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<story><title>Shimano Forces Hammerhead to Remove All Di2 Related Functionality From Karoo</title><url>https://www.dcrainmaker.com/2022/05/shimano-forces-hammerhead-to-remove-all-di2-related-functionality-from-karoo.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>black_puppydog</author><text>Apart from sharing the opinion here that this is a customer hostile move...&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;m pretty happy that my bikes (MTB and Road) have zero electric components (not even light if I don&amp;#x27;t strap it on) and I want to keep it that way. I have yet so see an electric part that I &lt;i&gt;need&lt;/i&gt; or that even just provides me with enough benefit that it&amp;#x27;s worth the hassle of freakin&amp;#x27; &lt;i&gt;firware updates&lt;/i&gt;. Much less having a CAN bus on my bike? is this only for electric bikes or also for gears? I&amp;#x27;m confused...&lt;p&gt;Anyhow, I always thought that running a bike repair shop might be my plan B for when I finally get fed up with computers, but I recently realized bikes are now computers with wheels, just like cars and fridges and toasters and door bells... So I&amp;#x27;m looking for a new plan B.&lt;p&gt;FWIW, just as with fridges and toasters, I think this is a move in the wrong direction. It increases CO2&amp;#x2F;pollution footprint and reduces lifetime. And as we see here, it opens you up to a whole new class of customer abuse.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>taude</author><text>I was pretty anti-electronic shifting on my bikes...but once you have it, it&amp;#x27;s hard to go back. The automatic derailleur tuning to always have snappy, responsive shifts it pretty amazing. And then not having to change cables out is a nice bonus, though not a deal breaker. And even the aesthetics of a cable free bike begins to grow on you. luckily, battery charging is pretty simple, and I&amp;#x27;ve been always having to charge a bike computer for the past 15 years anyway, so not a big deal to plug it in every couple of month. (This is coming from someone who used to single-speed mountain bike a lot, for the &amp;quot;simplicity&amp;quot; and because I was lazy to have to maintain much on my MTB). I&amp;#x27;m kind of looking forward to a day when they get the internal hub thing dialed in and lightweight and can handle a lot of torq and not have the drag penalty, etc....&lt;p&gt;That said, I don&amp;#x27;t use any integrated shifting-&amp;gt;head unit functionality. Not really sure what someone would use it for other than checking battery levels? Which is super simple to see on the hardware itself. And which is easier to just get off my phone.&lt;p&gt;Also, firmware updates are typically pretty simple these days due to the pretty decent phone app support. I&amp;#x27;ve done firmware updates on both a Wahoo computer and SRAM shifting, and it was really straightforward, and never for a critical item, yet, only to get more features (though I&amp;#x27;m not an early adapter in any of this). I guess I&amp;#x27;ll find out mre about Di2 specific integrations when my next bike arrives...</text></comment>

<story><title>Shimano Forces Hammerhead to Remove All Di2 Related Functionality From Karoo</title><url>https://www.dcrainmaker.com/2022/05/shimano-forces-hammerhead-to-remove-all-di2-related-functionality-from-karoo.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>black_puppydog</author><text>Apart from sharing the opinion here that this is a customer hostile move...&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;m pretty happy that my bikes (MTB and Road) have zero electric components (not even light if I don&amp;#x27;t strap it on) and I want to keep it that way. I have yet so see an electric part that I &lt;i&gt;need&lt;/i&gt; or that even just provides me with enough benefit that it&amp;#x27;s worth the hassle of freakin&amp;#x27; &lt;i&gt;firware updates&lt;/i&gt;. Much less having a CAN bus on my bike? is this only for electric bikes or also for gears? I&amp;#x27;m confused...&lt;p&gt;Anyhow, I always thought that running a bike repair shop might be my plan B for when I finally get fed up with computers, but I recently realized bikes are now computers with wheels, just like cars and fridges and toasters and door bells... So I&amp;#x27;m looking for a new plan B.&lt;p&gt;FWIW, just as with fridges and toasters, I think this is a move in the wrong direction. It increases CO2&amp;#x2F;pollution footprint and reduces lifetime. And as we see here, it opens you up to a whole new class of customer abuse.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>alisonatwork</author><text>One thing I noticed after cycling across North America on a $500 hybrid and then Colombia on a $200 utility bike was that there is a wildly different class of cyclist that rides with computers and carbon fiber and shiny jerseys... They were as baffled by my setup as I was by theirs. It&amp;#x27;s almost an entirely different category of transportation. Or perhaps it isn&amp;#x27;t so much a form of transportation for them, it&amp;#x27;s a hobby - they often drive their bikes to the place they want to ride instead of just riding the in-between.&lt;p&gt;I imagine there is room to cater to both types of cyclist. Perhaps it was a self-selecting group for me, but I found every mechanic I visited on the road to be most busy with repairs of low-tech gear. It seems to me that low-tech bikes will continue to make up the long tail for many years to come, even if catering to those customers is less lucrative.</text></comment>

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<story><title>Wuffs the Language</title><url>https://github.com/google/wuffs/blob/main/doc/wuffs-the-language.md</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>oconnor663</author><text>&amp;gt; There is no operator precedence. A bare a * b + c is an invalid expression. You must explicitly write either (a * b) + c or a * (b + c).&lt;p&gt;Honestly I&amp;#x27;ve often wished for this in mainstream languages. It seems like operator precedence should go the way of bracketless if and implicit int casts. (Though I wonder if they wind up making exceptions here for chains of method calls? I guess technically those rely on operator precedence sort of?)&lt;p&gt;Edit: Yeah I see the example code has &amp;quot;args.src.read_u8?()&amp;quot;. So it looks like they figured out how to keep the good stuff.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mekkkkkk</author><text>Yes please! I&amp;#x27;m always using parenthesis for every compound expression, and I&amp;#x27;ve heard so many times from coworkers or code reviewers smuggly going &amp;quot;you know you can skip that, right?&amp;quot;. At the same time I&amp;#x27;ve heard the same people having discussions and scratching their heads about precedence in some attempt to code golf their way through a feature. Not to mention bugs caused by incorrect assumptions. Or pausing to figure out what some previously written expression actually does. Meanwhile, I&amp;#x27;ll gladly write `X + (Y &amp;#x2F; Z)`. You can thank me later.</text></comment>

<story><title>Wuffs the Language</title><url>https://github.com/google/wuffs/blob/main/doc/wuffs-the-language.md</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>oconnor663</author><text>&amp;gt; There is no operator precedence. A bare a * b + c is an invalid expression. You must explicitly write either (a * b) + c or a * (b + c).&lt;p&gt;Honestly I&amp;#x27;ve often wished for this in mainstream languages. It seems like operator precedence should go the way of bracketless if and implicit int casts. (Though I wonder if they wind up making exceptions here for chains of method calls? I guess technically those rely on operator precedence sort of?)&lt;p&gt;Edit: Yeah I see the example code has &amp;quot;args.src.read_u8?()&amp;quot;. So it looks like they figured out how to keep the good stuff.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>wuschel</author><text>LISP-like languages have enforced operator precedence due to polish notation e.g. (+ (* a b) (+ c d))</text></comment>

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<story><title>Zerg Rush Google Easter Egg</title><url>https://www.google.com/search?aq=f&amp;sourceid=chrome&amp;ie=UTF-8&amp;q=zerg+rush</url><text></text></story><parent_chain><item><author>LinaLauneBaer</author><text>This easter egg is referring to the game StarCraft 2 by Blizzard. There are three fractions in StarCraft 2: Protoss, Terran and Zerg. Imagine the Zerg like aliens. Zergs have a unit called &quot;the Zergling&quot; which is a small creature that usually attacks buildings and enemy units in groups. If you have a lot of Zerglings and run to your opponents fast this can be called &quot;a Zergling rush&quot;. There are also custom maps that you can play that are called Zerg Rush: You are in the middle of the map and Zerlings are streaming to your bade from all sides. You have to defend it like in the easter egg.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ehamberg</author><text>Well, I would say that it refers to the Starcraft series. I&apos;m so old that I remember the first Starcraft game – and I&apos;m quite sure it had Zerg. ;)</text></comment>

<story><title>Zerg Rush Google Easter Egg</title><url>https://www.google.com/search?aq=f&amp;sourceid=chrome&amp;ie=UTF-8&amp;q=zerg+rush</url><text></text></story><parent_chain><item><author>LinaLauneBaer</author><text>This easter egg is referring to the game StarCraft 2 by Blizzard. There are three fractions in StarCraft 2: Protoss, Terran and Zerg. Imagine the Zerg like aliens. Zergs have a unit called &quot;the Zergling&quot; which is a small creature that usually attacks buildings and enemy units in groups. If you have a lot of Zerglings and run to your opponents fast this can be called &quot;a Zergling rush&quot;. There are also custom maps that you can play that are called Zerg Rush: You are in the middle of the map and Zerlings are streaming to your bade from all sides. You have to defend it like in the easter egg.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ralfd</author><text>Finally the secret identity of &quot;StarcraftJokeExplainer&quot; is revealed!</text></comment>

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<story><title>Google Files Bill of Costs for Oracle to Pay - $4,030,669</title><url>http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20120706111715256</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>pg</author><text>The high rates that top lawyers get paid are simply market rates. We pay them too. Cheap lawyers are not a bargain.&lt;p&gt;Decency and propriety? What do you even mean by that? That you think the proper rate for legal work should be lower than the current market rate? What basis do you have for such a claim?</text></item><item><author>cookiecaper</author><text>They did &lt;i&gt;not&lt;/i&gt; earn it. Lawyers charge exorbitant prices because they can -- they have you by the balls, and you don&apos;t really have an option not to pay them -- not because their services are actually worth $100 million+. I&apos;ve admired your posts for years here on HN, but it&apos;s not just staggering to a &quot;casual observer&quot;; it&apos;s staggering to anyone with a sense of decency and propriety.</text></item><item><author>grellas</author><text>The cost bill filed by Google underscores the intensity of this case and shows that we caught only &lt;i&gt;surface glimpses&lt;/i&gt; of what surely were day-to-day firefights keeping the lawyers and their minions going round-the-clock for an intense year&apos;s worth of fighting.&lt;p&gt;A &quot;cost bill&quot; is not a bill for the attorneys&apos; fees incurred in a case. Under U.S. rules, the parties bear their own legal fees in most cases (and that is the case here).&lt;p&gt;But federal court rules do permit a prevailing party to recover from the losing party necessary costs incurred in dealing with document production and similar matters in the litigation. The out-of-pocket bill here (not including attorneys&apos; fees) for Google to filter through 97 million documents and to produce just over 3 million of them after careful assessment and screening: about $2.9 million (mostly paid to electronic discovery service providers, who surely found full-time employment in this case during this past year).&lt;p&gt;The bulk of the remaining bill for costs consists of nearly $1 million paid to expert witnesses for their assistance in helping to prepare and present Google&apos;s case.&lt;p&gt;In a case like this, Google&apos;s attorneys&apos; fees had to run at least $10 million &lt;i&gt;per month&lt;/i&gt;, at least during the intense phases of the case. I would estimate, then, that total attorneys&apos; fees in the case &lt;i&gt;easily&lt;/i&gt; exceeded $100 million and may well have done so &lt;i&gt;for Google alone&lt;/i&gt;.&lt;p&gt;Big Law may be in the doldrums today in general but a case like this clearly offers a big payday. The law firms here were all exemplary and undoubtedly earned it. Still, the cost is staggering to contemplate for the casual outside observer.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>SwellJoe</author><text>I had it brought to my attention recently, by a recently bar-certified attorney who has ethical qualms about it, that members of the American Bar Association and its state franchises have a monopoly on legal representation services in the US. You cannot be represented in court by someone not certified by the bar. Lawyers are the only privately licensed group that receive this level of market protection; doctors are similarly protected, but it is by a governmental entity (and one might argue that it&apos;s in even worse shape because of it).&lt;p&gt;One could very easily argue that these barriers to entry lead to pricing pressure and artificial scarcity that has no direct relationship to the &quot;current market rate&quot;. I&apos;m only recently becoming familiar with this topic, as it&apos;s one of those things that Just Is. But, the more I learn about it, the more hesitant I become to just write off high legal fees as a result of a free market. And, the more I wonder why it is that lawyers, of all people, receive such a strong defense against competition...it couldn&apos;t possibly be that the majority of politicians are also lawyers, many of whom will return to practice after holding office, could it?&lt;p&gt;Note that I&apos;m not arguing against the idea that a great attorney is deserving of high rates, merely the idea that attorneys fees represent anything like an actual free market rate.</text></comment>

<story><title>Google Files Bill of Costs for Oracle to Pay - $4,030,669</title><url>http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20120706111715256</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>pg</author><text>The high rates that top lawyers get paid are simply market rates. We pay them too. Cheap lawyers are not a bargain.&lt;p&gt;Decency and propriety? What do you even mean by that? That you think the proper rate for legal work should be lower than the current market rate? What basis do you have for such a claim?</text></item><item><author>cookiecaper</author><text>They did &lt;i&gt;not&lt;/i&gt; earn it. Lawyers charge exorbitant prices because they can -- they have you by the balls, and you don&apos;t really have an option not to pay them -- not because their services are actually worth $100 million+. I&apos;ve admired your posts for years here on HN, but it&apos;s not just staggering to a &quot;casual observer&quot;; it&apos;s staggering to anyone with a sense of decency and propriety.</text></item><item><author>grellas</author><text>The cost bill filed by Google underscores the intensity of this case and shows that we caught only &lt;i&gt;surface glimpses&lt;/i&gt; of what surely were day-to-day firefights keeping the lawyers and their minions going round-the-clock for an intense year&apos;s worth of fighting.&lt;p&gt;A &quot;cost bill&quot; is not a bill for the attorneys&apos; fees incurred in a case. Under U.S. rules, the parties bear their own legal fees in most cases (and that is the case here).&lt;p&gt;But federal court rules do permit a prevailing party to recover from the losing party necessary costs incurred in dealing with document production and similar matters in the litigation. The out-of-pocket bill here (not including attorneys&apos; fees) for Google to filter through 97 million documents and to produce just over 3 million of them after careful assessment and screening: about $2.9 million (mostly paid to electronic discovery service providers, who surely found full-time employment in this case during this past year).&lt;p&gt;The bulk of the remaining bill for costs consists of nearly $1 million paid to expert witnesses for their assistance in helping to prepare and present Google&apos;s case.&lt;p&gt;In a case like this, Google&apos;s attorneys&apos; fees had to run at least $10 million &lt;i&gt;per month&lt;/i&gt;, at least during the intense phases of the case. I would estimate, then, that total attorneys&apos; fees in the case &lt;i&gt;easily&lt;/i&gt; exceeded $100 million and may well have done so &lt;i&gt;for Google alone&lt;/i&gt;.&lt;p&gt;Big Law may be in the doldrums today in general but a case like this clearly offers a big payday. The law firms here were all exemplary and undoubtedly earned it. Still, the cost is staggering to contemplate for the casual outside observer.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>smallblacksun</author><text>&amp;#62;The high rates that top lawyers get paid are simply market rates&lt;p&gt;Market rates propped up by having the ability to restrict entry into the market controlled by other lawyers.</text></comment>

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<story><title>Sabre ends distribution agreement with Aeroflot</title><url>https://www.cnbc.com/2022/03/03/airline-software-giant-sabre-ends-service-with-russias-aeroflot-crippling-carriers-ability-to-sell-seats.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>miohtama</author><text>It is not just Russia. Europe and the UK will suffer as well as fuel and gas prices will raise significantly (2x?) of already high levels.</text></item><item><author>okl</author><text>Not difficult to guess that Russia&amp;#x27;s entire economy will be toast in a matter of weeks, regardless if the sanction stay how they are or become more strict. The supply chain disruption and knock-on effects must be enormous. Be it specialized software products for which there only exists a single supplier or even just x86 CPUs. (Intel&amp;#x2F;AMD don&amp;#x27;t export to Russia anymore)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>justapassenger</author><text>I&amp;#x27;m personally happy to pay more taxes to help offset that.&lt;p&gt;Western world spent trillions of dollars to try to offset impact from the virus. It&amp;#x27;s not a bad idea to spend even few more, to stop prospects of next world war&amp;#x2F;cold war and stop a madman who openly wants to rebuilt one of the most evil empires in the history.</text></comment>

<story><title>Sabre ends distribution agreement with Aeroflot</title><url>https://www.cnbc.com/2022/03/03/airline-software-giant-sabre-ends-service-with-russias-aeroflot-crippling-carriers-ability-to-sell-seats.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>miohtama</author><text>It is not just Russia. Europe and the UK will suffer as well as fuel and gas prices will raise significantly (2x?) of already high levels.</text></item><item><author>okl</author><text>Not difficult to guess that Russia&amp;#x27;s entire economy will be toast in a matter of weeks, regardless if the sanction stay how they are or become more strict. The supply chain disruption and knock-on effects must be enormous. Be it specialized software products for which there only exists a single supplier or even just x86 CPUs. (Intel&amp;#x2F;AMD don&amp;#x27;t export to Russia anymore)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>rjzzleep</author><text>My mother had an energy bill that was 3x higher than before. This shit is funny when you&amp;#x27;re in the valley and you have 6000 in pocket money to burn on stuff, but in Europe that means some peoples monthly rental expenses doubled.&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s actually an existential threat for a lot of people. The German leadership just like the USA is so far detached from the normal population that they won&amp;#x27;t care, and the normal population in Germany isn&amp;#x27;t like in the middle east, so they will likely take it with some complaints.&lt;p&gt;But since you can&amp;#x27;t easily get loans like in the US in Germany I wonder what that will mean for people that can no longer afford their bills though. I&amp;#x27;ve seen people being taken to jail in Germany for unpaid 20 Euro bills or not paying public transit.</text></comment>

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<story><title>On the pleasures of stumbling upon books in the wrong places</title><url>https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2017/10/17/happy-accidents/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>KGIII</author><text>On one of my trips, I bought a number of copies of a few books and left them in random places as I drove, more or less randomly, around the country.&lt;p&gt;I put an email address in each one, along with a quick note. I got exactly one response.&lt;p&gt;I left copies of:&lt;p&gt;Ishmael; Another Roadside Attraction; Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintanence; Hitchhiker&amp;#x27;s Guide to the Galaxy; Battle Cry&lt;p&gt;(the formatting kinda sucks)&lt;p&gt;A dozen copies of each, except Ishmael which I bought the half dozen I found at a bookstore along the way and added those to my random seeding of books.&lt;p&gt;I hope they were placed in the right places and at the right times, but I only got one reply so maybe not.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>codeulike</author><text>Reminds me of &lt;a href=&quot;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;bookcrossing.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;bookcrossing.com&lt;/a&gt; which has been around for a while, lets you put an ID number in each book and then you can track it as others find it. I released a handful of books in NZ and London about 10 years ago via bookcrossing</text></comment>

<story><title>On the pleasures of stumbling upon books in the wrong places</title><url>https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2017/10/17/happy-accidents/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>KGIII</author><text>On one of my trips, I bought a number of copies of a few books and left them in random places as I drove, more or less randomly, around the country.&lt;p&gt;I put an email address in each one, along with a quick note. I got exactly one response.&lt;p&gt;I left copies of:&lt;p&gt;Ishmael; Another Roadside Attraction; Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintanence; Hitchhiker&amp;#x27;s Guide to the Galaxy; Battle Cry&lt;p&gt;(the formatting kinda sucks)&lt;p&gt;A dozen copies of each, except Ishmael which I bought the half dozen I found at a bookstore along the way and added those to my random seeding of books.&lt;p&gt;I hope they were placed in the right places and at the right times, but I only got one reply so maybe not.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>icebraining</author><text>That&amp;#x27;s become a worldwide movement: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;BookCrossing&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;BookCrossing&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>

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<story><title>More product, fewer product managers</title><url>https://kitemaker.co/blog/more_product_fewer_pms</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ChilledTonic</author><text>Barely relevant to the article, but this new trend of AI art as the main image of blog articles drives me absolutely crazy - if you don&amp;#x27;t have a clear main image in mind when you wrote the article, don&amp;#x27;t waste my bandwidth downloading a computers pipe dream.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;m all for AI art, it&amp;#x27;s an incredibly valuable tool - but if your using an AI piece as the only image on the page, it should be for a damn good reason, not just space filler. Especially when you can&amp;#x27;t even curate the image generated well enough to have every person in the image have the correct number of fingers.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>koliber</author><text>I often do have a clear image in my mind for an article. I can not draw it and I don&amp;#x27;t have the budget to hire someone to do it.&lt;p&gt;The image is meant to convey a feeling. It is meant to make an abstract concept from the article a little more tangible.&lt;p&gt;In the past, I&amp;#x27;d search for images on the net that I could use to accomplish that. Now I can craft them with DALL-E, and they are usually much better.&lt;p&gt;This image should complement the article. Just like the text of the article is meant to convey some information, feeling, or concept, the image should do a bit of that as well.</text></comment>

<story><title>More product, fewer product managers</title><url>https://kitemaker.co/blog/more_product_fewer_pms</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ChilledTonic</author><text>Barely relevant to the article, but this new trend of AI art as the main image of blog articles drives me absolutely crazy - if you don&amp;#x27;t have a clear main image in mind when you wrote the article, don&amp;#x27;t waste my bandwidth downloading a computers pipe dream.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;m all for AI art, it&amp;#x27;s an incredibly valuable tool - but if your using an AI piece as the only image on the page, it should be for a damn good reason, not just space filler. Especially when you can&amp;#x27;t even curate the image generated well enough to have every person in the image have the correct number of fingers.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>signaru</author><text>It&amp;#x27;s not just AI art. Memes and unrelated stock image have also been used. It might be due to some SEO belief.</text></comment>

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<story><title>Introducing the Redesigned Bitbucket</title><url>http://blog.bitbucket.org/2012/10/09/introducing-the-redesigned-bitbucket/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>notatoad</author><text>Bitbucket had a pretty easy time of winning my business: free private repositories for small teams is a great way to draw people in.</text></item><item><author>bryanh</author><text>For a while I was a bit worried that GitHub had just ran away with the prize and no one else was bothering. It is pretty obvious that Google isn&apos;t interested in improving Google Code and that Sourceforge hasn&apos;t aged a day (that&apos;s not really fair, but it feels like it).&lt;p&gt;I think there is still a chance for BitBucket to make a splash, but I think its going to be hard to win anymore. That&apos;s fine, 2nd place makes a lot of money too (not counting places 1-10 for enterprise source control, which basically print money, and of which GitHub is chasing too).</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>hess</author><text>The free private repos are a lifesaver. They also just released a refer a friend program like dropbox. You can get up to 8 users for free. - &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.bitbucket.org/2012/09/18/refer-a-friend-to-bitbucket-for-free-users/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://blog.bitbucket.org/2012/09/18/refer-a-friend-to-bitbu...&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>

<story><title>Introducing the Redesigned Bitbucket</title><url>http://blog.bitbucket.org/2012/10/09/introducing-the-redesigned-bitbucket/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>notatoad</author><text>Bitbucket had a pretty easy time of winning my business: free private repositories for small teams is a great way to draw people in.</text></item><item><author>bryanh</author><text>For a while I was a bit worried that GitHub had just ran away with the prize and no one else was bothering. It is pretty obvious that Google isn&apos;t interested in improving Google Code and that Sourceforge hasn&apos;t aged a day (that&apos;s not really fair, but it feels like it).&lt;p&gt;I think there is still a chance for BitBucket to make a splash, but I think its going to be hard to win anymore. That&apos;s fine, 2nd place makes a lot of money too (not counting places 1-10 for enterprise source control, which basically print money, and of which GitHub is chasing too).</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>bitcartel</author><text>I like Bitbucket because they support both Mercurial and Git. They also acquired SourceTree (probably the best version control app on the Mac), employed the main developer and made the app free.</text></comment>

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<story><title>The case of the missing WAV audio files on the FAT32 SD Card</title><url>https://www.hanselman.com/blog/CSITheCaseOfTheMissingWAVAudioFilesOnTheFAT32SDCard.aspx</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Fr0styMatt88</author><text>That was an awesome article! The kind of rabbit hole I’d gladly go down :)&lt;p&gt;SD cards and USB sticks are just.... weird. I haven’t delved too deeply but maybe someone here knows.... why is this? At this point I almost think of them as ‘not disks’. The particular weirdness I’m thinking of is I’ve seen more than one drive just seem to die, just because you try and repartition them in Windows. Not even filling the drives up.&lt;p&gt;Is it the case that USB drive and SD card firmware is just crap? Like it makes assumptions about the device other than ‘this is just a set of blocks on flash memory’ and actually needs things on the disk at a file system level to be a certain way for it to work properly? I’m really curious.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>userbinator</author><text>&lt;i&gt;Like it makes assumptions about the device other than ‘this is just a set of blocks on flash memory’ and actually needs things on the disk at a file system level to be a certain way for it to work properly?&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;The wear leveling algorithms are usually written to assume you&amp;#x27;re using FAT32 as the filesystem and certain parameters of it, but those assumptions are optimisations for wear and speed, not &lt;i&gt;requirements&lt;/i&gt; --- AFAIK the last time I looked at this stuff in any deep detail, they weren&amp;#x27;t so crazy as to try to read the block content to determine the layout&amp;#x2F;filesystem, but those were still the days when 100k SLC was the norm and 10k MLC met with reliability skepticism.&lt;p&gt;The race for capacity means flash endurance has taken a steep nosedive with things like TLC&amp;#x2F;QLC, so if anything it&amp;#x27;s not really the firmware that&amp;#x27;s crap, it&amp;#x27;s the flash itself --- and the firmware is increasingly trying to compensate for it. For the cheapest USB&amp;#x2F;SD I think the firmware is actually stored in reserved areas of the flash itself, so any corruption has a much higher chance of rendering the device unusable.</text></comment>

<story><title>The case of the missing WAV audio files on the FAT32 SD Card</title><url>https://www.hanselman.com/blog/CSITheCaseOfTheMissingWAVAudioFilesOnTheFAT32SDCard.aspx</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Fr0styMatt88</author><text>That was an awesome article! The kind of rabbit hole I’d gladly go down :)&lt;p&gt;SD cards and USB sticks are just.... weird. I haven’t delved too deeply but maybe someone here knows.... why is this? At this point I almost think of them as ‘not disks’. The particular weirdness I’m thinking of is I’ve seen more than one drive just seem to die, just because you try and repartition them in Windows. Not even filling the drives up.&lt;p&gt;Is it the case that USB drive and SD card firmware is just crap? Like it makes assumptions about the device other than ‘this is just a set of blocks on flash memory’ and actually needs things on the disk at a file system level to be a certain way for it to work properly? I’m really curious.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>naikrovek</author><text>I&amp;#x27;ve seen that happen on Mac, but not Windows, unless it&amp;#x27;s a counterfeit card. If you &amp;quot;dd&amp;quot; to a mounted disk on Mac, you are going to have a bad time.&lt;p&gt;Also, people use &amp;quot;dd&amp;quot; a lot when all they need is &amp;quot;cat&amp;quot;.</text></comment>

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<story><title>Being fatter than Homer Simpson</title><url>https://nicky.bearblog.dev/fatter-than-homer/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>xkbarkar</author><text>Id say its not the lack of empathy that you feel, but maybe the non trivial effort to normalize morbid obesity that is met with hostility.&lt;p&gt;We should not celebrate morbid obesity as normal and beautiful.&lt;p&gt;We gain nothing from villanizing people that suffer from it either.&lt;p&gt;I personally have never suffered obesity but as the years go on, my body seems to want to put a ludicrous amount of fat in places it never used to. I maintain muscle mass by regular resistance training mixed with cardio and HIIT and that helps a lot with the otherwize natural loss of muscle over 40. Personally this is where excercise definetly helps me.&lt;p&gt;Also now at 50, I dont have insulin resistance or high blood pressure as many of my fellow 50 year olds are falling prey to.&lt;p&gt;Even the healthy weight 50 year olds around me are starting blood pressure medication. This is where I beleive the excercise regime I follow has worked wonders. Not so much for weight loss as many seem to think.&lt;p&gt;It gets harder every year though to maintain physique and low body fat.&lt;p&gt;Excercise has tremendous benefits for your health and looks but for great weight loss is a matter of nutrition and what particular combo suits your body, economy and culture.</text></item><item><author>andrelaszlo</author><text>Thank you for sharing. I often have the feeling that something that, to me, seems like a complex of issues around emotional regulation, impulse control, sensation seeking, etc is seen by most people as something much simpler.&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;It&amp;#x27;s simple math, calories consumed versus calories burned&amp;quot;, and the solutions are correspondingly simplistic. Eat less, work out more, or both.&lt;p&gt;To me, it&amp;#x27;s like saying that poverty can be solved by people either working more or spending less. Well, perhaps, but it&amp;#x27;s not the core of the issue.&lt;p&gt;The widespread lack of empathy for people in the high BMI ranges freaks me out. The absolute majority of people WANTS to be healthy, happy and safe.&lt;p&gt;This post really did a great job breaking through the stigma and humanizing this condition.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>vintermann</author><text>&amp;gt; the non trivial effort to normalize morbid obesity&lt;p&gt;Now, different cultures I&amp;#x27;m sure, but do you really experience &amp;quot;fat acceptance&amp;quot; proselytizing in real life, as opposed to in news articles linking to some bizarre part of Tumblr and its terminally online relatives?</text></comment>

<story><title>Being fatter than Homer Simpson</title><url>https://nicky.bearblog.dev/fatter-than-homer/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>xkbarkar</author><text>Id say its not the lack of empathy that you feel, but maybe the non trivial effort to normalize morbid obesity that is met with hostility.&lt;p&gt;We should not celebrate morbid obesity as normal and beautiful.&lt;p&gt;We gain nothing from villanizing people that suffer from it either.&lt;p&gt;I personally have never suffered obesity but as the years go on, my body seems to want to put a ludicrous amount of fat in places it never used to. I maintain muscle mass by regular resistance training mixed with cardio and HIIT and that helps a lot with the otherwize natural loss of muscle over 40. Personally this is where excercise definetly helps me.&lt;p&gt;Also now at 50, I dont have insulin resistance or high blood pressure as many of my fellow 50 year olds are falling prey to.&lt;p&gt;Even the healthy weight 50 year olds around me are starting blood pressure medication. This is where I beleive the excercise regime I follow has worked wonders. Not so much for weight loss as many seem to think.&lt;p&gt;It gets harder every year though to maintain physique and low body fat.&lt;p&gt;Excercise has tremendous benefits for your health and looks but for great weight loss is a matter of nutrition and what particular combo suits your body, economy and culture.</text></item><item><author>andrelaszlo</author><text>Thank you for sharing. I often have the feeling that something that, to me, seems like a complex of issues around emotional regulation, impulse control, sensation seeking, etc is seen by most people as something much simpler.&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;It&amp;#x27;s simple math, calories consumed versus calories burned&amp;quot;, and the solutions are correspondingly simplistic. Eat less, work out more, or both.&lt;p&gt;To me, it&amp;#x27;s like saying that poverty can be solved by people either working more or spending less. Well, perhaps, but it&amp;#x27;s not the core of the issue.&lt;p&gt;The widespread lack of empathy for people in the high BMI ranges freaks me out. The absolute majority of people WANTS to be healthy, happy and safe.&lt;p&gt;This post really did a great job breaking through the stigma and humanizing this condition.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Freak_NL</author><text>&amp;gt; We should not celebrate morbid obesity as normal and beautiful.&lt;p&gt;I would swap out the &amp;#x27;beautiful&amp;#x27; for &amp;#x27;healthy&amp;#x27;. Beauty is in the eye of the beholder after all.</text></comment>

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<story><title>World’s oceans at record high temperature for 80 consecutive days</title><url>https://climatereanalyzer.org/clim/sst_daily/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>submeta</author><text>I find myself losing hope for humanity when I observe a significant portion of society in Germany, for instance, either voting for or intending to vote for a party known as the &amp;#x27;Alternative für Deutschland&amp;#x27;. This party is primarily defined by what it opposes. Its supporters are often frustrated and resistant to evidence that their meat consumption contributes to climate change, or that fossil fuels exacerbate this global crisis. They seem to long for the past, harking back to the ways of the 1980s, and are generally resistant to change. They often resort to derogatory names for those advocating for environmental responsibility and believe in conspiracy theories about hidden powers controlling the media and society. These theories often involve notions of a deluge of immigrants designed to alter the fabric of Western societies and strip them of their privileges.&lt;p&gt;Engaging in rational debates with these individuals proves challenging, as they often dismiss any evidence presented as a sign that you are &amp;#x27;woke&amp;#x27;, deluded, or part of a clandestine group intent on their destruction.</text></comment>

<story><title>World’s oceans at record high temperature for 80 consecutive days</title><url>https://climatereanalyzer.org/clim/sst_daily/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>bmmayer1</author><text>Scuba diver here. I highly recommend the documentary Chasing Coral about coral bleaching, a direct result of high ocean temperatures (and, I highly recommend taking up scuba now before it&amp;#x27;s too late :))</text></comment>

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<story><title>Bluesky adds direct messages</title><url>https://bsky.social/about/blog/05-22-2024-direct-messages</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>tptacek</author><text>Use social media direct messages to establish a connection on a secure messenger designed for direct messaging, and for nothing else. When people try to initiate conversations with you in DMs, have a ready answer to pivot the conversation elsewhere.&lt;p&gt;Social platforms like BlueSky have radically different design constraints than direct messaging applications. The implications range from security to social dynamics to legal concerns.&lt;p&gt;Social DMs are bad. Try not to use them!</text></comment>

<story><title>Bluesky adds direct messages</title><url>https://bsky.social/about/blog/05-22-2024-direct-messages</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>DataDive</author><text>Zawinski&amp;#x27;s Law:&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; Every program attempts to expand until it can read mail. Those programs which cannot so expand are replaced by ones which can.&lt;p&gt;I think nowadays we can substitute email with chat&amp;#x2F;DM.</text></comment>

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<story><title>US schools can subscribe to an electric bus fleet at lower prices than diesel</title><url>https://www.canarymedia.com/articles/clean-fleets/us-schools-can-subscribe-to-an-electric-school-bus-fleet-at-prices-that-beat-diesel</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>VBprogrammer</author><text>&amp;gt; diesel buses breakdown regularly&lt;p&gt;In comparison to what? Diesel engines in commercial vehicles are extremely reliable. It certainly could be possible for an electric bus to be more reliable, they certainly have less points of mechanical wear. However, there are a lot of power electronics going into charging their batteries and delivering the battery power to the motors.</text></item><item><author>fiftyfifty</author><text>Even in terms of primary cost, diesel buses are expensive to maintain. My FIL was a mechanic for the local school district for 15 years, so I got a little insight into that aspect of the district. Our medium sized school district, 4 big high schools and all the feeder schools for them, employs around 6 full time mechanics plus their manager with all the equipment and the facility to work on the buses year round plus parts etc. It&amp;#x27;s not difficult to imagine that cost alone adds at least $1 million to our district&amp;#x27;s budget annually. In addition they have to have some percentage of extra buses because they are constantly rotating buses out for maintenance. They also have to have at least one extra bus and driver on standby every day because diesel buses breakdown regularly during a route and they have to go out with a second bus and pick up the kids and finish the route.&lt;p&gt;So if a district can outsource part of that maintenance cost, and electric buses prove to be lower maintenance and more reliable that their diesel counterparts, there are significant savings to be had for the school districts.</text></item><item><author>MengerSponge</author><text>The secondary costs of running a diesel fleet are also huge! Diesel motors generate a substantial amount of fine particulate that is unhealthy for anybody, and particularly unhealthy for children.&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov&amp;#x2F;pmc&amp;#x2F;articles&amp;#x2F;PMC121970&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov&amp;#x2F;pmc&amp;#x2F;articles&amp;#x2F;PMC121970&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;Even if an electric fleet is the same cost, changing over would save &lt;i&gt;tons&lt;/i&gt; of money and alleviate &lt;i&gt;tons&lt;/i&gt; of suffering. It&amp;#x27;s the right thing to do for any ethical reason you can consider.&lt;p&gt;Unless, I suppose, you&amp;#x27;re intent on making the poor suffer. Diesel buses are very cost-effective at accomplishing that.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>vdo</author><text>I agree, sorry to be tangential, but school buses even have a whole community around converting them into rvs&amp;#x2F;homes, skoolies. The advice thrown around most often within this community trends toward picking diesel over gas, because diesel ones are very reliable when maintained. I always read it&amp;#x27;s better to get a pre-2004 diesel bus, because they have simpler, more mechanical parts. Diesel engines are really hyped among skoolie enthusiasts, though of course that is not to say that in e.g. fb groups, you don&amp;#x27;t hear horror stories of people stranded with a broke-down rig, it&amp;#x27;s usually lack of maintenance though. When maintained, they do last well past when school districts retire them--maybe survivorship bias, the ones that lasted to the end were more likely to keep lasting. My boyfriend has one such bus that was made the same year he was born (1989) and it took us on a 10-state roadtrip and was our home for over a year.</text></comment>

<story><title>US schools can subscribe to an electric bus fleet at lower prices than diesel</title><url>https://www.canarymedia.com/articles/clean-fleets/us-schools-can-subscribe-to-an-electric-school-bus-fleet-at-prices-that-beat-diesel</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>VBprogrammer</author><text>&amp;gt; diesel buses breakdown regularly&lt;p&gt;In comparison to what? Diesel engines in commercial vehicles are extremely reliable. It certainly could be possible for an electric bus to be more reliable, they certainly have less points of mechanical wear. However, there are a lot of power electronics going into charging their batteries and delivering the battery power to the motors.</text></item><item><author>fiftyfifty</author><text>Even in terms of primary cost, diesel buses are expensive to maintain. My FIL was a mechanic for the local school district for 15 years, so I got a little insight into that aspect of the district. Our medium sized school district, 4 big high schools and all the feeder schools for them, employs around 6 full time mechanics plus their manager with all the equipment and the facility to work on the buses year round plus parts etc. It&amp;#x27;s not difficult to imagine that cost alone adds at least $1 million to our district&amp;#x27;s budget annually. In addition they have to have some percentage of extra buses because they are constantly rotating buses out for maintenance. They also have to have at least one extra bus and driver on standby every day because diesel buses breakdown regularly during a route and they have to go out with a second bus and pick up the kids and finish the route.&lt;p&gt;So if a district can outsource part of that maintenance cost, and electric buses prove to be lower maintenance and more reliable that their diesel counterparts, there are significant savings to be had for the school districts.</text></item><item><author>MengerSponge</author><text>The secondary costs of running a diesel fleet are also huge! Diesel motors generate a substantial amount of fine particulate that is unhealthy for anybody, and particularly unhealthy for children.&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov&amp;#x2F;pmc&amp;#x2F;articles&amp;#x2F;PMC121970&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov&amp;#x2F;pmc&amp;#x2F;articles&amp;#x2F;PMC121970&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;Even if an electric fleet is the same cost, changing over would save &lt;i&gt;tons&lt;/i&gt; of money and alleviate &lt;i&gt;tons&lt;/i&gt; of suffering. It&amp;#x27;s the right thing to do for any ethical reason you can consider.&lt;p&gt;Unless, I suppose, you&amp;#x27;re intent on making the poor suffer. Diesel buses are very cost-effective at accomplishing that.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>WWLink</author><text>The diesel engines in the Thomas busses my school district had in the 90s would like to have a word with you. Those fuckers were always breaking down. lol.&lt;p&gt;Plus they smelled like death and produced gross amounts of black smoke.</text></comment>

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<story><title>Tesla Was Kicked Off Fatal Crash Probe by NTSB</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-04-12/tesla-withdraws-from-ntsb-crash-probe-over-autopilot-data-flap</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>illustrioussuit</author><text>I know nothing about aviation, but isn’t “autopilot” on a commercial plane pretty much just “maintain altitude and heading”? Pilots still have to be engaged and active, right?</text></item><item><author>blensor</author><text>While naming a product should usually be up to the company who creates said product, my opinion on this is that Tesla should no longer be allowed to call this &amp;quot;autopilot&amp;quot;, for public safety reasons.&lt;p&gt;Autopilot is a well known word which suggests a certain level of autonomousness and a car that might kill you if you take your attention away for 6 seconds simply does not qualify for that name. Tesla changing the name from autopilot to something better resembling reality would send a strong message to people to be more careful with using it while the attention is somewhere else</text></item><item><author>mikerathbun</author><text>I get frustrated when Tesla blames the driver for these crashes by saying that they aren&amp;#x27;t touching the wheel or are ignoring messages. It is extremely common for my car to warn me to keep my hands on the when WHILE I have my hands on the wheel. Even shaking it a little will sometimes not cancel out the warnings. It doesn&amp;#x27;t seem to matter if my hands are on the top or bottom of the wheel. Anything short of a deathgrip and constant jiggling of the wheel doesn&amp;#x27;t seem to consistantly register as keeping your hands on the wheel. Anyone who has used Autopilot for a significant amount of time has been beeped at for not having their hands on the wheel even though they are. And yes, the car will make crazy maneuvers at times that no driver in their right mind would make. I still like it and am glad I opted for it, but it is far from earning its namesake.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Area12</author><text>Don&amp;#x27;t miss the point here. Tesla doesn&amp;#x27;t require that you be a licensed air pilot before you buy the car. It doesn&amp;#x27;t matter what pilots know about autopilots, it&amp;#x27;s about what the general public believes when they hear &amp;quot;autopilot&amp;quot;. I wouldn&amp;#x27;t be surprised if 50% of the world believes that an autopilot allows both pilots to leave the cockpit for five or ten minutes. So the word &amp;quot;autopilot&amp;quot; misleads them, even if a pilot would know the limitations.</text></comment>

<story><title>Tesla Was Kicked Off Fatal Crash Probe by NTSB</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-04-12/tesla-withdraws-from-ntsb-crash-probe-over-autopilot-data-flap</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>illustrioussuit</author><text>I know nothing about aviation, but isn’t “autopilot” on a commercial plane pretty much just “maintain altitude and heading”? Pilots still have to be engaged and active, right?</text></item><item><author>blensor</author><text>While naming a product should usually be up to the company who creates said product, my opinion on this is that Tesla should no longer be allowed to call this &amp;quot;autopilot&amp;quot;, for public safety reasons.&lt;p&gt;Autopilot is a well known word which suggests a certain level of autonomousness and a car that might kill you if you take your attention away for 6 seconds simply does not qualify for that name. Tesla changing the name from autopilot to something better resembling reality would send a strong message to people to be more careful with using it while the attention is somewhere else</text></item><item><author>mikerathbun</author><text>I get frustrated when Tesla blames the driver for these crashes by saying that they aren&amp;#x27;t touching the wheel or are ignoring messages. It is extremely common for my car to warn me to keep my hands on the when WHILE I have my hands on the wheel. Even shaking it a little will sometimes not cancel out the warnings. It doesn&amp;#x27;t seem to matter if my hands are on the top or bottom of the wheel. Anything short of a deathgrip and constant jiggling of the wheel doesn&amp;#x27;t seem to consistantly register as keeping your hands on the wheel. Anyone who has used Autopilot for a significant amount of time has been beeped at for not having their hands on the wheel even though they are. And yes, the car will make crazy maneuvers at times that no driver in their right mind would make. I still like it and am glad I opted for it, but it is far from earning its namesake.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>rayiner</author><text>Weird pro-Tesla, anti-airliner FUD. A modern airline’s autopilot will handle everything between takeoff and landing, and can land the plane if needed. The A380 auto pilot has been able to respond to TCAS (collision avoidance system) advisories automatically for almost a decade.&lt;p&gt;GA autopilots may be more limited, but that’s not what the general public is thinking of when you say autopilot.</text></comment>

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<story><title>India&apos;s richest man offers free 4G to one billion people</title><url>http://money.cnn.com/2016/09/06/technology/india-reliance-jio-4g-internet/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>veeragoni</author><text>The big thing that techies on hacker news need to realize here is what this company is trying to do by collecting all the data with so called &amp;quot;deep packet inspection&amp;quot;. they provide data at the cost of stealing all your activities on phone irrespective of app to do big data analytics. same thing that Facebook wanted to do via internet.org. It becomes easy this way. for them data is the new oil[1]!&lt;p&gt;[1] &lt;a href=&quot;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;in.reuters.com&amp;#x2F;article&amp;#x2F;reliance-telecoms-jio-idINKCN11611V&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;in.reuters.com&amp;#x2F;article&amp;#x2F;reliance-telecoms-jio-idINKCN1...&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>

<story><title>India&apos;s richest man offers free 4G to one billion people</title><url>http://money.cnn.com/2016/09/06/technology/india-reliance-jio-4g-internet/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>otoburb</author><text>&amp;gt;&amp;gt;&lt;i&gt;&amp;quot;[...] Indians will be able to use Jio for free until the end of 2016, and pay as little as 149 rupees ($2.25) a month for data after that.&amp;quot;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;For additional context, Jio data rates on a $&amp;#x2F;GB basis are around one-fifth the price of competing data rates in India, and voice will evidently remain free nationwide, without roaming charges, even after the promotion period ends.[1]&lt;p&gt;This seems like a game changer, provided Jio can take enough market share and start to turn a profit on their 4G network with the subsidized smartphones and free voice calling.&lt;p&gt;Free voice calling scares Reliance&amp;#x27;s competitors because voice still constitutes over 60% of average revenue per user (example: in early 2016 voice was over 70%+ of Bharti Airtel&amp;#x27;s ARPU[2]). If Jio is successful, voice ARPU should drop like a rock for everybody else. The same will happen with Reliance too, but at least they&amp;#x27;re dictating the pace and degree of change on their own terms.&lt;p&gt;[1] &lt;a href=&quot;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;indianexpress.com&amp;#x2F;article&amp;#x2F;technology&amp;#x2F;tech-news-technology&amp;#x2F;reliance-jio-launch-free-voice-calls-cheaper-data-tariffs-announced-3007631&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;indianexpress.com&amp;#x2F;article&amp;#x2F;technology&amp;#x2F;tech-news-techno...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;[2] &lt;a href=&quot;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.business-standard.com&amp;#x2F;article&amp;#x2F;companies&amp;#x2F;bharti-airtel-s-q3-net-profit-falls-22-116012800797_1.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.business-standard.com&amp;#x2F;article&amp;#x2F;companies&amp;#x2F;bharti-ai...&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>

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<story><title>9-Euro-Ticket</title><url>https://www.bahn.com/en/offers/regional/9-euro-ticket-en</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>IMTDb</author><text>This is assuming that your trip starts and stops exactly next to the train station and that there is a non-delayed train available precisely at the right time. In practice that&amp;#x27;s not the case and those time add up &lt;i&gt;quickly&lt;/i&gt;.&lt;p&gt;Car trip will look like:&lt;p&gt;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt; 1. Travel from start to location (3:20) 2. Find parking (0:5) 3. Walk from parking to location (0:10) &lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt; Total time of 3:35&lt;p&gt;Your train trip will look like:&lt;p&gt;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt; 1. Go from start to train station (0:20) 2. Wait for train (0:10) 3. Train to Berlin (1:50) 4. Train station to location (0:20) 5. Wait at location because there was no better train (1:00) &lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt; Total time of 3:40.&lt;p&gt;It stil might be worth it to use the train, as you can work&amp;#x2F;read in the train which you can&amp;#x27;t do in a car.&lt;p&gt;But for the train to be working it needs planets to be aligned: start location must be within reasonable distance to train station; end location must be within reasonable distance to train station; train travel speed is significantly faster than cars; train schedule is aligned with desired arrival time. If &lt;i&gt;any&lt;/i&gt; of these conditions are not met, the train option does not work</text></item><item><author>jstummbillig</author><text>&amp;gt; If the train number begins with RE or RB, you’re good, but of course, those are the slow ones that stop in every village along the way.&lt;p&gt;Well, that is not exactly true now, is it. REs do actually skip the vast majority of &amp;quot;villages&amp;quot; and are far from being the slow ones, comparatively.&lt;p&gt;Anyway, for comparisons sake here is some Hamburg -&amp;gt; Berlin options:&lt;p&gt;- By car (with low traffic, according to GMaps): 3h20&lt;p&gt;- Regional Trains (the ones you can use with 9-eur-ticket): 4h10, including 1-3 train changes depending on connection&lt;p&gt;- All trains: 1h50 with no change&lt;p&gt;Given that going by car will be considerably more expensive than a regional ticket (even the none-9-eur version) I would say that +1h might be a reasonable trade-off for a lot of people.</text></item><item><author>MandieD</author><text>Very important caveat for all of you who are thinking, “woo hoo, no need to buy that EuRail pass! Or to buy an expensive ICE ticket!”&lt;p&gt;These tickets are good for all “Nah- und Regionalverkehr,” explicitly excluding ICE, IC, EC (international) and long-distance busses (like the one between Munich and Zürich)&lt;p&gt;If the train number begins with RE or RB, you’re good, but of course, those are the slow ones that stop in every village along the way.&lt;p&gt;This is for the benefit of people who live here and are struggling with 2 EUR&amp;#x2F;liter fuel, not the kind of people who blithely paid 60 EUR to take the ICE. There does not appear to be any residency requirement, but remember, you’re not the target market for this (unless you live here and are struggling with fuel prices…)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>oneplane</author><text>I don&amp;#x27;t think anyone living in a country with reasonable public transport and uses it actually thinks that that is how it works.&lt;p&gt;I get the feeling that there might be a whole lot of &amp;quot;it sucks in my country so you probably have a bad experience too&amp;quot; replies here (not yours as it&amp;#x27;s quite a clear illustration of details people might miss), and I would almost immediately assume it&amp;#x27;ll be mostly people from the US who are car-bound for their transport needs.&lt;p&gt;The idea that you can life a nice and productive life and go places as you please without dring a car is very foreign to some people. Even the idea of switching it up and having some work commute by bike or bus seems like a &amp;#x27;poor people thing&amp;#x27; to some people. It&amp;#x27;s weird.</text></comment>

<story><title>9-Euro-Ticket</title><url>https://www.bahn.com/en/offers/regional/9-euro-ticket-en</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>IMTDb</author><text>This is assuming that your trip starts and stops exactly next to the train station and that there is a non-delayed train available precisely at the right time. In practice that&amp;#x27;s not the case and those time add up &lt;i&gt;quickly&lt;/i&gt;.&lt;p&gt;Car trip will look like:&lt;p&gt;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt; 1. Travel from start to location (3:20) 2. Find parking (0:5) 3. Walk from parking to location (0:10) &lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt; Total time of 3:35&lt;p&gt;Your train trip will look like:&lt;p&gt;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt; 1. Go from start to train station (0:20) 2. Wait for train (0:10) 3. Train to Berlin (1:50) 4. Train station to location (0:20) 5. Wait at location because there was no better train (1:00) &lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt; Total time of 3:40.&lt;p&gt;It stil might be worth it to use the train, as you can work&amp;#x2F;read in the train which you can&amp;#x27;t do in a car.&lt;p&gt;But for the train to be working it needs planets to be aligned: start location must be within reasonable distance to train station; end location must be within reasonable distance to train station; train travel speed is significantly faster than cars; train schedule is aligned with desired arrival time. If &lt;i&gt;any&lt;/i&gt; of these conditions are not met, the train option does not work</text></item><item><author>jstummbillig</author><text>&amp;gt; If the train number begins with RE or RB, you’re good, but of course, those are the slow ones that stop in every village along the way.&lt;p&gt;Well, that is not exactly true now, is it. REs do actually skip the vast majority of &amp;quot;villages&amp;quot; and are far from being the slow ones, comparatively.&lt;p&gt;Anyway, for comparisons sake here is some Hamburg -&amp;gt; Berlin options:&lt;p&gt;- By car (with low traffic, according to GMaps): 3h20&lt;p&gt;- Regional Trains (the ones you can use with 9-eur-ticket): 4h10, including 1-3 train changes depending on connection&lt;p&gt;- All trains: 1h50 with no change&lt;p&gt;Given that going by car will be considerably more expensive than a regional ticket (even the none-9-eur version) I would say that +1h might be a reasonable trade-off for a lot of people.</text></item><item><author>MandieD</author><text>Very important caveat for all of you who are thinking, “woo hoo, no need to buy that EuRail pass! Or to buy an expensive ICE ticket!”&lt;p&gt;These tickets are good for all “Nah- und Regionalverkehr,” explicitly excluding ICE, IC, EC (international) and long-distance busses (like the one between Munich and Zürich)&lt;p&gt;If the train number begins with RE or RB, you’re good, but of course, those are the slow ones that stop in every village along the way.&lt;p&gt;This is for the benefit of people who live here and are struggling with 2 EUR&amp;#x2F;liter fuel, not the kind of people who blithely paid 60 EUR to take the ICE. There does not appear to be any residency requirement, but remember, you’re not the target market for this (unless you live here and are struggling with fuel prices…)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Pamar</author><text>I, too, have some questions about your 1:00 waiting due to &lt;i&gt;&amp;quot;no better train being available&amp;quot;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;I am familiar only with Italian and German trains (i.e. use these regularly, but occasionally I also used trains in&amp;#x2F;to Austria, Luxembourg, Hungary).&lt;p&gt;You seem to think that in order to go to Berlin by train someone living, say, in Rostock, first goes to the station then looks when the next available train departs.&lt;p&gt;In reality you can just use apps on your phone to get not only a timetable of departures but also find out how long it will take for you to get to the station using public transportation.&lt;p&gt;Example: this Sunday I go visit friends near Hamburg. I have booked a 7:08am train already (with iPhone) and on Sunday morning, depending when I am ready, I can walk to the station (25 mins) or look what bus to take and at what time from the nearest bus stop (5 mins from home).</text></comment>

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<story><title>Mailed asthma, cancer, erectile drugs are seized the most, despite opioid claims</title><url>https://www.cnn.com/2023/03/07/health/fda-drug-shipments-khn-partner/index.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dangwhy</author><text>how is this not stealing from people who are buying these drugs through the legitimate system.</text></item><item><author>skyyler</author><text>I order my medications illegally because it&amp;#x27;s so much cheaper than doing it through the legitimate system.</text></item><item><author>Tozen</author><text>&amp;gt; This is asthma and cancer medication being seized because of an overly tight control of prescription drugs.&lt;p&gt;Actually, many of these are medications (even life saving ones) being seized to protect inflated pharmaceutical pricing and profits at the expense of poorer Americans (and those lacking health care). Significant numbers of people are ordering the medications out of desperation.</text></item><item><author>gtop3</author><text>Our prescription drug system needs an overhaul. This isn&amp;#x27;t a matter of all drugs are illegal to import because of quality control issues. You can import aspirin, if you are so inclined. This is asthma and cancer medication being seized because of an overly tight control of prescription drugs. I understand that some drugs sold overseas are not suitable for human consumption. I understand that some drugs require close supervision. I argue that many medications are quite safe to take without supervision and using doctors as gatekeepers functions primarily to increase the billings generated by sick people. I think the bar for what medications are prescription and which medications are OTC needs to be reevaluated. Perhaps the way in which we market drugs and disclose there risks should be reevaluated simultaneously.&lt;p&gt;Imagine taking away someone&amp;#x27;s asthma medication and thinking you are making America a safer, better place.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>NeuNeurosis</author><text>Wow thats a big assumption that the system the user is circumnavigating is legitimate. Their are 2 &amp;quot;official&amp;quot; reasons for that system, safety and patent protection. While both have their merits they don&amp;#x27;t legitimatize the current state of that system. By your definition the only difference in its status of legality is the location those drugs are purchased and used. This is a very flaky foundation for your argument of legitimacy and the outcome of theft. Most of the time any legitimate protest against what you believe is wrong elicits shouts of &amp;quot;theft&amp;quot;, &amp;quot;illegitimate&amp;quot;, &amp;quot;think of the children&amp;quot;, &amp;quot;safety&amp;quot;. This conversation would be much more productive if you provided any examples of that theft or support for why the system is legitimate to begin with. That being said I do think the system has a place but it desperately needs overhauled and people seeking alternatives to the system aren&amp;#x27;t the problem but the canary in the coal mine signalling the weakest of our fellow citizens can&amp;#x27;t make do with the system that should be serving them.</text></comment>

<story><title>Mailed asthma, cancer, erectile drugs are seized the most, despite opioid claims</title><url>https://www.cnn.com/2023/03/07/health/fda-drug-shipments-khn-partner/index.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dangwhy</author><text>how is this not stealing from people who are buying these drugs through the legitimate system.</text></item><item><author>skyyler</author><text>I order my medications illegally because it&amp;#x27;s so much cheaper than doing it through the legitimate system.</text></item><item><author>Tozen</author><text>&amp;gt; This is asthma and cancer medication being seized because of an overly tight control of prescription drugs.&lt;p&gt;Actually, many of these are medications (even life saving ones) being seized to protect inflated pharmaceutical pricing and profits at the expense of poorer Americans (and those lacking health care). Significant numbers of people are ordering the medications out of desperation.</text></item><item><author>gtop3</author><text>Our prescription drug system needs an overhaul. This isn&amp;#x27;t a matter of all drugs are illegal to import because of quality control issues. You can import aspirin, if you are so inclined. This is asthma and cancer medication being seized because of an overly tight control of prescription drugs. I understand that some drugs sold overseas are not suitable for human consumption. I understand that some drugs require close supervision. I argue that many medications are quite safe to take without supervision and using doctors as gatekeepers functions primarily to increase the billings generated by sick people. I think the bar for what medications are prescription and which medications are OTC needs to be reevaluated. Perhaps the way in which we market drugs and disclose there risks should be reevaluated simultaneously.&lt;p&gt;Imagine taking away someone&amp;#x27;s asthma medication and thinking you are making America a safer, better place.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>plussed_reader</author><text>Funny you see the theft in one direction and not the other. Isn&amp;#x27;t the black market just a natural expression of agents engaging in free market principles?</text></comment>

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<story><title>Ask PG: Is RFS3 &quot;Things built on Twitter&quot; still sensible to prioritise?</title><text>Given Twitter&apos;s capricious enforcement of its API Rules of the Road, their willingness to allegedly crib features from apps in their ecosystem, and increasingly misaligned incentives vis-a-vis 3rd party developers and users, how long is it before this RFS becomes inordinately risky for YC to specifically solicit?</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>w1ntermute</author><text>&amp;#62; Nearly all build for iOS first and then maybe one day port to Android.&lt;p&gt;It&apos;s unfortunate that this persists even though Android now has twice the smartphone marketshare iOS has. It doesn&apos;t seem like things will be changing any time soon either.</text></item><item><author>pg</author><text>To most startups we fund, iOS is way more important. Nearly all build for iOS first and then maybe one day port to Android. There are a few exceptions like Kyte (&lt;a href=&quot;http://kytephone.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://kytephone.com&lt;/a&gt;) who use Android to do things you can&apos;t do on iOS. And of course Apportable (&lt;a href=&quot;http://apportable.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://apportable.com&lt;/a&gt;) has been very successful auto-porting iOS apps to Android.</text></item><item><author>dave1619</author><text>Would you consider iOS and Android similar in terms of risk and developer potential?</text></item><item><author>pg</author><text>Facebook seems somewhere between Twitter and iOS.</text></item><item><author>donall</author><text>Does the same apply to Facebook? And if not, is it likely to within the next 12 months?&lt;p&gt;It seems like a lot of developers/startups put their eggs in the FB basket. I wonder if, from a funding perspective, that behaviour would set off alarm bells today?</text></item><item><author>pg</author><text>It certainly doesn&apos;t seem as promising a territory as it used to. Not so much because it&apos;s more dangerous as because Twitter hasn&apos;t turned out to be a &quot;platform&quot; in the same sense as say iOS has.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>wheels</author><text>And China has more than twice as many internet users as the United States. However, I&apos;m pretty sure the American users spend more money per capita and that it&apos;s not an accident that most YC startups target them first.</text></comment>

<story><title>Ask PG: Is RFS3 &quot;Things built on Twitter&quot; still sensible to prioritise?</title><text>Given Twitter&apos;s capricious enforcement of its API Rules of the Road, their willingness to allegedly crib features from apps in their ecosystem, and increasingly misaligned incentives vis-a-vis 3rd party developers and users, how long is it before this RFS becomes inordinately risky for YC to specifically solicit?</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>w1ntermute</author><text>&amp;#62; Nearly all build for iOS first and then maybe one day port to Android.&lt;p&gt;It&apos;s unfortunate that this persists even though Android now has twice the smartphone marketshare iOS has. It doesn&apos;t seem like things will be changing any time soon either.</text></item><item><author>pg</author><text>To most startups we fund, iOS is way more important. Nearly all build for iOS first and then maybe one day port to Android. There are a few exceptions like Kyte (&lt;a href=&quot;http://kytephone.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://kytephone.com&lt;/a&gt;) who use Android to do things you can&apos;t do on iOS. And of course Apportable (&lt;a href=&quot;http://apportable.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://apportable.com&lt;/a&gt;) has been very successful auto-porting iOS apps to Android.</text></item><item><author>dave1619</author><text>Would you consider iOS and Android similar in terms of risk and developer potential?</text></item><item><author>pg</author><text>Facebook seems somewhere between Twitter and iOS.</text></item><item><author>donall</author><text>Does the same apply to Facebook? And if not, is it likely to within the next 12 months?&lt;p&gt;It seems like a lot of developers/startups put their eggs in the FB basket. I wonder if, from a funding perspective, that behaviour would set off alarm bells today?</text></item><item><author>pg</author><text>It certainly doesn&apos;t seem as promising a territory as it used to. Not so much because it&apos;s more dangerous as because Twitter hasn&apos;t turned out to be a &quot;platform&quot; in the same sense as say iOS has.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>siong1987</author><text>Android has twice the smartphone marketshare than iOS. But, it is so fragmented that building for the Android market requires you to have at least few different devices to test out your app, not to mention that there are multiple versions of Android and modified Android from the network providers. It definitely requires more effort than building for iOS.&lt;p&gt;App distribution on Android is actually more tricky than the App Store on iOS. There are actually a few &quot;App Stores&quot; for the Android, Google Play vs Amazon App Store.</text></comment>

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<story><title>Remembering a relationship, one chat at a time</title><url>http://www.good.is/post/chat-history/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>DanielBMarkham</author><text>When I go to write a letter, I use some software that allows me to put together words on a semblance of a page and then print it. The tool is called a &quot;word processor&quot;&lt;p&gt;When we live our lives, we leave all these digital footprints and clues all over the web. It seems to me that somebody should invent a &quot;life processor&quot; that would collect these traces of our former selves and allow us, after death, to somehow more actively participate than we&apos;ve ever done before.&lt;p&gt;If nothing else, it would be a central repository of things that we left behind -- words, images, songs, memories, etc. Yes, I know GMail and Facebook do some of that, but a lot is in chat, on blogs, in comments (like this one), and spread all over the place. After all, they&apos;re &lt;i&gt;my&lt;/i&gt; thoughts. Shouldn&apos;t my descendants be able to easily browse and use them? I would think that with a bit of computational magic, there could be all sorts of new things coming out of our thoughts after we pass on -- if only there was a central repository of data to start with.&lt;p&gt;I liked this article a lot. It reminded me how important the traces of our digital lives are. Or rather, how important those traces can be.</text></comment>

<story><title>Remembering a relationship, one chat at a time</title><url>http://www.good.is/post/chat-history/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>stevenp</author><text>I&apos;m glad to know that I&apos;m not the only one who keeps all that stuff. A few months ago I went back through some old chat logs to find the first time that I chatted with my best friend, and it was a lot of fun to relive that part of my life.&lt;p&gt;I think people don&apos;t realize that the volume of digital artifacts we&apos;re creating is going to be staggering when we look back at them a century from now. That&apos;s one of the reasons I like to check in places. I imagine what it would have been like if my grandfather had traveled the world with Foursquare in the 1930s -- maybe I&apos;d be able to visit the pubs where he drank in Copenhagen, or the port he arrived at when he met my grandmother in Glasgow.&lt;p&gt;My life might not be that exciting, but I&apos;m definitely leaving a trail behind. My grandchildren will wonder why I checked in so much at the Palo Alto Creamery. :)</text></comment>

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<story><title>Amazon to Launch Mobile Ads, in a Threat to Google and Facebook</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-03-21/amazon-said-to-launch-mobile-ads-in-threat-to-google-facebook</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jak92</author><text>I am using Amazon less and less these days, buying elsewhere if given a reasonable choice.&lt;p&gt;I do not want my buying habits mined , bought and sold, etc. They are my property and not subject to the whimms of amazon or any other company.&lt;p&gt;just let me make a purchase and let that be it. at least other retailers give you the option of using a &amp;#x27;loyalty&amp;#x27; card if you want to be tracked.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>h3throw</author><text>&amp;gt; I do not want my buying habits mined , bought and sold, etc. They are my property and not subject to the whimms of amazon or any other company.&lt;p&gt;In order to make a purchase of X it is required that another party exists to make a sale of X. Let&amp;#x27;s call this transaction A. Why do you believe that the metadata of transaction A is owned solely by the purchaser and is not equally owned by the seller?&lt;p&gt;Even further, is there really a differentiation between the purchaser and the seller? It&amp;#x27;s really just an exchange of a good or service for dollars where the &amp;quot;buyer&amp;quot; is the one with the dollars and the &amp;quot;seller&amp;quot; is the one with the good or service.</text></comment>

<story><title>Amazon to Launch Mobile Ads, in a Threat to Google and Facebook</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-03-21/amazon-said-to-launch-mobile-ads-in-threat-to-google-facebook</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jak92</author><text>I am using Amazon less and less these days, buying elsewhere if given a reasonable choice.&lt;p&gt;I do not want my buying habits mined , bought and sold, etc. They are my property and not subject to the whimms of amazon or any other company.&lt;p&gt;just let me make a purchase and let that be it. at least other retailers give you the option of using a &amp;#x27;loyalty&amp;#x27; card if you want to be tracked.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>icelancer</author><text>&amp;gt; I do not want my buying habits mined , bought and sold, etc. They are my property and not subject to the whimms of amazon or any other company.&lt;p&gt;This happens at any online store you purchase something at. This isn&amp;#x27;t unique to Amazon.</text></comment>

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<story><title>How to seriously read a scientific paper</title><url>https://www.sciencemag.org/careers/2016/03/how-seriously-read-scientific-paper</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ramraj07</author><text>By the time I was in year 4 of my PhD, reading a paper mostly involved: look at title, directly look at figure 1 and figure 8 to judge if the title actually matches the result. If the result is of genuine interest then read the abstract, and then go through the figures carefully. Otherwise for the most part the reminder of the paper is left alone. This only applies for papers where I already know the field and am only trying to gauge the incremental addition to the knowledge the paper makes. The style will be different for a paper in an unknown field, there it&amp;#x27;s best to just read it as prose from top to bottom with a marker at hand.&lt;p&gt;To add more - not reading any text in the paper makes you laser focussed on trying to figure out what the data means without the authors trying to sugar coat anything with their perspective&amp;#x2F;agenda.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dekhn</author><text>I&amp;#x27;ve had many people suggest just reading the figures, but I&amp;#x27;ve found that most scientists hide their sins in the methods section, and the figures &lt;i&gt;cannot&lt;/i&gt; be properly interpreted without careful inspection of the methods (which often demonstrates the authors didn&amp;#x27;t really do a good job).&lt;p&gt;Also, I&amp;#x27;ve noticed that a very large range of papers with faked image data in figures has gone unnoticed by most readers. People look at the figures hoping to see what they want to see and aren&amp;#x27;t critical enough about the process used to generate them (when I wrote my phd thesis, all figures were programmatically generated by version-controlled code on well-managed data.</text></comment>

<story><title>How to seriously read a scientific paper</title><url>https://www.sciencemag.org/careers/2016/03/how-seriously-read-scientific-paper</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ramraj07</author><text>By the time I was in year 4 of my PhD, reading a paper mostly involved: look at title, directly look at figure 1 and figure 8 to judge if the title actually matches the result. If the result is of genuine interest then read the abstract, and then go through the figures carefully. Otherwise for the most part the reminder of the paper is left alone. This only applies for papers where I already know the field and am only trying to gauge the incremental addition to the knowledge the paper makes. The style will be different for a paper in an unknown field, there it&amp;#x27;s best to just read it as prose from top to bottom with a marker at hand.&lt;p&gt;To add more - not reading any text in the paper makes you laser focussed on trying to figure out what the data means without the authors trying to sugar coat anything with their perspective&amp;#x2F;agenda.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>GirkovArpa</author><text>As a layman my impression is most papers are too verbose. At least the ones that I can understand. After reading tons of steganography papers (for example) I found they tend to begin with the same retelling of the history of steganography from the beginning of time up to now, even though it&amp;#x27;s completely irrelevant to the topic of the paper (which is not history).</text></comment>

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<story><title>Why Lisp?</title><url>https://github.com/naver/lispe/wiki/6.16-Why-Lisp</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>iLoveOncall</author><text>&amp;gt; There is this list &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;common-lisp.net&amp;#x2F;lisp-companies&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;common-lisp.net&amp;#x2F;lisp-companies&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;If you have so few that you can maintain a list, it kinda proves OP&amp;#x27;s point.&lt;p&gt;Also as an addendum to his point, what about projects being written in the last decade or two?&lt;p&gt;Emacs is cool, but it was created in 1976...</text></item><item><author>Davidbrcz</author><text>Emacs is the prime example of a lisp project&lt;p&gt;HN itself is (was ?) Written in lisp if I&amp;#x27;m not mistaken&lt;p&gt;There is this list &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;common-lisp.net&amp;#x2F;lisp-companies&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;common-lisp.net&amp;#x2F;lisp-companies&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;Racket&amp;#x2F;scheme are lisp, you&amp;#x27;ll have to include them as well.</text></item><item><author>ctrlmeta</author><text>I see a lot of posts justifying why Lisp is nice and should be used. These are good. I agree with them. But I would also like to see posts about actual projects written in Lisp.&lt;p&gt;Compare with Rust and Go. Rust and Go devs write articles evangelizing Rust but that&amp;#x27;s not all we see. We also see posts about so many useful Rust and Go projects too.&lt;p&gt;How can we see a similar trend for Lisp? And no, it cannot be writing a Lisp in a Lisp or writing a Lisp in your favorite language or writing your favorite language in a Lisp. I am looking for useful projects that do something useful for users who can&amp;#x27;t give a damn what language the project is written in.&lt;p&gt;I searched &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;github.com&amp;#x2F;topics&amp;#x2F;lisp&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;github.com&amp;#x2F;topics&amp;#x2F;lisp&lt;/a&gt; but a vast majority of the projects there are not software used by actual users in the wild. Most of them are projects that teach how to make a lisp or documentation about lisp. There are some useful software like browser, editor, etc. in there but they are few and far between.&lt;p&gt;I know Reddit was written in Lisp but it isn&amp;#x27;t anymore. So that&amp;#x27;s a bummer.&lt;p&gt;Does Roomba still run on Lisp? I can&amp;#x27;t find out with some quick searches.&lt;p&gt;HN is written in a dialect of Lisp so that is one example. Can we have more such examples? Even better would be open source examples where any college student can contribute?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>vindarel</author><text>Before this list, people said &amp;quot;Sure CL is used in production, there&amp;#x27;s Google and uh… Autocad&amp;quot;. Now, we collect companies that we hear about. Nothing &amp;quot;official&amp;quot; nor exhaustive, of course. You can still complain, but not for the same reason ;)&lt;p&gt;BTW this one is the list they are based on: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;github.com&amp;#x2F;azzamsa&amp;#x2F;awesome-lisp-companies&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;github.com&amp;#x2F;azzamsa&amp;#x2F;awesome-lisp-companies&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;See also&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;lisp-lang.org&amp;#x2F;success&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;lisp-lang.org&amp;#x2F;success&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.lispworks.com&amp;#x2F;success-stories&amp;#x2F;index.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.lispworks.com&amp;#x2F;success-stories&amp;#x2F;index.html&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>

<story><title>Why Lisp?</title><url>https://github.com/naver/lispe/wiki/6.16-Why-Lisp</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>iLoveOncall</author><text>&amp;gt; There is this list &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;common-lisp.net&amp;#x2F;lisp-companies&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;common-lisp.net&amp;#x2F;lisp-companies&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;If you have so few that you can maintain a list, it kinda proves OP&amp;#x27;s point.&lt;p&gt;Also as an addendum to his point, what about projects being written in the last decade or two?&lt;p&gt;Emacs is cool, but it was created in 1976...</text></item><item><author>Davidbrcz</author><text>Emacs is the prime example of a lisp project&lt;p&gt;HN itself is (was ?) Written in lisp if I&amp;#x27;m not mistaken&lt;p&gt;There is this list &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;common-lisp.net&amp;#x2F;lisp-companies&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;common-lisp.net&amp;#x2F;lisp-companies&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;Racket&amp;#x2F;scheme are lisp, you&amp;#x27;ll have to include them as well.</text></item><item><author>ctrlmeta</author><text>I see a lot of posts justifying why Lisp is nice and should be used. These are good. I agree with them. But I would also like to see posts about actual projects written in Lisp.&lt;p&gt;Compare with Rust and Go. Rust and Go devs write articles evangelizing Rust but that&amp;#x27;s not all we see. We also see posts about so many useful Rust and Go projects too.&lt;p&gt;How can we see a similar trend for Lisp? And no, it cannot be writing a Lisp in a Lisp or writing a Lisp in your favorite language or writing your favorite language in a Lisp. I am looking for useful projects that do something useful for users who can&amp;#x27;t give a damn what language the project is written in.&lt;p&gt;I searched &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;github.com&amp;#x2F;topics&amp;#x2F;lisp&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;github.com&amp;#x2F;topics&amp;#x2F;lisp&lt;/a&gt; but a vast majority of the projects there are not software used by actual users in the wild. Most of them are projects that teach how to make a lisp or documentation about lisp. There are some useful software like browser, editor, etc. in there but they are few and far between.&lt;p&gt;I know Reddit was written in Lisp but it isn&amp;#x27;t anymore. So that&amp;#x27;s a bummer.&lt;p&gt;Does Roomba still run on Lisp? I can&amp;#x27;t find out with some quick searches.&lt;p&gt;HN is written in a dialect of Lisp so that is one example. Can we have more such examples? Even better would be open source examples where any college student can contribute?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>medo-bear</author><text>&amp;gt;If you have so few that you can maintain a list, it kinda proves OP&amp;#x27;s point&lt;p&gt;OP didn&amp;#x27;t really make a point. He just said that he would like posts about lisp being used in production&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; Also as an addendum to his point, what about projects being written in the last decade or two?&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s a niche language so it&amp;#x27;s pretty pointless throwing lists of all CL projects in production at people. Instead I suggest you say what domain interests you and maybe someone who worked in your domain will be able to give a more meaningful response&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; Emacs is cool, but it was created in 1976...&lt;p&gt;Wow I forget how old my operating system is given how &amp;quot;modern&amp;quot; it feels and that to this day nothing even comes close to it</text></comment>

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<story><title>The Koh-i-Noor diamond, and why the British won’t give it back (2017)</title><url>https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/true-story-koh-i-noor-diamondand-why-british-wont-give-it-back-180964660/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>UncleMeat</author><text>Okay. But that&amp;#x27;s surely not a reason why the Brits get to keep it. &amp;quot;This is too hard, let&amp;#x27;s give up and keep bringing in tourist money to our museums through these artifacts&amp;quot; feels like an awfully convenient excuse.</text></item><item><author>twblalock</author><text>David Frum&amp;#x27;s new Atlantic article shows a similar situation in Nigeria: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.theatlantic.com&amp;#x2F;magazine&amp;#x2F;archive&amp;#x2F;2022&amp;#x2F;10&amp;#x2F;benin-bronzes-nigeria-return-stolen-art&amp;#x2F;671245&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.theatlantic.com&amp;#x2F;magazine&amp;#x2F;archive&amp;#x2F;2022&amp;#x2F;10&amp;#x2F;benin-b...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;Basically the Nigerian federal government, the state government of Benin, and the descendants of the kings of Benin who originally owned the stolen Benin bronzes all think they should be the ones to whom the bronzes should be returned -- and in the case of the current king, he asserts they are his family&amp;#x27;s private property.&lt;p&gt;On top of that, there is a long track record of art being stolen from modern-day Nigerian museums and sold to other museums or collectors, and returning the bronzes just for them to be re-stolen does not benefit any of the parties involved.</text></item><item><author>alephnerd</author><text>Not a fan of the British crown (why are they exempt from taxes during record high inflation) but who should they return the diamond to - Afghanistan (it was the Durranis that looted it from Nader Shah after he looted it from the Mughals), India (Maharaja Ranjit Singh took it as tribute from Shah Shuja after conquering Kashmir from the Durranis), or Pakistan (the Sikh Empire capital was Lahore and the Durrani Empire capital was Peshawar until the last Sikh-Afghan War, thus any claim India or Afghanistan has on either Empire&amp;#x27;s legacy is also owned by Pakistan, even inspite of Partition or the Durrand Line).&lt;p&gt;On top of that, if it goes to India - should it be owned by the Central&amp;#x2F;Federal government, the Punjab government (the state that is the core of the former Sikh Empire), Jammu Kashmir&amp;#x27;s Government (because of Shah Shuja and Raja Gulab Singh), Delhi Government (the Mughal capital), or Andhra Pradesh Government (the mine is located there). And is it worth putting a logjam into the Free Trade Agreement India and the UK are currently negotating?&lt;p&gt;If they give it to Pakistan, should it go to the Pakistan Federal Government, Punjab Government (the state that is the core of the former Sikh Empire), AJK Government (because of Shah Shuja and Raja Gulab Singh), or Khyber Pakhtunkwa Government (the state that is the core of the former Sikh Empire and former Durrani Empire)? Is it worth putting British Humanitarian and Military Aid at risk?&lt;p&gt;If they give it to Afghanistan, is it to the Taliban led government, or the government in exile? Is it worth putting British Aid and potential recognition at risk?&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s a conundrum and an complicated legal question that honestly isn&amp;#x27;t worth it for any of the countries, all of whom have bigger issues to deal with, also it can be argued that the Sikh Empire handed it to the UK fairly.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Symbiote</author><text>For what it&amp;#x27;s worth, the Benin Bronzes are in the British Museum, which is free to visit. (Though special exhibitions usually cost extra.)&lt;p&gt;Of course, there&amp;#x27;s still monetary benefit to the museum, London and Britain from people visiting to see them.&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.britishmuseum.org&amp;#x2F;about-us&amp;#x2F;british-museum-story&amp;#x2F;contested-objects-collection&amp;#x2F;benin-bronzes&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.britishmuseum.org&amp;#x2F;about-us&amp;#x2F;british-museum-story&amp;#x2F;...&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>

<story><title>The Koh-i-Noor diamond, and why the British won’t give it back (2017)</title><url>https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/true-story-koh-i-noor-diamondand-why-british-wont-give-it-back-180964660/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>UncleMeat</author><text>Okay. But that&amp;#x27;s surely not a reason why the Brits get to keep it. &amp;quot;This is too hard, let&amp;#x27;s give up and keep bringing in tourist money to our museums through these artifacts&amp;quot; feels like an awfully convenient excuse.</text></item><item><author>twblalock</author><text>David Frum&amp;#x27;s new Atlantic article shows a similar situation in Nigeria: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.theatlantic.com&amp;#x2F;magazine&amp;#x2F;archive&amp;#x2F;2022&amp;#x2F;10&amp;#x2F;benin-bronzes-nigeria-return-stolen-art&amp;#x2F;671245&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.theatlantic.com&amp;#x2F;magazine&amp;#x2F;archive&amp;#x2F;2022&amp;#x2F;10&amp;#x2F;benin-b...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;Basically the Nigerian federal government, the state government of Benin, and the descendants of the kings of Benin who originally owned the stolen Benin bronzes all think they should be the ones to whom the bronzes should be returned -- and in the case of the current king, he asserts they are his family&amp;#x27;s private property.&lt;p&gt;On top of that, there is a long track record of art being stolen from modern-day Nigerian museums and sold to other museums or collectors, and returning the bronzes just for them to be re-stolen does not benefit any of the parties involved.</text></item><item><author>alephnerd</author><text>Not a fan of the British crown (why are they exempt from taxes during record high inflation) but who should they return the diamond to - Afghanistan (it was the Durranis that looted it from Nader Shah after he looted it from the Mughals), India (Maharaja Ranjit Singh took it as tribute from Shah Shuja after conquering Kashmir from the Durranis), or Pakistan (the Sikh Empire capital was Lahore and the Durrani Empire capital was Peshawar until the last Sikh-Afghan War, thus any claim India or Afghanistan has on either Empire&amp;#x27;s legacy is also owned by Pakistan, even inspite of Partition or the Durrand Line).&lt;p&gt;On top of that, if it goes to India - should it be owned by the Central&amp;#x2F;Federal government, the Punjab government (the state that is the core of the former Sikh Empire), Jammu Kashmir&amp;#x27;s Government (because of Shah Shuja and Raja Gulab Singh), Delhi Government (the Mughal capital), or Andhra Pradesh Government (the mine is located there). And is it worth putting a logjam into the Free Trade Agreement India and the UK are currently negotating?&lt;p&gt;If they give it to Pakistan, should it go to the Pakistan Federal Government, Punjab Government (the state that is the core of the former Sikh Empire), AJK Government (because of Shah Shuja and Raja Gulab Singh), or Khyber Pakhtunkwa Government (the state that is the core of the former Sikh Empire and former Durrani Empire)? Is it worth putting British Humanitarian and Military Aid at risk?&lt;p&gt;If they give it to Afghanistan, is it to the Taliban led government, or the government in exile? Is it worth putting British Aid and potential recognition at risk?&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s a conundrum and an complicated legal question that honestly isn&amp;#x27;t worth it for any of the countries, all of whom have bigger issues to deal with, also it can be argued that the Sikh Empire handed it to the UK fairly.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Grimburger</author><text>I was under the impression that most museums around the world are a cost to governments rather than a boon, there&amp;#x27;s probably a few exceptions.&lt;p&gt;People who are travel to see the crown jewels are going whether or not this one is there with it.</text></comment>

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<story><title>Bill and Melinda Gates: America’s Top Farmland Owner</title><url>https://landreport.com/2021/01/bill-gates-americas-top-farmland-owner/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>runako</author><text>I enjoy seeing land use comparisons. I think there was one a while ago that showed how much land the US would require to house everyone at Tokyo-level density (not much). Another showed how much land we would need to dedicate to solar panels to power the country (also not much).&lt;p&gt;Also worth noting here that the 240k acres they own wouldn&amp;#x27;t get them into the top 10 private landowners in the US.&lt;p&gt;Edit: One of the solar maps: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.freeingenergy.com&amp;#x2F;how-much-solar-would-it-take-to-power-the-u-s&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.freeingenergy.com&amp;#x2F;how-much-solar-would-it-take-t...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;Not the residential density map, but fun: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.6sqft.com&amp;#x2F;believe-it-or-not-the-worlds-entire-population-can-fit-inside-new-york-city&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.6sqft.com&amp;#x2F;believe-it-or-not-the-worlds-entire-po...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;The residential density maps: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;gothamist.com&amp;#x2F;arts-entertainment&amp;#x2F;map-if-the-world-lived-like-new-yorkers-wed-all-fit-in-texas&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;gothamist.com&amp;#x2F;arts-entertainment&amp;#x2F;map-if-the-world-li...&lt;/a&gt;</text></item><item><author>war1025</author><text>I did some quick math, and the 240k acres it says they own comes out to about 378 square miles, which if condensed down to a square would be 20 miles by 20 miles.&lt;p&gt;On the one hand, that&amp;#x27;s a lot of land. On the other, it&amp;#x27;s not really anything.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ucm_edge</author><text>I also saw numbers saying a 50 mile by 50 mile piece of land could handle all of America&amp;#x27;s trash for 100 years if used as a landfill.&lt;p&gt;Always struck me as interesting in that you could easily section off a chunk of desert, properly sort and encapsulate the trash. At the same time fund research into ways to do recycling that is more cost efficient and more environmental friendly with regard to chemicals used, etc. Then once you have better tech for a certain class of garbage, go process it in bulk.&lt;p&gt;Of course humans being humans, we&amp;#x27;d probably not bother to fund the research, not do upkeep on the encapsulation material and mess up the ground water, etc. Still interesting to think about just having one or two national trash dumps.</text></comment>

<story><title>Bill and Melinda Gates: America’s Top Farmland Owner</title><url>https://landreport.com/2021/01/bill-gates-americas-top-farmland-owner/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>runako</author><text>I enjoy seeing land use comparisons. I think there was one a while ago that showed how much land the US would require to house everyone at Tokyo-level density (not much). Another showed how much land we would need to dedicate to solar panels to power the country (also not much).&lt;p&gt;Also worth noting here that the 240k acres they own wouldn&amp;#x27;t get them into the top 10 private landowners in the US.&lt;p&gt;Edit: One of the solar maps: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.freeingenergy.com&amp;#x2F;how-much-solar-would-it-take-to-power-the-u-s&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.freeingenergy.com&amp;#x2F;how-much-solar-would-it-take-t...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;Not the residential density map, but fun: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.6sqft.com&amp;#x2F;believe-it-or-not-the-worlds-entire-population-can-fit-inside-new-york-city&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.6sqft.com&amp;#x2F;believe-it-or-not-the-worlds-entire-po...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;The residential density maps: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;gothamist.com&amp;#x2F;arts-entertainment&amp;#x2F;map-if-the-world-lived-like-new-yorkers-wed-all-fit-in-texas&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;gothamist.com&amp;#x2F;arts-entertainment&amp;#x2F;map-if-the-world-li...&lt;/a&gt;</text></item><item><author>war1025</author><text>I did some quick math, and the 240k acres it says they own comes out to about 378 square miles, which if condensed down to a square would be 20 miles by 20 miles.&lt;p&gt;On the one hand, that&amp;#x27;s a lot of land. On the other, it&amp;#x27;s not really anything.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>csomar</author><text>Regarding solar, you don&amp;#x27;t really need much land. Most residential homes can install it on their roof and this also applies to flat industrial building which do not consume a lot of energy. This also makes your solar production decentralized.</text></comment>

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<story><title>A Survival Guide to a PhD</title><url>http://karpathy.github.io/2016/09/07/phd/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>michaelvoz</author><text>&amp;quot;I’ll assume that the second option you are considering is joining a medium-large company (which is likely most common). Ask yourself if you find the following properties appealing: ...&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;Why is every conversation about PHDs always cast in the light of as-opposed-to-working-for-the-man? I don&amp;#x27;t see discussions ever bring up the plethora of other life courses one can take. It is though the author sees a very clear binary: PHD or go work on fixing bugs in Gmail (or some other such cog-in-a-machine project).&lt;p&gt;Where is the discussion of starting a business? Of making your own company? Breaking free of the political shackles of academia and blazing your own path to glory?&lt;p&gt;I am all for PHDs, and all for people pursuing, and pushing, the boundaries of human knowledge. I would just like to see that discussion live on its own, without comparison, if that is possible.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>throwawaymsft</author><text>&amp;quot;Properties you find appealing...&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt; * Freedom * Ownership * Personal freedom ... &lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt; &amp;lt;Later...&amp;gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt; * Getting into a PhD program: references, references, references * Student adviser relationship * Pre-vs-post tenure * Impressing an adviser * (Topic) Plays to your adviser’s interests and strengths &lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt; Much of your freedom goes to learning to play politics and manage up to a level employees never have to. Reading this, I&amp;#x27;m so thankful I didn&amp;#x27;t enter academia. I still pursue my academic interests on my own.&lt;p&gt;Edit: A few people insist on casting a float into a bool. Every job has politics, ranging from 0.01% (anonymous author of 1-man SaaS) to 99% (politician). It&amp;#x27;s not very informative to note that both are non-zero.</text></comment>

<story><title>A Survival Guide to a PhD</title><url>http://karpathy.github.io/2016/09/07/phd/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>michaelvoz</author><text>&amp;quot;I’ll assume that the second option you are considering is joining a medium-large company (which is likely most common). Ask yourself if you find the following properties appealing: ...&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;Why is every conversation about PHDs always cast in the light of as-opposed-to-working-for-the-man? I don&amp;#x27;t see discussions ever bring up the plethora of other life courses one can take. It is though the author sees a very clear binary: PHD or go work on fixing bugs in Gmail (or some other such cog-in-a-machine project).&lt;p&gt;Where is the discussion of starting a business? Of making your own company? Breaking free of the political shackles of academia and blazing your own path to glory?&lt;p&gt;I am all for PHDs, and all for people pursuing, and pushing, the boundaries of human knowledge. I would just like to see that discussion live on its own, without comparison, if that is possible.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>JoshTriplett</author><text>Agreed completely. I did a PhD knowing that I had zero interest in going into academia, and it provided a major boost to my professional career. I find it surprising when people talk about doing a PhD as &lt;i&gt;exclusively&lt;/i&gt; useful for academics.</text></comment>

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<story><title>Opera will use Blink</title><url>http://www.brucelawson.co.uk/2013/hello-blink/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>mikevm</author><text>I used to use Opera for many years, and IMHO it was almost always the best browser around feature and speed-wise. The only thing holding it back was the rendering engine.&lt;p&gt;I ended up making the switch to Chrome when Opera 12 came out and was too buggy for my taste (it was the last straw). It took a while to make Chrome feel Opera-ish, but I still miss Opera from time to time, you know, because of the little things.&lt;p&gt;One thing I wish Chrome had is the ability to select hyperlinks. Opera would let you click and hold the mouse cursor anywhere on a hyperlinked text and select it. If you try the same in Chrome, it will try to drag &amp;#38; drop the link instead of starting a selection. In fact, sometimes it gets really tricky to try to select hyperlinked text.</text></comment>

<story><title>Opera will use Blink</title><url>http://www.brucelawson.co.uk/2013/hello-blink/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>mortenjorck</author><text>This is quickly turning into the tech version of Game of Thrones.</text></comment>

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<story><title>Software disenchantment</title><url>https://tonsky.me/blog/disenchantment/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>nologic01</author><text>Leaner, cleaner, less buggy, more secure, more performant, longer-lived code is obviously entirely possible. If people managed to do it at the dawn of the information age surely they can do it today, with multiple decades of massive experience, not to mention the incredibly powerful tools developed in the meantime.&lt;p&gt;If its not done its because &lt;i&gt;there is no money in it&lt;/i&gt;. In fact the opposite.&lt;p&gt;The counter-incentives to wasting time on high quality software are numerous and affect all sorts of teams. VC funded startups must get to market first or die. Fake-it-till-you-make-it is their religion. For more mature organizations too, cost and bloat is not an issue. Its a feature. The bigger the team more prestige for the managers etc. The costs are passed on to clients anyway.&lt;p&gt;How come &amp;quot;ruthless market forces&amp;quot; don&amp;#x27;t rectify this wastefulness? You&amp;#x27;d think that codebases of superior quality will earn the keys to the kingdom. They might, eventually. In a competitive environment that is less prone to pathologies, hypes etc.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>freediver</author><text>Kagi is not VC funded, yet we have code that is sub-optimal, a ton of bugs and odd performance issues here and there. Knowing what I know about software development, I do not think this is avoidable, regardless of the source of funding or size of the company. It is a factor of complexity of the software, resources available and incentives in place.&lt;p&gt;What we can do though, that perhaps VC funded companies can not as easilly, is alocate time to refactor code and deal with tech debt. In fact that is what we are currently doing and we basically pulled a handbreak on all new feature developement for 45 days to deal with our main tech issues. Ability to do this requires a long term thinking horizon. Very difficult to make that kind of investment if you expect to get acquired next year and tech debt becomes somebody else&amp;#x27;s problem.&lt;p&gt;Also worth noting, as long as the product is being actively developed it will aways have new bugs and issues. &amp;#x27;Perfect code&amp;#x27; is achieveable only in a closed context scenario, where new features are not added any more. (which randomly bring this weird thought to my head, that the only human that does not do any mistakes any more is a dead one; perfection in human actions is only achieved in the absence of life... ok need to stop there)</text></comment>

<story><title>Software disenchantment</title><url>https://tonsky.me/blog/disenchantment/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>nologic01</author><text>Leaner, cleaner, less buggy, more secure, more performant, longer-lived code is obviously entirely possible. If people managed to do it at the dawn of the information age surely they can do it today, with multiple decades of massive experience, not to mention the incredibly powerful tools developed in the meantime.&lt;p&gt;If its not done its because &lt;i&gt;there is no money in it&lt;/i&gt;. In fact the opposite.&lt;p&gt;The counter-incentives to wasting time on high quality software are numerous and affect all sorts of teams. VC funded startups must get to market first or die. Fake-it-till-you-make-it is their religion. For more mature organizations too, cost and bloat is not an issue. Its a feature. The bigger the team more prestige for the managers etc. The costs are passed on to clients anyway.&lt;p&gt;How come &amp;quot;ruthless market forces&amp;quot; don&amp;#x27;t rectify this wastefulness? You&amp;#x27;d think that codebases of superior quality will earn the keys to the kingdom. They might, eventually. In a competitive environment that is less prone to pathologies, hypes etc.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>gtowey</author><text>&amp;gt; If its not done its because there is no money in it. In fact the opposite&lt;p&gt;This bears repeating. It&amp;#x27;s the disease that has consumed software and is making all modern software the worst possible version of itself.&lt;p&gt;I think it&amp;#x27;s the VC funding model which has driven the industry this way. Startups get millions in funding, then it&amp;#x27;s a race to make enough money to pay back those investors which leads to this. The companies have to squeeze dollars from their app as fast as possible which means anything that doesn&amp;#x27;t have a ROI metric attached to it will not get a second of anyone&amp;#x27;s attention.</text></comment>

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<story><title>Pedal Me bans staff riders from wearing helmets for safety reasons</title><url>https://bikebiz.com/pedal-me-bans-staff-riders-from-wearing-helmets-for-safety-reasons/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>y7</author><text>Maybe relevant: the Netherlands is probably the country with the highest use of bicycles for transport, yet no one, except for cyclists on racing bikes&amp;#x2F;MTBs or foreign tourists, ever wears a bike helmet. This is because they&amp;#x27;re only marginally effective at preventing injury, and the disadvantage of reduced cycling use if helmets are mandated results in far worse public health outcomes. See also &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;dutchreview.com&amp;#x2F;culture&amp;#x2F;cycling&amp;#x2F;5-reasons-why-the-dutch-cycle-without-bike-helmets&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;dutchreview.com&amp;#x2F;culture&amp;#x2F;cycling&amp;#x2F;5-reasons-why-the-du...&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Etheryte</author><text>This completely misses the forest for the trees and misattributes causality. The Dutch don&amp;#x27;t wear helmets because the traffic culture and infrastructure are completely different, not because of some questionable statistic no one has heard of. In the Netherlands you feel safe as a cyclist. Drivers look out for you because they&amp;#x27;re also all cyclists at other times. Cycling is so prevalent that it&amp;#x27;s hard to explain to anyone who hasn&amp;#x27;t experienced it.</text></comment>

<story><title>Pedal Me bans staff riders from wearing helmets for safety reasons</title><url>https://bikebiz.com/pedal-me-bans-staff-riders-from-wearing-helmets-for-safety-reasons/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>y7</author><text>Maybe relevant: the Netherlands is probably the country with the highest use of bicycles for transport, yet no one, except for cyclists on racing bikes&amp;#x2F;MTBs or foreign tourists, ever wears a bike helmet. This is because they&amp;#x27;re only marginally effective at preventing injury, and the disadvantage of reduced cycling use if helmets are mandated results in far worse public health outcomes. See also &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;dutchreview.com&amp;#x2F;culture&amp;#x2F;cycling&amp;#x2F;5-reasons-why-the-dutch-cycle-without-bike-helmets&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;dutchreview.com&amp;#x2F;culture&amp;#x2F;cycling&amp;#x2F;5-reasons-why-the-du...&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>isbvhodnvemrwvn</author><text>There is a HUGE difference between NOT REQUIRING helmets and PROHIBITING helmets.</text></comment>

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<story><title>Google JavaScript style guidelines</title><url>http://google-styleguide.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/javascriptguide.xml</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>WilliamLP</author><text>With JavaScript, there is an interesting contrast between what its fans say are its strengths and what battle-hardened experience actually requires you to do.&lt;p&gt;For example:&lt;p&gt;- Prototype object systems are great... except don&apos;t actually use this, it doesn&apos;t really work. Use our simulation of a classical object system instead.&lt;p&gt;- Lambdas are wonderful and powerful when combined with closures... except they leak memory. Don&apos;t use them, but declare named functions.&lt;p&gt;- The &apos;this&apos; parameter was a stupid idea. Use it as little as possible, except when absolutely necessary.&lt;p&gt;- Be really conscious all the time, because of a stupid and misguided semi-colon insertion feature that will mess you up.&lt;p&gt;- Don&apos;t bother trying to use anything other than C style for loops over collections. They mess you up.&lt;p&gt;- The dynamic type system is nice... however experience shows us that what we really want is actually a static system, so JavaDoc types of everything with a cumbersome and extremely verbose syntax instead.&lt;p&gt;- Extending prototypes of existing objects is an amazing and powerful feature. Please don&apos;t ever use it.</text></comment>

<story><title>Google JavaScript style guidelines</title><url>http://google-styleguide.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/javascriptguide.xml</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>theycallmemorty</author><text>&amp;#62; Relying on implicit insertion can cause subtle, hard to debug problems. Don&apos;t do it. You&apos;re better than that.&lt;p&gt;I loved that quote.</text></comment>

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<story><title>Crypto leads to surge in online scams</title><url>https://www.axios.com/crypto-scam-ftc-2079c3b2-6237-4ff8-92f2-d08382cd0d70.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>Animats</author><text>The real question is, will the big cryptocurrencies hold? Bitcoin is down almost half from its peak, but it&amp;#x27;s done that before. What&amp;#x27;s different this time is that more countries, especially China, have banned cryptocurrency operations. Hard to say.&lt;p&gt;At some point, Tether is going to crack. The backing isn&amp;#x27;t there, and everybody knows it now. It can&amp;#x27;t survive a net outflow. It&amp;#x27;s still possible to exit Tether for another stablecoin. USDT and USDC are still trading at 1:1. You can redeem USDC for US dollars. So if you own USDT, get out while you can. When stablecoins crash, they crash all the way to zero.&lt;p&gt;The SEC continues to bring enforcement actions. 97 so far in the cryptocurrency area.[1] Most recently, &amp;quot;Gold Hawgs&amp;quot;. &amp;quot;Instead of using all of the investor funds to develop Gold Hawgs&amp;#x27; business, Garcia, the chief financial officer and a 50% owner of the company, allegedly stole approximately $123,000 of the money raised from investors by transferring the funds to another company that he controlled; he then allegedly used the money to pay for various personal and business expenses unrelated to Gold Hawgs.&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;Before that, &amp;quot;Crowd Machine&amp;quot;: &amp;quot;In this offering, which occurred between January and April 2018, Sproule told investors that the ICO proceeds would be used to develop a new technology that would enable Metavine, Inc.’s existing application-development software to run on a decentralized network of users’ own computers. Instead, Crowd Machine and Sproule began diverting more than $5.8 million in ICO proceeds to gold mining entities in South Africa – a use that was never disclosed to investors.&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;Before that, &amp;quot;Denaro&amp;quot;: &amp;quot;Auzins misappropriated all of the ICO’s proceeds.&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;Before that, &amp;quot;MyMicroProfits&amp;quot;: &amp;quot;Defendant Ryan Ginster allegedly engaged in a fraudulent scheme raising millions in cryptocurrency using online investment programs and then converted the cryptocurrency for his own benefit,&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;Totally ordinary con game rip-offs. Only the hype is new.&lt;p&gt;It looks like 2022 will be the big shakeout year for NFTs and the low end of cryptocurrencies.&lt;p&gt;[1] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.sec.gov&amp;#x2F;spotlight&amp;#x2F;cybersecurity-enforcement-actions&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.sec.gov&amp;#x2F;spotlight&amp;#x2F;cybersecurity-enforcement-acti...&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>

<story><title>Crypto leads to surge in online scams</title><url>https://www.axios.com/crypto-scam-ftc-2079c3b2-6237-4ff8-92f2-d08382cd0d70.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>explaingarlic</author><text>I don&amp;#x27;t understand this at all. Shouldn&amp;#x27;t &amp;quot;cryptocurrency&amp;quot; - I.E. currency based on an understanding of computational complexity and a view into abstract mathematics - appeal to those that have a vague idea of what their money is most-physically represented by?&lt;p&gt;If so, then why are these logically refutable scams (&amp;quot;Give me 1btc and I&amp;#x27;ll send you 3btc back!!!&amp;quot;: Just think that the person would, if they can generate 4btc of value out their ass like that, simply likely keep it, whether they valued the fiat value of it or not) so common?&lt;p&gt;I understand the idea that the emotional gain from giving something to someone who has never had anything of that value may be overwhelmingly tempting or fulfilling on the &amp;quot;giver&amp;#x27;s&amp;quot; part but similarly, aren&amp;#x27;t there people more deserving of this than &lt;i&gt;you&lt;/i&gt;, the &amp;quot;scam&amp;quot; victim? At that point, I don&amp;#x27;t even know if I would call it a scam.&lt;p&gt;If someone posed as a verified conveyancer and built a fake profile, payed legitimate businesses and entities off for positive testimonials etc. And encouraged me to hire them to re-mortgage my property for me then I would call that a scam - but someone asking for money with the vague promise that &amp;quot;they need it more than you&amp;quot; not so, similarly not with a &amp;quot;I will give you double the money you give me&amp;quot; scheme. It just feels more like something so stupid that you are entirely at fault if you fall for it.</text></comment>

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<story><title>LK-99 isn’t a superconductor</title><url>https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-02585-7</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>sorenjan</author><text>Sixty Symbols released a video about this yesterday, and in it professor Philip Moriarty is less than impressed with the whole ordeal. I haven&amp;#x27;t been paying attention, I&amp;#x27;m too jaded and skeptical and assumed from the start that there was something wrong and much hype about nothing.&lt;p&gt;Bad Science and Room Temperature Superconductors - Sixty Symbols: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.youtube.com&amp;#x2F;watch?v=zl-AgmoZ5mo&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.youtube.com&amp;#x2F;watch?v=zl-AgmoZ5mo&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>pininja</author><text>As Philip points out, Sabine Hossenfelder’s quick summary on LK-99 2 weeks ago punched large holes into this whole thing in less than 5 minutes. I wish media outlets presented skeptic viewpoints instead of just hype.. but that doesn’t sell.&lt;p&gt;LK99 - A new room temperature superconductor? &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;youtu.be&amp;#x2F;RjzL9cS3VW8&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;youtu.be&amp;#x2F;RjzL9cS3VW8&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>

<story><title>LK-99 isn’t a superconductor</title><url>https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-02585-7</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>sorenjan</author><text>Sixty Symbols released a video about this yesterday, and in it professor Philip Moriarty is less than impressed with the whole ordeal. I haven&amp;#x27;t been paying attention, I&amp;#x27;m too jaded and skeptical and assumed from the start that there was something wrong and much hype about nothing.&lt;p&gt;Bad Science and Room Temperature Superconductors - Sixty Symbols: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.youtube.com&amp;#x2F;watch?v=zl-AgmoZ5mo&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.youtube.com&amp;#x2F;watch?v=zl-AgmoZ5mo&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>wesleywt</author><text>This is not bad science. This is science working as intended. Claim followed by verification. I only wish other fields was this good.</text></comment>

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<story><title>A Skype call in Ethiopia will now get you 15 years in prison</title><url>http://venturebeat.com/2012/06/14/ethiopia-skype-illegal/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>raganwald</author><text>You can say what you like about the Constitution, but my tin foil hat says that the reason you don’t have laws like this in North America is because we have the technology and can afford to snoop on Skype, email, and so forth at scale. Ethiopia simply doesn’t have the money and/or know-how to monitor VoIP and Email at scale. There’s no salient difference in policy between them and us.&lt;p&gt;If we rewrite the law to say, “Thou shalt not use a communication mechanism we can’t monitor,” the behaviours of Ethiopia and US/Canada aren’t all that different.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>briandear</author><text>The Ethiopian decision isn&apos;t about monitoring, it&apos;s about protecting a monopoly. It&apos;s the same sort of thinking that has a certain political party opposing free trade agreements out of a fear that it will bankrupt manufacturers using inefficient processes. It&apos;s a classic case of violating Henry Hazlitt&apos;s economics lesson: &quot;The art of economics consists in looking not merely at the immediate but at the longer effects of any act or policy; it consists in tracing the consequences of that policy not merely for one group but for all groups.&quot;&lt;p&gt;While this prohibition has the immediate (apparent) consequence of &apos;saving&apos; the state-controlled telephone industry and ostensibly the jobs of its workers, it has a long run consequence of raising telecom costs for the rest of the country which results in less money available for other investment, resulting in a net-loss for the economy. This will also result in an expansion of the &quot;industry&quot; of catching illegal Skypers and prosecuting and incarcerating same -- thus magnifying the net economic loss. Instead of diverting government and/or private resources into innovation, those resources will instead be consumed by reactionism.&lt;p&gt;The Ethiopian policy is entirely about protectionism and has nothing to do with communications security.</text></comment>

<story><title>A Skype call in Ethiopia will now get you 15 years in prison</title><url>http://venturebeat.com/2012/06/14/ethiopia-skype-illegal/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>raganwald</author><text>You can say what you like about the Constitution, but my tin foil hat says that the reason you don’t have laws like this in North America is because we have the technology and can afford to snoop on Skype, email, and so forth at scale. Ethiopia simply doesn’t have the money and/or know-how to monitor VoIP and Email at scale. There’s no salient difference in policy between them and us.&lt;p&gt;If we rewrite the law to say, “Thou shalt not use a communication mechanism we can’t monitor,” the behaviours of Ethiopia and US/Canada aren’t all that different.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>fl3tch</author><text>You don&apos;t need fancy technology to snoop on people in America. All the companies are based in the US, so it&apos;s just a matter of the government compelling them to build the spy mechanisms into their products or turn over their data. Ethiopia is functionally doing the same thing (massive surveillance of its populace), but without the power to influence these companies, it just bans the products.</text></comment>

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<story><title>You shouldn&apos;t parse the output of ls(1)</title><url>https://mywiki.wooledge.org/ParsingLs</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>salmo</author><text>Some of these are why I bail for a “real language” in many seemingly simple scenarios.&lt;p&gt;As soon as I care about datetimes, it’s just easier to use stat() and a proper datetime API.&lt;p&gt;I can treat filenames as byte arrays and translate to Unicode or let the language do it for me.&lt;p&gt;In dire circumstances, find … -print0 | xargs -0 second_script is usually my fallback, but that has pitfalls as well.&lt;p&gt;Go has been a blessing there for me, not having to rely on a runtime across diverse hosts. But that’s a preference and doesn’t help on old kernels w&amp;#x2F;o epoll().&lt;p&gt;So many battle scars from inconsistency in Bash and GNU utilities over the years, especially on Unixes’ bundled versions (Solaris, etc) or supporting GNU, BSD, SysV, and HP-UX in the same script. Used to deploy a ksh88(ish) on all for SOME consistency.&lt;p&gt;Luckily now I’m not supporting anything but Linux anymore. When I can’t Go, then I just hijack some tool’s bundled Ruby (eg Puppet), Python, etc when I have to handle that and stick to the standard library.&lt;p&gt;I am too lazy to C these days like I used to. I’m usually dealing with an emergency (looking at you log4j) and don’t have the cycles to cover the gotchas there.</text></comment>

<story><title>You shouldn&apos;t parse the output of ls(1)</title><url>https://mywiki.wooledge.org/ParsingLs</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>tyingq</author><text>This is one reason Perl was very popular even before CGI was a thing. You could get to things like stat() with an interpreted language that was very portable. It also has the &amp;quot;-0&amp;quot; flag to accept the null terminated output of &amp;quot;find -print0&amp;quot;.</text></comment>

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<story><title>What are your most used self-hosted applications?</title><url>https://noted.lol/what-are-your-most-used-self-hosted-applications/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>runjake</author><text>I am out of the loop.&lt;p&gt;What is “*arr”?</text></item><item><author>dawnerd</author><text>Listing the docker images. All this is hosted on a 45 Drives unraid server.&lt;p&gt;adguard&amp;#x2F;adguardhome - Blocks ads on devices that don&amp;#x27;t support ad block extensions&lt;p&gt;charlocharlie&amp;#x2F;epicgames-freegames - Bot that will automatically &amp;quot;purchase&amp;quot; free games from the epic game store. I have it setup to telegram me a link to enter the captcha.&lt;p&gt;chuckmacdev&amp;#x2F;adrfinder - Checks for Disney dining reservations and emails a link to reserve&lt;p&gt;fusengine&amp;#x2F;apaxy - Decent web file browser&lt;p&gt;linuxserver&amp;#x2F;*arr - ya&amp;#x27;ll know why :)&lt;p&gt;linuxserver&amp;#x2F;smokeping - Really useful to troubleshoot network issues&lt;p&gt;plexinc&amp;#x2F;pms-docker - I want to switch to jellyfin but I have so much data in Plex now it&amp;#x27;ll probably be a huge pain&lt;p&gt;jlesage&amp;#x2F;nginx-proxy-manager - I&amp;#x27;m lazy and hate setting up reverse proxies&lt;p&gt;jlesage&amp;#x2F;qdirstat - Pretty useful when dealing with a server that has as much data as mine does&lt;p&gt;adolfintel&amp;#x2F;speedtest - Good for troubleshooting networks that might preferentially give speedtest.net better speeds, also good for internal network testing&lt;p&gt;linuxserver&amp;#x2F;sabnzbd - Obvious&lt;p&gt;haugene&amp;#x2F;transmission-openvpn - I don&amp;#x27;t feel comfortable downloading any torrent unless it goes through a vpn</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>matthberg</author><text>I was curious about this too, and looked into it. It&amp;#x27;s referring to a suite of piracy apps, for automatically building libraries from trackers.&lt;p&gt;Wiki (linked from one of the githubs, has links to all apps and more info than the githubs): &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;wiki.servarr.com&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;wiki.servarr.com&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;Lidarr (Music): &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;github.com&amp;#x2F;Lidarr&amp;#x2F;Lidarr&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;github.com&amp;#x2F;Lidarr&amp;#x2F;Lidarr&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;Radarr (Movies): &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;github.com&amp;#x2F;radarr&amp;#x2F;radarr&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;github.com&amp;#x2F;radarr&amp;#x2F;radarr&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;Readarr (Books): &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;github.com&amp;#x2F;readarr&amp;#x2F;readarr&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;github.com&amp;#x2F;readarr&amp;#x2F;readarr&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;Sonarr (TV): &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;github.com&amp;#x2F;sonarr&amp;#x2F;sonarr&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;github.com&amp;#x2F;sonarr&amp;#x2F;sonarr&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>

<story><title>What are your most used self-hosted applications?</title><url>https://noted.lol/what-are-your-most-used-self-hosted-applications/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>runjake</author><text>I am out of the loop.&lt;p&gt;What is “*arr”?</text></item><item><author>dawnerd</author><text>Listing the docker images. All this is hosted on a 45 Drives unraid server.&lt;p&gt;adguard&amp;#x2F;adguardhome - Blocks ads on devices that don&amp;#x27;t support ad block extensions&lt;p&gt;charlocharlie&amp;#x2F;epicgames-freegames - Bot that will automatically &amp;quot;purchase&amp;quot; free games from the epic game store. I have it setup to telegram me a link to enter the captcha.&lt;p&gt;chuckmacdev&amp;#x2F;adrfinder - Checks for Disney dining reservations and emails a link to reserve&lt;p&gt;fusengine&amp;#x2F;apaxy - Decent web file browser&lt;p&gt;linuxserver&amp;#x2F;*arr - ya&amp;#x27;ll know why :)&lt;p&gt;linuxserver&amp;#x2F;smokeping - Really useful to troubleshoot network issues&lt;p&gt;plexinc&amp;#x2F;pms-docker - I want to switch to jellyfin but I have so much data in Plex now it&amp;#x27;ll probably be a huge pain&lt;p&gt;jlesage&amp;#x2F;nginx-proxy-manager - I&amp;#x27;m lazy and hate setting up reverse proxies&lt;p&gt;jlesage&amp;#x2F;qdirstat - Pretty useful when dealing with a server that has as much data as mine does&lt;p&gt;adolfintel&amp;#x2F;speedtest - Good for troubleshooting networks that might preferentially give speedtest.net better speeds, also good for internal network testing&lt;p&gt;linuxserver&amp;#x2F;sabnzbd - Obvious&lt;p&gt;haugene&amp;#x2F;transmission-openvpn - I don&amp;#x27;t feel comfortable downloading any torrent unless it goes through a vpn</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>graftak</author><text>They’re media download managers where you can subscribe to your preferred media, often combined with plex or jellyfin (media servers). There’s Radarr (movies), Sonarr (tv shows), and Prowlarr (torrent&amp;#x2F;nzb search indexers). There’s also a ‘music’-arr but it’s name is lost on me.</text></comment>

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<story><title>WTFM - Write The Freaking Manual</title><url>http://www.floopsy.com/post/32453280184/w-t-f-m-write-the-freaking-manual</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>exDM69</author><text>When it comes to open source work, which I mostly do on my own, limited time and don&apos;t get paid for, I have a choice. I can spend time writing code or writing documentation. The former I enjoy very much, the latter I don&apos;t like at all. Guess which I am going to pick.&lt;p&gt;The times when I&apos;ve actually ended up writing some docs, I don&apos;t think anyone has ever read them. And writing the docs is just the beginning, they have to be maintained too. Out of date docs are perhaps worse than no docs at all.&lt;p&gt;I don&apos;t read docs either, because they tend to be out of date. Formal specifications are an exception. But when it comes to open source, I just tend to read the source because it&apos;s never out of date and tells the whole story. What was obvious to writer of the doc isn&apos;t obvious to me and vice versa.&lt;p&gt;The first person who comes to me asking for documentation to my projects volunteers to write them, like it or not.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>nathan_long</author><text>&amp;#62; I can spend time writing code or writing documentation.&lt;p&gt;You are selling yourself short. Your documentation the first thing people see. If it says &quot;incomplete, confusing, and half-hearted&quot;, I&apos;m going to hit the back button in about 15 seconds. I&apos;m not going to spend 15 minutes reading your code to see if the first impression is wrong unless I think there&apos;s no viable alternative project.&lt;p&gt;Conversely, if your documentation is clear, thorough, and gives examples of usage, I&apos;m likely to trust your project and dig deeper.&lt;p&gt;It&apos;s even been argued that writing the docs first helps you develop better: &lt;a href=&quot;http://tom.preston-werner.com/2010/08/23/readme-driven-development.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://tom.preston-werner.com/2010/08/23/readme-driven-devel...&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>

<story><title>WTFM - Write The Freaking Manual</title><url>http://www.floopsy.com/post/32453280184/w-t-f-m-write-the-freaking-manual</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>exDM69</author><text>When it comes to open source work, which I mostly do on my own, limited time and don&apos;t get paid for, I have a choice. I can spend time writing code or writing documentation. The former I enjoy very much, the latter I don&apos;t like at all. Guess which I am going to pick.&lt;p&gt;The times when I&apos;ve actually ended up writing some docs, I don&apos;t think anyone has ever read them. And writing the docs is just the beginning, they have to be maintained too. Out of date docs are perhaps worse than no docs at all.&lt;p&gt;I don&apos;t read docs either, because they tend to be out of date. Formal specifications are an exception. But when it comes to open source, I just tend to read the source because it&apos;s never out of date and tells the whole story. What was obvious to writer of the doc isn&apos;t obvious to me and vice versa.&lt;p&gt;The first person who comes to me asking for documentation to my projects volunteers to write them, like it or not.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>xradionut</author><text>I&apos;ve wasted hundreds of hours dealing with piss-poor or no documentation, reading/debugging code, searching sites and forums just to find the magical combo of steps that get a application to build correctly or an LED to blink.&lt;p&gt;I don&apos;t have unlimited time to figure out your code, API and lack of documents. I would rather deal with OSS or commercial software that respects me.</text></comment>

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<story><title>SIMD-accelerated computer vision on a $2 microcontroller</title><url>https://shraiwi.github.io/read.html?md=blog/simd-fast-esp32s3.md</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>DeathArrow</author><text>&amp;gt;For silicon that&amp;#x27;s cheaper than the average coffee, that&amp;#x27;s pretty cool.&lt;p&gt;Maybe it&amp;#x27;s not the chip that it&amp;#x27;s too cheap. Maybe it&amp;#x27;s the coffee that&amp;#x27;s too expensive.</text></comment>

<story><title>SIMD-accelerated computer vision on a $2 microcontroller</title><url>https://shraiwi.github.io/read.html?md=blog/simd-fast-esp32s3.md</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>evanjrowley</author><text>A comparable board is the ESP32-CAM, which is supported by this really practical computer vision project: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;github.com&amp;#x2F;jomjol&amp;#x2F;AI-on-the-edge-device?tab=readme-ov-file&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;github.com&amp;#x2F;jomjol&amp;#x2F;AI-on-the-edge-device?tab=readme-o...&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>

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<story><title>Use Gröbner bases to solve polynomial equations</title><url>https://jingnanshi.com/blog/groebner_basis.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>Fermat963</author><text>I did my master&amp;#x27;s thesis on the Gaussian Elimination part of Gröbner Bases making multiple optimizations to the Faugère-Lachartre method (working with Faugere himself) and had the first C (C++ish) public implementation at the time. The thesis can be found here &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;hpac.imag.fr&amp;#x2F;gbla&amp;#x2F;data&amp;#x2F;bib&amp;#x2F;Mart12.pdf&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;hpac.imag.fr&amp;#x2F;gbla&amp;#x2F;data&amp;#x2F;bib&amp;#x2F;Mart12.pdf&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;p&gt;Many ideas from the thesis ended up in the GBLA library used for fast Gaussian Elimination over these large matrices: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;dl.acm.org&amp;#x2F;doi&amp;#x2F;10.1145&amp;#x2F;2930889.2930914&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;dl.acm.org&amp;#x2F;doi&amp;#x2F;10.1145&amp;#x2F;2930889.2930914&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;This is a nice presentation from Christian Eder explaining how the algorithm works and the different optimization techniques implemented in GBLA &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www-user.rhrk.uni-kl.de&amp;#x2F;~ederc&amp;#x2F;download&amp;#x2F;gbla-aca-2015.pdf&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www-user.rhrk.uni-kl.de&amp;#x2F;~ederc&amp;#x2F;download&amp;#x2F;gbla-aca-201...&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>

<story><title>Use Gröbner bases to solve polynomial equations</title><url>https://jingnanshi.com/blog/groebner_basis.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>wenc</author><text>I tried using Groebner bases in grad school to solve implicit polynomial equations (part of an optimization problem) but found quickly that it didn’t scale. I ran into trouble with a system of about 300 polynomials and this was with Maple which implemented state of the art algorithms at the time.&lt;p&gt;The computational complexity of Groebner is doubly exponential in the number of variables.</text></comment>

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<story><title>What Happened in the 2010s</title><url>https://avc.com/2019/12/what-happened-in-the-2010s/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>iamaelephant</author><text>I very strongly disagree with #3. Machine learning has not yet proved its value outside of a handful of key areas (image recognition, voice recognition&amp;#x2F;synthesizing, etc). I think it&amp;#x27;s entirely possible we&amp;#x27;ll look back on today as a kind of machine learning mania. I certainly believe there is plenty of room to build sustainable businesses without a machine learning asset (and the associated data collection), and it&amp;#x27;s in no way &amp;quot;table stakes for every tech company, large and small&amp;quot;.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>m_ke</author><text>You&amp;#x27;re wrong. Machine Learning is driving all of the ad placement on major ad platforms, personalization on all top social&amp;#x2F;media apps, search ranking for google, translation, speech recognition, finance, fraud detection.&lt;p&gt;In the next decade it will start taking over computer graphics, medicine, manufacturing, surveillance, hardware &amp;#x2F; software and every other aspect of our lives.&lt;p&gt;EDIT: for people who are downvoting me, here are some examples of how machine learning is and will transform our lives:&lt;p&gt;1. 3D graphics: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.youtube.com&amp;#x2F;watch?v=FlgLxSLsYWQ&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.youtube.com&amp;#x2F;watch?v=FlgLxSLsYWQ&lt;/a&gt; Andrew Price doesn&amp;#x27;t have a technical background but does a decent job summarizing some of the ways deep learning will transform computer graphics. Soon all of the mocap, character design and animation will be driven by deep learning systems.&lt;p&gt;2. Computer Architecture and Traditional Software: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.youtube.com&amp;#x2F;watch?v=TTpKWOuzOxc&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.youtube.com&amp;#x2F;watch?v=TTpKWOuzOxc&lt;/a&gt; There&amp;#x27;s a ton of recent research showing that you can use machine learning to beat human crafted heuristics in hardware, scheduling, compiler design and query planning.</text></comment>

<story><title>What Happened in the 2010s</title><url>https://avc.com/2019/12/what-happened-in-the-2010s/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>iamaelephant</author><text>I very strongly disagree with #3. Machine learning has not yet proved its value outside of a handful of key areas (image recognition, voice recognition&amp;#x2F;synthesizing, etc). I think it&amp;#x27;s entirely possible we&amp;#x27;ll look back on today as a kind of machine learning mania. I certainly believe there is plenty of room to build sustainable businesses without a machine learning asset (and the associated data collection), and it&amp;#x27;s in no way &amp;quot;table stakes for every tech company, large and small&amp;quot;.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>CapmCrackaWaka</author><text>I think machine learning masquerading as AI is definitely over-hyped. The real revolution is open source predictive modeling and statistical techniques becoming commonplace. Creating statistical models is much more useful and applicable to 99% of the businesses that have a need for analytics, but it seems to be overshadowed by the AI hype.</text></comment>

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<story><title>Bevy 0.12</title><url>https://bevyengine.org/news/bevy-0-12/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>_cart</author><text>Bevy&amp;#x27;s creator and project lead here. Feel free to ask me anything!</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>echelon</author><text>We&amp;#x27;re building a fairly big WASM app in Bevy (relative to our company&amp;#x27;s size), and it&amp;#x27;s been a pleasure to work with the engine.&lt;p&gt;Bevy and the community are awesome. We needed a couple of tickets worked on, and it was so easy to find one of the core contributors to sponsor and push our request over the line (morph targets).&lt;p&gt;Thank you so much for everything, Carter! You&amp;#x27;re building something incredibly important that has fantastic momentum behind it.&lt;p&gt;Bevy is wonderfully easy to deploy to the web, and people should be checking it out. The community is great, and it&amp;#x27;s easy to find help.</text></comment>

<story><title>Bevy 0.12</title><url>https://bevyengine.org/news/bevy-0-12/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>_cart</author><text>Bevy&amp;#x27;s creator and project lead here. Feel free to ask me anything!</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Buttons840</author><text>I&amp;#x27;m put off by the limited docs. I&amp;#x27;ve read the Bevy book, only takes a few minutes, and just like that I&amp;#x27;m out of resources to turn to when I get stuck.&lt;p&gt;When will the docs improve? I look at the release notes and ideally every one of those features would have several pages of docs. I understand that&amp;#x27;s a lot of work, and maybe things will have to stabilize before we get full docs?</text></comment>

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<story><title>DeepMind’s New Language Model, Chinchilla</title><url>https://www.marktechpost.com/2022/04/09/check-out-this-deepminds-new-language-model-chinchilla-70b-parameters-which-significantly-outperforms-gopher-280b-and-gpt-3-175b-on-a-large-range-of-downstream-evaluation-tasks/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>ritwikgupta</author><text>Off-topic to Chinchilla, but relevant to the source site: MarkTechPost consistently borderline plagiarizes articles and shares them on their website as &amp;quot;paper summaries&amp;quot;. They copy-paste from the source material and change some of the wording around as to appear original. My work, as well as other work from Berkeley AI Research, has been posted in this manner on their site.&lt;p&gt;This seems highly unethical, and I&amp;#x27;m surprised how they continue to operate.</text></comment>

<story><title>DeepMind’s New Language Model, Chinchilla</title><url>https://www.marktechpost.com/2022/04/09/check-out-this-deepminds-new-language-model-chinchilla-70b-parameters-which-significantly-outperforms-gopher-280b-and-gpt-3-175b-on-a-large-range-of-downstream-evaluation-tasks/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>ianbutler</author><text>This is exciting if only because as we discover more compute optimal models that out perform the behemoths that have been state of the art it opens up the ability for smaller independent groups to train and release their own versions, more fully democratizing AI. Looking forward to a group like Eluther or Hugging Face releasing a version of this.</text></comment>

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<story><title>Neo4j nabs $80M Series E as graph database tech flourishes</title><url>https://techcrunch.com/2018/11/01/neo4j-nabs-80m-series-e-as-graph-database-tech-matures/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>hardwaresofton</author><text>Neo4J has been around so long -- is anyone here using it in production and really happy with it, where it&amp;#x27;s like &lt;i&gt;really&lt;/i&gt; crushing a use-case?&lt;p&gt;I feel like 90% of the applications in existence can go so far with a regular RDBMS that they never try out Neo4j... I know that&amp;#x27;s the case with me. Half the time I think I&amp;#x27;d just try throwing Agensgraph[0] at the problem instead of jumping to the community version of Neo4J.&lt;p&gt;[0]: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;github.com&amp;#x2F;bitnine-oss&amp;#x2F;agensgraph&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;github.com&amp;#x2F;bitnine-oss&amp;#x2F;agensgraph&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ThePhysicist</author><text>In general I think that graphs are a very good fit for many problems in analytics (e.g. fraud detection, logistics) and having a database that treats graphs as first-class citizens is a good thing as well.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;ve used Neo4j in the past and it seemed to be stable and efficient, not sure about how well it scales though.&lt;p&gt;Before, TitanDB (now JanusDB) in conjunction with the Tinkerpop stack was probably my favorite graph DB&amp;#x2F;stack, but not sure how seriously Datastacks (who owns TitanDB now) continues developing it. And JanusDB as a project didn&amp;#x27;t seem very active to me (I could be wrong of course).&lt;p&gt;That said, you can construct and handle graphs using relational databases, graph databases give you advantages in that they have (often) better indexing (i.e. O(1) lookups of vertices &amp;amp; adjacent edges) and come with graph querying languages (e.g. Gremlin), which make it much easier to work with graphs compared to SQL (you can use recursive CTEs to walk graphs on the database side as opposed the client side but complex queries are hard&amp;#x2F;impossible to write like that). I&amp;#x27;ve written a graph DB abstraction layer in the past that also supports SQL backends: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;github.com&amp;#x2F;7scientists&amp;#x2F;vortex&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;github.com&amp;#x2F;7scientists&amp;#x2F;vortex&lt;/a&gt;.</text></comment>

<story><title>Neo4j nabs $80M Series E as graph database tech flourishes</title><url>https://techcrunch.com/2018/11/01/neo4j-nabs-80m-series-e-as-graph-database-tech-matures/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>hardwaresofton</author><text>Neo4J has been around so long -- is anyone here using it in production and really happy with it, where it&amp;#x27;s like &lt;i&gt;really&lt;/i&gt; crushing a use-case?&lt;p&gt;I feel like 90% of the applications in existence can go so far with a regular RDBMS that they never try out Neo4j... I know that&amp;#x27;s the case with me. Half the time I think I&amp;#x27;d just try throwing Agensgraph[0] at the problem instead of jumping to the community version of Neo4J.&lt;p&gt;[0]: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;github.com&amp;#x2F;bitnine-oss&amp;#x2F;agensgraph&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;github.com&amp;#x2F;bitnine-oss&amp;#x2F;agensgraph&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>gibsonf1</author><text>There are two kinds of graph databases, property graph and rdf semantic graph. Neo 4J is the former, which I don&amp;#x27;t think is that useful in primarily only showing some kind of relation between things. The rdf semantic graph approach, however, captures the semantics of the relationship allowing inference and queries not normally possible with rdbms.&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s an easier cultural change in thinking from rdbms to property graph, but also not a huge improvement in terms of what you can do vs an rdbms. Going with a full semantic graph where the relationship is also represented by a node with unlimited relationships, and moving and thinking in hierarchies and inference, is a complete cultural change with an impressive productivity and capability improvement not possible with rdbms. Allegrograph is a good example of a semantic graph which can handle trillions of triples.</text></comment>

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<story><title>When somebody loses weight, where does the fat go?</title><url>http://www.bmj.com/content/349/bmj.g7257</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Zanta</author><text>From the paper &amp;quot;Replacing one hour of rest with exercise that raises the metabolic rate to seven times that of resting by, for example, jogging, removes an additional 39 g of carbon from the body, raising the total by about 20% to 240 g. For comparison, a single 100 g muffin represents about 20% of an average person’s total daily energy requirement. Physical activity as a weight loss strategy is, therefore, easily foiled by relatively small quantities of excess food.&amp;quot;</text></item><item><author>JoeAltmaier</author><text>Exercise makes more sense! Breathing hard == losing weight!</text></item><item><author>mikeash</author><text>For anyone coming straight to the comments looking for an answer to the question: it turns into CO2 (and a bit of water) and you breathe it out.&lt;p&gt;When you realize that you have to breathe out all the weight you lose, I think it gives you a bigger appreciation for how difficult weight loss can be.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>StevePerkins</author><text>I can&amp;#x27;t help but groan at some of the &amp;quot;obvious&amp;quot; health and weight loss platitudes that get smugly thrown around.&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;&lt;i&gt;Calories in, calories out!&lt;/i&gt;&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;&lt;i&gt;You can&amp;#x27;t outrun a bad diet!&lt;/i&gt;&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;&lt;i&gt;Weight is lost in the kitchen!&lt;/i&gt;&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;Sure, things ultimately boil down to intake-vs-expenditure. However, it IS more complicated than that &lt;i&gt;in practice&lt;/i&gt;. As software developers, we complain when management makes decisions based on inadequate or poor metrics. But likewise there so many more benefits to physical exercise that aren&amp;#x27;t captured by a diet and exercise tracking app.&lt;p&gt;During times when I&amp;#x27;ve been 100% sedentary for long periods, I experience &lt;i&gt;overwhelming&lt;/i&gt; cravings for sugar and crappy foods. When I force myself to take up any consistent exercise, even just a 30 min walk in the morning or lunchtime... then the cravings subside and regular meals are sufficient. This is fairly common.&lt;p&gt;Exercise has so many physical and mental health benefits. But even just looking at weight management alone, exercise tends to ramp up your metabolism for hours after each exercise session. Something that doesn&amp;#x27;t get captured by your tracker app or wearable gadget.&lt;p&gt;So often, when I hear somebody smugly minimizing the importance of exercise to health and weight management, it&amp;#x27;s a person who is too-clever-by-half. They&amp;#x27;re constantly dabbling with soylent shakes or paleo&amp;#x2F;keto fad diets... because the truth is they&amp;#x27;re just lazy and don&amp;#x27;t want to get off their ass, and look to rationalize that.&lt;p&gt;EDIT: At least half of these replies are completely missing my point altogether. I&amp;#x27;m not saying that there is a binary choice to be made between &amp;quot;good diet&amp;quot; OR &amp;quot;exercise&amp;quot;, and that you should make the latter choice rather than the former. I&amp;#x27;m saying that &lt;i&gt;treating this as a binary choice in the first place&lt;/i&gt; is ridiculous.&lt;p&gt;Exercise &lt;i&gt;correlates&lt;/i&gt; with proper eating, it&amp;#x27;s not incidental or ancillary. It&amp;#x27;s ineffective to tell someone to &amp;quot;go the gym&amp;quot; without changing their eating habits? Well sure, but telling them to &amp;quot;go keto&amp;quot; without worrying about physical activity will be no more successful a year out. It&amp;#x27;s the pretense that most people can consistently stick with one of these things, and not both together, that is absurd.</text></comment>

<story><title>When somebody loses weight, where does the fat go?</title><url>http://www.bmj.com/content/349/bmj.g7257</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Zanta</author><text>From the paper &amp;quot;Replacing one hour of rest with exercise that raises the metabolic rate to seven times that of resting by, for example, jogging, removes an additional 39 g of carbon from the body, raising the total by about 20% to 240 g. For comparison, a single 100 g muffin represents about 20% of an average person’s total daily energy requirement. Physical activity as a weight loss strategy is, therefore, easily foiled by relatively small quantities of excess food.&amp;quot;</text></item><item><author>JoeAltmaier</author><text>Exercise makes more sense! Breathing hard == losing weight!</text></item><item><author>mikeash</author><text>For anyone coming straight to the comments looking for an answer to the question: it turns into CO2 (and a bit of water) and you breathe it out.&lt;p&gt;When you realize that you have to breathe out all the weight you lose, I think it gives you a bigger appreciation for how difficult weight loss can be.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>misterdata</author><text>The question is whether the body spends any energy outside of that hour after exercising (e.g. by growing muscle, etc.) than it would otherwise. That would make exercise more effective when considering longer periods of time.</text></comment>

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<story><title>What a great technical resume can do for you</title><url>https://www.meetleet.com/blog/what-a-great-technical-resume-can-do-for-you</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ingvul</author><text>&amp;gt; Refactored our front&amp;#x2F;end experience using React.&lt;p&gt;vs&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; Increased user engagement 27% by refactoring our front-end experience in React.&lt;p&gt;Do tech interviewers actually prefer the second description over the first one? To be honest, I find the second one out of context (and a bit robotic&amp;#x2F;pedantic). Reasons:&lt;p&gt;- sure, 27% may look like a decent increase, but what was the metric you guys used? How many users you have? One cannot put all of this info in a resume of course (because it&amp;#x27;s a resume!) so please don&amp;#x27;t just drop a 27% there as if it means a lot&lt;p&gt;- I can imagine that the goal of the team&amp;#x2F;company was to &amp;quot;increase the user engagement&amp;quot;, even perhaps &amp;quot;increase the user engagement by X%&amp;quot; and the product team thought &amp;quot;alright, let&amp;#x27;s refactor our front-end in React; no idea if it will bring an increase of X% or X&amp;#x2F;2%, but let&amp;#x27;s do it&amp;quot;. But it&amp;#x27;s impossible to say that React (or any other tech) will bring you an increase of engagement in %X exactly. You just don&amp;#x27;t know that number, the number comes after; you may have some hypothesis but that&amp;#x27;s all. So, what you are actually telling me is this: &amp;quot;hey, we wanted to increase our user engagement by some percentage and so we refactored our front-end in React. Later on, our analytics tool told us that the user engagement increased by 27%.&amp;quot; Again, you weren&amp;#x27;t aiming for that number, it just happened.&lt;p&gt;- you are not going to get hired for that 27%. Imagine there&amp;#x27;s another candidate that says &amp;quot;Increased user engagement 89% by refactoring our front-end experience in React&amp;quot;. What now? Is him better than you? Again, context is king, but you cannot put that much context in a resume.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>PragmaticPulp</author><text>As a hiring manager, most of the “Increased revenue by 27%” type lines on tech resumes are clearly awkward attempts to implement generic Internet resume advice. When was the last time a company attributed sales growth to some developer making a change? Don’t try to take credit for things that the company, as a whole, accomplished.&lt;p&gt;The two places I like to see specific numbers are when communicating project scale or demonstrating some quantifiable change that was directly attributable to a person’s work. Good examples:&lt;p&gt;“Reduced AWS bill by 40% by profiling server code and implementing strategic optimizations”&lt;p&gt;“Architected cloud backend to support 500,000 daily users”&lt;p&gt;“Reduced average page load time by 57% percent”&lt;p&gt;If there isn’t an obvious, direct relationship between the person’s actions and the business outcome then I simply ignore it. If the person can only cite company-level achievements that don’t directly relate to their work, I assume they’re reaching because they can’t otherwise demonstrate how they personally contributed.</text></comment>

<story><title>What a great technical resume can do for you</title><url>https://www.meetleet.com/blog/what-a-great-technical-resume-can-do-for-you</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ingvul</author><text>&amp;gt; Refactored our front&amp;#x2F;end experience using React.&lt;p&gt;vs&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; Increased user engagement 27% by refactoring our front-end experience in React.&lt;p&gt;Do tech interviewers actually prefer the second description over the first one? To be honest, I find the second one out of context (and a bit robotic&amp;#x2F;pedantic). Reasons:&lt;p&gt;- sure, 27% may look like a decent increase, but what was the metric you guys used? How many users you have? One cannot put all of this info in a resume of course (because it&amp;#x27;s a resume!) so please don&amp;#x27;t just drop a 27% there as if it means a lot&lt;p&gt;- I can imagine that the goal of the team&amp;#x2F;company was to &amp;quot;increase the user engagement&amp;quot;, even perhaps &amp;quot;increase the user engagement by X%&amp;quot; and the product team thought &amp;quot;alright, let&amp;#x27;s refactor our front-end in React; no idea if it will bring an increase of X% or X&amp;#x2F;2%, but let&amp;#x27;s do it&amp;quot;. But it&amp;#x27;s impossible to say that React (or any other tech) will bring you an increase of engagement in %X exactly. You just don&amp;#x27;t know that number, the number comes after; you may have some hypothesis but that&amp;#x27;s all. So, what you are actually telling me is this: &amp;quot;hey, we wanted to increase our user engagement by some percentage and so we refactored our front-end in React. Later on, our analytics tool told us that the user engagement increased by 27%.&amp;quot; Again, you weren&amp;#x27;t aiming for that number, it just happened.&lt;p&gt;- you are not going to get hired for that 27%. Imagine there&amp;#x27;s another candidate that says &amp;quot;Increased user engagement 89% by refactoring our front-end experience in React&amp;quot;. What now? Is him better than you? Again, context is king, but you cannot put that much context in a resume.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>marcinzm</author><text>The exact number is irrelevant, the fact that there is a number is relevant. That means the developer not only understood the business requirements but also measured the impact afterwards. That&amp;#x27;s a very valuable skill in many companies that use metrics to make decisions.&lt;p&gt;In fact it doesn&amp;#x27;t even matter if the number was utter BS and unscientific in measurement. So are probably 80% of metrics in companies that are metrics driven. But the manager running the team still needs a metric to meet their goals and this developer shows that they can deliver that.</text></comment>

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<story><title>Everything you always wanted to know about mathematics (2013) [pdf]</title><url>https://www.math.cmu.edu/~jmackey/151_128/bws_book.pdf</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>no_wizard</author><text>Does anyone know of an entry level book that could take someone through say, high school math to college alegbra &amp;#x2F; calculus?&lt;p&gt;This is my singular biggest hurdle in going back to school to finish my degree and I&amp;#x27;d love to fill the gaps I have around mathematics so I can not only finish my degree; I&amp;#x27;d also like to participate in some more advanced computer science that rely heavily on underlying computation.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jayro</author><text>At Math Academy (&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;mathacademy.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;mathacademy.com&lt;/a&gt;), we created a series of courses, Mathematical Foundations I, II, &amp;amp; III, that will take a student from basic arithmetic through calculus and prepare them for university-level courses like Linear Algebra, Multivariable Calculus, Probability &amp;amp; Statistics, etc. You can jump in at any with an adaptive diagnostic that will custom fit the course to you based on your individual strengths and weaknesses.&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;mathacademy.com&amp;#x2F;courses&amp;#x2F;mathematical-foundations-i&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;mathacademy.com&amp;#x2F;courses&amp;#x2F;mathematical-foundations-i&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;mathacademy.com&amp;#x2F;courses&amp;#x2F;mathematical-foundations-ii&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;mathacademy.com&amp;#x2F;courses&amp;#x2F;mathematical-foundations-ii&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;mathacademy.com&amp;#x2F;courses&amp;#x2F;mathematical-foundations-iii&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;mathacademy.com&amp;#x2F;courses&amp;#x2F;mathematical-foundations-iii&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;We also have courses on Linear Algebra and Mathematics for Machine Learning:&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;mathacademy.com&amp;#x2F;courses&amp;#x2F;linear-algebra&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;mathacademy.com&amp;#x2F;courses&amp;#x2F;linear-algebra&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;mathacademy.com&amp;#x2F;courses&amp;#x2F;mathematics-for-machine-learning&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;mathacademy.com&amp;#x2F;courses&amp;#x2F;mathematics-for-machine-lear...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s not free, but our adaptive, AI-driven algorithms makes it the most efficient way to learn math that you&amp;#x27;re going to find. We&amp;#x27;ve had numerous students master 3-5 years of math in a single year.&lt;p&gt;We&amp;#x27;re still in beta and haven&amp;#x27;t done a proper Show HN yet, but we&amp;#x27;re getting there!&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;m the founder, so I&amp;#x27;d be happy to answer any questions.</text></comment>

<story><title>Everything you always wanted to know about mathematics (2013) [pdf]</title><url>https://www.math.cmu.edu/~jmackey/151_128/bws_book.pdf</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>no_wizard</author><text>Does anyone know of an entry level book that could take someone through say, high school math to college alegbra &amp;#x2F; calculus?&lt;p&gt;This is my singular biggest hurdle in going back to school to finish my degree and I&amp;#x27;d love to fill the gaps I have around mathematics so I can not only finish my degree; I&amp;#x27;d also like to participate in some more advanced computer science that rely heavily on underlying computation.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>steppi</author><text>It&amp;#x27;s not one book, but for everything before calculus it would be difficult to beat the books in Israel Gelfand&amp;#x27;s High School Mathematics Correspondence Curriculum [0]. These are designed for self study and give a fresh perspective on topics they cover.&lt;p&gt;[0] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.goodreads.com&amp;#x2F;series&amp;#x2F;318605-gelfand-correspondence-program-in-mathematics&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.goodreads.com&amp;#x2F;series&amp;#x2F;318605-gelfand-corresponden...&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>

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<story><title>Optimism</title><url>https://github.com/raganwald/presentations/blob/master/optimism.md</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tedmiston</author><text>&amp;gt; When giving feedback, some people say that they are brutally honest&lt;p&gt;As someone who prefers giving and receiving terse feedback... I would suggest that there&amp;#x27;s nothing wrong with brutal honesty &lt;i&gt;for type of people who appreciate receiving it&lt;/i&gt;.&lt;p&gt;If I write code and forget to test some specific cases, I would much rather get a code review of &amp;quot;Missing tests for negative numbers, empty string, null&amp;quot; than a longwinded and &amp;quot;nice&amp;quot; version. I don&amp;#x27;t need to hear compliments on what&amp;#x27;s right... just what can be improved. Some people really value bluntness and see directness as &lt;i&gt;more&lt;/i&gt; friendly because it&amp;#x27;s honest.</text></item><item><author>donw</author><text>The best advice I received on this topic was that feedback should be actionable, specific, and kind.&lt;p&gt;Actionable and specific mean that the person on the receiving end has a set of concrete actions to take to implement.&lt;p&gt;For example, &amp;quot;get better at programming&amp;quot; isn&amp;#x27;t specific, and &amp;quot;get a PhD in Computer Science&amp;quot; probably isn&amp;#x27;t actionable, but &amp;quot;work on improving your ability to write readable code by working through the exercises in this book&amp;quot; is something that can be worked with (especially if you can spend some time to mentor that person!)&lt;p&gt;Kindness matters a lot, though, and it is different from niceness.&lt;p&gt;When giving feedback, some people say that they are brutally honest, but often the emphasis is on the first word, rather than the second. Things like &amp;quot;The module you wrote is crap because your code sucks and is hard to maintain.&amp;quot; doesn&amp;#x27;t help in any way, shape or form.&lt;p&gt;On the other hand, others that focus on being nice often heap on the praise, while excluding or downplaying the criticism. &amp;quot;You worked really hard on that module, and maybe should should spend a more little time refactoring and cleaning things up&amp;quot; is too nice.&lt;p&gt;Kindness means sharing the good and the bad, but without being aggressive or accusatory: &amp;quot;Thanks for the hard work on that module. It does exactly what it needs to, but I&amp;#x27;m really struggling to understand what&amp;#x27;s going on in there, as there are some really big methods and classes. Breaking those apart into smaller separate objects and functions would help a lot.&amp;quot;</text></item><item><author>holman</author><text>I think this might be one of those times where the title might lead to confusion in the comment section and leads people a bit astray.&lt;p&gt;I saw this talk in person at Nordic Ruby, and it was one of the best talks I&amp;#x27;ve seen (and I&amp;#x27;ve seen a bunch). Strangely enough, I don&amp;#x27;t really think back and think much about &amp;quot;optimism&amp;quot; when I think of the talk, though, even though the talk &lt;i&gt;is&lt;/i&gt; about optimists.&lt;p&gt;My takeaway was the type of tooling and thought processes that are advantageous when approaching problems and conflict. In many talks — mine included — people will say something along the lines of &amp;quot;be nice to your teammates and leave good feedback&amp;quot;, for example, but that&amp;#x27;s really vague. Reg&amp;#x27;s talk helped me understand &lt;i&gt;what&lt;/i&gt; that type of feedback might be, how it can be explicitly phrased, and how I can give concrete feedback without being antagonistic. I think it makes for a more effective argument, especially when building product, but also it just makes for friendlier humans.&lt;p&gt;Yeah, this does lead to &amp;quot;optimistic people&amp;quot;, hence the title, but I just thought it was weird to see discussion here about the merits of positive people versus negative people. I think the talk&amp;#x27;s a much bigger dialogue about interacting with humans and, possibly more importantly, yourself.&lt;p&gt;Anyway, I really liked the talk, and as much as this Markdown is great at getting the point across, this is one of the talks I&amp;#x27;d suggest actually watching. \m&amp;#x2F;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>TeMPOraL</author><text>&amp;gt; &lt;i&gt;for type of people who appreciate receiving it&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;This is key. I wonder though, what&amp;#x27;s a good way to signal that to friends and coworkers? I personally declare Crocker&amp;#x27;s rules[0], but I rarely have the opportunity to communicate that to people I&amp;#x27;m talking to.&lt;p&gt;[0] - &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;wiki.lesswrong.com&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Crocker&amp;#x27;s_rules&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;wiki.lesswrong.com&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Crocker&amp;#x27;s_rules&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;By declaring commitment to Crocker&amp;#x27;s rules, one authorizes other debaters to optimize their messages for information, even when this entails that emotional feelings will be disregarded. This means that you have accepted full responsibility for the operation of your own mind, so that if you&amp;#x27;re offended, it&amp;#x27;s your own fault. The underlying assumption is that rudeness is sometimes necessary for effective conveyance of information, if only to signal a lack of patience or tolerance: after all, knowing whether the speaker is becoming angry or despondent is useful rational evidence. Two people using Crocker&amp;#x27;s Rules should be able to communicate all relevant information in the minimum amount of time, without paraphrasing or social formatting.&lt;p&gt;Thus, one who has committed to these rules largely gives up the right to complain about emotional provocation, &amp;quot;flaming&amp;quot;, &amp;quot;trolling&amp;quot;, &amp;quot;abuse&amp;quot; (hopelessly subjective terms) and other alleged violations of etiquette. They give these rights up in the interest of effective debate.&amp;quot;</text></comment>

<story><title>Optimism</title><url>https://github.com/raganwald/presentations/blob/master/optimism.md</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tedmiston</author><text>&amp;gt; When giving feedback, some people say that they are brutally honest&lt;p&gt;As someone who prefers giving and receiving terse feedback... I would suggest that there&amp;#x27;s nothing wrong with brutal honesty &lt;i&gt;for type of people who appreciate receiving it&lt;/i&gt;.&lt;p&gt;If I write code and forget to test some specific cases, I would much rather get a code review of &amp;quot;Missing tests for negative numbers, empty string, null&amp;quot; than a longwinded and &amp;quot;nice&amp;quot; version. I don&amp;#x27;t need to hear compliments on what&amp;#x27;s right... just what can be improved. Some people really value bluntness and see directness as &lt;i&gt;more&lt;/i&gt; friendly because it&amp;#x27;s honest.</text></item><item><author>donw</author><text>The best advice I received on this topic was that feedback should be actionable, specific, and kind.&lt;p&gt;Actionable and specific mean that the person on the receiving end has a set of concrete actions to take to implement.&lt;p&gt;For example, &amp;quot;get better at programming&amp;quot; isn&amp;#x27;t specific, and &amp;quot;get a PhD in Computer Science&amp;quot; probably isn&amp;#x27;t actionable, but &amp;quot;work on improving your ability to write readable code by working through the exercises in this book&amp;quot; is something that can be worked with (especially if you can spend some time to mentor that person!)&lt;p&gt;Kindness matters a lot, though, and it is different from niceness.&lt;p&gt;When giving feedback, some people say that they are brutally honest, but often the emphasis is on the first word, rather than the second. Things like &amp;quot;The module you wrote is crap because your code sucks and is hard to maintain.&amp;quot; doesn&amp;#x27;t help in any way, shape or form.&lt;p&gt;On the other hand, others that focus on being nice often heap on the praise, while excluding or downplaying the criticism. &amp;quot;You worked really hard on that module, and maybe should should spend a more little time refactoring and cleaning things up&amp;quot; is too nice.&lt;p&gt;Kindness means sharing the good and the bad, but without being aggressive or accusatory: &amp;quot;Thanks for the hard work on that module. It does exactly what it needs to, but I&amp;#x27;m really struggling to understand what&amp;#x27;s going on in there, as there are some really big methods and classes. Breaking those apart into smaller separate objects and functions would help a lot.&amp;quot;</text></item><item><author>holman</author><text>I think this might be one of those times where the title might lead to confusion in the comment section and leads people a bit astray.&lt;p&gt;I saw this talk in person at Nordic Ruby, and it was one of the best talks I&amp;#x27;ve seen (and I&amp;#x27;ve seen a bunch). Strangely enough, I don&amp;#x27;t really think back and think much about &amp;quot;optimism&amp;quot; when I think of the talk, though, even though the talk &lt;i&gt;is&lt;/i&gt; about optimists.&lt;p&gt;My takeaway was the type of tooling and thought processes that are advantageous when approaching problems and conflict. In many talks — mine included — people will say something along the lines of &amp;quot;be nice to your teammates and leave good feedback&amp;quot;, for example, but that&amp;#x27;s really vague. Reg&amp;#x27;s talk helped me understand &lt;i&gt;what&lt;/i&gt; that type of feedback might be, how it can be explicitly phrased, and how I can give concrete feedback without being antagonistic. I think it makes for a more effective argument, especially when building product, but also it just makes for friendlier humans.&lt;p&gt;Yeah, this does lead to &amp;quot;optimistic people&amp;quot;, hence the title, but I just thought it was weird to see discussion here about the merits of positive people versus negative people. I think the talk&amp;#x27;s a much bigger dialogue about interacting with humans and, possibly more importantly, yourself.&lt;p&gt;Anyway, I really liked the talk, and as much as this Markdown is great at getting the point across, this is one of the talks I&amp;#x27;d suggest actually watching. \m&amp;#x2F;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>morgante</author><text>I think one of the important takeaways from the talk is that even if people &lt;i&gt;say&lt;/i&gt; they want brutal feedback they probably don&amp;#x27;t. More importantly, feedback can be totally honest without compromising it&amp;#x27;s optimism.&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; I would much rather get a code review of &amp;quot;Missing tests for negative numbers, empty string, null&amp;quot; than a longwinded and &amp;quot;nice&amp;quot; version&lt;p&gt;I agree that niceness isn&amp;#x27;t always necessary. Fortunately, that&amp;#x27;s &lt;i&gt;not&lt;/i&gt; what the talk is about. For me, the examples you gave actually fulfills all the criteria for optimistic criticism:&lt;p&gt;- It&amp;#x27;s impersonal: the focus is on what the code is missing, not your ability as a coder.&lt;p&gt;- It&amp;#x27;s specific: there are hyper-specific criticism.&lt;p&gt;- It&amp;#x27;s temporary: the tests are merely &amp;quot;missing&amp;quot; and that&amp;#x27;s a condition that can be quickly changed.</text></comment>

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<story><title>Restaurant offers a 5% discount if you eat without your phone on the table</title><url>http://money.cnn.com/2012/08/16/technology/restaurant-cell-phone-discount/index.html</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>tokenadult</author><text>I keep my phone in my pocket unless I am answering a call. (I used to keep my phone in a holster unless I was answering a call, but &quot;smart&quot; phones have an inconvenient form factor for that. So I&apos;ve modified my wardrobe to include more shirts that can hold a smart phone in one pocket while all the usual things I&apos;ve put in my primary shirt pocket for years can stay in that pocket.)&lt;p&gt;One of the most enjoyable aspects of dining with other people is the conversation over dinner. I would hate to miss out on that for telephone calls that I can answer later. Voice mail for the win.&lt;p&gt;AFTER EDIT:&lt;p&gt;Other comments here mention using phones in movie theaters. The response of the Austin Drafthouse theater in Austin, Texas is famous. The theater&apos;s video with a recorded comment from an ejected customer became a viral video on YouTube,&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1L3eeC2lJZs&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1L3eeC2lJZs&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;reported on in various news outlets. (The language of the video is rather crude, but it makes the theater&apos;s point that it doesn&apos;t want customers who use their phones in the theater.)</text></comment>

<story><title>Restaurant offers a 5% discount if you eat without your phone on the table</title><url>http://money.cnn.com/2012/08/16/technology/restaurant-cell-phone-discount/index.html</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>nagrom</author><text>I get really annoyed when I eat with someone and they have their phone on the table. There&apos;s something about that behaviour that seems to say &quot;I&apos;ll pay attention to you for now, but I&apos;m really hoping for a distraction.&quot;.&lt;p&gt;I&apos;d much rather go to a restaurant where phone use is discouraged as it seems to have become socially acceptable to fuck around with phones even during face-to-face conversation with someone.&lt;p&gt;Regarding ROI: if I were to run the restaurant, I&apos;d have opaquely added the same charge to all the menu items and remove it for good behaviour. I guess that rewards for not being a dick are more popular than explicit punishments for being a dick?</text></comment>

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<story><title>Who Stole the Four-Hour Workday?</title><url>http://www.vice.com/read/who-stole-the-four-hour-workday-0000406-v21n8</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>spindritf</author><text>People who don&amp;#x27;t work at all. That&amp;#x27;s the choice (maybe more like outcome) the society went with. For what might the first time in history, the rich are working more than the poor[1] and labour participation rates are dropping[2].&lt;p&gt;In many ways this is a superior alternative. Children don&amp;#x27;t work. They used to. People spend a lot more time in school at the beginning of their life when it has the potential to have the biggest impact. It&amp;#x27;s not all bad. Although not quite living up to the dreams from 20th century either.&lt;p&gt;There&amp;#x27;s also something to be said about positional goods. A lot of people are driven by status and they work to be ahead of others. Elizabeth Warren believes that this explains why, despite technological progress, regular middle class family needs two incomes where one was enough a couple decades ago[3], they&amp;#x27;re competing for the same house, or school district. It doesn&amp;#x27;t explain everything but it&amp;#x27;s a factor.&lt;p&gt;[1] &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.economist.com/news/finance-and-economics/21600989-why-rich-now-have-less-leisure-poor-nice-work-if-you-can-get-out&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.economist.com&amp;#x2F;news&amp;#x2F;finance-and-economics&amp;#x2F;21600989...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;[2] &lt;a href=&quot;http://equitablegrowth.org/2014/08/18/equitable-growth-make-confused-cyclical-recovery-monday-focus-august-18-2014/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;equitablegrowth.org&amp;#x2F;2014&amp;#x2F;08&amp;#x2F;18&amp;#x2F;equitable-growth-make-...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;[3] &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.amazon.com/The-Two-Income-Trap-Middle-Class-Parents/dp/0465090907&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.amazon.com&amp;#x2F;The-Two-Income-Trap-Middle-Class-Paren...&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>cousin_it</author><text>I think competition is the main villain here. Zero-sum games, prisoner&amp;#x27;s dilemmas, arms races and tragedies of the commons stole the four-hour workday from us, and many other good things besides. A nice toy example is &amp;quot;20% time&amp;quot; at companies like Google, which tends to evaporate as soon as your performance evaluation compared to your peers becomes tied to your performance at your main project.&lt;p&gt;The only solution to competition is centrally enforced precommitment. First, the government should actually enforce the eight-hour workday. Then it should reduce the workday, for all employers at once, so no one can get ahead by cheating. I don&amp;#x27;t see any other solution.</text></comment>

<story><title>Who Stole the Four-Hour Workday?</title><url>http://www.vice.com/read/who-stole-the-four-hour-workday-0000406-v21n8</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>spindritf</author><text>People who don&amp;#x27;t work at all. That&amp;#x27;s the choice (maybe more like outcome) the society went with. For what might the first time in history, the rich are working more than the poor[1] and labour participation rates are dropping[2].&lt;p&gt;In many ways this is a superior alternative. Children don&amp;#x27;t work. They used to. People spend a lot more time in school at the beginning of their life when it has the potential to have the biggest impact. It&amp;#x27;s not all bad. Although not quite living up to the dreams from 20th century either.&lt;p&gt;There&amp;#x27;s also something to be said about positional goods. A lot of people are driven by status and they work to be ahead of others. Elizabeth Warren believes that this explains why, despite technological progress, regular middle class family needs two incomes where one was enough a couple decades ago[3], they&amp;#x27;re competing for the same house, or school district. It doesn&amp;#x27;t explain everything but it&amp;#x27;s a factor.&lt;p&gt;[1] &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.economist.com/news/finance-and-economics/21600989-why-rich-now-have-less-leisure-poor-nice-work-if-you-can-get-out&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.economist.com&amp;#x2F;news&amp;#x2F;finance-and-economics&amp;#x2F;21600989...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;[2] &lt;a href=&quot;http://equitablegrowth.org/2014/08/18/equitable-growth-make-confused-cyclical-recovery-monday-focus-august-18-2014/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;equitablegrowth.org&amp;#x2F;2014&amp;#x2F;08&amp;#x2F;18&amp;#x2F;equitable-growth-make-...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;[3] &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.amazon.com/The-Two-Income-Trap-Middle-Class-Parents/dp/0465090907&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.amazon.com&amp;#x2F;The-Two-Income-Trap-Middle-Class-Paren...&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>sp332</author><text>It&amp;#x27;s not that the current situation is really bad, but things seem to have stopped improving. Productivity keeps going up but wages don&amp;#x27;t.</text></comment>

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<story><title>You may not need Cloudflare Tunnel. Linux is fine</title><url>https://kiwiziti.com/~matt/wireguard/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>fgonzag</author><text>Explain how you got a 64 core 192 GB RAM 24 TB server or workstation for 2k please</text></item><item><author>perrygeo</author><text>&amp;gt; That said when I want to run a public server I just rent a VPS and run it on that&lt;p&gt;I have a setup similar to the OP and there&amp;#x27;s a really good reason for it: cost. For $2k in hardware (one time) and a VPS + electricity at $20&amp;#x2F;mo, I can run a 64 core, 192Gb, 24TB server. Let&amp;#x27;s call that $4400 over the course of 10 years. You would burn through that budget in roughly 1 month to get the same specs on AWS.&lt;p&gt;Obviously I&amp;#x27;m neglecting the impact and cost of network, if it&amp;#x27;s a hobby you can just reuse your existing connection but you can always buy a dedicated line (and adjust the cost calculation accordingly)&lt;p&gt;In terms of security, you can mitigate the surface area by running a reverse proxy on the VPS. I&amp;#x27;ve got nginx on the front line which does TLS then proxy_passes to my basement server at its wireguard IP address. So it&amp;#x27;s strictly limited to http, no direct database or ssh access.&lt;p&gt;I don&amp;#x27;t know if I&amp;#x27;d ever run a &amp;quot;real&amp;quot; website this way but it&amp;#x27;s great for hobbies and side projects.</text></item><item><author>omnicognate</author><text>What&amp;#x27;s actually being done here is buried in a mass of analogies. AFAICT it&amp;#x27;s:&lt;p&gt;* Exposing a server running on the home network (behind NAT on a dynamic IP) to the internet.&lt;p&gt;* Doing so by renting a cheap VPS and using wireguard to forward traffic to the server at home.&lt;p&gt;I love wireguard and use it continuously. My phone has always on wireguard to my home network so all my phone traffic goes through my home router&amp;#x2F;dns, I can access the various private servers I have at home, get dns based ad blocking etc. I use an ISP that give me a static IP so it was easy to set up. It works like a dream.&lt;p&gt;That said when I want to run a public server I just rent a VPS and run it on that. I don&amp;#x27;t want anything I don&amp;#x27;t own initiating connections to anything on my home network in any way.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>washadjeffmad</author><text>LGA 2011, DDR3, Easystore shucks or data center decomms (8x3TB was $200).&lt;p&gt;I got 48 vCPUs and 96GB DDR3 for &amp;lt;$300 in 2016 off eBay. It isn&amp;#x27;t the most powerful, but it was cheap.</text></comment>

<story><title>You may not need Cloudflare Tunnel. Linux is fine</title><url>https://kiwiziti.com/~matt/wireguard/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>fgonzag</author><text>Explain how you got a 64 core 192 GB RAM 24 TB server or workstation for 2k please</text></item><item><author>perrygeo</author><text>&amp;gt; That said when I want to run a public server I just rent a VPS and run it on that&lt;p&gt;I have a setup similar to the OP and there&amp;#x27;s a really good reason for it: cost. For $2k in hardware (one time) and a VPS + electricity at $20&amp;#x2F;mo, I can run a 64 core, 192Gb, 24TB server. Let&amp;#x27;s call that $4400 over the course of 10 years. You would burn through that budget in roughly 1 month to get the same specs on AWS.&lt;p&gt;Obviously I&amp;#x27;m neglecting the impact and cost of network, if it&amp;#x27;s a hobby you can just reuse your existing connection but you can always buy a dedicated line (and adjust the cost calculation accordingly)&lt;p&gt;In terms of security, you can mitigate the surface area by running a reverse proxy on the VPS. I&amp;#x27;ve got nginx on the front line which does TLS then proxy_passes to my basement server at its wireguard IP address. So it&amp;#x27;s strictly limited to http, no direct database or ssh access.&lt;p&gt;I don&amp;#x27;t know if I&amp;#x27;d ever run a &amp;quot;real&amp;quot; website this way but it&amp;#x27;s great for hobbies and side projects.</text></item><item><author>omnicognate</author><text>What&amp;#x27;s actually being done here is buried in a mass of analogies. AFAICT it&amp;#x27;s:&lt;p&gt;* Exposing a server running on the home network (behind NAT on a dynamic IP) to the internet.&lt;p&gt;* Doing so by renting a cheap VPS and using wireguard to forward traffic to the server at home.&lt;p&gt;I love wireguard and use it continuously. My phone has always on wireguard to my home network so all my phone traffic goes through my home router&amp;#x2F;dns, I can access the various private servers I have at home, get dns based ad blocking etc. I use an ISP that give me a static IP so it was easy to set up. It works like a dream.&lt;p&gt;That said when I want to run a public server I just rent a VPS and run it on that. I don&amp;#x27;t want anything I don&amp;#x27;t own initiating connections to anything on my home network in any way.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>r3trohack3r</author><text>Not OP, but I have an R620 running in my garage I use for self hosting. It has 12 cores (Intel Xeon E5-2665), 96GB of RAM, 10x2.5&amp;quot; drive bays (came empty). The SSDs I use I shuck out of old external USB drives.&lt;p&gt;Together with a full standing rack on wheels, I bought them for $600 cash (plus U-Haul rental to get it home).&lt;p&gt;My trick is craigslist in a city with datacenters (PHX). There are resellers here who buy used hardware from local datacenters and resell them to smaller businesses. I&amp;#x27;ve had it running 24x7 for almost 3 years now and it is still going strong.&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.reddit.com&amp;#x2F;r&amp;#x2F;homelab&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.reddit.com&amp;#x2F;r&amp;#x2F;homelab&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt; has some good references for acquiring hardware for a home lab setup.</text></comment>

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<story><title>When a Chinese PhD Student Meets a German Supervisor [pdf]</title><url>https://kops.uni-konstanz.de/bitstream/handle/123456789/35697/Zhang_0-349300.pdf</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>denzil_correa</author><text>One of my most important suggestions to Asian (Indian and Chinese in particular) students is to expand your horizons both professionally and personally. You are going to a new country - don&amp;#x27;t ONLY mingle around with your kind. There is a far broader experience to gain that will only help you professionally and personally in the future. There are many ways you can do it&lt;p&gt;* Share an apartment with someone from a different country&lt;p&gt;* Make acquaintances and talk to people &lt;i&gt;outside work&lt;/i&gt; with diverse professions - don&amp;#x27;t stick to scientists ONLY&lt;p&gt;* Try to understand difference between cultures&lt;p&gt;Especially once you move to a new country, you have a great opportunity to understand difference between cultures. Don&amp;#x27;t miss it!</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>paradite</author><text>While I agree with your advice, there is one important point that you missed.&lt;p&gt;The fact that Chinese and Indian students tend to form cliques or enclaves, is a perfectly normal and natural behavior, because of the sheer large number of students in the same community.&lt;p&gt;Do not mistake this as &amp;quot;Chinese and Indians are not good at mingling with the locals because of their mindset and culture.&amp;quot; It is mostly just because their social circle is large enough to sustain itself in a typical overseas community. In fact, it requires much more effort for them to get out of the comfort zone than students from countries that do not have so many students studying overseas. Another easy way to see it is that, they literally have a &amp;quot;larger comfort zone&amp;quot; to jump out of.&lt;p&gt;To put it into perspective, consider a US college where there is only a few Chinese or Indian students, chances are they will naturally interact more with locals.&lt;p&gt;Then consider a group of exchange students in an Asia university, chances are they are going to be mingling around within themselves all day with minimal interactions with locals.&lt;p&gt;So my point is, do not judge them negatively because of this, and do put in some extra effort in reaching out to them if you are kind enough and want to change the status quo.</text></comment>

<story><title>When a Chinese PhD Student Meets a German Supervisor [pdf]</title><url>https://kops.uni-konstanz.de/bitstream/handle/123456789/35697/Zhang_0-349300.pdf</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>denzil_correa</author><text>One of my most important suggestions to Asian (Indian and Chinese in particular) students is to expand your horizons both professionally and personally. You are going to a new country - don&amp;#x27;t ONLY mingle around with your kind. There is a far broader experience to gain that will only help you professionally and personally in the future. There are many ways you can do it&lt;p&gt;* Share an apartment with someone from a different country&lt;p&gt;* Make acquaintances and talk to people &lt;i&gt;outside work&lt;/i&gt; with diverse professions - don&amp;#x27;t stick to scientists ONLY&lt;p&gt;* Try to understand difference between cultures&lt;p&gt;Especially once you move to a new country, you have a great opportunity to understand difference between cultures. Don&amp;#x27;t miss it!</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dorfsmay</author><text>Not just for people from Asia, this applies to anybody going to a different country.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;d add: stop reading and listening to news in your native language, stop switching devices to your native language, force the immersion experience try to live, eat, read like a local.&lt;p&gt;Not being comfortable is part of learning.</text></comment>

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<story><title>$35 Atomic Pi Cherry Trail Linux SBC</title><url>https://www.cnx-software.com/2019/04/26/buy-atomic-pi-cherry-trail-sbc/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>SmellyGeekBoy</author><text>I&amp;#x27;ve never been keen on SBCs using &amp;quot;Pi&amp;quot; in the name to ride on the Raspberry Pi&amp;#x27;s coattails. I&amp;#x27;m surprised the Raspberry Pi foundation aren&amp;#x27;t more protective of it, if I&amp;#x27;m honest.&lt;p&gt;At least in the case of the Banana Pi etc the board is the same form factor and fits into existing RPi cases, and even runs on the same architecture. This thing has literally nothing in common with the RPi apart from being another SBC.</text></comment>

<story><title>$35 Atomic Pi Cherry Trail Linux SBC</title><url>https://www.cnx-software.com/2019/04/26/buy-atomic-pi-cherry-trail-sbc/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>steve19</author><text>The price to performance is crazy. If this had an extra ethernet port it would be the go-to router.&lt;p&gt;What is really lacks is a easy power supply option. No barrel jack and it needs up to 20w so more than regular usb can supply. The breakout board, which I assume as a barrel jack, is not for sale on amazon yet.&lt;p&gt;I don&amp;#x27;t think antennas are included, and I don&amp;#x27;t know if they are absolutely required.&lt;p&gt;Edit: I don&amp;#x27;t see any sata or pci interfaces which is disappointing. Also the power breakout board has screw terminals not a barrel jack.</text></comment>

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<story><title>Peter Thiel&apos;s Founders Fund pulled cash from SVB before collapse: Report</title><url>https://www.businessinsider.com/peter-thiel-founders-fund-pulled-cash-svb-before-collapse-report-2023-3</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>paulgb</author><text>I’m worried about setting a precedent that the right thing to do is head to the exits the moment rumors start to circulate. It’s hard to argue now that that wasn’t the right move for any individual depositor in retrospect.&lt;p&gt;I can easily imagine this being weaponized by short sellers and foreign actors.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>itsoktocry</author><text>&amp;gt;&lt;i&gt;I can easily imagine this being weaponized by short sellers and foreign actors.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;Hate to break it to you, bank runs have been a thing for hundreds of years. This isn&amp;#x27;t new. You put &lt;i&gt;your own&lt;/i&gt; money at risk by participating.&lt;p&gt;One of Elon&amp;#x27;s biggest achievements is normalizing demonizing &amp;quot;the shorts&amp;quot;. In this case the Bank took took much risk and was insolvent; the shorts would be right.</text></comment>

<story><title>Peter Thiel&apos;s Founders Fund pulled cash from SVB before collapse: Report</title><url>https://www.businessinsider.com/peter-thiel-founders-fund-pulled-cash-svb-before-collapse-report-2023-3</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>paulgb</author><text>I’m worried about setting a precedent that the right thing to do is head to the exits the moment rumors start to circulate. It’s hard to argue now that that wasn’t the right move for any individual depositor in retrospect.&lt;p&gt;I can easily imagine this being weaponized by short sellers and foreign actors.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>JumpCrisscross</author><text>&amp;gt; &lt;i&gt;worried about setting a precedent that the right thing to do is head to the exits the moment rumors start to circulate&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;I’m surprised this is news so recently after a financial crisis. When the CEO of the bank starts pleading for deposits to stay, you wire out.</text></comment>

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<story><title>Ask HN: What simple tools or products are you most proud of making?</title><text>I&amp;#x27;m thinking of tiny projects along the lines of single-function tools like domainr. But also game-changing ebooks, newsletters, courses.</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>mk4p</author><text>&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;izuded.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;izuded.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;(i.e., &amp;quot;iz u ded?&amp;quot;)&lt;p&gt;I made this because I adopted a puppy and realized that, if I got hit by a bus on a Friday, he could be stuck in his crate for days before anyone realized. Morbid, but useful.&lt;p&gt;It texts you every X days and asks, &amp;quot;u ded?&amp;quot; -- if you don&amp;#x27;t click &amp;quot;naw&amp;quot; before X days pass, it&amp;#x27;ll notify your contacts.&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s a portfolio project to show what I&amp;#x27;ve learned in the realm of &amp;quot;serverless&amp;quot; architecture. Details about its construction here: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;medium.com&amp;#x2F;@marclar&amp;#x2F;iz-u-ded-713594fd80e9&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;medium.com&amp;#x2F;@marclar&amp;#x2F;iz-u-ded-713594fd80e9&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>blauditore</author><text>Google has a similar feature to give trusted people access to your data if you&amp;#x27;ve been inactive for a given amount of time (so probably dead): &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.google.com&amp;#x2F;settings&amp;#x2F;account&amp;#x2F;inactive&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.google.com&amp;#x2F;settings&amp;#x2F;account&amp;#x2F;inactive&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>

<story><title>Ask HN: What simple tools or products are you most proud of making?</title><text>I&amp;#x27;m thinking of tiny projects along the lines of single-function tools like domainr. But also game-changing ebooks, newsletters, courses.</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>mk4p</author><text>&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;izuded.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;izuded.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;(i.e., &amp;quot;iz u ded?&amp;quot;)&lt;p&gt;I made this because I adopted a puppy and realized that, if I got hit by a bus on a Friday, he could be stuck in his crate for days before anyone realized. Morbid, but useful.&lt;p&gt;It texts you every X days and asks, &amp;quot;u ded?&amp;quot; -- if you don&amp;#x27;t click &amp;quot;naw&amp;quot; before X days pass, it&amp;#x27;ll notify your contacts.&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s a portfolio project to show what I&amp;#x27;ve learned in the realm of &amp;quot;serverless&amp;quot; architecture. Details about its construction here: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;medium.com&amp;#x2F;@marclar&amp;#x2F;iz-u-ded-713594fd80e9&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;medium.com&amp;#x2F;@marclar&amp;#x2F;iz-u-ded-713594fd80e9&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>wubbfindel</author><text>&amp;quot;im ded :( plz walk doggie&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;Man, that&amp;#x27;s not how I would want to find out that a friend or family member has passed away.&lt;p&gt;:-|</text></comment>

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<story><title>Coffee naps are better than coffee or naps alone</title><url>http://www.vox.com/2014/8/28/6074177/coffee-naps-caffeine-science</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jisaacks</author><text>&amp;gt; I can fall a sleep in 1-2 minutes, and wake up without alarm after 15-20 minutes&lt;p&gt;Any advice on how you were able to achieve this ability? I always try to take a quick nap but can never fall asleep fas t enough for it to be effective.</text></item><item><author>300</author><text>I found this by experience few years ago. It works. At first, I started with naps, and drinking coffee after. Accidentally I had few times coffee before nap, and noticed the difference.&lt;p&gt;But I don&amp;#x27;t recommend this kind of nap all the time - because after a while it&amp;#x27;s not that effective.&lt;p&gt;So, after years of napping (I&amp;#x27;m an expert - I became so good at napping, that I can fall a sleep in 1-2 minutes, and wake up without alarm after 15-20 minutes), my advice would be: take a nap after lunch, between 1 and 3pm, without coffee before nap. Only in special situations, when you are under high pressure and lots of work, take &amp;quot;coffee nap&amp;quot; as they call it in the article.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>crb3</author><text>Two techniques from my experience:&lt;p&gt;- &amp;#x27;walk back&amp;#x27; in your mind to center yourself away from forebrain activity and visual activity (this is a visualization technique)&lt;p&gt;- cover your back with something insulated and&amp;#x2F;or warm. The less your back is staying tensed against chill air, the more physically relaxed you can be. I have a Thinsulate-filled sleeping bag that I use like a throw for this as it reflects body heat better than a comforter. Sleeping on a sofa, up against the back cushions, and noticing how it was good for naps, was what alerted me to this one.</text></comment>

<story><title>Coffee naps are better than coffee or naps alone</title><url>http://www.vox.com/2014/8/28/6074177/coffee-naps-caffeine-science</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jisaacks</author><text>&amp;gt; I can fall a sleep in 1-2 minutes, and wake up without alarm after 15-20 minutes&lt;p&gt;Any advice on how you were able to achieve this ability? I always try to take a quick nap but can never fall asleep fas t enough for it to be effective.</text></item><item><author>300</author><text>I found this by experience few years ago. It works. At first, I started with naps, and drinking coffee after. Accidentally I had few times coffee before nap, and noticed the difference.&lt;p&gt;But I don&amp;#x27;t recommend this kind of nap all the time - because after a while it&amp;#x27;s not that effective.&lt;p&gt;So, after years of napping (I&amp;#x27;m an expert - I became so good at napping, that I can fall a sleep in 1-2 minutes, and wake up without alarm after 15-20 minutes), my advice would be: take a nap after lunch, between 1 and 3pm, without coffee before nap. Only in special situations, when you are under high pressure and lots of work, take &amp;quot;coffee nap&amp;quot; as they call it in the article.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>phpnode</author><text>it takes practise. Likely you try and take a nap a few times, it takes too long and so the next day you don&amp;#x27;t bother. But if you can get through that it gets easier over time. Your body learns that it&amp;#x27;s &amp;quot;time to go to sleep&amp;quot;.&lt;p&gt;The other strategy is physical and mental exhaustion, for this I recommend starting a business and&amp;#x2F;or becoming a parent.</text></comment>

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<story><title>Trump &apos;poised to quit Paris climate deal&apos;</title><url>http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-40108659</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>chollida1</author><text>&amp;gt; The decision will put the United States in league with Syria and Nicaragua as the world’s only non-participants in the Paris Climate Agreement.&lt;p&gt;So I guess its up to private industry in the US to tackle climate change.&lt;p&gt;And just before people start complaining about Trump..&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; A letter from 22 Republican senators urging Mr Trump to withdraw played a major role in the decision, Axios said.&lt;p&gt;This is an American political issue not a Trump issue.....&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; Canada, the European Union, and China have said they will honor their commitments to the pact even if the United States withdraws. A source told Reuters that India had also indicated it would stick by the deal.&lt;p&gt;This is much happier news</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>lostcolony</author><text>So not even half of the Republican Senators, let alone all the Democratic ones? Hardly an &amp;#x27;American&amp;#x27; issue.</text></comment>

<story><title>Trump &apos;poised to quit Paris climate deal&apos;</title><url>http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-40108659</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>chollida1</author><text>&amp;gt; The decision will put the United States in league with Syria and Nicaragua as the world’s only non-participants in the Paris Climate Agreement.&lt;p&gt;So I guess its up to private industry in the US to tackle climate change.&lt;p&gt;And just before people start complaining about Trump..&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; A letter from 22 Republican senators urging Mr Trump to withdraw played a major role in the decision, Axios said.&lt;p&gt;This is an American political issue not a Trump issue.....&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; Canada, the European Union, and China have said they will honor their commitments to the pact even if the United States withdraws. A source told Reuters that India had also indicated it would stick by the deal.&lt;p&gt;This is much happier news</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>cooper12</author><text>&amp;gt; So I guess its up to private industry in the US to tackle climate change.&lt;p&gt;While I&amp;#x27;m guessing you&amp;#x27;re referring to those like the solar industry, it doesn&amp;#x27;t matter if the rest of the manufacturers don&amp;#x27;t follow along. Fat chance that under capitalism all these industries will say &amp;quot;maybe we should curtail our production rate and consumption of resources for the sake of the environment, even if we make less profit and aren&amp;#x27;t compelled to by the law&amp;quot;. [0] The free market demands that Moloch must continue being fed.&lt;p&gt;[0]: &lt;a href=&quot;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;i.imgur.com&amp;#x2F;80Az8Xx.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;i.imgur.com&amp;#x2F;80Az8Xx.jpg&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>

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<story><title>The Programmer&apos;s Price: Want to hire a coding superstar? Call the agent</title><url>http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2014/11/24/programmers-price</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mallyvai</author><text>I&amp;#x27;m the lead engineer and founder of &lt;a href=&quot;http://OfferLetter.io&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;OfferLetter.io&lt;/a&gt; - We guide engineers (and designers and PMs) by helping them navigate the &amp;quot;last-mile&amp;quot; - that is, the offer selection&amp;#x2F;negotiation process - in exchange for a fee from the candidates. (We got brief shoutout in the article along with Dave and our friends at HackMatch)&lt;p&gt;I want to specifically address 1) Sam Altman and 2) Chris Fry&amp;#x27;s respective points about the problems with regards to models that align with the candidate more directly (like ours):&lt;p&gt;1) Much respect for Sam, but he&amp;#x27;s dead wrong with respect to the &amp;#x27;negative selection&amp;#x27; problem - yes, good people have no problem finding work, but the key problem is that the &lt;i&gt;opportunity cost&lt;/i&gt; remains phenomenally high for suboptimal decision making. We have actually worked with outstanding engineers who are &lt;i&gt;at YC portfolio companies&lt;/i&gt;, simply because they wouldn&amp;#x27;t have known how to get what they&amp;#x27;re worth otherwise and push for more. And Sam is missing the point entirely with regards to worth - people in the industry are not getting paid based on their merit - not at all. The gender wage gap is perhaps the most stark example of this, but we see it, starkly, along many other demographic slices as well.&lt;p&gt;2) With respect to Chris Fry&amp;#x27;s comments - I was actually &lt;i&gt;in Twitter&amp;#x27;s eng org&lt;/i&gt; when Chris raised the internal engineering referral bonus from 2.5k to 10k because the company wasn&amp;#x27;t getting the volume of quality people it wanted. Chris is a really great guy, but I find his point about &amp;quot;[at] Twitter, you get the best résumés on your desk already [via recruiting department, referrals, etc]&amp;quot; somewhat misleading - there&amp;#x27;s no way he would have raised the referral bonus as sharply as he did if he really felt that. In fact, there wouldn&amp;#x27;t have to be an referral bonus structure at all. Twitter is wonderful, and I loved my time there, but even there we weren&amp;#x27;t getting all the high-quality people we wanted.&lt;p&gt;[#plug: check out &lt;a href=&quot;http://OfferLetter.io&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;OfferLetter.io&lt;/a&gt; - we all deserve to get what we&amp;#x27;re worth]</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>anonymous30x</author><text>I&amp;#x27;m one of the developers Mr. Altman is talking about and have recently rejected an offer from 10x. I have to agree with Mr. Altman&amp;#x27;s point of view: I&amp;#x27;m making 1.5 - 2.0 times the average developer&amp;#x27;s salary already. Speaking with 10x, they told me that their average project was just 1 - 2 months long and that I should treat their service as a supplement to my income rather than relying on them to keep me booked.&lt;p&gt;The problem is they charge 15% of ALL of my income for that privilege and don&amp;#x27;t make any guarantees. Why should I pay them over $2k a month for them to &lt;i&gt;possibly&lt;/i&gt; make me new sales when I&amp;#x27;m already capable of keeping myself booked the majority of the time?&lt;p&gt;The whole thing reeked of predation to me. If they&amp;#x27;re really able to provide more value than they take from me, then they should only be charging me a commission on the sales they bring in.</text></comment>

<story><title>The Programmer&apos;s Price: Want to hire a coding superstar? Call the agent</title><url>http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2014/11/24/programmers-price</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mallyvai</author><text>I&amp;#x27;m the lead engineer and founder of &lt;a href=&quot;http://OfferLetter.io&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;OfferLetter.io&lt;/a&gt; - We guide engineers (and designers and PMs) by helping them navigate the &amp;quot;last-mile&amp;quot; - that is, the offer selection&amp;#x2F;negotiation process - in exchange for a fee from the candidates. (We got brief shoutout in the article along with Dave and our friends at HackMatch)&lt;p&gt;I want to specifically address 1) Sam Altman and 2) Chris Fry&amp;#x27;s respective points about the problems with regards to models that align with the candidate more directly (like ours):&lt;p&gt;1) Much respect for Sam, but he&amp;#x27;s dead wrong with respect to the &amp;#x27;negative selection&amp;#x27; problem - yes, good people have no problem finding work, but the key problem is that the &lt;i&gt;opportunity cost&lt;/i&gt; remains phenomenally high for suboptimal decision making. We have actually worked with outstanding engineers who are &lt;i&gt;at YC portfolio companies&lt;/i&gt;, simply because they wouldn&amp;#x27;t have known how to get what they&amp;#x27;re worth otherwise and push for more. And Sam is missing the point entirely with regards to worth - people in the industry are not getting paid based on their merit - not at all. The gender wage gap is perhaps the most stark example of this, but we see it, starkly, along many other demographic slices as well.&lt;p&gt;2) With respect to Chris Fry&amp;#x27;s comments - I was actually &lt;i&gt;in Twitter&amp;#x27;s eng org&lt;/i&gt; when Chris raised the internal engineering referral bonus from 2.5k to 10k because the company wasn&amp;#x27;t getting the volume of quality people it wanted. Chris is a really great guy, but I find his point about &amp;quot;[at] Twitter, you get the best résumés on your desk already [via recruiting department, referrals, etc]&amp;quot; somewhat misleading - there&amp;#x27;s no way he would have raised the referral bonus as sharply as he did if he really felt that. In fact, there wouldn&amp;#x27;t have to be an referral bonus structure at all. Twitter is wonderful, and I loved my time there, but even there we weren&amp;#x27;t getting all the high-quality people we wanted.&lt;p&gt;[#plug: check out &lt;a href=&quot;http://OfferLetter.io&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;OfferLetter.io&lt;/a&gt; - we all deserve to get what we&amp;#x27;re worth]</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>1337biz</author><text>From my experience in the entertainment industry I always wish I could hire a manager to represent myself in negotiations with employers&amp;#x2F;bosses&amp;#x2F;etc - even if this would mean having to pay a 15-20% management fee on my salary. But I just can&amp;#x27;t convince my boss to negotiate with my agent...&lt;p&gt;You can train and optimize your negotiation skills all you want, but in my opinion it is extremely valuable to separate the &amp;quot;talent&amp;quot; from the &amp;quot;money&amp;quot;. Top performers, no matter in what industry, are usually extremely passionated about their craft and undervalue the monetary value they can bring to the table.&lt;p&gt;Having a third party represent them puts a &amp;quot;neutral&amp;quot; monetary evaluation on them. Good management allows a much more strategic long-term development that focuses on value building and not just opportunity hopping.</text></comment>

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<story><title>Siemens acquires Supplyframe, owners of Hackaday and Tindie</title><url>https://blog.adafruit.com/2021/05/17/siemens-acquires-supplyframe-hackaday-tindie-too/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ChuckMcM</author><text>This is great news for Supplyframe.&lt;p&gt;But there is a darker undercurrent here that really needs some introspection. The &amp;quot;makers market&amp;quot; of today doesn&amp;#x27;t work.&lt;p&gt;Let&amp;#x27;s compare the market between say 1975 and 1985 with the market between 2010 and 2020. Money spent on the early market supported no less than 6 monthly printed magazines, several chains of electronics component stores (Radio Shack&amp;#x2F;Tandy&amp;#x2F;Dick Smiths&amp;#x2F;Marples(sp?)), a host of retail outlets, and several equipment manufacturers selling into the market.&lt;p&gt;In the &amp;quot;modern&amp;quot; era, there are no profitable magazines or web sites or blogs or ANYTHING with respect to this hobby, there are NO brick and mortar retail components stores, and no equipment maker sells into this market.&lt;p&gt;So why is this? I suspect that a large chunk of that is money. In particular, the &amp;quot;cost&amp;quot; of things has gone so far down that the money selling those things is a mere pittance of what it was before. But salaries of people to run these businesses, offices, etc hasn&amp;#x27;t changed. Nor has postage or warehouse space etc. But the interesting follow on effect is that it makes no sense to pay $8000 for an advertisement (the full page price of an ad in Modern Electronics in 1980) when you might generate an additional $4K in revenue. Similarly for blogs or podcasts where 70 to 90% of the ad revenue goes to the ad network (Google, Bing, Etc.)&lt;p&gt;Open source is great, but without money people have to work other jobs and so their ability to contribute quality time to their hobbies, much less full time to them, is that much harder to do.&lt;p&gt;I used to write free lance articles for Byte, Dr. Dobbs, and others and they would pay me $600 - $800 per article. A recent article suggests that the editors for Hackaday get paid but the places they link? They just get &amp;quot;exposure.&amp;quot; (cue the Oatmeal comic on spending &amp;quot;exposure&amp;quot;).&lt;p&gt;There are some standouts, like Adafruit, but even there the margins are tight and the operations are small. They are certainly not a &amp;quot;Radio Shack&amp;quot; level of enterprise.&lt;p&gt;I don&amp;#x27;t know what the &amp;quot;fix&amp;quot; is, but there is some re-imagining, re-inventing that needs to go on here to pay these people who put in their time to make the &amp;quot;maker movement&amp;quot; work. Or it will continue to struggle.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>spoonjim</author><text>I disagree with your take on the &amp;quot;makers&amp;quot; market. The maker world is far more interesting today than in 1985.&lt;p&gt;Yes, there are no &amp;quot;brick and mortar&amp;quot; stores because in 1985, brick and mortar was the only type of store that existed. Nowadays, Internet shopping is so developed that Adafruit, Sparkfun, Digi-Key, etc. don&amp;#x27;t need brick and mortar stores. The experience of shopping for parts online is much better than at a Radioshack -- it&amp;#x27;s not like you need to physically inspect a 555 timer to gain any information about it before you buy it, like you would with a winter jacket. The only thing lost is the ability to get a part &lt;i&gt;today&lt;/i&gt; which sometimes sucks but that&amp;#x27;s life. We don&amp;#x27;t need 6 magazines anymore because people put their code on Github and their projects on YouTube, and for &lt;i&gt;free&lt;/i&gt;. Profits in the industry are probably lower but that&amp;#x27;s because there&amp;#x27;s more competition from other vendors and from people just sharing this stuff with no profit motive, which maybe sucks for the industry but is fantastic for the hobbyists of limited means.&lt;p&gt;Today, hobbyist makers are building stuff that actually does something useful, that has no commercial substitute. With Github, YouTube, forums, people are inspiring each other to make more interesting things than in 1985. Back in 1985 people were usually building stuff that could be bought. Today people are building stuff that can&amp;#x27;t be bought, and if there&amp;#x27;s enough of a market for it they productize it with Kickstarter or Tindie. People are sharing code and board designs and projects, and whether at the high end like Mark Rober or the low end like some guy&amp;#x27;s homebrewing controller the maker world is really bursting with success.</text></comment>

<story><title>Siemens acquires Supplyframe, owners of Hackaday and Tindie</title><url>https://blog.adafruit.com/2021/05/17/siemens-acquires-supplyframe-hackaday-tindie-too/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ChuckMcM</author><text>This is great news for Supplyframe.&lt;p&gt;But there is a darker undercurrent here that really needs some introspection. The &amp;quot;makers market&amp;quot; of today doesn&amp;#x27;t work.&lt;p&gt;Let&amp;#x27;s compare the market between say 1975 and 1985 with the market between 2010 and 2020. Money spent on the early market supported no less than 6 monthly printed magazines, several chains of electronics component stores (Radio Shack&amp;#x2F;Tandy&amp;#x2F;Dick Smiths&amp;#x2F;Marples(sp?)), a host of retail outlets, and several equipment manufacturers selling into the market.&lt;p&gt;In the &amp;quot;modern&amp;quot; era, there are no profitable magazines or web sites or blogs or ANYTHING with respect to this hobby, there are NO brick and mortar retail components stores, and no equipment maker sells into this market.&lt;p&gt;So why is this? I suspect that a large chunk of that is money. In particular, the &amp;quot;cost&amp;quot; of things has gone so far down that the money selling those things is a mere pittance of what it was before. But salaries of people to run these businesses, offices, etc hasn&amp;#x27;t changed. Nor has postage or warehouse space etc. But the interesting follow on effect is that it makes no sense to pay $8000 for an advertisement (the full page price of an ad in Modern Electronics in 1980) when you might generate an additional $4K in revenue. Similarly for blogs or podcasts where 70 to 90% of the ad revenue goes to the ad network (Google, Bing, Etc.)&lt;p&gt;Open source is great, but without money people have to work other jobs and so their ability to contribute quality time to their hobbies, much less full time to them, is that much harder to do.&lt;p&gt;I used to write free lance articles for Byte, Dr. Dobbs, and others and they would pay me $600 - $800 per article. A recent article suggests that the editors for Hackaday get paid but the places they link? They just get &amp;quot;exposure.&amp;quot; (cue the Oatmeal comic on spending &amp;quot;exposure&amp;quot;).&lt;p&gt;There are some standouts, like Adafruit, but even there the margins are tight and the operations are small. They are certainly not a &amp;quot;Radio Shack&amp;quot; level of enterprise.&lt;p&gt;I don&amp;#x27;t know what the &amp;quot;fix&amp;quot; is, but there is some re-imagining, re-inventing that needs to go on here to pay these people who put in their time to make the &amp;quot;maker movement&amp;quot; work. Or it will continue to struggle.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>worldmerge</author><text>I miss going to my local Radio Shack and getting components. When they went under I could really only get components online. Sure, there is a commercial supplier near me but they are only open 9-5ish M-F and don&amp;#x27;t have a website. It would be great if they were able to digitize their inventory and ship orders. I wonder why some commercial focused companies make it so hard for non-commercial customers to access their business (I&amp;#x27;m including companies that have websites but make it clear they only sell to contractors)?</text></comment>

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<story><title>Curl doesn’t spew binary anymore</title><url>https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2017/06/17/curl-doesnt-spew-binary-anymore/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>baby</author><text>I just looked at the commit and I was surprised at how nice the code is! The relevant line to my question is:&lt;p&gt;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt; if(isatty &amp;amp;&amp;amp; (outs-&amp;gt;bytes &amp;lt; 2000) &amp;amp;&amp;amp; terminal_binary_ok) { if(memchr(buffer, 0, bytes)) { &lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt; memchr() returns the first occurrence of the byte 0 (your second argument), or NULL.&lt;p&gt;So a few things:&lt;p&gt;* what if your output is more than 2000 bytes?&lt;p&gt;* what if your output is binary but doesn’t contain a byte 0?&lt;p&gt;* what if your output is a normal UTF-8 string but contains a byte 0? ( see &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;stackoverflow.com&amp;#x2F;questions&amp;#x2F;6907297&amp;#x2F;can-utf-8-contain-zero-byte&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;stackoverflow.com&amp;#x2F;questions&amp;#x2F;6907297&amp;#x2F;can-utf-8-contai...&lt;/a&gt; )&lt;p&gt;This is interesting to me as I am developing a tool that parses files in search for bugs and I need to ignore binary files. What I am doing right now: when checking a line, if it is not a valid UTF-8 string I skip the file. It&amp;#x27;s not really nice as I am doing this verification for every file&amp;#x27;s lines...</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>arghwhat</author><text>1. It is not sensible to check more than a small chunk of data, as it would result in significant performance penalties, both in high resource consumption (memory or temporary files) and in blocked pipeline (cURL streams data as it is received). Imagine `curl &lt;a href=&quot;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;somesite&amp;#x2F;10GBoftext&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;somesite&amp;#x2F;10GBoftext&lt;/a&gt; | grep &amp;quot;rarely-occurring-prefix&amp;quot; | do-something-with-found-data`—with a full scan, curl would use 10GB of memory, checking every byte before it sent things to grep and do-something. Without a full scan, do-something processes data live, and curl uses negligible resources.&lt;p&gt;2. Then the check yields a false negative, which is not a problem.&lt;p&gt;3. Then your UTF-8 string is unprintable, and the check will yield a true positive. The UTF-8&amp;#x2F;ASCII NUL character is not printable, despite being valid.&lt;p&gt;If one only assumes ASCII&amp;#x2F;UTF-8&amp;#x2F;Shift-JIS&amp;#x2F;similar, then a blob containing a null byte is guaranteed to be unprintable, while a blob not containing a null byte may be printable. That&amp;#x27;s good enough for a warning, telling you that you&amp;#x27;re doing something that you might not have intended.&lt;p&gt;Given that UTF-8 has become standard, it means that you will never realistically get a false warning, but may still get bonkers output. You can always overrule if you have a fetish for UTF-32.</text></comment>

<story><title>Curl doesn’t spew binary anymore</title><url>https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2017/06/17/curl-doesnt-spew-binary-anymore/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>baby</author><text>I just looked at the commit and I was surprised at how nice the code is! The relevant line to my question is:&lt;p&gt;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt; if(isatty &amp;amp;&amp;amp; (outs-&amp;gt;bytes &amp;lt; 2000) &amp;amp;&amp;amp; terminal_binary_ok) { if(memchr(buffer, 0, bytes)) { &lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt; memchr() returns the first occurrence of the byte 0 (your second argument), or NULL.&lt;p&gt;So a few things:&lt;p&gt;* what if your output is more than 2000 bytes?&lt;p&gt;* what if your output is binary but doesn’t contain a byte 0?&lt;p&gt;* what if your output is a normal UTF-8 string but contains a byte 0? ( see &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;stackoverflow.com&amp;#x2F;questions&amp;#x2F;6907297&amp;#x2F;can-utf-8-contain-zero-byte&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;stackoverflow.com&amp;#x2F;questions&amp;#x2F;6907297&amp;#x2F;can-utf-8-contai...&lt;/a&gt; )&lt;p&gt;This is interesting to me as I am developing a tool that parses files in search for bugs and I need to ignore binary files. What I am doing right now: when checking a line, if it is not a valid UTF-8 string I skip the file. It&amp;#x27;s not really nice as I am doing this verification for every file&amp;#x27;s lines...</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jrgv</author><text>&lt;i&gt;what if your output is more than 2000 bytes?&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;The announcement says that &amp;quot;curl will inspect the beginning of each download&amp;quot;, and I think that comparison just turns off the check after at least 2000 bytes have already been output (see a few lines below the change you quoted, where outs-&amp;gt;bytes is incremented by the amount of bytes that were output).&lt;p&gt;&lt;i&gt;what if your output is binary but doesn’t contain a byte 0?&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;I guess curl will incorrectly recognize the binary as text.&lt;p&gt;&lt;i&gt;what if your output is a normal UTF-8 string but contains a byte 0?&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;I guess curl will incorrectly recognize the text as binary, and you can use `-o -` to override that and output to the terminal anyway.</text></comment>

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<story><title>Amazon is bypassing supply chain chaos with chartered ships and long-haul planes</title><url>https://www.cnbc.com/2021/12/04/how-amazon-beats-supply-chain-chaos-with-ships-and-long-haul-planes.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>imajoredinecon</author><text>&amp;gt; useless goal&lt;p&gt;Is bringing peace, civil rights, and good governance to a corrupt, poor, and violent country useless? (Obviously, we ended up failing in large part.)</text></item><item><author>manquer</author><text>You are always a cog in the wheel, in a miltary the boss in addition making money can also kill you for a useless goal, the $2 trillion and thousands killed and injured over 20 years in afganistan is a recent example .&lt;p&gt;Being motivated about a job whether miltary &amp;#x2F;civilian should be about what you can do not if its corrupt &amp;#x2F;inefficient &amp;#x2F;incompetent almost any large institutuion usually is</text></item><item><author>petra</author><text>I served in the Israeli military, like every 18 year old male.&lt;p&gt;In ours, there are many places where people don&amp;#x27;t care.&lt;p&gt;A lot depends on the role one plays. some are very meaningful. In some you carry a direct and deep responsibility(for your team mates lives, for the people you protect). In some places, you&amp;#x27;ll get punished severely if you make a mistake, So you really try not to. So you try to do a good job.&lt;p&gt;In others ? Not so much. So you do the bare minimum and skate by. Many people are like that. It&amp;#x27;s a general &amp;quot;recommendation&amp;quot; for the new soldier.&lt;p&gt;Now compare that to civilian life - in most jobs you&amp;#x27;re just a cog, you get paid the minimum your employer can manage, and most of the benefit of doing a better job is making the boss richer. So why give a fuck ?</text></item><item><author>ok_dad</author><text>It&amp;#x27;s really hard to work with people who don&amp;#x27;t put effort into their work after being in the military around people who put so much effort into getting things right. I&amp;#x27;m not saying time equal effort, either, I&amp;#x27;m a clock watcher at work, but at least when I&amp;#x27;m working I focus on the goal at hand and I actually try to think about the problems I&amp;#x27;ll face after I finish some task, so that I&amp;#x27;ll do it more robustly. The military doesn&amp;#x27;t have a monopoly on this, I&amp;#x27;ve met several great people who have never served, and there are many ways in which the military sucks (don&amp;#x27;t get me started). However, it&amp;#x27;s pretty unrivaled when it comes to people who try hard and perfect their craft, imo.</text></item><item><author>tbihl</author><text>I have a lot of ex-military friends who go work for Amazon, and it&amp;#x27;s not hard to see why after reading this article. Moonshot ideas are exciting, but untangling the nationwide chokehold of shipping failures would be such a tangible, rewarding project to work on.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>LordDragonfang</author><text>Well, considering America&amp;#x27;s recent military endeavors have done the opposite, you have to wonder how many times you can hear that until you conclude it was always a bald-faced lie to mask our economic interests.&lt;p&gt;Dropping bombs on a country rarely makes it less prone to conflict unless you intend to occupy it, it just gives more recruiting material to the &amp;quot;violent&amp;quot; radicals.</text></comment>

<story><title>Amazon is bypassing supply chain chaos with chartered ships and long-haul planes</title><url>https://www.cnbc.com/2021/12/04/how-amazon-beats-supply-chain-chaos-with-ships-and-long-haul-planes.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>imajoredinecon</author><text>&amp;gt; useless goal&lt;p&gt;Is bringing peace, civil rights, and good governance to a corrupt, poor, and violent country useless? (Obviously, we ended up failing in large part.)</text></item><item><author>manquer</author><text>You are always a cog in the wheel, in a miltary the boss in addition making money can also kill you for a useless goal, the $2 trillion and thousands killed and injured over 20 years in afganistan is a recent example .&lt;p&gt;Being motivated about a job whether miltary &amp;#x2F;civilian should be about what you can do not if its corrupt &amp;#x2F;inefficient &amp;#x2F;incompetent almost any large institutuion usually is</text></item><item><author>petra</author><text>I served in the Israeli military, like every 18 year old male.&lt;p&gt;In ours, there are many places where people don&amp;#x27;t care.&lt;p&gt;A lot depends on the role one plays. some are very meaningful. In some you carry a direct and deep responsibility(for your team mates lives, for the people you protect). In some places, you&amp;#x27;ll get punished severely if you make a mistake, So you really try not to. So you try to do a good job.&lt;p&gt;In others ? Not so much. So you do the bare minimum and skate by. Many people are like that. It&amp;#x27;s a general &amp;quot;recommendation&amp;quot; for the new soldier.&lt;p&gt;Now compare that to civilian life - in most jobs you&amp;#x27;re just a cog, you get paid the minimum your employer can manage, and most of the benefit of doing a better job is making the boss richer. So why give a fuck ?</text></item><item><author>ok_dad</author><text>It&amp;#x27;s really hard to work with people who don&amp;#x27;t put effort into their work after being in the military around people who put so much effort into getting things right. I&amp;#x27;m not saying time equal effort, either, I&amp;#x27;m a clock watcher at work, but at least when I&amp;#x27;m working I focus on the goal at hand and I actually try to think about the problems I&amp;#x27;ll face after I finish some task, so that I&amp;#x27;ll do it more robustly. The military doesn&amp;#x27;t have a monopoly on this, I&amp;#x27;ve met several great people who have never served, and there are many ways in which the military sucks (don&amp;#x27;t get me started). However, it&amp;#x27;s pretty unrivaled when it comes to people who try hard and perfect their craft, imo.</text></item><item><author>tbihl</author><text>I have a lot of ex-military friends who go work for Amazon, and it&amp;#x27;s not hard to see why after reading this article. Moonshot ideas are exciting, but untangling the nationwide chokehold of shipping failures would be such a tangible, rewarding project to work on.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>kilroywashere</author><text>the ghani administration was nothing more than an american imperialist puppet government, forcing american &amp;quot;ideals&amp;quot; (see: consumerism and globalism) on a people who want nothing to do with it.&lt;p&gt;“God has promised us victory, and Bush has promised us defeat. We’ll see which promise is more truthful,”&lt;p&gt;- Mullah Omar.</text></comment>

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<story><title>The Perils of an .xyz Domain</title><url>https://www.spotvirtual.com/blog/the-perils-of-an-xyz-domain/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>duskwuff</author><text>You&amp;#x27;d be getting an unbelievable amount of SMS spam if carriers weren&amp;#x27;t allowed to block messages. There&amp;#x27;s a &lt;i&gt;lot&lt;/i&gt; of bad actors out there.</text></item><item><author>krono</author><text>Blocking of messages&amp;#x2F;emails and blanket email server&amp;#x2F;domain&amp;#x2F;extension blacklisting is the same as a postal service not delivering mail to or from a particular entity&amp;#x2F;street&amp;#x2F;town.&lt;p&gt;Doing so silently and without a valid and case-specific reason should not be legally allowed.&lt;p&gt;Edit: Added &amp;quot;street&amp;#x2F;town&amp;quot; to analogy, and &amp;quot;case-specific&amp;quot; before reason</text></item><item><author>humanistbot</author><text>&amp;gt; One surprising side effect of having a .xyz domain is that the mere inclusion of .xyz inside of a text message will result in a silent delivery failure for many providers.&lt;p&gt;This is wild to me. Tested it out myself and I couldn&amp;#x27;t send an SMS with a spot.xyz link to&amp;#x2F;from Google Voice &amp;lt;-&amp;gt; T-Mobile. And no &amp;quot;failed delivery&amp;quot; notice either, just a silent failure. And yet I still get so many texts that are obviously spam or phishing attempts.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>aquark</author><text>We&amp;#x27;ve run into this issue with replies to texts that the user sent first.&lt;p&gt;Telecom spam filtering seems to be a ridiculously primitive and wide net. I can&amp;#x27;t imagine a valid use case for dropping a text sent to a number when that number just sent you a text a few seconds before.&lt;p&gt;I don&amp;#x27;t understand why SMS spam has such a big issue with false positives compared to email spam when emails are practically free to send but SMS is much more costly.&lt;p&gt;(Yes, I know there are a lot of false positives on email too ... but we run into false positive SMS spam issues a lot even though it feels like it should be a much simpler problem to solve).</text></comment>

<story><title>The Perils of an .xyz Domain</title><url>https://www.spotvirtual.com/blog/the-perils-of-an-xyz-domain/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>duskwuff</author><text>You&amp;#x27;d be getting an unbelievable amount of SMS spam if carriers weren&amp;#x27;t allowed to block messages. There&amp;#x27;s a &lt;i&gt;lot&lt;/i&gt; of bad actors out there.</text></item><item><author>krono</author><text>Blocking of messages&amp;#x2F;emails and blanket email server&amp;#x2F;domain&amp;#x2F;extension blacklisting is the same as a postal service not delivering mail to or from a particular entity&amp;#x2F;street&amp;#x2F;town.&lt;p&gt;Doing so silently and without a valid and case-specific reason should not be legally allowed.&lt;p&gt;Edit: Added &amp;quot;street&amp;#x2F;town&amp;quot; to analogy, and &amp;quot;case-specific&amp;quot; before reason</text></item><item><author>humanistbot</author><text>&amp;gt; One surprising side effect of having a .xyz domain is that the mere inclusion of .xyz inside of a text message will result in a silent delivery failure for many providers.&lt;p&gt;This is wild to me. Tested it out myself and I couldn&amp;#x27;t send an SMS with a spot.xyz link to&amp;#x2F;from Google Voice &amp;lt;-&amp;gt; T-Mobile. And no &amp;quot;failed delivery&amp;quot; notice either, just a silent failure. And yet I still get so many texts that are obviously spam or phishing attempts.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>skrtskrt</author><text>Seconded, having worked in this space I can assure everyone that there are multiple orders of magnitude more (attempted) spam SMS than legitimate SMS.</text></comment>

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<story><title>As YouTube traffic soars, YouTubers say pay is plummeting</title><url>https://onezero.medium.com/as-youtube-traffic-soars-youtubers-say-pay-is-plummeting-30dc1ba444db</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>pembrook</author><text>I&amp;#x27;ve noticed HN often has two opinions about advertising depending on the day of the week:&lt;p&gt;1) It&amp;#x27;s an unchecked, all-powerful evil, making people buy or believe in things they don&amp;#x27;t want or need by hoarding their data&lt;p&gt;or&lt;p&gt;2) It&amp;#x27;s a giant ineffective scam that stupid companies who aren&amp;#x27;t led by engineers waste VC money on&lt;p&gt;The two are diametrically opposed, yet, I&amp;#x27;ve seen the same person argue #1 on Monday when it fits the narrative, and then on Tuesday start arguing #2--blissfully unaware of how both cannot be true at the same time.&lt;p&gt;Could it be, that both 1 and 2 are wrong, and that advertising spend is simply reduced during recessions in reaction to the reduction in spending by consumers? Why pay money to acquire customers when the customers aren&amp;#x27;t willing to spend money on new products?</text></item><item><author>tmpz22</author><text>OR ads aren&amp;#x27;t that effective in the first place and the whole industry is a house of cards propped up by middleman making their fat margins convincing people ads are necessary...</text></item><item><author>finiteloops</author><text>There&amp;#x27;s no long term risk to google and other ad exchanges because the advertisers are in a prisoners dilemma.&lt;p&gt;If the advertisers collude or trust that the competitors won&amp;#x27;t increases ad spend, the relative market share stays the same and all companies participating enjoy increased margins.&lt;p&gt;The first company to break gains market share, so as a result they all &amp;quot;overspend&amp;quot; and google is the only one that benefits.&lt;p&gt;The worst part is the cost of google&amp;#x27;s margin is baked into product pricing, so the end result is we pay more to have the companies compete to advertise to us.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>AnthonyMouse</author><text>It&amp;#x27;s possible for both 1 and 2 to be &lt;i&gt;right&lt;/i&gt;.&lt;p&gt;Suppose that if you&amp;#x27;re peddling cheap junk and snake oil, advertising is effective, because nobody will have heard of your product by word of mouth (no one would recommend it and previous victims are ashamed to admit being suckered), but if you spam enough people you&amp;#x27;ll reach enough suckers to exceed the advertising expense.&lt;p&gt;But if you&amp;#x27;re peddling a popular and quality product, everyone has already heard of it and additional advertising has low marginal utility because you were going to get most of the sales anyway.&lt;p&gt;This furthermore doesn&amp;#x27;t get you out of the prisoner&amp;#x27;s dilemma, because even if buying advertising is only break-even rather than profitable, your competitor is doing it so you have to do it too or they gain a volume advantage over you and use that to kill you on unit pricing. But then you all do it and all that happens is that everyone pays money to cancel each other out.</text></comment>

<story><title>As YouTube traffic soars, YouTubers say pay is plummeting</title><url>https://onezero.medium.com/as-youtube-traffic-soars-youtubers-say-pay-is-plummeting-30dc1ba444db</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>pembrook</author><text>I&amp;#x27;ve noticed HN often has two opinions about advertising depending on the day of the week:&lt;p&gt;1) It&amp;#x27;s an unchecked, all-powerful evil, making people buy or believe in things they don&amp;#x27;t want or need by hoarding their data&lt;p&gt;or&lt;p&gt;2) It&amp;#x27;s a giant ineffective scam that stupid companies who aren&amp;#x27;t led by engineers waste VC money on&lt;p&gt;The two are diametrically opposed, yet, I&amp;#x27;ve seen the same person argue #1 on Monday when it fits the narrative, and then on Tuesday start arguing #2--blissfully unaware of how both cannot be true at the same time.&lt;p&gt;Could it be, that both 1 and 2 are wrong, and that advertising spend is simply reduced during recessions in reaction to the reduction in spending by consumers? Why pay money to acquire customers when the customers aren&amp;#x27;t willing to spend money on new products?</text></item><item><author>tmpz22</author><text>OR ads aren&amp;#x27;t that effective in the first place and the whole industry is a house of cards propped up by middleman making their fat margins convincing people ads are necessary...</text></item><item><author>finiteloops</author><text>There&amp;#x27;s no long term risk to google and other ad exchanges because the advertisers are in a prisoners dilemma.&lt;p&gt;If the advertisers collude or trust that the competitors won&amp;#x27;t increases ad spend, the relative market share stays the same and all companies participating enjoy increased margins.&lt;p&gt;The first company to break gains market share, so as a result they all &amp;quot;overspend&amp;quot; and google is the only one that benefits.&lt;p&gt;The worst part is the cost of google&amp;#x27;s margin is baked into product pricing, so the end result is we pay more to have the companies compete to advertise to us.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mywittyname</author><text>Well, we are a collection of people with our own independent thoughts and feelings on subjects, so it shouldn&amp;#x27;t be a surprise that some people feel the opposite of others are a variety of subjects.&lt;p&gt;Though, to be honest, I don&amp;#x27;t think I&amp;#x27;ve heard #2. I think any rational person understands that advertising has some degree of effectiveness. After all, many bright minds from a variety of hard sciences have spent decades of their lives, and extraordinary sums of money studying human behavior for the explicit purpose of selling more shit. Many of the largest companies in the world are advertising companies; before Google and Facebook there was the TV and Radio giants, who were massive, in spite of pretty serious regulations.&lt;p&gt;None of this would have happened if advertising wasn&amp;#x27;t effective. At some point in time, people would have realized it didn&amp;#x27;t work and spent their money elsewhere.&lt;p&gt;There are two big issues that I see:&lt;p&gt;1) More views have driven down bids for ad views. The ad industry is largely driven by companies bidding for views, so without a large influx of cash, the spike in views was going to depress ad impression prices.&lt;p&gt;2) Consumers have less discretionary money to spend, even if they wanted to, so the ROI on each view&amp;#x2F;click is going down.&lt;p&gt;Each of those alone would be cause for concern, but combined, they do pose a significant issue for Google, Facebook, and smaller content creators.</text></comment>

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<story><title>Commodore Back in Germany</title><url>https://icomp.de/shop-icomp/en/33/items/commodore-back-in-germany.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dijit</author><text>ugh god, please!&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;ve been looking for something as Linux&amp;#x2F;Unix friendly and sturdy as an IBM thinkpad for what feels like an age now.&lt;p&gt;From what I can tell only the Macbook is of the same class, even business line notebooks have horrible keyboards, screens and touchpads. (in the best case you pick any 2 of those to be good.)</text></item><item><author>carsongross</author><text>I hope that we&amp;#x27;ve gotten to the end of the race to the bottom in desktop computers and that the market is ready for innovative, high quality hardware. With Moore&amp;#x27;s Law sputtering and becoming less and less relevant for day-to-day computing, build quality can now become a competitive differentiator.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ekianjo</author><text>I highly prefer older thinkpads&amp;#x27; keyboards to the Macbook ones. And i&amp;#x27;m not just talking about the fingertip pressure quality, but the layout as well.</text></comment>

<story><title>Commodore Back in Germany</title><url>https://icomp.de/shop-icomp/en/33/items/commodore-back-in-germany.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dijit</author><text>ugh god, please!&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;ve been looking for something as Linux&amp;#x2F;Unix friendly and sturdy as an IBM thinkpad for what feels like an age now.&lt;p&gt;From what I can tell only the Macbook is of the same class, even business line notebooks have horrible keyboards, screens and touchpads. (in the best case you pick any 2 of those to be good.)</text></item><item><author>carsongross</author><text>I hope that we&amp;#x27;ve gotten to the end of the race to the bottom in desktop computers and that the market is ready for innovative, high quality hardware. With Moore&amp;#x27;s Law sputtering and becoming less and less relevant for day-to-day computing, build quality can now become a competitive differentiator.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Theodores</author><text>Google Pixel has build quality far in excess of anything else I have seen including those Apple computers and those Thinkpad computers that others uphold as the benchmark of quality.&lt;p&gt;I am delighted with the 2013 model, still available but only 4Gb RAM. RAM aside (not a problem for me) the keyboard is best out there as is the trackpad and the speakers. I believe the screen is the best too, because I prefer the 2:3 aspect ratio, but it may not have the most pixels etc. Everything is subjective but I think that the best hardware for a linux dev box is a rather high end Chromebook.</text></comment>

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<story><title>Poland’s PM says previous government illegally used Pegasus spyware</title><url>https://apnews.com/article/poland-government-pegasus-spyware-tusk-duda-78420fc7099401926d28b5be98669192</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>FirmwareBurner</author><text>&lt;i&gt;&amp;gt;Usage of Pegasus means all intercepts are on the servers in Israel&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;Wait, seriously? Any sources on that? I find it hard to believe that any government would spend $$$ on a security tool that doesn&amp;#x27;t allow on-prem installation and instead beams all your surveillance to another country.</text></item><item><author>rasz</author><text>1 Over 7000 licenses for Pegasus alone. Both opposition and own party surveilled.&lt;p&gt;2 Usage of Pegasus means all intercepts are on the servers in Israel. All Government secrets and potential kompromat transferred to foreign power.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>surfingdino</author><text>NATO countries&amp;#x27; governments and military use phones with encrypted communications to which the US has the keys. This fact was made available during investigation into the Polish government plane crash in Smolensk. The US authorities have access to the recordings of the calls made by the late president of Poland, but said they would not make them available.&lt;p&gt;source: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.money.pl&amp;#x2F;archiwum&amp;#x2F;wiadomosci&amp;#x2F;artykul&amp;#x2F;usa;nie;ujawnia;tresci;rozmowy;braci;kaczynskich,110,0,642158.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.money.pl&amp;#x2F;archiwum&amp;#x2F;wiadomosci&amp;#x2F;artykul&amp;#x2F;usa;nie;uja...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;Indirectly, all software vulnerability tools that send source code and other artefacts to servers outside government&amp;#x27;s control give third parties access to information about potential attack vectors, software vulnerabilities, and infrastructure layout.</text></comment>

<story><title>Poland’s PM says previous government illegally used Pegasus spyware</title><url>https://apnews.com/article/poland-government-pegasus-spyware-tusk-duda-78420fc7099401926d28b5be98669192</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>FirmwareBurner</author><text>&lt;i&gt;&amp;gt;Usage of Pegasus means all intercepts are on the servers in Israel&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;Wait, seriously? Any sources on that? I find it hard to believe that any government would spend $$$ on a security tool that doesn&amp;#x27;t allow on-prem installation and instead beams all your surveillance to another country.</text></item><item><author>rasz</author><text>1 Over 7000 licenses for Pegasus alone. Both opposition and own party surveilled.&lt;p&gt;2 Usage of Pegasus means all intercepts are on the servers in Israel. All Government secrets and potential kompromat transferred to foreign power.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>xemoka</author><text>I’m curious about this statement too, seems there’s evidence that they don’t and the customer is the data handler: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.edps.europa.eu&amp;#x2F;system&amp;#x2F;files_en?file=2023-01&amp;#x2F;0221_2022-0615_019_redacted.pdf&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.edps.europa.eu&amp;#x2F;system&amp;#x2F;files_en?file=2023-01&amp;#x2F;0221...&lt;/a&gt; top of page 4.&lt;p&gt;I guess this is all according to NSO claims. I’d like to see evidence otherwise!</text></comment>

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<story><title>iOS 14 USB tethering broken on Linux: looking for docs and contact at Apple</title><url>https://www.corsac.net/?rub=blog&amp;post=1601</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>marcan_42</author><text>Wow, this brings back memories. I hacked on this and other iPhone support on Linux back in the day, including on getting music sync support working, back when I myself used an iPhone.&lt;p&gt;At the time I wrote usbmuxd, which implements the sync (not tethering) part of the protocol. I can now say that I had a bit of behind the scenes help from an Apple engineer; his tips helped work out some corner cases that would&amp;#x27;ve been quite hard to track down otherwise. This friend sadly passed away a few years ago.&lt;p&gt;Unfortunately, Apple has always been (publicly) hostile to third party support for their devices. For example, they insist on &amp;quot;signing&amp;quot; music databases with algorithms based on their FairPlay DRM implementation, to stop non-iTunes software from syncing music to them. I reverse engineered one variant of this (which was based on a white-box AES implementation and a lot of obfuscated junk) but they kept changing the algorithm. This went into libgpod and libimobiledevice.</text></comment>

<story><title>iOS 14 USB tethering broken on Linux: looking for docs and contact at Apple</title><url>https://www.corsac.net/?rub=blog&amp;post=1601</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>hendry</author><text>I usually rely upon &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;aur.archlinux.org&amp;#x2F;packages&amp;#x2F;libimobiledevice-git&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;aur.archlinux.org&amp;#x2F;packages&amp;#x2F;libimobiledevice-git&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt; via &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;wiki.archlinux.org&amp;#x2F;index.php&amp;#x2F;IOS&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;wiki.archlinux.org&amp;#x2F;index.php&amp;#x2F;IOS&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;m using the wifi hotspot since wired rarely works for me.&lt;p&gt;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt; $ sudo idevicepair pair No device found. &lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt; with an iPhone running 14.0.1 over USB-C</text></comment>

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<story><title>Rivian valued at over $100B after biggest IPO of 2021</title><url>https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-transportation/ev-maker-rivian-set-high-profile-market-debut-after-mammoth-ipo-2021-11-10/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>qqtt</author><text>Lots of talk about balking at this valuation, and that is probably a reasonable reaction, but as others have said, I want to point out that companies are valued based on their future and projected growth, not how much they are worth today.&lt;p&gt;Much has been made about Tesla being worth more than all other automakers combined, but let&amp;#x27;s look at the growth.&lt;p&gt;Tesla Q3 Revenue: 13.76B, Year over year growth: 56%&lt;p&gt;Tesla Q3 Net Income: 1.6B, Year over year growth: 388%&lt;p&gt;GM Q3 Revenue: 26.78B, Year over year growth: -24%&lt;p&gt;GM Q3 Net Income: 2.42B, Year over year growth: -40%&lt;p&gt;Tesla is growing like bonkers, wildly more profitable, and has a much brighter future than GM given these trajectories. It&amp;#x27;s almost like either GM is severely overvalued at 90B market cap or Tesla is undervalued at 1T.&lt;p&gt;Tesla has also proven that traditional automakers really struggle to keep up with the electric car race - from software to supply chain. Rivian, like Tesla, is built top to bottom to play in this market, with the added backing of Amazon and products tailor made for enterprise scale needs that companies like Amazon need.&lt;p&gt;Of course Rivian is a risky investment today - their stock is priced for perfection. We saw what happened last quarter when stocks priced for perfection fall short (take a look at Snapchat). But plenty of these arguments &amp;quot;Rivian is only selling 1000 cars!&amp;quot; also applied to Tesla about 10 years ago.&lt;p&gt;A business is valued based on its future prospects. Growth companies are risky.&lt;p&gt;Edit to add Ford numbers:&lt;p&gt;Ford Q3 Revenue: 35.68B , Year over year growth: -4%&lt;p&gt;Ford Q3 Net income: 1.8B, Year over year growth: -23%&lt;p&gt;Also want to point out - all automakers are operating in the same pandemic - Ford, GM, and Tesla are all dealing with supply chain issues and chip shortages.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>onlyrealcuzzo</author><text>Since Tesla is now the elephant in the room - it&amp;#x27;s possible Tesla is distorting the entire auto industry.&lt;p&gt;Tesla was one of the 5 largest companies in the world - something an auto manufacturer hasn&amp;#x27;t been in almost 50 years.&lt;p&gt;Tesla had BY FAR the highest P&amp;#x2F;E ratio for any company of that market cap (as a percentage of global wealth) in history.&lt;p&gt;Tesla&amp;#x27;s revenue growth is not much bigger than Alphabet&amp;#x27;s or Apple&amp;#x27;s - and these are companies with orders of magnitude more revenue and profit.&lt;p&gt;For the last 50-ish years - outside of a few small companies (Ferrari, etc) - auto manufacturing has been a pretty terrible business.&lt;p&gt;Tesla people keep trying to say that Tesla is really an infrastructure play or an Internet company or a services companies or even a space company - but... currently it&amp;#x27;s not. And even if it became any of those things - even at it&amp;#x27;s current growth rate - its P&amp;#x2F;E to growth rate is still unbelievably high.&lt;p&gt;I don&amp;#x27;t really care if GM and Ford and Rivian are now overvalued - and compared to them Tesla is undervalued. Auto manufacturing is not suddenly going to become the most profitable business in the world. People aren&amp;#x27;t going to suddenly start paying more for cars than housing. People aren&amp;#x27;t going to suddenly own 30 cars a piece. Tesla is never going to grow enough to be worth it&amp;#x27;s current market cap. But the market can stay irrational longer than you can stay solvent - and I wouldn&amp;#x27;t take a bet that Tesla crashes if my life depended on it.</text></comment>

<story><title>Rivian valued at over $100B after biggest IPO of 2021</title><url>https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-transportation/ev-maker-rivian-set-high-profile-market-debut-after-mammoth-ipo-2021-11-10/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>qqtt</author><text>Lots of talk about balking at this valuation, and that is probably a reasonable reaction, but as others have said, I want to point out that companies are valued based on their future and projected growth, not how much they are worth today.&lt;p&gt;Much has been made about Tesla being worth more than all other automakers combined, but let&amp;#x27;s look at the growth.&lt;p&gt;Tesla Q3 Revenue: 13.76B, Year over year growth: 56%&lt;p&gt;Tesla Q3 Net Income: 1.6B, Year over year growth: 388%&lt;p&gt;GM Q3 Revenue: 26.78B, Year over year growth: -24%&lt;p&gt;GM Q3 Net Income: 2.42B, Year over year growth: -40%&lt;p&gt;Tesla is growing like bonkers, wildly more profitable, and has a much brighter future than GM given these trajectories. It&amp;#x27;s almost like either GM is severely overvalued at 90B market cap or Tesla is undervalued at 1T.&lt;p&gt;Tesla has also proven that traditional automakers really struggle to keep up with the electric car race - from software to supply chain. Rivian, like Tesla, is built top to bottom to play in this market, with the added backing of Amazon and products tailor made for enterprise scale needs that companies like Amazon need.&lt;p&gt;Of course Rivian is a risky investment today - their stock is priced for perfection. We saw what happened last quarter when stocks priced for perfection fall short (take a look at Snapchat). But plenty of these arguments &amp;quot;Rivian is only selling 1000 cars!&amp;quot; also applied to Tesla about 10 years ago.&lt;p&gt;A business is valued based on its future prospects. Growth companies are risky.&lt;p&gt;Edit to add Ford numbers:&lt;p&gt;Ford Q3 Revenue: 35.68B , Year over year growth: -4%&lt;p&gt;Ford Q3 Net income: 1.8B, Year over year growth: -23%&lt;p&gt;Also want to point out - all automakers are operating in the same pandemic - Ford, GM, and Tesla are all dealing with supply chain issues and chip shortages.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>greedo</author><text>Comparing YoY quarters especially during a pandemic is not really a very good methodology for determining market trends. Even when you add a qualifier like &amp;quot;given these trajectories.&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;Also, I think you&amp;#x27;re underestimating Tesla&amp;#x27;s competition by focusing on GM. Ford is a much larger threat to Tesla than GM, and already has an EV that&amp;#x27;s roughly comparable in price&amp;#x2F;performance to the Model Y. The Mustang Mach-E should be evaluated by any prospective EV buyer, and the F-150 Lightning has the potential to leave the Cybertruck stillborn.&lt;p&gt;Rivian has none of the advantages of Tesla (name recognition, Supercharger network) nor none of the advantages of the traditional ICE manufacturers (volume, fit and finish, dealer network). Other than Amazon&amp;#x27;s backing, Rivian is one of the last companies I&amp;#x27;d consider for buying an EV.</text></comment>

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<story><title>The case for why Google should be regulated as a public utility</title><url>https://www.rankscience.com/blog/why-google-should-be-regulated-as-a-public-utility</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ALittleLight</author><text>One Google quirk I&amp;#x27;ve been thinking about lately is the times when you search for something and the thing you want is the top advertised and organic result. Seems like a waste of money.&lt;p&gt;An example, if you search for &amp;quot;heroku&amp;quot; then you get an ad for heroku, which, yeah, is what I was searching for, but heroku is also the top result and obviously what I was looking for. Heroku is paying Google to provide Google with the search result that Google should&amp;#x27;ve (and does) already identified as the right result.&lt;p&gt;I assume the reason these ads exist is because if they didn&amp;#x27;t competitors would take them, but still, it feels like an odd arrangement very much to Google&amp;#x27;s benefit where companies pay Google up prevent competitors from taking their traffic.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>xnx</author><text>It&amp;#x27;s also the best way to get accurate data on how many searches for &amp;quot;heroku&amp;quot; there are. Without an ad running, you only get estimates.</text></comment>

<story><title>The case for why Google should be regulated as a public utility</title><url>https://www.rankscience.com/blog/why-google-should-be-regulated-as-a-public-utility</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ALittleLight</author><text>One Google quirk I&amp;#x27;ve been thinking about lately is the times when you search for something and the thing you want is the top advertised and organic result. Seems like a waste of money.&lt;p&gt;An example, if you search for &amp;quot;heroku&amp;quot; then you get an ad for heroku, which, yeah, is what I was searching for, but heroku is also the top result and obviously what I was looking for. Heroku is paying Google to provide Google with the search result that Google should&amp;#x27;ve (and does) already identified as the right result.&lt;p&gt;I assume the reason these ads exist is because if they didn&amp;#x27;t competitors would take them, but still, it feels like an odd arrangement very much to Google&amp;#x27;s benefit where companies pay Google up prevent competitors from taking their traffic.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>xapata</author><text>I was told that these ads are very cheap, because Google scores the relevance very high.</text></comment>

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<story><title>To www or not www</title><url>https://www.netlify.com/blog/2017/02/28/to-www-or-not-www/?utm_content=buffer67bee&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_source=twitter.com&amp;utm_campaign=buffer</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>arihant</author><text>I understand the article walks through the technical aspects. However, having seen a lot of non-savvy users use Internet, I am firmly with WWW. Probably because of association and all major &amp;quot;established&amp;quot; companies using www, people associate it with strength. I have learned it to be important in similar ways that a .com extension is.&lt;p&gt;If the site did not have www, most people assumed it is probably made by kids, who do not have www yet. See, most people do not understand that www is not a domain like .com which you have to buy. So for average joe consumer, it signals strength. For an enterprise customer, it probably does too. So unless your product is for savvy users or zen-like designers, I&amp;#x27;d stick with www.&lt;p&gt;A lot of people think that naked domain is cleaner. It is actually not, since the average mind is conditioned to read www.x.com, and you have &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;x.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;x.com&lt;/a&gt;. It&amp;#x27;s cleaner in the sense that a face is cleaner without a nose.</text></comment>

<story><title>To www or not www</title><url>https://www.netlify.com/blog/2017/02/28/to-www-or-not-www/?utm_content=buffer67bee&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_source=twitter.com&amp;utm_campaign=buffer</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>zimbatm</author><text>After having tried both I&amp;#x27;m very much in the WWW camp. Even though the naked domain looks nicer, it&amp;#x27;s just not worth the hassle.&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; End users save an extra DNS lookup&lt;p&gt;Most intermediate resolvers will return both the CNAME and A record in one response anyways.&lt;p&gt;Another issue with naked domains is that all the cookies are automatically served on subdomains as well. It&amp;#x27;s just another hassle to worry about when trying to keep the cdn clean or wondering why a session works only in specific cases.</text></comment>

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<story><title>Too Clever by Half (2018)</title><url>https://www.epsilontheory.com/too-clever-by-half/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>GVIrish</author><text>This was posted here 9 months ago:&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&amp;#x2F;item?id=17079369&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&amp;#x2F;item?id=17079369&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>

<story><title>Too Clever by Half (2018)</title><url>https://www.epsilontheory.com/too-clever-by-half/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>cr0sh</author><text>Highly interesting writing. I found myself both agreeing and disagreeing with points - but mostly agreeing.&lt;p&gt;At the same time, some of it &amp;quot;plucked at my liberal nose&amp;quot;, which bothered me, but further reading seemed to indicate that the author wasn&amp;#x27;t doing it to be &amp;quot;on a side&amp;quot; - in fact, I could see him &amp;quot;plucking the conservative nose&amp;quot; as well!&lt;p&gt;...and indeed, I believe that is intentional; his point being (I think) to get the reader to break out of the us-vs-them dynamic, try to see all points of view, especially those you don&amp;#x27;t agree with, and think more for yourself instead of succumbing to the systems in place that attempt to tell you what to think and how - and are oh-so-seductive as they do so.&lt;p&gt;I like to think, as we probably all do, that &amp;quot;I am better than that - I think for myself!&amp;quot;, etc.&lt;p&gt;But do I?&lt;p&gt;This kind of writing makes me pause and question that; I find it a good...if a bit unsettling...thing.</text></comment>

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<story><title>Esoteric Topics in Computer Programming (2002)</title><url>http://web.archive.org/web/20020609152409/www.catseye.mb.ca/esoteric/index.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>exDM69</author><text>I&amp;#x27;ve said it before and I&amp;#x27;ll say it again: go and learn Brainfuck. Just write a program that outputs your name or does FizzBuzz or something trivial, that&amp;#x27;s enough to get a grasp of it.&lt;p&gt;Brainfuck is to Turing machines what Lisp is to Lambda calculus. Minimum viable amount of syntactic sugar (and a bit of &amp;quot;semantic sugar&amp;quot; as well, it&amp;#x27;s nicer to work in bytes than bits) to make it usable as a programming language.&lt;p&gt;Lambda calculus is just a bit more practical formalism than Turing machines, that&amp;#x27;s why Lisp is genuinely useful as a programming language, unlike Brainfuck. That doesn&amp;#x27;t make learning about Turing machines any less useful as a brain teaser exercise.</text></comment>

<story><title>Esoteric Topics in Computer Programming (2002)</title><url>http://web.archive.org/web/20020609152409/www.catseye.mb.ca/esoteric/index.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>talideon</author><text>Chris&amp;#x27; site didn&amp;#x27;t go anywhere, it just changed URLs: &lt;a href=&quot;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;catseye.tc&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;catseye.tc&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>

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<story><title>PayPal Demonetises the Daily Sceptic</title><url>https://dailysceptic.org/2022/09/21/paypal-demonetises-the-daily-sceptic/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>moreira</author><text>I understand that companies want to avoid getting into legal complications over it, and that&amp;#x27;s why I think there should be some sort of legislation in place to force companies to explain decisions like this. This is becoming more and more important with time.&lt;p&gt;Something like: If you end your contract with someone because you think that they were in violation of the terms, you have to clearly list what your reasoning is for it, with no tolerance for black box answers.&lt;p&gt;DMCA takedown requests include the list of offending URLs. This should be made similar. &amp;quot;We terminated our contract because this, this, and this signal, make us think that you&amp;#x27;re in violation of its terms&amp;quot;. You can then appeal, and obviously if the two parties can&amp;#x27;t come to an agreement by themselves, you can at least use the legal system.&lt;p&gt;Otherwise, we&amp;#x27;re living in a world where contracts between two parties mean nothing. Anyone can pull out of anything at any time for any reason, with no notice.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>concinds</author><text>This is completely misunderstanding the problem.&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.paypal.com&amp;#x2F;us&amp;#x2F;webapps&amp;#x2F;mpp&amp;#x2F;ua&amp;#x2F;useragreement-full&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.paypal.com&amp;#x2F;us&amp;#x2F;webapps&amp;#x2F;mpp&amp;#x2F;ua&amp;#x2F;useragreement-full&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; PayPal [...] reserves the right to suspend or terminate [...] access [...] for any reason and at any time upon notice to you...&lt;p&gt;PayPal never said they broke any terms. PayPal has openly declared war on &amp;quot;hate groups&amp;quot;, as defined by the ADL, which is an organization funded by the U.S. oligarchy[0][1]. That&amp;#x27;s the reason.&lt;p&gt;PayPal is on the side of the political establishment that is interested in consolidating power and manufacturing consent. Corporate and government power have merged a long time ago; it&amp;#x27;s not gonna reverse itself.&lt;p&gt;Liberals need to read Popper&amp;#x27;s &lt;i&gt;Open Society and its Enemies&lt;/i&gt;, and realize that oligarchy is just as big a threat as fascism, if not bigger due to the population not being innoculated against it (&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;twitter.com&amp;#x2F;nntaleb&amp;#x2F;status&amp;#x2F;1039842312061374464&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;twitter.com&amp;#x2F;nntaleb&amp;#x2F;status&amp;#x2F;1039842312061374464&lt;/a&gt;).&lt;p&gt;[0]: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.adl.org&amp;#x2F;news&amp;#x2F;press-releases&amp;#x2F;paypal-partners-with-adl-to-fight-extremism-and-protect-marginalized&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.adl.org&amp;#x2F;news&amp;#x2F;press-releases&amp;#x2F;paypal-partners-with...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;[1]: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.influencewatch.org&amp;#x2F;non-profit&amp;#x2F;anti-defamation-league&amp;#x2F;#funding&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.influencewatch.org&amp;#x2F;non-profit&amp;#x2F;anti-defamation-le...&lt;/a&gt; (J.P. Morgan, hello!)</text></comment>

<story><title>PayPal Demonetises the Daily Sceptic</title><url>https://dailysceptic.org/2022/09/21/paypal-demonetises-the-daily-sceptic/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>moreira</author><text>I understand that companies want to avoid getting into legal complications over it, and that&amp;#x27;s why I think there should be some sort of legislation in place to force companies to explain decisions like this. This is becoming more and more important with time.&lt;p&gt;Something like: If you end your contract with someone because you think that they were in violation of the terms, you have to clearly list what your reasoning is for it, with no tolerance for black box answers.&lt;p&gt;DMCA takedown requests include the list of offending URLs. This should be made similar. &amp;quot;We terminated our contract because this, this, and this signal, make us think that you&amp;#x27;re in violation of its terms&amp;quot;. You can then appeal, and obviously if the two parties can&amp;#x27;t come to an agreement by themselves, you can at least use the legal system.&lt;p&gt;Otherwise, we&amp;#x27;re living in a world where contracts between two parties mean nothing. Anyone can pull out of anything at any time for any reason, with no notice.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>killingtime74</author><text>I assume you are not a lawyer. Anyone can pull out of a contract for any reason. You can then get sued for damages and in specific scenarios (property sales for example), specific performance. Most scenarios do not allow a remedy of specific performance. So in general if you pay, you can walk away.&lt;p&gt;For example you can’t hold someone to their employment contract and force them to work for you.&lt;p&gt;An example of a massive walkaway &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.bbc.com&amp;#x2F;news&amp;#x2F;world-australia-61770012&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.bbc.com&amp;#x2F;news&amp;#x2F;world-australia-61770012&lt;/a&gt;. You think they wouldn’t try to enforce the contract if they could?&lt;p&gt;I’m an Australian lawyer, although this is first year level knowledge.</text></comment>

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<story><title>LG dryer traffic – 1GB+ daily up/down</title><url>https://www.reddit.com/r/smarthome/comments/mn3p6c/lg_dryer_traffic_1gb_daily_updown/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>breakingcups</author><text>What worries me is that soon we won&amp;#x27;t be able to monitor this anymore because these devices won&amp;#x27;t be dependent on a customer-supplied internet connection anymore. Instead, they&amp;#x27;ll all have cellular connectivity and we&amp;#x27;ll have no idea what is being sent, to whom and why.&lt;p&gt;And I fear that there will be no device manufacturers in the same price range left that don&amp;#x27;t include this feature. Similar to how Smart TV&amp;#x27;s are cheaper than dumb displays of identical specs.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>tenebrisalietum</author><text>Cellular providers aren&amp;#x27;t giving LG a cellular modem for free, esp. 1Gbyte&amp;#x2F;day. Unless there is going to be something that causes cellular providers to give away data, it&amp;#x27;s going to be a significant cost.&lt;p&gt;The only sustainable ways for this to work is:&lt;p&gt;A) for the data for LG to collect to be worth what it has to pay to the providers. Aside from hopefully unlikely things like LG collecting audio and visual from hidden devices on the appliance, What the hell could anyone collect from a dryer that makes it worth it to pay for a cellular connection to your dryer? Is when and how much I use a dryer worth $30&amp;#x2F;month on a 2 year contract, for example?&lt;p&gt;B) for LG to charge you a subscription to use your dryer. People won&amp;#x27;t do this dumb shit for a dryer unless the dryer is not sold to them, but rented for like $30&amp;#x2F;month--with free installation. Even then, if the monthly cost is over a certain threshold over me going down to the laundromat and putting quarters in machines there, people won&amp;#x27;t do it--last time I did laundry at laundromat recently it was $4.25 to wash and effectively $5 to fully dry and that doesn&amp;#x27;t include soap and dryer sheets.&lt;p&gt;Now if you throw in a bundled detergent and fabric softener and dryer sheet subscription on top of it, and a free service if anything goes wrong ... it might work. And then ... maybe it is worth it?&lt;p&gt;$55&amp;#x2F;mo for a free dryer and all-you-can-eat soap, softener, and sheets--brand of your choice. Like commercial copiers&amp;#x2F;toner--well, imagine if it was &amp;quot;pay per load&amp;quot;.&lt;p&gt;I mean we&amp;#x27;re probably going down the road of--in a few years or a deacde--manufacturers being so cheap and the middle-class-eviscerated consumers being so disempowered and poor that it ends up being you have to replace the dryer every 2 years anyway.</text></comment>

<story><title>LG dryer traffic – 1GB+ daily up/down</title><url>https://www.reddit.com/r/smarthome/comments/mn3p6c/lg_dryer_traffic_1gb_daily_updown/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>breakingcups</author><text>What worries me is that soon we won&amp;#x27;t be able to monitor this anymore because these devices won&amp;#x27;t be dependent on a customer-supplied internet connection anymore. Instead, they&amp;#x27;ll all have cellular connectivity and we&amp;#x27;ll have no idea what is being sent, to whom and why.&lt;p&gt;And I fear that there will be no device manufacturers in the same price range left that don&amp;#x27;t include this feature. Similar to how Smart TV&amp;#x27;s are cheaper than dumb displays of identical specs.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>krageon</author><text>&amp;gt; have cellular connectivity&lt;p&gt;Then you&amp;#x27;ll get local shops that sell the machines painted in 2-3 layers of faraday paint (or apply some sort of cage, or solder out the antenna, etc). Or perhaps just like in the old console hardmod days everyone will know someone that can &amp;quot;mod&amp;quot; your dryer so it stops being dumb and just dries your clothes.</text></comment>

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<story><title>Students Left Behind by Remote Learning</title><url>https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2020/10/05/the-students-left-behind-by-remote-learning</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>_skel</author><text>School isn&amp;#x27;t just about education. It&amp;#x27;s also a social service.&lt;p&gt;School gets children out of the home, in some cases dangerous homes. It provides supervision for children whose parents would not be capable or willing of doing so -- rich kids get nannies, poor kids get left alone all day. It provides opportunities for socialization and puts kids in contact with adults who can serve as role models and alert authorities in cases of abuse.&lt;p&gt;The loss of these important social services matters a lot more than letting kids slip behind in math class by a year.</text></comment>

<story><title>Students Left Behind by Remote Learning</title><url>https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2020/10/05/the-students-left-behind-by-remote-learning</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>nineplay</author><text>I&amp;#x27;ve really re-evaluated my views of public vs. private schools during this crisis. I like a lot about our local public schools, but the district is strapped for cash and we are wondering if our kids will be back this school year.&lt;p&gt;Meanwhile I&amp;#x27;m browsing private schools websites and starting to notice all the opportunities my kids are missing. Private schools can offer so much more and I&amp;#x27;m not sure why we never seriously looked into them. They cost, sure, but we could put the money together if we wanted to.&lt;p&gt;There&amp;#x27;s been a steady outflow of parents from public to private around here and I don&amp;#x27;t think those kids are coming back. I don&amp;#x27;t know where this ends, but I don&amp;#x27;t think it ends well for public schools.&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s a pity.</text></comment>

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<story><title>LIGO Gravitational Wave Data in iPython Jupyter Notebooks</title><url>https://losc.ligo.org/s/events/GW150914/GW150914_tutorial.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>Mizza</author><text>If you liked this, you may like this surprisingly fascinating talk on the color scheme in Matplotlib used in this paper: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.youtube.com&amp;#x2F;watch?v=xAoljeRJ3lU&amp;amp;feature=youtu.be&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.youtube.com&amp;#x2F;watch?v=xAoljeRJ3lU&amp;amp;feature=youtu.be&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>

<story><title>LIGO Gravitational Wave Data in iPython Jupyter Notebooks</title><url>https://losc.ligo.org/s/events/GW150914/GW150914_tutorial.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>Xcelerate</author><text>As someone who keeps getting comments about my &amp;quot;weird&amp;quot; toolkit for doing scientific research (Jupyter&amp;#x2F;Julia), this made my day.</text></comment>

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<story><title>Solar is now ‘cheapest electricity in history’, confirms IEA</title><url>https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2020/10/solar-cheap-energy-coal-gas-renewables-climate-change-environment-sustainability</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>isolli</author><text>I cannot help but think of this tweet [0].&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;twitter.com&amp;#x2F;AukeHoekstra&amp;#x2F;status&amp;#x2F;866313289306963969&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;twitter.com&amp;#x2F;AukeHoekstra&amp;#x2F;status&amp;#x2F;866313289306963969&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;In short, solar production had increased steeply between 2000 and 2015, but each and every year, the IEA predicted that production would plateau. Each and every year, they were wrong. And yet they did it again the following year.</text></comment>

<story><title>Solar is now ‘cheapest electricity in history’, confirms IEA</title><url>https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2020/10/solar-cheap-energy-coal-gas-renewables-climate-change-environment-sustainability</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>travisoneill1</author><text>&amp;gt; The rise of variable renewable sources means that there is an increasing need for electricity grid flexibility, the IEA notes. “Robust electricity networks, dispatchable power plants, storage technologies and demand response measures all play vital roles in meeting this,” it says.&lt;p&gt;Which is why it&amp;#x27;s not really the cheapest. Fossil fuel and nuclear power don&amp;#x27;t have these associated costs.</text></comment>

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<story><title>CockroachDB Skitters into Beta</title><url>https://www.cockroachlabs.com/blog/cockroachdb-skitters-beta/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>Spiritus</author><text>I don&amp;#x27;t really get all the whining about the name, I even kind of like it. It fits well with their narrative.&lt;p&gt;Besides, they could&amp;#x27;ve called it PoopDB and I still would use it if it survived a nuclear blast and had joins. I couldn&amp;#x27;t care less about the name. But apparently I&amp;#x27;m in a minority...?</text></comment>

<story><title>CockroachDB Skitters into Beta</title><url>https://www.cockroachlabs.com/blog/cockroachdb-skitters-beta/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>lobster_johnson</author><text>I&amp;#x27;ve been watching this project for a while. This is very cool. I think they&amp;#x27;ve made a lot of very good design choices.†&lt;p&gt;Oh, and the client drivers page should probably also list pgx (&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;github.com&amp;#x2F;jackc&amp;#x2F;pgx&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;github.com&amp;#x2F;jackc&amp;#x2F;pgx&lt;/a&gt;), which is a nice, fast PostgreSQL client that doesn&amp;#x27;t use the not-as-nice database&amp;#x2F;sql package.&lt;p&gt;___&lt;p&gt;† The name being the only exception; I don&amp;#x27;t have bug phobia at all, but cockroaches are just icky.</text></comment>

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<story><title>ADSL works over wet string (2017)</title><url>https://www.revk.uk/2017/12/its-official-adsl-works-over-wet-string.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>giardini</author><text>ADSL, being essentially a form of alternating current, will pass through an air gap. I was enlightened on this by an AT&amp;amp;T tech who pointed out that one of my ADSL lines had several breaks and could not carry DC but the ADSL signal still came through. The other line was dead so I was running essentially on one wire with an earth ground. Here is an interesting discussion:&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;Phone line with 1 broken wire still gets ADSL2&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;forums.whirlpool.net.au&amp;#x2F;archive&amp;#x2F;9yzp5wr3&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;forums.whirlpool.net.au&amp;#x2F;archive&amp;#x2F;9yzp5wr3&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;Anyway, my hat is off to the people who designed and implemented ADSL.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>DaiPlusPlus</author><text>&amp;gt; Anyway, my hat is off to the people who designed and implemented ADSL.&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s a blessing-and-a-curse: too many incumbent ISPs in highly-developed nations used ADSL&amp;#x27;s ability to run on anything as an excuse to put-off FTTH deployments (looking at you, BT).</text></comment>

<story><title>ADSL works over wet string (2017)</title><url>https://www.revk.uk/2017/12/its-official-adsl-works-over-wet-string.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>giardini</author><text>ADSL, being essentially a form of alternating current, will pass through an air gap. I was enlightened on this by an AT&amp;amp;T tech who pointed out that one of my ADSL lines had several breaks and could not carry DC but the ADSL signal still came through. The other line was dead so I was running essentially on one wire with an earth ground. Here is an interesting discussion:&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;Phone line with 1 broken wire still gets ADSL2&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;forums.whirlpool.net.au&amp;#x2F;archive&amp;#x2F;9yzp5wr3&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;forums.whirlpool.net.au&amp;#x2F;archive&amp;#x2F;9yzp5wr3&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;Anyway, my hat is off to the people who designed and implemented ADSL.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>geofft</author><text>In some sense, that&amp;#x27;s &amp;quot;just&amp;quot; radio. An antenna is a wire... it&amp;#x27;s sending a signal and picking it up from a very nearby antenna. Radio transmissions are all AC.&lt;p&gt;(Arguably, the real insight here is that the very existence of radio is impressive &amp;#x2F; unintuitive.)</text></comment>

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<story><title>Show HN: Booklet – Async forums as an alternative to chat</title><url>https://www.booklet.group/</url><text>I built Booklet to solve the problem of too many chat messages at work.&lt;p&gt;Booklet updates classic internet forums and email groups to have a modern UI and high polish. It organizes communications into threads, and summarizes activities into a neat email newsletter - so members can stay updated without having to stay logged in. The async format promotes deeper discussions, while also increasing engagement by making conversations easy to follow.&lt;p&gt;My goal is to make communications more asynchronous - so that I can get back to work, instead of slacking all day. Most early communities have been hobby groups, but my goal is to mature Booklet into a tool that sits alongside Slack in companies.&lt;p&gt;Try it out, and let me know what you think!</text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>denysvitali</author><text>I&amp;#x27;m a bit lost, even after trying the demo I can&amp;#x27;t understand why this should be better than, say, Discourse.&lt;p&gt;Your implementation is probably not based on Ruby - which makes it more interesting - but it&amp;#x27;s not open source. In terms of features, they don&amp;#x27;t seem to compare at all as this is really early stage.&lt;p&gt;The idea behind the project is good, and I think this is the future. I successfully pushed the company I work for to use internally a Discourse instance to overcome the same issues you faced - and it works. We now have an &amp;quot;internal StackOverflow&amp;quot; and an engaging community. It&amp;#x27;s not a new concept (see Google&amp;#x27;s YAQS), but it&amp;#x27;s a (IMHO) working one that many more companies should adopt as it really increases knowledge sharing and productivity!&lt;p&gt;Best of luck with your project, I think you&amp;#x27;re on the right path but you should definitely start comparing this to Discourse and define why should anyone get this - and why must it be SaaS (some big companies are against SaaS for their stuff).</text></comment>

<story><title>Show HN: Booklet – Async forums as an alternative to chat</title><url>https://www.booklet.group/</url><text>I built Booklet to solve the problem of too many chat messages at work.&lt;p&gt;Booklet updates classic internet forums and email groups to have a modern UI and high polish. It organizes communications into threads, and summarizes activities into a neat email newsletter - so members can stay updated without having to stay logged in. The async format promotes deeper discussions, while also increasing engagement by making conversations easy to follow.&lt;p&gt;My goal is to make communications more asynchronous - so that I can get back to work, instead of slacking all day. Most early communities have been hobby groups, but my goal is to mature Booklet into a tool that sits alongside Slack in companies.&lt;p&gt;Try it out, and let me know what you think!</text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>tbird24</author><text>I would give my left arm to be using internet forums again. Online communities adopting Discord and Slack was such a terrible move in hindsight.&lt;p&gt;Definitely rooting for this to take off.</text></comment>

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<story><title>Testing the 12-inch MacBook&apos;s Performance with Windows 10</title><url>http://www.alexvking.com/12_inch_macbook_and_windows_10.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>edandersen</author><text>Macs really are some of the best Windows laptops you can buy - and now with full UEFI support Windows boots as fast as OS X.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>FreakyT</author><text>Completely disagree -- the Apple trackpad drivers on windows are awful, and on a laptop, most of your time will probably be spent using a trackpad. Trackpad++, which the author of the article mentions, can help, but it&amp;#x27;s a horrible program for the following reasons:&lt;p&gt;1. The developer requires that you put windows into &amp;quot;test mode&amp;quot; (creating a non-removable desktop watermark) to install it at all, apparently to get around code signing restrictions&lt;p&gt;2. The developer requires that you install the &lt;i&gt;completely useless&lt;/i&gt; &amp;quot;Power Plan Assistant&amp;quot; program in addition to Trackpad++&lt;p&gt;3. The software itself is terribly buggy, causing random 100% CPU usage spikes</text></comment>

<story><title>Testing the 12-inch MacBook&apos;s Performance with Windows 10</title><url>http://www.alexvking.com/12_inch_macbook_and_windows_10.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>edandersen</author><text>Macs really are some of the best Windows laptops you can buy - and now with full UEFI support Windows boots as fast as OS X.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>danieltillett</author><text>I 100% agree. My Mac Pro is an amazing machine to run Windows. While I still prefer the workflow on 10.10, I am far from unhappy when I have to switch to using Windows.</text></comment>

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<story><title>How Vancouver Became a Money Laundering Paradise [audio]</title><url>http://www.canadalandshow.com/podcast/how-vancouver-became-a-money-laundering-paradise/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>raverbashing</author><text>Students can get a mortgage &lt;i&gt;without proof of income&lt;/i&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.theglobeandmail.com&amp;#x2F;real-estate&amp;#x2F;vancouver&amp;#x2F;canadian-banks-mortgage-guidelines-favour-foreign-home-buyers&amp;#x2F;article31869946&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.theglobeandmail.com&amp;#x2F;real-estate&amp;#x2F;vancouver&amp;#x2F;canadi...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;I can&amp;#x27;t imagine it can get more blatant than that</text></comment>

<story><title>How Vancouver Became a Money Laundering Paradise [audio]</title><url>http://www.canadalandshow.com/podcast/how-vancouver-became-a-money-laundering-paradise/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>wjn0</author><text>&amp;quot;Intelligence&amp;quot; is an interesting (fictional) TV show that looks at the links between drugs, financial crime, Canadian-US relations, and the intelligence community in Vancouver. Supposedly was cancelled at the request of the Harper government for hitting too close to home re: water rights.</text></comment>

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<story><title>Arizona solar plant achieves six hours after sun goes down</title><url>http://phys.org/news/2013-10-arizona-solar-hours-sun.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Lagged2Death</author><text>I&amp;#x27;ve been puzzled for some time: Is anyone &amp;#x2F; why isn&amp;#x27;t anyone working on more flexible and responsive coal and nuclear plants? Instead of storing renewable energy, it would be more efficient, less complex, and less capital-intensive (one would think) to consume the renewable energy immediately and make up the difference between supply and demand with flexible traditionally-fueled plants.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;m sure there&amp;#x27;s a good reason. I just don&amp;#x27;t know what it is.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>DougWebb</author><text>By flexible, do you mean &amp;quot;able to ramp up to meet demand and ramp down when not needed&amp;quot;?&lt;p&gt;Any power plant that uses steam turbines is going to have a long ramp-up time to boil a huge quantity of water needed to produce the steam. Nuclear plants do this, and I imagine most&amp;#x2F;all coal plants do as well. Hydroelectric plants don&amp;#x27;t need to because the falling water drives the turbines directly.&lt;p&gt;The first thing I thought of when I read the article is that this power plant can&amp;#x27;t be very efficient. It&amp;#x27;s using steam turbines, but six hours after sunset there isn&amp;#x27;t enough heat to keep the turbines going. That means they need to reheat every morning. It seems like it would have been better for them to include a coal plant for nighttime operations to keep the steam boilers hot and keep the turbines going all night. That would be flexible, because the coal burners could start up quickly to keep the already-hot water boiling. (Can&amp;#x27;t use nuclear this way because you can&amp;#x27;t really turn a nuclear reactor on and off.)&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;m totally guessing here, but I suspect they didn&amp;#x27;t include an alternate nighttime operations fuel because this is a &amp;quot;100%-Green&amp;quot; project that either wouldn&amp;#x27;t have gotten funding if there was a coal plant involved or it was just intended as a demonstration of the solar capability and didn&amp;#x27;t need to be practically efficient.</text></comment>

<story><title>Arizona solar plant achieves six hours after sun goes down</title><url>http://phys.org/news/2013-10-arizona-solar-hours-sun.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Lagged2Death</author><text>I&amp;#x27;ve been puzzled for some time: Is anyone &amp;#x2F; why isn&amp;#x27;t anyone working on more flexible and responsive coal and nuclear plants? Instead of storing renewable energy, it would be more efficient, less complex, and less capital-intensive (one would think) to consume the renewable energy immediately and make up the difference between supply and demand with flexible traditionally-fueled plants.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;m sure there&amp;#x27;s a good reason. I just don&amp;#x27;t know what it is.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>rwmj</author><text>As an uninformed guess: you want to minimize the number of heating and cooling cycles because that causes joints to crack. They used to keep steam trains running for days at a time (meaning they were kept fired overnight even when not used) to avoid cooling cycles.&lt;p&gt;Actually I would also be interested to know the real answer to this too. There was an interesting article in the Economist this week about the problems of the constant power output of nuclear and coal plants.</text></comment>

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<story><title>500 Lines or Less</title><url>http://aosabook.org/en/index.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>codepie</author><text>Previous discussion: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&amp;#x2F;item?id=11796253&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&amp;#x2F;item?id=11796253&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>

<story><title>500 Lines or Less</title><url>http://aosabook.org/en/index.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>jplasmeier</author><text>Shouldn&amp;#x27;t it be &amp;quot;500 Lines or Fewer&amp;quot;?</text></comment>

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<story><title>Reclaiming the lost art of Linux server administration</title><url>https://www.pietrorea.com/2022/01/28/reclaiming-the-lost-art-of-linux-server-administration/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>warent</author><text>When my SaaS app started scaling, I saw how badly cloud can be priced if you have even slightly unusual use-cases. It occurred to me that instead of spending ~$600&amp;#x2F;mo on GCP, I can invest in a $3000 PowerEdge server with much better hardware, run it out of my home office, and it pays for itself in less than a year.&lt;p&gt;Running your own server is an investment that doesn&amp;#x27;t make sense for everyone. If you can get it, it is better than you might imagine. Being in full control--the master of your own destiny--is so liberating and empowering. It feels the difference between constantly ordering Lyft&amp;#x2F;Uber&amp;#x2F;riding with friends, vs. owning your own car.&lt;p&gt;Not to mention, again, my hardware resources are so much better. This one server can run multiple profitable SaaS apps &amp;#x2F; businesses and still have room for experimental projects and market tests. Couldn&amp;#x27;t be happier with my decision to get off the cloud.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>deepspace</author><text>&amp;gt; I can invest in a $3000 PowerEdge server with much better hardware&lt;p&gt;And when some component of the server fails, your app is unavailable until you can repair it. So you need another server for redundancy. And a load balancer. And a UPS. And a second internet connection.&lt;p&gt;If your app is at all critical, you need to replicate all of this at a disaster recovery site. And buy&amp;#x2F;run&amp;#x2F;administer DR software.&lt;p&gt;And hardware has a limited lifespan, so the $3000 was never a one-time investment.&lt;p&gt;I think there is often still a case to be made for self-hosting but the numbers are not as rosy as they seem at first glance.</text></comment>

<story><title>Reclaiming the lost art of Linux server administration</title><url>https://www.pietrorea.com/2022/01/28/reclaiming-the-lost-art-of-linux-server-administration/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>warent</author><text>When my SaaS app started scaling, I saw how badly cloud can be priced if you have even slightly unusual use-cases. It occurred to me that instead of spending ~$600&amp;#x2F;mo on GCP, I can invest in a $3000 PowerEdge server with much better hardware, run it out of my home office, and it pays for itself in less than a year.&lt;p&gt;Running your own server is an investment that doesn&amp;#x27;t make sense for everyone. If you can get it, it is better than you might imagine. Being in full control--the master of your own destiny--is so liberating and empowering. It feels the difference between constantly ordering Lyft&amp;#x2F;Uber&amp;#x2F;riding with friends, vs. owning your own car.&lt;p&gt;Not to mention, again, my hardware resources are so much better. This one server can run multiple profitable SaaS apps &amp;#x2F; businesses and still have room for experimental projects and market tests. Couldn&amp;#x27;t be happier with my decision to get off the cloud.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>pmarreck</author><text>Does it have a backup schedule (and did you prove your restore process works)? Is it replicated to another physically-offsite location? Do you have to manage your own security keys? Load balancing? Multi region availability? How do you admin it remotely? Firewalled? Notifications of emergency situations like low disk space, downages, over-utilization of bandwidth, memory leakage, SMART warnings, etc.? What&amp;#x27;s your version upgrade strategy? What&amp;#x27;s your OS upgrade strategy? Failover? IPv6? VPN access? DMZ?&lt;p&gt;Basically, I think cloud provides a loooooot of details that you have to now take on yourself if you self-host (at least if you want to do it &amp;quot;legitimately and professionally&amp;quot; as a reliable service). It&amp;#x27;s not clearly a win-win.&lt;p&gt;That all said, I recently canceled my cloud9 dev account at amazon because the resources I needed were getting too expensive, and am self-hosting my new dev env in a VM and accessing it from anywhere via Tailscale, so that&amp;#x27;s been nice.</text></comment>

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<story><title>Comparative efficacy and acceptability of 21 antidepressant drugs</title><url>http://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(17)32802-7/fulltext</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jdietrich</author><text>&amp;gt;If I hadn&amp;#x27;t gotten a prescription for Prozac I probably would have killed myself by now.&lt;p&gt;The majority of people with depression just get better of their own accord, for no obvious reason. The NNT for most antidepressants is ~7, meaning you need to give them to about seven patients for one patient to see a clinically-significant improvement.&lt;p&gt;The evidence suggests that there&amp;#x27;s no significant relationship between SSRI use and suicide risk except for young people, for whom SSRIs may actually &lt;i&gt;increase&lt;/i&gt; the risk of suicidal behaviours and self-harm.&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov&amp;#x2F;pmc&amp;#x2F;articles&amp;#x2F;PMC3353604&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov&amp;#x2F;pmc&amp;#x2F;articles&amp;#x2F;PMC3353604&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt;If you can&amp;#x27;t make your own neurotransmitters, store bought are fine.&lt;p&gt;There is no evidence whatsoever that people with depression are &amp;quot;deficient&amp;quot; in neurotransmitters. We don&amp;#x27;t really understand the mechanism of action of any antidepressant. Plenty of drugs that have no effect whatsoever on serotonin are equally effective as SSRIs.&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov&amp;#x2F;pmc&amp;#x2F;articles&amp;#x2F;PMC4471964&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov&amp;#x2F;pmc&amp;#x2F;articles&amp;#x2F;PMC4471964&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;Antidepressants can be useful for some patients, but they aren&amp;#x27;t miracle drugs - they aren&amp;#x27;t even particularly good drugs. If you&amp;#x27;re depressed then you should certainly consider pharmacological treatment, but you should regard it as only one tool among many. Talking therapy is equally effective and the combination of drugs and talk therapy is more effective than either alone. You might need to try several different drugs before you find one that works for you and has tolerable side-effects, especially if you have been depressed for some time or have comorbid conditions. If your depressive symptoms are relatively mild, you should probably look at lifestyle interventions like diet, exercise, sleep hygiene and self-help before considering drug treatment.&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.nice.org.uk&amp;#x2F;guidance&amp;#x2F;cg90&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.nice.org.uk&amp;#x2F;guidance&amp;#x2F;cg90&lt;/a&gt;</text></item><item><author>amputect</author><text>I think that the United States is getting better about dealing with mental health, but we still have a long way to go. This is a little soap-boxy and anecdotal, and I apologize if it&amp;#x27;s inappropriate here.&lt;p&gt;If I hadn&amp;#x27;t gotten a prescription for Prozac I probably would have killed myself by now. And I definitely would have destroyed my marriage and most of my important friendships. That&amp;#x27;s not an over-dramatization, it&amp;#x27;s the honest truth just based on the direction my life was heading without them.&lt;p&gt;If you can&amp;#x27;t make your own neurotransmitters, store bought are fine. I&amp;#x27;m not writing this to say &amp;quot;RARGH YOU MUST USE THESE DRUGS&amp;quot;, but I absolutely am writing it to say &amp;quot;hey, this worked for me and got me out of a really dark and bad place&amp;quot;. If you are reading this from a dark and bad place, please know that you&amp;#x27;re not alone. You have a lot of options, and I promise that if you take that first step, things can get better.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>tachyoff</author><text>I agree with all of this, and I can’t help but ask: when did we start ignoring people’s environment and their circumstances? I have tens of thousands of dollars of student loan debt (my monthly payment is basically a mortgage payment) and I’m not particularly satisfied at work. Is it any wonder I find it impossible to get out of bed? Now, I try to be careful because, sure, perhaps the depression was already there and is just making my life complicated, but that seems less likely. I KNOW I’m not happy at work; I KNOW my debt burden makes me feel trapped and helpless. Look at Harlow’s monkeys. Turns out putting creatures in helpless, depressing environments makes them feel helpless and depressed. If seeing your friend get blown up by a roadside bomb can give you PTSD, couldn’t falling wages, no social safety net, stressful news media, crushing debt, and poor job mobility make you depressed?</text></comment>

<story><title>Comparative efficacy and acceptability of 21 antidepressant drugs</title><url>http://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(17)32802-7/fulltext</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jdietrich</author><text>&amp;gt;If I hadn&amp;#x27;t gotten a prescription for Prozac I probably would have killed myself by now.&lt;p&gt;The majority of people with depression just get better of their own accord, for no obvious reason. The NNT for most antidepressants is ~7, meaning you need to give them to about seven patients for one patient to see a clinically-significant improvement.&lt;p&gt;The evidence suggests that there&amp;#x27;s no significant relationship between SSRI use and suicide risk except for young people, for whom SSRIs may actually &lt;i&gt;increase&lt;/i&gt; the risk of suicidal behaviours and self-harm.&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov&amp;#x2F;pmc&amp;#x2F;articles&amp;#x2F;PMC3353604&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov&amp;#x2F;pmc&amp;#x2F;articles&amp;#x2F;PMC3353604&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt;If you can&amp;#x27;t make your own neurotransmitters, store bought are fine.&lt;p&gt;There is no evidence whatsoever that people with depression are &amp;quot;deficient&amp;quot; in neurotransmitters. We don&amp;#x27;t really understand the mechanism of action of any antidepressant. Plenty of drugs that have no effect whatsoever on serotonin are equally effective as SSRIs.&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov&amp;#x2F;pmc&amp;#x2F;articles&amp;#x2F;PMC4471964&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov&amp;#x2F;pmc&amp;#x2F;articles&amp;#x2F;PMC4471964&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;Antidepressants can be useful for some patients, but they aren&amp;#x27;t miracle drugs - they aren&amp;#x27;t even particularly good drugs. If you&amp;#x27;re depressed then you should certainly consider pharmacological treatment, but you should regard it as only one tool among many. Talking therapy is equally effective and the combination of drugs and talk therapy is more effective than either alone. You might need to try several different drugs before you find one that works for you and has tolerable side-effects, especially if you have been depressed for some time or have comorbid conditions. If your depressive symptoms are relatively mild, you should probably look at lifestyle interventions like diet, exercise, sleep hygiene and self-help before considering drug treatment.&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.nice.org.uk&amp;#x2F;guidance&amp;#x2F;cg90&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.nice.org.uk&amp;#x2F;guidance&amp;#x2F;cg90&lt;/a&gt;</text></item><item><author>amputect</author><text>I think that the United States is getting better about dealing with mental health, but we still have a long way to go. This is a little soap-boxy and anecdotal, and I apologize if it&amp;#x27;s inappropriate here.&lt;p&gt;If I hadn&amp;#x27;t gotten a prescription for Prozac I probably would have killed myself by now. And I definitely would have destroyed my marriage and most of my important friendships. That&amp;#x27;s not an over-dramatization, it&amp;#x27;s the honest truth just based on the direction my life was heading without them.&lt;p&gt;If you can&amp;#x27;t make your own neurotransmitters, store bought are fine. I&amp;#x27;m not writing this to say &amp;quot;RARGH YOU MUST USE THESE DRUGS&amp;quot;, but I absolutely am writing it to say &amp;quot;hey, this worked for me and got me out of a really dark and bad place&amp;quot;. If you are reading this from a dark and bad place, please know that you&amp;#x27;re not alone. You have a lot of options, and I promise that if you take that first step, things can get better.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>tyrex2017</author><text>NNT might be 7 for one drug and one try, but the therapist will try several drugs and doses.&lt;p&gt;I could imagine that NNT might significantly improve if you consider “use antidepressants” instead of “use 1 antidepressant 1 time”</text></comment>

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<story><title>The Intel ME subsystem can take over your machine, can&apos;t be audited</title><url>http://boingboing.net/2016/06/15/intel-x86-processors-ship-with.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>throw2016</author><text>This adds a whole new dimension to &amp;#x27;Intel Inside&amp;#x27;. It says exactly what anyone needs to know.&lt;p&gt;If it&amp;#x27;s for enterprise features as &amp;#x27;innocently&amp;#x27; suggested that those who do not need or want this feature should be able to put it off simply without drama, debate or discussion.&lt;p&gt;Its not surprising that both AMD and ARM have it. This is an orchestrated effort signifying the win of paranoia and security over privacy in the western world.&lt;p&gt;This war is being fought on too many fronts by well resourced and paranoid security agencies with all the tools to influence and the only defense would be individuals and our sense of right and wrong. But it seems individuals have been completely disempowered and reduced to survival mode and are not in a position to stand up for the right thing or even talk about it.&lt;p&gt;If &amp;#x27;moral&amp;#x27; individuals can so easily be quietened in well off economies then one wonders what happens in other economies where basic survival is a day to day fight. Who will fight the privacy war? The silence is deafening. It seems all the activism and racket from media, academics, NGOs and human rights organizations only come into play when a western political or strategic objective needs to be met.&lt;p&gt;There are many who believe that by working with and supporting security agencies they are somehow in the forefront of a nebulous fight of survival and freedom in a dark world. This &amp;#x27;dark world&amp;#x27; is a self created and self serving fantasy and comedy for grown, well adjusted and well read individuals to fall for that push humanity into a negative space.&lt;p&gt;It can be taken for granted unless conclusively proved otherwise with the burden of evidence swaying the other way that any technology coming out of the USA and Europe is compromised completely and the fight for privacy here has been lost.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Santosh83</author><text>This is simply a barrier of resources and technology. Let&amp;#x27;s consider how software became &amp;quot;free&amp;quot;. An idealist, an university and a motivated Finnish student, among many others, were able to create two complete, free operating systems and toolchains, on top of which anybody and everybody in the world could build. Now free software is a resounding reality and even increasingly adopted by large corps who were 100% closed in the past.&lt;p&gt;The germane question is, can a similar revolution happen for hardware? Can motivated individuals, or small groups of people, reasonably hope to design AND manufacture ALL the hardware for a modern computer? The answer is it&amp;#x27;s quite beyond the bounds of possibility. The tech is too complex, too closely guarded and manufacturing has HUGE upfront costs.&lt;p&gt;THAT is why hardware is currently completely dominated by a few big players, which allows them (and any other &amp;quot;agencies&amp;quot;) complete control to essentially do as they wish.&lt;p&gt;We were able to make software creation egalitarian. Unless we can do the same for hardware (from ground-up), we will be ultimately controlled and never be in full control.</text></comment>

<story><title>The Intel ME subsystem can take over your machine, can&apos;t be audited</title><url>http://boingboing.net/2016/06/15/intel-x86-processors-ship-with.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>throw2016</author><text>This adds a whole new dimension to &amp;#x27;Intel Inside&amp;#x27;. It says exactly what anyone needs to know.&lt;p&gt;If it&amp;#x27;s for enterprise features as &amp;#x27;innocently&amp;#x27; suggested that those who do not need or want this feature should be able to put it off simply without drama, debate or discussion.&lt;p&gt;Its not surprising that both AMD and ARM have it. This is an orchestrated effort signifying the win of paranoia and security over privacy in the western world.&lt;p&gt;This war is being fought on too many fronts by well resourced and paranoid security agencies with all the tools to influence and the only defense would be individuals and our sense of right and wrong. But it seems individuals have been completely disempowered and reduced to survival mode and are not in a position to stand up for the right thing or even talk about it.&lt;p&gt;If &amp;#x27;moral&amp;#x27; individuals can so easily be quietened in well off economies then one wonders what happens in other economies where basic survival is a day to day fight. Who will fight the privacy war? The silence is deafening. It seems all the activism and racket from media, academics, NGOs and human rights organizations only come into play when a western political or strategic objective needs to be met.&lt;p&gt;There are many who believe that by working with and supporting security agencies they are somehow in the forefront of a nebulous fight of survival and freedom in a dark world. This &amp;#x27;dark world&amp;#x27; is a self created and self serving fantasy and comedy for grown, well adjusted and well read individuals to fall for that push humanity into a negative space.&lt;p&gt;It can be taken for granted unless conclusively proved otherwise with the burden of evidence swaying the other way that any technology coming out of the USA and Europe is compromised completely and the fight for privacy here has been lost.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>qb45</author><text>This cruft doesn&amp;#x27;t need three letter agencies to exist. Big customers pay for it so it&amp;#x27;s done. Once it&amp;#x27;s done, it&amp;#x27;s easier to leave it there and soft-disable for people who haven&amp;#x27;t paid for it than to actually build two versions of the chip, with and without this feature.&lt;p&gt;However, speaking of spooks, I heard rumors that either Intel AMT or BIOS or some drivers (don&amp;#x27;t remember which exactly) is sold to the Chinese market with castrated crypto. Reportedly it&amp;#x27;s because the Chinese government requires imported crypto to be just strong enough to resist average guy, but not their supercomputers.</text></comment>

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<story><title>TikTok-owner ByteDance planning to layoff thousands in coming months</title><url>https://www.firstpost.com/world/tiktok-owner-bytedance-planning-to-layoff-thousands-in-coming-months-in-china-12185652.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>gregdoesit</author><text>In what is interesting, TikTok &amp;#x2F; ByteDance was on an absolute hiring spree for devs October to January for sure, while most other tech companies took the back seat or did cuts. Here’s data I got my hands on, comparing the number of “software engineer” positions at companies and ByteDance stands out unmissably:&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;twitter.com&amp;#x2F;gergelyorosz&amp;#x2F;status&amp;#x2F;1628831860611506178&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;twitter.com&amp;#x2F;gergelyorosz&amp;#x2F;status&amp;#x2F;1628831860611506178&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;Makes me wonder how they missed the memo that Meta got by October&amp;#x2F;November, Google and Amazon also by end of year: that the market is slowing.&lt;p&gt;I assumed Bytedance had just as good - if not better - data on the market than eg Meta, but Meta seems to have responded far far earlier to what looks like a stagnating market for as spend, than TikTok.</text></comment>

<story><title>TikTok-owner ByteDance planning to layoff thousands in coming months</title><url>https://www.firstpost.com/world/tiktok-owner-bytedance-planning-to-layoff-thousands-in-coming-months-in-china-12185652.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>morelinks</author><text>I don’t work in tech (and my question here will prove that) but how does a company lay off 10,000 people without seriously harming their product or ceasing products all together? Is tech that bloated? What are people doing all day where it’s realistic to lay of 10,000 people?</text></comment>

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<story><title>Solomon Golomb (1932–2016)</title><url>http://blog.stephenwolfram.com/2016/05/solomon-golomb-19322016/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>cwilkes</author><text>&amp;gt; Most of the scientists and mathematicians I know I met first through professional connections. But not Sol Golomb. It was 1981, and I was at Caltech, a 21-year-old physicist who’d just received some media attention from being the youngest in the first batch of MacArthur award recipients.&lt;p&gt;Man, Stephen can #humblebrag the shit out of anything, including the death of a famous mathematician</text></comment>

<story><title>Solomon Golomb (1932–2016)</title><url>http://blog.stephenwolfram.com/2016/05/solomon-golomb-19322016/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>JoeDaDude</author><text>I am lucky to have attended the small symposium at Villanova University only a few weeks ago where Golomb was presented the Franklin Institute Award in electrical engineering. One of those in attendance was Dr. Andrew Viterbi, known for another significant contribution to telecommunications.&lt;p&gt;A short video of Golomb&amp;#x27;s accomplishments is available here at the Franklin Institute website: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.fi.edu&amp;#x2F;laureates&amp;#x2F;solomon-w-golomb&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.fi.edu&amp;#x2F;laureates&amp;#x2F;solomon-w-golomb&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>

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<story><title>The Vietnamese military has an actual troll army and Facebook is its weapon</title><url>https://restofworld.org/2023/force-47-vietnam-military-group-facebook/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>system16</author><text>So Facebook is complicit in allowing its platform to be weaponized by the state against all speakers of Vietnamese (in and outside of the country). When questioned, they simply shrug their shoulders and say &amp;quot;if we did anything to stop this, our platform would be banned in Vietnam.&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;m beyond the point of expecting anything more from Facebook, but I would think the US government should have some leverage here. Vietnam is not the powerhouse that China is (yet), so if a major US company were banned because it applied the same rules it applies to every other country, I&amp;#x27;d expect that to be a violation of their WTO commitments.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>arp242</author><text>To view Facebook as &amp;quot;complicit&amp;quot; is probably not the right way to view things. The fact of the matter is that at scale, it&amp;#x27;s almost impossible to prevent these kind of thing. Facebook is &amp;quot;complicit&amp;quot; in the same way that, say, the W3C is &amp;quot;complicit&amp;quot;: by providing the tools.&lt;p&gt;Could Facebook be doing better or more? Probably. But they are surrounded by malicious actors from all sides, ranging from people who issue coordinated takedown requests like in this story to people who use Facebook to maliciously push &amp;quot;fake news&amp;quot; stories to just banal and boring spammers to outright scams. Balancing this all out and keeping a grip on things at scale is very hard, perhaps even impossible.&lt;p&gt;Even HN would be vulnerable to these kind of attacks; HN&amp;#x27;s scale is much smaller than Facebook&amp;#x27;s but still much too large for anyone to really get a &amp;quot;grip&amp;quot; on. A few years ago one of my stories got flagged[1], and while I&amp;#x27;m probably biased I don&amp;#x27;t think it should be (I probably should have email dang about it, but I didn&amp;#x27;t post it myself and didn&amp;#x27;t really want to bother him with it). Was it &amp;quot;coordinated&amp;quot;? Probably not. The end result is the same though: people abuse the &amp;quot;flag&amp;quot; feature to hide stories they would prefer to not be seen. I also know for a fact that some companies will coordinate employees to upvote comments and stories because I worked for a company that did this.&lt;p&gt;Is HN currently under attack from coordinated flagging? Maybe, maybe not. I would be surprised if it hasn&amp;#x27;t happened on at least &lt;i&gt;some&lt;/i&gt; occasions, and the only reason it doesn&amp;#x27;t happen more often is that it&amp;#x27;s small enough to fly under the radar for most of these kind of government agencies.&lt;p&gt;I think it&amp;#x27;s important to have a good understanding of the situation as only with a good understanding can you come up with a good solution. &amp;quot;Facebook bad&amp;quot; may or may not be true, but it is not a good understanding of things.&lt;p&gt;[1]: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&amp;#x2F;item?id=26579225&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&amp;#x2F;item?id=26579225&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>

<story><title>The Vietnamese military has an actual troll army and Facebook is its weapon</title><url>https://restofworld.org/2023/force-47-vietnam-military-group-facebook/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>system16</author><text>So Facebook is complicit in allowing its platform to be weaponized by the state against all speakers of Vietnamese (in and outside of the country). When questioned, they simply shrug their shoulders and say &amp;quot;if we did anything to stop this, our platform would be banned in Vietnam.&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;m beyond the point of expecting anything more from Facebook, but I would think the US government should have some leverage here. Vietnam is not the powerhouse that China is (yet), so if a major US company were banned because it applied the same rules it applies to every other country, I&amp;#x27;d expect that to be a violation of their WTO commitments.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>kornhole</author><text>Does Facebook have rules that are consistently applied to every country? AFAIK, Facebook complies with the local governments&amp;#x27; requirements everywhere it operates even though they will occasionally publicize some resistance.</text></comment>

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<story><title>“Meta spent almost as much as the Manhattan Project on GPUs in today&apos;s dollars”</title><url>https://twitter.com/emollick/status/1786213463456448900</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>marcosdumay</author><text>So... A single company has just spent about 0.1% of the US GDP in a pet project, and it&amp;#x27;s not even the leading one on the market?&lt;p&gt;That&amp;#x27;s just incredible, and not a good thing.</text></item><item><author>maratc</author><text>Both the Manhattan Project and the Apollo Program were 0.4% of GDP. With today&amp;#x27;s GDP of $27T, $108B would be equal — Meta have only spent less than a third of that on GPUs.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mlsu</author><text>I would challenge that a little bit -- I think it is a good thing, given that they have open-sourced the results of the project.&lt;p&gt;It seems to me to be far better than a company which simply gives 0.1% of US GDP back to shareholders in the form of dividends or stock buybacks, which is a very common occurrence given the size of companies nowadays. Or worse, a company which spends 0.1% of US GDP manufacturing things that are wholly useless or even actively damaging to consumers, the environment, etc.</text></comment>

<story><title>“Meta spent almost as much as the Manhattan Project on GPUs in today&apos;s dollars”</title><url>https://twitter.com/emollick/status/1786213463456448900</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>marcosdumay</author><text>So... A single company has just spent about 0.1% of the US GDP in a pet project, and it&amp;#x27;s not even the leading one on the market?&lt;p&gt;That&amp;#x27;s just incredible, and not a good thing.</text></item><item><author>maratc</author><text>Both the Manhattan Project and the Apollo Program were 0.4% of GDP. With today&amp;#x27;s GDP of $27T, $108B would be equal — Meta have only spent less than a third of that on GPUs.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>chii</author><text>Why not? If someone is willing to make large bets like that, all the more power to them.&lt;p&gt;Society has (and should) continue to become wealthier. The laws that govern us has improved from the medieval days where money is everything, so just because a private entity is able to spend a lot doesn&amp;#x27;t imply there&amp;#x27;s anything untoward.</text></comment>

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<story><title>Build Unix, Not Uber</title><url>https://thesephist.com/posts/legacy/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Animats</author><text>An alternative to the corporation is the chaord. This is an idea that went nowhere. Except that Visa International was a chaord. A chaord is useful when you have a shared resource that&amp;#x27;s needed by competing entities. That&amp;#x27;s exactly what Visa International was set up to be. It&amp;#x27;s an operator of a data network and a standards body. It doesn&amp;#x27;t issue cards. It doesn&amp;#x27;t handle money. It just transmits transaction data between point of sale, merchant&amp;#x27;s bank, and card issuer&amp;#x27;s bank. It&amp;#x27;s in the interests of all the banks involved that it work well, be a neutral party, and not cost too much. A chaord is useful when you have something that&amp;#x27;s a natural monopoly, but the customers don&amp;#x27;t want it charging monopoly rents. It&amp;#x27;s not idealistic. It&amp;#x27;s a practical solution to that class of problems.&lt;p&gt;Dee Hock, an executive of a minor bank, set this up. The big banks wanted someone relatively neutral in charge of the Visa system. (He died just two weeks ago, I just found out.) His optimistic book, &amp;quot;Birth of the Chaordic Age&amp;quot;, is still available.&lt;p&gt;There used to be a &amp;quot;chaord&amp;quot; article on Wikipedia, but it was merged into Dee Hock&amp;#x27;s article after Visa became an ordinary corporation.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>m_mueller</author><text>There’s also the cooperative. Here in Switzerland they are rather popular - some of the biggest banks, insurances and property owners, and more notably, the two largest supermarket chains (making up &amp;gt;80% of food &amp;#x2F; non food market) are organised this way. Your customers could be part of the ownership structure of your company, which creates a strong loyalty effect and a focus on organic &amp;amp; vertical growth rather than growth just for the sake of beating quarterly numbers.</text></comment>

<story><title>Build Unix, Not Uber</title><url>https://thesephist.com/posts/legacy/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Animats</author><text>An alternative to the corporation is the chaord. This is an idea that went nowhere. Except that Visa International was a chaord. A chaord is useful when you have a shared resource that&amp;#x27;s needed by competing entities. That&amp;#x27;s exactly what Visa International was set up to be. It&amp;#x27;s an operator of a data network and a standards body. It doesn&amp;#x27;t issue cards. It doesn&amp;#x27;t handle money. It just transmits transaction data between point of sale, merchant&amp;#x27;s bank, and card issuer&amp;#x27;s bank. It&amp;#x27;s in the interests of all the banks involved that it work well, be a neutral party, and not cost too much. A chaord is useful when you have something that&amp;#x27;s a natural monopoly, but the customers don&amp;#x27;t want it charging monopoly rents. It&amp;#x27;s not idealistic. It&amp;#x27;s a practical solution to that class of problems.&lt;p&gt;Dee Hock, an executive of a minor bank, set this up. The big banks wanted someone relatively neutral in charge of the Visa system. (He died just two weeks ago, I just found out.) His optimistic book, &amp;quot;Birth of the Chaordic Age&amp;quot;, is still available.&lt;p&gt;There used to be a &amp;quot;chaord&amp;quot; article on Wikipedia, but it was merged into Dee Hock&amp;#x27;s article after Visa became an ordinary corporation.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>spideymans</author><text>There might be potential for this chaord idea in telecommunications and utilities.</text></comment>

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<story><title>Sigils are underappreciated (2022)</title><url>https://raku-advent.blog/2022/12/20/sigils/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jerf</author><text>I like to rate programming language&amp;#x27;s features not by how much I use them when I&amp;#x27;m in the given language, or how good they make me feel, but by how much I miss them when I&amp;#x27;m in a different language, once I&amp;#x27;m fluent in that language and writing in the native idiom. (This is important. If you&amp;#x27;re still trying to write X in Y, yes, you&amp;#x27;ll miss the features from X, but that&amp;#x27;s not a useful data point.)&lt;p&gt;By this metric, rather a lot of features turn out to be less important than they may seem at first. Many things are a zero on this scale that I think might surprise people still on their second or third language. From this perspective you start judging not whether a language has this or that exact feature that is a solution to a problem that you are used to, but whether it has a solution at all, and how good it is on its own terms.&lt;p&gt;So while sigils have a lot of company in this, they are also a flat zero for me on this scale. Never ever missed them. I did a decade+ of Perl as my main language, so it&amp;#x27;s not for lack of exposure.&lt;p&gt;(As an example of something that does pass this test: Closures. Hard to use anything lacking them, though as this seems to be a popular opinion nowadays, almost everything has them. But I&amp;#x27;m old enough to remember them being a controversial feature. Also, at this point, static types. Despite my decades of dynamic typed languages, I hate going back to dynamic languages anymore. YMMV.)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>derefr</author><text>&amp;gt; So while sigils have a lot of company in this, they are also a flat zero for me on this scale. Never ever missed them. I did a decade+ of Perl as my main language, so it&amp;#x27;s not for lack of exposure.&lt;p&gt;I tend to miss one specific sigil (or pair of sigils): the @ and @@ sigils in Ruby, that mean &amp;quot;instance variable&amp;quot; and &amp;quot;class variable&amp;quot; respectively. Having identifier shadowing between stack-locals, and what Java would call &amp;quot;members&amp;quot; and &amp;quot;statics&amp;quot;, be &lt;i&gt;literally impossible&lt;/i&gt;, is just so nice. Especially when you get it &amp;quot;for free&amp;quot; in terms of verbosity, rather than needing to type `self.class.` or something.&lt;p&gt;I also really quite interned-string-literal : sigils in Ruby&amp;#x2F;Elixir — though I&amp;#x27;d be equally fine with the Prolog&amp;#x2F;Erlang approach of barewords being symbols and identifiers needing to be capitalized. As long as there&amp;#x27;s &lt;i&gt;some&lt;/i&gt; concise syntax for interned strings, especially in the context of dictionary keys. Because otherwise people just won&amp;#x27;t use them, even when they&amp;#x27;re there in the language. (See: Java, Python, ECMA6.)&lt;p&gt;Speaking of Elixir, the &amp;quot;universal sigil&amp;quot; ~ is kind of amazing. Define a macro sigil_h&amp;#x2F;2, and you can suddenly write ~h&amp;#x2F;foo&amp;#x2F;bar (or ~h[foo]bar, or whatever other delimiter works to best avoid the need for escaping), and foo and bar will be passed to sigil_h&amp;#x2F;2 as un-evaluated AST nodes to do with as you please. The language gives you ~w by default (which works like Ruby %w); but more interestingly, Regex literals in Elixir are just sigil_r.</text></comment>

<story><title>Sigils are underappreciated (2022)</title><url>https://raku-advent.blog/2022/12/20/sigils/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jerf</author><text>I like to rate programming language&amp;#x27;s features not by how much I use them when I&amp;#x27;m in the given language, or how good they make me feel, but by how much I miss them when I&amp;#x27;m in a different language, once I&amp;#x27;m fluent in that language and writing in the native idiom. (This is important. If you&amp;#x27;re still trying to write X in Y, yes, you&amp;#x27;ll miss the features from X, but that&amp;#x27;s not a useful data point.)&lt;p&gt;By this metric, rather a lot of features turn out to be less important than they may seem at first. Many things are a zero on this scale that I think might surprise people still on their second or third language. From this perspective you start judging not whether a language has this or that exact feature that is a solution to a problem that you are used to, but whether it has a solution at all, and how good it is on its own terms.&lt;p&gt;So while sigils have a lot of company in this, they are also a flat zero for me on this scale. Never ever missed them. I did a decade+ of Perl as my main language, so it&amp;#x27;s not for lack of exposure.&lt;p&gt;(As an example of something that does pass this test: Closures. Hard to use anything lacking them, though as this seems to be a popular opinion nowadays, almost everything has them. But I&amp;#x27;m old enough to remember them being a controversial feature. Also, at this point, static types. Despite my decades of dynamic typed languages, I hate going back to dynamic languages anymore. YMMV.)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Swizec</author><text>Thanks for putting into words something that was on the edge of my mind, but never quite graspable.&lt;p&gt;Two more examples (for me?) of features that I find you really miss in a language even if you’re fluent in the local idioms: First-class functions and pattern matching.&lt;p&gt;Passing functions as values is &lt;i&gt;so nice&lt;/i&gt; and afaik most modern languages have that feature nowadays. But I remember when it used to blow people’s minds.&lt;p&gt;Pattern matching is something I’ve missed ever since having it in Haskell. Such an elegant solution to a problem that you have just often enough that the typical native approach feels clunky.</text></comment>

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<story><title>Root exploit on Exynos</title><url>http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=35469999#post35469999</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>RyanZAG</author><text>This is a pretty serious security risk and it&apos;s highly recommended to make yourself immune ASAP. This is the kind of exploit that can go viral very quickly in Google Play and the results of a malicious process with root access can be very severe.&lt;p&gt;If your device is rooted, here is a very simple app that will let you toggle world-access permissions to the file and secure your device (until a true fix is released)&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://github.com/Ryan-ZA/exynosfix&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https://github.com/Ryan-ZA/exynosfix&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://github.com/Ryan-ZA/exynosfix/raw/master/exynosfix.apk&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https://github.com/Ryan-ZA/exynosfix/raw/master/exynosfix.ap...&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>

<story><title>Root exploit on Exynos</title><url>http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=35469999#post35469999</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>hosay123</author><text>It&apos;s painful to watch Android deal with endemic security problems that Windows began addressing over a decade ago. Note this isn&apos;t the first occurrence of crapware resulting from OS customization ending up on a few million Android devices, I remember at least one more vendor shipping a setuid root binary.&lt;p&gt;Can anyone comment on Windows 8&apos;s customization model from the manufacturer&apos;s perspective? A wild guess is that something like this is much less likely: even if a driver leaves some kernel object unsecured, access is difficult given how heavily walled off native APIs are on WinRT.</text></comment>

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<story><title>Coinbase Announces 18% Layoffs</title><url>https://blog.coinbase.com/a-message-from-coinbase-ceo-and-cofounder-brian-armstrong-578d76eedb12</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>a_chris</author><text>This is absolutely untrue. In Europe we work several days&amp;#x2F;weeks after the layoff notice. You can fire people from the night to the morning only in US</text></item><item><author>nemo44x</author><text>Pretty standard to not let terminated employees hang around. It feels cold but it’s just the way it has to be. Sone places will even do this when an employee submits a resignation on good terms. Just a way for the company to cover themselves.</text></item><item><author>Barrera</author><text>&amp;gt; If you are affected, you will receive this notification in your personal email, because we made the decision to cut access to Coinbase systems for affected employees. I realize that removal of access will feel sudden and unexpected, and this is not the experience I wanted for you. Given the number of employees who have access to sensitive customer information, it was unfortunately the only practical choice, to ensure not even a single person made a rash decision that harmed the business or themselves.&lt;p&gt;How typical is this? Is he really talking about the hot wallet and&amp;#x2F;or cold storage?&lt;p&gt;Those claiming that this is a &amp;quot;crypto&amp;quot; sentiment thing should consider the possibility that the front page of HN will be filled with stories like this from all over the economy within one month.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>NikolaNovak</author><text>We may be mixing things up.&lt;p&gt;You can definitely be paid laid off employee for a period of time, &lt;i&gt;while&lt;/i&gt; having your access revoked. They&amp;#x27;re completely orthogonal. Depends on role, company, situation. It&amp;#x27;s an assessment and tradeoff - is it worth &amp;#x2F; do I need the next two weeks of work and KT from this person, vs the risk of having access.&lt;p&gt;The notion of revoking security access to limit risk is &lt;i&gt;definitely&lt;/i&gt; not a US thing.</text></comment>

<story><title>Coinbase Announces 18% Layoffs</title><url>https://blog.coinbase.com/a-message-from-coinbase-ceo-and-cofounder-brian-armstrong-578d76eedb12</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>a_chris</author><text>This is absolutely untrue. In Europe we work several days&amp;#x2F;weeks after the layoff notice. You can fire people from the night to the morning only in US</text></item><item><author>nemo44x</author><text>Pretty standard to not let terminated employees hang around. It feels cold but it’s just the way it has to be. Sone places will even do this when an employee submits a resignation on good terms. Just a way for the company to cover themselves.</text></item><item><author>Barrera</author><text>&amp;gt; If you are affected, you will receive this notification in your personal email, because we made the decision to cut access to Coinbase systems for affected employees. I realize that removal of access will feel sudden and unexpected, and this is not the experience I wanted for you. Given the number of employees who have access to sensitive customer information, it was unfortunately the only practical choice, to ensure not even a single person made a rash decision that harmed the business or themselves.&lt;p&gt;How typical is this? Is he really talking about the hot wallet and&amp;#x2F;or cold storage?&lt;p&gt;Those claiming that this is a &amp;quot;crypto&amp;quot; sentiment thing should consider the possibility that the front page of HN will be filled with stories like this from all over the economy within one month.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>kamyarg</author><text>I have seen people fired in the morning and their access cutoff by noon and them being asked to go on &amp;quot;gardening leave&amp;quot; in Europe.&lt;p&gt;This is rare but depends on your manager, if they don&amp;#x27;t want you around. You will still be paid for the remaining of your &amp;quot;employment&amp;quot; but will not be working.</text></comment>

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<story><title>WakeMate Update</title><url>http://blog.wakemate.com/2012/06/27/wakemate-update/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>swombat</author><text>There&apos;s no such thing as &quot;was a cofounder&quot;. Once you&apos;re a cofounder, you always are, even if you&apos;re kicked out of your company or leave for any reason. Steve Jobs was still cofounder of Apple when he was kicked out of it.</text></item><item><author>spydertennis</author><text>Oops, the information on that page is outdated. Greg is a co-founder of WakeMate.&lt;p&gt;Edit: as per swombat&apos;s comment below changed &quot;was&quot; to &quot;is&quot;</text></item><item><author>csmeder</author><text>Interesting Greg Nemeth is listed as on WakeMate&apos;s about page &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.wakemate.com/about/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.wakemate.com/about/&lt;/a&gt; as a cofounder of the company that produces WakeMate.&lt;p&gt;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt; &quot;Greg Nemeth is Co-Founder and President of Perfect Third, Inc. He manages WakeMate’s finances, communications, and marketing strategy. Greg studied business at Boston College until he left to pursue WakeMate full-time.&quot; &lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt; According to this blog post he seems to have secretly started a competing company and used WakeMates email list? &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.indiegogo.com/MiLifePlus&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.indiegogo.com/MiLifePlus&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;Its a shame WakeMate didn&apos;t end up succeeding, it was one of my favorite YC startup ideas.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>paulgb</author><text>If you really want to be pedantic, if he &lt;i&gt;is&lt;/i&gt; a cofounder, he &lt;i&gt;was&lt;/i&gt; a cofounder too. As Mitch Hedberg said, &quot;I used to do drugs. I still do, but I used to too&quot;</text></comment>

<story><title>WakeMate Update</title><url>http://blog.wakemate.com/2012/06/27/wakemate-update/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>swombat</author><text>There&apos;s no such thing as &quot;was a cofounder&quot;. Once you&apos;re a cofounder, you always are, even if you&apos;re kicked out of your company or leave for any reason. Steve Jobs was still cofounder of Apple when he was kicked out of it.</text></item><item><author>spydertennis</author><text>Oops, the information on that page is outdated. Greg is a co-founder of WakeMate.&lt;p&gt;Edit: as per swombat&apos;s comment below changed &quot;was&quot; to &quot;is&quot;</text></item><item><author>csmeder</author><text>Interesting Greg Nemeth is listed as on WakeMate&apos;s about page &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.wakemate.com/about/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.wakemate.com/about/&lt;/a&gt; as a cofounder of the company that produces WakeMate.&lt;p&gt;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt; &quot;Greg Nemeth is Co-Founder and President of Perfect Third, Inc. He manages WakeMate’s finances, communications, and marketing strategy. Greg studied business at Boston College until he left to pursue WakeMate full-time.&quot; &lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt; According to this blog post he seems to have secretly started a competing company and used WakeMates email list? &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.indiegogo.com/MiLifePlus&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.indiegogo.com/MiLifePlus&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;Its a shame WakeMate didn&apos;t end up succeeding, it was one of my favorite YC startup ideas.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>alanh</author><text>What about the reverse? If one co-founder leaves, does that make you “founder” and not co-founder?</text></comment>

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<story><title>‘Films are vulnerable’: The battle to preserve Eastern Europe’s analogue movies (2022)</title><url>https://www.calvertjournal.com/features/show/13454/films-are-vulnerable-the-battle-to-preserve-eastern-europes-films</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>TedDoesntTalk</author><text>If you want to watch some of these films and other old East European films with English subtitles:&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;easterneuropeanmovies.com&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;easterneuropeanmovies.com&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;Searchable by decade and by country</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>AntoniusBlock</author><text>Very cool! Here are some of my favourite Eastern European films, in case anyone wants recommendations.&lt;p&gt;Poland:&lt;p&gt;Rękopis znaleziony w Saragossie (1965) !!!!&lt;p&gt;Sanatorium pod klepsydrą (1973) !!!!&lt;p&gt;Ziemia obiecana (1975) !!!!&lt;p&gt;Osobisty pamiętnik grzesznika przez niego samego spisany (1986)&lt;p&gt;Pociąg (1959)&lt;p&gt;Pokolenie (1955)&lt;p&gt;Kanal (1957) !!!!&lt;p&gt;Popiół i diament (1958)&lt;p&gt;Czechoslovakia:&lt;p&gt;Holubice (1960) !!!!&lt;p&gt;Ostře sledované vlaky (1966)&lt;p&gt;Marketa Lazarova (1967) !!!!&lt;p&gt;Obrazy starého sveta (1972)&lt;p&gt;Spalovač mrtvol (1969) !!!!&lt;p&gt;Slnko v sieti (1962)&lt;p&gt;Zlaté kapradí (1963)&lt;p&gt;Údolí včel (1968)&lt;p&gt;Hungary:&lt;p&gt;Csillagosok, katonák (1967)&lt;p&gt;A Pál utcai fiúk (1968)&lt;p&gt;A tanú (1969) !!!!&lt;p&gt;Kárhozat (1988)&lt;p&gt;Két félidő a pokolban (1961)&lt;p&gt;Az ötödik pecsét (1976)&lt;p&gt;Szegénylegények (1966)&lt;p&gt;Szindbád (1971)&lt;p&gt;Szürkület (1990) !!!!&lt;p&gt;NOTE: the films with !!!! next to them are my absolute favourites and if you don&amp;#x27;t have time to watch all of these films, I implore you to at least watch these.</text></comment>

<story><title>‘Films are vulnerable’: The battle to preserve Eastern Europe’s analogue movies (2022)</title><url>https://www.calvertjournal.com/features/show/13454/films-are-vulnerable-the-battle-to-preserve-eastern-europes-films</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>TedDoesntTalk</author><text>If you want to watch some of these films and other old East European films with English subtitles:&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;easterneuropeanmovies.com&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;easterneuropeanmovies.com&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;Searchable by decade and by country</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>traceroute66</author><text>See also &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;35mm.online&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;35mm.online&lt;/a&gt; for Polish films</text></comment>

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<story><title>AirPods Pro</title><url>https://www.apple.com/airpods-pro/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>whalesalad</author><text>I really struggled to take the plunge on the original AirPods and it has been one of my top 10 purchases ever in my life without a doubt. I stood there holding the little $200 box in my hand and really danced back and forth in my mind about whether or not they would really be necessary. If they broke, I would go buy a new pair immediately.&lt;p&gt;For what they are, the sound is amazing. I can&amp;#x27;t really do a phone call anymore without them. Working on my car, doing dishes, going for a jog, taking the dogs on a walk, the pods are goin&amp;#x27; in.&lt;p&gt;My wife finally made the switch from Android (she had mulitple Samsung Galaxy devices) to iOS w&amp;#x2F; an XS and she is also hopelessly addicted to the new ecosystem and her AirPods. We had a running joke for years that she would never switch teams but now she is 100% stoked on Apple gear.&lt;p&gt;I am not in the market for anything like this, since I have the high-end spectrum covered w&amp;#x2F; some Sony over the ear noise cancelling cans but if I was I would give these a shot in a new york minute.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>gamblor956</author><text>I&amp;#x27;ve demoed my $25 Anker or mpow earbuds (the Airpod-likes) to many coworkers sporting Airpods and they&amp;#x27;re universally astounded by the quality of the cheaper buds. I&amp;#x27;ve converted quite a few people who lost their Airpods.&lt;p&gt;The chead buds don&amp;#x27;t sound quite as good as Airpods, but they&amp;#x27;re 85% of the way there, fit better, can actually handle the rain and sweat without breaking down, can be used during exercise without falling out, and they cost a fraction of the price.</text></comment>

<story><title>AirPods Pro</title><url>https://www.apple.com/airpods-pro/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>whalesalad</author><text>I really struggled to take the plunge on the original AirPods and it has been one of my top 10 purchases ever in my life without a doubt. I stood there holding the little $200 box in my hand and really danced back and forth in my mind about whether or not they would really be necessary. If they broke, I would go buy a new pair immediately.&lt;p&gt;For what they are, the sound is amazing. I can&amp;#x27;t really do a phone call anymore without them. Working on my car, doing dishes, going for a jog, taking the dogs on a walk, the pods are goin&amp;#x27; in.&lt;p&gt;My wife finally made the switch from Android (she had mulitple Samsung Galaxy devices) to iOS w&amp;#x2F; an XS and she is also hopelessly addicted to the new ecosystem and her AirPods. We had a running joke for years that she would never switch teams but now she is 100% stoked on Apple gear.&lt;p&gt;I am not in the market for anything like this, since I have the high-end spectrum covered w&amp;#x2F; some Sony over the ear noise cancelling cans but if I was I would give these a shot in a new york minute.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>diffeomorphism</author><text>You don&amp;#x27;t really mention why? Why are they better than wireless earbuds by Sennheiser, Amazon, Google etc?</text></comment>

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<story><title>From Node.js to Go</title><url>http://blog.scaledrone.com/posts/nodejs-to-go</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>Gonzih</author><text>This blog post feels very empty. No code snippets? No actuall before after benchmarks&amp;#x2F;graphs? How can you state anything without showing numbers?</text></comment>

<story><title>From Node.js to Go</title><url>http://blog.scaledrone.com/posts/nodejs-to-go</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>fighting</author><text>Go seems to be still a bit of a black box in terms of performance&amp;#x2F;memory profiling.&lt;p&gt;On one recent project, the go memory profiler was showing about 35MB allocated while top showed memory usage at 500MB to 1GB. In another instance the performance profiler would show microseconds elapsed while the user experienced tens of minutes with no response from the program.&lt;p&gt;I really think they should consider including a function level profiler instead of just a sampler, as well as provide more insight&amp;#x2F;control over all the goroutines that are generated.&lt;p&gt;Just saying golang is better than node.js may not be saying all that much.</text></comment>

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<story><title>Passenger with “no idea how to fly” lands plane after pilot incapacitated</title><url>https://www.cbsnews.com/news/passenger-lands-plane-palm-beach-airport-pilot-medical-emergency/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>hgomersall</author><text>Genuine question, is my experience playing Microsoft flight simulator any use in being able to answer those questions, because it certainly feels like I can say something sensible about them.</text></item><item><author>whimsicalism</author><text>Listening to the audio of the conversation, it doesn&amp;#x27;t seem like the passenger has no flying experience...&lt;p&gt;At minimum they must have spent significant time around aviation or be ex-military.&lt;p&gt;e: From another comment on Reddit&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; Examples: &amp;gt; The passenger knew what button to press on the yoke to transmit to ATC. &amp;gt; The passenger knew aviation phraseology and phonetics “333 Lima Delta”. &amp;gt; The passenger knew where the altimeter was and his altitude “I’m maintaining 9100 feet” &amp;gt; Passenger was able to identify the transponder and enter a squawk code. &amp;gt; Passenger knew what the vertical speed indicator was “I’m descending right now at 550 feet a minute passing 8640 feet”. &amp;gt; My wife, who flies with me regularly, might get one or two of those items, but probably couldn&amp;#x27;t point out the transponder, much less enter a squawk code without instructions.</text></item><item><author>civil_engineer</author><text>Pilot here. I&amp;#x27;m floored that a person with no flying experience could put this airplane down without a scratch.&lt;p&gt;Air traffic controllers are not necessarily pilots, but luckily, this one was a pilot and certified instructor. ATC and passenger worked through a stressful situation to produce an amazing outcome. Bravo!</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>kenrik</author><text>Pilot here: It could help with some familiarity but generally in MSFS you can get away with ignoring the gauges and just mess around. The tutorial might gloss over some of it.&lt;p&gt;Having an unbelievable number of hours in MSFS when I was a kid ... landing a real plane is considerably harder and a ton of instruction time is just focused on getting you to land reliably. I finished my PPL in just over 40hrs which is close to the minimum. Most people will fall into the 60-100hr pool.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;m dubious that this passenger really had zero experience it takes a good 6-10hrs to get decent at landing (as in not bending metal).&lt;p&gt;MSFS does however offer a reasonable feeling for the cruise portion of a flight.</text></comment>

<story><title>Passenger with “no idea how to fly” lands plane after pilot incapacitated</title><url>https://www.cbsnews.com/news/passenger-lands-plane-palm-beach-airport-pilot-medical-emergency/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>hgomersall</author><text>Genuine question, is my experience playing Microsoft flight simulator any use in being able to answer those questions, because it certainly feels like I can say something sensible about them.</text></item><item><author>whimsicalism</author><text>Listening to the audio of the conversation, it doesn&amp;#x27;t seem like the passenger has no flying experience...&lt;p&gt;At minimum they must have spent significant time around aviation or be ex-military.&lt;p&gt;e: From another comment on Reddit&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; Examples: &amp;gt; The passenger knew what button to press on the yoke to transmit to ATC. &amp;gt; The passenger knew aviation phraseology and phonetics “333 Lima Delta”. &amp;gt; The passenger knew where the altimeter was and his altitude “I’m maintaining 9100 feet” &amp;gt; Passenger was able to identify the transponder and enter a squawk code. &amp;gt; Passenger knew what the vertical speed indicator was “I’m descending right now at 550 feet a minute passing 8640 feet”. &amp;gt; My wife, who flies with me regularly, might get one or two of those items, but probably couldn&amp;#x27;t point out the transponder, much less enter a squawk code without instructions.</text></item><item><author>civil_engineer</author><text>Pilot here. I&amp;#x27;m floored that a person with no flying experience could put this airplane down without a scratch.&lt;p&gt;Air traffic controllers are not necessarily pilots, but luckily, this one was a pilot and certified instructor. ATC and passenger worked through a stressful situation to produce an amazing outcome. Bravo!</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>runjake</author><text>FWIW, I grew up playing 80s&amp;#x2F;90s flight sims and later went into the military and worked on planes and got the opportunity to use military flight simulators and was able to make my way around the cockpit and takeoff&amp;#x2F;land pretty much immediately.&lt;p&gt;I think my key for landing was learning flaps and throttle and getting a feel for stall speeds in sims.&lt;p&gt;Now, would I want to test that in an actual plane in a life and death emergency? Not really. But I&amp;#x27;d wager my odds are good.</text></comment>

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<story><title>SoftBank’s debt obsession</title><url>https://techcrunch.com/2018/11/06/softbanks-debt-obsession/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>pkaler</author><text>Note that Masayoshi Son has the distinction of losing the most money in history when he lost approximately $70 billion during the dotcom crash. He still has a net worth of $23 billion.&lt;p&gt;Win big. Lose big.&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Masayoshi_Son&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Masayoshi_Son&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>

<story><title>SoftBank’s debt obsession</title><url>https://techcrunch.com/2018/11/06/softbanks-debt-obsession/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>samstave</author><text>There has been a lot of talk (and speculation) in the past regarding Softbank being 1. the avenue for Saudi Investment of their (est.) $Trillion++ as the hedge against oil&amp;#x27;s future and 2. The apac version of HSBC&amp;#x2F;DeutscheBank laundering schemes.&lt;p&gt;Anyone have any speculation on the veracity of these rumors?&lt;p&gt;Basically, WRT the debt risks that Softbank is taking, it suggests that they don&amp;#x27;t care about the risks, because they need to launder+invest the monies they can regardless as quickly and with as much volume as possible to legitimize and profit...</text></comment>

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<story><title>Microsoft CEO says women need not ask for raise, should trust system</title><url>http://www.foxbusiness.com/technology/2014/10/09/at-women-tech-event-microsoft-ceo-says-women-need-not-ask-for-raise-should/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>ChristopherM</author><text>This is horrible advice, men and women both must push for a raise, companies will absolutely under no circumstances just give away raises because &amp;quot;it&amp;#x27;s the right thing to do&amp;quot;.&lt;p&gt;Case in point, I am a white male. When I started working at a company over a decade ago I also started at the same time as another white male. I started at $55k, he started at $52k I negotiated for an additional $3k from the start. The first year I assumed they would give me a good raise since I was hired at entry level wages, I got a $2k raise. I was livid. The next year I made a huge deal about the tiny raise, I ended up getting $5k, now up to $62k. Year after $3k, again not happy. During that year there was a &amp;quot;salary freeze&amp;quot;, I told my boss that was unacceptable, if I didn&amp;#x27;t get a promotion I would be leaving. So I got another $5k during the salary freeze. The next year still not happy, I made the same ultimatum, This time $10k. Up to $80k, I ended up leaving a couple of months later for a management position.&lt;p&gt;In contrast that other software engineer? He got $2k per year, except for the salary freeze year, they made it up the year after. He left after 5 years making $62k&lt;p&gt;Me -&amp;gt; $55k, $57k, $62k, $65k, $70k, $80k&lt;p&gt;Him -&amp;gt; $52k, $54k, $56k, $58k, $58k, $62k&lt;p&gt;So, apparently by being the squeaky wheel I ended up making an additional $18k a year by the time we both left. Plus all the additional money I made the preceding years.&lt;p&gt;Lesson here? Make yourself very valuable to the company, and then make them pay. They won&amp;#x27;t do it of their own free will. Look at it from their perspective, if you don&amp;#x27;t say anything why would they do anything? Obviously you are happy if you are not complaining.&lt;p&gt;The problem for women is that, in general, they don&amp;#x27;t speak up, they don&amp;#x27;t negotiate for salary increases they just accept what is offered. What we really need to do is to teach women how to understand what they are really worth, and to negotiate from a position of strength.</text></comment>

<story><title>Microsoft CEO says women need not ask for raise, should trust system</title><url>http://www.foxbusiness.com/technology/2014/10/09/at-women-tech-event-microsoft-ceo-says-women-need-not-ask-for-raise-should/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>rdl</author><text>Is he quoted out of context, or trolling? I&amp;#x27;m confused, because most Microsoft people I know speak really highly of him, but the system is shitty for promoting even white guys in tech, let alone anyone else -- people get promoted by moving jobs every 12-24 months, not through being recognized and rewarded for contributions at companies.&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;Karma&amp;quot; makes me think he&amp;#x27;s trolling, or was quoted out of context.&lt;p&gt;(The snarky response here is &amp;quot;he&amp;#x27;s clearly speaking from his extensive experience as a woman in technology...&amp;quot;, but I&amp;#x27;d rather take the high road.)</text></comment>

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<story><title>WebAssembly Troubles Part 1: WebAssembly Is Not a Stack Machine</title><url>http://troubles.md/posts/wasm-is-not-a-stack-machine/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>titzer</author><text>[one of the original Wasm designers here]&lt;p&gt;Responding to the OP, since there is no comment section on the site.&lt;p&gt;First off, this rant gets the history of Wasm wrong and the facts of Wasm wrong. I wouldn&amp;#x27;t unload on a random person on the internet generally, but I would like to point a sentence like:&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; Not only that, but for the most part the WebAssembly specification team were flying blind.&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s an ad hominem. This really just impugns people and invites an argument. It might be cathartic, but generally it doesn&amp;#x27;t advance the conversation to cast aspersion like this.&lt;p&gt;And it&amp;#x27;s not true. I can tell you from first hand experience that a baseline compiler was absolutely on our minds, and Mozilla already had a baseline compiler in development throughout design. The Liftoff design that V8 shipped didn&amp;#x27;t look too different from the picture in our collective heads at the time. And all of us had considerable experience with JIT designs of all kinds.&lt;p&gt;As for the history. The history is wrong. The first iteration of Wasm was in fact a pre-order encoded AST. No stack. The second iteration was a post-order encoded AST, which we found through microbenchmarks, actually decoded considerably faster. The rub was how to support multi-value returns of function calls, since multi-value local constructs can be flattened by a producer. We considered a number of alternatives that preserved the AST-like structure before settling on that a structured stack machine is actually the best design solution, since it allowed the straightforward extension to multi-values that is there now (and will ship by default when we reach the two-engine implementation status).&lt;p&gt;As for the present. Wasm blocks and loops absolutely can take parameters; it&amp;#x27;s part of the multi-value extension which V8 implemented already a year ago. Block and loop parameters subsume SSA form and make locals wholly unnecessary (if that&amp;#x27;s your thing). Locals make no difference to an optimizing compiler like TurboFan or IonMonkey. And SSA form as an intermediate representation is not as compact as the stack machine with block and loop parameters which is the current design, as those extra moves take space and add an additional verification burden.&lt;p&gt;A final point. Calling Wasm &amp;quot;not a stack machine&amp;quot; is just a misunderstanding. All operators that work on values operate on the implicit operand stack. This is the very the definition of a stack machine. The fact that there is additional mutable local storage doesn&amp;#x27;t make it not a stack machine. Similarly, the JVM has mutable typed locals and yet is a stack machine as well. The JVM (prior to 6) allowed completely unstructured control flow and use of the stack, leading to a number of problems, including a potentially cubic verification time. We fixed that.&lt;p&gt;All that said, there might be a design mistake in Wasm bytecode. Personally, I think we should have implicitly loaded arguments to a function onto the operand stack, which would have made inlining even more like syntactic substitution and further shortened the bodies of very tiny functions. But this is a small thing and we didn&amp;#x27;t think about it at the time.&lt;p&gt;[edit: Perhaps &amp;quot;ad hominem&amp;quot; is a bit strong. It feels different to be on the receiving of a comment like &amp;quot;flying blind&amp;quot;--it doesn&amp;#x27;t mean the same thing to the sender and receiver--especially when this was really not the case, as I state here.]</text></comment>

<story><title>WebAssembly Troubles Part 1: WebAssembly Is Not a Stack Machine</title><url>http://troubles.md/posts/wasm-is-not-a-stack-machine/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>pizlonator</author><text>Recomputing liveness is not really a big deal. Can be quite cheap, especially over a register based IR.&lt;p&gt;I think that this article overstates the impact of all of this.</text></comment>

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<story><title>Treating beef like coal would make a big dent in greenhouse-gas emissions</title><url>https://www.economist.com/graphic-detail/2021/10/02/treating-beef-like-coal-would-make-a-big-dent-in-greenhouse-gas-emissions</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>voldacar</author><text>It feels like we are headed into a new medieval era of sumptuary laws and moral decrees promulgated by a decentralized international clerical-academic class. I don&amp;#x27;t think I like it very much</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>tuatoru</author><text>Moralizing can work, though. Recall slavery, child labor, feminism, equal rights, welfare (,healthcare outside the USA).&lt;p&gt;Plant based meat substitutes will improve (via the production learning curve and competition) if there is enough demand.&lt;p&gt;(According to this article that attracted much comment[1] a few days ago, though, artificial meat is a non-starter.)&lt;p&gt;1. &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&amp;#x2F;item?id=28621288&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&amp;#x2F;item?id=28621288&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>

<story><title>Treating beef like coal would make a big dent in greenhouse-gas emissions</title><url>https://www.economist.com/graphic-detail/2021/10/02/treating-beef-like-coal-would-make-a-big-dent-in-greenhouse-gas-emissions</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>voldacar</author><text>It feels like we are headed into a new medieval era of sumptuary laws and moral decrees promulgated by a decentralized international clerical-academic class. I don&amp;#x27;t think I like it very much</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>wumpus</author><text>I&amp;#x27;m pretty sure that a carbon tax was never considered in the Middle Ages.</text></comment>