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<story><title>Moving from reCAPTCHA to hCaptcha</title><url>https://blog.cloudflare.com/moving-from-recaptcha-to-hcaptcha/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>zachware</author><text>One of the more insidious elements of ReCAPTCHA is its propensity to challenge users who have robust cookie blocking in place. So as we encourage people to be more privacy-aware, the web gets harder and harder to use.&lt;p&gt;We&amp;#x27;ve seen ReCAPTCHA pop all over ecommerce, all over benign websites with little to no need to challenge use almost completely because of the increase in privacy-aware users.&lt;p&gt;ReCAPTCHA essentially flies in the face of the recent blocking features rolling into Safari and Firefox and more privacy-aware users...growing by the day.&lt;p&gt;In many ways it&amp;#x27;s a genius structure from Google. 1. Convince people to use your privacy challenge. 2. Serve it when you don&amp;#x27;t see Google tracking cookies. 3. Offer a way around that with the least privacy-aware browser available (Chrome use is growing steadily month over month.&lt;p&gt;So good on Cloudflare.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jjoonathan</author><text>That, and ReCAPTCHA had hellbans.&lt;p&gt;If you blocked cookies or were otherwise problematic, it would sometimes lock you out of all ReCAPTCHA-gated resources not by giving you a message describing what was happening, why, and how to fix it, but rather by simply pretending that your every attempt to solve the captcha failed. Obviously this is extremely frustrating, by design, but it gets even more so with compounding factors like &amp;quot;the library is closed at this hour, so I can&amp;#x27;t get a fresh connection.&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;The worst I&amp;#x27;ve seen has been when it happens to people who aren&amp;#x27;t well equipped to guess what&amp;#x27;s happening. When my friend&amp;#x27;s younger brother got hellbanned from his PlayStation account, he spent 30 minutes trying to identify traffic lights (or whatever) and then retreated crying to his room, because he wasn&amp;#x27;t able to deduce that Google was gaslighting him. He trusted Google. They had him convinced that he was such a failure he couldn&amp;#x27;t even identify traffic lights correctly, and he was -- quite reasonably -- inconsolable for a while.&lt;p&gt;Thanks a lot, Google.</text></comment>

<story><title>Moving from reCAPTCHA to hCaptcha</title><url>https://blog.cloudflare.com/moving-from-recaptcha-to-hcaptcha/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>zachware</author><text>One of the more insidious elements of ReCAPTCHA is its propensity to challenge users who have robust cookie blocking in place. So as we encourage people to be more privacy-aware, the web gets harder and harder to use.&lt;p&gt;We&amp;#x27;ve seen ReCAPTCHA pop all over ecommerce, all over benign websites with little to no need to challenge use almost completely because of the increase in privacy-aware users.&lt;p&gt;ReCAPTCHA essentially flies in the face of the recent blocking features rolling into Safari and Firefox and more privacy-aware users...growing by the day.&lt;p&gt;In many ways it&amp;#x27;s a genius structure from Google. 1. Convince people to use your privacy challenge. 2. Serve it when you don&amp;#x27;t see Google tracking cookies. 3. Offer a way around that with the least privacy-aware browser available (Chrome use is growing steadily month over month.&lt;p&gt;So good on Cloudflare.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Kalium</author><text>One of the non-obvious consequences is that any system designed to use technical measures to distinguish between humans and computers will wind up very sensitive. There&amp;#x27;s an arms race, and us real users are caught in the middle.&lt;p&gt;There&amp;#x27;s a &lt;i&gt;vast&lt;/i&gt; army of computers doing their best to pretend to be human. The whole point of any kind of CAPTCHA is to try to catch them out - and every measure gets worse over time. So companies like Google look at everything they can see that helps them distinguish typical humans from robots.&lt;p&gt;This has a nasty side-effect. A lot of measures intended to preserve privacy have the incidental effect of making the privacy-sensitive user look more like a computer and less like a human. Not saving cookies and not executing JS are classic bot moves. This plays directly into the sensitivity that has been engineered over time in order to catch more computers posing as humans.&lt;p&gt;I don&amp;#x27;t know any easy resolution to this tension. Maybe you do? I really hope so. The internet is overrun with abusive behavior and the amount of work that goes into keeping it at bay is staggering.</text></comment>

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<story><title>Breakfast cereal is in long-term decline</title><url>https://www.wsj.com/finance/investing/cereal-decline-breakfast-trend-6dd591e8</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>arzig</author><text>As someone from the us, I’m deeply skeptical of government nutritional labeling &amp;#x2F; recommendation since the travesty of the food pyramid when I was young. Cereals were basically the best thing to eat because how else where you going to fill the foundation of the pyramid with your 11 (exact number is fuzzy) recommended servings of grains per day. The pyramid was shown proudly on all the boxes. Meanwhile protein and fats were to be minimized. It may not be causal, but it certainly didn’t help the obesity problem in this country that the government explicitly recommended everyone fill up in foods that aren’t actually filling.</text></item><item><author>greatgib</author><text>I used to like having cereals for the breakfast, but now, everytime I plan to buy some in the supermarket, I&amp;#x27;m cooled down because of how unhealthy they are.&lt;p&gt;In France, there is something called the &amp;quot;nutriscore&amp;quot;. It is a score between A and F that has to be prominently displayed on the packaging of products. It indicates how this product compares with others in the same kind of category on a healthy related scale. Industrial breakfast cereals are very bad. Easily D or E.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>conductr</author><text>It’s not the government’s fault when they said cereal, they meant healthy oats and grains but instead people bought fruity pebbles. I remember being a kid in the 80s and it was very much understood that the healthy cereal was the plain cheerios and unsweetened corn flakes and stuff that nobody (especially kids) wanted to eat-or we’d just add a ton of sugar to it at home.&lt;p&gt;If you want to blame government for lack of regulation in terms of proliferation of unhealthy food over the years, ok that I get. When they issue guidelines (pyramid) and people just completely misinterpret&amp;#x2F;ignore it, that’s people shooting their feet.</text></comment>

<story><title>Breakfast cereal is in long-term decline</title><url>https://www.wsj.com/finance/investing/cereal-decline-breakfast-trend-6dd591e8</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>arzig</author><text>As someone from the us, I’m deeply skeptical of government nutritional labeling &amp;#x2F; recommendation since the travesty of the food pyramid when I was young. Cereals were basically the best thing to eat because how else where you going to fill the foundation of the pyramid with your 11 (exact number is fuzzy) recommended servings of grains per day. The pyramid was shown proudly on all the boxes. Meanwhile protein and fats were to be minimized. It may not be causal, but it certainly didn’t help the obesity problem in this country that the government explicitly recommended everyone fill up in foods that aren’t actually filling.</text></item><item><author>greatgib</author><text>I used to like having cereals for the breakfast, but now, everytime I plan to buy some in the supermarket, I&amp;#x27;m cooled down because of how unhealthy they are.&lt;p&gt;In France, there is something called the &amp;quot;nutriscore&amp;quot;. It is a score between A and F that has to be prominently displayed on the packaging of products. It indicates how this product compares with others in the same kind of category on a healthy related scale. Industrial breakfast cereals are very bad. Easily D or E.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>donatj</author><text>Did you actually base what you ate on the food pyramid?&lt;p&gt;I have heard this levied against the government before as having caused the obesity epidemic, but I really can’t imagine someone who sitting around deciding “I have to eat more bread, the government’s pyramid drawing demands it” rather than just eating what they want to eat.&lt;p&gt;I grew up in the same period, they showed us the pyramid in school and I literally never gave it a second thought.</text></comment>

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<story><title>FCC Proposes Changing Comment System After WSJ Found Thousands of Fakes</title><url>https://www.wsj.com/articles/fcc-proposes-rebuilding-comment-system-after-thousands-revealed-as-fake-1531315654</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>0xbadcafebee</author><text>Some background:&lt;p&gt;28 senators, and the New York Attorney General, had to tell Pai to stop the FCC voting on new rules last year because of all the fraudulent comments. The fake comments were made apparent over a year ago. &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.cnet.com&amp;#x2F;news&amp;#x2F;net-neutrality-fcc-ajit-pai-bots-senators-letter&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.cnet.com&amp;#x2F;news&amp;#x2F;net-neutrality-fcc-ajit-pai-bots-s...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;The FCC refused to provide records to the NY AG in order to investigate the possibility of fake comments. In other words, the NY AG was the only part of the government investigating the fake comments, and the FCC actively worked against investigating them. &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;news.slashdot.org&amp;#x2F;story&amp;#x2F;17&amp;#x2F;12&amp;#x2F;10&amp;#x2F;0037222&amp;#x2F;fcc-refuses-records-for-investigation-into-fake-net-neutrality-comments&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;news.slashdot.org&amp;#x2F;story&amp;#x2F;17&amp;#x2F;12&amp;#x2F;10&amp;#x2F;0037222&amp;#x2F;fcc-refuses...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;Pai&amp;#x27;s office issued this response to calls to delay the vote:&lt;p&gt;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt; This is just evidence that supporters of heavy-handed Internet regulations are becoming more desperate by the day as their effort to defeat Chairman Pai&amp;#x27;s plan to restore Internet freedom has stalled. The vote will proceed as scheduled on December 14. &lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt; As promised, the FCC voted to repeal Net Neutrality.&lt;p&gt;And now, 7 months later, the FCC is saying there were fraudulent comments, and maybe they should redesign their website.</text></comment>

<story><title>FCC Proposes Changing Comment System After WSJ Found Thousands of Fakes</title><url>https://www.wsj.com/articles/fcc-proposes-rebuilding-comment-system-after-thousands-revealed-as-fake-1531315654</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>aresant</author><text>I think this is an interesting problem to solve.&lt;p&gt;The FCC, and other government agencies that require input from Citizens, need to know the comments they are getting are from actual citizens aka taxpayer id, aka social security #.&lt;p&gt;As a Citizen I&amp;#x27;d want to submit comments with some superficial guarantee of anonymity. EG the bureaucrats can&amp;#x27;t attach my comments to my name, only my comments to a valid US Citizen. (1)&lt;p&gt;As a mechanism for verification there should be a preliminary &amp;quot;two-factor&amp;quot; registration system via postal mail to verified citizen addresses. And a secondary &amp;quot;two-factor&amp;quot; to execute comments.&lt;p&gt;Will this cut down on the discourse? Dramatically.&lt;p&gt;Will it improve the integrity of the comments? Absolutely.&lt;p&gt;Will the politicians still ignore the desires of its constituents vs special interests? No question.&lt;p&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;i&gt;This has been a paid ad by the People For Campaign Finance Reform.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;(1) Of course the NSA is watching everything anyways, and probably reading our minds with lazer brain topography rays, but we&amp;#x27;ll leave that concern out for now.</text></comment>

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<story><title>Sony is erasing digital libraries that were supposed to be accessible &quot;forever&quot;</title><url>https://arstechnica.com/culture/2024/02/funimation-dvds-included-forever-available-digital-copies-forever-ends-april-2/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>crazygringo</author><text>Sure, but that&amp;#x27;s a lot of effort. And if you want to copy your streams illegally or pirate duplicates you can do that too, which also involves effort.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;m just making the point that after 10 or 20 years, most people either no longer have most of the media they bought, it&amp;#x27;s degraded, they&amp;#x27;re upgrading from VHS to DVDs to Blu-Rays or similar, or they never touch it again anyways. Not true with &lt;i&gt;all&lt;/i&gt; of it, but probably most of it. So there&amp;#x27;s already a kind of expectation that consumer media usually only lasts for a time period anyways -- yes, unless you&amp;#x27;re doing fancy things like climate control and making copies.</text></item><item><author>jtbayly</author><text>No. If you buy a book and determine its quality will leave it falling apart sooner than you want, you can return it or copy it or work to preserve it. If it starts falling apart, you can repair it. If a cd gets a scratch you can repair it. You can store it in a climate controlled environment. All of these things are in your hands. Some people will burn their books or toss them. Some will preserve them for centuries.&lt;p&gt;The problem is that with purely digital, there is just nothing you can do. None of it is up to you. You can’t copy it, preserve it, etc. Sony says you’re done and that’s it.</text></item><item><author>crazygringo</author><text>On the one hand, I don&amp;#x27;t expect anything to exist &amp;quot;forever&amp;quot;. Companies don&amp;#x27;t stay in business forever. A forever contract doesn&amp;#x27;t even make sense.&lt;p&gt;But on the other hand, there need to be protections here. Just because a company merges or gets bought, doesn&amp;#x27;t mean they should be able to end their guarantees.&lt;p&gt;What about if, to be legally allowed to license streaming content, companies were required by law to:&lt;p&gt;1) Specify a minimum duration available as part of the buy button and all other text using the term &amp;quot;buy&amp;quot; or &amp;quot;license&amp;quot;? E.g. &amp;quot;Buy for 5 years&amp;quot; or &amp;quot;License now (min. 10 years guaranteed)&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;2) Require some kind of insurance&amp;#x2F;escrow&amp;#x2F;backup in advance, that guarantees that if they go out of business, all accounts and purchases will transfer to another service that will continue to honor them for the time period specified (or full purchase price is refunded)&lt;p&gt;In terms of a minimum time duration, there are even physical analogies here -- books can yellow and their bindings crack and glue fail, vinyl wears out, floppy disks become unreadable after a decade or two -- I&amp;#x27;ve even had CDs experience some kind of green growth in humid climates rendering them unreadable. So we already have a kind of pre-existing expectation of media purchases only lasting so long, on average.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jtbayly</author><text>Having AC and bookshelves is not fancy or hard. Books with decent paper can and do last centuries. Books with really crappy paper last decades and are generally still usable if you’re careful. DVDs last a stinking long time, too.&lt;p&gt;All you’re saying is that physical things aren’t eternal. Yes everybody knows that. Digital things aren’t generally eternal either. I accept that. But look at the timeframes.</text></comment>

<story><title>Sony is erasing digital libraries that were supposed to be accessible &quot;forever&quot;</title><url>https://arstechnica.com/culture/2024/02/funimation-dvds-included-forever-available-digital-copies-forever-ends-april-2/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>crazygringo</author><text>Sure, but that&amp;#x27;s a lot of effort. And if you want to copy your streams illegally or pirate duplicates you can do that too, which also involves effort.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;m just making the point that after 10 or 20 years, most people either no longer have most of the media they bought, it&amp;#x27;s degraded, they&amp;#x27;re upgrading from VHS to DVDs to Blu-Rays or similar, or they never touch it again anyways. Not true with &lt;i&gt;all&lt;/i&gt; of it, but probably most of it. So there&amp;#x27;s already a kind of expectation that consumer media usually only lasts for a time period anyways -- yes, unless you&amp;#x27;re doing fancy things like climate control and making copies.</text></item><item><author>jtbayly</author><text>No. If you buy a book and determine its quality will leave it falling apart sooner than you want, you can return it or copy it or work to preserve it. If it starts falling apart, you can repair it. If a cd gets a scratch you can repair it. You can store it in a climate controlled environment. All of these things are in your hands. Some people will burn their books or toss them. Some will preserve them for centuries.&lt;p&gt;The problem is that with purely digital, there is just nothing you can do. None of it is up to you. You can’t copy it, preserve it, etc. Sony says you’re done and that’s it.</text></item><item><author>crazygringo</author><text>On the one hand, I don&amp;#x27;t expect anything to exist &amp;quot;forever&amp;quot;. Companies don&amp;#x27;t stay in business forever. A forever contract doesn&amp;#x27;t even make sense.&lt;p&gt;But on the other hand, there need to be protections here. Just because a company merges or gets bought, doesn&amp;#x27;t mean they should be able to end their guarantees.&lt;p&gt;What about if, to be legally allowed to license streaming content, companies were required by law to:&lt;p&gt;1) Specify a minimum duration available as part of the buy button and all other text using the term &amp;quot;buy&amp;quot; or &amp;quot;license&amp;quot;? E.g. &amp;quot;Buy for 5 years&amp;quot; or &amp;quot;License now (min. 10 years guaranteed)&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;2) Require some kind of insurance&amp;#x2F;escrow&amp;#x2F;backup in advance, that guarantees that if they go out of business, all accounts and purchases will transfer to another service that will continue to honor them for the time period specified (or full purchase price is refunded)&lt;p&gt;In terms of a minimum time duration, there are even physical analogies here -- books can yellow and their bindings crack and glue fail, vinyl wears out, floppy disks become unreadable after a decade or two -- I&amp;#x27;ve even had CDs experience some kind of green growth in humid climates rendering them unreadable. So we already have a kind of pre-existing expectation of media purchases only lasting so long, on average.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>advael</author><text>Making copies isn&amp;#x27;t fancy. It&amp;#x27;s just illegal because IP brokers have too much power and made it so. It&amp;#x27;s a commonsense measure that you could do with most forms of purchased media, increasingly trivially until said IP brokers succeeded in roping the government into threatening people who did so, and so now less people do so. To promise that a digital copy would be accessible forever and then rescind that access without offering a download is straightforwardly fraud</text></comment>

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<story><title>Vodafone unveils prototype 5G network built on a Raspberry Pi computer</title><url>https://www.vodafone.com/news/technology/vodafone-unveils-prototype-5g-network-built-raspberry-pi-computer</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>AceJohnny2</author><text>&amp;gt; &lt;i&gt;and an equally small, advanced silicon chipset.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;That&amp;#x27;s like the old cartoon joke: &amp;quot;Thinking quickly, Dave [the Barbarian] constructs a homemade megaphone, using only some string, a squirrel, and a megaphone.&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;The RasPi is incidental to the complexity of the system. Methinks they only used that for the headline attention. Success!</text></comment>

<story><title>Vodafone unveils prototype 5G network built on a Raspberry Pi computer</title><url>https://www.vodafone.com/news/technology/vodafone-unveils-prototype-5g-network-built-raspberry-pi-computer</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>polalavik</author><text>&amp;gt; Vodafone is now looking at ways to democratise MPNs and extend their benefits to micro and small business owners whilst lowering the entry cost and reducing the resources needed to experience new digital services&lt;p&gt;oh like... maybe making it open source? Or democratization as in &amp;quot;sell as many as possible&amp;quot;?</text></comment>

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<story><title>New study shows highly creative people’s brains work differently from others&apos;</title><url>https://www.uclahealth.org/news/CreativeBrain2022</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>winReInstall</author><text>To connect the unconnected, a feature also seen in which brain-disease, often associated with the erroneous associations (paranoia, over-association of noise as voices and faces). Show me your wunderkind and i show you the shizophrenia in the family.&lt;p&gt;I wonder if you could even retrain active run-away shizophrenic people to produce meaningfull creative outcomes. So lets go to the tenderloin and connect random physics and science wikipedia articles to a megaphone.&lt;p&gt;Schools out, but the learning is just getting started.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>tomc1985</author><text>Are you calling all creatives schizophrenic? Because, uh, citation needed, and that goes against my experiences of hanging out with nothing but creatives 90% of the time.&lt;p&gt;Us all being schizophrenic would be pretty revelatory if it was true.&lt;p&gt;Artists may be weird, but...</text></comment>

<story><title>New study shows highly creative people’s brains work differently from others&apos;</title><url>https://www.uclahealth.org/news/CreativeBrain2022</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>winReInstall</author><text>To connect the unconnected, a feature also seen in which brain-disease, often associated with the erroneous associations (paranoia, over-association of noise as voices and faces). Show me your wunderkind and i show you the shizophrenia in the family.&lt;p&gt;I wonder if you could even retrain active run-away shizophrenic people to produce meaningfull creative outcomes. So lets go to the tenderloin and connect random physics and science wikipedia articles to a megaphone.&lt;p&gt;Schools out, but the learning is just getting started.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>xattt</author><text>&amp;gt; So lets go to the tenderloin and connect random physics and science wikipedia articles to a megaphone.&lt;p&gt;Is this word salad deliberate?</text></comment>

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<story><title>10,000 year clock gets lowered into Texan mountain</title><url>https://www.theengineer.co.uk/10000-year-clock-texan-mountain/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>kragen</author><text>This is great news! Thank you for posting this, Tony!&lt;p&gt;The Long Now site says, &amp;quot;Located under a remote limestone mountain near Van Horn, Texas, it will require a day’s hike to reach its interior gears. Just reaching the entrance tunnel situated 1500 feet above the high scrub desert will leave some visitors out of breath, nicked by thorns, and wondering what they got themselves into.&amp;quot; Presumably that means Jeff wants to make it a little bit challenging for people to find the Clock, at least for a few years.&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;longnow.org&amp;#x2F;clock&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;longnow.org&amp;#x2F;clock&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;The Clock is designed to require the Hero&amp;#x27;s Journey to reach, because it&amp;#x27;s primarily designed to inspire, to bring people to spiritual experiences, not to tell time.&lt;p&gt;Also, keep in mind that the greatest risk to the Clock is human vandalism and looting — the one thing you can&amp;#x27;t protect against by design, although they&amp;#x27;ve certainly tried. If the Clock survives a century without anyone visiting it, it will have made it 1% of the way to its design lifespan.&lt;p&gt;They&amp;#x27;ve published enough photos and videos that it should be possible to find, though.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>walrus01</author><text>I wouldn&amp;#x27;t really say it requires a &amp;quot;hero&amp;#x27;s journey&amp;quot; to reach when the road they have bulldozed to the top of the mountain is apparently passable by 5-ton sized flatbed cargo trucks.&lt;p&gt;It appears to be on privately owned land that is part of a huge ranch in the area. So maybe the hero&amp;#x27;s journey is avoiding angry texans with shotguns if you either (a) cut the padlock off the gate that blocks vehicle access to the road up the mountain, or (b) park your vehicle near the gate and ride a mountain bike up the road.</text></comment>

<story><title>10,000 year clock gets lowered into Texan mountain</title><url>https://www.theengineer.co.uk/10000-year-clock-texan-mountain/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>kragen</author><text>This is great news! Thank you for posting this, Tony!&lt;p&gt;The Long Now site says, &amp;quot;Located under a remote limestone mountain near Van Horn, Texas, it will require a day’s hike to reach its interior gears. Just reaching the entrance tunnel situated 1500 feet above the high scrub desert will leave some visitors out of breath, nicked by thorns, and wondering what they got themselves into.&amp;quot; Presumably that means Jeff wants to make it a little bit challenging for people to find the Clock, at least for a few years.&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;longnow.org&amp;#x2F;clock&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;longnow.org&amp;#x2F;clock&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;The Clock is designed to require the Hero&amp;#x27;s Journey to reach, because it&amp;#x27;s primarily designed to inspire, to bring people to spiritual experiences, not to tell time.&lt;p&gt;Also, keep in mind that the greatest risk to the Clock is human vandalism and looting — the one thing you can&amp;#x27;t protect against by design, although they&amp;#x27;ve certainly tried. If the Clock survives a century without anyone visiting it, it will have made it 1% of the way to its design lifespan.&lt;p&gt;They&amp;#x27;ve published enough photos and videos that it should be possible to find, though.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>CookieMon</author><text>Danny Hillis discusses the thinking behind locating it in a remote mountain here &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;soundcloud.com&amp;#x2F;longnow&amp;#x2F;progress-on-the-10000-year-clock#c=1559&amp;amp;t=36:43&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;soundcloud.com&amp;#x2F;longnow&amp;#x2F;progress-on-the-10000-year-cl...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;But the entire talk is worth listening to.&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s not intended to be a secret - it&amp;#x27;s there to be visited (I hope one day to visit it myself), the mountain is part of a pilgrimage to better frame the experience.</text></comment>

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<story><title>Using Machine Learning and Node.js to detect the gender of Instagram Users</title><url>http://totems.co/?p=11084</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>idunning</author><text>Neural networks have their place, but are probably the most complicated and opaque machine learning tool. They are also hard to set up: so many parameters! Given that, I found it really strange that they went straight for a neural network (and then implemented one themselves!). Surely the place to start would be Naive Bayes, followed up with regularized logistic regression (through something like glmnet). Heck, even random forests would do quite well on this task I imagine, although thats getting closer to on the complexity and opaqueness spectrum towards NN.&lt;p&gt;There is also no evidence of doing cross-validation, and in another comment they say they used entire data set to do variable selection - a pretty bad mistake. They justify by saying they aren&amp;#x27;t in an academic environment, but thats kind of a bad excuse, as given the way they&amp;#x27;ve done it I&amp;#x27;m very unsure whether they actually are getting the accuracy they think they are.&lt;p&gt;I also worry that they sunk two man-months into this when they could probably have achieved similar if not better results with off-the-shelf and battled-tested tools. Sets off a lot of warning bells.</text></comment>

<story><title>Using Machine Learning and Node.js to detect the gender of Instagram Users</title><url>http://totems.co/?p=11084</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>gstar</author><text>It&amp;#x27;s unusual to see a coherent, from-first-principles explanation of a neural network. Especially one that&amp;#x27;s commercially valuable (i presume) to Totems.&lt;p&gt;Mildly alarmed to learn I&amp;#x27;m only .039 probability male, though - better bloke it up on Instagram.</text></comment>

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<story><title>Fizzbuzz, Interviews, And Overthinking</title><url>http://dave.fayr.am/posts/2012-10-4-finding-fizzbuzz.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>aristus</author><text>&lt;p&gt;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt; cases = ( (3, &apos;Fizz&apos;), (5, &apos;Buzz&apos;), (7, &apos;Bazz&apos;), (11, &apos;Boo&apos;), (13, &apos;Blip&apos;), ) for i in range(1, 101): out = [] for c in cases: if i % c[0] == 0: out.append(c[1]) if out: print &apos;&apos;.join(out) else: print i &lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt; Edit: not to detract from the post&apos;s point, I think it&apos;s valid. Monoids are cool and all but simple counting arguments can take you a long, long, long, way when case analysis fails you.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>sowhatquestion</author><text>This can be edited down to six lines with a simple trick: a Python string multiplied by True will return itself, and multiplied by False will return the empty string.&lt;p&gt;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt; for i in range(110): pr = &quot;&quot; pr += &quot;Fizz&quot; * (i%3 == 0) pr += &quot;Buzz&quot; * (i%5 == 0) pr += &quot;Bazz&quot; * (i%7 == 0) print (pr if pr else i) &lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt; I iterated over range(110) to show that it handles the &quot;FizzBuzzBazz&quot; case correctly.&lt;p&gt;EDIT: Or we could use lambdas as OP&apos;s Ruby code did; this might be more maintainable...&lt;p&gt;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt; cases = [ lambda n: &quot;Fizz&quot; * (n%3 == 0), lambda n: &quot;Buzz&quot; * (n%5 == 0), lambda n: &quot;Bazz&quot; * (n%7 == 0) ] for i in range(110): pr = &quot;&quot; for case in cases: pr += case(i) print (pr if pr else i) &lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt; That&apos;s nine nonblank lines.</text></comment>

<story><title>Fizzbuzz, Interviews, And Overthinking</title><url>http://dave.fayr.am/posts/2012-10-4-finding-fizzbuzz.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>aristus</author><text>&lt;p&gt;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt; cases = ( (3, &apos;Fizz&apos;), (5, &apos;Buzz&apos;), (7, &apos;Bazz&apos;), (11, &apos;Boo&apos;), (13, &apos;Blip&apos;), ) for i in range(1, 101): out = [] for c in cases: if i % c[0] == 0: out.append(c[1]) if out: print &apos;&apos;.join(out) else: print i &lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt; Edit: not to detract from the post&apos;s point, I think it&apos;s valid. Monoids are cool and all but simple counting arguments can take you a long, long, long, way when case analysis fails you.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Xion</author><text>Precisely.&lt;p&gt;The Ruby solution author quotes as ideal and impressive seems way overblown to me. And I don&apos;t buy that ,,it would probably be dismissed as “overly complex” by younger programmers&apos;&apos; because it is exactly what I would consider perfect approach... few years ago. Since then I learned the value of simplicity, and abstractions with adequate flexibility.&lt;p&gt;That Ruby code exhibits neither.</text></comment>

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<story><title>Hermann Zapf (1918-2015)</title><url>http://typedrawers.com/discussion/987/hermann-zapf-8-november-1918-4-june-2015</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>weinzierl</author><text>There is a fascinating short (19 min) documentary about Hermann Zapf from 1967[1].&lt;p&gt;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt; The Art of Hermann Zapf a film on the purpose and techniques of calligraphy &lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt; It shows Zapf doing calligraphy with various tools and explaining how he does it and what&amp;#x27;s important to him. Near the end (14:35) you see him doing calligraphy with a ballpoint pen which is most fascinating.&lt;p&gt;Hermann Zapf said that showing him lettering through a glass plate was his own invention and large quantities of alcohol were involved in convincing the film crew to bring the idea to execution ([2] in German).&lt;p&gt;The film is also a short introduction into the history of lettering from the Romans to the computer type of the 60s. You can see Zapf&amp;#x27;s castle built 1460 at 3:25.&lt;p&gt;[1] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.youtube.com&amp;#x2F;watch?v=3jD4CpzIuR4&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.youtube.com&amp;#x2F;watch?v=3jD4CpzIuR4&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;[2] &lt;a href=&quot;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.linotype.com&amp;#x2F;de&amp;#x2F;5667&amp;#x2F;theartofhermannzapf.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.linotype.com&amp;#x2F;de&amp;#x2F;5667&amp;#x2F;theartofhermannzapf.html&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>

<story><title>Hermann Zapf (1918-2015)</title><url>http://typedrawers.com/discussion/987/hermann-zapf-8-november-1918-4-june-2015</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>weinzierl</author><text>&lt;p&gt;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt; Hermann Zapf served as typographic advisor to both Dr. Peter Karow (URW) and Professor Donald Knuth (TeX), the pioneers of computerized typography whose legacy we all benefit from today.&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;</text></comment>

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<story><title>Stablecoins: Growth potential and impact on banking</title><url>https://www.federalreserve.gov/econres/ifdp/stablecoins-growth-potential-and-impact-on-banking.htm</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ouid</author><text>I&amp;#x27;m confused why the comments here aren&amp;#x27;t more critical of stablecoins. A stablecoin is just a bank deposit without an interest rate, and with very little in the way of regulation over what the issuer does with the cash that has been deposited. Without some other mechanism, they wouldn&amp;#x27;t exist except as a novelty.&lt;p&gt;The question must become &amp;quot;what is the other mechanism?&amp;quot;. In the case of Tether, which has the largest market cap of any stablecoin, as far as I know, the scam is this. If I want to have liquidity on Bitfinex, I need to go buy tethers. If I try to make a transaction for bitcoins with dollars on the exchange, it could take days to process. There&amp;#x27;s no particular reason for this, You&amp;#x27;re just trading shares of a large wallet. So I must first go buy some tether from bitfinex, but wait, USD to Tether liquidity is also artifically capped. If I try to buy tether for dollars, it can also take days.&lt;p&gt;It follows that the only way to obtain liquidity on one of these exchanges is to buy and &lt;i&gt;hold&lt;/i&gt; stablecoins. This is the premise upon which the exchanges that print these currencies can then turn around and lend the dollars used to buy them.&lt;p&gt;If you discovered, suddenly, that a casino had 78 billion dollars in chips just floating around, you would rightly wonder what the hell was going on, although the explanation would likely be different.&lt;p&gt;Tether is not a cryptocurrency, it&amp;#x27;s a casino chip. An escrow account that the bank is illegally investing in risky securities, entirely for the profit of its executives, investment in which is entirely funded by manipulating access to the wider crypto market.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mNovak</author><text>To be clear, Tether is highly problematic, but there are other stablecoins too. While not &amp;quot;regulation&amp;quot; concerning deposits, there are so-called algoirthmic stablecoins, which are fully collateralized on-chain, meaning the coin issuer can&amp;#x27;t just go buying junk bonds or whatever.</text></comment>

<story><title>Stablecoins: Growth potential and impact on banking</title><url>https://www.federalreserve.gov/econres/ifdp/stablecoins-growth-potential-and-impact-on-banking.htm</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ouid</author><text>I&amp;#x27;m confused why the comments here aren&amp;#x27;t more critical of stablecoins. A stablecoin is just a bank deposit without an interest rate, and with very little in the way of regulation over what the issuer does with the cash that has been deposited. Without some other mechanism, they wouldn&amp;#x27;t exist except as a novelty.&lt;p&gt;The question must become &amp;quot;what is the other mechanism?&amp;quot;. In the case of Tether, which has the largest market cap of any stablecoin, as far as I know, the scam is this. If I want to have liquidity on Bitfinex, I need to go buy tethers. If I try to make a transaction for bitcoins with dollars on the exchange, it could take days to process. There&amp;#x27;s no particular reason for this, You&amp;#x27;re just trading shares of a large wallet. So I must first go buy some tether from bitfinex, but wait, USD to Tether liquidity is also artifically capped. If I try to buy tether for dollars, it can also take days.&lt;p&gt;It follows that the only way to obtain liquidity on one of these exchanges is to buy and &lt;i&gt;hold&lt;/i&gt; stablecoins. This is the premise upon which the exchanges that print these currencies can then turn around and lend the dollars used to buy them.&lt;p&gt;If you discovered, suddenly, that a casino had 78 billion dollars in chips just floating around, you would rightly wonder what the hell was going on, although the explanation would likely be different.&lt;p&gt;Tether is not a cryptocurrency, it&amp;#x27;s a casino chip. An escrow account that the bank is illegally investing in risky securities, entirely for the profit of its executives, investment in which is entirely funded by manipulating access to the wider crypto market.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>csa</author><text>&amp;gt; The question must become &amp;quot;what is the other mechanism?&amp;quot;.&lt;p&gt;For one, &lt;i&gt;in theory&lt;/i&gt;, one useful aspect of a stable coin is to allow a user to get in and out of numerous crypto currencies while minimizing fees and delays.&lt;p&gt;Any engagement with the fiat banking system will typically cost time and&amp;#x2F;or money basically due to the potential for fraud and existing anti-fraud measures both for the banks as well as the exchanges.&lt;p&gt;As such, stable coins &lt;i&gt;in theory&lt;/i&gt; should be a reasonable proxy for fiat for folks who trade crypto aggressively (e.g., day trading).&lt;p&gt;In practice, you get the train wreck that is Tether and Bitfinex. I realize that Tether is huge, but it’s not the best poster child for what a stable coin should be or can be.&lt;p&gt;I think some smart folks have realized that running solidly backed stable coin — that is, with actual currency rather than proxies like more crypto, bonds&amp;#x2F;loans, etc. — is a something worth pursuing. Perhaps for reasonable profit, perhaps for power… who knows? I think proper stable coins will become more prominent moving forward.&lt;p&gt;A second mechanism, and I think this is a big one, is that stable coins managed directly or indirectly by nation states (specifically US and China and maybe EU) will be a big deal in developing countries for both savings as well as transactions. China is already doing this on a small scale. Without getting into the nitty gritty, being a winner in this area will provide the issuer of the stable coin a tremendous amount of influence on the world economy.</text></comment>

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<story><title>Decoding small QR codes by hand (2012)</title><url>https://blog.qartis.com/decoding-small-qr-codes-by-hand/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>avian</author><text>&amp;gt; 99% of the QR codes you encounter don&amp;#x27;t have any missing bits&lt;p&gt;I see a lot of cutesy QR codes out there that include a logo in the center.&lt;p&gt;These are basically intentionally damaged and depend on error correction to recover the missing bits that are covered by the logo.</text></comment>

<story><title>Decoding small QR codes by hand (2012)</title><url>https://blog.qartis.com/decoding-small-qr-codes-by-hand/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>cyberax</author><text>My pet peeve:&lt;p&gt;WTF PEOPLE ARE NOT PUTTING A CLEAR TEXT URL NEXT TO THE QR CRAP?!?!?&lt;p&gt;Especially when the QR code itself points to a URL shortener.</text></comment>

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<story><title>Programmers Should Automate More</title><url>https://shubhamjain.co/2017/05/06/why-programmers-should-automate-more/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>flukus</author><text>As someone with some potential admin work coming up, can anyone recommend some good cli tools for office work? I&amp;#x27;d love to be able to take a word&amp;#x2F;libreoffice template and generate a document by supplying command line parameters for example.&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; In fact, we can already see the impact of smartphone-only students on their ability to grasp and automate complex workflows. The fact that mobile apps are largely non-composable and non-programmable seems to seriously limit students&amp;#x27; abilities in general digital problem solving.&lt;p&gt;Computers became so easy to use that no one learns how to use them. It&amp;#x27;s no wonder grandma always opens that attachment with an exe extension, file extensions have been hidden for as long as she&amp;#x27;s used computers, she doesn&amp;#x27;t know what the convey.&lt;p&gt;Teaching kids to code is the latest fad but I think the majority of them would be much better served learning some basic bash scripting and related unix tools.</text></item><item><author>Derbasti</author><text>But where are the tools? Of course I can always write a shell script, but the vast majority of GUI tools is not programmable.&lt;p&gt;I would love to automate my image capturing workflows, my tax filing, my invoicing, my calendaring, my contacts, and SO many other things. But most tools are not scriptable. They are sealed, proprietary binaries that I can&amp;#x27;t interact with.&lt;p&gt;Conversely, I love tools like the shell, Emacs, and programming tools in general, &lt;i&gt;because&lt;/i&gt; I can automate them. I can automate testing, compiling, generating reports... And if something is not built-in, these tools provide hooks and APIs to extend their functionality for my particular use cases.&lt;p&gt;In fact, we can already see the impact of smartphone-only students on their ability to grasp and automate complex workflows. The fact that mobile apps are largely non-composable and non-programmable seems to seriously limit students&amp;#x27; abilities in general digital problem solving.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>yardshop</author><text>&amp;gt; I&amp;#x27;d love to be able to take a word&amp;#x2F;libreoffice template and generate a document by supplying command line parameters for example.&lt;p&gt;Python with PyWin32 is great for this, the Word doc part anyway. I&amp;#x27;ve got several scripts the create modify or read Excel and Word docs for a number of different purposes: tracking my mileage, automating creation of new users (now done with Powershell though), converting and uploading documents to a web server. VBA&amp;#x2F;VBScript can do some of these things too, but Python is a much more capable and sane language to use. Powershell is another great automation choice too.</text></comment>

<story><title>Programmers Should Automate More</title><url>https://shubhamjain.co/2017/05/06/why-programmers-should-automate-more/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>flukus</author><text>As someone with some potential admin work coming up, can anyone recommend some good cli tools for office work? I&amp;#x27;d love to be able to take a word&amp;#x2F;libreoffice template and generate a document by supplying command line parameters for example.&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; In fact, we can already see the impact of smartphone-only students on their ability to grasp and automate complex workflows. The fact that mobile apps are largely non-composable and non-programmable seems to seriously limit students&amp;#x27; abilities in general digital problem solving.&lt;p&gt;Computers became so easy to use that no one learns how to use them. It&amp;#x27;s no wonder grandma always opens that attachment with an exe extension, file extensions have been hidden for as long as she&amp;#x27;s used computers, she doesn&amp;#x27;t know what the convey.&lt;p&gt;Teaching kids to code is the latest fad but I think the majority of them would be much better served learning some basic bash scripting and related unix tools.</text></item><item><author>Derbasti</author><text>But where are the tools? Of course I can always write a shell script, but the vast majority of GUI tools is not programmable.&lt;p&gt;I would love to automate my image capturing workflows, my tax filing, my invoicing, my calendaring, my contacts, and SO many other things. But most tools are not scriptable. They are sealed, proprietary binaries that I can&amp;#x27;t interact with.&lt;p&gt;Conversely, I love tools like the shell, Emacs, and programming tools in general, &lt;i&gt;because&lt;/i&gt; I can automate them. I can automate testing, compiling, generating reports... And if something is not built-in, these tools provide hooks and APIs to extend their functionality for my particular use cases.&lt;p&gt;In fact, we can already see the impact of smartphone-only students on their ability to grasp and automate complex workflows. The fact that mobile apps are largely non-composable and non-programmable seems to seriously limit students&amp;#x27; abilities in general digital problem solving.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>krotton</author><text>Pandoc can generate and convert between various document types, including Office docs based on a template (although I haven&amp;#x27;t used the option myself, I just convert Markdown to PDF&amp;#x2F;HTML most of the time).</text></comment>

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<story><title>React Tips and Best Practices</title><url>http://aeflash.com/2015-02/react-tips-and-best-practices.html</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>themgt</author><text>One of the things I didn&amp;#x27;t realize at first was the degree to which Relay&amp;#x2F;GraphQL appear to effectively replace a lot of Flux: &lt;a href=&quot;http://facebook.github.io/react/blog/2015/02/20/introducing-relay-and-graphql.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;facebook.github.io&amp;#x2F;react&amp;#x2F;blog&amp;#x2F;2015&amp;#x2F;02&amp;#x2F;20&amp;#x2F;introducing-...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;Learning Flux sort of seems like learning how to drive stick shift on an &amp;#x27;97 Civic while we wait for the new Tesla to arrive - useful, also a bit annoying. A central store architecture does seem a better match to what Relay will look like though.</text></comment>

<story><title>React Tips and Best Practices</title><url>http://aeflash.com/2015-02/react-tips-and-best-practices.html</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>amelius</author><text>Let&amp;#x27;s be real. It&amp;#x27;s 2015 and we need quite some hoops to get, in most cases, some very simple data rendered on the screen. And even with all those hoops, we are still not sure that it works in all cases. Isn&amp;#x27;t it time for better tools than react? Like functional languages that support incremental computation?</text></comment>

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<story><title>Bankruptcy Booms Among Older Americans</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/05/business/bankruptcy-older-americans.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>ransom1538</author><text>What ever you save with your blood sweat and tears will be burned on medical expenses. Your best bet (after being diagnosed with something severe) is to convert all your last savings to cash, give it to a loved one, explain to the government you are broke, and die on the street. [1][2]&lt;p&gt;Nursing homes and hospices are designed to suck out your funds until you are dry, then dump you on state aid.&lt;p&gt;1. &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.senioradvisor.com&amp;#x2F;san-jose-ca&amp;#x2F;how-much-do-san-jose-nursing-homes-cost&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.senioradvisor.com&amp;#x2F;san-jose-ca&amp;#x2F;how-much-do-san-jo...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;The average annual cost to seniors nationally is $80,300 for a semi-private and $91,250 for a private room in 2015&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;2. I originally had &amp;quot;in a state funded hospice&amp;quot;, but opo pointed out that medicare will strip you of your benefits due to their claw back system. You may want to look into committing a felony, for state funded care.</text></comment>

<story><title>Bankruptcy Booms Among Older Americans</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/05/business/bankruptcy-older-americans.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>ginko</author><text>How can a 72-year-old retire just get his health insurance revoked? What&amp;#x27;s even the point of health insurance when it only covers the young and healthy apparently.</text></comment>

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<story><title>Naomi Wu video demonetized on YouTube</title><url>https://twitter.com/RealSexyCyborg/status/1486526916433641472</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Animats</author><text>Naomi Wu seems to upset a lot of people. She makes things, and was accused by the publisher of &amp;quot;Make&amp;quot; magazine of being a fake, with some guy doing the actual work. She replied by posting long, detailed videos of her making stuff. An hour of cutting aluminum extrusions with a chop saw and putting together a frame. Soldering PC boards. Eventually, the guy apologized.&lt;p&gt;One of the useful things she&amp;#x27;s done is to put up lots of videos of her running around Shenzhen. There aren&amp;#x27;t enough ground-level videos of the working parts of Chinese cities. There&amp;#x27;s extensive coverage of Tokyo, by comparison. It&amp;#x27;s interesting to see the high-density housing blocks and street-level activity. (The &amp;quot;let&amp;#x27;s increase housing density&amp;quot; crowd from Strong Towns should watch those videos.) People who&amp;#x27;ve met her report that she knows Shenzhen very well, down to the back alley level, where some unmarked door leads to an important factory. She&amp;#x27;s toured the electronics markets of Huaqiangbei. (I miss the days when Silicon Valley had electronics parts stores.)&lt;p&gt;She&amp;#x27;s done some nice technical work. Her main thing is 3D printing, and she came up with the first angled 3D printer that worked reliably. The print head moves in a plane 45 degrees from vertical, and the base surface is a belt, which advances the workpiece one layer at a time. So it can produce objects continuously, or very long objects if you add support rollers. Others had made prototypes of such machines, but the properties of the belt and print head are touchy to make that work right. She got it all working, and it&amp;#x27;s now a product, with her picture on the box.&lt;p&gt;At various times she&amp;#x27;s pushed on GPL compliance, mask quality, and other issues of interest to the tech community.&lt;p&gt;She wears skimpy outfits sometimes. So what? That&amp;#x27;s most of Instagram. Unlike most Instagrammers, Wu has something original to say. Sometimes with a biting wit. I gather that it&amp;#x27;s more biting in Cantonese.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>kragen</author><text>I wonder what fraction of people here commenting disapprovingly about her choice of wardrobe think YouTube should demonetize videos of bodybuilding competitions, male rock stars, or boxing. Because apparently those are super sexy, though I think the bodybuilding thing appeals to more gay men than to het women.&lt;p&gt;Also apparently a lot of male gamer Youtubers are considered sexy, even though they don&amp;#x27;t have exaggerated secondary sexual characteristics like giant muscles, and I&amp;#x27;ve never heard of them getting demonetized for it: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;ar.pinterest.com&amp;#x2F;madelineulatows&amp;#x2F;logan-paul-sexy&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;ar.pinterest.com&amp;#x2F;madelineulatows&amp;#x2F;logan-paul-sexy&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;ar.pinterest.com&amp;#x2F;ktatianalima203&amp;#x2F;rubius-sexy-3&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;ar.pinterest.com&amp;#x2F;ktatianalima203&amp;#x2F;rubius-sexy-3&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>

<story><title>Naomi Wu video demonetized on YouTube</title><url>https://twitter.com/RealSexyCyborg/status/1486526916433641472</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Animats</author><text>Naomi Wu seems to upset a lot of people. She makes things, and was accused by the publisher of &amp;quot;Make&amp;quot; magazine of being a fake, with some guy doing the actual work. She replied by posting long, detailed videos of her making stuff. An hour of cutting aluminum extrusions with a chop saw and putting together a frame. Soldering PC boards. Eventually, the guy apologized.&lt;p&gt;One of the useful things she&amp;#x27;s done is to put up lots of videos of her running around Shenzhen. There aren&amp;#x27;t enough ground-level videos of the working parts of Chinese cities. There&amp;#x27;s extensive coverage of Tokyo, by comparison. It&amp;#x27;s interesting to see the high-density housing blocks and street-level activity. (The &amp;quot;let&amp;#x27;s increase housing density&amp;quot; crowd from Strong Towns should watch those videos.) People who&amp;#x27;ve met her report that she knows Shenzhen very well, down to the back alley level, where some unmarked door leads to an important factory. She&amp;#x27;s toured the electronics markets of Huaqiangbei. (I miss the days when Silicon Valley had electronics parts stores.)&lt;p&gt;She&amp;#x27;s done some nice technical work. Her main thing is 3D printing, and she came up with the first angled 3D printer that worked reliably. The print head moves in a plane 45 degrees from vertical, and the base surface is a belt, which advances the workpiece one layer at a time. So it can produce objects continuously, or very long objects if you add support rollers. Others had made prototypes of such machines, but the properties of the belt and print head are touchy to make that work right. She got it all working, and it&amp;#x27;s now a product, with her picture on the box.&lt;p&gt;At various times she&amp;#x27;s pushed on GPL compliance, mask quality, and other issues of interest to the tech community.&lt;p&gt;She wears skimpy outfits sometimes. So what? That&amp;#x27;s most of Instagram. Unlike most Instagrammers, Wu has something original to say. Sometimes with a biting wit. I gather that it&amp;#x27;s more biting in Cantonese.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Jach</author><text>A user (I&amp;#x27;ll leave them unstated) deleted a reply with a metaphor along the lines of &amp;quot;what do you expect if someone wears a clown suit when speaking at a technical conference?&amp;quot; Well, here&amp;#x27;s her speaking at a tech conference, in &amp;quot;context-appropriate&amp;quot; attire that is neither skimpy nor a clown suit: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.youtube.com&amp;#x2F;watch?v=mt1OLgGIqhc&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.youtube.com&amp;#x2F;watch?v=mt1OLgGIqhc&lt;/a&gt; In &amp;quot;She wears skimpy outfits sometimes&amp;quot;, &lt;i&gt;sometimes&lt;/i&gt; is really the operative word.</text></comment>

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<story><title>Show HN: Pup – A command-line HTML parser</title><url>https://github.com/EricChiang/pup</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>nikital</author><text>While reading the examples, I was surprised by the placement of the output redirection statement:&lt;p&gt;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt; $ pup &amp;lt; robots.html title &lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt; For some reason I thought that it must come last. Turns out that you can place it anywhere in the command! All these are equivalent in bash:&lt;p&gt;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt; $ pup title &amp;lt; robots.html $ pup &amp;lt; robots.html title $ &amp;lt; robots.html pup title&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;</text></comment>

<story><title>Show HN: Pup – A command-line HTML parser</title><url>https://github.com/EricChiang/pup</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>aw3c2</author><text>&amp;quot;I bet it&amp;#x27;s node or ruby...&amp;quot; Sees .go file extension. &amp;quot;Oh nice, I never used a Go program before!&amp;quot; But then I am supposed to &amp;#x27;$ go get github.com&amp;#x2F;ericchiang&amp;#x2F;pup&amp;#x27; to install it.&lt;p&gt;Why does everything nowadays have to come with its own package manager? I like the separation between my home directory and the &amp;quot;system packages&amp;quot;. I don&amp;#x27;t want to have to care for and update and separately backup ~&amp;#x2F;go, ~&amp;#x2F;.npm and so on and so forth.&lt;p&gt;This looks super nice, I especially like the detailed list of examples. Sorry for the rant.&lt;p&gt;edit: There are binaries in the &amp;quot;dist&amp;quot; directory, the readme just did not mention them. Thanks!</text></comment>

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<story><title>Trust Models</title><url>https://vitalik.ca/general/2020/08/20/trust.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>cosmojg</author><text>Whenever I read Vitalik&amp;#x27;s work, I find myself convinced that all of society and its various problems can be boiled down to incentives and their alignment or misalignment.</text></comment>

<story><title>Trust Models</title><url>https://vitalik.ca/general/2020/08/20/trust.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>statquontrarian</author><text>It seems odd to not discuss the more fundamental issues of trusting the infrastructure. All this virtual reality is on top of a physical reality controlled by governments and powerful interests. What happens when said powers declare cryptocurrencies illegal (app store removals, RST packets, etc.), or try to take them over with brute force?</text></comment>

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<story><title>Netflix Saves Kids from Up to 400 Hours of Commercials a Year</title><url>https://localbabysitter.com/netflix-saves-our-kids-from-up-to-400-hours-of-commercials-a-year/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>aczerepinski</author><text>I encourage you to google it. People get arrested all around the country for letting their kids play in the park across the street, ride their bike around the block, sit in the car alone at the bank, etc.</text></item><item><author>jak92</author><text>&amp;gt; &lt;i&gt;child play outside by themselves is essentially illegal.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;No it&amp;#x27;s not.</text></item><item><author>aczerepinski</author><text>Childcare is super expensive. I think there are a ton of people who can’t afford it and use screen time to supplement. It keeps the kid safe in one spot while you can get stuff done. Keep in mind that letting a child play outside by themselves is essentially illegal.</text></item><item><author>blobbers</author><text>&amp;quot;The average 2-5 year old is spending over 1,600 hours a year watching television.&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;This seems nuts to me. That is 4.5 hours a day! For a 2 year old? Who are these parents...</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>kilo_bravo_3</author><text>The fact that &amp;quot;a handful of people&amp;quot; in &amp;quot;several places&amp;quot; over &amp;quot;the last 20 years&amp;quot; becomes &amp;quot;People get arrested all around the country&amp;quot; like it&amp;#x27;s an epidemic or something is one of many negative, and one of the worst, things about the internet.&lt;p&gt;That and the fact that &amp;quot;oh and then the charges were dropped and in some cases local laws changed&amp;quot; is inevitably (I think purposefully) left out.&lt;p&gt;Reason.com went on a year-long bender of self-promotion and half-truthing about 3 years ago when three women were arrested in three states, claiming that &amp;quot;jack-booted big gubmint was comin to take yer kerdz&amp;quot; and plastered people&amp;#x27;s pictures and stories on fundraising materials and tried to get people to buy their &amp;quot;free range kids&amp;quot; books, as though three incidents in a country of 300 million was an epidemic.&lt;p&gt;Of course, the most confusing thing about all of this is that a Venn diagram of &amp;quot;people who think that the government is rounding up mothers all over the country&amp;quot; and &amp;quot;people who immediately, vocally, and vociferously criticize the government for NOT protecting the welfare of children&amp;quot; is a perfect circle.</text></comment>

<story><title>Netflix Saves Kids from Up to 400 Hours of Commercials a Year</title><url>https://localbabysitter.com/netflix-saves-our-kids-from-up-to-400-hours-of-commercials-a-year/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>aczerepinski</author><text>I encourage you to google it. People get arrested all around the country for letting their kids play in the park across the street, ride their bike around the block, sit in the car alone at the bank, etc.</text></item><item><author>jak92</author><text>&amp;gt; &lt;i&gt;child play outside by themselves is essentially illegal.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;No it&amp;#x27;s not.</text></item><item><author>aczerepinski</author><text>Childcare is super expensive. I think there are a ton of people who can’t afford it and use screen time to supplement. It keeps the kid safe in one spot while you can get stuff done. Keep in mind that letting a child play outside by themselves is essentially illegal.</text></item><item><author>blobbers</author><text>&amp;quot;The average 2-5 year old is spending over 1,600 hours a year watching television.&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;This seems nuts to me. That is 4.5 hours a day! For a 2 year old? Who are these parents...</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>chrisweekly</author><text>Huge exaggeration. Also, free-range parenting is a thing, but even in relatively &amp;quot;helicopter-y&amp;quot; families, the ability to send kids off somewhere w&amp;#x2F; a phone to reconnect makes it easy to let kids of a certain age explore and exercise some freedom.</text></comment>

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<story><title>How We Automated 99% of Our Newsletter Business</title><url>https://thetechonomics.com/2020/06/03/how-we-automated-99-of-our-newsletter-business/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>biznickman</author><text>I&amp;#x27;ve attempted to build automated news systems in the past and have done so successfully a couple of times. However this is completely misleading as the work is not in publishing but instead is in the actual discovery, curation, and writing of content.&lt;p&gt;I don&amp;#x27;t know where the joke is from but if there is one about how engineers set up a blog it would go like this.&lt;p&gt;&lt;i&gt;Normal person:&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;Goes to Medium, Wordpress, or somewhere else, starts writing and clicks publish.&lt;p&gt;&lt;i&gt;Developer:&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;1. Set up ReactJS for the front end&lt;p&gt;2. Set up a build system for automated deployments&lt;p&gt;3. Sets up MongoDB to store the articles they&amp;#x27;ll be writing&lt;p&gt;4. Sets up the backend to serve up the various articles&lt;p&gt;5. Builds an integration for Wordpress that enables Wordpress to pull and push (make sure both ways) to the MongoDB system that&amp;#x27;s storing the newsletters&lt;p&gt;6. Sets up all the integrations required for SEO&lt;p&gt;7. Sets up the integration testing framework&lt;p&gt;8. Write an article&lt;p&gt;9. Clicks publish</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>satvikpendem</author><text>This is because an engineer&amp;#x27;s interest is not in the actual writing, but the creation of such a blog. To such engineers, I&amp;#x27;d say that this is fine, but don&amp;#x27;t delude yourself into thinking that these are necessary steps to writing when there are much simpler ways, such as Medium or Wordpress as you say.</text></comment>

<story><title>How We Automated 99% of Our Newsletter Business</title><url>https://thetechonomics.com/2020/06/03/how-we-automated-99-of-our-newsletter-business/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>biznickman</author><text>I&amp;#x27;ve attempted to build automated news systems in the past and have done so successfully a couple of times. However this is completely misleading as the work is not in publishing but instead is in the actual discovery, curation, and writing of content.&lt;p&gt;I don&amp;#x27;t know where the joke is from but if there is one about how engineers set up a blog it would go like this.&lt;p&gt;&lt;i&gt;Normal person:&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;Goes to Medium, Wordpress, or somewhere else, starts writing and clicks publish.&lt;p&gt;&lt;i&gt;Developer:&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;1. Set up ReactJS for the front end&lt;p&gt;2. Set up a build system for automated deployments&lt;p&gt;3. Sets up MongoDB to store the articles they&amp;#x27;ll be writing&lt;p&gt;4. Sets up the backend to serve up the various articles&lt;p&gt;5. Builds an integration for Wordpress that enables Wordpress to pull and push (make sure both ways) to the MongoDB system that&amp;#x27;s storing the newsletters&lt;p&gt;6. Sets up all the integrations required for SEO&lt;p&gt;7. Sets up the integration testing framework&lt;p&gt;8. Write an article&lt;p&gt;9. Clicks publish</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>juandazapata</author><text>Grey beard: 1. Opens emacs 2. Writes the post in org-mode 3. Exports to html 4. rsyncs with a remote server</text></comment>

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<story><title>Atlassian fired me while I was taking care of my wife who is fighting cancer</title><url>https://shitlassian.com/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>helloguillecl</author><text>And now tell us, how would the rest of us know how working for X it&amp;#x27;s like? Should we just rely on their HR marketing?&lt;p&gt;By keeping it quiet, the company would be simply getting away with their unjust practices and unprofessional management.&lt;p&gt;If it&amp;#x27;s clear that the company cannot see that they are doing something wrong... you&amp;#x27;d be keeping it quiet to get exactly what from them?</text></item><item><author>SkipperCat</author><text>I&amp;#x27;ll accept that what the author posted is the truth. Atlassian did not give him what he wanted or needed. And now this battle is public, he will never get anything else from them. The proverbial glove has been thrown down and they will fight you on all fronts.&lt;p&gt;To everyone else, If this happens to you, I implore you to get legal counsel ASAP, and keep it quiet. Find out all your options and strike a quiet deal with your employer. That is the best you&amp;#x27;ll ever get.&lt;p&gt;Almost any large company has much deeper pockets than you do and their reputation is more valuable that their ethics. You&amp;#x27;ll rarely win in the court of public opinion and you&amp;#x27;ll probably never get hired anywhere again. I say this even if you were 100% in the right.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>errantspark</author><text>This person is giving advice from the PoV of an individual comfortable with playing zero sum or even negative sum games as long as they are able to continue winning.&lt;p&gt;Don&amp;#x27;t be like this, don&amp;#x27;t corrode the commons for personal gain. By not speaking out you are endorsing a harmful asymmetry, make no mistake about your personal responsibility for perpetuating hostile norms.</text></comment>

<story><title>Atlassian fired me while I was taking care of my wife who is fighting cancer</title><url>https://shitlassian.com/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>helloguillecl</author><text>And now tell us, how would the rest of us know how working for X it&amp;#x27;s like? Should we just rely on their HR marketing?&lt;p&gt;By keeping it quiet, the company would be simply getting away with their unjust practices and unprofessional management.&lt;p&gt;If it&amp;#x27;s clear that the company cannot see that they are doing something wrong... you&amp;#x27;d be keeping it quiet to get exactly what from them?</text></item><item><author>SkipperCat</author><text>I&amp;#x27;ll accept that what the author posted is the truth. Atlassian did not give him what he wanted or needed. And now this battle is public, he will never get anything else from them. The proverbial glove has been thrown down and they will fight you on all fronts.&lt;p&gt;To everyone else, If this happens to you, I implore you to get legal counsel ASAP, and keep it quiet. Find out all your options and strike a quiet deal with your employer. That is the best you&amp;#x27;ll ever get.&lt;p&gt;Almost any large company has much deeper pockets than you do and their reputation is more valuable that their ethics. You&amp;#x27;ll rarely win in the court of public opinion and you&amp;#x27;ll probably never get hired anywhere again. I say this even if you were 100% in the right.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>sjtindell</author><text>I agree with both you and the above commenter. Perhaps it is optimal to keep quiet for yourself, but optimal for the group if none of us keep quiet. A tough problem.</text></comment>

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<story><title>I&apos;m forking Ladybird and stepping down as SerenityOS BDFL</title><url>https://awesomekling.substack.com/p/forking-ladybird-and-stepping-down-serenityos</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>nextaccountic</author><text>&amp;gt; Ladybird now targets Linux and macOS. The SerenityOS target is dropped.&lt;p&gt;Why dropping the SerenityOS target??&lt;p&gt;Does this mean that SerenityOS&amp;#x27;s Ladybird will need to continually pull patches from the new Ladybird project in order to keep development?&lt;p&gt;Also: is it really a fork if the new project gets to keep the name &amp;quot;Ladybird&amp;quot;? Will SerenityOS&amp;#x27;s browser need to be renamed, or there will be two diverging Ladybird projects with the same name? (Maybe a qualifier would help, like SerenityOS Ladybird vs Open Ladybird or something?)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>vincentkriek</author><text>I think the fork has to do with the following item:&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; Unlike SerenityOS, Ladybird will have a relaxed NIH policy (instead of &amp;quot;no 3rd party code!&amp;quot;), and will leverage the greater OSS ecosystem.&lt;p&gt;SerenityOS wants to be an OS from scratch, to see how to do things better from existing implementations. When ladybird wants to target that OS as well, using 3rd party libraries would make it hard to stay compatible. Which is easier to do on just MacOS and Linux.</text></comment>

<story><title>I&apos;m forking Ladybird and stepping down as SerenityOS BDFL</title><url>https://awesomekling.substack.com/p/forking-ladybird-and-stepping-down-serenityos</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>nextaccountic</author><text>&amp;gt; Ladybird now targets Linux and macOS. The SerenityOS target is dropped.&lt;p&gt;Why dropping the SerenityOS target??&lt;p&gt;Does this mean that SerenityOS&amp;#x27;s Ladybird will need to continually pull patches from the new Ladybird project in order to keep development?&lt;p&gt;Also: is it really a fork if the new project gets to keep the name &amp;quot;Ladybird&amp;quot;? Will SerenityOS&amp;#x27;s browser need to be renamed, or there will be two diverging Ladybird projects with the same name? (Maybe a qualifier would help, like SerenityOS Ladybird vs Open Ladybird or something?)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>squeek502</author><text>SerenityOS&amp;#x27;s browser has never been named Ladybird AFAIK, it&amp;#x27;s always been just Browser.&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;github.com&amp;#x2F;SerenityOS&amp;#x2F;serenity&amp;#x2F;tree&amp;#x2F;master&amp;#x2F;Userland&amp;#x2F;Applications&amp;#x2F;Browser&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;github.com&amp;#x2F;SerenityOS&amp;#x2F;serenity&amp;#x2F;tree&amp;#x2F;master&amp;#x2F;Userland&amp;#x2F;...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;Ladybird was the name used for to the cross-platform version of the browser.&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;awesomekling.github.io&amp;#x2F;Ladybird-a-new-cross-platform-browser-project&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;awesomekling.github.io&amp;#x2F;Ladybird-a-new-cross-platform...&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>

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<story><title>Universal Property of Music Discovered</title><url>http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/03/110325102008.htm</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>mycroftiv</author><text>I like this type of research, but I think these results are not really new or surprising. In fact, there is almost a kind of &quot;circular reasoning&quot; at work - the Euler lattice (or Tonnetz) was constructed for the purpose of trying to represent the relationship of the basic music musical intervals. The fact that the basis of scales is the set of simple harmonic ratios of an initial pitch has been asserted by theorists for centuries, and that is what these star-convex structures correspond to. In other words, this research confirms that the established and traditional theory of scales and harmonic relationships is indeed the basis of human music of most cultures.</text></comment>

<story><title>Universal Property of Music Discovered</title><url>http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/03/110325102008.htm</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>MJR</author><text>First, this is cool. As someone who studied Sound Engineering it&apos;s not often that you see this type of post on HN.&lt;p&gt;Second - The scientific journal that published the article looks really interesting - The Journal of New Music Research. I wasn&apos;t aware of this. Now to find out if the local college library subscribes! &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/title~db=all~content=t713817838&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/title~db=all~content=t71381...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;Also, looks like a future issue in 2011 will be a special issue on &apos;Music and Machine Learning&apos; &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.auditory.org/mhonarc/2010/msg00428.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.auditory.org/mhonarc/2010/msg00428.html&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>

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<story><title>Obama Admin Pursuing Executive Order to Enact CISPA-Like Cybersecurity Language </title><url>http://www.opencongress.org/articles/view/2511-Obama-Admin-Pursuing-Executive-Order-to-Enact-CISPA-Like-Cybersecurity-Language</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mtgx</author><text>The Democratic Party has completely removed civil liberties policies from their platform for 2012, even though it was one of the main things they ran on in 2008.&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.motherjones.com/mojo/2012/09/democrats-retreat-civil-liberties-2012-platform&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.motherjones.com/mojo/2012/09/democrats-retreat-ci...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;Romney would obviously be even worse for this, but yeah - this is what you get with a 2 party system. It just gets worse and worse. My only hope is that once Republicans lose this one, then by 2014 or even 2016 they reform the party, and the libertarians inside the party get to heavily influence the platform towards more civil liberties, and attack the Democrat Party on it at the next elections, so they can win on it. Other than that, I&apos;m not sure how you&apos;ll get either the Democratic Party or the Republican one to start caring about this again.</text></item><item><author>guelo</author><text>Obama has been shameful on civil liberties. The sad thing is that it has traditionally been the Republicans who push against the limits of civil liberties and the Dems who at least pretend to care. Thanks to Obama, the Dems have flipped over so completely against civil liberties that there really is no remaining government interest protecting us. It&apos;s a Nixon goes to China moment, Obama has done more to destroy civil liberties than any Republican ever could have dreamed.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>tptacek</author><text>Civil liberties &lt;i&gt;weren&apos;t&lt;/i&gt; one of the main things Obama ran on in 2008. Obama ran on the economy and on a fixed timetable for ending the Iraq war.&lt;p&gt;To make the argument that civil liberties were a key focus of the Obama 2008 campaign, you should be able to provide a Google News search query from (say) July-October &apos;08 that demonstrates that fact. I just tried to find one and couldn&apos;t.&lt;p&gt;We are (mostly, and myself included) social liberals on HN, and Obama was the liberal mainstream candidate in 2008, so I think we tend to project things onto him that aren&apos;t really there. Obama is first and foremost a pragmatist. Closing Gitmo was worth less to Obama than getting health care passed.</text></comment>

<story><title>Obama Admin Pursuing Executive Order to Enact CISPA-Like Cybersecurity Language </title><url>http://www.opencongress.org/articles/view/2511-Obama-Admin-Pursuing-Executive-Order-to-Enact-CISPA-Like-Cybersecurity-Language</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mtgx</author><text>The Democratic Party has completely removed civil liberties policies from their platform for 2012, even though it was one of the main things they ran on in 2008.&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.motherjones.com/mojo/2012/09/democrats-retreat-civil-liberties-2012-platform&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.motherjones.com/mojo/2012/09/democrats-retreat-ci...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;Romney would obviously be even worse for this, but yeah - this is what you get with a 2 party system. It just gets worse and worse. My only hope is that once Republicans lose this one, then by 2014 or even 2016 they reform the party, and the libertarians inside the party get to heavily influence the platform towards more civil liberties, and attack the Democrat Party on it at the next elections, so they can win on it. Other than that, I&apos;m not sure how you&apos;ll get either the Democratic Party or the Republican one to start caring about this again.</text></item><item><author>guelo</author><text>Obama has been shameful on civil liberties. The sad thing is that it has traditionally been the Republicans who push against the limits of civil liberties and the Dems who at least pretend to care. Thanks to Obama, the Dems have flipped over so completely against civil liberties that there really is no remaining government interest protecting us. It&apos;s a Nixon goes to China moment, Obama has done more to destroy civil liberties than any Republican ever could have dreamed.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Shivetya</author><text>Romney would be better and I give only one reason.&lt;p&gt;If we start making these guys all one term Presidents maybe, just maybe, they might know who they are beholden too.&lt;p&gt;So anyone is better than the current guy and so and so on.&lt;p&gt;So I am quite willing to put up with four years of Romney if it means a message is being delivered. I am quite willing to get him out as fast too.</text></comment>

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<story><title>Google Cloud is 50% cheaper than AWS</title><url>https://thehftguy.wordpress.com/2016/11/18/google-cloud-is-50-cheaper-than-aws/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>sirn</author><text>Slightly unrelated, but since there seems to be some Google Cloud people in this thread: I see that Google Cloud account is linked to my Google Account. What happen to my Google Cloud instances if my Google Account got suspended by Google due to other reasons (e.g. Pixel stuff from the other day, or because of YouTube, or etc.) and I did not bought support tier?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>timdorr</author><text>On GCP, you create a separate Project entity that can have any number of Google Accounts linked to it. In that way, the actions of your personal account don&amp;#x27;t affect the GCP project (and vice versa).&lt;p&gt;If you&amp;#x27;re worried about access, you can establish a service account with Owner level access. Or you can add other Google Accounts to the project. (Here are the docs on that: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;cloud.google.com&amp;#x2F;iam&amp;#x2F;docs&amp;#x2F;overview&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;cloud.google.com&amp;#x2F;iam&amp;#x2F;docs&amp;#x2F;overview&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;p&gt;I personally have all my Google stuff separated into 3 accounts (work, personal email, and personal Google-y things). My work account has access to the projects on GCP, along with some coworkers. That puts up enough of a firewall between various services so that if Google throws down the banhammer, it&amp;#x27;s not totally game over for me.</text></comment>

<story><title>Google Cloud is 50% cheaper than AWS</title><url>https://thehftguy.wordpress.com/2016/11/18/google-cloud-is-50-cheaper-than-aws/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>sirn</author><text>Slightly unrelated, but since there seems to be some Google Cloud people in this thread: I see that Google Cloud account is linked to my Google Account. What happen to my Google Cloud instances if my Google Account got suspended by Google due to other reasons (e.g. Pixel stuff from the other day, or because of YouTube, or etc.) and I did not bought support tier?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>nkw</author><text>As someone whose google account is tied to a scary number of services, e.g. our company&amp;#x27;s G Suite, Fiber, Music, Play, Store, Cast&amp;#x2F;Home, Nest, Adwords, Analytics, Webmaster Tools, etc., and is in the process of migrating a bunch (but not by google standards) of data and instances from AWS to Google Cloud the thought that some screwup in some random service gets my account obliterated and my company loses access to our Google Cloud resources (because I&amp;#x27;m the admin account) scares the !*^%# out of me.</text></comment>

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<story><title>US Attorney Chided Swartz On Day of Suicide</title><url>http://yro.slashdot.org/story/13/01/13/139218/us-attorney-chided-swartz-on-day-of-suicide</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ComputerGuru</author><text>And you are taking the exact opposite stance. Suicide is the one crime where the person is both victim and perpetrator. You can&apos;t just choose to look at one and not the other. He is victim and perpetrator in one.&lt;p&gt;People treating suicide as pure-victim is absolutely wrong, not in the least because it tends to make it look much more appealing. The real victims of suicide are the loved ones and close friends. They are the ones that suffer, and they are the ones that are truly blameless &quot;victims&quot; (in so much as anyone can be blameless). There is a reason why suicide is considered to be a selfish crime. I am not lambasting Aaron here, but you have to treat suicide for what it is, rather than turn it into a heroic act of defiance and finally sticking it to the man. If only to make people think twice about taking the &quot;easy way&quot; out for themselves.</text></item><item><author>duairc</author><text>Totally ridiculous, victim-blaming comment.&lt;p&gt;“If you add up everyone&apos;s responsibility for something, it doesn&apos;t equal 100% — it equals a billion percent if it has to, because any number of entities can be fully responsible for the same thing.” — Ran Prieur, The Mathematics of Responsibility (&lt;a href=&quot;http://ranprieur.com/essays/mathres.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://ranprieur.com/essays/mathres.html&lt;/a&gt;)</text></item><item><author>flipper28</author><text>I think it&apos;s kind of ridiculous that everyone is pointing fingers at &quot;everyone else&quot; other than the man responsible for the suicide, Aaron Swartz himself.&lt;p&gt;Sure, he was in a tough situation, and I&apos;ll admit I don&apos;t know the entire backstory of what led up to this man&apos;s suicide(although there is no shortage of information on the HN front page as of late), but there is nobody that can be held responsible for his suicide other than himself.&lt;p&gt;It is self-evident that this man was well-respected in the online community.&lt;p&gt;He killed himself. Nobody else is responsible for that extraordinary action. We can only speculate on his exact reasoning for doing it, but I would suspect a man in that state of mind may not be acting completely rationally and just wanted to escape but sadly could not find a way out other than ending his own life.&lt;p&gt;Let&apos;s celebrate his life and accomplishments and stop trying to find people to blame.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>duairc</author><text>&amp;#62; The real victims of suicide are the loved ones and close friends.&lt;p&gt;This is bullshit. And so fucking insensitive. This idea, that anybody owes it to their ‘friends’ to force themselves to stay alive when they want to die, just so those ‘friends’ can continue to feel good about themselves and don&apos;t have to deal with the reality that their friend &lt;i&gt;wants to die&lt;/i&gt;, is completely fucked up. Have some empathy for the people dealing with those feelings, not their selfish ‘friends’.</text></comment>

<story><title>US Attorney Chided Swartz On Day of Suicide</title><url>http://yro.slashdot.org/story/13/01/13/139218/us-attorney-chided-swartz-on-day-of-suicide</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ComputerGuru</author><text>And you are taking the exact opposite stance. Suicide is the one crime where the person is both victim and perpetrator. You can&apos;t just choose to look at one and not the other. He is victim and perpetrator in one.&lt;p&gt;People treating suicide as pure-victim is absolutely wrong, not in the least because it tends to make it look much more appealing. The real victims of suicide are the loved ones and close friends. They are the ones that suffer, and they are the ones that are truly blameless &quot;victims&quot; (in so much as anyone can be blameless). There is a reason why suicide is considered to be a selfish crime. I am not lambasting Aaron here, but you have to treat suicide for what it is, rather than turn it into a heroic act of defiance and finally sticking it to the man. If only to make people think twice about taking the &quot;easy way&quot; out for themselves.</text></item><item><author>duairc</author><text>Totally ridiculous, victim-blaming comment.&lt;p&gt;“If you add up everyone&apos;s responsibility for something, it doesn&apos;t equal 100% — it equals a billion percent if it has to, because any number of entities can be fully responsible for the same thing.” — Ran Prieur, The Mathematics of Responsibility (&lt;a href=&quot;http://ranprieur.com/essays/mathres.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://ranprieur.com/essays/mathres.html&lt;/a&gt;)</text></item><item><author>flipper28</author><text>I think it&apos;s kind of ridiculous that everyone is pointing fingers at &quot;everyone else&quot; other than the man responsible for the suicide, Aaron Swartz himself.&lt;p&gt;Sure, he was in a tough situation, and I&apos;ll admit I don&apos;t know the entire backstory of what led up to this man&apos;s suicide(although there is no shortage of information on the HN front page as of late), but there is nobody that can be held responsible for his suicide other than himself.&lt;p&gt;It is self-evident that this man was well-respected in the online community.&lt;p&gt;He killed himself. Nobody else is responsible for that extraordinary action. We can only speculate on his exact reasoning for doing it, but I would suspect a man in that state of mind may not be acting completely rationally and just wanted to escape but sadly could not find a way out other than ending his own life.&lt;p&gt;Let&apos;s celebrate his life and accomplishments and stop trying to find people to blame.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>sneak</author><text>&amp;#62; If only to make people think twice about taking the &quot;easy way&quot; out for themselves.&lt;p&gt;Your understanding of the illness that causes this is sorely lacking.&lt;p&gt;I suggest reading Infinite Jest. It illustrated a lot for me.</text></comment>

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<story><title>Entrepreneurs Tell What They Wish They’d Known before Founding First Startup</title><url>http://davidhauser.com/post/35203066523/advice-from-21-entrepreneurs</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>pg</author><text>Notice how a lot of the answers form a single connected thread: how hard it is to get users, that doing so depends on making what they want, and that to make what they want you have to understand them (instead of working on some idea conceived in a vacuum).</text></comment>

<story><title>Entrepreneurs Tell What They Wish They’d Known before Founding First Startup</title><url>http://davidhauser.com/post/35203066523/advice-from-21-entrepreneurs</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>ArbitraryLimits</author><text>These people seem to have been chosen because of(and their advice ordered by) their physical attractiveness rather than their actual entrepreneurial success.&lt;p&gt;Edit: OK, I kind of take it back. I started paying attention at #4 and stopped at #10.</text></comment>

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<story><title>Top Israeli spy chief exposes his true identity in online security lapse</title><url>https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/apr/05/top-israeli-spy-chief-exposes-his-true-identity-in-online-security-lapse</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>john-radio</author><text>&amp;gt; The embarrassing security lapse is linked to a book he published on Amazon, which left a digital trail to a private Google account created in his name, along with his unique ID and links to the account’s maps and calendar profiles.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;m interested to know more about the nature of the lapse here. Is there a bug in Amazon where self-publishers expose their account email addresses? Or was it more like, he shared Google Map and Google Calendar content in the book, not realizing that those features exposed his real email?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>TrueDuality</author><text>From that line and a few others in the article Amazon doesn&amp;#x27;t seem to be involved at all. It seems like there was a Gmail account created to receive feedback, corrections, reviews, and media outreach that was also supposed to be relatively anonymous but was registered with his actual name which would be visible to anyone that he responded to at the very least, but may also show up through other account associations.</text></comment>

<story><title>Top Israeli spy chief exposes his true identity in online security lapse</title><url>https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/apr/05/top-israeli-spy-chief-exposes-his-true-identity-in-online-security-lapse</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>john-radio</author><text>&amp;gt; The embarrassing security lapse is linked to a book he published on Amazon, which left a digital trail to a private Google account created in his name, along with his unique ID and links to the account’s maps and calendar profiles.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;m interested to know more about the nature of the lapse here. Is there a bug in Amazon where self-publishers expose their account email addresses? Or was it more like, he shared Google Map and Google Calendar content in the book, not realizing that those features exposed his real email?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ArunRaja</author><text>&amp;gt; Email Id with unique id leaked&lt;p&gt;What&amp;#x27;s the unique id here ? SSN number &amp;#x2F; military id,...?</text></comment>

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<story><title>Wasabi – Simple storage solution</title><url>https://wasabi.com/product</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>knobbytires</author><text>Some quick observations:&lt;p&gt;- Their performance claims are incredibly biased. Amazon S3 has far better write performance than their claims.&lt;p&gt;- They claim 100% S3 compatibility but it fails a large number of API calls using Ceph’s s3-test. I didn’t dig into this too far but they do claim “No need to change your S3-compatible application” so changing my endpoint + credentials should have worked. To their credit - PUT, GET and DELETE did work but that is only 3 of 100’s of API’s.&lt;p&gt;- Their durability claims are highly suspect. I would want to see a white paper breaking this down.&lt;p&gt;- Their first round was debt financing.&lt;p&gt;Why this business model does’t work...&lt;p&gt;Most people don’t use S3 alone. S3 is a source for other AWS services. That being said, Wasabi becomes a more expensive option as you have a 4 cent egress fee to access data from the rest of your AWS infrastructure. The only place Wasabi becomes cheaper is for those using S3 direct&amp;#x2F;alone which is a very small subset of S3 usage. AWS is very open about this in white papers, conferences, tech talks, etc.&lt;p&gt;Wasabi is an economy at scale play that cast way too far a net. There is opportunity in specific vertical markets to sell a solution (object paired with compute) but a pure S3 endpoint will never take substantial marketshare away from AWS.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>gaul</author><text>&amp;gt; They claim 100% S3 compatibility but it fails a large number of API calls using Ceph’s s3-test. I didn’t dig into this too far but they do claim “No need to change your S3-compatible application” so changing my endpoint + credentials should have worked. To their credit - PUT, GET and DELETE did work but that is only 3 of 100’s of API’s.&lt;p&gt;Validating claims of S3 compatibility is important. The S3 API has corner cases like and misfeatures like BitTorrent hosting but sometimes vendors omit key features like multi-part upload and v4 signatures. s3-tests[1] is the best way we have to evaluate implementations yet only Ceph and S3Proxy seem to contribute to it. Users should hold vendors&amp;#x27; feet to the fire about these these claims.&lt;p&gt;[1] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;github.com&amp;#x2F;ceph&amp;#x2F;s3-tests&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;github.com&amp;#x2F;ceph&amp;#x2F;s3-tests&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>

<story><title>Wasabi – Simple storage solution</title><url>https://wasabi.com/product</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>knobbytires</author><text>Some quick observations:&lt;p&gt;- Their performance claims are incredibly biased. Amazon S3 has far better write performance than their claims.&lt;p&gt;- They claim 100% S3 compatibility but it fails a large number of API calls using Ceph’s s3-test. I didn’t dig into this too far but they do claim “No need to change your S3-compatible application” so changing my endpoint + credentials should have worked. To their credit - PUT, GET and DELETE did work but that is only 3 of 100’s of API’s.&lt;p&gt;- Their durability claims are highly suspect. I would want to see a white paper breaking this down.&lt;p&gt;- Their first round was debt financing.&lt;p&gt;Why this business model does’t work...&lt;p&gt;Most people don’t use S3 alone. S3 is a source for other AWS services. That being said, Wasabi becomes a more expensive option as you have a 4 cent egress fee to access data from the rest of your AWS infrastructure. The only place Wasabi becomes cheaper is for those using S3 direct&amp;#x2F;alone which is a very small subset of S3 usage. AWS is very open about this in white papers, conferences, tech talks, etc.&lt;p&gt;Wasabi is an economy at scale play that cast way too far a net. There is opportunity in specific vertical markets to sell a solution (object paired with compute) but a pure S3 endpoint will never take substantial marketshare away from AWS.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>tw04</author><text>&amp;gt;but a pure S3 endpoint will never take substantial marketshare away from AWS.&lt;p&gt;Perhaps in the &amp;quot;dev&amp;#x2F;ops&amp;quot; world, but S3 as a standalone repository could absolutely work for most enterprises and quite frankly soho users as a backup target. That being said, I have almost no faith this will survive and as such wouldn&amp;#x27;t trust it with my backups.</text></comment>

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<story><title>Bootstrap 3</title><url>http://getbootstrap.com</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>yesimahuman</author><text>If anyone&amp;#x27;s interested, I wrote up a little guide on how to prepare yourself for B3 - &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.jetstrap.com/2013/07/bootstrap-3-how-to-prepare-yourself/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;blog.jetstrap.com&amp;#x2F;2013&amp;#x2F;07&amp;#x2F;bootstrap-3-how-to-prepare-...&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>

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<story><title>EndBASIC</title><url>https://www.endbasic.dev/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>jmmv</author><text>Hey, author of EndBASIC here. Surprised to see this bubble up to the front page again :D Previous discussion from June 2022 in: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&amp;#x2F;item?id=37495166&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&amp;#x2F;item?id=37495166&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;I did significant work on the project back then until Jan 2023... but I haven’t had a chance to work on it at all since then -- another side project (&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;endtracker.azurewebsites.net&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;endtracker.azurewebsites.net&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt;) is keeping me busy in my scarce free time. I still have many plans to work on this though, and they are itching because working on EndBASIC is super fun.&lt;p&gt;My next addition will probably be to pick up the Raspberry Pi I have around here and a tiny LCD I bought specifically for EndBASIC, and then make the console show up on it. Up next might be audio, or a “boot to EndBASIC” disk image for the Pi. We’ll see. Open to ideas.&lt;p&gt;More details in the about page (&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.endbasic.dev&amp;#x2F;about.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.endbasic.dev&amp;#x2F;about.html&lt;/a&gt;) or in the EndBASIC section of my blog (&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;jmmv.dev&amp;#x2F;tags&amp;#x2F;endbasic&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;jmmv.dev&amp;#x2F;tags&amp;#x2F;endbasic&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt;).&lt;p&gt;Otherwise... AMA!</text></comment>

<story><title>EndBASIC</title><url>https://www.endbasic.dev/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>yjftsjthsd-h</author><text>Slightly buried: Apache 2.0, written in Rust, &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;github.com&amp;#x2F;endbasic&amp;#x2F;endbasic&amp;#x2F;&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;github.com&amp;#x2F;endbasic&amp;#x2F;endbasic&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;Definitely an interesting attempt to cut through layers of abstraction and make something that lets people make the computer do useful&amp;#x2F;interesting things. No idea how well they realize that vision, of course, but good idea.</text></comment>

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<story><title>Middle-earth according to Mordor - The Lord of the Rings retold</title><url>http://www.salon.com/entertainment/movies/the_lord_of_the_rings/index.html?story=/books/laura_miller/2011/02/15/last_ringbearer</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>ddlatham</author><text>This is an example of creative, derived work that should be enriching the public commons, when the original is quite old, by a long dead author, yet is still troubled by potential copyright claims.</text></comment>

<story><title>Middle-earth according to Mordor - The Lord of the Rings retold</title><url>http://www.salon.com/entertainment/movies/the_lord_of_the_rings/index.html?story=/books/laura_miller/2011/02/15/last_ringbearer</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>Scriptor</author><text>I really need to get around to reading this. The original LOTR did have a rather &quot;western&quot; bent to it. Looking at things in another way would be pretty fun.&lt;p&gt;Also related: &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.mcsweeneys.net/2003/04/22fellowship.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.mcsweeneys.net/2003/04/22fellowship.html&lt;/a&gt;, if Noam Chomsky and Howard Zinn watched The Fellowship of the Ring.</text></comment>

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<story><title>Two Congressional Staffers Who Helped Write SOPA Become Entertainment Lobbyists</title><url>http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20111209/10151917022/shockingly-unshocking-two-congressional-staffers-who-helped-write-sopapipa-become-entertainment-industry-lobbyists.shtml</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Newgy</author><text>There are some similar provisions in U.S. law, but they are easily circumvented by &quot;consulting&quot; rather than &quot;lobbying.&quot;&lt;p&gt;Additionally, the U.S. Constitution does not really permit blanket restrictions on employment for individuals. Among other things, this ties in with the 13th Amendment that bans slavery and indentured servitude. You also have a free speech right to lobby.&lt;p&gt;In fact, the current restrictions are probably unconstitutional.&lt;p&gt;Anyway, these measures are treating a symptom. The real problem is that the federal government is vastly too large in size and scope. Reduce the power and programs run by the federal government, and radically simplify the tax code, and you&apos;ll dry up the opportunities for corruption.</text></item><item><author>_delirium</author><text>To attempt to avoid this, Canada has a category of &quot;designated public office holders&quot; whose post-office employment is restricted in various ways for five years, in an attempt to avoid them becoming lobbyists or being paid by lobbyists immediately after leaving office. Sort of like a 5-year noncompete agreement for politicians, perhaps.</text></item><item><author>DevX101</author><text>You&apos;ll never find a politician worth his/her salt taking cash from a company.&lt;p&gt;The way its done is to push through favorable laws for a company with a wink and a nod, and then come back and work for the company as a consultant/lobbyist with a minimum 1 million dollar per year salary.&lt;p&gt;Billy Tauzin did this quite well with PhRMA (lobbying group for pharma companies). He headed up the committee which oversees drug companies and led the push to pass the Medicare Prescription Drug Bill which was quite favorable to drug companies. The bill among other things allows drug companies to set an arbitrary price for the drug without Medicare having the option to negotiate on prices.&lt;p&gt;As soon as the bill was passed he retired from Congress to lead PhRMA with a $2.5 million USD per year salary. Mission complete.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>sunahsuh</author><text>&amp;#62; Anyway, these measures are treating a symptom. The real problem is that the federal government is vastly too large in size and scope. Reduce the power and programs run by the federal government, and radically simplify the tax code, and you&apos;ll dry up the opportunities for corruption.&lt;p&gt;And that would only treat the problem of government corruption while exacerbating issues of social inequality. I&apos;m all for fiscal responsibility but the empirical evidence seems to suggest that cutting social services and public good projects leads to net harm for society as a whole (see: Texas.)&lt;p&gt;As a whole, I find the prevalence of libertarianism among tech types curious. As a whole they (we) are often rationalist and evidence-based in orientation but the libertarian position derives more from principle than empirical evidence -- the same charges many libertarians would level against religion-based politics.</text></comment>

<story><title>Two Congressional Staffers Who Helped Write SOPA Become Entertainment Lobbyists</title><url>http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20111209/10151917022/shockingly-unshocking-two-congressional-staffers-who-helped-write-sopapipa-become-entertainment-industry-lobbyists.shtml</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Newgy</author><text>There are some similar provisions in U.S. law, but they are easily circumvented by &quot;consulting&quot; rather than &quot;lobbying.&quot;&lt;p&gt;Additionally, the U.S. Constitution does not really permit blanket restrictions on employment for individuals. Among other things, this ties in with the 13th Amendment that bans slavery and indentured servitude. You also have a free speech right to lobby.&lt;p&gt;In fact, the current restrictions are probably unconstitutional.&lt;p&gt;Anyway, these measures are treating a symptom. The real problem is that the federal government is vastly too large in size and scope. Reduce the power and programs run by the federal government, and radically simplify the tax code, and you&apos;ll dry up the opportunities for corruption.</text></item><item><author>_delirium</author><text>To attempt to avoid this, Canada has a category of &quot;designated public office holders&quot; whose post-office employment is restricted in various ways for five years, in an attempt to avoid them becoming lobbyists or being paid by lobbyists immediately after leaving office. Sort of like a 5-year noncompete agreement for politicians, perhaps.</text></item><item><author>DevX101</author><text>You&apos;ll never find a politician worth his/her salt taking cash from a company.&lt;p&gt;The way its done is to push through favorable laws for a company with a wink and a nod, and then come back and work for the company as a consultant/lobbyist with a minimum 1 million dollar per year salary.&lt;p&gt;Billy Tauzin did this quite well with PhRMA (lobbying group for pharma companies). He headed up the committee which oversees drug companies and led the push to pass the Medicare Prescription Drug Bill which was quite favorable to drug companies. The bill among other things allows drug companies to set an arbitrary price for the drug without Medicare having the option to negotiate on prices.&lt;p&gt;As soon as the bill was passed he retired from Congress to lead PhRMA with a $2.5 million USD per year salary. Mission complete.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>shadowfiend</author><text>Yes, because once all that power exists at the state level instead, the companies will all surrender and stop trying to incentivize officials into giving them a competitive advantage.&lt;p&gt;No, more likely they&apos;ll just move to the state level. And it&apos;ll probably cost them less at that, since state officials are significantly less visible and will have less power.</text></comment>

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<story><title>Finland provides housing and counseling to the homeless (2020)</title><url>https://scoop.me/housing-first-finland-homelessness/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>bumby</author><text>Don’t you think it makes sense to attack the root problem (addiction) as well as the “big symptoms”? Wouldn’t that look like a rule to be in a treatment program or be otherwise clean?&lt;p&gt;I can get on board with housing being a basic human need that society helps supply. But that’s subtly different than the OP’s claim of housing with virtually the same freedom from rules. I’m not sure “unfettered housing” is a human right.</text></item><item><author>duped</author><text>A big one is drug&amp;#x2F;alcohol use.&lt;p&gt;One of the understandings behind &amp;quot;housing first&amp;quot; policies is that when you treat chronic homelessness as a public health problem, you need to attack the big symptoms first (being unhoused) before you can see the outcomes you want (being a productive member of society).&lt;p&gt;Housing isn&amp;#x27;t a reward, it&amp;#x27;s a basic human need. And it&amp;#x27;s the baseline for treating people - because you cannot treat people if you cannot find them.</text></item><item><author>bumby</author><text>&amp;gt;&lt;i&gt;if a significant proportion of homeless prefer homelessness to the help you&amp;#x27;re offering, perhaps the &amp;quot;help&amp;quot; isn&amp;#x27;t all that helpful. If you want to get people off the street, you need to provide a similar level of freedom in the housing you provide as what it replaces.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;Can you elaborate on the the specific rules you’re referring to? That might help guide the discussion.&lt;p&gt;Because at face value, there seems to be an issue where there isn’t an acknowledgment that with freedom comes responsibility. That responsibility looks an awful lot like rules that many people in these situations struggle to manage. It seems hard to argue for one without necessitating the other but maybe some specific examples could clarify your point.</text></item><item><author>vidarh</author><text>&amp;gt; People are comfortable on the streets, they enjoy the freedom&lt;p&gt;This is the significant distinction between providing crappy shelter and providing a home. A lot of shelter spaces come with a lot of strings, and the first step to fixing the issues is to accept that you need to cut many or most of the strings - if a significant proportion of homeless prefer homelessness to the help you&amp;#x27;re offering, perhaps the &amp;quot;help&amp;quot; isn&amp;#x27;t all that helpful.&lt;p&gt;If you want to get people off the street, you need to provide a similar level of freedom in the housing you provide as what it replaces.&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; (3) People are naturally generous&amp;#x2F;irresponsible with belongings and income that they will spontaneously share the windfall with everyone they know. So your shelter for one man will end up being a flophouse for a rotating cast of shady types&lt;p&gt;Is it worse having them in a house than on the streets? And how much of a problem is this going to be when everyone involved have &lt;i&gt;their own&lt;/i&gt; shelter? It&amp;#x27;s only a windfall if you provide it to a few rather than everyone who needs housing.</text></item><item><author>NoZebra120vClip</author><text>I wonder how they tackle a few problems such as I&amp;#x27;ve observed around here:&lt;p&gt;(1) People are comfortable on the streets, they enjoy the freedom, or they are at least accustomed to it, and paying rent&amp;#x2F;bills seems anathema to them.&lt;p&gt;(2) People are severely disabled by mental illness or addiction, and simply can&amp;#x27;t manage a household by themselves. Or they never learned how and they fail dramatically. This may be the 20% contingent who are moving back in with friends&amp;#x2F;family.&lt;p&gt;(3) People are naturally generous&amp;#x2F;irresponsible with belongings and income that they will spontaneously share the windfall with everyone they know. So your shelter for one man will end up being a flophouse for a rotating cast of shady types, and poor housekeeping skills definitely become operative here. Homes like this ultimately run into big trouble, like massive drug raids, fires, prostitution or something. Not fun.&lt;p&gt;Around here, the brass ring of housing is Section 8, and Section 8 has strict rules about guests and inspections and income paperwork every year. If you&amp;#x27;re not abiding by the rules then you&amp;#x27;re out on your ear. I don&amp;#x27;t know how many people wash out, but my case managers have inundated me with certificates and kudos for being one of their best, longest-term clients.&lt;p&gt;Housing First type approaches is great, and I&amp;#x27;m glad to hear that they&amp;#x27;ve &amp;quot;ended homelessness&amp;quot;, even though that seems to sort of be contradicted by the 20% figure that was constantly cited in the article.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>abofh</author><text>Addiction isn&amp;#x27;t a root problem of anything, it&amp;#x27;s a symptom of other things that led you to become addicted to whatever (gambling, drugs, etc)&lt;p&gt;If you address only the symptoms and not the sociatal issues that exacerbate them, you won&amp;#x27;t actually solve the problem.</text></comment>

<story><title>Finland provides housing and counseling to the homeless (2020)</title><url>https://scoop.me/housing-first-finland-homelessness/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>bumby</author><text>Don’t you think it makes sense to attack the root problem (addiction) as well as the “big symptoms”? Wouldn’t that look like a rule to be in a treatment program or be otherwise clean?&lt;p&gt;I can get on board with housing being a basic human need that society helps supply. But that’s subtly different than the OP’s claim of housing with virtually the same freedom from rules. I’m not sure “unfettered housing” is a human right.</text></item><item><author>duped</author><text>A big one is drug&amp;#x2F;alcohol use.&lt;p&gt;One of the understandings behind &amp;quot;housing first&amp;quot; policies is that when you treat chronic homelessness as a public health problem, you need to attack the big symptoms first (being unhoused) before you can see the outcomes you want (being a productive member of society).&lt;p&gt;Housing isn&amp;#x27;t a reward, it&amp;#x27;s a basic human need. And it&amp;#x27;s the baseline for treating people - because you cannot treat people if you cannot find them.</text></item><item><author>bumby</author><text>&amp;gt;&lt;i&gt;if a significant proportion of homeless prefer homelessness to the help you&amp;#x27;re offering, perhaps the &amp;quot;help&amp;quot; isn&amp;#x27;t all that helpful. If you want to get people off the street, you need to provide a similar level of freedom in the housing you provide as what it replaces.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;Can you elaborate on the the specific rules you’re referring to? That might help guide the discussion.&lt;p&gt;Because at face value, there seems to be an issue where there isn’t an acknowledgment that with freedom comes responsibility. That responsibility looks an awful lot like rules that many people in these situations struggle to manage. It seems hard to argue for one without necessitating the other but maybe some specific examples could clarify your point.</text></item><item><author>vidarh</author><text>&amp;gt; People are comfortable on the streets, they enjoy the freedom&lt;p&gt;This is the significant distinction between providing crappy shelter and providing a home. A lot of shelter spaces come with a lot of strings, and the first step to fixing the issues is to accept that you need to cut many or most of the strings - if a significant proportion of homeless prefer homelessness to the help you&amp;#x27;re offering, perhaps the &amp;quot;help&amp;quot; isn&amp;#x27;t all that helpful.&lt;p&gt;If you want to get people off the street, you need to provide a similar level of freedom in the housing you provide as what it replaces.&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; (3) People are naturally generous&amp;#x2F;irresponsible with belongings and income that they will spontaneously share the windfall with everyone they know. So your shelter for one man will end up being a flophouse for a rotating cast of shady types&lt;p&gt;Is it worse having them in a house than on the streets? And how much of a problem is this going to be when everyone involved have &lt;i&gt;their own&lt;/i&gt; shelter? It&amp;#x27;s only a windfall if you provide it to a few rather than everyone who needs housing.</text></item><item><author>NoZebra120vClip</author><text>I wonder how they tackle a few problems such as I&amp;#x27;ve observed around here:&lt;p&gt;(1) People are comfortable on the streets, they enjoy the freedom, or they are at least accustomed to it, and paying rent&amp;#x2F;bills seems anathema to them.&lt;p&gt;(2) People are severely disabled by mental illness or addiction, and simply can&amp;#x27;t manage a household by themselves. Or they never learned how and they fail dramatically. This may be the 20% contingent who are moving back in with friends&amp;#x2F;family.&lt;p&gt;(3) People are naturally generous&amp;#x2F;irresponsible with belongings and income that they will spontaneously share the windfall with everyone they know. So your shelter for one man will end up being a flophouse for a rotating cast of shady types, and poor housekeeping skills definitely become operative here. Homes like this ultimately run into big trouble, like massive drug raids, fires, prostitution or something. Not fun.&lt;p&gt;Around here, the brass ring of housing is Section 8, and Section 8 has strict rules about guests and inspections and income paperwork every year. If you&amp;#x27;re not abiding by the rules then you&amp;#x27;re out on your ear. I don&amp;#x27;t know how many people wash out, but my case managers have inundated me with certificates and kudos for being one of their best, longest-term clients.&lt;p&gt;Housing First type approaches is great, and I&amp;#x27;m glad to hear that they&amp;#x27;ve &amp;quot;ended homelessness&amp;quot;, even though that seems to sort of be contradicted by the 20% figure that was constantly cited in the article.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>toddmorey</author><text>Well don’t frame it as a right, think in terms of desired outcome.&lt;p&gt;If a user relapses, does removing their housing help in recovery?</text></comment>

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<story><title>What excessive screen time does to the adult brain</title><url>https://longevity.stanford.edu/lifestyle/2024/05/30/what-excessive-screen-time-does-to-the-adult-brain/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>frereubu</author><text>This sounds like hocus pocus to me, along the lines of the claim that phone alert tones activate the &amp;quot;love centre&amp;quot; of the brain. Just so happens that the &amp;quot;love centre&amp;quot; is also the &amp;quot;vomiting centre&amp;quot; along with a load of other stuff. I&amp;#x27;d treat this hand-wavy claim with the same kind of skepticism - your counter-example is an excellent one. I agree that looking at a phone first thing in the morning is a bad idea, but for very different reasons.</text></item><item><author>MrJagil</author><text>“One of the biggest issues with picking up the phone right away in the morning is that when you have an object close to your face, it’s registered as a threat,” says Loeffler. “You wouldn’t want to wake up and look a bear in the face every morning. On a physiological level, it’s the same thing.”&lt;p&gt;This is interesting to me. It does make some evolutionary sense but at the same time, i wake up every morning and look at my girlfriends face, hopefully that does not subconsciously trigger the same response.&lt;p&gt;That said, the &amp;quot;sky before screens&amp;quot; idea has been rummaging in my mind since i first heard about it &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.cyclingweekly.com&amp;#x2F;news&amp;#x2F;sky-before-screens-has-made-me-a-better-cyclist-could-it-work-for-you&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.cyclingweekly.com&amp;#x2F;news&amp;#x2F;sky-before-screens-has-ma...&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>andai</author><text>I got into &amp;quot;deep work&amp;quot; a while ago, keeping my internet off until noon every day. It blew my mind how calm and focused I was when I didn&amp;#x27;t fill my head with nonsense first thing in the morning.</text></comment>

<story><title>What excessive screen time does to the adult brain</title><url>https://longevity.stanford.edu/lifestyle/2024/05/30/what-excessive-screen-time-does-to-the-adult-brain/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>frereubu</author><text>This sounds like hocus pocus to me, along the lines of the claim that phone alert tones activate the &amp;quot;love centre&amp;quot; of the brain. Just so happens that the &amp;quot;love centre&amp;quot; is also the &amp;quot;vomiting centre&amp;quot; along with a load of other stuff. I&amp;#x27;d treat this hand-wavy claim with the same kind of skepticism - your counter-example is an excellent one. I agree that looking at a phone first thing in the morning is a bad idea, but for very different reasons.</text></item><item><author>MrJagil</author><text>“One of the biggest issues with picking up the phone right away in the morning is that when you have an object close to your face, it’s registered as a threat,” says Loeffler. “You wouldn’t want to wake up and look a bear in the face every morning. On a physiological level, it’s the same thing.”&lt;p&gt;This is interesting to me. It does make some evolutionary sense but at the same time, i wake up every morning and look at my girlfriends face, hopefully that does not subconsciously trigger the same response.&lt;p&gt;That said, the &amp;quot;sky before screens&amp;quot; idea has been rummaging in my mind since i first heard about it &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.cyclingweekly.com&amp;#x2F;news&amp;#x2F;sky-before-screens-has-made-me-a-better-cyclist-could-it-work-for-you&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.cyclingweekly.com&amp;#x2F;news&amp;#x2F;sky-before-screens-has-ma...&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>latexr</author><text>Agreed that justification sounds like rubbish. Especially when one of their stated alternatives is to read a book. Unless you’re reading a digital book through a projector, that too is an object close to the face.</text></comment>

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<story><title>Apple introduces Apple Pay Later</title><url>https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2023/03/apple-introduces-apple-pay-later/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>999900000999</author><text>Oh it gets better than that, I walked into the store and asked to buy a MacBook Air.&lt;p&gt;The first clerk disappears, and some kid who is roughly 19 starts lecturing me about how much better the pro is. I politely respond, I just want to buy the Air.&lt;p&gt;He insists, &amp;#x27;well , do you want to make music &amp;#x27;. I respond, &amp;#x27;please sell me the Air&amp;#x27;. At this point he&amp;#x27;s not budging. I ask a final time, and ask why are you making this interaction so difficult.&lt;p&gt;Him: &amp;#x27;well you&amp;#x27;re making it difficult&amp;#x27;.&lt;p&gt;I walk out and go to Best Buy. At Best Buy I simply asked to buy an Air, and I was out in 5 minutes.&lt;p&gt;Now truth be told, if the kid would have told me he needs to push a certain number of pros per month, I might have said okay and brought one. But instead he decided to insult me, I even explained that as a software engineer I knew exactly what I was talking about. I shouldn&amp;#x27;t need to explain anything when I&amp;#x27;m trying to buy a product, it&amp;#x27;s none of your business if I prefer an M1 air because I routinely dropped my laptops. If it&amp;#x27;s a gift for someone else, or in reality it does the job I need it to do.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;m legitimately never going into an Apple store again after this.</text></item><item><author>wincy</author><text>That’s crazy! I use my M1 Air for everything and it’s excellent. I would have asked to talk to his manager.</text></item><item><author>999900000999</author><text>It&amp;#x27;s very easy for this to push people into buying more than they need.&lt;p&gt;90% of people are fine with an M1 Air, the last time I went to an Apple store the sales clerk straight up refused to sell me one. He basically told me I didn&amp;#x27;t know what I was talking about and kept trying to sell me a pro.&lt;p&gt;I asked him 3 times to sell me an Air, and ended up leaving in frustration. Not before he pitched buying a pro on an Apple line of credit instead.&lt;p&gt;If I come into a store and tell you what I want to buy, we&amp;#x27;re not having a conversation. You have no idea what or who I&amp;#x27;m buying it for.&lt;p&gt;Best Buy doesn&amp;#x27;t do this, I was able to get my Air without an argument and walk out.&lt;p&gt;If anything, this pay later stuff will make the issue worse. You&amp;#x27;ll go into the Apple store to be told you might as well get the most expensive thing they have in stock, it&amp;#x27;s zero down anyway!</text></item><item><author>Ocerge</author><text>My laptop died recently, and I went with an M2 MBP. I went in expecting to pay it in full, but with no interest&amp;#x2F;fees, why wouldn&amp;#x27;t I choose this? It beats inflation, even if only minimally.&lt;p&gt;Seems predatory towards people who are buying stuff they can&amp;#x27;t afford, otherwise I don&amp;#x27;t see how they make money (minus the overpriced laptop I just bought, I guess).</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>pwinnski</author><text>That is shocking to me, and you&amp;#x27;d be doing everybody else a favor if you let the store know about it, so that guy can be terminated or at least retrained. I&amp;#x27;ve never had an experience anything like that, and I know that&amp;#x27;s not the norm at Apple stores. Wow!</text></comment>

<story><title>Apple introduces Apple Pay Later</title><url>https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2023/03/apple-introduces-apple-pay-later/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>999900000999</author><text>Oh it gets better than that, I walked into the store and asked to buy a MacBook Air.&lt;p&gt;The first clerk disappears, and some kid who is roughly 19 starts lecturing me about how much better the pro is. I politely respond, I just want to buy the Air.&lt;p&gt;He insists, &amp;#x27;well , do you want to make music &amp;#x27;. I respond, &amp;#x27;please sell me the Air&amp;#x27;. At this point he&amp;#x27;s not budging. I ask a final time, and ask why are you making this interaction so difficult.&lt;p&gt;Him: &amp;#x27;well you&amp;#x27;re making it difficult&amp;#x27;.&lt;p&gt;I walk out and go to Best Buy. At Best Buy I simply asked to buy an Air, and I was out in 5 minutes.&lt;p&gt;Now truth be told, if the kid would have told me he needs to push a certain number of pros per month, I might have said okay and brought one. But instead he decided to insult me, I even explained that as a software engineer I knew exactly what I was talking about. I shouldn&amp;#x27;t need to explain anything when I&amp;#x27;m trying to buy a product, it&amp;#x27;s none of your business if I prefer an M1 air because I routinely dropped my laptops. If it&amp;#x27;s a gift for someone else, or in reality it does the job I need it to do.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;m legitimately never going into an Apple store again after this.</text></item><item><author>wincy</author><text>That’s crazy! I use my M1 Air for everything and it’s excellent. I would have asked to talk to his manager.</text></item><item><author>999900000999</author><text>It&amp;#x27;s very easy for this to push people into buying more than they need.&lt;p&gt;90% of people are fine with an M1 Air, the last time I went to an Apple store the sales clerk straight up refused to sell me one. He basically told me I didn&amp;#x27;t know what I was talking about and kept trying to sell me a pro.&lt;p&gt;I asked him 3 times to sell me an Air, and ended up leaving in frustration. Not before he pitched buying a pro on an Apple line of credit instead.&lt;p&gt;If I come into a store and tell you what I want to buy, we&amp;#x27;re not having a conversation. You have no idea what or who I&amp;#x27;m buying it for.&lt;p&gt;Best Buy doesn&amp;#x27;t do this, I was able to get my Air without an argument and walk out.&lt;p&gt;If anything, this pay later stuff will make the issue worse. You&amp;#x27;ll go into the Apple store to be told you might as well get the most expensive thing they have in stock, it&amp;#x27;s zero down anyway!</text></item><item><author>Ocerge</author><text>My laptop died recently, and I went with an M2 MBP. I went in expecting to pay it in full, but with no interest&amp;#x2F;fees, why wouldn&amp;#x27;t I choose this? It beats inflation, even if only minimally.&lt;p&gt;Seems predatory towards people who are buying stuff they can&amp;#x27;t afford, otherwise I don&amp;#x27;t see how they make money (minus the overpriced laptop I just bought, I guess).</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Tarsul</author><text>Maybe the clerk was just a bad apple?</text></comment>

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

<story><title>Steven Spielberg: ‘No film should be revised’ based on modern sensitivity</title><url>https://www.theguardian.com/film/2023/apr/26/steven-spielberg-et-guns-movie-edit</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>macNchz</author><text>Sometimes these edits can be pretty subtle as well: a while ago my wife and I started watching the original early-90s Beverly Hills 90210 on one of the streaming platforms. It’s a kind of absurd and fun pop-cultural time capsule of a show. After a few episodes, though, I started to realize there was something not quite right.&lt;p&gt;It turns out that much of the music featured in the original airing of the show wasn’t licensed in a way it could be used long term, and over the years it has been replaced with terrible stock songs or jarringly anachronistic choices that sound totally out of place.&lt;p&gt;Entire scenes and episodes have been cut from the seasons distributed on streaming platforms, because they featured live concerts that couldn’t be edited. The original had performances by the Flaming Lips, among many others, that simply can’t be watched now, except if by chance someone copied an old VHS to YouTube.&lt;p&gt;Music was a big part of the original show–in addition to the live shows it featured all sorts of great pop songs from the time, which was part of why it was such a hit with teenagers when it aired. It’s such a bummer they stripped it all out!&lt;p&gt;There are some places online with copies of early DVD releases that have more music, but still not all of it. The original is locked away in a vault somewhere and almost certainly won’t ever be enjoyed in a complete state.</text></item><item><author>safety1st</author><text>The fact that even guys as influential as Spielberg and Tarantino are worried about having their past work censored is the most convincing reason I&amp;#x27;ve seen to own your own data.&lt;p&gt;For movies it&amp;#x27;s as easy as obtaining DRM-free copies of the movies you care about, saving them to an SSD, and installing a copy of Plex.&lt;p&gt;Do that with the movies, music and books you love. They are a part of our cultural history. It&amp;#x27;s almost a guarantee that any copy you don&amp;#x27;t own and control will at some point in the future be revised. I want the real history not what the powers that be tell me it was.&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s virtually &lt;i&gt;guaranteed&lt;/i&gt; that Amazon, Netflix et. al. will not store this stuff for you with integrity, it is built into the nature of the system.</text></item><item><author>monero-xmr</author><text>I grew up in a small city and one thing they had was some rich dude who donated a library, and filled the reading room with beautiful statues and paintings which were in the classical style, commissioned completely by himself. This was early 1800s.&lt;p&gt;Then in the later 1800s the townsfolk decided the paintings and statues were scandalous because they had nudes, so they painted over the breasts and genitals, and covered over the statues with togas &amp;#x2F; cloths.&lt;p&gt;Luckily in modern times it was easy to remove the cloths, but unfortunately the paintings are ruined. The cover-job was done poorly and the paintings have an off-color paint on it that looks wrong. There have been talks to fix it but I don’t think anything has been done.&lt;p&gt;My point is that, the desire to censor prior art that disagrees with fad-interpretations of what is taboo and scandalous, will certainly be looked at in a few decades as a very weird and Victorian era. Definitely should not re-cut movies to be “safe” or whatever.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>lazystar</author><text>This same music licensing issue happened to Charmed as well. The opening credits theme is gone; the guest bands that played at the end of each episode are gone. A ton of late 90s early 2000s culture, just... gone. No one who watches that show today will ever understand why it was enjoyable to those who originally watched it.</text></comment>

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<story><title>Larry Lessig’s Long Walk</title><url>https://medium.com/backchannel/larry-lessigs-long-walk-b96d80d34972</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>nraynaud</author><text>I&amp;#x27;m wondering what his take on the French system is. Basically, there is a limit on how much candidates can spend, and the State refunds the candidate (on certified expense report) if a certain score is reached during the vote. Getting money from a corporation is an offense, spending too much is an offense, cooking the books is an offense, getting undeclared money is an offense.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>heydenberk</author><text>I don&amp;#x27;t think anyone struggles to imagine how a better system would work. The issue is that the current Supreme Court has set strict limits on the legal regulation of campaign finance, so there are few straightforward paths to reform.</text></comment>

<story><title>Larry Lessig’s Long Walk</title><url>https://medium.com/backchannel/larry-lessigs-long-walk-b96d80d34972</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>nraynaud</author><text>I&amp;#x27;m wondering what his take on the French system is. Basically, there is a limit on how much candidates can spend, and the State refunds the candidate (on certified expense report) if a certain score is reached during the vote. Getting money from a corporation is an offense, spending too much is an offense, cooking the books is an offense, getting undeclared money is an offense.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>snowwrestler</author><text>&amp;gt; Getting money from a corporation is an offense, spending too much is an offense, cooking the books is an offense, getting undeclared money is an offense.&lt;p&gt;FYI, the only one of those that is not a federal offense in the U.S. is spending too much.</text></comment>

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<story><title>Uber is experimenting with letting riders wait longer for a cheaper fare</title><url>https://qz.com/1308173/uber-is-experimenting-with-letting-riders-wait-longer-for-a-cheaper-fare/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>maerF0x0</author><text>I just wanted to drop a note to say I think Uber is doing a good job, all things considered. Many public transit companies have been around for decades and haven&amp;#x27;t figured out how to scale up to the kind of service Uber is providing. 4B rides in 2017 is pretty amazing.&lt;p&gt;If I understand the math correctly, BART claims about 126 million rides (2015) and cost $906M (~$7 a ride, comparable to some uber pool fares)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Tiktaalik</author><text>&amp;gt;Many public transit companies have been around for decades and haven&amp;#x27;t figured out how to scale up to the kind of service Uber is providing&lt;p&gt;This is because these are publicly funded organizations that are starved of funds for political reasons.&lt;p&gt;Public transit works well where it&amp;#x27;s funded well. It&amp;#x27;s a political problem, not a technology problem.</text></comment>

<story><title>Uber is experimenting with letting riders wait longer for a cheaper fare</title><url>https://qz.com/1308173/uber-is-experimenting-with-letting-riders-wait-longer-for-a-cheaper-fare/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>maerF0x0</author><text>I just wanted to drop a note to say I think Uber is doing a good job, all things considered. Many public transit companies have been around for decades and haven&amp;#x27;t figured out how to scale up to the kind of service Uber is providing. 4B rides in 2017 is pretty amazing.&lt;p&gt;If I understand the math correctly, BART claims about 126 million rides (2015) and cost $906M (~$7 a ride, comparable to some uber pool fares)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>anon84598</author><text>Just to totally nitpick your last point, it&amp;#x27;s worth noting that the BART cost probably includes the entire infrastructure maintenance cost whereas Uber essentially has infrastructure subsidized (i.e., they don&amp;#x27;t need to pay for maintenance of the roads their cars drive on etc.) so a true comparison of efficiency would result in Uber &amp;quot;costing&amp;quot; more than that.</text></comment>

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<story><title>Being a &quot;Great Coder&quot; and 10000 Hours</title><url>http://groups.google.com/group/clojure/msg/d52aff66b951b460</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>singular</author><text>There really is a meme here I think, and it relates to ego.&lt;p&gt;Having said that, I definitely do think there is truth in massive variations between programmers, though I personally think that is a combination of a small pre-requisite talent (the ability to code at all, which I think a surprisingly small amount of people have - simply a genetically determine brain configuration), and mostly attitude + hard work.&lt;p&gt;For example, I took part in the recent Stanford AI class, though not about programming specifically, I was utterly down-heartened when I heard they sent out those &apos;send me your CVs you clever people!&apos; emails to the top 1k students, it just made me feel like a lot of people were taking part in order to participate in a &apos;look how much cleverer I am than you&apos; pissing match.&lt;p&gt;That kind of things ruins the collaborative &apos;learning for the joy of learning&apos; side of things and has a tendency to make the whole thing into a sort of nasty elitist thing. I really wish they hadn&apos;t done that (N.B. I did fine on the course - 98.7% - so this isn&apos;t sour grapes).&lt;p&gt;The biggest problem with anything like this is the idea that &apos;here is some test of inherent intelligence - I am far better than you so you are inherently unable to do this thing&apos; which is just the biggest barrier to actually trying to do something - if you think you inherently suck or at least are simply mediocre, your motivation to do that thing is severely reduced.&lt;p&gt;or perhaps I&apos;m just ranting/projecting here :)</text></comment>

<story><title>Being a &quot;Great Coder&quot; and 10000 Hours</title><url>http://groups.google.com/group/clojure/msg/d52aff66b951b460</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>josephmosby</author><text>It&apos;s important to also continue striving for self-improvement. If you hit a level where you&apos;ve stopped wanting to learn more and started wanting to simply compare yourself to others, of course you&apos;ll look good by comparison - but you&apos;re not getting any better.&lt;p&gt;I started programming using Python. When I started, I wanted to understand the &quot;feel&quot; of Python programming, and that was all my mind could comprehend. Now that I have a decent smattering of Python knowledge, I now realize I don&apos;t have a total grasp of transfer protocols and I should probably learn a lower-level C language as well. I started off not knowing one thing, now I have added two more.&lt;p&gt;I&apos;m still a better programmer, but now I realize I&apos;m clueless about even more stuff than I was before.</text></comment>

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<story><title>Internal Combustion Engine</title><url>https://ciechanow.ski/internal-combustion-engine/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>worewood</author><text>&amp;gt; makes me a little ashamed to use the word &amp;quot;engineer&amp;quot; in my title of &amp;quot;software engineer&amp;quot;. There is no real comparison of the quality of the result.&lt;p&gt;I think that&amp;#x27;s because the barrier to entry is too low and anybody is being called a &amp;quot;software engineer&amp;quot; these days.&lt;p&gt;But think about a system which makes proper use of synchronization primitives, like an OS kernel or a robotic control, or a CPU design like the other guy commented too, or maybe a 3D game with tricks like that of John Carmack. Those things can be as complex as an ICU engine.&lt;p&gt;To make an analogy: in the physical world there are the engineers, and the mechanics.&lt;p&gt;In the software world everybody is a software engineer.</text></item><item><author>alanbernstein</author><text>A few thoughts while reading this:&lt;p&gt;In addition to a deeper understanding of engine &lt;i&gt;manufacturing considerations&lt;/i&gt; than I even knew I cared to learn, this article helps me appreciate why people are into engine work.&lt;p&gt;The perfect tolerances and synchronization of these machines makes me a little ashamed to use the word &amp;quot;engineer&amp;quot; in my title of &amp;quot;software engineer&amp;quot;. There is no real comparison of the quality of the result.&lt;p&gt;And then I skimmed the source, and it makes me think the author deserves that title. It also validates my belief in vanilla javascript.&lt;p&gt;edit: And later it occurs to me that Mr. Ciechanowski is a true craftsman of software; handmade and built to 1) Be beautiful (and informative), 2) last for years. (The open web standards are the ones that seem to stick around the longest, for better or for worse. (I&amp;#x27;m ignorant of the shader world though))</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>zikzak</author><text>When I took &amp;quot;Software Engineering&amp;quot; in University, the prof was very careful to explain in great detail, and frequently, that the field was not mature enough to really be called engineering. Then he would talk at length about things like software for airplanes and spacecraft. It is impossible to call yourself an engineer while looking someone in the eye after taking his class. I am a software developer. Maybe an analyst. But mostly a developer.</text></comment>

<story><title>Internal Combustion Engine</title><url>https://ciechanow.ski/internal-combustion-engine/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>worewood</author><text>&amp;gt; makes me a little ashamed to use the word &amp;quot;engineer&amp;quot; in my title of &amp;quot;software engineer&amp;quot;. There is no real comparison of the quality of the result.&lt;p&gt;I think that&amp;#x27;s because the barrier to entry is too low and anybody is being called a &amp;quot;software engineer&amp;quot; these days.&lt;p&gt;But think about a system which makes proper use of synchronization primitives, like an OS kernel or a robotic control, or a CPU design like the other guy commented too, or maybe a 3D game with tricks like that of John Carmack. Those things can be as complex as an ICU engine.&lt;p&gt;To make an analogy: in the physical world there are the engineers, and the mechanics.&lt;p&gt;In the software world everybody is a software engineer.</text></item><item><author>alanbernstein</author><text>A few thoughts while reading this:&lt;p&gt;In addition to a deeper understanding of engine &lt;i&gt;manufacturing considerations&lt;/i&gt; than I even knew I cared to learn, this article helps me appreciate why people are into engine work.&lt;p&gt;The perfect tolerances and synchronization of these machines makes me a little ashamed to use the word &amp;quot;engineer&amp;quot; in my title of &amp;quot;software engineer&amp;quot;. There is no real comparison of the quality of the result.&lt;p&gt;And then I skimmed the source, and it makes me think the author deserves that title. It also validates my belief in vanilla javascript.&lt;p&gt;edit: And later it occurs to me that Mr. Ciechanowski is a true craftsman of software; handmade and built to 1) Be beautiful (and informative), 2) last for years. (The open web standards are the ones that seem to stick around the longest, for better or for worse. (I&amp;#x27;m ignorant of the shader world though))</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>kortilla</author><text>&amp;gt; Those things can be as complex as an ICU engine.&lt;p&gt;From a complexity perspective an ICU isn’t nearly as complex as even something as simple is a script scraping a webpages for links and queuing them up for further crawling. I’m not sure if “complex” is the word you are going for but even the TCP state machine has significantly more complexity than an ICU and that’s just a fragment of what it takes to transmit some data.&lt;p&gt;The composability and abstractions we have in this industry allows you to quickly dwarf any regular mechanical system. There is a reason this is a whole new era beyond the industrial revolution.</text></comment>

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<story><title>Firefox Developer Tools: Accessibility inspector</title><url>https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Tools/Accessibility_inspector</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ndarilek</author><text>I hope this means the developer tools &lt;i&gt;themselves&lt;/i&gt; will actually become accessible. As a blind web developer running Linux and Orca, bunches of things have been broken for a very long time, to the point where I&amp;#x27;m considering switching to ChromeOS and running Linux in chroots&amp;#x2F;containers just to get a better set of web development tools. I&amp;#x27;m glad that they&amp;#x27;re empowering developers to create accessible websites, but if blind&amp;#x2F;disabled developers were empowered to &lt;i&gt;develop&lt;/i&gt; on equal footing, then that&amp;#x27;d be another way to achieve the same goal.&lt;p&gt;As one example, I can&amp;#x27;t navigate the network inspector via keyboard in any meaningful way. Firebug used to have this nailed, to the point where you could even enable an accessibility mode (though arguably accessibility mode should have just been the &lt;i&gt;only&lt;/i&gt; mode.) And yes, I&amp;#x27;d happily file issues for this and half a dozen other things, but at some point I actually have to do my job, and in this case that might mean jumping ship to a browser that seems more accessible.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>extra88</author><text>Marco Zehe is an Accessibility QA Engineer at Mozilla, he is blind, and he writes on his own site. Two years ago, he wrote a post, &amp;quot;The Firefox developer tools Inspector Panel is becoming accessible&amp;quot; [0]. I don&amp;#x27;t know how things have progressed since then and I wonder if there are problems particular to Firefox on Linux and Orca, as opposed to other combinations like Firefox for Windows with JAWS or NVDA.&lt;p&gt;[0] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.marcozehe.de&amp;#x2F;2016&amp;#x2F;05&amp;#x2F;24&amp;#x2F;the-firefox-developer-tools-inspector-panel-is-becoming-accessible&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.marcozehe.de&amp;#x2F;2016&amp;#x2F;05&amp;#x2F;24&amp;#x2F;the-firefox-developer-to...&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>

<story><title>Firefox Developer Tools: Accessibility inspector</title><url>https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Tools/Accessibility_inspector</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ndarilek</author><text>I hope this means the developer tools &lt;i&gt;themselves&lt;/i&gt; will actually become accessible. As a blind web developer running Linux and Orca, bunches of things have been broken for a very long time, to the point where I&amp;#x27;m considering switching to ChromeOS and running Linux in chroots&amp;#x2F;containers just to get a better set of web development tools. I&amp;#x27;m glad that they&amp;#x27;re empowering developers to create accessible websites, but if blind&amp;#x2F;disabled developers were empowered to &lt;i&gt;develop&lt;/i&gt; on equal footing, then that&amp;#x27;d be another way to achieve the same goal.&lt;p&gt;As one example, I can&amp;#x27;t navigate the network inspector via keyboard in any meaningful way. Firebug used to have this nailed, to the point where you could even enable an accessibility mode (though arguably accessibility mode should have just been the &lt;i&gt;only&lt;/i&gt; mode.) And yes, I&amp;#x27;d happily file issues for this and half a dozen other things, but at some point I actually have to do my job, and in this case that might mean jumping ship to a browser that seems more accessible.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>kps</author><text>Documentation, too. Most of MDN, ironically including this article, violates Web Content Accessibility Guidelines.</text></comment>

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<story><title>How the West Was Lost: In America’s First Climate War</title><url>https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2018/09/how-the-west-was-lost/569365/?single_page=true</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>hyperion2010</author><text>To predict the future all you need is a rain gauge and a little imagination. Unfortunately the people who stand to gain the most by denying reality ... gain the most.&lt;p&gt;In addition, the map of western watersheds is amazing. I would love to see the other one the article mentions.&lt;p&gt;edit: couldn&amp;#x27;t find that, but did find Powell&amp;#x27;s 1878 report &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;pubs.usgs.gov&amp;#x2F;unnumbered&amp;#x2F;70039240&amp;#x2F;report.pdf&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;pubs.usgs.gov&amp;#x2F;unnumbered&amp;#x2F;70039240&amp;#x2F;report.pdf&lt;/a&gt;.</text></comment>

<story><title>How the West Was Lost: In America’s First Climate War</title><url>https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2018/09/how-the-west-was-lost/569365/?single_page=true</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>archgoon</author><text>Huh. I learned about the Great Dust Bowl in American High School mostly through it&amp;#x27;s economic and sociological impact, books like &amp;quot;Grapes of Wrath&amp;quot;.&lt;p&gt;The science behind it, and that it was predicted by John Wesley Powell isn&amp;#x27;t discussed. It&amp;#x27;s just a thing that happened. Maybe other schools, or more recent education, discuss it more in depth.</text></comment>

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<story><title>Funniest reviews</title><url>http://www.amazon.com/gp/feature.html/?docId=1001250201</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>btilly</author><text>If you&amp;#x27;ve never seen it, the Tuscan Whole Milk reviews have become a work of art. No, really. Go to &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00032G1S0/ref=azfs_379213722_TuscanWholeMilk_1?pf_rd_m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&amp;amp;pf_rd_s=center-5&amp;amp;pf_rd_r=0P8Z6VGW8T2D7B5RJ6KC&amp;amp;pf_rd_t=1401&amp;amp;pf_rd_p=1580659342&amp;amp;pf_rd_i=1001250201&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.amazon.com&amp;#x2F;dp&amp;#x2F;B00032G1S0&amp;#x2F;ref=azfs_379213722_Tusca...&lt;/a&gt; and start reading.&lt;p&gt;However my favorite Amazon review of all time remains The Story of Ping: &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.amazon.com/review/R2VDKZ4X1F992Q&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.amazon.com&amp;#x2F;review&amp;#x2F;R2VDKZ4X1F992Q&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>

<story><title>Funniest reviews</title><url>http://www.amazon.com/gp/feature.html/?docId=1001250201</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>pdknsk</author><text>Short link without affiliate code, in case anyone cares.&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.amazon.com/gp/feature.html/?docId=1001250201&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.amazon.com&amp;#x2F;gp&amp;#x2F;feature.html&amp;#x2F;?docId=1001250201&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>

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<story><title>Tim Minchin on Quitting Comedy</title><url>https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2021/oct/09/there-is-a-reason-why-famous-people-are-often-screwed-up-tim-minchin-on-quitting-comedy</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>rory</author><text>I had a similar realization at a similar time. Unfortunately, by that age, my novel &amp;quot;Little Winky&amp;quot; had already afforded me some acclaim.</text></item><item><author>scrozier</author><text>Mr Minchin is spot on. I was fortunate enough to realize the same thing at age 2. From then on, I steadfastly refused to become famous. It wasn&amp;#x27;t always easy, but when--as a toddler--you clearly see the devastation that fame can bring, it clears the mind and makes the required discipline bearable. It&amp;#x27;s bittersweet, but in the long run, I&amp;#x27;m glad I have had a relatively normal life.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>skoodge</author><text>Wow, I did not expect a reference to &amp;#x27;Synecdoche, New York&amp;#x27; to crop up here on HN, even less in such a fitting context. For anyone else wondering what this is about, here is the scene from the film (the whole film is worth watching if you are into the sort of postmodern-surrealist stuff):&lt;p&gt;Caden Cotard : I wanted to ask you, how old are kids when they start to write?&lt;p&gt;Madeleine Gravis : Listen, there&amp;#x27;s an absolutely brilliant novel written by a four year old.&lt;p&gt;Caden Cotard : Really?&lt;p&gt;Madeleine Gravis : &amp;#x27;Little Winky&amp;quot; by Horace Azpiazu.&lt;p&gt;Caden Cotard : That&amp;#x27;s cute.&lt;p&gt;Madeleine Gravis : Hardly, Litty Winky is a virulent anti-Semite. The story follows his initiation into the klan, his immersion in the pornographic snuff industry, and his ultimate degradation at the hands of a black ex-convict named Eric Washington Jackson Jones Johnson...&lt;p&gt;Caden Cotard : -Written by a four year old?&lt;p&gt;Madeleine Gravis : -Jefferson.&lt;p&gt;Caden Cotard : Wow, written by a four year old.&lt;p&gt;Madeleine Gravis : Well Azpiazu killed himself when he was five.</text></comment>

<story><title>Tim Minchin on Quitting Comedy</title><url>https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2021/oct/09/there-is-a-reason-why-famous-people-are-often-screwed-up-tim-minchin-on-quitting-comedy</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>rory</author><text>I had a similar realization at a similar time. Unfortunately, by that age, my novel &amp;quot;Little Winky&amp;quot; had already afforded me some acclaim.</text></item><item><author>scrozier</author><text>Mr Minchin is spot on. I was fortunate enough to realize the same thing at age 2. From then on, I steadfastly refused to become famous. It wasn&amp;#x27;t always easy, but when--as a toddler--you clearly see the devastation that fame can bring, it clears the mind and makes the required discipline bearable. It&amp;#x27;s bittersweet, but in the long run, I&amp;#x27;m glad I have had a relatively normal life.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>scrozier</author><text>I did dabble in writing. In junior high, my book, &amp;quot;Marvin, the Shy Elf,&amp;quot; threatened to bring me fame not only amongst my classmates, but in the wider town of 1200 where I lived. At the last moment, I cleverly sabotaged the work by including many childish illustrations.</text></comment>

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<story><title>AWS Ground Station – Ingest and Process Data from Orbiting Satellites</title><url>https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/aws-ground-station-ingest-and-process-data-from-orbiting-satellites/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>patrickyeon</author><text>I&amp;#x27;m... not convinced this is a decent offering. At the same time, I&amp;#x27;m repeatedly wrong with this whole cloud computing, so maybe I&amp;#x27;m just that person stuck with the old ways and telling everyone else they&amp;#x27;re doing it wrong.&lt;p&gt;But it seems like a recipe that combines so many of the worst parts of running a groundstation. The setup can&amp;#x27;t easily be specialized enough to really milk capability (say, different ways to correct pointing and orbit determination errors that need more direct control of the antenna than just feeding a TLE), but it&amp;#x27;s likely so general that there&amp;#x27;s still significant engineering effort for anybody who wants to use it. If you want to do anything requiring round-trips to the satellite, where you need to ship raw radio signals to a DC, process them in software to demodulate and decode, then encode and modulate your responce before shipping it back as raw radio signals to the groundstation, sorry but that latency is painful and hurts you on link utilization.&lt;p&gt;In comparison, buying a small turn-key dish and operating it is not that bad. Paying per-minute or per-pass gets really expensive for smallsat&amp;#x2F;cubesat operators, at least at the usual prices I&amp;#x27;ve seen and compared to the operating cost of equipment you own. Also, if you&amp;#x27;re just running a tech demo then it&amp;#x27;s not exactly prohibitive to partner with somebody who has excess capacity.&lt;p&gt;I think this offering is missing the mark. If I had to make an analogy, I&amp;#x27;d say they&amp;#x27;re offering roughly &amp;quot;GCP for downlink&amp;quot; to a world that&amp;#x27;s not quite homogeneous enough for it to make sense. If I were trying to do this, I&amp;#x27;d be aiming to be the &amp;quot;Squarespace of downlink&amp;quot; (more tightly scoped capabilities, but much better performance and more turn-key) or someone delivering groundstation-in-a-box kits.&lt;p&gt;Context: I used to work at Planet Labs, having spent considerable time collaborating with the groundstations team, as well as some collaboration with the missions ops team.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>TheAceOfHearts</author><text>I don&amp;#x27;t know anything about this field, so I&amp;#x27;m hoping I could bug you with some questions because it seems really fascinating!&lt;p&gt;First of all, could you give some concrete examples of the kinds of data people using this would be handling? The examples provided in the article are incredibly vague, and the linked Wikipedia articles didn&amp;#x27;t help clarify.&lt;p&gt;Could you give some ballpark numbers and breakdown of the costs involved? How much does it cost to manufacture and launch a small satellite? What about buying a dish and operating your own ground station? What about regulatory fees for licensing and registration? There&amp;#x27;s a few mentions of hobbyists, but I have a hard time imagining many people with enough money and interest to deal with all these challenges. Is there some secret cabal of millionaires and billionaires that are really into space?</text></comment>

<story><title>AWS Ground Station – Ingest and Process Data from Orbiting Satellites</title><url>https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/aws-ground-station-ingest-and-process-data-from-orbiting-satellites/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>patrickyeon</author><text>I&amp;#x27;m... not convinced this is a decent offering. At the same time, I&amp;#x27;m repeatedly wrong with this whole cloud computing, so maybe I&amp;#x27;m just that person stuck with the old ways and telling everyone else they&amp;#x27;re doing it wrong.&lt;p&gt;But it seems like a recipe that combines so many of the worst parts of running a groundstation. The setup can&amp;#x27;t easily be specialized enough to really milk capability (say, different ways to correct pointing and orbit determination errors that need more direct control of the antenna than just feeding a TLE), but it&amp;#x27;s likely so general that there&amp;#x27;s still significant engineering effort for anybody who wants to use it. If you want to do anything requiring round-trips to the satellite, where you need to ship raw radio signals to a DC, process them in software to demodulate and decode, then encode and modulate your responce before shipping it back as raw radio signals to the groundstation, sorry but that latency is painful and hurts you on link utilization.&lt;p&gt;In comparison, buying a small turn-key dish and operating it is not that bad. Paying per-minute or per-pass gets really expensive for smallsat&amp;#x2F;cubesat operators, at least at the usual prices I&amp;#x27;ve seen and compared to the operating cost of equipment you own. Also, if you&amp;#x27;re just running a tech demo then it&amp;#x27;s not exactly prohibitive to partner with somebody who has excess capacity.&lt;p&gt;I think this offering is missing the mark. If I had to make an analogy, I&amp;#x27;d say they&amp;#x27;re offering roughly &amp;quot;GCP for downlink&amp;quot; to a world that&amp;#x27;s not quite homogeneous enough for it to make sense. If I were trying to do this, I&amp;#x27;d be aiming to be the &amp;quot;Squarespace of downlink&amp;quot; (more tightly scoped capabilities, but much better performance and more turn-key) or someone delivering groundstation-in-a-box kits.&lt;p&gt;Context: I used to work at Planet Labs, having spent considerable time collaborating with the groundstations team, as well as some collaboration with the missions ops team.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>matchagaucho</author><text>Looks like AWS announced this capability to beef up their DoD JEDI contract position.&lt;p&gt;&lt;i&gt;&amp;quot;Give us $10B to build your datacenter, and we&amp;#x27;ll throw in a ground station for free!&amp;quot;&lt;/i&gt;</text></comment>

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<story><title>Time to redefine normal body temperature? (2020)</title><url>https://www.health.harvard.edu/blog/time-to-redefine-normal-body-temperature-2020031319173</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>kqr</author><text>The whole enterprise of trying to find &amp;quot;a normal&amp;quot; temperature seems silly to me, increasingly after getting two kids with fevers every now and then.&lt;p&gt;We use both high-quality ear canal and anal thermometers, and while we have enough statistical grounds to unbias their results compared to each other, there remains significant variance. I.e. if we use an anal or ear canal thermometer makes temperature vary ±0.4 °C.&lt;p&gt;Then how sloppily you take the measurement with the same thermometer can result in a ±0.2 °C difference for the butt, and ±0.6 °C for the ear canal.&lt;p&gt;Of course, the time of day we take the temperature can give us a ±0.5 °C difference, and the activity level of the person something like a ±1 °C difference (we don&amp;#x27;t have as much data on these last ones, naturally.)&lt;p&gt;And all this is before you bring in the fever! So all of this we consider normal.&lt;p&gt;Basically, in our experience, anything below 38.4 °C could just as well be caused by any of a number of non-fever conditions at something like a 90 % confidence level, so unless there&amp;#x27;s a strong prior of fever, a &amp;quot;non-normal&amp;quot; temperature reading on its own is a fairly weak signal.&lt;p&gt;...which brings me to my final point: the prior ought to strongly affect what counts as normal temperature, but all of this discussion ignores it.&lt;p&gt;There&amp;#x27;s also the question whether you prefer false positives or false negatives when it comes to fever detection. My impression is that the medical community prefers false negatives, i.e. pretending that people with a low fever are perfectly normal -- but a lot of private persons I talk to have the opposite preference: they would prefer to think of someone as sick even though they are healthy.&lt;p&gt;Like any good medical test, you pick a threshold based on what probability you want for false positives and negatives, and you weigh the prior into this judgment. Just investigating what an average resting temperature with a particular measurement method seems to me silly.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>aleken</author><text>I applaud your accuracy when measuring your kids&amp;#x27; temperature. My approach when figuring out if my kids are sick is if their temperature is &amp;quot;high&amp;quot; and their general appearance and conditition is out of the ordinary. The exact decimal of the temperature doesn&amp;#x27;t matter too much by itself.</text></comment>

<story><title>Time to redefine normal body temperature? (2020)</title><url>https://www.health.harvard.edu/blog/time-to-redefine-normal-body-temperature-2020031319173</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>kqr</author><text>The whole enterprise of trying to find &amp;quot;a normal&amp;quot; temperature seems silly to me, increasingly after getting two kids with fevers every now and then.&lt;p&gt;We use both high-quality ear canal and anal thermometers, and while we have enough statistical grounds to unbias their results compared to each other, there remains significant variance. I.e. if we use an anal or ear canal thermometer makes temperature vary ±0.4 °C.&lt;p&gt;Then how sloppily you take the measurement with the same thermometer can result in a ±0.2 °C difference for the butt, and ±0.6 °C for the ear canal.&lt;p&gt;Of course, the time of day we take the temperature can give us a ±0.5 °C difference, and the activity level of the person something like a ±1 °C difference (we don&amp;#x27;t have as much data on these last ones, naturally.)&lt;p&gt;And all this is before you bring in the fever! So all of this we consider normal.&lt;p&gt;Basically, in our experience, anything below 38.4 °C could just as well be caused by any of a number of non-fever conditions at something like a 90 % confidence level, so unless there&amp;#x27;s a strong prior of fever, a &amp;quot;non-normal&amp;quot; temperature reading on its own is a fairly weak signal.&lt;p&gt;...which brings me to my final point: the prior ought to strongly affect what counts as normal temperature, but all of this discussion ignores it.&lt;p&gt;There&amp;#x27;s also the question whether you prefer false positives or false negatives when it comes to fever detection. My impression is that the medical community prefers false negatives, i.e. pretending that people with a low fever are perfectly normal -- but a lot of private persons I talk to have the opposite preference: they would prefer to think of someone as sick even though they are healthy.&lt;p&gt;Like any good medical test, you pick a threshold based on what probability you want for false positives and negatives, and you weigh the prior into this judgment. Just investigating what an average resting temperature with a particular measurement method seems to me silly.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mise_en_place</author><text>Anecdotal, but my family has a history of autoimmune disease (including multiple myeloma in my father’s case). My temp is always slightly higher than what is considered normal. It could be due to how my immune system tends to be overactive, many doctors have claimed it is caused by having “connective tissue disease”. Never had any adverse health problems from it.</text></comment>

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<story><title>Hundred Rabbits is a small collective exploring the failability of modern tech</title><url>https://100r.co/site/about_us.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>montebicyclelo</author><text>Their 2d music programming language, Orca is very cool&amp;#x2F;fun. Some examples:&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;youtube.com&amp;#x2F;watch?v=MNF8SF69QvM&amp;amp;list=PLb1uDATFJPcEEG3w715GzbD4AE232Pdcu&amp;amp;index=6&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;youtube.com&amp;#x2F;watch?v=MNF8SF69QvM&amp;amp;list=PLb1uDATFJPcEEG...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;youtube.com&amp;#x2F;watch?v=DBI8eBMGyYs&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;youtube.com&amp;#x2F;watch?v=DBI8eBMGyYs&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;youtube.com&amp;#x2F;watch?v=mxr8Dtw2R5w&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;youtube.com&amp;#x2F;watch?v=mxr8Dtw2R5w&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;youtube.com&amp;#x2F;watch?v=RDZiKYSGsjg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;youtube.com&amp;#x2F;watch?v=RDZiKYSGsjg&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>sdenton4</author><text>Orca&amp;#x27;s great!&lt;p&gt;Here&amp;#x27;s a blog post I wrote after spending a long weekend figuring out how to use it to make some procedurally generated music: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;inventingsituations.net&amp;#x2F;2021&amp;#x2F;12&amp;#x2F;26&amp;#x2F;procedural-music-in-orca&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;inventingsituations.net&amp;#x2F;2021&amp;#x2F;12&amp;#x2F;26&amp;#x2F;procedural-music-...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;and the screen-cap of some of the generated music: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.youtube.com&amp;#x2F;watch?v=tF-DD43sk2E&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.youtube.com&amp;#x2F;watch?v=tF-DD43sk2E&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>

<story><title>Hundred Rabbits is a small collective exploring the failability of modern tech</title><url>https://100r.co/site/about_us.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>montebicyclelo</author><text>Their 2d music programming language, Orca is very cool&amp;#x2F;fun. Some examples:&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;youtube.com&amp;#x2F;watch?v=MNF8SF69QvM&amp;amp;list=PLb1uDATFJPcEEG3w715GzbD4AE232Pdcu&amp;amp;index=6&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;youtube.com&amp;#x2F;watch?v=MNF8SF69QvM&amp;amp;list=PLb1uDATFJPcEEG...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;youtube.com&amp;#x2F;watch?v=DBI8eBMGyYs&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;youtube.com&amp;#x2F;watch?v=DBI8eBMGyYs&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;youtube.com&amp;#x2F;watch?v=mxr8Dtw2R5w&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;youtube.com&amp;#x2F;watch?v=mxr8Dtw2R5w&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;youtube.com&amp;#x2F;watch?v=RDZiKYSGsjg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;youtube.com&amp;#x2F;watch?v=RDZiKYSGsjg&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>smrq</author><text>Orca singlehandedly got me out of a multi-year musical rut. It&amp;#x27;s such an interesting and different way of sequencing than the traditional piano roll experience. Like modular synthesis, it can be easier to just use it like a toy and not make anything &amp;quot;finished&amp;quot;, but it really can spark the imagination.</text></comment>

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<story><title>Drafting Only Men for the Military Is Unconstitutional, Judge Rules</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/24/us/military-draft-men-unconstitutional.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Pristina</author><text>Do you think slavery is fine then? If compelled labour in the military is permissible by you because people have &amp;#x27;obligations&amp;#x27; to the government? What is a government except as an entity to ensure people&amp;#x27;s natural rights are not infringed. And we are somehow obligated to be slaves to this entity?</text></item><item><author>lsiebert</author><text>If you mean unpaid labor, then that&amp;#x27;s not how drafts work, but I&amp;#x27;ll assume you mean forced labor.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;ve seen the same argument used regarding taxation.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;d argue that people have duties and obligations to their government, just as a government has duties and obligations to it&amp;#x27;s citizens.&lt;p&gt;So I absolutely believe that the government has a right draft people to defend the country. Drafting people just to wage war to advance our interests I have a lot more qualms about.</text></item><item><author>henvic</author><text>There is no legitimate reason to draft anyone.&lt;p&gt;People aren&amp;#x27;t your slave. It doesn&amp;#x27;t matter that there might bad consequences if there is something &amp;#x27;to be done&amp;#x27;.&lt;p&gt;If you don&amp;#x27;t respect human beings as individuals in the first place, we already lost.</text></item><item><author>lsiebert</author><text>I suppose the draft doesn&amp;#x27;t necessarily have to be for military service for a war with other countries.&lt;p&gt;For example, if we learned that something large was on a collision course for the earth, we might have years to prepare to deflect it, or to build shelters, or something along those lines, but I can absolutely see a mobilization being necessary.&lt;p&gt;Of course, there&amp;#x27;s no legitimate reason why we&amp;#x27;d mobilize men and not women.</text></item><item><author>curtis</author><text>We haven&amp;#x27;t had the draft since 1973. What&amp;#x27;s in question is &lt;i&gt;registration for the draft&lt;/i&gt; in case we ever decide we should need it again. I think this is largely a moot point, since we&amp;#x27;re well into the information age, and identifying all American citizens of a draftable age is likely pretty easy whether they are registered or not.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>lsiebert</author><text>I understand there may be a need for compelled labor by the government, in a time of war or national emergency.&lt;p&gt;Am I okay with it?&lt;p&gt;I think that depends on whether it&amp;#x27;s a defensive war or a real national emergency. China invades, or yellow stone&amp;#x27;s super volcano erupts, yeah, those are legitimate reasons to force humans to cooperate, because survival is at stake. Vietnam type situations, or the Border Wall thing... I&amp;#x27;d be protesting a draft.&lt;p&gt;U.S. law and supreme court precedent both say that a draft is not slavery, but I understand your opinion, or definition of slavery, may differ.&lt;p&gt;I also believe quarantine laws for infectious people are valid, that police should be able to arrest violent criminals, etc. Basically, I believe if your actions or failure to act endangers the health and well-being of others, then the government has a legitimate interest in compelling or restricting behavior.&lt;p&gt;Most people would consider providing for the national defense and preserving the lives of citizens to be part of what a government does.</text></comment>

<story><title>Drafting Only Men for the Military Is Unconstitutional, Judge Rules</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/24/us/military-draft-men-unconstitutional.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Pristina</author><text>Do you think slavery is fine then? If compelled labour in the military is permissible by you because people have &amp;#x27;obligations&amp;#x27; to the government? What is a government except as an entity to ensure people&amp;#x27;s natural rights are not infringed. And we are somehow obligated to be slaves to this entity?</text></item><item><author>lsiebert</author><text>If you mean unpaid labor, then that&amp;#x27;s not how drafts work, but I&amp;#x27;ll assume you mean forced labor.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;ve seen the same argument used regarding taxation.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;d argue that people have duties and obligations to their government, just as a government has duties and obligations to it&amp;#x27;s citizens.&lt;p&gt;So I absolutely believe that the government has a right draft people to defend the country. Drafting people just to wage war to advance our interests I have a lot more qualms about.</text></item><item><author>henvic</author><text>There is no legitimate reason to draft anyone.&lt;p&gt;People aren&amp;#x27;t your slave. It doesn&amp;#x27;t matter that there might bad consequences if there is something &amp;#x27;to be done&amp;#x27;.&lt;p&gt;If you don&amp;#x27;t respect human beings as individuals in the first place, we already lost.</text></item><item><author>lsiebert</author><text>I suppose the draft doesn&amp;#x27;t necessarily have to be for military service for a war with other countries.&lt;p&gt;For example, if we learned that something large was on a collision course for the earth, we might have years to prepare to deflect it, or to build shelters, or something along those lines, but I can absolutely see a mobilization being necessary.&lt;p&gt;Of course, there&amp;#x27;s no legitimate reason why we&amp;#x27;d mobilize men and not women.</text></item><item><author>curtis</author><text>We haven&amp;#x27;t had the draft since 1973. What&amp;#x27;s in question is &lt;i&gt;registration for the draft&lt;/i&gt; in case we ever decide we should need it again. I think this is largely a moot point, since we&amp;#x27;re well into the information age, and identifying all American citizens of a draftable age is likely pretty easy whether they are registered or not.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>PhasmaFelis</author><text>&amp;gt; &lt;i&gt;What is a government except as an entity to ensure people&amp;#x27;s natural rights are not infringed.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;If the nation is under existential threat by a tyrannical invader and there aren&amp;#x27;t enough volunteers for an effective defense, should the government stand by and allow everyone&amp;#x27;s freedom to be lost permanently?</text></comment>

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<story><title>Null Values in SQL Queries</title><url>https://mitchum.blog/null-values-in-sql-queries/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>danso</author><text>There&amp;#x27;s a lot of real-world input situations in which I want NULL to indicate that a record field hasn&amp;#x27;t yet been collected, versus a record in which the answer to that field was &amp;quot;&amp;quot; – i.e. left blank by the respondent&amp;#x2F;data source. Sure I could have the front-facing data app auto-convert blank values to &amp;quot;N&amp;#x2F;A&amp;quot; or &amp;quot;(blank)&amp;quot;, but that&amp;#x27;s unnecessary complexity.</text></item><item><author>juped</author><text>&amp;gt;For example, Oracle database won’t allow you to have an empty string. Anytime Oracle database sees an empty string, it automatically converts the empty string into a NULL value.&lt;p&gt;Damn. This is how you do enterprise.&lt;p&gt;I might be the only person who likes SQL nulls. If you learn how they work up front, they&amp;#x27;re useful and not really that confusing. But if I ran into weird behaviors like this, I might hate them too.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>sammorrowdrums</author><text>I&amp;#x27;ve been really enjoying using Rust because it has no NULL. You have to instead use the semantics of Some(x) &amp;#x2F; None()and handle both cases. I&amp;#x27;m not sure how you work around the fact that an empty string is Null.&lt;p&gt;The problem with Null is that it can be either a value or show the lack of presence, and in JS because both undefined and null are values you can&amp;#x27;t depend on them being used for their semantics either (you can try to enforce their use but it that&amp;#x27;s no guarantee).&lt;p&gt;SQL suffers this exact same problem. I wonder what SQL would look like without Null.&lt;p&gt;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt; Select id, Option (key) From table Insert... Some(5), None::Int &lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt; From this perspective it still seems that empty string should not be None, but I think you&amp;#x27;re right that many people do use a code like &amp;quot;N&amp;#x2F;A&amp;quot;, but you can just add a supplemental Boolean field which is cleaner for set &amp;#x2F; not set.&lt;p&gt;Interesting</text></comment>

<story><title>Null Values in SQL Queries</title><url>https://mitchum.blog/null-values-in-sql-queries/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>danso</author><text>There&amp;#x27;s a lot of real-world input situations in which I want NULL to indicate that a record field hasn&amp;#x27;t yet been collected, versus a record in which the answer to that field was &amp;quot;&amp;quot; – i.e. left blank by the respondent&amp;#x2F;data source. Sure I could have the front-facing data app auto-convert blank values to &amp;quot;N&amp;#x2F;A&amp;quot; or &amp;quot;(blank)&amp;quot;, but that&amp;#x27;s unnecessary complexity.</text></item><item><author>juped</author><text>&amp;gt;For example, Oracle database won’t allow you to have an empty string. Anytime Oracle database sees an empty string, it automatically converts the empty string into a NULL value.&lt;p&gt;Damn. This is how you do enterprise.&lt;p&gt;I might be the only person who likes SQL nulls. If you learn how they work up front, they&amp;#x27;re useful and not really that confusing. But if I ran into weird behaviors like this, I might hate them too.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>SigmundA</author><text>Empty string isn&amp;#x27;t enough for this situation since it doesn&amp;#x27;t work for data types other than string, I actually prefer null vs undefined in javascript &amp;#x2F; json here, xml also has the concept of null vs undefined.&lt;p&gt;Emtpy string vs null is not that useful if you have null and undefined.</text></comment>

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<story><title>Tell HN: UC Berkeley&apos;s CS61A/B/C are the best courses to learn CS and coding</title><text>I have dabbled with many resources before in hope of learning to program and learn basics of CS. I have looked at intro course sequences of schools like MIT, CMU, Stanford, etc. Most have partial resources locked down. I have dabbled with books and they felt like shit. Even the book Think Python by Allen Downey was all over the place.&lt;p&gt;The books and blogs at least taught me basic syntax constructs like variables, function definition, loops, etc. But I couldn&amp;#x27;t understand how to package them up (compose) to use them in solving problems.&lt;p&gt;Then I started studying through Berkeley&amp;#x27;s 3 course intro CS61A, CS61B, CS61C. They have all materials in the open and if you are following the most current iteration of the course, they even post solutions to the problems. It was godsend for me.&lt;p&gt;Now, I am confident to learn more CS topics using courses from CMU, MIT, Berkeley, Stanford, etc. The thing that was holding me back was the lack of confidence of programming and understanding really what a program was doing.</text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>mdorazio</author><text>Going to hard disagree here and say this is &lt;i&gt;extremely&lt;/i&gt; person-specific. I already knew how to code in C++ and Python from high school AP classes. CS61A was &lt;i&gt;awful&lt;/i&gt; for me and made me hate computer science. I tested out of 61B. 61C taught me how computers actually work and simultaneously made me quit the major.&lt;p&gt;Here&amp;#x27;s my take: if you are interested in &lt;i&gt;computer science&lt;/i&gt;, the combination of these classes is great. If you are interested in &lt;i&gt;being a software developer&lt;/i&gt; or &lt;i&gt;building things quickly to solve problems&lt;/i&gt; there are far better resources out there.</text></comment>

<story><title>Tell HN: UC Berkeley&apos;s CS61A/B/C are the best courses to learn CS and coding</title><text>I have dabbled with many resources before in hope of learning to program and learn basics of CS. I have looked at intro course sequences of schools like MIT, CMU, Stanford, etc. Most have partial resources locked down. I have dabbled with books and they felt like shit. Even the book Think Python by Allen Downey was all over the place.&lt;p&gt;The books and blogs at least taught me basic syntax constructs like variables, function definition, loops, etc. But I couldn&amp;#x27;t understand how to package them up (compose) to use them in solving problems.&lt;p&gt;Then I started studying through Berkeley&amp;#x27;s 3 course intro CS61A, CS61B, CS61C. They have all materials in the open and if you are following the most current iteration of the course, they even post solutions to the problems. It was godsend for me.&lt;p&gt;Now, I am confident to learn more CS topics using courses from CMU, MIT, Berkeley, Stanford, etc. The thing that was holding me back was the lack of confidence of programming and understanding really what a program was doing.</text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>throwaway71271</author><text>One person&amp;#x27;s best learning resource is another person&amp;#x27;s nightmare.&lt;p&gt;We still have not understood how to tach coding. The subject seems to be completely non linear, and some people get stuck and cant move on and the teachers cant figure out why and they cant figure out why, it could last 1 month or could last 5 years, and at some point some random thing they read or watched completely unlocks them.&lt;p&gt;(For me the thing that helped me was Richard Buckland&amp;#x27;s Higher Computing lectures: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.youtube.com&amp;#x2F;watch?v=hE7l6Adoiiw&amp;amp;list=PL6B940F08B9773B9F&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.youtube.com&amp;#x2F;watch?v=hE7l6Adoiiw&amp;amp;list=PL6B940F08B...&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;p&gt;The best way to learn is to keep trying and particularly trying to understand what you do not understand.&lt;p&gt;As Feynman said on his last board: What I can not create, I do not understand.&lt;p&gt;So if you are one of those people who is stuck, or you watch CS61A&amp;#x2F;B and it does not work for you, just keep looking and trying.</text></comment>

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<story><title>Maloder: OSX binary loader for Linux.</title><url>https://github.com/shinh/maloader#readme</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>biot</author><text>I would have preferred the name &quot;MacLoad: there can be only one&quot;.</text></comment>

<story><title>Maloder: OSX binary loader for Linux.</title><url>https://github.com/shinh/maloader#readme</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>wtallis</author><text>I wonder how hard it would be to implement the Apple Obj-C runtime&apos;s ABI for GNUstep so that this could be used to run obj-c programs and perhaps eventually actual Mac apps. If it were shown to be feasible, I would expect the combination to get a lot of attention as an alternative to Wine for running proprietary apps on Linux.</text></comment>

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<story><title>Public speaking for normal people</title><url>http://www.humbledmba.com/public-speaking-for-normal-people</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>wallflower</author><text>&amp;#62; Embrace Your Ums&lt;p&gt;I strongly disagree. One of the things that you learn in Toastmasters is to control your tics (whether they be verbal - umms, ahhs, you knows, yeahs, huhs, uhhs or non-verbal - swinging arms, hands clenched in pockets, crossed arms, crossed legs, hands behind back, rocking back and forth, pacing without purpose). Each Toastmasters meeting actually has an &apos;Ah counter&apos; that will tally your respective tics. After a few speeches, you learn to replace your ahhs/umms/you knows with simple pauses. Pauses are so much more effective than ahhing/umming. Silence is powerful. Umms/ahhs detract from your presentation because they cause people to focus more on your umms/ahhs than your message. PG and other important speakers can get away with them because people respect what they have to say, very highly. Toastmasters teaches you to move with purpose - which means standing fairly still - moving to emphasize a point. And to speak with purpose - not too rapid, not too slow - but with conviction and passion.&lt;p&gt;I highly recommend Toastmasters for learning public speaking. Clubs vary in variety, though - try before you join - by going as a guest several times. However, if you decide to do Toastmasters, do not join your corporate club - join a club where you have no co-workers present (having co-workers present will limit you because you will be in the standard work context - afraid to fail, afraid to mess up - and yes, afraid to umm and ahh your way through the first critical speeches you deliver)&lt;p&gt;Every year, Toastmasters has a speech competition. It starts from your local club to district to regional to national to the highest level, International. If you have a few minutes, take a look at some of the competing entries - they are, without exception, polished and powerful.&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=toastmasters+championship&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=toastmasters+cha...&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>kmfrk</author><text>Definitely don&apos;t be the &quot;Um&quot; guy. To wit: &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/watch?list=FLmguqPI1EssJ48_VdAtl9nA&amp;#38;feature=player_detailpage&amp;#38;v=UWszme2Uyq4#t=134s&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.youtube.com/watch?list=FLmguqPI1EssJ48_VdAtl9nA&amp;#...&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;p&gt;Just recognize the reason why you are saying &quot;Um&quot; all the time, since there is properly a good reason for it. &quot;Um&quot;s are awkward, replacing them with a few seconds of silence isn&apos;t - oftentimes, it actually helps keep the audience focused.</text></comment>

<story><title>Public speaking for normal people</title><url>http://www.humbledmba.com/public-speaking-for-normal-people</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>wallflower</author><text>&amp;#62; Embrace Your Ums&lt;p&gt;I strongly disagree. One of the things that you learn in Toastmasters is to control your tics (whether they be verbal - umms, ahhs, you knows, yeahs, huhs, uhhs or non-verbal - swinging arms, hands clenched in pockets, crossed arms, crossed legs, hands behind back, rocking back and forth, pacing without purpose). Each Toastmasters meeting actually has an &apos;Ah counter&apos; that will tally your respective tics. After a few speeches, you learn to replace your ahhs/umms/you knows with simple pauses. Pauses are so much more effective than ahhing/umming. Silence is powerful. Umms/ahhs detract from your presentation because they cause people to focus more on your umms/ahhs than your message. PG and other important speakers can get away with them because people respect what they have to say, very highly. Toastmasters teaches you to move with purpose - which means standing fairly still - moving to emphasize a point. And to speak with purpose - not too rapid, not too slow - but with conviction and passion.&lt;p&gt;I highly recommend Toastmasters for learning public speaking. Clubs vary in variety, though - try before you join - by going as a guest several times. However, if you decide to do Toastmasters, do not join your corporate club - join a club where you have no co-workers present (having co-workers present will limit you because you will be in the standard work context - afraid to fail, afraid to mess up - and yes, afraid to umm and ahh your way through the first critical speeches you deliver)&lt;p&gt;Every year, Toastmasters has a speech competition. It starts from your local club to district to regional to national to the highest level, International. If you have a few minutes, take a look at some of the competing entries - they are, without exception, polished and powerful.&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=toastmasters+championship&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=toastmasters+cha...&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>huckfinnaafb</author><text>Depending on the severity of your &quot;ums&quot;, this is a facet &quot;normal people&quot; may need not perfect (or even need to work on).&lt;p&gt;This article is the minimum strategy, the 80% of a good presentation. Ums are a detractor but not as much a one as poor product knowledge or mechanical storytelling.</text></comment>

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<story><title>Illumos is a Unix operating system which provides next-generation features</title><url>https://www.illumos.org/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>phendrenad2</author><text>Illumos is a fork of OpenSolaris that&amp;#x27;s under active development, and the last Unix based on AT&amp;amp;T Unix System V. It&amp;#x27;s features have been around forever, and have been ported to Linux and BSD (with various levels of success). So &amp;quot;next-gen&amp;quot; is a strange way to describe it...</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>TallGuyShort</author><text>HP-UX 11 is also based on System V [1], and that had a release as recently as 6 months ago [2].&lt;p&gt;[1] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Unix#&amp;#x2F;media&amp;#x2F;File:Unix_history-simple.svg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Unix#&amp;#x2F;media&amp;#x2F;File:Unix_history-...&lt;/a&gt; [2] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;HP-UX&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;HP-UX&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>

<story><title>Illumos is a Unix operating system which provides next-generation features</title><url>https://www.illumos.org/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>phendrenad2</author><text>Illumos is a fork of OpenSolaris that&amp;#x27;s under active development, and the last Unix based on AT&amp;amp;T Unix System V. It&amp;#x27;s features have been around forever, and have been ported to Linux and BSD (with various levels of success). So &amp;quot;next-gen&amp;quot; is a strange way to describe it...</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>johnisgood</author><text>&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.openindiana.org&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.openindiana.org&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt; - Community-driven Illumos Distribution (OpenSolaris -&amp;gt; OpenIndiana)</text></comment>

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<story><title>Apple fans are coming to hate Apple software</title><url>http://www.latimes.com/business/hiltzik/la-fi-mh-apple-users-really-hate-apple-software-20160208-column.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>pyre</author><text>Well, one thing about Safari is that upgrades seem to be tied to the OS. As a web developer, this makes testing things on different versions of Safari a bit difficult. Also, you have to upgrade the entire OS to get a new version of Safari, so if you were holding out on an OS upgrade you might be forced to upgrade if you need to test things on the latest version of Safari.</text></item><item><author>Eric_WVGG</author><text>Could you please express your opinions without using the term &amp;quot;brainwashing&amp;quot;? I think Safari and iMessages are vastly superior to Chrome and Hangouts and that doesn&amp;#x27;t make me an idiot.</text></item><item><author>nostrademons</author><text>It&amp;#x27;s kinda weird to read commentators talking as if this was the end of a golden age of Apple.&lt;p&gt;From my perspective, their application software has &lt;i&gt;always&lt;/i&gt; sucked. It was there because you need apps to bootstrap a platform and attract enough users to attract developers. But you can&amp;#x27;t really expect a consumer electronics company to have the best application for a given niche once the niche has been identified and attracted companies that really want to make it their bread-and-butter.&lt;p&gt;XCode and occasionally FaceTime &amp;amp; iMovie are the only bundled applications that I ever use on my Mac. When I get a new computer, the first things I do are usually download Chrome, MacVim, Google Photos, and VLC. I use Hangouts over iMessage, Google Calendar over the built-in calendar, and Google Docs over the office suite. On my iPhone, getting Google Maps and Yelp is a top priority, lest I end up navigating off a mountain. This is not a new habit; I&amp;#x27;ve operated like this since getting a Mac in 2009 after a 10-year hiatus from Apple products.&lt;p&gt;Perhaps I was just less brainwashed than most Apple fans, and the end of the brainwashing may itself be news with big consequences for product adoption. But IMHO anyone who used the whole integrated Apple software suite and never looked elsewhere has been missing out on some seriously nice features this whole time.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>paws</author><text>Did I miss something? I run Yosemite and the latest Safari, including point updates, runs fine. &lt;a href=&quot;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.macworld.com&amp;#x2F;article&amp;#x2F;2987211&amp;#x2F;software-web&amp;#x2F;apple-releases-safari-9-for-yosemite.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.macworld.com&amp;#x2F;article&amp;#x2F;2987211&amp;#x2F;software-web&amp;#x2F;apple-r...&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>

<story><title>Apple fans are coming to hate Apple software</title><url>http://www.latimes.com/business/hiltzik/la-fi-mh-apple-users-really-hate-apple-software-20160208-column.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>pyre</author><text>Well, one thing about Safari is that upgrades seem to be tied to the OS. As a web developer, this makes testing things on different versions of Safari a bit difficult. Also, you have to upgrade the entire OS to get a new version of Safari, so if you were holding out on an OS upgrade you might be forced to upgrade if you need to test things on the latest version of Safari.</text></item><item><author>Eric_WVGG</author><text>Could you please express your opinions without using the term &amp;quot;brainwashing&amp;quot;? I think Safari and iMessages are vastly superior to Chrome and Hangouts and that doesn&amp;#x27;t make me an idiot.</text></item><item><author>nostrademons</author><text>It&amp;#x27;s kinda weird to read commentators talking as if this was the end of a golden age of Apple.&lt;p&gt;From my perspective, their application software has &lt;i&gt;always&lt;/i&gt; sucked. It was there because you need apps to bootstrap a platform and attract enough users to attract developers. But you can&amp;#x27;t really expect a consumer electronics company to have the best application for a given niche once the niche has been identified and attracted companies that really want to make it their bread-and-butter.&lt;p&gt;XCode and occasionally FaceTime &amp;amp; iMovie are the only bundled applications that I ever use on my Mac. When I get a new computer, the first things I do are usually download Chrome, MacVim, Google Photos, and VLC. I use Hangouts over iMessage, Google Calendar over the built-in calendar, and Google Docs over the office suite. On my iPhone, getting Google Maps and Yelp is a top priority, lest I end up navigating off a mountain. This is not a new habit; I&amp;#x27;ve operated like this since getting a Mac in 2009 after a 10-year hiatus from Apple products.&lt;p&gt;Perhaps I was just less brainwashed than most Apple fans, and the end of the brainwashing may itself be news with big consequences for product adoption. But IMHO anyone who used the whole integrated Apple software suite and never looked elsewhere has been missing out on some seriously nice features this whole time.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>bphogan</author><text>The alternative is that I need to have 30 versions of Chrome laying around because they update every week or two.&lt;p&gt;Surely there has to be a middle ground. :)</text></comment>

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<story><title>Hey developers, stop forcing me to login to unsubscribe</title><text>Dear Sender:&lt;p&gt;There&amp;#x27;s nothing more annoying than clicking that &amp;#x27;unsubscribe&amp;#x27; link at the bottom of your email only to be asked to login first. I know it sucks when people opt-out of your transactional emails, but deal with it and let people unsubscribe with one click. If you do this you may even get some valuable feedback.&lt;p&gt;If your transactional email provider doesn&amp;#x27;t have a single-click unsubscribe option, find another service. I recommend every developer test out what a recipient sees.&lt;p&gt;Sincerely,&lt;p&gt;Users of the Internet</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>sker</author><text>Companies like LinkedIn are training users (at least me) to report as spam instead of unsubscribing because it&amp;#x27;s an exercise in futility to try to opt-out of their spam.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>georgemcbay</author><text>I&amp;#x27;ve been doing this for years and don&amp;#x27;t feel the least bit bad about it, and I think everyone should adopt this practice.&lt;p&gt;If marking as spam or unsubscribing are approximately equal effort, I will unsubscribe; if unsubscribing is even slightly more difficult than marking as spam, I mark as spam with no regrets. Even if you don&amp;#x27;t force me to login but make me do some monkey trick like type &amp;quot;CANCEL&amp;quot; into a box =&amp;gt; spam! One click is the only acceptable method, and don&amp;#x27;t hide the link in a bunch of small print legalese, because I&amp;#x27;m not going to expend much effort looking for it while the nice, inviting &amp;quot;Mark as Spam&amp;quot; button is just sitting there waiting for me to click it.</text></comment>

<story><title>Hey developers, stop forcing me to login to unsubscribe</title><text>Dear Sender:&lt;p&gt;There&amp;#x27;s nothing more annoying than clicking that &amp;#x27;unsubscribe&amp;#x27; link at the bottom of your email only to be asked to login first. I know it sucks when people opt-out of your transactional emails, but deal with it and let people unsubscribe with one click. If you do this you may even get some valuable feedback.&lt;p&gt;If your transactional email provider doesn&amp;#x27;t have a single-click unsubscribe option, find another service. I recommend every developer test out what a recipient sees.&lt;p&gt;Sincerely,&lt;p&gt;Users of the Internet</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>sker</author><text>Companies like LinkedIn are training users (at least me) to report as spam instead of unsubscribing because it&amp;#x27;s an exercise in futility to try to opt-out of their spam.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Moto7451</author><text>That&amp;#x27;s why senders should use the List-Unsubscribe header. GMail will prompt you to unsubscribe rather than blindly classify the message as SPAM.&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.list-unsubscribe.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.list-unsubscribe.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://support.google.com/mail/answer/81126?hl=en&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;support.google.com&amp;#x2F;mail&amp;#x2F;answer&amp;#x2F;81126?hl=en&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>

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<story><title>Why are McDonald’s Self Service Kiosks so hackable?</title><url>https://ghuntley.com/mcdonalds/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Gigachad</author><text>I&amp;#x27;m surprised the stripe is still added to cards these days. The chip broke on my mums card around 10 years ago and although the card readers had strip readers, they would often refuse to use it. Seem to remember some requiring a few failed chip uses before allowing magnetic strip.</text></item><item><author>charles_kaw</author><text>&amp;gt; the secrets we were protecting are symmetric and printed on the card for anyone to see.&lt;p&gt;On the magstripe and plastic, yes, but that is very rarely used today in stores. A modern chip card doesn&amp;#x27;t really expose secrets.</text></item><item><author>__MatrixMan__</author><text>I worked at a POS vendor who did this kind of thing internal to the device. We had a bunch of robots (they looked like 3d printers with a stylus instead of a print head) testing the payment flows because none of the android test tools could interface with that part of the device.&lt;p&gt;It was kind of impressive, but also kind of funny because the secrets we were protecting are symmetric and printed on the card for anyone to see.</text></item><item><author>wronglebowski</author><text>I was involved with the card reader upgrades at McDonald’s in the US. Essentially the card readers were stripped out of the main network and all buildings were rewired With a physically segregated network for cashless transactions.&lt;p&gt;Registers placed orders to the main routing Server in the back which passed the information to each individual station for fulfillment. The only time the card reader is involved is when the register makes a request to the cashless processing appliance in the back office then it reaches out to the card reader on the segregated network.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>avianlyric</author><text>Depends in what part of the world you’re in. In Europe I wouldn’t really expect anyone to accept magstripe on card with a chip, but in the US it’s more common.&lt;p&gt;Additionally terminals can be configured to detect dodgy chips and automatically fall back magstripe, or a more basic form of processing. But your bank may block these transactions, because they can’t perform chargebacks on them, they’re considered as “secure&amp;#x2F;good as” Chip and PIN transactions by the card network for merchants in some parts of the worlds (e.g. the US). So if a fraudulent transaction was performed that way, the bank would have to eat the entire cost themselves.</text></comment>

<story><title>Why are McDonald’s Self Service Kiosks so hackable?</title><url>https://ghuntley.com/mcdonalds/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Gigachad</author><text>I&amp;#x27;m surprised the stripe is still added to cards these days. The chip broke on my mums card around 10 years ago and although the card readers had strip readers, they would often refuse to use it. Seem to remember some requiring a few failed chip uses before allowing magnetic strip.</text></item><item><author>charles_kaw</author><text>&amp;gt; the secrets we were protecting are symmetric and printed on the card for anyone to see.&lt;p&gt;On the magstripe and plastic, yes, but that is very rarely used today in stores. A modern chip card doesn&amp;#x27;t really expose secrets.</text></item><item><author>__MatrixMan__</author><text>I worked at a POS vendor who did this kind of thing internal to the device. We had a bunch of robots (they looked like 3d printers with a stylus instead of a print head) testing the payment flows because none of the android test tools could interface with that part of the device.&lt;p&gt;It was kind of impressive, but also kind of funny because the secrets we were protecting are symmetric and printed on the card for anyone to see.</text></item><item><author>wronglebowski</author><text>I was involved with the card reader upgrades at McDonald’s in the US. Essentially the card readers were stripped out of the main network and all buildings were rewired With a physically segregated network for cashless transactions.&lt;p&gt;Registers placed orders to the main routing Server in the back which passed the information to each individual station for fulfillment. The only time the card reader is involved is when the register makes a request to the cashless processing appliance in the back office then it reaches out to the card reader on the segregated network.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>lmm</author><text>It&amp;#x27;s only a few years ago that we started seeing cards without embossed numbers for taking impressions by rubbing.</text></comment>

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<story><title>A First Lesson in Econometrics (1970) [pdf]</title><url>https://www.uibk.ac.at/econometrics/lit/siegfried_jpe_70.pdf</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>boppo1</author><text>This is way off topic but hopefully it will get allowed because I think you have the expertise to help:&lt;p&gt;It seems to me that the widely accepted practice of market stimulation by interest rate intervention has the cost of destroying price discovery. Also, that it is a primary cause of wealth inequality. These relationships seem to me actually obvious: push down DCF denominators and valuations go up, inefficient businesses stay in business and employ people digging holes. Sure, we get good jobs reports, but we also work harder to make less. Meanwhile those who hold wealth see its value increase disproportionate to &amp;#x27;actual&amp;#x27; worth and common people who hold little or none can afford less and less of it. It seems like a pretty direct policy of &amp;#x27;rich get richer, poor get poorer&amp;#x27;. Worse yet, as I look at the world around me, it all seems to support my hypothesis. Tesla, spacs, NFTs, housing, blackrock &amp;amp; vanguard &amp;amp; gates buying land, etc. I could go on and on with examples.&lt;p&gt;But the thing is, I got shitty grades in my college econ courses. It&amp;#x27;s laughable to me that all the highly educated people at central banks somehow haven&amp;#x27;t thought of this but &lt;i&gt;I&lt;/i&gt; have. I&amp;#x27;m being serious, I&amp;#x27;m kind of a lazy idiot. By any reasonable measure, I expect that I&amp;#x27;m wrong.&lt;p&gt;Could you point me in the direction of some primary sources that address the relationship between interest rate intervention and price discovery? I&amp;#x27;ve been told to pick up an undergrad macro text, but those all just seem to say &amp;quot;low rates = easier to get loans = mo&amp;#x27; jobz&amp;quot; without any rigor.&lt;p&gt;Open market ops and other interventions are so common and accepted, the only other people I see complaining are precious metals schizos. Surely there&amp;#x27;s a theoretical foundation for the policy&amp;#x2F;practice.</text></item><item><author>bachmeier</author><text>My monetary economics professor in grad school was teaching a paper and told us that when the authors claim it&amp;#x27;s obvious, that means it&amp;#x27;s not obvious. So he wrote out the derivation over the weekend and gave us a four-page, single-spaced handout with all the equations behind that single &amp;quot;obvious&amp;quot; result.</text></item><item><author>lowkeyokay</author><text>This was made me laugh. So many times I read ‘it should then be obvious that…’ What the?! No it isn’t. Text book authors must hate students.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>smallnamespace</author><text>You’re not crazy, if you want to find lots of discussion about this topic head to &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;alhambrapartners.com&amp;#x2F;tag&amp;#x2F;eurodollar-university&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;alhambrapartners.com&amp;#x2F;tag&amp;#x2F;eurodollar-university&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;But to be fair to the Fed (not to excuse plenty of incompetence), the banks in 08 became close to insolvency. The ‘proper’ way to inject money into the economy would’ve required Congress to authorize a recapitalization of banks - which would’ve been political suicide.</text></comment>

<story><title>A First Lesson in Econometrics (1970) [pdf]</title><url>https://www.uibk.ac.at/econometrics/lit/siegfried_jpe_70.pdf</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>boppo1</author><text>This is way off topic but hopefully it will get allowed because I think you have the expertise to help:&lt;p&gt;It seems to me that the widely accepted practice of market stimulation by interest rate intervention has the cost of destroying price discovery. Also, that it is a primary cause of wealth inequality. These relationships seem to me actually obvious: push down DCF denominators and valuations go up, inefficient businesses stay in business and employ people digging holes. Sure, we get good jobs reports, but we also work harder to make less. Meanwhile those who hold wealth see its value increase disproportionate to &amp;#x27;actual&amp;#x27; worth and common people who hold little or none can afford less and less of it. It seems like a pretty direct policy of &amp;#x27;rich get richer, poor get poorer&amp;#x27;. Worse yet, as I look at the world around me, it all seems to support my hypothesis. Tesla, spacs, NFTs, housing, blackrock &amp;amp; vanguard &amp;amp; gates buying land, etc. I could go on and on with examples.&lt;p&gt;But the thing is, I got shitty grades in my college econ courses. It&amp;#x27;s laughable to me that all the highly educated people at central banks somehow haven&amp;#x27;t thought of this but &lt;i&gt;I&lt;/i&gt; have. I&amp;#x27;m being serious, I&amp;#x27;m kind of a lazy idiot. By any reasonable measure, I expect that I&amp;#x27;m wrong.&lt;p&gt;Could you point me in the direction of some primary sources that address the relationship between interest rate intervention and price discovery? I&amp;#x27;ve been told to pick up an undergrad macro text, but those all just seem to say &amp;quot;low rates = easier to get loans = mo&amp;#x27; jobz&amp;quot; without any rigor.&lt;p&gt;Open market ops and other interventions are so common and accepted, the only other people I see complaining are precious metals schizos. Surely there&amp;#x27;s a theoretical foundation for the policy&amp;#x2F;practice.</text></item><item><author>bachmeier</author><text>My monetary economics professor in grad school was teaching a paper and told us that when the authors claim it&amp;#x27;s obvious, that means it&amp;#x27;s not obvious. So he wrote out the derivation over the weekend and gave us a four-page, single-spaced handout with all the equations behind that single &amp;quot;obvious&amp;quot; result.</text></item><item><author>lowkeyokay</author><text>This was made me laugh. So many times I read ‘it should then be obvious that…’ What the?! No it isn’t. Text book authors must hate students.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>xapata</author><text>&amp;gt; It seems to me that the widely accepted practice of market stimulation by interest rate intervention has the cost of destroying price discovery. Also, that it is a primary cause of wealth inequality.&lt;p&gt;Those claims deserve an explanation and empirical evidence.&lt;p&gt;Measuring price discovery itself is a bit awkward. You could say that poor quality price discovery would result in more price volatility, and that increased costs of price discovery would result in lower liquidity. Unfortunately, both of those things have many other causal factors. How would you untangle the causes to isolate the effects of interest rate intervention?&lt;p&gt;Making the leap to saying it&amp;#x27;s the primary cause of wealth inequality is absurd. So long as society uses a market economy, or allows any form of individual wealth aggregation, wealth is likely to follow a log-normal distribution.</text></comment>

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<story><title>Internet architects propose encrypting all the world&apos;s web traffic</title><url>http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2013-11/15/encrypting-all-web-traffic</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>bostik</author><text>I know this may be a bit off-topic, but since we&amp;#x27;re discussing HTTP&amp;#x2F;2 already, I can&amp;#x27;t help but wonder. The recent attacks (BEAST, CRIME, etc.) have all relied on being able to build an oracle from (sent) body content and uncover header elements. The attacks only get better in time, so I expect to see even more attacks like this.&lt;p&gt;If we&amp;#x27;re going to overhaul the HTTP spec in any case and go for framed messaging - why not go for separate header&amp;#x2F;body compression AND separate encryption keys? As far as I understand, that would block the whole family of attacks. Separate compression contexts would prevent the attacker from building an oracle from body to attack the header. Separate keys and encryption contexts should prevent padding and mode oracles against the header.&lt;p&gt;I know crypto is hard, and I &lt;i&gt;know&lt;/i&gt; there would be devilishly tricky details to figure out. So I have to assume someone has already thought of this, has had it vetted out for flaws and then discarded the idea.&lt;p&gt;But if so, why? Apart from requiring at least twice the key size in negotiation (compute oversized shared key, split for header&amp;#x2F;body and likely HMAC keys), are there any other obvious or non-obvious technical reasons not to do this?</text></comment>

<story><title>Internet architects propose encrypting all the world&apos;s web traffic</title><url>http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2013-11/15/encrypting-all-web-traffic</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>XorNot</author><text>One thing I&amp;#x27;ve really thought is consistently screwed up with security proposals is &lt;i&gt;what do you do when it might be compromised&lt;/i&gt;?&lt;p&gt;Users invariably click through the big red web page because they still need to use their email at the end of the day, and that page provides no information as to what&amp;#x27;s going on.&lt;p&gt;If the certificate doesn&amp;#x27;t verify, don&amp;#x27;t give up - try a different route to it (sadly we&amp;#x27;ve taken away source-routing for other security reasons). If that fails then start a Tor session and try connecting through that.&lt;p&gt;Then show me a little diagram that shows where we think the problem is so I can think about what might be the problem.</text></comment>

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<story><title>Cancer expert given experimental treatments for incurable brain tumour</title><url>https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-09-20/melanoma-richard-scolyer-georgina-long-early-results/102879818</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>zdragnar</author><text>People with nothing to lose make fantastic targets for snake oil fraud.&lt;p&gt;Principally, I agree with right to try, but I&amp;#x27;m not sure what appropriate safeguards would look like.</text></item><item><author>Empact</author><text>A great example of why to support &amp;quot;Right to Try&amp;quot; laws. Every terminal patient could choose to contribute to our understanding of treatment while also possibly improving their outcome. Through self-experimentation we could dramatically increase the pace of progress.&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Right-to-try_law&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Right-to-try_law&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ballenf</author><text>- Registration of alternative treatments with contact info (registered business address, etc.). Prevent fly-by-night hucksters from hiding in the dark.&lt;p&gt;- Require disclosure of ingredients&lt;p&gt;- Require disclosure of tests for contaminants&lt;p&gt;- Require disclosure of adverse advents&lt;p&gt;- Have a standardized form for all of the above. Kind of a &amp;quot;truth-in-lending&amp;quot; document but for alternative treatments.&lt;p&gt;- Allow licensed doctors more freedom to administer alternative treatments without fear of license loss, so long as patient consent is received. This could be allow weeding out of some of the actual snake oil, but would add cost.</text></comment>

<story><title>Cancer expert given experimental treatments for incurable brain tumour</title><url>https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-09-20/melanoma-richard-scolyer-georgina-long-early-results/102879818</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>zdragnar</author><text>People with nothing to lose make fantastic targets for snake oil fraud.&lt;p&gt;Principally, I agree with right to try, but I&amp;#x27;m not sure what appropriate safeguards would look like.</text></item><item><author>Empact</author><text>A great example of why to support &amp;quot;Right to Try&amp;quot; laws. Every terminal patient could choose to contribute to our understanding of treatment while also possibly improving their outcome. Through self-experimentation we could dramatically increase the pace of progress.&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Right-to-try_law&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Right-to-try_law&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>DennisP</author><text>Everybody&amp;#x27;s terrified of the snake oil days, and almost nobody considers the way things were several decades ago, when cancer researchers were allowed to try things on patients without government approval, and we made much faster progress than we did after the FDA clamped down.&lt;p&gt;For details, see the book &lt;i&gt;The Death of Cancer&lt;/i&gt; by Vincent DeVita, director of the Yale Cancer Center and former director of the National Cancer Institute.</text></comment>

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<story><title>Show HN: DragonRuby Game Toolkit</title><url>http://dragonruby.org/toolkit/game</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>rookderby</author><text>I&amp;#x27;m a Dragon Rider, if you will. I have bought the pro license and have used the toolkit to make some demos&amp;#x2F;experiments. I&amp;#x27;m excited by how quickly I can produce a game that works on multiple targets. It&amp;#x27;s been great as a recreational coder. I have aspirations of figuring out the right game loop and eventually selling it. It&amp;#x27;s a lot of fun and fits my desired approach. Thanks to everyone working on it!</text></comment>

<story><title>Show HN: DragonRuby Game Toolkit</title><url>http://dragonruby.org/toolkit/game</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>phaedryx</author><text>I don&amp;#x27;t see this mentioned on the website, but, if I remember correctly, they also have materials for teaching kids how to code. I was thinking about running something at my son&amp;#x27;s school last year before Covid shut everything down.&lt;p&gt;The &amp;quot;hotloading&amp;quot; is really nice and the community on Discord is excellent.</text></comment>

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<story><title>NYC Mesh – community-owned network to replace your current internet connection</title><url>https://nycmesh.net/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>fixthenet</author><text>Josh from the Community Broadband Project here. Would be happy to answer any questions about our mission and progress in LA. I&amp;#x27;m no regular, but we just got a bunch of traffic from Hacker News and I&amp;#x27;m here to spread the gospel.&lt;p&gt;NYC Mesh is doing very cool stuff--we wish them the best. We&amp;#x27;re in touch with a few other community ISPs who are growing organically in competition against big incumbent ISPs. It&amp;#x27;s inspiring.&lt;p&gt;Beverly Hills, West Hollywood, and Culver City are all constructing municipal fiber right now. In the case of at least WeHo and Culver, it&amp;#x27;s aimed primarily at businesses. Some residents may see fiber offered by the incumbents, but we did some math of those offerings and it was $133&amp;#x2F;mo for 1Gbps. It&amp;#x27;d be more helpful for the community if reasonable speeds were more affordable and available, than only some wealthy neighborhoods getting fiber.</text></item><item><author>joshuamcginnis</author><text>There&amp;#x27;s a similar effort gaining traction in the Los Angeles area: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.communitybroadband.la&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.communitybroadband.la&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;ve also noticed that local municipalities are getting into the ISP business. Beverly Hills, for example, is currently deploying a city-owned&amp;#x2F;operated fiber-backed ISP: &lt;a href=&quot;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.beverlyhills.org&amp;#x2F;fiber&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.beverlyhills.org&amp;#x2F;fiber&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Timmah</author><text>I don&amp;#x27;t know if laying cable is one of your biggest challenges, but I assume it would be along with right-of-way.&lt;p&gt;What do you think about the idea of using the sewer system to lay either fiber or 10+gb copper? Before you think about how gross that is, consider the advancements in drone robotics. You would need to devise a cable-laying robot that could traverse the sewer via remote control. Mount fixtures to the top of the pipes and string the cables through, connecting neighborhoods.&lt;p&gt;This would require convincing the city to lease you the right-of-way and put up a bond to cover any repairs to damage caused by the cables. But it would solve both the bandwidth problem and the &amp;quot;those are &lt;i&gt;our&lt;/i&gt; telephone poles!&amp;quot; Problem. What do you think?</text></comment>

<story><title>NYC Mesh – community-owned network to replace your current internet connection</title><url>https://nycmesh.net/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>fixthenet</author><text>Josh from the Community Broadband Project here. Would be happy to answer any questions about our mission and progress in LA. I&amp;#x27;m no regular, but we just got a bunch of traffic from Hacker News and I&amp;#x27;m here to spread the gospel.&lt;p&gt;NYC Mesh is doing very cool stuff--we wish them the best. We&amp;#x27;re in touch with a few other community ISPs who are growing organically in competition against big incumbent ISPs. It&amp;#x27;s inspiring.&lt;p&gt;Beverly Hills, West Hollywood, and Culver City are all constructing municipal fiber right now. In the case of at least WeHo and Culver, it&amp;#x27;s aimed primarily at businesses. Some residents may see fiber offered by the incumbents, but we did some math of those offerings and it was $133&amp;#x2F;mo for 1Gbps. It&amp;#x27;d be more helpful for the community if reasonable speeds were more affordable and available, than only some wealthy neighborhoods getting fiber.</text></item><item><author>joshuamcginnis</author><text>There&amp;#x27;s a similar effort gaining traction in the Los Angeles area: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.communitybroadband.la&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.communitybroadband.la&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;ve also noticed that local municipalities are getting into the ISP business. Beverly Hills, for example, is currently deploying a city-owned&amp;#x2F;operated fiber-backed ISP: &lt;a href=&quot;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.beverlyhills.org&amp;#x2F;fiber&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.beverlyhills.org&amp;#x2F;fiber&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>debaserab2</author><text>You might be the totally wrong person to ask this and I apologize if this is a naive question.&lt;p&gt;Is there a way a lay person (non network-engineer) can somehow get involved with their community to help get this started? I&amp;#x27;d love to see something like this get started where I live (Minneapolis) and would be willing to help in any capacity I could.</text></comment>

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<story><title>React I love you, but you&apos;re bringing me down</title><url>https://marmelab.com/blog/2022/09/20/react-i-love-you.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>exclusiv</author><text>&amp;gt; Some part of your organizations chaos is going to reflect in code, and honestly I&amp;#x27;d rather it be in a big ball of frontend than in the data models, infrastructure, etc.&lt;p&gt;I disagree. I like my frontend to be as dumb as possible. It gets data and reacts to it as simple as possible. Seen too many frontends with a lot of data logic and it becomes extremely brittle, harder to test.&lt;p&gt;These are the ones where the frontend devs are getting data from the API and creating new structures, transforming it, conditionals everywhere, etc.&lt;p&gt;It requires way more discipline to ensure that frontend devs aren&amp;#x27;t recreating the wheel and writing duplicate code as the app and components evolve, and it&amp;#x27;s worse for larger codebases of course.&lt;p&gt;They need to build some new component and go - ok I got the data from the API and now I need to do the thing that&amp;#x27;s already been done by another frontend dev for another component because we&amp;#x27;ve allowed the frontend to be responsible for transforming the data. But if they aren&amp;#x27;t aware of this, then you get a lot of dupe code.&lt;p&gt;Just have your backend API provide the contract. Setup resources&amp;#x2F;transformers as needed on the backend instead of littering the frontend with that logic.</text></item><item><author>corytheboyd</author><text>I&amp;#x27;ve worked in a few roughly-the-same-size (~50 engineers) web development shops. It&amp;#x27;s always the same. Doesn&amp;#x27;t matter if it&amp;#x27;s React, Angular, Class based components, Functional components with hooks, Just Some HTML, PHP, Rails views, etc.&lt;p&gt;The frontend just collects the cruft of a product organization changing course very frequently. There are always a dozen half-finished fix-the-world ideas conflicting with each other, half-finished move-to-new-framework initiatives.&lt;p&gt;I just mean to say that when I hear &amp;quot;it&amp;#x27;s because React&amp;quot; or &amp;quot;it&amp;#x27;s because rails views&amp;quot;, any other of the infinite variations of this, I kind of just tune out. Some part of your organizations chaos is going to reflect in code, and honestly I&amp;#x27;d rather it be in a big ball of frontend than in the data models, infrastructure, etc.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>tikiman163</author><text>I primarily agree with you, but his primary point is mainly regarding the tendency for projects at large organizations to have a substantial number of unfished attempts to rework existing applications, which often results in serious headaches for whoever owns the code.&lt;p&gt;What I mean is that even if you&amp;#x27;ve followed a specific set of programming principals, code practices and design patterns consistently across the life time of the application, there will still have been initiatives to change how things are done. Maybe they want to use a &amp;quot;better&amp;quot; authentication library, or add a material framework that has capabilities they need. The exact initiative, and how valid the request or decision is doesn&amp;#x27;t matter. These initiatives may occur one at a time, or be competing with each other for priority while being incompatible without anyone noticing. But some of them will fail to be completed, and someone has to back out the changes that shouldn&amp;#x27;t go to prod. Inevitably something will get left behind. Over 5-10 years this can have a shockingly large impact on the code base in ways engineers frequently notice but don&amp;#x27;t understand how the code got to the state its in.&lt;p&gt;This frequently means dead code, unused dependencies, comments that don&amp;#x27;t make any sense, properties on objects that are never displayed or referenced by business logic, and multiple classes&amp;#x2F;services which accept the same inputs and produce the same outputs but do the job just differently enough you can&amp;#x27;t be sure it&amp;#x27;s the same. That, and over abstractions (any piece of code which branches based on the context of &amp;quot;who&amp;#x27;s asking&amp;quot;).&lt;p&gt;And frankly few things any me more than someone who felt the need to implement their own logging implementation, especially in C# (yes I know we&amp;#x27;re talking about React, but people do the same stupid crap in that case as well). Reinventing the wheel has to be done on occasion, but you need to ask yourself if it has to be you that makes it happen,and whether it already has been.</text></comment>

<story><title>React I love you, but you&apos;re bringing me down</title><url>https://marmelab.com/blog/2022/09/20/react-i-love-you.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>exclusiv</author><text>&amp;gt; Some part of your organizations chaos is going to reflect in code, and honestly I&amp;#x27;d rather it be in a big ball of frontend than in the data models, infrastructure, etc.&lt;p&gt;I disagree. I like my frontend to be as dumb as possible. It gets data and reacts to it as simple as possible. Seen too many frontends with a lot of data logic and it becomes extremely brittle, harder to test.&lt;p&gt;These are the ones where the frontend devs are getting data from the API and creating new structures, transforming it, conditionals everywhere, etc.&lt;p&gt;It requires way more discipline to ensure that frontend devs aren&amp;#x27;t recreating the wheel and writing duplicate code as the app and components evolve, and it&amp;#x27;s worse for larger codebases of course.&lt;p&gt;They need to build some new component and go - ok I got the data from the API and now I need to do the thing that&amp;#x27;s already been done by another frontend dev for another component because we&amp;#x27;ve allowed the frontend to be responsible for transforming the data. But if they aren&amp;#x27;t aware of this, then you get a lot of dupe code.&lt;p&gt;Just have your backend API provide the contract. Setup resources&amp;#x2F;transformers as needed on the backend instead of littering the frontend with that logic.</text></item><item><author>corytheboyd</author><text>I&amp;#x27;ve worked in a few roughly-the-same-size (~50 engineers) web development shops. It&amp;#x27;s always the same. Doesn&amp;#x27;t matter if it&amp;#x27;s React, Angular, Class based components, Functional components with hooks, Just Some HTML, PHP, Rails views, etc.&lt;p&gt;The frontend just collects the cruft of a product organization changing course very frequently. There are always a dozen half-finished fix-the-world ideas conflicting with each other, half-finished move-to-new-framework initiatives.&lt;p&gt;I just mean to say that when I hear &amp;quot;it&amp;#x27;s because React&amp;quot; or &amp;quot;it&amp;#x27;s because rails views&amp;quot;, any other of the infinite variations of this, I kind of just tune out. Some part of your organizations chaos is going to reflect in code, and honestly I&amp;#x27;d rather it be in a big ball of frontend than in the data models, infrastructure, etc.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>cercatrova</author><text>That&amp;#x27;s why I like GraphQL, you get exactly the data you request, no transformation necessary.</text></comment>

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<story><title>Zappos.com customer database compromised</title><url>http://www.zappos.com/passwordchange</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>IgorPartola</author><text>LastPass FTW! The attacker will reverse my password just to find a bunch of unusable bits :). What would be even cooler is an API on top of LastPass that sites like Zappos could hook into to force a behind-the-scenes change of passwords, similar to revoking a compromised certificate. Essentially, since there is some lead time after the breach is discovered and before the attacker manages to crack the long, random passwords, their efforts would be futile by the time they are done since all LastPass passwords would have already been changed.&lt;p&gt;Or we could just stop using passwords everywhere and not have this problem again. Anybody? Anybody?&lt;p&gt;Disclosure: I have no affiliation with LastPass beyond being a satisfied user.</text></comment>

<story><title>Zappos.com customer database compromised</title><url>http://www.zappos.com/passwordchange</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>jjacobson</author><text>Zappos developer here. I&apos;ll answer any questions that I legally can or help get customer problems passed onto people that can help.</text></comment>

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<story><title>Molten Salt Reactors</title><url>https://whatisnuclear.com/msr.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>jillesvangurp</author><text>The elephant in the room with any kind of fission reactor is that they are going to need a lot of security. Even when the fuel and waste product is not weapons grade uranium, it&amp;#x27;s still highly radioactive and a great source of material for a dirty bomb. Basically anything that goes boom combined with small amounts of radioactive material and a bit of wind is a great way to depopulate e.g. large cities. So, having lots of small molten salt reactors all over the planet, which seems like the key selling point, is not a great idea from that point of view. Having them in or near any kind of conflict zone would be super risky. And according to this article there is actually some weapons grade uranium being produced as well which makes this even more problematic.&lt;p&gt;The security aspect would make this a lot more expensive than it already is and cost is already on the high side even before you consider that. This is a problem with traditional reactors as well but they have the advantage that they are huge facilities and that there are only a handful of them; so securing them is relatively easy.&lt;p&gt;People are suggesting this as complementing renewables but the cold hard truth is that renewables are already dirt cheap and on track to continue to drop in price by magnitudes for the next decades. That includes battery storage as well. Already quite cheap, also dropping in price, and typically already factored into e.g. new solar bids that are killing competing bids for coal and gas plants (or in some cases shutting them down prematurely).&lt;p&gt;Even at the current prices, that&amp;#x27;s a problem for any kind of nuclear solutions being contemplated right now. At the low end of the spectrum, we are talking 2 cents per kwh currently. Imagine this dropping to something like half a cent or even less. At those prices, the security alone would make nuclear too expensive probably. A 1 mw facility would have basically be generating only about 500-2000$ worth of energy per hour but only at peak demand. There&amp;#x27;s no guarantee prices won&amp;#x27;t drop way below that either. Any kind of operational overhead would be a problem. Needing 24x7 intense security would be very undesirable.</text></comment>

<story><title>Molten Salt Reactors</title><url>https://whatisnuclear.com/msr.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>petschge</author><text>The usual quip in the industry is that the remote maintenance is such a complicated robotics problem. that which ever company is able to solve it, is better off converting to a robotics company and just drive Kuka, Fanuc and ABB out of business.</text></comment>

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<story><title>The impossible task of creating a “best VPNs” list</title><url>http://arstechnica.com/security/2016/06/aiming-for-anonymity-ars-assesses-the-state-of-vpns-in-2016/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>bitL</author><text>So what&amp;#x27;s the best way to browse anonymously these days? Is it running a hypervised OS (some hardened GNU Linux&amp;#x2F;BSD Unix variant?) with a randomly changed LAN MAC upon every boot, connected to a VPN operating outside US with OpenVPN &amp;amp; 4k PK (e.g. in Romania), browsing using TorBrowser with NoScript and WebGL turned off? Or even two VPNs at the same time, one in the base OS, the other in the hypervised one?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jrcii</author><text>Drive to a state you don&amp;#x27;t live in, boot Tails from CD-ROM, connect to a hacked VPN account through someone else&amp;#x27;s wifi, then run everything through Tor. Then make sure you&amp;#x27;re using default browser configuration and resolution as not to be foiled a la panopticlick. Even then I wouldn&amp;#x27;t be so sure you&amp;#x27;re anonymous.</text></comment>

<story><title>The impossible task of creating a “best VPNs” list</title><url>http://arstechnica.com/security/2016/06/aiming-for-anonymity-ars-assesses-the-state-of-vpns-in-2016/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>bitL</author><text>So what&amp;#x27;s the best way to browse anonymously these days? Is it running a hypervised OS (some hardened GNU Linux&amp;#x2F;BSD Unix variant?) with a randomly changed LAN MAC upon every boot, connected to a VPN operating outside US with OpenVPN &amp;amp; 4k PK (e.g. in Romania), browsing using TorBrowser with NoScript and WebGL turned off? Or even two VPNs at the same time, one in the base OS, the other in the hypervised one?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>sigjuice</author><text>What would be the benefit of changing your MAC address?</text></comment>

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<story><title>NSA revelations only &apos;the tip of the iceberg,&apos; says Dem lawmaker</title><url>http://thehill.com/video/house/305047-dem-rep-lawmakers-learned-significantly-more-about-surveillance-programs-in-nsa-briefing</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>ck2</author><text>&amp;quot;&lt;i&gt;if somebody else is going to step up&lt;/i&gt;&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;You&amp;#x27;re a freaking congressperson sworn to represent the people of the united states.&lt;p&gt;If something bad is being done, it&amp;#x27;s YOUR responsibility to &amp;quot;step up&amp;quot; not someone else&amp;#x27;s.&lt;p&gt;BTW what the hell is with the NSA calling it the &amp;quot;Black Star&amp;quot; - is that some sick joke about the death star destroying worlds? So the rebels took out the death star with the exhaust port - does that mean the Black Star can be taken offline by the A&amp;#x2F;C units?</text></comment>

<story><title>NSA revelations only &apos;the tip of the iceberg,&apos; says Dem lawmaker</title><url>http://thehill.com/video/house/305047-dem-rep-lawmakers-learned-significantly-more-about-surveillance-programs-in-nsa-briefing</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>joeguilmette</author><text>It sounds like this congressman is begging for another leak.&lt;p&gt;I smell blood. And a republican president in 2016. It looks like this is going to be Obama&amp;#x27;s big theme for his second term. Like LBJ, he inherited a shitty situation and made it much worse, and thus lost out for credit on all of his domestic work.&lt;p&gt;We&amp;#x27;ll see, but I don&amp;#x27;t see any easy out for Obama. Ironically the only thing saving him is that the conservatives really love these policies, and the liberals, who should be at his throat for this, really can&amp;#x27;t because he&amp;#x27;s part of their club. Lucky duck.</text></comment>

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<story><title>QuiLLMan: Voice chat with Vicuna-13B</title><url>https://github.com/modal-labs/quillman</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>lxe</author><text>For &amp;quot;actually serverless&amp;quot; voice chat, check out &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;whisper.ggerganov.com&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;whisper.ggerganov.com&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jancsika</author><text>This link is the most worthwhile hijack of an HN thread that I&amp;#x27;ve ever seen.&lt;p&gt;How is tiny.en so damned accurate?&lt;p&gt;How much faster does this run natively?&lt;p&gt;Do the NEON instructions work for arm devices like an RPI or is it just tuned for Apple?&lt;p&gt;With this and Alpaca 13B you could probably replace an entire window manager.&lt;p&gt;Edit: it seems like it was less than a year ago that local speech recognition was a slow slog through a swamp of crufty, complicated research projects with most the high quality training data hidden behind walled gardens. Now I can stutter-step over a word and a demo in my browser correctly transcribes what I meant sans stutter. What happened?</text></comment>

<story><title>QuiLLMan: Voice chat with Vicuna-13B</title><url>https://github.com/modal-labs/quillman</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>lxe</author><text>For &amp;quot;actually serverless&amp;quot; voice chat, check out &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;whisper.ggerganov.com&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;whisper.ggerganov.com&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>arthurcolle</author><text>This is so good. I tried playing around with whisper.cpp last week and got absolutely terrible performance. I played around with the &amp;quot;step size&amp;quot; as well as &amp;quot;n&amp;quot; (not sure what these do, I should probably read the docs seriously).&lt;p&gt;I tried a lot of tweaks but this one is definitely the best I&amp;#x27;ve seen.&lt;p&gt;How did it know how to spell my name correctly when I just spoke into my microphone??? The two L&amp;#x27;s usually trips up the transcription models. What????</text></comment>

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<story><title>High school programming taught in Haskell in Argentina</title><url>http://sawafaso.blogspot.com.ar/2013/07/why-haskell-at-school-matters.html?m=1</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>robomartin</author><text>My first reaction to this was negative. I immediately objected to choosing Haskell. I&amp;#x27;ve been teaching my own 14 year old son. I started him with C, then on to Forth, Java and now about to move into Python.&lt;p&gt;Then I stopped to remember the process. It has been ridiculously hard. It has required a ton of engagement on my part. Without me being a constant cheerleader it would go absolutely nowhere. My kid likes programming but, let&amp;#x27;s face it, today there are tons of distractions and you are in competition with all of it.&lt;p&gt;I would imagine it is really hard to teach a random group of 14~16 year olds. I would really like to learn more about this from others with experience in this area.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>chongli</author><text>The key to really &lt;i&gt;getting&lt;/i&gt; Haskell is learning to build a dialogue with the compiler. Sure, the type errors are intimidating at first -- they pack a lot of information and use precise technical terms -- but once you figure one or two of them out you quickly begin to recognize the patterns. After that, you begin to feel comfortable correcting the type errors and subsequently feel confident about your program when it passes the type checker.&lt;p&gt;After a certain point in your progression, you realize that you can make certain type errors &lt;i&gt;deliberately&lt;/i&gt; so that the type checker will tell you what types it&amp;#x27;s expecting. This is when it all clicks! The type checker is a tool that lets you query for information about your program. It&amp;#x27;s an immense aid to reasoning and a powerful sanity check against your assumptions. This is a capability that less strictly&amp;#x2F;statically typed languages lack and it can lead to a lot of surprises and guesswork.</text></comment>

<story><title>High school programming taught in Haskell in Argentina</title><url>http://sawafaso.blogspot.com.ar/2013/07/why-haskell-at-school-matters.html?m=1</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>robomartin</author><text>My first reaction to this was negative. I immediately objected to choosing Haskell. I&amp;#x27;ve been teaching my own 14 year old son. I started him with C, then on to Forth, Java and now about to move into Python.&lt;p&gt;Then I stopped to remember the process. It has been ridiculously hard. It has required a ton of engagement on my part. Without me being a constant cheerleader it would go absolutely nowhere. My kid likes programming but, let&amp;#x27;s face it, today there are tons of distractions and you are in competition with all of it.&lt;p&gt;I would imagine it is really hard to teach a random group of 14~16 year olds. I would really like to learn more about this from others with experience in this area.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>SomeRandomUser</author><text>It may be frowned upon around here... but when my friends asked me to point them in the right direction to learn programming I just gave them a copy of &amp;quot;Beggining Visual Basic&amp;quot;, showed them some simple code and how to make a simple app with VS.&lt;p&gt;It may not be the best language around, but it&amp;#x27;s simple and you can make something that works in Windows ridiculously easy. If they show continuous interest, then they will hear about some &lt;i&gt;other&lt;/i&gt; languages but most people just want to see something working with buttons and text boxes and then after a few weeks they lose interest.&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s like going to the gym, some of us love it but it&amp;#x27;s not for everybody. And if it&amp;#x27;s your first time, don&amp;#x27;t spend time with a complex routine... just run on the treadmill until you feel tired. If you like how it feels, then you will keep coming back, and if you don&amp;#x27;t, you didn&amp;#x27;t waste time doing the advanced exercises that are useless without continuous workouts.&lt;p&gt;Disclaimer: I told them that programming serious applications takes a lot of time, hard work and lots of reading and practicing. They just wanted to make toy applications. They were instructed to never deal with secure applications or production critical applications until reaching programming enlightement.</text></comment>

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<story><title>FeeFighters Loses BBB Accreditation Over Investigative Blog Post</title><url>http://feefighters.com/blog/bbb-accreditation/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>aresant</author><text>In extensive conversion testing we&apos;ve found that the BBB symbol is the MOST beneficial trust-symbol to incorporate into your website.&lt;p&gt;This data is across multiple markets / products and joining the BBB is one of the things that we recommend early on to conversion clients.&lt;p&gt;Consumers trust the brand immensely which is sad given the BBB&apos;s &quot;protection money&quot; business model.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>felipemnoa</author><text>I must be an oddball along with everybody I know. The BBB symbol has meant nothing to me and usually rely on other sources to make a decision wether a business is trustworthy or not. IMHO BBB is pretty much irrelevant to the internet generation.</text></comment>

<story><title>FeeFighters Loses BBB Accreditation Over Investigative Blog Post</title><url>http://feefighters.com/blog/bbb-accreditation/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>aresant</author><text>In extensive conversion testing we&apos;ve found that the BBB symbol is the MOST beneficial trust-symbol to incorporate into your website.&lt;p&gt;This data is across multiple markets / products and joining the BBB is one of the things that we recommend early on to conversion clients.&lt;p&gt;Consumers trust the brand immensely which is sad given the BBB&apos;s &quot;protection money&quot; business model.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>forensic</author><text>They have a good reputation but it&apos;s utterly undeserved. Some of the biggest and longest running scams I&apos;ve seen display prominent BBB logos.</text></comment>

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<story><title>Deploy your side-projects at scale for basically nothing – Google Cloud Run</title><url>https://alexolivier.me/posts/deploy-container-stateless-cheap-google-cloud-run-serverless</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>alasdair_</author><text>I wont use this for the simple reason that I bought into the Google Appengine stack in the past and it really bit me for several reasons:&lt;p&gt;They force-upgraded the java version. The problem was their their own libraries didn’t work with the new version and we had to rewrite a ton of code.&lt;p&gt;It ended up being insanely expensive at scale.&lt;p&gt;We were totally locked-in to their system and the way it did things. This would be fine but they would also deprecate certain things we relied upon fairly regularly so there was regular churn to keep the system running.&lt;p&gt;Support was extremely weak for some parts of the system. Docs for java were outdated compared with the python docs.&lt;p&gt;Support (that we paid for) literally said to us “oh... you’re still using appengine?”&lt;p&gt;Finally, they can jack up the pricing at any time and there really isn’t anything you can do - you can’t switch to an alternative appengine provider.&lt;p&gt;Certain pages in the management console were completely broken due to a js error (on any browser). In order to Use them i had to manually patch the javascript. Six months after reporting it several times and it was still broken.&lt;p&gt;Oh, and when we got featured on a bunch of news sites, our “scalable” site hit the billing threshold and stopped working. No problem, just update the threshold, right? Except it takes twenty four hours (!) for the billing stats to actually update. So were were down on the one day that “unlimited scaling” actually mattered to us.&lt;p&gt;I’m never again choosing a single-vendor lock-in solution. Especially since it’s not limited to appengine - Google once raised the fees for the maps API from thousands a year to eight figures (seriously) a year with barely any notice.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>spankalee</author><text>You&amp;#x27;re outlining all the reasons why Cloud Run is the successor to App Engine.&lt;p&gt;App Engine was the very first PaaS, came out before Docker, and did things very uniquely in order to try to only allow scalable apps. App Engine standard has to explicitly create special environments for each of their runtimes, and that&amp;#x27;s slow and expensive. Services like Datastore and Memcache were tightly coupled.&lt;p&gt;Cloud Run fixes all that. It&amp;#x27;s just a Docker container that listens on the PORT env variable. Use whatever runtime you want. Run the same container locally, or on another cloud provider. The other services like Firestore or Memorystore (Redis) are truly optional and external.&lt;p&gt;Cloud Run is what lets you avoid single-vendor lock in, but still get from 0 scaling.</text></comment>

<story><title>Deploy your side-projects at scale for basically nothing – Google Cloud Run</title><url>https://alexolivier.me/posts/deploy-container-stateless-cheap-google-cloud-run-serverless</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>alasdair_</author><text>I wont use this for the simple reason that I bought into the Google Appengine stack in the past and it really bit me for several reasons:&lt;p&gt;They force-upgraded the java version. The problem was their their own libraries didn’t work with the new version and we had to rewrite a ton of code.&lt;p&gt;It ended up being insanely expensive at scale.&lt;p&gt;We were totally locked-in to their system and the way it did things. This would be fine but they would also deprecate certain things we relied upon fairly regularly so there was regular churn to keep the system running.&lt;p&gt;Support was extremely weak for some parts of the system. Docs for java were outdated compared with the python docs.&lt;p&gt;Support (that we paid for) literally said to us “oh... you’re still using appengine?”&lt;p&gt;Finally, they can jack up the pricing at any time and there really isn’t anything you can do - you can’t switch to an alternative appengine provider.&lt;p&gt;Certain pages in the management console were completely broken due to a js error (on any browser). In order to Use them i had to manually patch the javascript. Six months after reporting it several times and it was still broken.&lt;p&gt;Oh, and when we got featured on a bunch of news sites, our “scalable” site hit the billing threshold and stopped working. No problem, just update the threshold, right? Except it takes twenty four hours (!) for the billing stats to actually update. So were were down on the one day that “unlimited scaling” actually mattered to us.&lt;p&gt;I’m never again choosing a single-vendor lock-in solution. Especially since it’s not limited to appengine - Google once raised the fees for the maps API from thousands a year to eight figures (seriously) a year with barely any notice.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jccooper</author><text>App Engine is indeed problematic. I have an important app on it and various forced upgrades gave me a big headache. It&amp;#x27;s been stable for several years now, so I&amp;#x27;m okay with it, but as much as I like the idea, and indeed the execution, of App Engine I&amp;#x27;m not going to do anything new on it because of the lock-in factors.&lt;p&gt;Cloud Run, however, uses standard containers, so as long as you don&amp;#x27;t use Google proprietary stuff on the backend it&amp;#x27;s relatively easy to move. As the article mentions, it&amp;#x27;s useful for low-traffic projects, and if they pick up you can move them to full-time instances.</text></comment>

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<story><title>Almost every infrastructure decision I endorse or regret</title><url>https://cep.dev/posts/every-infrastructure-decision-i-endorse-or-regret-after-4-years-running-infrastructure-at-a-startup/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>morsecodist</author><text>&amp;gt; Picking AWS over Google Cloud&lt;p&gt;I know this is an unpopular opinion but I think google cloud is amazing compared to AWS. I use google cloud run and it works like a dream. I have never found an easier way to get a docker container running in the cloud. The services all have sensible names, there are fewer more important services compared to the mess of AWS services, and the UI is more intuitive. The only downside I have found is the lack of community resulting in fewer tutorials, difficulty finding experienced hires, and fewer third party tools. I recommend trying it. I&amp;#x27;d love to get the user base to an even dozen.&lt;p&gt;The reasoning the author cites is that AWS has more responsive customer service and maybe I am missing out but it would never even occur to me to speak to someone from a cloud provider. They mention having &amp;quot;regular cadence meetings with our AWS account manager&amp;quot; and I am not sure what could be discussed. I must be doing simper stuff.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jq-r</author><text>&amp;gt; &amp;quot;regular cadence meetings with our AWS account manager&amp;quot; and I am not sure what could be discusse.&lt;p&gt;As being on a number of those calls, its just a bunch of crap where they talk like a scripted bot reading from corporate buzzword bingo card over a slideshow. Their real intention is two fold. To sell you even more AWS complexity&amp;#x2F;services, and to provide &amp;quot;value&amp;quot; to their person of contact (which is person working in your company).&lt;p&gt;We&amp;#x27;re paying north of 500K per year in AWS support (which is a highway robbery), and in return you get a &amp;quot;team&amp;quot; of people supposedly dedicated to you, which sounds good in theory but you get a labirinth of irresponsiblity, stalling and frustration in reality.&lt;p&gt;So even when you want to reach out to that team you have to first to through L1 support which I&amp;#x27;m sure will be replaced by bots soon (and no value will be lost) which is useful in 1 out of 10 cases. Then if you&amp;#x27;re not satisfied with L1&amp;#x27;s answer(s), then you try to escalate to your &amp;quot;dedicated&amp;quot; support team, then they schedule a call in three days time, or if that is around Friday, that means Monday etc.&lt;p&gt;Their goal is to stall so you figure and fix stuff on your own so they shield their own better quality teams. No wonder our top engineers just left all AWS communication and in cases where unavoidable they delegate this to junior people who still think they are getting something in return.</text></comment>

<story><title>Almost every infrastructure decision I endorse or regret</title><url>https://cep.dev/posts/every-infrastructure-decision-i-endorse-or-regret-after-4-years-running-infrastructure-at-a-startup/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>morsecodist</author><text>&amp;gt; Picking AWS over Google Cloud&lt;p&gt;I know this is an unpopular opinion but I think google cloud is amazing compared to AWS. I use google cloud run and it works like a dream. I have never found an easier way to get a docker container running in the cloud. The services all have sensible names, there are fewer more important services compared to the mess of AWS services, and the UI is more intuitive. The only downside I have found is the lack of community resulting in fewer tutorials, difficulty finding experienced hires, and fewer third party tools. I recommend trying it. I&amp;#x27;d love to get the user base to an even dozen.&lt;p&gt;The reasoning the author cites is that AWS has more responsive customer service and maybe I am missing out but it would never even occur to me to speak to someone from a cloud provider. They mention having &amp;quot;regular cadence meetings with our AWS account manager&amp;quot; and I am not sure what could be discussed. I must be doing simper stuff.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>rswail</author><text>We are a reasonably large AWS customer and our account manager sends out regular emails with NDA information on what&amp;#x27;s coming up, we have regular meetings with them about things as wide ranging as database tuning and code development&amp;#x2F;deployment governance.&lt;p&gt;They often provide that consulting for free, and we know their biases. There&amp;#x27;s nothing hidden about the fact that they will push us to use AWS services.&lt;p&gt;On the other hand, they will also help us optimize those services and save money that is directly measurable.&lt;p&gt;GCP might have a better API and better &amp;quot;naming&amp;quot; of their services, but the breadth of AWS services, the incorporation of IAM across their services, governance and automation all makes it worth while.&lt;p&gt;Cloud has come a long way from &amp;quot;it&amp;#x27;s so easy to spin up a VM&amp;#x2F;container&amp;#x2F;lambda&amp;quot;.</text></comment>

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<story><title>GDPR: US news sites unavailable to EU users over data protection rules</title><url>http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-44248448</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ghaff</author><text>&amp;gt;closing yourself for an market that size will hurt more than changing a few thing to be compliant&lt;p&gt;Only if I make significant money from that market. If most of my revenue&amp;#x2F;profit comes from the US and it&amp;#x27;s problematic to &amp;quot;do business&amp;quot; in the EU or China, why wouldn&amp;#x27;t I want to just cut access off rather than dealing with potential hassles? The fact that it&amp;#x27;s potentially a large market is irrelevant to me. In this case, any moderately tech-savvy consumers can get to my site anyway using a VPN. But I&amp;#x27;ve sent a clear message that I&amp;#x27;m not marketing to European consumers.</text></item><item><author>imdutch</author><text>You can still run a free website and be compliant with the GDPR. The EU&amp;#x2F;EEA is the largest market in the world, closing yourself for an market that size will hurt more than changing a few thing to be compliant.</text></item><item><author>firic</author><text>Things like this will test how much EU citizens value their privacy. Of course there will be some sites they will not be able to visit but time will show if they are okay with that.&lt;p&gt;These rules are very similar to rules limiting loans. No matter how desperate a person is and how low credit they have, in the US you can&amp;#x27;t give them a loan for above a certain amount of interest. That could be terrible for a poor person who is about to be evicted if they don&amp;#x27;t get some money right away. But we as a society are willing to accept that if the result is that more loans will be &amp;quot;reasonable&amp;quot;.&lt;p&gt;If GDPR is enforced as HN people say it will be (in a good way) then the result will probably be that a lot of free websites ban EU users and smaller companies take their place with products that either cost money or will be a bit worse.&lt;p&gt;If it enforced in a bad way then big companies who can navigate the law will get bigger because their small competitors will be to afraid of the law and shut EU users out.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>kinsomo</author><text>&amp;gt; Only if I make significant money from that market. If most of my revenue&amp;#x2F;profit comes from the US and it&amp;#x27;s problematic to &amp;quot;do business&amp;quot; in the EU or China, why wouldn&amp;#x27;t I want to just cut access off rather than dealing with potential hassles?&lt;p&gt;Because you would rather grow your market?</text></comment>

<story><title>GDPR: US news sites unavailable to EU users over data protection rules</title><url>http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-44248448</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ghaff</author><text>&amp;gt;closing yourself for an market that size will hurt more than changing a few thing to be compliant&lt;p&gt;Only if I make significant money from that market. If most of my revenue&amp;#x2F;profit comes from the US and it&amp;#x27;s problematic to &amp;quot;do business&amp;quot; in the EU or China, why wouldn&amp;#x27;t I want to just cut access off rather than dealing with potential hassles? The fact that it&amp;#x27;s potentially a large market is irrelevant to me. In this case, any moderately tech-savvy consumers can get to my site anyway using a VPN. But I&amp;#x27;ve sent a clear message that I&amp;#x27;m not marketing to European consumers.</text></item><item><author>imdutch</author><text>You can still run a free website and be compliant with the GDPR. The EU&amp;#x2F;EEA is the largest market in the world, closing yourself for an market that size will hurt more than changing a few thing to be compliant.</text></item><item><author>firic</author><text>Things like this will test how much EU citizens value their privacy. Of course there will be some sites they will not be able to visit but time will show if they are okay with that.&lt;p&gt;These rules are very similar to rules limiting loans. No matter how desperate a person is and how low credit they have, in the US you can&amp;#x27;t give them a loan for above a certain amount of interest. That could be terrible for a poor person who is about to be evicted if they don&amp;#x27;t get some money right away. But we as a society are willing to accept that if the result is that more loans will be &amp;quot;reasonable&amp;quot;.&lt;p&gt;If GDPR is enforced as HN people say it will be (in a good way) then the result will probably be that a lot of free websites ban EU users and smaller companies take their place with products that either cost money or will be a bit worse.&lt;p&gt;If it enforced in a bad way then big companies who can navigate the law will get bigger because their small competitors will be to afraid of the law and shut EU users out.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>akie</author><text>Well, you could! We’d be happy for you to make some space for a competitor who doesn’t make his money selling personal data.</text></comment>

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<story><title>Announcing Two Scoops of Django 1.6</title><url>http://pydanny.com/announcing-two-scoops-of-django-1.6.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>cschmidt</author><text>I loved the 1.5 version, and just ordered the new version. If Pydanny or Audrey stops by to read this, I have a suggestion.&lt;p&gt;You two should write a book aimed at someone entirely new to Django. I&amp;#x27;ve seen your book often recommended as the second book on Django you should read. However, there isn&amp;#x27;t a good first book that isn&amp;#x27;t very outdated. How about &amp;quot;One Scoop of Django&amp;quot;, as an intro for someone brand new to Django? Perhaps more example based, but still with your fun style. Or you could expand your current book with some new chapters.&lt;p&gt;Thanks!</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>limedaring</author><text>I&amp;#x27;m writing an intro to Django book right now, aimed at a more visual&amp;#x2F;template-based way of learning. Aiming to have it out by June: &lt;a href=&quot;http://hellowebapp.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;hellowebapp.com&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>

<story><title>Announcing Two Scoops of Django 1.6</title><url>http://pydanny.com/announcing-two-scoops-of-django-1.6.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>cschmidt</author><text>I loved the 1.5 version, and just ordered the new version. If Pydanny or Audrey stops by to read this, I have a suggestion.&lt;p&gt;You two should write a book aimed at someone entirely new to Django. I&amp;#x27;ve seen your book often recommended as the second book on Django you should read. However, there isn&amp;#x27;t a good first book that isn&amp;#x27;t very outdated. How about &amp;quot;One Scoop of Django&amp;quot;, as an intro for someone brand new to Django? Perhaps more example based, but still with your fun style. Or you could expand your current book with some new chapters.&lt;p&gt;Thanks!</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>JamesMcMinn</author><text>How about &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.tangowithdjango.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.tangowithdjango.com&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt; ?&lt;p&gt;Admittedly, this is aimed at Django 1.5, but I&amp;#x27;ve found it to be very good. We&amp;#x27;re current using it the main resource for students learning Django and they seem to be finding it very useful.</text></comment>

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<story><title>ZSA Voyager: Low profile split keyboard</title><url>https://www.zsa.io/voyager/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>krzyk</author><text>and lack of F1-F12 is a show stopper for me, I use them in my IDE.</text></item><item><author>bsnnkv</author><text>I have quite a few of these sorts of keyboards, including the Ergodox EZ. I think for generalist usage they can be adapted to pretty easily, but as a developer, the lack of dedicated keys for [, ] and &amp;#x27; is an insurmountable obstacle for me.&lt;p&gt;Those keys are in my opinion perfectly placed on regular keyboards and no amount of layering, tap dancing or anything else will ever come close. Please somebody just make a split ergo keyboard where the right side has extra keys for regular programming symbols on the top layer. The two halves do not need to be symmetrical.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>rgoulter</author><text>These small keyboards trade-off the benefit of &amp;quot;bring all the keys within easy reach of the hands&amp;quot; at the cost of a more complicated layout.&lt;p&gt;The intent is &amp;quot;be able to press F1-F12 without having to move hands so far from home row&amp;quot;; it&amp;#x27;s not &amp;quot;I want a smaller keyboard and don&amp;#x27;t need F1-F12&amp;quot;.</text></comment>

<story><title>ZSA Voyager: Low profile split keyboard</title><url>https://www.zsa.io/voyager/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>krzyk</author><text>and lack of F1-F12 is a show stopper for me, I use them in my IDE.</text></item><item><author>bsnnkv</author><text>I have quite a few of these sorts of keyboards, including the Ergodox EZ. I think for generalist usage they can be adapted to pretty easily, but as a developer, the lack of dedicated keys for [, ] and &amp;#x27; is an insurmountable obstacle for me.&lt;p&gt;Those keys are in my opinion perfectly placed on regular keyboards and no amount of layering, tap dancing or anything else will ever come close. Please somebody just make a split ergo keyboard where the right side has extra keys for regular programming symbols on the top layer. The two halves do not need to be symmetrical.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ajford</author><text>I thought this was going to be a barrier for me as well, but after using a Moonlander (one of ZSA&amp;#x27;s other keyboards) for over a year now, it&amp;#x27;s not as bad. I have a layer that has F1-10 in place of 1-0, then F11 and F12 are on overflow keys.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;ve found that the hotkeys I most frequently use I moved in to more convenient hotkeys&amp;#x2F;macros (for example code folding&amp;#x2F;unfolding to three common levels, debugger stepping), while others just stayed where they were.&lt;p&gt;I would say that you&amp;#x27;d probably want to try a larger keyboard than the Voyager though if that&amp;#x27;s a concern though. I&amp;#x27;m reticent to try such a smaller keyboard, and I found the ~70 keys of the Moonlander to be more inline with what I like.</text></comment>

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<story><title>Growing Neural Cellular Automata: A Differentiable Model of Morphogenesis</title><url>https://distill.pub/2020/growing-ca/?/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>DonHopkins</author><text>Also check out the &amp;quot;Moveable Feast Machine&amp;quot;, Robust-first Computing, and this Distributed City Generation example:&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&amp;#x2F;item?id=21858577&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&amp;#x2F;item?id=21858577&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;DonHopkins on Oct 26, 2017 | parent | favorite | on: Cryptography with Cellular Automata (1985) [pdf]&lt;p&gt;A &amp;quot;Moveable Feast Machine&amp;quot; is a &amp;quot;Robust First&amp;quot; asynchronous distributed fault tolerant cellular-automata-like computer architecture. It&amp;#x27;s similar to a Cellular Automata, but it different in several important ways, for the sake of &amp;quot;Robust First Computing&amp;quot;. These differences give some insight into what CA really are, and what their limitations are.&lt;p&gt;Cellular Automata are synchronous and deterministic, and can only modify the current cell: all cells are evaluated at once (so the evaluation order doesn&amp;#x27;t matter), so it&amp;#x27;s necessary to double buffer the &amp;quot;before&amp;quot; and &amp;quot;after&amp;quot; cells, and the rule can only change the value of the current (center) cell. Moveable Feast Machines are like asynchronous non-deterministic cellular automata with large windows that can modify adjacent cells.&lt;p&gt;Here&amp;#x27;s a great example with an amazing demo and explanation, and some stuff I posted about it earlier:&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&amp;#x2F;item?id=14236973&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&amp;#x2F;item?id=14236973&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;Robust-first Computing: Distributed City Generation:&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.youtube.com&amp;#x2F;watch?v=XkSXERxucPc&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.youtube.com&amp;#x2F;watch?v=XkSXERxucPc&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>

<story><title>Growing Neural Cellular Automata: A Differentiable Model of Morphogenesis</title><url>https://distill.pub/2020/growing-ca/?/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>eyvindn</author><text>One of the authors here.&lt;p&gt;Feel free to ask any questions!&lt;p&gt;We encourage you to play with the attached Colab with which you can train models from scratch in &amp;lt;30min.</text></comment>

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<story><title>If Richard Feynman applied for a job at Microsoft (2002)</title><url>http://www.sellsbrothers.com/Posts/Details/12395</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>davidw</author><text>Reminds me of the bit in Cryptonomicon where Lawrence Waterhouse takes an intelligence test for the navy:&lt;p&gt;&quot;They gave him an intelligence test. The first question on the math part had to do with boats on a river: Port Smith is 100 miles upstream of Port Jones. The river flows at 5 miles per hour. The boat goes through water at 10 miles per hour. How long does it take to go from Port Smith to Port Jones? How long to come back?&lt;p&gt;Lawrence immediately saw that it was a trick question. You would have to be some kind of idiot to make the facile assumption that the current would add or subtract 5 miles per hour to or from the speed of the boat. Clearly, 5 miles per hour was nothing more than the average speed. The current would be faster in the middle of the river and slower at the banks. More complicated variations could be expected at bends in the river. Basically it was a question of hydrodynamics, which could be tackled using certain well-known systems of differential equations. Lawrence dove into the problem, rapidly (or so he thought) covering both sides of ten sheets of paper with calculations. Along the way, he realized that one of his assumptions, in combination with the simplified Navier-Stokes equations, had led him into an exploration of a particularly interesting family of partial differential equations. Before he knew it, he had proved a new theorem. If that didn&apos;t prove his intelligence, what would?&lt;p&gt;Then the time bell rang and the papers were collected. Lawrence managed to hang onto his scratch paper. He took it back to his dorm, typed it up, and mailed it to one of the more approachable math professors at Princeton, who promptly arranged for it to be published in a Parisian mathematics journal.&lt;p&gt;Lawrence received two free, freshly printed copies of the journal a few months later, in San Diego, California, during mail call on board a large ship called the U.S.S. Nevada. The ship had a band, and the Navy had given Lawrence the job of playing the glockenspiel in it, because their testing procedures had proven that he was not intelligent enough to do anything else.&quot;</text></comment>

<story><title>If Richard Feynman applied for a job at Microsoft (2002)</title><url>http://www.sellsbrothers.com/Posts/Details/12395</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>mhartl</author><text>For those who think this doesn&apos;t sound at least a little bit like Feynman, I highly recommend this video: &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wMFPe-DwULM&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wMFPe-DwULM&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>

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<story><title>Apple receives permit in California to test self-driving cars</title><url>http://uk.reuters.com/article/us-apple-car-idUKKBN17G1CJ</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>old-gregg</author><text>During 2015-16 I was given 3 or 4 opportunities to get a free Chromecast, and I got one. It sits barely used now, in one of the rarely visited HDMI inputs on my TV. I wonder how many of those &amp;quot;sold&amp;quot; devices were actually given away and forgotten.&lt;p&gt;Chromecast cannot possibly be considered usable by most because it follows a weirdo, google-style, controlled-by-the-browser (but only Chrome) model. It is the most absurd way to watch TV ever invented. I use it sometimes, sure, because it&amp;#x27;s the only Linux-friendly HDMI dongle (Chrome runs on Linux), but can&amp;#x27;t imagine anyone actually liking it.&lt;p&gt;Apple TV, in comparison, is tightly integrated into every MacOS and iOS device, i.e. not only into the OS but often into the applications that run on them. And I don&amp;#x27;t remember anyone offering a free ATV to me... :)</text></item><item><author>datguacdoh</author><text>Articles like &lt;a href=&quot;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.recode.net&amp;#x2F;platform&amp;#x2F;amp&amp;#x2F;2016&amp;#x2F;6&amp;#x2F;10&amp;#x2F;11904942&amp;#x2F;google-chromecast-apple-tv-sales&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.recode.net&amp;#x2F;platform&amp;#x2F;amp&amp;#x2F;2016&amp;#x2F;6&amp;#x2F;10&amp;#x2F;11904942&amp;#x2F;google...&lt;/a&gt; seem to point to Apple TV being easily outsold by Amazon and Google.</text></item><item><author>abritinthebay</author><text>AppleTV a loser?&lt;p&gt;The only device significantly ahead of it in sales is the Roku (Amazon and Google&amp;#x27;s sticks are ~the same number of sales as Apple TV).&lt;p&gt;But the market is pretty evenly split in sales and Apple still maintains one of the larger overall &lt;i&gt;install bases&lt;/i&gt; for any of them (not the outsized winner it used to be there though of course).&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;Not being a de-facto monopoly&amp;quot; is hardly a loss.</text></item><item><author>11thEarlOfMar</author><text>In some markets, it is more about getting it right than getting in at the right time. We&amp;#x27;ve seen many carcasses of products that were ahead of their time, not because they were bad ideas but because they were not formulated for mass adoption. Apple&amp;#x27;s own Newton is one example. It took the iPhone formulation to make the product features successful in the market.&lt;p&gt;A more recent example is the telepresence robot. Many entries, but still more Newton than iPhone.&lt;p&gt;With Apple, it&amp;#x27;s easy to pick out their winners and losers: iPhone, iMac, MacBook, ... vs, Apple TV, Lisa, Newton, ....&lt;p&gt;At their current scale, Apple needs to enter really big markets in order to move the needle on sales and profits. There aren&amp;#x27;t many really big tech markets left. Cars are an interesting play in that it combines robotics and consumer tech, and puts them into a market that has room for multiple large players and plenty of opportunity for disruption. The transition to an electric drive train and autonomous navigation presents an entry point. There will be multiple winners.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>DoctorNick</author><text>&amp;gt;Chromecast cannot possibly be considered usable by most because it follows a weirdo, google-style, controlled-by-the-browser (but only Chrome) model. It is the most absurd way to watch TV ever invented. I use it sometimes, sure, because it&amp;#x27;s the only Linux-friendly HDMI dongle (Chrome runs on Linux), but can&amp;#x27;t imagine anyone actually liking it.&lt;p&gt;This only makes sense if you completely disregard the fact that almost all the major VOD providers (excepting Amazon Prime Video) provide Chromecast support in their Android and iOS apps. It&amp;#x27;s extremely convenient for me; open the app, cast to the TV, and select the video.</text></comment>

<story><title>Apple receives permit in California to test self-driving cars</title><url>http://uk.reuters.com/article/us-apple-car-idUKKBN17G1CJ</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>old-gregg</author><text>During 2015-16 I was given 3 or 4 opportunities to get a free Chromecast, and I got one. It sits barely used now, in one of the rarely visited HDMI inputs on my TV. I wonder how many of those &amp;quot;sold&amp;quot; devices were actually given away and forgotten.&lt;p&gt;Chromecast cannot possibly be considered usable by most because it follows a weirdo, google-style, controlled-by-the-browser (but only Chrome) model. It is the most absurd way to watch TV ever invented. I use it sometimes, sure, because it&amp;#x27;s the only Linux-friendly HDMI dongle (Chrome runs on Linux), but can&amp;#x27;t imagine anyone actually liking it.&lt;p&gt;Apple TV, in comparison, is tightly integrated into every MacOS and iOS device, i.e. not only into the OS but often into the applications that run on them. And I don&amp;#x27;t remember anyone offering a free ATV to me... :)</text></item><item><author>datguacdoh</author><text>Articles like &lt;a href=&quot;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.recode.net&amp;#x2F;platform&amp;#x2F;amp&amp;#x2F;2016&amp;#x2F;6&amp;#x2F;10&amp;#x2F;11904942&amp;#x2F;google-chromecast-apple-tv-sales&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.recode.net&amp;#x2F;platform&amp;#x2F;amp&amp;#x2F;2016&amp;#x2F;6&amp;#x2F;10&amp;#x2F;11904942&amp;#x2F;google...&lt;/a&gt; seem to point to Apple TV being easily outsold by Amazon and Google.</text></item><item><author>abritinthebay</author><text>AppleTV a loser?&lt;p&gt;The only device significantly ahead of it in sales is the Roku (Amazon and Google&amp;#x27;s sticks are ~the same number of sales as Apple TV).&lt;p&gt;But the market is pretty evenly split in sales and Apple still maintains one of the larger overall &lt;i&gt;install bases&lt;/i&gt; for any of them (not the outsized winner it used to be there though of course).&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;Not being a de-facto monopoly&amp;quot; is hardly a loss.</text></item><item><author>11thEarlOfMar</author><text>In some markets, it is more about getting it right than getting in at the right time. We&amp;#x27;ve seen many carcasses of products that were ahead of their time, not because they were bad ideas but because they were not formulated for mass adoption. Apple&amp;#x27;s own Newton is one example. It took the iPhone formulation to make the product features successful in the market.&lt;p&gt;A more recent example is the telepresence robot. Many entries, but still more Newton than iPhone.&lt;p&gt;With Apple, it&amp;#x27;s easy to pick out their winners and losers: iPhone, iMac, MacBook, ... vs, Apple TV, Lisa, Newton, ....&lt;p&gt;At their current scale, Apple needs to enter really big markets in order to move the needle on sales and profits. There aren&amp;#x27;t many really big tech markets left. Cars are an interesting play in that it combines robotics and consumer tech, and puts them into a market that has room for multiple large players and plenty of opportunity for disruption. The transition to an electric drive train and autonomous navigation presents an entry point. There will be multiple winners.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ghaff</author><text>I find Chromecast to be pretty much the perfect model for displaying content on TVs. Put the intelligence in the device, not the TV.&lt;p&gt;I wish that more tablet and phone apps supported it. But then I always have the browser fallback when they don&amp;#x27;t.&lt;p&gt;Apple TV is OK and I have one. But I prefer to display stuff the way I&amp;#x27;m already accustomed to doing so and then cast it to my TV when I want to.</text></comment>

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<story><title>DNS over Wikipedia</title><url>https://github.com/aaronjanse/dns-over-wikipedia</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>voxic11</author><text>Wikipedia editors have noticed that people use wikipedia for this purpose (finding the current location of sites) and so they have started to censor links for sites they don&amp;#x27;t want to encourage people to access. Right now this mostly impacts sites few would condone, like 8chan or kiwifarms. But in theory the policy applies to any site with illegal material so places like the pirate bay or scihub could have their links removed at any time.&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Talk:Kiwi_Farms#URL&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Talk:Kiwi_Farms#URL&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>computerfriend</author><text>Here&amp;#x27;s a well-reasoned argument linked from that thread for keeping extremist URL in articles about extremist websites. Strange what can change in just a couple of years.&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.m.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Wikipedia:Village_pump_(policy)&amp;#x2F;Archive_164#Extremist_groups_and_their_URL%27s&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.m.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Wikipedia:Village_pump_(poli...&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>

<story><title>DNS over Wikipedia</title><url>https://github.com/aaronjanse/dns-over-wikipedia</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>voxic11</author><text>Wikipedia editors have noticed that people use wikipedia for this purpose (finding the current location of sites) and so they have started to censor links for sites they don&amp;#x27;t want to encourage people to access. Right now this mostly impacts sites few would condone, like 8chan or kiwifarms. But in theory the policy applies to any site with illegal material so places like the pirate bay or scihub could have their links removed at any time.&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Talk:Kiwi_Farms#URL&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Talk:Kiwi_Farms#URL&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>appletrotter</author><text>Could hardcode the values for those sites in the extension in that case.</text></comment>

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<story><title>Dev Bootcamp is shutting down</title><text>The email sent out to alumni (closing paragraphs elided, in consideration of the character count):&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;I am reaching out to let you know of some very sad news. After considering all of our options, we have made the heartbreaking decision to wind down DBC operations. In other words, DBC&amp;#x27;s final cohort will start on July 17 and will graduate in December 2017.&lt;p&gt;Campuses will officially close on December 8, 2017, as we are committed to providing our currently enrolled students with full delivery of the program, including seeing them through the entire curriculum and providing at least six months of career support for these students after graduation.&lt;p&gt;Please know that we did not come to this decision lightly, and it is one that deeply affects us all. We’re so proud of what our students, alumni, DBC team (past and present), and community and employer partners have accomplished over the past five years. But despite tremendous efforts from a lot of talented people, we’ve determined that we simply can’t achieve a sustainable business model without compromising our mission of delivering a high-quality coding education that is accessible to a diverse population of students.&lt;p&gt;DBC has been committed to providing access to careers in technology since 2012, pioneering a new industry, and championing a radical form of education -- one focused on hands-on practical training over theory. This talented community of over 3,000 is proof positive that the educational experiment we launched five years ago could make a real difference in people&amp;#x27;s lives when combined with the passion and grit of our students. If our staff is the heart, you all are the soul of DBC. You and your continued work in the industry will keep DBC’s spirit alive.&amp;quot;</text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>shawndrost</author><text>(I&amp;#x27;m a cofounder at Hack Reactor, a competitor.)&lt;p&gt;DBC launched an industry. Early students&amp;#x2F;staff went on to start Hack Reactor, App Academy, and Hackbright Academy. Early students&amp;#x2F;staff of Hack Reactor went on to found Zipfian Academy (acquired by Galvanize -- went on to lead Galvanize&amp;#x27;s education efforts), Codesmith, and a half-dozen other bootcamps. I&amp;#x27;m sure AA and HB alums went on to pass the gift on in their own ways.&lt;p&gt;DBC also launched several thousand careers. I attended a coworker&amp;#x27;s birthday happy hour today, and I told a story of a former student that brought me to tears. DBC launched an industry where real lives get changed in real ways. Staff and alums alike participated in a very personal transformation.&lt;p&gt;DBC was a rock in a pond and its ripples will extend past where its story ends today. I can&amp;#x27;t speak for DBC, but they were probably struggling (like the rest of our sector) with growing past the bootcamp industry&amp;#x27;s early days, when starry-eyed optimism clashed with the operational realities of a highly-regulated industry. Kudos to everyone that tried, and there were many that poured their hearts and wallets out.&lt;p&gt;Staff&amp;#x2F;students&amp;#x2F;mgmt&amp;#x2F;etc -- reach out if I can help. [email protected]&lt;p&gt;For nostalgia&amp;#x27;s sake, here&amp;#x27;s the HN post where Shereef launched DBC: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&amp;#x2F;item?id=3267133&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&amp;#x2F;item?id=3267133&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>

<story><title>Dev Bootcamp is shutting down</title><text>The email sent out to alumni (closing paragraphs elided, in consideration of the character count):&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;I am reaching out to let you know of some very sad news. After considering all of our options, we have made the heartbreaking decision to wind down DBC operations. In other words, DBC&amp;#x27;s final cohort will start on July 17 and will graduate in December 2017.&lt;p&gt;Campuses will officially close on December 8, 2017, as we are committed to providing our currently enrolled students with full delivery of the program, including seeing them through the entire curriculum and providing at least six months of career support for these students after graduation.&lt;p&gt;Please know that we did not come to this decision lightly, and it is one that deeply affects us all. We’re so proud of what our students, alumni, DBC team (past and present), and community and employer partners have accomplished over the past five years. But despite tremendous efforts from a lot of talented people, we’ve determined that we simply can’t achieve a sustainable business model without compromising our mission of delivering a high-quality coding education that is accessible to a diverse population of students.&lt;p&gt;DBC has been committed to providing access to careers in technology since 2012, pioneering a new industry, and championing a radical form of education -- one focused on hands-on practical training over theory. This talented community of over 3,000 is proof positive that the educational experiment we launched five years ago could make a real difference in people&amp;#x27;s lives when combined with the passion and grit of our students. If our staff is the heart, you all are the soul of DBC. You and your continued work in the industry will keep DBC’s spirit alive.&amp;quot;</text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>SlyShy</author><text>As a former employee I have to say that Kaplan did a very fine job of running the place into the ground. Kaplan management managed to take an industry leader with first mover advantage and completely squander it by myopically focusing on quarterly profits. They really should have switched to a pay-after-getting-a-job tuition model that schools like AppAcademy offer. That would have simultaneously better met the mission of serving diverse students (students who can&amp;#x27;t afford $17,000+ and living in an expensive urban area for almost five months) and improve long term outcomes.&lt;p&gt;The pay-after-getting-a-job model creates virtuous cycles, because the schools that implement it suck up the most prepared students. Schools not offering that model end up with the leftovers after admissions to the top schools.&lt;p&gt;Arguably colleges and universities should also adopt pay-after-getting-a-job but that would probably hurt their bottom lines substantially. It definitely creates the correct alignment of incentives for the school to educate well.&lt;p&gt;Pretty amazing too, considering Kaplan has very deep pockets and could easily have financed the slight lag in revenue switching to models would have required. To me it just reeks of old-school short sighted corporate management thinking.&lt;p&gt;For a bootcamp to not adopt pay-after-getting-a-job just shows that they lack faith in their own product. Funny because many schools end up having to hire lots of their alums as a way of bolstering their employment numbers.&lt;p&gt;On a closing note, huge props to all the extremely hardworking teachers and students who went through DBC, they made it an amazing place despite all hardship. I made many of my most meaningful relationships there and I witnessed tremendous transformations in people.</text></comment>

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<story><title>Show HN: A WebGL Tribute to Tron, the movie that made me fall in love with CGI</title><url>https://mgz.me/?scene=TheLightCycles</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>avolcano</author><text>This is fantastic! Is it open source, by any chance? I&amp;#x27;d love to see how you implemented the scanline filters and particle effects.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;ve been juuust dipping my toe into 3D games with a little spline generator I&amp;#x27;m hoping to make a game with (&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;disco.zone&amp;#x2F;splines&amp;#x2F;3&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;disco.zone&amp;#x2F;splines&amp;#x2F;3&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt;), and as a fellow Tron fan, I&amp;#x27;m very inspired by what you were able to do aesthetically here!</text></comment>

<story><title>Show HN: A WebGL Tribute to Tron, the movie that made me fall in love with CGI</title><url>https://mgz.me/?scene=TheLightCycles</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>Yen</author><text>Looks great!&lt;p&gt;This kind of generative art is, I think, one of the best &amp;quot;non-productive&amp;quot; things that computers have enabled.&lt;p&gt;Two extremely minor nitpicks -&lt;p&gt;* When browsing through scenes, I notice that a title subtly fades in and out in the lower left corner. I missed this for the first several scenes, and then would often miss it when hitting a new scene, and I&amp;#x27;d wonder what the scene was called.&lt;p&gt;* The &amp;quot;gallery&amp;quot; menu to choose scenes isn&amp;#x27;t in the upper-left nav, but rather, the hamburger menu. Before trying it out, I expected that clicking on it would take me away from the graphics, and show me a gallery of other projects.</text></comment>

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<story><title>The Tyranny of Structurelessness (1970)</title><url>https://www.jofreeman.com/joreen/tyranny.htm</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>metacritic12</author><text>I appreciate the thought experiment of considering whether we would truly act differently in difficult circumstances, as most never engage in that level of self-reflection. However, this article seems to beg the question.&lt;p&gt;Specifically, it starts by assuming that in the face of challenges like being born in poverty, the average person would not overcome them through will or effort alone. As a result, it cultivates empathy for those who fail to transcend their circumstances. It then implies that the solution is changing the environment, not the individual.&lt;p&gt;But this is circular reasoning. It assumes that it&amp;#x27;s all the environment, and concludes with it being all the environment.</text></item><item><author>cortesoft</author><text>The one that really changed how I think about the world was &amp;quot;A Muscular Empathy&amp;quot; by Ta-Nehisi Coates&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.theatlantic.com&amp;#x2F;national&amp;#x2F;archive&amp;#x2F;2011&amp;#x2F;12&amp;#x2F;a-muscular-empathy&amp;#x2F;249984&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.theatlantic.com&amp;#x2F;national&amp;#x2F;archive&amp;#x2F;2011&amp;#x2F;12&amp;#x2F;a-muscu...&lt;/a&gt;</text></item><item><author>mjb</author><text>There are relatively few things I&amp;#x27;ve read that I can definitively point to as having almost instantly changed my mind on something. This is one of them. Reading often offers a broader understanding or different perspective, but seldom a sudden flash on insight.&lt;p&gt;Others short reads that have changed my mind in that way include:&lt;p&gt;- &amp;quot;The Inner Ring&amp;quot; by CS Lewis (&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.lewissociety.org&amp;#x2F;innerring&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.lewissociety.org&amp;#x2F;innerring&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;p&gt;- &amp;quot;On Photography&amp;quot; by Susan Sontag (&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.amazon.com&amp;#x2F;Photography-Susan-Sontag&amp;#x2F;dp&amp;#x2F;0312420099&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.amazon.com&amp;#x2F;Photography-Susan-Sontag&amp;#x2F;dp&amp;#x2F;031242009...&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;p&gt;- &amp;quot;Black Souls in White Skins?&amp;quot; by Steve Biko (as far as I can see only widely available as part of the Collection &amp;quot;I write what I like&amp;quot;)&lt;p&gt;- &amp;quot;The Two Cultures&amp;quot; by CP Snow (&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;sciencepolicy.colorado.edu&amp;#x2F;students&amp;#x2F;envs_5110&amp;#x2F;snow_1959.pdf&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;sciencepolicy.colorado.edu&amp;#x2F;students&amp;#x2F;envs_5110&amp;#x2F;snow_1...&lt;/a&gt;) (This one is a lot like Freeman&amp;#x27;s in that many summaries seem to completely misunderstand the argument it is making, and many people assume it says something it doesn&amp;#x27;t).&lt;p&gt;- &amp;quot;Ironies of Automation&amp;quot; by Lisanne Bainbridge (&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;ckrybus.com&amp;#x2F;static&amp;#x2F;papers&amp;#x2F;Bainbridge_1983_Automatica.pdf&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;ckrybus.com&amp;#x2F;static&amp;#x2F;papers&amp;#x2F;Bainbridge_1983_Automatica...&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;p&gt;- &amp;quot;Risk Management in a Dynamic Society&amp;quot; by Jens Rasmussen (&lt;a href=&quot;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;sunnyday.mit.edu&amp;#x2F;16.863&amp;#x2F;rasmussen-safetyscience.pdf&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;sunnyday.mit.edu&amp;#x2F;16.863&amp;#x2F;rasmussen-safetyscience.pdf&lt;/a&gt;). If you read nothing else, check out Figure 3.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dwallin</author><text>That article is decidedly not about considering whether you would act differently.&lt;p&gt;What the authors is doing is pointing out is that assuming you would act different is unhelpful. It is far more helpful and interesting to look at a situation, and examine what are all the things that would cause you to to end up in those circumstances despite your best effort. What this does is forces you to overcome the human minds tendencies towards lazy evaluation, to really break down all the forces acting upon the situation these individuals encounter.&lt;p&gt;This is actually very similar to a technique useful for startups. Assume you have failed some number of years from now. What are some of the reasons you might have failed?</text></comment>

<story><title>The Tyranny of Structurelessness (1970)</title><url>https://www.jofreeman.com/joreen/tyranny.htm</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>metacritic12</author><text>I appreciate the thought experiment of considering whether we would truly act differently in difficult circumstances, as most never engage in that level of self-reflection. However, this article seems to beg the question.&lt;p&gt;Specifically, it starts by assuming that in the face of challenges like being born in poverty, the average person would not overcome them through will or effort alone. As a result, it cultivates empathy for those who fail to transcend their circumstances. It then implies that the solution is changing the environment, not the individual.&lt;p&gt;But this is circular reasoning. It assumes that it&amp;#x27;s all the environment, and concludes with it being all the environment.</text></item><item><author>cortesoft</author><text>The one that really changed how I think about the world was &amp;quot;A Muscular Empathy&amp;quot; by Ta-Nehisi Coates&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.theatlantic.com&amp;#x2F;national&amp;#x2F;archive&amp;#x2F;2011&amp;#x2F;12&amp;#x2F;a-muscular-empathy&amp;#x2F;249984&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.theatlantic.com&amp;#x2F;national&amp;#x2F;archive&amp;#x2F;2011&amp;#x2F;12&amp;#x2F;a-muscu...&lt;/a&gt;</text></item><item><author>mjb</author><text>There are relatively few things I&amp;#x27;ve read that I can definitively point to as having almost instantly changed my mind on something. This is one of them. Reading often offers a broader understanding or different perspective, but seldom a sudden flash on insight.&lt;p&gt;Others short reads that have changed my mind in that way include:&lt;p&gt;- &amp;quot;The Inner Ring&amp;quot; by CS Lewis (&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.lewissociety.org&amp;#x2F;innerring&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.lewissociety.org&amp;#x2F;innerring&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;p&gt;- &amp;quot;On Photography&amp;quot; by Susan Sontag (&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.amazon.com&amp;#x2F;Photography-Susan-Sontag&amp;#x2F;dp&amp;#x2F;0312420099&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.amazon.com&amp;#x2F;Photography-Susan-Sontag&amp;#x2F;dp&amp;#x2F;031242009...&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;p&gt;- &amp;quot;Black Souls in White Skins?&amp;quot; by Steve Biko (as far as I can see only widely available as part of the Collection &amp;quot;I write what I like&amp;quot;)&lt;p&gt;- &amp;quot;The Two Cultures&amp;quot; by CP Snow (&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;sciencepolicy.colorado.edu&amp;#x2F;students&amp;#x2F;envs_5110&amp;#x2F;snow_1959.pdf&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;sciencepolicy.colorado.edu&amp;#x2F;students&amp;#x2F;envs_5110&amp;#x2F;snow_1...&lt;/a&gt;) (This one is a lot like Freeman&amp;#x27;s in that many summaries seem to completely misunderstand the argument it is making, and many people assume it says something it doesn&amp;#x27;t).&lt;p&gt;- &amp;quot;Ironies of Automation&amp;quot; by Lisanne Bainbridge (&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;ckrybus.com&amp;#x2F;static&amp;#x2F;papers&amp;#x2F;Bainbridge_1983_Automatica.pdf&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;ckrybus.com&amp;#x2F;static&amp;#x2F;papers&amp;#x2F;Bainbridge_1983_Automatica...&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;p&gt;- &amp;quot;Risk Management in a Dynamic Society&amp;quot; by Jens Rasmussen (&lt;a href=&quot;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;sunnyday.mit.edu&amp;#x2F;16.863&amp;#x2F;rasmussen-safetyscience.pdf&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;sunnyday.mit.edu&amp;#x2F;16.863&amp;#x2F;rasmussen-safetyscience.pdf&lt;/a&gt;). If you read nothing else, check out Figure 3.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dv_dt</author><text>Looking at the fall of social mobility in the US, I conclude that the average person indeed does not overcome poverty.</text></comment>

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<story><title>CSCI E-23a: Introduction to Game Development</title><url>https://cs50.github.io/games/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>kiloreux</author><text>Slightly off topic: Much of the credit to my software work and career so far is mostly attributed to this course. I remember starting it around 2012&amp;#x2F;2013 when I first got internet access (third world, yeah). And David J Malan (the professor for this course), was one of the most amazing teachers I had the chance to listen to. The way he went through basically everything from C programming to algorithms, JavaScript made me fall in love with the field and pursue it. 5 years after, this gives a good feeling of nostalgia.&lt;p&gt;The importance of giving access to this kind of material for people like me from third world with much lower quality of education is a huge thing that not only changed my life but the lives of many other people I know.</text></comment>

<story><title>CSCI E-23a: Introduction to Game Development</title><url>https://cs50.github.io/games/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>stfwn</author><text>This is great. CS50 (&lt;a href=&quot;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;cs50.tv&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;cs50.tv&lt;/a&gt;) is the best course I&amp;#x27;ve taken on any topic, including all other university courses I attended physically. The course packs a ton of essential information into a very well organised learning path with clear and effective lectures and useful assignments. I&amp;#x27;m stoked that there is another course by the same team now.</text></comment>

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<story><title>Breast cancer detection in mammography using deep learning approach</title><url>https://arxiv.org/abs/1912.11027</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>neuro_image3</author><text>There are several key points that get left out in AI radiology conversations such as this one:&lt;p&gt;1) Mammograms are not interpreted in a vacuum. In fact mammograms are usually the first in a long line of tests before a breast cancer or other diagnosis is ultimately made. In fact, it&amp;#x27;s probably more accurate to refer to mammography as a screening exam for which patients need a biopsy rather than a diagnostic test for cancer (there are rare exceptions, but overall this point holds).&lt;p&gt;2) Speaking frankly as a radiologist myself, tests like mammograms aren&amp;#x27;t even that good in terms of overall diagnosis. Thats why ultrasound, tomosynthesis and MRI are often used as supporting evidence and&amp;#x2F;or alternative exams.&lt;p&gt;3) There is controversy over the overall utility of mammograms, particularly in the screening context. Radiologists more than anyone would like the sensitivity and specificity of these studies to be higher.&lt;p&gt;It strikes me that the people that push these &amp;quot;radiology is ripe for disruption&amp;quot; or &amp;quot;AI outperforms radiologists&amp;quot; hyperbolic arguments are clearly people that have never seen the inside of a clinic. I&amp;#x27;m sure they love this rhetoric though when pitching to VCs or sitting around the conference table coming up with &amp;#x27;breakthrough ideas&amp;#x27; to turn into power-points for the other administrators.</text></comment>

<story><title>Breast cancer detection in mammography using deep learning approach</title><url>https://arxiv.org/abs/1912.11027</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>RcouF1uZ4gsC</author><text>Of the major specialties, it seems that radiology is the most in danger of significant disruption. First of all, it can be done remotely, so there is risk if the regulation is lightened that foreign radiologists will be allowed to read studies at much less cost. The other issue is that this is something that deep learning can rapidly progress in given there are already a plethora of labeled data sets. For example, every mammogram that is taken has already been labeled normal or abnormal.</text></comment>

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<story><title>Giving every IPv6 address a name</title><url>https://has-a.name</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>gregmac</author><text>Also don&amp;#x27;t use for anything real, because you should not be teaching users that &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;1234-5678-9adc-def0-1234-5678-9abc-def0.has-a.name&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;1234-5678-9adc-def0-1234-5678-9abc-def0.has-a.name&lt;/a&gt; is the proper, trusted domain for your service. Because it was supposed to be &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;1234-5678-9abc-def0-1234-5678-9abc-def0.has-a.name&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;1234-5678-9abc-def0-1234-5678-9abc-def0.has-a.name&lt;/a&gt; and I just tricked &lt;i&gt;you&lt;/i&gt;.</text></item><item><author>robbya</author><text>This is cool, but keep in mind that the operator can also get SSL certs for your site (they just point the domain somewhere else and use Lets Encrypt or similar to get a certificate). So from a security perspective, you are putting a ton of trust if you use this for anything real.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jandrese</author><text>The fundamental problem with this whole scheme is that it is still just trying to memorize the entire IP address. The point of a name is to make it something that feels natural for actual people.&lt;p&gt;Maybe it would make more sense to choose the 65,536 most common English words (or whatever language you want) and break the address up into 8 words to form a crazy looking phrase. This is still difficult to memorize but not as bad as just stuffing 128 bits of hex down your throat. You could even allow for the collapsing 0s by making entry 0 be &amp;quot;and&amp;quot; and adding a bit of logic that does the collapse.&lt;p&gt;For fun I wrote a tiny script that does this and tried it with their example domain:&lt;p&gt;1234:5678:9abc:def0:1234:5678:9abc:def0 -&amp;gt; balcony gaining pawn toothill balcony gaining pawn toothill&lt;p&gt;Or Google&amp;#x27;s address from that page:&lt;p&gt;2a00:1450:4009:811::200e -&amp;gt; chinker bauchle dorter amor and bromidic&lt;p&gt;So maybe this wasn&amp;#x27;t the best idea, but at least they&amp;#x27;re a bit more amusing than the hex noise in the article.&lt;p&gt;Anyway, if anybody else wants to play around with it I have a tiny demo: &lt;a href=&quot;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;jubei.ceyah.org&amp;#x2F;cgi-bin&amp;#x2F;ipv6toenglish&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;jubei.ceyah.org&amp;#x2F;cgi-bin&amp;#x2F;ipv6toenglish&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>

<story><title>Giving every IPv6 address a name</title><url>https://has-a.name</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>gregmac</author><text>Also don&amp;#x27;t use for anything real, because you should not be teaching users that &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;1234-5678-9adc-def0-1234-5678-9abc-def0.has-a.name&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;1234-5678-9adc-def0-1234-5678-9abc-def0.has-a.name&lt;/a&gt; is the proper, trusted domain for your service. Because it was supposed to be &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;1234-5678-9abc-def0-1234-5678-9abc-def0.has-a.name&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;1234-5678-9abc-def0-1234-5678-9abc-def0.has-a.name&lt;/a&gt; and I just tricked &lt;i&gt;you&lt;/i&gt;.</text></item><item><author>robbya</author><text>This is cool, but keep in mind that the operator can also get SSL certs for your site (they just point the domain somewhere else and use Lets Encrypt or similar to get a certificate). So from a security perspective, you are putting a ton of trust if you use this for anything real.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>treysis</author><text>Same&amp;#x2F;similar working mechanism is built-in into Windows since Vista: 1234-5678--abcd.ipv6-literal.net This doesn&amp;#x27;t even need functioning DNS and can work offline (add s&amp;lt;devnumber&amp;gt; for link-local addresses).</text></comment>

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<story><title>Chicken Scheme</title><url>https://call-cc.org/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>nostrademons</author><text>Note that Chicken has a very interesting garbage-collection algorithm called &amp;quot;Cheney on the MTA&amp;quot;. Basically, the stack is the heap, and no function ever returns. The compiler converts every program to continuation-passing style, where instead of a function returning, it tail-calls a continuation. When the stack exhausts its limit, the runtime longjmps back to a trampoline. Variables captured by the current continuation form the roots of a copying generational GC - the runtime traces every pointer from them and copies the live objects to the heap. The stack then unwinds, with every uncopied object being garbage that gets re-used the next time the stack grows.&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s pretty amazing that it works, particularly in relatively portable C. Also gets fairly decent performance, too: as Schemes go Chicken is one of the faster ones.&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.more-magic.net&amp;#x2F;posts&amp;#x2F;internals-gc.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.more-magic.net&amp;#x2F;posts&amp;#x2F;internals-gc.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;citeseerx.ist.psu.edu&amp;#x2F;viewdoc&amp;#x2F;summary?doi=10.1.1.54.7143&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;citeseerx.ist.psu.edu&amp;#x2F;viewdoc&amp;#x2F;summary?doi=10.1.1.54....&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>

<story><title>Chicken Scheme</title><url>https://call-cc.org/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>oneplane</author><text>I have never really been exposed to the likes of Scheme, Lisp, Smalltalk etc. and I&amp;#x27;m curious if anyone without an academic background actually got in to any of that by themselves.&lt;p&gt;Generally, it&amp;#x27;s just a bunch of JS, C#, Java, Python, and some Scala that runs everywhere I look, which often also has a large &amp;quot;I came across it and I got to work&amp;quot; type of developer or engineer using it. Maybe it&amp;#x27;s just the type of ecosystem I keep hopping around it but it seems that it&amp;#x27;s much less prominent than you&amp;#x27;d expect.&lt;p&gt;There are always novel compilers, transpilers and showcases, but the amount of widespread use eludes me. (Only ErLang comes to mind with RabbitMQ, and maybe OCaml with Xen)</text></comment>

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<story><title>Killing Off Wasabi</title><url>http://blog.fogcreek.com/killing-off-wasabi-part-1/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>toyg</author><text>So in a way, the original mistake was made even before FogBasic&amp;#x2F;Wasabi entered the picture: by buying into the wonderful MS ecosystem, FogCreek condemned themselves to 10 years of hacks for cross-platform support. And they&amp;#x27;ve learnt their lesson so well that they&amp;#x27;re now consolidating on C#, another de-facto MS-only technology which only benefits from the fact that someone else (Mono) is doing cross-platform hacks for everyone.&lt;p&gt;Joel is great, but this choice baffled me in the past and baffles me today. For the sort of software FogBugz is, they would have had a much simpler life with Java, Python, Ruby, even Perl. Despite all of Joel&amp;#x27;s insight into &amp;quot;making html sing&amp;quot;, he behaved like an accountant building humongous Excel macros &amp;quot;because that&amp;#x27;s what we know&amp;quot;.</text></item><item><author>rwmj</author><text>It&amp;#x27;s not necessarily true that it was an error. Their customers wanted Linux support, and they avoided the greater evil of having to rewrite their code or maintain two codebases (remember - this is ~2000 and there&amp;#x27;s no .Net or Mono, and all their code is written in old [edit:] VBScript).&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s a great example of path dependency however.&lt;p&gt;BTW: Red Hat has been here too. We converted a huge app from .Net to Java by using some translation software: &lt;a href=&quot;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;lpeer.blogspot.co.uk&amp;#x2F;2010&amp;#x2F;04&amp;#x2F;switching-from-c-to-java.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;lpeer.blogspot.co.uk&amp;#x2F;2010&amp;#x2F;04&amp;#x2F;switching-from-c-to-java...&lt;/a&gt;</text></item><item><author>zak_mc_kracken</author><text>It&amp;#x27;s always struck me as extremely bizarre that a company that regularly advertises that it&amp;#x27;s at the bleeding edge of software engineering practices (see Spolsky&amp;#x27;s numerous blog posts on the topic) made such a colossal error as writing their own language, and that it took them a decade to realize this mistake.&lt;p&gt;I also find this kind of phrasing weird:&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; The people who wrote the original Wasabi compiler moved on for one reason or another. Some married partners who lived elsewhere; others went over to work on other products from Fog Creek.&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s like the author of this article goes out of their ways to avoid saying that some people left the company, period. It also wouldn&amp;#x27;t surprise me if some of these defections were caused by Wasabi itself. As a software engineer, you quickly start wondering how wise it is to spend years learning a language that will be of no use once you leave your current company (yet another reason why rolling your own language as a critical part of your product is a terrible idea).</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>slantyyz</author><text>&amp;gt;&amp;gt; : by buying into the wonderful MS ecosystem&lt;p&gt;Remember the age of Fogbugz. It was initially released in 2000.&lt;p&gt;MS Windows was by far the dominant operating system. Virtualization was still in its early stages, and mostly at the desktop level. Linux was still growing in the server market but not dominant as it is today.&lt;p&gt;And what is exactly is wrong with the MS ecosystem if you&amp;#x27;re targeting enterprise? There are still a lot of businesses that work exclusively with Windows servers with IT managers that don&amp;#x27;t want the headache of having Linux servers.&lt;p&gt;Enterprise software tends to be a notch or two below consumer software in the &amp;quot;it just works department&amp;quot;, and my experience with deploying Java based enterprise software was pretty negative. In 2000, not a lot of people were using Ruby, Python or Perl for enterprise web apps. It was mostly ASP and JSP back then.</text></comment>

<story><title>Killing Off Wasabi</title><url>http://blog.fogcreek.com/killing-off-wasabi-part-1/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>toyg</author><text>So in a way, the original mistake was made even before FogBasic&amp;#x2F;Wasabi entered the picture: by buying into the wonderful MS ecosystem, FogCreek condemned themselves to 10 years of hacks for cross-platform support. And they&amp;#x27;ve learnt their lesson so well that they&amp;#x27;re now consolidating on C#, another de-facto MS-only technology which only benefits from the fact that someone else (Mono) is doing cross-platform hacks for everyone.&lt;p&gt;Joel is great, but this choice baffled me in the past and baffles me today. For the sort of software FogBugz is, they would have had a much simpler life with Java, Python, Ruby, even Perl. Despite all of Joel&amp;#x27;s insight into &amp;quot;making html sing&amp;quot;, he behaved like an accountant building humongous Excel macros &amp;quot;because that&amp;#x27;s what we know&amp;quot;.</text></item><item><author>rwmj</author><text>It&amp;#x27;s not necessarily true that it was an error. Their customers wanted Linux support, and they avoided the greater evil of having to rewrite their code or maintain two codebases (remember - this is ~2000 and there&amp;#x27;s no .Net or Mono, and all their code is written in old [edit:] VBScript).&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s a great example of path dependency however.&lt;p&gt;BTW: Red Hat has been here too. We converted a huge app from .Net to Java by using some translation software: &lt;a href=&quot;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;lpeer.blogspot.co.uk&amp;#x2F;2010&amp;#x2F;04&amp;#x2F;switching-from-c-to-java.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;lpeer.blogspot.co.uk&amp;#x2F;2010&amp;#x2F;04&amp;#x2F;switching-from-c-to-java...&lt;/a&gt;</text></item><item><author>zak_mc_kracken</author><text>It&amp;#x27;s always struck me as extremely bizarre that a company that regularly advertises that it&amp;#x27;s at the bleeding edge of software engineering practices (see Spolsky&amp;#x27;s numerous blog posts on the topic) made such a colossal error as writing their own language, and that it took them a decade to realize this mistake.&lt;p&gt;I also find this kind of phrasing weird:&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; The people who wrote the original Wasabi compiler moved on for one reason or another. Some married partners who lived elsewhere; others went over to work on other products from Fog Creek.&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s like the author of this article goes out of their ways to avoid saying that some people left the company, period. It also wouldn&amp;#x27;t surprise me if some of these defections were caused by Wasabi itself. As a software engineer, you quickly start wondering how wise it is to spend years learning a language that will be of no use once you leave your current company (yet another reason why rolling your own language as a critical part of your product is a terrible idea).</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>bryanlarsen</author><text>The difference this time is that C# is now open source. Sure, C# is still essentially Microsoft-only, but there are enough users that if Microsoft abandoned it, it&amp;#x27;s fairly certain that others would be there to pick up the pieces.</text></comment>

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<story><title>City officials attempt to doxx Wikipedians</title><url>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2023-08-01/News_and_notes</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>mschuster91</author><text>&amp;gt; An eyewitness interviewed by Indy Week alleged that Durham council member DeDreana Freeman had attempted to strike Durham Mayor-pro tempore and council member Mark-Anthony Middleton during the shouting session, but instead struck O&amp;#x27;Neal once and punched the head of fellow Durham council member Leonardo Williams twice before Williams subdued her. In the aftermath of these incidents, O&amp;#x27;Neal announced that she would not seek re-election as Mayor and a state investigation was opened into the extortion allegation (Holsey-Hyman denies the alleged extortion attempt and a separate allegation that she ordered city employees to perform campaign work on her behalf).&lt;p&gt;Wtf. That alone is &lt;i&gt;wild&lt;/i&gt;, open brawls in parliament are usually something associated with dysfunctional democracies. Attempting to censor that and invite the Streisand effect? That&amp;#x27;s new. If you decide to throw fists in politics, at least don&amp;#x27;t attempt to contradict the evidence. JFC.</text></comment>

<story><title>City officials attempt to doxx Wikipedians</title><url>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2023-08-01/News_and_notes</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>rdtsc</author><text>&amp;gt; The WMF told Indy Week that they had not received the letter and that the letter that had been made public contained an incorrect postal address for the WMF&amp;#x27;s headquarters&lt;p&gt;I wonder if the lawyer did it on purpose. They&amp;#x27;ve probably had enough dealing with an unreasonable client so they made a few &amp;quot;mistakes&amp;quot; to blow the case up so the city can get a new official and they won&amp;#x27;t have to deal with them any longer.&lt;p&gt;If you listen to the linked video of the official yelling obscenities and acting unprofessionally, imagine working for them. On one hand, they&amp;#x27;ll do what they are told, on the other, mistakes &amp;quot;just happen&amp;quot;. And look at that, they are not seeking re-election any longer, sounds like a &amp;quot;win&amp;quot; for the attorney.</text></comment>

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<story><title>RIP TDD</title><url>https://www.facebook.com/notes/kent-beck/rip-tdd/750840194948847</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>revscat</author><text>This... is not Kent&amp;#x27;s finest moment. I get what he&amp;#x27;s saying, but the snark doesn&amp;#x27;t really help, and doesn&amp;#x27;t actually rebut any of the points that DHH was making against TDD.&lt;p&gt;Testing &lt;i&gt;does&lt;/i&gt; tend to have a negative impact on API design. If we were to make a list of positives and negatives, this one would go in the &amp;quot;negative&amp;quot; column. Listing out TDD&amp;#x27;s positives does not invalidate that negative.</text></comment>

<story><title>RIP TDD</title><url>https://www.facebook.com/notes/kent-beck/rip-tdd/750840194948847</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>vinkelhake</author><text>Is this a joke or he is he just unable to separate &amp;quot;tests&amp;quot; from &amp;quot;test driven development&amp;quot;? Most of these points have nothing to do with &amp;quot;tests first&amp;quot;.</text></comment>

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<story><title>Uber, losing billions, freezes engineering hires</title><url>https://arstechnica.com/cars/2019/08/uber-freezes-engineering-hires-amid-mounting-losses/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>futureastronaut</author><text>&amp;gt; (2) It&amp;#x27;s arguably the most valuable battleground in logistics - developing a &amp;quot;last mile&amp;quot; delivery network at scale.&lt;p&gt;How is Uber Eats any different from the many other operations strapping boxes to the backs of bicyclists? I don&amp;#x27;t see anything innovative about Uber&amp;#x27;s last mile logistics compared to Amazon (who aren&amp;#x27;t even that great) for instance.&lt;p&gt;It sounds more like an excuse Uber&amp;#x27;s leadership would make as they desperately search for profitable business.</text></item><item><author>aresant</author><text>The sentiment on UBER recently is that they are only surviving by subsidizing rides and are out of control &amp;#x2F; there&amp;#x27;s no future business there.&lt;p&gt;But that is not an accurate portrayal, here&amp;#x27;s what&amp;#x27;s going on when you look at their un-editorialized results (1):&lt;p&gt;- Headlines have portrayed UBER as losing $5b this quarter. This is the easy one to address as this article touches on - UBER paid out almost $4b in stock based compensation (one time, due to IPO) that inflated their loss number. The more accurate portrayal is that UBER burned ~$1.2b this quarter on operations.&lt;p&gt;- Of their remaining $1.2b operating loss almost 50% of that is from UBER eats subsidies. They paid $544m more to drivers to deliver food than they took in. Why? (a) It is their fastest growing (by %) division (2) It&amp;#x27;s arguably the most valuable battleground in logistics - developing a &amp;quot;last mile&amp;quot; delivery network at scale.&lt;p&gt;- Their core business - ridesharing - has improved their gross margin and unit economics quarter-over-quarter to the point that the discounting is almost non-material (less than $22m total worldwide this quarter, representing less than 1&amp;#x2F;2 a percent of total ride sharing revenue).&lt;p&gt;- They have &amp;gt;25,000 employees and &amp;gt;50% of those are international in new markets that require heavy HR spending. Their move to clip 400 marketing employees (25% of entire division) last month implies the CEO has confidence that there is a lot of fat in employee base.&lt;p&gt;- Add to that other losses in their &amp;quot;other bets&amp;quot; which is almost certainly their freight brokering network at -$50m, and the losses appear to be diminishing.&lt;p&gt;(1) &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;investor.uber.com&amp;#x2F;news-events&amp;#x2F;news&amp;#x2F;press-release-details&amp;#x2F;2019&amp;#x2F;Uber-Reports-Second-Quarter-2019-Results&amp;#x2F;default.aspx&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;investor.uber.com&amp;#x2F;news-events&amp;#x2F;news&amp;#x2F;press-release-det...&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Marazan</author><text>There is no &amp;quot;last mile delivery network at scale&amp;quot;.&lt;p&gt;Well there is, its called the postal system but there sure as heck isn&amp;#x27;t any just-in-time last mile network &amp;quot;at scale&amp;quot;. You just have fuck tonnes of delivery drivers who need to get paid. There is no magic &amp;quot;at scale&amp;quot; wand to wave over it to make it economically viable.&lt;p&gt;The excuses for Uber losing money is getting jaw dropping now.</text></comment>

<story><title>Uber, losing billions, freezes engineering hires</title><url>https://arstechnica.com/cars/2019/08/uber-freezes-engineering-hires-amid-mounting-losses/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>futureastronaut</author><text>&amp;gt; (2) It&amp;#x27;s arguably the most valuable battleground in logistics - developing a &amp;quot;last mile&amp;quot; delivery network at scale.&lt;p&gt;How is Uber Eats any different from the many other operations strapping boxes to the backs of bicyclists? I don&amp;#x27;t see anything innovative about Uber&amp;#x27;s last mile logistics compared to Amazon (who aren&amp;#x27;t even that great) for instance.&lt;p&gt;It sounds more like an excuse Uber&amp;#x27;s leadership would make as they desperately search for profitable business.</text></item><item><author>aresant</author><text>The sentiment on UBER recently is that they are only surviving by subsidizing rides and are out of control &amp;#x2F; there&amp;#x27;s no future business there.&lt;p&gt;But that is not an accurate portrayal, here&amp;#x27;s what&amp;#x27;s going on when you look at their un-editorialized results (1):&lt;p&gt;- Headlines have portrayed UBER as losing $5b this quarter. This is the easy one to address as this article touches on - UBER paid out almost $4b in stock based compensation (one time, due to IPO) that inflated their loss number. The more accurate portrayal is that UBER burned ~$1.2b this quarter on operations.&lt;p&gt;- Of their remaining $1.2b operating loss almost 50% of that is from UBER eats subsidies. They paid $544m more to drivers to deliver food than they took in. Why? (a) It is their fastest growing (by %) division (2) It&amp;#x27;s arguably the most valuable battleground in logistics - developing a &amp;quot;last mile&amp;quot; delivery network at scale.&lt;p&gt;- Their core business - ridesharing - has improved their gross margin and unit economics quarter-over-quarter to the point that the discounting is almost non-material (less than $22m total worldwide this quarter, representing less than 1&amp;#x2F;2 a percent of total ride sharing revenue).&lt;p&gt;- They have &amp;gt;25,000 employees and &amp;gt;50% of those are international in new markets that require heavy HR spending. Their move to clip 400 marketing employees (25% of entire division) last month implies the CEO has confidence that there is a lot of fat in employee base.&lt;p&gt;- Add to that other losses in their &amp;quot;other bets&amp;quot; which is almost certainly their freight brokering network at -$50m, and the losses appear to be diminishing.&lt;p&gt;(1) &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;investor.uber.com&amp;#x2F;news-events&amp;#x2F;news&amp;#x2F;press-release-details&amp;#x2F;2019&amp;#x2F;Uber-Reports-Second-Quarter-2019-Results&amp;#x2F;default.aspx&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;investor.uber.com&amp;#x2F;news-events&amp;#x2F;news&amp;#x2F;press-release-det...&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>threeseed</author><text>Uber Eats like Uber ride sharing are marketplace businesses.&lt;p&gt;In order for a new entrant to come in they need to grow both businesses and consumers at the same time. Which is hard with no competitors. But very hard with cash rich companies like Uber trying to stop you.&lt;p&gt;We saw this all play out in Australia where we initially had Foodora and Deliveroo. Then Uber joined with aggressive marketing and pricing. They pushed Foodora out and the number of businesses in Deliveroo is dropping. It is going to be a winner take all situation. At which point prices will rise and the profits will roll in.</text></comment>

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<story><title>Big water cutbacks ordered amid Colorado River shortage</title><url>https://www.latimes.com/environment/story/2022-06-14/big-water-cutbacks-ordered-amid-colorado-river-shortage</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>swatcoder</author><text>&amp;gt; The simple solution &amp;gt; The obvious answer&lt;p&gt;This community seems like its at its best when it expresses humble curiosity and its worst when it shuts the door on learning by oversimplifying deeply complex matters as though nobody else had the sense to look straight at them.&lt;p&gt;Water rights carry a legacy of centuries of personal and political history and thousands of competing interests. The levers with which to control price and set incentives the way you suggest don’t exist.&lt;p&gt;There are real problems looming, but there are no “simple solutions” or “obvious answers” being missed.&lt;p&gt;Whatever comes will involve great compromise and very few will think it was the right solution. I guess maybe you’re just joining that chorus early.</text></item><item><author>ar813</author><text>The answer to this problem lies here: “Entsminger pointed out that roughly 80% of the river’s flow is used for agriculture, and most of that for thirsty crops like alfalfa, which is mainly grown for cattle, both in the U.S. and overseas.”&lt;p&gt;The simple solution would be to raise prices on water such that it disincentivizes growing water hungry crops than alfalfa for example. The west’s water crisis is less about cities than agricultural choices made during the last century, which was wetter than it will be going forward. The obvious answer is to either regulate or incentivize using less water hungry crops more strongly. It would be better if this had started slowly a while ago, allowing the market to adjust and reallocate. Alas, looks like it will have to be an abrupt shift in the near future.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>LanceH</author><text>We can start by rolling back the modern entrenchments that have only made it worse. I would be absolutely shocked if this were only a 200 year old problem and there wasn&amp;#x27;t modern legislation basically gifting free water to special interests.</text></comment>

<story><title>Big water cutbacks ordered amid Colorado River shortage</title><url>https://www.latimes.com/environment/story/2022-06-14/big-water-cutbacks-ordered-amid-colorado-river-shortage</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>swatcoder</author><text>&amp;gt; The simple solution &amp;gt; The obvious answer&lt;p&gt;This community seems like its at its best when it expresses humble curiosity and its worst when it shuts the door on learning by oversimplifying deeply complex matters as though nobody else had the sense to look straight at them.&lt;p&gt;Water rights carry a legacy of centuries of personal and political history and thousands of competing interests. The levers with which to control price and set incentives the way you suggest don’t exist.&lt;p&gt;There are real problems looming, but there are no “simple solutions” or “obvious answers” being missed.&lt;p&gt;Whatever comes will involve great compromise and very few will think it was the right solution. I guess maybe you’re just joining that chorus early.</text></item><item><author>ar813</author><text>The answer to this problem lies here: “Entsminger pointed out that roughly 80% of the river’s flow is used for agriculture, and most of that for thirsty crops like alfalfa, which is mainly grown for cattle, both in the U.S. and overseas.”&lt;p&gt;The simple solution would be to raise prices on water such that it disincentivizes growing water hungry crops than alfalfa for example. The west’s water crisis is less about cities than agricultural choices made during the last century, which was wetter than it will be going forward. The obvious answer is to either regulate or incentivize using less water hungry crops more strongly. It would be better if this had started slowly a while ago, allowing the market to adjust and reallocate. Alas, looks like it will have to be an abrupt shift in the near future.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>staticautomatic</author><text>Notwithstanding the farm and ranch lobbies, what part of raising prices isn’t a simple solution?</text></comment>

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<story><title>The OpenAI board was right</title><url>https://garymarcus.substack.com/p/the-openai-board-was-right</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>SilverBirch</author><text>It really is incredible how something as small and simple as this gives such incredible bad vibes. This is like early 2010s facebook vibes. It&amp;#x27;s just... if they&amp;#x27;re going to steal her voice, what would they do to yours?&lt;p&gt;But it also points to a wider problem in OpenAI&amp;#x27;s existence. They&amp;#x27;re built on theft. If you wrote something on the internet in the last 20 years, they&amp;#x27;ve stolen it. They&amp;#x27;ve stolen it, they&amp;#x27;re put it into their little magic box and now they want to sell it back to you. OpenAI is amazing technology, and once the equity of the company is redistributed back to the content owners who actually provided the value, it&amp;#x27;ll be great to see what they can do from there.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>JumpCrisscross</author><text>&amp;gt; &lt;i&gt;it also points to a wider problem&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;Look at the comments, even in this thread, defending Sam. I thought this could be dealt with by the courts. But it clearly needs stronger medicine; there is simply too much hubris. Congress may need to act; let’s start with states’ AGs. (Narrow clarifications on copyright and likeness rights, to start. Prosecution from there. The low-hanging fruit is anyone in Illinois who was enrolled in WorldCoin.)&lt;p&gt;We, as a community, have been critical of crypto. AI is different—Altman is not. He is a proven liar, and this episode demonstrates the culture he has created at a multibillion-dollar firm that seems destined, in the long run, for—at best—novel conservatorship.&lt;p&gt;We have a wider problem. It isn’t “alignment.” It’s 19th-century fast-talking fraudsters clothing themselves in the turtlenecks of dead founders.</text></comment>

<story><title>The OpenAI board was right</title><url>https://garymarcus.substack.com/p/the-openai-board-was-right</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>SilverBirch</author><text>It really is incredible how something as small and simple as this gives such incredible bad vibes. This is like early 2010s facebook vibes. It&amp;#x27;s just... if they&amp;#x27;re going to steal her voice, what would they do to yours?&lt;p&gt;But it also points to a wider problem in OpenAI&amp;#x27;s existence. They&amp;#x27;re built on theft. If you wrote something on the internet in the last 20 years, they&amp;#x27;ve stolen it. They&amp;#x27;ve stolen it, they&amp;#x27;re put it into their little magic box and now they want to sell it back to you. OpenAI is amazing technology, and once the equity of the company is redistributed back to the content owners who actually provided the value, it&amp;#x27;ll be great to see what they can do from there.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>xiwenc</author><text>Exactly. And the name “Open” in OpenAI implies it is open. Open to the world. Open to humanity. Nothing of that came to be. It should have remained non-profit; be good for humanity (yes i know this is up for interpretation).</text></comment>

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<story><title>Facebook confirms it is scanning your private messages to increase Likes</title><url>http://thenextweb.com/facebook/2012/10/04/facebook-confirms-it-is-scanning-your-private-messages-for-links-so-it-can-increase-like-counters/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ImprovedSilence</author><text>how do you go about disabling facebook buttons?</text></item><item><author>ericdykstra</author><text>There&apos;s a reason I disable Facebook buttons on my browser and don&apos;t stick them on my own sites (including my blog). I don&apos;t trust Facebook with my browsing data, and I don&apos;t want to subject users of any website I work on to their abuse, either.&lt;p&gt;&quot;Move fast and break expectation of privacy&quot;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ericdykstra</author><text>I use &lt;a href=&quot;http://ghostery.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://ghostery.com&lt;/a&gt; as a Chrome extension. There&apos;s also &lt;a href=&quot;http://disconnect.me&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://disconnect.me&lt;/a&gt;, also extension based.&lt;p&gt;Then there&apos;s the more extreme route of using Tor for all browsing.</text></comment>

<story><title>Facebook confirms it is scanning your private messages to increase Likes</title><url>http://thenextweb.com/facebook/2012/10/04/facebook-confirms-it-is-scanning-your-private-messages-for-links-so-it-can-increase-like-counters/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ImprovedSilence</author><text>how do you go about disabling facebook buttons?</text></item><item><author>ericdykstra</author><text>There&apos;s a reason I disable Facebook buttons on my browser and don&apos;t stick them on my own sites (including my blog). I don&apos;t trust Facebook with my browsing data, and I don&apos;t want to subject users of any website I work on to their abuse, either.&lt;p&gt;&quot;Move fast and break expectation of privacy&quot;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>darkstalker</author><text>For Firefox, there is an Adblock subscription called &quot;Antisocial&quot; &lt;a href=&quot;http://adblockplus.org/en/subscriptions&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://adblockplus.org/en/subscriptions&lt;/a&gt; (at the bottom of the page)</text></comment>

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<story><title>Git commit allegedly from Satoshi embedded inside a Bitcoin transaction</title><url>https://blockchain.info/tx/77822fd6663c665104119cb7635352756dfc50da76a92d417ec1a12c518fad69</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>jbaudanza</author><text>Here is the text of the commit:&lt;p&gt;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt; From a3a61fef43309b9fb23225df7910b03afc5465b9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Satoshi Nakamoto &amp;lt;[email protected]&amp;gt; Date: Mon, 12 Aug 2013 02:28:02 -0200 Subject: [PATCH] Remove (SINGLE|DOUBLE)BYTE I removed this from Bitcoin in f1e1fb4bdef878c8fc1564fa418d44e7541a7e83 in Sept 7 2010, almost three years ago. Be warned that I have not actually tested this patch. --- backends&amp;#x2F;bitcoind&amp;#x2F;deserialize.py | 8 +------- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 7 deletions(-) diff --git a&amp;#x2F;backends&amp;#x2F;bitcoind&amp;#x2F;deserialize.py b&amp;#x2F;backends&amp;#x2F;bitcoind&amp;#x2F;deserialize.py index 6620583..89b9b1b 100644 --- a&amp;#x2F;backends&amp;#x2F;bitcoind&amp;#x2F;deserialize.py +++ b&amp;#x2F;backends&amp;#x2F;bitcoind&amp;#x2F;deserialize.py @@ -280,10 +280,8 @@ opcodes = Enumeration(&amp;quot;Opcodes&amp;quot;, [ &amp;quot;OP_WITHIN&amp;quot;, &amp;quot;OP_RIPEMD160&amp;quot;, &amp;quot;OP_SHA1&amp;quot;, &amp;quot;OP_SHA256&amp;quot;, &amp;quot;OP_HASH160&amp;quot;, &amp;quot;OP_HASH256&amp;quot;, &amp;quot;OP_CODESEPARATOR&amp;quot;, &amp;quot;OP_CHECKSIG&amp;quot;, &amp;quot;OP_CHECKSIGVERIFY&amp;quot;, &amp;quot;OP_CHECKMULTISIG&amp;quot;, &amp;quot;OP_CHECKMULTISIGVERIFY&amp;quot;, - (&amp;quot;OP_SINGLEBYTE_END&amp;quot;, 0xF0), - (&amp;quot;OP_DOUBLEBYTE_BEGIN&amp;quot;, 0xF000), &amp;quot;OP_PUBKEY&amp;quot;, &amp;quot;OP_PUBKEYHASH&amp;quot;, - (&amp;quot;OP_INVALIDOPCODE&amp;quot;, 0xFFFF), + (&amp;quot;OP_INVALIDOPCODE&amp;quot;, 0xFF), ]) @@ -293,10 +291,6 @@ def script_GetOp(bytes): vch = None opcode = ord(bytes[i]) i += 1 - if opcode &amp;gt;= opcodes.OP_SINGLEBYTE_END and i &amp;lt; len(bytes): - opcode &amp;lt;&amp;lt;= 8 - opcode |= ord(bytes[i]) - i += 1 if opcode &amp;lt;= opcodes.OP_PUSHDATA4: nSize = opcode -- 1.7.9.4&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;</text></comment>

<story><title>Git commit allegedly from Satoshi embedded inside a Bitcoin transaction</title><url>https://blockchain.info/tx/77822fd6663c665104119cb7635352756dfc50da76a92d417ec1a12c518fad69</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>v64</author><text>If you look at the output scripts of the transaction, this is a patch for the bug that was used to embed the patch in the transaction in the first place. Clever.</text></comment>

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<story><title>How thick is a three-sided coin?</title><url>https://jasmcole.com/2022/09/25/flipping-out/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>erulabs</author><text>Somewhat related, but amusing: &amp;quot;Ask Siri&amp;quot; includes a ~1&amp;#x2F;6000 chance of &amp;quot;Siri, flip me a coin&amp;quot; returning &amp;quot;The coin landed on its edge!&amp;quot;</text></comment>

<story><title>How thick is a three-sided coin?</title><url>https://jasmcole.com/2022/09/25/flipping-out/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>hinkley</author><text>Only slightly related to this: I am amazed by the creativity employed by people trying to play D&amp;amp;D in prison. Since gambling is disallowed, dice are considered contraband. So they do things like modify pencil stubs (2 dead ends).&lt;p&gt;D&amp;amp;D turns out to be a reasonably good exercise in delayed gratification, an essential life skill many people need in order to successfully rehabilitate.</text></comment>

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<story><title>Pixel owners report problems after installing January 2024 Google Play update</title><url>https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/google/google-pixel-phones-unusable-after-january-2024-system-update/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>newprint</author><text>Pixel owner here. Lately my phone been very slow or acting out. That explains it. Last year or few years ago, Google released update that broke Bluetooth on Pixels. Google&amp;#x27;s team released the update, broke things, went out for extended Christmas break and fixed things a few months later. I&amp;#x27;m not fan of the Apple phones and the fact that they cost a fortune, but I don&amp;#x27;t recall them putting out hardware breaking updates.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dvnguyen</author><text>I don&amp;#x27;t see myself switching to an Android phone but iPhone updates do break things. Since upgrading to latest iOS, both my phone (personal and work) keyboards are unusable if I enable both English and Vietnamese keyboards. Looks like there&amp;#x27;s a bug in their keyboard prediction engine. It&amp;#x27;s been 4 months and I don&amp;#x27;t see they fix it yet.</text></comment>

<story><title>Pixel owners report problems after installing January 2024 Google Play update</title><url>https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/google/google-pixel-phones-unusable-after-january-2024-system-update/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>newprint</author><text>Pixel owner here. Lately my phone been very slow or acting out. That explains it. Last year or few years ago, Google released update that broke Bluetooth on Pixels. Google&amp;#x27;s team released the update, broke things, went out for extended Christmas break and fixed things a few months later. I&amp;#x27;m not fan of the Apple phones and the fact that they cost a fortune, but I don&amp;#x27;t recall them putting out hardware breaking updates.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>rconti</author><text>I&amp;#x27;m sure someone will point out breaking iPhone updates that have happened in the past, but I&amp;#x27;ve never been hit by one. Bad things happen, I think Apple is just REALLY aggressive about pulling updates that break things to limit the impact. That&amp;#x27;s the most important thing, IMO. Well, that and a fix for the people who got screwed.</text></comment>

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<story><title>Wiped-Out Hedge Fund Manager Confessed His Losses on YouTube</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-11-19/hedge-fund-s-accounts-liquidated-amid-energy-market-volatility</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>chollida1</author><text>Such is the life of an option seller, especially naked option sellers. You are picking up the proverbial nickle in front of the steam roller.&lt;p&gt;The really unfortunate part of this is that some of his clients actually owe more money than what was in their account.&lt;p&gt;There is a scummy way of managing money that some CTA&amp;#x27;s use where you don&amp;#x27;t get the proper license to manage others money as a hedge fund and instead just have people put money into accounts and then they give you the right to trade. Due to the use of leverage when the market moved against their naked short Nat Gas positions all the collateral posted in the accounts were not enough to covert the losses so some people are not only out the amount they wagered, but more.&lt;p&gt;And the worst part of it is the manager blaming this on an unforeseen event. Everyone who sells options knows that rule one is never be naked when you are short as your losses can be unbounded.&lt;p&gt;The reason for this is that if you have traded for even a short period of time you realized that while the market is liquid most of hte time, there are times when its not and the only thing you can do is watch it move while realizing you can&amp;#x27;t exit a position.&lt;p&gt;This happend to short sellers of KBIO when they thought they were riding a shitty stock to zero, when Martin Shkreli bought it for a premium causing margin calls for everyone short it.&lt;p&gt;See:&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.investopedia.com&amp;#x2F;articles&amp;#x2F;investing&amp;#x2F;112315&amp;#x2F;did-martin-shkreli-intentionally-burn-kalobios-shorts.asp&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.investopedia.com&amp;#x2F;articles&amp;#x2F;investing&amp;#x2F;112315&amp;#x2F;did-m...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;As a side note Martin has a blog. &lt;a href=&quot;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;martinshkreli.com&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;martinshkreli.com&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;its actually pretty good as this is what he does for a living and when hes out of prison he&amp;#x27;s going to try and go back to it so this is really the only way he can redeem his brand. I expect him to put everything he has into the blog. its&amp;#x27; a good source of trading ideas.&lt;p&gt;TL&amp;#x2F;DR&lt;p&gt;- never sell options&lt;p&gt;- if you do then never sell naked options&lt;p&gt;- if you do make sure you can get out of your trade&lt;p&gt;- if you can&amp;#x27;t get out of your trade make sure you are well capitalized for loss absorption&lt;p&gt;- if don&amp;#x27;t have enough to cover your losses don&amp;#x27;t apologize for losing your clients money while wearing a $10,000 watch and post it for the rest of the world to see.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ChuckMcM</author><text>&amp;gt; &lt;i&gt;never be naked when you are short as your losses can be unbounded.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;I wish it was a requirement for people to have this tattooed to their body if they start trading naked options. It is so sad to watch a friend, who is otherwise brilliant, get caught up in the idea that they can make unlimited money because they &lt;i&gt;know&lt;/i&gt; that this commodity is going to &amp;quot;drop like a rock.&amp;quot; And then watch them lose their savings when things were different than they expected them to be. You get to hear about conspiracies of people who &amp;quot;tricked&amp;quot; them, rating agencies that &amp;quot;lied&amp;quot; about what was going on, etc etc. So very sad.</text></comment>

<story><title>Wiped-Out Hedge Fund Manager Confessed His Losses on YouTube</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-11-19/hedge-fund-s-accounts-liquidated-amid-energy-market-volatility</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>chollida1</author><text>Such is the life of an option seller, especially naked option sellers. You are picking up the proverbial nickle in front of the steam roller.&lt;p&gt;The really unfortunate part of this is that some of his clients actually owe more money than what was in their account.&lt;p&gt;There is a scummy way of managing money that some CTA&amp;#x27;s use where you don&amp;#x27;t get the proper license to manage others money as a hedge fund and instead just have people put money into accounts and then they give you the right to trade. Due to the use of leverage when the market moved against their naked short Nat Gas positions all the collateral posted in the accounts were not enough to covert the losses so some people are not only out the amount they wagered, but more.&lt;p&gt;And the worst part of it is the manager blaming this on an unforeseen event. Everyone who sells options knows that rule one is never be naked when you are short as your losses can be unbounded.&lt;p&gt;The reason for this is that if you have traded for even a short period of time you realized that while the market is liquid most of hte time, there are times when its not and the only thing you can do is watch it move while realizing you can&amp;#x27;t exit a position.&lt;p&gt;This happend to short sellers of KBIO when they thought they were riding a shitty stock to zero, when Martin Shkreli bought it for a premium causing margin calls for everyone short it.&lt;p&gt;See:&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.investopedia.com&amp;#x2F;articles&amp;#x2F;investing&amp;#x2F;112315&amp;#x2F;did-martin-shkreli-intentionally-burn-kalobios-shorts.asp&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.investopedia.com&amp;#x2F;articles&amp;#x2F;investing&amp;#x2F;112315&amp;#x2F;did-m...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;As a side note Martin has a blog. &lt;a href=&quot;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;martinshkreli.com&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;martinshkreli.com&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;its actually pretty good as this is what he does for a living and when hes out of prison he&amp;#x27;s going to try and go back to it so this is really the only way he can redeem his brand. I expect him to put everything he has into the blog. its&amp;#x27; a good source of trading ideas.&lt;p&gt;TL&amp;#x2F;DR&lt;p&gt;- never sell options&lt;p&gt;- if you do then never sell naked options&lt;p&gt;- if you do make sure you can get out of your trade&lt;p&gt;- if you can&amp;#x27;t get out of your trade make sure you are well capitalized for loss absorption&lt;p&gt;- if don&amp;#x27;t have enough to cover your losses don&amp;#x27;t apologize for losing your clients money while wearing a $10,000 watch and post it for the rest of the world to see.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>tomp</author><text>&amp;gt; There is a scummy way of managing money that some CTA&amp;#x27;s use where you don&amp;#x27;t get the proper license to manage others money as a hedge fund and instead just have people put money into accounts and then they give you the right to trade.&lt;p&gt;That’s not scummy. Some clients want it set up that way, so that they have control over the money, they can terminate their account at any time or transfer control to another asset managemer, there’s no chance of the fund suspending withdrawals or something similar (which you could also say is scummy).</text></comment>

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<story><title>US has the highest rate of maternal deaths among rich nations. Norway has zero</title><url>https://www.cnn.com/2024/06/04/health/maternal-deaths-high-income-nations/index.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tyoma</author><text>Kind of relevant: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.noahpinion.blog&amp;#x2F;p&amp;#x2F;how-many-of-our-facts-about-society&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.noahpinion.blog&amp;#x2F;p&amp;#x2F;how-many-of-our-facts-about-so...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; In 2021, Joseph et al. published a paper in Obstetrics &amp;amp; Gynecology demonstrating that the entire recorded increase in maternal mortality since 2003 was due to a change in the way data was gathered. In 2003, U.S. states began to include pregnancy checkboxes on death certificates. This led to a whole lot more women who died while pregnant being identified as such. The apparent steady increase in maternal mortality was due to the fact that states adopted this new checkbox at different times:&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; In fact, when the authors looked at the common causes of death from pregnancy, they found that these had all declined since 2000, implying that U.S. maternal mortality has actually been falling. Meanwhile, a CDC report in 2020 had found the same thing as Joseph et al. (2021) — maternal mortality rose only in states that added the checkbox to death certificates.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>omnicognate</author><text>The CNN article is about this [1] study, which is based on OECD 2023 maternal mortality data. OECD says here [2] about &amp;quot;Definition and Comparability&amp;quot;:&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; Maternal mortality is defined as the death of a woman while pregnant or during childbirth or within 42 days of termination of pregnancy, irrespective of the duration and site of the pregnancy, from any cause related to or aggravated by the pregnancy or its management but not from unintentional or incidental causes. This includes direct deaths from obstetric complications of pregnancy, interventions, omissions or incorrect treatment. It also includes indirect deaths due to previously existing diseases, or diseases that developed during pregnancy, where these were aggravated by the effects of pregnancy.&lt;p&gt;Edit: [1] Also references [3], a 2022 CDC report saying over 80% of pregnancy-related deaths were determined to be preventable.&lt;p&gt;[1] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.commonwealthfund.org&amp;#x2F;publications&amp;#x2F;issue-briefs&amp;#x2F;2024&amp;#x2F;jun&amp;#x2F;insights-us-maternal-mortality-crisis-international-comparison&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.commonwealthfund.org&amp;#x2F;publications&amp;#x2F;issue-briefs&amp;#x2F;2...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;[2] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.oecd-ilibrary.org&amp;#x2F;sites&amp;#x2F;1ea5684a-en&amp;#x2F;index.html?itemId=&amp;#x2F;content&amp;#x2F;component&amp;#x2F;1ea5684a-en&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.oecd-ilibrary.org&amp;#x2F;sites&amp;#x2F;1ea5684a-en&amp;#x2F;index.html?i...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;[3] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.cdc.gov&amp;#x2F;maternal-mortality&amp;#x2F;php&amp;#x2F;data-research&amp;#x2F;?CDC_AAref_Val=https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.cdc.gov&amp;#x2F;reproductivehealth&amp;#x2F;maternal-mortality&amp;#x2F;erase-mm&amp;#x2F;data-mmrc.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.cdc.gov&amp;#x2F;maternal-mortality&amp;#x2F;php&amp;#x2F;data-research&amp;#x2F;?CD...&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>

<story><title>US has the highest rate of maternal deaths among rich nations. Norway has zero</title><url>https://www.cnn.com/2024/06/04/health/maternal-deaths-high-income-nations/index.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tyoma</author><text>Kind of relevant: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.noahpinion.blog&amp;#x2F;p&amp;#x2F;how-many-of-our-facts-about-society&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.noahpinion.blog&amp;#x2F;p&amp;#x2F;how-many-of-our-facts-about-so...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; In 2021, Joseph et al. published a paper in Obstetrics &amp;amp; Gynecology demonstrating that the entire recorded increase in maternal mortality since 2003 was due to a change in the way data was gathered. In 2003, U.S. states began to include pregnancy checkboxes on death certificates. This led to a whole lot more women who died while pregnant being identified as such. The apparent steady increase in maternal mortality was due to the fact that states adopted this new checkbox at different times:&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; In fact, when the authors looked at the common causes of death from pregnancy, they found that these had all declined since 2000, implying that U.S. maternal mortality has actually been falling. Meanwhile, a CDC report in 2020 had found the same thing as Joseph et al. (2021) — maternal mortality rose only in states that added the checkbox to death certificates.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>gorbachev</author><text>That may be relevant to something, but not to why the difference is so drastic between Norway and US.&lt;p&gt;It is indicative of the US healthcare system, however, that up until 2003 it wasn&amp;#x27;t even known, statistically, that women were actually dieing of childbirth.</text></comment>

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<story><title>Vulkan Progress Report #5</title><url>https://godotengine.org/article/vulkan-progress-report-5</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Havoc</author><text>&amp;gt;For me, Mojave on a 2017 15” MBP crashes hard about once a week.&lt;p&gt;That&amp;#x27;s insane. Think I&amp;#x27;ve seen one crash on my windows machines this year</text></item><item><author>pavlov</author><text>Apple’s code quality is way down. The OS has become more complex and distributed due to ambitious projects like userspace drivers and the separate “T” CPU that manages Touch Bar and security functions; yet they don’t seem to invest in stability versus churning out a release every autumn, damn the bugs and torpedoes.&lt;p&gt;For me, Mojave on a 2017 15” MBP crashes hard about once a week. I remember Windows 98 being roughly as stable. It’s immensely disappointing.</text></item><item><author>mkl</author><text>That&amp;#x27;s kind of terrifying. It&amp;#x27;s hard to understand how that could be possible in a modern OS.</text></item><item><author>rcarmo</author><text>This is looking really nice. I&amp;#x27;m a bit sad that Godot crashes on my kids&amp;#x27; MacBook Air (apparently there&amp;#x27;s a bug in the URL filtering subsystem that takes down the entire OS when Godot tries to reach its library - see &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;github.com&amp;#x2F;godotengine&amp;#x2F;godot&amp;#x2F;issues&amp;#x2F;24890&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;github.com&amp;#x2F;godotengine&amp;#x2F;godot&amp;#x2F;issues&amp;#x2F;24890&lt;/a&gt; for details)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jammygit</author><text>My father in laws windows laptop doesn’t crash, but slows down so much it’s unusable every windows update. He gave me his laptop to fix it recently and it took 6 hours to get the update through before it sped up again. We’re buying him a used MacBook now</text></comment>

<story><title>Vulkan Progress Report #5</title><url>https://godotengine.org/article/vulkan-progress-report-5</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Havoc</author><text>&amp;gt;For me, Mojave on a 2017 15” MBP crashes hard about once a week.&lt;p&gt;That&amp;#x27;s insane. Think I&amp;#x27;ve seen one crash on my windows machines this year</text></item><item><author>pavlov</author><text>Apple’s code quality is way down. The OS has become more complex and distributed due to ambitious projects like userspace drivers and the separate “T” CPU that manages Touch Bar and security functions; yet they don’t seem to invest in stability versus churning out a release every autumn, damn the bugs and torpedoes.&lt;p&gt;For me, Mojave on a 2017 15” MBP crashes hard about once a week. I remember Windows 98 being roughly as stable. It’s immensely disappointing.</text></item><item><author>mkl</author><text>That&amp;#x27;s kind of terrifying. It&amp;#x27;s hard to understand how that could be possible in a modern OS.</text></item><item><author>rcarmo</author><text>This is looking really nice. I&amp;#x27;m a bit sad that Godot crashes on my kids&amp;#x27; MacBook Air (apparently there&amp;#x27;s a bug in the URL filtering subsystem that takes down the entire OS when Godot tries to reach its library - see &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;github.com&amp;#x2F;godotengine&amp;#x2F;godot&amp;#x2F;issues&amp;#x2F;24890&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;github.com&amp;#x2F;godotengine&amp;#x2F;godot&amp;#x2F;issues&amp;#x2F;24890&lt;/a&gt; for details)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>foepys</author><text>My Windows PC at work didn&amp;#x27;t have a working start menu and task bar for about 3 weeks. Since the newest update I can at least use them now but search is still broken.&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s a known bug and the only workaround right now is to re-enable Bing search in the start menu which I cannot do due to company policy.&lt;p&gt;Windows is just as bad.</text></comment>

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<story><title>Moving The New York Times Games Platform to Google App Engine</title><url>https://open.nytimes.com/moving-the-new-york-times-games-platform-to-google-app-engine-e9337f2c9444</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>smn1234</author><text>The way you&amp;#x27;ve delivered this &amp;quot;experience&amp;quot; makes you sound like you either work for Google or were asked to make a sponsored statement - for credits or $.</text></item><item><author>neya</author><text>Hey community, let me share my experience with AppEngine. I work in a small firm, where we&amp;#x27;ve developed a massive Software Application comprising of 12 medium-sized apps. I went with Phoenix 1.3 w&amp;#x2F; the new umbrella architecture.&lt;p&gt;With AppEngine, the beauty is that you can have many custom named microservices under one AppEngine project and each microservices can have many versions. You can even decide how much percentage of traffic should be split between each of these microservices.&lt;p&gt;What&amp;#x27;s awesome is, in addition to the standard runtimes (Ruby, Python, Go, Java, etc.) Google also provides something called custom VMs for AppEngine, meaning you can push docker based setups into your AppEngine service, with basically any stack you want. This alone is a HUGE incentive to move to AppEngine because usually custom stack will require you to maintain the server side of things, but with Docker + AppEngine, zero devops. Their network panel is also very intuitive to add&amp;#x2F;delete rules to keep your app secured.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;ve been using AppEngine for over 4 years now and every time I tried a competitive offering (such as AWS Beanstalk, for example) I&amp;#x27;ve only been disappointed.&lt;p&gt;AppEngine is great for startups. For example, a lesser known feature within AppEngine is their real-time image processing service API. This allows you to scale&amp;#x2F;crop&amp;#x2F;resize images in real time and the service is offered free of charge (except for storage).&lt;p&gt;Works really well for web applications with basic image manipulation requirements.&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;cloud.google.com&amp;#x2F;appengine&amp;#x2F;docs&amp;#x2F;standard&amp;#x2F;python&amp;#x2F;images&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;cloud.google.com&amp;#x2F;appengine&amp;#x2F;docs&amp;#x2F;standard&amp;#x2F;python&amp;#x2F;imag...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;The best part is, you call your image with specific parameters that&amp;#x27;ll do transformations on the fly. For example, &amp;lt;image url&amp;gt;&amp;#x2F;image.jpg?s=120 will return a 120px image. Appending -c will give you a cropped version, etc.&lt;p&gt;I really hope to see AppEngine get more love from startups as it&amp;#x27;s a brilliant platform, much more performant than it&amp;#x27;s competitors&amp;#x27; offerings. For example, I was previously a huge proponent of Heroku and upon comparing numbers, I realized AppEngine is way more performant (in my use case). I&amp;#x27;m so glad we made the switch.&lt;p&gt;If you&amp;#x27;re looking&amp;#x2F;considering to move to AppEngine, let me know here and I&amp;#x27;ll try my best to answer your questions.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dang</author><text>Accusations of astroturfing or shilling are against the HN guidelines, so please don&amp;#x27;t comment like this here.&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&amp;#x2F;newsguidelines.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&amp;#x2F;newsguidelines.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;The reason is that the accusation is false orders of magnitude more often than it is true—because people falsely assume someone else can&amp;#x27;t possibly be holding an opposing view in good faith—and false accusations damage the community.</text></comment>

<story><title>Moving The New York Times Games Platform to Google App Engine</title><url>https://open.nytimes.com/moving-the-new-york-times-games-platform-to-google-app-engine-e9337f2c9444</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>smn1234</author><text>The way you&amp;#x27;ve delivered this &amp;quot;experience&amp;quot; makes you sound like you either work for Google or were asked to make a sponsored statement - for credits or $.</text></item><item><author>neya</author><text>Hey community, let me share my experience with AppEngine. I work in a small firm, where we&amp;#x27;ve developed a massive Software Application comprising of 12 medium-sized apps. I went with Phoenix 1.3 w&amp;#x2F; the new umbrella architecture.&lt;p&gt;With AppEngine, the beauty is that you can have many custom named microservices under one AppEngine project and each microservices can have many versions. You can even decide how much percentage of traffic should be split between each of these microservices.&lt;p&gt;What&amp;#x27;s awesome is, in addition to the standard runtimes (Ruby, Python, Go, Java, etc.) Google also provides something called custom VMs for AppEngine, meaning you can push docker based setups into your AppEngine service, with basically any stack you want. This alone is a HUGE incentive to move to AppEngine because usually custom stack will require you to maintain the server side of things, but with Docker + AppEngine, zero devops. Their network panel is also very intuitive to add&amp;#x2F;delete rules to keep your app secured.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;ve been using AppEngine for over 4 years now and every time I tried a competitive offering (such as AWS Beanstalk, for example) I&amp;#x27;ve only been disappointed.&lt;p&gt;AppEngine is great for startups. For example, a lesser known feature within AppEngine is their real-time image processing service API. This allows you to scale&amp;#x2F;crop&amp;#x2F;resize images in real time and the service is offered free of charge (except for storage).&lt;p&gt;Works really well for web applications with basic image manipulation requirements.&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;cloud.google.com&amp;#x2F;appengine&amp;#x2F;docs&amp;#x2F;standard&amp;#x2F;python&amp;#x2F;images&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;cloud.google.com&amp;#x2F;appengine&amp;#x2F;docs&amp;#x2F;standard&amp;#x2F;python&amp;#x2F;imag...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;The best part is, you call your image with specific parameters that&amp;#x27;ll do transformations on the fly. For example, &amp;lt;image url&amp;gt;&amp;#x2F;image.jpg?s=120 will return a 120px image. Appending -c will give you a cropped version, etc.&lt;p&gt;I really hope to see AppEngine get more love from startups as it&amp;#x27;s a brilliant platform, much more performant than it&amp;#x27;s competitors&amp;#x27; offerings. For example, I was previously a huge proponent of Heroku and upon comparing numbers, I realized AppEngine is way more performant (in my use case). I&amp;#x27;m so glad we made the switch.&lt;p&gt;If you&amp;#x27;re looking&amp;#x2F;considering to move to AppEngine, let me know here and I&amp;#x27;ll try my best to answer your questions.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>sunsetMurk</author><text>or a passionate user who had a great experience?! I love finding solutions which require less &amp;#x27;square peg round hole&amp;#x27;. Unfortunately, rare these days when piecing together a stack w&amp;#x2F; the myriad of platforms&amp;#x2F;frameworks&amp;#x2F;etc.</text></comment>