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Ask HN: Why has Medium become such a trash fire?
A lot of Medium links I end up landing on seem to be really poorly-written and poorly-researched.

The paywall really irritates me and I really wonder how content creators feel.

Is anyone making any money from Medium (aside of Medium themselves)?

Further, a lot of out-of-band commentary seems to focus on how Medium is just a dumping ground of trashy content.

What happened and how do we escape this?
Why do they even exist?
Note that was china the region and the reason was most of the time war - either internal between different kingdoms or with the various steppe people and ultimately the Europeans.
A Russian court refused to protect the intellectual rights of “Peppa Pig”
More like how did Western Europe become the richest part of the world?

I read the article but most of those things doesn't apply to the Balkan and East Europe. And you still have the wealth difference to this day. Treating Europe as one is kinda simplistic.
What people don't get is at the time, the state power mattered more than companies, territorial expansion and reach was one of the prime goal.
Imagine a woman in the 1890s, mother of 6, traveling alone around the world in a heavy single speed bicycle, breaking the world record and arriving 14 days ahead of schedule. Absolutely amazing.
Ditto for desktop environments. The Xfce forum makes Xfce better (thanks ToZ!).
I've been using it for about an year and consider the search among its worst features. Otherwise it's not that bad. Certainly worse than discord. Haven't used slack in 4 years. Not sure what it's like now
More technologically advanced yes, richer no.
She did not consent:

> The scientist forged documents from an ethics review panel to recruit couples for the research
I hear this all the time, but I have never in my life met a single whatsapp user. Is this one of those things thats huge outside the US?
We have four cats and one of them very much wants to be in the bed with me on a nightly basis. The other ones also do, to some extent, but the one that I let in will destroy things in an attempt to enter if the door is closed.

Once in, she's polite and sleeps at the end of the bed or on my legs if she's feeling a bit more affectionate that night. I don't mind having her in the bed.

Two of the remaining three are No Fun to have around when I'm trying to sleep. One will wake up very early and start knocking things off of my night stand in an attempt to get me to feed her. The other one will go into POWER GROOMING mode as soon as he gets into the bed. It's loud, his breath isn't the best, and he won't stop. He grooms himself, thoroughly, for what seems like an eternity. To save myself the headache, I just kick these two out and they will find somewhere else to sleep.

The last one doesn't come upstairs often, but he's not annoying to have around when he does.

It's easy to say that "a cat is a cat" but they really do have their own habits and personalities.
The weaponry and fleets were advanced. But Europe was still not wealthier or more advanced than the Middle East, or East Asia as a culture.
Probably want to amend the title to reflect that this is from 2018
What's the takeaway here? Don't trust fat people?
Fzf is brilliant. Recently I found fzrepl (https://github.com/danielfgray/fzf-scripts/blob/master/fzrep...), which blew my mind. It uses fzf and its preview window to create a repl for other programs, such as jq. That's great for figuring out a query for jq since I use it so rarely.
Yeah, I wanted to emphasize the difference between the kubernetes resource and the actual things that the controllers create based on the existence and attributes of those resources. I suppose "materialization" is a good word for it; you create a resource, and if it's something that actually needs something to execute, it is eventually materialized as a container scheduled to run on a kubelet, or an EBS volume, or some other actual thing that the appropriate controller creates.

I like the core idea of Kubernetes (eventually consistent declarative infrastructure) though I'm not fully sold on the implementation and the tooling around it.
What the article basically comes to say is exponential growth, where Europe had a slightly larger base number due to the constant wars so over the decades and centuries the difference showed up.
I am so bored with people criticising RISC-V based on tiny code snippets of things that basically never happen in real code.

A function that does nothing but return an array element from an array base address and index passed to it? Really? Do you actually write junk like that? And if you write it does your compiler really not inline it? Why? Do you like big slow code? Once it's inlined, it's probably in a loop, and strength-reduced.

It's very easy to verify that in the real-world RISC-V code is more compact than amd64 and arm64. Just download the same version of Ubuntu or Fedora (etc) for each one and run the "size" command on the binaries. The RISC-V ones are consistently significantly smaller.

You can also, with quite a bit more work, count the number of µops each ISA executes. RISC-V executes slightly more instructions, but they are each simple and don't need expanding. Lots of x86 instructions get expanded into multiple µops and many 64 bit ARM instructions do too. In the end the number of µops executed by each is very similar.

Trying to judge the goodness of a modern ISA by looking at two or three instruction snippets is as silly as using Dhrystone as your only benchmark program.
Thanks for taking the time to write all that. Very helpful
A Handbook on Formal Consensus Decisionmaking
Agreed. I just finished reading "the English and their history" by Robert Tombs, along with many of the references he uses, and I was frankly shocked at how little revenue from the colonial era was generated abroad. I highly recommend the book to everyone.

All of my modern education left me with the idea that we, like postit mentions, had squeezed every colonial nation for everything it was worth and left nothing but husks; producing little to nothing of value ourselves. In actual fact, with the exception of British India in the 1700/1800s, the revenue made from colonies was a fraction of a percentage of Britain's GDP. The same can be said of much of Europe.

Europeans became and stayed wealthy by producing goods internally and trading between themselves, and England particularly by the invention of steam power, mechanised factories, improved tooling, and better iron and chemical processes. It's difficult to fathom in the modern era such a technological leap.
Needs a (2018) in the title
That whole tactics vs strategy thing is IMO a red herring, it's an attempt at creating a distinction where none exists.

You have policies that are exclusive of other policies, sometimes they are quick to change, sometimes they are longer commitments.
> After years of tantalizing hints that a passwordless future is just around the corner, you're probably still not feeling any closer to that digital unshackling.

"Unshackling" is an interesting choice of word to use in support of a system which forces you to carry around a device, perhaps physically attached to your wrist, which sites can identify the make and model of using a DRM-like system to ensure you have bought it from an approved whitelisted vendor.[0]

> The main concept that FIDO believes will ultimately solve the new device issue is for operating systems to implement a “FIDO credential” manager, which is somewhat similar to a built-in password manager. Instead of literally storing passwords, this mechanism will store cryptographic keys that can sync between devices and are guarded by your device’s biometric or passcode lock.

So instead of supporting half a dozen whitelisted vendors, the new idea is to become dependent on just three large US-based operating system vendors (Microsoft, Apple, and Google), who will lock up all your keys and make it awkward to switch to a competitor. However, they won't be able to help you at all unless you let them scan your forehead or your right hand, and keep an encrypted record of those digital biometrics. Just make sure you check what the Terms of Service updates say, and read the National Security Letters that those companies are sent.

[0] https://research.kudelskisecurity.com/2020/02/12/fido2-deep-...
> Your wording makes it a bit unclear, just for clarity: this means that GP is wrong, it's definitely better for the climate to have your old car crushed and buy a new car. The amount of CO2 expended during manufacturing of your car is not significant on the lifetime of the car.

I did not claim climate-friendliness, but environmental friendliness though.
Best book on this subject may be Year 501 by Noam Chomsky. It's a history of western colonisation.

The west was able to control most of the globe due to their advances in weapons, and their brutal tactics, which many indigenous people decried as "too furious".

Remember the colonial wars were considered small wars by the standards of the west.
> Trying to use a 50 year plan is also a weakness. Technologies developed between now and then will make many goals obsolete before their finished.

It's not that simple. If something changes within the 50 years (and it certainly will), they can pivot away and work on something else.

It's more that they have a relatively unified, authoritarian government with absolute power and no external checks and balances.

At our other extreme, we have a two-party deadlock stretching back decades, and every major policy gets turned back after 4-8 years when the other party regains power. It's impossible to plan or build for the future that way.

We used to be able to send people to the moon, develop nuclear power, build interstates and dams, win not just wars but hearts and minds, rebuild Germany and Japan... and now... we can't even evacuate Afghanistan, can't stop our citizens from being so pissed off they storm the capitol, can't do anything about climate change, can't have a sane discussion about educational curricula, can't maintain infrastructure, can't keep our people off the streets, can't deal with a pandemic...

We've become good at one thing and one thing only: allowing private actors to optimize for massive short-term profits at the expense of society and the future. That's no way to run a country. We've turned citizens into gladiators fighting over scraps.

Not saying we should emulate Chinese authoritarianism, but having a national vision lasting more than one election cycle isn't a bad thing. Being able to unite a country behind a major social project isn't a bad thing. Being able to even THINK of a country as a country, instead of warring factions, isn't a bad thing.
Are you sure?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phileas_Fogg
> Do I need to worry that ddg is becoming the next google?

OP is clearly looking for feedback as to the evolution of the product. Related information is relevant. It's sad that has to be explained.
Many towns on the east coast have “police benevolent societies” and they ask for donations around Christmas. A decent donation gets you a sticker that goes nicely on your driver side window. This helps the officer understand you weren’t clear on the law and will do better next time.
It’s an efficiency measure so that cops don’t have to spend time “fixing” tickets when they learn after the fact that the person was a family member or close friend of a fellow cop./s
How so? I think this is more or less correct.

I never even considered how people could fail at those tests (e.g. privacy procedures) until I saw someone that was truly not interested in them take them.

Now I understand why the stupid things require you to spend at least 2 seconds looking at the answer slowly fading in before they allow you to click.

For some people the solution is not understanding the material. It’s just clicking every answer in rapid succession until they get the magic combination.
This is an interesting aspect, and some good projects do come from Europe

But open source projects still need a roadmap, focus and maintenance, regardless of how they are funded.
Overtone (https://github.com/overtone/overtone), for me, is by far the most elegantly designed music software.
It's also just an incredibly filthy place to live.

The streets all smell like piss and walking at night means seeing tons of rats.

The subways are absolutely disgusting and there's always a car that reeks of shit (you can tell because that car will have far fewer people than the surrounding cars).

I don't know if New Yorkers have never visited any other cities, or if they're just so blind from all the NYC-exceptionalism (Ayy if you can make it in New York, you can make it anywhere!!!) but that city is disgusting.
It isn't odd at all, this is the kind of usual narrative when selling stuff to an audience that only has a passing knowledge of all issues.

So anyone that isn't deep into ARM architecture will indeed buy into the arguments being made, as they can't assert otherwise.
So that's why scandinavia is so rich today - because they were raiding/pillaging europe starting in the 8th century?
It is huge in Central Europe at least. Pretty much everyone is on it, you would be left out of a lot of functions if you didn't have access to it (eg my kids childcare has its parents' chat groups there, my building block has a group there. In online dating, asking for a number to move the discussion to Whatsapp is pretty common... Heck, last time I brought my bike into the repair shop, they asked me if it was okay if they sent me the status report via Whatsapp).

To be fair though, while Whatsapp is the default messenger for pretty much everyone, both signal and telegram also have their users, especially with younger people. Eg the volunteers for helping the Ukrainian refugees in my city organize via telegram, and the above-mentioned bikeshop ended up messaging me via Signal.
As a non-american this is ridiculous, and I want more details. What crimes do they cover? Just traffic? Or can I going shoplifting? Or settle a score with someone?
Polar Express – How Airlines are plotting a new-route to Asia
Yes, that's why I had children. This way the cats can pretend that someone else didn't feed them and get a second helping.
Microsoft’s threat model operates on the idea that its source code is not protected.
French police charge seven in Netflix ‘Lupin’ set heist
> How many teams have free desks around waiting for unexpected developers to show up?

If I’m hiring a new person I generally have desk space available before they show up. Even if that involves fitting 7 people in the space for 6.
Oh good, another todo app.
Ghosts at the Liquor Store
The computer is only as smart as the person who programmed it.
Thank you.

> even a moving walkway

You've got to love Japan :D

>the OpenStreetMap data for some locations is multilingual, you might want to give users the option of choosing the display language for the choices.

This is something I planned to. I actually do it for Ireland. I show the Irish and English version of the name. And the sign is in the style of real Irish street signs. I just need to do this for more countries.

> Also, you might offer a wider range of landmarks for people to choose from. In Japan, the names of districts, buildings, parks, railways stations, bus stops, rivers, and mountains would be nice to include.

I'm going to look into expanding the objects but it's tough to keep everyone happy. It can be area-dependent.

>that highlighting did not appear and the dotted line just went off to the left side of the screen

Wow, not sure what's happened here. Will fix.
The reasons given seem fairly compelling: (1) multiple, competitive peer states, (2) freedom of travel for intellectuals, and (3) a shared intellectual tradition creating a marketplace of ideas, propelled by high literacy and the printing press.

My read would be that pre-Enlightenment examples are fundamentally different in that the Enlightenment wasn't a momentary advancement, as previous regional jostlings were, but a growth hack.

It permanently increased the growth rate of knowledge in Europe, which then outscaled everyone else.

I'd be curious about opinions more knowledgeable than mine opining on the above conditions vis certain periods in Chinese and Middle Eastern history. They would seem to equally qualify. And if they were equally possessed there, then the conditions must be incorrect or incomplete.
Who is "everyone"? I do agree with her points, and I'm seeing a fair amount of people here agreeing with her as well.

Don't try and convert your subjective disagreement into an universal fact. It's bad discussion form.

Accept that your opinion isn't a fact and move on.
Actions and tactics in this sense are different. An action at a strategy level might be "cull products not aligned with a focus on the athli-leisure market" or "create a new line of footwear positioned around the fashion tastes of the West Coast market", or "investigate new formulations to reduce reliance on lithium".

They're not tactical - no-one has yet made a decision on how those things will be done, or what elements of the business will enact them, or what the management and operational implications will be and how they'll be dealt with.

It's a level of abstraction above tactics.
For free? Hell no, I work for GitHub stars.
MossChat – Customer Support via Telegram Bot
Man, this shadowy cabal was so good, they started a global pandemic that brought the world economy under its control, made everyone fall in line behind pandemic mandates, shut up all dissent and turned everyone into zombies who now work three times as hard.

That's exactly what happened, right?
Imagine being 24 and having 6 children.

Prize would be roughly $300,000 today.
>> “Anonymous” is misleading because the user’s IP, user agent and browser fingerprint is also transmitted.

> If that’s all the identifying data and it is discarded, then it’s anonymous.

So by that standard google analytics is also "anonymous"?
I find Apple Watch + auto sleep to be very accurate and automatic.
The "politifact" article doesn't cite sources. Click on the links and you will receive 404 errors from NASA.

Also, "politifact" is not a reputable source. They are funded by facebook, microsoft and other multinational corporations that are owned by Blackrock and Vanguard as well as various "foundations" that receive tax free donations from old money's corporate investments. https://www.politifact.com/who-pays-for-politifact/ Politifact is a multinational corporate propaganda outlet masquerading as a public service. Their track record on COVID and the mRNA vaccines is also an abomination.

Correct, the 30's/40's data was changed and in only one direction (colder) as the NASA sourced articles I linked from different time periods proves.

The original, unaltered data was always taken at sunset. They came up with other excuses to decrease the temperature of the original data readings from the 30's and 40's.

I can't prove intent, but I can point to the hundreds of millions in grant money that the NSF only gives to scientists willing to produce results supporting its hypothesis of anthropogenic warming.

I've been proven correct anyway about the bogus climate models. It's time to admit it is possible you have been snookered. https://www.cato.org/commentary/are-climate-models-overpredi...
“They are treating active members like s–t, and retired members even worse than s–t”

Right? By suggesting they need to follow the law like everybody else. What shitty, shitty treatment.
There's no way these things should even exist in the first place, but "Get Out of Jail" is a little bit disingenuous.

> The cards are often used to wiggle out of minor trouble such as speeding tickets
can you expand how you were blocked? not allowed to send patches and PR's? because your work was copyrighted by your university?
> ...want social and interpersonal connections with their colleagues and managers

Many people want it. Say you get a remote position and move from NYC to Colorado.

How do you make friends? How do you get inside the local social circle? How do you get laid in a way that enables you to still look yourself in the mirror with respect (meaning not resorting to Tinder, dating websites or escorts).

Work gives individuals a sense of meaning but also a sense of commonality with others. Working towards a common goal with other people is a very powerful feeling. It's a watered down version of the High School locker room, you get to experience the elation of the wins and the sadness of the losses together, and sure it's watered down but it's still there. A total shift to remote would completely obliterate the concept.

Remote is favored by those whose social life is essentially over (married people with kids)
That was how I used to believe. What I didn't understand at the time is that there is a difference between "being comfortable" and "being complacent" - and that in order to achieve things or grow yourself, you don't necessarily have to be in a position of discomfort. The self-mortification theory ("push it to the limit, leave your comfort zone") in its extreme, as propagated by growth evangelists (and as it originally came from the field of high-performance sports) is anti-life and wrong.

People are not bonsai trees - and bonsai trees are unnatural freaks of nature. We don't have to contort ourselves to live up to an externally imposed ideal. We can - firmly grounded - become greater than these ideals, simply by growing steadily - at our own speed, and with our own, "natural", methods - even within the speeds at which we feel comfortable.

So: DO listen to your gut feelings. Examine them. And listen to them.
I've heard some don't even consider these parts Europe. Maybe don't think about our corner at all, or not in this context. The ottomans really did a number on us. 400-500 years of nothing while the rest of the continent was booming, more or less
Honestly I buy one every year. Live in a fairly small town in north Jersey. Most cars have the sticker. Never in my life been pulled over. It’s a stupid racket but wth am I going to do to change it? Play my $250 a year I guess.
I owned a small retail business in an east coast city for a while, and it was made clear to me that if I didn't donate to the benevolent society, any needed police assistance could be less than forthcoming.
Try Searx:

https://github.com/searx/searx

https://searx.space/
OK thanks but I do need to compute all of this. Plus some roads are broken into a lot of segments so I have to do more work first in finding & joining them up. Hopefully I could do all of it but just saying, it might be too much.
Create a feedback form with Flutter and Firebase
That makes sense why it's passed me by then. I do find it fascinating how different systems still take hold in different places even in the age of the global web tying us all together. Just from following the war in Ukraine and seeing how tightly the Slavic world has grabbed on to Telegram was enlightening too.
Would be interesting if you could make this work similar to SolarCity. If own any plot of land, some company will give you a robot for free that will take care of planting seeds and harvesting the crops, and it'll pay for itself over time by taking some portion of the production.
This website is called Hacker News!
Huh. Is the CA plate visibly distinguishable from normal state plates or is it some sort of flag that comes up when they run the number?
Googler opinions are my own.

I think they're making Gmail their collaboration/communication software. You have email, chat, and meet all in there.

I agree, I don't totally understand why they're doing it. That's my best guess.