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21,004,273 | 21,004,406 | 1 | 2 | 21,003,395 | train | <story><title>.su</title><url>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.su</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>wildylion</author><text>For me .su is a kind of historical curiousity. Not sure if I like it or not, or if it should be phased out, but there are a bunch of Soviet Union related sites in there too and sometimes these are pretty amusing (how about a site of the CPSU?)<p>Also there&#x27;s sudo.su :)<p>Source: am Russian.</text></comment> | <story><title>.su</title><url>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.su</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>rimliu</author><text>There was a joke at the time:<p><pre><code> В связи с геополитическими изменениями домен pos.su изменяется на pos.ru.
</code></pre>
Which roughly sounds like &quot;because of the geopolitical changes the domain pos.su will become pos.ru&quot;. The joke is that pos.su and pos.ru in Russian sound like &quot;will pee&quot; and &quot;will poo&quot; respecitively.</text></comment> |
22,828,780 | 22,828,424 | 1 | 3 | 22,827,729 | train | <story><title>PC-XT Emulator on a ESP8266 (2018)</title><url>https://mcuhacker.wordpress.com/2018/02/22/forsta-blogginlagget/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>elliottkember</author><text>I&#x27;m always fascinated to see these projects on ESP8266. The board is great, but the ESP32 is a lot better - bluetooth LE, WiFi and dual-core at 240mhz, vs the WiFi and 80mhz available on the 8266. The firmware wasn&#x27;t as robust until recently, but these days I use it constantly for little projects.</text></comment> | <story><title>PC-XT Emulator on a ESP8266 (2018)</title><url>https://mcuhacker.wordpress.com/2018/02/22/forsta-blogginlagget/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>basementcat</author><text>The same person also has a C-64 emulator working on the same board.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;mcuhacker.wordpress.com&#x2F;2018&#x2F;03&#x2F;03&#x2F;running-the-c64-on-the-esp8266&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;mcuhacker.wordpress.com&#x2F;2018&#x2F;03&#x2F;03&#x2F;running-the-c64-o...</a></text></comment> |
21,667,667 | 21,667,778 | 1 | 2 | 21,667,366 | train | <story><title>AMD is dominating Intel in Amazon's best-selling CPUs list</title><url>https://www.techspot.com/news/82962-amd-dominating-intel-amazon-best-selling-cpu-list.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>_nickwhite</author><text>Better performance [2] with less cores, much better pricing, and the kicker for me is PCI Express 4.0 [1]. Intel doesn&#x27;t even support the newest generation of NVMe storage. So yeah, AMD is dominating for a good reason- for now anyways.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.pcworld.com&#x2F;article&#x2F;3400176&#x2F;pcie-40-everything-you-need-to-know-specs-compatibility.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.pcworld.com&#x2F;article&#x2F;3400176&#x2F;pcie-40-everything-y...</a><p>[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cpubenchmark.net&#x2F;high_end_cpus.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cpubenchmark.net&#x2F;high_end_cpus.html</a></text></comment> | <story><title>AMD is dominating Intel in Amazon's best-selling CPUs list</title><url>https://www.techspot.com/news/82962-amd-dominating-intel-amazon-best-selling-cpu-list.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>nknealk</author><text>They’re also making headway into the data center space. AWS has recently announced that compute dense instances will have an AMD powered version. They already have AMD offerings for GP and RAM dense instances.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;aws.amazon.com&#x2F;blogs&#x2F;aws&#x2F;in-the-works-new-amd-powered-compute-optimized-ec2-instances-c5a-c5ad&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;aws.amazon.com&#x2F;blogs&#x2F;aws&#x2F;in-the-works-new-amd-powere...</a></text></comment> |
18,991,379 | 18,991,554 | 1 | 2 | 18,989,922 | train | <story><title>Google Search Operators: A Complete List (2018)</title><url>https://ahrefs.com/blog/google-advanced-search-operators/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>TeMPOraL</author><text>Some are out of date, I think. I used the &quot;define:&quot; one so often that it became muscle memory for me. I was saddened when it stopped working a couple months ago. It&#x27;ll still sometimes give you the word definition card, but I think only when just typing the word would give you the same card. I switched to typing &quot;$word dictionary&quot; instead, as I found it to trigger the definition card in almost every case where &quot;define:$word&quot; no longer would.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>black-tea</author><text>I replaced that with a Firefox quick shortcut to Wiktionary a while ago. Much better results than Google had.</text></comment> | <story><title>Google Search Operators: A Complete List (2018)</title><url>https://ahrefs.com/blog/google-advanced-search-operators/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>TeMPOraL</author><text>Some are out of date, I think. I used the &quot;define:&quot; one so often that it became muscle memory for me. I was saddened when it stopped working a couple months ago. It&#x27;ll still sometimes give you the word definition card, but I think only when just typing the word would give you the same card. I switched to typing &quot;$word dictionary&quot; instead, as I found it to trigger the definition card in almost every case where &quot;define:$word&quot; no longer would.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>RyanOD</author><text>Of course, this relies on what data Google has on hand. Many of the examples provided in the article work because Google has so much data about &quot;Apple&quot; searches. The more niche the search operator, the more likely no results will surface. That being said, I&#x27;ve always found the &quot;site:&quot;, &quot;inurl:&quot;, and &quot;+&quot; or &quot;-&quot; operators to be incredibly useful for research reasons.</text></comment> |
4,628,695 | 4,628,082 | 1 | 3 | 4,627,177 | train | <story><title>US Air Force’s 1950s supersonic flying saucer declassified</title><url>http://www.extremetech.com/extreme/137505-us-air-forces-1950s-supersonic-flying-saucer-declassified</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>anonymouz</author><text>I'd like to see what became of the project and why it was apparently canceled.<p>I disagree however with the last statement of the article: "If flying saucers were somehow faster or more efficient or capable of lifting heavier loads, we would almost certainly see them in a commercial setting."<p>Just because flying saucers aren't used commercially doesn't necessarily imply that they are inefficient. It just means that the flying saucer technology <i>we have at the moment</i> is more inefficient than the fixed wing technology. Fixed wing technology could simply be ahead because it has seen a lot more iterative development.<p>Endeavors of this kind, that carry a huge upfront investment in the initial technology compared to what's on the market now, tend to be things where a free market really performs badly.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>gvb</author><text>Nearly infinite odds are that it was canceled because it didn't work.<p>From TFA:
<i>One declassified memo, which seems to be the conclusion of initial research and prototyping, says that Project 1794 is a flying saucer capable of "between Mach 3 and Mach 4," (2,300-3,000 mph) a service ceiling of over 100,000 feet (30,500m), and a range of around 1,000 nautical miles (1,150mi, 1850km).</i> [...] <i>According to the cutaway diagrams, the entire thing would even be capable of vertical takeoff and landing (VTOL).</i><p>VTOL, Mach 3++, 100,000ft - the only thing it was missing for it to be the perfect military aircraft is a Romulan cloaking device.<p>If the "flying saucer" could meet those specifications, it would still be classified. Q.E.D. it didn't work.</text></comment> | <story><title>US Air Force’s 1950s supersonic flying saucer declassified</title><url>http://www.extremetech.com/extreme/137505-us-air-forces-1950s-supersonic-flying-saucer-declassified</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>anonymouz</author><text>I'd like to see what became of the project and why it was apparently canceled.<p>I disagree however with the last statement of the article: "If flying saucers were somehow faster or more efficient or capable of lifting heavier loads, we would almost certainly see them in a commercial setting."<p>Just because flying saucers aren't used commercially doesn't necessarily imply that they are inefficient. It just means that the flying saucer technology <i>we have at the moment</i> is more inefficient than the fixed wing technology. Fixed wing technology could simply be ahead because it has seen a lot more iterative development.<p>Endeavors of this kind, that carry a huge upfront investment in the initial technology compared to what's on the market now, tend to be things where a free market really performs badly.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>roedog</author><text>A blended wing body and flying wing configuration have been flown. There are similarities to the saucer in that they use lifting body effects. They benefit from high lift-to-drag ratio.<p>However, the other handling qualities of these designs make them difficult to fly. Stability can be a real problem. I would guess that air handling problems were the issues that cancelled the saucer program. Perhaps the modern fly-by-wire computer control systems used today might make it easier to fly a saucer.</text></comment> |
29,881,851 | 29,882,094 | 1 | 3 | 29,880,444 | train | <story><title>“Latinx” is lexical imperialism</title><url>https://www.newsweek.com/call-latinx-what-it-lexical-imperialism-opinion-1656828</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>RappingBoomer</author><text>the main thing is that we keep the political focus on race &amp; gender etc instead of focusing on old fashioned things like progressive taxation, healthcare, worker rights &amp; benefits, etc.<p>The current progressive focus on race and gender is new, and new is always better.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>izacus</author><text>It&#x27;s also really amazing at dividing lower&#x2F;working classes into two groups. Which makes it much harder for them to band together and push for a change in how the country treats the poorest majority.</text></comment> | <story><title>“Latinx” is lexical imperialism</title><url>https://www.newsweek.com/call-latinx-what-it-lexical-imperialism-opinion-1656828</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>RappingBoomer</author><text>the main thing is that we keep the political focus on race &amp; gender etc instead of focusing on old fashioned things like progressive taxation, healthcare, worker rights &amp; benefits, etc.<p>The current progressive focus on race and gender is new, and new is always better.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>nineplay</author><text>I completely agree with you, with the qualifier that the article is very much part of the problem. These sort of issues always start small and then the media picks them up and splashes them on the front page purely as outrage bait.<p>I have absolutely no reason to care about this issue. I&#x27;ll bet 99% of the people reading the article have absolutely no reason to care. I don&#x27;t care if I see Latin(o|a|x) on a form, if I was creating a form and someone asked me to include Latinx I&#x27;d say &#x27;sure, why not&#x27;. This is an artificial culture war created by a click happy media.</text></comment> |
21,729,822 | 21,729,767 | 1 | 2 | 21,729,566 | train | <story><title>Australia’s status as an open democracy downgraded by The CIVICUS Monitor</title><url>https://www.hrlc.org.au/news/2019/12/5/downgrading-of-australias-open-democracy-status-a-stark-reminder-of-the-need-to-create-an-australian-charter-of-human-rights-and-freedoms</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>RVuRnvbM2e</author><text>Yeah the current government has been accelerating an authoritarian slide unencumbered by a bill of rights. Neither major party supports such a document and without it you get bullshit like this recent secret trial and imprisonment:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;mobile.abc.net.au&#x2F;news&#x2F;2019-11-21&#x2F;canberra-prisoner-prompts-secrecy-debate&#x2F;11726654" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;mobile.abc.net.au&#x2F;news&#x2F;2019-11-21&#x2F;canberra-prisoner-...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Australia’s status as an open democracy downgraded by The CIVICUS Monitor</title><url>https://www.hrlc.org.au/news/2019/12/5/downgrading-of-australias-open-democracy-status-a-stark-reminder-of-the-need-to-create-an-australian-charter-of-human-rights-and-freedoms</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>WilTimSon</author><text>As I was reading, I was about to pipe up with &quot;oh, prosecuting whistleblowers and intimidating journalists? I hope the US and the UK are in the same boat&quot; but yup, they are, according to the CIVICUS map. I see no reason to disagree.<p>I do have to say I&#x27;m surprised that Canada is considered &#x27;open&#x27;. I don&#x27;t know much about their politics, are things really good there on all those points? Also, highly amused by Russia only being &#x27;Repressed&#x27;, the past few years of news from that place seem anything but democratic.</text></comment> |
4,709,090 | 4,708,453 | 1 | 3 | 4,706,323 | train | <story><title>Why I'm returning my Microsoft Surface RT</title><url>http://ozar.me/2012/10/why-im-returning-my-microsoft-surface-rt/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Splines</author><text>&#62; <i>Is Microsoft really serious about challenging the iPad juggernaut with this kind of inattention to detail?</i><p>Not sure where you're going with this, but given the amount of effort and ambition around the Surface, I would say that Microsoft is absolutely serious.<p>As for Word, there was a limited number of things we could do and fix in a finite amount of time. Trade-offs need to be made.</text></item><item><author>cageface</author><text>Interesting. Thanks for the insider's insight. Is Microsoft really serious about challenging the iPad juggernaut with this kind of inattention to detail?</text></item><item><author>Splines</author><text>&#62; <i>"So quickly, in fact, that I can outrun Microsoft Word on the Surface. I get the feeling that the Surface RT’s CPU or Word code just can’t keep up with my typing. Here’s an example video:"</i><p>I'm on the Word team in Office and I'm coming into this thread incredibly late, but FWIW the slow typing on ARM was something we couldn't fully address in time for the preview release. Word RTM (ARM and x86/x64) has <i>much</i> better performance.<p>One of the challenges we had was that for a large majority of the product cycle we didn't even <i>know</i> about the Surface. We were looking at ARM early on, but the hardware we had was prerelease hardware from MSFT partners that had varying levels of performance.<p>Even now we don't know a whole lot about the Surface. It's a little frustrating, since we (Office) hit RTM we're eagerly awaiting the point at which new Surface RTs will have Office RTM baked into them. The preview release is seriously many many months old from the RTM release, and it's painful to think that <i>this</i> is what customers are going to see from Office when they turn on their shiny new device.</text></item><item><author>Anechoic</author><text>"The diagonally-oriented camera is strange. In the one orientation it’s optimized for, it’s slightly annoying. In any other orientation, it’s almost intolerable. "<p>"The built-in front-facing camera for Skype is angled so that it’ll work great when the kickstand is open, but again, only for Danny DeVito, or maybe for people who want to show off their chests in Skype."<p>------<p>"The Touch Cover is one of the Surface’s biggest innovations. I thought I would hate it, but I didn’t. It’s not like typing on a completely flat surface: each “key” is raised slightly, so while there isn’t any mechanical feedback, it does feel a bit like a keyboard."<p>"The Type Cover (the one with real keys) just works. I’ve got big hands that often struggle on undersized keyboards, but I can type very quickly on the Type Cover."<p>------<p>"He showed me Office, which was almost unusable: it was extremely sluggish, and touch targets were tiny and difficult to hit."<p>"So quickly, in fact, that I can outrun Microsoft Word on the Surface. I get the feeling that the Surface RT’s CPU or Word code just can’t keep up with my typing. Here’s an example video:"<p>-------<p>"The standard gestures don’t help, requiring many in-from-the-edge swipes that not only aren’t discoverable"<p>"After waiting over a minute for the machine to boot and launch the mail app, I got a blank gradient screen. User interface 101: if the app needs to be set up on the first launch, offer to do that, please. Folks from Twitter suggested that I swipe out from the right side and click Accounts"<p>--<p>So, can we conclude that these observations might be real (V. 1) problems without resorting to ad-homs regarding the author?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>rm999</author><text>There's a difference between being serious about a product and being serious enough to do what it takes to make the product succeed. Apple has set a high bar of tight hardware/software integration, where the software is hand-tuned to take advantage of everything limited mobile hardware has to offer. The market expects nothing less. The Apple model works because management is willing to control both sides, and the Android model works because everything is relatively open so the software devs can play directly with the hardware.<p>&#62; there was a limited number of things we could do<p>No one is blaming you or your team. I'd blame the lowest person in the company who had the ability to install beta versions of Office on beta versions of Surface.</text></comment> | <story><title>Why I'm returning my Microsoft Surface RT</title><url>http://ozar.me/2012/10/why-im-returning-my-microsoft-surface-rt/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Splines</author><text>&#62; <i>Is Microsoft really serious about challenging the iPad juggernaut with this kind of inattention to detail?</i><p>Not sure where you're going with this, but given the amount of effort and ambition around the Surface, I would say that Microsoft is absolutely serious.<p>As for Word, there was a limited number of things we could do and fix in a finite amount of time. Trade-offs need to be made.</text></item><item><author>cageface</author><text>Interesting. Thanks for the insider's insight. Is Microsoft really serious about challenging the iPad juggernaut with this kind of inattention to detail?</text></item><item><author>Splines</author><text>&#62; <i>"So quickly, in fact, that I can outrun Microsoft Word on the Surface. I get the feeling that the Surface RT’s CPU or Word code just can’t keep up with my typing. Here’s an example video:"</i><p>I'm on the Word team in Office and I'm coming into this thread incredibly late, but FWIW the slow typing on ARM was something we couldn't fully address in time for the preview release. Word RTM (ARM and x86/x64) has <i>much</i> better performance.<p>One of the challenges we had was that for a large majority of the product cycle we didn't even <i>know</i> about the Surface. We were looking at ARM early on, but the hardware we had was prerelease hardware from MSFT partners that had varying levels of performance.<p>Even now we don't know a whole lot about the Surface. It's a little frustrating, since we (Office) hit RTM we're eagerly awaiting the point at which new Surface RTs will have Office RTM baked into them. The preview release is seriously many many months old from the RTM release, and it's painful to think that <i>this</i> is what customers are going to see from Office when they turn on their shiny new device.</text></item><item><author>Anechoic</author><text>"The diagonally-oriented camera is strange. In the one orientation it’s optimized for, it’s slightly annoying. In any other orientation, it’s almost intolerable. "<p>"The built-in front-facing camera for Skype is angled so that it’ll work great when the kickstand is open, but again, only for Danny DeVito, or maybe for people who want to show off their chests in Skype."<p>------<p>"The Touch Cover is one of the Surface’s biggest innovations. I thought I would hate it, but I didn’t. It’s not like typing on a completely flat surface: each “key” is raised slightly, so while there isn’t any mechanical feedback, it does feel a bit like a keyboard."<p>"The Type Cover (the one with real keys) just works. I’ve got big hands that often struggle on undersized keyboards, but I can type very quickly on the Type Cover."<p>------<p>"He showed me Office, which was almost unusable: it was extremely sluggish, and touch targets were tiny and difficult to hit."<p>"So quickly, in fact, that I can outrun Microsoft Word on the Surface. I get the feeling that the Surface RT’s CPU or Word code just can’t keep up with my typing. Here’s an example video:"<p>-------<p>"The standard gestures don’t help, requiring many in-from-the-edge swipes that not only aren’t discoverable"<p>"After waiting over a minute for the machine to boot and launch the mail app, I got a blank gradient screen. User interface 101: if the app needs to be set up on the first launch, offer to do that, please. Folks from Twitter suggested that I swipe out from the right side and click Accounts"<p>--<p>So, can we conclude that these observations might be real (V. 1) problems without resorting to ad-homs regarding the author?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>chris_wot</author><text>No offense here, and I realise that you probably aren't in management, but if you can't fix a problem with slow typing and you're on the Word team, then the release should have been put back. Seriously.</text></comment> |
31,109,979 | 31,107,165 | 1 | 2 | 31,106,150 | train | <story><title>Managing mental health while running a startup</title><url>https://future.a16z.com/managing-your-mental-health-while-running-a-startup/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>TimPC</author><text>I&#x27;m not sure managing mental health while running a start-up is a topic we want VC blogs to be the experts on. VCs are a substantial part of the problem here with their decisions to use a power imbalance to get founders to take little to no salary for as long as possible to extend the runway of the company. A lot of pressure on founders is financial as their personal finances are often a mess even as their company is taking off. Many VCs have a long history of making this problem worse.<p>Data shows that founders over 50 are the most successful age group yet VCs continue to focus on 20 somethings because few founders over 50 are able to handle the financial terms the VCs want on things like founder salary. I&#x27;m convinced we lose a lot of potentially good start-ups by requiring founders to take vows of poverty.<p>We need a coherent approach to mental health for founders. We need a coherent approach to mental health for early start-up employees. VCs are part of the problem and accepting their recommended solutions will make things worse not better.</text></comment> | <story><title>Managing mental health while running a startup</title><url>https://future.a16z.com/managing-your-mental-health-while-running-a-startup/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>asim</author><text>A lot of people advocate for self help through diet, exercise, meditation, taking time off, etc. While these all have their place, at a certain point and a certain level of stress you stop being able to do it. You end up cutting short during a workout because your brain won&#x27;t switch off. The lack of sleep starts to affect all your cognitive function and then the diet starts to slip and before you know it you&#x27;re eating like crap again.<p>At the best of times these routines of habit are just an escape from the stress or covering the actual problems related to not just running companies as a founder but actual all roles in life that require your ultimate sacrifice of mind, body and soul.<p>The diet, exercise, holidays and whatever else only go so far. Talking to other founders only goes so far. They&#x27;re also struggling but it&#x27;s hard to make time for each other. We&#x27;re all busy just staying afloat. What we don&#x27;t really talk about is the fact that you are more than your startup, that your life and identity is more. Part of that means other experiences or trauma earlier in your life could be magnified by the stresses of running a startup. The people starting companies already have to be a bit delusional.<p>The reality is it&#x27;s excruciatingly hard and yet also still a first world problem because you have to be ultra privileged to be in a place that you&#x27;re even thinking of starting a startup.<p>My last point here. Routines and habits don&#x27;t always help. There has to be more. To ensure the stress and sacrifice are manageable at that level it can often also help to seek external council from a CEO coach, a therapist, etc. Your investors are not going to be helpful here, neither are your friends, family or other founders. You have obligations to all of them and you can&#x27;t use them as a dumping ground. So seeking external guidance at a certain point is a must.</text></comment> |
19,566,614 | 19,566,700 | 1 | 3 | 19,566,051 | train | <story><title>Electric Cars Hit Record in Norway</title><url>https://www.npr.org/2019/04/02/709131281/electric-cars-hit-record-in-norway-making-up-nearly-60-of-sales-in-march?t=1554317167022</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Zenst</author><text>I&#x27;d be interested how well electric cars faired in Norway as I would expect the colder months would impact the battery performance (reduce range). Which makes me wonder if manufacturers do any country adaptations for the local climate.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>andrewtbham</author><text><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.tesla.com&#x2F;blog&#x2F;tesla-superowner-arctic-circle" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.tesla.com&#x2F;blog&#x2F;tesla-superowner-arctic-circle</a><p>The temperature dropped to -40 degrees Celsius. It was so cold that the trains couldn’t operate and the diesel in the buses froze. But the Model S was just fine.</text></comment> | <story><title>Electric Cars Hit Record in Norway</title><url>https://www.npr.org/2019/04/02/709131281/electric-cars-hit-record-in-norway-making-up-nearly-60-of-sales-in-march?t=1554317167022</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Zenst</author><text>I&#x27;d be interested how well electric cars faired in Norway as I would expect the colder months would impact the battery performance (reduce range). Which makes me wonder if manufacturers do any country adaptations for the local climate.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>roland35</author><text>Lithium batteries have different temperature ranges based on what they are doing. Looking at an LG datasheet I pulled online (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.powerstream.com&#x2F;p&#x2F;LG-ICR18650HE2-REV0.pdf" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.powerstream.com&#x2F;p&#x2F;LG-ICR18650HE2-REV0.pdf</a>) you can see:<p>Operating - Charging: 0-50C<p>Operating - Discharging: -20-75C<p>Storage (1 month): -20-60C<p>So starting at -20C you run into trouble! Many people forget that the charging temperature range is narrower, but luckily if you are connected to a charger you could use some of that energy to run the Battery Thermal Management System.</text></comment> |
23,059,709 | 23,058,762 | 1 | 3 | 23,052,433 | train | <story><title>Rust in an Instant</title><url>https://fnordig.de/2020/05/02/rust-in-an-instant/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>pornel</author><text>People often mistake Rust&#x27;s safety guarantees for a sandbox like JavaScript. &quot;Safe&quot; Rust code is still on the trusted side of the airtight hatchway[1], so hacks like that are a class of &quot;arbitrary code execution leads to arbitrary code execution&quot;.<p>[1]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;devblogs.microsoft.com&#x2F;oldnewthing&#x2F;20060508-22&#x2F;?p=31283" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;devblogs.microsoft.com&#x2F;oldnewthing&#x2F;20060508-22&#x2F;?p=31...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Rust in an Instant</title><url>https://fnordig.de/2020/05/02/rust-in-an-instant/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>cobbzilla</author><text>A better title would have been “How to Override Standard Library Functions in Rust”.</text></comment> |
19,639,427 | 19,637,848 | 1 | 2 | 19,636,847 | train | <story><title>French court finds Monsanto guilty of poisoning farmer</title><url>https://www.theguardian.com/business/2019/apr/11/french-court-finds-monsanto-guilty-of-poisoning-farmer</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>ddoran</author><text>I happen to be staying at a b&amp;b at a organic French vineyard right now. We stayed here because the owner has written three books about the experience [1] and it was in an area we wanted to visit (between Bordeaux and Bergerac) rather than because it was organic. As we have walked around this area, I&#x27;ve been horrified by the contrast between organic vineyards and those which are not. The non-organic vineyards have scorched dead brown grass a foot either side of every row of vines, from insecticide which is applied every 6 weeks. The organic vines are surrounded by green grass and wildflowers. 94% of Bordeaux wine is not organic. There is a lot of scorched dead grass.<p>Before this &quot;organic&quot; to me meant: expensive, nice idea, faddish and definitely not something I sought out.<p>This trip has been life-changing. I&#x27;ve become an organic convert overnight. I do not want to eat fruit or plant byproducts from roots which are constantly exposed to weedkiller or insecticide so strong that it kills all around it (except the root itself).<p>[1]- <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.amazon.com&#x2F;s?k=caro+feely&amp;ref=nb_sb_noss_2" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.amazon.com&#x2F;s?k=caro+feely&amp;ref=nb_sb_noss_2</a></text></comment> | <story><title>French court finds Monsanto guilty of poisoning farmer</title><url>https://www.theguardian.com/business/2019/apr/11/french-court-finds-monsanto-guilty-of-poisoning-farmer</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>dessant</author><text>I wonder if they&#x27;ll also change ways, or just names.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.theguardian.com&#x2F;business&#x2F;2018&#x2F;jun&#x2F;04&#x2F;monsanto-to-ditch-its-infamous-name-after-sale-to-bayer" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.theguardian.com&#x2F;business&#x2F;2018&#x2F;jun&#x2F;04&#x2F;monsanto-to...</a></text></comment> |
997,612 | 997,440 | 1 | 2 | 997,096 | train | <story><title>Mathjax</title><url>http://www.mathjax.com/</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>PaulTopping</author><text>Word got out on MathJax a little early, as things tend to do on the web. We barely got a sample page up. Although it probably won't matter, our hope is you don't hammer MathJax too hard until we get things going and officially announce. Very soon now!<p>Paul Topping
Design Science, Inc. (one of the MathJax founders)</text></comment> | <story><title>Mathjax</title><url>http://www.mathjax.com/</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>snewe</author><text>If you have a wordpress blog, wordpress.com will convert your latex to images using this plugin:<p><a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-latex/" rel="nofollow">http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-latex/</a></text></comment> |
31,453,541 | 31,448,643 | 1 | 3 | 31,445,822 | train | <story><title>9-Euro-Ticket</title><url>https://www.bahn.com/en/offers/regional/9-euro-ticket-en</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>IMTDb</author><text>This is assuming that your trip starts and stops exactly next to the train station and that there is a non-delayed train available precisely at the right time. In practice that&#x27;s not the case and those time add up <i>quickly</i>.<p>Car trip will look like:<p><pre><code> 1. Travel from start to location (3:20)
2. Find parking (0:5)
3. Walk from parking to location (0:10)
</code></pre>
Total time of 3:35<p>Your train trip will look like:<p><pre><code> 1. Go from start to train station (0:20)
2. Wait for train (0:10)
3. Train to Berlin (1:50)
4. Train station to location (0:20)
5. Wait at location because there was no better train (1:00)
</code></pre>
Total time of 3:40.<p>It stil might be worth it to use the train, as you can work&#x2F;read in the train which you can&#x27;t do in a car.<p>But for the train to be working it needs planets to be aligned: start location must be within reasonable distance to train station; end location must be within reasonable distance to train station; train travel speed is significantly faster than cars; train schedule is aligned with desired arrival time. If <i>any</i> of these conditions are not met, the train option does not work</text></item><item><author>jstummbillig</author><text>&gt; If the train number begins with RE or RB, you’re good, but of course, those are the slow ones that stop in every village along the way.<p>Well, that is not exactly true now, is it. REs do actually skip the vast majority of &quot;villages&quot; and are far from being the slow ones, comparatively.<p>Anyway, for comparisons sake here is some Hamburg -&gt; Berlin options:<p>- By car (with low traffic, according to GMaps): 3h20<p>- Regional Trains (the ones you can use with 9-eur-ticket): 4h10, including 1-3 train changes depending on connection<p>- All trains: 1h50 with no change<p>Given that going by car will be considerably more expensive than a regional ticket (even the none-9-eur version) I would say that +1h might be a reasonable trade-off for a lot of people.</text></item><item><author>MandieD</author><text>Very important caveat for all of you who are thinking, “woo hoo, no need to buy that EuRail pass! Or to buy an expensive ICE ticket!”<p>These tickets are good for all “Nah- und Regionalverkehr,” explicitly excluding ICE, IC, EC (international) and long-distance busses (like the one between Munich and Zürich)<p>If the train number begins with RE or RB, you’re good, but of course, those are the slow ones that stop in every village along the way.<p>This is for the benefit of people who live here and are struggling with 2 EUR&#x2F;liter fuel, not the kind of people who blithely paid 60 EUR to take the ICE. There does not appear to be any residency requirement, but remember, you’re not the target market for this (unless you live here and are struggling with fuel prices…)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>oneplane</author><text>I don&#x27;t think anyone living in a country with reasonable public transport and uses it actually thinks that that is how it works.<p>I get the feeling that there might be a whole lot of &quot;it sucks in my country so you probably have a bad experience too&quot; replies here (not yours as it&#x27;s quite a clear illustration of details people might miss), and I would almost immediately assume it&#x27;ll be mostly people from the US who are car-bound for their transport needs.<p>The idea that you can life a nice and productive life and go places as you please without dring a car is very foreign to some people. Even the idea of switching it up and having some work commute by bike or bus seems like a &#x27;poor people thing&#x27; to some people. It&#x27;s weird.</text></comment> | <story><title>9-Euro-Ticket</title><url>https://www.bahn.com/en/offers/regional/9-euro-ticket-en</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>IMTDb</author><text>This is assuming that your trip starts and stops exactly next to the train station and that there is a non-delayed train available precisely at the right time. In practice that&#x27;s not the case and those time add up <i>quickly</i>.<p>Car trip will look like:<p><pre><code> 1. Travel from start to location (3:20)
2. Find parking (0:5)
3. Walk from parking to location (0:10)
</code></pre>
Total time of 3:35<p>Your train trip will look like:<p><pre><code> 1. Go from start to train station (0:20)
2. Wait for train (0:10)
3. Train to Berlin (1:50)
4. Train station to location (0:20)
5. Wait at location because there was no better train (1:00)
</code></pre>
Total time of 3:40.<p>It stil might be worth it to use the train, as you can work&#x2F;read in the train which you can&#x27;t do in a car.<p>But for the train to be working it needs planets to be aligned: start location must be within reasonable distance to train station; end location must be within reasonable distance to train station; train travel speed is significantly faster than cars; train schedule is aligned with desired arrival time. If <i>any</i> of these conditions are not met, the train option does not work</text></item><item><author>jstummbillig</author><text>&gt; If the train number begins with RE or RB, you’re good, but of course, those are the slow ones that stop in every village along the way.<p>Well, that is not exactly true now, is it. REs do actually skip the vast majority of &quot;villages&quot; and are far from being the slow ones, comparatively.<p>Anyway, for comparisons sake here is some Hamburg -&gt; Berlin options:<p>- By car (with low traffic, according to GMaps): 3h20<p>- Regional Trains (the ones you can use with 9-eur-ticket): 4h10, including 1-3 train changes depending on connection<p>- All trains: 1h50 with no change<p>Given that going by car will be considerably more expensive than a regional ticket (even the none-9-eur version) I would say that +1h might be a reasonable trade-off for a lot of people.</text></item><item><author>MandieD</author><text>Very important caveat for all of you who are thinking, “woo hoo, no need to buy that EuRail pass! Or to buy an expensive ICE ticket!”<p>These tickets are good for all “Nah- und Regionalverkehr,” explicitly excluding ICE, IC, EC (international) and long-distance busses (like the one between Munich and Zürich)<p>If the train number begins with RE or RB, you’re good, but of course, those are the slow ones that stop in every village along the way.<p>This is for the benefit of people who live here and are struggling with 2 EUR&#x2F;liter fuel, not the kind of people who blithely paid 60 EUR to take the ICE. There does not appear to be any residency requirement, but remember, you’re not the target market for this (unless you live here and are struggling with fuel prices…)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>smlacy</author><text>I&#x27;m not sure what &quot;Wait at location because there was no better train&quot; means?<p>Are you massuming a 3h40m trip for a specific time-based appointment? I think the use case of this kind of train is more similar to a flight with one or more nights at destination, so that the specific arrival time is not that important.</text></comment> |
16,205,296 | 16,205,069 | 1 | 3 | 16,204,387 | train | <story><title>Bitcoin.org removes “fast” and “low fees” from Bitcoin description page</title><url>https://github.com/bitcoin-dot-org/bitcoin.org/pull/2010/files</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>theseatoms</author><text>The long-term value will be in the ability to send censorship-proof funds anywhere there&#x27;s an internet connection. The Lightning Network (yet to be deployed in production) is supposedly going to reduce transaction fees and confirmation times.<p>&gt;but isn&#x27;t centralized wallets&#x2F;exchanges like coinbase defeating the entire purpose of crypto currency<p>This is true. This is my biggest problem with the current ecosystem. If history is any guide, they&#x27;ll eventually suffer from some sort of scandal and&#x2F;or run that drives customers to a superior competitor. This only kicks the can, I realize, and is far from the original vision. But at least each centralized service learns from the costly mistakes of previous ones.</text></item><item><author>codegeek</author><text>I am still struggling to understand the whole crypto currency thing. I just don&#x27;t get it. Clearly, it has become a tool for speculation and quick money for most people. Everyone is trying to get on the crypto bandwagon but to speculate. What is the point ? I thought it was supposed to decentralize currency and make it easy to &quot;transact&quot; with low fees and less redtape. Also I could be really dumb but isn&#x27;t centralized wallets&#x2F;exchanges like coinbase defeating the entire purpose of crypto currency ? Weren&#x27;t we supposed to manage it peer to peer so that anyone could get paid anytime without worrying about borders and boundaries ?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>slivym</author><text>I don&#x27;t understand how this holds true though, because to actually send someone money you need to actually... get them the money. A great counter-example of this is that the exchanges in Zimbabwe were trading at a 100% premium when you actually wanted to settle a transaction in cash.<p>So whilst you can transfer money censorship free, you and the recipient need to then handle the transfer into and out of crypto which seems to be in many cases more difficult than actually transferring money other ways.<p>Not to mention the fact that that purpose is an astonishingly niche thing to want to do - at least in first world countries.<p>Are you suggesting crypto has no long-term value in the west?</text></comment> | <story><title>Bitcoin.org removes “fast” and “low fees” from Bitcoin description page</title><url>https://github.com/bitcoin-dot-org/bitcoin.org/pull/2010/files</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>theseatoms</author><text>The long-term value will be in the ability to send censorship-proof funds anywhere there&#x27;s an internet connection. The Lightning Network (yet to be deployed in production) is supposedly going to reduce transaction fees and confirmation times.<p>&gt;but isn&#x27;t centralized wallets&#x2F;exchanges like coinbase defeating the entire purpose of crypto currency<p>This is true. This is my biggest problem with the current ecosystem. If history is any guide, they&#x27;ll eventually suffer from some sort of scandal and&#x2F;or run that drives customers to a superior competitor. This only kicks the can, I realize, and is far from the original vision. But at least each centralized service learns from the costly mistakes of previous ones.</text></item><item><author>codegeek</author><text>I am still struggling to understand the whole crypto currency thing. I just don&#x27;t get it. Clearly, it has become a tool for speculation and quick money for most people. Everyone is trying to get on the crypto bandwagon but to speculate. What is the point ? I thought it was supposed to decentralize currency and make it easy to &quot;transact&quot; with low fees and less redtape. Also I could be really dumb but isn&#x27;t centralized wallets&#x2F;exchanges like coinbase defeating the entire purpose of crypto currency ? Weren&#x27;t we supposed to manage it peer to peer so that anyone could get paid anytime without worrying about borders and boundaries ?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>schmidty</author><text>There are 100 lightning nodes running in production currently.</text></comment> |
18,478,047 | 18,476,419 | 1 | 2 | 18,475,164 | train | <story><title>Surveillance Kills Freedom by Killing Experimentation</title><url>https://www.wired.com/story/mcsweeneys-excerpt-the-right-to-experiment/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>oedmarap</author><text>The generalization and broadening of scope of such laws is one of the most troubling agendas&#x2F;trends of the surveillance state.<p>From what I&#x27;ve observed, countries are only more and more eager to adopt intelligence gathering methodology in a collective manner (<i>à la</i> Five Eyes). I&#x27;ll quote Atlas Shrugged for this one:<p>&gt; There&#x27;s no way to rule innocent men. The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren&#x27;t enough criminals, one makes them. One declares so many things to be a crime that it becomes impossible for men to live without breaking laws. Who wants a nation of law-abiding citizens? What&#x27;s there in that for anyone? But just pass the kind of laws that can neither be observed nor enforced nor objectively interpreted—and you create a nation of law-breakers—and then you cash in on guilt.</text></comment> | <story><title>Surveillance Kills Freedom by Killing Experimentation</title><url>https://www.wired.com/story/mcsweeneys-excerpt-the-right-to-experiment/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>vbuwivbiu</author><text><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.psychologytoday.com&#x2F;us&#x2F;blog&#x2F;animal-emotions&#x2F;201602&#x2F;ravens-know-theyre-being-watched-bird-brain-theory-mind" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.psychologytoday.com&#x2F;us&#x2F;blog&#x2F;animal-emotions&#x2F;2016...</a><p>People (and ravens) cannot help but act differently when they&#x27;re being watched. Being watched (by anonymous viewers) is a stressful vigilance state.</text></comment> |
7,502,098 | 7,501,669 | 1 | 2 | 7,501,212 | train | <story><title>NSA infiltrated RSA security more deeply than thought: Study</title><url>http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/03/31/uk-usa-security-nsa-rsa-idUKBREA2U0U620140331</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>tptacek</author><text>The extended_random_value extension is by itself innocuous; in fact, in its historical context (2008), it&#x27;s just on the edge of plausibly beneficial.<p>All extended_random_value does is add, to the random_bytes value in the TLS handshake, another variable-length blob of random data. The ostensible idea behind the extension is that there are protocols that want randomness proportional to key sizes, and the 28 random bytes already in the handshake are insufficient.<p>That is <i>all</i> the extension does. It doesn&#x27;t influence your random number generator, it doesn&#x27;t change the crypto algorithms in TLS.<p>Now, extended_random_value is <i>not</i> innocuous in 2014. There&#x27;s a very good chance that the PKRNGs (Dual_EC and the like) are intended as cryptographic backdoors, and modern sensibilities about crypto protocols dictate that both sides of a protocol should be careful about &quot;showing all their cards&quot; (as it were) when it comes to random number generators. It&#x27;s now thought to be risky to disclose too much state.<p>But that was definitely not the attitude in place in the early 2000s --- more randomness was better.<p>Finally, it&#x27;s worth knowing that nobody uses extended_random_value. Even fewer people were exposed to it than were exposed to Dual_EC (which very few apps were --- so few that, from what I can tell, nobody has ever named such an app on HN [companies using BSafe do not equate to apps using Dual_EC, much less exploitably]). Even the Internet Draft seems quizzical about why the extension would exist, and it more or less says &quot;you&#x27;d use this if your TLS needed to be compatible with the DoD&quot;.<p>PS: It&#x27;s been a few months since I looked, but interesting to note: the mailing list discussions about extended_random_value were also skeptical about the intention behind the extension. Rescorla more or less said (IIRC) &quot;the USG asked me to specify this so they could use TLS&quot;. Nobody on the TLS WG ever told an implementor that they should adopt this.†<p>PPS: Whatever &#x27;pbsd says that conflicts with this comment, believe the &#x27;pbsd comment, not mine. :)<p>† <i>I&#x27;m a little wrong here; the mailing list discussion I&#x27;m thinking of is about OpaquePRF. But OpaquePRF is basically the same concept, and by the same authors; extended_random_value is a refinement. Neither was standardized.</i></text></comment> | <story><title>NSA infiltrated RSA security more deeply than thought: Study</title><url>http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/03/31/uk-usa-security-nsa-rsa-idUKBREA2U0U620140331</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>ig1</author><text>A far bigger issue is &quot;The NSA played a significant role in the origins of Extended Random. The authors of the 2008 paper on the protocol were Margaret Salter, technical director of the NSA&#x27;s defensive Information Assurance Directorate, and an outside expert named Eric Rescorla.&quot;<p>Given Rescorla involvement with the TLS standard and Mozilla it&#x27;s concerning that he declined to comment on this.</text></comment> |
25,964,188 | 25,963,990 | 1 | 3 | 25,942,451 | train | <story><title>Disorderfs: FUSE-based filesystem that introduces non-determinism into metadata</title><url>https://salsa.debian.org/reproducible-builds/disorderfs</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>amelius</author><text>Instead of introducing non-determinism, shouldn&#x27;t it instead try to enforce determinism in any possible way? (E.g. running all processes under ptrace or by using virtualization and thereby making the OS behave in a deterministic way during a build).</text></item><item><author>danbst</author><text>Sorry for plugging in. NixOS has a plan to use DisorderFS in making 100% reproducible build.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;r13y.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;r13y.com&#x2F;</a><p>As I understand it, currently several packages are not reproducible (like, python, pytest, gcc), so it is not priority, but when those large packages will be done, r13y will start using DisorderFS to uncover remaining reproducibility bugs.<p>This is too idealistic, but gives lots of pleasure about package space.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>gopalv</author><text>&gt; shouldn&#x27;t it instead try to enforce determinism in any possible way<p>That would only fix the build machine&#x27;s problem, it wouldn&#x27;t fix anyone else&#x27;s builds.<p>A repeatable build without determinism is a fix for all people everywhere.</text></comment> | <story><title>Disorderfs: FUSE-based filesystem that introduces non-determinism into metadata</title><url>https://salsa.debian.org/reproducible-builds/disorderfs</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>amelius</author><text>Instead of introducing non-determinism, shouldn&#x27;t it instead try to enforce determinism in any possible way? (E.g. running all processes under ptrace or by using virtualization and thereby making the OS behave in a deterministic way during a build).</text></item><item><author>danbst</author><text>Sorry for plugging in. NixOS has a plan to use DisorderFS in making 100% reproducible build.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;r13y.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;r13y.com&#x2F;</a><p>As I understand it, currently several packages are not reproducible (like, python, pytest, gcc), so it is not priority, but when those large packages will be done, r13y will start using DisorderFS to uncover remaining reproducibility bugs.<p>This is too idealistic, but gives lots of pleasure about package space.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>rblatz</author><text>I think the idea is you can build from source on any file system or drive and get the same results. By adding artificial purposeful nondeterminism you can fix your builds to account for unintentional natural nondeterminism.</text></comment> |
34,887,299 | 34,886,810 | 1 | 3 | 34,884,966 | train | <story><title>TreeTalk London – Tree Map</title><url>https://www.treetalk.co.uk/map/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>josters</author><text>In Berlin there is &quot;Gieß den Kiez&quot;[1] (water your block). It not only shows you the species and age for every tree on public property, you can also adopt trees and be responsible for watering them.<p>&gt; Gieß den Kiez is a participatory platform where you can inform yourself about the trees in your neighbourhood and their water needs. You can explore individual trees in Berlin and find out about the proper watering of trees. If you want to water the same trees regularly, you should create an account, adopt the trees and show that they are taken care of. This way, coordination takes place in the neighbourhood.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.giessdenkiez.de" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.giessdenkiez.de</a></text></comment> | <story><title>TreeTalk London – Tree Map</title><url>https://www.treetalk.co.uk/map/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>nicwolff</author><text>Same idea for NYC <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;tree-map.nycgovparks.org" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;tree-map.nycgovparks.org</a></text></comment> |
19,443,773 | 19,443,269 | 1 | 2 | 19,442,514 | train | <story><title>I’m 14, and I quit social media after discovering what was posted about me</title><url>https://www.fastcompany.com/90315706/kids-parents-social-media-sharing</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>gringoDan</author><text>I sympathize with this perspective. I too would be livid and mortified if my family shared embarrassing photos of me in exchange for the quick dopamine hit that validation from acquaintances provides.<p>I&#x27;m hopeful that in the next several years there is a pushback against social media and the idea that for an experience to be valid, it must be shared. There&#x27;s something to be said for having an album of photos that you pull out a couple of times a year to show a select group of others. It makes the experience much more valuable than blasting out content for everyone to see.<p>Makes me think that Gen Z is much wiser than the Millennials. People coming of age today are much more cautious than those who did 5-10 years ago (lots of drunken party photos on Facebook, etc). They understand the consequences of having information in the world that never goes away.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Reedx</author><text>It&#x27;s interesting how that changed within one generation in many cases. Millennials started using the Internet when conventional wisdom was to not use your real name online. Don&#x27;t reveal your age or location. Don&#x27;t post your photo. Use an anonymous name.<p>We went from that to the complete opposite.</text></comment> | <story><title>I’m 14, and I quit social media after discovering what was posted about me</title><url>https://www.fastcompany.com/90315706/kids-parents-social-media-sharing</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>gringoDan</author><text>I sympathize with this perspective. I too would be livid and mortified if my family shared embarrassing photos of me in exchange for the quick dopamine hit that validation from acquaintances provides.<p>I&#x27;m hopeful that in the next several years there is a pushback against social media and the idea that for an experience to be valid, it must be shared. There&#x27;s something to be said for having an album of photos that you pull out a couple of times a year to show a select group of others. It makes the experience much more valuable than blasting out content for everyone to see.<p>Makes me think that Gen Z is much wiser than the Millennials. People coming of age today are much more cautious than those who did 5-10 years ago (lots of drunken party photos on Facebook, etc). They understand the consequences of having information in the world that never goes away.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>sacado2</author><text>Yes. The last generation was taught from a very young age that what you put online is available for all, and learned from the mistakes of their older siblings &#x2F; parents. I see way more &quot;controversial&quot; content on facebook &#x2F; instagram from my older friends than from the younger ones.</text></comment> |
41,681,522 | 41,632,903 | 1 | 2 | 41,632,681 | train | <story><title>The human heart shows signs of ageing after just a month in space</title><url>https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-03105-x</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>rafram</author><text>Absolutely insane and cool that it’s possible to grow part of a heart in a lab, put it on a dish, blast it off into space, and study its behavior. So much in our modern world would’ve been a sci-fi dream only a few decades ago.</text></comment> | <story><title>The human heart shows signs of ageing after just a month in space</title><url>https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-03105-x</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>DaoVeles</author><text>This is no surprise. Look up how Scott Kelly described his experience coming back after a year on the ISS.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.snexplores.org&#x2F;article&#x2F;how-year-space-affected-scott-kellys-health" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.snexplores.org&#x2F;article&#x2F;how-year-space-affected-s...</a></text></comment> |
27,221,484 | 27,217,726 | 1 | 2 | 27,215,894 | train | <story><title>Nikola Tesla invention from 100 years ago suddenly makes more sense today</title><url>https://www.cnet.com/news/nikola-tesla-invention-from-100-years-ago-suddenly-makes-more-sense-today/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>danybittel</author><text>You may be exceptional.<p>In my experience, it often works &#x2F; looks perfect in the head. But putting it to paper, it falls apart quickly. Imagine a bicycle, it is easy to imagine it accurately. Then draw it (or construct it), one usually struggles a lot. The step to materialize it, is where you need a lot of practice.<p>The worst are the the &quot;idea&quot; guys. They think they have already done all the work, and somebody else just needs to put it to paper. If you&#x27;re that someone, expect lots of trial and error. He&#x27;ll &quot;know when he sees it&quot;, but can&#x27;t give directions.</text></item><item><author>mrtnmcc</author><text>Doesn&#x27;t everyone do this? I remember at the age of five finally learning to control my falling dreams at night, to be able to freeze in the air and eventually fly (the Matrix scene definitely resonated later). This was the beginning of a continuous exercise of imagining things more and more exactly and controlling that imagination. Now as an engineer, I spend most of my time staring at a wall simulating and refining designs in my head. As Tesla notes, they are usually accurate. The most interesting cases however are when I can&#x27;t quite be sure what will happen. Building those projects are some of the most exciting and often most valuable work. Besides imagination, simulating on a computer is useful, but more to explain an imagined design to others. Occassionaly, when simulations scale to a certain level of parallel interaction (like neural networks), those simulations take on the character of reality which may defy imagination. At least until enough experimentation and observation develops intuition.</text></item><item><author>neither_color</author><text>If you want to get into the mind of Tesla a bit I highly recommend &quot;My Inventions&quot;, his sort of autobiography where he described how his mind worked. He spent a lot of time developing his imagination at a young age and &quot;traveling&quot; in his head. I was surprised to read that he would visualize entire designs in his imagination and then go through prototypes and iterations several times before bringing that idea into the physical world.
<a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.tfcbooks.com&#x2F;e-books&#x2F;my_inventions.pdf" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.tfcbooks.com&#x2F;e-books&#x2F;my_inventions.pdf</a><p><i>My method is different. I do not rush into actual work. When I get an idea I start at once building it up in my imagination. I change the construction, make improvements and operate the device in my mind. It is absolutely immaterial to me whether I run my turbine in thought or test it in my shop. I even note if it is out of balance. There is no difference whatever, the results are the same. In this way I am able to rapidly develop and perfect a conception without touching anything. When I have gone so far as to embody in the invention every possible improvement I can think of and see no fault anywhere, I put into concrete form this final product of my brain. </i></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>angrysaki</author><text>Drawings of bicycles from memory, rendered in 3D:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.behance.net&#x2F;gallery&#x2F;35437979&#x2F;Velocipedia" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.behance.net&#x2F;gallery&#x2F;35437979&#x2F;Velocipedia</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Nikola Tesla invention from 100 years ago suddenly makes more sense today</title><url>https://www.cnet.com/news/nikola-tesla-invention-from-100-years-ago-suddenly-makes-more-sense-today/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>danybittel</author><text>You may be exceptional.<p>In my experience, it often works &#x2F; looks perfect in the head. But putting it to paper, it falls apart quickly. Imagine a bicycle, it is easy to imagine it accurately. Then draw it (or construct it), one usually struggles a lot. The step to materialize it, is where you need a lot of practice.<p>The worst are the the &quot;idea&quot; guys. They think they have already done all the work, and somebody else just needs to put it to paper. If you&#x27;re that someone, expect lots of trial and error. He&#x27;ll &quot;know when he sees it&quot;, but can&#x27;t give directions.</text></item><item><author>mrtnmcc</author><text>Doesn&#x27;t everyone do this? I remember at the age of five finally learning to control my falling dreams at night, to be able to freeze in the air and eventually fly (the Matrix scene definitely resonated later). This was the beginning of a continuous exercise of imagining things more and more exactly and controlling that imagination. Now as an engineer, I spend most of my time staring at a wall simulating and refining designs in my head. As Tesla notes, they are usually accurate. The most interesting cases however are when I can&#x27;t quite be sure what will happen. Building those projects are some of the most exciting and often most valuable work. Besides imagination, simulating on a computer is useful, but more to explain an imagined design to others. Occassionaly, when simulations scale to a certain level of parallel interaction (like neural networks), those simulations take on the character of reality which may defy imagination. At least until enough experimentation and observation develops intuition.</text></item><item><author>neither_color</author><text>If you want to get into the mind of Tesla a bit I highly recommend &quot;My Inventions&quot;, his sort of autobiography where he described how his mind worked. He spent a lot of time developing his imagination at a young age and &quot;traveling&quot; in his head. I was surprised to read that he would visualize entire designs in his imagination and then go through prototypes and iterations several times before bringing that idea into the physical world.
<a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.tfcbooks.com&#x2F;e-books&#x2F;my_inventions.pdf" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.tfcbooks.com&#x2F;e-books&#x2F;my_inventions.pdf</a><p><i>My method is different. I do not rush into actual work. When I get an idea I start at once building it up in my imagination. I change the construction, make improvements and operate the device in my mind. It is absolutely immaterial to me whether I run my turbine in thought or test it in my shop. I even note if it is out of balance. There is no difference whatever, the results are the same. In this way I am able to rapidly develop and perfect a conception without touching anything. When I have gone so far as to embody in the invention every possible improvement I can think of and see no fault anywhere, I put into concrete form this final product of my brain. </i></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mewpmewp2</author><text>I imagine it will vary widely depending on the complexity of something. The more complex something is the more likely you fail to predict some things accurately, so based on this conversation it&#x27;s difficult to tell whether someone is exceptional or not, as exceptional would be when you are able to do more complex designs accurately than most other folks.</text></comment> |
25,776,923 | 25,777,290 | 1 | 2 | 25,776,525 | train | <story><title>10 years-ish of Elixir</title><url>https://dashbit.co/blog/ten-years-ish-of-elixir</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>josevalim</author><text>Author here!<p>The article was published earlier this week and I have a quick addendum: regarding Erlang&#x2F;Elixir, my goal has always been to bring <i>new</i> developers to the platform. After all, Erlang developers already have the most important part of Elixir, which is the Erlang runtime!<p>There are also key people in both communities working hard to make sure the tooling is consistent across all languages. A lot of this effort happens under the Erlang Ecosystem Foundation (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;erlef.org&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;erlef.org&#x2F;</a>) too.<p>All to say, regardless if you pick Erlang or Elixir (or Gleam, LFE, etc.), I hope you will fall in love with the platform as much as I did 10 years ago!</text></comment> | <story><title>10 years-ish of Elixir</title><url>https://dashbit.co/blog/ten-years-ish-of-elixir</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>s3cur3</author><text>Happy Elixir user here. At work we have a use case that isn&#x27;t covered by José&#x27;s high-level overview of the domains Elixir&#x27;s used in: we run a massive multiplayer game server on it.<p>This is actually a really good fit. (It kind of rhymes with the original use of Erlang, being telecoms infrastructure.) We get <i>outstanding</i> concurrency support, high reliability, and really efficient development times. I can&#x27;t imagine shipping this feature with a server written in C++ (the language I&#x27;m most comfortable in), and I can&#x27;t imagine scaling it the way we need to if we&#x27;d gone for a traditional web language like Node, PHP, etc.<p>If you&#x27;re interested, you can see the RakNet (game networking protocol) implementation we use on the server here:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;X-Plane&#x2F;elixir-raknet" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;X-Plane&#x2F;elixir-raknet</a><p>The README gives a good overview of the full MMO server&#x27;s architecture, too: each client connection is a stateful Elixir process (not to be confused with a heavy-weight OS process!), acting asynchronously on a client state struct; clients then asynchronously schedule themselves to send updates back to the user.</text></comment> |
28,206,721 | 28,205,534 | 1 | 2 | 28,205,031 | train | <story><title>Vaccination blunts, but does not defeat Delta</title><url>https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2021/08/grim-warning-israel-vaccination-blunts-does-not-defeat-delta</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>criticaltinker</author><text>&gt; all 3 of them told me to expect something like that - the virus mutates ... and the vaccines will likely be needing to adjust<p>Your doctor friends were informing you about a phenomenon commonly referred to as &quot;immune escape&quot;.<p>The current mRNA based SARS-CoV-2 vaccines are effective at preventing severe outcomes like hospitalization and death. However, they do not necessarily prevent infection or transmission - and they induce an immune response highly targeted toward the spike protein RBD [1]. Combined with mass vaccination strategies, these factors contribute to a situation that exerts tremendous selective pressure on the virus, and can result in convergent mutations that are advantageous for the virus in a large population of people [1][2]. These mutations can lead to partial or complete immune escape, which manifests as increased transmission or virulence, reduced vaccine efficacy, and reduced immunity in naturally infected individuals.<p>&gt; Even the highest levels of vaccination are no protection<p>It&#x27;s not quite accurate to say &quot;are no protection&quot;. I would rephrase as:<p><i>Strategies for viral elimination should therefore be diversified across molecular targets and therapeutic modalities</i> [1]<p>[1] Risk of rapid evolutionary escape from biomedical interventions targeting SARS-CoV-2 spike protein
<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov&#x2F;33909660&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov&#x2F;33909660&#x2F;</a><p>[2] SARS-CoV-2 immune evasion by the B.1.427&#x2F;B.1.429 variant of concern
<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;science.sciencemag.org&#x2F;content&#x2F;early&#x2F;2021&#x2F;06&#x2F;30&#x2F;science.abi7994" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;science.sciencemag.org&#x2F;content&#x2F;early&#x2F;2021&#x2F;06&#x2F;30&#x2F;scie...</a></text></item><item><author>danielodievich</author><text>I am good friends with 3 doctors, and talk to them a lot about the amazing science behind the vaccines and the incredible speed with which those were designed and developed. All agree it was done at pretty much the software speed - custom designed on the computer in weeks and then built to order - and both them and I think it&#x27;s pretty neat.<p>It is very refreshing to talk to them because they, being good doctors, deal calmly and reasonably with probabilities rather than absolutes.<p>Very early, even before general public could get vaccines, all 3 of them told me to expect something like that - the virus mutates, it is expected to develop, the mutation for reproductive number going up is likely to occur - and it did - and the vaccines will likely be needing to adjust.<p>Even the highest levels of vaccination are no protection, and I am pretty tiny Israel in a sea of the largely unvaccinated is going to be swamped.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Barrin92</author><text>&gt;The current mRNA based SARS-CoV-2 vaccines are effective at preventing severe outcomes like hospitalization and death<p>According to this very article this isn&#x27;t even really true any more. Of the currently hospitalized population in Israel 60% are fully vaccinated. With 78% of the population vaccinated that implies the protection is actually surprisingly weak.<p><i>&quot; “There are so many breakthrough infections that they dominate and most of the hospitalized patients are actually vaccinated,” says Uri Shalit, a bioinformatician at the Israel Institute of Technology (Technion) who has consulted on COVID-19 for the government. “One of the big stories from Israel [is]: ‘Vaccines work, but not well enough.’”</i></text></comment> | <story><title>Vaccination blunts, but does not defeat Delta</title><url>https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2021/08/grim-warning-israel-vaccination-blunts-does-not-defeat-delta</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>criticaltinker</author><text>&gt; all 3 of them told me to expect something like that - the virus mutates ... and the vaccines will likely be needing to adjust<p>Your doctor friends were informing you about a phenomenon commonly referred to as &quot;immune escape&quot;.<p>The current mRNA based SARS-CoV-2 vaccines are effective at preventing severe outcomes like hospitalization and death. However, they do not necessarily prevent infection or transmission - and they induce an immune response highly targeted toward the spike protein RBD [1]. Combined with mass vaccination strategies, these factors contribute to a situation that exerts tremendous selective pressure on the virus, and can result in convergent mutations that are advantageous for the virus in a large population of people [1][2]. These mutations can lead to partial or complete immune escape, which manifests as increased transmission or virulence, reduced vaccine efficacy, and reduced immunity in naturally infected individuals.<p>&gt; Even the highest levels of vaccination are no protection<p>It&#x27;s not quite accurate to say &quot;are no protection&quot;. I would rephrase as:<p><i>Strategies for viral elimination should therefore be diversified across molecular targets and therapeutic modalities</i> [1]<p>[1] Risk of rapid evolutionary escape from biomedical interventions targeting SARS-CoV-2 spike protein
<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov&#x2F;33909660&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov&#x2F;33909660&#x2F;</a><p>[2] SARS-CoV-2 immune evasion by the B.1.427&#x2F;B.1.429 variant of concern
<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;science.sciencemag.org&#x2F;content&#x2F;early&#x2F;2021&#x2F;06&#x2F;30&#x2F;science.abi7994" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;science.sciencemag.org&#x2F;content&#x2F;early&#x2F;2021&#x2F;06&#x2F;30&#x2F;scie...</a></text></item><item><author>danielodievich</author><text>I am good friends with 3 doctors, and talk to them a lot about the amazing science behind the vaccines and the incredible speed with which those were designed and developed. All agree it was done at pretty much the software speed - custom designed on the computer in weeks and then built to order - and both them and I think it&#x27;s pretty neat.<p>It is very refreshing to talk to them because they, being good doctors, deal calmly and reasonably with probabilities rather than absolutes.<p>Very early, even before general public could get vaccines, all 3 of them told me to expect something like that - the virus mutates, it is expected to develop, the mutation for reproductive number going up is likely to occur - and it did - and the vaccines will likely be needing to adjust.<p>Even the highest levels of vaccination are no protection, and I am pretty tiny Israel in a sea of the largely unvaccinated is going to be swamped.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>maxerickson</author><text>The Delta variant emerged prior to widespread vaccination.</text></comment> |
26,819,222 | 26,817,736 | 1 | 3 | 26,787,048 | train | <story><title>We Keep Telling the Myth of a Renaissance Golden Age and Bad Middle Ages (2020)</title><url>https://www.exurbe.com/black-death-covid-and-why-we-keep-telling-the-myth-of-a-renaissance-golden-age-and-bad-middle-ages/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>piokoch</author><text>Popular culture is full of historical myths, another popular one is about cruelties of Holy Inquisition. Inquisition is painted (&quot;The Name of the Rose&quot; by Umberto Eco and others) as some sadistic group of catholic priests who were chasing innocent woman, torture them and then burn.<p>The truth is that Inquisition aim was exactly opposite: to stop chasing and burning innocent woman (and man) by all kind of petty lords and civil &quot;courts&quot; who used witchcraft accusation to get rid of opponents. This was done in the name of Catholic Church so Rome decided to do something about this and stop that practice by introduction of pretty modern standards of court proceedings - this way Inquisition was born.<p>Inquisition was punishing heavily those who gave false testimony and that cut number of witchcraft cases significantly.<p>In addition the punishment for heresy was rarely death penalty (about 1,5% of cases), which is less than 5 thousand executions during several centuries of Inquisition activity. Typical punishment was fasting, scourging or pilgrimage.<p>Coming back to Umberto Eco writing, he described in &quot;The Name of the Rose&quot; Dominican friar Bernard Gui as some bloody, mindless, cruel madman, medieval version of Doctor Mengele. While the truth was exactly the opposite - he was a decent and educated man.<p>Obviously historical research and facts are much less interesting than Eco pop writing, but we live in the pop age and believe in the pop &quot;truths&quot; so this is not a big surprise.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>goto11</author><text>I suspect you are getting into some myth-making yourself here. The inquisition was not originally focused on witch-hunting, it was focused on heretics - people challenging or denying the the doctrines of the Church. Bernardo Gui and The Name of the Rose is 14th century, while the large scale witch-hunts only started in the 15th century with the publishing of &quot;Malleus Maleficarum&quot;.<p>&gt; The truth is that Inquisition aim was exactly opposite: to stop chasing and burning innocent woman (and man) by all kind of petty lords and civil &quot;courts&quot; who used witchcraft accusation to get rid of opponents.<p>I suspect you made that up, given the anachronisms in your account. Do you have any legitimate source which confirm this narrative?<p>Bernard Gui was certainly an educated man, and he is described as as such in Name of The Rose. He also was responsible for a lot of torture and death, persecution of Judaism and so on. You can consider this &quot;decent&quot; or not pending on your personal values. The Name of the Rose Eco actually has a reasonable good treatment of the philosophy behind the heretic movement and the inquisition, despite the book being fiction.</text></comment> | <story><title>We Keep Telling the Myth of a Renaissance Golden Age and Bad Middle Ages (2020)</title><url>https://www.exurbe.com/black-death-covid-and-why-we-keep-telling-the-myth-of-a-renaissance-golden-age-and-bad-middle-ages/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>piokoch</author><text>Popular culture is full of historical myths, another popular one is about cruelties of Holy Inquisition. Inquisition is painted (&quot;The Name of the Rose&quot; by Umberto Eco and others) as some sadistic group of catholic priests who were chasing innocent woman, torture them and then burn.<p>The truth is that Inquisition aim was exactly opposite: to stop chasing and burning innocent woman (and man) by all kind of petty lords and civil &quot;courts&quot; who used witchcraft accusation to get rid of opponents. This was done in the name of Catholic Church so Rome decided to do something about this and stop that practice by introduction of pretty modern standards of court proceedings - this way Inquisition was born.<p>Inquisition was punishing heavily those who gave false testimony and that cut number of witchcraft cases significantly.<p>In addition the punishment for heresy was rarely death penalty (about 1,5% of cases), which is less than 5 thousand executions during several centuries of Inquisition activity. Typical punishment was fasting, scourging or pilgrimage.<p>Coming back to Umberto Eco writing, he described in &quot;The Name of the Rose&quot; Dominican friar Bernard Gui as some bloody, mindless, cruel madman, medieval version of Doctor Mengele. While the truth was exactly the opposite - he was a decent and educated man.<p>Obviously historical research and facts are much less interesting than Eco pop writing, but we live in the pop age and believe in the pop &quot;truths&quot; so this is not a big surprise.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>collaborative</author><text>This part of pop culture is interesting in that it all started with vivid depictions of torture and murder mass printed by the protestant Dutch (the depictions were made up but taken as truth)<p>This cultural trait of the west has remained intact until today. Popular TV still reinforces these claims from time to time<p>Powerful propaganda, that was</text></comment> |
23,557,872 | 23,557,851 | 1 | 3 | 23,551,983 | train | <story><title>Time to Upgrade Your Monitor</title><url>https://tonsky.me/blog/monitors/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ogre_codes</author><text>&gt; 1. No matter what operating system you&#x27;re on, you&#x27;ll eventually run into an application that doesn&#x27;t render in high dpi mode<p>You lost me right here on line 1.<p>If there are apps on MacOS that can&#x27;t handle high dpi mode, I haven&#x27;t run into them as a developer (or doing photo editing, video editing, plus whatever other hobbies I do). Also, I don&#x27;t have any trouble with plugging my highDPI MacBook into a crappy 1080p display at work.<p>&gt; 3. Configuring my preferred linux environment to work with 4k is either impossible or just super time consuming.<p>Things like this are exactly why I left Linux for MacOS. <i>I absolutely get why you might want to stick with Linux</i>, but this is a Linux + HighDPI issue (maybe a Windows + highDPI issue also), not a general case.<p>&gt; I genuinely think 4k provides no real benefit to me as a developer unless the screen is 27&quot; or higher, because increased pixel density just isn&#x27;t required.<p>You could say the same for any arbitrary DPI; 96dpi isn&#x27;t &quot;Required&quot;, we got by fine with 72dpi. It&#x27;s all about ergonomics as far as I&#x27;m concerned.</text></item><item><author>thomaslord</author><text>Hello! Person who actively dislikes 4k here. In my experience:<p>1. No matter what operating system you&#x27;re on, you&#x27;ll eventually run into an application that doesn&#x27;t render in high dpi mode. Depending on the OS that can mean it renders tiny, or that the whole things is super ugly and pixelated (WAY worse than on a native 1080p display)<p>2. If the 4k screen is on your laptop, good luck ever having a decent experience plugging in a 1080p monitor. Also good luck having anyone&#x27;s random spare monitor be 4k.<p>3. Configuring my preferred linux environment to work with 4k is either impossible or just super time consuming. I use i3 and it adds way more productivity to my workflow than &quot;My fonts are almost imperceptively sharper&quot; ever could<p>My setup is 2x24&quot; 1920x1200 monitors - so I get slightly more vertical pixels than true 1080p, but in the form of screen real estate rather than improved density. I also have 20&#x2F;20 vision as of the last time I was tested.<p>My argument in favor of 1080p is that I find text to just be... completely readable. At various sizes, in various fonts, whatever syntax highlighting colors you want to use. Can you see the pixels in the font on my 24&quot; 1080p monitor if you put your face 3&quot; from the screen? Absolutely. Do I notice them day to day? Absolutely not.<p>I genuinely think 4k provides no real benefit to me as a developer unless the screen is 27&quot; or higher, because increased pixel density just isn&#x27;t required. If more pixels meant slightly higher density but also came with more usable screen real estate, that&#x27;d be what made the difference for me.</text></item><item><author>the_af</author><text>The technical details are all right (or seem right to me, anyway), but this is too opinionated for my liking. No, you do not <i>need</i> a 4K monitor for software development. Some people might like them, some won&#x27;t. [edit&#x2F;clarification: someone rightfully pointed out that nobody will actively <i>dislike</i> a 4K monitor. I was unclear here: I meant &quot;some people won&#x27;t need them&quot; more than &quot;dislike them&quot;]<p>This sounds like when Jeff Atwood started that fad that if you didn&#x27;t have three external monitors (yes, <i>three</i>) then your setup was suboptimal and you should be ashamed of yourself.<p>No. Just no. The best developers I&#x27;ve known wrote code with tiny laptops with poor 1366x768 displays. They didn&#x27;t think it was an impediment. Now I&#x27;m typing this on one of these displays, and it&#x27;s terrible and I hate it (I usually use an external 1080p monitor), but it&#x27;s also no big deal.<p>A 1080p monitor is enough for me. I don&#x27;t need a 4K monitor. I like how it renders the font. We can argue all day about clear font rendering techniques and whatnot, but if it looks good enough for me and many others, why bother?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>renjimen</author><text>&gt; You lost me right here on line 1.<p>I&#x27;m on Windows and can confirm 1. is an issue. Windows lets users scale UIs to be readable at high DPI on small screens. Doesn&#x27;t work on all UIs (e.g. QGIS). So maybe not all OS&#x27;s, but two important ones.<p>&gt; You could say the same for any arbitrary DPI; 96dpi isn&#x27;t &quot;Required&quot;, we got by fine with 72dpi. It&#x27;s all about ergonomics as far as I&#x27;m concerned.<p>I think the point the parent is making is that human vision has limited resolution. I.e. for a given screen size &amp; distance from the screen, you cannot notice any difference in DPI past a point. The parent is suggesting that 1080p &amp; 27&quot; with a typical viewing distance is already higher resolution than the eye can resolve. Looking at my 1080p 27&quot; screen from a metre away with 20&#x2F;20 vision I am inclined to agree!</text></comment> | <story><title>Time to Upgrade Your Monitor</title><url>https://tonsky.me/blog/monitors/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ogre_codes</author><text>&gt; 1. No matter what operating system you&#x27;re on, you&#x27;ll eventually run into an application that doesn&#x27;t render in high dpi mode<p>You lost me right here on line 1.<p>If there are apps on MacOS that can&#x27;t handle high dpi mode, I haven&#x27;t run into them as a developer (or doing photo editing, video editing, plus whatever other hobbies I do). Also, I don&#x27;t have any trouble with plugging my highDPI MacBook into a crappy 1080p display at work.<p>&gt; 3. Configuring my preferred linux environment to work with 4k is either impossible or just super time consuming.<p>Things like this are exactly why I left Linux for MacOS. <i>I absolutely get why you might want to stick with Linux</i>, but this is a Linux + HighDPI issue (maybe a Windows + highDPI issue also), not a general case.<p>&gt; I genuinely think 4k provides no real benefit to me as a developer unless the screen is 27&quot; or higher, because increased pixel density just isn&#x27;t required.<p>You could say the same for any arbitrary DPI; 96dpi isn&#x27;t &quot;Required&quot;, we got by fine with 72dpi. It&#x27;s all about ergonomics as far as I&#x27;m concerned.</text></item><item><author>thomaslord</author><text>Hello! Person who actively dislikes 4k here. In my experience:<p>1. No matter what operating system you&#x27;re on, you&#x27;ll eventually run into an application that doesn&#x27;t render in high dpi mode. Depending on the OS that can mean it renders tiny, or that the whole things is super ugly and pixelated (WAY worse than on a native 1080p display)<p>2. If the 4k screen is on your laptop, good luck ever having a decent experience plugging in a 1080p monitor. Also good luck having anyone&#x27;s random spare monitor be 4k.<p>3. Configuring my preferred linux environment to work with 4k is either impossible or just super time consuming. I use i3 and it adds way more productivity to my workflow than &quot;My fonts are almost imperceptively sharper&quot; ever could<p>My setup is 2x24&quot; 1920x1200 monitors - so I get slightly more vertical pixels than true 1080p, but in the form of screen real estate rather than improved density. I also have 20&#x2F;20 vision as of the last time I was tested.<p>My argument in favor of 1080p is that I find text to just be... completely readable. At various sizes, in various fonts, whatever syntax highlighting colors you want to use. Can you see the pixels in the font on my 24&quot; 1080p monitor if you put your face 3&quot; from the screen? Absolutely. Do I notice them day to day? Absolutely not.<p>I genuinely think 4k provides no real benefit to me as a developer unless the screen is 27&quot; or higher, because increased pixel density just isn&#x27;t required. If more pixels meant slightly higher density but also came with more usable screen real estate, that&#x27;d be what made the difference for me.</text></item><item><author>the_af</author><text>The technical details are all right (or seem right to me, anyway), but this is too opinionated for my liking. No, you do not <i>need</i> a 4K monitor for software development. Some people might like them, some won&#x27;t. [edit&#x2F;clarification: someone rightfully pointed out that nobody will actively <i>dislike</i> a 4K monitor. I was unclear here: I meant &quot;some people won&#x27;t need them&quot; more than &quot;dislike them&quot;]<p>This sounds like when Jeff Atwood started that fad that if you didn&#x27;t have three external monitors (yes, <i>three</i>) then your setup was suboptimal and you should be ashamed of yourself.<p>No. Just no. The best developers I&#x27;ve known wrote code with tiny laptops with poor 1366x768 displays. They didn&#x27;t think it was an impediment. Now I&#x27;m typing this on one of these displays, and it&#x27;s terrible and I hate it (I usually use an external 1080p monitor), but it&#x27;s also no big deal.<p>A 1080p monitor is enough for me. I don&#x27;t need a 4K monitor. I like how it renders the font. We can argue all day about clear font rendering techniques and whatnot, but if it looks good enough for me and many others, why bother?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Polylactic_acid</author><text>I have been using a 4k monitor and 2 1080p monitors on linux for a while now. The current state of things is that hidpi works correctly on everything I have run including proprietary apps. I&#x27;m also surprised when my wine programs scale properly as well.<p>What does not work perfect is mixing hidpi and lowdpi screens. On wayland with wayland compatible apps it works fine but on X11 or with xwayland apps like electron it will not scale properly when you move the window to the other screen, it will scale to one screen and be wrong when moved over. Overall I don&#x27;t find this to be too much of an issue and when chrome gets proper wayland support the problem will be 99% solved.</text></comment> |
5,272,279 | 5,272,248 | 1 | 2 | 5,271,971 | train | <story><title>Firefox Will Soon Block Third-Party Cookies</title><url>http://yro.slashdot.org/story/13/02/23/2126246/firefox-will-soon-block-third-party-cookies?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>NelsonMinar</author><text>I blocked third party cookies in Chrome for awhile and finally gave up. It broke a surprising number of things, particularly Disqus embeds. Also the Instapaper bookmarklet although I admit that's a nerdy special case. Hopefully Firefox will have a way to let the user enable the few places where third party cookies are desired. That's a hard user interaction to get right.<p>(Disqus apparently now works without third party cookies: <a href="http://help.disqus.com/customer/portal/articles/466235-enabling-cookies" rel="nofollow">http://help.disqus.com/customer/portal/articles/466235-enabl...</a>)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Flenser</author><text><i>Hopefully Firefox will have a way to let the user enable the few places where third party cookies are desired</i><p>They do. The title of the bug is "Block cookies from sites I haven't visited" and the blog post[1] explains that any site with 1st party cookies can set 3rd party cookies on other sites. Apparently this is how Safari works too.<p>[1]<a href="http://webpolicy.org/2013/02/22/the-new-firefox-cookie-policy/" rel="nofollow">http://webpolicy.org/2013/02/22/the-new-firefox-cookie-polic...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Firefox Will Soon Block Third-Party Cookies</title><url>http://yro.slashdot.org/story/13/02/23/2126246/firefox-will-soon-block-third-party-cookies?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>NelsonMinar</author><text>I blocked third party cookies in Chrome for awhile and finally gave up. It broke a surprising number of things, particularly Disqus embeds. Also the Instapaper bookmarklet although I admit that's a nerdy special case. Hopefully Firefox will have a way to let the user enable the few places where third party cookies are desired. That's a hard user interaction to get right.<p>(Disqus apparently now works without third party cookies: <a href="http://help.disqus.com/customer/portal/articles/466235-enabling-cookies" rel="nofollow">http://help.disqus.com/customer/portal/articles/466235-enabl...</a>)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>chrisblackwell</author><text>To get sites like Disqus working while blocking third party cookies, just set an exception. I set exceptions for sites like google.com, disqus.com and evernote.com</text></comment> |
11,225,422 | 11,225,299 | 1 | 3 | 11,224,982 | train | <story><title>Source: Microsoft mulled an $8B bid for Slack, will focus on Skype instead</title><url>http://techcrunch.com/2016/03/04/source-microsoft-mulled-an-8-billion-bid-for-slack-will-focus-on-skype-instead/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>chollida1</author><text>I wonder if the outcome would have been different if Slack was incorporated outside of the US where Microsoft could use some of its non domiciled cash on the acquisition?<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ibtimes.com&#x2F;microsoft-admits-keeping-92-billion-offshore-avoid-paying-29-billion-us-taxes-1665938" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ibtimes.com&#x2F;microsoft-admits-keeping-92-billion-o...</a><p>Also interesting to think that Slack could be worth so much. Look at ICQ, Microsoft instant messenger, etc.<p>It seems as though slack like tools get eclipsed every 5-10 years as a new generation comes along with a new favorite tool.<p>I&#x27;d be interested in hearing from someone who would argue that slack will be a dominate communication tool in 5-8 years time and still exist in a meaningful way in 10 years time.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>lmm</author><text>Frankly Slack&#x27;s success is the utter failure of every alternative on the UX side. MSN messenger was perhaps wrong-footed by the shift to multi-device, but none of the other tools have such an excuse. It&#x27;s not a generational thing, it&#x27;s an incredible level of, there&#x27;s no other word, incompetence on the part of the makers of major messaging software (Skype in particular).</text></comment> | <story><title>Source: Microsoft mulled an $8B bid for Slack, will focus on Skype instead</title><url>http://techcrunch.com/2016/03/04/source-microsoft-mulled-an-8-billion-bid-for-slack-will-focus-on-skype-instead/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>chollida1</author><text>I wonder if the outcome would have been different if Slack was incorporated outside of the US where Microsoft could use some of its non domiciled cash on the acquisition?<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ibtimes.com&#x2F;microsoft-admits-keeping-92-billion-offshore-avoid-paying-29-billion-us-taxes-1665938" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ibtimes.com&#x2F;microsoft-admits-keeping-92-billion-o...</a><p>Also interesting to think that Slack could be worth so much. Look at ICQ, Microsoft instant messenger, etc.<p>It seems as though slack like tools get eclipsed every 5-10 years as a new generation comes along with a new favorite tool.<p>I&#x27;d be interested in hearing from someone who would argue that slack will be a dominate communication tool in 5-8 years time and still exist in a meaningful way in 10 years time.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>chishaku</author><text>&gt; ICQ, Microsoft instant messenger ... slack like tools...<p>I think people too often overlook Slack&#x27;s integrations. Yes, Slack is &quot;just&quot; chat or &quot;just&quot; a glorified IRC. Or is it?<p>I don&#x27;t know how long it would take me to integrate my Stripe, Github, Trello, and Zendesk streams into IRC to the point where I could set it and forget it. I think for business users at least, using this type of setup _effectively_ could make it hard to move away.</text></comment> |
34,390,941 | 34,390,927 | 1 | 2 | 34,387,834 | train | <story><title>Twitter API Page</title><url>https://developer.twitter.com/apitools</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>gardenhedge</author><text>Twitter was making no money off you so I doubt Elon Musk will care.</text></item><item><author>smcl</author><text>I don&#x27;t know whether killing Tweetbot was intentional or deliberate. However I was a pretty heavy user of Twitter - scrolling through my timeline on the tram, in cafes, on the toilet or whenever I had a spare moment. I assumed that the API outage was temporary so I didn&#x27;t download the &quot;official&quot; app, and figured I&#x27;d just wait a day or so for Tweetbot to be fixed. It&#x27;s now been ~3 days, I don&#x27;t miss not having Twitter, I don&#x27;t check it at all. I&#x27;m maybe missing a couple of @dril posts, podcast recommendations or funny images I could&#x27;ve shared with friends but that&#x27;s nothing.<p>So intentional or not, I&#x27;m effectively lost as a Twitter user. I&#x27;m not claiming to be particularly high value, but I don&#x27;t imagine my experience is unique. I&#x27;m quite far from a fan of Musk but I enjoyed my Twitter experience enough that his meddling was just an amusing side-show until now. It&#x27;s not a dramatic rage quit, just a sort of accidental &quot;oh I guess I didn&#x27;t need that&quot; realisation that I didn&#x27;t plan on having at all. Weird.<p>Interestingly if Twitter had said &quot;We are killing off Tweetbot, you have to use our app&quot; I <i>probably</i> would have just begrudgingly downloaded the Twitter app. But because they didn&#x27;t say anything, I just waited and went through the &quot;cold turkey&quot; period, where every now and then I&#x27;d instinctively tap the Tweetbot icon before thinking &quot;ah yeah it&#x27;s down, oh well&quot; - before completely losing that habit. What an own goal.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>superfrank</author><text>That thinking only works for so long. If you drive away enough users, eventually your network effect starts to weaken making it easier for even more users to leave.<p>I also think it&#x27;s an odd decision now that they&#x27;re exposing view count to users. Driving away users on third party clients will cause that number to drop.</text></comment> | <story><title>Twitter API Page</title><url>https://developer.twitter.com/apitools</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>gardenhedge</author><text>Twitter was making no money off you so I doubt Elon Musk will care.</text></item><item><author>smcl</author><text>I don&#x27;t know whether killing Tweetbot was intentional or deliberate. However I was a pretty heavy user of Twitter - scrolling through my timeline on the tram, in cafes, on the toilet or whenever I had a spare moment. I assumed that the API outage was temporary so I didn&#x27;t download the &quot;official&quot; app, and figured I&#x27;d just wait a day or so for Tweetbot to be fixed. It&#x27;s now been ~3 days, I don&#x27;t miss not having Twitter, I don&#x27;t check it at all. I&#x27;m maybe missing a couple of @dril posts, podcast recommendations or funny images I could&#x27;ve shared with friends but that&#x27;s nothing.<p>So intentional or not, I&#x27;m effectively lost as a Twitter user. I&#x27;m not claiming to be particularly high value, but I don&#x27;t imagine my experience is unique. I&#x27;m quite far from a fan of Musk but I enjoyed my Twitter experience enough that his meddling was just an amusing side-show until now. It&#x27;s not a dramatic rage quit, just a sort of accidental &quot;oh I guess I didn&#x27;t need that&quot; realisation that I didn&#x27;t plan on having at all. Weird.<p>Interestingly if Twitter had said &quot;We are killing off Tweetbot, you have to use our app&quot; I <i>probably</i> would have just begrudgingly downloaded the Twitter app. But because they didn&#x27;t say anything, I just waited and went through the &quot;cold turkey&quot; period, where every now and then I&#x27;d instinctively tap the Tweetbot icon before thinking &quot;ah yeah it&#x27;s down, oh well&quot; - before completely losing that habit. What an own goal.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>smcl</author><text>I thought about this, so I wasn&#x27;t seeing the sponsored tweets ... but I don&#x27;t see why they couldn&#x27;t have just modified the feed they provided to Tweetbot, Twitterific et al to include these ads.<p>I agree that Elon doesn&#x27;t care, but he probably <i>should</i> care that heavy users like me can be so quickly and easily lost. And in addition to being more bad PR, 3rd party developers will interpret this as a clear signal not to invest much in integrating with Twitter.</text></comment> |
11,707,027 | 11,706,301 | 1 | 3 | 11,705,893 | train | <story><title>The Bank Job – breaking a mobile banking application</title><url>https://boris.in/blog/2016/the-bank-job/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>jamies888888</author><text>It&#x27;s actually quite heart-breaking to see the extent gone to to reveal the bug, and then to disclose it in full, for zero reward.<p>Whether or not a bug bounty programme exists at a company, if a bug this severe comes through the door, it should warrant a reward.</text></comment> | <story><title>The Bank Job – breaking a mobile banking application</title><url>https://boris.in/blog/2016/the-bank-job/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>LukeB_UK</author><text>Cached copy because the site seems to be struggling: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;archive.is&#x2F;2FN8G" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;archive.is&#x2F;2FN8G</a></text></comment> |
37,255,290 | 37,254,241 | 1 | 3 | 37,253,035 | train | <story><title>FreeBSD on Firecracker</title><url>https://www.usenix.org/publications/loginonline/freebsd-firecracker</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>eddythompson80</author><text>Google is moving away from gvisor as well.<p>The &quot;process sandbox&quot; wars are over. Everybody lost, hypervisors won. That&#x27;s it. It feels incredibly wasteful after all. Hypervisors don&#x27;t share mm, scheduler, etc. It&#x27;s a lot of wasted resources. Google came in with gvisor at the last minute to try to say &quot;no, sandboxes aren&#x27;t dead. Look at our approach with gvisor&quot;. They lost too and are now moving away from it.</text></item><item><author>monocasa</author><text>Does google? I know they use gvisor in production, which is ultimately enforced by a normal kernel (with a ton of sandboxing on top of it).</text></item><item><author>NovemberWhiskey</author><text>There&#x27;s no way an &quot;enterprise grade&quot; cloud vendor like AWS would allow co-tenancy of containers (for ECS, Lambda etc) from different customers within a single VM - it&#x27;s the reason Firecracker exists.</text></item><item><author>garganzol</author><text>I never really realized that Firecracker VM is a full-blown machine and not just some sort of a Linux container tech. At first, it may sound like an ineffective approach, but if you take a closer look on a real-world usage example such as fly.io, you will be surprised: micro-VMs are very small and capable.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Rapzid</author><text>Really? Has gvisor ever been popped? Has there ever even been a single high-profile compromise caused by a container escape? Shared hosting was a thing and considered &quot;safe enough&quot; for decades and that&#x27;s all process isolation.<p>Can&#x27;t help but feel the security concerns are overblown. To support my claim; Well, Google IS using gvisor as part of their GKE sandboxing security..</text></comment> | <story><title>FreeBSD on Firecracker</title><url>https://www.usenix.org/publications/loginonline/freebsd-firecracker</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>eddythompson80</author><text>Google is moving away from gvisor as well.<p>The &quot;process sandbox&quot; wars are over. Everybody lost, hypervisors won. That&#x27;s it. It feels incredibly wasteful after all. Hypervisors don&#x27;t share mm, scheduler, etc. It&#x27;s a lot of wasted resources. Google came in with gvisor at the last minute to try to say &quot;no, sandboxes aren&#x27;t dead. Look at our approach with gvisor&quot;. They lost too and are now moving away from it.</text></item><item><author>monocasa</author><text>Does google? I know they use gvisor in production, which is ultimately enforced by a normal kernel (with a ton of sandboxing on top of it).</text></item><item><author>NovemberWhiskey</author><text>There&#x27;s no way an &quot;enterprise grade&quot; cloud vendor like AWS would allow co-tenancy of containers (for ECS, Lambda etc) from different customers within a single VM - it&#x27;s the reason Firecracker exists.</text></item><item><author>garganzol</author><text>I never really realized that Firecracker VM is a full-blown machine and not just some sort of a Linux container tech. At first, it may sound like an ineffective approach, but if you take a closer look on a real-world usage example such as fly.io, you will be surprised: micro-VMs are very small and capable.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>lima</author><text>&gt; <i>Google is moving away from gvisor as well.</i><p>I&#x27;ve been wondering about this - are they really?</text></comment> |
39,347,647 | 39,345,886 | 1 | 2 | 39,342,887 | train | <story><title>Understanding Complexity Like an Engineer – The Case of the Ladybird Browser</title><url>https://t-shaped.nl/understanding-complexity-like-an-engineer-the-case-of-the-ladybird-browser</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ofrzeta</author><text>Related (chat with Andreas Kling about SerenityOS and Ladybird):<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=36620450">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=36620450</a><p>However I don&#x27;t understand why many people are longing for Ladybird as another free browser. There are already some and Firefox is losing marketshare every day. So please do use it.<p>Ok, I guess Mozilla Foundation&#x27;s running the Firefox project is not to everyones liking, so that would be a valid reason. But not to throw out the baby with the bathwater.<p>Firefox is a great browser and the only reason I sometimes use Chrome is that more and more sites require Chrome (e.g. Teams).</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>NoboruWataya</author><text>I think it&#x27;s more excitement about the <i>idea that it is possible</i> to write a web browser from scratch, than about this specific browser. This is just one of the most promising implementations of that idea.<p>I am very much team Firefox and think it is important to protect and promote it as much as possible. But I don&#x27;t think the attention that people are giving to Ladybird would otherwise be dedicated to Firefox. Maybe when Ladybird gets more functional and stable they might become competitors but not right now.<p>IMO it is exactly because building a fully featured browser from scratch is considered basically impossible today, that we so desperately need Firefox to succeed.</text></comment> | <story><title>Understanding Complexity Like an Engineer – The Case of the Ladybird Browser</title><url>https://t-shaped.nl/understanding-complexity-like-an-engineer-the-case-of-the-ladybird-browser</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ofrzeta</author><text>Related (chat with Andreas Kling about SerenityOS and Ladybird):<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=36620450">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=36620450</a><p>However I don&#x27;t understand why many people are longing for Ladybird as another free browser. There are already some and Firefox is losing marketshare every day. So please do use it.<p>Ok, I guess Mozilla Foundation&#x27;s running the Firefox project is not to everyones liking, so that would be a valid reason. But not to throw out the baby with the bathwater.<p>Firefox is a great browser and the only reason I sometimes use Chrome is that more and more sites require Chrome (e.g. Teams).</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>apex_sloth</author><text>Side note:
Teams works for me in firefox on linux if I change the UserAgent with this add-on:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;mybrowseraddon.com&#x2F;custom-useragent-string.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;mybrowseraddon.com&#x2F;custom-useragent-string.html</a><p>For these urls<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;teams.microsoft.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;teams.microsoft.com&#x2F;</a>
<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;statics.teams.cdn.office.net&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;statics.teams.cdn.office.net&#x2F;</a><p>To
Mozilla&#x2F;5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit&#x2F;537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome&#x2F;85.0.4183.102 Safari&#x2F;537.36 Edg&#x2F;85.0.564.51</text></comment> |
37,601,424 | 37,599,651 | 1 | 2 | 37,597,165 | train | <story><title>Call to shut down Bristol schools’ use of app to ‘monitor’ pupils and families</title><url>https://www.theguardian.com/education/2023/sep/21/calls-to-shut-down-bristol-schools-use-of-think-family-education-app-pupils-and-families</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>limbicsystem</author><text>Can we also have a discussion about the &#x27;normal&#x27; behaviour monitoring tools like Classcharts that are used by pretty much every school in the UK? These collect fine-grained data about behaviour throughout the day and link it both to the child but also the people that are near that child. It operates all across the child&#x27;s school career. I&#x27;ve tried to opt my kids out of this but it&#x27;s really hard. At best I think they have stopped logging their behaviour but they are still in the data as a &#x27;network&#x27; influence. Classcharts used to boast about how their AI could do behavioural profiling but that looked too creepy so now they just talk about how teachers can use the data for seating planning. I&#x27;m pretty sure that I could use the data to profile a child pretty effectively even after they have left school. God only knows what happens to the data or how it is secured - the school literally don&#x27;t care and think I&#x27;m crazy for even asking.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>didntcheck</author><text>Just had a watch of their demo video. One of the seating plan sliders allows you to cluster pupils by free school meals (i.e. socioeconomic class) or EAL status. Such wonderful technology!</text></comment> | <story><title>Call to shut down Bristol schools’ use of app to ‘monitor’ pupils and families</title><url>https://www.theguardian.com/education/2023/sep/21/calls-to-shut-down-bristol-schools-use-of-think-family-education-app-pupils-and-families</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>limbicsystem</author><text>Can we also have a discussion about the &#x27;normal&#x27; behaviour monitoring tools like Classcharts that are used by pretty much every school in the UK? These collect fine-grained data about behaviour throughout the day and link it both to the child but also the people that are near that child. It operates all across the child&#x27;s school career. I&#x27;ve tried to opt my kids out of this but it&#x27;s really hard. At best I think they have stopped logging their behaviour but they are still in the data as a &#x27;network&#x27; influence. Classcharts used to boast about how their AI could do behavioural profiling but that looked too creepy so now they just talk about how teachers can use the data for seating planning. I&#x27;m pretty sure that I could use the data to profile a child pretty effectively even after they have left school. God only knows what happens to the data or how it is secured - the school literally don&#x27;t care and think I&#x27;m crazy for even asking.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>kwhitefoot</author><text>I&#x27;m so glad I don&#x27;t have children in school in the UK. There seems to be so much going on that has nothing to do with education. I&#x27;m glad that when I was at school in the sixties and seventies in the UK none of that existed and teachers pretty much just taught.<p>How did this sort of thing creep into schools without anyone protesting?</text></comment> |
27,986,592 | 27,986,680 | 1 | 3 | 27,985,903 | train | <story><title>IPv6 Watch</title><url>https://ipv6.watch/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>fintler</author><text>A basic understanding of what an IPv6 world will look like really didn&#x27;t click for me until I read the IPv6 Address Planning book by Tom Coffeen. Before that, I really just saw it as IPv4 with longer addresses.<p>Once you dig into the details, you come to the realization that it&#x27;s a nearly complete reinvention of IPv4. Network planning looks quite different (especially when it comes to subnets) when you plan them with only IPv6 in mind.<p>Earlier this year, I was like:<p>&quot;Wow, Comcast gives me a &#x2F;60! That should be more address space than I could ever want or use.&quot;<p>Now, I&#x27;m thinking:<p>&quot;A &#x2F;60 is way too limited, I wish I had a &#x2F;52 or a &#x2F;56 instead -- why is Comcast so restrictive with giving out address space?&quot;<p>I&#x27;m currently reading the IPv6 for IPv4 Experts book to try to fill in more details:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;sites.google.com&#x2F;site&#x2F;yartikhiy&#x2F;home&#x2F;ipv6book" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;sites.google.com&#x2F;site&#x2F;yartikhiy&#x2F;home&#x2F;ipv6book</a><p>The more I read about it, the more I feel like I have a long way to go before I really get an intuitive understanding.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Scene_Cast2</author><text>Could you give a brief overview of your current understanding? I&#x27;m curious as to why &#x2F;60 would be too limited, and how it&#x27;s different from IPv4.</text></comment> | <story><title>IPv6 Watch</title><url>https://ipv6.watch/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>fintler</author><text>A basic understanding of what an IPv6 world will look like really didn&#x27;t click for me until I read the IPv6 Address Planning book by Tom Coffeen. Before that, I really just saw it as IPv4 with longer addresses.<p>Once you dig into the details, you come to the realization that it&#x27;s a nearly complete reinvention of IPv4. Network planning looks quite different (especially when it comes to subnets) when you plan them with only IPv6 in mind.<p>Earlier this year, I was like:<p>&quot;Wow, Comcast gives me a &#x2F;60! That should be more address space than I could ever want or use.&quot;<p>Now, I&#x27;m thinking:<p>&quot;A &#x2F;60 is way too limited, I wish I had a &#x2F;52 or a &#x2F;56 instead -- why is Comcast so restrictive with giving out address space?&quot;<p>I&#x27;m currently reading the IPv6 for IPv4 Experts book to try to fill in more details:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;sites.google.com&#x2F;site&#x2F;yartikhiy&#x2F;home&#x2F;ipv6book" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;sites.google.com&#x2F;site&#x2F;yartikhiy&#x2F;home&#x2F;ipv6book</a><p>The more I read about it, the more I feel like I have a long way to go before I really get an intuitive understanding.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>whoknowswhat11</author><text>They should have had either a smaller scope &#x2F; simpler extension to IPv4 with a better backwards compat story for IPv6 only clients (some have since shown up a bit).<p>Or really done the reinvent - there were some interesting ideas especially for folks with lots of link handoffs (ie cell phones driving down a road etc) - can&#x27;t find the write-up quickly.</text></comment> |
21,368,759 | 21,368,571 | 1 | 2 | 21,368,123 | train | <story><title>The evolution of the web, and a eulogy for XHTML2</title><url>https://www.devever.net/~hl/xhtml2</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>pgcj_poster</author><text>&gt; This is unsurprising given the total willingness and business incentive of major players such as Google to drive the applications use case and their comparative disinterest in the semantic hypertext use case<p>Indeed, I am consistently surprised at the document-display features that are still missing from web browsers that are increasingly preoccupied with serving as application runtimes.<p>The web was originally envisioned as a platform for scientists to share documents, but thanks to Google dropping MathML, there&#x27;s still no cross-browser, non-kludge way to display math.<p>Browsers still can&#x27;t justify text properly. Even with hyphenation (which iirc is still a problem in Chrome), the greedy algorithm used for splitting text across lines still results in too much space between words when justified.<p>There seems to be a complete lack of interest in Paged Media support, so if you want your web-page to be printable with nice formatting, you basically need to provide it as a PDF.<p>I&#x27;ve gotten to the point where I&#x27;m often happier to read something in-browser as a PDF than as a web-page. Sure, it can&#x27;t reflow properly, but at least it won&#x27;t have a 2-inch sticky header and make XHR requests to 10 different domains. My vision-impaired father reports that his text-to-speech software now works better with PDFs than with real web-pages. This is insanity.</text></comment> | <story><title>The evolution of the web, and a eulogy for XHTML2</title><url>https://www.devever.net/~hl/xhtml2</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>superkuh</author><text>That last paragraph absolutely nails it. Trying to re-implement the operating system as the browser is mutually exclusive with it being a good browser or standard for webpages.<p>&gt; <i>If anyone constructed a PDF, which was itself blank but, via embedded JavaScript, loaded parts of itself from a remote server, people would rightly balk and wonder what on earth the creator of this PDF was thinking — yet this is precisely the design of many “websites”. To put it simply, websites and webapps are not the same thing, nor should they be. Yet the conflation of a platform for hypertext and a platform for applications has confused thinking, and led developers with prodigious aptitude for JavaScript to mistakenly see mere websites of text as a like nail to their applications hammer.</i></text></comment> |
15,640,710 | 15,639,982 | 1 | 2 | 15,639,339 | train | <story><title>Limecv – A LaTeX CV Document Class</title><url>https://olivierpieters.be/projects/limecv</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Wehrdo</author><text>This may be an unpopular opinion, but I feel like LaTeX is not an efficient way to create a resume, unless you are very skilled with LaTeX macros and can essentially create your own &quot;template&quot;, or modify someone else&#x27;s. If you don&#x27;t have those skills, you end up with a very bland, &quot;stock LaTeX document&quot;-looking resume, of which half the LaTeX resumes I see people share look like.<p>I once tried to redo my resume in LaTeX, and after finding a decent-looking template, spent a lot of time fighting it to do simple things that weren&#x27;t built in, like add my GPA to my school listing. In the Limecv template, what if I don&#x27;t want the &quot;stats&quot; bars? Better go browse through a 2000-line template that I didn&#x27;t write to figure out how to remove them.<p>I ended up actually doing my resume in HTML&#x2F;CSS, which provided me the flexibility to lay things out exactly how I wanted, which was quite nice. The main difficulty I had was getting a consistent PDF layout, as Chrome&#x27;s PDF print is pretty much a black box that you have no control over.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>on_and_off</author><text>I used to write my resume in Latex. It is pretty satisfying to code and then compile a document and Latex does amazing things with a document.<p>However it has become more and more painful to edit it.<p>I have moved to a simple Google Document 3 years ago.<p>Reasons :<p>- I dont really need all these advanced Latex features, I am not writing a maths book.<p>- Docs has everything I need in order to make a resume (tbh I have considered doing it in Photoshop to have more graphical flair but never spent the time to do so)<p>- I can get feedback directly in the docs.<p>I am not going to spend the time to do it in Latex again</text></comment> | <story><title>Limecv – A LaTeX CV Document Class</title><url>https://olivierpieters.be/projects/limecv</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Wehrdo</author><text>This may be an unpopular opinion, but I feel like LaTeX is not an efficient way to create a resume, unless you are very skilled with LaTeX macros and can essentially create your own &quot;template&quot;, or modify someone else&#x27;s. If you don&#x27;t have those skills, you end up with a very bland, &quot;stock LaTeX document&quot;-looking resume, of which half the LaTeX resumes I see people share look like.<p>I once tried to redo my resume in LaTeX, and after finding a decent-looking template, spent a lot of time fighting it to do simple things that weren&#x27;t built in, like add my GPA to my school listing. In the Limecv template, what if I don&#x27;t want the &quot;stats&quot; bars? Better go browse through a 2000-line template that I didn&#x27;t write to figure out how to remove them.<p>I ended up actually doing my resume in HTML&#x2F;CSS, which provided me the flexibility to lay things out exactly how I wanted, which was quite nice. The main difficulty I had was getting a consistent PDF layout, as Chrome&#x27;s PDF print is pretty much a black box that you have no control over.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>michaelmior</author><text>While some LaTeX templates are more unwieldy, in the case of Limecv, if you don&#x27;t want the stats bars, just don&#x27;t include the macro that adds them. It&#x27;s not always so terrible.</text></comment> |
39,505,312 | 39,505,322 | 1 | 2 | 39,504,703 | train | <story><title>Microsoft is driving users away</title><url>https://christitus.com/microsoft-is-driving-users-away/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>datagrimx</author><text>For full Disclosure, I once upon was a software engineer at Microsoft. I witnessed first hand the evil decisions around Windows. I left Microsoft in 2006 but I am still part of the Alumni Network.<p>IMO Microsoft can gain users back by:<p>* Not requiring a Microsoft Account
* Ending all data&#x2F;telemetry collection
* Not forcing Edge on its users
* Stop releasing improved UI updates every week
* Make bash, zsh, ... native for Windows
* Taking the AI out and making it an optional extension
* Making the Microsoft Store optional<p>A *plus* would be to open source Windows.<p>I would be interested in hearing your pet peeves.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>timetopay</author><text>It&#x27;s wild how <i>annoying</i> Windows UX can be when it&#x27;s something that microsoft wants you to use, to help improve their services revenue.<p>TBH, I&#x27;m on board with some of the negatives you listed, but I feel like the entire enthusiast community has been screaming about edge, telemetry, and start menu search for years. Microsoft seems determined not to listen, it&#x27;s astonishing.</text></comment> | <story><title>Microsoft is driving users away</title><url>https://christitus.com/microsoft-is-driving-users-away/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>datagrimx</author><text>For full Disclosure, I once upon was a software engineer at Microsoft. I witnessed first hand the evil decisions around Windows. I left Microsoft in 2006 but I am still part of the Alumni Network.<p>IMO Microsoft can gain users back by:<p>* Not requiring a Microsoft Account
* Ending all data&#x2F;telemetry collection
* Not forcing Edge on its users
* Stop releasing improved UI updates every week
* Make bash, zsh, ... native for Windows
* Taking the AI out and making it an optional extension
* Making the Microsoft Store optional<p>A *plus* would be to open source Windows.<p>I would be interested in hearing your pet peeves.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>TheLoafOfBread</author><text>&gt; Make bash, zsh, ... native for Windows<p>Why? There is PowerShell, able to run on Linux and MacOS. And compared to Bash it is actually readable language.</text></comment> |
17,526,421 | 17,526,378 | 1 | 2 | 17,526,016 | train | <story><title>How the BBC and ITV are fixing delays on World Cup live streams</title><url>http://www.wired.co.uk/article/england-vs-croatia-live-stream-bbc-iplayer-itv</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>untog</author><text>It&#x27;s really interesting to see the tech being deployed to fix this problem. But it also amazes me how complicated we&#x27;ve managed to make things. In the UK in particular - just a few years ago the vast majority of people received their TV through over-the-air broadcast. It&#x27;s instant and scales infinitely, kind of beautiful simplicity, technically speaking.<p>Sports are a good test case, not just for latency but sheer demand. I worry that we&#x27;ll face some kind of natural disaster in the not too distant future that&#x27;ll make us wonder why we abandoned the resilience of OTA broadcast.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>laumars</author><text>I don&#x27;t disagree with your point <i>per se</i> but you are over simplifying things. Here is my take after working in the industry:<p>&gt; <i>It&#x27;s instant</i><p>It isn&#x27;t. There are still latency delays with digital encoders, transmitter hops, etc even with OTA signals. It&#x27;s just the equipment has gotten so good over the years that the latency has been pushed right down but it did used to be a lot worse. The same will happen with IP streaming given time.<p>&gt; <i>scales infinitely</i><p>It doesn&#x27;t. You need geostationary satellites &#x2F; multiple transmission towers, and all that only provides you a finite number of channels. In fact digital streams are actually much cheaper to scale up, which is why so many broadcasters are moving into this territory (and why I currently have a job)<p>&gt; <i>kind of beautiful simplicity, technically speaking</i><p>Superficially yes. But if you spend any amount of time around OTA broadcasters (as I have) you&#x27;ll see there is a hell of a lot of complexity hidden from sight. In fact since OTA broadcasts are still digital streams served from content stored in digital formats, a lot of the technology used for internet streaming is the same for OTA broadcasts. So there is an argument for the simplicity of just serving that digital stream via IP rather than radio waves (or are you suggesting we go back to analogue as well? Because that also introduces a lot of complexity but of a different nature, like having to giant robotic cabs filled with hundreds of magnetic taps that all have to be wound to the right point; and a dependency on the postal service delivering those tapes since you now cannot just download assets from the content owners).<p>I&#x27;m not saying there isn&#x27;t a lot of new complexity with IP streaming but I do think it&#x27;s more pronounced because:<p>1&#x2F; we work in IT so follow the technology more closely than we do for OTA broadcasting<p>2&#x2F; it&#x27;s still a relatively young industry so there are a lot warts that haven&#x27;t been cleaned up (much like how OTA broadcasting used to be a lot less polished when the technology there was still evolving).</text></comment> | <story><title>How the BBC and ITV are fixing delays on World Cup live streams</title><url>http://www.wired.co.uk/article/england-vs-croatia-live-stream-bbc-iplayer-itv</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>untog</author><text>It&#x27;s really interesting to see the tech being deployed to fix this problem. But it also amazes me how complicated we&#x27;ve managed to make things. In the UK in particular - just a few years ago the vast majority of people received their TV through over-the-air broadcast. It&#x27;s instant and scales infinitely, kind of beautiful simplicity, technically speaking.<p>Sports are a good test case, not just for latency but sheer demand. I worry that we&#x27;ll face some kind of natural disaster in the not too distant future that&#x27;ll make us wonder why we abandoned the resilience of OTA broadcast.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>outworlder</author><text>Indeed, that&#x27;s a bit silly. WE are calling these things &#x27;broadcast&#x27;, while most implementations are really unicast. This works really great for things like netflix, where you can start watching whatever you want, independently.<p>But in this case we really want actual broadcasts. Talk about square pegs and round holes...</text></comment> |
11,840,169 | 11,839,904 | 1 | 3 | 11,839,303 | train | <story><title>Headless Chrome is coming soon</title><url>https://twitter.com/samccone/status/739166801427210240</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>jakozaur</author><text>That would be so awesome. The current alternatives:<p>1. Use PhantomJS: It easy to script, but it lags over real browser by few years and development is stagnant. Many real website doesn&#x27;t work in PhantomJS.<p>2. Use Chrome&#x2F;Firefox xvfb. You have real browser, but scripting is hard. E.g. even hello world examples like make a thumbnail of a website takes a lot of time to get right.<p>According to some rumors, headless Chrome existed before even Chrome was released to the public. Google use it to do web scraping. However, though headless browsers are great for developers, they are also great for spammers and ad fraud. So the main developer likely has conflict of interests whether to invest resources into making headless Chrome public.</text></comment> | <story><title>Headless Chrome is coming soon</title><url>https://twitter.com/samccone/status/739166801427210240</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>frik</author><text>From the bug comments:<p><pre><code> headless: Implement screenshot capturing
(based on patch from skyostil@, also sets default window
size to 800x600 to enable basic snapshot support)
With the --screenshot option, headless shell will save a
PNG screenshot of the loaded page.</code></pre></text></comment> |
19,864,116 | 19,863,268 | 1 | 2 | 19,858,470 | train | <story><title>CBS censors a ‘Good Fight’ segment whose topic was Chinese censorship</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/07/arts/television/cbs-good-fight-chinese-censorship.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>gscott</author><text>The fact that hundreds of thousands of Muslims are put into concentration camps and the world does nothing is amazing. I think that is how bad the world wants cheap stuff.</text></item><item><author>nickysielicki</author><text>I feel like free speech has never been under such attack. Culturally, we don&#x27;t care about it, we find offensive content more offensive than censorship of offensive content.<p>Politically, they can censor you completely if they want to by hitting you with an NSL. EFF says that happens 60 times a day. The most hard hitting journalist in the west, Julian Assange, was just put in jail.<p>I&#x27;m scared about the future. It&#x27;s not any particular point, it&#x27;s just the movement overall.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>icelancer</author><text>I feel the same way about North Korean work camps. People are not going to look kindly at this time in history when the world just allowed that to happen.</text></comment> | <story><title>CBS censors a ‘Good Fight’ segment whose topic was Chinese censorship</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/07/arts/television/cbs-good-fight-chinese-censorship.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>gscott</author><text>The fact that hundreds of thousands of Muslims are put into concentration camps and the world does nothing is amazing. I think that is how bad the world wants cheap stuff.</text></item><item><author>nickysielicki</author><text>I feel like free speech has never been under such attack. Culturally, we don&#x27;t care about it, we find offensive content more offensive than censorship of offensive content.<p>Politically, they can censor you completely if they want to by hitting you with an NSL. EFF says that happens 60 times a day. The most hard hitting journalist in the west, Julian Assange, was just put in jail.<p>I&#x27;m scared about the future. It&#x27;s not any particular point, it&#x27;s just the movement overall.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ativzzz</author><text>Nazi Germany had concentration camps as early as 1933 (Dachau) and nobody did anything either until they started invasions and a war.<p>Most genocides have happened as the world watches and says &quot;oh wow that&#x27;s terrible we should do something&quot; and then do nothing. This is simply how humans behave on an international scale. There is nothing &#x27;amazing&#x27; about it.</text></comment> |
6,826,175 | 6,825,994 | 1 | 2 | 6,825,534 | train | <story><title>How Academia Resembles a Drug Gang</title><url>http://alexandreafonso.wordpress.com/2013/11/21/how-academia-resembles-a-drug-gang/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>lsc</author><text>the interesting bit about academia, though, is that the &quot;wealth&quot; you accumulate at the top isn&#x27;t money; it&#x27;s prestige. To the best of my knowledge, if you are president of a good uni, you are looking at like half a mil a year. Undoubtedly good money, but hardly &quot;rockstar level&quot;<p>In fact, I&#x27;d argue that business management is closer to a &quot;tournament-like profession&quot; - guys on the bottom of the management scale make nothing compared to even a mediocre Engineer, and get no respect. Folks a the top of that scale laugh at your puny half a million a year.<p>(Note, I wouldn&#x27;t call business management a tournament-like profession... just that the difference between the bottom and the top is larger, I think, than it is in academia.)<p>The other problem here is that okay, you get your PhD in hope of getting a teaching gig. sure, okay, let&#x27;s accept that. If you join a gang as a foot-solder, you do it to get to the top. Let&#x27;s accept that, too, for this discussion.<p>The problem is that if you are a failed gangster, your &#x2F;best case&#x2F; is to end up nearly unemployable and living with your mom.<p>If you are a &quot;failed&quot; PhD? which is to say, you get your PhD and you fail to get a teaching gig? There are all sorts of other jobs who would love to have you. Yeah, you might not get paid all that much more than others who stopped with a bachelor degree, but more than half the time, that&#x27;s more money (even if it&#x27;s not more stability) than a professor can expect to make.<p>Really, I think teaching higher education is a &#x27;prestige job&#x27; more than a &#x27;tournament job&#x27;</text></item><item><author>unabridged</author><text>Drug lord was chosen so they could plaster Breaking Bad pictures and get links, but it resembles any other tournament-like profession. Its like being a musician or actor, unlimited money at the very top for the few who make it and extremely large number of people at the bottom trying to make it just scraping by.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>tensor</author><text>Speaking personally, I went into academia to do research above all else. I didn&#x27;t want to teach. Money and prestige* were not major goals. And I certainly didn&#x27;t want to be a president of a university. Nobody cares about that.<p>* Most researchers do dream of making great discoveries, or proving world changing theorems. In this sense I guess I too want prestige. But it has to be because of actual achievement, not just perceived achieved. E.g. fame for the sake of fame.</text></comment> | <story><title>How Academia Resembles a Drug Gang</title><url>http://alexandreafonso.wordpress.com/2013/11/21/how-academia-resembles-a-drug-gang/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>lsc</author><text>the interesting bit about academia, though, is that the &quot;wealth&quot; you accumulate at the top isn&#x27;t money; it&#x27;s prestige. To the best of my knowledge, if you are president of a good uni, you are looking at like half a mil a year. Undoubtedly good money, but hardly &quot;rockstar level&quot;<p>In fact, I&#x27;d argue that business management is closer to a &quot;tournament-like profession&quot; - guys on the bottom of the management scale make nothing compared to even a mediocre Engineer, and get no respect. Folks a the top of that scale laugh at your puny half a million a year.<p>(Note, I wouldn&#x27;t call business management a tournament-like profession... just that the difference between the bottom and the top is larger, I think, than it is in academia.)<p>The other problem here is that okay, you get your PhD in hope of getting a teaching gig. sure, okay, let&#x27;s accept that. If you join a gang as a foot-solder, you do it to get to the top. Let&#x27;s accept that, too, for this discussion.<p>The problem is that if you are a failed gangster, your &#x2F;best case&#x2F; is to end up nearly unemployable and living with your mom.<p>If you are a &quot;failed&quot; PhD? which is to say, you get your PhD and you fail to get a teaching gig? There are all sorts of other jobs who would love to have you. Yeah, you might not get paid all that much more than others who stopped with a bachelor degree, but more than half the time, that&#x27;s more money (even if it&#x27;s not more stability) than a professor can expect to make.<p>Really, I think teaching higher education is a &#x27;prestige job&#x27; more than a &#x27;tournament job&#x27;</text></item><item><author>unabridged</author><text>Drug lord was chosen so they could plaster Breaking Bad pictures and get links, but it resembles any other tournament-like profession. Its like being a musician or actor, unlimited money at the very top for the few who make it and extremely large number of people at the bottom trying to make it just scraping by.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>seanmcdirmid</author><text>I did not get my PhD to get a teaching gig and I&#x27;m exactly where I want to be: a foot soldier in an industrial research lab (just please don&#x27;t call Ballmer a druglord).<p>Who the heck wants to be a University President? I&#x27;m frankly surprised John Hennessy finds being Stanford president an interesting use of his time, but maybe I&#x27;m just naive.</text></comment> |
15,828,610 | 15,828,628 | 1 | 2 | 15,826,953 | train | <story><title>AT&T wants you to forget that it blocked FaceTime over cellular in 2012</title><url>https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2017/12/att-says-it-never-blocked-apps-fails-to-mention-how-it-blocked-facetime/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>chiefalchemist</author><text>But that&#x27;s the bigger issue isnt it? That is we keep using bandaids when the root problem is lack of competition.<p>Has anyone heard if Google is considering restarting Fiber? I was always under the impression that they hope the implied competition was enough. It had seemed to be working. But then it was squashed.</text></item><item><author>tech2</author><text>It&#x27;s not just Facetime, there&#x27;s all manner of related stuff. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.freepress.net&#x2F;blog&#x2F;2017&#x2F;04&#x2F;25&#x2F;net-neutrality-violations-brief-history" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.freepress.net&#x2F;blog&#x2F;2017&#x2F;04&#x2F;25&#x2F;net-neutrality-vio...</a><p>Each time I see a NN post I&#x27;m generally too late and it&#x27;s been run rampant with defenders of &quot;light touch&quot; regulation... no, just no. If the companies had competition, then, maybe. Sadly they&#x27;re entrenched monopolies (and more are merging each day, further limiting choice). NN is the way to go.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Denzel</author><text>I don&#x27;t claim to know what Google&#x27;s motivation is&#x2F;was with Fiber. But isn&#x27;t it funny that the company with the most money, one of the best brands, some of the best engineering talent, and access to the deepest bench of lawyers... failed.<p>You can&#x27;t align the stars in a straighter line than Google. And yet, they gave up. Why?<p>At this point, I&#x27;m rooting for SpaceX&#x27;s Starlink. At least they have a chance, and a history of fantastic achievements. I trust them to follow through more than Google.</text></comment> | <story><title>AT&T wants you to forget that it blocked FaceTime over cellular in 2012</title><url>https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2017/12/att-says-it-never-blocked-apps-fails-to-mention-how-it-blocked-facetime/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>chiefalchemist</author><text>But that&#x27;s the bigger issue isnt it? That is we keep using bandaids when the root problem is lack of competition.<p>Has anyone heard if Google is considering restarting Fiber? I was always under the impression that they hope the implied competition was enough. It had seemed to be working. But then it was squashed.</text></item><item><author>tech2</author><text>It&#x27;s not just Facetime, there&#x27;s all manner of related stuff. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.freepress.net&#x2F;blog&#x2F;2017&#x2F;04&#x2F;25&#x2F;net-neutrality-violations-brief-history" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.freepress.net&#x2F;blog&#x2F;2017&#x2F;04&#x2F;25&#x2F;net-neutrality-vio...</a><p>Each time I see a NN post I&#x27;m generally too late and it&#x27;s been run rampant with defenders of &quot;light touch&quot; regulation... no, just no. If the companies had competition, then, maybe. Sadly they&#x27;re entrenched monopolies (and more are merging each day, further limiting choice). NN is the way to go.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>marcell</author><text>You have to go city-by-city to get approval. It&#x27;s painful even for a company with infinite money like Google. And Comcast will (also with infinite money) will fight you city-by-city.<p>Not only is city-by-city approval painful, it is also slow. Think how long it takes a city council to approve an apartment building. Now thing how long it will take them to approve a city-wide project like installing fiber lines.<p>Look at the Wikipedia page: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Google_Fiber" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Google_Fiber</a> It&#x27;s a list of cities. Each one of which had to individually approve Google Fiber.<p>This is why there is no competition for broadband.</text></comment> |
37,270,076 | 37,268,831 | 1 | 3 | 37,266,957 | train | <story><title>Giving up the iPad-only travel dream</title><url>https://sixcolors.com/post/2023/08/why-i-gave-up-on-the-ipad-only-dream/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>pavel_lishin</author><text>&gt; <i>You&#x27;d think depending on the person, they&#x27;d travel with EITHER their phone OR their iPad OR their laptop, depending on whether they are private people, non-technical &quot;creatives&quot; or IT&#x2F;technical&#x2F;dev folks, but instead, everybody appears to be travelling with ALL THREE devices instead</i><p>I can&#x27;t answer a call or text my family with my laptop while I&#x27;m on the go. I can&#x27;t plug my macbook into a car to use maps or play music. I can&#x27;t use my macbook on the beach to take a picture of my child playing in the surf. I can&#x27;t really use my phone to type out anything shorter than a quick text.<p>(Caveat, for the pedants: yes, I <i>could</i> do all those things, but with terrible inconvenience.)</text></item><item><author>jll29</author><text>The key sentence here is:<p>&gt; This is the fundamental difference between the Mac (a platform that basically lets developers and users do anything they want) and the iPad (where if Apple doesn’t specifically allow it, it can’t be done).<p>Apple (since Lisa&#x2F;Mac, after Apple II, which had an open architecture) likes appliances and to control the user experience, so the iPad is &quot;more Apple&quot; than Macs are.<p>Whenever I am waiting at airports, I have to grin at how much stuff people are carrying nowadays: it&#x27;s not 2, it&#x27;s 3 full-blown computing devices. First there was the mobile phone (which then just a device to call), then came the laptop,
then the mobile phone became a computer with the iPhone and Android, and finally, the iPad appeared to fill a middle position. You&#x27;d think depending on the person, they&#x27;d travel with EITHER their phone OR their iPad OR their laptop, depending on whether they are private people, non-technical &quot;creatives&quot; or IT&#x2F;technical&#x2F;dev folks, but instead, everybody appears to be travelling with ALL THREE devices instead. That&#x27;s because - as stated in the article - there are known limit, or people are worried that they may need all devices for particular use cases or data kept on them.<p>At least - thanks to the EU - soon they can all share the same USB-C charger.<p>I tried working with an iPad (and later iPad Pro) but eventually got back to a Ubuntu Linux laptop (ThinkPad X1 Nano), which at 970 grams is also lighter than my iPad Pro 10&quot;.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mvdtnz</author><text>Maybe it&#x27;s an American thing but I don&#x27;t think I know a single person who owns or uses an ipad, with the exception of rich parents who use them exclusively to distract children. I certainly don&#x27;t notice a lot of ipad users in airports or trains.</text></comment> | <story><title>Giving up the iPad-only travel dream</title><url>https://sixcolors.com/post/2023/08/why-i-gave-up-on-the-ipad-only-dream/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>pavel_lishin</author><text>&gt; <i>You&#x27;d think depending on the person, they&#x27;d travel with EITHER their phone OR their iPad OR their laptop, depending on whether they are private people, non-technical &quot;creatives&quot; or IT&#x2F;technical&#x2F;dev folks, but instead, everybody appears to be travelling with ALL THREE devices instead</i><p>I can&#x27;t answer a call or text my family with my laptop while I&#x27;m on the go. I can&#x27;t plug my macbook into a car to use maps or play music. I can&#x27;t use my macbook on the beach to take a picture of my child playing in the surf. I can&#x27;t really use my phone to type out anything shorter than a quick text.<p>(Caveat, for the pedants: yes, I <i>could</i> do all those things, but with terrible inconvenience.)</text></item><item><author>jll29</author><text>The key sentence here is:<p>&gt; This is the fundamental difference between the Mac (a platform that basically lets developers and users do anything they want) and the iPad (where if Apple doesn’t specifically allow it, it can’t be done).<p>Apple (since Lisa&#x2F;Mac, after Apple II, which had an open architecture) likes appliances and to control the user experience, so the iPad is &quot;more Apple&quot; than Macs are.<p>Whenever I am waiting at airports, I have to grin at how much stuff people are carrying nowadays: it&#x27;s not 2, it&#x27;s 3 full-blown computing devices. First there was the mobile phone (which then just a device to call), then came the laptop,
then the mobile phone became a computer with the iPhone and Android, and finally, the iPad appeared to fill a middle position. You&#x27;d think depending on the person, they&#x27;d travel with EITHER their phone OR their iPad OR their laptop, depending on whether they are private people, non-technical &quot;creatives&quot; or IT&#x2F;technical&#x2F;dev folks, but instead, everybody appears to be travelling with ALL THREE devices instead. That&#x27;s because - as stated in the article - there are known limit, or people are worried that they may need all devices for particular use cases or data kept on them.<p>At least - thanks to the EU - soon they can all share the same USB-C charger.<p>I tried working with an iPad (and later iPad Pro) but eventually got back to a Ubuntu Linux laptop (ThinkPad X1 Nano), which at 970 grams is also lighter than my iPad Pro 10&quot;.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>makeitdouble</author><text>Parent&#x27;s point still stands as in a decent ecosystem you&#x27;d get down to at most two.<p>For instance a phone and a Surface Pro covers 100% of the use cases, there&#x27;s no gap for a 3rd device. For some this gets down to one device with a Galaxy Fold and DEX.<p>People might have different preferences and&#x2F;or be locked in the Apple ecosystem anyway, but we have working products showing things done differently (&quot;think different&quot; was such a good copy)</text></comment> |
38,170,113 | 38,170,356 | 1 | 3 | 38,167,423 | train | <story><title>Building a Streaming Platform in Go for Postgres</title><url>https://blog.peerdb.io/building-a-streaming-platform-in-go-for-postgres</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>cauchyk</author><text>Author of the blog here, curious what a better alternative would be in this context. The channel has to be passed around for the producer and consumer to interface with each other. Are there better patterns for this?</text></item><item><author>earthboundkid</author><text>Moving to channels seems like a weird choice. Channels should basically always be an implementation detail not exposed in public APIs.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>atombender</author><text>Not the parent, but I personally dislike it when Go libraries use channels in their public APIs, as it forces a specific concurrency model on the consumer; in particular, channels are quite slow, being protected by an internal mutex, so you&#x27;re always paying for the overhead no matter if you need it or not.<p>You also have to be very careful about managing the channel lifecycle. If you&#x27;re not pulling (selecting from) the channel, the library will be permanently stuck. So you must now have a way to tell the library to stop sending, and it must cancel any in-flight send operations if you call producer.Stop() or whatever. In my experience libraries often have bugs in their channel code. It&#x27;s far too easy to get deadlocks with channels that have interdependencies, and you have to be very careful about buffered versus unbuffered channels, as they behave differently.<p>A better API, in my opinion, is to offer a callback or single-method interface. Then the implementer of that callback or interface can choose to use channels internally if they desire, or they can use something else. You get the same backpressure support since you can treat it as synchronous.<p>After all, a channel&#x27;s send interface is essentially just:<p><pre><code> type Channel[T any] interface {
Send(T)
}
</code></pre>
But a &quot;chan T&quot; doesn&#x27;t offer this flexibility.<p>My rule of thumb for channels is that they&#x27;re goroutine glue, not an API primitive. Build APIs out of interfaces, not channels. The only thing that uses channels should be the one that&#x27;s controlling the goroutines, because it&#x27;s the thing that orchestrates them.<p>That said, it&#x27;s not a hard rule. There are places where channels may have their place in a public API, though I&#x27;m not sure I can think of any examples off-hand.</text></comment> | <story><title>Building a Streaming Platform in Go for Postgres</title><url>https://blog.peerdb.io/building-a-streaming-platform-in-go-for-postgres</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>cauchyk</author><text>Author of the blog here, curious what a better alternative would be in this context. The channel has to be passed around for the producer and consumer to interface with each other. Are there better patterns for this?</text></item><item><author>earthboundkid</author><text>Moving to channels seems like a weird choice. Channels should basically always be an implementation detail not exposed in public APIs.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>JyB</author><text>Please see this great talk by Bryan C. Mills touching on the subject:
<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;5zXAHh5tJqQ?t=421" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;5zXAHh5tJqQ?t=421</a></text></comment> |
41,534,779 | 41,534,357 | 1 | 3 | 41,532,946 | train | <story><title>Zero-Click Calendar invite vulnerability chain in macOS</title><url>https://mikko-kenttala.medium.com/zero-click-calendar-invite-critical-zero-click-vulnerability-chain-in-macos-a7a434fc887b</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tptacek</author><text>Lots of comments on this thread about bounty payouts. If a tech giant with a standing bounty program isn&#x27;t paying a bounty, the odds are very strong that there&#x27;s a good reason for that. All of the incentives for these programs are to award bounties to legitimate submissions. This is a rare case where incentives actually align pretty nicely: companies stand up bounty programs to incentivize specific kinds of research; not paying out legitimate bounties works against that goal. Nobody on the vendor side is spending their own money. The sums involved are not meaningful to the company. Generally, the team members running the program are actually incentivized to pay out <i>more</i> bounties, not less.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>bakztfutur3</author><text>No, it&#x27;s because Apple&#x27;s &#x27;product security&#x27; team that investigates and pays out bug bounties is horribly mismanaged and ineffective. It was recently moved from the SWE program office to SEAR (security engineering &amp; arch), and the manager was recently shown the door and went to AirBNB. The team members are mostly new college grads (ICT2&#x27;s and 3&#x27;s) who wouldn&#x27;t pass a coding interview elsewhere in the company, and mostly function as bug triagers. They spend more time going to conferences and hanging out with hackers, than in front of a computer screen working. Their portal of &#x27;open investigations&#x27; shows a graph that only goes up (aka they only get more swamped with emails and don&#x27;t even try to catch up).<p>Shaming Ivan, the head of SEAR, on Twitter is how people who should get paid bounties, but aren&#x27;t, make progress.</text></comment> | <story><title>Zero-Click Calendar invite vulnerability chain in macOS</title><url>https://mikko-kenttala.medium.com/zero-click-calendar-invite-critical-zero-click-vulnerability-chain-in-macos-a7a434fc887b</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tptacek</author><text>Lots of comments on this thread about bounty payouts. If a tech giant with a standing bounty program isn&#x27;t paying a bounty, the odds are very strong that there&#x27;s a good reason for that. All of the incentives for these programs are to award bounties to legitimate submissions. This is a rare case where incentives actually align pretty nicely: companies stand up bounty programs to incentivize specific kinds of research; not paying out legitimate bounties works against that goal. Nobody on the vendor side is spending their own money. The sums involved are not meaningful to the company. Generally, the team members running the program are actually incentivized to pay out <i>more</i> bounties, not less.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>saghm</author><text>Unless the implication is that the author of this point is misrepresenting things, I&#x27;m struggling to think of what &quot;very good reason&quot; there could be when there&#x27;s a clear record of someone reporting a bug well before it&#x27;s fixed. At best, it seems like typical slow bureaucracy, which I don&#x27;t think is a particularly good reason. There&#x27;s no reason it should take over a year for someone to approve something like this if the company actually incentivized it. Your logic might be sound, but it&#x27;s hard for me to look at a situation like this and think &quot;company is either stingy or overly bureaucratic like companies overwhelmingly tend to be in almost every other circumstance&quot; is less likely than &quot;company has legitimate reason not to pay out a bounty that ostensibly has been fulfilled&quot;. It just seems way more plausible that the incentives that happen pretty much everywhere else have bled into this domain, assuming the author is accurately describing the events.</text></comment> |
20,444,566 | 20,444,392 | 1 | 3 | 20,442,344 | train | <story><title>Don't donate canned goods to food banks (2017)</title><url>https://nationalpost.com/opinion/im-begging-you-stop-donating-canned-goods-to-food-banks</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>CodiePetersen</author><text>As a kid who grew up in a family that needed foodstamps and foodbank runs I guarantee you what you get at a food bank is a hundred times better than what you parents are going to have to invent with frozen peas mayonnaise and bread.<p>Also keeping the donations as food ensures the donations go directly to helping your community. Non profit ceos make 100s of thousands of dollars a year. That money comes from cash donations. People don&#x27;t want to line a ceos pockets they want to help their neighbor.<p>Most of the foodbanks we went to were churches and local groups. They weren&#x27;t interested in managing accounts for foodbank replenishment they just did drives when the needed more. It&#x27;s immediately easier.<p>When you give a physical thing it has purpose. It&#x27;s not 5 dollars going who knows where. You know someone somewhere got a can of creamed corn. Most of these people donating I would say aren&#x27;t going to go out and buy a bunch of stuff. But they will look in their pantry and see if there is anything they are not using.<p>Depending on the source they bought it from, that money also goes directly back to the community.<p>So there are a lot of benefits to donating food. If you want to donate money fine. But I&#x27;d wager if the only choice was donating money less people would donate.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>rgbrenner</author><text>1. If you spend $5 on food, and the foodbank could have bought $25 with that same money, but would instead buy $15 worth of food and $10 spent on salary for the person buying food, management, etc... it was still more efficient to give the $5.<p>2. Margins on food are VERY thin. The local supermarket makes a few percent in profits. Unless you&#x27;re buying directly from the farmers (most arent), that money isnt staying in your community. It&#x27;s going to go thousands of miles away where it&#x27;s being grown.. and then the remainder is going to go to Kroger&#x2F;Walmart&#x2F;etc corporate bank account so that they can pay their managers that 100k+&#x2F;year that you so oppose charity workers making.</text></comment> | <story><title>Don't donate canned goods to food banks (2017)</title><url>https://nationalpost.com/opinion/im-begging-you-stop-donating-canned-goods-to-food-banks</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>CodiePetersen</author><text>As a kid who grew up in a family that needed foodstamps and foodbank runs I guarantee you what you get at a food bank is a hundred times better than what you parents are going to have to invent with frozen peas mayonnaise and bread.<p>Also keeping the donations as food ensures the donations go directly to helping your community. Non profit ceos make 100s of thousands of dollars a year. That money comes from cash donations. People don&#x27;t want to line a ceos pockets they want to help their neighbor.<p>Most of the foodbanks we went to were churches and local groups. They weren&#x27;t interested in managing accounts for foodbank replenishment they just did drives when the needed more. It&#x27;s immediately easier.<p>When you give a physical thing it has purpose. It&#x27;s not 5 dollars going who knows where. You know someone somewhere got a can of creamed corn. Most of these people donating I would say aren&#x27;t going to go out and buy a bunch of stuff. But they will look in their pantry and see if there is anything they are not using.<p>Depending on the source they bought it from, that money also goes directly back to the community.<p>So there are a lot of benefits to donating food. If you want to donate money fine. But I&#x27;d wager if the only choice was donating money less people would donate.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>patrickyeon</author><text>This is extremely wrong-headed. To begin with, you&#x27;re stating &quot;downsides&quot; which the original article specifically said &quot;hey, people think this and they&#x27;re wrong&quot;. Downthread you bring up worries like &quot;spending money on advertising&quot;, but as I understand it most advertising that charities get, especially non-national level charities, is donated by the companies that own the advertising space (in-kind donations), so they&#x27;re also not spending money on that.<p>I&#x27;ve volunteered at the Alameda County Community Food Bank. Do you want to know where your churches and local groups get their food? They come to a central food bank like the ACCFB, where they can load up. The ACCFB does not directly distribute food to people in need, instead trusting smaller groups to know their community&#x27;s needs better, so they invite those groups to come get food. Staples, fresh produce, baby food and formula at exactly zero dollars all day long, more &quot;premium&quot; products at a heavily subsidized price.<p>Do you know what the ACCFB spent money on that wasn&#x27;t food? A gi-fucking-gantic walk in fridge and freezer, so that they don&#x27;t have to worry about bulk donations&#x2F;purchases spoiling. And a large warehouse so that they can take in fresh produce from farmers (often stuff that cosmetically won&#x27;t sell well) and re-sort it in a way that local organizations can use.<p>You can see what the executives of non-profits make. The Executive Director of the ACCFB was paid $256K in 2017, for overseeing an organization with $64M in revenue. The rest of the individuals on the Form 990 were in the $103K-$150K range. For full-time Chief&#x2F;Director work IN THE BAY AREA. In case you&#x27;ve been living under a rock, that&#x27;s not a good salary.<p>Every &quot;benefit&quot; to donating food is that you get to feel like stopped someone from tricking you and you&#x27;re smarter than &quot;all of those rubes&quot; who gave cash. Turns out you&#x27;re actually being the least helpful donor, and now write smug comments bragging about how you&#x27;re the least helpful donor trying to reduce the helpfulness of other donors.<p>ACCFB&#x27;s Form 990 for 2017: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;projects.propublica.org&#x2F;nonprofits&#x2F;organizations&#x2F;942960297&#x2F;201920939349300417&#x2F;IRS990" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;projects.propublica.org&#x2F;nonprofits&#x2F;organizations&#x2F;942...</a></text></comment> |
23,730,546 | 23,728,911 | 1 | 2 | 23,728,228 | train | <story><title>Bitcoin From Scratch – Part 1</title><url>https://monokh.com/posts/bitcoin-from-scratch-part-1</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>tlrobinson</author><text>I wrote a toy (but working) implementation of the Bitcoin algorithm here: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;tlrobinson&#x2F;tomcoin" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;tlrobinson&#x2F;tomcoin</a><p>The main logic is a few hundred lines of code: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;tlrobinson&#x2F;tomcoin&#x2F;blob&#x2F;master&#x2F;src&#x2F;node.js" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;tlrobinson&#x2F;tomcoin&#x2F;blob&#x2F;master&#x2F;src&#x2F;node.j...</a><p>A somewhat unique aspect is since it&#x27;s written in JavaScript a node can run on the server or the browser, which makes for easy demos:<p>1. Open <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;tomcoin.herokuapp.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;tomcoin.herokuapp.com&#x2F;</a> and <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;tomcoin1.herokuapp.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;tomcoin1.herokuapp.com&#x2F;</a> in two browser windows (the private key is stored in localStorage so using different domains ensures each gets a different wallet)<p>2. Click &quot;Start Mining&quot; on one or both nodes<p>3. Once you&#x27;ve mined some TomCoin (should just take a few seconds unless more people start mining) copy the public key from one node to the other&#x27;s &quot;publicKey&quot; field, enter an amount, and click &quot;Transfer&quot;<p>4. Wait for another block to be mined and you should see the balances transfer<p>(There&#x27;s no persistence so the chain will reset when all the Heroku nodes idle out and other nodes close)<p>(It also just uses WebSockets to connect to the instances on Heroku, or in theory other server instances people are running. I meant to implement WebRTC for P2P between browser nodes but never got around to it)</text></comment> | <story><title>Bitcoin From Scratch – Part 1</title><url>https://monokh.com/posts/bitcoin-from-scratch-part-1</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>nemo1618</author><text>&gt; The PoW is suffice if the hash begins with a certain number of 0s<p>This is a common explanation of PoW, but is actually incorrect. If you think about it, this would mean that the PoW difficulty could only increase (or decrease) by a factor of two. In reality, the block hash is simply interpreted as a (very large) number, and this number must be less than some other very large number (the &quot;target&quot;). So you <i>do</i> end up with a lot of leading zeros -- but these are just a side effect, not the thing being measured.</text></comment> |
19,974,445 | 19,972,625 | 1 | 2 | 19,971,454 | train | <story><title>Bullshit I had to go through while organizing a software conference</title><url>https://notamonadtutorial.com/the-bullshit-i-had-to-go-through-while-organizing-a-software-conference-4de1225d0acb</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>bquinlan</author><text>I&#x27;ve been a co-convener for two Python conferences in Vancouver.<p>The conferences were small (&lt;200 people) but I don&#x27;t remember the organization being as stressful as the article describes.<p>For me, the key sources of stress were:<p>1. hoping that tickets and sponsorship would cover our costs (at some point you have to pay for your venue, flights for your keynotes, etc. and this happens <i>before</i> ticket sales open). I think that we lost a few hundred dollars on the first conference and donated a few hundred dollars to the Python Software Foundation on the second one.<p>2. the BBQ. For both years, I arranged a beach BBQ but didn&#x27;t have enough budget to deal with contingencies in the event of rain (remember this is Vancouver so the chance definitely exists). My plan was to refund attendees if we canceled the BBQ but that would have been thousands of dollars out of my pocket and lots of disappointed people. Fortunately, it didn&#x27;t rain in either years.<p>I would say that convening a conference in a city where you have lots of connections really helps. For example, I was able to buy salmon direct from the docks for the BBQ because I knew someone who was willing to help me. I also used my family as the chefs (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;photos.app.goo.gl&#x2F;C6yNzqMnBG98GxE36" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;photos.app.goo.gl&#x2F;C6yNzqMnBG98GxE36</a>).<p>What I do remember being hard was not the planning but going without sleep during the conference itself. As a convener, I had to be at the venue before any attendees arrived, had to leave after the last attendee left and then still had to deal with issues, etc. for the next day.<p>Still it was tonnes of fun!</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>CPLX</author><text>&gt; My plan was to refund attendees if we canceled the BBQ but that would have been thousands of dollars out of my pocket and lots of disappointed people. Fortunately, it didn&#x27;t rain in either years.<p>You can buy special event rain-out insurance for situations like these. Definitely recommend it.</text></comment> | <story><title>Bullshit I had to go through while organizing a software conference</title><url>https://notamonadtutorial.com/the-bullshit-i-had-to-go-through-while-organizing-a-software-conference-4de1225d0acb</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>bquinlan</author><text>I&#x27;ve been a co-convener for two Python conferences in Vancouver.<p>The conferences were small (&lt;200 people) but I don&#x27;t remember the organization being as stressful as the article describes.<p>For me, the key sources of stress were:<p>1. hoping that tickets and sponsorship would cover our costs (at some point you have to pay for your venue, flights for your keynotes, etc. and this happens <i>before</i> ticket sales open). I think that we lost a few hundred dollars on the first conference and donated a few hundred dollars to the Python Software Foundation on the second one.<p>2. the BBQ. For both years, I arranged a beach BBQ but didn&#x27;t have enough budget to deal with contingencies in the event of rain (remember this is Vancouver so the chance definitely exists). My plan was to refund attendees if we canceled the BBQ but that would have been thousands of dollars out of my pocket and lots of disappointed people. Fortunately, it didn&#x27;t rain in either years.<p>I would say that convening a conference in a city where you have lots of connections really helps. For example, I was able to buy salmon direct from the docks for the BBQ because I knew someone who was willing to help me. I also used my family as the chefs (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;photos.app.goo.gl&#x2F;C6yNzqMnBG98GxE36" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;photos.app.goo.gl&#x2F;C6yNzqMnBG98GxE36</a>).<p>What I do remember being hard was not the planning but going without sleep during the conference itself. As a convener, I had to be at the venue before any attendees arrived, had to leave after the last attendee left and then still had to deal with issues, etc. for the next day.<p>Still it was tonnes of fun!</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Ragnarork</author><text>&gt; but I don&#x27;t remember the organization being as stressful as the article describes<p>Well the article describes a very shitty and problematic situation that sure doesn&#x27;t look like the norm anyway (but is good to keep in mind just in case it could happen).</text></comment> |
23,209,158 | 23,209,053 | 1 | 3 | 23,208,010 | train | <story><title>No One Goes There Anymore</title><url>https://noonegoesthereanymore.blogspot.com/2020/05/no-one-goes-there-anymore.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ccktlmazeltov</author><text>Genuine question: what is the point made in the post? I feel like I&#x27;m missing something.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>imjustsaying</author><text>I was wondering this as well. I couldn&#x27;t find the thesis and for a moment I wondered if this was posted as an example of an AI-generated post.</text></comment> | <story><title>No One Goes There Anymore</title><url>https://noonegoesthereanymore.blogspot.com/2020/05/no-one-goes-there-anymore.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ccktlmazeltov</author><text>Genuine question: what is the point made in the post? I feel like I&#x27;m missing something.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>unreal37</author><text>It&#x27;s a blog. The person is starting a blog. They want people to visit it. People visit it and liked it. And upvoted this post.</text></comment> |
12,840,625 | 12,836,775 | 1 | 2 | 12,835,771 | train | <story><title>Denser 3D Point Clouds in OpenSfM</title><url>http://blog.mapillary.com/update/2016/10/31/denser-3d-point-clouds-in-opensfm.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>jsch</author><text>COLMAP is an open source structure-from-motion and multi-view stereo software and is hopefully useful for people here as well: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;colmap.github.io&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;colmap.github.io&#x2F;</a>, <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;people.inf.ethz.ch&#x2F;jschoenb&#x2F;colmap&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;people.inf.ethz.ch&#x2F;jschoenb&#x2F;colmap&#x2F;</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Denser 3D Point Clouds in OpenSfM</title><url>http://blog.mapillary.com/update/2016/10/31/denser-3d-point-clouds-in-opensfm.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>deckar01</author><text>I discovered VisualSfM this weekend after trying Adobe ReCap 360. The photo reconstruction functionality of ReCap is cloud based, which was a blocker for me, because I have a beefy graphics rig and want to script it into a pipeline.<p>I am curious how OpenSfM compares to VisualSfM and if they are related in any way.<p>Edit: The VisualSfM license is only open for non-commercial uses. OpenSfM is BSD licensed, so I can safely build my business on top of it.</text></comment> |
23,434,250 | 23,433,964 | 1 | 2 | 23,433,794 | train | <story><title>Linux Mint Dumps Ubuntu Snap</title><url>https://www.zdnet.com/article/linux-mint-dumps-ubuntu-snap/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>henriquez</author><text>I dumped Ubuntu over Snap. Maybe I’m just ignorant but it seems like allowing developers to push software updates without any review invites the same sorts of issues we’ve seen on npm, with very high risks for certain use cases. I don’t want that kind of relationship with my OS, forced updates are why I ditched Windows in the first place.<p>Aside from the philosophical concerns I ran into a lot of glitches with various snap packages, frequently resulting in lost or corrupted data. And the sandbox approach prevented certain filesystem tweaking I previously took for granted. Overall I didn’t see the benefit and didn’t have time to futz with it.<p>I’m curious if there are any distros with a recent version of Gnome and also a sane package manager.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ccmcarey</author><text>I dumped snapd because of the maintainers absolutely refusing to allow the users to customize the update schedule, or even disable automatic updates at all.<p>Reading the thread with the discussion on it, seems there was real contempt towards letting the user decide not to update their packages.</text></comment> | <story><title>Linux Mint Dumps Ubuntu Snap</title><url>https://www.zdnet.com/article/linux-mint-dumps-ubuntu-snap/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>henriquez</author><text>I dumped Ubuntu over Snap. Maybe I’m just ignorant but it seems like allowing developers to push software updates without any review invites the same sorts of issues we’ve seen on npm, with very high risks for certain use cases. I don’t want that kind of relationship with my OS, forced updates are why I ditched Windows in the first place.<p>Aside from the philosophical concerns I ran into a lot of glitches with various snap packages, frequently resulting in lost or corrupted data. And the sandbox approach prevented certain filesystem tweaking I previously took for granted. Overall I didn’t see the benefit and didn’t have time to futz with it.<p>I’m curious if there are any distros with a recent version of Gnome and also a sane package manager.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>schoolornot</author><text>&gt; forced updates are why I ditched Windows in the first place<p>Samsung has followed suit w&#x2F; Android. Once an update is available, the user can defer it three times before the phone is rebooted. Not even Apple pulls this crap.</text></comment> |
20,470,815 | 20,470,515 | 1 | 2 | 20,468,696 | train | <story><title>FaceApp Now Owns Access to More Than 150M People's Faces and Names</title><url>https://www.forbes.com/sites/johnkoetsier/2019/07/17/viral-app-faceapp-now-owns-access-to-more-than-150-million-peoples-faces-and-names/#25ca052b62f1</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>imgabe</author><text>Is &quot;what your face looks like&quot; private information? You publicly display your face everywhere you go all the time. It&#x27;s not really practical to hide it. Likewise your name you pretty much freely give out to anyone who asks. Is that private information?<p>So Faceapp knows &quot;There&#x27;s a person with this name who looks like this&quot;. Was that supposed to be a secret?<p>I&#x27;m concerned about privacy too, but it seems like some people just want to hide under a rock for their entire lives. I don&#x27;t know how anyone manages to leave the house if having people see your face and know your name is a serious concern.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>bagacrap</author><text>Faceapp knows what 150M faces look like. That concentration of information is valuable. Google built a fortune by taking freely available information and organizing it for easy access. In the case of faceapp there are many nefarious actors who could serve as clients.</text></comment> | <story><title>FaceApp Now Owns Access to More Than 150M People's Faces and Names</title><url>https://www.forbes.com/sites/johnkoetsier/2019/07/17/viral-app-faceapp-now-owns-access-to-more-than-150-million-peoples-faces-and-names/#25ca052b62f1</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>imgabe</author><text>Is &quot;what your face looks like&quot; private information? You publicly display your face everywhere you go all the time. It&#x27;s not really practical to hide it. Likewise your name you pretty much freely give out to anyone who asks. Is that private information?<p>So Faceapp knows &quot;There&#x27;s a person with this name who looks like this&quot;. Was that supposed to be a secret?<p>I&#x27;m concerned about privacy too, but it seems like some people just want to hide under a rock for their entire lives. I don&#x27;t know how anyone manages to leave the house if having people see your face and know your name is a serious concern.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>daenz</author><text>&gt;Is &quot;what your face looks like&quot; private information?<p>I think it&#x27;s the linkage of the name and the face. Either of those things alone don&#x27;t seem like private information, but together, I would argue they are private. I can&#x27;t provide a good reason as to why I think that yet though.</text></comment> |
30,213,538 | 30,211,734 | 1 | 2 | 30,206,919 | train | <story><title>Mergers ruin everything</title><url>https://mattstoller.substack.com/p/mergers-ruin-everything</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>treis</author><text>&gt;Americans pay $50 billion more per year than Europeans for similar cell phone service, which is about $14&#x2F;month in pure profit for every single American<p>This doesn&#x27;t really add up. T-mobile&#x27;s net income is 3-4 billion a year on 80 billion on revenue. They&#x27;re not generating monopoly profits.<p>IMHO I don&#x27;t think you can really merge your way into a monopoly. The existence of multiple companies to merge is effective proof that whatever business they&#x27;re in is not a natural monopoly.<p>Look at social media as an example. Facebook is the dominant player but in the course of their existence Instagram, WhatsApp, TikTok, and Snapchat have all become billion+ companies while another dozen or so have made it to 100+ million. Allowing them to buy Instagram and WhatsApp didn&#x27;t prevent the rise of Tiktok or the continued existence of Snapchat. There&#x27;s no natural monopoly here and probably should be little concern to anti-trust regulators.<p>Compare with phones. You have a stable Android&#x2F;Apple duopoly but it didn&#x27;t come from mergers. It&#x27;s a natural monopoly business so naturally monopolies formed. Facebook, Amazon, and Microsoft all trying to break into the market and failing miserably is also strong evidence. This should be a huge concern to anti-trust regulators.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ajsnigrutin</author><text>The&#x27;re is a huge difference between telcos and social media sites.<p>Anyone can make a new instagram... just write some code in your free time, get (very lucky, and get) some VC to throw some money into your company, and you become a new instagram... then either get forgotten in a few years, or get bought for some huge amount of money. Instagram had just 13(?) employees by the time facebook bought them (or some other very low number, i forgot).<p>But a telco? No way... virual operator maybe, but there&#x27;s no real money in that, but just starting to build basestations is impossible, you need millions and millions to even get frequencies, and you&#x27;re already late for those, and there&#x27;s basically no realistic way for a new mobile operator to come to an existing market now.</text></comment> | <story><title>Mergers ruin everything</title><url>https://mattstoller.substack.com/p/mergers-ruin-everything</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>treis</author><text>&gt;Americans pay $50 billion more per year than Europeans for similar cell phone service, which is about $14&#x2F;month in pure profit for every single American<p>This doesn&#x27;t really add up. T-mobile&#x27;s net income is 3-4 billion a year on 80 billion on revenue. They&#x27;re not generating monopoly profits.<p>IMHO I don&#x27;t think you can really merge your way into a monopoly. The existence of multiple companies to merge is effective proof that whatever business they&#x27;re in is not a natural monopoly.<p>Look at social media as an example. Facebook is the dominant player but in the course of their existence Instagram, WhatsApp, TikTok, and Snapchat have all become billion+ companies while another dozen or so have made it to 100+ million. Allowing them to buy Instagram and WhatsApp didn&#x27;t prevent the rise of Tiktok or the continued existence of Snapchat. There&#x27;s no natural monopoly here and probably should be little concern to anti-trust regulators.<p>Compare with phones. You have a stable Android&#x2F;Apple duopoly but it didn&#x27;t come from mergers. It&#x27;s a natural monopoly business so naturally monopolies formed. Facebook, Amazon, and Microsoft all trying to break into the market and failing miserably is also strong evidence. This should be a huge concern to anti-trust regulators.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ultrasaurus</author><text>Maybe &quot;profit&quot; is the wrong word. Anecdotally, the US has a lot of dedicated &amp; spacious cell phone stores compared to other countries I&#x27;ve been in (where selling SIM cards is part of another store, like a 7-11 or an electronics store).<p>It&#x27;s possible there&#x27;s an extra $14&#x2F;month in <i>revenue</i> going towards cell phones as an industry but due to the competition such as it is, it&#x27;s mostly being spent on more aggressive GTM expenses.</text></comment> |
11,767,015 | 11,766,799 | 1 | 3 | 11,766,621 | train | <story><title>Peter Thiel Has Been Funding Hulk Hogan's Lawsuits Against Gawker</title><url>http://www.forbes.com/sites/ryanmac/2016/05/24/this-silicon-valley-billionaire-has-been-secretly-funding-hulk-hogans-lawsuits-against-gawker/#fa8140778057</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>bronz</author><text>gawker put tesla on a death watch. they exploited their struggle and heartbreak, their endeavour to make the world a better place, for clicks. they hosted a video of hulk hogan having sex on their website despite him not wanting them to. maybe people dont realize just how fucked up that is because people tend to dehumanize celebrities. these are not journalists. these people are fucking scum. good riddance. the fact that a billionaire funded hogans case doesnt bother me at all. it reminds me more of bill gates funding malaria research than anything. another parasite wiped out for the betterment of humanity.<p>all the people saying this is creepy because its a billionaire shutting down journalism -- dont make me laugh. these werent journalists. and they sealed their own doom by doing things that were not only mean and cruel but super illegal. they did this to themselves. hogan was going to win that case no matter what.<p>i would have donated to his case given the opportunity.</text></comment> | <story><title>Peter Thiel Has Been Funding Hulk Hogan's Lawsuits Against Gawker</title><url>http://www.forbes.com/sites/ryanmac/2016/05/24/this-silicon-valley-billionaire-has-been-secretly-funding-hulk-hogans-lawsuits-against-gawker/#fa8140778057</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>untog</author><text>This is another one of those situations you can excuse away through specific context (Valleywag did plenty of crappy things) but the broader play here is worrying: billionaire finances lawsuits he has nothing to do with, in order to take down media entity that he dislikes.<p>I try not to think about the specifics and look at the broader precedent something like this sets and... erk.<p>EDIT: all specifics aside, I think what bothers me most is that he can do this in secret. We only found out because of, wait for it, the media. Maybe he&#x27;ll fund cases against Forbes next?</text></comment> |
6,227,364 | 6,226,103 | 1 | 2 | 6,223,466 | train | <story><title>Google’s “20% time,” which brought you Gmail and AdSense, is now as good as dead</title><url>http://qz.com/115831/googles-20-time-which-brought-you-gmail-and-adsense-is-now-as-good-as-dead/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dekhn</author><text>Why would I give my time for free to Google?<p>Because my entire career- well before I started working here- has been dependent on things that Google has given to me for free.<p>Like Google Search. Search helped me learn to run linux clusters effectively (it was far better than AltaVista for searching for specific error messages) which ensured I had a job, even in the dotcom busts. It helped me learn python, which also played a huge role in my future employment.<p>Like Gmail. Although I&#x27;ve run my own highly available mail services in the past, free Gmail with its initial large quotas hooked me early on. I have never regretted handing the responsibility for email over to Gmail.<p>Like Exacycle (my project): <a href="http://googleresearch.blogspot.com/2012/12/millions-of-core-hours-awarded-to.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;googleresearch.blogspot.com&#x2F;2012&#x2F;12&#x2F;millions-of-core-...</a>
in which Google donated 1B CPU hours to 5 visiting faculty (who got to keep the intellectual property they generated).<p>I would like to repay Google for their extreme generosity. Spending my &quot;Free&quot; time doing things I enjoy (building large, complex distributed computing systems that manage insane amounts of resources) so that Google can make products that it profits from seems perfectly reasonable to me.<p>If I had continued to work in academia, I&#x27;d spend most of my time applying for grants, writing papers, and working 150% time just to maintain basic status and get tenure. Anybody working in the highly competitive sciences, or in the tech industry, who wants to be successful, has to put in more than what most people consider a 9-5 job.<p>As for open sourcing: Google has a nice program to ensure that Googlers can write open source code. I haven&#x27;t taken advantage of it, because most of my codes are internally facing and don&#x27;t need to be open sourced. But I would certainly consider using my time to do that; I just think my time is best spent working on Google products because I believe their impact will be much higher.</text></item><item><author>driverdan</author><text>&gt; Calling 20% time 120% time is fair. Realistically it&#x27;s hard to do your day job productively and also build a new project from scratch. You have to be willing to put in hours outside of your normal job to be successful.<p>Then it&#x27;s not 20% time, it&#x27;s personal time you&#x27;re giving to your employer for free. Why would you do that? Why not build your projects outside of Google and keep them for yourself (assuming it&#x27;s a product and not open source)?</text></item><item><author>dekhn</author><text>I am a Googler. I will only speak to my personal experience, and the experience of people around me: 20% time still exists, and is encouraged as a mechanism to explore exciting new ideas without the complexity and cost of a real product.<p>My last three years were spent turning my 20% project into a product, and my job now is spent turning another 20% project into a product. There was never any management pressure from any of my managers to not work on 20% projects; my performance reviews were consistent with a productive Googler.<p>Calling 20% time 120% time is fair. Realistically it&#x27;s hard to do your day job productively and also build a new project from scratch. You have to be willing to put in hours outside of your normal job to be successful.<p>What 20% time really means is that you- as a Google eng- have access to, and can use, Google&#x27;s compute infrastructure to experiment and build new systems. The infrastructure, and the associated software tools, can be leveraged in 20% time to make an eng far more productive than they normally would be. Certainly I, and many other Googlers, are simply super-motivated and willing to use our free time to work on projects that use our infrstructure because we&#x27;re intrinsically interested in using these things to make new products.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>freshhawk</author><text>I&#x27;m not seeing any &quot;generosity&quot; on Google&#x27;s part, at least from the examples you provided.<p>You certainly seem like a smart guy, working on some cool stuff, so I&#x27;m not surprised people are a bit confused (hence the term &quot;brainwashed&quot;) by your (pretending to?) not understand the business model of the company you work for.<p>You are giving your time away, for free, to a for profit corporation. That&#x27;s so irrational it&#x27;s painful to hear.<p>If you like working with google systems and resources so much that you are willing to <i>pay your employer to use them</i> then ok, that&#x27;s a bit weird, but it&#x27;s your time. If you feel you need to work 120% time to keep your career on track then ok, that&#x27;s not uncommon in this industry (but it&#x27;s the opposite of generosity and it&#x27;s not sustainable for you).<p>Framing this as repaying Google for &quot;their extreme generosity&quot; is delusional, which is why I&#x27;m assuming it&#x27;s not the real reason.</text></comment> | <story><title>Google’s “20% time,” which brought you Gmail and AdSense, is now as good as dead</title><url>http://qz.com/115831/googles-20-time-which-brought-you-gmail-and-adsense-is-now-as-good-as-dead/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dekhn</author><text>Why would I give my time for free to Google?<p>Because my entire career- well before I started working here- has been dependent on things that Google has given to me for free.<p>Like Google Search. Search helped me learn to run linux clusters effectively (it was far better than AltaVista for searching for specific error messages) which ensured I had a job, even in the dotcom busts. It helped me learn python, which also played a huge role in my future employment.<p>Like Gmail. Although I&#x27;ve run my own highly available mail services in the past, free Gmail with its initial large quotas hooked me early on. I have never regretted handing the responsibility for email over to Gmail.<p>Like Exacycle (my project): <a href="http://googleresearch.blogspot.com/2012/12/millions-of-core-hours-awarded-to.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;googleresearch.blogspot.com&#x2F;2012&#x2F;12&#x2F;millions-of-core-...</a>
in which Google donated 1B CPU hours to 5 visiting faculty (who got to keep the intellectual property they generated).<p>I would like to repay Google for their extreme generosity. Spending my &quot;Free&quot; time doing things I enjoy (building large, complex distributed computing systems that manage insane amounts of resources) so that Google can make products that it profits from seems perfectly reasonable to me.<p>If I had continued to work in academia, I&#x27;d spend most of my time applying for grants, writing papers, and working 150% time just to maintain basic status and get tenure. Anybody working in the highly competitive sciences, or in the tech industry, who wants to be successful, has to put in more than what most people consider a 9-5 job.<p>As for open sourcing: Google has a nice program to ensure that Googlers can write open source code. I haven&#x27;t taken advantage of it, because most of my codes are internally facing and don&#x27;t need to be open sourced. But I would certainly consider using my time to do that; I just think my time is best spent working on Google products because I believe their impact will be much higher.</text></item><item><author>driverdan</author><text>&gt; Calling 20% time 120% time is fair. Realistically it&#x27;s hard to do your day job productively and also build a new project from scratch. You have to be willing to put in hours outside of your normal job to be successful.<p>Then it&#x27;s not 20% time, it&#x27;s personal time you&#x27;re giving to your employer for free. Why would you do that? Why not build your projects outside of Google and keep them for yourself (assuming it&#x27;s a product and not open source)?</text></item><item><author>dekhn</author><text>I am a Googler. I will only speak to my personal experience, and the experience of people around me: 20% time still exists, and is encouraged as a mechanism to explore exciting new ideas without the complexity and cost of a real product.<p>My last three years were spent turning my 20% project into a product, and my job now is spent turning another 20% project into a product. There was never any management pressure from any of my managers to not work on 20% projects; my performance reviews were consistent with a productive Googler.<p>Calling 20% time 120% time is fair. Realistically it&#x27;s hard to do your day job productively and also build a new project from scratch. You have to be willing to put in hours outside of your normal job to be successful.<p>What 20% time really means is that you- as a Google eng- have access to, and can use, Google&#x27;s compute infrastructure to experiment and build new systems. The infrastructure, and the associated software tools, can be leveraged in 20% time to make an eng far more productive than they normally would be. Certainly I, and many other Googlers, are simply super-motivated and willing to use our free time to work on projects that use our infrstructure because we&#x27;re intrinsically interested in using these things to make new products.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>eyeareque</author><text>Google doesn&#x27;t give you anything for free; you give them data that allows them to sell directed marketing to you. I don&#x27;t have a problem with that as for me it&#x27;s a fair trade. But I wouldn&#x27;t call what they offer as &quot;free&quot;.</text></comment> |
9,552,062 | 9,552,233 | 1 | 2 | 9,551,378 | train | <story><title>JavaScript at 20</title><url>http://brendaneich.github.io/ModernWeb.tw-2015/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mattmanser</author><text>Works on OSes. We have a choice.<p>In browsers, the OSes of the web, nope, just a bad language designed in 10 days that resists all attempts to make it not bad.<p>It doesn&#x27;t really matter if you like javascript, there&#x27;s so many people who don&#x27;t.<p>Why do you get to dictate whether we can or can&#x27;t develop on the web? You leave us with a horrible choice, use what we consider to be one of the worst modern languages, or not develop. Why do you get to make our professional lives miserable?</text></item><item><author>pcwalton</author><text>&gt; Just let me know when browser vendors are going to break down the two-tiered system, and let us run those myriad of alternatives alongside -- instead of under -- JavaScript.<p>The complexity of doing that would be needlessly high compared to just improving JavaScript. Having to integrate a C++ DOM with a JS DOM is hard enough. Think about how you handle cross-language cycles…<p>&gt; Or, they could take their own medicine, and try and write the browser in JS.<p>You mean like Firefox?</text></item><item><author>teacup50</author><text>There are no end of alternatives out there today, from mobile platforms to research languages exploring a myriad of aspects of computer science.<p>Just let me know when browser vendors are going to break down the two-tiered system, and let us run the legion of alternatives alongside -- instead of under -- JavaScript.<p>Or, they could take their own medicine, and try and write the browser in JS.</text></item><item><author>knightofmars</author><text>&quot;Haters gonna hate.&quot; Anyone claiming that JS is the &quot;worst thing to happen to the web&quot; and&#x2F;or that some other language would miraculously solve all of the problems present in JS should do the following, &quot;Go create it.&quot; Don&#x27;t whine about the barriers and how a new language would never be adopted because &quot;JS is already everywhere.&quot; There are plenty of people already trying to solve this problem by actively doing something. I&#x27;ve worked with enough engineers that love to criticize every design choice made but when it comes to asking them what the better alternative is they have nothing to say. They just &quot;know&quot; there&#x27;s a better way. Well, stop using your intuition based rationalizing that there&#x27;s a problem and start using your creative and logical faculties to actually solve the &quot;perceived&quot; problem before presenting a criticism. Or at a minimum present a well thought out and actionable direction towards the solution.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>pcwalton</author><text>&gt; Works on OSes. We have a choice.<p>The kernel doesn&#x27;t have a DOM. On the Web, the number of GC&#x27;d objects that every &quot;process&quot; has to deal with exceeds the number of file descriptors by an order of magnitude.<p>Also, you do have a choice: you can compile your favorite language to JS, even low-level ones via asm.js.<p>&gt; Why do you get to dictate whether we can or can&#x27;t develop on the web? You leave us with a horrible choice, use what we consider to be one of the worst modern languages, or not develop. Why do you get to make our professional lives miserable?<p>That&#x27;s not the choice: you can compile your favorite language to JavaScript. That&#x27;s what source maps, asm.js, and the like are for. And JS is being improved all the time; it&#x27;s not static.<p>Trying to add another language has been tried multiple times and has always failed, because having two languages that both interact with the DOM is much more difficult than just improving JS.</text></comment> | <story><title>JavaScript at 20</title><url>http://brendaneich.github.io/ModernWeb.tw-2015/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mattmanser</author><text>Works on OSes. We have a choice.<p>In browsers, the OSes of the web, nope, just a bad language designed in 10 days that resists all attempts to make it not bad.<p>It doesn&#x27;t really matter if you like javascript, there&#x27;s so many people who don&#x27;t.<p>Why do you get to dictate whether we can or can&#x27;t develop on the web? You leave us with a horrible choice, use what we consider to be one of the worst modern languages, or not develop. Why do you get to make our professional lives miserable?</text></item><item><author>pcwalton</author><text>&gt; Just let me know when browser vendors are going to break down the two-tiered system, and let us run those myriad of alternatives alongside -- instead of under -- JavaScript.<p>The complexity of doing that would be needlessly high compared to just improving JavaScript. Having to integrate a C++ DOM with a JS DOM is hard enough. Think about how you handle cross-language cycles…<p>&gt; Or, they could take their own medicine, and try and write the browser in JS.<p>You mean like Firefox?</text></item><item><author>teacup50</author><text>There are no end of alternatives out there today, from mobile platforms to research languages exploring a myriad of aspects of computer science.<p>Just let me know when browser vendors are going to break down the two-tiered system, and let us run the legion of alternatives alongside -- instead of under -- JavaScript.<p>Or, they could take their own medicine, and try and write the browser in JS.</text></item><item><author>knightofmars</author><text>&quot;Haters gonna hate.&quot; Anyone claiming that JS is the &quot;worst thing to happen to the web&quot; and&#x2F;or that some other language would miraculously solve all of the problems present in JS should do the following, &quot;Go create it.&quot; Don&#x27;t whine about the barriers and how a new language would never be adopted because &quot;JS is already everywhere.&quot; There are plenty of people already trying to solve this problem by actively doing something. I&#x27;ve worked with enough engineers that love to criticize every design choice made but when it comes to asking them what the better alternative is they have nothing to say. They just &quot;know&quot; there&#x27;s a better way. Well, stop using your intuition based rationalizing that there&#x27;s a problem and start using your creative and logical faculties to actually solve the &quot;perceived&quot; problem before presenting a criticism. Or at a minimum present a well thought out and actionable direction towards the solution.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>nostrademons</author><text>It doesn&#x27;t actually work on (GUI) OSes - there is a strong incentive to write your app in the language and framework that is native to the platform, because you&#x27;re asking for a lot of pain and a substandard customer experience otherwise. You write your Windows apps in C# and .NET. You write your Android apps in Java. You write your iOS apps in Objective-C, and now Swift. You write your Gnome apps in C with Gtk+, and your KDE apps in C++ with Qt, and your Eclipse plugins in Java with SWT, and your Emacs extensions in Emacs Lisp. In all these cases (except Apple), you <i>can</i> write your apps in a different language, but virtually nobody does, because you end up fighting the platform.<p>Servers and command-line tools are an exception because your interaction with the host platform is limited to a few dozen syscalls that can be easily bound to a number of different languages. Not so with most GUI software.</text></comment> |
18,703,951 | 18,702,271 | 1 | 3 | 18,698,364 | train | <story><title>Cook My Meat: heat diffusion through meat over time</title><url>http://up.csail.mit.edu/science-of-cooking/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>cityiguana</author><text>I&#x27;m one of the 3 MIT students (now MIT alumnae) who coded this over 5 years ago now. It&#x27;s popped up around the Internet again in the past year or so, which is neat but also a little cringey, because it forces me to look at code I wrote when I was a lot newer to programming than I am now.<p>One person commented about a better simulator that they&#x27;d developed, which I am certain exists. This simulator was developed for an EdX class called the Science of Cooking. Although we tested it and found it to be largely accurate (in one of the more delicious code testing sessions I&#x27;ve ever attended), it was designed primarily to illustrate the various reactions that occur at the molecular level, rather than to provide actual cooking guidance.<p>Also, it seems that some of you are having problems where the program crashes your browser. Unfortunately, that&#x27;s not entirely avoidable as the whole application is client-side javascript, and does some moderately complex calculations for heat diffusion. Obviously this would not be the approach I would take if I were to rewrite the program today...<p>If anyone wants to take a look at the source code, here is the original git repo: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;laurabreiman&#x2F;science-of-cooking" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;laurabreiman&#x2F;science-of-cooking</a>. Cheers everyone!</text></comment> | <story><title>Cook My Meat: heat diffusion through meat over time</title><url>http://up.csail.mit.edu/science-of-cooking/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>thinkingkong</author><text>I&#x27;m impressed but disappointed the &quot;reverse sear&quot; is missing. If you haven&#x27;t tried, it, it&#x27;s a pretty amazing way to cook a steak and it scales up to lots of steaks at the same time.<p>It&#x27;s awesome<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.seriouseats.com&#x2F;2017&#x2F;03&#x2F;how-to-reverse-sear-best-way-to-cook-steak.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.seriouseats.com&#x2F;2017&#x2F;03&#x2F;how-to-reverse-sear-best...</a></text></comment> |
39,851,530 | 39,851,649 | 1 | 2 | 39,849,727 | train | <story><title>Intel Brags of $152B in Stock Buybacks. Why Does It Need an $8B Subsidy?</title><url>https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/intel-subsidy-chips-act-stock-buyback</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ChadNauseam</author><text>Are you suggesting the government buy Intel, or that they steal it from its current owners? You might have different opinions than I do about the morality of such a thing, but either way it would be disastrous as it would disincentivize all investment in things the US can steal.</text></item><item><author>op00to</author><text>Perhaps the government should simply nationalize Intel if they continue to do stock buybacks. There’s more knobs to turn than the free money faucet.</text></item><item><author>sudhirj</author><text>Intel didn&#x27;t get a subsidy because they&#x27;re poor, the subsidy exists because the US Government wants the company to do something (setup a fab on US soil) that is not necessarily in the shareholders best interest (cheaper to set up a fab elsewhere). The subsidy is the difference in both parties judge to be the cost of doing the expensive thing (that matches US strategic interests) vs the cheaper thing.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mattalex</author><text>The US could have required stock in Intel instead of taking nothing: Intel gets money, US gets influence over Intel. Just like it works everywhere else.</text></comment> | <story><title>Intel Brags of $152B in Stock Buybacks. Why Does It Need an $8B Subsidy?</title><url>https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/intel-subsidy-chips-act-stock-buyback</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ChadNauseam</author><text>Are you suggesting the government buy Intel, or that they steal it from its current owners? You might have different opinions than I do about the morality of such a thing, but either way it would be disastrous as it would disincentivize all investment in things the US can steal.</text></item><item><author>op00to</author><text>Perhaps the government should simply nationalize Intel if they continue to do stock buybacks. There’s more knobs to turn than the free money faucet.</text></item><item><author>sudhirj</author><text>Intel didn&#x27;t get a subsidy because they&#x27;re poor, the subsidy exists because the US Government wants the company to do something (setup a fab on US soil) that is not necessarily in the shareholders best interest (cheaper to set up a fab elsewhere). The subsidy is the difference in both parties judge to be the cost of doing the expensive thing (that matches US strategic interests) vs the cheaper thing.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>tasuki</author><text>If they were to buy Intel for a fair price, why should that disincentivize investment?</text></comment> |
36,906,759 | 36,906,720 | 1 | 2 | 36,905,405 | train | <story><title>Cities with their own psychological disorders</title><url>https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/cities-with-psychological-syndromes-stockholm</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>meigwilym</author><text>I&#x27;m no expert, but wasn&#x27;t Stockholm Syndrome debunked?<p>My understanding is that the response to the hostage taking was so incompetent that the hostages trusted the kidnappers more than the police. One of them was expected to &quot;die at her post&quot; by a bank executive. She refused to testify against them for these reasons rather than any sympathy to their cause.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>praptak</author><text>Well this article seems to classify it as pure bullshit:
<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.stadafa.com&#x2F;2020&#x2F;12&#x2F;stockholm-syndrome-discredit.html" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.stadafa.com&#x2F;2020&#x2F;12&#x2F;stockholm-syndrome-discredit...</a><p>&quot;The psychiatrist who invented it, Nils Bejerot, never spoke to the woman he based it on, never bothered to ask her why she trusted her captors more than the authorities. More to the point, during the Swedish bank heist that inspired the syndrome, Bejerot was the psychiatrist leading the police response. He was the authority that Kristin Enmark – the first woman diagnosed with Stockholm syndrome – distrusted.&quot;<p>&quot;On the radio, Enmark criticized the police, and singled out Bejerot. In response, and without once speaking to her, Bejerot dismissed her comments as the product of a syndrome he made up: ‘Norrmalmstorg syndrome’ (later renamed Stockholm syndrome). The fear Enmark felt towards the police was irrational, Bejerot explained, caused by the emotional or sexual attachment she had with her captors. Bejerot’s snap diagnosis suited the Swedish media; they were suspicious of Enmark, who ‘did not appear as traumatized as she ought to be.’ &quot;<p>At best,this syndrome was described based on one situation, not scientific research.</text></comment> | <story><title>Cities with their own psychological disorders</title><url>https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/cities-with-psychological-syndromes-stockholm</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>meigwilym</author><text>I&#x27;m no expert, but wasn&#x27;t Stockholm Syndrome debunked?<p>My understanding is that the response to the hostage taking was so incompetent that the hostages trusted the kidnappers more than the police. One of them was expected to &quot;die at her post&quot; by a bank executive. She refused to testify against them for these reasons rather than any sympathy to their cause.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>zgluck</author><text><i>One of them was expected to &quot;die at her post&quot; by a bank executive.</i><p>I wasn&#x27;t a bank executive, it was the the social democratic prime minister Olof Palme.<p>During a phone call he asked one of the hostages: &quot;wouldn′t it be nice to die at your post?&quot;<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;sverigesradio.se&#x2F;artikel&#x2F;591659" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;sverigesradio.se&#x2F;artikel&#x2F;591659</a><p>(<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;blogs.loc.gov&#x2F;law&#x2F;2021&#x2F;03&#x2F;the-murder-of-swedish-prime-minister-olof-palme&#x2F;" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;blogs.loc.gov&#x2F;law&#x2F;2021&#x2F;03&#x2F;the-murder-of-swedish-prim...</a>)</text></comment> |
30,820,416 | 30,820,175 | 1 | 2 | 30,819,136 | train | <story><title>Python and Qt simplified</title><url>https://build-system.fman.io/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>Thales</author><text>Free fbs doesn’t work with recent versions of python (&gt;3.6) [0]. You need to pay or migrate. This can lead to security issues because recent packages don’t always work with older python versions.<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;build-system.fman.io&#x2F;manual&#x2F;#requirements" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;build-system.fman.io&#x2F;manual&#x2F;#requirements</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Python and Qt simplified</title><url>https://build-system.fman.io/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>spicybright</author><text>Ha, I used pyinstall and QT for the first time during a one off project. Smoothest GUI development I&#x27;ve ever done coming from knowing nothing about the stack. Esp. pyinstall. Had to do literally nothing for win&#x2F;mac&#x2F;unix builds.<p>To be fair though, it was a relatively simple app, but I feel that&#x27;s the typical use case if you&#x27;re already proficient in python and just want to add some buttons.<p>I don&#x27;t hear about using this stack much, so I&#x27;m glad it&#x27;s getting improvements + more attention!</text></comment> |
41,302,263 | 41,300,442 | 1 | 3 | 41,295,692 | train | <story><title>So you want to build an embedded Linux system?</title><url>https://jaycarlson.net/embedded-linux/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>manuel_w</author><text>Since an embedded Linux system will likely require use of either Buildroot or Yocto, I&#x27;d like to ask the following slightly off-topic question:<p>Which SoM product line would you say has the best vendor support? I&#x27;m talking about quality of the BSP (board support package). (A meta-layer, in Yocto terms.)<p>Raspberry Pi has quite a community behind it, so meta-raspberrypi has a number of contributors. (None of which payed by the Raspberry Pi foundation, though.)<p>My latest project involved a NVidia Jetson SoM, and I was surprised to learn that the BSP doesn&#x27;t see any support from NVidia at all. They rely on one motivated guy (Matt Madison) maintaining it in his free time.<p>I&#x27;d love to see a vendor that provides a first-class BSP maintained by their own people.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>aquilum</author><text>Disclosure: Raspberry Pi employee, focussed on better tooling for people building products with Raspberry Pi devices.<p>--<p>Raspberry Pi provide pi-gen (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;RPi-Distro&#x2F;pi-gen">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;RPi-Distro&#x2F;pi-gen</a>), which allows you to build a customised Debian-based OS that uses our package list to get updates as we release them, with a low impedance mismatch between developing your software on Raspberry Pi OS and your deployment platform. Since it&#x27;s debian based, your resultant system winds up being _very_ familiar.<p>We also provide tooling that compliments pi-gen. For example, rpi-sb-provisioner (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;raspberrypi&#x2F;rpi-sb-provisioner">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;raspberrypi&#x2F;rpi-sb-provisioner</a>), which will happily ingest an OS image created by pi-gen and automate the configuration of signed boot with an encrypted rootfs on CM4 devices. I&#x27;ve used it to flash half a dozen Raspberry Pi devices in rapid form as part of testing, and it runs on our own hardware.<p>I&#x27;d love to see what people make of these tools, and where we could expand support &#x2F; docs &#x2F; ascii-art. I don&#x27;t check HN very often - but I&#x27;m pretty responsive to Github issues.</text></comment> | <story><title>So you want to build an embedded Linux system?</title><url>https://jaycarlson.net/embedded-linux/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>manuel_w</author><text>Since an embedded Linux system will likely require use of either Buildroot or Yocto, I&#x27;d like to ask the following slightly off-topic question:<p>Which SoM product line would you say has the best vendor support? I&#x27;m talking about quality of the BSP (board support package). (A meta-layer, in Yocto terms.)<p>Raspberry Pi has quite a community behind it, so meta-raspberrypi has a number of contributors. (None of which payed by the Raspberry Pi foundation, though.)<p>My latest project involved a NVidia Jetson SoM, and I was surprised to learn that the BSP doesn&#x27;t see any support from NVidia at all. They rely on one motivated guy (Matt Madison) maintaining it in his free time.<p>I&#x27;d love to see a vendor that provides a first-class BSP maintained by their own people.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dgfitz</author><text>One that comes to mind: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;nxp-imx&#x2F;meta-imx">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;nxp-imx&#x2F;meta-imx</a><p>I have done quite a bit of yocto work at $dayjob, and having a vendor-supported upstream BSP is (usually) really pleasant to work with.</text></comment> |
4,806,165 | 4,806,053 | 1 | 3 | 4,805,516 | train | <story><title>Build an iOS App on Heroku in 10 Minutes</title><url>http://mobile.heroku.com</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>pooriaazimi</author><text>Looks very nice, but I have a feeling that it's like iOS Storyboards: Great for simple demo apps, but <i>very</i> painful when you have slightly more complex needs.<p>For example I don't know how it can handle the following (kinda conventional for a web app) situation: Multiple users, some are admins and some are regular users, with some shared "data" (like, an item for sale) between the two. Moderators can add/remove/edit items and edit/remove users, users can browse/buy items, etc. - I think if you're building an app like this, you really have to roll your own CRUDful server (with ruby or whatever)...<p>Oh, and BTW, RestKit[1] is probably much more mature and feature-rich than AFIncrementalStore.<p>[1]: <a href="http://restkit.org" rel="nofollow">http://restkit.org</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Build an iOS App on Heroku in 10 Minutes</title><url>http://mobile.heroku.com</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>conradev</author><text>Just as a general advisory, from AFIncrementalStore's README:<p>&#62; This is still in early stages of development, so proceed with caution when using this in a production application.
&#62; Any bug reports, feature requests, or general feedback at this point would be greatly appreciated.<p>While it is a great library already, and built up from solid core frameworks, it has its share of bugs and rough edges!</text></comment> |
22,866,499 | 22,866,378 | 1 | 2 | 22,861,129 | train | <story><title>William Gibson says today’s internet is nothing like what he envisioned</title><url>https://www.npr.org/2020/03/19/810570879/william-gibson-says-todays-internet-is-nothing-like-what-he-envisioned</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>_red</author><text>&gt;I don&#x27;t see this as a pathetic premise.<p>You might agree with the politics of it which could be clouding your vision (I&#x27;m not intending that as anyway critical). Sometimes it&#x27;s helpful to view it from another angle:<p>Imagine if back in 2015 I told you my big book idea was set in 2200 and was about a group of renegade patriots who traveled back in time to stop Obama getting elected because 80% of the population had been killed in the FEMA camps he set up....<p>Would you think that was somehow a profound idea? Or would it strike you as pathetic attempt of me shoehorning politics into my work? Wouldn&#x27;t that come across as hysterical and insulting to the future?<p>The notion that 120+ years in the future the world will have changed so little that its still follows the same MSNBC vs Fox News script of today borders on hubris.</text></item><item><author>arkades</author><text>&gt; But then it struck Gibson that he could save his manuscript by creating a future world in the year 2136 — a world in which 80 percent of the population has been wiped out by climate change, but also a world where characters time-travel to create an alternate past in which Clinton won the election. &quot;After giving that only a few hours&#x27; thought, I realized that the world in which Hillary won wouldn&#x27;t be a happy world either. Because all of the drivers of the stress we feel today — minus one — would still be very much be present.&quot;<p>I don&#x27;t see this as a pathetic premise.</text></item><item><author>_red</author><text>&gt;[2136 book idea]....a world in which 80 percent of the population has been wiped out by climate change, but also a world where characters time-travel to create an alternate past in which Clinton won the election.<p>This is strange on so many levels...sort of pathetic that these are the plot ideas the grandfather of cyberpunk fiction is dreaming up...</text></item><item><author>baryphonic</author><text>This article is odd. It gives a shallow treatment of the subject in the headline, and then takes a wild turn into talking about the 2016 election, his emotions around it and its hypothetical impact on a future climate change-induced apocalypse.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ordinaryradical</author><text>You missed the part where he wrote the bit about the Clinton timeline being written prior to her election. He then had an alternate timeline by accident, and tried to come up with a reason for why his 2017 is different.<p>And if you’d, oh, I dunno, read the book instead of judging it by its cover you’d understand that the Clinton world is still barreling toward apocalypse because Gibson isn’t a hack and the point is not “if only democrats would save us” but rather “our whole system is built on corruption and will destroy us.”<p>So your comments make zero sense. Your critique is aimed at an abstract idea of what you think a book should be and has no relation to the text itself.</text></comment> | <story><title>William Gibson says today’s internet is nothing like what he envisioned</title><url>https://www.npr.org/2020/03/19/810570879/william-gibson-says-todays-internet-is-nothing-like-what-he-envisioned</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>_red</author><text>&gt;I don&#x27;t see this as a pathetic premise.<p>You might agree with the politics of it which could be clouding your vision (I&#x27;m not intending that as anyway critical). Sometimes it&#x27;s helpful to view it from another angle:<p>Imagine if back in 2015 I told you my big book idea was set in 2200 and was about a group of renegade patriots who traveled back in time to stop Obama getting elected because 80% of the population had been killed in the FEMA camps he set up....<p>Would you think that was somehow a profound idea? Or would it strike you as pathetic attempt of me shoehorning politics into my work? Wouldn&#x27;t that come across as hysterical and insulting to the future?<p>The notion that 120+ years in the future the world will have changed so little that its still follows the same MSNBC vs Fox News script of today borders on hubris.</text></item><item><author>arkades</author><text>&gt; But then it struck Gibson that he could save his manuscript by creating a future world in the year 2136 — a world in which 80 percent of the population has been wiped out by climate change, but also a world where characters time-travel to create an alternate past in which Clinton won the election. &quot;After giving that only a few hours&#x27; thought, I realized that the world in which Hillary won wouldn&#x27;t be a happy world either. Because all of the drivers of the stress we feel today — minus one — would still be very much be present.&quot;<p>I don&#x27;t see this as a pathetic premise.</text></item><item><author>_red</author><text>&gt;[2136 book idea]....a world in which 80 percent of the population has been wiped out by climate change, but also a world where characters time-travel to create an alternate past in which Clinton won the election.<p>This is strange on so many levels...sort of pathetic that these are the plot ideas the grandfather of cyberpunk fiction is dreaming up...</text></item><item><author>baryphonic</author><text>This article is odd. It gives a shallow treatment of the subject in the headline, and then takes a wild turn into talking about the 2016 election, his emotions around it and its hypothetical impact on a future climate change-induced apocalypse.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>justin66</author><text>You&#x27;re not well informed about the book and that makes your comments pretty painful to read, a problem which the radio clip obviously didn&#x27;t remedy. Although in fairness to NPR, it&#x27;s just radio, it&#x27;s not exactly the New York Times Book Review.<p>&gt; The notion that 120+ years in the future the world will have changed so little that its still follows the same MSNBC vs Fox News script of today borders on hubris.<p><i>Agency,</i> and its&#x27; predecessor <i>The Peripheral,</i> are set both in (a version of, or more precisely multiple versions of) the present day or the very near future, and in the future. There&#x27;s no way to not take the present day into account. But the politics of Gibson&#x27;s future are not reminiscent of &quot;MSNBC vs Fox News,&quot; if that makes you feel any better.<p>Perhaps you should familiarize yourself with what you are writing about.</text></comment> |
15,782,814 | 15,782,854 | 1 | 2 | 15,782,432 | train | <story><title>Microsoft doubles down on Kubernetes for Azure</title><url>https://blogs.dxc.technology/2017/11/21/microsoft-doubles-down-on-kubernetes-for-azure/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>gkop</author><text>Edit: Thanks to replies explaining that in fact AKS doesn&#x27;t charge for the master! I&#x27;m leaving the rest of this comment standing because it&#x27;s an honest reply to the article posted - Microsoft isn&#x27;t disingenuous, this article is just wrong.<p>&gt; Be that as it may, Microsoft is offering AKS for free. You will only pay for the virtual machines (VM) that you use for managing your Kubernetes cluster. Microsoft says, “Unlike other cloud providers who charge an hourly rate for the management infrastructure, with AKS you will pay nothing for the management of your Kubernetes cluster, ever. After all, the cloud should be about only paying for what you consume.”<p>This is disingenuous. We&#x27;re talking about k8s, so GKE is the comparison point. Yes GKE charges a flat hourly fee for cluster management, <i>regardless of the number or size of the nodes</i>[0]. But GKE doesn&#x27;t charge for the master instances (which are hidden away behind the GKE product). So AKS will not charge for the cluster management, but will charge for the master instances. Neither pricing model is more &quot;for free&quot; than the other.<p>Also, if we have to think about the master instance sizes on AKS because we&#x27;re paying for them, then that&#x27;s one thing we have to manage on AKS that we don&#x27;t have to manage on GKE - GKE adds more value by more completely managing our cluster.<p>[0] pedantic: there&#x27;s actually <i>no fee</i> for clusters of less than 6 nodes.</text></comment> | <story><title>Microsoft doubles down on Kubernetes for Azure</title><url>https://blogs.dxc.technology/2017/11/21/microsoft-doubles-down-on-kubernetes-for-azure/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>mephitix</author><text>This is a good thing; Microsoft will increase competition in this space by applying its expertise in dev tools to Kubernetes.<p>I just hope that MS doesn&#x27;t add in too many platform-specific pieces that would encourage vendor lock-in.<p>For example k8s ingress right now is based on controllers and GCE controllers support&#x2F;don&#x27;t support a wide variety of things compared to nginx ingress... these areas of Kubernetes make me worried about potential future switching costs.</text></comment> |
33,832,210 | 33,830,498 | 1 | 2 | 33,809,377 | train | <story><title>FCC Broadband Map</title><url>https://broadbandmap.fcc.gov/home</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>eganist</author><text>Lots of comments are misunderstanding the point of the map and think it&#x27;s supposed to be perfectly accurate.<p>No, that&#x27;s not at all the point. The point is to allow individuals and businesses to challenge telecom self-attestations of coverage that are likely suspect. So if e.g SpaceX says you&#x27;re currently served by Starlink but it turns out Starlink is refusing you on their site until the middle of next year, you can challenge the accuracy of Starlink&#x27;s coverage map.<p>Starlink used as an example. You can challenge anything, but so far I&#x27;ve had to challenge Starlink at every address I&#x27;m responsible for.<p>Over time the map should be reliable, but for now, look for the Location Challenge and Availability Challenge links to see your options if you think a provider is misrepresenting coverage.</text></comment> | <story><title>FCC Broadband Map</title><url>https://broadbandmap.fcc.gov/home</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>jeffdubin</author><text>It&#x27;s hard for me to take this data seriously when I enter an address that I know to be problematic for cellular coverage and receive &quot;100% coverage&quot; on the mobile broadband tab, and listed with carriers I know to have zero outdoor coverage at the location.</text></comment> |
32,220,987 | 32,218,410 | 1 | 3 | 32,215,277 | train | <story><title>Take more screenshots</title><url>https://alexwlchan.net/2022/07/screenshots/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>peckrob</author><text>A few years back I was going through some old floppy disks I found in a box and, on one of them, I found a screenshot I took of my desktop circa winter of 2000. In it was a window open with a MUD I was logged into at the time. Another window had Winamp open with a playlist of songs and another window had ICQ open. The only reason I took it was because there was an unofficial competition between our pub and another pub elsewhere on the MUD about which was more popular, and we had finally surpassed them.<p>It&#x27;s amazing how many emotions seeing that one image gave me. But the biggest was just this overwhelming sense of nostalgia. As I looked at that, I could remember what I was thinking, what I was feeling, everything that was happening in my super confusing teenage life at that time. Occasionally I will look at that image now, even 22 years later, I can still feel all those feeling again.<p>Of course, my ex&#x27;s character is in the screenshot too. So, a bit bittersweet as well. :&#x2F;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>iforgotpassword</author><text>Exact same thing happened. Found a bunch of old screenshots from 2000 to about 2006. So many programs you just stopped using at some point without really realizing, but seeing the screenshot immediately makes you feel like past you again, and what it was like to use your computer back then.<p>Especially when you see parts of a conversation with someone you didn&#x27;t talk to in over a decade, or who passed away. You&#x27;d think that&#x27;s what a photo would do, so I was surprised how strong of an emotional reaction screenshots can trigger. But then if you were spending 90% of your time online as a teen&#x2F;early 20s it&#x27;s not that surprising on a second thought.</text></comment> | <story><title>Take more screenshots</title><url>https://alexwlchan.net/2022/07/screenshots/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>peckrob</author><text>A few years back I was going through some old floppy disks I found in a box and, on one of them, I found a screenshot I took of my desktop circa winter of 2000. In it was a window open with a MUD I was logged into at the time. Another window had Winamp open with a playlist of songs and another window had ICQ open. The only reason I took it was because there was an unofficial competition between our pub and another pub elsewhere on the MUD about which was more popular, and we had finally surpassed them.<p>It&#x27;s amazing how many emotions seeing that one image gave me. But the biggest was just this overwhelming sense of nostalgia. As I looked at that, I could remember what I was thinking, what I was feeling, everything that was happening in my super confusing teenage life at that time. Occasionally I will look at that image now, even 22 years later, I can still feel all those feeling again.<p>Of course, my ex&#x27;s character is in the screenshot too. So, a bit bittersweet as well. :&#x2F;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Victerius</author><text>I still have computer files from 15 years ago, the time I was in high school. They are of no use, but I keep them around. Class projects, power point slides, word files.<p>I have deleted everything from uni though.</text></comment> |
19,004,346 | 19,004,163 | 1 | 3 | 19,003,865 | train | <story><title>Automation Agenda of the Davos Elite</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/25/technology/automation-davos-world-economic-forum.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>brobdingnagians</author><text>&gt;“The choice isn’t between automation and non-automation,” said Erik Brynjolfsson, the director of M.I.T.’s Initiative on the Digital Economy. “It’s between whether you use the technology in a way that creates shared prosperity, or more concentration of wealth.”<p>This could lead to a scenario with what happened when there was aristocracy. Land was a major necessary means of production and was overwhelmingly owned by the aristocracy, it was guarded since they had no reason to sell it and could rent-seek with it (and primogeniture guaranteed it didn&#x27;t disperse much), and they simply owned nearly everything.<p>Craftsmanship and high demand for skilled labor led to the middle class. Automation could be the new land. A wealthy &quot;owning class&quot; owns all the means of production (and less skilled labor) and has no incentive to open it up. Automation could lead to a small wealthy class, but a rapidly expanding lower class with little access to self-ownership of means of production.<p>Decentralization of means of production tends to have a beneficial effect on society. If normal folk can own means of production, then they will do well in any scenario because they will have choices, but if there is little choice but to work for large corporations, then they will get squeezed on the monopoly of means of production.<p>Whatever is having that effect of enforcing centralization of means of production is eventually going to not end well. It might be the tech, it might be some of the regulations, it might be cultural, or it might be the &quot;legal entity&quot; nature of corporations and the ability to amass huge amounts of resources with them; but whatever it is, it ain&#x27;t pretty.</text></comment> | <story><title>Automation Agenda of the Davos Elite</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/25/technology/automation-davos-world-economic-forum.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>Animats</author><text>We need to make progress on automating the job of the CEO. The CEO is just an intermediary between investors and profitable activity. Why should they be so expensive? ROI would improve if CEO costs could be cut, especially for underperforminmg CEOs.<p>There&#x27;s already a hedge fund where an AI has a board vote on acquisitions. This isn&#x27;t that far out of reach.</text></comment> |
17,189,515 | 17,189,275 | 1 | 2 | 17,188,762 | train | <story><title>Walmart will begin offering to subsidize college tuition for its U.S. workers</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/30/business/walmart-college-tuition.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>chipperyman573</author><text>&gt;Earlier this year, Walmart raised its base wage $2, to $11 an hour, and expanded its maternity and family leave benefits<p>Wow, raising the wage combined with this tuition assistance makes it seem like Walmart is actually trying not be known as the worst employer out there anymore - these benefits are better than some of the retail jobs I used to work a few years ago. I wonder why they suddenly care? Walmart gets its customers because they have low prices (or at least successfully trick people into thinking they have low prices), the kind of people who value that are unlikely to stop shopping at Walmart because of the negative PR around how they (used to) treat their workers.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>lev99</author><text>&gt;the kind of people who value that are unlikely to stop shopping at Walmart because of the negative PR<p>Walmart isn&#x27;t worried about losing the people shopping at Walmart. They just need to continue to sell cheap food, clothes, and household things in order to keep them.<p>Walmart has always promoted from within. I bet very few people have worked part time in Walmart for 1+ year while going to college for a business degree and not been shortlisted for a promotion. The college subsidy will give them more managers with ground floor experience.<p>Walmart is very concerned about how to grow their customer base. You see this with the 2day online shipping, site to store, and their grocery pickup program. The increase in wage is a direct attempt to increase employee retention and attract better employees. This is about growth, not loss prevention.</text></comment> | <story><title>Walmart will begin offering to subsidize college tuition for its U.S. workers</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/30/business/walmart-college-tuition.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>chipperyman573</author><text>&gt;Earlier this year, Walmart raised its base wage $2, to $11 an hour, and expanded its maternity and family leave benefits<p>Wow, raising the wage combined with this tuition assistance makes it seem like Walmart is actually trying not be known as the worst employer out there anymore - these benefits are better than some of the retail jobs I used to work a few years ago. I wonder why they suddenly care? Walmart gets its customers because they have low prices (or at least successfully trick people into thinking they have low prices), the kind of people who value that are unlikely to stop shopping at Walmart because of the negative PR around how they (used to) treat their workers.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>fullshark</author><text>They are afraid of Amazon, and realize customer service is going to be their competitive advantage now that they aren&#x27;t, nor will be, the cheapest&#x2F;most convenient destination into the future.</text></comment> |
13,145,907 | 13,146,038 | 1 | 2 | 13,145,400 | train | <story><title>My Pixel has a manufacturing defect</title><url>https://9to5google.com/2016/12/09/google-pixel-screen-peeling-support/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>WhitneyLand</author><text>&gt;Apple doesn&#x27;t have the best customer service<p>They don&#x27;t? Who does then?<p>Now if you want to say they&#x27;re not perfect and they&#x27;ve had their problems, I would agree with that.</text></item><item><author>tamcap</author><text>That was literally my thought. Apple doesn&#x27;t have the best customer service ever, but it&#x27;s pretty decent and people that have warranties seem to leave happy.<p>a) if the author speaks the truth (and I have no reason to believe otherwise) that the was never dropped - Google should fix it. That much is obvious.<p>Now, the b).
b) C&#x27;mon Google - you know the author is a techie &#x2F; twitterer &#x2F; reviewer - of all the people to annoy with customer service, is a person like that really the good choice?<p>This incident clearly exposes non-positive elements in their customer support culture.</text></item><item><author>rfrey</author><text>If Google wants to charge Apple iPhone prices, they can&#x27;t continue with Google level service.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>georgyo</author><text>Without a doubt Dell has much better customer focus for technical people. The 4 year support contact w&#x2F; accidentally costs the same as 4 years of apple care, but Dell&#x27;s covers everything except lost and wore down batteries.<p>Apple requires that you book an appointment at one of their stores, go there, wait on line anyway because there are people who don&#x27;t want to book online, have someone who can&#x27;t fix hardware problems look at it, and then say they&#x27;ll take it but you must give them your file vault password first.<p>Dell on the other hand after ten minutes of hardware troubleshooting on the phone comes on site with replacement parts. If they can&#x27;t fix it they send it back for you, and you can request that they give you the hard drive in the machine before they send it. It&#x27;s very excellent.</text></comment> | <story><title>My Pixel has a manufacturing defect</title><url>https://9to5google.com/2016/12/09/google-pixel-screen-peeling-support/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>WhitneyLand</author><text>&gt;Apple doesn&#x27;t have the best customer service<p>They don&#x27;t? Who does then?<p>Now if you want to say they&#x27;re not perfect and they&#x27;ve had their problems, I would agree with that.</text></item><item><author>tamcap</author><text>That was literally my thought. Apple doesn&#x27;t have the best customer service ever, but it&#x27;s pretty decent and people that have warranties seem to leave happy.<p>a) if the author speaks the truth (and I have no reason to believe otherwise) that the was never dropped - Google should fix it. That much is obvious.<p>Now, the b).
b) C&#x27;mon Google - you know the author is a techie &#x2F; twitterer &#x2F; reviewer - of all the people to annoy with customer service, is a person like that really the good choice?<p>This incident clearly exposes non-positive elements in their customer support culture.</text></item><item><author>rfrey</author><text>If Google wants to charge Apple iPhone prices, they can&#x27;t continue with Google level service.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>thenomad</author><text>Herman Millar.<p>&quot;My chair&#x27;s seat fabric has torn a bit. Is there anything you can do?&quot;<p>&quot;When did you buy it?&quot;<p>&quot;Erm, around 6 years ago, I think.&quot;<p><i>Checks records</i><p>&quot;No problem, an entire replacement seat will turn up in a truck tomorrow. We&#x27;ll fit it and leave your chair good as new. Have a nice day, sir.&quot;</text></comment> |
27,536,437 | 27,536,173 | 1 | 2 | 27,529,697 | train | <story><title>Bear plus snowflake equals polar bear</title><url>https://andysalerno.com/posts/weird-emojis/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>kibwen</author><text>We&#x27;re so lazy that we can&#x27;t even be bothered to type &quot;character&quot; half the time, so &quot;grapheme cluster&quot; has no chance to catch on unless we can think of a &quot;char&quot;-style abbreviation. I&#x27;ll start the bikeshed with &quot;gracl&quot;, but ambitious folks may wish to argue for &quot;clog&quot; (&quot;cluster of graphemes&quot;).</text></item><item><author>ademarre</author><text>I think the term you are looking for is <i>grapheme cluster</i>.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;manishearth.github.io&#x2F;blog&#x2F;2017&#x2F;01&#x2F;14&#x2F;stop-ascribing-meaning-to-unicode-code-points&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;manishearth.github.io&#x2F;blog&#x2F;2017&#x2F;01&#x2F;14&#x2F;stop-ascribing...</a></text></item><item><author>tialaramex</author><text>This is definitely an example where &quot;character&quot; was the wrong word. We start out OK with bytes being distinct, but by the end we&#x27;re talking about how a character is made out of several characters. If we think in terms of code points (Rust&#x27;s native char type actually provides here a slightly different thing, a Unicode Scalar Value, which certain types of code point are not, but close enough) clearly a code point isn&#x27;t made out of several code points, so we needed a different word.<p>I like squiggle, if you&#x27;re a text rendering engine you might want to use &quot;glyph&quot; although you might already need that word for something else. But try to avoid character because that word already has far too many meanings, most of which won&#x27;t be what you wanted.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>irrational</author><text>How about graph? One character longer than char and probably not already in use in the area of computer science.</text></comment> | <story><title>Bear plus snowflake equals polar bear</title><url>https://andysalerno.com/posts/weird-emojis/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>kibwen</author><text>We&#x27;re so lazy that we can&#x27;t even be bothered to type &quot;character&quot; half the time, so &quot;grapheme cluster&quot; has no chance to catch on unless we can think of a &quot;char&quot;-style abbreviation. I&#x27;ll start the bikeshed with &quot;gracl&quot;, but ambitious folks may wish to argue for &quot;clog&quot; (&quot;cluster of graphemes&quot;).</text></item><item><author>ademarre</author><text>I think the term you are looking for is <i>grapheme cluster</i>.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;manishearth.github.io&#x2F;blog&#x2F;2017&#x2F;01&#x2F;14&#x2F;stop-ascribing-meaning-to-unicode-code-points&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;manishearth.github.io&#x2F;blog&#x2F;2017&#x2F;01&#x2F;14&#x2F;stop-ascribing...</a></text></item><item><author>tialaramex</author><text>This is definitely an example where &quot;character&quot; was the wrong word. We start out OK with bytes being distinct, but by the end we&#x27;re talking about how a character is made out of several characters. If we think in terms of code points (Rust&#x27;s native char type actually provides here a slightly different thing, a Unicode Scalar Value, which certain types of code point are not, but close enough) clearly a code point isn&#x27;t made out of several code points, so we needed a different word.<p>I like squiggle, if you&#x27;re a text rendering engine you might want to use &quot;glyph&quot; although you might already need that word for something else. But try to avoid character because that word already has far too many meanings, most of which won&#x27;t be what you wanted.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>pbiggar</author><text>It&#x27;s really an Extended Grapheme Cluster. In our codebase (Darklang) we abbreviate it to EGC.</text></comment> |
4,256,239 | 4,256,103 | 1 | 3 | 4,255,846 | train | <story><title>Dear Marissa Mayer...please make Flickr awesome again</title><url>http://dearmarissamayer.com/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>bijanv</author><text>I think enough photographers have moved over to 500px (<a href="http://500px.com" rel="nofollow">http://500px.com</a>) to make Flickr a garbage dump of whatever you export from your digicam. And even still I feel people are preferring to do that through Dropbox now.<p>I'm not really sure what Flickr could even potentially have going for it anymore to 'become awesome again'.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>blhack</author><text>I'm a [hobbyist] photographer, and I'm friends with several people who make their living taking photos.<p>I've never even heard of 500px. It certainly isn't at a point of making flickr a garbage dump.</text></comment> | <story><title>Dear Marissa Mayer...please make Flickr awesome again</title><url>http://dearmarissamayer.com/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>bijanv</author><text>I think enough photographers have moved over to 500px (<a href="http://500px.com" rel="nofollow">http://500px.com</a>) to make Flickr a garbage dump of whatever you export from your digicam. And even still I feel people are preferring to do that through Dropbox now.<p>I'm not really sure what Flickr could even potentially have going for it anymore to 'become awesome again'.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>deveac</author><text><i>&#62;to make Flickr a garbage dump of whatever you export from your digicam. </i><p>Sounds like a potential (massive) advantage to me. Having your service be ground zero for export from your cam and contain all your content? That can be exploited to good effect.</text></comment> |
36,397,936 | 36,397,652 | 1 | 2 | 36,391,053 | train | <story><title>Titanic tourist submersible goes missing with search under way</title><url>https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-65953872</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>minedwiz</author><text>Communicating with submarines is actually a nightmare. The saltwater ruins most radio communications, so you have no chance to receive GPS signals, which are pretty weak even on the surface.<p>One thing the military does&#x2F;did to communicate with subs is use low-bandwidth text-only very low frequency radio, but you need colossal transmitters and there&#x27;s no way the mother ship carries one. Hydrophones are also an option, and IIRC NATO even has a working sound-based modem to transmit digital signals to subs, but not sure if that has spread in the civilian market.</text></item><item><author>systemtest</author><text>Is there some sort of underwater &quot;GPS&quot; tracker they can use to track the sub?</text></item><item><author>spatialaustin</author><text>David Pogue, who traveled to the Titanic with OceanGate last summer, has said that he was on the control ship when a previous sub was &quot;lost for about 5 hours&quot;.<p>Source: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;Pogue&#x2F;status&#x2F;1670835763536183297" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;Pogue&#x2F;status&#x2F;1670835763536183297</a></text></item><item><author>carbine</author><text>I&#x27;m hesitant to speculate but just sharing -- an earlier version of this submersible was scrapped:<p><i>&quot;OceanGate will take advantage of lessons learned during the construction of its carbon-hulled Titan submersible, which was originally built for Titanic journeys. Rush said tests that were conducted at the Deep Ocean Test Facility in Annapolis, Md., revealed that the Titan’s hull “showed signs of cyclic fatigue.” As a result, the hull’s depth rating was reduced to 3,000 meters.<p>“Not enough to get to the Titanic,” Rush said.&quot;</i><p>Source: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.geekwire.com&#x2F;2020&#x2F;oceangate-raises-18m-build-bigger-submersible-fleet-get-set-titanic-trips&#x2F;" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.geekwire.com&#x2F;2020&#x2F;oceangate-raises-18m-build-big...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Prickle</author><text>Military submarines also have a towed communications buoy that they can use to communicate with satellites. But that thing is connected to the submersible via a cable.</text></comment> | <story><title>Titanic tourist submersible goes missing with search under way</title><url>https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-65953872</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>minedwiz</author><text>Communicating with submarines is actually a nightmare. The saltwater ruins most radio communications, so you have no chance to receive GPS signals, which are pretty weak even on the surface.<p>One thing the military does&#x2F;did to communicate with subs is use low-bandwidth text-only very low frequency radio, but you need colossal transmitters and there&#x27;s no way the mother ship carries one. Hydrophones are also an option, and IIRC NATO even has a working sound-based modem to transmit digital signals to subs, but not sure if that has spread in the civilian market.</text></item><item><author>systemtest</author><text>Is there some sort of underwater &quot;GPS&quot; tracker they can use to track the sub?</text></item><item><author>spatialaustin</author><text>David Pogue, who traveled to the Titanic with OceanGate last summer, has said that he was on the control ship when a previous sub was &quot;lost for about 5 hours&quot;.<p>Source: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;Pogue&#x2F;status&#x2F;1670835763536183297" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;Pogue&#x2F;status&#x2F;1670835763536183297</a></text></item><item><author>carbine</author><text>I&#x27;m hesitant to speculate but just sharing -- an earlier version of this submersible was scrapped:<p><i>&quot;OceanGate will take advantage of lessons learned during the construction of its carbon-hulled Titan submersible, which was originally built for Titanic journeys. Rush said tests that were conducted at the Deep Ocean Test Facility in Annapolis, Md., revealed that the Titan’s hull “showed signs of cyclic fatigue.” As a result, the hull’s depth rating was reduced to 3,000 meters.<p>“Not enough to get to the Titanic,” Rush said.&quot;</i><p>Source: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.geekwire.com&#x2F;2020&#x2F;oceangate-raises-18m-build-bigger-submersible-fleet-get-set-titanic-trips&#x2F;" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.geekwire.com&#x2F;2020&#x2F;oceangate-raises-18m-build-big...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>scarnz</author><text>I concur. Message is authentic.</text></comment> |
22,515,681 | 22,513,712 | 1 | 2 | 22,511,473 | train | <story><title>IRC and Emacs all the things</title><url>https://200ok.ch/posts/2019-11-01_irc_and_emacs_all_the_things.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>iLemming</author><text>&gt; Not having a general text editor at your disposal for when you have to input&#x2F;manage loads of text is like being a carpenter and only having a hammer in the toolbox.<p>Once I learned Emacs to the sufficient level, I felt that. Today, I can&#x27;t even imagine typing any text in anything else but Emacs. Having all the tools you need at your disposal - spellchecking, thesaurus, dictionary, word lookup, translation, etc., feels extremely empowering.<p>My work machine is a Mac. I have written this¹, mainly to integrate with Emacs. Whenever I need to type anything longer than four words, in any program, I use that. The idea is simple - to copy existing text, call emacsclient, it invokes a function that opens a buffer and pastes the text into it. Then you edit the text in Emacs, press dedicated key-sequence - it grabs the text, switches back to the program, pastes the text back in there. It works surprisingly well. I can for example, open Browser Dev Tools; invoke Emacs; switch to js-mode, have all the bells and whistles: syntax-highlighting, autocomplete, etc.; write some javascript; finish editing and it would paste the code back into the Dev Tools console.<p>Sometimes I use Linux with EXWM. When I first discovered it, I got very excited. Not because now I could manage all windows through Emacs, but mostly because EXWM can &quot;translate&quot; and &quot;simulate&quot; the keys. So, for example, you can use same key-sequences that you use on Mac, but they&#x27;d translate into Linux native keys. There&#x27;s no &quot;context switching&quot;, you don&#x27;t need to re-adapt to the keys all the time. It took me a few hours to learn EXWM and configure it, next day I wrote exwm-edit² Emacs package.<p>Being able to write any kind of text in your favorite editor is truly liberating. I highly recommend trying. Be warned though - it&#x27;s impossible to live without that later. The only reason I don&#x27;t much use Windows these days - because I haven&#x27;t yet figured out the way of doing this in Windows. Someday I will.<p>---<p>¹ <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;agzam&#x2F;spacehammer" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;agzam&#x2F;spacehammer</a><p>² <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;agzam&#x2F;exwm-edit" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;agzam&#x2F;exwm-edit</a></text></comment> | <story><title>IRC and Emacs all the things</title><url>https://200ok.ch/posts/2019-11-01_irc_and_emacs_all_the_things.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>mxuribe</author><text>This is brilliant! Not so much for use of emacs or libpurple or bitlebee specifically for that matter (which are all fine)...Rather, what i find to be the coolest is the whole... &quot;I&#x27;m gonna use <i></i>my preferred<i></i> text editor to interact with the world&quot; approach!
Some might say that this reduces outside systems into nothing more than an API-sort of layer, but honestly, I really like that; it helps with learning curves, general adoption, etc. Kudos!</text></comment> |
3,535,205 | 3,533,839 | 1 | 3 | 3,533,386 | train | <story><title>Bill C-11 could bring SOPA-like piracy laws to Canada</title><url>http://ca.news.yahoo.com/blogs/right-click/bill-c11-could-bring-sopa-online-piracy-laws-212657243.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>sha90</author><text>The only thing wrong with C-11 as it stands currently are the digital lock provisions. Everything else in the bill is rather liberal, and, frankly, some of the provisions are outright <i>good</i> for Canadians (limits on fines, ISP liability exemptions, educational use exemptions, "mashup" exemptions). Calling for protests against the bill in its entirety is ignorant and blaming "the majority government" for passing draconian laws is outright sensationalist and false. That's not really how we do things here in Canada. There's a better way to get things done, and it doesn't involve hyperbole.<p>Yes, the digital locks portions of the bill could use some reworking-- but as mentioned, the enforceability of the law as its codified now is questionable, so I wonder how big of a deal it would <i>actually</i> be for the law to be passed as is. Remember, as pointed out, use of VCRs is also technically illegal, but you don't see any enforcement of that. The issue surrounding digital locks may very well have the same practical effect. We should certainly try to get these provisions changed before they are codified, but IMO it's not really the end of the world.<p>Yes, there is going to be a lot of push from powerful lobbyists to get "SOPA-like" provisions into the bill. However that is a reason to remain vigilant, not a reason to pre-emptively black out the internet again. As it stands, those additions have yet to be added to the bill, so right now, the lobbying power hasn't done very much. Maybe it's just me, but I'm not the type to start blaming people for things that haven't happened yet. I'm going to watch and wait until there <i>is</i> something reminiscent of SOPA in this bill, which may or may not happen.<p>FYI for those who are just jumping on the bus because SOPA is in the title of this article, please read a bit on the issue before injecting your opinion or outrage. Michael Geist is a good and well respected source on this issue. He's come out (more or less) in favour of the bill, minus his open objections to the digital locks portions, which I pointed out above. However, his general approval should say something about the bill-- Geist probably knows a lot more about copyright law in Canada than anyone here does. His comments regarding C-32 (now C-11) can be found in this rather old posting: <a href="http://www.michaelgeist.ca/content/view/5316/125/" rel="nofollow">http://www.michaelgeist.ca/content/view/5316/125/</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Bill C-11 could bring SOPA-like piracy laws to Canada</title><url>http://ca.news.yahoo.com/blogs/right-click/bill-c11-could-bring-sopa-online-piracy-laws-212657243.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>unavoidable</author><text>The primary difference between American and Canadian copyright law is that although the new bill implements DMCA-and SOPA-like provisions, the safe harbour clauses for ISPs are somewhat more lenient.<p>Whereas the DMCA mandates a notice-and-takedown scheme, Canadian legislatures have preferred to adopt a "Canadian" solution of notice-and-notice, which means that ISPs and hosting providers have more immunity by giving notice to their customers.<p>Unfortunately, this is a double-edged sword. Although service providers have greater immunity, thus less threatening to the structure of the internet, consumers are more likely to be given up by said providers, because there are less incentives for companies to defend such actions (since it requires far less costs and actions on their part to give notice rather than to take down infringing material).</text></comment> |
20,628,429 | 20,626,448 | 1 | 2 | 20,625,547 | train | <story><title>Supercentenarians are concentrated into regions with no birth certificates</title><url>https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/704080v1</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mktmkr</author><text>There is also the reverse process: people who are older than officially recorded. When my in-laws came to the USA from Vietnam after the war they wanted to be able to work for a long time before anyone forced the to retire, so they just said they were 25 years old, an understatement of quite a number of years. Upheaval and displacement tend to wipe out government records.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>grawprog</author><text>We found this out about my grandma near the end of her life. Everyone had always thought she&#x27;d been born in 1927. Turns out, according to some paperwork we&#x27;d gotten from her home country she&#x27;d actually been born in 1923. It was all because she wanted to lie to my grandpa and seem younger than she was. At some point she just forgot about it.</text></comment> | <story><title>Supercentenarians are concentrated into regions with no birth certificates</title><url>https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/704080v1</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mktmkr</author><text>There is also the reverse process: people who are older than officially recorded. When my in-laws came to the USA from Vietnam after the war they wanted to be able to work for a long time before anyone forced the to retire, so they just said they were 25 years old, an understatement of quite a number of years. Upheaval and displacement tend to wipe out government records.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>o09rdk</author><text>I kinda wondered that looking at the paper. It&#x27;s hard to know from eyeballing such low numbers relatively speaking, but it seems like there&#x27;s not only a large peak in supercentenarians born shortly before the introduction of records (suggesting erroneously reported very old age), but maybe also a smaller peak <i>after</i> the records.<p>With name databases, there seems to have been a phenomenon where people retroactively created records when they were introduced (e.g., people registered for SSNs after the fact). Maybe there&#x27;s something similar going on: people are overreporting their age when born with no records, but also are overreporting their age when they registered their birth after the fact.<p>It&#x27;s a bit hard to explain in terms of underreporting age, and the trends are such that I think they still largely support the authors&#x27; hypotheses in terms of relative overreporting and underreporting. But I agree there&#x27;s probably more fuzziness here.<p>The bigger issue for me that this raises are the perils of making inferences on outliers of any distribution. The further out you go on any characteristic, the more likely you are going to run into similar problems with errors, fraud, or unusual circumstances.</text></comment> |
33,398,317 | 33,398,264 | 1 | 2 | 33,397,605 | train | <story><title>Ursula Le Guin on Star Trek: TNG (1994)</title><url>https://gentlier.tumblr.com/post/661155647772082176/ursula-le-guin-on-star-trek-tng</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>uxcolumbo</author><text>These two snippets stood out for me:<p>&quot;Violence, on The Next Generation, is shown as a problem, or the failure to solve a problem, never as the true solution.&quot;<p>&quot;Lots of young people watch it, too, of course, and, recently, at a conference about science fiction, one of them told me why: “A lot of science fiction shows us a future just like now, only worse,” she said. “I like The Next Generation because it shows us a future I could live in.” &quot;<p>Compare the old shows, TNG &amp; DS9 with the new shows - Discovery and Picard.<p>Alan Kurtzman and team have completely destroyed the spirit of Star Trek - totally ignored what Roddenberry tried to achieve - which is nicely encapsulated in the two snippets above.<p>Instead Kurtzman &amp; team created something bland, superficial with no depth by desperately and selfishly imprinting their own mark on the Star Trek world without respecting its history. Even the great actors like Stewart, Spiner or De Lancie couldn&#x27;t save it.<p>----<p>PS. This is a good summary of the new Trek:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=WaK7jGyY4Wo" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=WaK7jGyY4Wo</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=3BiyH8lENRs" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=3BiyH8lENRs</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>SkyMarshal</author><text>I think the reorientation around conflict actually began with Rick Berman after he took over from Roddenberry back 90s or early 2000s or whenever it was. He explicitly stated that he wanted more interpersonal conflict between the crew of the enterprise. His notion was that Roddenberry’s utopian vision of the way the crew worked together was just not realistic. Of course he missed the whole point, that it may not be realistic today, but it was an aspirational vision of a better future. I watched TNG religiously as a kid, but once Berman took over and began infusing pointless interpersonal conflict, I lost interest.<p>That said, everything I’ve seen of Strange New Worlds so far is excellent, it’s like the old Roddenberry vision reincarnated.</text></comment> | <story><title>Ursula Le Guin on Star Trek: TNG (1994)</title><url>https://gentlier.tumblr.com/post/661155647772082176/ursula-le-guin-on-star-trek-tng</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>uxcolumbo</author><text>These two snippets stood out for me:<p>&quot;Violence, on The Next Generation, is shown as a problem, or the failure to solve a problem, never as the true solution.&quot;<p>&quot;Lots of young people watch it, too, of course, and, recently, at a conference about science fiction, one of them told me why: “A lot of science fiction shows us a future just like now, only worse,” she said. “I like The Next Generation because it shows us a future I could live in.” &quot;<p>Compare the old shows, TNG &amp; DS9 with the new shows - Discovery and Picard.<p>Alan Kurtzman and team have completely destroyed the spirit of Star Trek - totally ignored what Roddenberry tried to achieve - which is nicely encapsulated in the two snippets above.<p>Instead Kurtzman &amp; team created something bland, superficial with no depth by desperately and selfishly imprinting their own mark on the Star Trek world without respecting its history. Even the great actors like Stewart, Spiner or De Lancie couldn&#x27;t save it.<p>----<p>PS. This is a good summary of the new Trek:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=WaK7jGyY4Wo" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=WaK7jGyY4Wo</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=3BiyH8lENRs" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=3BiyH8lENRs</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>foobarbecue</author><text>I agree with you about Discovery and (ugh) Picard. But calling those THE new shows? What about Strange New Worlds? I love SNW because it&#x27;s very much in the spirit of TOS and TNG.<p>And while I wouldn&#x27;t say Lower Decks &#x2F;respects&#x2F; the spirit of early Trek, it certainly shows an awareness of the utopian philosophy!</text></comment> |
31,519,371 | 31,517,191 | 1 | 2 | 31,506,319 | train | <story><title>Learnings from 5 years of tech startup code audits</title><url>https://kenkantzer.com/learnings-from-5-years-of-tech-startup-code-audits/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jacquesm</author><text>That&#x27;s a good point, tech debt <i>can</i> be a killer. But the more common pattern that I&#x27;ve seen is that companies that accumulate tech debt but that are doing well commercially eventually gather enough funds to address the tech debt, the companies that try to get the tech &#x27;perfect&#x27; the first time out of the gate lose a lot more time, and so run a much larger chance of dying. The optimum is to allow for some tech debt to accumulate but to address it periodically, either by simply abandoning those parts by doing small, local rewrite (never the whole thing all at once, that is bound to fail spectacularly) or by having time marked out for refactoring.<p>The teams that drown in tech debt tend to have roadmaps that are strictly customer facing work, that can get you very far but in the end you&#x27;ll stagnate in ways that are not easy to fix, technical work related to doing things right once you know exactly what you need pays off.</text></item><item><author>izacus</author><text>I&#x27;ve found that slowdown from tech debt killed as many companies as any other issue. It&#x27;s usually caused by business owners constantly pivoting, but being too slow on the pivot and too slow to bring customer wishes to fruition (due to poor technical decisions and tech debt) is probably one of the top 5 reasons for dead companies I&#x27;ve seen.</text></item><item><author>jacquesm</author><text>That&#x27;s a very interesting set of findings. What is important to realize when reading this that it is a case of survivorship bias. The startups that were audited were obviously still alive, and any that suffered from such flaws that they were fatal had most likely already left the pool.<p>In 15 years of doing technical due diligence (200+ jobs) I have yet to come across a company where the tech was what eventually killed them. But business case problems, for instance being unaware of the true cost of fielding a product and losing money on every transaction are extremely common. Improper cost allocation, product market mismatch, wishful thinking, founder conflicts, founder-investor conflicts, relying on non-existent technology while faking it for the time being and so on have all killed quite a few companies.<p>Tech can be fixed, and if everything else is working fine there will be budget to do so. These other issues usually can&#x27;t be fixed, no matter what the budget.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>bcrosby95</author><text>Maybe once you get to that stage it doesn&#x27;t really matter. Maybe if you&#x27;re going for a billion dollar earth shaking idea, it doesn&#x27;t really matter.<p>However, I&#x27;ve worked for a small company for quite a while now. We&#x27;ve had several successful projects and several failures.<p>In my experience, technical debt taken too early can easily double the time it takes you to find out if a project is a dud. That matters to us.<p>My general rule is: push off technical debt as late as you can. Aways leave code slightly better than you found it. Fix problems as you recognize them.<p>I think a big mistake developers make is thinking &quot;make code better&quot; should be on some roadmap. You should be making code better every time you touch it. Nothing about writing a new feature says that you have to integrate it in the sloppiest way possible.</text></comment> | <story><title>Learnings from 5 years of tech startup code audits</title><url>https://kenkantzer.com/learnings-from-5-years-of-tech-startup-code-audits/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jacquesm</author><text>That&#x27;s a good point, tech debt <i>can</i> be a killer. But the more common pattern that I&#x27;ve seen is that companies that accumulate tech debt but that are doing well commercially eventually gather enough funds to address the tech debt, the companies that try to get the tech &#x27;perfect&#x27; the first time out of the gate lose a lot more time, and so run a much larger chance of dying. The optimum is to allow for some tech debt to accumulate but to address it periodically, either by simply abandoning those parts by doing small, local rewrite (never the whole thing all at once, that is bound to fail spectacularly) or by having time marked out for refactoring.<p>The teams that drown in tech debt tend to have roadmaps that are strictly customer facing work, that can get you very far but in the end you&#x27;ll stagnate in ways that are not easy to fix, technical work related to doing things right once you know exactly what you need pays off.</text></item><item><author>izacus</author><text>I&#x27;ve found that slowdown from tech debt killed as many companies as any other issue. It&#x27;s usually caused by business owners constantly pivoting, but being too slow on the pivot and too slow to bring customer wishes to fruition (due to poor technical decisions and tech debt) is probably one of the top 5 reasons for dead companies I&#x27;ve seen.</text></item><item><author>jacquesm</author><text>That&#x27;s a very interesting set of findings. What is important to realize when reading this that it is a case of survivorship bias. The startups that were audited were obviously still alive, and any that suffered from such flaws that they were fatal had most likely already left the pool.<p>In 15 years of doing technical due diligence (200+ jobs) I have yet to come across a company where the tech was what eventually killed them. But business case problems, for instance being unaware of the true cost of fielding a product and losing money on every transaction are extremely common. Improper cost allocation, product market mismatch, wishful thinking, founder conflicts, founder-investor conflicts, relying on non-existent technology while faking it for the time being and so on have all killed quite a few companies.<p>Tech can be fixed, and if everything else is working fine there will be budget to do so. These other issues usually can&#x27;t be fixed, no matter what the budget.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jakey_bakey</author><text>Exactly this. People forget that the point of the metaphor is that debt is a tool you use to grow faster.<p>Credit card debt (e.g. sloppy code and test-free critical backend processes) is pretty bad and should be paid down ASAP.<p>Mortgage debt (e.g. no UI tests on the front-end) is quite safe and you can kick the can down the road.</text></comment> |
14,576,058 | 14,576,147 | 1 | 2 | 14,573,837 | train | <story><title>Making Humans a Multi-Planetary Species</title><url>http://online.liebertpub.com/doi/pdf/10.1089/space.2017.29009.emu</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Eerie</author><text>Funny how there are people with much more money than Musk, who do absolutely nothing useful with it, but Musk draws criticism for details. Oh, why Mars, why not Moon, or Ceres, or O&#x27;Neill cylinders, or lets colonize the Sahara desert first, or lets solve world hunger and poverty (which is a 100% political problem, not technological, BTW) blah, blah, blah, blah...<p>Musk is doing SOMETHING, at least. The technology that SpaceX develops can and will be used for much more than just Elon&#x27;s particular vision of Mars colony.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jncraton</author><text><p><pre><code> It is not the critic who counts;
not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles,
or where the doer of deeds could have done them better.
The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena,
whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood;
who strives valiantly; who errs,
who comes short again and again,
because there is no effort without error and shortcoming;
but who does actually strive to do the deeds;
who knows great enthusiasms,
the great devotions;
who spends himself in a worthy cause;
who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement,
and who at the worst,
if he fails,
at least fails while daring greatly,
so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.
</code></pre>
<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Citizenship_in_a_Republic" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Citizenship_in_a_Republic</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Making Humans a Multi-Planetary Species</title><url>http://online.liebertpub.com/doi/pdf/10.1089/space.2017.29009.emu</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Eerie</author><text>Funny how there are people with much more money than Musk, who do absolutely nothing useful with it, but Musk draws criticism for details. Oh, why Mars, why not Moon, or Ceres, or O&#x27;Neill cylinders, or lets colonize the Sahara desert first, or lets solve world hunger and poverty (which is a 100% political problem, not technological, BTW) blah, blah, blah, blah...<p>Musk is doing SOMETHING, at least. The technology that SpaceX develops can and will be used for much more than just Elon&#x27;s particular vision of Mars colony.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>endymi0n</author><text>This. For about the cost of a NASA rocket testing facility that wasn&#x27;t even used once [1], these guys built and flew not just the first fully private rocket ever but also an upgraded one that&#x27;s competitive to the largest launchers currently on the market [2]. Just give these people some money, at least they&#x27;re spending it efficiently.<p>[1] <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;swampland.time.com&#x2F;2014&#x2F;01&#x2F;08&#x2F;the-nasa-launchpad-to-nowhere&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;swampland.time.com&#x2F;2014&#x2F;01&#x2F;08&#x2F;the-nasa-launchpad-to-n...</a>
[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;space.stackexchange.com&#x2F;questions&#x2F;14379&#x2F;nasa-cost-estimating-and-falcon-9" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;space.stackexchange.com&#x2F;questions&#x2F;14379&#x2F;nasa-cost-es...</a></text></comment> |
30,875,592 | 30,875,637 | 1 | 2 | 30,872,168 | train | <story><title>Go mod’s lesser known features</title><url>https://verdverm.com/go-mods/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>na85</author><text>Ugh, reading this reminded me why I felt good moving away from Go after the honeymoon period was over.<p>Actually writing the code was fun at first, but everything else around the actual act of composing code was thoroughly awful UX.</text></item><item><author>mkdirp</author><text>I can shed some light on some of your questions for you.<p>&gt; most of the documentation talks of gopath<p>Historically go used a GOPATH env var. Go code had to live under there under `$GOPATH&#x2F;src&#x2F;&lt;module-path&gt;`. When doing an import, go would look at the import path, and find it in GOPATH. This wasn&#x27;t flexible enough but still exists under the hood as it&#x27;s where go saves (caches?) packages globally. If you have a go.mod&#x2F;go.sum file in your project, in general, you won&#x27;t have to worry about GOPATH.<p>Worth noting that go, while widely used, was created to solve Google&#x27;s problems (I guess at least initially?), where (from my understanding) they have a huge monorepo. At that point, having everything live under such a GOPATH somewhat makes sense.<p>&gt; why are go mod vendor and go mod tidy different commands?<p>Go mod vendor puts all the dependencies in a .&#x2F;vendor directory. Often used to commit your packages directly into git. There might be other advantages, not sure, but personally I don&#x27;t use it. Go is able to pick up the packages in your go.mod directly from $GOPATH.<p>Go mod tidy ensures your go.mod matches your used package. E.g. if you remove usage of a package in your code, go mod tidy is able to pick that up. In addition, it also ensures your go.sum matches go.mod.<p>&gt; the lack of “one true way” is very strange. some projects module. some projects check in dependent source code<p>This is a historic issue. Prior to 1.12 (I think), go modules didn&#x27;t exist, and there were different community projects that attempted to solve go package management.<p>&gt; do i download with go get? or go install? or go get -u?<p>Again, historic issues, iirc go get -u forces an update of a package, meaning this updates your go.mod file. Go get without -u does not force update the package. It update your go.mod file if you haven&#x27;t included the module previously. Go install is used for go main packages. It fetches the code, builds it (so it must be a main package), and puts the final binary in $GOPATH&#x2F;bin. Assuming you have that in your patch, you can use it straight away.</text></item><item><author>foolfoolz</author><text>go modules is one of the hardest things about learning go as a new learner. most of the documentation talks of gopath. the go mod error messages are extremely cryptic. why are go mod vendor and go mod tidy different commands?<p>the lack of “one true way” is very strange. some projects module. some projects check in dependent source code. some projects have a version number in the package name. do i download with go get? or go install? or go get -u?<p>i can’t think of another build system that has so much variation just in declaring and importing dependencies</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>kitd</author><text>It looks complicated because OP is describing the situations both before and after the introduction of go mod.<p>Just use <i>go get</i> to get initially, and <i>go mod</i> to organize thereafter. It is very simple and occupies &lt;1% of my cognitive effort writing go code.</text></comment> | <story><title>Go mod’s lesser known features</title><url>https://verdverm.com/go-mods/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>na85</author><text>Ugh, reading this reminded me why I felt good moving away from Go after the honeymoon period was over.<p>Actually writing the code was fun at first, but everything else around the actual act of composing code was thoroughly awful UX.</text></item><item><author>mkdirp</author><text>I can shed some light on some of your questions for you.<p>&gt; most of the documentation talks of gopath<p>Historically go used a GOPATH env var. Go code had to live under there under `$GOPATH&#x2F;src&#x2F;&lt;module-path&gt;`. When doing an import, go would look at the import path, and find it in GOPATH. This wasn&#x27;t flexible enough but still exists under the hood as it&#x27;s where go saves (caches?) packages globally. If you have a go.mod&#x2F;go.sum file in your project, in general, you won&#x27;t have to worry about GOPATH.<p>Worth noting that go, while widely used, was created to solve Google&#x27;s problems (I guess at least initially?), where (from my understanding) they have a huge monorepo. At that point, having everything live under such a GOPATH somewhat makes sense.<p>&gt; why are go mod vendor and go mod tidy different commands?<p>Go mod vendor puts all the dependencies in a .&#x2F;vendor directory. Often used to commit your packages directly into git. There might be other advantages, not sure, but personally I don&#x27;t use it. Go is able to pick up the packages in your go.mod directly from $GOPATH.<p>Go mod tidy ensures your go.mod matches your used package. E.g. if you remove usage of a package in your code, go mod tidy is able to pick that up. In addition, it also ensures your go.sum matches go.mod.<p>&gt; the lack of “one true way” is very strange. some projects module. some projects check in dependent source code<p>This is a historic issue. Prior to 1.12 (I think), go modules didn&#x27;t exist, and there were different community projects that attempted to solve go package management.<p>&gt; do i download with go get? or go install? or go get -u?<p>Again, historic issues, iirc go get -u forces an update of a package, meaning this updates your go.mod file. Go get without -u does not force update the package. It update your go.mod file if you haven&#x27;t included the module previously. Go install is used for go main packages. It fetches the code, builds it (so it must be a main package), and puts the final binary in $GOPATH&#x2F;bin. Assuming you have that in your patch, you can use it straight away.</text></item><item><author>foolfoolz</author><text>go modules is one of the hardest things about learning go as a new learner. most of the documentation talks of gopath. the go mod error messages are extremely cryptic. why are go mod vendor and go mod tidy different commands?<p>the lack of “one true way” is very strange. some projects module. some projects check in dependent source code. some projects have a version number in the package name. do i download with go get? or go install? or go get -u?<p>i can’t think of another build system that has so much variation just in declaring and importing dependencies</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>littleroot</author><text>I&#x27;m the opposite: I&#x27;m writing Go for a living and I hate everything about the language itself, but I found the de-facto toolchain ok-ish and probably the least obtrusive thing about the whole thing.<p>Imho, many languages would massively benefit with the kind of tooling Go has out of the box. I heard Rust&#x27;s tooling has some great stuff too and it&#x27;s in my immediate plan to learn some Rust.</text></comment> |
9,306,265 | 9,306,173 | 1 | 3 | 9,306,085 | train | <story><title>California Imposes First-Ever Water Restrictions to Deal with Drought</title><url>http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/02/us/california-imposes-first-ever-water-restrictions-to-deal-with-drought.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jstalin</author><text>We learned yesterday that 80% of water consumption in California is by agriculture[1]. Yet this executive order does nothing to reduce agriculture&#x27;s use of water[2]. It only refers to use of urban water, lawns, landscaping, and cemeteries. Agricultural users just need to submit vague &quot;plans.&quot;<p>1. <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.thedailybeast.com&#x2F;articles&#x2F;2015&#x2F;03&#x2F;30&#x2F;how-growers-gamed-california-s-drought.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.thedailybeast.com&#x2F;articles&#x2F;2015&#x2F;03&#x2F;30&#x2F;how-growers...</a>
2. <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;gov.ca.gov&#x2F;docs&#x2F;4.1.15_Executive_Order.pdf" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;gov.ca.gov&#x2F;docs&#x2F;4.1.15_Executive_Order.pdf</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jconley</author><text>Many farmers are getting no [0] water this year and are relying on ground water to keep trees alive or not planting seasonal crops. Others get a very small fraction of their typical allotment [1]. California water rights are complicated...<p>[0] <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.sacbee.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;local&#x2F;environment&#x2F;article11355200.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.sacbee.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;local&#x2F;environment&#x2F;article11355200...</a><p>[1] <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;hanfordsentinel.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;in_focus&#x2F;california_drought&#x2F;state-water-project-growers-get-percent&#x2F;article_18eaa03b-36d3-52ce-a15f-5e230a991c84.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;hanfordsentinel.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;in_focus&#x2F;california_drought&#x2F;...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>California Imposes First-Ever Water Restrictions to Deal with Drought</title><url>http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/02/us/california-imposes-first-ever-water-restrictions-to-deal-with-drought.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jstalin</author><text>We learned yesterday that 80% of water consumption in California is by agriculture[1]. Yet this executive order does nothing to reduce agriculture&#x27;s use of water[2]. It only refers to use of urban water, lawns, landscaping, and cemeteries. Agricultural users just need to submit vague &quot;plans.&quot;<p>1. <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.thedailybeast.com&#x2F;articles&#x2F;2015&#x2F;03&#x2F;30&#x2F;how-growers-gamed-california-s-drought.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.thedailybeast.com&#x2F;articles&#x2F;2015&#x2F;03&#x2F;30&#x2F;how-growers...</a>
2. <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;gov.ca.gov&#x2F;docs&#x2F;4.1.15_Executive_Order.pdf" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;gov.ca.gov&#x2F;docs&#x2F;4.1.15_Executive_Order.pdf</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>joshstrange</author><text>Yeah it seems pretty crazy that they are targeting the smallest sliver of water use for restrictions. I&#x27;d think we would want to limit the restrictions on everyday citizens and focus on the farmers who are fewer in number and, I would assume, easier to control as a whole than every citizen in CA...</text></comment> |
40,161,251 | 40,160,425 | 1 | 2 | 40,154,395 | train | <story><title>Tor: From the Dark Web to the Future of Privacy</title><url>https://direct.mit.edu/books/oa-monograph/5761/TorFrom-the-Dark-Web-to-the-Future-of-Privacy</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tarruda</author><text>One thing I&#x27;m curious about Tor: What are the incentives for running a node?<p>If there are no monetary incentives, then how does it achieves decentralization? Also, what stops a malicious actor with enough resources (a government) from controlling a big portion of the network?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>susan_segfault</author><text>(with the understanding that I&#x27;m only speaking for what I found, not for the Tor project or the relay community)<p>Most of the people I spoke to saw themselves as providing a service - they wanted to help do something to bring a particular kind of future Internet about and found it rewarding to be a part of that. A number of them found the act of running a relay interesting and fun in itself - something they could get better at. Plus, membership of the relay community itself (especially now) is a kind of shared experience of community - and that&#x27;s attractive to people in itself.<p>In terms of malicious actors, Tor does a lot to avoid this, from hunting down bad relays actively, monitoring the network as best as it can, continuously developing the algorithms which select routes through the network, and other mechanisms, like forcing relays to operate for a while before they get trusted with a lot of connections.</text></comment> | <story><title>Tor: From the Dark Web to the Future of Privacy</title><url>https://direct.mit.edu/books/oa-monograph/5761/TorFrom-the-Dark-Web-to-the-Future-of-Privacy</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tarruda</author><text>One thing I&#x27;m curious about Tor: What are the incentives for running a node?<p>If there are no monetary incentives, then how does it achieves decentralization? Also, what stops a malicious actor with enough resources (a government) from controlling a big portion of the network?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>LordDragonfang</author><text>People can do things altruistically - there doesn&#x27;t always need to be a bitcoin-style monetary incentive. Lots of people run exit nodes because they believe in privacy and freedom of information.<p>That said, you&#x27;re absolutely right about large entities being able to control a large number of nodes, which is why a great number of nodes are controlled by governments trying to do so and also prevent foreign adversaries from being able to.</text></comment> |
2,844,884 | 2,844,557 | 1 | 3 | 2,844,059 | train | <story><title>Who Rules America: An Investment Manager's View on the Top 1%</title><url>http://sociology.ucsc.edu/whorulesamerica/power/investment_manager.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Astrohacker</author><text>It makes perfect sense that most people in the top 0.1% are associated with the financial and banking industries if you know how banks work. Banks, and the Federal Reserve, create new money. They give this money to themselves, and then loan it out. This is as bad as, and effectively equivalent to, counterfeiting. Creating new money, i.e. counterfeiting, i.e. inflation, does not create new wealth. It merely changes the distribution of the purchasing power of the money away from most people who have the money and to the people who get the new money. This is where the wealth of the top 0.1% comes from. Freshly printed money. It is a terrible system. The people with the highest wealth are not contributing in proportion to their wealth. Rather, they are stealing their wealth from the bottom 99.9% by stealing their purchasing power by printing new money.<p>If you would like to read a thorough argument about how fractional reserve banks and the Federal Reserve are scams, read "The Mystery of Banking" by Murray Rothbard. Google it and you will see it is available for free at mises.org.<p>For some reason this subject is very polarized and I get downvoted whenever I explain this. Don't downvote me just because you are uncomfortable with what I'm saying. Note that I am not ignorant. I have learned about economics. It just so happens that when trying to understand the issues myself, I have arrived conclusions that are not mainstream. But they are the correct conclusions in so far as I presently understand.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>trunnell</author><text>This misses the point of the article, which is that many in the top 0.1% got there from some form of self-dealing. His argument is that they are profiting from their <i>position</i> in the economy rather than from the <i>value</i> they add.<p>And by position, he doesn't mean nearness to the money press. I think he means nearness to the center of wealth and power, which at the moment happens to be the financial industry.<p><i>&#62; This is where the wealth of the top 0.1% comes from. Freshly printed money.</i><p>I'm sorry but this statement is very wrong. Newly printed money enters the economy through interbank loans. If I borrow $100 my net worth is exactly the same as before. I'm not any wealthier.<p>To set the record straight: the ability to expand or contract the money supply is an essential tool in managing the economy: the Fed can cool things down in a bubble (by raising rates and contracting the money supply) or heat things up in a downturn (by lowering rates and expanding the money supply). Otherwise, inflation or deflation can spiral out of control.<p><i>&#62; Creating new money, i.e. counterfeiting, i.e. inflation, does not create new wealth.</i><p>Ok, but creating new money in an effort to grow the economy while <i>managing</i> inflation does create new wealth-- or more accurately, creates an environment in which wealth can more easily be created. Especially in comparison to the alternative: an unmanaged economy that is completely at the mercy of panics and bubbles. Think the last crash was bad? The unemployment rate rose to 14% during the six years following the panic of 1873, which was largely caused and substantially prolonged by the inflexibility of the money supply (which was still tied to silver and gold).<p>I'm getting a little tired of the anti-fiat currency crowd. You say you learned about economics; you might want to get your money back. I'm sure you're a very smart person, astrohacker, but your perspective here is unsupported and stands in direct contradiction to the last 80 years of economic thought. And no, the bitcoin crowd do not count as economists.</text></comment> | <story><title>Who Rules America: An Investment Manager's View on the Top 1%</title><url>http://sociology.ucsc.edu/whorulesamerica/power/investment_manager.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Astrohacker</author><text>It makes perfect sense that most people in the top 0.1% are associated with the financial and banking industries if you know how banks work. Banks, and the Federal Reserve, create new money. They give this money to themselves, and then loan it out. This is as bad as, and effectively equivalent to, counterfeiting. Creating new money, i.e. counterfeiting, i.e. inflation, does not create new wealth. It merely changes the distribution of the purchasing power of the money away from most people who have the money and to the people who get the new money. This is where the wealth of the top 0.1% comes from. Freshly printed money. It is a terrible system. The people with the highest wealth are not contributing in proportion to their wealth. Rather, they are stealing their wealth from the bottom 99.9% by stealing their purchasing power by printing new money.<p>If you would like to read a thorough argument about how fractional reserve banks and the Federal Reserve are scams, read "The Mystery of Banking" by Murray Rothbard. Google it and you will see it is available for free at mises.org.<p>For some reason this subject is very polarized and I get downvoted whenever I explain this. Don't downvote me just because you are uncomfortable with what I'm saying. Note that I am not ignorant. I have learned about economics. It just so happens that when trying to understand the issues myself, I have arrived conclusions that are not mainstream. But they are the correct conclusions in so far as I presently understand.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>danenania</author><text>Yep, fiat money systems are at the core of modern wealth inequality. Regulations and other measures will have little impact until we address this. Bailouts, taxes, budgets, deficits, regulations: none of it has much relative quantitative significance when the Fed is doling out many trillions behind the scenes. This money directly benefits the very wealthiest and regressively dilutes the rest on a scale that vastly exceeds the effects of any other policies. Abuse of fiat money is the ultimate economic elephant in the room.</text></comment> |
16,787,924 | 16,787,773 | 1 | 3 | 16,786,929 | train | <story><title>Publishers Haven't Realized How Big a Deal GDPR Is</title><url>https://baekdal.com/strategy/publishers-havent-realized-just-how-big-a-deal-gdpr-is/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>molf</author><text>Be careful with hiding everything behind &quot;consent&quot;, because consent <i>cannot</i> be a precondition for providing a service. Put differently: if a user does <i>not</i> consent, you cannot refuse them the service if the data you wanted to collect is not strictly necessary to provide the service.<p>The alternative is to only collect data that is <i>strictly</i> necessary to provide the service. In that case GDPR allows you to collect the data even without explicitly given consent – according to GDPR in that case the user can reasonably expect the data to be necessary to provide the service. (This does not apply to sensitive personal data and biometric&#x2F;genetic data – then you always need consent.)<p>Quoting GDPR:<p>&quot;Consent should be given by a clear affirmative act establishing a freely given, specific, informed and unambiguous indication of the data subject’s agreement.&quot; [1]<p>&quot;Consent is presumed not to be freely given [...] if the performance of a contract, including the provision of a service, is dependent on the consent despite such consent not being necessary for such performance.&quot; [2]<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;gdpr-info.eu&#x2F;recitals&#x2F;no-32&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;gdpr-info.eu&#x2F;recitals&#x2F;no-32&#x2F;</a>
[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;gdpr-info.eu&#x2F;recitals&#x2F;no-43&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;gdpr-info.eu&#x2F;recitals&#x2F;no-43&#x2F;</a></text></item><item><author>mstolpm</author><text>I’d add: Get (documented, active) permission of users to store and use their data, understand that permission is given only for a defined cause&#x2F;usage (and not indefinitely for everything you right now might not even think of), be prepared to tell users what data you store about them, why and (briefly) how it is used. Be prepared to delete user data on request. Be prepared to show documentation on how you handle the (personal) data. And delete data that is not necessary any longer in regular intervals. And: Don’t share, sell or rent personalized data to any third party without given user consent.</text></item><item><author>michaelbuckbee</author><text>GDPR articles seem to be getting some traction on HN as everyone is trying to figure out: &quot;Do I need to do something for this? Is so, what?&quot;<p>For a recent project I read (and translated to plain english) [1] every single article in the GDPR legislation and for our purposes it can be summed up as:<p>&quot;Treat user data like names and emails as if they were credit card numbers&quot;<p>AKA: be paranoid about keeping them, encrypt them, use SSL on your site, respond to requests from people if they ask if you have them, fix them if they&#x27;re wrong, don&#x27;t use them if they say you can&#x27;t.<p>Obviously that&#x27;s not the entirety of it, but as a working mental model I think it goes a long way.<p>1 - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.varonis.com&#x2F;gdpr-requirements-list-in-plain-english&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.varonis.com&#x2F;gdpr-requirements-list-in-plain-eng...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>blowski</author><text>&gt; consent cannot be a precondition for providing a service<p>IANAL.<p>This is more nuanced than it appears, as it is balanced against the firm&#x27;s right to conduct business.<p>If you&#x27;re generating leads by providing a whitepaper, then realistically you&#x27;re not going to be penalised for saying &quot;you need to consent to receive our newsletter to access this whitepaper&quot;.<p>On the other hand, an airline saying &quot;you can only book a flight on our plane by consenting to us sharing everything we know about you with loads of third parties&quot; would be frowned upon.<p>Our GDPR lawyer at least has advised not to ask for consent, since it is difficult to establish whether it was given, and has not been withdrawn. It&#x27;s easier to rely on legitimate business use and NOT ask for consent, as long as it genuinely falls into that category.</text></comment> | <story><title>Publishers Haven't Realized How Big a Deal GDPR Is</title><url>https://baekdal.com/strategy/publishers-havent-realized-just-how-big-a-deal-gdpr-is/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>molf</author><text>Be careful with hiding everything behind &quot;consent&quot;, because consent <i>cannot</i> be a precondition for providing a service. Put differently: if a user does <i>not</i> consent, you cannot refuse them the service if the data you wanted to collect is not strictly necessary to provide the service.<p>The alternative is to only collect data that is <i>strictly</i> necessary to provide the service. In that case GDPR allows you to collect the data even without explicitly given consent – according to GDPR in that case the user can reasonably expect the data to be necessary to provide the service. (This does not apply to sensitive personal data and biometric&#x2F;genetic data – then you always need consent.)<p>Quoting GDPR:<p>&quot;Consent should be given by a clear affirmative act establishing a freely given, specific, informed and unambiguous indication of the data subject’s agreement.&quot; [1]<p>&quot;Consent is presumed not to be freely given [...] if the performance of a contract, including the provision of a service, is dependent on the consent despite such consent not being necessary for such performance.&quot; [2]<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;gdpr-info.eu&#x2F;recitals&#x2F;no-32&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;gdpr-info.eu&#x2F;recitals&#x2F;no-32&#x2F;</a>
[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;gdpr-info.eu&#x2F;recitals&#x2F;no-43&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;gdpr-info.eu&#x2F;recitals&#x2F;no-43&#x2F;</a></text></item><item><author>mstolpm</author><text>I’d add: Get (documented, active) permission of users to store and use their data, understand that permission is given only for a defined cause&#x2F;usage (and not indefinitely for everything you right now might not even think of), be prepared to tell users what data you store about them, why and (briefly) how it is used. Be prepared to delete user data on request. Be prepared to show documentation on how you handle the (personal) data. And delete data that is not necessary any longer in regular intervals. And: Don’t share, sell or rent personalized data to any third party without given user consent.</text></item><item><author>michaelbuckbee</author><text>GDPR articles seem to be getting some traction on HN as everyone is trying to figure out: &quot;Do I need to do something for this? Is so, what?&quot;<p>For a recent project I read (and translated to plain english) [1] every single article in the GDPR legislation and for our purposes it can be summed up as:<p>&quot;Treat user data like names and emails as if they were credit card numbers&quot;<p>AKA: be paranoid about keeping them, encrypt them, use SSL on your site, respond to requests from people if they ask if you have them, fix them if they&#x27;re wrong, don&#x27;t use them if they say you can&#x27;t.<p>Obviously that&#x27;s not the entirety of it, but as a working mental model I think it goes a long way.<p>1 - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.varonis.com&#x2F;gdpr-requirements-list-in-plain-english&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.varonis.com&#x2F;gdpr-requirements-list-in-plain-eng...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>gowld</author><text>How is &quot;strictly&quot; defined? I&#x27;m going to guess it&#x27;s define as &quot;the magistrate knows it when it sees it&quot;, so take to be both &quot;don&#x27;t use the most egregious interpretation&quot;, and &quot;don&#x27;t be a populist punching bad that governments can make hay out of attacking&quot;.</text></comment> |
37,731,764 | 37,728,883 | 1 | 2 | 37,726,539 | train | <story><title>Tire dust makes up the majority of ocean microplastics</title><url>https://www.thedrive.com/news/tire-dust-makes-up-the-majority-of-ocean-microplastics-study-finds</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>kylebenzle</author><text>I worked on a phd for 4 years looking into this problem indirectly and for a decade at Ohio State they have had working solutions to the tire dust issue but it is IMPOSSIBLE to get funding.<p>A Billion dollar industry and NO ONE cares about cleaning it up if it means increasing costs by 5% or more.<p>It has been WELL KNOWN for 50 years! We are basically aerosolizing carbon in MASSIVE amounts right where we live and work. Almost like we are purposefully manufacturing microplastics and dumping them in the air as fast as we can. Imagine taking every new tire and just grinding it down into a fine dust then blowing in into the air and dumping it into the rivers. That is what we are doing, AS FAST AS WE CAN.<p>(For anyone that cares, the solution is natural rubber, which costs slight more than synthetic rubber but lasts longer. So its better for consumers, cheaper all around, and 1,000x better for the environment but Goodyear, Firestone and Michelin flat out refuse to fund research or even block innovation in natural rubber.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;hcs.osu.edu&#x2F;our-people&#x2F;dr-katrina-cornish" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;hcs.osu.edu&#x2F;our-people&#x2F;dr-katrina-cornish</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>crazygringo</author><text>&gt; <i>the solution is natural rubber, which costs slight more than synthetic rubber but lasts longer. So its better for consumers, cheaper all around, and 1,000x better for the environment</i><p>Is it? I&#x27;m Googling but can&#x27;t find any evidence for that.<p>Natural rubber tires still produce tons of dust, I can&#x27;t find any reference to it being less harmful in our lungs, and even natural tire rubber seems to biodegrade on the order of <i>thousands</i> of years.<p>Natural tire rubber is still extremely processed. It&#x27;s nothing like the raw latex that comes out of the plant.<p>So how is it 1000x better for the environment? Or even 2x better, honestly?<p>I&#x27;d love to believe it, but I&#x27;m surprised I can&#x27;t find any references easily. Everything I can find refers to it being more sustainable to manufacture. Nothing about its effects on pollution.</text></comment> | <story><title>Tire dust makes up the majority of ocean microplastics</title><url>https://www.thedrive.com/news/tire-dust-makes-up-the-majority-of-ocean-microplastics-study-finds</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>kylebenzle</author><text>I worked on a phd for 4 years looking into this problem indirectly and for a decade at Ohio State they have had working solutions to the tire dust issue but it is IMPOSSIBLE to get funding.<p>A Billion dollar industry and NO ONE cares about cleaning it up if it means increasing costs by 5% or more.<p>It has been WELL KNOWN for 50 years! We are basically aerosolizing carbon in MASSIVE amounts right where we live and work. Almost like we are purposefully manufacturing microplastics and dumping them in the air as fast as we can. Imagine taking every new tire and just grinding it down into a fine dust then blowing in into the air and dumping it into the rivers. That is what we are doing, AS FAST AS WE CAN.<p>(For anyone that cares, the solution is natural rubber, which costs slight more than synthetic rubber but lasts longer. So its better for consumers, cheaper all around, and 1,000x better for the environment but Goodyear, Firestone and Michelin flat out refuse to fund research or even block innovation in natural rubber.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;hcs.osu.edu&#x2F;our-people&#x2F;dr-katrina-cornish" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;hcs.osu.edu&#x2F;our-people&#x2F;dr-katrina-cornish</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>nerdponx</author><text>&gt; Goodyear, Firestone and Michelin flat out refuse to fund research or even block innovation<p>What&#x27;s in it for them? Keeping bad press about tires out of the public view? Fear of lower profit margins?</text></comment> |
10,000,309 | 9,999,509 | 1 | 3 | 9,997,722 | train | <story><title>Joining a Different YC</title><url>http://blog.ycombinator.com/joining-a-different-yc</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>bbgm</author><text>To date YC has not shown a good understanding of the life sciences. It&#x27;s not just about a regulatory burden, but the premise of breaking away from academia, of somehow finding a magic bullet and commercializing it, and assuming that biology is somehow like software is flawed. Sure the barriers to entry may be lower, but most science is a slog. There are very few home runs. Next-gen sequencing was a huge breakthrough and happened very fast by life science standards. The drivers came both from academia and industry and by all means it worked really well and remains highly innovative.<p>I completely buy that a different model of funding will help and could be successful. I just don&#x27;t have a good understanding of whether there is a good understanding of the real scientific challenges and the implications.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>paul</author><text>What is your evidence for the claim that, &quot;YC has not shown a good understanding of the life sciences&quot;? (and what evidence will change your mind?)<p>Our biotech investments are currently all too young for something huge like an IPO, but many are continuing to grow and prosper. For example, Ginkgo just raised a $45M Series B: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;techcrunch.com&#x2F;2015&#x2F;07&#x2F;23&#x2F;ginkgo-bioworks-takes-on-zymergen-with-45-million-in-series-b-funding&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;techcrunch.com&#x2F;2015&#x2F;07&#x2F;23&#x2F;ginkgo-bioworks-takes-on-zy...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Joining a Different YC</title><url>http://blog.ycombinator.com/joining-a-different-yc</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>bbgm</author><text>To date YC has not shown a good understanding of the life sciences. It&#x27;s not just about a regulatory burden, but the premise of breaking away from academia, of somehow finding a magic bullet and commercializing it, and assuming that biology is somehow like software is flawed. Sure the barriers to entry may be lower, but most science is a slog. There are very few home runs. Next-gen sequencing was a huge breakthrough and happened very fast by life science standards. The drivers came both from academia and industry and by all means it worked really well and remains highly innovative.<p>I completely buy that a different model of funding will help and could be successful. I just don&#x27;t have a good understanding of whether there is a good understanding of the real scientific challenges and the implications.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>hermanmerman</author><text>YC operates like a startup would: they have a bold hypothesis, something that must be challenged (&quot;most science is a slog&quot;). There is very little chance that they could be right, but in case they are, and they execute well, the benefits could be huge.<p>Speeding up life sciences development cycles the way development cycles in software engineering have been sped up is the goal, but the way to do it is hard and complex and uncertain. It requires funding, perseverance, trial and error, incremental improvements as much as breakthroughs. YC has proven they&#x27;re good at all of this.</text></comment> |
33,461,582 | 33,461,256 | 1 | 2 | 33,460,307 | train | <story><title>Twitter to start layoffs -internal email</title><url>https://www.reuters.com/technology/twitter-start-layoffs-friday-morning-internal-email-2022-11-04/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>rybosworld</author><text>Just to play devils advocate:<p>Musk more or less got trapped into a deal with Twitter that was largely based upon numbers that were fabricated by executives.<p>From his perspective, the way to salvage this mess is layoffs. Some of the previous executives (Parag) have committed fraud imo, and should face consequences. They won&#x27;t though.<p>Lot&#x27;s of twitter employees will suffer. To varying degrees, many of them played a role in the house of cards that is twitter.</text></item><item><author>jef_leppard</author><text>The way this entire thing has been run is a f*cking disgrace. Yes they have a business to run. Yes they need to do what they need to do to keep things healthy on that end, but these are PEOPLE we are talking about here. They have lives and families. The amount of contempt I have for Musk over the way he is treating them is unbounded. We used to think this guy was Bruce Wayne. Turns out he&#x27;s Lex Luthor.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>EFreethought</author><text>Musk did not get trapped into a deal. He thought he was being cute and it blew up in his face.<p>First he was on the board, then he wasn&#x27;t. Then he thought it would be funny to agree to buy Twitter for a price that had &quot;420&quot; in it, then the markets declined and he sued to get out of a contract nobody forced him to sign.<p>Either something changed recently in Musk, he has been hiding the fact that he has had a few screws loose for years, or both.<p>I guess most people just get depressed when they hit middle age. When you are wealthy, you can knock up one of your employees and buy a company on a whim.</text></comment> | <story><title>Twitter to start layoffs -internal email</title><url>https://www.reuters.com/technology/twitter-start-layoffs-friday-morning-internal-email-2022-11-04/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>rybosworld</author><text>Just to play devils advocate:<p>Musk more or less got trapped into a deal with Twitter that was largely based upon numbers that were fabricated by executives.<p>From his perspective, the way to salvage this mess is layoffs. Some of the previous executives (Parag) have committed fraud imo, and should face consequences. They won&#x27;t though.<p>Lot&#x27;s of twitter employees will suffer. To varying degrees, many of them played a role in the house of cards that is twitter.</text></item><item><author>jef_leppard</author><text>The way this entire thing has been run is a f*cking disgrace. Yes they have a business to run. Yes they need to do what they need to do to keep things healthy on that end, but these are PEOPLE we are talking about here. They have lives and families. The amount of contempt I have for Musk over the way he is treating them is unbounded. We used to think this guy was Bruce Wayne. Turns out he&#x27;s Lex Luthor.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jef_leppard</author><text>&gt; Lot&#x27;s of twitter employees will suffer<p>This is the only part of this I am speaking to because the rest is exactly what is happening. Musk messed up and now a whole lot of people are put in a terrible situation going right into the holiday season. It&#x27;s unconscionable for one of the richest people in the world to behave this way.</text></comment> |
21,723,374 | 21,723,150 | 1 | 2 | 21,722,678 | train | <story><title>Sanders unveils plan to boost broadband access, break internet and cable titans</title><url>https://www.cnbc.com/2019/12/06/bernie-sanders-releases-broadband-plan-targets-comcast-att-verizon.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ajmurmann</author><text>Distances in the US can be so much bigger than in other countries, leading to rural areas being much more rural than in pretty much any other developed country. This makes servicing some rural communities very expensive. Not only for ISPs but for pretty much any infrastructure. Living in a rural area is a decision, that&#x27;s fine for people to make, but I&#x27;m not sure we all need to be subsidizing it. Yes, cities have become very expensive, but it would be much cheaper as a society to solve that problem by getting rid of NIMBY regulation and make it easier and cheaper to build denser than to keep maintaining small, remote settlements with very little economic value</text></item><item><author>DanTheManPR</author><text>The inequality in access to service around the US is stark. I&#x27;m currently living in a suburb of a large city, and have some of the most awesome internet I&#x27;ve ever had (I can finally host my minecraft server from home!). My parents living an hour away in a small town pay more for service that can&#x27;t reliably stream video... but pay slightly more than I do. It&#x27;s one of the thousands of small cuts that are killing rural areas.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>iron0013</author><text>There&#x27;s truth to that, but affordable rural high speed internet is possible. Paul Bunyan Communications in northern Minnesota, for example, runs affordable fiber optic service deep into the country. My friend lives 25 miles from any town, and they happily ran fiber out to his house. The main difference between Paul Bunyan Communications and other rural providers who claim that such a thing is &quot;impossible&quot; seems to be that Paul Bunyan is a Co-operative: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;paulbunyan.net&#x2F;cooperative&#x2F;our-history&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;paulbunyan.net&#x2F;cooperative&#x2F;our-history&#x2F;</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Sanders unveils plan to boost broadband access, break internet and cable titans</title><url>https://www.cnbc.com/2019/12/06/bernie-sanders-releases-broadband-plan-targets-comcast-att-verizon.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ajmurmann</author><text>Distances in the US can be so much bigger than in other countries, leading to rural areas being much more rural than in pretty much any other developed country. This makes servicing some rural communities very expensive. Not only for ISPs but for pretty much any infrastructure. Living in a rural area is a decision, that&#x27;s fine for people to make, but I&#x27;m not sure we all need to be subsidizing it. Yes, cities have become very expensive, but it would be much cheaper as a society to solve that problem by getting rid of NIMBY regulation and make it easier and cheaper to build denser than to keep maintaining small, remote settlements with very little economic value</text></item><item><author>DanTheManPR</author><text>The inequality in access to service around the US is stark. I&#x27;m currently living in a suburb of a large city, and have some of the most awesome internet I&#x27;ve ever had (I can finally host my minecraft server from home!). My parents living an hour away in a small town pay more for service that can&#x27;t reliably stream video... but pay slightly more than I do. It&#x27;s one of the thousands of small cuts that are killing rural areas.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>cannonedhamster</author><text>Cities have some of the most expensive internet rates. The US has some of the most expensive internet in the entire world. Your distance argument only makes sense if you take away the billions given to ISPs to lay black fiber. Cities would be super cheap internet. That&#x27;s not what happened. ISPs charge exorbitant fees for a service they barely keep up to date. Remote settlements are often what allows those cities to exist and who are you to tell people where and how they should live?</text></comment> |
7,019,399 | 7,019,470 | 1 | 2 | 7,019,148 | train | <story><title>Faster, More Awesome GitHub Pages</title><url>https://github.com/blog/1715-faster-more-awesome-github-pages</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>namecast</author><text>Interesting how ALIAS records are becoming a de-facto DNS protocol feature. Despite not having even an RFC draft proposing their existence, GitHub recommends using ALIAS records, and large players (e.g. AWS, Dyn, and DNSSimple IIRC, as well as us) now support adding ALIAS records to a domain.<p>I wonder why ALIAS took hold but DNAME and ANAME records were never widely supported despite actually making it into a few RFCs. Hrmm.<p>(Disclaimer: Namecast (<a href="http://www.namecast.net" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.namecast.net</a>) supports ALIAS records as well, so I have an abnormal interest in what was otherwise a small part of the article.)</text></comment> | <story><title>Faster, More Awesome GitHub Pages</title><url>https://github.com/blog/1715-faster-more-awesome-github-pages</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>harryh</author><text>What&#x27;s an ALIAS record? I don&#x27;t even see that here:<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_DNS_record_types" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;List_of_DNS_record_types</a></text></comment> |
11,313,792 | 11,313,764 | 1 | 3 | 11,312,243 | train | <story><title>Engineers Shouldn’t Write ETL</title><url>http://multithreaded.stitchfix.com/blog/2016/03/16/engineers-shouldnt-write-etl</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>darksaints</author><text>This is so true. I do business intelligence at Amazon, and I&#x27;ve seen this play out millions of times over. The fetishization of big data ends up meaning that everybody thinks their problem needs big data. After 4 years in a role where I am expected to use big data clusters regularly, I&#x27;ve really only needed it twice. To be fair, in a complex environment with multiple data sources (databases, flat files, excel docs, service logs), ETL can get really absurdly complicated. But that is still no excuse to introduce big data if your data isn&#x27;t actually big.<p>I really hate pat-myself-on-the-back stories, but I&#x27;m really proud of this moment, so I&#x27;m gonna share. One time a principal engineer came to me with a data analysis request and told me that the data would be available to me soon, only to come to me an hour later with the bad news that the data was 2 terabytes and I&#x27;d probably have to spin up an EMR cluster. I borrowed a spinning disk USB drive, loaded all the data into a SQLite database, and had his analysis done before he could even set up a cluster with Spark. The proud moment comes when he tells his boss that we already had the analysis done despite his warning that it might take a few days because &quot;big data&quot;. It was then that I got to tell him about this phenomenal new technology called SQLite and he set up a seminar where I got to teach big data engineers how to use it :)<p>P.S. If you do any of this sort of large dataset analysis in SQLite, upgrade to the latest version with every release, even if it means you have to `make; make install;` Seemingly every new release since about 3.8.0 has given me usable new features and noticeable query optimizations that are relevant for large query data analysis.</text></item><item><author>mikestew</author><text><i>... a highly specialized team of dedicated engineers...If they are not bored, chances are they are pretty mediocre. Mediocre engineers really excel at building enormously over complicated, awful-to-work-with messes they call “solutions”.</i><p>OMG, the author just described the last place I was at. Processed a few Tb of data and suddenly there&#x27;s this R. Goldbergesque system of MongoDb getting transformed into PostGres...oh, wait, I need Cassandra on my resume, so Mongo sux0r now...displayed with some of the worst bowl of spaghetti Android code I&#x27;ve witnessed. The technical debt hole was dug so deep you could hide an Abrams tank in there. To this day I could not tell you the confused thinking that led them to believe this was necessary rather than just slapping it all into PostGres and calling it a day.<p>All because they were processing data sets sooooo huge, that they would fit on my laptop.<p>I quit reading about the time the article turned into a pitch for Stitch Fix, but leading up to that point it made a good case for what happens when companies think they have &quot;big data&quot; when they really don&#x27;t. In summary, either a company hires skills they don&#x27;t really need and the hires end up bored, or you hire mediocre people that make the convoluted mess I worked with.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Buttons840</author><text>Me and a coworker were laughing at the parent comment, and I told him:<p>&quot;I guarantee that somewhere, sometime, an engineer has been like &#x27;hay guys, I loaded our big data into SQLite on my laptop and it ended up being faster than our fancy cluster&#x27;&quot;. We then joked that the engineer would be fired a few weeks later for not being a &quot;cultural fit&quot;.<p>A few minutes later you commented with your story. I hope you didn&#x27;t get fired? :)</text></comment> | <story><title>Engineers Shouldn’t Write ETL</title><url>http://multithreaded.stitchfix.com/blog/2016/03/16/engineers-shouldnt-write-etl</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>darksaints</author><text>This is so true. I do business intelligence at Amazon, and I&#x27;ve seen this play out millions of times over. The fetishization of big data ends up meaning that everybody thinks their problem needs big data. After 4 years in a role where I am expected to use big data clusters regularly, I&#x27;ve really only needed it twice. To be fair, in a complex environment with multiple data sources (databases, flat files, excel docs, service logs), ETL can get really absurdly complicated. But that is still no excuse to introduce big data if your data isn&#x27;t actually big.<p>I really hate pat-myself-on-the-back stories, but I&#x27;m really proud of this moment, so I&#x27;m gonna share. One time a principal engineer came to me with a data analysis request and told me that the data would be available to me soon, only to come to me an hour later with the bad news that the data was 2 terabytes and I&#x27;d probably have to spin up an EMR cluster. I borrowed a spinning disk USB drive, loaded all the data into a SQLite database, and had his analysis done before he could even set up a cluster with Spark. The proud moment comes when he tells his boss that we already had the analysis done despite his warning that it might take a few days because &quot;big data&quot;. It was then that I got to tell him about this phenomenal new technology called SQLite and he set up a seminar where I got to teach big data engineers how to use it :)<p>P.S. If you do any of this sort of large dataset analysis in SQLite, upgrade to the latest version with every release, even if it means you have to `make; make install;` Seemingly every new release since about 3.8.0 has given me usable new features and noticeable query optimizations that are relevant for large query data analysis.</text></item><item><author>mikestew</author><text><i>... a highly specialized team of dedicated engineers...If they are not bored, chances are they are pretty mediocre. Mediocre engineers really excel at building enormously over complicated, awful-to-work-with messes they call “solutions”.</i><p>OMG, the author just described the last place I was at. Processed a few Tb of data and suddenly there&#x27;s this R. Goldbergesque system of MongoDb getting transformed into PostGres...oh, wait, I need Cassandra on my resume, so Mongo sux0r now...displayed with some of the worst bowl of spaghetti Android code I&#x27;ve witnessed. The technical debt hole was dug so deep you could hide an Abrams tank in there. To this day I could not tell you the confused thinking that led them to believe this was necessary rather than just slapping it all into PostGres and calling it a day.<p>All because they were processing data sets sooooo huge, that they would fit on my laptop.<p>I quit reading about the time the article turned into a pitch for Stitch Fix, but leading up to that point it made a good case for what happens when companies think they have &quot;big data&quot; when they really don&#x27;t. In summary, either a company hires skills they don&#x27;t really need and the hires end up bored, or you hire mediocre people that make the convoluted mess I worked with.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>chubot</author><text>That&#x27;s awesome... I&#x27;m working with some 15-20 GB sqlite databases. Though 2 TB sounds kind of big?<p>Was it 2 TB before compression? Because sqlite does blow up the data size over the raw data usually (depending on the original format obviously). It can be kind of wasteful, and I ended up storing some fields as compressed JSON for this reason (that actually beats the sqlite format).<p>Also, the sqlite insert speed can be much slower than the disk&#x27;s sequential write speed (even if you make sure you&#x27;re not committing&#x2F;flushing on every row, and if you have no indices to update, etc.)<p>So I think inserting and laying on the data could be nontrivial. But the queries should be fast as long as they are indexed. In theory, sqlite queries should be slower for a lot of use cases because it is row-oriented, but in practice distributed systems usually add 10x overhead themselves anyway...</text></comment> |
7,745,102 | 7,743,093 | 1 | 2 | 7,741,443 | train | <story><title>Passwords for JetBlue accounts cannot contain a Q or a Z</title><url>http://help.jetblue.com/SRVS/CGI-BIN/webisapi.dll?New,Kb=askBlue,case=obj(403864)</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dredmorbius</author><text>As several people have noted, the Q&#x2F;Z restriction likely arises from inputting passwords from a telephone keypad.<p>What I haven&#x27;t seen is a statement as to why this would have been a problem. The reason is that Q and Z were mapped <i>inconsistently</i> across various phone keypads. The present convention of PQRS on 7 and WXYZ on 9 wasn&#x27;t settled on until fairly late in the game, and as noted, the airline reservation system, SABRE, is one of the oldest widely-used public-facing computer systems still in existence, dating to the 1950s.<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sabre_(computer_system)" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Sabre_(computer_system)</a><p>The 7&#x2F;9 standard, by the way comes from the international standard ITU E 1.161, also known as ANSI T1.703-1995&#x2F;1999 and ISO&#x2F;IEC 9995-8:1994).<p><a href="http://www.dialabc.com/words/history.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.dialabc.com&#x2F;words&#x2F;history.html</a><p>Other keypads may not assign Q or Z at all, or assign it to various other numbers, 1 for Australian Classic, 0 for UK Classic and Mobile 1.<p><a href="http://www.dialabc.com/motion/keypads.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.dialabc.com&#x2F;motion&#x2F;keypads.html</a><p>Similarly, special characters can be entered via numerous mechanisms on phone keyboards.<p>My suspicion is that there&#x27;s a contractual requirement somewhere to retain compatibility with an existing infrastructure somewhere.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>breadbox</author><text>And as others have noted, this doesn&#x27;t make sense given that passwords are case-sensitive and are required to include uppercase characters.<p>If there&#x27;s a mechanism for specifying case on the phone, there can be a mechanism for specifying Q and Z unambiguously. I certainly have used VM systems that explicitly told me to &quot;use 7 to represent Q and 9 to represent Z.&quot;<p>A contractual requirement is one possibility that could explain it, but my suspicion is rather that some legacy code in the system uses Q and Z as special escape characters or delimiters (because of their absence on the phone dial), and it&#x27;s not worth the cost to try to fix the ancient code (or do all the testing necessary to be confident of deploying a workaround).</text></comment> | <story><title>Passwords for JetBlue accounts cannot contain a Q or a Z</title><url>http://help.jetblue.com/SRVS/CGI-BIN/webisapi.dll?New,Kb=askBlue,case=obj(403864)</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dredmorbius</author><text>As several people have noted, the Q&#x2F;Z restriction likely arises from inputting passwords from a telephone keypad.<p>What I haven&#x27;t seen is a statement as to why this would have been a problem. The reason is that Q and Z were mapped <i>inconsistently</i> across various phone keypads. The present convention of PQRS on 7 and WXYZ on 9 wasn&#x27;t settled on until fairly late in the game, and as noted, the airline reservation system, SABRE, is one of the oldest widely-used public-facing computer systems still in existence, dating to the 1950s.<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sabre_(computer_system)" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Sabre_(computer_system)</a><p>The 7&#x2F;9 standard, by the way comes from the international standard ITU E 1.161, also known as ANSI T1.703-1995&#x2F;1999 and ISO&#x2F;IEC 9995-8:1994).<p><a href="http://www.dialabc.com/words/history.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.dialabc.com&#x2F;words&#x2F;history.html</a><p>Other keypads may not assign Q or Z at all, or assign it to various other numbers, 1 for Australian Classic, 0 for UK Classic and Mobile 1.<p><a href="http://www.dialabc.com/motion/keypads.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.dialabc.com&#x2F;motion&#x2F;keypads.html</a><p>Similarly, special characters can be entered via numerous mechanisms on phone keyboards.<p>My suspicion is that there&#x27;s a contractual requirement somewhere to retain compatibility with an existing infrastructure somewhere.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>gcb0</author><text>so, they have a requirement to maintain compatibility with telephone password input, but require an uppercase character as well? it does not make any sense.<p>this is incompetent developers in a dysfunctional environment. there is no good light anyone can throw at it. and no, having the system live since the 50s is not a good excuse. it is certainly not the same system, for obvious reason.</text></comment> |
27,056,533 | 27,053,522 | 1 | 3 | 27,051,498 | train | <story><title>History of Programming Languages</title><url>https://felleisen.org/matthias/7480-s21/index.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>the_benno</author><text>If you&#x27;re interested in this kind of thing, definitely also check out the upcoming HOPL conference -- co-located (whatever that means for a virtual conference) with PLDI this June. Matthias was on the program committee, along with a bunch of other PL OGs.<p>Website: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;hopl4.sigplan.org" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;hopl4.sigplan.org</a>
Papers: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;dl.acm.org&#x2F;toc&#x2F;pacmpl&#x2F;2020&#x2F;4&#x2F;HOPL" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;dl.acm.org&#x2F;toc&#x2F;pacmpl&#x2F;2020&#x2F;4&#x2F;HOPL</a></text></comment> | <story><title>History of Programming Languages</title><url>https://felleisen.org/matthias/7480-s21/index.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>agumonkey</author><text>The lecture topics is very nice, it threads a lot of known ideas that are scattered around the world (concrete or virtual)<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;felleisen.org&#x2F;matthias&#x2F;7480-s21&#x2F;lectures.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;felleisen.org&#x2F;matthias&#x2F;7480-s21&#x2F;lectures.html</a></text></comment> |
26,527,692 | 26,527,654 | 1 | 2 | 26,526,108 | train | <story><title>Cryptography behind the top cryptocurrencies</title><url>http://ethanfast.com/top-crypto.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>gkfasdfasdf</author><text>After watching the latest Veritasium video about how Newton figured out a novel approach to solving PI which was dramatically simpler than the previous thousand-year old methods, I wonder if someone will come along and figure out a simple mathematical way to break these encryptions. That would be horrifying of course, but also really cool.</text></comment> | <story><title>Cryptography behind the top cryptocurrencies</title><url>http://ethanfast.com/top-crypto.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>nayuki</author><text>More cryptographic details: Bitcoin uses the SHA-256 and RIPEMD-160 hash functions for public keys. It uses double-SHA-256 for transaction IDs and blocks (mining).</text></comment> |
3,533,198 | 3,533,261 | 1 | 2 | 3,532,687 | train | <story><title>Ruby Frameworks? Which one? Bye bye Rails.</title><url>http://www.slideshare.net/zhesto/padrino-the-godfather-of-sinatra</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>raganwald</author><text>I empathize with the comments from the folks who are already heavily invested in Rails. It’s so easy to “just throw the whole stack at a problem” or “kill a fly with a shotgun.” This is always the way, and it’s why new ideas rarely displace the old ones directly. Instead, they have to appeal to a younger, nascent “market” that are not attached to the old product.<p>Padrino’s best bet is to appeal to a younger, fresher group of programmers who haven’t spent years learning Rails, just as Rails appealed to a younger, fresh generation of programmers who hadn’t spent years learning Struts. Those folks will find applications for it where Rails actually gets in their way. As they reinvent parts os Rails, they’ll invent new things that fit their model domain better than Rails does.<p>I’d bet that if Padrino becomes successful, it will do so with ORMs and other gems that aren’t popular on Rails because they haven’t been invented yet.<p>If you are resistant to adopting a new framework and having to reinvent a bunch of stuff, congratulations. You may be an early adopter or hacker in other areas of your profession, but as far as web development goes, you’re a conservative.</text></comment> | <story><title>Ruby Frameworks? Which one? Bye bye Rails.</title><url>http://www.slideshare.net/zhesto/padrino-the-godfather-of-sinatra</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>automach</author><text>As someone that has been writing production Rails and Sinatra apps for years, I have to recommend against using Padrino. Rails scales up and down pretty well, and I don't really see a need for Sinatra in anything but very small or single-purpose apps.<p>You can even write a Sinatra clone in very little code on top of Rails: <a href="http://yehudakatz.com/2009/08/26/how-to-build-sinatra-on-rails-3/" rel="nofollow">http://yehudakatz.com/2009/08/26/how-to-build-sinatra-on-rai...</a><p>If you already know Rails, there is very little reason to build a substantial app in anything "smaller". The reality is that for any moderately-sized app, you will end up using many of the parts of Rails that you think are unnecessary in the beginning. Especially as your app grows.<p>I tried using Padrino for an app a year ago, and while the framework has probably matured since then, I moved back to Rails fairly quickly due do a lack of polish/documentation/community/benefit other than being different.<p>There is a common tendency to find a part of a framework that doesn't work exactly the way you want, and in turn throw the entire framework out and seek out or write something new. I still prefer the way Merb and Sinatra handle responses, where the controller action return value is the response sent to the client. But the benefits that Rails provides so outweigh many of these kind of preferences that it's usually best to just embrace the way the framework works and move on to actually building an app that does something.<p>It's also short sighted to discount how valuable the wealth of existing documentation and extentions exist for an established framework such as Rails.<p>The presentation makes it sounds as though by using Rails you have to use SASS and Coffeescript. This is not true, you can easily use plain JavaScript and CSS if you want.<p>The majority of developers will be more productive in Rails.</text></comment> |
27,763,943 | 27,762,573 | 1 | 3 | 27,760,919 | train | <story><title>Ideas in statistics that have powered AI</title><url>https://news.columbia.edu/news/top-10-ideas-statistics-ai</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>317070</author><text>&gt; Generative adversarial networks, or GANs, are a conceptual advance that allow reinforcement learning problems to be solved automatically. They mark a step toward the longstanding goal of artificial general intelligence while also harnessing the power of parallel processing so that a program can train itself by playing millions of games against itself. At a conceptual level, GANs link prediction with generative models.<p>What? Every sentence here is so wrong I have a hard time seeing what kind of misunderstanding would lead to this.<p>GAN&#x27;s are a conceptual advance of generative models (i.e. models that can generate more, similar data). Reinforcement learning is a separate field. Parallel processing is ubiquitous, and has nothing to do with GANs or reinforcement learning (they are both usually pretty parallellized). Self-play sounds like they wanted to talk about the alphago&#x2F;alphazero papers? And GANs are infamously not really predictive&#x2F;discriminative. If anything, they thoroughly disconnected predicition from generative models.</text></comment> | <story><title>Ideas in statistics that have powered AI</title><url>https://news.columbia.edu/news/top-10-ideas-statistics-ai</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>bjornsing</author><text>I’m sorely missing Maximum Likelihood Estimation (MLE). It’s a statistical technique that goes back to Gauss and Laplace but was popularized by Fisher. In AI&#x2F;ML it’s often referred to as “minimizing cross-entropy loss”, but this is just a misappropriation &#x2F; reinvention of the wheel. The math is the same and MLE is a much more sane theoretical framework.</text></comment> |
14,461,315 | 14,461,487 | 1 | 3 | 14,460,121 | train | <story><title>Qualcomm, Microsoft Announce Snapdragon 835 PCs with Gigabit LTE</title><url>https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2017/05/qualcomm-microsoft-announce-snapdragon-835-pcs-with-gigabit-lte/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>albeva</author><text>This is lunacy. It will break compatibility with nearly all software out there. From games to productivity apps. Like the stuff I actually use a PC for.</text></item><item><author>wyldfire</author><text>I look forward to learning more about this product. I love that we&#x27;re moving non-x86 into mainstream consumer products like this (and not limited to low-end chromebooks, e.g.).<p>ARM SoCs lack the backward compatible x86 BIOS-style bootstrap. This is great because it&#x27;s kinda crazy to think about booting into stuff like MBR, real mode, etc in 2017. But this is bad because without good standards it&#x27;s really tricky to have a generic installer for another OS. Also, all or nearly all ARM SoCs have signed bootloaders. Great: less fear of a rootkit&#x2F;virus hiding in my system. Awful: often used to protect subsidies or other business model hijinks; can&#x27;t install an alternate OS.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>qubex</author><text>As somebody that used a DEC Alpha running Windows NT and <i>x</i>86 applications thanks to FX!32 code translation back in the late 1990s, I think you&#x27;re underestimating the usability of the code translation solution demoed by Microsoft <i>et al</i>. Sure, it may be Win32-only (at least for now) but if and when these platforms take off more UWP (sp?) applications will be released to take advantage of native performance. This is likely a very viable solution.</text></comment> | <story><title>Qualcomm, Microsoft Announce Snapdragon 835 PCs with Gigabit LTE</title><url>https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2017/05/qualcomm-microsoft-announce-snapdragon-835-pcs-with-gigabit-lte/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>albeva</author><text>This is lunacy. It will break compatibility with nearly all software out there. From games to productivity apps. Like the stuff I actually use a PC for.</text></item><item><author>wyldfire</author><text>I look forward to learning more about this product. I love that we&#x27;re moving non-x86 into mainstream consumer products like this (and not limited to low-end chromebooks, e.g.).<p>ARM SoCs lack the backward compatible x86 BIOS-style bootstrap. This is great because it&#x27;s kinda crazy to think about booting into stuff like MBR, real mode, etc in 2017. But this is bad because without good standards it&#x27;s really tricky to have a generic installer for another OS. Also, all or nearly all ARM SoCs have signed bootloaders. Great: less fear of a rootkit&#x2F;virus hiding in my system. Awful: often used to protect subsidies or other business model hijinks; can&#x27;t install an alternate OS.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>wyldfire</author><text>Lunacy? Nah, the vast majority of software that regular people use is massively I&#x2F;O bound. For the stuff that isn&#x27;t (photoshop, e.g.), it will get ported. All of those non-photoshop apps will work just fine under emulation. Chrome and Edge will be ported, they&#x27;ll work just fine.<p>I predict that this will have a negligible impact on PC games. They&#x27;re CPU&#x2F;memory&#x2F;GPU bound and will not work well under emulation. They&#x27;re not likely to get ported. But gamers are not the target market for this product.</text></comment> |
2,542,697 | 2,542,683 | 1 | 3 | 2,542,322 | train | <story><title>FBI: If We Told You . . . (Part II)</title><url>http://www.aclu.org/blog/national-security/fbi-if-we-told-you-part-ii</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>fleitz</author><text>I think that whatever grounds corporations (and their customers) have to challenge these requests that those grounds have far more basis in the law than "it would be bad for business." If the grounds for challenge are baseless then a court will toss the case, but I think that would be highly unlikely.<p>People have a constitutional right to be secure in their papers and effects and the court should be the one judging where these rights start and end, and not the FBI.<p>Exactly what is so important that a warrant cannot be obtained from a judge before tapping these lines? Where is the justification that this is necessary to secure our happiness and freedom?<p>If it is necessary to repeal parts of the constitution then we should have a frank, open and honest discussion about it. The more likely case is that Augustus has no clothes.</text></comment> | <story><title>FBI: If We Told You . . . (Part II)</title><url>http://www.aclu.org/blog/national-security/fbi-if-we-told-you-part-ii</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>meatsock</author><text>'if what we ARE telling you is this scary imagine the stuff we're protecting you from knowing.'<p>how fantastically polite.</text></comment> |
31,936,476 | 31,936,621 | 1 | 2 | 31,935,116 | train | <story><title>Rust 1.62.0</title><url>https://blog.rust-lang.org/2022/06/30/Rust-1.62.0.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>pachico</author><text>I can&#x27;t really understand why I&#x27;m fluent in various languages but not Rust... I might have found my
intellectual glass ceiling...</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ArchOversight</author><text>I used to feel like I was fluent in C++ but over time I realized that I was using just like 40-50% of the language because the rest of it was so complicated that it made it difficult to work with others who may not have had as deep of a knowledge.<p>With Rust I&#x27;ve found that even though sometimes it feels like it is harder to write code with, I am finding it far more likely that it is correct when the compiler is happy with it, and I find myself worrying much less about move semantics&#x2F;correctness&#x2F;pointers and all that stuff like I was with C++, it has allowed me to move faster and not spend as much mental time on trying to make sure&#x2F;understand if what I am doing is ACTUALLY safe.<p>I am using C++ as an example, because the other language I use regularly is Python and there are still pieces of Python code that make me scratch my head with &quot;how does THAT work?!&quot;</text></comment> | <story><title>Rust 1.62.0</title><url>https://blog.rust-lang.org/2022/06/30/Rust-1.62.0.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>pachico</author><text>I can&#x27;t really understand why I&#x27;m fluent in various languages but not Rust... I might have found my
intellectual glass ceiling...</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>wwalexander</author><text>Rust definitely has a different feeling of mastery than other languages, due to the fact that most if not all bugs are caught during the compilation phase.<p>In other languages I like, I reach a point where I’m generally confident my code will compile before I ask it to. In Rust, for all but the most trivial logic, the compiler will usually have several things to say. However, I usually feel like the compiler is guiding me towards a simpler&#x2F;more idiomatic&#x2F;better way of doing things, and the compiler is more strict simply because Rust is so well-equipped for static compile-time analysis.<p>So fret not, the borrow checker and all the other checks that happen when writing Rust exist <i>precisely because</i> these things are so painful and complex to reason about as a human. The compiler is your colleague, not your boss!</text></comment> |
11,342,517 | 11,342,403 | 1 | 3 | 11,341,990 | train | <story><title>Package managers should be immutable, distributed and decentralized</title><url>https://evertpot.com/npm-revoke-breaks-the-build/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>Mithaldu</author><text>Asking for Immutable &#x2F; Append-only is insanity, due to the fact that eventually someone WILL clutter the hell out of it, which all of your mirrors will hate you for, as well as downstream ecosystem toolchains. The only viable way to allow it is by vetting every upload, and uh, good luck finding volunteers for that.<p>Decentralized &#x2F; Distributed is a good thing to have and prior art already exists.<p>Source: Experience with the grand daddy CPAN.</text></comment> | <story><title>Package managers should be immutable, distributed and decentralized</title><url>https://evertpot.com/npm-revoke-breaks-the-build/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>stormbrew</author><text>A really powerful thing that I think is extremely underutilized for this is the ability to sign git tags. Using that it should be very possible to allow for trusted pinning against a source code version that is easily replicated in mirrors.</text></comment> |
20,770,644 | 20,770,560 | 1 | 3 | 20,769,646 | train | <story><title>The war inside Palantir: Data-mining firm ties to ICE under attack by employees</title><url>https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2019/08/22/war-inside-palantir-data-mining-firms-ties-ice-under-attack-by-employees/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>burger_moon</author><text>It&#x27;s kinda interesting how people are just now realizing that all the big tech companies are government contractors and not this imaginary utopia of &#x27;making the world a better place&#x27; they were sold on.<p>Google, Amazon, Microsoft are all US gov&#x27;t contractors. It&#x27;s hilariously ironic seeing the political views of the employees suddenly clashing with their employers views of making money as if it&#x27;s a new thing.</text></comment> | <story><title>The war inside Palantir: Data-mining firm ties to ICE under attack by employees</title><url>https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2019/08/22/war-inside-palantir-data-mining-firms-ties-ice-under-attack-by-employees/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>kd3</author><text>It&#x27;s not just ICE but the entire government that is a problem. I personally stopped accepting any work from any government a few years ago. Once you realize what government is, there&#x27;s no going back.<p>&quot;The State […] is an anti-social institution, administered in the only way an anti-social institution can be administered, and by the kind of person who, in the nature of things, is best adapted to such service [a psychopath]. Taking the State wherever found, striking into its history at any point, one sees no way to differentiate the activities of its founders, administrators and beneficiaries from those of a professional-criminal class. As Dr. Sigmund Freud has observed, it can not even be said that the State has ever shown any disposition to suppress crime, but only to safeguard its own monopoly of crime.&quot; -
Albert J. Nock in “Our Enemy, The State”</text></comment> |
36,779,116 | 36,779,077 | 1 | 3 | 36,778,639 | train | <story><title>Companies Requiring Full-Time In-Office Are Struggling to Recruit New Employees</title><url>https://time.com/6294640/remote-work-winning/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>lxe</author><text>WFH should have been the norm for tech and office white collar workers since 2000. For decades, I&#x27;ve been scratching my head as to why can&#x27;t software people just work from the comfort of their own home and their own hardware.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>gregd</author><text>I have been fortunate enough to work from home since early 2000s. For many reasons I don&#x27;t want to use my own hardware for doing that though. The main one being e-discovery. If your company is forced to go through a discovery process, if you&#x27;ve accessed company resources via your personal hardware, it becomes part of that discovery process. Additionally, licensing issues crop up, etc.<p>But it doesn&#x27;t surprise me that companies who are forcing people into the office are having a hard time recruiting. If Covid showed us anything, it was that we could all work from home and be just as productive, if not more so, doing it.<p>IMHO, forcing me into an office is actually a punishment. Why punish me for the high cost of your real estate?</text></comment> | <story><title>Companies Requiring Full-Time In-Office Are Struggling to Recruit New Employees</title><url>https://time.com/6294640/remote-work-winning/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>lxe</author><text>WFH should have been the norm for tech and office white collar workers since 2000. For decades, I&#x27;ve been scratching my head as to why can&#x27;t software people just work from the comfort of their own home and their own hardware.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>tharkun__</author><text>If a company requires me to bring my own hardware they better offer a &quot;sign on bonus&quot; equivalent to the cost of said hardware. Coz I ain&#x27;t gonna install whatever corporate Spyware they require to be installed onto my hardware. Heck even their corporate hardware sits on a separate vlan that has no access except to the internet.</text></comment> |
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