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30,227,988 | 30,227,843 | 1 | 3 | 30,224,637 | train | <story><title>Bitcoin's fungibility graveyard</title><url>https://sethforprivacy.com/posts/fungibility-graveyard/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>timoth3y</author><text>The author of this article minsunnderstinds what fungibility means. &#x27;<p>Fungibility does not mean non-unique or non-traceable.<p>Fungibility means that a given asset is legally identical to all other instances of the same thing.<p>For example, every $20 bill and every share of Apple stock has a serial number that uniquely identifies it, but that uniqueness is legally irrelevant. You broker has no obligation to give you a specific share of stock nor your bank a specific $20 bill. Financial securities are fungible.<p>Bitcoin is fungible.<p>== Edit:<p>Commentators are confusing fungibility and traceability. They are very different concepts. Non Fungible Tokens are just as traceable as Bitcoin, but they are non-fungable.<p>I wrote a detailed article about this [1] a few weeks ago if you want to gory details.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.disruptingjapan.com&#x2F;what-three-card-monte-can-teach-you-about-nfts&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.disruptingjapan.com&#x2F;what-three-card-monte-can-te...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>garren</author><text>Fungible simply means “interchangeable”, legality has nothing to do with it [0] (especially, it seems to me, in regards to a system that doesn’t seem explicitly subject to legal constraints like bitcoin.)<p>One bitcoin is, in theory, interchangeable with any other without a loss of value. However, bitcoins with a dubious history of transactions can, and apparently are, being refused in some circumstances. Clearly some bitcoins have less utility, less value, than others.<p>The traceability of a bitcoin leads to it possibly being rejected in some transactions, not because ant given bitcoin is (again, in theory) no different than any other, but because one bitcoin’s history may be tainted.<p>The “blood diamond” analogy seems appropriate - such a diamond remains a diamond, and is technically no different from a comparable “clean” diamond, but reputable dealers and customers will avoid them. Effectively rendering these diamonds of less value than others.<p>In theory bitcoins are fungible. In practice they are not.<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.merriam-webster.com&#x2F;dictionary&#x2F;fungible" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.merriam-webster.com&#x2F;dictionary&#x2F;fungible</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Bitcoin's fungibility graveyard</title><url>https://sethforprivacy.com/posts/fungibility-graveyard/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>timoth3y</author><text>The author of this article minsunnderstinds what fungibility means. &#x27;<p>Fungibility does not mean non-unique or non-traceable.<p>Fungibility means that a given asset is legally identical to all other instances of the same thing.<p>For example, every $20 bill and every share of Apple stock has a serial number that uniquely identifies it, but that uniqueness is legally irrelevant. You broker has no obligation to give you a specific share of stock nor your bank a specific $20 bill. Financial securities are fungible.<p>Bitcoin is fungible.<p>== Edit:<p>Commentators are confusing fungibility and traceability. They are very different concepts. Non Fungible Tokens are just as traceable as Bitcoin, but they are non-fungable.<p>I wrote a detailed article about this [1] a few weeks ago if you want to gory details.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.disruptingjapan.com&#x2F;what-three-card-monte-can-teach-you-about-nfts&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.disruptingjapan.com&#x2F;what-three-card-monte-can-te...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>sb057</author><text>&gt;Fungibility means that a given asset is legally identical to all other instances of the same thing.<p>There are a number of bitcoin addresses that the United States has blacklisted. If you interact with them (including receiving bitcoin that once passed through those wallets at any point in the past) those assets are subject to seizure.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;home.treasury.gov&#x2F;policy-issues&#x2F;financial-sanctions&#x2F;recent-actions&#x2F;20211108" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;home.treasury.gov&#x2F;policy-issues&#x2F;financial-sanctions&#x2F;...</a></text></comment> |
5,465,817 | 5,465,782 | 1 | 3 | 5,465,716 | train | <story><title>Worst CAPTCHA Ever</title><url>http://svedic.org/programming/worst-captcha-ever</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>_ikke_</author><text>Well, it is a good way to tell computers and humans apart. Computers can read it, while humans can't.<p>They should reject corectly filled in captchas.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>wyck</author><text>Well maybe they are really good and this is a honeypot.</text></comment> | <story><title>Worst CAPTCHA Ever</title><url>http://svedic.org/programming/worst-captcha-ever</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>_ikke_</author><text>Well, it is a good way to tell computers and humans apart. Computers can read it, while humans can't.<p>They should reject corectly filled in captchas.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>fosap</author><text>That's a great idea. If i was ever to create a product for colorblinds only i'd use that.</text></comment> |
11,362,724 | 11,362,247 | 1 | 2 | 11,361,587 | train | <story><title>NPM Package Hijacking From the Hijacker's Perspective</title><url>https://medium.com/@nm_johnson/npm-package-hijacking-from-the-hijackers-perspective-af0c48ab9922#.9jhs5aff4</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>api</author><text>Security in a complex interdependent software ecosystem is untenable.<p>Period.<p>NodeJS&#x2F;npm is in no way unique here. Apt, yum, gem, Homebrew, Docker hub, etc. are just as bad if not worse, not to mention &quot;git clone&quot; followed by &quot;.&#x2F;configure&quot; or &quot;make.&quot; Any time you bring down code onto your machine and execute it you are... well... bringing down code onto your machine and executing it.<p>I&#x27;ve been increasingly thinking that this could be a very fertile area for AI research. Security is really an AI hard problem. There is no combination of sandboxing, permissions, auditing, formulaic static code analysis, firewall hacks, etc. that will yield a system that is both (a) usable&#x2F;convenient and (b) secure.<p>Take &#x27;npm&#x27; for instance. It&#x27;s amazingly convenient but it (and all other packagers like it) is a security nightmare. Operating securely would require one to set up a shadow mirror of the entire NodeJS ecosystem and then have someone ($$$$$) manually audit <i>every single thing in there</i> that you are going to use and <i>every single change</i> that comes down from above. That&#x27;s not tenable for anyone but the most lavishly funded organizations, and anything like that is universally reviled by developers since it slows them down. I&#x27;ve worked in environments like that before (government), and we had people quit because it was just &quot;impossible to do my work.&quot;</text></comment> | <story><title>NPM Package Hijacking From the Hijacker's Perspective</title><url>https://medium.com/@nm_johnson/npm-package-hijacking-from-the-hijackers-perspective-af0c48ab9922#.9jhs5aff4</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>jwcrux</author><text>I&#x27;m not a JS dev, but would it be possible for a malicious actor to create a pre&#x2F;post install script that looks for packages published by the current user and &quot;worms&quot; its way into those pre&#x2F;post install scripts?<p>If this were possible, something like this could have the potential to infect quite a few npm modules.</text></comment> |
10,349,129 | 10,349,234 | 1 | 3 | 10,349,026 | train | <story><title>Volkswagen – detects when your tests are being run in CI, and makes them pass</title><url>https://github.com/auchenberg/volkswagen</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>mikeryan</author><text>The joke was done a few days ago (I have no idea if this was the first either but its the first I saw)<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;hmlb&#x2F;phpunit-vw" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;hmlb&#x2F;phpunit-vw</a><p>(To those that don&#x27;t get the joke, Volkswagon just got popped for cheating their emissions tests by detecting when they were in a test vs real world environment)</text></comment> | <story><title>Volkswagen – detects when your tests are being run in CI, and makes them pass</title><url>https://github.com/auchenberg/volkswagen</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>Luc</author><text>I suppose this would be fair use of the Volkswagen trademark for parody, were it not for the fact that the VW brand is so well known that that would outweigh the parody exemption?<p>(I&#x27;m not a lawyer, but I need to protect some IP rights regularly, so trademark law interest me.)</text></comment> |
7,080,563 | 7,079,474 | 1 | 3 | 7,078,744 | train | <story><title>Terry Tao on how to compute non-converging infinite sums (2010)</title><url>http://terrytao.wordpress.com/2010/04/10/the-euler-maclaurin-formula-bernoulli-numbers-the-zeta-function-and-real-variable-analytic-continuation/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>drakaal</author><text>String theory likes this math because it assumes that there is a curve to the sum, it will get smaller eventually. This helps make the &quot;vibration&quot; part of sting theory work.<p>But just because you can prove something with math doesn&#x27;t mean it is &quot;real&quot;.<p>We all know that if you add any number of positive integers you get a positive integer. This is very &quot;provable&quot;.<p>The two are in contradiction. The sum of all natural numbers can&#x27;t be 1&#x2F;12th if the sum of any two positive integers is another positive integer.</text></comment> | <story><title>Terry Tao on how to compute non-converging infinite sums (2010)</title><url>http://terrytao.wordpress.com/2010/04/10/the-euler-maclaurin-formula-bernoulli-numbers-the-zeta-function-and-real-variable-analytic-continuation/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>mpyne</author><text>Wonderful article, though I got slightly distraught once he got through all that hard math only to state essentially that it would get more interesting below the fold.<p>I used to understand some of that (Taylor and Maclaurin series). I think the &quot;Integral Test&quot; had been my high-water mark, it&#x27;s amazing to see how much further the mathematical concepts can be carried.</text></comment> |
5,536,931 | 5,536,933 | 1 | 2 | 5,536,734 | train | <story><title>Poll: What is your age? </title><text>It would be interesting to know which age group(s) HN readers consist mostly of. Please be honest and click one answer only!</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>sbashyal</author><text>I created HN Charts to visualize HN Poll data. Click the following link to see the result of this poll in an easy to read chart: <a href="http://hnlike.com/hncharts/chart/?id=5536734" rel="nofollow">http://hnlike.com/hncharts/chart/?id=5536734</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jjcm</author><text>Can you provide a link back to the original poll somewhere on the page?</text></comment> | <story><title>Poll: What is your age? </title><text>It would be interesting to know which age group(s) HN readers consist mostly of. Please be honest and click one answer only!</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>sbashyal</author><text>I created HN Charts to visualize HN Poll data. Click the following link to see the result of this poll in an easy to read chart: <a href="http://hnlike.com/hncharts/chart/?id=5536734" rel="nofollow">http://hnlike.com/hncharts/chart/?id=5536734</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>pjmlp</author><text>Oh man, no wonder many on HN are unaware of how technology on the 80 and 90 was like.</text></comment> |
37,914,398 | 37,914,859 | 1 | 2 | 37,913,659 | train | <story><title>Working in Silicon Valley was fun. Now it's just another miserable corporate gig</title><url>https://www.businessinsider.com/tech-workers-employees-dissatisfied-jobs-new-data-labor-market-glassdoor-2023-10</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>happytiger</author><text>This is, and the article points it out, the direct result of an excess number of managers and the explosion of management after the pandemic.<p>Silicon Valley was amazing because you could actually DO things and make an impact, but too much hiring added useless layers to the system. American management theory always tries to do this every tech cycle. That doesn’t work well with technical craft.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ot1138</author><text>Not only an excess number of managers, but an excess number of poorly performing and poorly trained engineers.<p>2018-2022 was peak shit eating time for managers. I had to put up with no end of candidates who couldn&#x27;t pass even the easiest technical exams (and we intentionally made them easy to weed out only the pretenders). Candidates would ghost interviews and after receiving an offer, would lean on it for a higher salary for anyone else. They wanted $250-300k with just five years experience. It was the frothiest and least professional recruiting environment I had seen in 35 years.</text></comment> | <story><title>Working in Silicon Valley was fun. Now it's just another miserable corporate gig</title><url>https://www.businessinsider.com/tech-workers-employees-dissatisfied-jobs-new-data-labor-market-glassdoor-2023-10</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>happytiger</author><text>This is, and the article points it out, the direct result of an excess number of managers and the explosion of management after the pandemic.<p>Silicon Valley was amazing because you could actually DO things and make an impact, but too much hiring added useless layers to the system. American management theory always tries to do this every tech cycle. That doesn’t work well with technical craft.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>davidivadavid</author><text>Hacker News really is like clockwork. Random &quot;tech&quot; industry problem? Gotta be &quot;managers&quot; or &quot;designers.&quot; Engineers can do no wrong.</text></comment> |
41,040,581 | 41,038,533 | 1 | 2 | 41,033,005 | train | <story><title>Unconditional Cash Study: first findings available</title><url>https://www.openresearchlab.org/studies/unconditional-cash-study/study</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jimt1234</author><text>Back in my college speech class, a woman gave a presentation basically supporting the &quot;welfare today is a disincentive to work&quot; myth, with emphasis on &quot;today&quot; (or current), while totally destroying the notion that welfare recipients don&#x27;t &quot;want&quot; to work. She was a stay-at-home mom with 2 kids, her husband commit suicide after serving in Iraq and then being pushed out of the military (this was the 90s when the US military was actively drawing down). She basically said that the current welfare system (in the 90s, in California) didn&#x27;t allow a way to slowly move off welfare. She said she had many offers for part-time work, and work that didn&#x27;t earn a lot of money, but both had potential for her to eventually be promoted to full-time or to make more money than welfare paid her. But she said there was no way to do this: welfare was either all or nothing. But most of all, she dispelled the myth that she was some sort of leech that didn&#x27;t want to work. She wanted to work, but the welfare system didn&#x27;t allow it.<p>Your comment didn&#x27;t necessarily imply it, but a lot of the discourse these days tries to imply (or directly claims) that recipients are the problem, they&#x27;re a bunch of lazy bums that don&#x27;t want to contribute. That&#x27;s just not true.</text></item><item><author>bko</author><text>Why is the goal to get people to quit their jobs and get a nice apartment?<p>Isn&#x27;t it supposed to be a minimum base level of support? Why do we keep moving the goal posts?<p>And if everyone quits their job and lives in a nice apartment, where is this money going to come from? The problem with welfare today is that its a disincentive to work. Start working, you lose your transfer payments. A lot of people are stuck in this trap and don&#x27;t want to start working, forsaking valuable on the job training and socialization that will hurt them in the long run. That&#x27;s where universal part comes in</text></item><item><author>ilaksh</author><text>$1000 is not enough to quit their jobs or get a nice apartment. They could move slightly closer to work if they have to commute.<p>It&#x27;s not enough for a real tuition or to support them to study instead of work.<p>I don&#x27;t think we&#x27;ve ever had a universal basic income test. We have always missed the universal and basic part. It&#x27;s below basic and not at all universal.<p>I suspect that you need to get international cooperation and a more sophisticated form of money and resource tracking for a real UBI to be feasible.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>fdr</author><text>You are looking for the term &quot;effective marginal tax rate.&quot; <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Effective_marginal_tax_rate" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Effective_marginal_tax_rate</a><p>To give a sense how much benefits code and tax code have in common, see this worksheet for SNAP eligibility, which resembles a second tax return: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.fns.usda.gov&#x2F;snap&#x2F;recipient&#x2F;eligibility" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.fns.usda.gov&#x2F;snap&#x2F;recipient&#x2F;eligibility</a>. You get to do something similar, again(!), for Medicaid.<p>The American benefits code is a patchwork of conflicting sensibilities of the electorate: the smallest possible tax, paternalism and suspicion against the poor, plus a few policy analysis trying to obtain the maximum poverty reduction within those constraints. The result is a thicket of means tested programs with extremely steep phase-outs and a lot of paperwork. The all-in EMTR for an American with income between 0-40K a year is chaotic beyond reason as a result as they roll up the income spectrum.<p>This person who gave the presentation is indeed in one of the worst cases for the code: a single parent with multiple children.</text></comment> | <story><title>Unconditional Cash Study: first findings available</title><url>https://www.openresearchlab.org/studies/unconditional-cash-study/study</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jimt1234</author><text>Back in my college speech class, a woman gave a presentation basically supporting the &quot;welfare today is a disincentive to work&quot; myth, with emphasis on &quot;today&quot; (or current), while totally destroying the notion that welfare recipients don&#x27;t &quot;want&quot; to work. She was a stay-at-home mom with 2 kids, her husband commit suicide after serving in Iraq and then being pushed out of the military (this was the 90s when the US military was actively drawing down). She basically said that the current welfare system (in the 90s, in California) didn&#x27;t allow a way to slowly move off welfare. She said she had many offers for part-time work, and work that didn&#x27;t earn a lot of money, but both had potential for her to eventually be promoted to full-time or to make more money than welfare paid her. But she said there was no way to do this: welfare was either all or nothing. But most of all, she dispelled the myth that she was some sort of leech that didn&#x27;t want to work. She wanted to work, but the welfare system didn&#x27;t allow it.<p>Your comment didn&#x27;t necessarily imply it, but a lot of the discourse these days tries to imply (or directly claims) that recipients are the problem, they&#x27;re a bunch of lazy bums that don&#x27;t want to contribute. That&#x27;s just not true.</text></item><item><author>bko</author><text>Why is the goal to get people to quit their jobs and get a nice apartment?<p>Isn&#x27;t it supposed to be a minimum base level of support? Why do we keep moving the goal posts?<p>And if everyone quits their job and lives in a nice apartment, where is this money going to come from? The problem with welfare today is that its a disincentive to work. Start working, you lose your transfer payments. A lot of people are stuck in this trap and don&#x27;t want to start working, forsaking valuable on the job training and socialization that will hurt them in the long run. That&#x27;s where universal part comes in</text></item><item><author>ilaksh</author><text>$1000 is not enough to quit their jobs or get a nice apartment. They could move slightly closer to work if they have to commute.<p>It&#x27;s not enough for a real tuition or to support them to study instead of work.<p>I don&#x27;t think we&#x27;ve ever had a universal basic income test. We have always missed the universal and basic part. It&#x27;s below basic and not at all universal.<p>I suspect that you need to get international cooperation and a more sophisticated form of money and resource tracking for a real UBI to be feasible.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ixwt</author><text>There was a podcast or video about this exact same issue in... Sweden? Some anecdata from people receiving welfare, but couldn&#x27;t start a job or a business because if they received any money, they get nothing from welfare and wouldn&#x27;t be able to support themselves.<p>This resulted in people that were trying to start a business <i>not</i> get paid for their work (I believe one of the anecdata was a photographer) because doing so would mean they couldn&#x27;t support themselves.<p>Personally, I&#x27;m a big fan of the &quot;for every $2 you make, you get $1 less from UBI&#x2F;Welfare&quot; concept. This seems a very easy way to wean people off of welfare. That money is already tracked by the IRS (unless you&#x27;re getting paid under the table).</text></comment> |
17,728,175 | 17,728,406 | 1 | 3 | 17,722,020 | train | <story><title>IPOs are expensive and cumbersome – Try a direct listing, like we did at Spotify</title><url>https://www.ft.com/content/60cd1bb8-9970-11e8-88de-49c908b1f264</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>erispoe</author><text>&gt; e. Friends and family and supporters can participate - especially from their retirement accounts. This is really important - the wealth creation being broad has a real good-news feel. Sharing the wealth.<p>It&#x27;s a really bad idea to do stock picking, or any other risky investment strategy, with your retirement account, and a really bad idea to promote it. One company goes bust and suddenly you lost your retirement savings. Or your parents did and you&#x27;ll have to explain them why they&#x27;ll have to continue working in their 70s and 80s.</text></item><item><author>rayhano</author><text>I posted this article because we’re planning to do the same and wanted to gather thoughts from the tech community (the financial community has commented on this sufficiently to help inform our process).<p>I thought it might help to share our motivations for eventually listing our company vs taking more VC:<p>a. The public markets force transparency. This aligns with our values.<p>b. Governance enforced by VCs (especially in the UK) is largely founder-unfriendly. There are no prefs, investor majority consents or other unfair terms in company governance when you’re public.<p>c. Secondaries - shares sold by employees or early investors - can be sold at any time, at fair market value.<p>d. Capital raising - debt or equity - as a public company comes with fewer strings.<p>e. Friends and family and supporters can participate - especially from their retirement accounts. This is really important - the wealth creation being broad has a real good-news feel. Sharing the wealth.<p>f. Trust is built with the public - I feel - more when you’re publicly listed and ‘established’.<p>The ‘downsides’ of quarterly market updates I’m sure are more intense than it feels from the outside, but I’d like to think our growth story happening in a public sphere will help build trust so when we do need more capital a broader base of investors feel confident engaging with us.<p>Thoughts welcomed.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>eldavido</author><text>Yes and no. I read in Brealey-Myers [1] that you can get 80-90% of the way to pure beta (market risk) by picking 15-20 stocks. You just have to pick ones that aren&#x27;t super correlated, e.g. 10 pharmaceutical companies.<p>Whether it&#x27;s worth your time messing about with this is a separate matter entirely.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.amazon.com&#x2F;Principles-Corporate-Finance-Richard-Brealey&#x2F;dp&#x2F;0073405108" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.amazon.com&#x2F;Principles-Corporate-Finance-Richard-...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>IPOs are expensive and cumbersome – Try a direct listing, like we did at Spotify</title><url>https://www.ft.com/content/60cd1bb8-9970-11e8-88de-49c908b1f264</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>erispoe</author><text>&gt; e. Friends and family and supporters can participate - especially from their retirement accounts. This is really important - the wealth creation being broad has a real good-news feel. Sharing the wealth.<p>It&#x27;s a really bad idea to do stock picking, or any other risky investment strategy, with your retirement account, and a really bad idea to promote it. One company goes bust and suddenly you lost your retirement savings. Or your parents did and you&#x27;ll have to explain them why they&#x27;ll have to continue working in their 70s and 80s.</text></item><item><author>rayhano</author><text>I posted this article because we’re planning to do the same and wanted to gather thoughts from the tech community (the financial community has commented on this sufficiently to help inform our process).<p>I thought it might help to share our motivations for eventually listing our company vs taking more VC:<p>a. The public markets force transparency. This aligns with our values.<p>b. Governance enforced by VCs (especially in the UK) is largely founder-unfriendly. There are no prefs, investor majority consents or other unfair terms in company governance when you’re public.<p>c. Secondaries - shares sold by employees or early investors - can be sold at any time, at fair market value.<p>d. Capital raising - debt or equity - as a public company comes with fewer strings.<p>e. Friends and family and supporters can participate - especially from their retirement accounts. This is really important - the wealth creation being broad has a real good-news feel. Sharing the wealth.<p>f. Trust is built with the public - I feel - more when you’re publicly listed and ‘established’.<p>The ‘downsides’ of quarterly market updates I’m sure are more intense than it feels from the outside, but I’d like to think our growth story happening in a public sphere will help build trust so when we do need more capital a broader base of investors feel confident engaging with us.<p>Thoughts welcomed.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>patrickg_zill</author><text>I think that it depends on how close to retirement you are. Having a bad time with a stock at 35 is a different thing than if you are 64.</text></comment> |
8,053,872 | 8,053,880 | 1 | 2 | 8,053,574 | train | <story><title>Google will stop calling games 'free' when they offer in-app purchases</title><url>http://www.theverge.com/2014/7/18/5915415/google-adding-in-app-purchase-protections-european-commission</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mkaziz</author><text>This is the best news I&#x27;ve heard in a long time, but how do they filter the &quot;disable ads&quot; IAP vs the &quot;oh you spent 3 hours getting invested in this game, but you can&#x27;t reasonably proceed further until you buy xxx&quot;?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Mithaldu</author><text>There is in fact a whole range of software types to distinguish here:,<p>- apps that are entirely free<p>- apps with ads<p>- apps with removable ads<p>- apps with premium features<p>- apps that are demos (unlockable to the full app by paying)<p>- apps that sell cheats (99% of IAP games, the ones that disguise their cheats as &quot;energy&quot; or &quot;coins&quot; or &quot;gems&quot;)</text></comment> | <story><title>Google will stop calling games 'free' when they offer in-app purchases</title><url>http://www.theverge.com/2014/7/18/5915415/google-adding-in-app-purchase-protections-european-commission</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mkaziz</author><text>This is the best news I&#x27;ve heard in a long time, but how do they filter the &quot;disable ads&quot; IAP vs the &quot;oh you spent 3 hours getting invested in this game, but you can&#x27;t reasonably proceed further until you buy xxx&quot;?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>klewelling</author><text>Check out <a href="http://honestandroidgames.com/" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;honestandroidgames.com&#x2F;</a> They will tell you what type of game (free, free with ads, paid, etc)</text></comment> |
26,419,644 | 26,419,670 | 1 | 3 | 26,416,531 | train | <story><title>Zig, parser combinators, and why they're awesome</title><url>https://devlog.hexops.com/2021/zig-parser-combinators-and-why-theyre-awesome</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Jakobeha</author><text>I see a lot of articles posted on HN about Zig. What&#x27;s so special about Zig, and how does it fill its own niche with other languages like Go and Rust?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>lhorie</author><text>As far as I know, zig is the only language that is able to output binaries on par in size w&#x2F; C (a hello world in zig is about the same size as a C one, whereas most other languages can only manage at a minimum an order of magnitude bigger binaries, sometimes several orders of magnitude). Zig interops cleanly w&#x2F; C ABI and C toolchains, can also cross compile AND <i>can cross compile C proper</i>. You can even drop all the way down to asm (standard C technically doesn&#x27;t support this).<p>I often refer to zig as a &quot;very sharp knife&quot;: it&#x27;s &quot;cool&quot; for new languages to have more safeguards to protect you from yourself, but Zig feels a bit like it goes in opposite direction in the sense that it exposes the underlying plumbing more than most languages. For example, Go and Rust memory allocations and memory layout are fairly opaque; in zig you can control it idiomatically with obsessive precision.<p>But unlike C, zig offers a host of safety features, like integer overflow checks, compiler-checked optionals and exhaustive switch, as well as a well behaved compile-time system, and a bunch of syntactical sugar (&quot;method&quot; syntax, if&#x2F;while&#x2F;block&#x2F;return expressions, etc).<p>And unlike C++, zig is a very small language.</text></comment> | <story><title>Zig, parser combinators, and why they're awesome</title><url>https://devlog.hexops.com/2021/zig-parser-combinators-and-why-theyre-awesome</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Jakobeha</author><text>I see a lot of articles posted on HN about Zig. What&#x27;s so special about Zig, and how does it fill its own niche with other languages like Go and Rust?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>anderspitman</author><text>I&#x27;ve written a decent amount of Rust and Go. The reason Zig is on my watch list is because I see it as a potentially better (ie faster) Go, or C+=1. Go handles most of my needs, but the way I write it tends to involve a decent amount of manual resource management (mostly mutexes), so I don&#x27;t see the manual memory management in Zig as a big downside.<p>Rust is a great language, and I love it, but it&#x27;s hard for me. Writing in Rust reminds me a lot of test-driven development. It gives me such a great feeling of safety and control over your process, but at the end of the day it can be very tedious. The real killer is when I&#x27;m trying to prototype. If I don&#x27;t already know what my interfaces are going to look like, Rust really slows me down. Compile times don&#x27;t help here either.<p>If I were implementing a well-known protocol and had a general idea of how to architect it, or just really needed it to be rock solid, I would strongly consider Rust first. I&#x27;ve been working on a lot of protocol design the last couple years so it&#x27;s been more prototype-heavy.<p>Note that most of my Rust experience involved pre-async&#x2F;await asynchronous networking code. I&#x27;m sure it would be a better experience for me now. I should also note that programming in Rust yields some <i>very</i> magical moments, such as parallelizing loops by changing a single line. It&#x27;s a special language, and not going anywhere. I hope to find reasons to use it again in the future.<p>EDIT: Oh, another place Zig may have a big advantage over Go is binary sizes, particularly for things like WebAssembly.</text></comment> |
21,385,934 | 21,384,679 | 1 | 3 | 21,384,226 | train | <story><title>View leaked secrets in Git live</title><url>https://shhgit.darkport.co.uk/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>thepoet</author><text>We created a static version of this (almost similar to shodan but for keys) using publicly accessible Github dump hosted on Google Cloud in 2017. We then hosted the processed data, website and our search infra on AWS. AWS security team reached out to us for a potential “collaboration” and asked us to send all AWS keys that we discovered and we sent them the whole list. As a tiny startup, we were elated. Few days later they call us and threaten with a cease and desist notice if we do not take down the website. Remember we are not targeting AWS keys, neither are we in violation of any licensing agreements with respect to the data. We refused to shut it down. They then ask us to stop hosting it on AWS or “anywhere” else since we were using AWS credits to host the product or they will shut our account. When their this strategy did not work out, they contacted someone at Stripe who had given us the AWS credits, who then asked us to take it down or face consequences. We eventually had to shut it down since we did not have a lot of money to fight these people.<p>It was a stressful week for us where we learnt that corporates can lie and bully you to get whatever they want and then can shut you down. Unless you have the means to fight back. Does not matter where you live.</text></comment> | <story><title>View leaked secrets in Git live</title><url>https://shhgit.darkport.co.uk/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>dancek</author><text>Blog post about shhgit: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;darkport.co.uk&#x2F;blog&#x2F;ahh-shhgit!&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;darkport.co.uk&#x2F;blog&#x2F;ahh-shhgit!&#x2F;</a></text></comment> |
7,217,789 | 7,217,799 | 1 | 3 | 7,217,339 | train | <story><title>Flappy Bird MMO</title><url>http://69.164.192.211/flappy.html</url><text></text></story><parent_chain><item><author>squintychino</author><text>The original creator gave up $50k&#x2F;day and took the #1 game off the market. If he had no interest in continuing to make money off of this game, why would he be interested in pursuing legal action against someone? He&#x27;d probably just withdraw the lawsuit when it got too complicated, as that seems to be his M.O.</text></item><item><author>loceng</author><text>What are the copyright issues involved with this?<p>People get upset about Zynga and other big game companies cloning games, yet this &#x27;clone&#x27; is a direct copy of graphics, etc. - minus adding multi-player capability.<p>Not a single mention of this in this thread either at the time of posting this comment.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>shawabawa3</author><text>&gt; He&#x27;d probably just withdraw the lawsuit when it got too complicated, as that seems to be his M.O.<p>I agree with your point but this makes you sound like a complete asshole. Just because you can&#x27;t imagine giving up $50k&#x2F;day doesn&#x27;t mean that he&#x27;s weak or stupid for doing it (which is the implication I get from this sentence).</text></comment> | <story><title>Flappy Bird MMO</title><url>http://69.164.192.211/flappy.html</url><text></text></story><parent_chain><item><author>squintychino</author><text>The original creator gave up $50k&#x2F;day and took the #1 game off the market. If he had no interest in continuing to make money off of this game, why would he be interested in pursuing legal action against someone? He&#x27;d probably just withdraw the lawsuit when it got too complicated, as that seems to be his M.O.</text></item><item><author>loceng</author><text>What are the copyright issues involved with this?<p>People get upset about Zynga and other big game companies cloning games, yet this &#x27;clone&#x27; is a direct copy of graphics, etc. - minus adding multi-player capability.<p>Not a single mention of this in this thread either at the time of posting this comment.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Vaskivo</author><text>MY GOD! Why is everyone so obcessed with the 50k&#x2F;day. It&#x27;s his game and he can do with it whatever he wants! Just because it earns him a lot of money and it is the #1 game in the app stores it doesn&#x27;t make him obligated to make the choices you would make.<p>Maybe taking it off the market is a stupid decision (which I&#x27;m in no position to comment, as the context is a bit too complex). There are guys that accept to be kicked in the nuts for a youtube video. It&#x27;s stupid, but it&#x27;s their nuts. They can do whatever they want with it.<p>With that said. While IMO it&#x27;s ok to do this king of thing, the guy still has it&#x27;s copyright. By your logic &quot;I don&#x27;t steal because I may be arrested&quot; is a valid thought. It&#x27;s not. You shouldn&#x27;t steal because it&#x27;s WRONG!</text></comment> |
20,782,026 | 20,781,903 | 1 | 2 | 20,779,004 | train | <story><title>Google Doesn’t Want Staff Debating Politics at Work Anymore</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-08-23/google-doesn-t-want-employees-debating-politics-at-work-anymore</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>sarbaz</author><text>Should people act in ways that disagree with their sense of justice?<p>Should people be allowed to speak out against things that other people do, but that disagree with their sense of justice?<p>I don&#x27;t see how you can call it &quot;arrogant&quot; for people to act in accordance with their moral and ethical standards. We don&#x27;t have the power to force the world do line up with our personal sense of justice. But we do have the power to make our lives and the lives of those around us more just, according to our own personal interpretation of that concept. Do you really think that striving for justice isn&#x27;t OK?</text></item><item><author>LordFast</author><text>Disclaimer: my comment below is directed at the culture of Google, and following in the train of thought from your comment. It&#x27;s not directed at your comment or you.<p>Reading this comment just makes me feel baffled. How much arrogance does it take for a bunch of Googlers to assume the belief that they know what is &quot;just&quot; for the rest of the world?<p>An organization(in this case, a for-profit company) created to deliver products and services to consumers and advertisers playing politics on the world stage is laughable at best, and downright irresponsible at worst. There&#x27;s no framework established within the confines of a corporation to deal with any of these sorts of social problems, and it shouldn&#x27;t.<p>Play the right part, do the right job, and let others with the right skills and tools do the same.</text></item><item><author>jgunsch</author><text>I worked there for a similar length of time, but more recent (2012 - early 2019). The internal political discourse over that time definitely mirrored the rest of the world: becoming increasingly heated and divisive during 2016 and largely escalating since.<p>On the whole, it felt like it pushed the company in a positive direction --- internal discussions mirroring #metoo led to more visibility of sexual harassment and accountability for leadership. The discourse around the James Damore memo, as divisive as it was, felt like it still led to a broader understanding of the negative perspectives women in tech had to deal with constantly.<p>Most importantly (IMO), Google&#x27;s product choices and politics are not inseparable --- Google is far too large and influential to pretend otherwise, and discussing these topics acted as a watchdog of sorts. Internal discussions about a potential censored search engine product in China resulted in pressure on leadership to change course, and pressure on Cloud bidding on the JEDI contract led to Google withdrawing from that bid.<p>Shutting off that political discourse feels like it&#x27;d be a huge blow to &quot;oversight&quot; from concerned Googlers --- particularly the ones who felt it was worth staying and using their influence internally to push Google toward creating a more just world.</text></item><item><author>oppositelock</author><text>I worked at Google for quite a while, 2005-2013, and even then, the internal political discussion was pretty toxic, but a lot smaller in scope since there are far fewer people.<p>There were definitely groups meant for discussing politics, and loudmouths like me willingly participated in those - however, it was very uncivil. There was a majority view in the company, and if anyone didn&#x27;t agree with the majority view, the majority engaged in heckling, ridicule, etc. It was already becoming an echo chamber, and as the majority grew, their tactics grew more petty and vicious. However, this was expected in the politics groups, and you knowingly entered that fray.<p>What seems to be happening a lot lately is that politics are spilling over into large, global mailing lists which target a whole geographic region, so many people get involved, and when a company has 200k employees and contractors, you will find some outliers in there who will pick nasty fights.<p>It only makes sense that they&#x27;re cutting down on something that has turned toxic. It&#x27;s a bit disappointing to hear, since I personally enjoyed the occasional, honest discussion with smart people of other viewpoints - these good discussions made the much larger number of ridiculous ones, bearable.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>LordFast</author><text>Let me clarify:<p>- A non-decision by Google management to not place limits on its internal culture is a decision in itself, and has consequences that we are currently experiencing.<p>- &quot;Justice&quot; is not something for a profit-seeking company to have influence or power over. This is my personal belief. I believe there are other channels that are better designed to address those issues.<p>- My belief on this subject is limited to the above.</text></comment> | <story><title>Google Doesn’t Want Staff Debating Politics at Work Anymore</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-08-23/google-doesn-t-want-employees-debating-politics-at-work-anymore</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>sarbaz</author><text>Should people act in ways that disagree with their sense of justice?<p>Should people be allowed to speak out against things that other people do, but that disagree with their sense of justice?<p>I don&#x27;t see how you can call it &quot;arrogant&quot; for people to act in accordance with their moral and ethical standards. We don&#x27;t have the power to force the world do line up with our personal sense of justice. But we do have the power to make our lives and the lives of those around us more just, according to our own personal interpretation of that concept. Do you really think that striving for justice isn&#x27;t OK?</text></item><item><author>LordFast</author><text>Disclaimer: my comment below is directed at the culture of Google, and following in the train of thought from your comment. It&#x27;s not directed at your comment or you.<p>Reading this comment just makes me feel baffled. How much arrogance does it take for a bunch of Googlers to assume the belief that they know what is &quot;just&quot; for the rest of the world?<p>An organization(in this case, a for-profit company) created to deliver products and services to consumers and advertisers playing politics on the world stage is laughable at best, and downright irresponsible at worst. There&#x27;s no framework established within the confines of a corporation to deal with any of these sorts of social problems, and it shouldn&#x27;t.<p>Play the right part, do the right job, and let others with the right skills and tools do the same.</text></item><item><author>jgunsch</author><text>I worked there for a similar length of time, but more recent (2012 - early 2019). The internal political discourse over that time definitely mirrored the rest of the world: becoming increasingly heated and divisive during 2016 and largely escalating since.<p>On the whole, it felt like it pushed the company in a positive direction --- internal discussions mirroring #metoo led to more visibility of sexual harassment and accountability for leadership. The discourse around the James Damore memo, as divisive as it was, felt like it still led to a broader understanding of the negative perspectives women in tech had to deal with constantly.<p>Most importantly (IMO), Google&#x27;s product choices and politics are not inseparable --- Google is far too large and influential to pretend otherwise, and discussing these topics acted as a watchdog of sorts. Internal discussions about a potential censored search engine product in China resulted in pressure on leadership to change course, and pressure on Cloud bidding on the JEDI contract led to Google withdrawing from that bid.<p>Shutting off that political discourse feels like it&#x27;d be a huge blow to &quot;oversight&quot; from concerned Googlers --- particularly the ones who felt it was worth staying and using their influence internally to push Google toward creating a more just world.</text></item><item><author>oppositelock</author><text>I worked at Google for quite a while, 2005-2013, and even then, the internal political discussion was pretty toxic, but a lot smaller in scope since there are far fewer people.<p>There were definitely groups meant for discussing politics, and loudmouths like me willingly participated in those - however, it was very uncivil. There was a majority view in the company, and if anyone didn&#x27;t agree with the majority view, the majority engaged in heckling, ridicule, etc. It was already becoming an echo chamber, and as the majority grew, their tactics grew more petty and vicious. However, this was expected in the politics groups, and you knowingly entered that fray.<p>What seems to be happening a lot lately is that politics are spilling over into large, global mailing lists which target a whole geographic region, so many people get involved, and when a company has 200k employees and contractors, you will find some outliers in there who will pick nasty fights.<p>It only makes sense that they&#x27;re cutting down on something that has turned toxic. It&#x27;s a bit disappointing to hear, since I personally enjoyed the occasional, honest discussion with smart people of other viewpoints - these good discussions made the much larger number of ridiculous ones, bearable.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>einhverfr</author><text>I think the problem is that the US has developed for various reasons (including a lack of discussing politics) a series of echo chambers and people don&#x27;t connect politically beyond their echo chambers. In urban California, among software developers, you are likely to have one or two political views represented at most, and these represent a small racial and class-based cross-section of urban California. The first of course is the Neoliberal views of the Rainbow Capitalism camp that brought us Hillary Clinton&#x27;s candidacy. If there is a second view it is the Business Liberalism view of the elite GOP members such as the Koch brothers.<p>You aren&#x27;t going to get the political concerns of rust-belt America, or the political concerns of black families down in Watts recognized, nor will you get the communitarianism of rural America in there either.<p>And so that sense of justice gets warped, even regarding national issues of the US today.<p>What happens when these things go world wide? Someone&#x27;s sense of justice gets offended by economic orders where procreative&#x2F;childrearing families hold businesses which are inherited and passed on to kids, and where there are solid gender roles associated (my kids&#x27; second culture for example)? I guess we better do what we can to make the world safe for American Capitalism to come in and liberate people from family expectations. But that means opening up such cultures to economic exploitation by foreign business and that harm is waved away as if it doesn&#x27;t matter.<p>The arrogance does matter, because the arrogance can easily lead to outright economic colonialism (&quot;for their own good&quot; as much now as a century ago). The way to hold it in check is for other viewpoints to actually be entertained and discussed.</text></comment> |
23,262,133 | 23,262,675 | 1 | 2 | 23,260,557 | train | <story><title>California affordable housing is more expensive than luxury housing</title><url>https://www.latimes.com/homeless-housing/story/2020-04-09/california-low-income-housing-expensive-apartment-coronavirus</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ab_testing</author><text>The bullshit and nimbyism in California is truly breathtaking.<p><pre><code> That happened in the wealthy San Diego County enclave of Solana Beach, where the Pearl was cut from 18 apartments to 10 and its approval required an underground garage with 53 parking spots.</code></pre></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>algeoMA</author><text>From the article: &quot;“Low-income people tend to own cars that are in disrepair and ride motorcycles adding to the noise of a ‘lights out at 8 p.m. community,’” Marylyn Rinaldi, a neighboring condominium owner, wrote in 2011 in a letter to the City Council that was later cited in a lawsuit over the project.&quot; Nimbyism at its finest.</text></comment> | <story><title>California affordable housing is more expensive than luxury housing</title><url>https://www.latimes.com/homeless-housing/story/2020-04-09/california-low-income-housing-expensive-apartment-coronavirus</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ab_testing</author><text>The bullshit and nimbyism in California is truly breathtaking.<p><pre><code> That happened in the wealthy San Diego County enclave of Solana Beach, where the Pearl was cut from 18 apartments to 10 and its approval required an underground garage with 53 parking spots.</code></pre></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>doorstar</author><text>I admit I don&#x27;t know much about the affordable housing efforts, but I don&#x27;t know why anyone would put a lot of work into building affordable housing in Solana Beach.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;goo.gl&#x2F;maps&#x2F;X1MN673Pwc57eS2C9" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;goo.gl&#x2F;maps&#x2F;X1MN673Pwc57eS2C9</a><p>It&#x27;s a tiny ( by CA standards ) town right on the beach and most non-service jobs are a crowded commute away. I don&#x27;t object to having affordable housing everywhere, but if I wanted to build some in San Diego county, it&#x27;s about the last place I would go.</text></comment> |
16,712,565 | 16,711,951 | 1 | 2 | 16,709,069 | train | <story><title>CockroachDB 2.0 Performance Makes Significant Strides</title><url>https://www.cockroachlabs.com/blog/2-dot-0-perf-strides/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>atombender</author><text>Looks very promising! We&#x27;ve looked at Cockroach for a particular project, and we&#x27;ve been concerned that performance wasn&#x27;t good enough.<p>Cockroach performance seems to scale linearly, but single-connection performance, especially for small transactions, seems rather dismal. Some casual stress testing against a 3-node cluster on Kubernetes showed that small transactions modifying a single row could take as much as 7-8 seconds, where Postgres would take just a few milliseconds.<p>The documentation recommends that you batch as many updates as possible, but obviously that doesn&#x27;t work for low-latency applications like web frontends that need to be able to do small, fine-grained modifications.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>thanatos_dem</author><text>7-8 seconds? Something definitely sounds misconfigured. I&#x27;ve been running a 1.1.x cluster for quite a while and I&#x27;ve never seen a single row transaction take that long. And even the slowest queries took at most ~500ms, and that was with:<p><pre><code> - Replication factor increased to 5x (rather than the 3x default)
- 8 indexes on the table being modified which also needed to be updated
- Nodes spread across North America, incurring higher RTT latency between nodes
- Relatively high contention on the data triggering client-side retries
- HDD&#x27;s as the storage medium (RockDB is optimized for SSDs)</code></pre></text></comment> | <story><title>CockroachDB 2.0 Performance Makes Significant Strides</title><url>https://www.cockroachlabs.com/blog/2-dot-0-perf-strides/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>atombender</author><text>Looks very promising! We&#x27;ve looked at Cockroach for a particular project, and we&#x27;ve been concerned that performance wasn&#x27;t good enough.<p>Cockroach performance seems to scale linearly, but single-connection performance, especially for small transactions, seems rather dismal. Some casual stress testing against a 3-node cluster on Kubernetes showed that small transactions modifying a single row could take as much as 7-8 seconds, where Postgres would take just a few milliseconds.<p>The documentation recommends that you batch as many updates as possible, but obviously that doesn&#x27;t work for low-latency applications like web frontends that need to be able to do small, fine-grained modifications.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jetrink</author><text>7-8 seconds seems extremely long. Human beings performing the raft consensus algorithm using paper and pencil over Skype wouldn&#x27;t be much slower than that. Are you sure everything was working correctly?</text></comment> |
35,964,154 | 35,964,240 | 1 | 2 | 35,960,018 | train | <story><title>Widely used chemical strongly linked to Parkinson’s disease</title><url>https://www.science.org/content/article/widely-used-chemical-strongly-linked-parkinson-s-disease</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>anonymouse008</author><text>&gt; After talking to her, I&#x27;ve never used one since.<p>What do we do about our formal wear then?</text></item><item><author>1attice</author><text>Yes. This is why most dry cleaners won&#x27;t accept bedding. It&#x27;s considered too high-contact. (If they do accept it, they wash it with something other than TCE)<p>Source: a college friend of mine, years ago, who worked as a dry cleaner. After talking to her, I&#x27;ve never used one since.</text></item><item><author>TedDoesntTalk</author><text>&gt; It&#x27;s used in dry cleaning in the USA<p>Does it remain in the fabric after use? Is there danger to the wearer of dry-cleaned clothes or only to the people working at dry cleaner businesses?</text></item><item><author>nabilhat</author><text>It&#x27;s used in dry cleaning in the USA, and their suppliers will deliver it to you by the gallon [0]. MSDS of course [1]. If you&#x27;re in Australia and go to the dentist, there&#x27;s this as well [2] although surely that container with its death&#x27;s head and POISON label are kept well out of sight. Of course there&#x27;s the lab supply chain, but that&#x27;s usually more expensive. It&#x27;s really easy and legal to get if you want it. I&#x27;ve known many mechanics and similar, professional and otherwise who use workaround sources like these to get the &quot;good stuff&quot; degreaser.<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;garmentcleaningsupply.com&#x2F;picrin-1-gal-streets.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;garmentcleaningsupply.com&#x2F;picrin-1-gal-streets.html</a><p>[1] <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cleanairsupply.com&#x2F;CleanAir_Web_Image&#x2F;Chemical&#x2F;MSDS&#x2F;MSDS-RRstreets%20Picrin-US%202012-11-05.pdf" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cleanairsupply.com&#x2F;CleanAir_Web_Image&#x2F;Chemical&#x2F;MS...</a><p>[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;henryschein.com.au&#x2F;impression&#x2F;accessories&#x2F;finale-solvent-1l-for-mouthguards-and-splints" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;henryschein.com.au&#x2F;impression&#x2F;accessories&#x2F;finale-sol...</a></text></item><item><author>anaisbetts</author><text>Widely used chemical *(that was generally phased out in the 70s) linked to Parkinson&#x27;s. Still important, but you don&#x27;t need to start searching product labels in 2023 for it.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>1attice</author><text>That&#x27;s a great question that is entirely fabric-dependent.<p>If your formalwear is wool (for example, a tuxedo or blazer) you&#x27;d probably want to swap it out for a version of the garment which is made from Superwash wool, which is machine-washable. (Or your choice of alternative fabric.) Creating superwash wool is still a pretty chemically-intensive process, but that might not be forever: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.moderndailyknitting.com&#x2F;community&#x2F;superwash-part-2-how-do-they-do-that&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.moderndailyknitting.com&#x2F;community&#x2F;superwash-part...</a> It should at least cut down on your TCE exposure.<p>Silk is trickier -- if you wet it, you have to take great care to dry it <i>without overheating it</i>, while at the same time getting it to dry evenly, so you don&#x27;t get watermarks on the fabric. It&#x27;s doable, but it&#x27;s a total PITA. The best strategy here, for me, has been to wash my silk blouses very rarely, and with a great deal of care, and tumble-dry low. I also use the &#x27;vodka trick&#x27; I picked up working in the backroom of a theatrical costume company, many years ago -- get a bottle of cheap vodka, pour it into spritz bottle (one with a fine-mist setting -- the kind at beauty stores work great) and turn the garment inside-out; hit the pits, etc. It&#x27;s safe for silk, fur, and other delicate fabrics.<p>If you&#x27;re going to be wearing silk, do it in winter or in air conditioning :)<p>Fur -- well, you wouldn&#x27;t have been dry-cleaning fur anyway, right? right?? This is a whole chapter on its own. (The vodka trick works tho)<p>Finally, there are also lots of wonderful new machine-washable fibres on the market -- tencel, etc. -- that may be suitable for formalwear.<p>But putting formalwear aside, the biggest problem I see is down-filled jackets and duvets. I have literally no good ideas here, other than &#x27;wash very rarely and tumble dry low, low low&#x27;</text></comment> | <story><title>Widely used chemical strongly linked to Parkinson’s disease</title><url>https://www.science.org/content/article/widely-used-chemical-strongly-linked-parkinson-s-disease</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>anonymouse008</author><text>&gt; After talking to her, I&#x27;ve never used one since.<p>What do we do about our formal wear then?</text></item><item><author>1attice</author><text>Yes. This is why most dry cleaners won&#x27;t accept bedding. It&#x27;s considered too high-contact. (If they do accept it, they wash it with something other than TCE)<p>Source: a college friend of mine, years ago, who worked as a dry cleaner. After talking to her, I&#x27;ve never used one since.</text></item><item><author>TedDoesntTalk</author><text>&gt; It&#x27;s used in dry cleaning in the USA<p>Does it remain in the fabric after use? Is there danger to the wearer of dry-cleaned clothes or only to the people working at dry cleaner businesses?</text></item><item><author>nabilhat</author><text>It&#x27;s used in dry cleaning in the USA, and their suppliers will deliver it to you by the gallon [0]. MSDS of course [1]. If you&#x27;re in Australia and go to the dentist, there&#x27;s this as well [2] although surely that container with its death&#x27;s head and POISON label are kept well out of sight. Of course there&#x27;s the lab supply chain, but that&#x27;s usually more expensive. It&#x27;s really easy and legal to get if you want it. I&#x27;ve known many mechanics and similar, professional and otherwise who use workaround sources like these to get the &quot;good stuff&quot; degreaser.<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;garmentcleaningsupply.com&#x2F;picrin-1-gal-streets.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;garmentcleaningsupply.com&#x2F;picrin-1-gal-streets.html</a><p>[1] <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cleanairsupply.com&#x2F;CleanAir_Web_Image&#x2F;Chemical&#x2F;MSDS&#x2F;MSDS-RRstreets%20Picrin-US%202012-11-05.pdf" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cleanairsupply.com&#x2F;CleanAir_Web_Image&#x2F;Chemical&#x2F;MS...</a><p>[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;henryschein.com.au&#x2F;impression&#x2F;accessories&#x2F;finale-solvent-1l-for-mouthguards-and-splints" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;henryschein.com.au&#x2F;impression&#x2F;accessories&#x2F;finale-sol...</a></text></item><item><author>anaisbetts</author><text>Widely used chemical *(that was generally phased out in the 70s) linked to Parkinson&#x27;s. Still important, but you don&#x27;t need to start searching product labels in 2023 for it.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dehrmann</author><text>Liquid CO2 dry cleaning?<p>Supposedly wool doesn&#x27;t shrink in cold water on gentle and air-dried.</text></comment> |
11,404,009 | 11,404,005 | 1 | 3 | 11,403,730 | train | <story><title>Chinese state media discourages April Fools' Day</title><url>https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2016/04/01/no-joke-april-fools-day-has-been-banned-in-china/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>billhendricksjr</author><text>This itself, is an April Fools joke I hope. How meta ;-)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>icebraining</author><text>Doesn&#x27;t seem so, unless it&#x27;s by the Chinese news agency itself: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;weibo.com&#x2F;1699432410&#x2F;DoUipcOni?from=page_1002061699432410_profile&amp;wvr=6&amp;mod=weibotime&amp;type=comment#_rnd1459509065149" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;weibo.com&#x2F;1699432410&#x2F;DoUipcOni?from=page_100206169943...</a><p>Google Translate gives me: <i>&quot;Today is the West so-called &quot;April Fool.&quot; &quot;Fool&#x27;s Day&quot; is not in line with our cultural tradition, does not meet the socialist core values, I hope we do not believe rumors, do not spread rumors, do not pass rumors&quot;</i><p>And the account seems to be &quot;verified&quot; by Weibo.</text></comment> | <story><title>Chinese state media discourages April Fools' Day</title><url>https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2016/04/01/no-joke-april-fools-day-has-been-banned-in-china/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>billhendricksjr</author><text>This itself, is an April Fools joke I hope. How meta ;-)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>zelos</author><text>Isn&#x27;t saying &quot;No joke&quot; in the headline kind of cheating, though?</text></comment> |
20,184,993 | 20,184,575 | 1 | 2 | 20,184,373 | train | <story><title>OCaml 4.08</title><url>https://inbox.ocaml.org/caml-list/[email protected]/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>TheAsprngHacker</author><text>This release adds &quot;binding operators,&quot; which make functors, applicatives, and monads more convenient to use. The &quot;binding operators&quot; are like OCaml&#x27;s version of Haskell&#x27;s do-notation, but IMO even better. In Haskell&#x27;s do-notation, each binding in the form of `pat &lt;- expr; next` desugars to monadic bind, with an extension to use applicatives instead where possible, but with OCaml&#x27;s binding operators, there are three separate operators for functors, applicatives, and monads.<p>The 4.08.0 release also adds the Fun, Option, and Result modules to the standard library.</text></comment> | <story><title>OCaml 4.08</title><url>https://inbox.ocaml.org/caml-list/[email protected]/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>threwawasy1228</author><text>It doesn&#x27;t get said very much but the ML ecosystem is full, complete, and very much production quality. It is a shame that there are not many projects or companies that make use of all that it has to offer.</text></comment> |
13,288,128 | 13,286,302 | 1 | 3 | 13,284,879 | train | <story><title>Kalzumeus Software Year in Review 2016</title><url>http://www.kalzumeus.com/2016/12/30/kalzumeus-software-year-in-review-2016/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>sanderjd</author><text>I&#x27;ve taken this lesson too, and I&#x27;m curious about what set of values for $SOMETHING is. In theory it is &quot;everything&quot;, but in practice the two common values I see are &quot;marketer&quot; and &quot;scientist&quot;. I really can&#x27;t get excited about marketing, and it&#x27;s difficult to justify going for a PhD. What are some values for $SOMETHING that others here have seen success with?</text></item><item><author>dsacco</author><text>I owe a great deal of my own personal success to Patrick McKenzie and Thomas Ptacek, both of whom have been steadfast, consistent and generous advisors (both in public comments and in &quot;hey can I bounce this off of you&quot; emails).<p>After following Patrick&#x27;s writings and stories for a number of years now, I can confidently say that his relentless transparency has been one of the greatest gifts I received in the industry. His advice may not strictly work for everyone in the literal sense, but I believe that diligently attempting to use his suggestions as a template is, itself, a highly productive exercise in programming and business.<p>There is one particular note I want to make about patio11&#x27;s success: Patrick is a phenomenal marketer with remarkable business savvy who <i>happens to be a programmer.</i> He is <i>not</i> primarily a programmer, which is evidenced by his recent work at Stripe and the work he is best known for on HN (essentially, writing about shipping software, not the software itself).<p>This is not to say he is not a good programmer - I simply can&#x27;t comment on that, though I have reason to believe he is after seeing Starfighter&#x27;s game. Rather, he leverages that skill set as a means to an end, not an end in itself.<p>I think this is a really important point to make because I see many people who try to pursue significant career success by e.g. ranking up on TopCoder, or open sourcing impressive software. While those things can lead to success, there is a vast, long tail of people who are very capable programmers with no recognition doing those things. Healthy self-promotion and <i>efficient</i> improvement&#x2F;maintenance of one&#x27;s technical skills has a much higher probability of success than attempting to become Fabrice Bellard.<p>This is demonstrative - in my opinion, the sum of all of patio11&#x27;s advice can be summarized as follows: <i>Don&#x27;t be a programmer, be a $SOMETHING who happens to program, and program well.</i></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>uberstuber</author><text>Not exactly what you were asking for, but along those same lines. There are a set of skills which improve basically any career path--I&#x27;ve seen them called meta-skills, or super skills.<p>Off the top of my head:
Leadership, Public Speaking, Persuasion, Writing, Storytelling, Design, Mental models, Systems thinking, Mental focus, Nutrition&#x2F;Exercise, etc.<p>Getting decently good at one (or more) of these won&#x27;t take too long and will have immediate benefits to your current work and even your personal life.<p>Maybe try to find some aspect of marketing that you are interested in; it&#x27;s a large field full of topics I&#x27;d imagine programmers would find interesting.</text></comment> | <story><title>Kalzumeus Software Year in Review 2016</title><url>http://www.kalzumeus.com/2016/12/30/kalzumeus-software-year-in-review-2016/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>sanderjd</author><text>I&#x27;ve taken this lesson too, and I&#x27;m curious about what set of values for $SOMETHING is. In theory it is &quot;everything&quot;, but in practice the two common values I see are &quot;marketer&quot; and &quot;scientist&quot;. I really can&#x27;t get excited about marketing, and it&#x27;s difficult to justify going for a PhD. What are some values for $SOMETHING that others here have seen success with?</text></item><item><author>dsacco</author><text>I owe a great deal of my own personal success to Patrick McKenzie and Thomas Ptacek, both of whom have been steadfast, consistent and generous advisors (both in public comments and in &quot;hey can I bounce this off of you&quot; emails).<p>After following Patrick&#x27;s writings and stories for a number of years now, I can confidently say that his relentless transparency has been one of the greatest gifts I received in the industry. His advice may not strictly work for everyone in the literal sense, but I believe that diligently attempting to use his suggestions as a template is, itself, a highly productive exercise in programming and business.<p>There is one particular note I want to make about patio11&#x27;s success: Patrick is a phenomenal marketer with remarkable business savvy who <i>happens to be a programmer.</i> He is <i>not</i> primarily a programmer, which is evidenced by his recent work at Stripe and the work he is best known for on HN (essentially, writing about shipping software, not the software itself).<p>This is not to say he is not a good programmer - I simply can&#x27;t comment on that, though I have reason to believe he is after seeing Starfighter&#x27;s game. Rather, he leverages that skill set as a means to an end, not an end in itself.<p>I think this is a really important point to make because I see many people who try to pursue significant career success by e.g. ranking up on TopCoder, or open sourcing impressive software. While those things can lead to success, there is a vast, long tail of people who are very capable programmers with no recognition doing those things. Healthy self-promotion and <i>efficient</i> improvement&#x2F;maintenance of one&#x27;s technical skills has a much higher probability of success than attempting to become Fabrice Bellard.<p>This is demonstrative - in my opinion, the sum of all of patio11&#x27;s advice can be summarized as follows: <i>Don&#x27;t be a programmer, be a $SOMETHING who happens to program, and program well.</i></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>SatvikBeri</author><text>Cases I&#x27;ve seen done successfully:<p>–Accounting<p>–Risk analysis in banks or fintech companies<p>–Statistics (&quot;Data Science&quot;)<p>–Lots and lots of other jobs that have &quot;analyst&quot; in the title, e.g. marketing analyst</text></comment> |
34,207,826 | 34,207,889 | 1 | 2 | 34,193,504 | train | <story><title>Practice typing by retyping entire novels</title><url>https://www.typelit.io/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>davisoneee</author><text>I have recently started trying to learn colemak[^3], and came across the great cross-platform tool Amphetype[^1].<p>You can load in whatever document you want as a source, and it&#x27;ll randomly select chunks of whatever size you want (i.e. about 200 words-worth). It then gives you analysis of your performance, as well as breaking down what trigrams and words cause you the most trouble.<p>Combine this with ngram training to get the muscle memory of the most common chunks of english and you can really quickly improve your fluency [^2].<p>1: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;gitlab.com&#x2F;franksh&#x2F;amphetype" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;gitlab.com&#x2F;franksh&#x2F;amphetype</a><p>2: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;ranelpadon.github.io&#x2F;ngram-type&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;ranelpadon.github.io&#x2F;ngram-type&#x2F;</a><p>3: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;gnusenpai.github.io&#x2F;colemakclub&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;gnusenpai.github.io&#x2F;colemakclub&#x2F;</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>vlmutolo</author><text>Do you use Vim or a modal editor? I’ve been considering switching to Colemak, but I can’t figure out how I’d get past the fact that hjkl would be in a different spot.<p>I could change the shortcuts in software, but then it starts a cascade of changed shortcuts. Plus, I could then only use software that I’ve specifically configured. How do you SSH into a server?</text></comment> | <story><title>Practice typing by retyping entire novels</title><url>https://www.typelit.io/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>davisoneee</author><text>I have recently started trying to learn colemak[^3], and came across the great cross-platform tool Amphetype[^1].<p>You can load in whatever document you want as a source, and it&#x27;ll randomly select chunks of whatever size you want (i.e. about 200 words-worth). It then gives you analysis of your performance, as well as breaking down what trigrams and words cause you the most trouble.<p>Combine this with ngram training to get the muscle memory of the most common chunks of english and you can really quickly improve your fluency [^2].<p>1: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;gitlab.com&#x2F;franksh&#x2F;amphetype" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;gitlab.com&#x2F;franksh&#x2F;amphetype</a><p>2: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;ranelpadon.github.io&#x2F;ngram-type&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;ranelpadon.github.io&#x2F;ngram-type&#x2F;</a><p>3: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;gnusenpai.github.io&#x2F;colemakclub&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;gnusenpai.github.io&#x2F;colemakclub&#x2F;</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>the_duke</author><text>As a point of warning: at some point I started learning Dvorak.<p>I learned it well, switched to it completely, and it was great.<p>Except that it was absolutely horrible.<p>Not because of the layout, but: maybe it&#x27;s just me, but I completely un-learned QWERTY.<p>Every time I had to touch someone else&#x27;s computer, or a phone, or work with some kind of QWERTY embedded keyboard, it devolved into either immediately switching the layout, or looking like a clueless old person doing one finger typing while staring at the keyboard.</text></comment> |
5,475,686 | 5,475,683 | 1 | 2 | 5,475,525 | train | <story><title>Appeals court upholds legality of Aereo’s “tiny antennas” scheme</title><url>http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2013/04/appeals-court-upholds-legality-of-aereos-tiny-antennas-scheme/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>DannyBee</author><text>The dissent on this bothers me as a lawyer.
It basically says the whole thing is a sham to use a perceived "loophole in the law".<p>IE By complying with the exact requirements of the law, they are committing a sham.<p>It's a policy argument, not a legal one.<p>A sham is doing something like "i'll sell my brother my house for $1". That's a sham. You are doing something to try to trivially comply with contracts law (which requires adequate consideration), but the $1 you are giving is really trying to cover up the fact that it's really a gift.<p>But that's not the argument the dissent makes, the argument it makes is "i don't like this behavior, so i will villify it" and act like it's a sham. The law imposes plenty of technical barriers to doing things.
I could make an amazing wireless system if i could use whatever transmitter power i liked, but the law prevents me.
The fact that they could use one large antenna is exactly right, but it changes nothing, because <i>the law appears to prevents them from doing so</i>.
Following the technical requirements of FCC law is not a sham, it's "what the law requires you do".
Following the technical requirements of copyright law is not a sham, it's "what the law requires you do".</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>rayiner</author><text>As a lawyer, it was the majority's approach that bothered me. Simply, this hyper-technical approach makes for bad law. The court would've been better served here just saying it was fair use because the ads were preserved and the streams contained content that could be watched for free over the air anyway. Throw in the additional public consideration in this case, which is that the content owners are taking advantage of public airwaves to air this content in the first place, and the need to perpetuate this bizarre loophole disappears.<p>The problem here is: what does "public performance" mean in the context of internet broadcasts? Cablevision just covers that consideration with mud. The answer is probably: the distinction of "public performance" is completely meaningless when talking about internet streams.</text></comment> | <story><title>Appeals court upholds legality of Aereo’s “tiny antennas” scheme</title><url>http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2013/04/appeals-court-upholds-legality-of-aereos-tiny-antennas-scheme/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>DannyBee</author><text>The dissent on this bothers me as a lawyer.
It basically says the whole thing is a sham to use a perceived "loophole in the law".<p>IE By complying with the exact requirements of the law, they are committing a sham.<p>It's a policy argument, not a legal one.<p>A sham is doing something like "i'll sell my brother my house for $1". That's a sham. You are doing something to try to trivially comply with contracts law (which requires adequate consideration), but the $1 you are giving is really trying to cover up the fact that it's really a gift.<p>But that's not the argument the dissent makes, the argument it makes is "i don't like this behavior, so i will villify it" and act like it's a sham. The law imposes plenty of technical barriers to doing things.
I could make an amazing wireless system if i could use whatever transmitter power i liked, but the law prevents me.
The fact that they could use one large antenna is exactly right, but it changes nothing, because <i>the law appears to prevents them from doing so</i>.
Following the technical requirements of FCC law is not a sham, it's "what the law requires you do".
Following the technical requirements of copyright law is not a sham, it's "what the law requires you do".</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ChuckMcM</author><text>I think its useful as an exercise to point out the challenges in Copyright law.<p>Using 22nm MEMs technology I could imagine that I can get 1,000,000 antennas on a die which are clearly articulated when viewed in an electron microscope. Then I can sell these chips for $10,000 each to companies that want to use this "loophole".</text></comment> |
33,411,649 | 33,411,875 | 1 | 2 | 33,409,626 | train | <story><title>NYC to require salary ranges be included in job postings</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/28/nyregion/nyc-salary-transparency-job-postings.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>NovemberWhiskey</author><text>&gt;&gt; The fact is that many employers don&#x27;t actually know what they would be willing to pay someone.<p>&gt; Then they need better data. A great way to get that would be looking at all the other job listings with salary ranges if they don&#x27;t already have access to back channel data.<p>You&#x27;re missing the point: the variable is the <i>candidate</i>, not the role. I know the market rate for a candidate that is just over-the-bar for my role, and I know that market rate for a super-star who can not only do this role, but is probably already capable of doing the next one.<p>&gt; Then it should be multiple listings with different requirements, even if the only difference is years of experience.<p>So, what if you apply for a role that turns out to be wrong for you based on my assessment of you then I should reject you so you can re-apply for the other role? That&#x27;s ridiculous.</text></item><item><author>jedberg</author><text>It is hard to convince someone they are wrong when their salary depends on being right. But I&#x27;m going to try. I&#x27;ve done hiring myself as a founder, so I have some experience here.<p>&gt; The fact is that many employers don&#x27;t actually know what they would be willing to pay someone.<p>Then they need better data. A great way to get that would be looking at all the other job listings with salary ranges if they don&#x27;t already have access to back channel data.<p>&gt; It is also true that a single job ad might be aiming to employ a number of people at various positions of seniority and experience.<p>Then it should be multiple listings with different requirements, even if the only difference is years of experience.<p>&gt; So it does not surprise me that governments would legislate to require job ads to do the same - essentially because of ignorance about how the world works.<p>The way the government does it is more equitable, so it makes sense that they are trying to legislate that to the private sector.<p>&gt; If it makes you mad that job ads do not list salary, then there are good reasons and you will just have to get over or it not apply for that job.
It&#x27;s that easy - if the ad doesn&#x27;t specify salary and that is a key requirement for you, don&#x27;t get angry, just don&#x27;t apply.<p>This is exactly the problem. If they aren&#x27;t required to list it, they won&#x27;t. And this is harmful to people who aren&#x27;t good negotiators. And also harmful to women and minorities, as countless studies have shown they are chronically underpaid in large part because they aren&#x27;t willing or able to negotiate.<p>That&#x27;s why there is a push to force companies to list the salaries.<p>&gt; Far more important is to know the salary target that you are aiming for.<p>You&#x27;re right! The best way for me to know what salary to target is with lots of data about how much similar jobs pay. A great way to get that is job listings with salary ranges, since I don&#x27;t have access to data like the person offering the job does.</text></item><item><author>andrewstuart</author><text>I&#x27;m a recruiter.<p>I&#x27;ve known for a long time it drives people nuts that job ads don&#x27;t have salary, or have a wide salary range.<p>The fact is that many employers <i>don&#x27;t actually know what they would be willing to pay someone</i>. Until they have met them, assessed them, heard what they salary target is and weighed it up against their skills and experience and calibrated it against the team.<p>The conversation almost always goes like this: Employers come to me and say &quot;we want a great senior C# .NET developer&quot;. I say &quot;what do you want to pay?&quot;. They say &quot;don&#x27;t know, we just want someone great, what do you think we need to pay to get the right person?&quot;. I say &quot;I think it will be about $X, but lets put a job ad up and indicate it&#x27;s top of range $ and see who we get.&quot;<p>It is also true that a single job ad might be aiming to employ a number of people at various positions of seniority and experience.<p>Government agencies are required to carefully define salary ranges because that is the way they work. So it does not surprise me that governments would legislate to require job ads to do the same - essentially because of ignorance about how the world works.<p>If it makes you mad that job ads do not list salary, then there are good reasons and you will just have to get over or it not apply for that job.<p>It&#x27;s that easy - if the ad doesn&#x27;t specify salary and that is a key requirement for you, don&#x27;t get angry, just don&#x27;t apply.<p>Being angry about it or feeling that employers&#x2F;recruiters are playing some sort of manipulative game is ignoring the reality set out above. And when you come into a position that requires recruiting, likely you&#x27;ll speak to your recruiter and say &quot;what do you think we&#x27;ll need to pay for someone like this?&quot;.<p>Far more important is to know the salary target that you are aiming for.<p>EDIT: lots of unhappy responses to this, but don&#x27;t shoot the messenger. Go ask your team lead&#x2F;CEO&#x2F;CTO how recruiting works.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>showerst</author><text>&gt; I know the market rate for a candidate that is just over-the-bar for my role, and I know that market rate for a super-star<p>Great, then you know the good faith range and you&#x27;re good to go.<p>&gt; then I should reject you so you can re-apply for the other role<p>In my experience this happens all the time at big corps and the government. Except it&#x27;s not a rejection, just an &quot;oh actually we have this other open job on the books that would be a better fit - let&#x27;s transfer you over to that&quot;</text></comment> | <story><title>NYC to require salary ranges be included in job postings</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/28/nyregion/nyc-salary-transparency-job-postings.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>NovemberWhiskey</author><text>&gt;&gt; The fact is that many employers don&#x27;t actually know what they would be willing to pay someone.<p>&gt; Then they need better data. A great way to get that would be looking at all the other job listings with salary ranges if they don&#x27;t already have access to back channel data.<p>You&#x27;re missing the point: the variable is the <i>candidate</i>, not the role. I know the market rate for a candidate that is just over-the-bar for my role, and I know that market rate for a super-star who can not only do this role, but is probably already capable of doing the next one.<p>&gt; Then it should be multiple listings with different requirements, even if the only difference is years of experience.<p>So, what if you apply for a role that turns out to be wrong for you based on my assessment of you then I should reject you so you can re-apply for the other role? That&#x27;s ridiculous.</text></item><item><author>jedberg</author><text>It is hard to convince someone they are wrong when their salary depends on being right. But I&#x27;m going to try. I&#x27;ve done hiring myself as a founder, so I have some experience here.<p>&gt; The fact is that many employers don&#x27;t actually know what they would be willing to pay someone.<p>Then they need better data. A great way to get that would be looking at all the other job listings with salary ranges if they don&#x27;t already have access to back channel data.<p>&gt; It is also true that a single job ad might be aiming to employ a number of people at various positions of seniority and experience.<p>Then it should be multiple listings with different requirements, even if the only difference is years of experience.<p>&gt; So it does not surprise me that governments would legislate to require job ads to do the same - essentially because of ignorance about how the world works.<p>The way the government does it is more equitable, so it makes sense that they are trying to legislate that to the private sector.<p>&gt; If it makes you mad that job ads do not list salary, then there are good reasons and you will just have to get over or it not apply for that job.
It&#x27;s that easy - if the ad doesn&#x27;t specify salary and that is a key requirement for you, don&#x27;t get angry, just don&#x27;t apply.<p>This is exactly the problem. If they aren&#x27;t required to list it, they won&#x27;t. And this is harmful to people who aren&#x27;t good negotiators. And also harmful to women and minorities, as countless studies have shown they are chronically underpaid in large part because they aren&#x27;t willing or able to negotiate.<p>That&#x27;s why there is a push to force companies to list the salaries.<p>&gt; Far more important is to know the salary target that you are aiming for.<p>You&#x27;re right! The best way for me to know what salary to target is with lots of data about how much similar jobs pay. A great way to get that is job listings with salary ranges, since I don&#x27;t have access to data like the person offering the job does.</text></item><item><author>andrewstuart</author><text>I&#x27;m a recruiter.<p>I&#x27;ve known for a long time it drives people nuts that job ads don&#x27;t have salary, or have a wide salary range.<p>The fact is that many employers <i>don&#x27;t actually know what they would be willing to pay someone</i>. Until they have met them, assessed them, heard what they salary target is and weighed it up against their skills and experience and calibrated it against the team.<p>The conversation almost always goes like this: Employers come to me and say &quot;we want a great senior C# .NET developer&quot;. I say &quot;what do you want to pay?&quot;. They say &quot;don&#x27;t know, we just want someone great, what do you think we need to pay to get the right person?&quot;. I say &quot;I think it will be about $X, but lets put a job ad up and indicate it&#x27;s top of range $ and see who we get.&quot;<p>It is also true that a single job ad might be aiming to employ a number of people at various positions of seniority and experience.<p>Government agencies are required to carefully define salary ranges because that is the way they work. So it does not surprise me that governments would legislate to require job ads to do the same - essentially because of ignorance about how the world works.<p>If it makes you mad that job ads do not list salary, then there are good reasons and you will just have to get over or it not apply for that job.<p>It&#x27;s that easy - if the ad doesn&#x27;t specify salary and that is a key requirement for you, don&#x27;t get angry, just don&#x27;t apply.<p>Being angry about it or feeling that employers&#x2F;recruiters are playing some sort of manipulative game is ignoring the reality set out above. And when you come into a position that requires recruiting, likely you&#x27;ll speak to your recruiter and say &quot;what do you think we&#x27;ll need to pay for someone like this?&quot;.<p>Far more important is to know the salary target that you are aiming for.<p>EDIT: lots of unhappy responses to this, but don&#x27;t shoot the messenger. Go ask your team lead&#x2F;CEO&#x2F;CTO how recruiting works.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jameshart</author><text>&gt; I know the market rate for a candidate that is just over-the-bar for my role, and I know that market rate for a super-star who can not only do this role, but is probably already capable of doing the next one.<p>Those are going to be two vastly different numbers. Which one are you looking to pay for? If you have budget for a superstar, why would you settle for just-over-the-bar talent?<p>I kind of find myself suspecting that what you&#x27;re really hoping for is that you&#x27;ll find someone who has superstar talent, but doesn&#x27;t know their market rate, so you can hire them at just-over-the-bar money.</text></comment> |
22,736,049 | 22,734,677 | 1 | 2 | 22,731,928 | train | <story><title>Dolt is Git for data</title><url>https://www.dolthub.com/blog/2020-03-30-dolt-use-cases/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>peteforde</author><text>Only 39 days since the last &quot;GitHub for data&quot; was announced: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=22375774" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=22375774</a><p>I&#x27;ll say what I said in February: I started a company with the same premise 9 years ago, during the prime &quot;big data&quot; hype cycle. We burned through a lot of investor money only to realize that there was not a market opportunity to capture. That is, many people thought it was cool - we even did co-sponsored data contests with The Economist - but at the end of the day, we couldn&#x27;t find anyone with an urgent problem that they were willing to pay to solve.<p>I wish these folks luck! Perhaps things have changed; we were part of a flock of 5 or 10 similar projects and I&#x27;m pretty sure the only one still around today is Kaggle.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=EWMjQhhxhQ4" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=EWMjQhhxhQ4</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>deforciant</author><text>We also started &quot;Git for data&quot; several years ago but since then pivoted to data science&#x2F;ML tooling (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;dotscience.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;dotscience.com&#x2F;</a>) by building features that people actually want on the original product. Since then the &quot;git for data&quot; accounts only probably for 5% of the total functionality :)<p>I guess &quot;Git for data&quot; is not very useful if you don&#x27;t have the whole platform built around it to actually use the features. We mainly use it for data synchronization between the nodes and provenance tracking so people can see what data was used to build specific models and to track how the project evolves itself without forcing people to &quot;commit&quot; their changes manually (as we have seen that often data scientists don&#x27;t even use git, just files on their Jupyter notebooks).</text></comment> | <story><title>Dolt is Git for data</title><url>https://www.dolthub.com/blog/2020-03-30-dolt-use-cases/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>peteforde</author><text>Only 39 days since the last &quot;GitHub for data&quot; was announced: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=22375774" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=22375774</a><p>I&#x27;ll say what I said in February: I started a company with the same premise 9 years ago, during the prime &quot;big data&quot; hype cycle. We burned through a lot of investor money only to realize that there was not a market opportunity to capture. That is, many people thought it was cool - we even did co-sponsored data contests with The Economist - but at the end of the day, we couldn&#x27;t find anyone with an urgent problem that they were willing to pay to solve.<p>I wish these folks luck! Perhaps things have changed; we were part of a flock of 5 or 10 similar projects and I&#x27;m pretty sure the only one still around today is Kaggle.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=EWMjQhhxhQ4" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=EWMjQhhxhQ4</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>sjtindell</author><text>Just want to say, really appreciate this food for thought. Where do you go and see someone say &quot;my company tried it and...&quot;. This site is a godsend.</text></comment> |
9,490,074 | 9,490,014 | 1 | 2 | 9,489,558 | train | <story><title>Call me maybe: Elasticsearch 1.5.0</title><url>https://aphyr.com/posts/323-call-me-maybe-elasticsearch-1-5-0</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>teraflop</author><text>&gt; How often the translog is fsynced to disk. Defaults to 5s. [...] In this test we kill random nodes and restart them. [...] In Elasticsearch, write acknowledgement takes place before the transaction is flushed to disk, which means you can lose up to five seconds of writes by default. In this particular run, ES lost about 10% of acknowledged writes.<p>Something bothers me about this: if the bug was merely a failure to call fsync() before acknowledging an operation, then killing processes shouldn&#x27;t be enough to cause data loss. Once you write to a file and the syscall returns, the written data goes into the OS&#x27;s buffers, and even if the process is killed it won&#x27;t be lost. The only time fsync matters is if the entire machine dies (because of power loss or a kernel panic, for instance) before those buffers can be flushed.<p>So is the data actually not even making it to the OS before being acked to the client? Or is Jepsen doing something more sophisticated, like running each node in a VM with its own block device instead of sharing the host&#x27;s filesystem?</text></comment> | <story><title>Call me maybe: Elasticsearch 1.5.0</title><url>https://aphyr.com/posts/323-call-me-maybe-elasticsearch-1-5-0</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>w8rbt</author><text>The &#x27;Recap&#x27; section has good advice to address the issue of data loss:<p><i></i><i>My recommendations for Elasticsearch users are unchanged: store your data in a database with better safety guarantees, and continuously upsert every document from that database into Elasticsearch. If your search engine is missing a few documents for a day, it’s not a big deal; they’ll be reinserted on the next run and appear in subsequent searches. Not using Elasticsearch as a system of record also insulates you from having to worry about ES downtime during elections.</i><i></i></text></comment> |
18,773,330 | 18,773,437 | 1 | 3 | 18,772,720 | train | <story><title>Liquid: Vim and Emacs-inspired editor written in Clojure</title><url>https://github.com/mogenslund/liquid/blob/master/README.md</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>snazz</author><text>The lambdas in the name are a bit much. On another note, this looks really cool! The mindmap demo in particular[0] is really impressive (and probably requires lots of screwing around with terminal fonts). Evaluating files as Clojure (with the e key in normal mode) is obviously stolen from Emacs, but probably better since more people know Clojure than they do elisp. I&#x27;m continually impressed with the number and quality of alternative text editors out there and I hope that this one gets the critical mass userbase necessary to sustain its development and ensure that every language imaginable supports it as a development environment, as Emacs and Vim do now.<p>[0]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;mogenslund&#x2F;liquid#salza-%CE%BBiquid-text-editor-is-designed-with-clojure-developers-in-mind" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;mogenslund&#x2F;liquid#salza-%CE%BBiquid-text-...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Liquid: Vim and Emacs-inspired editor written in Clojure</title><url>https://github.com/mogenslund/liquid/blob/master/README.md</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>Scarbutt</author><text>This is great!, but.. IJKL instead of HJKL for char movement will keep vim users away, so it doesn&#x27;t really have emacs nor vim keybindings (nor sublimetext, vscode, etc..), this can stop lots of users from giving it a try IMO. Not implying that there is anything wrong with that if the author desires it to be that way.</text></comment> |
20,916,763 | 20,916,591 | 1 | 2 | 20,915,746 | train | <story><title>Sunsetting Python 2</title><url>https://www.python.org/doc/sunset-python-2/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>reitzensteinm</author><text>Based on your timeline, a four year gap from &quot;not yet ready to migrate&quot; to &quot;we won&#x27;t fix security vulnerabilities&quot; is very short.<p>Python is an open source project I&#x27;ve used and contributed nothing to, so I don&#x27;t have the right to be a back seat driver. Were it a commercial project and I was a customer, I would be quite upset.</text></item><item><author>jedberg</author><text>In 2015, there was no way I could have moved to Python 3. There were too many libraries I depended on that hadn&#x27;t ported yet.<p>In 2019, I feel pretty confident about using Python 3, having used it exclusively for about 18 months now.<p>For my personal use case at least, this timeline worked out well for me. Hopefully it works out for most everyone. I can&#x27;t imagine they made this decision without at least some data backing it up.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>shakna</author><text>Python 2&#x27;s EOL was first announced in 2008, it was extended in 2014. That&#x27;s more than a decade of forewarning that this was coming down the line. A decade of Python2 receiving security fixes.<p>Were I a commercial customer, and had been told to switch to the new version ten years ago, then it&#x27;s on me if I still have started the migration yet.</text></comment> | <story><title>Sunsetting Python 2</title><url>https://www.python.org/doc/sunset-python-2/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>reitzensteinm</author><text>Based on your timeline, a four year gap from &quot;not yet ready to migrate&quot; to &quot;we won&#x27;t fix security vulnerabilities&quot; is very short.<p>Python is an open source project I&#x27;ve used and contributed nothing to, so I don&#x27;t have the right to be a back seat driver. Were it a commercial project and I was a customer, I would be quite upset.</text></item><item><author>jedberg</author><text>In 2015, there was no way I could have moved to Python 3. There were too many libraries I depended on that hadn&#x27;t ported yet.<p>In 2019, I feel pretty confident about using Python 3, having used it exclusively for about 18 months now.<p>For my personal use case at least, this timeline worked out well for me. Hopefully it works out for most everyone. I can&#x27;t imagine they made this decision without at least some data backing it up.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>PeterisP</author><text>The thing is, a four year gap is very large from the perspective of &quot;should we drop everything else and prioritize porting our library to python3 right now&quot;.<p>If the deadline wasn&#x27;t 2020 but 2024, then you wouldn&#x27;t get more time, simply we&#x27;d be at &quot;not yet ready to migrate&quot; state right now, as major libraries would not have switched yet.</text></comment> |
21,090,650 | 21,089,966 | 1 | 3 | 21,084,873 | train | <story><title>Tesla Software Version 10.0</title><url>https://www.tesla.com/blog/introducing-software-version-10-0?redirect=no</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>the_angry_angel</author><text>How well does the auto wipe behave on Tesla’s? I’ve owned multiple cars with the feature over the last 10 years - the only one which has ever got it close was a Lexus (quite some time ago). The rest I’ve had and still need to constantly police.</text></item><item><author>radium3d</author><text>The wipers wipe automatically when the camera detects rain on the windshield. If you want to do a window clean you just push the button on the end of the blinker handle on the left of the steering wheel. It&#x27;s one of the few physical buttons of the 3.</text></item><item><author>propogandist</author><text>Having to fiddle with a touch screen to manage windshield wipers is unnecessary.</text></item><item><author>radium3d</author><text>Tesla 3 owner here. Beyond tapping up &#x2F; down temperature arrows I don&#x27;t ever need to touch my A&#x2F;C settings and it remembers my settings when I pick my profile (and soon it will recognize me automatically) so I think it&#x27;s less annoying than analog setup personally.</text></item><item><author>kerkeslager</author><text>I want a well-put-together electric car that&#x27;s completely analog <i>from the user&#x27;s perspective</i>. There&#x27;s not a single user-facing digital feature I&#x27;ve ever seen on a car that I wanted, and in fact most of them make things worse.<p>Obviously there&#x27;s some non-user-facing stuff, i.e. all-wheel-drive, which computerization has revolutionized. But any user-facing stuff is just awful. I want an electric car, but I don&#x27;t want to be forced into some awful proprietary OS touch screen just to adjust my A&#x2F;C, and I&#x27;m afraid companies are using the switch from gas to electric as an excuse to go in that direction.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>aedron</author><text>It&#x27;s a solved problem on newer cars.<p>What I want next is an automatic sunscreen that slides down based on sensing the angle of the sunlight. I think there is also technology to dynamically darken glass that could be used. I hereby grant a free perpetual license to auto manufacturers to use this idea. :)</text></comment> | <story><title>Tesla Software Version 10.0</title><url>https://www.tesla.com/blog/introducing-software-version-10-0?redirect=no</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>the_angry_angel</author><text>How well does the auto wipe behave on Tesla’s? I’ve owned multiple cars with the feature over the last 10 years - the only one which has ever got it close was a Lexus (quite some time ago). The rest I’ve had and still need to constantly police.</text></item><item><author>radium3d</author><text>The wipers wipe automatically when the camera detects rain on the windshield. If you want to do a window clean you just push the button on the end of the blinker handle on the left of the steering wheel. It&#x27;s one of the few physical buttons of the 3.</text></item><item><author>propogandist</author><text>Having to fiddle with a touch screen to manage windshield wipers is unnecessary.</text></item><item><author>radium3d</author><text>Tesla 3 owner here. Beyond tapping up &#x2F; down temperature arrows I don&#x27;t ever need to touch my A&#x2F;C settings and it remembers my settings when I pick my profile (and soon it will recognize me automatically) so I think it&#x27;s less annoying than analog setup personally.</text></item><item><author>kerkeslager</author><text>I want a well-put-together electric car that&#x27;s completely analog <i>from the user&#x27;s perspective</i>. There&#x27;s not a single user-facing digital feature I&#x27;ve ever seen on a car that I wanted, and in fact most of them make things worse.<p>Obviously there&#x27;s some non-user-facing stuff, i.e. all-wheel-drive, which computerization has revolutionized. But any user-facing stuff is just awful. I want an electric car, but I don&#x27;t want to be forced into some awful proprietary OS touch screen just to adjust my A&#x2F;C, and I&#x27;m afraid companies are using the switch from gas to electric as an excuse to go in that direction.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Angostura</author><text>Works OK on my 2016 Seat Alhambra. There&#x27;s a little control that lets you adjust frequency&#x2F;sensitivity on the wiper stalk.</text></comment> |
4,672,628 | 4,670,230 | 1 | 2 | 4,669,234 | train | <story><title>Interview with creator of Nginx, Igor Sysoev</title><url>http://www.webhostingskills.com/open_source/articles/interview_with_creator_of_nginx_igor_sysoev</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>maratd</author><text>&#62; Despite having U.S. investors, Nginx's engineering team is based in Russia.<p>Not only is it based in Russia, it is 100% Russian. If that doesn't scare the shit out of you, then I already know that you're not Russian =)<p>&#62; One interpretation is that you don't need to be in the Valley to develop a first-rate product<p>I'll stick with Apache HTTPD and the Apache Foundation, despite its alleged shortcomings.<p>The web server is front and center in pretty much every business. I'll pass on an outfit that sticks communist imagery into its logo.</text></item><item><author>EvanMiller</author><text>Igor has been one of my programmer heroes for many years now, and I'm glad to learn more about his background through this article. The reading's a bit tough, as many verbs appear to be missing and a few Russian words remain untranslated. Some interesting takeaways:<p>* Igor wrote Nginx while working as a sysadmin for Rambler. Classic bottom-up innovation: he could see Apache's shortcomings in a very up-close and personal way. This also explains why Rambler does not hold the copyright on Nginx (see the end of the interview).<p>* He is quite modest when comparing Nginx to other web servers. This reflects well on his character, but perhaps has "slowed" the adoption of Nginx. It's clear from this article that Igor is an engineer, not a salesman. I find this to be refreshing in an era when many open-source projects seem to achieve adoption by being the loudest, rather than by being the best.<p>* Igor put off starting a company until there was just too much work for him to do alone. I liked this quote: "I rarely change my life direction: for example, [before] Rambler, I spent seven years working for a company, [and at] Rambler, I also worked for ten years. Change is hard for me. But, nevertheless, by the spring of this year, I did finally decide to found a company that would help the further development of the project."<p>* Despite having U.S. investors, Nginx's engineering team is based in Russia. One interpretation is that you don't need to be in the Valley to develop a first-rate product; you just need to be in the Valley when it's time to hustle it.<p>Anyway, an interesting read. Apparently this article is his first public interview. I know Igor doesn't like publicity, but it's inspiring to read his story.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>TeMPOraL</author><text>I believe he meant the opposite of what seems to be understood - in stereotypes russians are highly respected for being <i>extremely</i> smart and resourceful, to the point of being completely badass for western standards.<p>For example, in Poland we sometimes joke about how russian/soviet technology came only in two kinds - if a device won't fall apart immediately after start, it will last forever. It's mostly meant to be whining about "planned obsolescence" and other business attitudes that came from west, that ultimately is about short term money gain for producers on the expense of consumers' money, happiness and natural resources.</text></comment> | <story><title>Interview with creator of Nginx, Igor Sysoev</title><url>http://www.webhostingskills.com/open_source/articles/interview_with_creator_of_nginx_igor_sysoev</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>maratd</author><text>&#62; Despite having U.S. investors, Nginx's engineering team is based in Russia.<p>Not only is it based in Russia, it is 100% Russian. If that doesn't scare the shit out of you, then I already know that you're not Russian =)<p>&#62; One interpretation is that you don't need to be in the Valley to develop a first-rate product<p>I'll stick with Apache HTTPD and the Apache Foundation, despite its alleged shortcomings.<p>The web server is front and center in pretty much every business. I'll pass on an outfit that sticks communist imagery into its logo.</text></item><item><author>EvanMiller</author><text>Igor has been one of my programmer heroes for many years now, and I'm glad to learn more about his background through this article. The reading's a bit tough, as many verbs appear to be missing and a few Russian words remain untranslated. Some interesting takeaways:<p>* Igor wrote Nginx while working as a sysadmin for Rambler. Classic bottom-up innovation: he could see Apache's shortcomings in a very up-close and personal way. This also explains why Rambler does not hold the copyright on Nginx (see the end of the interview).<p>* He is quite modest when comparing Nginx to other web servers. This reflects well on his character, but perhaps has "slowed" the adoption of Nginx. It's clear from this article that Igor is an engineer, not a salesman. I find this to be refreshing in an era when many open-source projects seem to achieve adoption by being the loudest, rather than by being the best.<p>* Igor put off starting a company until there was just too much work for him to do alone. I liked this quote: "I rarely change my life direction: for example, [before] Rambler, I spent seven years working for a company, [and at] Rambler, I also worked for ten years. Change is hard for me. But, nevertheless, by the spring of this year, I did finally decide to found a company that would help the further development of the project."<p>* Despite having U.S. investors, Nginx's engineering team is based in Russia. One interpretation is that you don't need to be in the Valley to develop a first-rate product; you just need to be in the Valley when it's time to hustle it.<p>Anyway, an interesting read. Apparently this article is his first public interview. I know Igor doesn't like publicity, but it's inspiring to read his story.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mitjak</author><text>Do you also avoid Chinese and German products for similar reasons? If so, are you a time traveller from 1952?</text></comment> |
14,126,894 | 14,126,547 | 1 | 2 | 14,126,496 | train | <story><title>We Need More Alternatives to Facebook</title><url>https://www.technologyreview.com/s/604082/we-need-more-alternatives-to-facebook/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>Nomentatus</author><text>Obviously we don&#x27;t need an alternative very much since we aren&#x27;t enforcing the laws about interoperability that have always applied to every other sort of monopoly, such as railroads - you aren&#x27;t allowed to have your own rail gauge, by law, for a reason; others have to be able to take those railcars on their line, too. Similarly, back in the day Bell was forced to interoperate with other telephone networks, that wasn&#x27;t a choice. If other networks could interoperate transparently with Facebook there would be no shortage of alternatives. When things get really, really desperate... maybe at long last, despite our captured legislatures, it&#x27;s time to apply the normal legal remedies that were good enough for our great-grandfathers.</text></comment> | <story><title>We Need More Alternatives to Facebook</title><url>https://www.technologyreview.com/s/604082/we-need-more-alternatives-to-facebook/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>pyrophane</author><text>We need interconnected networks to succeed again. Remember when the internet was all about services based on open protocols that could talk to one another? I do. We&#x27;ve moved away from that in no small part to the fact that it isn&#x27;t in the interest of the Facebooks and Googles of the world, who want to BE the internet rather than just a part of it. Everyone has a closed off messaging system. Platforms are working harder to bring content into their wall so you don&#x27;t ever have to leave to get it.<p>I&#x27;m not sure how to fix this now, as the answers (xmpp, openid, diaspora, matrix) don&#x27;t seem to be gaining a huge amount of traction, either because they are too difficult to use, lack important features, or because most users don&#x27;t care.<p>Either way if we can&#x27;t figure out a way to bring that spirit of interconnectedness and decentralization back to the internet I&#x27;m afraid that the situation will continue to deteriorate.</text></comment> |
31,212,122 | 31,211,765 | 1 | 3 | 31,210,680 | train | <story><title>Show HN: Radiopaper – Troll-resistant public conversations</title><url>https://radiopaper.com/explore</url><text>Hi HN! We&#x27;re a bootstrapped team of 4 and have been building Radiopaper for around 16 months alongside other full-time, part-time, and consulting jobs.<p>I wanted to highlight a couple of the unique characteristics of Radiopaper that may not be immediately apparent when browsing <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;radiopaper.com&#x2F;explore" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;radiopaper.com&#x2F;explore</a><p>* It&#x27;s possible to interact with Radiopaper entirely by email, and never log-in interactively. The notification emails contain context that explains that if you reply to the email, your message will be published on <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;radiopaper.com" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;radiopaper.com</a><p>* The key mechanism that makes Radiopaper different from other social networks, and more resistant to trolling and abuse, is that messages are not published until the counterparty replies or accepts your comment. You can read more about this in our manifesto at <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;radiopaper.com&#x2F;about" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;radiopaper.com&#x2F;about</a><p>The technical stack is a Vue&#x2F;TypeScript app talking to an API backend written in Go, running on Cloud Run, and using Firestore for persistence, Firebase Auth for authentication.<p>Email processing is handled through the Gmail API hooked up to a Cloud Pubsub notification which triggers another Cloud Run service. Outbound emails go through SendGrid.<p>The whole stack &quot;scales-to-zero&quot;, and on days that we have a few hundred active users, we&#x27;re still under the free limits of Firebase Hosting, Cloud Run &amp; Firestore, so this has allowed us to operate for a long time without funding or revenue. Our overall burn rate is around $40&#x2F;month, mostly from the smattering of other SaaS offerings we use: Sentry, Mixpanel, Github &amp; SendGrid.<p>Dave &amp; I discuss our tech stack in a little more detail in this conversation:
<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;radiopaper.com&#x2F;conversation&#x2F;4PsvfxLX2Q5NHLBs8nuN" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;radiopaper.com&#x2F;conversation&#x2F;4PsvfxLX2Q5NHLBs8nuN</a><p>The team (myself, daave, davidschaengold, youngnh) will be around to answer any questions!</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>taspeotis</author><text>It is simple and I do like it, but I also worry that the counterparty can simply not accept your comment and always have the last word.<p>So there is a reduced incentive to invest your time in writing a reply.</text></item><item><author>linkdd</author><text>&gt; The key mechanism that makes Radiopaper different from other social networks, and more resistant to trolling and abuse, is that messages are not published until the counterparty replies or accepts your comment.<p>My mind is blown at how simple and elegant this solution is!<p>Great work there.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>davidschaengold</author><text>Once a conversation is published, you can no longer choose not to accept your counterparty&#x27;s messages. However, if you choose not to respond to further messages in that conversation, your counterparty&#x27;s additional messages will be considered &quot;post-scripts,&quot; which do not cause a conversation to rise to the top of the Explore page. The effect is that, while no user can claim the last word from a counterparty, you can make it unlikely for a conversation to be seen by simply allowing the other user to have the last word.</text></comment> | <story><title>Show HN: Radiopaper – Troll-resistant public conversations</title><url>https://radiopaper.com/explore</url><text>Hi HN! We&#x27;re a bootstrapped team of 4 and have been building Radiopaper for around 16 months alongside other full-time, part-time, and consulting jobs.<p>I wanted to highlight a couple of the unique characteristics of Radiopaper that may not be immediately apparent when browsing <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;radiopaper.com&#x2F;explore" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;radiopaper.com&#x2F;explore</a><p>* It&#x27;s possible to interact with Radiopaper entirely by email, and never log-in interactively. The notification emails contain context that explains that if you reply to the email, your message will be published on <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;radiopaper.com" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;radiopaper.com</a><p>* The key mechanism that makes Radiopaper different from other social networks, and more resistant to trolling and abuse, is that messages are not published until the counterparty replies or accepts your comment. You can read more about this in our manifesto at <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;radiopaper.com&#x2F;about" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;radiopaper.com&#x2F;about</a><p>The technical stack is a Vue&#x2F;TypeScript app talking to an API backend written in Go, running on Cloud Run, and using Firestore for persistence, Firebase Auth for authentication.<p>Email processing is handled through the Gmail API hooked up to a Cloud Pubsub notification which triggers another Cloud Run service. Outbound emails go through SendGrid.<p>The whole stack &quot;scales-to-zero&quot;, and on days that we have a few hundred active users, we&#x27;re still under the free limits of Firebase Hosting, Cloud Run &amp; Firestore, so this has allowed us to operate for a long time without funding or revenue. Our overall burn rate is around $40&#x2F;month, mostly from the smattering of other SaaS offerings we use: Sentry, Mixpanel, Github &amp; SendGrid.<p>Dave &amp; I discuss our tech stack in a little more detail in this conversation:
<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;radiopaper.com&#x2F;conversation&#x2F;4PsvfxLX2Q5NHLBs8nuN" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;radiopaper.com&#x2F;conversation&#x2F;4PsvfxLX2Q5NHLBs8nuN</a><p>The team (myself, daave, davidschaengold, youngnh) will be around to answer any questions!</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>taspeotis</author><text>It is simple and I do like it, but I also worry that the counterparty can simply not accept your comment and always have the last word.<p>So there is a reduced incentive to invest your time in writing a reply.</text></item><item><author>linkdd</author><text>&gt; The key mechanism that makes Radiopaper different from other social networks, and more resistant to trolling and abuse, is that messages are not published until the counterparty replies or accepts your comment.<p>My mind is blown at how simple and elegant this solution is!<p>Great work there.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mrandish</author><text>Good point. Perhaps they could implement a feature that indicates there has been a response submitted but not yet approved. Possibly it could include when it was sent, who the reply is from, whether the approver has seen it (and when they saw it). That would at least make it apparent when someone is withholding approvals for an unreasonable time.</text></comment> |
2,450,736 | 2,450,780 | 1 | 2 | 2,450,560 | train | <story><title>Why Leaves Really Fall Off Trees</title><url>http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=114288700</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>tokenadult</author><text>There is interesting science behind deciduous trees losing their leaves.<p><a href="http://treephys.oxfordjournals.org/content/18/8-9/537.full.pdf" rel="nofollow">http://treephys.oxfordjournals.org/content/18/8-9/537.full.p...</a><p>Deciduous trees have an important role in urban environments.<p><a href="http://www.sustland.umn.edu/maint/trees.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.sustland.umn.edu/maint/trees.html</a><p><a href="http://extension.usu.edu/forestry/HomeTown/Energy_TreesandEnergy.htm" rel="nofollow">http://extension.usu.edu/forestry/HomeTown/Energy_TreesandEn...</a><p>This link caught my eye because the source was National Public Radio in the United States, in the northern temperate zone (Northern Hemisphere). As I expected, the original date of the article was October (2009). At this time of year (April 2011), deciduous tree leaves are mostly falling only in the Southern Hemisphere.</text></comment> | <story><title>Why Leaves Really Fall Off Trees</title><url>http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=114288700</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>guygurari</author><text><i>If trees kept their leaves permanently they wouldn't have to grow new ones</i><p>If leaves were kept indefinitely they'd also have to deal with damage, wear and tear and so on. Biological systems often seem to prefer replacing over repairing damaged parts, which is perhaps another reason why leaves are replaced. For instance our skin is constantly being replaced, so injured pieces are discarded instead of repaired.</text></comment> |
5,773,543 | 5,772,643 | 1 | 2 | 5,771,647 | train | <story><title>PayPal.com XSS Vulnerability</title><url>http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2013/May/163</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>ck2</author><text>PayPal should have put the reward into a trust for them for a year if there were legal issues.<p>Kudos for them being honest with both the bug and their age regardless.<p>The future is probably filled with teenagers discovering things, good and bad.<p>Teenagers are still prosecuted as adults but legally treated as less for other responsibilities.</text></comment> | <story><title>PayPal.com XSS Vulnerability</title><url>http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2013/May/163</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>lawnchair_larry</author><text>Not the first time I've seen paypal flake on their bounty. Poor excuse.</text></comment> |
24,274,057 | 24,272,360 | 1 | 2 | 24,268,094 | train | <story><title>2,000-year-old redwoods survive wildfire at California's oldest state park</title><url>https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/2-000-year-old-redwoods-survive-wildfire-california-s-oldest-n1237949</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>gdubs</author><text>I was elated to read this, and then disappointed at the comments here. It seems to be feeding an argument of “see, fires are natural and these trees are old - Climate Change is a fear-mongering hoax!”<p>Firestorms are not the meandering fires that have long been a natural part of ecosystems. Ladder fires — where fire leaves the forest floor, up to the crowns, creating a wall of fire that can change weather patterns — are incredibly powerful events. Despite how much fire these trees have survived over their long lives, they dodged a bullet here.<p>As an environmentalist, seeing that these trees won this battle is stirring. But it’s cavalier to assume they’ll win the next fight, or the one after that.<p>Fires are becoming more intense, more frequent, more damaging. Part of this is because the yearly burns the Native American Indians did to maintain the habitat have gone the way of history. Part of it is due to natural drought cycles. Part of it is our increasing development of the urban-wilderness interface. And part of it is climate change. The world is getting hotter, and drier. We are in the midst of a mass extinction event. These trees survived today, but will we do anything to help them survive this century?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dfsegoat</author><text>In the case of Armstrong Woods historic Redwood grove here in Sonoma County, CA - currently threatended by Walbridge fire [1]:<p>From a fuel standpoint, the entire area around the redwoods used to be managed by logging companies and private industry - they even staffed the fire towers. Since that time, private and conservation owners have bought up the land around the area, but pretty much have done nothing to manage fuels, right now that is all burning for the first time in 50+ years.<p>The failure of those parcels to properly manage fuels on their property probably led to the threat to the redwood groves in this case. For this area in general, the NIMBY attitude has largely precluded controlled burning on the scale it used to be conducted at.<p>1 - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;napsg.maps.arcgis.com&#x2F;apps&#x2F;webappviewer&#x2F;index.html?id=6dc469279760492d802c7ba6db45ff0e&amp;extent=-13816097.4846%2C4550240.7459%2C-13577613.9563%2C4705713.6614%2C102100" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;napsg.maps.arcgis.com&#x2F;apps&#x2F;webappviewer&#x2F;index.html?i...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>2,000-year-old redwoods survive wildfire at California's oldest state park</title><url>https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/2-000-year-old-redwoods-survive-wildfire-california-s-oldest-n1237949</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>gdubs</author><text>I was elated to read this, and then disappointed at the comments here. It seems to be feeding an argument of “see, fires are natural and these trees are old - Climate Change is a fear-mongering hoax!”<p>Firestorms are not the meandering fires that have long been a natural part of ecosystems. Ladder fires — where fire leaves the forest floor, up to the crowns, creating a wall of fire that can change weather patterns — are incredibly powerful events. Despite how much fire these trees have survived over their long lives, they dodged a bullet here.<p>As an environmentalist, seeing that these trees won this battle is stirring. But it’s cavalier to assume they’ll win the next fight, or the one after that.<p>Fires are becoming more intense, more frequent, more damaging. Part of this is because the yearly burns the Native American Indians did to maintain the habitat have gone the way of history. Part of it is due to natural drought cycles. Part of it is our increasing development of the urban-wilderness interface. And part of it is climate change. The world is getting hotter, and drier. We are in the midst of a mass extinction event. These trees survived today, but will we do anything to help them survive this century?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>eloff</author><text>The world is getting hotter, but only parts of it are getting drier. Parts of it are getting wetter. Overall it will get wetter. For each 1C rise in temperature, the air can hold about 7% [1] more water vapor. Warmer air above warmer oceans will pick up more water and dump it over much the same places as it does now, although the prevailing winds and ocean currents changing will also change that up.<p>I think the effect will mostly be that dry places will get drier and wet places will get wetter. Which is a disagreeable change, to be sure.<p>[1] <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.int-res.com&#x2F;articles&#x2F;cr_oa&#x2F;c047p123.pdf" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.int-res.com&#x2F;articles&#x2F;cr_oa&#x2F;c047p123.pdf</a></text></comment> |
1,334,561 | 1,334,400 | 1 | 3 | 1,334,187 | train | <story><title>"Amazon EBS sucks. I just lost all my data"</title><url>http://developer.amazonwebservices.com/connect/thread.jspa?threadID=46277</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>brk</author><text>Although I sometimes get downvoted for this, I'll say it again:<p>You can't outsource your liability.<p>If your product is a webapp, then the underlying messy bits of backups, hardware, availability and redundancy also require some amount of conscious thought on your part. Not every site/app needs it's own mini-datacenter, and you might not even need your own dedicated server (though you probably do when you reach a certain minimal amount of scale). But you DO need to have someone who is thinking about backups and availability, and a valid solution is not to assume that the smart folks at Amazon or Rackspace or any other hosting provider are going to be completely and consistently working with your best interests and uptime in mind.<p>EVRYTHING fails at some point. Every server, every generator, every upstream connection, every hosting provider big or small. And in this case I mean fail as in goes dark for some period of time not covered by backups or hot-spares.<p>So, plan accordingly.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>patio11</author><text><i>You can't outsource your liability.</i><p>Of course you can. That is the entire reason the insurance industry exists.<p>More practically for the instant case, I use a provider who has a turnkey backup option, rather than one which would force me to spend expensive engineer time rolling my own only to discover that I really suck at thinking through all of the design challenges of backup solutions. (Something which always seems to get discovered that the most <i>inconvenient</i> of times.)</text></comment> | <story><title>"Amazon EBS sucks. I just lost all my data"</title><url>http://developer.amazonwebservices.com/connect/thread.jspa?threadID=46277</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>brk</author><text>Although I sometimes get downvoted for this, I'll say it again:<p>You can't outsource your liability.<p>If your product is a webapp, then the underlying messy bits of backups, hardware, availability and redundancy also require some amount of conscious thought on your part. Not every site/app needs it's own mini-datacenter, and you might not even need your own dedicated server (though you probably do when you reach a certain minimal amount of scale). But you DO need to have someone who is thinking about backups and availability, and a valid solution is not to assume that the smart folks at Amazon or Rackspace or any other hosting provider are going to be completely and consistently working with your best interests and uptime in mind.<p>EVRYTHING fails at some point. Every server, every generator, every upstream connection, every hosting provider big or small. And in this case I mean fail as in goes dark for some period of time not covered by backups or hot-spares.<p>So, plan accordingly.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>andrewvc</author><text>That's true, I agree 100%.<p>I'd add to that though, if you're a small company sometimes you must recognize that a larger 3rd party can use scale to provide a more reliable service than you can.</text></comment> |
21,456,833 | 21,456,839 | 1 | 3 | 21,452,266 | train | <story><title>Backcountry.com sues anyone who uses its namesake</title><url>https://coloradosun.com/2019/10/31/backcountry-com-sues-anyone-who-uses-its-namesake-is-it-bullying-or-just-business/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>hombre_fatal</author><text>How much engineering staff do you need to make some walking sticks?</text></item><item><author>notadoc</author><text>&gt; Don&#x27;t forget, Black Diamond laid off much of the Utah engineering staff and their climbing cams will now be made in China...<p>That might be why</text></item><item><author>wsinks</author><text>I recently bought a set of collapsable climbing poles from Black Diamond.<p>They broke on my first really long hike. 1&#x2F;3 of the way into a 72 mile route..</text></item><item><author>dgzl</author><text>I chatted with a rep last night and they were very responsive, said &quot;our managers are listening to customer feedback.&quot;<p>Don&#x27;t forget, Black Diamond laid off much of the Utah engineering staff and their climbing cams will now be made in China... Not sure what other gear is taking that fate. Looks like it&#x27;s Metolious Master Cams for me now.</text></item><item><author>crikli</author><text>I’m a climber &#x2F; skier &#x2F; runner etc based out of Colorado and between my wife and we’ve spent a small fortune with backcountry.com. I didn’t know about any of this. Suing a maker of backcountry skis? Well, fuck you too, private equity jerkoffs. I’m going to light up my rep on this and let them know my spend and my recommendations are going elsewhere.<p>---<p>Edit3: GoFundMe for the legal costs of one of their targets:
<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.gofundme.com&#x2F;f&#x2F;legal-defense-to-fight-backcountrycom" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.gofundme.com&#x2F;f&#x2F;legal-defense-to-fight-backcountr...</a><p>Edit2: A follow-up article with more details on just how predatory and unreasonable BC (by proxy through their attorneys) have become:
<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;coloradosun.com&#x2F;2019&#x2F;11&#x2F;05&#x2F;backcountry-com-trademark-lawsuits-boycotts-backlash&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;coloradosun.com&#x2F;2019&#x2F;11&#x2F;05&#x2F;backcountry-com-trademark...</a><p>Edit, @skierjerry, et, al, here&#x27;s what I just sent my rep:<p>Heya &lt;person&gt;,<p>I read an article about Backcountry in the Colorado Sun that really disappointed me. Your employer has adopted ugly business tactics and begun using its size to attack smaller businesses who have the ubiquitous term “backcountry” in their name.<p>Please look at my lifetime spend with Backcountry as well as that of my wife. It is significant. It also stops now, and I’ll be making significant contributions to the legal funds of the boutique makes and businesses that your employer is assaulting.<p>I wish you nothing but the best on a personal level and hope that your employer chooses to take a better path.&quot;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>CydeWeys</author><text>Black Diamond makes a lot more than just walking sticks. But even if that&#x27;s all they made ..<p>You&#x27;re seriously underestimating how hard it might to to engineer and test even something as seemingly simple as a walking stick. These are lightweight, high-tech materials we&#x27;re talking about (carbon fiber), which even SpaceX gave up on for their latest spacecraft. They&#x27;re also collapsible&#x2F;foldable. Simply put, this is harder than you think it is.</text></comment> | <story><title>Backcountry.com sues anyone who uses its namesake</title><url>https://coloradosun.com/2019/10/31/backcountry-com-sues-anyone-who-uses-its-namesake-is-it-bullying-or-just-business/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>hombre_fatal</author><text>How much engineering staff do you need to make some walking sticks?</text></item><item><author>notadoc</author><text>&gt; Don&#x27;t forget, Black Diamond laid off much of the Utah engineering staff and their climbing cams will now be made in China...<p>That might be why</text></item><item><author>wsinks</author><text>I recently bought a set of collapsable climbing poles from Black Diamond.<p>They broke on my first really long hike. 1&#x2F;3 of the way into a 72 mile route..</text></item><item><author>dgzl</author><text>I chatted with a rep last night and they were very responsive, said &quot;our managers are listening to customer feedback.&quot;<p>Don&#x27;t forget, Black Diamond laid off much of the Utah engineering staff and their climbing cams will now be made in China... Not sure what other gear is taking that fate. Looks like it&#x27;s Metolious Master Cams for me now.</text></item><item><author>crikli</author><text>I’m a climber &#x2F; skier &#x2F; runner etc based out of Colorado and between my wife and we’ve spent a small fortune with backcountry.com. I didn’t know about any of this. Suing a maker of backcountry skis? Well, fuck you too, private equity jerkoffs. I’m going to light up my rep on this and let them know my spend and my recommendations are going elsewhere.<p>---<p>Edit3: GoFundMe for the legal costs of one of their targets:
<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.gofundme.com&#x2F;f&#x2F;legal-defense-to-fight-backcountrycom" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.gofundme.com&#x2F;f&#x2F;legal-defense-to-fight-backcountr...</a><p>Edit2: A follow-up article with more details on just how predatory and unreasonable BC (by proxy through their attorneys) have become:
<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;coloradosun.com&#x2F;2019&#x2F;11&#x2F;05&#x2F;backcountry-com-trademark-lawsuits-boycotts-backlash&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;coloradosun.com&#x2F;2019&#x2F;11&#x2F;05&#x2F;backcountry-com-trademark...</a><p>Edit, @skierjerry, et, al, here&#x27;s what I just sent my rep:<p>Heya &lt;person&gt;,<p>I read an article about Backcountry in the Colorado Sun that really disappointed me. Your employer has adopted ugly business tactics and begun using its size to attack smaller businesses who have the ubiquitous term “backcountry” in their name.<p>Please look at my lifetime spend with Backcountry as well as that of my wife. It is significant. It also stops now, and I’ll be making significant contributions to the legal funds of the boutique makes and businesses that your employer is assaulting.<p>I wish you nothing but the best on a personal level and hope that your employer chooses to take a better path.&quot;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>notadoc</author><text>I have no idea, I&#x27;ve never made an artificial walking stick. Good strong wood is quite sturdy however, but not nearly as light as a synthetic walking stick. Trying to replicate the strength of a hard wood in a very lightweight synthetic material is probably a challenging engineering task.<p>Anyway I&#x27;d think production&#x2F;manufacturing and quality assurance would be more to blame, particularly if the same products used to perform better than now.</text></comment> |
6,221,481 | 6,221,180 | 1 | 3 | 6,220,820 | train | <story><title>Callbacks as our Generation's Goto Statement</title><url>http://tirania.org/blog/archive/2013/Aug-15.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>crazygringo</author><text>&quot;Await&quot; is fantastic, and having using it for JavaScript (via TameJS and then IcedCoffeeScript), it makes things a lot easier and clearer.<p>That being said, I don&#x27;t think the comparison between callbacks and goto is valid.<p>&quot;Goto&quot; allows you to create horrible spaghetti-code programs, and getting rid of it forces you to structure your programs better.<p>&quot;Await&quot;, fundamentally, isn&#x27;t really anything more than syntactic sugar (except for exception handling, which is a good thing). &quot;Await&quot; doesn&#x27;t change how your program is structured at all, it just changes the <i>visual</i> representation of your code -- from indentations in a non-linear order, to vertical and linear order. It&#x27;s definitely a nice improvement, and makes code easier to understand (and allows for better exception handling), but it&#x27;s not actually changing the way your program is fundamentally structured.<p>And finally, &quot;await&quot; is only applicable when a single callback gets called once at the end. If you&#x27;re passing a callback that gets used repeatedly (a sorting function, for example), then normal-style callbacks are still necessary, and not harmful at all. Sometimes they can be short lambdas, sometimes they&#x27;re necessarily much larger.<p>In sum: &quot;await&quot; is great, but there&#x27;s nothing inherently harmful about callbacks, the way &quot;goto&quot; is. To the contrary -- callbacks are amazingly useful, and amazingly powerful in languages like JavaScript. &quot;Await&quot; just makes them nicer.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>blahedo</author><text>What this suggests is that &quot;await&quot; isn&#x27;t like <i>all</i> structured programming, it&#x27;s like <i>one</i> control construct. The history of structured programming is the development of more constructs as people realised that they had a goto pattern that kept popping up in their code, so they named it and thereby got a cognitively-higher-level program. Long after Dijkstra&#x27;s essay, we could still occasionally find new places where goto was really the best way to do it: for instance, if you wanted to &quot;break&quot; out of multiple loops at once. So someone invented named break (likewise continue), and removed yet another use of the unconstrained goto in favour of a more constrained, structured construct.<p>Taking the OP&#x27;s premise at face value, then, if callbacks are like goto, then await takes away one place where they <i>were</i> needed and replaces them with something more structured and safer---and this doesn&#x27;t at all negate the possibility that there are other constructs yet to be invented that would continue that process.</text></comment> | <story><title>Callbacks as our Generation's Goto Statement</title><url>http://tirania.org/blog/archive/2013/Aug-15.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>crazygringo</author><text>&quot;Await&quot; is fantastic, and having using it for JavaScript (via TameJS and then IcedCoffeeScript), it makes things a lot easier and clearer.<p>That being said, I don&#x27;t think the comparison between callbacks and goto is valid.<p>&quot;Goto&quot; allows you to create horrible spaghetti-code programs, and getting rid of it forces you to structure your programs better.<p>&quot;Await&quot;, fundamentally, isn&#x27;t really anything more than syntactic sugar (except for exception handling, which is a good thing). &quot;Await&quot; doesn&#x27;t change how your program is structured at all, it just changes the <i>visual</i> representation of your code -- from indentations in a non-linear order, to vertical and linear order. It&#x27;s definitely a nice improvement, and makes code easier to understand (and allows for better exception handling), but it&#x27;s not actually changing the way your program is fundamentally structured.<p>And finally, &quot;await&quot; is only applicable when a single callback gets called once at the end. If you&#x27;re passing a callback that gets used repeatedly (a sorting function, for example), then normal-style callbacks are still necessary, and not harmful at all. Sometimes they can be short lambdas, sometimes they&#x27;re necessarily much larger.<p>In sum: &quot;await&quot; is great, but there&#x27;s nothing inherently harmful about callbacks, the way &quot;goto&quot; is. To the contrary -- callbacks are amazingly useful, and amazingly powerful in languages like JavaScript. &quot;Await&quot; just makes them nicer.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>wrl</author><text>Let&#x27;s not forget that &quot;if&quot;, &quot;for&quot;, &quot;while&quot;, &quot;switch&quot;, and friends, fundamentally, aren&#x27;t anything more than syntactic sugar for &quot;goto&quot; either. ;)</text></comment> |
22,011,953 | 22,012,176 | 1 | 2 | 22,011,199 | train | <story><title>Amiga Java</title><url>http://www.mikekohn.net/micro/amiga_java.php</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>pavlov</author><text>Seeing &quot;Amiga&quot; and &quot;Java&quot; together reminds me of Amiga Anywhere, a brilliant and completely misunderstood gaming&#x2F;entertainment VM project twenty years ago:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;arstechnica.com&#x2F;gadgets&#x2F;2018&#x2F;03&#x2F;a-history-of-the-amiga-part-12-red-vs-blue&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;arstechnica.com&#x2F;gadgets&#x2F;2018&#x2F;03&#x2F;a-history-of-the-ami...</a><p>It didn&#x27;t really have anything to do with the original Amiga. It was a rebranding of a strange high-performance VM designed by some very clever people in UK:<p><i>&quot;Tao had created a product that was so innovative that few people understood what it actually was. Taos was an operating system that was coded in VP1, an advanced assembly language that used instructions for an imaginary, idealized RISC CPU. When Taos programs were loaded into memory, the system translated the VP1 opcodes into the equivalent ones for whatever CPU it happened to be running on. Taos could run on an x86, a MIPS, a PowerPC, or a transputer, and many more—or even different combinations running at the same time. Because VP1 instructions were more compact than most CPU’s native opcodes, Taos programs would often load and run faster than native ones, even when you included the time it took to do the translation. Taos was a little bit like magic.&quot;</i><p>Of course HN past has the details on this interesting bit of alternative software history:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=9808159" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=9808159</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Amiga Java</title><url>http://www.mikekohn.net/micro/amiga_java.php</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>unwind</author><text>It is so weird to see the cool computers of my teens put on a blanketed table. Makes them look like amcient artifacts, to be approached by wizards only. Kind of like how I felt seeing rackfuls of mainfrane hardware, back then. :)</text></comment> |
29,567,650 | 29,567,703 | 1 | 3 | 29,566,541 | train | <story><title>Log4jmemes.com: for those of us that need a laugh</title><url>https://log4jmemes.com</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>linkdd</author><text>The one about using print&#x2F;console.log&#x2F;whatever lol.<p>I&#x27;ve always done this, never have I used a library for this, because:<p><pre><code> - running manually? &gt;myapp.log 2&gt;&amp;1
- using systemd? use journalctl
- using docker&#x2F;kubernetes? capture automatically the stdout&#x2F;stderr of your containers and pipe them through logstash or something
</code></pre>
Real question: why would an application need to know where its logs go? This is not in the business perimeter, but the ops perimeter. Am I wrong?<p>EDIT:<p>Most responses are about configuring logging level, output format, etc... This can be done with a print-based approach without sending a request to an external service (which would need to trust you and your inputs).<p>Example: Python&#x27;s default logging module.<p>Still, thank you for your insightful answers :)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>junon</author><text>I think you misunderstand the point of log4j. Logging is not free, and outputting to all three of those is quite expensive (especially in the Docker case, and it can even be dangerous as Docker - at least for a long time - did not implement proper backpressure and instead dropped logs).<p>log4j allows <i>libraries</i> to implement logging and allow the <i>end user</i> to worry about where the logs go, at the application level, usually via config on the command line (e.g. modifying classpaths).</text></comment> | <story><title>Log4jmemes.com: for those of us that need a laugh</title><url>https://log4jmemes.com</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>linkdd</author><text>The one about using print&#x2F;console.log&#x2F;whatever lol.<p>I&#x27;ve always done this, never have I used a library for this, because:<p><pre><code> - running manually? &gt;myapp.log 2&gt;&amp;1
- using systemd? use journalctl
- using docker&#x2F;kubernetes? capture automatically the stdout&#x2F;stderr of your containers and pipe them through logstash or something
</code></pre>
Real question: why would an application need to know where its logs go? This is not in the business perimeter, but the ops perimeter. Am I wrong?<p>EDIT:<p>Most responses are about configuring logging level, output format, etc... This can be done with a print-based approach without sending a request to an external service (which would need to trust you and your inputs).<p>Example: Python&#x27;s default logging module.<p>Still, thank you for your insightful answers :)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>gwbas1c</author><text>Some log libraries allow user configuration of logging. Some configurations can be as mundane as altering logging levels when debugging; other configurations could redirect the logs away from text files to something that preserves semantics.<p>But, depending on what your program is doing, printf&#x2F;whatever can be &quot;good enough.&quot;<p>Coming from the C# world, one of the nice things about log4net is that it has a standard exception formatter, and callbacks whenever anything logs to error. This makes it easier to log unexpected errors and phone home when they happen.</text></comment> |
32,976,190 | 32,975,988 | 1 | 3 | 32,974,829 | train | <story><title>Train Travel in the UK: A Foreigner’s Perspective</title><url>https://paliparan.com/2022/09/25/train-travel-uk-foreigners-perspective/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>blibble</author><text>I doubt many people are paying 20%+ of net income to commute in<p>you&#x27;d have to be on minimum wage and a reasonable distance out (in which case you might as well just work locally)<p>10% however I can believe</text></item><item><author>notahacker</author><text>And travelling around with the sort of budget that can consider first class and a willingness to book tickets at suitable times (and comparing prices with international sleeper trains in the rest of Europe!) completely misses why British commuters paying 20%+ of their after tax income for an annual rail pass into London consider it expensive.</text></item><item><author>scmbradley</author><text>From the looks of it, this chap was travelling around in first class. Which would probably give a slightly different impression of train travel... I suspect he also wasn&#x27;t travelling at peak times when trains are at their busiest and most unpleasant.<p>To some extent, I agree that trains get a lot of criticism, and only some of it is deserved. But some of that criticism <i>is</i> very deserved...</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>cirrus-clouds</author><text>I&#x27;ve posted this before: a monthly season ticket comparison from 2017 for UK and Continental Europe. The price differences between UK and other countries are stark:<p>- UK: Luton to London St. Pancras (35 miles) | Monthly season ticket cost: £387<p>- UK: Liverpool Lime Street to Manchester Piccadilly (32 miles) | Monthly season ticket cost: £292<p>- Germany: Dusseldorf to Cologne (28 miles) | Monthly season ticket cost: £85<p>- France: Mantes-la-Jolie to Paris (34 miles) | Monthly season ticket cost: £61<p>- Italy: Anzione to Rome (31 miles) | Monthly season ticket cost: £61<p>- Spain: Aranjuez to Madrid (31 miles) | Monthly season ticket cost: £75<p>Source is the TUC (2017): <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.tuc.org.uk&#x2F;news&#x2F;uk-commuters-spend-6-times-much-their-salary-rail-fares-other-european-passengers" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.tuc.org.uk&#x2F;news&#x2F;uk-commuters-spend-6-times-much-...</a><p>&gt; UK workers on average salaries will spend 14% of their income on a monthly season ticket from Luton to London (£387), or 11% from Liverpool to Manchester (£292).<p>&gt; By contrast, similar commutes would cost passengers only 2% of their incomes in France, 3% in Germany and Italy, and 4% in Spain.</text></comment> | <story><title>Train Travel in the UK: A Foreigner’s Perspective</title><url>https://paliparan.com/2022/09/25/train-travel-uk-foreigners-perspective/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>blibble</author><text>I doubt many people are paying 20%+ of net income to commute in<p>you&#x27;d have to be on minimum wage and a reasonable distance out (in which case you might as well just work locally)<p>10% however I can believe</text></item><item><author>notahacker</author><text>And travelling around with the sort of budget that can consider first class and a willingness to book tickets at suitable times (and comparing prices with international sleeper trains in the rest of Europe!) completely misses why British commuters paying 20%+ of their after tax income for an annual rail pass into London consider it expensive.</text></item><item><author>scmbradley</author><text>From the looks of it, this chap was travelling around in first class. Which would probably give a slightly different impression of train travel... I suspect he also wasn&#x27;t travelling at peak times when trains are at their busiest and most unpleasant.<p>To some extent, I agree that trains get a lot of criticism, and only some of it is deserved. But some of that criticism <i>is</i> very deserved...</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ljf</author><text>Season ticket from not that far from Brighton is the best part of £5k a year. My good friend who commutes from there earns £40k before tax from his job in London. So I reckon some people pay 20 percent or more if they have a job they can only do in London, and for various reasons cannot living in London.</text></comment> |
30,258,358 | 30,257,842 | 1 | 3 | 30,257,420 | train | <story><title>Tesla cut a steering component from some cars, didn’t tell customers</title><url>https://www.cnbc.com/2022/02/07/tesla-cut-a-steering-component-to-deal-with-chip-shortage.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>titzer</author><text>Quoth Musk:<p>&quot; So the cars in the fleet essentially becoming self-driving via software update, I think, might end up being the biggest increase in asset value of any asset class in history&quot;<p>This sentence is packed so tightly with irony that I can&#x27;t believe it was uttered by a self-aware human. Yes, it&#x27;s a great idea that two ton vehicles capable of 100mph just &quot;update&quot; themselves to be fully self-driving. Because what could go wrong? Forget about terminators, just the strategic risk in the event of a cyberwar. Astonishing lack of awareness. And he complains that AI is &quot;summoning the demon&quot;?<p>And yes, they are just &quot;an asset class&quot; whose value needs to be increased because STONKS. I can&#x27;t even.</text></comment> | <story><title>Tesla cut a steering component from some cars, didn’t tell customers</title><url>https://www.cnbc.com/2022/02/07/tesla-cut-a-steering-component-to-deal-with-chip-shortage.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>vletal</author><text>Anyway &quot;considered redundant backup not necessary for level 2 autonomy&quot; breaks the &quot;all Teslas now have the HW required for full autonomy&quot; promise. They should have told customers.</text></comment> |
38,254,518 | 38,248,883 | 1 | 2 | 38,230,532 | train | <story><title>Terry Pratchett and the Maggi Soup Adverts (2011)</title><url>https://gmkeros.wordpress.com/2011/09/02/terry-pratchett-and-the-maggi-soup-adverts/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>neonate</author><text><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;web.archive.org&#x2F;web&#x2F;20231113180707&#x2F;https:&#x2F;&#x2F;gmkeros.wordpress.com&#x2F;2011&#x2F;09&#x2F;02&#x2F;terry-pratchett-and-the-maggi-soup-adverts&#x2F;" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;web.archive.org&#x2F;web&#x2F;20231113180707&#x2F;https:&#x2F;&#x2F;gmkeros.w...</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;archive.ph&#x2F;s6wbk" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;archive.ph&#x2F;s6wbk</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Terry Pratchett and the Maggi Soup Adverts (2011)</title><url>https://gmkeros.wordpress.com/2011/09/02/terry-pratchett-and-the-maggi-soup-adverts/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>lostfocus</author><text>I remember that dumb ad. I think that was the moment when I finally decided to read his books in his original English instead. (It helped that at this time my English got good enough that I could read whole novels complete with puns and obscure references.)</text></comment> |
2,403,132 | 2,402,990 | 1 | 2 | 2,402,730 | train | <story><title>Withdrawing from Hacker News</title><url>http://www.solipsys.co.uk/new/WithdrawingFromHackerNews.html?HN</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>blhack</author><text>I totally agree with this, but it's kindof sad to see people just give up on this community.<p>I've seen some things tried in the past (like hiding karma in comment threads), and I think it would be great if we could try a few more things in the future.<p>I'd love to see HN try making users "earn" karma. You "spend" your karma when you upvote or downvote somebody. Upvotes cost one point, downvotes cost two. This is good because it incentivizes people <i>not</i> to downvote people (it's "expensive"), and also prevents brand new users who don't yet understand the conventions from downvoting things just because they disagree with them.<p>I think that one of the big problems lately has been comments being inappropriately downvoted. I asked a question a couple of days ago about how google justifies things like google charts (which I use heavily), and was downvoted to -4 for it. 3 years ago (when I joined) this wouldn't have been the case.<p>Meanwhile I'm starting reddit-style to see joke threads pop up in the comments.<p>I really think that a lot of this is new users, and I really think that slashdot's style of earning the right to moderate is a solid concept. We should try it.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>rlpb</author><text>Along the same lines, I think that part of the problem is that there's inflation in upvotes because people have an unlimited supply.<p>I don't upvote that often. When I do, I really mean it because the content is that good.<p>I'm sure that there are others who have a much lower bar for submitting an upvote. After all, an upvote costs nothing.<p>Why shouldn't upvotes from people who are active but upvote rarely count more than those who upvote a lot? How about some of the outstanding long time users with tons of karma: why don't their upvotes count for much more than a newbie upvoting a linkbait article or a reddit-style joke thread?<p><i>All upvotes are not equal.</i><p>I think this is one of the underlying problems with many social moderation systems, HN included.<p>Your idea of having upvotes cost karma is an example of one of the possible solutions that economics has devised for us.</text></comment> | <story><title>Withdrawing from Hacker News</title><url>http://www.solipsys.co.uk/new/WithdrawingFromHackerNews.html?HN</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>blhack</author><text>I totally agree with this, but it's kindof sad to see people just give up on this community.<p>I've seen some things tried in the past (like hiding karma in comment threads), and I think it would be great if we could try a few more things in the future.<p>I'd love to see HN try making users "earn" karma. You "spend" your karma when you upvote or downvote somebody. Upvotes cost one point, downvotes cost two. This is good because it incentivizes people <i>not</i> to downvote people (it's "expensive"), and also prevents brand new users who don't yet understand the conventions from downvoting things just because they disagree with them.<p>I think that one of the big problems lately has been comments being inappropriately downvoted. I asked a question a couple of days ago about how google justifies things like google charts (which I use heavily), and was downvoted to -4 for it. 3 years ago (when I joined) this wouldn't have been the case.<p>Meanwhile I'm starting reddit-style to see joke threads pop up in the comments.<p>I really think that a lot of this is new users, and I really think that slashdot's style of earning the right to moderate is a solid concept. We should try it.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>brianbreslin</author><text>I think downvoting isn't as easy as you think for a newbie. I only see a downvote button occasionally, and have to go into a individual comment link to flag it, and I have been here for a fair amount of time.</text></comment> |
20,042,690 | 20,041,395 | 1 | 2 | 20,040,485 | train | <story><title>Open-sourcing the Lightning Web Components framework</title><url>https://developer.salesforce.com/blogs/2019/05/introducing-lightning-web-components-open-source.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>tvanantwerp</author><text>I (thankfully) don&#x27;t have to use Salesforce very often. But from my experience, the Lightning Experience always felt non-performant compared to the traditional server-rendered pages. Things always took a noticeable amount of time to finish loading. Even though the traditional interface is, by appearance alone, quite traditional, as least it felt fast. I don&#x27;t know if Lightning&#x27;s problems were with poor performing front end code, or poor API performance. But I was always underwhelmed when testing the SPA version of Salesforce.</text></comment> | <story><title>Open-sourcing the Lightning Web Components framework</title><url>https://developer.salesforce.com/blogs/2019/05/introducing-lightning-web-components-open-source.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>miloandmilk</author><text>A lot of Salesforce sites use react - including:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;status.salesforce.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;status.salesforce.com&#x2F;</a><p>and ironically:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.lightningdesignsystem.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.lightningdesignsystem.com&#x2F;</a><p>Why do they insist on forcing their framework of the week on their dev community and make it much easier to bring your own framework? NIH syndrome? Lock in?<p>We use react and visualforce to get our products built but the visualforce requirement to do so is sub optimal.</text></comment> |
4,646,919 | 4,646,679 | 1 | 2 | 4,646,509 | train | <story><title>What’s really so bad about bubble sort?</title><url>http://nicknash.me/2012/10/12/knuths-wisdom/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>thaumaturgy</author><text>Since this is the third recent item on HN featuring the impact of branch prediction on code performance, let's make sure we keep our heads on straight: a good algorithm will outperform a bad algorithm that's tuned for branch prediction.<p>Quicksort infamously abuses branch prediction, yet is still the standard against which all other sorting algorithms are compared. Some work is being done to improve Quicksort's branch prediction performance [1], but that's mostly focusing on choosing better pivots.<p>A <i>perfect</i> sorting algorithm, something like a very large sorting network, will necessarily make any processor's branch predictor give up and go home -- and that'll still be faster to execute than a naive algorithm tuned for branch prediction.<p>[1]: <a href="http://www.cs.auckland.ac.nz/~mcw/Teaching/refs/sorting/quicksort-branch-prediction.pdf" rel="nofollow">http://www.cs.auckland.ac.nz/~mcw/Teaching/refs/sorting/quic...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>What’s really so bad about bubble sort?</title><url>http://nicknash.me/2012/10/12/knuths-wisdom/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>TheEskimo</author><text>Honestly, bubble sort isn't <i>that</i> bad.<p>Couple years ago I had a fairly simple program which collected some data into a linked list and displayed it at the end. It took about 2 seconds to load and process the data from disk. I realized it might be neat to optionally sort the output. Since I didn't feel like doing serious work, I just added a bubble sort to my linked list which took a comparison function and then bubble-sorted by pointer swapping.<p>Guess what time it added? less than a 10th of a second. Completely negligible. It saved me a few hours (as writing bubble sort for a linked list takes maybe 5 minutes and has no chance of complicated bugs) and I doubt anyone will ever notice any slowdown.<p>So what's the lesson? Little performance tweaks hardly matter in the average program nowadays because everything's disk or network bound (IO bound). For the average program it's not worth writing more complex code that will be quicker (once you fix the hard-to-see bugs) until you actually know the slowness is an issue.</text></comment> |
18,836,983 | 18,836,939 | 1 | 3 | 18,835,377 | train | <story><title>Facebook Knows How to Track You Using the Dust on Your Camera Lens</title><url>https://gizmodo.com/facebook-knows-how-to-track-you-using-the-dust-on-your-1821030620</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>pxeboot</author><text><i>by comparing the accelerometer and gyroscope readings of each phone, the data could identify when people were facing each other or walking together.</i><p>More evidence we need far more privacy controls in mobile operating systems.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>beatgammit</author><text>I don&#x27;t want privacy controls, I want complete control.<p>I&#x27;m stoked about the Librem 5 project, and I hope it succeeds enough to not disappear in a couple years. I just bought a phone, but I&#x27;ll likely buy the next rev if the first one works out. I don&#x27;t need much from my phone, and as long as I can make&#x2F;receive calls&#x2F;texts, browse the web, and can get consistent security patches from the community (e.g. some Linux distro supports the platform outside of Purism), I&#x27;m happy.<p>Android and iOS already support privacy controls (and root to an extent), but you&#x27;re usually at the mercy of the manufacturer for updates and have to trust them to not remotely access your phone. And many manufacturers just stop sending updates once their new model is out, which is unacceptable for most people for laptops and desktops, so I don&#x27;t know why it&#x27;s tolerated on phones and tablets...</text></comment> | <story><title>Facebook Knows How to Track You Using the Dust on Your Camera Lens</title><url>https://gizmodo.com/facebook-knows-how-to-track-you-using-the-dust-on-your-1821030620</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>pxeboot</author><text><i>by comparing the accelerometer and gyroscope readings of each phone, the data could identify when people were facing each other or walking together.</i><p>More evidence we need far more privacy controls in mobile operating systems.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ams6110</author><text>Or we can not install apps that do this kind of stuff.</text></comment> |
25,937,672 | 25,936,878 | 1 | 2 | 25,933,016 | train | <story><title>WebRTC is now a W3C and IETF standard</title><url>https://web.dev/webrtc-standard-announcement/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>curtis3389</author><text>I agree that WebRTC is super exciting, but if you want to deploy it into production, you need to have a STUN server and a TURN server.<p>Until&#x2F;unless we&#x27;ve all moved to IPv6 without any NAT, we&#x27;ll be stuck needing STUN and TURN to make it work.</text></item><item><author>Sean-Der</author><text>This is so exciting. WebRTC is our best hope to have video interop between platforms. I love that it works outside web browsers, compeitors like WebTransport assume a 100% browser world. Or you have protocols like RTMP&#x2F;SRT... that will never make it into the browser.<p>WebRTC might be our best bet to establish P2P connectivity between all languages&#x2F;platforms. Would love to get rid of the single point of falure in Pub&#x2F;Sub systems. WebRTC also feels like a great path towards easy cloud-agnostic code. You can use lots of different languages, and not dependent on SDKs&#x2F;Servers.<p>* <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;aiortc&#x2F;aiortc" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;aiortc&#x2F;aiortc</a> (Python)<p>* GStreamer’s webrtcbin (C)<p>* <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;shinyoshiaki&#x2F;werift-webrtc" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;shinyoshiaki&#x2F;werift-webrtc</a> (Typescript)<p>* <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;pion&#x2F;webrtc" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;pion&#x2F;webrtc</a> (Golang)<p>* <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;webrtc-rs&#x2F;webrtc" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;webrtc-rs&#x2F;webrtc</a> (Rust)<p>* <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;awslabs&#x2F;amazon-kinesis-video-streams-webrtc-sdk-c" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;awslabs&#x2F;amazon-kinesis-video-streams-webr...</a> (C&#x2F;Embedded)<p>* <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;webrtc.googlesource.com&#x2F;src&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;webrtc.googlesource.com&#x2F;src&#x2F;</a> (C++)<p>* <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;rawrtc&#x2F;rawrtc" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;rawrtc&#x2F;rawrtc</a> (C++)<p>----<p>Then you have a couple that aren&#x27;t Open Source. But proves it is possible for these platforms also.<p>* Shiguredo (Erlang)<p>* |pipe| (Java)<p>----<p>If you are new to WebRTC I have been working on making it more accessible <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;webrtcforthecurious.com" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;webrtcforthecurious.com</a>. I am currently pretty tied up with Pion so haven&#x27;t been able to make much progress lately.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>vorpalhex</author><text>There are several free STUN services available, and you can fix a lot of connections with just STUN. STUN is just an IP lookup effectively, so it&#x27;s very cheap to deploy.<p>TURN is of course an entirely different beast because it&#x27;s proxying all the data between clients. It&#x27;s also where some more complex video stuff happens potentially. The good news is that there are solid, open source TURN servers available to run on your own hardware. The downside is that running those servers for non-trivial amounts of clients gets pretty resource intensive pretty quick.</text></comment> | <story><title>WebRTC is now a W3C and IETF standard</title><url>https://web.dev/webrtc-standard-announcement/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>curtis3389</author><text>I agree that WebRTC is super exciting, but if you want to deploy it into production, you need to have a STUN server and a TURN server.<p>Until&#x2F;unless we&#x27;ve all moved to IPv6 without any NAT, we&#x27;ll be stuck needing STUN and TURN to make it work.</text></item><item><author>Sean-Der</author><text>This is so exciting. WebRTC is our best hope to have video interop between platforms. I love that it works outside web browsers, compeitors like WebTransport assume a 100% browser world. Or you have protocols like RTMP&#x2F;SRT... that will never make it into the browser.<p>WebRTC might be our best bet to establish P2P connectivity between all languages&#x2F;platforms. Would love to get rid of the single point of falure in Pub&#x2F;Sub systems. WebRTC also feels like a great path towards easy cloud-agnostic code. You can use lots of different languages, and not dependent on SDKs&#x2F;Servers.<p>* <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;aiortc&#x2F;aiortc" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;aiortc&#x2F;aiortc</a> (Python)<p>* GStreamer’s webrtcbin (C)<p>* <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;shinyoshiaki&#x2F;werift-webrtc" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;shinyoshiaki&#x2F;werift-webrtc</a> (Typescript)<p>* <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;pion&#x2F;webrtc" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;pion&#x2F;webrtc</a> (Golang)<p>* <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;webrtc-rs&#x2F;webrtc" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;webrtc-rs&#x2F;webrtc</a> (Rust)<p>* <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;awslabs&#x2F;amazon-kinesis-video-streams-webrtc-sdk-c" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;awslabs&#x2F;amazon-kinesis-video-streams-webr...</a> (C&#x2F;Embedded)<p>* <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;webrtc.googlesource.com&#x2F;src&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;webrtc.googlesource.com&#x2F;src&#x2F;</a> (C++)<p>* <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;rawrtc&#x2F;rawrtc" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;rawrtc&#x2F;rawrtc</a> (C++)<p>----<p>Then you have a couple that aren&#x27;t Open Source. But proves it is possible for these platforms also.<p>* Shiguredo (Erlang)<p>* |pipe| (Java)<p>----<p>If you are new to WebRTC I have been working on making it more accessible <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;webrtcforthecurious.com" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;webrtcforthecurious.com</a>. I am currently pretty tied up with Pion so haven&#x27;t been able to make much progress lately.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>qwantim1</author><text>This is why I didn’t get really excited about WebRTC when I looked into it before.<p>And the problem isn’t with WebRTC, it’s with the current infrastructure of the net that prevents some clients from just communicating directly without some element of centralization. And some of it’s our own fault.<p>A cynical way of looking at it might be that WebRTC is being allowed because it helps scale the web while still being dependent on a central weak link of control.<p>But it is what it is.</text></comment> |
18,516,681 | 18,516,678 | 1 | 2 | 18,515,754 | train | <story><title>Finland freezes arms export permits to Saudi Arabia and UAE over Yemen</title><url>https://thedefensepost.com/2018/11/22/finland-freezes-arms-exports-saudi-arabia-uae-yemen/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>GordonS</author><text>Meanwhile in the UK, our leaders remain ever unscrupulous[1]. The UK is the 2nd biggest exporter of arma to Saudi, selling £1.1 billion (~$1.4 billion) of military goods in 2017.<p>Why do we keep selling weapons to such a repressive regime? £1 billion is not that much in the greater scheme of things - so what&#x27;s the bigger picture that could possible justify the UKs actions?<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.theguardian.com&#x2F;world&#x2F;2018&#x2F;jun&#x2F;23&#x2F;uk-hides-arms-trade-saudi-arabia--yemen" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.theguardian.com&#x2F;world&#x2F;2018&#x2F;jun&#x2F;23&#x2F;uk-hides-arms-...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>theslurmmustflo</author><text>I recommend watching the Adam Curtis documentary Bitter Lake (can be found on YouTube). It explains how the currrent Anglo American relationship with the kingdom of saud started almost immediately post ww2, why it won’t be going away any time soon, and all the blowback it has caused.</text></comment> | <story><title>Finland freezes arms export permits to Saudi Arabia and UAE over Yemen</title><url>https://thedefensepost.com/2018/11/22/finland-freezes-arms-exports-saudi-arabia-uae-yemen/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>GordonS</author><text>Meanwhile in the UK, our leaders remain ever unscrupulous[1]. The UK is the 2nd biggest exporter of arma to Saudi, selling £1.1 billion (~$1.4 billion) of military goods in 2017.<p>Why do we keep selling weapons to such a repressive regime? £1 billion is not that much in the greater scheme of things - so what&#x27;s the bigger picture that could possible justify the UKs actions?<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.theguardian.com&#x2F;world&#x2F;2018&#x2F;jun&#x2F;23&#x2F;uk-hides-arms-trade-saudi-arabia--yemen" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.theguardian.com&#x2F;world&#x2F;2018&#x2F;jun&#x2F;23&#x2F;uk-hides-arms-...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>chrissam</author><text>&gt; Why do we keep selling weapons to such a repressive regime?<p>Realpolitik.<p>The US (and UK, I guess) are closely allied to the Saudis in order to counteract Iranian influence in the region. The theory is that the world will be in better shape if the Saudis have a military capable of deterring Iran.<p>It&#x27;s a theory -- I don&#x27;t know if it&#x27;s correct, but it seems at least plausible.</text></comment> |
5,879,248 | 5,879,264 | 1 | 2 | 5,878,906 | train | <story><title>Swedes say no to Google Apps for government use</title><url>http://gigaom.com/2013/06/13/swedes-say-no-to-google-apps-for-government-use/</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>T-A</author><text>The last sentence in the article, &quot;shows the need for more infrastructure catering to the needs of smaller populations — say, for the European Union&quot; reminds me of a common US-centric misconception. Almost 500 million people live in the European Union, 740 in Europe including non-EU states, vs 314 in the US. A loss of trust in US-centric infrastructure could be an opportunity for providers catering to the needs of <i>larger</i> populations.</text></comment> | <story><title>Swedes say no to Google Apps for government use</title><url>http://gigaom.com/2013/06/13/swedes-say-no-to-google-apps-for-government-use/</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>gonvaled</author><text>We are (in most of the world) in a very unbalanced situation. Most of the state of the art technology is run by US companies. Thus the whole world (actually, those using services provided by those companies - i.e. nearly everybody) is being spied. US citizens and companies are also being spied, but here comes the unbalance:<p>The US government can use that information for bad or good purposes. This applies to information about US citizens and other citizens. It is easy to see why the US government would use that information for good purposes (like say, prevent a terror attack) for US citizens. (proably bad things will happen to US citizens too, like imprisonments for political reasons)<p>But it is <i>very</i> difficult to see why the US would do anything good for foreign individuals &#x2F; corporations (unless we accept that the US is the world government, and has the interest of all of us in its heart, which is ludicrous).<p>So here we are: a government taking advantage of the technology developed by (mostly, but not only) US companies, to further a political agenda.<p>I expect global boycott of US based cloud providers. It does not make sense anymore. This is a trust which can not regained, since we have seen the tactics involve flat lying - even legislation to force companies to lie.</text></comment> |
37,828,381 | 37,828,091 | 1 | 2 | 37,827,070 | train | <story><title>FTX – The fraud was in the code</title><url>https://newsletter.mollywhite.net/p/the-fraud-was-in-the-code</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>bmitc</author><text>Pretty insane that Sam Bankman-Fried decided to plead not-guilty. And it&#x27;s interesting that their defense is an implication that a witness is committing perjury for a lighter sentence without any evidence backing it up.<p>And just what in the world were any of these people thinking? Sam Bankman-Fried isn&#x27;t remotely charismatic, so I just don&#x27;t understand why people would follow his demands and actively participate in such obvious fraud. How do you reason with yourself about <i>randomly generating</i> an insurance fund&#x27;s balance that has been testified, under oath to Congress and various other binding contracts I&#x27;m sure?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>hn_throwaway_99</author><text>&gt; Pretty insane that Sam Bankman-Fried decided to plead not-guilty.<p>Would easily bet that was his decision. He&#x27;s obviously made insanely stupid choices already, like leaking Caroline Ellison&#x27;s journal and getting his bail revoked.<p>I&#x27;m sure he was counseled against it, but his lawyers were probably like &quot;well, he wants to swing the bat, and we get paid more if it goes to trial anyway.&quot;</text></comment> | <story><title>FTX – The fraud was in the code</title><url>https://newsletter.mollywhite.net/p/the-fraud-was-in-the-code</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>bmitc</author><text>Pretty insane that Sam Bankman-Fried decided to plead not-guilty. And it&#x27;s interesting that their defense is an implication that a witness is committing perjury for a lighter sentence without any evidence backing it up.<p>And just what in the world were any of these people thinking? Sam Bankman-Fried isn&#x27;t remotely charismatic, so I just don&#x27;t understand why people would follow his demands and actively participate in such obvious fraud. How do you reason with yourself about <i>randomly generating</i> an insurance fund&#x27;s balance that has been testified, under oath to Congress and various other binding contracts I&#x27;m sure?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>xwolfi</author><text>Perjury*<p>Sam is highly charismatic, especially when all you want to hear is that you send 2000$ and will receive 100k$ if only you listen to him and use his product. He&#x27;s part of the mumbo jumbo guru crowd.<p>I&#x27;m a programmer in finance: I understand nothing when SBF talks, it&#x27;s like complete random BS, totally different from the traders I work with who would use complex concepts but with always a visible thread: utility -&gt; transformation adding value -&gt; profit, with SBF it&#x27;s all so fuzzy and unclear, it&#x27;s like he pretends to talk like we&#x27;re idiots to hide the fact he&#x27;s the idiot who forgot that you need to sacrifice potential upside for downside insurance...</text></comment> |
38,566,446 | 38,566,078 | 1 | 2 | 38,565,926 | train | <story><title>World of Goo 2</title><url>https://worldofgoo2.com/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>throwworhtthrow</author><text>Don&#x27;t be deceived by the paltry YouTube view count: this is way bigger news than Rockstar&#x27;s GTA 6 trailer from earlier this week.</text></comment> | <story><title>World of Goo 2</title><url>https://worldofgoo2.com/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>TheCaptain4815</author><text>Can’t wait for this one, I remember reading an article in which they say 90% of their copies were pirated. I hope they are able to fix this somehow.</text></comment> |
7,697,800 | 7,697,715 | 1 | 2 | 7,697,401 | train | <story><title>Simple steps to implementing a programming language</title><url>http://kjetilvalle.com/posts/implement-a-programming-language.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>Udo</author><text>Inventing your own programming language is something I can highly recommend. If you&#x27;ve never done it before it will dramatically broaden your programming horizon. It&#x27;s a journey.<p>About a year ago I decided to make a language mainly because I wanted to experiment with some programming paradigms. I had made little domain-specific &quot;languages&quot; many times before, but this was going to be different.<p>I&#x27;d suggest that you try to figure out most things on your own, however. It&#x27;s way more rewarding to think about the problems you&#x27;re trying to solve, go ahead and implement them. That way you&#x27;re also forced to have eye-opening meta thoughts about programming in general. Only after you&#x27;ve gained some appreciation for the issues involved, look them up and see how other people solved them. This worked very well for me.<p>Lisps and Schemes are certainly easier to implement than most syntaxes, but consider doing something else so you can get a better understanding of the complexities of parsing a non-Lisp.<p>In my case, I did my prototype in Java, that&#x27;s the lexer, parser, runtime and standard library. While I wouldn&#x27;t necessarily want to do it that way again, it was a great learning experience and I was pleased with the result.<p>About two months ago I decided to give it another try, but this time in C, using the Lua codebase. So far this has been a very good choice for a second stab at the idea. And I was pleased that I could recognize a lot of the patterns in the Lua codebase where I had implemented equivalent parts in my earlier project. If I hadn&#x27;t taken the hard route back then, I probably would have a harder time now.</text></comment> | <story><title>Simple steps to implementing a programming language</title><url>http://kjetilvalle.com/posts/implement-a-programming-language.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>throwaway13qf85</author><text>Nice work. There&#x27;s a similar article which uses Haskell as the base language instead of Python, which is also worth reading (this is actually how I learned both Haskell and Scheme..!)<p><a href="https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Write_Yourself_a_Scheme_in_48_Hours" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikibooks.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Write_Yourself_a_Scheme_in_48_...</a></text></comment> |
24,393,979 | 24,393,603 | 1 | 2 | 24,392,379 | train | <story><title>The Right to Repair could help address a critical shortage in school computers</title><url>https://uspirg.org/blogs/blog/usp/right-repair-could-help-address-critical-shortage-school-computers#new_tab</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>cle</author><text>&gt; There&#x27;s absolutely no reason for not making user-replaceable batteries other than planned obsolescence<p>Come on, it doesn’t take much effort to think of the benefits of controlling the quality of batteries that are put in the devices.<p>I agree with your sentiment, but it doesn’t help to pretend like there aren’t benefits to supply chain control. Just look at Amazon.</text></item><item><author>Abishek_Muthian</author><text>I feel sad that we need to educate and demand &#x27;The Right to Repair&#x27;.<p>Yesterday, I accidentally noticed that my iPad Air 2 which I &#x27;ve been using as a external display for ~ a year has its battery bulged and even pushed out the display[1]. If I hadn&#x27;t noticed this, It could have ended really bad.<p>But now I have to wait for the heat gun to arrive to remove the battery for safely discarding it, as Apple has made it really hard to change batteries. I don&#x27;t intend to replace the battery, as I think any device with battery and without charging pass-through feature is a potential fire hazard when using for any application which involves charging constantly. I have removed other such devices (incl. iPhone) preemptively.<p>More over I&#x27;m tired of spending money on expensive hardware which I don&#x27;t own completely. There&#x27;s absolutely no reason for not making user-replaceable batteries other than planned obsolescence, which are bad for the consumers as well as for the planet.<p>I will vote with my wallet for Fairphone, Pine64 like brands here after.<p>[1]<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;heavyinfo&#x2F;status&#x2F;1302310594423345152" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;heavyinfo&#x2F;status&#x2F;1302310594423345152</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>cyphar</author><text>This seems like a reasonable point, until you note that Apple explicitly forbids <i>their manufacturers</i> from selling <i>genuine</i> batteries to anyone. If the issue was simply that Apple didn&#x27;t want their brand to be tarnished due to low quality third party batteries, they could do what Samsung does and provide public access to their manufacturers so anyone can buy genuine parts.</text></comment> | <story><title>The Right to Repair could help address a critical shortage in school computers</title><url>https://uspirg.org/blogs/blog/usp/right-repair-could-help-address-critical-shortage-school-computers#new_tab</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>cle</author><text>&gt; There&#x27;s absolutely no reason for not making user-replaceable batteries other than planned obsolescence<p>Come on, it doesn’t take much effort to think of the benefits of controlling the quality of batteries that are put in the devices.<p>I agree with your sentiment, but it doesn’t help to pretend like there aren’t benefits to supply chain control. Just look at Amazon.</text></item><item><author>Abishek_Muthian</author><text>I feel sad that we need to educate and demand &#x27;The Right to Repair&#x27;.<p>Yesterday, I accidentally noticed that my iPad Air 2 which I &#x27;ve been using as a external display for ~ a year has its battery bulged and even pushed out the display[1]. If I hadn&#x27;t noticed this, It could have ended really bad.<p>But now I have to wait for the heat gun to arrive to remove the battery for safely discarding it, as Apple has made it really hard to change batteries. I don&#x27;t intend to replace the battery, as I think any device with battery and without charging pass-through feature is a potential fire hazard when using for any application which involves charging constantly. I have removed other such devices (incl. iPhone) preemptively.<p>More over I&#x27;m tired of spending money on expensive hardware which I don&#x27;t own completely. There&#x27;s absolutely no reason for not making user-replaceable batteries other than planned obsolescence, which are bad for the consumers as well as for the planet.<p>I will vote with my wallet for Fairphone, Pine64 like brands here after.<p>[1]<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;heavyinfo&#x2F;status&#x2F;1302310594423345152" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;heavyinfo&#x2F;status&#x2F;1302310594423345152</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>arcticbull</author><text>There is no reason to make that supply chain control mandatory. If I want to risk a third party battery on my phone that’s my business is it not? It’s my phone, it’s my third party battery.</text></comment> |
24,391,149 | 24,391,157 | 1 | 3 | 24,390,909 | train | <story><title>'You're Not Allowed to Film': The Fight to Control Who Reports from Portland</title><url>https://reason.com/2020/09/04/youre-not-allowed-to-film-the-fight-for-control-over-who-reports-from-portland/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>zaroth</author><text>The mainstream news reporting on Portland (and other regional rioting) got to the point where they were bald-faced lying about peaceful protests standing in front of burning buildings.<p>The most charitable interpretation I can think of is that these professional journalists think that their readers can’t understand a nuanced world of gray and need everything reduced to black and white. There can be a concept of “BLM” that is obviously right and important to support, while there is also a well organized radical contingent taking cover within BLM that is wreaking havoc on the streets and will bully or beat up anyone who stands up to them (police or bystander alike). That they call themselves anti-fascists while taking a truly fascist approach to spreading their ideology is a rhetorical pattern I’m seeing a lot lately; accusing your opponent of exactly what you are doing.<p>Portland just “celebrated” their 100th day of rioting. There was video from last night where they set a fellow rioter on fire while trying to throw Molotov cocktails at police.<p>The PR &#x2F; social media contingent that supports the riots is frankly impressive. The article mentions Google sheets listing approved journalists and ways to help fund them. The level of organization belies a depth to the organization that I think most people assume is more organic and rag-tag than it really is.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mc32</author><text>Obviously this is to control the narrative. Why would they shoo and have &quot;minders&quot; ala repressive regimes?<p>Is it because &quot;fake news&quot; (that&#x27;d be a tough sell coming from the left who question that assertion). Is it because they don&#x27;t want people to see the underbelly of the movement or at least the bad elements in their movement?<p>What we do know is that if you are an organization looking for change, if you&#x27;re not very careful, your well intended movement will be usurped by those who have ulterior motives --they will use your movement as &quot;useful idiots&quot; and you may ultimately loose control of your movement to demagogues.<p>There is a difference between people who are honestly looking to make things better and those riding such wave to enhance their own power.</text></comment> | <story><title>'You're Not Allowed to Film': The Fight to Control Who Reports from Portland</title><url>https://reason.com/2020/09/04/youre-not-allowed-to-film-the-fight-for-control-over-who-reports-from-portland/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>zaroth</author><text>The mainstream news reporting on Portland (and other regional rioting) got to the point where they were bald-faced lying about peaceful protests standing in front of burning buildings.<p>The most charitable interpretation I can think of is that these professional journalists think that their readers can’t understand a nuanced world of gray and need everything reduced to black and white. There can be a concept of “BLM” that is obviously right and important to support, while there is also a well organized radical contingent taking cover within BLM that is wreaking havoc on the streets and will bully or beat up anyone who stands up to them (police or bystander alike). That they call themselves anti-fascists while taking a truly fascist approach to spreading their ideology is a rhetorical pattern I’m seeing a lot lately; accusing your opponent of exactly what you are doing.<p>Portland just “celebrated” their 100th day of rioting. There was video from last night where they set a fellow rioter on fire while trying to throw Molotov cocktails at police.<p>The PR &#x2F; social media contingent that supports the riots is frankly impressive. The article mentions Google sheets listing approved journalists and ways to help fund them. The level of organization belies a depth to the organization that I think most people assume is more organic and rag-tag than it really is.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>sneak</author><text>&gt; <i>The mainstream news reporting on Portland (and other regional rioting) got to the point where they were bald-faced lying about peaceful protests standing in front of burning buildings.</i><p>It’s a little bit cliche, but also true: to judge a protest by its most violent elements but to decline to do the same of the police is the language of the oppressor.<p>Everyone I saw celebrating 100 days was celebrating 100 days of sustained protesting—not violence. Those same people have bemoaned the escalation of violence that happens against the protests each night by police.<p>The fact that some of the protestors have turned violent is, to me, entirely reasonable considering the sustained months of police violence that have been inflicted upon them illegally. If the state wants people to respect the laws and remain peaceful, it needs to clean its own house of violent criminals first.<p>Ironically, that’s why the protests happened in the first place. Let’s not forget cause and effect.</text></comment> |
20,612,935 | 20,612,063 | 1 | 2 | 20,611,370 | train | <story><title>How the Stock Market Works</title><url>http://shashankr.me/2019/07/27/everything-you-ever-wanted-to-know-about-the-stock-market-but-were-too-afraid-to-ask.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>kelnos</author><text>I was expecting something a lot more detailed. I got to the end and was wondering if this was the first part of a series, since it&#x27;s nowhere near &quot;everything&quot; anyone would want to know about the stock market. It&#x27;s barely an introduction.<p>Then there are the inaccuracies. Zero-sum game? No. Derivatives are &quot;a bet on the rate of change&quot; in value? No. Brokers &quot;help you execute a trade at the best possible price&quot;? Well... not really. The NYSE is a &quot;one stop shop&quot; for people who want to trade? Um, NASDAQ? Any number of non-US exchanges?<p>Overall, very disappointing.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>evrydayhustling</author><text>Bond market is off too - bond writers don&#x27;t set the rate, they just describe the payment schedule and auction it off. Market determines a price, which implicitly sets the rate.<p>It seems like an earnest effort by the author. I&#x27;d encourage them to find a pro to run this piece by as a further learning experience. When you stop getting edits, you are ready to teach a simplified version to others!</text></comment> | <story><title>How the Stock Market Works</title><url>http://shashankr.me/2019/07/27/everything-you-ever-wanted-to-know-about-the-stock-market-but-were-too-afraid-to-ask.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>kelnos</author><text>I was expecting something a lot more detailed. I got to the end and was wondering if this was the first part of a series, since it&#x27;s nowhere near &quot;everything&quot; anyone would want to know about the stock market. It&#x27;s barely an introduction.<p>Then there are the inaccuracies. Zero-sum game? No. Derivatives are &quot;a bet on the rate of change&quot; in value? No. Brokers &quot;help you execute a trade at the best possible price&quot;? Well... not really. The NYSE is a &quot;one stop shop&quot; for people who want to trade? Um, NASDAQ? Any number of non-US exchanges?<p>Overall, very disappointing.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Phillipharryt</author><text>I think the writer has confused themselves while attempting to simplify some of these concepts. Instead they should have accepted the financial market is complicated and cannot be condensed into a single blog post.</text></comment> |
10,013,203 | 10,013,219 | 1 | 2 | 10,012,312 | train | <story><title>Thirteen Months of Working, Eating, and Sleeping at the Googleplex</title><url>http://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2015-07-22/thirteen-months-of-working-eating-and-sleeping-at-the-googleplex?utm_content=buffer5e673&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook.com&utm_campaign=buffer</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ogreveins</author><text>The rationale behind it makes perfect sense. Do you really want to give someone $2-3000 per month or $24-36k a year just to have a box around you? Especially if you don&#x27;t own much stuff? How much do you actually need besides your computer, phone, clothes and toiletries? Gym for bathroom and free public wifi for internet aside from your phone and you&#x27;re set.<p>The rental and housing market is disgusting. I wouldn&#x27;t consider it except for my wife.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>zzalpha</author><text><i>The rationale behind it makes perfect sense. Do you really want to give someone $2-3000 per month or $24-36k a year just to have a box around you?</i><p>Really? You honestly can&#x27;t fathom why some people might desire their own, private space, <i>away</i> from their work environment, where they might, I dunno, live their life outside of their day-to-day drudgery?<p>I&#x27;m not even sure how to react to that. It&#x27;s such an alien way of thinking, I simply can&#x27;t relate to it... it&#x27;s baffling.<p>I mean, the minute humans formed fixed communities instead of hunting and gathering, we&#x27;ve been driven by the need to build public and private spaces in which to live. Questioning that need is questioning one of the founding tenants of modern human society...</text></comment> | <story><title>Thirteen Months of Working, Eating, and Sleeping at the Googleplex</title><url>http://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2015-07-22/thirteen-months-of-working-eating-and-sleeping-at-the-googleplex?utm_content=buffer5e673&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook.com&utm_campaign=buffer</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ogreveins</author><text>The rationale behind it makes perfect sense. Do you really want to give someone $2-3000 per month or $24-36k a year just to have a box around you? Especially if you don&#x27;t own much stuff? How much do you actually need besides your computer, phone, clothes and toiletries? Gym for bathroom and free public wifi for internet aside from your phone and you&#x27;re set.<p>The rental and housing market is disgusting. I wouldn&#x27;t consider it except for my wife.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>devindotcom</author><text>Not to judge it, but clearly your lifestyle differs greatly from mine. I value a separate space, privacy, my own books and plants and furniture, a neighborhood that isn&#x27;t a business district or food court.... and a hundred other things that living full-time at a workplace make impossible.<p>These two lifestyles are not merely incompatible but imcompossible. What you describe sounds to me like living like a drone - as in, an actual bee.</text></comment> |
21,158,339 | 21,156,938 | 1 | 2 | 21,154,048 | train | <story><title>Mastodon 3.0</title><url>https://github.com/tootsuite/mastodon/releases/tag/v3.0.0</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>katabasis</author><text>I just started using Mastodon and I&#x27;m pretty impressed with it as a product. But I think you need to approach it in a different way from Twitter and Facebook to really see all the benefits. If everyone just signs up to a major instance like mastodon.social, some of the problems you see on platforms like Twitter and Facebook will just be re-introduced as the number of users grows.<p>The programmer&#x2F;artist Darius Kazemi has done a great job articulating a way to use decentralized social networks like Mastodon in a &quot;human-centric&quot; way: &quot;How to run a small social network site for your friends.&quot; [1]<p>I really hope the Fediverse can succeed and thrive, and Mastodon is a big part of that.<p>[1]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;runyourown.social" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;runyourown.social</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Mastodon 3.0</title><url>https://github.com/tootsuite/mastodon/releases/tag/v3.0.0</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>sschueller</author><text>Also take a look at PeerTube (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;joinpeertube.org&#x2F;en&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;joinpeertube.org&#x2F;en&#x2F;</a>) a federated youtube if you find mastedon interesting. Peertube is also using activitypub and can be used with Mastedon.<p>Shameless self-plug. I&#x27;m currently working on a peertube android client which you can find here: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;sschueller&#x2F;peertube-android" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;sschueller&#x2F;peertube-android</a></text></comment> |
25,946,191 | 25,945,926 | 1 | 3 | 25,945,052 | train | <story><title>Class Action Lawsuit Filed Against Robinhood in the State of New York</title><url>https://twitter.com/ljmoynihan/status/1354836830169006081</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>tareqak</author><text>I wonder if the class action will broaden against all the brokers who took this same action instead of just Robinhood (~~I read others mention Interactive Brokers, TD Ameritrade, Charles Schwabb, Trade212 (thank you &#x27;Avalaxy), and others, but I have no sources to point to myself~~ &#x27;johnbrodie said that TDA and other blocked buying on margin). In that scenario, the plaintiffs and defendants could definitely simply interpreted by normal people to be something like “People of the United States vs. Wall Street”. Both mainstream and alternative&#x2F;niche media would have a field day over this story.<p>Is it really worth billions of dollars to further destroy the wavering belief that Americans still have about the American dream? How can you have any semblance of unity without evidence and&#x2F;or faith that the powers that be in business and government will allow the ordinary person to have a realistic path towards tangible and meaningful prosperity?</text></comment> | <story><title>Class Action Lawsuit Filed Against Robinhood in the State of New York</title><url>https://twitter.com/ljmoynihan/status/1354836830169006081</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>readyp1</author><text>For those who want to read the filing&#x2F;follow along with the case but don&#x27;t have access to PACER (which is where the docket link in the tweet leads), CourtListener&#x27;s RECAP archive [0] has this case listed already [1], and a kind soul has already uploaded this particular filing [2]. Hopefully, as the case develops, people with PACER access will continue to buy and contribute the filings to RECAP.<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.courtlistener.com&#x2F;recap&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.courtlistener.com&#x2F;recap&#x2F;</a>
[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.courtlistener.com&#x2F;docket&#x2F;50143052&#x2F;nelson-v-robinhood-financial-llc&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.courtlistener.com&#x2F;docket&#x2F;50143052&#x2F;nelson-v-robin...</a>
[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.courtlistener.com&#x2F;recap&#x2F;gov.uscourts.nysd.553175&#x2F;gov.uscourts.nysd.553175.1.0_3.pdf" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.courtlistener.com&#x2F;recap&#x2F;gov.uscourts.nysd.553175...</a></text></comment> |
27,372,374 | 27,372,101 | 1 | 2 | 27,370,984 | train | <story><title>California Bill to Decriminalize Psychedelics Is Approved by Senate</title><url>https://openstates.org/ca/bills/20212022/SB519/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>beepbooptheory</author><text>As someone whose life was very much thrown into turmoil and difficulty for getting caught with a relatively small amount of mushrooms in Texas, to the point that it will soon be a decade and I have not really completely recovered financially or emotionally, and also still blocked from a lot of jobs, news like this is so good but hard to hear on a personal level.</text></comment> | <story><title>California Bill to Decriminalize Psychedelics Is Approved by Senate</title><url>https://openstates.org/ca/bills/20212022/SB519/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>ttul</author><text>A very significant result for drug policy modernization efforts everywhere. California is larger than many countries. Policymakers and politicians will be looking at the results of this change with great interest as they contemplate the risks and benefits of such a move in their own jurisdictions. If things goes broadly without incident (as I bet they will), then Prohibitionists will have less ammunition against policy modernization.</text></comment> |
28,333,948 | 28,333,963 | 1 | 3 | 28,332,962 | train | <story><title>An error message if you put more than 2^24 items in a JS Map object</title><url>https://searchvoidstar.tumblr.com/post/659634228574715904/an-amazing-error-message-if-you-put-more-than-2-24</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>nayuki</author><text>Definitely specific to the V8 JavaScript engine. I was able to put 40 million keys in a map in Firefox&#x2F;SpiderMonkey. It was pretty fast and only took a few seconds.<p>The pitfall was that because I did it in the Developer Tools console, the CPU and memory usage would shoot through the roof from the autocompleter if I wrote any code that would cause a string representation of the map to be printed as a helpful hint.</text></comment> | <story><title>An error message if you put more than 2^24 items in a JS Map object</title><url>https://searchvoidstar.tumblr.com/post/659634228574715904/an-amazing-error-message-if-you-put-more-than-2-24</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>Groxx</author><text>While lol-worthy in some ways (especially that error message - wow!): 16 million is a very &quot;human-scale&quot; number. I&#x27;m (somewhat) surprised that&#x27;s the limit, and that I haven&#x27;t heard about it before.</text></comment> |
12,671,894 | 12,671,838 | 1 | 2 | 12,670,958 | train | <story><title>A decentralized web would give power back to the people online</title><url>https://techcrunch.com/2016/10/09/a-decentralized-web-would-give-power-back-to-the-people-online/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>zer0gravity</author><text>So nobody can &quot;give the power back&quot; to anybody, but people can stop giving their power away to others. We all have power, and we manifest it through our actions and choices.<p>Some say knowledge is power, but in order to gain knowledge you have to make that choice. One can try to educate people about the benefits of hosting their own data, but unless they make the choice to listen and understand it&#x27;s all for nothing.<p>I tend to agree with others that posted here, that in general, people are just not interested. It may be too hard for them to grasp the real implications of giving all those informations about them to third parties.. They may also consider that it&#x27;s too hard to handle all those problems by themselves so they&#x27;re willing to pay the prices...<p>I don&#x27;t think that the change can happen unless the people who do understand, do something about it, but usually these people are more interested to cash in on the ignorance of those who don&#x27;t...</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>cocktailpeanuts</author><text>The &quot;People don&#x27;t understand&quot; is a condescending statement and is exactly the reason why the people who try to build these decentralized systems never succeed, because they don&#x27;t even understand why people use information silos.<p>If you really think that&#x27;s the problem and you think you know better than other people, you should quit using every single centralized system out there, like your bank (they take your money and invest it elsewhere! And most people don&#x27;t even know about it!), credit card (It&#x27;s just a small piece of plastic but you have to pay them money just to pay money, and they even track your purchase history, how ridiculous is that!), etc.<p>Sure there are shitty aspects to this (and I don&#x27;t like it either), but the reason they are still around is NOT because most people don&#x27;t know, but because most people have better things to worry about. I know EXACTLY what&#x27;s going on but still use centralized silos for certain things because it makes sense at the moment, even though there are many downsides.<p>It is these &quot;decentralized&quot; people who are out of touch, not the ordinary people.</text></comment> | <story><title>A decentralized web would give power back to the people online</title><url>https://techcrunch.com/2016/10/09/a-decentralized-web-would-give-power-back-to-the-people-online/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>zer0gravity</author><text>So nobody can &quot;give the power back&quot; to anybody, but people can stop giving their power away to others. We all have power, and we manifest it through our actions and choices.<p>Some say knowledge is power, but in order to gain knowledge you have to make that choice. One can try to educate people about the benefits of hosting their own data, but unless they make the choice to listen and understand it&#x27;s all for nothing.<p>I tend to agree with others that posted here, that in general, people are just not interested. It may be too hard for them to grasp the real implications of giving all those informations about them to third parties.. They may also consider that it&#x27;s too hard to handle all those problems by themselves so they&#x27;re willing to pay the prices...<p>I don&#x27;t think that the change can happen unless the people who do understand, do something about it, but usually these people are more interested to cash in on the ignorance of those who don&#x27;t...</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dsacco</author><text><i>&gt;&gt;I tend to agree with others that posted here, that in general, people are just not interested. It may be too hard for them to grasp the real implications of giving all those informations about them to third parties.. They may also consider that it&#x27;s too hard to handle all those problems by themselves so they&#x27;re willing to pay the prices...</i><p>It&#x27;s true that many users who give away their data are not cognizant of the consequences, and there are others who understand but do it reluctantly because of peer pressure or usability. But there&#x27;s a huge swath of people who fully understand the privacy implications of giving away all their data in exchange for the products they use daily, and they&#x27;re perfectly happy with the deal.<p>They&#x27;re not as vocal as the zeitgeist here on HN, and they&#x27;re not irrational, naive or helpless; they just have a different set of values.<p>I agree with you that people who care deeply about this issue have the power to change it through focused, collective effort (even if that means supporting open alternatives, like DuckDuckGo). However, I disagree with your characterization of people who willingly support this as being predominantly exploitive.</text></comment> |
27,940,902 | 27,940,784 | 1 | 2 | 27,939,481 | train | <story><title>Cognitive deficits in people who have recovered from Covid-19</title><url>https://www.thelancet.com/journals/eclinm/article/PIIS2589-5370(21)00324-2/fulltext</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jmnicolas</author><text>&gt; I think it&#x27;s reasonable to be way more cautious about COVID than the &quot;just a flu&quot; and &quot;it&#x27;ll become endemic&quot; (for some value of &#x27;endemic&#x27;) crowd seem to think.<p>But unless you want to live like a recluse in a bunker, what are your options?<p>The way I see it, you&#x27;re bound to catch it no matter how many precautions you take. Case in point: I know a guy with paranoid level of precautions that still got it and while he was confined with his family none of them caught it (this was before we had any vaccines in my country).</text></item><item><author>glangdale</author><text>I think it&#x27;s reasonable to be way more cautious about COVID than the &quot;just a flu&quot; and &quot;it&#x27;ll become endemic&quot; (for some value of &#x27;endemic&#x27;) crowd seem to think.<p>The UK brain imaging study is a (small, not-yet-peer-reviewed) data point in that direction also:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.medrxiv.org&#x2F;content&#x2F;10.1101&#x2F;2021.06.11.21258690v2" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.medrxiv.org&#x2F;content&#x2F;10.1101&#x2F;2021.06.11.21258690v...</a><p>There seems to be somewhat of suggestion that COVID may have serious long-term neurological effects. Given the massive numbers that it has affected already (and how many it would affect if it becomes endemic), even relatively small risk factors (i.e. single digit percentages) for things like Lewy body dementia and Parkinsons could have huge effect on public health.<p>It&#x27;s worth reminding ourselves that we don&#x27;t have any data on the mid-to-long term effects of COVID beyond about a 2 year window.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>AnthonBerg</author><text><i>&gt; But unless you want to live like a recluse in a bunker, what are your options?</i><p>We can:<p>• <i>Try</i> not to get infected<p>• If inevitable: Get as little of it as we can<p>• Help the body clear the illness and after-effects<p>• Contract the illness as late as possible, as medicine advances faster than mutations<p>• Seek to support the science of figuring this thing out<p>• Do this together<p>• Seek to reduce the amount of contagious people in our local and global environment<p>Practically, we can:<p>• Wear masks. Better masks are better<p>• Use air conditioning, advocate for air conditioning and fresh air<p>• Exercise. Eat well. Go outside.<p>• Get vaccinated<p>• Read papers<p>• Discuss the science<p>• Participate in studies<p>• Fund science<p>• Explain to people what the scientific process is and how we know what we know<p>• Should we arrive at the opinion that certain substances, drugs, or supplements may have a protective effect, we might take those<p>• We can be the living scientific process: When we choose to experiment, seek to carefully note down the results and publish them<p>• Help others<p>• Fund healthcare for those who are less well off than we are<p>• Establish robust social immunity by discussing the options we do have to reduce infection</text></comment> | <story><title>Cognitive deficits in people who have recovered from Covid-19</title><url>https://www.thelancet.com/journals/eclinm/article/PIIS2589-5370(21)00324-2/fulltext</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jmnicolas</author><text>&gt; I think it&#x27;s reasonable to be way more cautious about COVID than the &quot;just a flu&quot; and &quot;it&#x27;ll become endemic&quot; (for some value of &#x27;endemic&#x27;) crowd seem to think.<p>But unless you want to live like a recluse in a bunker, what are your options?<p>The way I see it, you&#x27;re bound to catch it no matter how many precautions you take. Case in point: I know a guy with paranoid level of precautions that still got it and while he was confined with his family none of them caught it (this was before we had any vaccines in my country).</text></item><item><author>glangdale</author><text>I think it&#x27;s reasonable to be way more cautious about COVID than the &quot;just a flu&quot; and &quot;it&#x27;ll become endemic&quot; (for some value of &#x27;endemic&#x27;) crowd seem to think.<p>The UK brain imaging study is a (small, not-yet-peer-reviewed) data point in that direction also:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.medrxiv.org&#x2F;content&#x2F;10.1101&#x2F;2021.06.11.21258690v2" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.medrxiv.org&#x2F;content&#x2F;10.1101&#x2F;2021.06.11.21258690v...</a><p>There seems to be somewhat of suggestion that COVID may have serious long-term neurological effects. Given the massive numbers that it has affected already (and how many it would affect if it becomes endemic), even relatively small risk factors (i.e. single digit percentages) for things like Lewy body dementia and Parkinsons could have huge effect on public health.<p>It&#x27;s worth reminding ourselves that we don&#x27;t have any data on the mid-to-long term effects of COVID beyond about a 2 year window.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>graeme</author><text>&gt; But unless you want to live like a recluse in a bunker, what are your options?<p>It depends on work and family circumstances. But, stuff that works:<p>* Be outdoors, and socialize outdoors<p>* If in indoor unventilated spaces, wear a mask. Ideally N95 if lots of people and they aren’t mask<p>* Exercise more caution during local waves<p>* If socializing with others indoors, open a window. This can be done even during heat waves or winter: the greater the temp differential the more the air circulation for a given amount of window opening. Doesn’t raise costs too much, yet people treat it as impossible<p>* Buy a hepa filter for your home. Humidifiers can also help in winter<p>* Avoid indoor restaurants and bars and unmasked venues<p>* In risky venues, choose glasses over contacts. Eye protection is another layer<p>* Don’t hang out with symptomatic or unvaccinated people<p>* Get vaccinated<p>Whether you <i>should</i> choose to do this is another thing, but that’s what to do if you don’t want to catch a respiratory virus.<p>This above is consistent with: seeing friends, small indoor gatherings, travel (wear n95 + glasses!), etc. It certainly isn’t living in a bunker.<p>It does present problems during winter though, and it is also quite inconvenient in places with frequent large waves. Small ventilated indoor gatherings with vaccinated friends should be ok in low prevalence, but are risky in a big wave, for example.</text></comment> |
26,153,190 | 26,152,651 | 1 | 2 | 26,151,575 | train | <story><title>Learning Ruby: Things I Like, Things I Miss from Python</title><url>https://medium.com/workpath-thewaywework/learning-ruby-2-things-i-like-2-things-i-miss-from-python-6f60af8ed16c</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mparramon</author><text>I would love to find an MVC framework with the extense library support of Rails but for Javascript. Being able to simply `gem &#x27;devise&#x27;` and have full authentication at your hands (including views, email templates, etc) is a godsend.<p>At many places where I&#x27;ve worked at this paradigm is exactly what is needed, but people know and want to use JS. If we choose to go that way then, we need to write a lot of glue code and think about setting up architecture standards, folder and naming conventions, ORM support, authentication, job queues, etc; all of this comes by default with Rails and makes life so much easier.<p>Lately some options seem to be gaining steam:<p>* RedwoodJS [1]: by Tom Preston-Werner (founder of Github), comes with React and GraphQL baked in, pretty new project though<p>* Next.js [2]: brings a lot of nice conventions to the frontend, but still some things missing on the backend side<p>* SailsJS [3]: similar to Rails, but small community<p>* Strapi [4], hapi [5] et al: plenty of backend functionality, but frontend agnostic.<p>Has anybody had experience with any of these (or others) and can report back?<p>[1] - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;redwoodjs.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;redwoodjs.com&#x2F;</a><p>[2] - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;nextjs.org&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;nextjs.org&#x2F;</a><p>[3] - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;sailsjs.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;sailsjs.com&#x2F;</a><p>[4] - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;strapi.io&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;strapi.io&#x2F;</a><p>[5] - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;hapi.dev&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;hapi.dev&#x2F;</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>nickjj</author><text>I think this is a very uphill battle because JS and most other languages are missing a key ingredient that Rails has had for 10+ years. It&#x27;s having a long running large real world SAAS app that Rails is extracted from.<p>That means every feature of Rails is derived from a practical use case, and then it&#x27;s well tested in that app before it&#x27;s pushed out to the community. That&#x27;s tested from an API and functionality point of view. By the time end users start to use it, the feature has likely been running in production for 6+ months. Maybe even serving billions of page views through it if you factor in Shopify and GitHub also running off Rails master.<p>It&#x27;s all constantly in use, kept up to date and iterated on as a whole.<p>Creating a starter kit &#x2F; boiler plate of libraries and opinions in another language &#x2F; web framework is not the same. I think this is why even after 10+ years there&#x27;s only a handful of popular Rails alternatives in other languages.</text></comment> | <story><title>Learning Ruby: Things I Like, Things I Miss from Python</title><url>https://medium.com/workpath-thewaywework/learning-ruby-2-things-i-like-2-things-i-miss-from-python-6f60af8ed16c</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mparramon</author><text>I would love to find an MVC framework with the extense library support of Rails but for Javascript. Being able to simply `gem &#x27;devise&#x27;` and have full authentication at your hands (including views, email templates, etc) is a godsend.<p>At many places where I&#x27;ve worked at this paradigm is exactly what is needed, but people know and want to use JS. If we choose to go that way then, we need to write a lot of glue code and think about setting up architecture standards, folder and naming conventions, ORM support, authentication, job queues, etc; all of this comes by default with Rails and makes life so much easier.<p>Lately some options seem to be gaining steam:<p>* RedwoodJS [1]: by Tom Preston-Werner (founder of Github), comes with React and GraphQL baked in, pretty new project though<p>* Next.js [2]: brings a lot of nice conventions to the frontend, but still some things missing on the backend side<p>* SailsJS [3]: similar to Rails, but small community<p>* Strapi [4], hapi [5] et al: plenty of backend functionality, but frontend agnostic.<p>Has anybody had experience with any of these (or others) and can report back?<p>[1] - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;redwoodjs.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;redwoodjs.com&#x2F;</a><p>[2] - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;nextjs.org&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;nextjs.org&#x2F;</a><p>[3] - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;sailsjs.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;sailsjs.com&#x2F;</a><p>[4] - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;strapi.io&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;strapi.io&#x2F;</a><p>[5] - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;hapi.dev&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;hapi.dev&#x2F;</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>gls2ro</author><text>I don&#x27;t have a recommendation, but here is a quick test I use when looking for a replacement for Rails:<p>How quick can I create a minimum simple SaaS like application that has the following functionalities:<p>- User management (Signup&#x2F;Login&#x2F;Reset password&#x2F;Confirmation...)<p>- Simple payment processing (like have on single plan, one time fee, and after paying the user will see some other default page then not paying)<p>- Sending emails in HTML and plain text (for user management and after payment is processed)<p>- Use slugged&#x2F;permalink like URLs<p>- Processing some task in async queue<p>And so far there are a lot of alternatives out there but for me Rails provides the easiest experience to have this up and running quickly as there are already battle-tested gems for almost all these functionalities.</text></comment> |
15,548,044 | 15,547,134 | 1 | 2 | 15,545,973 | train | <story><title>How did we create a society where we can’t afford to live in our own country?</title><url>http://blogs.harvard.edu/philg/2017/10/24/how-did-we-create-a-society-where-we-cant-afford-to-live-in-our-own-country/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>xapata</author><text>That lady may have purchased her place in order to have a sunlit garden. It&#x27;s frustrating there&#x27;s not an easy way for that housing development to simply compensate the gardener fairly for her loss of sunlight, along with everyone else nearby who is adversely affected. Of course, she could also be charged a fee for the benefits of increasing density -- more restaurant options, etc. -- according to how much she appreciates them. It&#x27;s tough to calculate these things.<p>So many aspects of our society seem forced to either-or situations when some compromise would benefit all parties more.</text></item><item><author>Top19</author><text>Local control of housing and zoning should be taken away and placed at the State level or above. Over time that will probably become just as corrupt and it will need to revert to the local level again. I am amazed what people
will complain about on my Nextdoor group. There
is not one ounce of sacrifice in these people for even a 30 second increase in traffic or a change in the student:teacher ratio from 21:1 to 21.3:1. Maybe we’d have more money for schools if we didn’t keep having to deal with all the externalities developed by expensive housing and long commutes.<p>Reminds me of that lady in SF who opposed a housing development recently because she said it blocked the sunlight to her zucchini garden. Now many YIMBY groups are adopting the zucchini as their logo...</text></item><item><author>exabrial</author><text>&quot;affordable housing without a government subsidy is becoming extinct.&quot;<p>Was recently in LA, had a very excited Uber driver tell he just bought a house near Topeka, KS and it was 4 bed, 3 bath, unfinished basement, 2 car garage for $95k, on a 3&#x2F;4 acre. He was extremely excited about moving. That&#x27;s a massive house. There is plenty of cheap housing elsewhere in the USA, you have to be willing relocate.<p>The title should be &quot;How did relatively small areas in California in the grand scheme of the USA make housing so expensive most people can&#x27;t live there?&quot;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>malloryerik</author><text>Compensate her for her loss... Well, she&#x27;s been very well compensated for all of the other people&#x27;s work around her that has turned her property into a huge economic windfall for her while she was busy tending to her urban zucchini patch.<p>Land value tax, please.</text></comment> | <story><title>How did we create a society where we can’t afford to live in our own country?</title><url>http://blogs.harvard.edu/philg/2017/10/24/how-did-we-create-a-society-where-we-cant-afford-to-live-in-our-own-country/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>xapata</author><text>That lady may have purchased her place in order to have a sunlit garden. It&#x27;s frustrating there&#x27;s not an easy way for that housing development to simply compensate the gardener fairly for her loss of sunlight, along with everyone else nearby who is adversely affected. Of course, she could also be charged a fee for the benefits of increasing density -- more restaurant options, etc. -- according to how much she appreciates them. It&#x27;s tough to calculate these things.<p>So many aspects of our society seem forced to either-or situations when some compromise would benefit all parties more.</text></item><item><author>Top19</author><text>Local control of housing and zoning should be taken away and placed at the State level or above. Over time that will probably become just as corrupt and it will need to revert to the local level again. I am amazed what people
will complain about on my Nextdoor group. There
is not one ounce of sacrifice in these people for even a 30 second increase in traffic or a change in the student:teacher ratio from 21:1 to 21.3:1. Maybe we’d have more money for schools if we didn’t keep having to deal with all the externalities developed by expensive housing and long commutes.<p>Reminds me of that lady in SF who opposed a housing development recently because she said it blocked the sunlight to her zucchini garden. Now many YIMBY groups are adopting the zucchini as their logo...</text></item><item><author>exabrial</author><text>&quot;affordable housing without a government subsidy is becoming extinct.&quot;<p>Was recently in LA, had a very excited Uber driver tell he just bought a house near Topeka, KS and it was 4 bed, 3 bath, unfinished basement, 2 car garage for $95k, on a 3&#x2F;4 acre. He was extremely excited about moving. That&#x27;s a massive house. There is plenty of cheap housing elsewhere in the USA, you have to be willing relocate.<p>The title should be &quot;How did relatively small areas in California in the grand scheme of the USA make housing so expensive most people can&#x27;t live there?&quot;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>fraserharris</author><text>You&#x27;re implying that in purchasing a property you acquire a perpetual right to the sunlight that exists on the day you purchased. There is no such right. If this gardener wanted to retain that sunlight, they should have purchased the lot next door, put a building-height covenant on it, and resold it. They would incur a loss due to the covenant, but that is the cost of legally gaining the right to that sunlight.</text></comment> |
15,989,921 | 15,989,823 | 1 | 2 | 15,989,302 | train | <story><title>Blink has been acquired by Amazon</title><url>https://blinkforhome.com/blogs/blink-home-security-blog/breaking-news-blink-has-been-acquired-by-amazon</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mikestew</author><text>If you own an electric car and are wondering WTF Amazon is doing getting into the car charging business, well, it isn’t this Blink: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.blinkcharging.com" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.blinkcharging.com</a>, it’s some video camera company.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Mister_Snuggles</author><text>I thought they were getting into the web rendering engine game[0].<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.chromium.org&#x2F;blink" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.chromium.org&#x2F;blink</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Blink has been acquired by Amazon</title><url>https://blinkforhome.com/blogs/blink-home-security-blog/breaking-news-blink-has-been-acquired-by-amazon</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mikestew</author><text>If you own an electric car and are wondering WTF Amazon is doing getting into the car charging business, well, it isn’t this Blink: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.blinkcharging.com" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.blinkcharging.com</a>, it’s some video camera company.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>rrdharan</author><text>I was thinking it was <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.blinkfitness.com" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.blinkfitness.com</a> at first and assuming Amazon had gotten into the gym business for whatever reason because scale&#x2F;logistics&#x2F;something something. I was already imagining the breathless bloggery that were coming shortly.</text></comment> |
20,069,523 | 20,066,691 | 1 | 2 | 20,064,169 | train | <story><title>"DigitalOcean Killed Our Company"</title><url>https://twitter.com/w3Nicolas/status/1134529316904153089</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>bcooks</author><text>Thanks for the replies.
Let me try to address a few of the things I have seen here. We haven&#x27;t completed our investigation yet which will include details on the timeline, decisions made by our systems, our people, and our plans to address where we fell short. That said, I want to provide some information now rather than waiting for our full post-mortem analysis. A combination of factors, not just the usage patterns, led to the initial flag. We recognize and embrace our customers ability to spin up highly variable workloads, which would normally not lead to any issues. Clearly we messed up in this case.<p>Additionally, the steps taken in our response to the false positive did not follow our typical process. As part of our investigation, we are looking into our process and how we responded so we can improve upon this moving forward.</text></item><item><author>bcooks</author><text>As DigitalOcean&#x27;s CTO, I&#x27;m very sorry for this situation and how it was handled. The account is now fully restored and we are doing an investigation of the incident. We are planning to post a public postmortem to provide full transparency for our customers and the community.<p>This situation occurred due to false positives triggered by our internal fraud and abuse systems. While these situations are rare, they do happen, and we take every effort to get customers back online as quickly as possible. In this particular scenario, we were slow to respond and had missteps in handling the false positive. This led the user to be locked out for an extended period of time. We apologize for our mistake and will share more details in our public postmortem.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>cprayingmantis</author><text>With all due respect I think you’ve missed the point. The larger point from my perspective is that you denied your client the ability to move their data off your platform. This would be akin to someone breaking the terms of their lease and you confiscating all their belongings with the intent of burning them. You should provide some sort of grace period for users to move their data off your platform. For everyone else reading this this is should be a wake up call why you should never trust your data to a singular entity. Even if they have 99.9999% uptime you never know when they’ll decide to deny you access to your data.</text></comment> | <story><title>"DigitalOcean Killed Our Company"</title><url>https://twitter.com/w3Nicolas/status/1134529316904153089</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>bcooks</author><text>Thanks for the replies.
Let me try to address a few of the things I have seen here. We haven&#x27;t completed our investigation yet which will include details on the timeline, decisions made by our systems, our people, and our plans to address where we fell short. That said, I want to provide some information now rather than waiting for our full post-mortem analysis. A combination of factors, not just the usage patterns, led to the initial flag. We recognize and embrace our customers ability to spin up highly variable workloads, which would normally not lead to any issues. Clearly we messed up in this case.<p>Additionally, the steps taken in our response to the false positive did not follow our typical process. As part of our investigation, we are looking into our process and how we responded so we can improve upon this moving forward.</text></item><item><author>bcooks</author><text>As DigitalOcean&#x27;s CTO, I&#x27;m very sorry for this situation and how it was handled. The account is now fully restored and we are doing an investigation of the incident. We are planning to post a public postmortem to provide full transparency for our customers and the community.<p>This situation occurred due to false positives triggered by our internal fraud and abuse systems. While these situations are rare, they do happen, and we take every effort to get customers back online as quickly as possible. In this particular scenario, we were slow to respond and had missteps in handling the false positive. This led the user to be locked out for an extended period of time. We apologize for our mistake and will share more details in our public postmortem.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>lioeters</author><text>Thank you for jumping in personally to clarify what happened.<p>As a business owner with much of our infrastructure depending on DigitalOcean, the incident is concerning. It affects the reputation of DO as well as its customers.<p>The demographics on Twitter and especially here on HN represents a sizable crowd with decision-making influence on DO&#x27;s bottom line. I hope to see some effort being made to prevent situations like this in the future, and to regain the trust.<p>As a (so far) satisfied customer, it&#x27;s great to hear that:<p>&gt; A <i>combination of factors, not just the usage patterns</i>, led to the initial flag.<p>&gt; We recognize and embrace our customers ability to spin up <i>highly variable workloads, which would normally not lead to any issues</i>.<p>&gt; we are looking into our process and how we responded so we can <i>improve upon this</i></text></comment> |
18,383,348 | 18,383,324 | 1 | 2 | 18,381,605 | train | <story><title>How hustle culture took over advertising</title><url>https://digiday.com/marketing/welcome-hustletown-hustle-culture-took-advertising/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>rabidrat</author><text>I think we&#x27;re all increasingly aware that our society and infrastructure are crumbling, and no matter how &quot;rich&quot; the country as a whole is, if you haven&#x27;t built up your own security through wealth, you&#x27;re [going to be] fucked. And that awareness translates into people being willing to overwork themselves, so they don&#x27;t lose their spot in the rat race; and corporations with money to spend on workers are well-positioned to take advantage of that, and they do.</text></item><item><author>apatters</author><text>I&#x27;m American but I&#x27;ve lived overseas for nearly a decade, and I hardly ever go back.<p>In recent years when I meet other Americans who are visiting my city, I often get this vague feeling that they&#x27;re just <i>trying too hard</i> in one way or another. Maybe they&#x27;re working too hard, or trying too hard to impress someone, or get attention, or assert themselves. I don&#x27;t know if I&#x27;ve changed or if America is changed or if it&#x27;s something else entirely.<p>What I do wonder is, what&#x27;s with all these Americans working themselves to the bone? I own an agency which is one of the types of businesses called out in this article. I tell all my employees very clearly, whenever possible, work 40 hours and then call it a week. We also happen to be mostly remote so I tell them, within reason, respecting a small number of important calls&#x2F;meeting times etc. you can put in those hours whenever you want, preferably after a great night&#x27;s sleep.<p>There&#x27;s nothing like &quot;you&#x27;re measured by how many hours you bill out,&quot; nor does there need to be, if we have more than 40 hours of work per person per week, we hire more people.<p>Where does this all come from? This is an honest question. Why are people working themselves to death in the US and having this crazy mindset that doing stuff which puts you on the verge of a breakdown is good? When did this start?<p>Is it good for health&#x2F;happiness? Definitely not<p>Is it good for productivity? Maybe, but I doubt it</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>eiaoa</author><text>&gt; I think we&#x27;re all increasingly aware that our society and infrastructure are crumbling, and no matter how &quot;rich&quot; the country as a whole is, if you haven&#x27;t built up your own security through wealth, you&#x27;re [going to be] fucked. And that awareness translates into people being willing to overwork themselves, so they don&#x27;t lose their spot in the rat race; and corporations with money to spend on workers are well-positioned to take advantage of that, and they do.<p>I disagree. That only makes sense if you assume you (and everyone like you) are politically powerless and the rot and decay are inevitable.<p>There&#x27;s also another option: redirect that excess effort you&#x27;re expediting to hoard for the failure into <i>fixing the system before it fails</i>. Your personal efforts to fix it might fail, but some other group that heeded the same call might succeed, and that&#x27;s all it takes.<p>Hoarding wealth might seem like a safer bet, but it&#x27;s just as prone to failure. The kind of wealth you could accumulate through hard work might not be enough to give you the security you want, and to get more you have to take big risks anyway.</text></comment> | <story><title>How hustle culture took over advertising</title><url>https://digiday.com/marketing/welcome-hustletown-hustle-culture-took-advertising/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>rabidrat</author><text>I think we&#x27;re all increasingly aware that our society and infrastructure are crumbling, and no matter how &quot;rich&quot; the country as a whole is, if you haven&#x27;t built up your own security through wealth, you&#x27;re [going to be] fucked. And that awareness translates into people being willing to overwork themselves, so they don&#x27;t lose their spot in the rat race; and corporations with money to spend on workers are well-positioned to take advantage of that, and they do.</text></item><item><author>apatters</author><text>I&#x27;m American but I&#x27;ve lived overseas for nearly a decade, and I hardly ever go back.<p>In recent years when I meet other Americans who are visiting my city, I often get this vague feeling that they&#x27;re just <i>trying too hard</i> in one way or another. Maybe they&#x27;re working too hard, or trying too hard to impress someone, or get attention, or assert themselves. I don&#x27;t know if I&#x27;ve changed or if America is changed or if it&#x27;s something else entirely.<p>What I do wonder is, what&#x27;s with all these Americans working themselves to the bone? I own an agency which is one of the types of businesses called out in this article. I tell all my employees very clearly, whenever possible, work 40 hours and then call it a week. We also happen to be mostly remote so I tell them, within reason, respecting a small number of important calls&#x2F;meeting times etc. you can put in those hours whenever you want, preferably after a great night&#x27;s sleep.<p>There&#x27;s nothing like &quot;you&#x27;re measured by how many hours you bill out,&quot; nor does there need to be, if we have more than 40 hours of work per person per week, we hire more people.<p>Where does this all come from? This is an honest question. Why are people working themselves to death in the US and having this crazy mindset that doing stuff which puts you on the verge of a breakdown is good? When did this start?<p>Is it good for health&#x2F;happiness? Definitely not<p>Is it good for productivity? Maybe, but I doubt it</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>phillc73</author><text>&gt; if you haven&#x27;t built up your own security through wealth, you&#x27;re [going to be] fucked.<p>Another approach is to build security through self sufficiency and community based initiatives. For example, growing your own food wherever possible, or community gardens on common land.<p>There is a long list of examples and ideas where future security, defining that as decent quality of life, health and education, doesn&#x27;t need to be based around monetary wealth.</text></comment> |
18,334,572 | 18,333,612 | 1 | 2 | 18,331,991 | train | <story><title>Technology preview: Sealed sender for Signal</title><url>https://signal.org/blog/sealed-sender/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tptacek</author><text>Two observations:<p>1. You should look into what other messengers do with sender&#x2F;receiver pairs information. One very popular competing messenger logs pairs permanently, serverside, in order to make UI features work.<p>2. One of the least popular attributes of Signal (on Hacker News, at least) is its lack of federation and ability to interoperate with third-party clients. This feature is a pretty crystalline example of the kind of protocol change you can make when you control all the mainstream clients, and that would be an absolute nightmare for a protocol where you didn&#x27;t.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>simias</author><text>&gt;2. One of the least popular attributes of Signal (on Hacker News, at least) is its lack of federation and ability to interoperate with third-party clients. This feature is a pretty crystalline example of the kind of protocol change you can make when you control all the mainstream clients, and that would be an absolute nightmare for a protocol where you didn&#x27;t.<p>Personally I would be fine if they were in control of the only implementation but provided libraries that could be used to create bindings and gateways for other clients and protocols. My main problem with Signal is that their desktop app manages to be slower and clunkier than the average electron app which is quite a feat on its own.<p>If they provided a basic shared library or maybe even a stand alone &quot;headless&quot; binary client you could interface through some socket protocol for instance it would let me write a gateway to use irssi or whatever not-completely-trash and actually configurable client instead of that glorified webview that manages to be worse than an actual webpage (still haven&#x27;t figured out how to change the spellchecker settings in the edit box since right clicking doesn&#x27;t have the option to change the dictionary like in a real web browser). Also I&#x27;ve just started it and it already uses 158M of resident memory but that&#x27;s business as usual for this garbage fire that&#x27;s electron.<p>As far as I can tell that wouldn&#x27;t make it harder for them to develop and improve the protocol since they would still completely control that bit of the code.</text></comment> | <story><title>Technology preview: Sealed sender for Signal</title><url>https://signal.org/blog/sealed-sender/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tptacek</author><text>Two observations:<p>1. You should look into what other messengers do with sender&#x2F;receiver pairs information. One very popular competing messenger logs pairs permanently, serverside, in order to make UI features work.<p>2. One of the least popular attributes of Signal (on Hacker News, at least) is its lack of federation and ability to interoperate with third-party clients. This feature is a pretty crystalline example of the kind of protocol change you can make when you control all the mainstream clients, and that would be an absolute nightmare for a protocol where you didn&#x27;t.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>upofadown</author><text>Yes you can do stuff more easily if you control all parts of the network. That doesn&#x27;t mean we have to give up on standards based messaging just because it is harder. In the long run silo based systems are more work because you have to reinvent everything every time you create the next entirely incompatible system. If that system doesn&#x27;t catch on then you have to reinvent everything again and again until you get lucky.<p>This feature is an example of what happens when you don&#x27;t solve the meta data properly in the first place. It doesn&#x27;t really work that well but unless Signal starts routing through something like Tor (a system they don&#x27;t and can&#x27;t control) they are stuck with half measures.</text></comment> |
20,984,566 | 20,984,687 | 1 | 2 | 20,983,971 | train | <story><title>Comprehensive Guide on Data Visualization with Pandas</title><url>https://kanoki.org/2019/09/16/dataframe-visualization-with-pandas-plot/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>lawlorino</author><text>I really am not sure how &quot;comprehensive&quot; I would call this, after glancing over it it looks like one of the million currently existing basic pandas plotting guides.</text></comment> | <story><title>Comprehensive Guide on Data Visualization with Pandas</title><url>https://kanoki.org/2019/09/16/dataframe-visualization-with-pandas-plot/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>whitehouse3</author><text>Lately, `pip install pandas` is my first step after making a new virtual environment. Its read_sql and read_csv methods are magic. The resulting DataFrames are just like DataTables in C#. And for complex joins and aggregations, I can DataFrame.to_sql into an in-memory SQLite database.<p>Pandas feels like the wrong tool for this job. I don&#x27;t use multi-indexes or any statistical methods. I don&#x27;t chart anything.<p>But it&#x27;s so darn convenient. If the time comes to optimize I can `import csv` directly and improve performance. But nothing beats it for prototyping.<p>Are there better options in this space?</text></comment> |
14,859,835 | 14,859,856 | 1 | 3 | 14,859,043 | train | <story><title>Announcing the Windows Bounty Program</title><url>https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/msrc/2017/07/26/announcing-the-windows-bounty-program/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>efdee</author><text>That&#x27;s how the theory goes, but how often does this really happen though? See: OpenSSL</text></item><item><author>jklein11</author><text>Similar behaviors likely exists in OSS they are just called different things.<p>For example, ACME Co uses open source project XYZ. Acme Co uses resources to make sure that XYZ is secure and bug free. Acme Co is then incentivized to contribute any changes they have found, because they would like to stay in sync with the master branch of XYZ so they can get any updates the community pushes.<p>In the case of OSS, the pool of resources is likely far bigger than with closed source software.</text></item><item><author>tiffanyh</author><text>I wonder what impact this will have on open source software (OSS).<p>OSS can&#x27;t afford to pay people to look for bugs and improve the overall software. But commercial companies can.<p>I wonder if there will exist a date&#x2F;time in the future where closed-source software, because of these bug bounties, will yield better (less buggy) software vs OSS.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>tptacek</author><text>The simple reality is that when it comes to vulnerability research, Microsoft : Windows :: Google : Open Source.</text></comment> | <story><title>Announcing the Windows Bounty Program</title><url>https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/msrc/2017/07/26/announcing-the-windows-bounty-program/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>efdee</author><text>That&#x27;s how the theory goes, but how often does this really happen though? See: OpenSSL</text></item><item><author>jklein11</author><text>Similar behaviors likely exists in OSS they are just called different things.<p>For example, ACME Co uses open source project XYZ. Acme Co uses resources to make sure that XYZ is secure and bug free. Acme Co is then incentivized to contribute any changes they have found, because they would like to stay in sync with the master branch of XYZ so they can get any updates the community pushes.<p>In the case of OSS, the pool of resources is likely far bigger than with closed source software.</text></item><item><author>tiffanyh</author><text>I wonder what impact this will have on open source software (OSS).<p>OSS can&#x27;t afford to pay people to look for bugs and improve the overall software. But commercial companies can.<p>I wonder if there will exist a date&#x2F;time in the future where closed-source software, because of these bug bounties, will yield better (less buggy) software vs OSS.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>skrebbel</author><text>On the other side, e.g. Egor Homakov hacked GitHub a few times through vulnerabilities in Rails. GitHub paid him bounties anyway. I&#x27;m no expert, but it appears to me that at times it does work, just not always.</text></comment> |
11,278,652 | 11,278,034 | 1 | 2 | 11,277,758 | train | <story><title>The Powerful Emotional Pull of Old Video Games (2014)</title><url>http://nautil.us/blog/the-powerful-emotional-pull-of-old-video-games</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>csense</author><text>Gaming site gog.com [1] [2] built a successful business around acquiring rights to game companies&#x27; back catalogs and selling them online. (Originally they were Good Old Games, but they&#x27;ve now rebranded to simply &quot;gog.com&quot; and sell new games as well.) HN readers may be interested in the technology (Dosbox) and gog.com&#x27;s strong anti-DRM stance [3].<p>From a user&#x27;s perspective, the work they&#x27;ve done getting games to work on modern systems is alone worth the price of admission -- I must have spent hours [4] tweaking Dosbox configs to try to get my copy of Master of Magic to play music (the game directory that began with a 7-floppy installation in the mid-90s has been copied to every system I&#x27;ve had since then). Buying (another) copy of the game from GOG and getting a Dosbox config that Just Works, was well worth the modest price.<p>From the publisher&#x27;s perspective I&#x27;m sure it&#x27;s a win as well -- I could easily believe they gave up on ever realizing any more income from that IP a decade before they were approached by GOG.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.gog.com" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.gog.com</a><p>[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;GOG.com" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;GOG.com</a><p>[3] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.gog.com&#x2F;support&#x2F;website_help&#x2F;what_is_gog_com" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.gog.com&#x2F;support&#x2F;website_help&#x2F;what_is_gog_com</a><p>[4] The finickiness isn&#x27;t unique to Dosbox, I remember having to fiddle with the in-game settings for a while running bare-metal on at least one &#x27;90s era PC as well.</text></comment> | <story><title>The Powerful Emotional Pull of Old Video Games (2014)</title><url>http://nautil.us/blog/the-powerful-emotional-pull-of-old-video-games</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>carsongross</author><text>Two non-nostalgia aspects of old games stand out to me:<p>1) The gameplay is often much easier to pick up quickly without a crutch mode because there were fewer degrees of freedom.<p>2) The artistry was at times amazing. Orson Wells said that &quot;the enemy of art is the absence of limitations&quot; and I think the 8-bit and 16-bit eras, in particular, demonstrated the truth of that maxim.</text></comment> |
11,595,355 | 11,592,775 | 1 | 2 | 11,592,130 | train | <story><title>Teen birth rate hits all-time low, led by 50% decline among Hispanics and blacks</title><url>https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/to-your-health/wp/2016/04/28/teen-birth-rate-hits-all-time-low-led-by-50-percent-decline-among-hispanics-and-blacks/?hpid=hp_hp-top-table-main_teen-births-115pm%3Ahomepage%2Fstory</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Aelinsaar</author><text>&quot;The first is the most important and may be obvious: Today&#x27;s teens enjoy better access to contraception and more convenient contraception than their predecessors, and more of them are taking advantage of innovations like long-acting injectable and implantable methods that can last years over a daily birth control pill. But the second cause is something that goes against the conventional wisdom. It&#x27;s that teens -- despite their portrayal in popular TV and movies as uninhibited and acting only on hormones -- are having less sex.&quot;<p>That&#x27;s interesting, but lets just take a long look at the FIRST cause, which has come at the cost of endless political fights and only exists through that constant fighting. There are still a LOT of people who think that access to birth control is the <i>problem</i>.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>lambdaphagy</author><text>You&#x27;ll have better arguments if you understand why your opponents hold the views they do than if you just stare at them incredulously.<p>Why would anyone be skeptical of contraception? Perhaps because the normalization of contraception has come at the same time as a dramatic increase in single motherhood, from single digits in 1950 to about half of all children today [0]. If we are tempted to think that single motherhood is a problem of access to technology, it is sobering to think that we are worse at it than medieval peasants.<p>At the same time, total fertility has fallen to sub-replacement rates in every Western country [1]. This creates top-heavy societies that are dependent for young workers upon cultures that don&#x27;t share our enlightened attitudes.<p>Is it certain that both of these trends can be attributed wholly to contraception? No. Do they suggest that Western cultures have adopted attitudes towards sex and reproduction that are proving incompatible with their own continued existence? Well...<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.washingtonpost.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;wonk&#x2F;wp&#x2F;2014&#x2F;12&#x2F;18&#x2F;the-unbelievable-rise-of-single-motherhood-in-america-over-the-last-50-years&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.washingtonpost.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;wonk&#x2F;wp&#x2F;2014&#x2F;12&#x2F;18&#x2F;the-u...</a><p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Sub-replacement_fertility" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Sub-replacement_fertility</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Teen birth rate hits all-time low, led by 50% decline among Hispanics and blacks</title><url>https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/to-your-health/wp/2016/04/28/teen-birth-rate-hits-all-time-low-led-by-50-percent-decline-among-hispanics-and-blacks/?hpid=hp_hp-top-table-main_teen-births-115pm%3Ahomepage%2Fstory</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Aelinsaar</author><text>&quot;The first is the most important and may be obvious: Today&#x27;s teens enjoy better access to contraception and more convenient contraception than their predecessors, and more of them are taking advantage of innovations like long-acting injectable and implantable methods that can last years over a daily birth control pill. But the second cause is something that goes against the conventional wisdom. It&#x27;s that teens -- despite their portrayal in popular TV and movies as uninhibited and acting only on hormones -- are having less sex.&quot;<p>That&#x27;s interesting, but lets just take a long look at the FIRST cause, which has come at the cost of endless political fights and only exists through that constant fighting. There are still a LOT of people who think that access to birth control is the <i>problem</i>.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>seizethecheese</author><text>This runs counter to the belief that many have that when given higher access to contraceptives, teens will have more sex. Another knock against abstinence-only sex ed!</text></comment> |
26,073,673 | 26,073,652 | 1 | 3 | 26,072,659 | train | <story><title>The US Is Seeing a Spike in Anti-Asian Hate Crimes</title><url>https://www.thecut.com/2021/02/the-us-is-seeing-a-massive-spike-in-anti-asian-hate-crimes.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>gautamcgoel</author><text>Indian-American here. One thing I often find irritating about the phrase &quot;Asian-American&quot; is that it&#x27;s usually used to refer to people with <i>East</i> Asian heritage (Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Vietnamese, Thai, etc). Somehow people with South Asian heritage, like myself, often aren&#x27;t included in that category, to the point that my girlfriend was surprised to hear that Indian-Americans count as Asian-American.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>kibwen</author><text>I think this is a symptom of the continent of Asia being so extremely large and diverse. To wit, every definition of Asia also includes the Arabian Peninsula, but most people would probably not intuitively classify Arab Americans as Asian Americans. The appropriation of &quot;Asian American&quot; to almost universally mean &quot;East Asian Americans&quot; is probably due to the lack of a specific, pre-existing demonym to describe people from that region. It&#x27;s like how South Americans can be rightfully irritated that &quot;American&quot; gets used to refer to someone from the US, which is also partly due to the fact that no more precise demonym ever emerged (not in English, anyway).</text></comment> | <story><title>The US Is Seeing a Spike in Anti-Asian Hate Crimes</title><url>https://www.thecut.com/2021/02/the-us-is-seeing-a-massive-spike-in-anti-asian-hate-crimes.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>gautamcgoel</author><text>Indian-American here. One thing I often find irritating about the phrase &quot;Asian-American&quot; is that it&#x27;s usually used to refer to people with <i>East</i> Asian heritage (Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Vietnamese, Thai, etc). Somehow people with South Asian heritage, like myself, often aren&#x27;t included in that category, to the point that my girlfriend was surprised to hear that Indian-Americans count as Asian-American.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>userbinator</author><text>The fact that Chinese and other East Asian people look far more similar and are the stereotypical &quot;Asian&quot; than Indians and other South Asians is responsible for that. Likewise, there&#x27;s another comment here about the Russians (North Asians). To the average American, Indian and Russian are probably separate categories from Asian.</text></comment> |
32,080,103 | 32,079,353 | 1 | 3 | 32,079,227 | train | <story><title>Decompiler Explorer</title><url>https://dogbolt.org/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>psifertex</author><text>Sorry for the outages, friends. We&#x27;re actively working on getting it able to handle higher load but we knew that if we hit HN we&#x27;d be swamped no matter what we did. We&#x27;re spinning up more workers and fixing obvious perf issues as we see them, but if it&#x27;s not available when you try it make sure to check back later!</text></comment> | <story><title>Decompiler Explorer</title><url>https://dogbolt.org/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>ykl</author><text>Love the joke in the URL. :)<p>(For anyone that doesn&#x27;t get it; it&#x27;s a play on Godbolt)</text></comment> |
31,437,476 | 31,437,366 | 1 | 2 | 31,435,801 | train | <story><title>Andrew Ng updates his Machine Learning course</title><url>https://www.deeplearning.ai/program/machine-learning-specialization/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>xwdv</author><text>Although this is the best course on ML, is it really practical for anything? Has anyone built products for things they’ve learned from this course?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>NelsonMinar</author><text>I thought it was useful but awfully low level. For example I hope to never, ever implement backpropagation again; I&#x27;m going to use whatever code is in TensorFlow or PyTorch or whatever. But as a student I&#x27;m glad I did implement it myself, once, so I understand what is going on. More broadly it demystifies the black box of machine learning methods and you can see it for the giant pile of statistical categorizing functions that it is.<p>The most practical takeaway I got from Ng&#x27;s course was the dangers of under and overfitting your data and techniques for detecting when you make that mistake.</text></comment> | <story><title>Andrew Ng updates his Machine Learning course</title><url>https://www.deeplearning.ai/program/machine-learning-specialization/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>xwdv</author><text>Although this is the best course on ML, is it really practical for anything? Has anyone built products for things they’ve learned from this course?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>MafellUser</author><text>I took this course as a defensive mechanism against BS at work, especially when the consulting Data Scientists were around. In that sense it&#x27;s super practical.<p>ML is dominated by gigantic datasets and massive computing powers, something individuals will not have a lot of.</text></comment> |
36,617,272 | 36,617,271 | 1 | 2 | 36,616,037 | train | <story><title>France passes bill to allow police remotely activate phone camera, microphone</title><url>https://gazettengr.com/france-passes-bill-to-allow-police-remotely-activate-phone-camera-microphone-spy-on-people/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>KennyBlanken</author><text>Nexus&#x2F;Pixel devices literally come out of the box with Verizon background crapware installed that you cannot disable or remove even if you&#x27;re not a Verizon customer.<p>Google long sold out, friend.</text></item><item><author>px43</author><text>A Pixel phone probably gives you the best chance of resisting this sort of attack. The most vulnerable phones are the older, cheaper phones that run outdated versions of Android. Pixel phones are generally the first to get security updates, and so the quickest to get patches when spyware companies start using new bugs.</text></item><item><author>hinata08</author><text>I regret getting a pixel, and not a fairphone with a removable battery<p>With the current level of oversight on the police (police of police is a meme by now), and the level of cybersecurity at the government, everyone&#x27;s phones will be activated within a few months.<p>At least some government agent will have fun watching what ppl visit on the internet during their spare time, and can enable the camera to watch what they&#x27;re doing when they review the content.<p>The fight against crime is ramping up !<p>I don&#x27;t get why they don&#x27;t hire back more detectives and accountants to really investigate actual evidence, instead of just listening to potential criminals for hours.
They have been reducing the force for 15 years (especially the forces that investigated financial and workplace crimes)<p>That would be more effective.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>flanbiscuit</author><text>I use T-Mobile and I bought my Pixel 5a directly through Google at an official in-person Google store. Does my phone have this Verizon bloatware? What apps should I be looking for?<p>I googled it and I&#x27;m only seeing people complain about this Verizon bloatware from people who bought it through Verizon.</text></comment> | <story><title>France passes bill to allow police remotely activate phone camera, microphone</title><url>https://gazettengr.com/france-passes-bill-to-allow-police-remotely-activate-phone-camera-microphone-spy-on-people/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>KennyBlanken</author><text>Nexus&#x2F;Pixel devices literally come out of the box with Verizon background crapware installed that you cannot disable or remove even if you&#x27;re not a Verizon customer.<p>Google long sold out, friend.</text></item><item><author>px43</author><text>A Pixel phone probably gives you the best chance of resisting this sort of attack. The most vulnerable phones are the older, cheaper phones that run outdated versions of Android. Pixel phones are generally the first to get security updates, and so the quickest to get patches when spyware companies start using new bugs.</text></item><item><author>hinata08</author><text>I regret getting a pixel, and not a fairphone with a removable battery<p>With the current level of oversight on the police (police of police is a meme by now), and the level of cybersecurity at the government, everyone&#x27;s phones will be activated within a few months.<p>At least some government agent will have fun watching what ppl visit on the internet during their spare time, and can enable the camera to watch what they&#x27;re doing when they review the content.<p>The fight against crime is ramping up !<p>I don&#x27;t get why they don&#x27;t hire back more detectives and accountants to really investigate actual evidence, instead of just listening to potential criminals for hours.
They have been reducing the force for 15 years (especially the forces that investigated financial and workplace crimes)<p>That would be more effective.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>estebank</author><text>That hasn&#x27;t been the case for any of the Nexus or Pixel devices I bought straight from Google.</text></comment> |
34,277,570 | 34,278,112 | 1 | 2 | 34,276,704 | train | <story><title>U.S. stock market returns – a history from the 1870s to 2022</title><url>https://themeasureofaplan.com/us-stock-market-returns-1870s-to-present/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>gumby</author><text>Who cares about returns over the next 150 years? Even half that is excessive. Someone investing at age 18 might care about the subsequent 50 years.<p>It&#x27;s going to be a long time before some other country takes over the &quot;reserve currency&#x2F;investment market of last resort&quot; position the US currently has. No other market is even close to providing the deep liquidity and rule of law the US market has over a wide variety of instruments.<p>Sure, someone will eventually take over that role, but there are no candidates today. And, to your point: it was clear by the late 19th century that the US dollar would displace Sterling, but it took another half a century for that to happen. On the scale of current human lifespan, you can assume it won&#x27;t happen at all.</text></item><item><author>danhak</author><text>Of course a country’s stock market will perform well as that country ascends to become the world’s dominant superpower.<p>The question is whether the power and influence of the U.S. will grow similarly over the next 150 years as it has over the last 150.<p>To invest mechanically without thinking about what’s actually happening in the world is cargo cult behavior.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ganonm</author><text>Keep in mind that the present value depends somewhat on the discounted future earnings, which by definition extends to the end of time. That being said, the associated time discounting heavily reduces the impact of earnings envisaged say 100 years from now (a 5% discount rate would mean ~13k USD in 100 years is worth about 100 USD now, and that&#x27;s probably generous given historic market returns).<p>So, the US doing extremely well 100 years from now vs. the US doing very badly 100 years from now could have a non-trivial impact on the perceived value of US assets. I suspect that the large uncertainty about what the world will look like in 100 years means there is just some sort of seldom changing value baked into assets to account for this, but it nonetheless exists, and could change if there was some huge geopolitical shift.<p>And before you mention anyone on earth would be dead in 150 years, yes that&#x27;s true, however you can always sell it to someone later on who <i>will</i> be alive in 150 years (or sell it to someone who can later sell it to someone etc. etc.).</text></comment> | <story><title>U.S. stock market returns – a history from the 1870s to 2022</title><url>https://themeasureofaplan.com/us-stock-market-returns-1870s-to-present/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>gumby</author><text>Who cares about returns over the next 150 years? Even half that is excessive. Someone investing at age 18 might care about the subsequent 50 years.<p>It&#x27;s going to be a long time before some other country takes over the &quot;reserve currency&#x2F;investment market of last resort&quot; position the US currently has. No other market is even close to providing the deep liquidity and rule of law the US market has over a wide variety of instruments.<p>Sure, someone will eventually take over that role, but there are no candidates today. And, to your point: it was clear by the late 19th century that the US dollar would displace Sterling, but it took another half a century for that to happen. On the scale of current human lifespan, you can assume it won&#x27;t happen at all.</text></item><item><author>danhak</author><text>Of course a country’s stock market will perform well as that country ascends to become the world’s dominant superpower.<p>The question is whether the power and influence of the U.S. will grow similarly over the next 150 years as it has over the last 150.<p>To invest mechanically without thinking about what’s actually happening in the world is cargo cult behavior.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dalbasal</author><text>Why is &quot;reserve currency&quot; the central issue?<p>Also, the US stock market, US Dollar and US economy&#x2F;gdp aren&#x27;t hard linked to one another these days. The companies listed can be selling to non US markets, employing internationally, founded internationally. They&#x27;re just listing on the US stock market because well.. that&#x27;s where the stock market is. The US could, in theory, become more or less popular a stock market regardless of its currency&#x27;s popularity.<p>Meanwhile, both the Euro and RMB have similar size markets backing their currency. Neither one is currently <i>trying</i> to displace the USD. I think the importance of owning the international currency is somewhat speculative.</text></comment> |
3,464,412 | 3,464,253 | 1 | 3 | 3,464,176 | train | <story><title>The White House's Response to SOPA</title><url>https://wwws.whitehouse.gov/petitions#/!/response/combating-online-piracy-while-protecting-open-and-innovative-internet</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tumult</author><text><i>Let us be clear—online piracy is a real problem that harms the American economy, and threatens jobs for significant numbers of middle class workers and hurts some of our nation's most creative and innovative companies and entrepreneurs. It harms everyone from struggling artists to production crews, and from startup social media companies to large movie studios.</i><p>One of these things is not like the others.<p><i>While we are strongly committed to the vigorous enforcement of intellectual property rights, existing tools are not strong enough to root out the worst online pirates beyond our borders. That is why the Administration calls on all sides to work together to pass sound legislation this year that provides prosecutors and rights holders new legal tools to combat online piracy originating beyond U.S. borders while staying true to the principles outlined above in this response.</i><p>We fully support the censorship of the internet, which baffles and scares us. However, this single step may have been too drastic. Please allow us some time to find stepping stones.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>RexRollman</author><text>I voted for Obama, but when he says "Let us be clear", you know some bullshit is coming.</text></comment> | <story><title>The White House's Response to SOPA</title><url>https://wwws.whitehouse.gov/petitions#/!/response/combating-online-piracy-while-protecting-open-and-innovative-internet</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tumult</author><text><i>Let us be clear—online piracy is a real problem that harms the American economy, and threatens jobs for significant numbers of middle class workers and hurts some of our nation's most creative and innovative companies and entrepreneurs. It harms everyone from struggling artists to production crews, and from startup social media companies to large movie studios.</i><p>One of these things is not like the others.<p><i>While we are strongly committed to the vigorous enforcement of intellectual property rights, existing tools are not strong enough to root out the worst online pirates beyond our borders. That is why the Administration calls on all sides to work together to pass sound legislation this year that provides prosecutors and rights holders new legal tools to combat online piracy originating beyond U.S. borders while staying true to the principles outlined above in this response.</i><p>We fully support the censorship of the internet, which baffles and scares us. However, this single step may have been too drastic. Please allow us some time to find stepping stones.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>kmfrk</author><text>That press statement, to me, is a typical example of using transparency as a political tool to give citizens a false sense of participation.<p>This is Obama's passivity during the LGBT rights activities during 2011 all over again.<p>(Well, except that I am sure he wasn't paid to sit idly by when the LGBT movement was at its apex.)<p><i>Keep calm and carry on.</i></text></comment> |
37,434,759 | 37,434,140 | 1 | 2 | 37,430,759 | train | <story><title>Towards a new SymPy</title><url>https://oscarbenjamin.github.io/blog/czi/post1.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>carapace</author><text>Part II made the front page yesterday: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=37426080">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=37426080</a><p>A comment there makes what I think is a very good point about &quot;the lack of consolidation of computer algebra efforts&quot;: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=37430437">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=37430437</a><p>I don&#x27;t know what might drive or foster such consolidation. Maybe Category Theory? Bridging syntax?</text></comment> | <story><title>Towards a new SymPy</title><url>https://oscarbenjamin.github.io/blog/czi/post1.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>mathisfun123</author><text>The unfortunate thing is that core CAS functionality (and performance) should be based on a SAT&#x2F;SMT engine to discover the rewrite rules and it goes without saying (but I&#x27;ll say it anyway) implementing that is &quot;hard&quot;. Naively (i.e., I haven&#x27;t <i>really</i> thought through it), I think sympy should be built on top of z3 or cvc5 or at least very tighly integrated (e.g., support as a backend). And (again naively) I think until such time, sympy will remain a toy.<p>I will say though that symengine is a great project and congrats to that guy for pulling it off under the constraints of a phd.</text></comment> |
33,762,765 | 33,762,344 | 1 | 2 | 33,762,099 | train | <story><title>Olric: Distributed, embeddable data structures in Go</title><url>https://github.com/buraksezer/olric</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>bpicolo</author><text>I know Java and Erlang ecosystems have been big on this at times (Hazelcast, mnesia). When are these the appropriate architectural choice, if ever?<p>Definitely fun&#x2F;cool tech, I just don&#x27;t understand how pragmatic it is.</text></comment> | <story><title>Olric: Distributed, embeddable data structures in Go</title><url>https://github.com/buraksezer/olric</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>kevml</author><text>&gt; Olric v0.4 and previous versions use Olric Binary Protocol, v0.5 uses Redis serialization protocol for communication and the API was significantly changed. Olric v0.4.x tree is going to receive bug fixes and security updates forever, but I would recommend considering an upgrade to the new version.<p>Seems like a tall order to promise updates “forever”, particularly for a v0 release.</text></comment> |
14,018,028 | 14,017,941 | 1 | 2 | 14,017,830 | train | <story><title>Please stop writing new serialization protocols</title><url>https://scottlocklin.wordpress.com/2017/04/02/please-stop-writing-new-serialization-protocols/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jmillikin</author><text><p><pre><code> &gt; Imagine if there were 40 competing and completely
&gt; mutually unintelligible versions of html or text encodings
</code></pre>
There are.<p><pre><code> &gt; There really should be a one size fits all minimal
&gt; serialization protocol
</code></pre>
There can&#x27;t be.<p><pre><code> &gt; just the same way there is a one size fits all network
&gt; protocol which moves data around the entire internet
</code></pre>
There isn&#x27;t.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>simonh</author><text>Every now and then I come across someone who thinks data is like water and we should have standardised &#x27;pipes&#x27; and components for processing and transporting data and converting it between formats like we have pipes and valves for transporting and purifying water.<p>But data isn&#x27;t like water, it&#x27;s like &#x27;chemicals&#x27;. You can&#x27;t have a standard component for processing data the same way you can&#x27;t have a single components that knows how to process sulphuric acid, crude oil, hydrazine, mercury and molten salt.<p>Data can be binary, delimited, fixed field, lossy, ASCII, Many variations of Unicode, executable, contain attack such as SQL injection, encrypted, have time sensitive delivery requirements, include checksums, require checksums to be applied in the protocol, be meaningless without metadata or other data, and have who knows what other constraints, limitations and requirements.<p>Building a data processing system is not at all like building a water works. It&#x27;s more like building a chemicals processing plant.</text></comment> | <story><title>Please stop writing new serialization protocols</title><url>https://scottlocklin.wordpress.com/2017/04/02/please-stop-writing-new-serialization-protocols/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jmillikin</author><text><p><pre><code> &gt; Imagine if there were 40 competing and completely
&gt; mutually unintelligible versions of html or text encodings
</code></pre>
There are.<p><pre><code> &gt; There really should be a one size fits all minimal
&gt; serialization protocol
</code></pre>
There can&#x27;t be.<p><pre><code> &gt; just the same way there is a one size fits all network
&gt; protocol which moves data around the entire internet
</code></pre>
There isn&#x27;t.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>trendia</author><text>I suspect the author hasn&#x27;t read The Absolute Minimum ... about Unicode [0] (or why there&#x27;s no such thing as &quot;plain text&quot;)<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.joelonsoftware.com&#x2F;2003&#x2F;10&#x2F;08&#x2F;the-absolute-minimum-every-software-developer-absolutely-positively-must-know-about-unicode-and-character-sets-no-excuses&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.joelonsoftware.com&#x2F;2003&#x2F;10&#x2F;08&#x2F;the-absolute-minim...</a></text></comment> |
26,412,023 | 26,412,299 | 1 | 2 | 26,408,181 | train | <story><title>We created a fake language to root out resume liars</title><url>https://www.facebook.com/groups/CFprogrammers/permalink/10158154545285036/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jefftk</author><text>You don&#x27;t list it as a requirement; list it as something that would be nice to have.</text></item><item><author>falcolas</author><text>So, let me get this straight - you lie about your job requirements, but get all bent out of shape when the candidates lie right back at you?<p>Brilliant.<p>I can’t think of a better example of why hiring is broken; of how unequal the power dynamic is between employers and employees.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>NoOneNew</author><text>I was just thinking this. If it&#x27;s labeled as an optional skill or something like that, I see nothing wrong with it. Applicant has no reason to lie about it. Have confidence in their other skills. At the same time, we have this new thing called search engines. If a language can&#x27;t be found, they&#x27;ll probably figure out that it&#x27;s trap. Even better for the company. A person who won&#x27;t lie and&#x2F;or can research out BS for themselves. Pretty good candidate thus far. Devs are supposed to be self-reliant to a degree. A good question for the interviewee to ask the interviewer too.<p>If it&#x27;s labeled a &quot;requirement&quot;, yea, they were inviting dishonesty. No one <i>should</i> bother to apply since they don&#x27;t qualify instantly.</text></comment> | <story><title>We created a fake language to root out resume liars</title><url>https://www.facebook.com/groups/CFprogrammers/permalink/10158154545285036/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jefftk</author><text>You don&#x27;t list it as a requirement; list it as something that would be nice to have.</text></item><item><author>falcolas</author><text>So, let me get this straight - you lie about your job requirements, but get all bent out of shape when the candidates lie right back at you?<p>Brilliant.<p>I can’t think of a better example of why hiring is broken; of how unequal the power dynamic is between employers and employees.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>falcolas</author><text>Advertising a real job opening with a &quot;nice to have&quot; skill that <i>doesn&#x27;t actually exist</i>...<p>It&#x27;s still lying.<p>EDIT: If it was listed as &quot;Skills you shouldn&#x27;t have&quot;, it would likely (sadly?) still be effective, without screwing with job applicants.</text></comment> |
36,752,098 | 36,751,556 | 1 | 2 | 36,751,399 | train | <story><title>Undocumented 8086 instructions, explained by the microcode</title><url>https://www.righto.com/2023/07/undocumented-8086-instructions.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>chx</author><text>&gt; The undocumented C9 opcode is identical to the documented CB, far return instruction.<p>I <i>remember</i> this.<p>Once ... gosh, it&#x27;s hard to believe how long ago that was now, but once I knew the entire Z80 opcode table off head. I could read the Z80 machine code and disassemble it. High school crowded that stuff out of my head, I went to a special math school, it was very very hard. Except... C9 was RET (and the Z80 is an extension of the Intel 8080). That has burned into me so deep I still remember, across more than 35 years. I will be 30 ;) years old in two weeks.</text></comment> | <story><title>Undocumented 8086 instructions, explained by the microcode</title><url>https://www.righto.com/2023/07/undocumented-8086-instructions.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>colejohnson66</author><text>A lot of the undocumented instruction &quot;match&quot; bits make sense, such as POP CS at [0F]. However, it&#x27;s clear that the authors of the microcode <i>deliberately</i> made every opcode match to some routine, as evidenced by Jcc being mirrored into the [60..6F] region, LOCK into [F1], group 2 &#x2F;6 into &#x2F;7, etc. It wouldn&#x27;t&#x27;ve &quot;cost&quot; anything extra to make Jcc only match on its documented [70..7F] region (and others) like later processors do. What&#x27;s the advantage of matching on undefined byte sequences?<p>Also, SALC is still <i>technically</i> undocumented by Intel (AMD documents it, though). It doesn&#x27;t have a dedicated section in the SDM (would be in Volume 2, Chapter 4), and in the opcode map (Volume 2, Appendix A), there&#x27;s a blank there. One actually has to go to Volume 3, Chapter 23 &quot;Architecture Compatibility&quot;, Section 15 &quot;Undefined Opcodes&quot; (of version 080 from June) to see it mentioned. It&#x27;s weird. They even call it out as SALC &quot;when not in 64-bit mode&quot; and that it performs &quot;IF (CF=1), AL=FF, ELSE, AL=0&quot;, but refuse to officially document it.</text></comment> |
9,733,707 | 9,733,636 | 1 | 2 | 9,731,963 | train | <story><title>Uber Drivers Deemed Employees by California Labor Commission</title><url>http://techcrunch.com/2015/06/17/uber-drivers-deemed-employees-by-california-labor-commission/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>KingMachiavelli</author><text>Could this ruling be used to argue that the farmers in poultry raising contracts with Tyson, Poultry House, etc to raise chickens owned by Tyson are also employees?<p>1) Chicken farmers own and provide equipment that (2) the parent company requires and has set standards.<p>3) The contractee chooses farmers based on some criteria(not certain, but I would assume it&#x27;s fairly extensive).<p>4) Contractee sets prices; the farmers do compete with each other for the best pay based on quality, but the farmers do not set prices. Chicken quality could be seen as equivalent to Uber&#x27;s pay based on hours&#x2F;distance driven.<p>5)Chicken farmers do possess skills that influence Tyson&#x27;s profit or loss, so this point differs.<p>6)I&#x27;m very much doubt that the farmers can subcontract.<p>7) The chicken farmers are vital to the contractee&#x27;s business; the profit of Tyson and other companies that use poultry contracts depends primarily on the supply and quality of the chickens raised by the contracted farmers.<p>Overall, Uber drivers and contracted chicken farmers seem fairly similar though the chicken farmers may conform slightly more to the traditional contractor role.</text></item><item><author>beering</author><text>Skimming through the doc, court findings are:<p>1) Drivers providing their own cars is not a strong factor - pizza delivery employees also drive their own cars.<p>2) Uber &quot;control the tools that drivers use&quot; by regulating the newness of the car.<p>3) Uber exercises extensive control over vetting and hiring drivers and requires extensive personal information from drivers.<p>4) Uber alone sets prices, and tipping is discouraged, so there is no mechanism for driver (as &quot;contractor&quot;) to set prices.<p>5) Plaintiff driver only provided her time and car. &quot;Plaintiff&#x27;s work did not entail any &#x27;managerial&#x27; skills that could affect profit or loss.&quot;<p>6) Drivers cannot subcontract (presumably negating Uber&#x27;s position as a &quot;lead generation&quot; tool for contractors).<p>Sorry that these are out of order. Look on Page 9 of court documents for full text.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jahewson</author><text>6) is critical, you can&#x27;t just brush it off: someone who can hire other people to perform their labour is generally not an employee. What you&#x27;re claiming applies to pretty much any fixed price contract, and it should be obvious that most such contracts don&#x27;t result in an employee relationship. ALL of the necessary criteria must be met for that to happen - not just some.<p>e.g. I could be paid by a farmer to to work on such a chicken farm (presumably many people are), but I can&#x27;t be paid by an Uber employee to cover their shift. That is a critical difference.</text></comment> | <story><title>Uber Drivers Deemed Employees by California Labor Commission</title><url>http://techcrunch.com/2015/06/17/uber-drivers-deemed-employees-by-california-labor-commission/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>KingMachiavelli</author><text>Could this ruling be used to argue that the farmers in poultry raising contracts with Tyson, Poultry House, etc to raise chickens owned by Tyson are also employees?<p>1) Chicken farmers own and provide equipment that (2) the parent company requires and has set standards.<p>3) The contractee chooses farmers based on some criteria(not certain, but I would assume it&#x27;s fairly extensive).<p>4) Contractee sets prices; the farmers do compete with each other for the best pay based on quality, but the farmers do not set prices. Chicken quality could be seen as equivalent to Uber&#x27;s pay based on hours&#x2F;distance driven.<p>5)Chicken farmers do possess skills that influence Tyson&#x27;s profit or loss, so this point differs.<p>6)I&#x27;m very much doubt that the farmers can subcontract.<p>7) The chicken farmers are vital to the contractee&#x27;s business; the profit of Tyson and other companies that use poultry contracts depends primarily on the supply and quality of the chickens raised by the contracted farmers.<p>Overall, Uber drivers and contracted chicken farmers seem fairly similar though the chicken farmers may conform slightly more to the traditional contractor role.</text></item><item><author>beering</author><text>Skimming through the doc, court findings are:<p>1) Drivers providing their own cars is not a strong factor - pizza delivery employees also drive their own cars.<p>2) Uber &quot;control the tools that drivers use&quot; by regulating the newness of the car.<p>3) Uber exercises extensive control over vetting and hiring drivers and requires extensive personal information from drivers.<p>4) Uber alone sets prices, and tipping is discouraged, so there is no mechanism for driver (as &quot;contractor&quot;) to set prices.<p>5) Plaintiff driver only provided her time and car. &quot;Plaintiff&#x27;s work did not entail any &#x27;managerial&#x27; skills that could affect profit or loss.&quot;<p>6) Drivers cannot subcontract (presumably negating Uber&#x27;s position as a &quot;lead generation&quot; tool for contractors).<p>Sorry that these are out of order. Look on Page 9 of court documents for full text.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mattmanser</author><text>The farmers can subcontract, they can hire extra hands and don&#x27;t have to do the work themselves.</text></comment> |
31,817,810 | 31,817,485 | 1 | 2 | 31,812,864 | train | <story><title>Ask HN: Having trouble getting senior applicants, wondering what to do about it</title><text>We&#x27;re a fairly typical run-of-the-mill mid-size enterprise software vendor trying to hire for fully-remote SWEs in the &quot;DevOps&quot; software space (Linux, containers, k8s, yadda yadda). We post in the usual places including Who&#x27;s Hiring but we haven&#x27;t even managed to backfill a retirement from six months ago, and we&#x27;re junior-heavy already. Benefits and salary are good (though salary isn&#x27;t posted in the ad), and the people are great, though the work requires a reasonably deep understanding of the underlying platforms which a lot of people seem to dislike.<p>I&#x27;m wondering if the work being a higher percentage non-code is what&#x27;s causing us trouble, if we&#x27;re just rubbish at hiring in general, or if it&#x27;s something else.<p>What&#x27;s everyone else&#x27;s experience attracting applications from senior talent in this market, and what is everyone doing to increase their attractiveness?<p>Current hiring process:<p><pre><code> - Resume screened by in-house recruiter
- 30m call with them
- Resume passed up to engineering
- Hour-long call with hiring manager (typically the engineering manager of the team the candidate would join)
- Take-home technical assignment (~4h) or similar at candidate&#x27;s choosing
- Presentation of technical assignment to the team
- Offer</code></pre></text></story><parent_chain><item><author>s0rce</author><text>I&#x27;ve tried to advocate for this at my organization and been told that we don&#x27;t want people primarily motivated by money...</text></item><item><author>jiggawatts</author><text>POST THE SALARY.<p>Senior people are senior because of their work experience, which they gain from steady employment.<p>Almost by definition you are looking to entice busy, employed people away from their current jobs.<p>They don’t have the time or inclination to trawl through job ad after job ad. Where your competition will ask for 15 years of experience and then only after hours of calls and meetings reluctantly make an offer half of what the candidate is currently making.<p>You have to stand out from this, or you’re perceived as the same “waste of time” category.<p>You’re not hiring starving students. You’re hiring people with options and responsibilities.<p>Respect their time and value and they’ll consider your offer.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>__d</author><text>Respectfully, I think that&#x27;s nonsense.<p>It&#x27;s called &quot;work&quot; because it&#x27;s what you do to get money. It&#x27;s not a hobby, nor an idealistic crusade (both of those are fine things, but they&#x27;re different to &quot;work&quot;).<p>The reason you work is to get money. That&#x27;s the only motivation. You might choose between different work options on another basis, but the reason you&#x27;re there at all is money.<p>Anyone trying to recruit people who doesn&#x27;t accept this will fail.</text></comment> | <story><title>Ask HN: Having trouble getting senior applicants, wondering what to do about it</title><text>We&#x27;re a fairly typical run-of-the-mill mid-size enterprise software vendor trying to hire for fully-remote SWEs in the &quot;DevOps&quot; software space (Linux, containers, k8s, yadda yadda). We post in the usual places including Who&#x27;s Hiring but we haven&#x27;t even managed to backfill a retirement from six months ago, and we&#x27;re junior-heavy already. Benefits and salary are good (though salary isn&#x27;t posted in the ad), and the people are great, though the work requires a reasonably deep understanding of the underlying platforms which a lot of people seem to dislike.<p>I&#x27;m wondering if the work being a higher percentage non-code is what&#x27;s causing us trouble, if we&#x27;re just rubbish at hiring in general, or if it&#x27;s something else.<p>What&#x27;s everyone else&#x27;s experience attracting applications from senior talent in this market, and what is everyone doing to increase their attractiveness?<p>Current hiring process:<p><pre><code> - Resume screened by in-house recruiter
- 30m call with them
- Resume passed up to engineering
- Hour-long call with hiring manager (typically the engineering manager of the team the candidate would join)
- Take-home technical assignment (~4h) or similar at candidate&#x27;s choosing
- Presentation of technical assignment to the team
- Offer</code></pre></text></story><parent_chain><item><author>s0rce</author><text>I&#x27;ve tried to advocate for this at my organization and been told that we don&#x27;t want people primarily motivated by money...</text></item><item><author>jiggawatts</author><text>POST THE SALARY.<p>Senior people are senior because of their work experience, which they gain from steady employment.<p>Almost by definition you are looking to entice busy, employed people away from their current jobs.<p>They don’t have the time or inclination to trawl through job ad after job ad. Where your competition will ask for 15 years of experience and then only after hours of calls and meetings reluctantly make an offer half of what the candidate is currently making.<p>You have to stand out from this, or you’re perceived as the same “waste of time” category.<p>You’re not hiring starving students. You’re hiring people with options and responsibilities.<p>Respect their time and value and they’ll consider your offer.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>LargeWu</author><text>If I&#x27;m making $XXX,XXX, why am I even going to waste my time if I think there&#x27;s a decent chance you&#x27;ll offer $XXX,XXX - 20,000?<p>I think what you&#x27;ll find is that people aren&#x27;t motivated by money, per se, but they have obligations: mortgages, car payments, retirement savings. An established standard of living. Especially the more senior they get. I don&#x27;t do better work for money, but at this point in my career you can be damned sure I&#x27;m not going to lower my standard of living just to work at a company with free soda and a ping pong table. I&#x27;d put up with a lot of bullshit in my current situation before taking a pay cut.<p>The unlikely exception would be a mission-driven company (if your company is for-profit, this is not you) that is highly congruent with my values and truly makes the world a better place.</text></comment> |
37,279,613 | 37,279,605 | 1 | 3 | 37,279,318 | train | <story><title>Firefox 1.0 New York Times ad (2004)</title><url>https://www.scribd.com/document/393519605/Firefox-1-0-New-York-Times-Ad</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>chrisrhee</author><text>Mozilla Foundation places two-page advocacy ad in The New York Times
<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.mozilla.org&#x2F;press&#x2F;2004&#x2F;12&#x2F;mozilla-foundation-places-two-page-advocacy-ad-in-the-new-york-times&#x2F;" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.mozilla.org&#x2F;press&#x2F;2004&#x2F;12&#x2F;mozilla-foundation-pl...</a><p>New York Times runs Firefox ad
<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cnet.com&#x2F;tech&#x2F;services-and-software&#x2F;new-york-times-runs-firefox-ad&#x2F;" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cnet.com&#x2F;tech&#x2F;services-and-software&#x2F;new-york-tim...</a><p>&gt; The first page of the two-page ad--which is twice as large as originally planned--features the Firefox symbol superimposed over the names of the 10,000 donors<p>My name is somewhere in that mix. I lost the physical newspaper copy at some point in the last 19 years. but it&#x27;s cool the PDF is still around.<p>Surprised the getfirefox.com domain from the ad still works!<p>In the Battle of the Browsers &#x27;04, Firefox Aims at Microsoft
<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nytimes.com&#x2F;2004&#x2F;11&#x2F;15&#x2F;technology&#x2F;in-the-battle-of-the-browsers-04-firefox-aims-at-microsoft.html" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nytimes.com&#x2F;2004&#x2F;11&#x2F;15&#x2F;technology&#x2F;in-the-battle-...</a><p>&gt; the early enthusiasm for the preview version of Firefox is a big reason that Internet Explorer&#x27;s market share has slipped more than 2.5 percentage points in the last five months, to 92.9 percent at the end of October, its first decline since 1999</text></comment> | <story><title>Firefox 1.0 New York Times ad (2004)</title><url>https://www.scribd.com/document/393519605/Firefox-1-0-New-York-Times-Ad</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>ofrzeta</author><text>same in the German Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (FAZ):<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;de.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Datei:Firefox-anzeige-faz.jpg" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;de.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Datei:Firefox-anzeige-faz.jpg</a></text></comment> |
22,528,671 | 22,527,229 | 1 | 2 | 22,526,645 | train | <story><title>Ask HN: Meeting overload – how many do you have daily/weekly?</title><text>Hi HN - curious to understand how much time engineering leaders spend in meetings. Thinking engineering managers, directors and VP&#x27;s...<p>Extra credit: What&#x27;s the longest duration meeting you regularly have? (For OP, it&#x27;s a twice monthly 4 hour meeting with ALL product and engineering sr. mgrs and directors - FML)</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>nirvanis</author><text>I have around 18 hours per week of prebooked meeting time (1:1s, team meetings, planning, 1:1 with manager, sync meetings with different cross initiatives, interviews, candidate screening, etc).<p>I have observed that my biggest productivity killer are not those meetings (I try to make them useful for me and I try to make sure they are useful for everyone). The biggest problem comes when the time around them is very fragmented. For me, a week with 30 hours of meetings can be more productive than a week with 15 hours if I manage to defragment the time around them.<p>I have recently worked with my team and other peers to put an effort to defragment my calendar by batching predictable meetings together (this is a process I repeat every 6-12 months) and I feel an immediate boost in focus.<p>My rule of thumb is trying to make sure I get daily focus slots as close as possible to length X where X is:<p>X = ( (40 hours) - (prebooked hours in meetings) &#x2F; (5 weekdays) )<p>In my case (40-18)&#x2F;5 = 4.4 hours. I currently have two 4-hour slots monday and tuesday, a 5 hour slot on wednesday and a 3 hour slot on thursdays. Not bad. But that degrades quickly!</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>forkexec</author><text>Another technique is to insist on an agenda before any meeting, both for time to prepare and to see if it&#x27;s pertinent, or the default answer is &quot;no.&quot;<p>Standing meetings are 99% a waste of time, usually about someone&#x2F;s trying to climb the career stripper pole.</text></comment> | <story><title>Ask HN: Meeting overload – how many do you have daily/weekly?</title><text>Hi HN - curious to understand how much time engineering leaders spend in meetings. Thinking engineering managers, directors and VP&#x27;s...<p>Extra credit: What&#x27;s the longest duration meeting you regularly have? (For OP, it&#x27;s a twice monthly 4 hour meeting with ALL product and engineering sr. mgrs and directors - FML)</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>nirvanis</author><text>I have around 18 hours per week of prebooked meeting time (1:1s, team meetings, planning, 1:1 with manager, sync meetings with different cross initiatives, interviews, candidate screening, etc).<p>I have observed that my biggest productivity killer are not those meetings (I try to make them useful for me and I try to make sure they are useful for everyone). The biggest problem comes when the time around them is very fragmented. For me, a week with 30 hours of meetings can be more productive than a week with 15 hours if I manage to defragment the time around them.<p>I have recently worked with my team and other peers to put an effort to defragment my calendar by batching predictable meetings together (this is a process I repeat every 6-12 months) and I feel an immediate boost in focus.<p>My rule of thumb is trying to make sure I get daily focus slots as close as possible to length X where X is:<p>X = ( (40 hours) - (prebooked hours in meetings) &#x2F; (5 weekdays) )<p>In my case (40-18)&#x2F;5 = 4.4 hours. I currently have two 4-hour slots monday and tuesday, a 5 hour slot on wednesday and a 3 hour slot on thursdays. Not bad. But that degrades quickly!</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mason55</author><text>One thing I did to combat this was refuse to allow any recurring meetings on Fridays. I almost always end up with a couple of one-offs but I can usually put those at the start of the day. Typically this results in 6+ hours of uninterrupted time on Friday.<p>The rest of my week is a fragmented disaster but at least Fridays are nice.</text></comment> |
11,678,672 | 11,678,362 | 1 | 2 | 11,674,374 | train | <story><title>Zero size arrays in C</title><url>http://www.labbott.name/blog/2016/05/10/zero-size-arrays-in-c</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>kazinator</author><text>A zero sized array declaration was a constraint violation (this requiring a diagnostic) in ISO C 90 in all contexts: even as a function parameter, where the identifier being declared is actually a pointer and not an array at all!<p>C99 added the &quot;flexible array member&quot; feature: the last element of a struct can be an array of size zero: &quot;As a special case, the last element of a structure with more than one named member may
have an incomplete array type; this is called a <i>flexible array member</i>.&quot; [C99, 6.7.2.1 ¶16]<p>In C90 code, the &quot;struct hack&quot; is implemented using an array of size [1] at the end of a struct. Some compilers allowed zero (like GNU C, I think) before C99.<p>In any case, supporting a [0]-sized array member which is not the last member of a struct, without issuing a diagnostic, is non-conforming. The example given in the article with consecutive [0] arrays requires a diagnostic.<p>By the way, the (apparently only?) advantage of the flexible array member is that we can use sizeof (type) to obtain the size of the structure just excluding the first element of the array. Whereas with the C90 style struct hack, we must use offsetof(type, last_member) so that we exclude [1] from the calculation:<p><pre><code> struct foo {
&#x2F;* ... *&#x2F;
int array[ZERO_OR_ONE];
};
&#x2F;* Correct in C99, if ZERO_OR_ONE is 0
Incorrect in C90, (ZERO_OR_ONE can&#x27;t be zero). *&#x2F;
size_t foo_plus_3_elems = sizeof (struct foo) + 3 * sizeof(int);
&#x2F;* Correct in C99 whether or not ZERO_OR_ONE is 0 or 1.
Correct in C90 with ZERO_OR_ONE being 1. *&#x2F;
size_t foo_plus_3_elems = offsetof (struct foo, array) + 3 * sizeof(int);
</code></pre>
Here, &quot;incorrect&quot; means we calculate slightly more storage than needed, usually without any downside.<p>&quot;Correct in C90&quot; means <i>de facto</i> correct, not that it was well-defined behavior. &quot;Everyone&quot; was doing it.</text></comment> | <story><title>Zero size arrays in C</title><url>http://www.labbott.name/blog/2016/05/10/zero-size-arrays-in-c</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>jandrese</author><text>That seemed pretty straightforward to me. A zero size array is better thought of as a pointer to that part of the struct, and if you put two back to back you get two pointers to the same spot. I&#x27;m not sure what that guy was expecting to happen.<p>The usual reason to use them is when you have a protocol header with a variable length data portion. Putting the zero length array in the struct allows you easy access to the data while not changing the sizeof() the header so you can avoid a bit of pesky pointer math and make the code easier to read.<p>Thinking about this some more, you could also use this as a ghetto form of union, but I&#x27;m not sure why you would want to.<p><pre><code> struct
{
char[0] theBytes;
int theValue;
}</code></pre></text></comment> |
11,227,287 | 11,226,607 | 1 | 2 | 11,226,350 | train | <story><title>My view on the current situation of Bitcoin and the Blockchain</title><url>http://joi.ito.com/weblog/2016/02/22/my-view-on-the-.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>pash</author><text>Brian Armstrong, the CEO of Coinbase, wrote a blog post [0] today that gives a very different take on things. He criticized Bitcoin Core&#x27;s development team for their poor communication with the community, for their inhospitality to new contributors, and for their repeated rejection of practical and simple solutions to Bitcoin&#x27;s immediate scaling problem. He advocated adopting Bitcoin Classic&#x27;s short-term fix for full transaction blocks and wrote that it is vital in the long term to foster an environment in which multiple development teams can compete to introduce new features and improvements to the protocol.<p>There are many people in the Bitcoin ecosystem who, like Brian, feel strongly that if Bitcoin is to survive and thrive, then not only must the blocksize-limit be increased, but the exclusive power to decide the future of Bitcoin must be taken out of the hands of the Bitcoin Core team.<p>0. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;medium.com&#x2F;@barmstrong&#x2F;what-happened-at-the-satoshi-roundtable-6c11a10d8cdf#.xw7emyjhh" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;medium.com&#x2F;@barmstrong&#x2F;what-happened-at-the-satoshi-...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>My view on the current situation of Bitcoin and the Blockchain</title><url>http://joi.ito.com/weblog/2016/02/22/my-view-on-the-.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>adrianmacneil</author><text>I feel like that&#x27;s giving the Bitcoin Core developers a bit too much credit.<p>&gt; When asked &quot;can you scale this?&quot; They said, &quot;we&#x27;ll do the best we can.&quot; That wasn&#x27;t good enough for many, especially those who don&#x27;t understand the architecture or the nature of what is going on inside of Bitcoin.<p>The larger issue is that some of the core developers don&#x27;t want to scale Bitcoin at all. They would rather have a more decentralized, less widely used Bitcoin. There is no right answer here of course, but many companies and VCs bet their future on a widely used, less decentralized version of Bitcoin (i.e. one where it&#x27;s hard to run a Bitcoin server on a home internet connection, much like SMTP today).<p>&gt; Many people call them &quot;Bitcoin Core&quot; as if they are some sort of company you can fire or a random set of developers with skills that you can just train others to acquire.<p>They called themselves Bitcoin Core, and even went so far as to create a separate website and have started branding the reference client as Bitcoin Core.<p>&gt; It feels like while the Bitcoin Core development community is robust, the ecosystem of stakeholders and the understanding of how decisions are made and information is shared is still fragile and vulnerable.<p>The real issue is that Bitcoin has no &quot;official&quot; governance, so it&#x27;s resulting in design-by-committee and stalemate on key decisions. The project needs a BDFL, but since it has none it will fail to keep pace with innovation in the space. Unlike most internet protocols, the consensus layer prevents anyone from effectively forking the project, without creating a whole separate blockchain (unless they can convince 100% of the community to follow them).<p>Luckily, we are starting to see more innovation and competition in the blockchain space, with Ethereum being by far the most interesting newcomer IMO (and run by a competent team with a clear governance structure).</text></comment> |
18,514,159 | 18,513,845 | 1 | 3 | 18,511,184 | train | <story><title>Ditching the MacBook Pro for a MacBook Air</title><url>http://bradfrost.com/blog/post/ditching-the-macbook-pro-for-a-macbook-air/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>forgot-my-pw</author><text>I&#x27;m considering getting a Dell XPS or Lenovo Ideapad instead and install macos (hackintosh laptop).</text></item><item><author>brian-armstrong</author><text>Well, there&#x27;s no way that&#x27;s going to happen. I&#x27;d put more money on them replacing all the mechanical keys with capactive touch and removing the headphone jack.</text></item><item><author>nicolashahn</author><text>My faith in Apple would be completely redeemed if they took the 2015 Macbook Pro, put current gen hardware in it, maybe add a couple USB-C ports, and call it the 2019 Macbook Pro. My personal computer is a 2015 and my work is a 2017, and there are zero features from the 2017 that I prefer.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>baroffoos</author><text>I got a dell XPS 13 this week for work and its absolutely insane. Best laptop I have ever had and I have had macbooks. I&#x27;m running Fedora 29 on it and it works perfect. The battery life is amazing, I&#x27;m seeing about 10+ hours while running Gnome and a bunch of dev tools. Made sure to pick one without a nvidia GPU. The only thing I can fault it for is you can&#x27;t open the hinge with one hand.</text></comment> | <story><title>Ditching the MacBook Pro for a MacBook Air</title><url>http://bradfrost.com/blog/post/ditching-the-macbook-pro-for-a-macbook-air/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>forgot-my-pw</author><text>I&#x27;m considering getting a Dell XPS or Lenovo Ideapad instead and install macos (hackintosh laptop).</text></item><item><author>brian-armstrong</author><text>Well, there&#x27;s no way that&#x27;s going to happen. I&#x27;d put more money on them replacing all the mechanical keys with capactive touch and removing the headphone jack.</text></item><item><author>nicolashahn</author><text>My faith in Apple would be completely redeemed if they took the 2015 Macbook Pro, put current gen hardware in it, maybe add a couple USB-C ports, and call it the 2019 Macbook Pro. My personal computer is a 2015 and my work is a 2017, and there are zero features from the 2017 that I prefer.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>chainwax</author><text>At that point why not just run Ubuntu? Unless you&#x27;re REALLY deep in the Apple ecosystem, moving from MacOS to Ubuntu or Mint is really easy.</text></comment> |
28,915,949 | 28,911,978 | 1 | 2 | 28,908,383 | train | <story><title>MacBook Pro 14-inch and MacBook Pro 16-inch</title><url>https://www.apple.com/macbook-pro-14-and-16/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>diebeforei485</author><text>Agree- I have been largely disappointed by USB-C. It&#x27;s been okay as a smaller USB-A replacement for flash drives and mice, but in general the lesson of USB-C is: just because it fits, doesn&#x27;t mean it works.<p>My personal favorite annoyance is how chargers and cables are advertised with the wattage they support, but it&#x27;s really the voltage and current that matters.<p>If you have a device that wants 20W as 9V&#x2F;2.22A , your 30W charger may not support that specific combination and will charge much slower than a 20W charger that does.<p>Edit: Yes, I went to middle school and know that power is voltage times current. My point is: having an equal or higher wattage USB-C charger is not sufficient.</text></item><item><author>ksec</author><text>HDMI, SD Card, and MagSafe. Things people on the internet inclusive but not limited to HN said they will never come back because the future is USB-C.<p>Now I just want to know if the new keyboard has more key travel distance back to the like of MacBook Pro 2015.<p>In case anyone wants to know the thickness difference.<p>MacBook Pro 13&quot; 2015 - 1.8 cm<p>MacBook Pro 13&quot; 2016 - 1.49 &#x2F; 1.55 cm<p>MacBook Pro 14&quot; &#x2F; 16&quot; 2021 - 1.55 &#x2F; 1.66cm<p>So basically even the new 16&quot; is still thinner than the MacBook 2015 era. Which I think vast majority of people were happy with.<p>Edit: Both 14&quot; and 16&quot; have 254 PPI, up from ~220. Apple tends to stick with same PPI for a very long time. So this is interesting. 3456-by-2234 or 3024-by-1964 is 14:9 Ratio. So somewhere in between the old 16:10 and 3:2 which is current trend of Lenovo and Surface Laptop.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ksec</author><text>Its time to tell the somewhat unpopular story again. ( Because USB-C Supporters hate it )<p>Trying to help a lawyer out and trying to explain why the $5.00 USB-C cable he&#x27;d bought from Amazon wasn&#x27;t delivering 4K video to his expensive monitor AND powering his laptop too.<p>Me: OK: so its a USB-C cable, but its not a high data rate USB-C cable.<p>Him: But, its a USB-C Cable.<p>Me: but, no, not all USB-C cables are high speed cables. And some of them can&#x27;t do high speed and power delivery<p>Him: but... its a USB-C cable: it plugs into the port.<p>Me: Um... just because it plugs in, doesn&#x27;t mean its going to work. You can have USB-C cables that are actually slower than the old USB ports.<p>Him: but.... shouldn&#x27;t it just work?<p>And so on. For... 15? more minutes? maybe 30? I finally got him to buy a &quot;proper&quot; belkin USB-C cable . Which was bought from a company that should be anonymous, but lets just say that a &quot;refurbished&quot; cable was shipped, which, surprise, surprise ,didn&#x27;t work, for ANYTHING.
This basically sums up everything that is wrong with Tech thinking vs User Thinking.</text></comment> | <story><title>MacBook Pro 14-inch and MacBook Pro 16-inch</title><url>https://www.apple.com/macbook-pro-14-and-16/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>diebeforei485</author><text>Agree- I have been largely disappointed by USB-C. It&#x27;s been okay as a smaller USB-A replacement for flash drives and mice, but in general the lesson of USB-C is: just because it fits, doesn&#x27;t mean it works.<p>My personal favorite annoyance is how chargers and cables are advertised with the wattage they support, but it&#x27;s really the voltage and current that matters.<p>If you have a device that wants 20W as 9V&#x2F;2.22A , your 30W charger may not support that specific combination and will charge much slower than a 20W charger that does.<p>Edit: Yes, I went to middle school and know that power is voltage times current. My point is: having an equal or higher wattage USB-C charger is not sufficient.</text></item><item><author>ksec</author><text>HDMI, SD Card, and MagSafe. Things people on the internet inclusive but not limited to HN said they will never come back because the future is USB-C.<p>Now I just want to know if the new keyboard has more key travel distance back to the like of MacBook Pro 2015.<p>In case anyone wants to know the thickness difference.<p>MacBook Pro 13&quot; 2015 - 1.8 cm<p>MacBook Pro 13&quot; 2016 - 1.49 &#x2F; 1.55 cm<p>MacBook Pro 14&quot; &#x2F; 16&quot; 2021 - 1.55 &#x2F; 1.66cm<p>So basically even the new 16&quot; is still thinner than the MacBook 2015 era. Which I think vast majority of people were happy with.<p>Edit: Both 14&quot; and 16&quot; have 254 PPI, up from ~220. Apple tends to stick with same PPI for a very long time. So this is interesting. 3456-by-2234 or 3024-by-1964 is 14:9 Ratio. So somewhere in between the old 16:10 and 3:2 which is current trend of Lenovo and Surface Laptop.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dekhn</author><text>I&#x27;ve been pretty impressed with USB-C. I&#x27;ve managed to add a GPU to a NUC and train&#x2F;infer with tensorflow, no problems. Plug a computer into a monitor and power and keyboard&#x2F;mouse at the same time, while also using same cable to pass through charge two lightning devices...<p>I find it much harder to break a USB-C port then a micro USB port on all phones I&#x27;ve owned.</text></comment> |
22,514,886 | 22,513,308 | 1 | 3 | 22,512,810 | train | <story><title>The human genome is full of viruses</title><url>https://medium.com/medical-myths-and-models/the-human-genome-is-full-of-viruses-c18ba52ac195</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>crazygringo</author><text>&gt; <i>Even after recovering from an infection there will always be a piece of that virus encoded within your DNA.</i><p>I did a little research and this appears to be <i>almost completely false</i>.<p>This sentence makes it sound like every time you get a cold, your body&#x27;s DNA is permanently altered. Which would be insane if true.<p>The reality is that this insane outcome is incredibly rare, but nevertheless has happened enough times <i>over all of human history</i> that we have genetic code from viruses in our DNA, because a virus at some point managed to alter the DNA in a sperm or egg cell.<p>But the quoted sentence is just <i>not</i> how infections work 99.99...+% of the time. The cold I got last month isn&#x27;t in my DNA forever. It&#x27;s very sloppy writing that appears to be aiming for sensationalism instead of accuracy.</text></comment> | <story><title>The human genome is full of viruses</title><url>https://medium.com/medical-myths-and-models/the-human-genome-is-full-of-viruses-c18ba52ac195</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>tim333</author><text>There was an interesting article a while back on them playing a part in schizophrenia. &quot;The Insanity Virus&quot; <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.discovermagazine.com&#x2F;mind&#x2F;the-insanity-virus" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.discovermagazine.com&#x2F;mind&#x2F;the-insanity-virus</a></text></comment> |
3,265,619 | 3,264,864 | 1 | 3 | 3,263,767 | train | <story><title>Tuning out: How brains benefit from meditation</title><url>http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-11-tuning-brains-benefit-meditation.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jessriedel</author><text>Then what evolutionary purpose do you think mind-wandering serves? We clearly tend to think about various current problems of ours (whether technical, social, or other) when our mind wanders; it's not an accident.</text></item><item><author>aik</author><text>I've pondered the same thing. However, personally from meditation I feel I have greater focus, a clearer mind, and less stress (or a much better handle on stress), which I couldn't imagine being without today. Concerning shower-insights -- I find myself having less mind wandering in the shower, and instead more deliberate focused insights.</text></item><item><author>jessriedel</author><text>The real question is whether it's a good thing to stop "mind wandering" when it hasn't reached the level of disorder. From the perspective of evolution, it almost certainly has a purpose. Paul Graham pointed out that its probably useful for problem solving:<p><a href="http://www.paulgraham.com/top.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.paulgraham.com/top.html</a><p>I wonder if it would be good to have the ability to better focus one's self when one's mind is wandering into unproductive subjects (e.g. agonizing over an ex) without necessarily getting to the point where your default mode has been changed so much as to prevent insights in the shower (and instead being deeply aware of the hot water).</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>vidarh</author><text>I don't agree with this.<p>What you describe is rumination. Rumination has been demonstrated to be beneficial in resolving problems. Depressed people ruminate a lot, and I remember seeing at least one article (don't ask for a reference - I don't remember where) that claimed that this was because rumination worked as a tool to get us to focus on resolving a problem.<p>Rumination is an indication of focus, not of a wandering mind, even though it might superficially seem like wandering because we turn to rumination all the time whenever we have "spare cycles" and there is something important on our mind.<p>Meditation might also affect rumination in that it changes your mindset and a lot of the things that you previously thought was massively important and worth ruminating about start turning into inconsequential non-events to you, but that's entirely separate from reducing "wandering", and meditation won't stop you from ruminating on things you really care about (though it might train you to be more focused on <i>when</i> you do it and not let it cut into your relaxation, for example).<p>But what I at least think of as the mind wandering is the type of random chatter that leads you to go check Hackernews one second because it popped into your head that you hadn't checked it for five minutes, and leads you to grab a snack the next because you suddenly felt an urge for sugar, and have you sit and blankly dream about that vacation you'd wanted to book a few minutes later.</text></comment> | <story><title>Tuning out: How brains benefit from meditation</title><url>http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-11-tuning-brains-benefit-meditation.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jessriedel</author><text>Then what evolutionary purpose do you think mind-wandering serves? We clearly tend to think about various current problems of ours (whether technical, social, or other) when our mind wanders; it's not an accident.</text></item><item><author>aik</author><text>I've pondered the same thing. However, personally from meditation I feel I have greater focus, a clearer mind, and less stress (or a much better handle on stress), which I couldn't imagine being without today. Concerning shower-insights -- I find myself having less mind wandering in the shower, and instead more deliberate focused insights.</text></item><item><author>jessriedel</author><text>The real question is whether it's a good thing to stop "mind wandering" when it hasn't reached the level of disorder. From the perspective of evolution, it almost certainly has a purpose. Paul Graham pointed out that its probably useful for problem solving:<p><a href="http://www.paulgraham.com/top.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.paulgraham.com/top.html</a><p>I wonder if it would be good to have the ability to better focus one's self when one's mind is wandering into unproductive subjects (e.g. agonizing over an ex) without necessarily getting to the point where your default mode has been changed so much as to prevent insights in the shower (and instead being deeply aware of the hot water).</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>pnmahoney</author><text><a href="http://psycnet.apa.org/index.cfm?fa=search.displayRecord&#38;uid=2009-10379-009" rel="nofollow">http://psycnet.apa.org/index.cfm?fa=search.displayRecord&#38...</a> This seems to bear on the implied point here: that mental focus on a problem -- perhaps unconsciously -- can be reflected in our neurobiology. (Or vice versa? Not sure whether this should be a response to P or GP)</text></comment> |
13,392,081 | 13,390,027 | 1 | 2 | 13,387,732 | train | <story><title>Neanderthals were people too</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/11/magazine/neanderthals-were-people-too.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>hasenj</author><text>Honestly, I think calling something &quot;a social construct&quot; is meaningless political rhetoric.<p>If humans and Neanderthals interbreed for a long enough period without annhiliating each other through war, wouldn&#x27;t their offspring converge over time?<p>Some ethnicities are more susceptible to certain diseases. Is that a social construct?</text></item><item><author>lucasnemeth</author><text>Race is a social construct, there&#x27;s no biological explanation for race. The set of characteristics that are identified with different races are social constructs, those clusters of features does not correlate to a significant difference in biological terms. Genetic methods do not support or explain the classification of humans into discrete races. Races are not genetically homogenous and lack clear-cut genetic boundaries.<p>Two people from different races can be way more similar genetically than two people from the same race. The concept of race was built over a long story of separating humanity in different ethnic groups, and then physical characteristics of some of those ethnic groups started slowing being adopted as a mean to show that those people are intrinsically different, but they are just an unimportant set of characteristics that does not convey important information from a genetic perspective, they gained social meaning through culture. The modern concept of race took form in the enlightenment, <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;Limerick1914&#x2F;status&#x2F;757227361582608384" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;Limerick1914&#x2F;status&#x2F;757227361582608384</a>, when the original western notion of which ethnic groups exists in the world was built into a racist anthropology.<p>That doesn&#x27;t mean that &quot;all lives matter&quot; or we shouldn&#x27;t talk about race. Race is a social construct, and as a social construct, it exists. Money is also a social construct. But, the concept of race makes no sense besides the social structure that was built on. That why different countries consider that the set of existing races is different, for instance, the only country that really considers &quot;latino&quot; a race is the US.<p>Going back to your question, the extinct humans actually had important biological differences, the different races have not.</text></item><item><author>hasenj</author><text>I don&#x27;t know if this is appropriate, but why are extinct humans classified as different species while the still alive humans are all considered the same species?<p>It seems political. Either some of the current races are different species, or the so called extinct human species are just different races.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mikeash</author><text>Our standard conceptions of race are <i>also</i> meaningless political rhetoric, so calling race a social construct seems entirely appropriate then.<p>We still, at least subconsciously, apply the &quot;one drop rule&quot; in all sorts of situations, including describing the race of the current US president. Sub-saharan Africa contains more genetic diversity than everyone else, yet we lump them all together in one &quot;race.&quot;<p>Yes, there are distinct genetic differences between various groups of people, and many of those differences have real-world consequences. But the relation of those groups with what we call &quot;race&quot; is almost zero.</text></comment> | <story><title>Neanderthals were people too</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/11/magazine/neanderthals-were-people-too.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>hasenj</author><text>Honestly, I think calling something &quot;a social construct&quot; is meaningless political rhetoric.<p>If humans and Neanderthals interbreed for a long enough period without annhiliating each other through war, wouldn&#x27;t their offspring converge over time?<p>Some ethnicities are more susceptible to certain diseases. Is that a social construct?</text></item><item><author>lucasnemeth</author><text>Race is a social construct, there&#x27;s no biological explanation for race. The set of characteristics that are identified with different races are social constructs, those clusters of features does not correlate to a significant difference in biological terms. Genetic methods do not support or explain the classification of humans into discrete races. Races are not genetically homogenous and lack clear-cut genetic boundaries.<p>Two people from different races can be way more similar genetically than two people from the same race. The concept of race was built over a long story of separating humanity in different ethnic groups, and then physical characteristics of some of those ethnic groups started slowing being adopted as a mean to show that those people are intrinsically different, but they are just an unimportant set of characteristics that does not convey important information from a genetic perspective, they gained social meaning through culture. The modern concept of race took form in the enlightenment, <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;Limerick1914&#x2F;status&#x2F;757227361582608384" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;Limerick1914&#x2F;status&#x2F;757227361582608384</a>, when the original western notion of which ethnic groups exists in the world was built into a racist anthropology.<p>That doesn&#x27;t mean that &quot;all lives matter&quot; or we shouldn&#x27;t talk about race. Race is a social construct, and as a social construct, it exists. Money is also a social construct. But, the concept of race makes no sense besides the social structure that was built on. That why different countries consider that the set of existing races is different, for instance, the only country that really considers &quot;latino&quot; a race is the US.<p>Going back to your question, the extinct humans actually had important biological differences, the different races have not.</text></item><item><author>hasenj</author><text>I don&#x27;t know if this is appropriate, but why are extinct humans classified as different species while the still alive humans are all considered the same species?<p>It seems political. Either some of the current races are different species, or the so called extinct human species are just different races.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>cygx</author><text><i>Some ethnicities are more susceptible to certain diseases. Is that a social construct?</i><p>Obviously not. But quoting Wikipedia[1], <i>an average of 85% of genetic variation exists within local populations, ~7% is between local populations within the same continent, and ~8% of variation occurs between large groups living on different continents</i>, whereas <i>[a]pproximately 10% of the variance in skin color occurs within groups, and ~90% occurs between groups</i>, which indicates <i>that this attribute has been under strong selective pressure</i>.<p>When defining human race, we hone in on a few easily identifiable characteristics that have remained stable due to selective pressure (eg skin colour) and overblow their significance. Eg we suspect that humanity went through a genetic bottleneck when it left Africa, decreasing diversity. And yet, we generally lump the rather diverse African population that did not go through it into a single race.<p>It&#x27;s probably more useful to just look at specific genetic traits of interest instead of drawing somewhat arbitrary boundaries.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Human_genetic_variation" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Human_genetic_variation</a></text></comment> |
21,215,277 | 21,214,749 | 1 | 3 | 21,202,600 | train | <story><title>FOIA request for NROL-39 surveillance satellite logo</title><url>https://twitter.com/palewire/status/1181611182882353152</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>deep-root</author><text>From a previous FOIA request[1] explaining the logo:<p><i>&quot;The secret origin of the patch is initially from [redacted] where the problem during the test stage in the thermal vacuum was traced to a large piece of cabling called an octopus harness. The running joke for the crew was that the octopus harness had taken over the world.&quot;</i><p>[1] <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.paglen.com&#x2F;download&#x2F;octopus.pdf" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.paglen.com&#x2F;download&#x2F;octopus.pdf</a></text></comment> | <story><title>FOIA request for NROL-39 surveillance satellite logo</title><url>https://twitter.com/palewire/status/1181611182882353152</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>throwa8Hk30J</author><text>Wow nice one. What a logo.<p>I am stopping by to mention Trevor Paglen&#x27;s work who helps uncover and popularize some of this junk. You can watch his full presentation &quot;Seeing The Secret State: Six Landscapes&quot;[0] for background on this unclassified unit patch as well as surprising photos and TLEs and much, much more.<p>What a time we live in!<p>0: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;media.ccc.de&#x2F;v&#x2F;30C3_-_5604_-_en_-_saal_1_-_201312282300_-_seeing_the_secret_state_six_landscapes_-_trevor_paglen" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;media.ccc.de&#x2F;v&#x2F;30C3_-_5604_-_en_-_saal_1_-_201312282...</a></text></comment> |
34,857,756 | 34,857,490 | 1 | 2 | 34,857,087 | train | <story><title>New headless Chrome has been released and has a near-perfect browser fingerprint</title><url>https://antoinevastel.com/bot%20detection/2023/02/19/new-headless-chrome.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>natorion</author><text>I am the PM working on Headless. Feel free to ask questions in this thread and I will try to answer them if I can.<p>Edit: Please also note that we have not released New Headless yet. We &quot;merely&quot; landed the source code.</text></comment> | <story><title>New headless Chrome has been released and has a near-perfect browser fingerprint</title><url>https://antoinevastel.com/bot%20detection/2023/02/19/new-headless-chrome.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>graderjs</author><text>I built a remote browser based on headless Chrome^0 and this is going to make things way easier. It&#x27;s also great to see Google supporting Chrome use cases beyond &quot;consumer browsing&quot;, and perhaps that&#x27;s in large part been pushed by the &quot;grass roots popularity&quot; of things like puppeteer and playwright.<p>One thing I&#x27;m hoping for (but have heard it would require <i>extensive</i> rejigging of almost absolutely everything) is Extensions support in this new headless.<p>However, if I&#x27;m reading the winds, it seems as if things <i>might</i> be going there, because:<p>- Tamper scripts now work on Firefox mobile<p>- Non-webkit iOS browsers are in the works<p>- It&#x27;s technically possible to &quot;shim&quot; much of the chrome.extension APIs using RDP (the low-level protocol that pptr and its ilk are based on) which would lead essentially to a &quot;parallel extensions runtime&quot; and &quot;alt-Webstore&quot; with less restrictions, something which Google may not look merrily upon<p>Anyway, back to &quot;headless detection&quot;, for the remote isolated browser, I have been using an extensive bot detection evasion script that proxied many of the normal properties on navigator (like plugins, etc), and tested extensively against detectors like luca.gg&#x2F;headless^1<p>Interestingly one of the most effective way to defeat &quot;first wave&quot; &#x2F; non-sophisticated bots used to be simply throwing up a JS modal (alert, confirm, prompt) -- for the convenient way it kills the JS runtime until dismissed, and how you have to explicitly dismiss it.<p>^0 = <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;crisdosyago&#x2F;BrowserBox">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;crisdosyago&#x2F;BrowserBox</a><p>^1 = <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;luca.gg&#x2F;headless&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;luca.gg&#x2F;headless&#x2F;</a></text></comment> |
6,960,214 | 6,959,801 | 1 | 3 | 6,959,111 | train | <story><title>Python Practice Projects</title><url>http://pythonpracticeprojects.com/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>rbonvall</author><text>Very nice idea. Congrats!<p>One thing that I&#x27;ve always thought it&#x27;s missing is a list of projects in domains other than programming for motivating people that don&#x27;t have an interest in programming per se.<p>That means no Lisp interpreters, no command-line palindrome detectors, no reverse polish calculators, no Collatz sequence generators, etc., but things like card game emulators, embroidery pattern creators, guitar tablature generators, etc. Thing that could pick the interest of people that have very specific interests, and that don&#x27;t see how programming could be of any use to them.<p>When I was learning to code, I wrote a program for computing the standings table for soccer league tournaments. It was very rudimentary, but it kept me motivated since it did something useful for me, and I could tweak it ad infinitum.<p>Year later I taught programming to first-year university students, and a big problem was keeping them motivated. Every one of them had different interests, and computing large Mersenne primes was certainly not one of them.</text></comment> | <story><title>Python Practice Projects</title><url>http://pythonpracticeprojects.com/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>mathattack</author><text>Great idea. Thanks for sharing!<p>A test suite would be great (as mentioned by JadeNB) but is the end of this something along the lines of a MOOC or a programming community?</text></comment> |
38,971,789 | 38,970,595 | 1 | 2 | 38,969,461 | train | <story><title>A vision for the alleviation of water scarcity in the US Southwest</title><url>https://caseyhandmer.wordpress.com/2024/01/09/a-vision-for-the-alleviation-of-water-scarcity-in-the-us-southwest-and-the-revitalization-of-the-salton-sea/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>MostlyStable</author><text>I know he inputs some numbers, but I am just supremely skeptical of them. If solar + batteries + RO plants could produce water at a price that made agriculture economically viable, then I just don&#x27;t see how it wouldn&#x27;t already be happening. Or at the very least be being proposed more broadly than some random guys blog.<p>If I understand correctly, it is his plan for extracting value from the brine which represents the biggest unknown&#x2F;the most need for development, while also being the thing that makes it all make sense. I&#x27;ve never heard of any of the existing worlds desal plants doing this, so either it must be harder than he supposes or else he must think that every single person in charge of a desal plant the world over is an idiot.<p>Don&#x27;t get me wrong, I realize that sometimes people miss obvious things. And sometimes, there really <i>is</i> a $100 bill on the ground, despite what the apocryphal economist would have you believe.<p>But in this case, areas like that are what I need to be convinced of. While it&#x27;s maybe true, you don&#x27;t just get to assert it.<p>As they say &quot;What can be asserted without evidence can be dismissed without evidence&quot;.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>danaris</author><text>&gt; If solar + batteries + RO plants could produce water at a price that made agriculture economically viable, then I just don&#x27;t see how it wouldn&#x27;t already be happening.<p>The costs of solar and batteries have been dropping for decades. It&#x27;s 100% believable that this type of thing has been considered, repeatedly, and discarded as economically infeasible, leading to the major players in the field choosing to ignore it for a while—but that the costs have <i>now</i> dropped enough that the economics work out.</text></comment> | <story><title>A vision for the alleviation of water scarcity in the US Southwest</title><url>https://caseyhandmer.wordpress.com/2024/01/09/a-vision-for-the-alleviation-of-water-scarcity-in-the-us-southwest-and-the-revitalization-of-the-salton-sea/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>MostlyStable</author><text>I know he inputs some numbers, but I am just supremely skeptical of them. If solar + batteries + RO plants could produce water at a price that made agriculture economically viable, then I just don&#x27;t see how it wouldn&#x27;t already be happening. Or at the very least be being proposed more broadly than some random guys blog.<p>If I understand correctly, it is his plan for extracting value from the brine which represents the biggest unknown&#x2F;the most need for development, while also being the thing that makes it all make sense. I&#x27;ve never heard of any of the existing worlds desal plants doing this, so either it must be harder than he supposes or else he must think that every single person in charge of a desal plant the world over is an idiot.<p>Don&#x27;t get me wrong, I realize that sometimes people miss obvious things. And sometimes, there really <i>is</i> a $100 bill on the ground, despite what the apocryphal economist would have you believe.<p>But in this case, areas like that are what I need to be convinced of. While it&#x27;s maybe true, you don&#x27;t just get to assert it.<p>As they say &quot;What can be asserted without evidence can be dismissed without evidence&quot;.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>shermantanktop</author><text>Agree with the skepticism, and furthermore if this were such a killer moneymaker you&#x27;d expect multiple commercial efforts in this space already.<p>But this is California - there may be reasons that are not economic or technical that have prevented anyone from trying to develop or pursue such an idea. The concentrated salt-brine discharge, for example, may be impossible to get environmental approval for at these volumes.</text></comment> |
7,277,172 | 7,276,961 | 1 | 2 | 7,276,826 | train | <story><title>Things that cost more than Space Exploration: WhatsApp.</title><url>http://costsmorethanspace.tumblr.com/post/77364014273/what-costs-more-than-space-exploration-whatsapp</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>ajays</author><text>This post is next in the sequence of HN posts after a large exit: comparison with NASA&#x27;s budget, cost of trip to Mars, etc.<p>Typical sequence:<p><pre><code> - news of the large exit, submitted repeatedly
- hastily written blogs about why it doesn&#x27;t make sense
- hastily written blogs about why it makes sense
- cute stories about the company&#x27;s past: founder(s) living on Ramen, etc.
- comparisons with NASA&#x27;s budget, Mars exploration budget, Gates Foundation budget, etc.
- and finally, breathless &quot;news&quot; about the slightest change in the acquiree&#x27;s ToS or some such silly news</code></pre></text></comment> | <story><title>Things that cost more than Space Exploration: WhatsApp.</title><url>http://costsmorethanspace.tumblr.com/post/77364014273/what-costs-more-than-space-exploration-whatsapp</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>taspeotis</author><text>For (what I feel is) a more useful figure, let&#x27;s look at NASA:<p>&gt; Annual budget ... when measured in real terms (adjusted for inflation), the figure is $790.0 billion, or an average of $15.818 billion per year over its fifty-year history. [1]<p>So WhatsApp is like 1.2 years worth of NASA.<p>[1] <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Budget_of_NASA" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Budget_of_NASA</a></text></comment> |
8,309,266 | 8,309,236 | 1 | 2 | 8,307,790 | train | <story><title>NASA’s Mars Curiosity Rover Arrives at Martian Mountain</title><url>http://www.nasa.gov/press/2014/september/nasa-s-mars-curiosity-rover-arrives-at-martian-mountain/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>karpathy</author><text>Is there any parallel set of videos where they actually convey more than 10 bits of information? I&#x27;m not interested in listening to a fun synopsis of next chapter of &quot;The story of Curiosity and the mountain&quot;. Is anyone?
&quot;We found an important boundary, and the rover is now next to the important boundary.&quot; That&#x27;s wonderful. I was expecting to hear at least 2 words on why it was important but it never came.<p>These update videos are a chance to also get technical, drill into details and explain the Curiosity mission piece by piece over a long period of time, perhaps in style of minutephysics. Seems to me as a bit of a missed opportunity.</text></comment> | <story><title>NASA’s Mars Curiosity Rover Arrives at Martian Mountain</title><url>http://www.nasa.gov/press/2014/september/nasa-s-mars-curiosity-rover-arrives-at-martian-mountain/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>dredmorbius</author><text>I&#x27;ve been following the wheel-wear issue with some interest. Curious what alternate wheel designs might prove more resilient under the off-road conditions found on Mars.<p>I&#x27;m supposing that any sort of rubber or similar material would prove prohibitively expensive in terms of mass?</text></comment> |
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