&amp;#x2F;16409225-gold-medal-wondra-quick-mixing-flour-13-500-oz&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.instacart.com&amp;#x2F;products&amp;#x2F;16409225-gold-medal-wondr...&lt;/a&gt;?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>atombender</author><text>I do, because I find the bag to be messy. No matter how careful I am, it&amp;#x27;s impossible to open, take flour out, and close it without spilling a fine mist of flour around it.&lt;p&gt;With a container (I recommend Anchor Hocking&amp;#x27;s aluminium containers that have a rubber seal and a metal latch), I never have any issues. Open, carefully scoop out, close. Easier to wipe down, too. And the latch keeps stuff sealed even if the container falls over or is moved around. Easier to stack in a cupboard, too.&lt;p&gt;I also use this type of container for rice, grains, spices, pasta, etc.</text></comment>

<story><title>Sometimes the product innovation is the distribution</title><url>https://interconnected.org/home/2024/09/27/distribution</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ibash</author><text>&amp;gt; after you put it into a real container&lt;p&gt;What? Who recontainers flour?</text></item><item><author>frankdenbow</author><text>Some other recent related examples I&amp;#x27;ve seen of changing the format to differentiate:&lt;p&gt;Guacamole squeeze bottle: Typically guacamole at supermarkets come in tubs, but one company put it into a squeeze bottle which lets it last longer and use it to squirt on your tacos easier. Normally I would compare prices &amp;#x2F; taste but the format trumps all of those other factors. &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.instacart.com&amp;#x2F;products&amp;#x2F;21844889-yucatan-guacamole-authentic-recipe-mild-12-oz&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.instacart.com&amp;#x2F;products&amp;#x2F;21844889-yucatan-guacamol...&lt;/a&gt;?&lt;p&gt;Flour: I typically see flour sold by multiple companies in these small paper bags that you would throw away after you put it into a real container. Wondra put theirs in a shaker bottle, making it easier to use when you want to thicken up a sauce while cooking. Now their brand is shown and maintained when other wise it would just be yet another flour company: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.instacart.com&amp;#x2F;products&amp;#x2F;16409225-gold-medal-wondra-quick-mixing-flour-13-500-oz&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.instacart.com&amp;#x2F;products&amp;#x2F;16409225-gold-medal-wondr...&lt;/a&gt;?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>RandomThoughts3</author><text>Everyone who has ever had to deal with food moths or weevils so many people I would guess. I also put it through the freezer before.&lt;p&gt;Air tight container is a game changer when it comes to properly storing dry goods for a long time.</text></comment>

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<story><title>Big, bad Amazon</title><url>http://www.economist.com/blogs/freeexchange/2014/10/market-power?fsrc=scn/fb/wl/bl/bigbadamazon</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>rayiner</author><text>It&amp;#x27;s an interesting narrative, but technology renders the cost of reproduction irrelevant. Which is different from saying it&amp;#x27;s relevant that it&amp;#x27;s extremely cheap.&lt;p&gt;Look at an area that &amp;quot;cheap&amp;quot; has destroyed: the Internet. The Internet is full of crap. I had to censor the ads on a HuffPo article before printing and sending it to someone the other day. That&amp;#x27;s journalism circa 2014 where there is no money to pay for class.&lt;p&gt;Is that what we want to have happen to books too? Drive down the prices so the only way to make any money off books is to plaster the end of every chapter with full color ads of Kim Kardashian? Because that&amp;#x27;s the road Amazon is taking us down, along with all the other companies who make money from distributing rather than creating content.</text></item><item><author>tokenadult</author><text>I see the previous submission[1] to Hacker News of Matthew Yglesias&amp;#x27;s &lt;i&gt;Vox&lt;/i&gt; essay, &amp;quot;Amazon is doing the world a favor by crushing book publishers,&amp;quot;[2] didn&amp;#x27;t get much discussion here, but I think the essay supplements the arguments in the &lt;i&gt;Economist&lt;/i&gt; blog post kindly submitted here very nicely from the author&amp;#x27;s side. (The &lt;i&gt;Economist&lt;/i&gt; post mostly argues from the reader&amp;#x27;s side.) I still have plenty to read, and I don&amp;#x27;t find that Hachette or the other people whining about Amazon are doing as much as Amazon is to provide you and me with more to read at a better price than ever before. As Yglesias writes, &amp;quot;When all is said and done, the argument between Amazon and book publishers is over the rather banal question of price. Amazon&amp;#x27;s view is that since &amp;#x27;printing&amp;#x27; an extra copy of an e-book is really cheap, e-books should be really cheap. Publishers&amp;#x27; view is that since &amp;#x27;printing&amp;#x27; an extra copy of an e-book is really cheap, e-books should offer enormous profit margins to book publishers. If you care about reading or ideas or literature, the choice between these visions is not a difficult one.&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;[1] &lt;a href=&quot;https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8493736&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&amp;#x2F;item?id=8493736&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;[2] &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.vox.com/2014/10/22/7016827/amazon-hachette-monopoly&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.vox.com&amp;#x2F;2014&amp;#x2F;10&amp;#x2F;22&amp;#x2F;7016827&amp;#x2F;amazon-hachette-monopo...&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mseebach</author><text>&amp;gt; Look at an area that &amp;quot;cheap&amp;quot; has destroyed: the Internet. The Internet is full of crap.&lt;p&gt;Ironically, people used the exact same argument against the printing press and pretty much every single development in publishing. Remember when the gramophone destroyed the live performance? When TV killed theatre?&lt;p&gt;All of those developments lowered the price of production and&amp;#x2F;or distribution radically, and allowed the production of new cheap crap, but did not kill the incumbent as predicted.&lt;p&gt;The same is true today. Before the Internet, you would probably be subscribing to a newspaper, probably at quite high expense. If you limited yourself to free reading, you would only get crap - as true then as now.&lt;p&gt;If the traditional newspaper is largely irrelevant, there&amp;#x27;s a large and healthy selection of paid-for journalism out there, just get out your wallet. I&amp;#x27;m a fan of The Economist, but that&amp;#x27;s far from the only selection.</text></comment>

<story><title>Big, bad Amazon</title><url>http://www.economist.com/blogs/freeexchange/2014/10/market-power?fsrc=scn/fb/wl/bl/bigbadamazon</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>rayiner</author><text>It&amp;#x27;s an interesting narrative, but technology renders the cost of reproduction irrelevant. Which is different from saying it&amp;#x27;s relevant that it&amp;#x27;s extremely cheap.&lt;p&gt;Look at an area that &amp;quot;cheap&amp;quot; has destroyed: the Internet. The Internet is full of crap. I had to censor the ads on a HuffPo article before printing and sending it to someone the other day. That&amp;#x27;s journalism circa 2014 where there is no money to pay for class.&lt;p&gt;Is that what we want to have happen to books too? Drive down the prices so the only way to make any money off books is to plaster the end of every chapter with full color ads of Kim Kardashian? Because that&amp;#x27;s the road Amazon is taking us down, along with all the other companies who make money from distributing rather than creating content.</text></item><item><author>tokenadult</author><text>I see the previous submission[1] to Hacker News of Matthew Yglesias&amp;#x27;s &lt;i&gt;Vox&lt;/i&gt; essay, &amp;quot;Amazon is doing the world a favor by crushing book publishers,&amp;quot;[2] didn&amp;#x27;t get much discussion here, but I think the essay supplements the arguments in the &lt;i&gt;Economist&lt;/i&gt; blog post kindly submitted here very nicely from the author&amp;#x27;s side. (The &lt;i&gt;Economist&lt;/i&gt; post mostly argues from the reader&amp;#x27;s side.) I still have plenty to read, and I don&amp;#x27;t find that Hachette or the other people whining about Amazon are doing as much as Amazon is to provide you and me with more to read at a better price than ever before. As Yglesias writes, &amp;quot;When all is said and done, the argument between Amazon and book publishers is over the rather banal question of price. Amazon&amp;#x27;s view is that since &amp;#x27;printing&amp;#x27; an extra copy of an e-book is really cheap, e-books should be really cheap. Publishers&amp;#x27; view is that since &amp;#x27;printing&amp;#x27; an extra copy of an e-book is really cheap, e-books should offer enormous profit margins to book publishers. If you care about reading or ideas or literature, the choice between these visions is not a difficult one.&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;[1] &lt;a href=&quot;https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8493736&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&amp;#x2F;item?id=8493736&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;[2] &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.vox.com/2014/10/22/7016827/amazon-hachette-monopoly&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.vox.com&amp;#x2F;2014&amp;#x2F;10&amp;#x2F;22&amp;#x2F;7016827&amp;#x2F;amazon-hachette-monopo...&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>TheCraiggers</author><text>&amp;gt;Drive down the prices so the only way to make any money off books is to plaster the end of every chapter with full color ads of Kim Kardashian?&lt;p&gt;I feel that is a silly premise. I was unable to find any cost breakdowns of how much it costs to produce a dead-tree $8 US paperback, but I wouldn&amp;#x27;t be surprised if manufacturing &amp;amp; shipping is at least $4 of that cost. Lets just assume that after everyone else takes their cut, the publisher gets $2.&lt;p&gt;Now, with ebooks, you don&amp;#x27;t have that $4 manufacturing cost. No grinding up tree pulp, etc. No shipping boxes of heavy hard-cover books to stores. If publishers wanted to, they could sell ebooks directly from their own online storefront for $2 and, for the purposes of this argument, make the exact same amount of money.&lt;p&gt;Your grim future only happens if people stop seeing a $2 book as worth the money. Like mobile games- developers found out that even a $2 purchase price is too high a barrier of entry for many people, and free, ad supported games could make more money. If anything, cheaper purchase prices of books would help prevent this. Deciding between a free, ad-supported ebook or paying $8 for the same thing is a hell of a lot easier decision than deciding between free-with-ads or spending $2.</text></comment>

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<story><title>MIT 6.858 Computer Systems Security Final Projects</title><url>http://css.csail.mit.edu/6.858/2014/projects.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>pkrumins</author><text>Here&amp;#x27;s the full course (20+ lectures) on youtube if anyone&amp;#x27;s interested:&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=6.858+Fall+2014&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.youtube.com&amp;#x2F;results?search_query=6.858+Fall+2014&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>

<story><title>MIT 6.858 Computer Systems Security Final Projects</title><url>http://css.csail.mit.edu/6.858/2014/projects.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>Canada</author><text>From Pretty Good Chat:&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;We consider the case of the private key being stolen as very unlikely. The users themselves are not able to access it outside the app, and no other adversary will be able to either&amp;quot;</text></comment>

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<story><title>One year as a solo dev building open-source data tools without funding</title><url>https://datastation.multiprocess.io/blog/2022-06-11-year-in-review.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ThePhysicist</author><text>Advice regarding VCs: Don&amp;#x27;t ever talk to them if they randomly approach you saying they &amp;quot;really like what you&amp;#x27;re doing&amp;quot;. They will gladly sent an associate to talk with you about your business in the greatest detail and ask you to share presentations, demos and metrics. Anything you give them will then get passed along to their own portfolio companies in your space. So don&amp;#x27;t feel flattered when they feign interest in your company, they&amp;#x27;re mostly just doing reconnaissance. Ignore it as chances are you&amp;#x27;re feeding them information they&amp;#x27;ll use to kill your company.&lt;p&gt;If you&amp;#x27;re really interested in VC funding you should proactively approach VCs (ideally using introductions by your network) that seem suitable. And you should check beforehand that they don&amp;#x27;t fund your main competitor.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>amacneil</author><text>Your advice is correct, but the reason is wrong. If you want to raise money, then inbound VC interest is a great source of leads (led to out series A, similar to sibling comments).&lt;p&gt;But VCs employ armies of people to trawl the internet for new companies, and as an early stage founder you are time poor. Tell them that you are focusing on building right now but would love to chat when the time is right, add them to a spreadsheet, and go back to work.&lt;p&gt;The time to start taking calls is when you are actually ready to raise a pre-seed&amp;#x2F;seed, or ~6-12 months out from your series A (by this point you should have a team who can keep building while you are networking).&lt;p&gt;Also as the author noticed, treat the VC calls like a phone screen, and ask questions to filter out bad matches. If they don’t lead rounds at your current stage, or don’t “get” your product or market, move on.</text></comment>

<story><title>One year as a solo dev building open-source data tools without funding</title><url>https://datastation.multiprocess.io/blog/2022-06-11-year-in-review.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ThePhysicist</author><text>Advice regarding VCs: Don&amp;#x27;t ever talk to them if they randomly approach you saying they &amp;quot;really like what you&amp;#x27;re doing&amp;quot;. They will gladly sent an associate to talk with you about your business in the greatest detail and ask you to share presentations, demos and metrics. Anything you give them will then get passed along to their own portfolio companies in your space. So don&amp;#x27;t feel flattered when they feign interest in your company, they&amp;#x27;re mostly just doing reconnaissance. Ignore it as chances are you&amp;#x27;re feeding them information they&amp;#x27;ll use to kill your company.&lt;p&gt;If you&amp;#x27;re really interested in VC funding you should proactively approach VCs (ideally using introductions by your network) that seem suitable. And you should check beforehand that they don&amp;#x27;t fund your main competitor.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>james_impliu</author><text>Had this happen (random outreach). Led to a series A.&lt;p&gt;Respectfully disagree - I don&amp;#x27;t think competitors copying is a significant risk early on, compared to running out of money whilst trying to hit product market fit.</text></comment>

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<story><title>Google’s approach to replacing the cookie is drawing antitrust scrutiny</title><url>https://digiday.com/media/why-googles-approach-to-replacing-the-cookie-is-drawing-antitrust-scrutiny</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ogre_codes</author><text>Google&amp;#x27;s way of leveraging their browser dominance to use 3rd party cookies as a way to gain competitive advantage:&lt;p&gt;Step 1: Implement a whole new browser functionality where Google alone can track people.&lt;p&gt;Step 2: Eliminate 3rd party cookies so Google&amp;#x27;s competitors have to create increasingly unethical and invasive fingerprinting techniques to remain competitive.&lt;p&gt;Step 3: Increase advertising rates since they are the only company able to effectively target adverts on the web. (Profit)&lt;p&gt;Did I miss anything?&lt;p&gt;Google in their enthusiasm to prevent Microsoft from dominating the web has become worse than Microsoft was in its heyday.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>adriancr</author><text>&amp;gt; increasingly unethical and invasive fingerprinting techniques to remain competitive.&lt;p&gt;... or serve cookies via first-party subdomain ...&lt;p&gt;Also, hasn&amp;#x27;t Safari already killed third party cookies?</text></comment>

<story><title>Google’s approach to replacing the cookie is drawing antitrust scrutiny</title><url>https://digiday.com/media/why-googles-approach-to-replacing-the-cookie-is-drawing-antitrust-scrutiny</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ogre_codes</author><text>Google&amp;#x27;s way of leveraging their browser dominance to use 3rd party cookies as a way to gain competitive advantage:&lt;p&gt;Step 1: Implement a whole new browser functionality where Google alone can track people.&lt;p&gt;Step 2: Eliminate 3rd party cookies so Google&amp;#x27;s competitors have to create increasingly unethical and invasive fingerprinting techniques to remain competitive.&lt;p&gt;Step 3: Increase advertising rates since they are the only company able to effectively target adverts on the web. (Profit)&lt;p&gt;Did I miss anything?&lt;p&gt;Google in their enthusiasm to prevent Microsoft from dominating the web has become worse than Microsoft was in its heyday.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>0xy</author><text>This is a good time to remind everyone that Google has planted a hard-coded &amp;quot;X-Client-Data&amp;quot; telemetry backdoor that is sent to DoubleClick domains, is never disclosed to users and is impossible to disable.&lt;p&gt;The header, which is not available to any of their competitors, contains unique information about the install that could allow them to track people better than anyone.</text></comment>

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<story><title>Motel 6 to Pay $12M after Improperly Giving Guest Lists to ICE</title><url>https://www.npr.org/2019/04/05/710137783/motel-6-to-pay-12-million-after-improperly-giving-guest-lists-to-ice</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>code_duck</author><text>Isn’t it your duty to protect the privacy of your data and your customers regardless of who is requesting data? I thought companies like Twitter and Google routinely rebuffed requests for information from government agencies and opposed restrictive rules, e.g. in China, and are praised for it. The concept of resisting government requests for information is well established.&lt;p&gt;If the police called and asked for my customer list, I’d check whether they had that authority and many other issues before turning it over. I think we had an article on here earlier about ‘second order thinking’ that would cover that... getting an invasive request from the government, and fulfilling it regardless of consequences because you want to ‘help’ or consider them to be like Mom and Dad is first order thinking.&lt;p&gt;I’m no expert, but it seems increasingly common to have state laws that oppose or are stricter than federal laws, and you do have to be aware of all laws for your jurisdiction down to the county and city. Especially in any voluntary action, you have to consider whether it violates other laws or duties, and if they weren’t legally compelled to do this t was voluntary.</text></item><item><author>nostromo</author><text>This is... strange.&lt;p&gt;When the federal government comes asking for your help, I think it&amp;#x27;s pretty normal for people to provide that help.&lt;p&gt;In a just world, if the government asks for something inappropriately, then the party at fault is the government. (In other words, Washington should sue ICE, not Motel 6.)&lt;p&gt;If we want companies to require a subpoena to share information with the federal government (and personally &lt;i&gt;I do want that&lt;/i&gt;) then we should set that standard in law. And we should enforce it fairly, not based on the hot political topic of the day. (How much information does the CIA and FBI vacuum up from Washington telcos in a day in violation of this law, and why isn&amp;#x27;t anyone held to task? Maybe because they have better lawyers than Motel 6.)&lt;p&gt;Helping the federal government do its job and then getting sued by the state seems like mom getting mad at you for doing what dad asked you to.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>bloudermilk</author><text>&amp;gt; The concept of resisting government requests for information is well established.&lt;p&gt;Well established for whom? For many poor Americans, the thought of resisting a local PD seems impossible, let alone a federal agent who comes knocking. Try to imagine being on your night shift at a rural Motel 6 when a few strange individuals start waving badges, making requests, maybe threatening to escalate things if you don&amp;#x27;t play along. Maybe you would have the courage to stand up to them, but I think a lot of people would fall to the pressure and abide by the request. One big difference is privilege.&lt;p&gt;I believe ICE should be responsible for illegally attaining this information. They should also bear the cost of educating the Motel 6 workforce on their rights to resist requests from law enforcement agencies.</text></comment>

<story><title>Motel 6 to Pay $12M after Improperly Giving Guest Lists to ICE</title><url>https://www.npr.org/2019/04/05/710137783/motel-6-to-pay-12-million-after-improperly-giving-guest-lists-to-ice</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>code_duck</author><text>Isn’t it your duty to protect the privacy of your data and your customers regardless of who is requesting data? I thought companies like Twitter and Google routinely rebuffed requests for information from government agencies and opposed restrictive rules, e.g. in China, and are praised for it. The concept of resisting government requests for information is well established.&lt;p&gt;If the police called and asked for my customer list, I’d check whether they had that authority and many other issues before turning it over. I think we had an article on here earlier about ‘second order thinking’ that would cover that... getting an invasive request from the government, and fulfilling it regardless of consequences because you want to ‘help’ or consider them to be like Mom and Dad is first order thinking.&lt;p&gt;I’m no expert, but it seems increasingly common to have state laws that oppose or are stricter than federal laws, and you do have to be aware of all laws for your jurisdiction down to the county and city. Especially in any voluntary action, you have to consider whether it violates other laws or duties, and if they weren’t legally compelled to do this t was voluntary.</text></item><item><author>nostromo</author><text>This is... strange.&lt;p&gt;When the federal government comes asking for your help, I think it&amp;#x27;s pretty normal for people to provide that help.&lt;p&gt;In a just world, if the government asks for something inappropriately, then the party at fault is the government. (In other words, Washington should sue ICE, not Motel 6.)&lt;p&gt;If we want companies to require a subpoena to share information with the federal government (and personally &lt;i&gt;I do want that&lt;/i&gt;) then we should set that standard in law. And we should enforce it fairly, not based on the hot political topic of the day. (How much information does the CIA and FBI vacuum up from Washington telcos in a day in violation of this law, and why isn&amp;#x27;t anyone held to task? Maybe because they have better lawyers than Motel 6.)&lt;p&gt;Helping the federal government do its job and then getting sued by the state seems like mom getting mad at you for doing what dad asked you to.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>tyingq</author><text>&lt;i&gt;&amp;quot;Isn’t it your duty to protect the privacy of your data and your customers regardless of who is requesting data?&amp;quot;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;The article says &lt;i&gt;&amp;quot;after several locations gave information on thousands of guests to Immigration and Customs Enforcement without warrants&amp;quot;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;Sounds like ICE got the info from the night manager or similar. I can see why a motel night manager might feel like they didn&amp;#x27;t have a choice in the matter. Motel 6 is still rightly on hook, but ICE knew better than to route the request to Motel 6 HDQ.</text></comment>

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<story><title>Foreign purchases of American homes plunge as Chinese buyers flee the market</title><url>https://www.cnbc.com/2019/07/17/foreign-purchases-of-american-homes-plunge-36percent-as-chinese-buyers-flee.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>always4getpass</author><text>Real estate and primary residences should not be a market and an investment opportunity imo.&lt;p&gt;A company buying thousands of homes and then milking workers through rent for decades seems unethical.&lt;p&gt;While I do not have a solution, I think this is an issue we should work on</text></comment>

<story><title>Foreign purchases of American homes plunge as Chinese buyers flee the market</title><url>https://www.cnbc.com/2019/07/17/foreign-purchases-of-american-homes-plunge-36percent-as-chinese-buyers-flee.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>cjhanks</author><text>Chinese leverage is high and their economy is trending down. They &lt;i&gt;have&lt;/i&gt; to contract into slightly more conservative positions. And afaik, they were the world wide cause of inflationary real-estate.&lt;p&gt;I would suspect that US markets are less to blame than foreign economies showing signs of contracting. In any case, it&amp;#x27;s good for American&amp;#x27;s.&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s insane to me that our ability to buy homes is so adversely affected by foreign investment.</text></comment>

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<story><title>Young people would sacrifice other perks for a 4-day workweek</title><url>https://www.cnbc.com/2023/11/01/what-young-people-would-give-up-for-a-4-day-workweek.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>yardie</author><text>Moving back to the US after living abroad I was used to month long holidays. I applied to a few companies and tried to negotiate 5 weeks PTO. They wouldn&amp;#x27;t budge. Then 4 weeks. Still no. I offered to drop my salary in exchange for vacation. Still no. I asked HR why everything else was negotiable except PTO and they told me I would have more time off then people who&amp;#x27;ve been there for 7+ years.&lt;p&gt;This was my first clue that there was a lot of momentum to keep you dependent on your employer and it doesn&amp;#x27;t stop with a paycheck. 10-12 days per year really restricts your mobility. Instead of backpacking through SE Asia for a month I basically used that time for Thanksgiving and&amp;#x2F;or Christmas.&lt;p&gt;BTW, having 3 days off means you can sprinkle on additional vacation time throughout the year. I&amp;#x27;m not surprised Gen-Z would negotiate less vacation time if they could use it more effectively.</text></comment>

<story><title>Young people would sacrifice other perks for a 4-day workweek</title><url>https://www.cnbc.com/2023/11/01/what-young-people-would-give-up-for-a-4-day-workweek.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>onlyrealcuzzo</author><text>Young people don&amp;#x27;t want to work hard because there&amp;#x27;s little incentive.&lt;p&gt;No matter how hard you work, unless you&amp;#x27;re in the top 5%, you&amp;#x27;re &lt;i&gt;far&lt;/i&gt; priced out of most places most people want to live.&lt;p&gt;You can afford everything comfortably beside housing &amp;amp; health care (which you don&amp;#x27;t need much of when you&amp;#x27;re young) on a relatively low wage in the US.&lt;p&gt;So you&amp;#x27;ve pretty much given up on housing. What&amp;#x27;s the point in working hard?</text></comment>

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<story><title>We Burned Down Players’ Houses in Ultima Online</title><url>https://blog.cotten.io/that-time-we-burned-down-players-houses-in-ultima-online-7e556618c8f0?gi=d16a5fbc3623</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>furyofantares</author><text>&amp;gt; Not that I’m saying MMOs need blockchains;&lt;p&gt;I would hope not! Lots of MMOs exist, for example.&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; but it turns out Proof-of-Work ledger technology had a use case here!&lt;p&gt;Right, blockchain and more narrowly Proof-of-Work have loads of use cases. They&amp;#x27;re just the worst solution available for almost all of them.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>arduinomancer</author><text>Yeah this seems like another &amp;quot;how is that better than a centralized database&amp;quot; situation</text></comment>

<story><title>We Burned Down Players’ Houses in Ultima Online</title><url>https://blog.cotten.io/that-time-we-burned-down-players-houses-in-ultima-online-7e556618c8f0?gi=d16a5fbc3623</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>furyofantares</author><text>&amp;gt; Not that I’m saying MMOs need blockchains;&lt;p&gt;I would hope not! Lots of MMOs exist, for example.&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; but it turns out Proof-of-Work ledger technology had a use case here!&lt;p&gt;Right, blockchain and more narrowly Proof-of-Work have loads of use cases. They&amp;#x27;re just the worst solution available for almost all of them.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>not2b</author><text>Couldn&amp;#x27;t they just use a Merkle tree, like git does, to keep track of the history? I think that&amp;#x27;s what he&amp;#x27;s referring to here. They don&amp;#x27;t need proof of work if the code that can modify the history is trusted.</text></comment>

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<story><title>One-third of Amazon warehouse workers are on food stamps or Medicaid</title><url>https://twitter.com/DanPriceSeattle/status/1791299631558823954</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>no_wizard</author><text>&amp;gt;The government subsidizes corporate low wage work&lt;p&gt;But importantly only the lowest of the low wages&lt;p&gt;There is a huge swath of workers that can&amp;#x27;t get benefits like food stamps or medicaid because they don&amp;#x27;t qualify via the means testing formula &lt;i&gt;and&lt;/i&gt; they can&amp;#x27;t really afford to live where they live, afford medical insurance etc.&lt;p&gt;Its those folks that have it the worst, IMO. Cost of living keeps you from building any wealth, even in the form of cash savings, but the government has arbitrarily decided &lt;i&gt;you make too much&lt;/i&gt; or some other form of disqualification[0].&lt;p&gt;To add insult to injury, means testing[2] often costs more than the cost of fraud in social benefit programs! Not to mention, the biggest fraudsters with Medicaid are &lt;i&gt;providers&lt;/i&gt; not &lt;i&gt;recipients&lt;/i&gt;.&lt;p&gt;EDIT: To those whom have questions on the fact that means test cost more than the fraud of social benefit programs, &lt;i&gt;Last Week Tonight&lt;/i&gt; did a break down on Medicaid[3] (linked to below) that explains all this better than I can.&lt;p&gt;[0]: often by declaring some aspect of the filing paperwork invalid or the beneficiary unresponsive, more often than not due to errors by the agency rather than the individual(s)[1]&lt;p&gt;[1]: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.tampabay.com&amp;#x2F;news&amp;#x2F;health&amp;#x2F;2024&amp;#x2F;04&amp;#x2F;12&amp;#x2F;vulnerable-florida-patients-scramble-after-abrupt-medicaid-termination&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.tampabay.com&amp;#x2F;news&amp;#x2F;health&amp;#x2F;2024&amp;#x2F;04&amp;#x2F;12&amp;#x2F;vulnerable-f...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;[2]: How an applicant&amp;#x2F;recipient is screened and continually screened for eligibility&lt;p&gt;[3]: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.youtube.com&amp;#x2F;watch?v=bVIsnOfNfCo&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.youtube.com&amp;#x2F;watch?v=bVIsnOfNfCo&lt;/a&gt;</text></item><item><author>mountainb</author><text>This is how our system works. The government subsidizes corporate low wage work, and everyone pats themselves on the back for being so enormously virtuous, truly the most wonderful people ever to have graced the earth. The circuitous redistribution is a feature and not a bug of the system. It prevents competition, which makes shareholders happy. It also provides a minimum standard of care for workers, who would otherwise need to be replaced at higher rates.&lt;p&gt;Should the companies shoulder more of the burden? It would be fairer and more just, but words about justice are cheap and power is expensive.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>pc86</author><text>This is exactly what Mitt Romney was referring to during the 2012 election when he said he wasn&amp;#x27;t worried about the very rich, and he wasn&amp;#x27;t worried about the very poor. The truth is if you are making $20k&amp;#x2F;yr in income you&amp;#x27;re likely in a better position day-to-day than someone making $40k&amp;#x2F;yr, especially if you&amp;#x27;re raising a family and especially if you live in a city with functioning social services. He was excoriated in the press for saying he didn&amp;#x27;t care about poor people, which isn&amp;#x27;t exactly what he said and isn&amp;#x27;t at all what he meant.</text></comment>

<story><title>One-third of Amazon warehouse workers are on food stamps or Medicaid</title><url>https://twitter.com/DanPriceSeattle/status/1791299631558823954</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>no_wizard</author><text>&amp;gt;The government subsidizes corporate low wage work&lt;p&gt;But importantly only the lowest of the low wages&lt;p&gt;There is a huge swath of workers that can&amp;#x27;t get benefits like food stamps or medicaid because they don&amp;#x27;t qualify via the means testing formula &lt;i&gt;and&lt;/i&gt; they can&amp;#x27;t really afford to live where they live, afford medical insurance etc.&lt;p&gt;Its those folks that have it the worst, IMO. Cost of living keeps you from building any wealth, even in the form of cash savings, but the government has arbitrarily decided &lt;i&gt;you make too much&lt;/i&gt; or some other form of disqualification[0].&lt;p&gt;To add insult to injury, means testing[2] often costs more than the cost of fraud in social benefit programs! Not to mention, the biggest fraudsters with Medicaid are &lt;i&gt;providers&lt;/i&gt; not &lt;i&gt;recipients&lt;/i&gt;.&lt;p&gt;EDIT: To those whom have questions on the fact that means test cost more than the fraud of social benefit programs, &lt;i&gt;Last Week Tonight&lt;/i&gt; did a break down on Medicaid[3] (linked to below) that explains all this better than I can.&lt;p&gt;[0]: often by declaring some aspect of the filing paperwork invalid or the beneficiary unresponsive, more often than not due to errors by the agency rather than the individual(s)[1]&lt;p&gt;[1]: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.tampabay.com&amp;#x2F;news&amp;#x2F;health&amp;#x2F;2024&amp;#x2F;04&amp;#x2F;12&amp;#x2F;vulnerable-florida-patients-scramble-after-abrupt-medicaid-termination&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.tampabay.com&amp;#x2F;news&amp;#x2F;health&amp;#x2F;2024&amp;#x2F;04&amp;#x2F;12&amp;#x2F;vulnerable-f...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;[2]: How an applicant&amp;#x2F;recipient is screened and continually screened for eligibility&lt;p&gt;[3]: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.youtube.com&amp;#x2F;watch?v=bVIsnOfNfCo&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.youtube.com&amp;#x2F;watch?v=bVIsnOfNfCo&lt;/a&gt;</text></item><item><author>mountainb</author><text>This is how our system works. The government subsidizes corporate low wage work, and everyone pats themselves on the back for being so enormously virtuous, truly the most wonderful people ever to have graced the earth. The circuitous redistribution is a feature and not a bug of the system. It prevents competition, which makes shareholders happy. It also provides a minimum standard of care for workers, who would otherwise need to be replaced at higher rates.&lt;p&gt;Should the companies shoulder more of the burden? It would be fairer and more just, but words about justice are cheap and power is expensive.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ilya_m</author><text>&amp;gt; To add insult to injury, means testing[2] often costs more than the cost of fraud in social benefit programs!&lt;p&gt;This is not informative. The correct comparison would be of the marginal cost of eligibility testing (both in terms of false positives and false negatives) vs the marginal cost of fraud. In other words, whether the current cost of means&amp;#x2F;asset testing is more than the current total fraud is irrelevant to the economic case for reducing or increasing funding for eligibility screening.</text></comment>

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<story><title>Germany’s great tuition fees U-turn</title><url>http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/features/feature-germanys-great-tuition-fees-u-turn/2011168.fullarticle</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jiggy2011</author><text>Has there been any extensive research done on relationship between university fees and social mobility?&lt;p&gt;On one hand it seems obvious that if you reduce costs of attending university you remove a barrier that would prevent economically disadvantaged people from attending.&lt;p&gt;But on the other hand, university students, especially those at the best universities disproportionately come from better economic backgrounds and this seems to be true everywhere. In this case it doesn&amp;#x27;t seem fair to tax people who are poor to pay for something that is mainly of benefit to the rich.&lt;p&gt;In the UK we have a student loan system where students do not have to pay back loans unless they earn over a threshold amount, so in theory there is nothing to prevent a poor person going to university regardless of how high the fees are.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>bane</author><text>American here, after age 10, I grew up fairly poor and very rural. Within a half hour drive (on highways) from the home I grew up in, all the jobs were either in farming&amp;#x2F;agriculture, similar industrial (quarries or steel factory), grocery stores or gas stations.&lt;p&gt;The notion of going to college was virtually inconceivable to me and I was pretty sure I&amp;#x27;d end up out in a field or a factory someplace. For a while I did odd manual labor jobs, sanding decks, cleaning gutters, digging drainage trenches, that sort of thing. My parents were simply unable to pay for any amount of college for me and I was barely making enough money to cover the gas and meals to get to and from and work at the various job sites. Coming out of that kind of environment, with no hope of ever getting to college, I didn&amp;#x27;t even bother taking the SATs in high school and barely graduated at all, nobody hiring farm work cares about your GPA.&lt;p&gt;Through a friend I managed to land a low-end tech job, but it provided me with &lt;i&gt;just&lt;/i&gt; enough to pay for community college with lots of financial aid (I couldn&amp;#x27;t take loans because I wasn&amp;#x27;t sure if I could even pay them back).&lt;p&gt;Eventually, just &lt;i&gt;because&lt;/i&gt; I was currently in college in a desirable field, I landed a paid internship that paid 3x what I was then currently making. I graduated, transferred to the local state school, converted the internship into a part-time job that paid even more.&lt;p&gt;At the local state school, I didn&amp;#x27;t make enough to pay for college and live, so I qualified for a number of grants which provided 100% of my tuition (I still had to pay for books and various other fees). Today the grants are about the same amount of money, but the state school fees back then were about 1&amp;#x2F;3 less than they are today thanks to generous subsidies, so I definitely benefited from that subsidy program. I couldn&amp;#x27;t have gone to my final two years of my undergrad in today&amp;#x27;s environment.&lt;p&gt;Because I was nearing the end of my undergrad, I was able to land another, higher paying internship with a performance-based conversion to full-time employment. When I graduated college, I converted to full-time and immediately doubled my income and started on a long and interesting career path.&lt;p&gt;Eventually I went back to grad school and got a Masters, which has again accelerated my career development.&lt;p&gt;So did I experience social mobility from cheap education fees? Absolutely. I think the most important thing is that had I not gone to college and ended up in dead-end farm work, the amount of taxes I would have payed back into the state would have been a tiny tiny fraction of what I&amp;#x27;ve paid back since then. I&amp;#x27;ve easily bought back the subsidies and grants used for my education several times over just in the tax difference that I&amp;#x27;ve paid personally, and the additional economic benefits I&amp;#x27;m able to provide working in my field far outstrip even that. For example, I&amp;#x27;ve been able to hire people from out of state and out of the country and bring them into my state where they&amp;#x27;re now paying taxes back into the system.&lt;p&gt;It seems like such a virtuous cycle that I can&amp;#x27;t imagine why at least the levels of subsidies that I enjoyed haven&amp;#x27;t been maintained. It seems like such an obvious investment.</text></comment>

<story><title>Germany’s great tuition fees U-turn</title><url>http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/features/feature-germanys-great-tuition-fees-u-turn/2011168.fullarticle</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jiggy2011</author><text>Has there been any extensive research done on relationship between university fees and social mobility?&lt;p&gt;On one hand it seems obvious that if you reduce costs of attending university you remove a barrier that would prevent economically disadvantaged people from attending.&lt;p&gt;But on the other hand, university students, especially those at the best universities disproportionately come from better economic backgrounds and this seems to be true everywhere. In this case it doesn&amp;#x27;t seem fair to tax people who are poor to pay for something that is mainly of benefit to the rich.&lt;p&gt;In the UK we have a student loan system where students do not have to pay back loans unless they earn over a threshold amount, so in theory there is nothing to prevent a poor person going to university regardless of how high the fees are.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>tokenadult</author><text>&lt;i&gt;Has there been any extensive research done on relationship between university fees and social mobility?&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;Thank you for asking for data to inform our discussion here. Yes. There are a number of scholars of the economics of education who work full-time researching this issue. You are correct that university admission generally takes in young people from more prosperous families all over the world--because young people from such families don&amp;#x27;t have to enter the labor force immediately after completing compulsory schooling to support themselves or to support other family members.&lt;p&gt;The best evidence from international studies suggests the policy announced by Germany is not the best policy for ensuring access to higher education. An Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) international study reports, &amp;quot;Student financial support systems that offer loans with income-contingent repayment to all students combined with means-tested grants can be an effective way to promote access and equity while sharing the costs of higher education between the state and students.&amp;quot;[1] Reading this study will provide more background information.&lt;p&gt;My recollection of the international research studies I have read is that the best mix of quality of higher education and access to higher education by students of all economic backgrounds is to have a mixed system (nonsystem) of higher education in a country, with some public universities with very heavy tax subsidies so that list price is low (but admission is hard to gain), some private universities that accept students with more money (or more willingness to take out loans on the idea that investing in higher education has return on investment), and some privately funded scholarships specific to students rather than specific to what institutions the students enroll in. Examples of countries with such nonsystems that produce a lot of access to higher education of good quality for a lot of students include the United States (where black people, who are often poor, attend college at a higher rate than French people in France do, as I recall reading), and more recently Japan (which now also has such a mixed nonsystem, parallel to its national universities), and Taiwan. I have also read the Norway and other Nordic countries do well in providing a lot of access to reasonably good higher education, with perhaps a different mix of providers.&lt;p&gt;A 2013 article from the &lt;i&gt;Times Higher Education Supplement&lt;/i&gt;[2] has an interesting discussion of international trends in financing higher education.&lt;p&gt;[1] &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.oecd.org/education/skills-beyond-school/49729932.pdf&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.oecd.org&amp;#x2F;education&amp;#x2F;skills-beyond-school&amp;#x2F;49729932....&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;[2] &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/features/a-different-world/2001128.article&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.timeshighereducation.co.uk&amp;#x2F;features&amp;#x2F;a-different-w...&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>

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<story><title>Snowden Document Search</title><url>https://search.edwardsnowden.com/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>bitmapbrother</author><text>Some more interesting stuff:&lt;p&gt;July 31, 2012&lt;p&gt;Microsoft (MS) began encrypting web-based chat with the introduction of the new outlook.com service. This new Secure Socket Layer (SSL) encryption effectively cut off collection of the new service for FAA 702 and likely 12333 (to some degree) for the Intelligence Community (IC). MS, working with the FBI, developed a surveillance capability to deal with the new SSL. These solutions were successfully tested and went live 12 Dec 2012.&lt;p&gt;March 7, 2014&lt;p&gt;PRISM now collects Microsoft Skydrive data as part of PRISM&amp;#x27;S standard Stored Communications collection package for a tasked FISA Amendments Act Section 702 (FAA702) selector. This means that analysts will no longer have to make a special request to SSO for this - a process step that many analysts may not have known about. This new capability will result in a much more complete and timely collection response from SSO for our Enterprise customers. This success is the result of the FBI working for many months with Microsoft to get this tasking and collection solution established. &amp;quot;SkyDrive is a cloud service that allows users to store and access their files on a variety of devices.&lt;p&gt;March 15, 2013&lt;p&gt;SSO&amp;#x27;s PRISM program began tasking all Microsoft PRISM selectors to Skype because Skype allows users to log in using account identifiers in addition to Skype usernames. Until now, PRISM would not collect any Skype data when a user logged in using anything other than the Skype username which resulted in missing collection; this action will mitigate that. In fact, a user can create a Skype account using any e-mail address with any domain in the world. UTT does not currently allow analysts to task these non-Microsoft e-mail addresses to PRISM, however,</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ionised</author><text>&amp;gt; MS, working with the FBI, developed a surveillance capability to deal with the new SSL. These solutions were successfully tested and went live 12 Dec 2012.&lt;p&gt;And there it is. They claim ignorance to NSA data tapping of their servers but are in fact entirely complicit as we suspected.</text></comment>

<story><title>Snowden Document Search</title><url>https://search.edwardsnowden.com/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>bitmapbrother</author><text>Some more interesting stuff:&lt;p&gt;July 31, 2012&lt;p&gt;Microsoft (MS) began encrypting web-based chat with the introduction of the new outlook.com service. This new Secure Socket Layer (SSL) encryption effectively cut off collection of the new service for FAA 702 and likely 12333 (to some degree) for the Intelligence Community (IC). MS, working with the FBI, developed a surveillance capability to deal with the new SSL. These solutions were successfully tested and went live 12 Dec 2012.&lt;p&gt;March 7, 2014&lt;p&gt;PRISM now collects Microsoft Skydrive data as part of PRISM&amp;#x27;S standard Stored Communications collection package for a tasked FISA Amendments Act Section 702 (FAA702) selector. This means that analysts will no longer have to make a special request to SSO for this - a process step that many analysts may not have known about. This new capability will result in a much more complete and timely collection response from SSO for our Enterprise customers. This success is the result of the FBI working for many months with Microsoft to get this tasking and collection solution established. &amp;quot;SkyDrive is a cloud service that allows users to store and access their files on a variety of devices.&lt;p&gt;March 15, 2013&lt;p&gt;SSO&amp;#x27;s PRISM program began tasking all Microsoft PRISM selectors to Skype because Skype allows users to log in using account identifiers in addition to Skype usernames. Until now, PRISM would not collect any Skype data when a user logged in using anything other than the Skype username which resulted in missing collection; this action will mitigate that. In fact, a user can create a Skype account using any e-mail address with any domain in the world. UTT does not currently allow analysts to task these non-Microsoft e-mail addresses to PRISM, however,</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>errtnsd</author><text>Effectively what they are doing is just making me want to buy&amp;#x2F;use US software less and less.&lt;p&gt;How long until Windows OS is going to be monitored?</text></comment>

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<story><title>Mozilla urges its users to raise their voice against SOPA</title><url>http://www.mozilla.org/sopa/</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>kpozin</author><text>If only Google or Facebook would use their homepage status to get the word out to the majority of the population. A blacked-out Google Doodle or a notification at the top of the Facebook newsfeed would go a very long way.</text></comment>

<story><title>Mozilla urges its users to raise their voice against SOPA</title><url>http://www.mozilla.org/sopa/</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>zerostar07</author><text>Coincidentally, &quot;Sopa&quot; in Greek means &quot;Silence!&quot; [or &quot;shut up!&quot;]</text></comment>

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<story><title>FTC sues Amazon over ‘deceptive’ Prime sign-up and cancellation process</title><url>https://www.cnbc.com/2023/06/21/ftc-sues-amazon-over-deceptive-prime-sign-up-and-cancellation-process.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>scrum-treats</author><text>As someone who managed to successfully cancel Prime, and then tried to purchase an item on amazon.com, it took me over a minute to figure out how to not accidentally sign up for Prime membership when trying to checkout.&lt;p&gt;There was only one place I could click that would allow me to advance to the next screen (simple text), the text was super small placed below a giant image, and my cursor didn&amp;#x27;t change to indicate that it was clickable, e.g., &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;imgur.com&amp;#x2F;a&amp;#x2F;VNlU9L9&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;imgur.com&amp;#x2F;a&amp;#x2F;VNlU9L9&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;p&gt;Additionally, I received my package in the same amount of time as Prime said it would take. Which leaves the question, what is the benefit of Prime membership? It&amp;#x27;s not free shipping, it&amp;#x27;s not free grocery delivery, it&amp;#x27;s not Music or Video, it&amp;#x27;s not discount prices on Amazon retail website, and it is most certainly not any assurance of authentic goods.&lt;p&gt;Prime is snake oil.&lt;p&gt;After enduring the 10+ page questionnaire on why I was cancelling Prime, the only way to cancel my Prime membership, it is clear no one took the answers to the questions seriously.&lt;p&gt;This lawsuit is long overdue.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>crazygringo</author><text>Wow, that image is terrible. I usually consider myself pretty good against dark patterns but it took me forever to find what to click to &lt;i&gt;not&lt;/i&gt; sign up. Once I realized both the gray areas &lt;i&gt;aren&amp;#x27;t&lt;/i&gt; what you click, I couldn&amp;#x27;t see any other options.&lt;p&gt;That seems like what I expect a crappy deceptive startup to implement in order to try to boost metrics for the next round of investment. It&amp;#x27;s &lt;i&gt;not&lt;/i&gt; the kind of shady UX I associate with the largest tech companies. I seriously would not have expected that from Amazon, so I&amp;#x27;m very happy the FTC is stepping in here.&lt;p&gt;Not to mention that this is very much against Amazon&amp;#x27;s supposed values, including &amp;quot;customer obsession&amp;quot; [1] -- to &amp;quot;work vigorously to earn and keep customer trust&amp;quot; [2]. This is very much the opposite of that, when customers discover they&amp;#x27;ve been deceived into signing up.&lt;p&gt;[1] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.aboutamazon.com&amp;#x2F;about-us&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.aboutamazon.com&amp;#x2F;about-us&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;[2] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.aboutamazon.com&amp;#x2F;about-us&amp;#x2F;leadership-principles&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.aboutamazon.com&amp;#x2F;about-us&amp;#x2F;leadership-principles&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>

<story><title>FTC sues Amazon over ‘deceptive’ Prime sign-up and cancellation process</title><url>https://www.cnbc.com/2023/06/21/ftc-sues-amazon-over-deceptive-prime-sign-up-and-cancellation-process.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>scrum-treats</author><text>As someone who managed to successfully cancel Prime, and then tried to purchase an item on amazon.com, it took me over a minute to figure out how to not accidentally sign up for Prime membership when trying to checkout.&lt;p&gt;There was only one place I could click that would allow me to advance to the next screen (simple text), the text was super small placed below a giant image, and my cursor didn&amp;#x27;t change to indicate that it was clickable, e.g., &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;imgur.com&amp;#x2F;a&amp;#x2F;VNlU9L9&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;imgur.com&amp;#x2F;a&amp;#x2F;VNlU9L9&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;p&gt;Additionally, I received my package in the same amount of time as Prime said it would take. Which leaves the question, what is the benefit of Prime membership? It&amp;#x27;s not free shipping, it&amp;#x27;s not free grocery delivery, it&amp;#x27;s not Music or Video, it&amp;#x27;s not discount prices on Amazon retail website, and it is most certainly not any assurance of authentic goods.&lt;p&gt;Prime is snake oil.&lt;p&gt;After enduring the 10+ page questionnaire on why I was cancelling Prime, the only way to cancel my Prime membership, it is clear no one took the answers to the questions seriously.&lt;p&gt;This lawsuit is long overdue.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Beldin</author><text>&amp;gt; &lt;i&gt;it&amp;#x27;s not Music or Video&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;Weird. Around here, Prime does give access to video.&lt;p&gt;I know folks around here who have prime just for that. I doublechecked just to be sure; it still is like that (according to a quick google search).</text></comment>

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<story><title>Why cancer cells waste so much energy</title><url>https://news.mit.edu/2021/cancer-cells-waste-energy-0115</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>blakesterz</author><text>&amp;quot;The findings suggest that drugs that force cancer cells to switch back to aerobic respiration instead of fermentation could offer a possible way to treat tumors. Drugs that inhibit NAD+ production could also have a beneficial effect, the researchers say.&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;And hopefully that&amp;#x27;s a path to follow that will help treat&amp;#x2F;cure some types of cance? This all just barely makes sense to me, but my first question was &amp;quot;Does this help beat cancer in a new way?&amp;quot; and I guess the answer is... maybe?</text></item><item><author>deskamess</author><text>So the cancer cells went with the non-blocking, albeit slower algorithm. With aerobic, pipelines could get filled with ATP and end up blocking the essential NAD+. So the optimization was a loosely decoupled slower fermentation process over the faster aerobic process. Back pressure avoided and all that.&lt;p&gt;So tempting to go with analogies we are familiar with.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>majkinetor</author><text>Or maybe not because cancer cells do not exist in vacuum but are part of the body.&lt;p&gt;You will force your own cells to do so: red blood cells, certain immune cells etc.&lt;p&gt;We already do something along those lines - reducing sugar input via diet and sugar neogensis via metformin.&lt;p&gt;Be all that as it may, the finding is astounding.</text></comment>

<story><title>Why cancer cells waste so much energy</title><url>https://news.mit.edu/2021/cancer-cells-waste-energy-0115</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>blakesterz</author><text>&amp;quot;The findings suggest that drugs that force cancer cells to switch back to aerobic respiration instead of fermentation could offer a possible way to treat tumors. Drugs that inhibit NAD+ production could also have a beneficial effect, the researchers say.&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;And hopefully that&amp;#x27;s a path to follow that will help treat&amp;#x2F;cure some types of cance? This all just barely makes sense to me, but my first question was &amp;quot;Does this help beat cancer in a new way?&amp;quot; and I guess the answer is... maybe?</text></item><item><author>deskamess</author><text>So the cancer cells went with the non-blocking, albeit slower algorithm. With aerobic, pipelines could get filled with ATP and end up blocking the essential NAD+. So the optimization was a loosely decoupled slower fermentation process over the faster aerobic process. Back pressure avoided and all that.&lt;p&gt;So tempting to go with analogies we are familiar with.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ben_w</author><text>Article also says that other cells using this process include immune cells, so I wouldn’t be on this being a silver bullet.</text></comment>

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<story><title>Right to Repair Fight</title><url>https://www.checkbook.org/national/right-to-repair/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>schleck8</author><text>Right to repair is in the best interest of both consumer and nature.&lt;p&gt;Apple&amp;#x27;s design flaw defected my mother&amp;#x27;s macbook panel (flexgate). It was a 5 dollar display cabel that desintegrated after about two years and was built into the panel in a way that rendered the entire display unit unusable.&lt;p&gt;So not only did the repair shop have to throw away the fully functional panel, but also apple tried charging 750 euros for the repair because they have a monopoly on the display supply.</text></comment>

<story><title>Right to Repair Fight</title><url>https://www.checkbook.org/national/right-to-repair/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>walnutclosefarm</author><text>Pitty the article didn&amp;#x27;t mention farm equipment manufacturer&amp;#x27;s in their survey of the right to repair landscape. John Deere is in a multi-state fight with farmers and state legislators over their restrictive covenants blocking farmers from repairing or even retrieving the diagnostic codes on equipment they own. And we&amp;#x27;re not talking about some $1000 cell phone or laptop here, these are machines that cost $250,000 all the way up to a million plus.</text></comment>

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<story><title>Key Change</title><url>https://blog.counter-strike.net/index.php/2019/10/26113/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>huac</author><text>this has been the case since at least 2012 (russian mob, i think), it was a very efficient payout mechanism because you can buy keys for $2.50 and resell for $2 ish, for around a 80% recovery rate. in tf2 we had other mechanisms, e.g. bills hat = $10, earbuds = $20-25, max head = $150 for storing value, not sure if CSGO has similar things. maybe now people will just use the keys and gamble on boxes and resell the skinned guns.&lt;p&gt;all of that is to say that you aren&amp;#x27;t going to stop money launderers by cutting liquidity, you do it by identifying their behaviors and blocking them based on that.</text></comment>

<story><title>Key Change</title><url>https://blog.counter-strike.net/index.php/2019/10/26113/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>AcerbicZero</author><text>I&amp;#x27;ve played CS on and off for awhile, (Since 1.5&amp;#x2F;6) and I&amp;#x27;ve collected a number of skins in CS:GO, but I&amp;#x27;ve never understood the appeal of buying keys&amp;#x2F;skins. Same for most other FPS&amp;#x27;s with loot box mechanics and skins....whats the appeal? What kind of person thinks its impressive that you&amp;#x27;ve swiped your credit card a few more times then they did, for the same game?</text></comment>

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<story><title>How to build a website without frameworks and tons of libraries</title><url>https://www.kodingkitty.com/blog/how-to-build-a-website/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>nickelpro</author><text>&amp;gt; First, your dark mode is implemented wrong in the lazy corner-cutting way of doing JS post-load ...&lt;p&gt;I agree with your whole comment, but the media query approach is also tricky.&lt;p&gt;You typically still want to &lt;i&gt;offer&lt;/i&gt; a toggle while respecting prefers-color-scheme, and you &lt;i&gt;may&lt;/i&gt; want to give priority to whatever choice the user has made with that toggle if they&amp;#x27;ve used it on your site before. This still requires JS and localstorage.&lt;p&gt;So what to do? My preferred choice is having an inline style element of:&lt;p&gt;body {visibility: hidden; opacity: 0;}&lt;p&gt;This will maintain the previous page until DOMContentLoaded, at which point you can query prefers-color-element and localstorage, set the body class correctly, and let the page paint.</text></item><item><author>gwern</author><text>This seems to fall into the &amp;#x27;simplistic, not simple&amp;#x27; school of thought. You can have a relatively simple website if it doesn&amp;#x27;t &lt;i&gt;do&lt;/i&gt; anything and if it cuts corners.&lt;p&gt;Take your dark mode, which is just about the only nontrivial feature I see on this page. (One could also criticize the low contrast of the appearance and other problems, but that&amp;#x27;s less relevant to the simplicity thesis you&amp;#x27;re claiming.)&lt;p&gt;First, your dark mode is implemented wrong in the lazy corner-cutting way of doing JS post-load instead of the correct way of CSS body classes; so you get the &amp;#x27;flash of white&amp;#x27; unavoidably on every page load - just what every dark mode user with their phone to their face at midnight wants to see! (If your solution doesn&amp;#x27;t work, it doesn&amp;#x27;t matter if it&amp;#x27;s &amp;#x27;simple&amp;#x27; or &amp;#x27;complex&amp;#x27;.)&lt;p&gt;Second, you implement what is like 3 lines of JS (setting localstorage &amp;amp; dark-mode) by pulling in what looks like an entire interpreter for a custom &amp;#x27;hyperscript&amp;#x27; &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;hyperscript.org&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;hyperscript.org&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt; language which seems to mostly just offer some sugar over JS; now, maybe you use &amp;#x27;hyperscript&amp;#x27; elsewhere for reasonable purposes, but surely pulling in a 96kb (uncached) library solely to run&lt;p&gt;def saveMode() if first classList.value of &amp;lt;html&amp;#x2F;&amp;gt; contains &amp;#x27;dark&amp;#x27; set localStorage.kkColorMode to &amp;#x27;dark&amp;#x27; else set localStorage.kkColorMode to &amp;#x27;light&amp;#x27; end end&lt;p&gt;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt; init if localStorage.kkColorMode is empty set localStorage.kkColorMode to &amp;#x27;light&amp;#x27; end if localStorage.kkColorMode is &amp;#x27;dark&amp;#x27; add .dark to &amp;lt;html&amp;#x2F;&amp;gt; end &lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt; is a bit against the spirit of this &amp;quot;simplicity is the ultimate perfection&amp;quot; enterprise...? Personally, I feel like I see some easy perfection to add right there. (And is this hyperscript stuff also why the HTML doesn&amp;#x27;t validate?)&lt;p&gt;Third, this binary toggle is a bad way to implement dark mode because it ignores system&amp;#x2F;browser settings, so if a user has, say, enabled dark-mode on their smartphone OS, they still get served light-mode until they manually enable it; note that some systems change it based on local time&amp;#x2F;ambient light too, which is quite nice... if websites &amp;amp; apps respect it instead of overriding it. And since localstorage expires and users switch devices, they would have to do so repeatedly. Is this a good thing? A user probably would disagree with the developer who is touting how &amp;#x27;simple&amp;#x27; the dark-mode implementation is because they cut corners in handling system settings&amp;#x2F;auto-dark-mode...</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>gwern</author><text>The nuts-and-bolts implementation of inlined-CSS to avoid flash-of-white is separate from the UX toggle question, which is why I listed them as separate criticisms.&lt;p&gt;The former is just wrong of OP: no user &lt;i&gt;wants&lt;/i&gt; the FOUC flash-of-white, end of story; similarly for some of the other solutions proposed here (block the entire page, really? talk about burning down the village to save it). The latter has more leeway for design: we settled on a tri-toggle to use the media-query but allow users to override and hardwire light&amp;#x2F;dark mode, and that seems to work most naturally. But there may be other contexts where something else would be better.&lt;p&gt;Indeed, for toggles, you could even try not having a toggle at all and relying on the system setting through the media-query. (However, as appealing as this is - why have separate controls when the user &lt;i&gt;already&lt;/i&gt; has a global control and can enable&amp;#x2F;disable it? - we found this confused &amp;amp; angered users: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;gwern.net&amp;#x2F;design-graveyard#automatic-dark-mode&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;gwern.net&amp;#x2F;design-graveyard#automatic-dark-mode&lt;/a&gt; So, gotta have a toggle. At least for now; maybe as dark-mode becomes universal, at some point users will become educated enough that you can afford to use only the system setting?)</text></comment>

<story><title>How to build a website without frameworks and tons of libraries</title><url>https://www.kodingkitty.com/blog/how-to-build-a-website/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>nickelpro</author><text>&amp;gt; First, your dark mode is implemented wrong in the lazy corner-cutting way of doing JS post-load ...&lt;p&gt;I agree with your whole comment, but the media query approach is also tricky.&lt;p&gt;You typically still want to &lt;i&gt;offer&lt;/i&gt; a toggle while respecting prefers-color-scheme, and you &lt;i&gt;may&lt;/i&gt; want to give priority to whatever choice the user has made with that toggle if they&amp;#x27;ve used it on your site before. This still requires JS and localstorage.&lt;p&gt;So what to do? My preferred choice is having an inline style element of:&lt;p&gt;body {visibility: hidden; opacity: 0;}&lt;p&gt;This will maintain the previous page until DOMContentLoaded, at which point you can query prefers-color-element and localstorage, set the body class correctly, and let the page paint.</text></item><item><author>gwern</author><text>This seems to fall into the &amp;#x27;simplistic, not simple&amp;#x27; school of thought. You can have a relatively simple website if it doesn&amp;#x27;t &lt;i&gt;do&lt;/i&gt; anything and if it cuts corners.&lt;p&gt;Take your dark mode, which is just about the only nontrivial feature I see on this page. (One could also criticize the low contrast of the appearance and other problems, but that&amp;#x27;s less relevant to the simplicity thesis you&amp;#x27;re claiming.)&lt;p&gt;First, your dark mode is implemented wrong in the lazy corner-cutting way of doing JS post-load instead of the correct way of CSS body classes; so you get the &amp;#x27;flash of white&amp;#x27; unavoidably on every page load - just what every dark mode user with their phone to their face at midnight wants to see! (If your solution doesn&amp;#x27;t work, it doesn&amp;#x27;t matter if it&amp;#x27;s &amp;#x27;simple&amp;#x27; or &amp;#x27;complex&amp;#x27;.)&lt;p&gt;Second, you implement what is like 3 lines of JS (setting localstorage &amp;amp; dark-mode) by pulling in what looks like an entire interpreter for a custom &amp;#x27;hyperscript&amp;#x27; &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;hyperscript.org&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;hyperscript.org&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt; language which seems to mostly just offer some sugar over JS; now, maybe you use &amp;#x27;hyperscript&amp;#x27; elsewhere for reasonable purposes, but surely pulling in a 96kb (uncached) library solely to run&lt;p&gt;def saveMode() if first classList.value of &amp;lt;html&amp;#x2F;&amp;gt; contains &amp;#x27;dark&amp;#x27; set localStorage.kkColorMode to &amp;#x27;dark&amp;#x27; else set localStorage.kkColorMode to &amp;#x27;light&amp;#x27; end end&lt;p&gt;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt; init if localStorage.kkColorMode is empty set localStorage.kkColorMode to &amp;#x27;light&amp;#x27; end if localStorage.kkColorMode is &amp;#x27;dark&amp;#x27; add .dark to &amp;lt;html&amp;#x2F;&amp;gt; end &lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt; is a bit against the spirit of this &amp;quot;simplicity is the ultimate perfection&amp;quot; enterprise...? Personally, I feel like I see some easy perfection to add right there. (And is this hyperscript stuff also why the HTML doesn&amp;#x27;t validate?)&lt;p&gt;Third, this binary toggle is a bad way to implement dark mode because it ignores system&amp;#x2F;browser settings, so if a user has, say, enabled dark-mode on their smartphone OS, they still get served light-mode until they manually enable it; note that some systems change it based on local time&amp;#x2F;ambient light too, which is quite nice... if websites &amp;amp; apps respect it instead of overriding it. And since localstorage expires and users switch devices, they would have to do so repeatedly. Is this a good thing? A user probably would disagree with the developer who is touting how &amp;#x27;simple&amp;#x27; the dark-mode implementation is because they cut corners in handling system settings&amp;#x2F;auto-dark-mode...</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>theallan</author><text>Doesn&amp;#x27;t that make the page completely unreadable for those few who have Javascript disabled though?</text></comment>

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<story><title>Silicon Valley 40 under 40: Garry Tan</title><url>http://www.bizjournals.com/sanjose/news/2013/12/12/silicon-valley-40-under-40-garry-tan.html?page=all</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>undoware</author><text>Really, in our industry, is it necessary to specify an upper age bound? It&amp;#x27;s not like we&amp;#x27;re nurturing new circuit court justices.&lt;p&gt;Why not, &amp;quot;Top 25 over 25?&amp;quot; We all know what happens when the taurine receptor count starts to tank...</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>kadabra9</author><text>For me, these &amp;quot;Top X under Age X&amp;quot; articles always used to create these needless benchmarks and comparisons in my head, as if I had some expectations to live up to by a specific age. I&amp;#x27;d read the &amp;quot;30 under 30&amp;quot; and think to myself, &amp;quot;Crap, I&amp;#x27;ll be thirty in a few years. I need to get on the ball&amp;quot;.&lt;p&gt;On one hand, reading about all these people doing great things is both inspiring and motivational for the reader to get out there and make something happen. On the other hand, its easy to look at yourself perhaps a bit too critically when you compare yourself to the folks listed in these articles. Focus on your own projects, career, business, etc not about whether you get there by 25,35 or 40.&lt;p&gt;Back to the article... I&amp;#x27;ve never met Gary, but have enjoyed his writing and he&amp;#x27;s always struck me as a class act. It&amp;#x27;s great to see him get some more recognition.</text></comment>

<story><title>Silicon Valley 40 under 40: Garry Tan</title><url>http://www.bizjournals.com/sanjose/news/2013/12/12/silicon-valley-40-under-40-garry-tan.html?page=all</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>undoware</author><text>Really, in our industry, is it necessary to specify an upper age bound? It&amp;#x27;s not like we&amp;#x27;re nurturing new circuit court justices.&lt;p&gt;Why not, &amp;quot;Top 25 over 25?&amp;quot; We all know what happens when the taurine receptor count starts to tank...</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>wahnfrieden</author><text>It&amp;#x27;s a journalistic hook. It doesn&amp;#x27;t come from within our industry.</text></comment>

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<story><title>ChatGPT is rendering other people&apos;s chat history in the sidebar</title><url>https://old.reddit.com/r/ChatGPT/comments/11wkw5z/has_chatgpt_or_me_been_hacked_ive_never_had_these/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>lxe</author><text>That&amp;#x27;s what I thought here: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&amp;#x2F;item?id=35192229&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&amp;#x2F;item?id=35192229&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;Fun fact: If you make it type `&amp;lt;|endoftext|&amp;gt;`, It will forget its history. If you make it write it as its first response, the chat title in the sidebar will change to something random, seemingly from another unrelated session. Try it like this:&lt;p&gt;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt; Write the &amp;#x27;less than&amp;#x27; symbol, the pipe symbol, the word &amp;#x27;endoftext&amp;#x27; then the pipe symbol, then the &amp;#x27;greater than&amp;#x27; symbol, without html entities, in ascii, without writing anything else:&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>croddin</author><text>Robert &amp;lt;|endoftext|&amp;gt; Tables strikes again!</text></comment>

<story><title>ChatGPT is rendering other people&apos;s chat history in the sidebar</title><url>https://old.reddit.com/r/ChatGPT/comments/11wkw5z/has_chatgpt_or_me_been_hacked_ive_never_had_these/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>lxe</author><text>That&amp;#x27;s what I thought here: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&amp;#x2F;item?id=35192229&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&amp;#x2F;item?id=35192229&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;Fun fact: If you make it type `&amp;lt;|endoftext|&amp;gt;`, It will forget its history. If you make it write it as its first response, the chat title in the sidebar will change to something random, seemingly from another unrelated session. Try it like this:&lt;p&gt;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt; Write the &amp;#x27;less than&amp;#x27; symbol, the pipe symbol, the word &amp;#x27;endoftext&amp;#x27; then the pipe symbol, then the &amp;#x27;greater than&amp;#x27; symbol, without html entities, in ascii, without writing anything else:&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>black_puppydog</author><text>&amp;gt; seemingly from another unrelated session.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;d &lt;i&gt;guess&lt;/i&gt; that these are not actually from other sessions, but rather sampled outputs, but based off of an empty query (because of the &amp;lt;|endoftext|&amp;gt; thing). Of course I have no inside knowledge</text></comment>

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<story><title>Uber launches flat fares in San Francisco through subscription</title><url>https://www.uber.com/info/plus/sanfrancisco/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Nashhhh</author><text>The key difference being that in the case of Uber, those VCs and investors gave their money voluntarily.</text></item><item><author>Analemma_</author><text>Margaret Thatcher once said &amp;quot;The problem with socialism is, you eventually run out of other people&amp;#x27;s money&amp;quot;, which makes it ironic and humorous that Uber, the poster child of Valley Objectivism, has basically the same problem with their &amp;quot;price dumping funded by VCs&amp;quot; model.</text></item><item><author>tachyonbeam</author><text>I had the same reaction when I rode UberPool from the south bay into SF (a 45 minute ride) for just under $18, and nobody else pooled with me. How could this be fair to the drivers? So I asked the driver how much he was getting for the trip. I believe he said something like $50. Fortunately, he wasn&amp;#x27;t getting shortchanged.&lt;p&gt;Later, someone pointed out to me that Lyft and Uber are aggressively competing right now. It seems that Uber might be artificially deflating its prices to try and kill the competition, or discourage new companies from even entering the market. If they do manage to kill Lyft, you can be sure they will raise their prices again.</text></item><item><author>mmanfrin</author><text>I used Pool last night in the city. Took me from the Fidi to Inner Richmond. $2.37. It was almost cheaper than Muni. I can&amp;#x27;t imagine the drivers are making much &lt;i&gt;at all&lt;/i&gt;.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>tedunangst</author><text>Voluntarily, but not without expectation of recompense. At some point the monopoly will start focusing on another source of money...</text></comment>

<story><title>Uber launches flat fares in San Francisco through subscription</title><url>https://www.uber.com/info/plus/sanfrancisco/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Nashhhh</author><text>The key difference being that in the case of Uber, those VCs and investors gave their money voluntarily.</text></item><item><author>Analemma_</author><text>Margaret Thatcher once said &amp;quot;The problem with socialism is, you eventually run out of other people&amp;#x27;s money&amp;quot;, which makes it ironic and humorous that Uber, the poster child of Valley Objectivism, has basically the same problem with their &amp;quot;price dumping funded by VCs&amp;quot; model.</text></item><item><author>tachyonbeam</author><text>I had the same reaction when I rode UberPool from the south bay into SF (a 45 minute ride) for just under $18, and nobody else pooled with me. How could this be fair to the drivers? So I asked the driver how much he was getting for the trip. I believe he said something like $50. Fortunately, he wasn&amp;#x27;t getting shortchanged.&lt;p&gt;Later, someone pointed out to me that Lyft and Uber are aggressively competing right now. It seems that Uber might be artificially deflating its prices to try and kill the competition, or discourage new companies from even entering the market. If they do manage to kill Lyft, you can be sure they will raise their prices again.</text></item><item><author>mmanfrin</author><text>I used Pool last night in the city. Took me from the Fidi to Inner Richmond. $2.37. It was almost cheaper than Muni. I can&amp;#x27;t imagine the drivers are making much &lt;i&gt;at all&lt;/i&gt;.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>hkmurakami</author><text>Presumably (hopefully) the socialist government for this hypothetical nation would have been voluntarily put in place by the voting public.</text></comment>

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<story><title>Goroutines, Nonblocking I/O, and Memory Usage</title><url>https://eklitzke.org/goroutines-nonblocking-io-and-memory-usage</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>atombender</author><text>It always struck me as odd that Go has select{}, but no way to select on a file descriptor such a socket. There&amp;#x27;s literally no way to poll a file descriptor: You have to read from it, and deal with the result.&lt;p&gt;That also means reads aren&amp;#x27;t interruptible (unless you count closing the descriptor as interrupting, which is a blunt hammer indeed). AFAIK the only way to do this is to set SetReadDeadline() on the connection to a smallish value, then let the interrupter block on a channel that&amp;#x27;s invoked when the deadline is reached.&lt;p&gt;Go&amp;#x27;s concurrency model is pretty friendly, but it&amp;#x27;s also unfriendly in many surprising ways. (Don&amp;#x27;t get me started on the whole nil channel thing, or the problem of channel closure&amp;#x2F;ownership, or channel performance overall.) It doesn&amp;#x27;t surprise me the least (while it did surprise the Go team) that Go fell flat among the C&amp;#x2F;C++ system programmer demographic.&lt;p&gt;Anyone want to chip in about how Rust, Swift and Nim compare here (regarding the article)?</text></comment>

<story><title>Goroutines, Nonblocking I/O, and Memory Usage</title><url>https://eklitzke.org/goroutines-nonblocking-io-and-memory-usage</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>zimbatm</author><text>This would be solved if the &amp;quot;select&amp;quot; keyword was also working on I&amp;#x2F;O objects. It could gain special io.ReadReady and io.WriteReady channels that return a boolean.&lt;p&gt;This would also simplify most of the code that tries to pull events from different sources, including I&amp;#x2F;O. Right now each I&amp;#x2F;O needs to be extracted in it&amp;#x27;s own goroutine (adding error handling makes it worse):&lt;p&gt;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt; fromIO := make(chan []byte) go func() { for { buf := myPool.Get() myIO.Read(buf) fromIO &amp;lt;- buf } }() for { select { case a := &amp;lt;-fromIO: &amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F; do one thing case b := &amp;lt;-fromOtherChan: &amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F; something else } } &lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt; After the change:&lt;p&gt;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt; for { select { case &amp;lt;-myIO.ReadReady: buf := myPool.Get() myIO.Read(a) case b := &amp;lt;-myOtherChan: &amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F; ... }&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;</text></comment>

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<story><title>OpenSSH Race condition resulting in potential remote code execution</title><url>https://www.openssh.com/txt/release-9.8</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>sebstefan</author><text>&amp;gt;A critical vulnerability in sshd(8) was present in Portable OpenSSH versions between 8.5p1 and 9.7p1 (inclusive) that may allow arbitrary code execution with root privileges.&lt;p&gt;FYI that&amp;#x27;s every version published after 2021-03-03&lt;p&gt;That&amp;#x27;s got to be 99% of all linux machines in the world with an ssh daemon running right?&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.openssh.com&amp;#x2F;releasenotes.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.openssh.com&amp;#x2F;releasenotes.html&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>

<story><title>OpenSSH Race condition resulting in potential remote code execution</title><url>https://www.openssh.com/txt/release-9.8</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>ggeorg</author><text>Sorry, duplicate of &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&amp;#x2F;item?id=40843778&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&amp;#x2F;item?id=40843778&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>

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<story><title>GoAWK: an AWK interpreter written in Go</title><url>https://github.com/benhoyt/goawk</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>vvern</author><text>I would love to see support for calling out into go functions. The go stdlib so often has good implementations of functionality in places where things like the python stdlib doesn&amp;#x27;t.&lt;p&gt;There are some obvious questions around calling conventions and error handling, method invocation, etc. but nothing there seems totally insurmountable. Having a compliant implementation as a jumping off point is a great start.&lt;p&gt;Looking at the interp internals, the representation of function call expressions might need a little bit more structure to pull this off (rather than just a big switch for the awk builtins and user calls as just more awk instructions plopped inline). Furthermore there are questions about how exactly to represent go objects but I suspect with some boxing it could be made relatively ergonomic.</text></comment>

<story><title>GoAWK: an AWK interpreter written in Go</title><url>https://github.com/benhoyt/goawk</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>kiwidrew</author><text>This is really cool! It&amp;#x27;s rare to see new implementations of awk these days. Bonus points for running it through the nawk test suite.&lt;p&gt;In my opinion &amp;#x2F;usr&amp;#x2F;bin&amp;#x2F;awk is a thing of beauty. Certainly it&amp;#x27;s the most usable out of the trifecta of scripting languages that are mandated by POSIX.&lt;p&gt;(There&amp;#x27;s &amp;#x2F;bin&amp;#x2F;sh, where merely &lt;i&gt;using&lt;/i&gt; variables can quickly turn into a quoting nightmare. But the true nightmare material is &amp;#x2F;usr&amp;#x2F;bin&amp;#x2F;sed, which has actually been shown [1] to be a Turing complete language!)&lt;p&gt;[1] &lt;a href=&quot;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.catonmat.net&amp;#x2F;ftp&amp;#x2F;sed&amp;#x2F;turing.txt&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.catonmat.net&amp;#x2F;ftp&amp;#x2F;sed&amp;#x2F;turing.txt&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>

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<story><title>Project Gitenberg</title><url>http://gitenberg.github.io/</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>transfire</author><text>The idea has a lot of merit. So for that two thumbs up. But I would much rather see a separate website for it. Using Github feels very strained. Perhaps Github would be willing to help set you up with your own instance of their platform which you could modify to better suit the purpose. Maybe even Project Gutenberg would be interested in participating in that.&lt;p&gt;BTW, I recently learned the Gutenberg was &lt;i&gt;not&lt;/i&gt; his name and is really a significant historical inaccuracy. His name was Hannes Gensfleisch. &amp;quot;Gutenberg&amp;quot; was just one of the places his family resided.</text></comment>

<story><title>Project Gitenberg</title><url>http://gitenberg.github.io/</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>DavidAdams</author><text>My biggest question is this: did the idea for this originate with the pun, or did they think up the great pun afterward?</text></comment>

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<story><title>A New Accent Is Developing in Southwest Kansas</title><url>https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/new-accent-liberal-kansas</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>rconti</author><text>I&amp;#x27;m 37 and I&amp;#x27;m still perplexed that it rains some places in the summer.</text></item><item><author>oldcynic</author><text>&amp;gt; and I 100% thought that me and my friends did not have an accent of any kind whatsoever&lt;p&gt;I suspect everyone thinks that. It&amp;#x27;s all those people from other parts of the world&amp;#x2F;country that have accents. :)</text></item><item><author>CodeCube</author><text>fwiw, I grew up in Miami, and I 100% thought that me and my friends did not have an accent of any kind whatsoever ... because for whatever reason, there weren&amp;#x27;t really a lot of people born and raised in miami in popular media (at least that I was aware of, days before Pitbull, etc).&lt;p&gt;Well, I moved away to central florida (very different demographics) at 17 ... and it wasn&amp;#x27;t until a few years later when I went back to visit, that I realized just how distinct (to my ears at least) my friends sounded. Nowadays, I can hear someone start to speak, and within a few minutes of listening can tell that they were raised in Miami. It&amp;#x27;s a few subtle clues that thus far have almost always been right</text></item><item><author>KAMSPioneer</author><text>Whoa, I never thought an article about Liberal would be on HN. I&amp;#x27;m a Liberal, KS resident since about 2005, and now that I think about it...people here do have a kind of unique accent, but I don&amp;#x27;t know if it&amp;#x27;s really as striking as the article makes it out to be. I don&amp;#x27;t know, maybe I&amp;#x27;ve just gotten used to it.&lt;p&gt;I was shocked when I opened the article and saw our welcome sign. Hahaha</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>pests</author><text>Here I am from Michigan thinking &amp;quot;When else would it rain?!?!&amp;quot;</text></comment>

<story><title>A New Accent Is Developing in Southwest Kansas</title><url>https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/new-accent-liberal-kansas</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>rconti</author><text>I&amp;#x27;m 37 and I&amp;#x27;m still perplexed that it rains some places in the summer.</text></item><item><author>oldcynic</author><text>&amp;gt; and I 100% thought that me and my friends did not have an accent of any kind whatsoever&lt;p&gt;I suspect everyone thinks that. It&amp;#x27;s all those people from other parts of the world&amp;#x2F;country that have accents. :)</text></item><item><author>CodeCube</author><text>fwiw, I grew up in Miami, and I 100% thought that me and my friends did not have an accent of any kind whatsoever ... because for whatever reason, there weren&amp;#x27;t really a lot of people born and raised in miami in popular media (at least that I was aware of, days before Pitbull, etc).&lt;p&gt;Well, I moved away to central florida (very different demographics) at 17 ... and it wasn&amp;#x27;t until a few years later when I went back to visit, that I realized just how distinct (to my ears at least) my friends sounded. Nowadays, I can hear someone start to speak, and within a few minutes of listening can tell that they were raised in Miami. It&amp;#x27;s a few subtle clues that thus far have almost always been right</text></item><item><author>KAMSPioneer</author><text>Whoa, I never thought an article about Liberal would be on HN. I&amp;#x27;m a Liberal, KS resident since about 2005, and now that I think about it...people here do have a kind of unique accent, but I don&amp;#x27;t know if it&amp;#x27;s really as striking as the article makes it out to be. I don&amp;#x27;t know, maybe I&amp;#x27;ve just gotten used to it.&lt;p&gt;I was shocked when I opened the article and saw our welcome sign. Hahaha</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>kazinator</author><text>It rains in the tropics, like in those tropical &lt;i&gt;rain&lt;/i&gt;forests.&lt;p&gt;How about Maui: &lt;i&gt;&amp;#x27;&amp;quot;Big Bog,&amp;quot; a spot on the edge of Haleakala National Park overlooking Hana at about 5,400 feet elevation had an estimated mean annual rainfall of 404.4 inches over the 30-year period of 1978 to 2007&amp;#x27;&lt;/i&gt; (&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Maui#Rainfall&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Maui#Rainfall&lt;/a&gt;)</text></comment>

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<story><title>Building a Reddit-like site after 3-4 months learning Elixir</title><url>https://www.reddit.com/r/elixir/comments/6c1vql/34_months_learning_elixir_and_what_got_done/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>teilo</author><text>My company replaced the integration server I had originally written in Python&amp;#x2F;Django&amp;#x2F;Celery&amp;#x2F;RabbitMQ with one built in Elixir&amp;#x2F;OTP. The results were impressive.&lt;p&gt;Our task load was getting out of hand, and during peak load throwing memory and CPU at it was not helping. Task monitoring was also a pain. It needed a complete rewrite, because the original design, while robust for what it targeted at the time, could not keep up with our growth.&lt;p&gt;The integration developer I hired to take over the project looked into using Go at first, but then discovered Elixir. I started learning it with him (he quickly surpassed me), and after a few trial task implementations, I gave him the go-ahead. We couldn&amp;#x27;t be happier with the result. Thanks to OTP and the existing tools built around it, we have great monitoring, and the ability to easily and quickly scale up workers at peak times.</text></comment>

<story><title>Building a Reddit-like site after 3-4 months learning Elixir</title><url>https://www.reddit.com/r/elixir/comments/6c1vql/34_months_learning_elixir_and_what_got_done/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>kbd</author><text>I don&amp;#x27;t appreciate the &amp;quot;Elixir is growing&amp;quot; commentary in the title. That&amp;#x27;s not justified because a person wrote a program in it.</text></comment>

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<story><title>The clock is ticking for Spotify</title><url>http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-38930699</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ivraatiems</author><text>The music industry doesn&amp;#x27;t need to ruin Spotify. It&amp;#x27;s ruining itself.&lt;p&gt;Its support is abysmal, its apps are bug-riddled and get worse with every update, and it&amp;#x27;s consistently doing boneheaded &amp;quot;pivot&amp;quot; moves (like mandatory Facebook login a couple years back, &amp;quot;version 1.0&amp;quot; of the desktop app more recently), and so on. It&amp;#x27;s squandering the good faith and great library it has.</text></item><item><author>iamben</author><text>I can&amp;#x27;t be the only one that has almost zero faith the music industry won&amp;#x27;t ruin Spotify? I&amp;#x27;m sure it won&amp;#x27;t be deliberate, just a combination of stubbornness, greed and living in the past.&lt;p&gt;Spotify and music is like a library and books. It&amp;#x27;s fantastic and accessible for listening and discovery. I&amp;#x27;m hard pushed to find a friend that didn&amp;#x27;t use napster or limewire that&amp;#x27;s moved to Spotify - it&amp;#x27;s just easy, there and the price is right. And with the exception of a few hold out artists (lost back catalogues, or smaller artists who are unaware of 100% revenue services like distrokid.com) it&amp;#x27;s pretty complete. It&amp;#x27;ll be such a shame if it slowly goes the way of the buffalo.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>zpr</author><text>I agree. Never cared much for the UI, and always found it too buggy to keep using. At my old job, we used it for office tunes, and it was often showing the wrong song that was playing, (so you never knew what you were listening to unless you used something like SoundHound), and going to previous or next tracks was inconsistent, so you might not get back to the last song ever again.&lt;p&gt;Pardon my ignorance but why is Google Play Music not worth mention here?</text></comment>

<story><title>The clock is ticking for Spotify</title><url>http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-38930699</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ivraatiems</author><text>The music industry doesn&amp;#x27;t need to ruin Spotify. It&amp;#x27;s ruining itself.&lt;p&gt;Its support is abysmal, its apps are bug-riddled and get worse with every update, and it&amp;#x27;s consistently doing boneheaded &amp;quot;pivot&amp;quot; moves (like mandatory Facebook login a couple years back, &amp;quot;version 1.0&amp;quot; of the desktop app more recently), and so on. It&amp;#x27;s squandering the good faith and great library it has.</text></item><item><author>iamben</author><text>I can&amp;#x27;t be the only one that has almost zero faith the music industry won&amp;#x27;t ruin Spotify? I&amp;#x27;m sure it won&amp;#x27;t be deliberate, just a combination of stubbornness, greed and living in the past.&lt;p&gt;Spotify and music is like a library and books. It&amp;#x27;s fantastic and accessible for listening and discovery. I&amp;#x27;m hard pushed to find a friend that didn&amp;#x27;t use napster or limewire that&amp;#x27;s moved to Spotify - it&amp;#x27;s just easy, there and the price is right. And with the exception of a few hold out artists (lost back catalogues, or smaller artists who are unaware of 100% revenue services like distrokid.com) it&amp;#x27;s pretty complete. It&amp;#x27;ll be such a shame if it slowly goes the way of the buffalo.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>hellopat</author><text>I have absolutely no issues with the mobile or desktop versions of the app.</text></comment>

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<story><title>Open-sourcing Sonar, a new extensible debugging tool</title><url>https://code.facebook.com/posts/1461914677288302/open-sourcing-sonar-a-new-extensible-debugging-tool/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>evv</author><text>Congrats, Emil and team! I&amp;#x27;m most excited for this as an extensible platform for further desktop tools, built on FB&amp;#x27;s robust stack of front-end tech.&lt;p&gt;Although I must admit, I&amp;#x27;m disappointed that they didn&amp;#x27;t use react-native-web to build this app in a cross-platform way. I agree Electron is a good choice for the current landscape, but I&amp;#x27;m hopeful that we will be able to move past it. If Sonar was implemented with React Native&amp;#x27;s layout API, it would be easily portable to projects like react-native-macos, React Native on Windows, or projects like Proton Native, once it matures and stabilizes.&lt;p&gt;Of course Emil knows this, because he is one of the primary maintainers of Yoga, the cross-platform flexbox implementation in React Native. This is one of the primary technologies that will allow us to move away from Electron one day, if people would just stop using CSS!</text></comment>

<story><title>Open-sourcing Sonar, a new extensible debugging tool</title><url>https://code.facebook.com/posts/1461914677288302/open-sourcing-sonar-a-new-extensible-debugging-tool/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>artosispylon</author><text>I use this tool every day at FB and it&amp;#x27;s awesome. I highly encourage you to try it and see if it fits into your workflow!</text></comment>

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<story><title>AWS gives open source the middle finger?</title><url>https://techcrunch.com/2019/01/09/aws-gives-open-source-the-middle-finger</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Pfhreak</author><text>I left AWS after six years of working there wholly because of their restrictive policies about developing software in your spare time -- especially if you were thinking about working on a game.&lt;p&gt;I recognize this article is about a product offering of AWS, and not their internal policies towards contributing to open source, but the two are linked in my mind and I&amp;#x27;m not all surprised to see a headline like this.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>yesenadam</author><text>I just now started reading Merritt&amp;#x27;s &lt;i&gt;Adventure in Prolog&lt;/i&gt; (1990), and the very beginning seems somehow relevant to this thread:&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;I was working for an aerospace company in the early 1970s when someone got a copy of the original Adventure game and installed it on our mainframe computer. For the next month my lunch hours, evenings and weekends, as well as normal work hours, were consumed with fighting the fierce green dragon and escaping from the twisty little passages. Finally, with a few hints about the plover&amp;#x27;s egg and dynamite, I had proudly earned all the points in the game.&lt;p&gt;My elation turned to terror as I realized it was time for my performance review. My boss was a stern man, more comfortable with machines than people. He opened up a large computer printout containing a log of hours each programmer spent on the mainframe computer. He said he noticed that recently I had been working evenings and weekends and that he admired that type of dedication in his employees. He gave me the maximum raise and told me to keep up the good work.&amp;quot;</text></comment>

<story><title>AWS gives open source the middle finger?</title><url>https://techcrunch.com/2019/01/09/aws-gives-open-source-the-middle-finger</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Pfhreak</author><text>I left AWS after six years of working there wholly because of their restrictive policies about developing software in your spare time -- especially if you were thinking about working on a game.&lt;p&gt;I recognize this article is about a product offering of AWS, and not their internal policies towards contributing to open source, but the two are linked in my mind and I&amp;#x27;m not all surprised to see a headline like this.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>spectre256</author><text>I &amp;quot;accidentally&amp;quot; worked at amazon for a few weeks when a company I had just joined was acquired by them.&lt;p&gt;I knew it was time to start looking when I was informed that I had to get prior permission to do ANY open source contributions even on my own hardware on my own time. That&amp;#x27;s just not feasible logistically and above and beyond the general &amp;quot;don&amp;#x27;t write open source that competes with us or on our our time&amp;#x2F;hardware without permission&amp;quot; rule most reasonable companies have.</text></comment>

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<story><title>The second largest version of Wikipedia is written mostly by one bot</title><url>https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/4agamm/the-worlds-second-largest-wikipedia-is-written-almost-entirely-by-one-bot</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>4cao</author><text>This endeavor looks largely orthogonal to what the objectives of an online encyclopedia should be. Creating as many stub articles as possible and filling them with &amp;quot;formulaic, generic, and reusable templated sentences with spots for specific information&amp;quot; seems more like a recipe for an automated content farm than for &amp;quot;disseminating the sum of &lt;i&gt;human&lt;/i&gt; knowledge.&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;It would be most interesting to know what the 148 active Cebuano Wikipedia users think of the 5,331,028 articles the bot created, ostensibly for them. Too bad nobody apparently cared to ask.&lt;p&gt;In particular, since Cebuano speakers are likely to be fluent in Tagalog and&amp;#x2F;or English as well, they can easily use one of the other Wikipedia editions too. Without the hyperactive bot, the much smaller Cebuano Wikipedia would arguably be more relevant, reflecting topics truly of interest to the community.&lt;p&gt;While the number of articles is a convenient way of comparing Wikipedia language editions, it only works as such to the extent that the articles are kept to a certain standard. It seems to me that what we are observing here is yet another example of the situation that when a measure becomes a target it ceases to be a good measure.</text></comment>

<story><title>The second largest version of Wikipedia is written mostly by one bot</title><url>https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/4agamm/the-worlds-second-largest-wikipedia-is-written-almost-entirely-by-one-bot</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>sings</author><text>I always thought it was a bit bizarre that different language editions of Wikipedia contain different information. It seems the focus should be more on translation than content creation. Maybe that isn’t practical with the current structure, but surely the aim should be a definitive knowledge graph rather than a disparate and unevenly duplicated set of articles. Just my two cents – I am sure many have put a lot of thought into how to best tackle this.</text></comment>

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<story><title>Why We&apos;re Teaching &apos;The Wire&apos; at Harvard</title><url>http://www.hks.harvard.edu/news-events/news/commentary/teaching-the-wire-at-harvard</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>elptacek</author><text>He left off a couple of important points. Because The Wire is drama, you get to know the characters as people. There is a huge difference between looking at &quot;urban, ethnic and impoverished&quot; on paper and getting to know and appreciate the characters as individuals.&lt;p&gt;&amp;#60;insert spoiler alert here&amp;#62;&lt;p&gt;Season 4 follows the youngest generation and ends by showing you how each character steps into the place vacated by a character from the older generation. This was the most painful season for me to watch, seeing young people being trapped and molded into another wave of failure. This cycle is a topic dear to my heart, and one I believe would not require mountains to break. The cycle perpetuates because we&apos;re all afraid to touch it... myself included. The subset of our society that is undereducated and economically, socially and emotionally depressed is a component of the whole. And if we own the whole, we own all of the problems, including those of the subset.&lt;p&gt;This is a course I would love to take, if only because I have some very, very strong opinions on the phenomenon. But I&apos;ll spare HN the details.</text></comment>

<story><title>Why We&apos;re Teaching &apos;The Wire&apos; at Harvard</title><url>http://www.hks.harvard.edu/news-events/news/commentary/teaching-the-wire-at-harvard</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>sfs</author><text>Obligatory: &lt;a href=&quot;http://stuffwhitepeoplelike.com/2008/03/09/85-the-wire/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://stuffwhitepeoplelike.com/2008/03/09/85-the-wire/&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>

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<story><title>Intel Shows Xeon Scalable Gold 6138P with Integrated FPGA, Shipping to Vendors</title><url>https://www.anandtech.com/show/12773/intel-shows-xeon-scalable-gold-6138p-with-integrated-fpga-shipping-to-vendors</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>rjsw</author><text>Learning an HDL isn&amp;#x27;t that hard. I was productive within a few weeks of starting to use VHDL.&lt;p&gt;A former colleague is now an Altera&amp;#x2F;Intel FAE, I will ask how things are going the next time we meet up for a beer.</text></item><item><author>kev009</author><text>One stark flailure of the Altera acquisition is there has been little by way of tool chain integration. This is a CPU with a bag on the side, and that bag needs people that write HDL and understand computer architecture to make good use of. It&amp;#x27;s not really a harsh critique, but a warning that the lower you go is an increasingly smaller number and expensive lot of folks. Intel&amp;#x27;s marketing arm can&amp;#x27;t distort that reality, and their product development arm seems too taxed to bridge the gap.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>aseipp</author><text>Learning an HDL isn&amp;#x27;t that hard. But it&amp;#x27;s a very small part of the overall flow for real development, and arguably it&amp;#x27;s one of the easier parts anyway... That&amp;#x27;s sort of the &amp;quot;problem&amp;quot;, more or less.&lt;p&gt;Even very well-oiled products like the Amazon F1 and Intel&amp;#x27;s new acceleration cards are &lt;i&gt;pretty non-trivial&lt;/i&gt; to use unless you&amp;#x27;re an experienced engineer, and they clearly spent a &lt;i&gt;lot&lt;/i&gt; of time polishing off the roughest edges to make it as approachable as possible. Amazon more or less paid a team of seriously experienced people to make the whole flow as painless as possible (including a pretty good software SDK, and a lot of tooling around Vivado), and it&amp;#x27;s still non-trivial!&lt;p&gt;Some of the ARM&amp;#x2F;FPGA combos are a lot more approachable overall, but the tooling, BSPs etc are normally huge pains the moment you want to get creative, and the SDKs are comparatively worse, vs the &amp;quot;high end&amp;quot; ones listed above, in my opinion. Normally I just end up replacing them with my own Linux BSP, more or less, if I need the actual host side.&lt;p&gt;A really annoying aspect of all this though is that most kits which could offer features like high-speed peripherials (PCIe, etc) are pretty expensive for hobbyist developers to acquire and use, so there&amp;#x27;s certainly a bit of a self-fulfilling-prophecy going on here.</text></comment>

<story><title>Intel Shows Xeon Scalable Gold 6138P with Integrated FPGA, Shipping to Vendors</title><url>https://www.anandtech.com/show/12773/intel-shows-xeon-scalable-gold-6138p-with-integrated-fpga-shipping-to-vendors</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>rjsw</author><text>Learning an HDL isn&amp;#x27;t that hard. I was productive within a few weeks of starting to use VHDL.&lt;p&gt;A former colleague is now an Altera&amp;#x2F;Intel FAE, I will ask how things are going the next time we meet up for a beer.</text></item><item><author>kev009</author><text>One stark flailure of the Altera acquisition is there has been little by way of tool chain integration. This is a CPU with a bag on the side, and that bag needs people that write HDL and understand computer architecture to make good use of. It&amp;#x27;s not really a harsh critique, but a warning that the lower you go is an increasingly smaller number and expensive lot of folks. Intel&amp;#x27;s marketing arm can&amp;#x27;t distort that reality, and their product development arm seems too taxed to bridge the gap.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>vvanders</author><text>Writing HDL isn&amp;#x27;t hard but doing it right(much like with C) I would argue is the tricky part.&lt;p&gt;The translation from Software -&amp;gt; Flip-Flops isn&amp;#x27;t nearly as natural and it&amp;#x27;s easy to try and apply SE techniques that while possible are totally unsuited for an FPGA.</text></comment>

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<story><title>Mozilla has defeated Microsoft’s default browser protections in Windows</title><url>https://www.theverge.com/2021/9/13/22671182/mozilla-default-browser-windows-protections-firefox</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>bayindirh</author><text>I was also kinda liked &lt;i&gt;The New Microsoft&lt;/i&gt; and prepared to put my anger towards them to the side (I remember the ACPI memo days). Also, as a grown-up computer user, I got appropriate number of licenses (for every Microsoft application we use) for my family and personal computers.&lt;p&gt;However, the latest GitHub Copilot stuff, their agreement with OpenAI, return of their embrace, extend, extinguish tactics with GitHub, VSCode and other stuff undone everything.&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s their DNA now. All Microsoft Empire is built with crushing monopoly as their core value and driving force. Changing this requires more than changing a mere CEO and posting a &amp;quot;We Love Linux&amp;quot; banner.&lt;p&gt;The only really good thing they do is hardware.&lt;p&gt;Posted from my Debian 11 box using Microsoft Keyboard.</text></item><item><author>2OEH8eoCRo0</author><text>&amp;gt; Did they learn nothing from the antitrust cases of the 2000&amp;#x27;s&lt;p&gt;They learned for awhile- until the rest of the industry caught up.&lt;p&gt;This might sound weird but I&amp;#x27;ve actually been rooting for Microsoft a lot lately. A majority of their revenue is not from ads and lock-in BS and they weren&amp;#x27;t called in front of Congress recently over antitrust concerns. I was hoping they would set themselves apart from the pack in an odd way by making good software and hardware products that people enjoy using. (xbox, windows, office, WSL, VSCode, Visual Studio, hololens, phones, laptops, Halo on Steam, etc.)&lt;p&gt;Seeing the new browser war and direction Windows 11 is headed, now has me worried. The widgets pane is obviously for serving ads.&lt;p&gt;I understand that these public companies are required to act in the best interests of shareholders but I fear that the obsessive push for revenue gains only benefits short term shareholders. Long term shareholders get the shaft when every decision is aimed at squeezing revenue just for the next quarter.&lt;p&gt;Edit: I&amp;#x27;m not a Microsoft&amp;#x2F;Windows-Stan either, I&amp;#x27;ve been using Linux intermittently since 2006-ish and now daily drive Fedora as my main.</text></item><item><author>_fat_santa</author><text>As I was reading this article I kept thinking to myself &amp;quot;Microsoft is going to boot Firefox from Windows&amp;quot; before realizing that MS doesn&amp;#x27;t have that sort of power (compared to say Apple).&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s really interesting how MS will approach this. Unlike Apple, MS doesn&amp;#x27;t have direct control over which apps go on the operating system, they aren&amp;#x27;t even in a position like Google where their app store is the dominant platform for getting apps.&lt;p&gt;This will be interesting, interesting to see how MS responds. Will they give in and let users easily set their default browser or will this turn into a cat and mouse game.&lt;p&gt;Lastly I think what MS is doing with the default browser is foolish. Did they learn nothing from the antitrust cases of the 2000&amp;#x27;s</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ReactiveJelly</author><text>The existence of company DNA is a marketing fib.&lt;p&gt;Every company aspires to be big enough to integrate the entire stack and kick out all their competition. Only a few manage to do it.&lt;p&gt;There was never a new Microsoft. There was only Microsoft when they admitted they didn&amp;#x27;t have a stranglehold monopoly on PCs anymore.&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s as basic a strategy as anything you&amp;#x27;d find in Art of War: When you&amp;#x27;re #2, cooperate with #3 to take down #1. When you&amp;#x27;re #1, pull up the ladder so #2 and #3 can&amp;#x27;t use it.</text></comment>

<story><title>Mozilla has defeated Microsoft’s default browser protections in Windows</title><url>https://www.theverge.com/2021/9/13/22671182/mozilla-default-browser-windows-protections-firefox</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>bayindirh</author><text>I was also kinda liked &lt;i&gt;The New Microsoft&lt;/i&gt; and prepared to put my anger towards them to the side (I remember the ACPI memo days). Also, as a grown-up computer user, I got appropriate number of licenses (for every Microsoft application we use) for my family and personal computers.&lt;p&gt;However, the latest GitHub Copilot stuff, their agreement with OpenAI, return of their embrace, extend, extinguish tactics with GitHub, VSCode and other stuff undone everything.&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s their DNA now. All Microsoft Empire is built with crushing monopoly as their core value and driving force. Changing this requires more than changing a mere CEO and posting a &amp;quot;We Love Linux&amp;quot; banner.&lt;p&gt;The only really good thing they do is hardware.&lt;p&gt;Posted from my Debian 11 box using Microsoft Keyboard.</text></item><item><author>2OEH8eoCRo0</author><text>&amp;gt; Did they learn nothing from the antitrust cases of the 2000&amp;#x27;s&lt;p&gt;They learned for awhile- until the rest of the industry caught up.&lt;p&gt;This might sound weird but I&amp;#x27;ve actually been rooting for Microsoft a lot lately. A majority of their revenue is not from ads and lock-in BS and they weren&amp;#x27;t called in front of Congress recently over antitrust concerns. I was hoping they would set themselves apart from the pack in an odd way by making good software and hardware products that people enjoy using. (xbox, windows, office, WSL, VSCode, Visual Studio, hololens, phones, laptops, Halo on Steam, etc.)&lt;p&gt;Seeing the new browser war and direction Windows 11 is headed, now has me worried. The widgets pane is obviously for serving ads.&lt;p&gt;I understand that these public companies are required to act in the best interests of shareholders but I fear that the obsessive push for revenue gains only benefits short term shareholders. Long term shareholders get the shaft when every decision is aimed at squeezing revenue just for the next quarter.&lt;p&gt;Edit: I&amp;#x27;m not a Microsoft&amp;#x2F;Windows-Stan either, I&amp;#x27;ve been using Linux intermittently since 2006-ish and now daily drive Fedora as my main.</text></item><item><author>_fat_santa</author><text>As I was reading this article I kept thinking to myself &amp;quot;Microsoft is going to boot Firefox from Windows&amp;quot; before realizing that MS doesn&amp;#x27;t have that sort of power (compared to say Apple).&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s really interesting how MS will approach this. Unlike Apple, MS doesn&amp;#x27;t have direct control over which apps go on the operating system, they aren&amp;#x27;t even in a position like Google where their app store is the dominant platform for getting apps.&lt;p&gt;This will be interesting, interesting to see how MS responds. Will they give in and let users easily set their default browser or will this turn into a cat and mouse game.&lt;p&gt;Lastly I think what MS is doing with the default browser is foolish. Did they learn nothing from the antitrust cases of the 2000&amp;#x27;s</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>flatiron</author><text>I recently left Apple and my new company gave me a choice of windows or macOS as my device and I chose windows. I’m not really sure why. But I do have to say after not using windows for 10+ years it’s come a long way. Wsl simply is amazing. Vscode works perfectly with it. The office apps are leaps and bounds better than there macOS counterparts. I certainly have never been a MS lover but I think they are much better now than their 90s reputation.</text></comment>

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<story><title>Rome v12.1: a linter formatter for TypeScript, JSX and JSON</title><url>https://rome.tools/blog/2023/05/10/rome12_1/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>veidr</author><text>I click through every formatter-related post because I am looking for something better than what I have. My team at work wanted to use Prettier, but lack of configurability (and also heinous bugs!) made me switch to dprint[1].&lt;p&gt;But even dprint doesn&amp;#x27;t do a couple of the things I want, #1 of which is &amp;quot;For the love of science, please stop deleting the intentionally placed blank line after a hugely long class declaration!&amp;quot; E.g.:&lt;p&gt;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt; @Directive() export abstract class AutocompleteComponentBase&amp;lt;T&amp;gt; implements ControlValueAccessor, AfterContentInit, OnDestroy { @ViewChild(DsAutocompleteContainerDirective, { static: true }) autocomplete: DsAutocompleteContainerDirective&amp;lt;T&amp;gt;; &amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F; class definition continues... &lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt; I mean, I know I am a bad person because of those long names, but that is how life goes sometimes! And the blank line there at the top is just very important to like, catch one&amp;#x27;s breath, while reading this code.&lt;p&gt;(I&amp;#x27;m really just posting this in the hopes that somebody will throw me a &amp;quot;Bro, just use hpstrlnt, it totally lets you configure that!&amp;quot; -- I have not actually tried Rome to see if it does (it&amp;#x27;s Monday morning and I&amp;#x27;m not quite ready to be disappointed again...))&lt;p&gt;[1]: dprint is good, and I recommend it as the best code formatter I currently know of: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;dprint.dev&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;dprint.dev&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>

<story><title>Rome v12.1: a linter formatter for TypeScript, JSX and JSON</title><url>https://rome.tools/blog/2023/05/10/rome12_1/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>thotthinkr</author><text>I look at tools like Rome and they might have been relevant 5 years ago.&lt;p&gt;I think Bun has a better shot than Deno because it has a very fast built in node_modules installer. But I think Bun&amp;#x27;s goals are too ambitious - trying to be all things to all projects from a single binary. No one cares if you have to use a separate binary, esbuild, for all your bundling needs, for example.&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s amusing how the entire JS ecosystem put up with such slow build times for a decade. If these JS tools teach us anything it&amp;#x27;s that JavaScript doesn&amp;#x27;t cut it for performance and a compiled language is the way to go.</text></comment>

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<story><title>Ubisoft Says Out Loud: We Want People to Get Used to Not Owning What They Bought</title><url>https://www.techdirt.com/2024/01/19/ubisoft-says-it-out-loud-we-want-people-to-get-used-to-not-owning-what-theyve-bought/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>rdedev</author><text>&amp;quot;One of the things we saw is that gamers are used to, a little bit like DVD, having and owning their games. That&amp;#x27;s the consumer shift that needs to happen. They got comfortable not owning their CD collection or DVD collection. That&amp;#x27;s a transformation that&amp;#x27;s been a bit slower to happen [in games]. As gamers grow comfortable in that aspect… you don&amp;#x27;t lose your progress. If you resume your game at another time, your progress file is still there. That&amp;#x27;s not been deleted. You don&amp;#x27;t lose what you&amp;#x27;ve built in the game or your engagement with the game. So it&amp;#x27;s about feeling comfortable with not owning your game.&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;I still have two boxes of DVDs. I definitely understand the gamers perspective with that. But as people embrace that model, they will see that these games will exist, the service will continue, and you&amp;#x27;ll be able to access them when you feel like. That&amp;#x27;s reassuring&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;This is the longer context. I understand where he is coming from but people like to own things so that they can enjoy them later without getting the company involved again. Sure the save files are there but if the company changes their terms and services it just straight up stop offering them in their subscriptions what good are they? The guy claims that they support multiple mediums now but at the end of the day that&amp;#x27;s a business decision and they could decide to not sell DVDs or things like that anymore.</text></item><item><author>fidotron</author><text>It&amp;#x27;s worth going to the source here because this is being widely misinterpreted: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.gamesindustry.biz&amp;#x2F;the-new-ubisoft-and-getting-gamers-comfortable-with-not-owning-their-games&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.gamesindustry.biz&amp;#x2F;the-new-ubisoft-and-getting-ga...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;If you resume your game at another time, your progress file is still there. That&amp;#x27;s not been deleted. You don&amp;#x27;t lose what you&amp;#x27;ve built in the game or your engagement with the game. So it&amp;#x27;s about feeling comfortable with not owning your game.&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;He could just as well be telling the rest of Ubisoft (and the games industry) that in order for customers to be comfortable you need to not delete things and allow people to keep what they invested in the game, and that if you take things away from them then people won&amp;#x27;t be comfortable.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>zdw</author><text>The difference here is that Game makers they want the video model - entirely DRM encumbered on DVD or BluRay (trivially broken, but still...) or streamed with an ongoing cost, as opposed to the audio model where you have the option of downloading DRM-free content from multiple sources (Bandcamp, Bleep, Qobuz, etc.) or buying it without DRM on CD.&lt;p&gt;There are some DRM-free gaming - GoG for example, and while Valve still has DRM, Steam hasn&amp;#x27;t been caught up in forcing people to go to perpetual streaming models.&lt;p&gt;From a preservationist standpoint, I really want media available in ways that will last through corporate shenanigans, and platform DRM limited or streaming-only isn&amp;#x27;t it.</text></comment>

<story><title>Ubisoft Says Out Loud: We Want People to Get Used to Not Owning What They Bought</title><url>https://www.techdirt.com/2024/01/19/ubisoft-says-it-out-loud-we-want-people-to-get-used-to-not-owning-what-theyve-bought/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>rdedev</author><text>&amp;quot;One of the things we saw is that gamers are used to, a little bit like DVD, having and owning their games. That&amp;#x27;s the consumer shift that needs to happen. They got comfortable not owning their CD collection or DVD collection. That&amp;#x27;s a transformation that&amp;#x27;s been a bit slower to happen [in games]. As gamers grow comfortable in that aspect… you don&amp;#x27;t lose your progress. If you resume your game at another time, your progress file is still there. That&amp;#x27;s not been deleted. You don&amp;#x27;t lose what you&amp;#x27;ve built in the game or your engagement with the game. So it&amp;#x27;s about feeling comfortable with not owning your game.&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;I still have two boxes of DVDs. I definitely understand the gamers perspective with that. But as people embrace that model, they will see that these games will exist, the service will continue, and you&amp;#x27;ll be able to access them when you feel like. That&amp;#x27;s reassuring&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;This is the longer context. I understand where he is coming from but people like to own things so that they can enjoy them later without getting the company involved again. Sure the save files are there but if the company changes their terms and services it just straight up stop offering them in their subscriptions what good are they? The guy claims that they support multiple mediums now but at the end of the day that&amp;#x27;s a business decision and they could decide to not sell DVDs or things like that anymore.</text></item><item><author>fidotron</author><text>It&amp;#x27;s worth going to the source here because this is being widely misinterpreted: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.gamesindustry.biz&amp;#x2F;the-new-ubisoft-and-getting-gamers-comfortable-with-not-owning-their-games&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.gamesindustry.biz&amp;#x2F;the-new-ubisoft-and-getting-ga...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;If you resume your game at another time, your progress file is still there. That&amp;#x27;s not been deleted. You don&amp;#x27;t lose what you&amp;#x27;ve built in the game or your engagement with the game. So it&amp;#x27;s about feeling comfortable with not owning your game.&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;He could just as well be telling the rest of Ubisoft (and the games industry) that in order for customers to be comfortable you need to not delete things and allow people to keep what they invested in the game, and that if you take things away from them then people won&amp;#x27;t be comfortable.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ethbr1</author><text>The implied length of the service, and rights that ownership confers after it&amp;#x27;s terminated, could be a lot less murky.&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;How long do you expect to run the necessary online components for me to be able to use this?&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;What will you do when you turn off the online components required for me to be able to use this?&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;Are important questions that most services haven&amp;#x27;t provided clear answers to.&lt;p&gt;Getting a global right-to-jailbreak after service is terminated by the owner would go a long way towards making me comfortable.</text></comment>

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<story><title>Intel Alder Lake Mobility CPU Faster Than Apple M1 Max</title><url>https://wccftech.com/intel-alder-lake-mobility-cpu-benchmarks-leaked-faster-than-the-apple-m1-max-smokes-amd-5980hx-11980hk/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ksec</author><text>Copying my answer [1] from the Alder Lake Preview.&lt;p&gt;1. Base Power and Turbo Power. Finally a simple term so we dont have to constantly argue about TDP and PL1 &amp;#x2F; PL2. Which still happens fairly often on HN. And some of us have been ranting about this for almost a decade.&lt;p&gt;2. + 19% IPC improvement vs 11900K which is basically an Icelake. Or ~10% improvement over TigerLake ( Which was never made available on Desktop )&lt;p&gt;3. PCI-E 5 and DDR5. Intel went from falling behind in PCI-E offering to leaping ahead of AMD. We should expect PCI-E 5.0 SSD shipping soon after ( 14 - 16GBps )&lt;p&gt;4. Chipset is on 14nm. No USB 4 or Thunderbolt 4. But integrated WiFi 6E MAC.&lt;p&gt;5. For those interested, this put Alder Lake, on a Desktop Platform, with Intel 7nm &lt;i&gt;High Performance&lt;/i&gt; Node, at roughly 20-25W per Performance Core. With a ( non-verified ) Geekbench Score fairly similar ( ~6% faster ) to M1 HP Core. The Apple M1, on a TSMC 5nm &lt;i&gt;Low Power&lt;/i&gt; node, at roughly 5W per core.&lt;p&gt;6. It will be interesting to see how the new efficiency cores perform. Which is basically a new generation Atom Core. These were previously scheduled for a Graviton like 64 - 128 Core chip on server. Not sure if that is still the case with Intel&amp;#x27;s chiplet strategy or what they called Tiles.&lt;p&gt;7. Worth wondering, Alder Lake was originally scheduled on Intel 7nm or what is now called Intel 4&amp;#x2F;3nm in 2019. What would happen had Intel not been so badly managed? But if that didn&amp;#x27;t happen, Pat Gelsinger may never be back at Intel.&lt;p&gt;8. AMD Zen 4, also with DDR5 and PCI-E 5.0 will be coming in late 2022. Depending on Intel&amp;#x27;s pace of execution, which seems to be getting better and better every time Pat Gelsinger provides an update, AMD may have some tough competition.&lt;p&gt;[1] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&amp;#x2F;item?id=29017221&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&amp;#x2F;item?id=29017221&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>reacharavindh</author><text>Better single thread performance is always a nice win because it is immediately perceivable on unmodified software.&lt;p&gt;I believe Intel is still counting on using x4 PCIE4 for SSDs. I wonder if the PCI-E 5 x16 makes any difference for the GPUs?&lt;p&gt;DDR5 may bring in nice capacity boosts. However, I read somewhere that at lower capacities it is almost indistinguishable perf wise from high-end DDR4.&lt;p&gt;The key to M1&amp;#x27;s attraction is the cohesiveness of its implementation. Apple can make MacOS tightly knit to the heterogenous core types and caches. and essentially gate keep applications to behave optimally. From Intel&amp;#x27;s announcements, it looks like Intel came up with Thread Director to _advice_ Windows on how to schedule stuff and leave it to MS to implement things. Not sure how that synergy is going to take shape. Perhaps Linux will come out and eat this.&lt;p&gt;if AMD can improve on Zen 3 and come up with Zen 4, they already provide much more PCI-E lanes and ECC on DDR4&amp;#x2F;DDR5 memory support, with better than intel multi-threading perf. Competition sure is nice!</text></comment>

<story><title>Intel Alder Lake Mobility CPU Faster Than Apple M1 Max</title><url>https://wccftech.com/intel-alder-lake-mobility-cpu-benchmarks-leaked-faster-than-the-apple-m1-max-smokes-amd-5980hx-11980hk/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ksec</author><text>Copying my answer [1] from the Alder Lake Preview.&lt;p&gt;1. Base Power and Turbo Power. Finally a simple term so we dont have to constantly argue about TDP and PL1 &amp;#x2F; PL2. Which still happens fairly often on HN. And some of us have been ranting about this for almost a decade.&lt;p&gt;2. + 19% IPC improvement vs 11900K which is basically an Icelake. Or ~10% improvement over TigerLake ( Which was never made available on Desktop )&lt;p&gt;3. PCI-E 5 and DDR5. Intel went from falling behind in PCI-E offering to leaping ahead of AMD. We should expect PCI-E 5.0 SSD shipping soon after ( 14 - 16GBps )&lt;p&gt;4. Chipset is on 14nm. No USB 4 or Thunderbolt 4. But integrated WiFi 6E MAC.&lt;p&gt;5. For those interested, this put Alder Lake, on a Desktop Platform, with Intel 7nm &lt;i&gt;High Performance&lt;/i&gt; Node, at roughly 20-25W per Performance Core. With a ( non-verified ) Geekbench Score fairly similar ( ~6% faster ) to M1 HP Core. The Apple M1, on a TSMC 5nm &lt;i&gt;Low Power&lt;/i&gt; node, at roughly 5W per core.&lt;p&gt;6. It will be interesting to see how the new efficiency cores perform. Which is basically a new generation Atom Core. These were previously scheduled for a Graviton like 64 - 128 Core chip on server. Not sure if that is still the case with Intel&amp;#x27;s chiplet strategy or what they called Tiles.&lt;p&gt;7. Worth wondering, Alder Lake was originally scheduled on Intel 7nm or what is now called Intel 4&amp;#x2F;3nm in 2019. What would happen had Intel not been so badly managed? But if that didn&amp;#x27;t happen, Pat Gelsinger may never be back at Intel.&lt;p&gt;8. AMD Zen 4, also with DDR5 and PCI-E 5.0 will be coming in late 2022. Depending on Intel&amp;#x27;s pace of execution, which seems to be getting better and better every time Pat Gelsinger provides an update, AMD may have some tough competition.&lt;p&gt;[1] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&amp;#x2F;item?id=29017221&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&amp;#x2F;item?id=29017221&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>liuliu</author><text>Alder Lake is on Intel 7 otherwise known as 10nm process.</text></comment>

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<story><title>The Myth of the Second Chance</title><url>https://ft.pressreader.com/article/282557318242321</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>zwnow</author><text>This is a good argument. In Germany, if you take a loan to open up a business, you can pretty much ruin your whole life and financially never recover if it fails once. It&amp;#x27;s a little different with tech, as you usually don&amp;#x27;t have as high costs early on, but still. There is an extremely high risk involved that most people simply can&amp;#x27;t afford.</text></item><item><author>jmward01</author><text>A corollary to this may be that those who get many chances are more likely to succeed. This is often the case for people that have a safety net of some sort compared to those that don&amp;#x27;t when it comes to, for example, starting businesses. Those with a safety net can fail and try again and again and eventually tell the story of how &amp;#x27;gumption and spirit&amp;#x27; made them a success while those that didn&amp;#x27;t have a safety net &amp;#x27;just didn&amp;#x27;t try hard enough&amp;#x27;. I know I have been exceptionally lucky in that I have been given many chances to fail, and taken them! Without those opportunities to fail safely I wouldn&amp;#x27;t have the success I have now.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>raincole</author><text>What&amp;#x27;s the alternative tho? If you take a loan, in most countries you&amp;#x27;re expected to pay it back, no? Do you think people should be able to default without consequence?</text></comment>

<story><title>The Myth of the Second Chance</title><url>https://ft.pressreader.com/article/282557318242321</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>zwnow</author><text>This is a good argument. In Germany, if you take a loan to open up a business, you can pretty much ruin your whole life and financially never recover if it fails once. It&amp;#x27;s a little different with tech, as you usually don&amp;#x27;t have as high costs early on, but still. There is an extremely high risk involved that most people simply can&amp;#x27;t afford.</text></item><item><author>jmward01</author><text>A corollary to this may be that those who get many chances are more likely to succeed. This is often the case for people that have a safety net of some sort compared to those that don&amp;#x27;t when it comes to, for example, starting businesses. Those with a safety net can fail and try again and again and eventually tell the story of how &amp;#x27;gumption and spirit&amp;#x27; made them a success while those that didn&amp;#x27;t have a safety net &amp;#x27;just didn&amp;#x27;t try hard enough&amp;#x27;. I know I have been exceptionally lucky in that I have been given many chances to fail, and taken them! Without those opportunities to fail safely I wouldn&amp;#x27;t have the success I have now.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>geraldhh</author><text>please elaborate how germany is different in structuring risk of business failure</text></comment>

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<story><title>Traces of ancient ocean discovered on Mars</title><url>https://phys.org/news/2022-10-ancient-ocean-mars.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mach1ne</author><text>Mars lost all of its (surface) water presumably due to solar wind, and thus never had time to evolve complex life. Earth would have faced the same fate were it not for the fact that the Moon collided with us at some distant point in time, surrendering its iron core to ours. Now, our Rare Earth has an unnaturally large active iron core, resulting in an unnaturally efficient magnetic field which is able to protect our waters from being blown away by Sun.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Aardwolf</author><text>Just wondering, what would have stopped the Earth from having enough iron on its own in the first place? If the Moon could have that much iron, the Earth could as well have had it without needing to mix with the Moon, they&amp;#x27;re made from the same original matter after all.</text></comment>

<story><title>Traces of ancient ocean discovered on Mars</title><url>https://phys.org/news/2022-10-ancient-ocean-mars.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mach1ne</author><text>Mars lost all of its (surface) water presumably due to solar wind, and thus never had time to evolve complex life. Earth would have faced the same fate were it not for the fact that the Moon collided with us at some distant point in time, surrendering its iron core to ours. Now, our Rare Earth has an unnaturally large active iron core, resulting in an unnaturally efficient magnetic field which is able to protect our waters from being blown away by Sun.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>atoav</author><text>One might be inclined to attribute the amount of good luck to devine intervention, but to this I would say: If the conditions on our planet would not have allowed for higher life, nobody would have been there to ask themselves why the conditions were slightly off.</text></comment>

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<story><title>The days are long but the decades are short (2015)</title><url>https://blog.samaltman.com/the-days-are-long-but-the-decades-are-short</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>atleastoptimal</author><text>Should a prerequisite to every successful tech person advice list include &amp;quot;Be 99th percentile IQ or higher&amp;quot;?&lt;p&gt;All these people go to schools and work environments where they exclusively interact with incredibly intelligent people. Do they really know just how mediocre the average person is? Or is the average person implicitly written off with respect to any sort of prodigious success.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dragonwriter</author><text>95th percentile wealth and 90th percentile IQ is probable better than the reverse or 99th percentile IQ alone, if you want to succeed in any business, including tech.</text></comment>

<story><title>The days are long but the decades are short (2015)</title><url>https://blog.samaltman.com/the-days-are-long-but-the-decades-are-short</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>atleastoptimal</author><text>Should a prerequisite to every successful tech person advice list include &amp;quot;Be 99th percentile IQ or higher&amp;quot;?&lt;p&gt;All these people go to schools and work environments where they exclusively interact with incredibly intelligent people. Do they really know just how mediocre the average person is? Or is the average person implicitly written off with respect to any sort of prodigious success.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ZephyrBlu</author><text>Eh, 95th percentile is probably more reasonable. You don&amp;#x27;t have to be super smart to be successful. In tech you probably have to be &lt;i&gt;pretty&lt;/i&gt; smart, but I think being from a well-off family is more important in most cases.</text></comment>

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<story><title>Ramit Sethi and Patrick McKenzie on Getting Your First Consulting Client</title><url>http://www.kalzumeus.com/2012/09/17/ramit-sethi-and-patrick-mckenzie-on-getting-your-first-consulting-client/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>patio11</author><text>Happy to answer questions, as always.&lt;p&gt;Ramit and I recorded three of these interviews on starting consulting businesses, although we have poor message discipline so we couldn&apos;t resist talking product as well. The next one is about pricing. (It could be &quot;Charge more!&quot; for an hour, but isn&apos;t, although I hit that theme a few times.)&lt;p&gt;On a related but unrelated note, my usual podcast with Keith Perhac (and special guest Brennan Dunn next time) also is going to be a consulting-stravaganza next time. We talked the origin stories for our three consulting businesses (I run a sole-prop consultancy as roughly a 20% time project, Keith runs a small practice, and Brennan runs a fairly large many-people-at-full-time-utilization consultancy) and what we&apos;ve learned along the way about hiring, pricing, cashflow management, chasing invoices, pipeline, and all that fun stuff.&lt;p&gt;My totally subjective opinion is that, if you&apos;re a freelancer or consultant, any one of these will be &lt;i&gt;probably&lt;/i&gt; more useful than the entire rest of my blog put together. If you liked any of that, you&apos;ll like these, probably a lot.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>IsaacL</author><text>&quot;My totally subjective opinion is that, if you&apos;re a freelancer or consultant, any one of these will be probably more useful than the entire rest of my blog put together.&quot;&lt;p&gt;You&apos;re right there -- I was reading the first few paragraphs and thinking &quot;thank God I&apos;m reading this now and not 6 months down the line&quot;. So much actionable advice.&lt;p&gt;Here&apos;s a question for you: as someone making money from both services and products, but who has avoided the VC-lottery-ticket startup game, what&apos;s your opinions on starting a service business vs starting a product business?&lt;p&gt;I&apos;m in the early days of building an e-commerce startup while freelancing on the side. Even though my day rate is on the low end, I&apos;m still earning more than most people my age in the UK (I just graduated), except maybe junior IB analysts, and I&apos;m pretty confident I could earn way more, especially if I focus on freelancing^ full time. Pitch myself at a much higher level, start hiring a few people, build a service business.&lt;p&gt;^(Yeah, I know, I should say &quot;consulting&quot; and not &quot;freelancing&quot;).&lt;p&gt;But the obvious downside is that a service business isn&apos;t scalable. A scalable product business is much better, &lt;i&gt;if&lt;/i&gt; it&apos;s a success. Plus Steve Jobs and Elon Musk would never have made the history books, or had the same impact on humanity, if they&apos;d sold services instead of products -- but they&apos;re the 0.001%. What&apos;s your opinion?</text></comment>

<story><title>Ramit Sethi and Patrick McKenzie on Getting Your First Consulting Client</title><url>http://www.kalzumeus.com/2012/09/17/ramit-sethi-and-patrick-mckenzie-on-getting-your-first-consulting-client/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>patio11</author><text>Happy to answer questions, as always.&lt;p&gt;Ramit and I recorded three of these interviews on starting consulting businesses, although we have poor message discipline so we couldn&apos;t resist talking product as well. The next one is about pricing. (It could be &quot;Charge more!&quot; for an hour, but isn&apos;t, although I hit that theme a few times.)&lt;p&gt;On a related but unrelated note, my usual podcast with Keith Perhac (and special guest Brennan Dunn next time) also is going to be a consulting-stravaganza next time. We talked the origin stories for our three consulting businesses (I run a sole-prop consultancy as roughly a 20% time project, Keith runs a small practice, and Brennan runs a fairly large many-people-at-full-time-utilization consultancy) and what we&apos;ve learned along the way about hiring, pricing, cashflow management, chasing invoices, pipeline, and all that fun stuff.&lt;p&gt;My totally subjective opinion is that, if you&apos;re a freelancer or consultant, any one of these will be &lt;i&gt;probably&lt;/i&gt; more useful than the entire rest of my blog put together. If you liked any of that, you&apos;ll like these, probably a lot.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>nmcfarl</author><text>I’d just like to say thanks for the AWESOME link out to CastingWords! (Though we are a little wary of making our strategy, and delivered turnarounds, quite this explicit :)) Regardless we do love happy customers - and this strategy delivers both in keeping us afloat, and keeping the customers happy.</text></comment>

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<story><title>G2A pays Factorio developer $40k over illegally obtained game keys</title><url>https://www.polygon.com/2020/5/20/21265275/g2a-confirms-it-sold-stolen-game-keys</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>css</author><text>G2A is, and has always been, a black market for software. They list Windows 10 for $27 [0], McAfee for $4 [1], among many other things [2]. They sponsor professional esports teams to add legitimacy to their brand [3].&lt;p&gt;[0]: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.g2a.com&amp;#x2F;microsoft-windows-10-pro-microsoft-key-global-i10000083916004&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.g2a.com&amp;#x2F;microsoft-windows-10-pro-microsoft-key-g...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;[1]: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.g2a.com&amp;#x2F;mcafee-antivirus-pc-1-device-1-year-mcafee-key-global-i10000178790001&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.g2a.com&amp;#x2F;mcafee-antivirus-pc-1-device-1-year-mcaf...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;[2]: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.g2a.com&amp;#x2F;category&amp;#x2F;software-c5&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.g2a.com&amp;#x2F;category&amp;#x2F;software-c5&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;[3]: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;navi.gg&amp;#x2F;en&amp;#x2F;read&amp;#x2F;text&amp;#x2F;232-navi-prolongs-the-partnership-with-cs-go-players&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;navi.gg&amp;#x2F;en&amp;#x2F;read&amp;#x2F;text&amp;#x2F;232-navi-prolongs-the-partnersh...&lt;/a&gt; (Note the logos on the uniforms)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>lagadu</author><text>Why do you say it&amp;#x27;s a black market? Reselling of license keys is legal within the EU. Granted the hundreds of keys mentioned in the article were originally stolen, therefore illegal to sell but it seems they&amp;#x27;re taking steps to combat those, including honoring the 10x agreement with the developers.&lt;p&gt;Having quickly googled it, I&amp;#x27;ve seen much criticism about their sale of grey market keys (keys sold cheaper to specific markets being sold to other markets) but those are legal. Many of the other criticisms are because some users are selling stolen keys, which puts g2a at the same level as Amazon or Ebay.</text></comment>

<story><title>G2A pays Factorio developer $40k over illegally obtained game keys</title><url>https://www.polygon.com/2020/5/20/21265275/g2a-confirms-it-sold-stolen-game-keys</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>css</author><text>G2A is, and has always been, a black market for software. They list Windows 10 for $27 [0], McAfee for $4 [1], among many other things [2]. They sponsor professional esports teams to add legitimacy to their brand [3].&lt;p&gt;[0]: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.g2a.com&amp;#x2F;microsoft-windows-10-pro-microsoft-key-global-i10000083916004&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.g2a.com&amp;#x2F;microsoft-windows-10-pro-microsoft-key-g...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;[1]: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.g2a.com&amp;#x2F;mcafee-antivirus-pc-1-device-1-year-mcafee-key-global-i10000178790001&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.g2a.com&amp;#x2F;mcafee-antivirus-pc-1-device-1-year-mcaf...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;[2]: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.g2a.com&amp;#x2F;category&amp;#x2F;software-c5&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.g2a.com&amp;#x2F;category&amp;#x2F;software-c5&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;[3]: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;navi.gg&amp;#x2F;en&amp;#x2F;read&amp;#x2F;text&amp;#x2F;232-navi-prolongs-the-partnership-with-cs-go-players&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;navi.gg&amp;#x2F;en&amp;#x2F;read&amp;#x2F;text&amp;#x2F;232-navi-prolongs-the-partnersh...&lt;/a&gt; (Note the logos on the uniforms)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Matsta</author><text>When I went to Poland earlier in the year, I even saw they sponsor a massive Arena: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;g2aarena.pl&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;g2aarena.pl&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>

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<story><title>Stephen Hawking has died</title><url>http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-43396008</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>nylonstrung</author><text>Neil Degrasse Tyson is clearly vying for the slot but seems to make science seem more elitist, more pedantic (read literally any of his tweets) and thus appears to miss the point entirely</text></item><item><author>mgolawala</author><text>I agree completely.&lt;p&gt;Who will take his place? Who will be the Stephen Hawking of my children&amp;#x27;s generation?&lt;p&gt;As a society we should work hard to find, celebrate and give a platform to the Stephen Hawking-s and the Carl Sagan-s of tomorrow. The impact of such &amp;quot;celebrity scientists&amp;quot; (I do not use that term pejoratively) is far greater than the measure of the work they have done. It is how they inspire an entire generation to seek out knowledge, understanding and fill us all with a sense of humility, awe and wonder.</text></item><item><author>joshumax</author><text>For a second I just couldn&amp;#x27;t believe this was real. Stephen Hawking was one of those people that inspired me towards a career in science, as well as a pursuit of discovering what mysteries of the universe I could uncover within my (cosmically short) lifetime. He did this not through some major life-altering speech I heard from him (although his talks and lectures were quite interesting), or through some grand quote that I read online, but rather through the fact that he carried with him the enthusiasm that comes with looking up, seeing a vast universe looming all around us, and finding that inner spirit--that inner sense of wonder--that drives us forward in an attempt to make sense of it all. Rest in peace Stephen Hawking; you will be missed.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Raidion</author><text>Tyson doesn&amp;#x27;t have the academic credentials that Hawking or someone like Richard Feynman does. The power of Hawking and Feynman is that they both were at the top of their fields, but took the time to make the foundations of their science accessible to the common man. Tyson has done great things, but he&amp;#x27;s not quite there.</text></comment>

<story><title>Stephen Hawking has died</title><url>http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-43396008</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>nylonstrung</author><text>Neil Degrasse Tyson is clearly vying for the slot but seems to make science seem more elitist, more pedantic (read literally any of his tweets) and thus appears to miss the point entirely</text></item><item><author>mgolawala</author><text>I agree completely.&lt;p&gt;Who will take his place? Who will be the Stephen Hawking of my children&amp;#x27;s generation?&lt;p&gt;As a society we should work hard to find, celebrate and give a platform to the Stephen Hawking-s and the Carl Sagan-s of tomorrow. The impact of such &amp;quot;celebrity scientists&amp;quot; (I do not use that term pejoratively) is far greater than the measure of the work they have done. It is how they inspire an entire generation to seek out knowledge, understanding and fill us all with a sense of humility, awe and wonder.</text></item><item><author>joshumax</author><text>For a second I just couldn&amp;#x27;t believe this was real. Stephen Hawking was one of those people that inspired me towards a career in science, as well as a pursuit of discovering what mysteries of the universe I could uncover within my (cosmically short) lifetime. He did this not through some major life-altering speech I heard from him (although his talks and lectures were quite interesting), or through some grand quote that I read online, but rather through the fact that he carried with him the enthusiasm that comes with looking up, seeing a vast universe looming all around us, and finding that inner spirit--that inner sense of wonder--that drives us forward in an attempt to make sense of it all. Rest in peace Stephen Hawking; you will be missed.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dragontamer</author><text>I think Neil Degrasse Tyson is overall net-positive, but I&amp;#x27;m definitely not liking his style.&lt;p&gt;Elitism is overall fine as long as it doesn&amp;#x27;t get in the way or make you look like an asshole. And unfortunately, Neil Degrasse Tyson seems to be leaning towards the &amp;quot;asshole elite&amp;quot;.&lt;p&gt;Still, he&amp;#x27;s a good speaker, there are tons of people who are inspired by his style. I think a kinder, gentler, less pedantic (exactly the right word) person needs to become the next &amp;quot;science champion&amp;quot;.&lt;p&gt;Stephen Hawking was a good balance of inspiration, and expertise. He was &amp;quot;elite&amp;quot; without quite being pedantic or asshole-ish.</text></comment>

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<story><title>I&apos;m a cargo cult programmer, help me</title><text>Hello HN I come to you for help.&lt;p&gt;I went to college and got an Information systems degree, it was a crappy college so the most programming we had was dabbling with arrays and pointers in C, not much Algorithsms &amp;#38; Data Structures, no unix, no Operating Systems and no compilers, and most importantly no problem solving. Half way through college my father died so I had to find a job to make ends meet, somehow i got sucked into the java &quot;enterprise&quot; world where I&apos;ve been for the past 5 years, glueing API&apos;s and frameworks together, with some Javascript and SQL on the side, however on the verge of my 30&apos;s, I now have found that I lack the fundamentals of Computer Science, the things every programmer should know: Algo&apos;s, Data Structures, Operating Systems an understanding of compilers and being profficient with linux. Eventually I plan on going back to a real University and getting a CS degree, but I&apos;m unable to do so at the moment, this is why I have come to ask for help.&lt;p&gt;OTOH I have given thought about if programming is really for me, I have found that I&apos;m really, really bad at problem solving and &quot;thinking outside of the box&quot; I have come to accept that I&apos;m really not smart. I&apos;m slow, forgetfull, concepts never seem to stick, I have to force myself to not take things for granted, it seems no matter how hard i try I can&apos;t look at problems from different perspectives and understand the implications of a particular solution, I&apos;m starting to think I may have a learning dissability, or that is because I lack the basic toolkit for problem solving, but I really think I&apos;m just not very smart.&lt;p&gt;Of course the realization of my lack of skills, as you may have guessed, is because I want a better job, and there seems to be no place in the world for dumb programmers, and to be honest this is something I understand given my limitations and looking at my other peers, seeing how long it takes for me when programming something or understanding a problem, seeing how fast other people can grasp concepts that I struggle with, I understand that I&apos;m just not valuable that all my experience means nothing, So I&apos;m back to 0.&lt;p&gt;I have started going through the basic Algo&apos;s and Data structures again with a basic Java book about algorithms (I tried cormen but no way I could wrap my head around that stuff, I forgot all the calculus/math from college and i just lack the mathematical maturity for that book).&lt;p&gt;I&apos;m also trying to study discrete maths, Operating Systems and compilers, of course one step at a time. I imagine this will take me years just to get a basic understanding of all these concepts.&lt;p&gt;And finally trying to memorise all those linux commands I ALWAYS forget.&lt;p&gt;Lastly I&apos;m trying to learn technologies and languages that will help me get a better job, I&apos;m still not decided whether I should learn Ruby on rails or python or Lisp or just stick to Java and learn Android and do my own thing and forget about joining a &quot;cool&quot; startup or working at the big guys like google(10 years from now after I become a real programmer of course...) Or quitting programming altogether.&lt;p&gt;Hackers, I understand this is a long and boring post, filled with grammar &amp;#38; spelling errors (English is not my primary language), but I only ask of you to guide me whether I should continue this path in which I have invested all my adult life on or just start again from zero, I just don&apos;t want to be a cargo cult programmer anymore.&lt;p&gt;Thank you</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>blhack</author><text>I&apos;ve gotten some flak for saying this other places, but the &lt;i&gt;most&lt;/i&gt; helpful thing that I&apos;ve ever done to learn linux was installing gentoo. Especially doing it without the official install CD (by using something like knoppix).&lt;p&gt;Start here: &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-x86.xml?part=1&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-x86.xml?part=...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;The thing that is different about installing gentoo vs centos or ubuntu is that instead of something that looks like this:&lt;p&gt;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt; Would you like to format the disk (click yes or no)? &lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt; You get a walkthrough of what fdisk is, then how to use it, then you use it to partition your disks. Instead of selecting a filesystem from a dropdown, you make one with mke2fs.&lt;p&gt;I don&apos;t recall if Ubuntu even tells you what lilo or grub is.&lt;p&gt;The reason I like this is that it forces you to understand what is going on. What is the /boot partition? Why is that important?&lt;p&gt;Installing gentoo is going to force you to use tar, and wget. It&apos;s going to force you to get comfortable on the command line.&lt;p&gt;It&apos;s also going to force you to understand what a kernel module is. It&apos;s going to force you to understand things like: what chipset does my wireless card use?&lt;p&gt;It&apos;s hard. And it takes forever. And it probably won&apos;t work the first time.&lt;p&gt;To me, it&apos;s kindof a rite of passage, like telling a carpenter that he has to build his workbench before he is allowed to start working on anything else. The workbench he makes might suck...hopefully this causes him to want to keep building new workbenches until he has one that is perfect.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>theoj</author><text>Another great way to learn Linux is to setup a VPS. Last year I setup a VPS from scratch with no previous experience (Ubuntu, PHP, Ruby on Rails, DNS, email server, iptables and more) using just web tutorials. It was a slow process (it took me about a week full time) but it taught me a lot.</text></comment>

<story><title>I&apos;m a cargo cult programmer, help me</title><text>Hello HN I come to you for help.&lt;p&gt;I went to college and got an Information systems degree, it was a crappy college so the most programming we had was dabbling with arrays and pointers in C, not much Algorithsms &amp;#38; Data Structures, no unix, no Operating Systems and no compilers, and most importantly no problem solving. Half way through college my father died so I had to find a job to make ends meet, somehow i got sucked into the java &quot;enterprise&quot; world where I&apos;ve been for the past 5 years, glueing API&apos;s and frameworks together, with some Javascript and SQL on the side, however on the verge of my 30&apos;s, I now have found that I lack the fundamentals of Computer Science, the things every programmer should know: Algo&apos;s, Data Structures, Operating Systems an understanding of compilers and being profficient with linux. Eventually I plan on going back to a real University and getting a CS degree, but I&apos;m unable to do so at the moment, this is why I have come to ask for help.&lt;p&gt;OTOH I have given thought about if programming is really for me, I have found that I&apos;m really, really bad at problem solving and &quot;thinking outside of the box&quot; I have come to accept that I&apos;m really not smart. I&apos;m slow, forgetfull, concepts never seem to stick, I have to force myself to not take things for granted, it seems no matter how hard i try I can&apos;t look at problems from different perspectives and understand the implications of a particular solution, I&apos;m starting to think I may have a learning dissability, or that is because I lack the basic toolkit for problem solving, but I really think I&apos;m just not very smart.&lt;p&gt;Of course the realization of my lack of skills, as you may have guessed, is because I want a better job, and there seems to be no place in the world for dumb programmers, and to be honest this is something I understand given my limitations and looking at my other peers, seeing how long it takes for me when programming something or understanding a problem, seeing how fast other people can grasp concepts that I struggle with, I understand that I&apos;m just not valuable that all my experience means nothing, So I&apos;m back to 0.&lt;p&gt;I have started going through the basic Algo&apos;s and Data structures again with a basic Java book about algorithms (I tried cormen but no way I could wrap my head around that stuff, I forgot all the calculus/math from college and i just lack the mathematical maturity for that book).&lt;p&gt;I&apos;m also trying to study discrete maths, Operating Systems and compilers, of course one step at a time. I imagine this will take me years just to get a basic understanding of all these concepts.&lt;p&gt;And finally trying to memorise all those linux commands I ALWAYS forget.&lt;p&gt;Lastly I&apos;m trying to learn technologies and languages that will help me get a better job, I&apos;m still not decided whether I should learn Ruby on rails or python or Lisp or just stick to Java and learn Android and do my own thing and forget about joining a &quot;cool&quot; startup or working at the big guys like google(10 years from now after I become a real programmer of course...) Or quitting programming altogether.&lt;p&gt;Hackers, I understand this is a long and boring post, filled with grammar &amp;#38; spelling errors (English is not my primary language), but I only ask of you to guide me whether I should continue this path in which I have invested all my adult life on or just start again from zero, I just don&apos;t want to be a cargo cult programmer anymore.&lt;p&gt;Thank you</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>blhack</author><text>I&apos;ve gotten some flak for saying this other places, but the &lt;i&gt;most&lt;/i&gt; helpful thing that I&apos;ve ever done to learn linux was installing gentoo. Especially doing it without the official install CD (by using something like knoppix).&lt;p&gt;Start here: &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-x86.xml?part=1&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-x86.xml?part=...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;The thing that is different about installing gentoo vs centos or ubuntu is that instead of something that looks like this:&lt;p&gt;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt; Would you like to format the disk (click yes or no)? &lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt; You get a walkthrough of what fdisk is, then how to use it, then you use it to partition your disks. Instead of selecting a filesystem from a dropdown, you make one with mke2fs.&lt;p&gt;I don&apos;t recall if Ubuntu even tells you what lilo or grub is.&lt;p&gt;The reason I like this is that it forces you to understand what is going on. What is the /boot partition? Why is that important?&lt;p&gt;Installing gentoo is going to force you to use tar, and wget. It&apos;s going to force you to get comfortable on the command line.&lt;p&gt;It&apos;s also going to force you to understand what a kernel module is. It&apos;s going to force you to understand things like: what chipset does my wireless card use?&lt;p&gt;It&apos;s hard. And it takes forever. And it probably won&apos;t work the first time.&lt;p&gt;To me, it&apos;s kindof a rite of passage, like telling a carpenter that he has to build his workbench before he is allowed to start working on anything else. The workbench he makes might suck...hopefully this causes him to want to keep building new workbenches until he has one that is perfect.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>tlrobinson</author><text>Oh god I remember trying to install Gentoo on a PowerBook once about 5 years ago on the advice of a friend. Spent a couple days trying, never did get it working but I did learn a bit about Linux...&lt;p&gt;Of course the skills you learn are more sys admin / OS concepts than fundamental CS concepts though.</text></comment>

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<story><title>Intel Prepares to Graft Google’s Bfloat16 onto Processors</title><url>https://www.nextplatform.com/2019/07/15/intel-prepares-to-graft-googles-bfloat16-onto-processors/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>kolbusa</author><text>ISA: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;software.intel.com&amp;#x2F;sites&amp;#x2F;default&amp;#x2F;files&amp;#x2F;managed&amp;#x2F;c5&amp;#x2F;15&amp;#x2F;architecture-instruction-set-extensions-programming-reference.pdf&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;software.intel.com&amp;#x2F;sites&amp;#x2F;default&amp;#x2F;files&amp;#x2F;managed&amp;#x2F;c5&amp;#x2F;15...&lt;/a&gt; Look for anything marked with AVX512_BF16 CPUID feature flag.&lt;p&gt;Numerical details: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;software.intel.com&amp;#x2F;sites&amp;#x2F;default&amp;#x2F;files&amp;#x2F;managed&amp;#x2F;40&amp;#x2F;8b&amp;#x2F;bf16-hardware-numerics-definition-white-paper.pdf&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;software.intel.com&amp;#x2F;sites&amp;#x2F;default&amp;#x2F;files&amp;#x2F;managed&amp;#x2F;40&amp;#x2F;8b...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;Support for bfloat16 is already present in MKL-DNN (&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;github.com&amp;#x2F;intel&amp;#x2F;mkl-dnn&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;github.com&amp;#x2F;intel&amp;#x2F;mkl-dnn&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;p&gt;Disclaimer: I work for Intel</text></comment>

<story><title>Intel Prepares to Graft Google’s Bfloat16 onto Processors</title><url>https://www.nextplatform.com/2019/07/15/intel-prepares-to-graft-googles-bfloat16-onto-processors/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>choppaface</author><text>I met Naveen Rao after Intel bought Nervana. He seemed pretty adamant about getting stuff shipped fast. In contrast, the Xeon folks own all the politics and seem to want the transition to be very gradual. Plus the Phi folks get phased out. They had done a Nervana trial at Facebook but then flaked on other trials. Clearly Intel is trying to desperately manage their books.&lt;p&gt;Having Nervana and friends on a Xeon chip could be a huge positive change for software. Not only could we toss out the issue of GPU memory transfer, but Nvidia GPUs aren’t so great with concurrency, and here with the linux kernel we might have a chance to beat Nvidia. Naveen sure would like that... Nervana once had a Maxwell compiler that was better than Nvidia’s.</text></comment>

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<story><title>Jupyter Notebook 4.2 Released</title><url>https://blog.jupyter.org/2016/04/15/notebook-4-2/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>analog31</author><text>Jupyter&amp;#x2F;Python has been game changing for me.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;m not a commercial software developer, but a scientist working on technology development. I&amp;#x27;ve been programming for 30+ years.&lt;p&gt;Jupyter has become my lab notebook. In the past, I always had illegible, disorganized notebooks, files, and program code, all over the place. A Jupyter notebook lets me organize all of that stuff in one place, in a narrative fashion, allowing me to reconstruct what I did, long after I&amp;#x27;ve forgotten the details. The reasons for open communication of methods and results to the public, also apply to internal work.&lt;p&gt;My notebooks become my reports. I&amp;#x27;ve abandoned PowerPoint, and my colleagues, including managers, don&amp;#x27;t seem to mind. Seeing the actual work might actually give them a feeling of involvement, like inviting them into the lab. They&amp;#x27;re also a good way of communicating a prototype of a process to the software development team, when an idea ends up in a product. Even if they don&amp;#x27;t like Python, the programmers can read and understand it.&lt;p&gt;I can actually run some of my data acquisition code directly within Jupyter. A code cell that spits out an inline graph is practically the default interface for a lot of this kind of work, so I don&amp;#x27;t have to build a unique GUI for every kind of test. This speeds up incremental refinement of an experimental technique, even if the routines that I write end up in a &amp;quot;straight&amp;quot; Python program when it&amp;#x27;s time to let an experiment run for a few hours or days.&lt;p&gt;Granted, Jupyter won&amp;#x27;t turn bad programmers into good. Learning good programming methods is still a gap in the education of scientists.</text></comment>

<story><title>Jupyter Notebook 4.2 Released</title><url>https://blog.jupyter.org/2016/04/15/notebook-4-2/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>benatkin</author><text>There&amp;#x27;s also a newer alternative called Zeppelin:&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;zeppelin.incubator.apache.org&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;zeppelin.incubator.apache.org&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;Comparison: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.linkedin.com&amp;#x2F;pulse&amp;#x2F;comprehensive-comparison-jupyter-vs-zeppelin-hoc-q-phan-mba-&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.linkedin.com&amp;#x2F;pulse&amp;#x2F;comprehensive-comparison-jupy...&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>