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A snapshot doesn't show the shared memory changes that may have caused the panic. There needs to be a synchronous log of all changes to shared memory to debug an issue.

Similar to having a snapshot of network traffic vs a recording of network traffic.


I like the idea of Google Developer Supper.


Or install uMatrix, by the author of uBlock. It spoofs your referrer all the time, unless you trust a site explicitly.


This used to be a feature of Google search. They removed it and published a Chrome add-on that does the same, client-side. I have switched back to Firefox and there are similar add-ons there too.


The redox flow batteries exhibit promising attributes for grid storage applications. These types of batteries don't suffer from thermal runaway in the same way lithium-ion do. Check out what RedFlow and ESS are doing in the market.


I don't mean to be rude but: why is this here? It would be a neat project to map out the changes in the types of stories and comments on HN over time. Over the years, HN has grown more and more in the direction of reddit front page and become less and less like an irc channel where people talk about technology.


>> Over the years, HN has grown more and more in the direction of reddit front page and become less and less like an irc channel where people talk about technology.

Here is HN snapshot from 2008: http://web.archive.org/web/20080105031416/https://news.ycomb...

The top submissions is "Obama's Victory Speech". I don't think it's very technological, at least in common sense.

Probably the only very true HN existed in 2007, for several month. Well, these were good times..


I feel like the comments are becoming more "reddit" than the submissions themselves. Seems like way more ideological up-voting/down-voting than there used to be ~2yr ago. It seems like on every issue there's a side (varies by issue) you can't criticize unless you water down your comment with weasel words.


Sadly I think that is the by product of a larger issue where in almost all things in life have become victim to this stance of us vs. them. People pretend to want to have civil conversations around opposing views, but the reality is it's more of a "i'll listen to your view as long as you know your view is wrong" type thing instead of honestly being open to having your mind or principle changed with the right information. The other side effect is everything becomes a political point of contention at some point. It's almost like a new take on Godwin's law where not only is there a probability of Nazi's being referenced.. it's simpler that a conversation will become Democrat vs. Republican. .. Though we know that will eventually lead to comparisons of Nazis at some point too.

I don't see this in real life though, it's only on hyper exposed platforms like the news, websites, social media. In person I find most people are actually still pretty civil (though It's largely based on who you associate with).

Don't debate me on my opinion or else it's obvious you're a shill of "insert something here" ;D


> Please don't submit comments saying that HN is turning into Reddit. It's a semi-noob illusion, as old as the hills.

(c) https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html, should be in FAQ too ;-)


I agree with you on the turning into the reddit part, but I have to say that the way I read the guidelines, this article fits the description for off-topic more so than it meets the description for on-topic.


I would argue that at least 110 people (as of this comment's posting) disagree with you. Yay democracy!


True, but the lack of a downvote button on posts means we'll never know how many agree. This community is far bigger than 110, so the vast majority (as with every post) abstained from the vote, and we'll never know their reasoning.


> less like an irc channel

How many IRC channels have you hung out in? Every channel I've ever been in with any sort of community has stuff like this pop up pretty regularly (things that may be "off-topic" by some definition, but are interesting, and spark some interesting conversation).

Channels where there are hard and fast rules about keeping the discussion strictly "on-topic" don't tend to be channels I hang out in. The same would be true for HN.


Seconded.

Any IRC channel I've been to that develops into a community spends 90+% time talking about everything else except the topic it's ostensibly about. It's weird from the POV of the newcomers, but for old-timers, most of the on-topic things were talked about to death many times over already.


It's amazing. It's a story that connects us with a more simple life, with an unreliable communication method and involving lots of luck.


Because it was HNers wanted it here?


It reminds the tech afictionados that there exists real value in primitive technology.

If all you have is a cell phone with no battery or no reception, you can't get help, you can't hail rides etc.


Surely you already know the reason it’s here? Someone submitted it and the community upvoted it. Chances are it’s probably interesting.


To be fair, the article mentioned the search team used night vision goggles and FLIR (forward looking infrared) technology :)


This family hacked a terrible situation and innovated a workaround that led to a satisfactory exit.


OP was talking SF, not the wider SV. That is a good rent though. That's 2009 SF prices. We were paying $4100 for four bedroom apartment back in 2009. That same apartment is going for double that now.

SF totally jumped the shark.


I just took a look at Park Merced to see what apartments and townhomes are going for there right now. You can get 3 bedroom homes there for under $5000 a month. Is it a trendy neighbourhood? No, but it does meet the criteria of being in SF. I'm sure you could find similar deals in other non-trendy areas like the Outer Sunset if you take the time to look.


Yeah, but Walnut Creek is the same travel time to downtown. And it gets more than 10 days of sunshine a year.

But even if my figure is wrong then it's only because I accidentally posted it from three or four years in the future. But I suppose it's good news that a one bedroom is only $40k a year rather than $60k. At the moment anyway. And if you made 100k, then it's only 2.5 times more than taxes and leaves you a full 40% of your salary to thrive on, so that's nice.


I still disagree. 30 seconds on padmapper shows 3 houses north of South San Francisco (maybe this also doesn't count as SF but I think it should still fall in that category) https://www.padmapper.com/apartments/san-francisco-ca/4+beds...


What is a good way to measure productivity?


# lines codes. no of pomodoros/day.


"Measuring programming progress by lines of code is like measuring aircraft building progress by weight."


which in reality, is a pretty effective way to do it. Really. (speaking of airplanes)


...where the fewer lines are written to achieve a well-working solution, the better.


Perhaps, but measuring productivity by lines of code is a problem only if there are incentives tied to the metric: if you have a system with other incentives and have two people working in the same language, lines of code is a perfectly reasonable way to judge the productivity of a programmer.


Nope. Things can be solved any number of ways. Often a simple solution with minor changes is better than a quicky designed bandaid with 10 times the LOC

It can be a metric, but it doesn't indicate productivity by itself. It's hard to use even correlated to other metrics, but loses its value if compared out of context and without knowing the code quality


that shouldn't change day by day ?

Ofcourse noone an help you if you are trying to cheat your own system.


If your goal units are newline characters or alarm bells ringing, possibly.


This is ridiculous. More LoC != productivity. If anything, you make your future teammate's life miserable, when they inherit your technical debt.


How often have you tried in non-emergency situations? I got 50% of at UCSF seeing a specialist there.


My dentists always gave me 10% off for paying cash. Collection agencies often gave me 10 to 20% for paying the whole balance by credit card on the phone. Hospital sometimes gave me 25% for paying a year old balance within 1 month. These were all insurance repriced bills, except of the dental. Many bills were over 1 year old, because of billing errors and numerous back and forth between me, service provider and insurance company.


To prevent many such bothers you can enable Fanboy's Annoyances list in uBlock Origin.

Please don't miss the irony of you complaining about full screen modals on an article discussing xenophobic genocide. You may experience some down votes for venting your first world problems at a poorly chosen time.


Thank you for making this reply. I knew the comment was in poor taste but you really captured why nicely.


It's practically the Always Sunny pilot, where Charlie is reeling from a cancer diagnosis yet all Dennis can think of is mooching some sugar from him for his coffee.


It's interesting that "genocide" is the term you chose, when the mass killings haven't started yet. Maybe it's because that feels like the inevitable outcome of the current situation, just as the internment camps were the inevitable outcome of the apartheid-like segregated society described in the article?


> the mass killings haven't started yet

That all depends on your perspective. Xinjiang used to be where the Dzunghar Mongols lived. The Uyghurs are just the people who filled the vacuum.


Genocide is any attempt to destroy a group of people or their culture. Killing is one method of commiting genocide, but imprisoning members of a culture in an attempt to destroy that culture is also considered genocide.


Where did you find a definition about the culture? Searching genocide on google brings up only definitions including killing, and the word itself means killing people not culture.


No, genocide has a pretty precise definition, actually.

I'm sure I'll get downmodded to hell for pointing this out, but what's happening in xinjiang right now is a mass internment, with terrorism as the casus belli. It might turn into ethnic cleansing in the near future. It's unlikely to turn into genocide, and it's definitely not right now.


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